Circle or Trollblood?

[wolf9416]

Hey guys, I posted this on the circle area as well, but I thought it might be good for some troll player input. I'm new to the forums, so if I wasn't supposed to post the same thing twice, sorry, I won't do it again xD

But I'm just looking for a bit of advice. I am having a really tough time deciding what faction I want to be. I currently have the Circle box set, which I have painted and played one game with just learning the rules and stuff. I just really want to make sure 100% that I want to stick with circle before I start moving on and buying more stuff.

So the thing is, I love Kromac. I think he is probably the coolest looking warlock around, and I like how he plays and I like the beast heavy army. The problem for me is when I look at the rest of the circle. None of the other casters really jump out to me as looking amazing and I find that a lot of the warbeasts look the same. Especially with the new models for the warpwolves, I find they are all meh.

Then I look at Mulg, and the EBDT, and the DTM and I think, wow, those guys are bad***. I find I like the idea of running this army of huge killer trolls through the enemy. But at the same time, none of their warlocks stand out to me the same way that Kromac does.

I have someone that will buy the Circle battlebox off me if I change my mind, so that isn't a huge deal, but I'm just wondering if anyone has any advice on which faction I should go with. Playstyle wise, I like the way both armies play, I like the brick formation of the trolls and the teleporting of circle. My main opponents will be Legion and Retribution, if that helps at all...

TL;DR,
I prefer the circle warlocks but the troll warbeasts, I'll be playing against Legion and Ret, what should I do? xD

[PG_joedj]

Circle won L&L Masters 2011. (W. Pagani)
Trolls won L&L Masters 2012. (J. Flanzer)

Get 'em both. Then play hybrid two warlock games
That's what I did!

[PG_petegrrrr]

That lack of variety you see in the heavies in circle is probably going to be even more pronounced in the Trollblood faction. Our plastic kit looks vary similar in every variation.

Circle at least has other forms of beasts. The Wold models look great, and I even love the Satyrs.

But if you are really torn, I'd get both unless it was financially impossible. Trollbloods are pretty sweet, and so is circle, so if you are torn on looks and playstyle, get both!

[Sardonic Artery]

I'd say playstyle will come in huge -- what do you want to do with your army?

[wolf9416]

I think I prefer the play style of being able to take a hit and send a hit right back. I watched a battle report with a troll blood character that was running eDoomy with I think four heavies a stone bearer unit and they just kinda stood together and walked right through the other team. I thought that was sweet, lol, but I'm not sure how practical that would be, especially against a ranged army.