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If I’ve got a friend who wants to play a lot of cavalry, what should I suggest?

The first that comes to mind is Slaves to Darkness; marauder horsemen, chaos knights, and chariots are battleline. Lord on daemonic mount is a good general to go with them too.

Alternatively Slaanesh but that is not exactly conventional cavalry.

Order Draconis can also do an all-mounted army but that is like... 3 unit options and two of them are dragons.

 AduroT wrote:
If I’ve got a friend who wants to play a lot of cavalry, what should I suggest?

Idoneth--Akhelian stuff is all cavalry. Kings, Hoplites, Leviadons, and Allopex--barring the Allopex it's all fairly strong too.
Stormcast--Dracolines for Sacrosanct stuff, Palladors for Vanguard, and Dracothian Guard for Extremis Chamber.
Freeguild--This is an interesting one that gets kinda overlooked. You've got the options for the Demigryph Knights, Outriders, and Pistoliers.
Slaves to Darkness as mentioned.

The one big thing to consider is Battleline. You need something that will make them Battleline or it'll have composition issues.

If you're using the term 'cavalry' in a looser sense than just soldiers who ride horses you can look at armies such as the Order Serpentis.

A lot of the older elf factions have cavalry. Reavers, Glade Riders, Wildwood Rangers, and Dark Riders; all are or can be Battleline.

Otherwise there are the Beast Claw Raiders and the Spider Fang Grots.

Legions of Nagash has multiple cavalry units as well.

 Venerable Ironclad wrote:
A lot of the older elf factions have cavalry. Reavers, Glade Riders, Wildwood Rangers, and Dark Riders; all are or can be Battleline.

Wildwood Rangers aren't cavalry. Wild Riders also aren't Battleline.

Reavers are Swifthawk Agents, Glade Riders are just flatout gone, and Dark Riders are in the two unit faction "Shadowblades".

Otherwise there are the Beast Claw Raiders and the Spider Fang Grots.

Beastclaw Raiders is a good pick for cavalry too.

 ClassicCarraway wrote:
Legions of Nagash has multiple cavalry units as well.

Indeed Blood Knights are Battleline in a Soulblight army and if you include monsters as cavalry well Undead has a lot to offer

I think you could make a pretty sweet Mongol horde flavor army with Chaos Marauders. That might be my next AoS project actually.

Would javelin Marauders work en masse?

Javelin is the best option for marauder horsemen.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Javelin is the best option for marauder horsemen.

Best doesn’t mean good though.

Tomb kings were/are the premier calv army... but them prices...

Become the seventh person on earth to play Soulblight! Trust me, it's fun.

 Jaxler wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Javelin is the best option for marauder horsemen.

Best doesn’t mean good though.

Tomb kings were/are the premier calv army... but them prices...

They are reasonably good at the price they are at. There is a learning curve though; they will not perform well being used as a ranged unit or as a melee unit. They are extremely rewarding to a player than can run them as the hybrid they are, however. I had a lot of games where they sucked before I figured them out (a LOT...). They also need to be suppprting something else, chaos knights being a good option in that regard.

Nighthaunt, like soulblight, also work since hex wraiths are battleline, and they have three different mounted heroes.

Yeah, Beastclaw Raiders is the obvious pick. Entirely mounted lists are easily doable, though you might want to ally in a wizard or two (like the butcher or the fungoid shaman, who will have to be on foot)

What, no Bretonnians? Poor squatted knights...

As others have mentioned it really comes down to how broad a definition of "cavalry" your friend prefers.

The old Ogres had some of the best cavaleries in the world. Their base units are also close to mounts because they are just so damn fast.

So here is a question, if a guy wanted to build a Mongol style army which faction would represent that best?

 darkcloak wrote:
So here is a question, if a guy wanted to build a Mongol style army which faction would represent that best?

As in horse-mounted archers? Tribes of raiders?

 darkcloak wrote:
So here is a question, if a guy wanted to build a Mongol style army which faction would represent that best?

Gitmob - riders with bows, not to mention the mongol hats and furs

 darkcloak wrote:
So here is a question, if a guy wanted to build a Mongol style army which faction would represent that best?

Slaves to darkness. Marauder horsemen with javelins are the best analogue in AoS. You could also make a case for freeguild cavalry by using bows counts-as for firearms.

eohall wrote:

 darkcloak wrote:
So here is a question, if a guy wanted to build a Mongol style army which faction would represent that best?

Gitmob - riders with bows, not to mention the mongol hats and furs

NinthMusketeer wrote:

 darkcloak wrote:
So here is a question, if a guy wanted to build a Mongol style army which faction would represent that best?

Slaves to darkness. Marauder horsemen with javelins are the best analogue in AoS. You could also make a case for freeguild cavalry by using bows counts-as for firearms.

Hmmm. I had kind of figured Marauders... But goblin Mongols? Now that, sounds awesome.



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Mongits.


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Led by Ghitgis Ghan...

Problem is reliance on one unit that is not very powerful and has a decades old plastic kit that has not aged well. An army based on wolf riders is not viable on the tabletop. A slaves to darkness or order cavalry army is.

 darkcloak wrote:

eohall wrote:

 darkcloak wrote:
So here is a question, if a guy wanted to build a Mongol style army which faction would represent that best?

Gitmob - riders with bows, not to mention the mongol hats and furs

NinthMusketeer wrote:

 darkcloak wrote:
So here is a question, if a guy wanted to build a Mongol style army which faction would represent that best?

Slaves to darkness. Marauder horsemen with javelins are the best analogue in AoS. You could also make a case for freeguild cavalry by using bows counts-as for firearms.

Hmmm. I had kind of figured Marauders... But goblin Mongols? Now that, sounds awesome.



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Lol...

Mongits.


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Led by Ghitgis Ghan...

Hobgoblins (The only greenskins that worked with Chaos Dwarfs) in old Fantasy where basically the mongols of warhammer, yeah. If you look at old wolf rider art, those goblins wear mongol clothes and hats.

http://warhammerfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Hobgoblin

The Hobgoblins are a distinctive sub-species of plain-dwelling Goblins that are found only within the lands to the far east, in the rolling untamed plains of the Eastern Steppes, where lies the domains of Hobgobla Khan and his Hobgoblin Empire, the greatest Greenskin empire in the known World. The Hobgoblin race are considered traitors by all of their Greenskin cousins, not because of their unbelievably treacherous nature, but by their treacherous betrayal of the Greenskin Uprising of Zharr-Naggrund

Nevermind, misread

 ClassicCarraway wrote:
Nighthaunt, like soulblight, also work since hex wraiths are battleline, and they have three different mounted heroes.

Plus you can paint pretty much any cavalry figure as "ghostly"

Slaanesh is also a group that can be played completely with cav and chariots.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

 Jaxler wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Javelin is the best option for marauder horsemen.

Best doesn’t mean good though.

Tomb kings were/are the premier calv army... but them prices...

They are reasonably good at the price they are at. There is a learning curve though; they will not perform well being used as a ranged unit or as a melee unit. They are extremely rewarding to a player than can run them as the hybrid they are, however. I had a lot of games where they sucked before I figured them out (a LOT...). They also need to be suppprting something else, chaos knights being a good option in that regard.

I mean the P£€E$ if ya get my drift.
200 dollars for a box of new necropolis Knights? Pfffff

Oh I was referring to the marauder horsemen, I should have clarified as what I put was unclear.