bigpaul0909

Okay my friends and I are about 5 games into warcry and loving it. couple questions. 1. Disengage: if you start a move action with a fighter that is within 1″ of an enemy fighter, you cannot move further away from the fighter than the distance you started. -If a melee fighter say has a reach of 2" and moves to players A and attacks from 2" away, on Players A's activation is he in combat where if he wants to move he has to disengage first? To me that makes sense but one friend is arguing that it just states within 1" base to base. Another game we played turned into a Deathmatch, Player A moved the last 2-3 models he has into a Terrain on the ground level that had a ladder going up it vertically, he then on his activation would use wait, then wait again, until Player B(using range 8") could see him via true line of sight, the question is can you shoot through stairs? And while on this topic can you shoot through the terrain gates? from the starter box.

Coming from a new AoS player, i have quickly realized that its much more in depth then my friends wanted to play, Warcry however seems perfect for us, i love to paint smaller armies and different armies and this will give me the chance to painting all of my friends warbands, and with 4-5 of us we will have plenty of options to play. Anyway if you were totally new to warcry what would you purchase to start? Warbands aside(later in post) What should i buy to start? i see theres an older starter set being sold from multiple people for around 250$, this includes iron golems, untamed beast(both of which i was going to buy) terrain and cards, is this still a good buy? or should i look into purchasing a rulebook/Ravaged Lands: Defiled Ruins/and warbands seperatly? I see the value of the starter set getting the terrain and cards, but i also see that 2 warabands 50ea, and terrain 90$? and a core book still is 250$, so im asking for your help. Also is there anywhere to find the builds of current warbands like SCE? or do i need to buy the cards to figure out my build? \ ANY help is appreciated, i just made a bad financial choice when starting AoS and dont want to do the same for warcry, looking for what you guys would do if you started today.

Welp after a few weeks i went all in, got a 5 brutes. warchanter/ and megaboss on mawcrusher form ebay. and x2SC boxes/shaman/tomb new, I think i went all in for my first real army and all thanks to you guys, thanks for all the help guys!

All of this is really helpful guys, I think I’m going to go with ironjawz, and even though the models aren’t as great looking to me as BoK I think there a better fit for me.

Hey guys, I'm new here, quick back story, I found AOS from painting minis for fun/dnd. Saw stormcast and bought a SC box and some random other units. Went to my first game thinking SCE these big heavily armored guys, well i got crushed(one because i didnt know how to play very well, 2 because i went full melee in a 1k game with SCE...). Anyway as much as i like the look of SCE models i have no desire to play with a mainly range focus army. I returned the battleforce box i had and and going to go Mortal Blades of khorne or ironjawz. for a new player Ironjawz seem like a breeze to start collecting with the limited range of models and most being useful, BOK seems like a ton of fun to play with all the area unit buffs ect, and the army itself looks super fun to paint. Who would you recommend and hwy for a noob! thanks guys

Im currently down to the last bits of what army to choose, its between mortal khorne and ironjawz, i wanted to play a pretty much melee focused army, but both armies fit the build, im currently torn, khorne (has the look i like to paint) ,ironjawz have the simplicity of play, and especially easy to start collecting from 0. If you were going to start from 0 models for a mortal khorne army, how would you go? I was thinking 1 SC box, 1 chaos warrior box, 20-40 rievers sourced from ebay, and then start adding heros, maybe some skullcrushers, maybe a bloodthirster? thank you all in advance for your help.

thanks for the info boys

gotcha, do the sc boxes come with 2sbgield per 5/1 drummer option/5? i havent looked at the sprus i dont have them yet.

So i have my 2 sc boxes coming in this week, should i build my ardboys with shield? is that more Meta at the moment and lose out on an attack?

One last thing, i saw somwhere on here people are now shying away from BRUTES, what recently changed that made people shy away form them? just straight point cost compaired to ardboys? they are still battleline on my app it says which is what i thought was the recent issue.

thanks for the info, this sounds exactly like the army i was looking for so im very happy i started doing research post buying the SCE ****** lol.(not that its ****** its just not how id like to play).

thanks for all the great info guys!

thanks everyone for the info, im sending back my sce battleforce box today so that will be enough for 2 sc boxes of IJ, and then ill add a megaboss on foot for now to get me started. Thanks everyone!

Again thank you so much for the info this helps me out a ton! Im going to have to read more about the drops but this is great info.

this is super helpful, thank you so much, i just wanted some guidance before wasting my money again lol.

im still learning rules but how do the battalions work?

wow thank you so much for the info this is all great stuff, and yes i could care less about losing, i just want to find a army that "can" win playing it aggressively which is what i would like to do, so they seem like a great choice for me.

thank you for explaining that so easily for me, Im defintly looking for a melee heavy army that plays agressive, win big or lose big as long as its fun, coming into aos i thought SCE for some reason played like this and alot of wasted time(and money) found out i was wrong, so it looks like im going to pick up 2-3 sc boxes and a megaboss on foot for $$ sake, possibly pick up a shaman, and stay away from brutes for now?

thanks this is exactly what im looking for!i dont know much about the orcs or what a army of big waaagh is, guessing its mixing old orc tribes with ironjaws? ive been told brutes arent worth getting? just stick to basically everything in the sc boxes, add a boss on for or mount and maybe the shaman. Seems like a good beginner army which is what i am.

so it sounds like i should buy 2 sc boxes of ironjawz, would give me 6 goregruntas, 2 warchanters and ardboys, i thought brutes were good so thats good to know, so mega boss on foot is a no go? what exactly is big waaagh?

So i posted this question on the forums but now ill try here, i want to build a ironjawz army but dont want to waste my money like i didon a starter set for SCE. if you guys all could do it again, what would you tell me to purchase? ive seen the starter set has a good value alot of people say purchase 2? add a mega boss? maybe add a shaman? im totally new to ironjawz so im just looking for input to not waste any more money lol.

Okay this is now my second time around purchasing some AOS, my first time i started with SCE and after purchasing the start set. i was basically told i wasted my money, and to purchase the battleforce, so i did. Starting out i wanted to play a melee heavy army, quickly found out SCE are not good for this. So now im here, i sent back my battleforce box back, gave up on furthering my SCE army, can use it for practice 1000 pt games now. So after much frustration i am here asking for your help. I was to play a melee heavy semi competitive army, what would YOU tell me to buy right out of the gate. unlike the SCE i read the ironjawz starter set is a great value, possibly worth purchasing twice? i would like to get the pros here opinions before i waste my money and time again, thanks guys!

nvm once per battle ignore this one

or would you use somthing like this stromcast trait Staunch Defender: Your general and every STORMCAST ETERNALS unit wholly within 9" add 1 to saves if they have not charged this turn(i would assume this means i dont get to choose a stormhost and must use this trait?

Whats the thought on stormhosts for a heavy melee evo/evo kitty/seq army? i was thinking maybe Celestial Vindicators for the +1attack cp ability? and then the passive 1 reroll for wound if they charged which i assume most of my units will to get across the board. Ive still yet to play a game so im trying to understand most things before i go into my first friendly game, maybe there is a clear choice for stormhost in a melee heavy army if SCE that im missing?