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Made in ca
Regular Dakkanaut




Hi,
Just bought the 3rd edition box set, hoping to finally get into AOS.
I have all the other books - rules, GH, grand alliance books, a few battletomes from the first 2 editions which were never used.

Is it correct that you have to stick to one faction now? Grand alliances can't work anymore?

I'm really disappointed in this as I was hoping to make an army out of Khadron Overlords, Fyreslayers and Disposessed. It wouldn't have been a good army, probably, but one that uses the models I have and fluff about Dwarves working together. KO and FS aren't diverse enough to be interesting on their own. Not enough different units, especially among core (batteline).

   
Made in gb
Moustache-twirling Princeps




United Kingdom

I've not read the 3rd edition books yet - but it used to be that while you could do it, you'd get more 'bonuses' running a single faction.
   
Made in ca
Enigmatic Chaos Sorcerer





British Columbia

That is correct. Currently you can run a Tempest's Eye City or one of the Kharadron subfactions. Both mix Duardin together with more synergy than normal Ally rules.

There's also rumors a reunited Duardin faction is coming during third as Grungni has been prominent in recent narratives.

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Made in fi
Locked in the Tower of Amareo





Ashitaka wrote:
Hi,
Just bought the 3rd edition box set, hoping to finally get into AOS.
I have all the other books - rules, GH, grand alliance books, a few battletomes from the first 2 editions which were never used.

Is it correct that you have to stick to one faction now? Grand alliances can't work anymore?

I'm really disappointed in this as I was hoping to make an army out of Khadron Overlords, Fyreslayers and Disposessed. It wouldn't have been a good army, probably, but one that uses the models I have and fluff about Dwarves working together. KO and FS aren't diverse enough to be interesting on their own. Not enough different units, especially among core (batteline).



There's no grand alliance rules anymore indeed.

However your army idea can work still. Take cities of sigmar army. That has the dispossed units. There's city whose name escapes me that gives you kharadron as coalition which means 1/4 units can be kharadron's. Kharadron unit can't be battleline nor general though but other than that you can give them artifacts and they gain cities of sigmar and that's cities keywords so quite a few buffs works.

Then you can take fyreslayers as allies. Again max 1/4 and more annoyingly only 400 pts but better than nothing. These also are allies do don't get any alliance bonuses or relics. But then again old grand alliance you wouldn't have allegiance abilities on anybody. Just bunch of relic options which weren't generally that hot.

You can further expand by taking stormcast as coalition which is another 1/4 units. In theory you could have for each cities of sigmar unit 1 KO, 1 fyreslayer and 1 stormcast unit though point limit for fyreslayers would run out soon.

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Made in us
Fixture of Dakka




NE Ohio, USA

There's always the possibility of discussing the matter with your opponent & agreeing to allow the use of the old Grand Alliance abilities/relics/artifacts.
   
 
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