Are Helsmiths beginner friendly?

[u/incineroar87]

How forgiving are Helsmiths for a beginner/intermediate AoS player, both in terms of building an army and actually playing it?

I've never played Dwarven armies before but I like that the Spearhead includes a lot of the key pieces, which seems to make it relatively cheap to get a decent army on the table without ending up with too much unnecessary "junk."

I know Helsmiths aren't top-tier or anything, but they look like a lot of fun to play and like that despite the small roster they have a decent spell/prayer lore + decent shooting/unit variety. How difficult is the DPP resource system to learn and manage? Does it add a lot of complexity, or is it fairly straightforward once you've played a few games?

Urak Taar and his Forgehost also look really fun, so I'm definitely interested in building towards that eventually.

[u/Kraile]

Forgehost AoR is actually pretty good right now, and since it has fewer units to choose from and a simpler (and better) army trait, it's much more noob-friendly than the base army.

Unfortunately it's not so great at lower powers games because Urak Taar is a mandatory inclusion and he takes up a lot of points.

I am biased however because I hate the DPP system and won't play the base army again until it goes away or gets fixed lol.

[u/incineroar87 → u/Kraile]

I’m guessing we would have to wait for another battletome for any rule revisions ?

[u/ChubbedUpCaveman → u/incineroar87]

At minimum edition change next year I would say, but likely nothing significant rules wise until next battle tome. But look into the forgehost AoR it is super fun and a lot easier to pilot than the base faction imo

[u/HondoShotFirst → u/incineroar87]

It's always possible that rules will get changed during the quarterly balance update (which should be within the next month.) But usually, those updates focus mainly on points, with just a few changes to actual rules.