I am new to the game

[kamahl]

I am kamahl i live in dallas texas and recently had surgery wich left me with alot of time on my hands. So i went to a game workshop and purchase about 500 dollars worth of blood angel stuff. I bought the starter set also so i could have the rule book and other stuff. I have painted all my miniatures wich took me about a month. I have all these nice figures but am lost on how to play. There are so many rules and stuff that its really confusing to me at this point. I went and watched a couple games at the local store and it seamed the guys playing didnt know everything about the game either. So I decided to look for a forum and see if I could better my knowledge of the game. Thanks for having me and I am looking forward to getting to know some people on this forum.

[martieuk]

i had a operation "apendicitus" Bleedin hurt culdnt walk for a week until i left the hospital "i wish they gave me morphene an lots of it "... (sum doctors eh)....

[Andy]

Welcome to the forums. I'm sure we can help you learn the rules.

I learned the rules by playing game after game. I picked up most of the rules from my first game without a rulebook and then learned the more advanced stuff as I played more games and the more advanced rules came into play.

Or you can just read the rulebook and try to learn it that way. But I'm not very good at learning stuff from books, so I found that my way was best.

[Expalphalog]

Dallas, huh?

Well, welcome to the forums. Feel free to ask any questions that you need to. And if you need a hands-on demonstration, than you can hightail your ass down to Austin and The Wiley Expalphalog will learn ya.... I'll learn ya real good!

[Wardenhammer]

Nice to see another BA player aboard (Blessed are the Sons of Saguinus).. I learned by both playing and studying the rules..learn the basics.. the rest will follow

[martieuk]

I didnt read the book (there 2 booring) i just learnt is i go along...

[Wardenhammer]

martieuk.. not doubting your cognitive abilities..but your missing out if you don't read the rules

[kamahl]

well thanks for the welcome guys. i had a gastric bypass cause i was over weight. And expla i am in austin all the time usually for a concert at the backroom. maybe i can come down sometime and get learnt a lesson or 2.

Also how do you guys feel about a new guy coming to the weekly meets with an army that has never played. i went last thursday and no one wanted to help me at the local game workshop. so i just watched and tryed to learn.

[Andy]

Well when I went to play for the first time with my mostly unpainted (and never to be painted) Dark Eldar army, I was lucky enough to have someone help me learn the rules while playing against them. They explained what I had to do as I went along. I think they explained too much to me though, as I won the battle :D

You should ask the staff to allow you to join in. Hopefully they will be able to get someone to help you learn the rules as you play like me. Or if not, maybe one of the staff will even play against you and help you to learn the rules, as I've seen staff at my local GW do many times.

[kamahl]

ok i will ask them. thanks for the advice

[BlackDuck]

the staff always let you win, it wouldn't be much fun if you got horribly beaten in your first game...

[kamahl]

lol true.

[fallingsuperspark]

I learnt by buying some tropps, going down to GW on sunday when they did beginners day and learnt as i went along. Another great thing was the first sunday i went was a whole day 40k introduction, when they told us about each army, the rules, some fluff etc...it was cool

[kamahl]

i wish they did that here

[BubonicBrown]

Yeh, just go down to your local GW the guys there will help you out! Oh and $500 worth of BA stuff, thats alot! How many points u got??


PS:Be sure to contact The wiley Expalphalog, he lives with 2 lesbion roomates! :D Lucky bastard!

[kamahl]

oh he hasnt mentioned that. im not sure how the points work yet. but i got alot of stuff thats for sure. I can give a list of all the stuff and you could tell me hom many points if you want

[Expalphalog]

PS:Be sure to contact The wiley Expalphalog, he lives with 2 lesbion roomates! :D Lucky bastard!

'Tis true. Even more incentive to come to Austin! :lol:

[Capn Morgan]

Well I may go visit you ok bud. I have family in Ft. Worth and Conroe and stuff.

