Welcome fatbat! As klinktastic has said, you're more than welcome to create your own possessed warband or use the one that's already in the warband thread. Check out the
Fluff thread as well, there's a map of the area we're basing the campaign in and some background detail that you can use as inspiration to work your warband into. If you post any fluff, please do it in that thread, A. so that it's easily accessible (otherwise people miss it or you have to spend time going back through this thread which will doubtless become a 40/50 page monster!), and B. because it's nice to have a single thread to read through that is just fluff to interest newcomers like yourself!
klinktastic wrote:
General advice for building a warband is as follows:
1. Max out heroes - They make you the money in the Post Battle.
2. Ensure you have some "throw away" units to sacrifice to get yourself in rout status so you can still walk away from a battle with most of your force intact.
3. Make sure to read out house rules (on the first page of this thread) as there are some differences that will impact your decisions on armor, 2 weapon fighting, etc.
I'd agree with these points, particularly the first one. Max heroes is ESSENTIAL to keep up to speed with other warbands in a campaign. This typically means 5 in your starting roster which, with Possessed, means a lot of gc spent on mutants (who
have to start with a mutation so might as well start with a good one!) and the possessed themselves. Other warbands have 'cheap' heroes, but the possessed don't. Whilst this is a problem early on, don't lose heart, because the Possessed are easily one of the more powerful and scary warbands out there in the later game.
klinktastic's point 3 about checking out our house rules is important too. Armour is not only cheaper, but now not only protects you during the battle, but in the post-battle sequence too. This makes it a much better defensive buy for small, elite warbands than an equivalent item like a sword in my opinion. It is all dependent on the dice of course...
If you'd like a practice battle to get used to Battle Chronicler/Dicelog/a warband before getting into the campaign proper, then there doubtless a couple of people willing to play you and walk you through how we do things! If you like the warband you use then you are welcome to count the results of that battle towards their experience/CP goals. Alternatively, if you want to dive right in, post your roster online in the
warband thread I can put you in our match ups for Game 4, starting Wednesday the 23rd of April.
Whatever you decide though, we're a good group of friendly players, and about half are newcomers to the site/Mordheim online, so no matter your skill level we'll be more than happy to oblige!