New player old lurker game bias question

[Pyrrhus1717]

Hey just getting around to building a couple of armies and convincing my group to start playing the game. Does this game have any bias towards certain types of lists / troop types ? Not disparaging the rules .I am wanting my group to play next year at historicon . I wanted to get a jump start on painting the right troops to take . We will be choosing the army's based on the info gathered .  ( ie I don't want to build a army based around say knights or pike only to find out they dont do to well in the rules.Any help would be great .

[nikgaukroger]

MeG seems quite good for a wide variety of armies - which is good    However, I think there is general agreement that armies that rely on shooting are tough to play.

[Simon Meg-Meister]

Hi

List and points are very well balanced.
Results of being able to iterate them to a refined position.
And with 650 armies to go at there is loads of choice.
I firmly recommend picking something you love from history and playing with it enough to become and expert in its use.
Very few armies you can't win a game with.

Si

[AntiokosIII]

I agree with what's been said so far. The current flavor of the month is an army full of cheap troops in big units, with lots of TuG's. Such an army is hard to break, and can trade units and still be around after a smaller opponent is busted. Flavors of the month come and go. At Skulls I played a relatively small (BP 5) army and finished decently. Play what you like playing.

[Raiderd]

The more I play the game  The more I realize that there Is a lot of ways to win a game small elite armies,large cheap armies,and armies in between.Pick one that you don't mind losing with some have more of a learning curve than others hope to see you next year at Historicon 

[jasonbroomer]

I think a good approach to learn the game is to favour an army with a predominant troop type, eg heavy impact foot, pikes, charging Cv, etc

While this won't necessarily be a game winning strategy, it will allow you to understand the pro and con's of the troop type, how to use them and how to beat them.

As you gain experience you can look to use more of a mixed force army.

[nikgaukroger]

I'd concur with this. I mainly used shooty mounted armies when I started and learnt a lot quickly.