[LoneSoldier]

Yo! We'll help you pick up the rules. It really is pretty simple. I read the rulebook over once and I got it. Not all people are blessed my genius. It's okay to feel inferior. Remember to assault not get assualted.

[MGA]

Welcome to the forums and have fun.

I haven't even touched the rule book. You can learn a lot of the basic stuff in your first game probably. After that you'll have to have more stuff shown to you, but you can pick up.

[kamahl]

cool cpt morgan where do you usually play at is there a place in ft. worth and i think i just may have to come down to austin soon. there are a coupke concerts im looking at going to.

[Expalphalog]

Well I may go visit you ok bud. I have family in Ft. Worth and Conroe and stuff.

Feel free to drop by anytime. Just remember The Wiley Expalphalog's motto: "Beer and lesbians for everyone!"

[Gojira014]

i thought it was: "two lesbians in your house are better than zero" ?

[Expalphalog]

A bush in the hand is worth two down the hall....


Ok, let's try and keep it on topic.

*The Wiley Expalphalog knows that it won't happen, but he's got to say it*

[lardass]

a good way to learn is to go to a tournament, most of the people i've seen will help newbs play so just watch and you should pick it up. it is really overwhelming at first but once you get into it it's not hard.

[BubonicBrown]

Yeh, khamal could you please list what exactly you have?? Oh and i'm assuming you have the blood angels codex, because the pointas work like this:

On the stat line on a unit in your codex you'll see the name of the model and next to it its points value. You decide how many guys you want in your squad, usually 10 for a tactical squad. You then total up the amount of points of one model x the amount of guys you have in your squad. You continue to do this for your whole army and add all the values of the squads together to get the overall points cost of your entire army!

I hope this has helped! :D

[kamahl]

ya that helped bubonic. and here is a list of what i can remember im at work so if i leave anything out ill post it later

1 lemartes
1 brother something or another
1 chaplain
4 boxes of honor gaurd
4 boxes of death companies
2 baal preditors
1 furioso dred
1 moriar
2 space marine army boxs the 100 dollar ones
I got 2 more tanks but dont remember thier names they have a front end loader thing on the front.
the warhammer 40k starter with 20 marines and 20 eldar.
and i just bought 2 already painted and assembled honor gaurds and 2 death companies on ebay.
i also bought a lemartes and a oop dread fully painted on ebay. i think thats all i got. My question is what else do i need for a command squad

[Wardenhammer]

You have enough..now..take 3/4 of that stuff and put it away...and start painting. If you start to paint and see what you still have to paint..you'll quickly feel overwhelmed and lose interest altogether

[Andy]

yipes thats a lot of Blood Angels. You really don't need that many Death Company or Honour Guard though, you'll end up with a lot of spares.

[kamahl]

i already painted all but 1 honor gaurd cause i been at home for 6 weeks after surgery. and damn if id have known that i could have bought some orks as they caught my eye also

[BubonicBrown]

Holy mother of god thats alot of blood angels! :shock: But good work on painting alot of them, you must have over 2000 points there! :D

[Wardenhammer]

what kind of surgery..I'm off work too due to surgery

[kamahl]

I had a gastric bypass. on october 28th and ive lost 130 pounds since august.

[mavrick]

welcome to the forum, you've got a pretty impressive force therem, work of caution though, lots of ppl here dont like BA, think their jelous

[Wardenhammer]

hmmm..Igot my arm crushed...now bone grafts and metal implants for me

[kamahl]

that sux hope you get better

[CrashMann]

Welcome to the forum. I also play BA. Hope to see you over there.

[d00d]

HOLY CRAP thats alot of stuff. Im new too and im playing the space wolves although i might start BA after my wolves. I like the red.

[kamahl]

thats why i started ba cause my fav color is red. i have 8 red tattoos and all i wear are red clothes. so ba was a perfect fit.

[d00d]

thats why i started ba cause my fav color is red. i have 8 red tattoos and all i wear are red clothes. so ba was a perfect fit.

Give a big h00t for the color red!

h00t

I didnt even say hi welcome to the boards. :)