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Warhammer 40K – Basic Army Theory

 

When you start into a table top miniature war game, your army is a big investment in time, money, and effort. To help out, here’s a few tips for new Warhammer 40k players to help you get started on the right foot.

Learn The Rules.

Get the main book, and your codex of choice. Take time to read both of them thoroughly before you start building an army. When you pretty well know how it’s supposed to all work, it makes it much easier to put together a decent starting force.

Get Models You Like.

It sounds obvious, but as you’re designing your army list, start with models you like. After all, if you buy models you don’t really like, you won’t be as motivated to get them built and painted, and you probably won’t enjoy fielding them as much. Since the vast majority of units in 40K can be made useful, just pick out a few favorites you just gotta have, and go on from there.Go for something that will deal with all the main types of enemy.

That would be Psykers (like Chaos Marine Sorcerers), heavy infantry (like Space Marine Terminators), horde infantry (like ork boyz), light tanks (like Eldar Vypers), and heavy tanks (like Necron Monoliths). It doesn’t matter if you deal with them at range or up close, just be able to kill it. When you’ve got at least one thing to do that, then find 1 or 2 more that can pull it off in a pinch, preferably one of your other existing units. You want to avoid your army being crippled just because one squad got plastered.Make Sure To Cover All The Mission Objectives.

At this point you can kill most enemies, and that covers 2 out of the 6 basic missions. Now you need to make sure you have a few units that can take and hold objectives. The other 4 basic missions will be covered then also.

Try Proxy first, then buy later.

With list in hand, try to proxy it with stuff you have handy before shelling out the dough. Try playing a couple games and make sure you like it. Tweak it a few times. After you feel like you’ve got a decent start, you can make the plunge and start collecting that army. And you never know, maybe I’ll see you on the battlefield!