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 hellpato wrote:
JustFor me is a bad time to start AOS. I played a game with nighthaunt (a friend army for playtesting is other army) and now im starting Nighthaunt. Now big problem, one model had never been release (Guardian of Souls) and can only found in the starter boxset and AOS 3 is coming up with a new book. Bad time to start if you choose old army but good time if you look only with the last release.

There's this thing called EBay....
Give it a search ever now & then. Eventually you'll turn one up.

There are a couple ways to combine.

Eldar Exodites are a good way to get models that work in both ranges. Dinosaur riding elves work and you can magnetize weapons. I've even seen a couple people do eldar wraith armies iwth Sylvaneth. Alarielle works as a wraithknight, Treelords work as Wraithlords, Kurnoth Hunters work as Wraithguard and the infantry models can work as heroes.

Cities of Sigmar is another. I think Greywater Fastness is more artillery and shooting like? I've seen some conversions using models from both ranges.

The game evolves constantly (every book drop which is every 1-3 months). So if you want to mix and match you can always look into things without purchasing. It isn't a bad time though to just,.. watch and wait

Even better for the Guardian of Souls try Mortal Realms back issues £7.99 for the three characters? Yes please.

Bottom line is that if you see Seraphon (lizardmen) models and like what you see, then buy them! I did the exact same--got Seraphon for my wife and have a good sized army painted. She's not a "wargamer" so we play pretty loose basic rules e.g. not worrying about subfactions and such.

Her army is painted all sorts of bright colors and Seraphon models are amazing for "painting how you feel today". Don't need to stick to a specific scheme. Lots of skin and scale textures so very forgiving to paint as well.

Do be warned, though, that some of the older plastic kits are crappy (like Saurus Knights) and they still have resin stuff. Of course you can always tell if it's resin by the description on the GW website so there won't be surprises. All of the bigger stuff is semi-modern plastic, though, and it looks amazing when assembled and painted.

Also FYI the AoS app is free and contains the core rules. Every warscroll (what AoS calls their datasheets) is free and in the app.


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popisdead wrote:
There are a couple ways to combine.

Eldar Exodites are a good way to get models that work in both ranges. Dinosaur riding elves work and you can magnetize weapons. I've even seen a couple people do eldar wraith armies iwth Sylvaneth. Alarielle works as a wraithknight, Treelords work as Wraithlords, Kurnoth Hunters work as Wraithguard and the infantry models can work as heroes.

Cities of Sigmar is another. I think Greywater Fastness is more artillery and shooting like? I've seen some conversions using models from both ranges.

The game evolves constantly (every book drop which is every 1-3 months). So if you want to mix and match you can always look into things without purchasing. It isn't a bad time though to just,.. watch and wait

I could see using Guard + AdMech to convert up a really sick CoS army. In fact a somewhat famous AoS painter named Vince Venturella converted and painted a tempest eye CoS army, notably using the GSC Jackal bikers as the base for Pistoliers, for example.

Quasistellar wrote:
Do be warned, though, that some of the older plastic kits are crappy (like Saurus Knights)...

The Saurus Knights are some of the newer plastics in the Seraphon line, being released around the same time as the big lizards (Carnosaur, Stegadon, etc.).

pretty sure that's wrong, at least with the Carnosaur -- I mean yeah they're newer than the skinks and saurus, but only by two years I think ('02 vs '04). Splitting hairs here.

Most of the Seraphon plastic is older than the plastic big beasties. The regular saurus and skinks are older kits but at least fit properly for the most part.

Anyway the real point is that a couple of their older plastic kits are stinkers. I'd rather build some of their resin stuff than the Saurus Knights again.

They were years apart, and saurus knights are also infamous for being decidedly lower quality than other kits released in the same era. If the riders were removed they could even be mistaken as not coming from the same company, the difference is that dramatic. The steggy kit was released at the same time as I recall and it is considerably better. I would bet the knights kit was originally made far earlier then delayed for some reason.

At any rate the most recent batch of kits are the 8th edition ones; Carnosaur/Troglodon, Bastiladon, and several characters.