Reply To: Gates of Antares beginner

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Well no new Antaries goodies appearing today in the sale (although there’s some limited 50% off Bolt Action stuff today if anyone’s interested).

Another “cheap” start would be to try with some Freeborn in the current sale.

There “Domari” are 50% off (so that’s £10 for 16 models), now Warlord also sell metal Mag Guns separately for conversions

Freeborn Mag Gun & Plasma Pistol Sprue

So a lot of people have been using the Frostgrave Barbarian set to make the Feral troop squads (see below)

https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/wssblog/barbarians-in-space/

So those purchases with an X Launcher weapon team (your first purchase for any BtGoA army for a weapon team should always be an X Launcher if available). So a couple of boxes of Domari and a box of the Frostgrave Barbarians (plus the mag guns from Warlord) would give anyone a fine starter army for a freeborn force.

I must admit tho that I much prefer the metal Domari from Warlord (I think that set has the best sculpts in the range), but some people prefer the plastic for doing conversions.

But looking at the current sale I think there’s only the options of Concord, Freeborn and Virai for trying to build an army from the items on offer (most of the other armies rank and file troops aren’t included).