Editing Warhammer/Tactics/8th Edition/Empire (section)

===Building your army post ET/AOS===
Deep breath... and [[Rage|scream]]. The Empire didn't do so great with the transition to AOS. A fair bit of the army is still sold by GW, but a lot of things that were at the core of an Empire army got the axe. Cannons? Gone. Knights? Discontinued. Warrior Priests? Turned into a Space marine. Still, [[Bretonnia|could]] [[Tomb Kings|be worse]]. GW still sells the Griffon kit, a (singular) general/captain kit (and not the good one), Battle Wizards, state troops (except Archers), Greatswords, Outriders/Pistoliers, Demigryphs, Flagellants and everything that was a Rare choice (Steam tank, fuck yeah).

So the big thing is figuring out where to get the models to plug that cavalry and artillery hole in your army. The most reliable and affordable option in most cases is to find 3rd party sites that can sell you the goods your looking for. Perry Miniatures sells a box of "Mounted Men at Arms 1450-1500" that are a pretty good fit for Empire Knights, and the Sundered Studios webstore has a bunch of kits of pseudo Empire and Holy Roman Empire stuff such as their own Holy Roman Empire mounted knights, some pretty good artillery (Cannon, Mortar and Hellblaster volley gun) as well as a War Wagon if you want to relive the glory days of 5th edition (the site can be a pain to get around but it's all there I swear). Warlord games also sells a bunch of Landsknecht infantry with a variety of weapons so you can use them for as an alternative to GW's State Troopers if you want to save money.

Most named characters are gone (except for Franz who is still sold with the Griffon kit) so if you'll be scrounging for them on ebay or recaster sites if you want them, and you'll likely need to convert or 3rd party your own General and BSB now since the kit that sold them as a duo is gone. The old Witch hunter model is gone, but GW decided to make two special characters for AOS that are both witch hunters who fit entirely with the old fantasy aesthetic and they've got some good modelling option to boot. Sadly nothing out there seems to be a Warrior Priest replacement so you'll need to find a recaster who sells them as well.

Oh, and obviously you'll need to get your hands on some square bases, but if you're getting your goods second hand on eBay you'll soon have more bases than you'll ever use. Buying big lots from people selling off piles of shame or half-built armies on eBay is often completely worth the hassle of stripping minis. If you're smart about it and don't get caught up in a bid war, it can result in retail price or less for discontinued minis, and they tend to include bigass handfuls of squares of every size. One day you're desperately searching for a square to put your converted captain on, the next you're planning a whole unit filler project just to use all of the bizarre base sizes you now own for some reason.