Bamaka list help/suggestions

[Owen Matthew]

Hello!

I just picked up Soft belly and stealthy shadow yesterday. I read the rules last night as well. I am excited to play the game soon… I’d like any advice on making a first group. I thought I’d just go with what I liked and hoped it might work out as a playable force.

I just bought the two above, and am I am thinking of adding dacke, bak, Tarar and that leaves me with 20 points left over. In terms of playing does this leave me with a reasonably well-balanced list? What do I do for the last 20 points… If I had 5 more points left over I’d go right for Negozi and probably not look back.

I really like Sabaka (really point-heavy though!), m’bonga, and gwala, as well. Zaafarani, ekevu and dhambizo are close runners up.

Out of these models is there any clear list that would be good to go with as a starter? I’ll probably end up with most of them but I am trying to get 100 done all at once. I kind of like having many small ones with one large guy, but after reading the rules it seems like it would be very easy to kill the big guys, while the small ones might go down from one exchange. Is it better to play with fewer stronger models in this game?

Thanks for your time!

Owen