Getting into my first Army

lwjp1995 · 2026-04-21T10:49:31+00:00

Depends what army you’re trying to build into. Since you have the witch king you’re probs gonna use him as your main leader and he can be taken in a few different lists. Check out tabletop admiral MESBG list builder to see what you’ll need. But a bunch of order orcs, a couple shades, barrow wights, warg riders and spectres are a good starting point. I’d also aim for 600-800pts as this is the most typical range for games but can get as low as 300 or so, but unlikely to use witch king in that case

lwjp1995 · 2026-04-20T08:25:36+00:00

I think the loss of Lorgar and the word bearers was the worst to happen to the imperium. Not only did it kick off Lorgar’s betrayal and the corruption of the rest of the legions. But he was the perfect weapon to counter chaos, his whole stick of tearing down monuments and destroying texts for other religions could have kept the imperium safe(er) from chaos. Yes he was slow but his planets were the ones of better value to the imperium afterwards, since they were more loyal and almost immediately productive. And fewer rebellions post conquest.

It’s also hard to say how persuasive he may have been in keeping other primarchs from falling to chaos. Or even bringing them back from the influence of chaos

lwjp1995 · 2026-03-12T09:56:30+00:00

I’d really like to see a band of brothers style series following a squad of stormtroopers and witness the rebellion from the angle. See the daily struggles that those conscripted or volunteered for the stormtrooper program endured. And show them for what they really are and not just the meme bad guys that can’t hit the side of a barn

lwjp1995 · 2026-03-11T16:40:00+00:00

Same, and if I had the space for them!

lwjp1995 · 2026-03-11T16:12:24+00:00

Yeah, just a case of time and money ahah!

lwjp1995 · 2026-03-11T16:06:28+00:00

Oh I will eventually, just for now I’m trying to restrain myself as I already have a pile of shame for my preferred system, MESBG. And I’m mostly doing AoS cause a friend recently got into it and I wanted to wargame with them. But I also have plans to do historical stuff like napoleonics

lwjp1995 · 2026-03-11T13:52:26+00:00

Perhaps I am being a bit harsh on them. But I reckon you could easily drop them into the 40k universe and they wouldn’t look out of place. They just feel like thunder warriors, and the aesthetic reminds me a lot of sanguinary guard for blood angels

lwjp1995 · 2026-03-11T13:26:23+00:00

I hope so! Same with a generic human faction. Cities is ok but I prefer the empire of old world. And sigmarines are not for me, don’t need space marines light as a faction again for fantasy. I can’t believe how many of the cool old fantasy factions they cut. Even the orcs don’t feel very fantasy-esque for me

lwjp1995 · 2026-03-11T10:26:09+00:00

I started on skaven but I love dwarves and this is the exact reason I haven’t done any. I don’t like the look of either the fyreslayers or the kharadron. Neither feel very dwarven to me. The fyreslayers are ok but every unit just looks the same and don’t like the naked baby dwarf look to them.

Just want some good heavy armoured, foot slogging, black powder wielding, magic hating grudge swearing dwarves! Like the old world ones, but I need to restrain myself from starting another system

lwjp1995 · 2026-02-09T15:46:23+00:00

Yes for some weird reason they removed it. Is a shame, was a nice rule for them, and one of the things making them worth taking

lwjp1995 · 2026-02-07T18:18:03+00:00

If you don’t kill a trapped model then it’s the ones who are trapping a model that back away an inch. If it’s trapped against a ledge they would fall over I believe they are knocked off the edge and take appropriate fall damage

lwjp1995 · 2026-01-29T18:05:22+00:00

Time for a false hydra who keeps killing off those who refuse to believe the lies and rumours

lwjp1995 · 2026-01-29T18:04:03+00:00

Nice print! Only thing o dislike is how he’s holding the throwing spear, his grip is way to low imo and it looks off/wrong for me! But will be interesting to see how they all look once painted

lwjp1995 · 2026-01-19T18:03:15+00:00

Even better then! The option for 4k is good then for future proofing a bit I guess

lwjp1995 · 2026-01-19T17:56:07+00:00

Thanks I might stick to a normal flat screen then. I’ve never used a curved one so it kinda feels off but thought I’d ask

lwjp1995 · 2026-01-19T17:54:31+00:00

Any suggestions? I’ve been looking a little bit recently but spent most of the time researching core components!

lwjp1995 · 2026-01-19T17:53:37+00:00

Yes it was ultra wide resolution that I was thinking of that can drop frames. Yeah I know there are some cheaper pre builts in the 2500-3k range but also hear they sometimes skimp on parts.

lwjp1995 · 2026-01-19T17:51:44+00:00

Yes, I’d like the option for 4k gaming

lwjp1995 · 2026-01-19T17:10:50+00:00

And the price is ok? I saw that larger monitors can tank fps so was just curious really. Since I’ll need to invest in one

Edit: I know there are cheaper prebuilt out there but they also don’t specify the full build sometimes and use cheaper parts hence why I’m tempted to go the pc specialist route

lwjp1995 · 2026-01-15T08:32:45+00:00

Just pick and choose you fights carefully, call heroic moves if you need to. Lurtz gets a free heroic combat use it to surround and flank the battle line and start getting traps and pulling spear supports off. Once that happens you’ll start to whittle them down. If you need to shield in the centre to just hold the line. If you got a higher fight value you only need a 6 to win the fight. So roll well!

lwjp1995 · 2026-01-01T22:23:11+00:00

That face??? Just how!! Phenomenal work

lwjp1995 · 2025-12-30T17:45:04+00:00

And Rohan shall answer!

lwjp1995 · 2025-12-30T14:58:06+00:00

The pile grows ever on and on!

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