What Should You Buy After Your Warmachine Command Starter? Grow Your Army

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Choose your army, tell us which boxes you own, and explore up to three compatible additions. Find a new direction without buying the same box twice.

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Choose your army, tell us which boxes you own, and explore up to three compatible additions. Find a new direction without buying the same box twice. Explore the Warmachine collection at Toy Snowman, your Montreal-based Canadian hobby store.

What should you buy after a Warmachine Command Starter?

Choose the next box around a job you want your collection to do. A Battlegroup Box usually introduces a different leader and more warjacks or warbeasts. A Core Expansion broadens your main troop choices. An Auxiliary Expansion adds a different set of specialists. Read the actual contents: these labels describe a product’s role, not a guarantee that it completes a particular points total.

Our adviser covers 11 armies represented in Toy Snowman’s catalogue. It favours the goal you select and removes boxes you tick as owned. The results are alternatives to consider one at a time. For a ranged preference, for example, a box may add useful shooting alongside other models; it does not turn every list into a gunline.

Can models from the same faction always be mixed?

No. The army name matters. Dusk House Kallyss and Dusk Fane of Nyrro are different armies, just as Khador Winter Korps and Old Umbrey are different armies. Some cadres have wider permissions, but those are specific exceptions. Check the current Warmachine app before buying models to combine in a list.

Older packaging can also use names such as Ghosts of Ios, Annihilators, Shard Nocturnes or Foulblood’s Armada. The tool maps those starting sets to their corresponding current armies. A product title containing “cadre” is not, by itself, evidence of cross-army compatibility.

How do I avoid duplicate models?

Tick every listed box you own. Then review the contents of your next choice, especially if you purchased individual models or second-hand lots. The adviser flags known overlapping Strygon/Vordak chassis and Merciless units between the three Fane army boxes. Different warbeast loadouts can change the value of an apparent duplicate.

Buying another leader gives you another way to build a force. It does not mean you can simply add every new model to your existing list. Confirm army permissions, field allowance, leaders and points in the app.

For more detail, read our Command Starter versus Battlegroup Box guide, Fane of Nyrro box guide and House Kallyss versus Fane comparison.

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Editorial guide checked 8 November 2026. Product prices and availability are requested when you use the tool. Sources: official army guides, Warmachine app and rules, Command Starter naming update, and the linked Toy Snowman product listings. Photos are real catalogue images; models may be shown assembled and painted.

Additional references: Old Umbrey Auxiliary contents, Fane army boxes, and Final Hunt compatibility.