Confusion reigns...

So I'd made the decision, I'm going to play warmahordes.  I've played a starter game with Khador (vs Cryx - I lost) and now I want to get an army of big Jacks to smash the living daylights out of my opponents! Roarrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So after that moment of clarity I sat down and had a flick through battle college (http://battlecollege.org - definitely worth a look for any warmachine/hordes players).  However all this left me with loads of questions:

1. But what is Warmahordes? 
2. Does it matter which I choose and will it change who I can play against?
3. 11+ Factions/Armies/Warbands whats the difference?
4. Who's the best?

So back to the wargames club for the answers...

Edit 28/01/2016 :

So now I'm 4 months down the line I've since learnt that these are not as stupid as I first thought and are pretty common for new players.  I've answered each below in as simple a way as possible:-

1)   Warmachine and Hordes are basically the same game, but with a small twist.  Think of them as being big stompy robots vs big angry monsters.  As a newbie the difference doesn't matter, just choose who you like and play!

For those of you who want to know a little more, the essence of it is Hordes Beasts generate the power (fury) and the warlock uses this to cast spells.  Warmachine warcasters generate the power (focus) and use this to power the Warjacks.  I personally believe the Fury mechanic is slightly more powerful but then this is balanced by slightly weaker beasts vs warjack equivalents.

2)   No, everyone can play everyone else.  Just choose who you like and play!

3)   They're all just different flavours, each adding a different way that they play or a different look to their models.  Just choose who you like and play (are you seeing a theme here?)!

4)   There is no real answer to this, additionally the nice thing about Privateer Press is that they tweak the rules every 6 months with "Errata Updates" to try to keep the whole game as balanced as possible.  If something appears to massively skew the game to a factions advantage it is normally adjusted back to its rightful position.

In the beginning...

So I’ve been meaning to write this for a while, nothing of decisive wit or useful information just a blog about my WarmaHordes career to date.

So as with any good story lets start at the beginning and then over the next few posts I’ll hopefully catch you up to current date.  As my teacher once said everything is about one or more of the following questions: who, what, where, why and how.  So (with a little change of the order and missing the irrelevant ones) lets go with that:

Why?
As with most things the why is quite simply a desire for a challenge and a hark back to my younger years when I was an avid gamer for over 10 years including a stint working for GW.
The actual trigger event to returning to the hobby was a message from a uni friend (its your fault Dave!) with a picture of an unknown marine figure attached (turned out to be a Grey Knight Dreadknight).  A lot of goggling and reading (about the end of the fantasy world) and I wanted to game again!

What?
Well, I never really liked 40k, I always thought it was more of a game of who could roll dice better.  Equally some of you may know that last summer GW got rid of my much loved Fantasy and brought out a brand new (and pretty much unrelated) game called Age of Sigmar.  I had a brief look through the rules and pretty quickly came of the opinion that it was a simplified version of the 40k rules in a fantasy* setting – I think I’ll pass.

So with an open mind I headed down to my local gaming club to see what was there.  It turns out there was quite a lot of WarmaHordes going on so an intro game or two later and I was hooked :-D.

Where?
I’m now a member of my local gaming club and just to prove the gaming world is a small place I’ve caught back up with a guy I first got into the hobby nearly 20 years ago!

How?
Well as with all games it involves a not insubstantial amount of cash.  However to my benefit all of the old GW models & systems I had were now “vintage” and actually worth some money.  So a lot of eBay sales and purchases later I had an army.
Either way the stage was set for my entry into the world of WarmaHordes!!

*note that I am so not a fan of the whole AoS internet uproar.  I don’t think its for me and with that I’ve moved on…