Just had my first AoS game. First, it was great, very fun and fast paced, really hope they do something similar with it for 40k! It was a 1000 point game of Khorne vs Stormcast, and although I got my ass thoroughly whipped, I managed to kill no less than a quarter of the enemy army! My main problem was all my big units going down first, leaving the little dudes without support. Below is the list I used, I'm looking for advice on how to improve with the force, tactics involving the force etc.
Exalted Deathbringer (Impaling Spear)
Slaughterpriest (Hackblade and Wrathhammer)
Bloodsecrator
All 3 of the above I had in a blob in the centre of force, backed by Blood Warriors and left in range of the Blood Reavers.
Khorgoraths x 3
Skullcrushers x 3
Khorgoraths were on the right flank in a single unit, inches away from the heroes and Blood Warriors, while Skullcrushers were on the left flank with the Blood Reavers.
Blood Warriors x10
Blood Reavers x20 (10 meat rippers 10 reavers)
I lost all 3 Khorgoraths at the end of the 2nd turn to a barrage of Stormcast hero abilities and prosecutor hammers. They were charged by Draccoths, Celestant on Draccoth and Prosecutors and were beaten down. The single survivor managed to get a few attacks in but didn't do much good.
Blood Warriors were amazing, their No Respite rule and Gorefists really did a bunch of damage and they managed to take some Draccoths down. In my 2nd turn I deployed the Portal of Skulls giving my army battleshock immunity and one extra attack. That battleshock thing is so important, I'm going to have to use more Bloodsecrators.
Skullcrushers were next to go, they got bogged down in some terrain and couldn't get a charge off, so were charged themselves by some Retributors. 2 of the dudes went down while the survivor managed to kill a Retributor. Slaughterpriest and Deathbringer were charged by the Lord Celestant and a squad of 5 Liberators. Slaughterpriest went down, but the 2 heroes took out the Liberators and did some damage to the Celestant before they died. Bloodsecrator was the next to go after being charged by Prosecutors. The surviving Blood Warriors were picked off by what was left of the Draccoths.
Blood Reavers were still buffed by the Bloodsecrator so managed to get a bunch of attacks in dealing a lot of damage. Only 7 out of 20 were in base contact though because terrain and my own Skullcrushers were blocking them from piling in. I feel that while they performed very well, I really shot myself in the foot and they could have done so much better if more got in to attack.
The game ended with a single Bloodreaver surviving.
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