... I also have a case of the buyers remorse, after paying what I did. And realizing how much I'll need to pay to get a reasonable army of the all metal minis.
But still. I'm pretty happy and excited at it working out (so far... the codex just got ebayed/paid for, so knock on wood regarding delivery and all that).
The question here is; what's a good start to an SOB army? Without giving out points or stats or anything. Just basic stuff to help me order. It would be nice if I could have a small bunch of them ordered now so they arrive around the same time as the white dwarves.
I'm thinking a cannoness (because I generally shy away from special characters on principle) and two squads of sisters, along with a squad of seraphim and one heavy support choice (exorcist or retributors? I can't decide which I want first. The forge world exorcist model is kind of nice, but a big retributor squat might be more practical to start things off?) There's a lot of fun sounding special stuff too, but I don't know the rules for it off hand so can't really include it in my starter list (although if someone with experience strongly advised me to buy crusaders/arcoflagelents or repentia or what not, I'd consider it). A squad of dominions (is that the one with a bunch of melta weaponry that can outflank?) seems necesary, but I'm thinking perhaps not in the "starter" list?
I'm unsure how to equip the two troop squads though, regarding combinations of special/heavy weapons, and what weapons to place on the sister superior. I seem to recall (could be mistaken) that under the WH book people liked to give redundancy to squads, so they'd stick a heavy flamer with a flamer, and a melta with a multi melta, and storm bolters with heavy bolters. I don't know if that's still how it goes. Any tips for squad set up?
Also, how many squads is it reasonable to give rhinos/repressors to? I finally got a look at the repressor's rules and it looks neat. It's almost the same price as a rhino and serves the same purpose, but has a little bit of punch and a lot of character. I'll quite possibly just use the repressor model for my "rhinos" anyways but... generally speaking, how important are people finding mechanization of sisters squads? I suppose rhinos are a good bet if they're as cheap as I believe they are (and will get to confirm shortly).
So... yeah. Any tips on where I want to go with my first 500/750ish points? Just a solid foundation that I'd want to include in more or less every other army of a larger size.
Edit: Also, how do you guys carry your codex around? I'm thinking of photocopying the relevant pages, maybe even in color and on nice paper, and then putting it in some sort of spiral binding at an office store. I could make two or three of those in case of loss/damage, and even resell the original WD to make up the sum I lost on it. But in general I don't really want the original WD getting carried around a lot and banged up. I've never gone to a tourney, but if I did I assume a photocopy would not fly, and I'd need the real WD?