Advice For A New Player

None of us have been playing the faction long, so a reasonable amount of the advice offered is going to be based purely from experience with the game. That said.

The Wanderer's strength lies in offering improved mobility for friendly models, and using Star-Crossed to annoy your opponent. I tend to feel that the best Wanderer lists are Dark Menagerie lists, simply because of the increased threat and improved chanced to hit from spraying down a target with his lantern. Neigh slayers make Bump a reasonable choice, but not if you want to use the models you already own. Skin & Moans in particular is real good with the Wanderer. There's not much you can't hit with a MAT 9 beast, and it loves Star-Crossed. Generally, you'll get the best results out of Star-Crossed with DEF 13 models, because of math. I'd say that list you want to run with the Wanderer would be better off with the Heretic, which I suspect you own.

Your Child list is largely OK, but is missing bodies to fuel the Death Knell. The minimum unit of Dread Rots you see in most lists is there to provide early corpse generation. I'd suggest swapping out the Twilight Sisters for some Dread Rots.

Other than that, there's no better way to learn what works for you than to get stuff on the board and play games. If you can find opponents willing to play smaller point games, starting at 50 points will give you a good introduction to the game, and reduce the number of moving parts. Do not get discouraged if you lose a lot during the first few months of playing. The game has a steep learning curve, but has the depth to be worth playing if you put in the time.

Good luck!

I totally forgot to list what I own. I only have a skin and moans, a cage rager, and two witchwoods. I have been hesitant to order too much as I'm still very unclear about what units are just bad. For instance I don't see much in the way of mad caps, pigs, neighs, or glimmer imps. I'm only spending about $40 each paycheck and I am really enjoying getting rules knowledge by osmosis while playing in war room so I'm not stressing about it. Here is a list I thought up based on the Heretic suggestion.

The Heretic (bump theme)
Cage Rager
Skin & Moans
Crabbits

Death Knell

Lord Longfellow 0
Witchwood 0
Witchwood 0

Hollowmen (max)
- Lantern Man
Hollowmen (max)
- Lantern Man
Dread Rots (min)
Piggybacks (max)