Glad to have you join us Bane. Here are some basic guidelines I came up with for warbands:
Creating Your Warband
Your warband should consist of a handful of figures, 4 or 5 say. They need not all be from the same race or faction.
For each of your figures, choose a warscroll that best represents their basic abilities. This may not be a warscroll with the Hero, Wizard, Monster or War Machine keywords. They start off as a basic figure type from that scroll, with no upgrades (i.e. no champions, musicians etc), though they can choose any weapons from the scroll - including limited ones.
The leader of your warband is a Level 5 Hero and gains the Hero keyword. They have a Lieutenant which is a Level 3 Hero. The rest of your Warband are Level 1 Heroes.
Each Hero Level grants a figure one Advance. If a figure has more than one Wound already, each Wound above the first takes up one of their Advances.
Remaining Advances can be used to:
Increase Wounds by one.
Improve any other number on the scroll by one (e.g. To Hit, Rend, Save, even Range). Each particular number (except Wounds) may only be improved once.
Gain a special ability. This can be an existing one from any other war scroll or you can make one up.
Gain a spell. This can be from any warscroll, one of the three from the basic rules, or you can make one up. A figure that has any spells also has the Wizard keyword and can unbind spells.
A figure can have more than one ability or spell or additional wound. Obviously be sensible with the special rules and spells, they should make sense given the model used and should not break everything. Summoning Spells can be used, but only summon 1 basic figure of the type selected each time they are used and should be restricted to fairly basic types (no greater daemon lords thankyou).
Your warband should have at least some form of backstory. Looking at the Oldhammer World for setting rather than the newer Mortal Realms, but will probably be fairly loose with it.
The above are all fairly rough guidelines rather than set in stone laws. If you have a really great idea for something then do it. There will be two sides each Warband can join - Approximately Good or Vaguely Evil.
When we have a couple of Warbands ready I can start piecing a scenario together.
If you are not familiar with the rules, they can be found here:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Wa ... gmar-Rules
As can all the compendium warscrolls for the older figures. The rules are only four pages and easy to pick up, and we can run through them on the day for people unfamiliar with them. Warscrolls can also be found on the product pages for the various figures or through the Age of Sigmar app on Android and iPhone. Use whichever ones you want.
I said a dozen figures at the start of the thread, but I'm now leaning towards smaller warbands of up to about half a dozen. What are peoples thoughts?
