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What else do I need to build a starter army?; I'm new to Warhammer
Topic Started: May 30 2013, 08:56 AM (166 Views)
Yodigity514
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I bought some Warhammer WoC about 10 years ago and then never played. I just opened the box and want to play and need help with what I need to make roughly a 2000-2500 pt army. This is what I have so far.

3 boxes of 12 chaos warriors
1 set of 5 chaos knights
1 chaos chariot
I estimate that this is about 1000 pts so far

The rest is confusing to me and i don't know how many points they are worth. I have never played and don't know what I'm doing lol. I just bought the WoC book but I don't know how to use the rest of this stuff.

1 chaos sorcerer
1 big champion looking guy on a mount, looks like he belongs with the knights (possibly use him as archaon the everchosen?)
2 chaos warrior champions, one is in the pic below

Thanks for your help. I am so excited to learn how to paint and play this game. There is a shop near my house where I will play and the guys there have been very helpful but I don't want to drive them nuts asking them all these questions.
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carrion
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Some things to round out your army:
-warhounds
-one more chariot
-gorebeast chariot
-chimera or two
-deamon prince is also very handy to have around
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Yodigity514
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Yeah I agree, I was thinking the same thing about the hounds and chariot. Not too sure about the chimeras though. What about a hell cannon? Any opinions?
Edited by Yodigity514, May 30 2013, 10:14 AM.
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Apollo3
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Get some hounds for sure. After that you'll have all your mainstays that are in every single army, so begin building the units you like.
As for the hellcannon, I like it a lot. Some people don't use it just because they would rather use the rare points on skullcrushers.
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carrion
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I tend to use my skullcrusher more than my hellcannon. The hellcannon can be alot of fun from time to time but not always reliable.
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Yodigity514
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Ok, what about trolls. I found 3 stone trolls in the box too. They any good?
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MyNameDidntFit
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Trolls are generally considered very good, though you'll usually want to run either a BSB on Daemonic Mount (possibly use the 'big mounted guy' if he's on a 50x50 base) or the Troll special character Throgg if you're taking them.

Hellcannons can be--if you'll excuse the pun--very hit and miss. One game they might single-handedly bring ruination on your foes, the next they might do nothing or worse (worse being things like blowing up and damaging half your army).
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ToughOne
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Proxy the Chimera to see if you fancy it, many people don't like giving juicy targets to Cannons n' Bolts.
I'll agree (as well as everyone I think) with the hounds. You could/should also convert a Sorcerer imho, never go to battle without one... ;-)
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Yodigity514
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Do I run a BSB or throgg because the trolls are stupid and they can then use their leadership for stupidity checks? Totally guessing there cause I have only watch videos of games and never played.
My big mounted guy is a hero on a horse like the other knights but he looks like he has much more armor and spikes and stuff. I will attack a pic when I get home. He comes on the same base as the knights.

I like the idea of using a proxy chimera to see how it plays first vs a hell cannon (I will proxy that at first too).

Ok so the list will now be:

Core-
36 chaos warriors with 2 champions for each unit of 18
1 chariot
10 chaos hounds

Special-
5 chaos knights
With mounted hero big guy

1 sorcerer

Then it's gonna be either 1 chimera or a hell cannon proxy

Option 2 is to use throgg and bring 3 trolls. Or can I bring the trolls anyway?


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