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Hi all,

I am a complete AoS newbie. But now that Free Cities is out, I have a weird collection of Fantasy miniatures that I'd like to jam into a Free Cities army.

I have various Dark Elves units (I wanted to do a Cult of Slaanesh army as part of the Storm of Chaos campaign): Morathi on a Dark Pegasus, a box of 16 warriors (unassembled, could be Dreadspears or Darkshards), 2 Repeater Bolt Throwers, 10 Witch Elves, 6 Cold One Knights, and a handful of Assassins. I also have a box of 20 Free Company Militia, a box of 16 Dwarf Warriors, and an Empire War Wagon. These are all old OOP plastic or metal miniatures.

So, with that, this is what I was planning to field. What do you think? I hope the counts-as would be OK for casual gaming. I'm not expecting anything competitive, but it would be nice to put something competent on the table.

Heroes

Sorceress on Black Dragon (General) - I plan to use Morathi + a suitably impressive large and tall base for a counts-as.
Command Trait: Secretive Warlock
Artefact: Drakescale Cloak

Black Ark Fleetmaster (using an Assassin or Witch Elf as a counts-as, perhaps with some suitable piratical conversion work)

Lord-Ordinator (new purchase)

Battleline

10 Black Ark Corsairs (using the OOP metal Witch Elves as counts-as)
Vicious Blades & Wicked Cutlasses

20 Freeguild Hangunners (using the Free Company with some rifle conversions)

20 Dreadspears

20 Longbeards
Ancestral Weapons & Shields

5 Drakespawn Knights

Behemoths

Kharibdyss (new purchase)
Drakeblood Curse - Acidic Blood

Steam Tank - using the War Wagon as a counts-as

War Machines
2x Celestar Ballista (using the two Repeater Bolt Throwers as a counts-as)

Endless Spells
Geminids of Uhl-Gysh

Points Total: 2000
Extra Command Points: 1D3 (Hidden Agents)
Artifacts: 1

"Eclectic" - hah, that's a good euphemism!

I'm not set on 2000 pts. It makes sense to start at 1000pts.

What's your thought on a decent 1000pt list (hopefully leveraging a lot of what I have)?