STARTING A LEAGUES OF VOTANN ARMY IN 11TH EDITION: A COMPACT BUYING GUIDE
The Leagues of Votann are a small, modern range where owning one of everything is an achievable ambition rather than a lifetime sentence. This page covers the Hearthkyn box to start with, the Hearthguard and Beserks, and when to schedule the Land Fortress.
Build from the middle out
Because the range is compact, your buying order matters less than with sprawling factions, and it still pays to build from the middle. The middle, for the Kin, is Hearthkyn Warriors: tough line infantry with a toolbox of weapon options. Whatever starter or Combat Patrol is current is built around them plus a leader such as a Kâhl, and that bundle is comfortably your first purchase. The Kin are pragmatic and grudge-bearing, an army that advances methodically, tanks a frightening amount of punishment and repays every slight with interest, and the Hearthkyn are where that starts.
Hearthguard and Beserks
Two kits define the army's character beyond the line squads. Einhyr Hearthguard are the elite, massive exo-armoured bodyguards who anchor whatever they stand near. Cthonian Beserks are the opposite energy: mining-plasma brawlers who dig through enemy lines the way they dig through rock. One box of each gives the force teeth and texture, and both are superb painting projects with all that layered armour plate.
Recommended: Einhyr Hearthguard
Sagitaurs for speed
A Sagitaur buggy or two adds the speed the infantry lacks and breaks up the visual mass of the army on the shelf.
Schedule the Land Fortress
The Hekaton Land Fortress is the obvious centrepiece, a rolling fortress that looks like the faction's whole philosophy cast in plastic. It is a big commitment of desk time, so schedule it as a reward: core infantry painted first, then the tank.
Recommended: Hekaton Land Fortress
Two mistakes a small range invites
- Buying the Land Fortress first and letting it loom, unbuilt, over everything.
- Stockpiling duplicate character sculpts a small range does not need yet.
Ink the grudge ledger
The Kin write everything down. Log each kit as it joins the hold and record its true condition, however unflattering. A ledger that matches reality is what separates a collection from a cupboard, and with a range this size it can read "finished" all the way down. The complete range and lore are on the Leagues of Votann faction page under Data.