The Battle Barn

As of lately a few of us at the barn have been looking into playing WarmaHordes. The thing I've been trying to think of is "What army do i want to play".
Looking at Privateer Press' site I came across the whole --Play ____ if you want to:

Cygnar: Have devastating ranged weaponry, from gunpowder to lightning. Cygnar excels at delivering death from afar. Command an army of elite specialists that are few in number but high in power. Use warjacks that provide an excellent balance of power and defense

Khador: Field an army that uses crushing strength and amazing resilience rather than speed and nimble defense. Command a highly disciplined army of imperial soldiers supported by lightly armored auxiliaries. Rely on excellent melee troops backed by devastating, high-explosive ranged weaponry.

Protectorate of Menoth: Command an army that makes up for its moderate troops with layers of faith-based powers and skills. Field powerful specialist troops alongside numerous cheap zealots. Cleanse your enemies with holy fire, from flamethrowers to mighty inferno maces your deadly weaponry will continue to consume your foes until naught is left but ash.

Cryx: Command hordes of cheap, expendable troops to overwhelm your enemies. Use powerful spells to weaken your opponents before blasting them to ash with your dark magic. Field an army that values speed and agility over brute strength.

Retribution of Scyrah: Command a mix of professional soldiers and stealthy assassins. Field an army of elite troops that excel at multiple ways of dealing death. Deploy powerful arcane forces like Battle Mages and sleek Myrmidon warjacks that utilize magic infused technology like nothing found in the human kingdoms.

Mercenaries: Command a band of hearty and diverse sell-swords, from rank-and-file troops to deadly special character units. Utilize Mercenary forces to supplement the available troops for your existing faction army.

TrollBloods: Command an army of powerful solo warriors and diverse rank-and-file troopers, each with their own unique specialties. Utilize myriad abilities to layer protection and strength bonuses onto your forces. Unleash the regenerative power and crushing strength of full-blood Trolls.

Circle Orboros: Field an army that uses speed and agility rather than brute strength to bleed your enemy dry. Unleash powerful magic upon your foes while striking from the shadows and using terrain to your advantage. Control a diverse range of powerful living warbeasts and mighty stone constructs.

Legion of Everblight: Field an army with a mix of speed, strength, and defense at the expense of resilience. Command a host of diverse warbeasts from tiny but vicious lesser warbeasts to some of the most powerful heavy warbeasts in western Immoren. Unleash deadly specialists who work to aid your warbeasts in annihilating your foes.

Skorne: Field an army that values strength and amazing resilience over speed and nimble defense. Command a highly disciplined army of imperial soldiers that are supported by lightly armored auxiliary troops. Unleash powerful death magic to destroy your enemies and power your own troops beyond their mortal limits.

Minions: Command a band of savage and diverse sell-swords, from rank-and-file troops to deadly character solos. Utilize Minion forces to supplement the available troops for your existing faction army.

Hopefully this will help you guys with what you would like to play.

Nice, thanks Kyle. Has any of them caught your eye? I'm really stoked that you guys are getting so interested in the game.

The really nice thing about WarmaHordes is that every army is competitive to some degree, maybe not Mercs or Minions, but all of the main factions bring some really fun toys to the table.

I thought about starting with either Khador for its brute strength, or Cygnar for the powerful weapons. But I'm interested by Retribution of Scyrah for the model portion of the army. The way they play is also interesting.

Those of us that began playing the game the last time had a lot of fun playing it. What killed it was that only 4 or 5 of us were playing. It just wasn't enough to keep it going.

The game also has great balance between each faction. Every faction has a counter to just about everything that you'll see. The big thing I noticed about Privateer Press is that their release schedules are awesome. When there's a rules update each faction's book is finished along side the main rules and released one per month until they're all out. No more of GW's three codex's per year that immediately re-break the entire game as soon as they're released.

Kyle: I play Khador (mostly pButcher and Strakhov) and they are a ton of fun but you have to be prepared for some SLOW advances. They can get around it with certain casters (pSorscha, pVlad) and some of their units like Uhlans and Kayzazy are quick but mostly you have to be prepared to slog it upfield at a snails pace. Of course, you can do that because they have the heaviest base armor of any jack or beast in the game.

I've never played against Scyrah, that would be really cool.

Mike: You hit the nail on the head. Even when they do expansions for the game they package all the factions' goodies into one book and it comes out as a single release. Most recently they came out with Wrath for Warmachine over the summer and Domination for Hordes in November.

is it possible for me to play legion of everblight and only use epic thargosh and the warmongers and some of the beasts? those are really the only models i like.

To answer your question. Yes, it's possible but you'll be limiting yourself a great deal.

eThagrosh is a much better beast caster than he is an infantry caster. So you'd want to run two or three heavy warbeasts rather than units of Warmongers. pThagrosh would be a better option for fielding the Warmongers. In fact pThagrosh's theme list gets you a free Warmonger War Chief if you take two or more units of Ogrun.

which model is e and which one is p? I like the big one. also, i dont know any of the rules. i kinda know how fury works, thats about it. I'm basically making my decision about WM/H based on models, and i'm honestly not much of a fan of about 90% of them.

Regular Thagrosh



Epic Thagrosh

So p is plain and e is epic. That kinda sucks. I might be able to get behind pThargosh. I wish the elves didn't look like goblins, that's pretty much what throws me off from wanting to use them. I love eThargosh and both types of ogruns though. What's a theme list?

A theme list is a style of list that is different for each individual warcaster/warlock. They are found in the faction books. It's basically a structured way of building a list around a specific caster. You are usually only allowed to bring specific units/models, but by doing so you often times get a bonus to those units. Perhaps a points reduction, or added ability, or a remove of how many can be taken. I found an example of a theme list for Lylyth that I've posted below.

Well, if anyone has the legion book could you bring it in Friday so I can look it over? I'm still on the fence but I'd like to see what kind of options are available and see if I can make a list that minimizes the ugly elves.

I've only got the book on PDF but I have a tablet that I can show it to you on. I won't be at the barn this week but I'll be around at Alpha & Omega on Saturday if anyone wants a quick game, I'm sure they can accommodate us.

I finally got my Legion of Everblight models on Friday. I'm in the process of painting them and will have 25pts ready to go this coming Friday.

Then there shall be Legion on Legion action this Friday!