Warhammer 40k. Help a beginner.

[johnman]

Ive got an attic with a fairly large army of space marines, with a squad of eldar guardians a small tau army. It is fun if you have some people to play with, but everyone i knew stopped and so did i as i just had nothing to do with them. You cant go wrong with space marines or chaos space marines, they are both good all rounders and newbie friendly. But i would read up o nthe backstory first and look at what other people have collected so you get a feel for the game.

 

[Warrior Irme]

Most people tend to say Space Marines, but It is with the 5th edition not that good, you have to get the hang of the "combat tactics" special rule, I would advise you to play Chaos Space marines, they play almost the same, but have less complicated rules.
And Chaos has Khorne Berzerkers, which are the best assault troops in the game in my opinion.

Thank you for the tip about a less complicated force.

 

[CosmicStorms]

Personally, i'd start with something easy like Orks or Space Marines, I collect Chaos Space Marines as they're so much fun to convert and paint, and like one of the above posters said, nothing beats a good squad of Khorne Beserkers.

If you do decide to buy, buy off ebay, you can get most of the box sets on there for like 15% cheaper than GW.

 

[Warrior Irme]

If you want to buy the things cheap of the internet, I'd suggest Wayland Games. It's not official, and they don't have everything, but I've found it's fairly reliable...and the whole 40% off everything helps aswell, of course
Here's the link, if you want to try it out:
http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/index.php
Hope it helps!

Just checked out the site. Gave a once over and it seems to be cheaper than most of the items as I see them on other sites.

 

[Archaon6044]

go to the training days at your local Games Workshop store. get a basic tutoring, bfore you decide that you want to get fully into it. as a starting army, i'd advise strognly either marines, or chaos. don't do what i did and jump in at ye olde Catachan Jungle fighters and move onto Dark Eldar. not the smartest decision i ever made.

now i'm with the Demonhunters after about 5 years of getting my ass handed to me, because of high 'to save' rolls (5+ on both armies). i havn't played in nearly 3 years, because education became too intense for me to handle both at once.

 

[D.C.]

Honestly for a starter army i'd recomend Sisters of Battle, theyve got half of the elitness of SMs but with the numbers of other armies, so if you make a mistake youve still got more left unlike with the SM's Plus the Inquisitor leaders can make for some good personalisation with imagination.


And definatly get the Rulebook before anything else

 

[McNinja]

Go to 40konline.com. Yeah, that's pretty much it.

 

[Zeke the Freak]

I'd say start with orks. They're the funnest to paint and play with. In a game there a little difficult to use *hint, use a crap-ton of grots as a moving barrier and, once close enough, jump storm boyz in to take out INF with big guns. Also, use the Deff Dread to soak up DMG and take out vehicles, its "'arda, stompya an shootya den da udda boyz!"*
Plus, more room for creativity as they dont have a set uniform or paint job *although you do have to stick to specific colors*.
Hell, I bought a wartrukk *not to play with, but just to paint* and a Ghazgull Mag Uruk Thrakka model and had the most fun painting a model then ive ever had *except with GMUT, hes a ***** to assemble/paint but still fun to play with*.

 

[McNinja]

The thing with orcs though is that they take a long time to paint and paint well. I have Space Marines, and my commander easily took two hours, not including the conversion work I did. Some models don't take long, escpecially if you're good. But eh practice makes perfect.

Actually, the only race that DOESN'T have a set of colors is probably the Tyranids. You can paint them however you want. Of course, you can do that with any race, but in other races like space marines and orcs there are certain Chapters or whatever the Orcs have. Warbands, i think, although I'm probably wrong. They have special rules and you have to paint your models accordingly, to a degree at least.

If you want to go all the way and then some in the creativity department, get space marines. Make up you own chapter. Then write your own codex for the chapter. Like me.

 

[ace_of_something]

Start with Space Marines; they're the easiest to learn, you can paint them pretty much however you want, and your money to piece/points ratio stays low. Although everyone will think you're a n00b unless you play one of the specialized factions. (Space Wolves were pretty fucking unfair to play against last time I remember)

 

[Zeke the Freak]

The thing with orcs though is that they take a long time to paint and paint well.
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Well its called a hobby not a speed contest. im assuming that your doing this cos youve got EXTRA TIME, and need a filler thats fun too. Orks are the craziest, the funniest and coolest looking out of all the factions.

 

[L33tsauce_Marty]

I don't know how this works outside Poland, but here going to tournaments, playing battles, getting drunk and screwing around with your friends

Well I'm moving back to Poland...

 

[Zeke the Freak]

I don't know how this works outside Poland, but here going to tournaments, playing battles, getting drunk and screwing around with your friends

Well I'm moving back to Poland...

i AM poland!!!!

 

[Zeke the Freak]

Well I'm moving back to Poland...

i AM poland!!!!

And I'm Germany. Guess who's coming to crash at your place for a while.

Bwuahahahaha!

W-W-WAH?!?!
YOU MONSTER!!!
THATS IT, YOUR PUNK ASS IS OUT ON THE SOFA!!!!!

 

[SP MeaslyBinkie]

Most people have said that everything that needs to be said but really it depends on what you want to paint/play as do you want a shooty army that can beat most other armies in ranged but they have a severe meele disadvantage i,e Tau, or do you want a balanced army that can hold thier ground against specialist armys i,e Space Marines or do you want a up in your face meele army that are a bit weak and rely on swarm tactics i,e Tyranids,Orks.

 

[Zeke the Freak]

Space marines are rigged to hell. Have you ever versed a SM army as Orks? So very, very much blood *from me bitting my lip cos im so pissed that I have little to no armor saves*

 

[Diceman]

Odds are if you play for more than a month you'll end up trying more than 1 army anyway.
Hell, personally Im only in it now for the painting and converting with so many rule changes going on

 

[Zeke the Freak]

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Well I'm moving back to Poland...

i AM poland!!!!

And I'm Germany. Guess who's coming to crash at your place for a while.

Bwuahahahaha!

W-W-WAH?!?!
YOU MONSTER!!!
THATS IT, YOUR PUNK ASS IS OUT ON THE SOFA!!!!!

Meh, that's what France said, and I was bangin his wife in his own bed before the week was out.

Im tellin Britain on you, he and his freind America will come to save me any minute now... i hope...

 

[buckythefly]

Buy a black reach starter set if you have any interest in either of those races, you get an aweful lot more then the price and it comes with templates and dice. Definitely helpful for a beginning player.

 

[Zeke the Freak]

When I started *started way young* I got the Battle of Macabre *or something like that* and had a real difficult time getting started. Definantly consider what your getting into before you buy anything.