Greetings!

I thought I'd post a quick hello and maybe ask a question - I finally picked up The Hobbit big box, mostly due to a love of all things LOTR (read: Dwarves) and also through a want of trying a fantasy / non 40k skirmish game (after being somewhat dissapointed with Saga).

I've just had a flick through the rules, all seems fair enough but even though I have 40k and WFB, I still find it a little hard to know where I go next (well, when I've exhausted the contents of the box) as regards books and resources from Gamesworkshop. I appreciate (or guess) that the box is similar to the other GW big starter boxes - ie a good representation, but not the whole game in detail, so any pointers would be welcome.

Other question: are there any good facebook groups I should be joining?

Ok, thanks all, must get back to LOTRO now (laurelin, dwarf guardian...)!

cheers

The Great British Hobbit League Facebook group and Youtube channel are absolute musts (the youtube channel even has a dedicated beginners series, faq videos, etc).

As for the starter set, it's a pretty good introduction, honestly. The only major thing it doesn't really cover is cavalry, I think (though I may be mistaken.) Also, it doesn't have the army lists like the big rulebook has, which was really rather irritating - unless you can get hold of them by some other means, the hadback rulebook is an expensive and mostly pointless thing looming in your future. GW did rectify this by putting them online for free, but I don't know what became of them with the new website.

From there my advice would be to pick a faction you fancy, perhaps a good faction to stand against the goblins you already have, and choose a warband of twelve heroes and a leader. As a general guide, a plastic box (infantry tend to be 12 strong, so perfect) and a hero of some sort (captains are solid first choices, named characters more pricey/specialised, but go for what you think is cool) is as solid a start as you can make. Build up your first couple of warbands based on models you like, rather than worrying about points or any of that. It's more satisfying to expand later to fill weaknesses in your force and hit the 500pts mark than play a "perfect" army that you're not really feeling. If you're a dwarf fan, you could even just buy a box of erebor warriors and have Thorin from your box set lead them. Expand with troops for balin and dwalin, or perhaps buy some of the finecast heroes. The Thror model is gorgeous.

Some of the Lord of the Rings era Sourcebooks that contain the army lists are disappearing, though, so you might want to keep an eye on ebay for any you miss.

Thanks for the info, join request sent to the group.

Dwarves will absolutely be my choice of army, though I notice that on the GW there doesn't appear to be a sourcebook to cover Dwarves? Or, indeed, anything except bad guys and men.

Greetings, TK13047.

If you are looking to start with Dwarves, you have two options. For the Hobbit-era Dwarves, their rules are in the big, hardback Hobbit rulebook (and I believe can be legally downloaded in .pdf format). If you are wanting to go with the LotR era Dwarves, then you need to pick up the Free Peoples Sourcebook.

I look forward to seeing your progress, and let us know if you have any other questions!

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Respectfully,
Jonathan

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Hello and welcome to the Forum, Question - what does TK13047 mean???

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Harfoots-The first of the Hobbit people to cross over the Misty Mountains and enter Eriador.

Ah that's my ID number, I'm in the 501st. I use it on every forum pretty much. TK = stormtrooper.

cheers

Kevin.