Choosing an Army in Empire of Warhammer
For a beginner Empire is good to start and you can get warhammer gold easily. For example, or you can choose to start with Bretonnians. We are also trying to decide on an army, and my feelings are pretty similar. We are actually pretty daunted the idea of painting an army of mostly knights. They're so large, detailed, and colorfully.
On the other hand, we like the Bretonnian models somewhat more than the Empire ones in Warhammer. We are also considering Beastmen. What are your thoughts on Bretonnia vs Empire? Maybe we can help each oher decide. Why they appealed to me out of the too armies?
In responce , Empire are obviously a very versatile army and dont realy excell in 1 specific area (maybe in the guns department they do) but other then that they are just good all rounders, where as Bretonnia are a very Offensive army that rely heavily on the timing of the charge.
They have some ranged options in the peasant Archers and we think you can upgrade them to have Flaming arrows also able to become a skirmishing. Brets also have the Trebuchet which is pretty cool and have Men-At-Arms to bulk up the numbers and are good for holding up the opponents army. Letting you menouver your knights enough to get a decent charge. warhammer Online gold service is online, just order it when you need.
We prefere Brets slightly to the empire but Empire are a pretty cool army. We will probably play Brets alot more often and start a small Empire amy at some point. If the softspot still remains for them after playing a few games with Bretonnians. As for the painting dont be scared of it. Just look at it as experimenting with new things every one has to start some where if need be get some Men-At-Arms first to just home in your painting skills then get some knights so the look nicer than a total beginner's work.
