thinking of Chaos Dwarves

[Glenn87]

I'm thinking of starting Chaos Dwarves, and I have the book, I just have NO idea where to start with them.
Is there anyone who could help me here? For example, what are the things that I really 'HAVE' to buy? (I'm going to GD Germany this weekend, so I can bring some things home without P&P).

THx

[Agoz]

I've heard magma cannons are great.

[Da Crusha]

magma cannons are good, I bring 1 or 2, deathshriekers are good again 1 or 2. youll need 30 or so infernal guard, although I ussually bring about 50. a destroyer, at least 1 hobgoblin hero on wolf, several sorcerers on foot. I prefer a hellcannon. those are pretty much the bare essentials for 2500 pt list.

[Crube]

Personally I think the CD are one of the armies where the rule of cool really applies. I think that there's usually a good place in an army for pretty much any model, so if it looks good, it should still be pretty effective

[Glenn87]

magma cannons are good, I bring 1 or 2, deathshriekers are good again 1 or 2. youll need 30 or so infernal guard, although I ussually bring about 50. a destroyer, at least 1 hobgoblin hero on wolf, several sorcerers on foot. I prefer a hellcannon. those are pretty much the bare essentials for 2500 pt list.

So a unit of 30 Infernal Guards is alright??
I'm aiming at 2K (to start with), and I was thinking of 30 Infernal Guards (but how to equip them? HW&S or Fireglaives?), a unit of (8??) Bull Centaurs, and a Hellcannon (untill they release a model for the Destroyer). And a Hero (BSB) and a Wizard (either lvl 4 or lvl 2). Also, wich lore would I take on the wizard?

[FraustyTheSnowman]

I haven't played any games with mine, but I think hws are your best bet. 3+ armor seems to be fairly rare, so I would think it's good to take advantage of having it. I plan on running a sizeable unit of ig with hws and the blunderbusses, though it's going to be horribly expensive. The theory being I'll try to make that a unit that NEEDS to be charged by my opponent, and then stand and shoot a whole mess of blunderbuss shots into them. Likely it'll only ever work once, but oh well.

Personally I like the warmachines, a lot. That's what really attracted me to the chaos dwarves. I've got three death shrieker rocket launchers built, and will be working on an iron daemon and magma cannon. Along with them though a daemonsmith seems to be very important. Looks like most of the warmachines (hellcannon being the exception) can't defend themselves well, so a fighty little wizard engineer makes for a good companion. As for lores, I've heard fire is a solid choice for them, but again, no personal experience. Whatever lore you choose, almost all the lists I've seen include a daemonsmith with dispell scroll.

[thrawn]

i got chaos dwarfs once they came out, one of the coolest armies.

mandatory list:

infernal guard with hand weapon/shield (fireglaives/blunderbussess are too many points and you need a rank and file unit to fight combat).
1x magma cannon
1x death shrieker
2x level 2 mages with death magic (one of the biggest short comings in list is not have a lord level fighter, take death magic, i always do)

after that what ever you like. here is my 2000 point list and i've played 6 times with and never lost.

lvl 2 death magic
lvl 2 death magic
BSB

27x infernal guard
20x hobgoblins archers

1x magma cannon
1x death shrieker
1x iron daemon
5x k'dai fireborn

1x hell cannon


also check out chaos dwarfs online, great web site and i used it a lot before i finallized my army.