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[Liam]

I think you'll see a lot of them from now on. Due to needing a rank to break a rank brets will try and use cheap 6 man units of errants to do that, that will soon to be their main use

[Xhukari]

Right, I wanna get into WHFB, but I want to get into it properly.

You list 3 ways to choose an army, then give a summary for each. But with 8th ed, how truthful are those summaries now? (I know from my 40k experiences armies can change playstyle with a shift to a new ed...).

How it looks; Planning to judge it by this way.. but many armies only have *some* units I like within them.

Background; Fluff interests my little in WHFB. So this isn't one for me :O

How it plays; this coincides with the first... I wanna play armies full of units I like the look of, but don't want to do this if I'm nerfing myself too much.

So the armies I like & the units within them;

Vampire Counts
Lords; Winged Vampire Lord, Necromancer with Staff, Aristocratic Vampire, Mounted Vampire Lord.
Core Units; Skeletons & Ghouls (Mantic's models).
Special Units; Graveguard & Black Knights (Mantic's models).
Rare Units; Blood Knights, Black Coach, Wraith.

Warriors of Chaos
Lords; Any
Core Units; Any
Special Units; Chaos Knights, Chaos Warriors Chosen, Chaos Trolls
Rare Units; Hellcannon of Chaos, Scyla Anfingrimm

Wood Elves
Lords; All but Treeman & Eagle Mounted Lord
Core Units; Glade Guard, Eternal Guard
Special Units; Wardancers, Wild Rider
Rare Units; Waywatchers

Liked tactically because;
I like Vampire Counts because I like the idea of the undead horde of skeletons & necromancy.

I like Wood Elves because of the idea of being skirmishers...

I like Warriors of Chaos because I like the idea of being a Combat-focused army.

I generally like Warriors of Chaos the most, but that's more for the models than anything at this point. Though I don't like the idea of running a mostly marauder army. (Which I've heard around is the case...) I like all the armoured models the most, especially the Chaos Knights,Chosen & Trolls! Plus what about all this god thing? How is that handle in fantasy? Is mono god the way? Dual god? etc... Because I'm not really sure what God I like the most at this point...

Plus does anyone have any knowledge of the 8th ed starter box release?... I don't like the idea of spending £45 odd for mostly fluff & pictures!

[Liam]

I'll reply in the thread you've made regarding this dude, don't see the point in typing it all out twice (I know I could copy and paste, but still).

[Eldritch]

Its kinda a shame they changed the Beastmen, they used to play as a mostly skirmishing, combat centred semi-horde army, but anyway rumours I've seen that appear to be supported are of high elf / skaven starter set, another post I saw claimed to know the contents

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=263409

but I havn't seen it myself, so can't vouch for the info

[Liam]

Yup, thats the contence of the box, Skaven and High Elves, lots of Skaven Models, fewer High Elves but they come out with more points, wierd game 'eh?