It all started with about 1200s into total war: Warhammer 2, which got me into watching Total war: Warhammer streams, got me to start mixing warhammer lore into my D & D games, then I started playing Vermintide 2 and loved it, to listening to the Gotrek and Felix audio books. It would seem that I haved transformed into a bit of a Warhammer fancomrade. When I was a kid I was always into warhammer minis, but I never had the money to get enough to put together an army and ended up using them mostly as minis for when we switched from AD&D 2nd edition to the more mini focused 3rd edition, but now with my renewed interest in the lore and universe, I have been playing with the idea of getting into it a bit more seriously and putting an actual army together and playing. First, since I am more familiar with the fantasy universe, I was looking into Age of Sigmar, but I just wasn't quite happy with it. One of my favorite factions are Druchii and I wasn't really happy with the options for that. I have been looking now at 40k more and I am starting to settle in on the idea of Chaos Space Marines.
All this history aside, I have a few questions about what is involved in getting into this sport.
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What all would I need to get started? The rulebook and the relavent codex/ices? One of the starter sets?
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How many miniatures would I need to be able to play a reasonable battle? If I got the starter set how much would I need to add to that or would that be a reasonable way to start to learn the rules?
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What are good resources for learning to paint them nicely?
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Does anyone have any good tips on how to get started on DIY terrain? I think in the country side and was thinking about collecting moss and shit.
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Any other tips, tricks or pitfalls?
I don't know if anyone in the community even plays this game, but I thought I was throw it out there.
Honestly, don't get models for large scale battling because this version imo is absolute garbage. Really a 'whomever goes first wins about 70 percent of the time deal in this meta, though it depends on the objectives involved... Personally, I believe Killteam (Squad based combat)(5-20 models depending on the race/faction you prefer) is a better use of your time and money if you are looking to use the battle system.
However, there are two caveats. The models are pretty dope and if you like that worth looking into AND you can replicate most stuff in 40k on table top simulator if you really want to screw around with massive armies.
I am generally obsessed with the lore, specifically the soap opera with big emotional men that is the 30k Horus Heresy novels. They can be hit or miss writing wise but the ones that hit are fantastic and the story as a whole is very compelling and while it sometimes goes over the fanbases head, a great take on the failures of nepotism and dictatorial power.
This is interesting because large scale battles seem pretty out of reach right now anyway and I was curious if small scale was worth it let alone a better option.