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Title: Warmachine/Hordes
Post by: Kaworu, the Fifth Child on April 10, 2014, 05:08:28 PM
Anyone here play Warmachine or Hordes? If so, what do you run? What's your list? How do you like to play?

If not, it's basically a minifigure game where you get plastic or metal pieces and make an army of tiny characters, and try to destroy you're opponents Warcaster (the key piece to the army). I'm not going into any rules stuff, but you can easily google it. Pretty cool.


Anyways, here's MY list.
CYGNAR MAINBOARD

Warcaster

Epic Allister Caine (1 :P )

Units
Tempest Blazers (6)
Arcane Tempest Gun Mages (10)
Rangers (6)
Black 13th Gun Mage Strike Team (3)

Warjacks
LIGHT
Lancer (1)
Hunter (2)

HEAVY
Ironclad (1)
Defender (1)

SOLOS
CYGNAR

Squire (1)
Gun Mage Captain Adept (1)
Journeyman Warcaster (1)
Arlan Strangeaways (1)

MERCENARY
Reinholdt
Eiryss2 (1)

And I'm trying to get the giant jack guy.

SIDEBOARD
Long Gunners (6)
Trencher Infantry (6)


And that's pretty much it. At my LGS about 30 people play Warmachine, but only 3 (including me) play Cygnar, and I'm the only one who DOESN'T play eHaley :P .

Basically, with this army, you want to be attacking with Caine EVERY TURN, and not be wasting any focus. Upkeep maybe one spell, don't do too much. With Reinholdt, you get another free attack. Not bad. In case you get a bad matchup, you want powerful jacks to beat their army up like all get out. Your main goal is, shoot out of the gate guns blazing. Just take out their defenses with your guys and go straight for the assassination run: Jump in, shoot their important people up, then Gatecrash out. Avoid AoE models, and don't be afraid to sacrifice your lower cost guys to Magic Bullet. Essentially, it's like RDW. Don't get too attatched to your guys, go straight after the opponent, and win as fast as you possibly can. If you want to take this a different direction you can easily substitute some shooter units with trenchers and your jacks with things like Grenadiers, and your solos with Captain Max. It's not a bad trencher army, though there are better casters. Rangers are, suprisingly enough, my favorite unit in here, purely because it makes Caine's threat range .loving. enourmous.

Here's where you can reade more about Caine armies, actually.

http://battlecollege.wikispaces.com/mkiiCaine2 (http://battlecollege.wikispaces.com/mkiiCaine2)

Post your stuff!
Title: Re: Warmachine/Hordes
Post by: Splicer on April 10, 2014, 06:08:55 PM
Never heard of these... I do play Warhammer 40k though
Title: Re: Warmachine/Hordes
Post by: Kaworu, the Fifth Child on April 12, 2014, 11:58:02 PM
What army do you run?
Title: Re: Warmachine/Hordes
Post by: Splicer on April 13, 2014, 06:39:21 AM
Necrons
Title: Re: Warmachine/Hordes
Post by: Kaworu, the Fifth Child on April 13, 2014, 11:21:02 AM
If I were to play I would probably go Tau.