warhammer fantasy Dwarfs (just starting)

[orkblasta]

So me and a friend are transferring from 40k to fantasy for a while. He's starting up an ork/goblin army and I'm getting into dwarfs. We found a Battle for skull pass set at a local games store and are planning on splitting it down the middle, well almost down the middle I'm paying less and just taking the dwarfs, he's taking everything else, templates, dice, etc... Anyway neither of us have ever played fantasy and thus don't have any idea what we're doing.

Anyway I'm planning on starting with a small Dwarf army, (I understand that the new edition emphasizes large armies but I'm going small, just to give it a try) so here's what I'm planning.

1 Battle for skull pass which includes:

-12 dwarf warriors
-10 dwarf thunderers
-8 dwarf miners
-dwarf thane
-dwarf dragon slayer
-dwarf cannon w/ 3 crew

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1 Dwarf Battalion which includes:

-dwarf cannon w/ 3 crew
-32 dwarf warriors
-16 dwarf thunderers

A total of:

-2 dwarf cannons
-44 dwarf warriors
-26 dwarf thunderers
-8 dwarf miners
-dwarf thane
-dwarf dragon slayer

Now to a 40k player this seems like quite a bit but I know fantasy is quite a bit bigger than 40k, so what kind of options does this leave me? Remember I only want a small army so I might be willing to buy 1 or 2 more boxes of units.

By the way the dwarf cannon that comes in the battalion can instead be built as an organ gun, and the dwarf thunderers can be built as quarrellers.

thanks for your input.

cheers.

[Devil's Advocate]

I'm still learning too - I've got a raft of goblins...

the cannon is great against things like warmachines, monsters and really thick units. Organ guns are better against infantry and hordes.

Expect to make a gunline and blast away at any who come at you.

I'd go with making the units all the same (taking the 16 thunderers instead of making them quarrelers, but that's just a guess)

[orkblasta]

thanks for your input, I was thinking the same thing but seeing as I don't own a copy of the dex yet I wasn't sure.

cheers.