I have played Warhammer fantasy battle for many years (around 18), and over that time I have played many armies, most prolifically Chaos Warriors, but have also had a very competative Lizardman army, an Ogre Army, and over the last five years Dark Elves have been my staple!
HOWEVER, I've decided its time to play less Elfy!
*Saying this I'm collecting a Wood Elves army in tandem with the Beastmen - but wont be gaming with them until after the re-release!*
So without further ado, I am now preparing wholeheartedly to unleash a mighty horde of Beasts upon my local gaming group and lay waste to their pathetic collections of misguided souls, my main opponents are likely to be Dark and High Elves, Lizardmen and Skaven. There's also a fair few Chaos Warriors players in there too. This is a good mix as it means I will regularly play against mobile, hard hitting, magic heavy and horde armies, giving me a good degree of practice at taking each type down!
So collecting an army unlike one I've collected before is a good challenge, the army book despite being slated a lot online seems fairly solid, and its certainly very easy to build some absolutely hard as nails character choices, the problem is the points, they're all a little over priced, and so you need to be careful on going overboard on heroes!
So firstly I have just bought models I liked, the main reason I started Beastmen is I love the models. First purchase was the plastic Brey-Shaman, and a box of 10 Bestigor. These have been assembled and undercoated, a couple of ebay wins seen me gaining a Beastmen battalion box set, and10 converted Centigors. Whilst Centigors are not highly valued online I plan on converting myself a bunch more and have already made a Ghorros Warhoof conversion to make them the core of my force, which I've decided will be a rampaging nomadic tribe, searching for some ancient magical knowledge or artifact?! Once I've come up with a Beastlord I will know more the theme of the army. But for now I know that at its centre will be several units of Centigor (3 units probably) giving me some serious speed, accompanied by a Cygor or two, chaos hounds, and Razorgors, giving me the ability to get to my opponents flanks and rear early on, with a large block of Bestigor holding my centre.Much like Elfy tactics, I like to be able to pick my fights!
I'm going to be building an spraying the last of my Gors and Centigors this week and hopefully painting some test models, currently I'm thinking of using a dark grey colour for the furs, with green and white as spot colours. But we'll see how that translates on the actual models.
Hopefully I'll be able to put some pictures up at the end of the week.
