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Haven't seen one of these on the AoS forums. So what is your army and why?

I don't really have an army yet. I was thinking of starting Chaos since I liked the minis from the AoS starter boxset. I wanted to start Sepheron since the starter box is a great price, but the store didn't have it so I got the Malignants. Just looks awesome. Got Orks for my wife.

So what is your army and why. Provide pics if you have them.

My main army is Undead.I have a large Vampire Counts army and a pretty large Tomb Kings army.I love Undead because of watching Jason and the Argonauts when I was a kid,seeing the skeletons pop out the ground and fight Jason...awesome and I also grew up on Hammer Horror films and Dracula was my favourite

I have an Empire,Skaven and Rotbringer army too and I have these cos I like the look of them more than anything.

Started off with the lizards, as the more free form nature of AoS made the dino heavy army a reality.

But moved onto something else I wanted to do, evil/haunted/possessed forest force. Slowly getting stuff for it, but that has been slower than could have been as I needed to shell out on basic stuff like a raft of new paints (old ones largely dried up), plus basing materials etc. I have also been buying terrain as well. So apart from some test models my modelling and painting has not really got going (I hate those aspects of mini wargaming) and most of the dryads and treemen are still in their boxes.

Tthere are several variants of the evil forest type force as well, so my plans encompass quite a range of armies in different combos. But all built around a core of dryads/treemen/wildwoods and a sinking marsh/swamp forest scenery theme.

Basics are:

25-30 dryads.
2-3 (ancient?) Treemen
Branchwraith.
(+2 sylvan wildwood)

Neferata/Coven throne?
6 spirt hosts
1 banshee
1 cairn wraith
several bat swarms
(+Garden of morr)

Hellebron (Cauldron blood?)
Dark elf sorceress
Death Hag
Medusa (nice extra from the cauldron kit)
10-20 witch elves
(+Arcane ruins)

Haven't made mind up on Main hero yet. I'm thinking either some evil enchantress/morgana le fay type villain, or a cabal of witches. The coven throne or 3 dark elf witches make a nice threesome of 'witches' (living or undead). Nefarata sort of does the single powerful Morgana type figure I'm after although less keen on her mount (tempted to find another rmodel and use the non mount stats/abilities from her scroll). I might go with Morathi, but a totally different model than the old looking on GW have (again not keen in the pegasus bit).

All done on marsh/swamp bases, as the doomed forest takes on its darker tones.

I may also add in an Arachnorok spider and spider riders as well, as the sort of cheap mortal minions that might be sent out by the witches. Giant spiders just go so well with the forest.

Given I have some lizards I was also looking at doing some of them up as spirits visually but using the lizards rules. Maybe taking the arcane ruins and building a barrow (paper mache project) next to them sinking into the marsh. The spare lizard hero form the carnosaur set can be some ancient spirit (old blood) and the temple guard can its the spirit guard. With spirit hosts and bat swarms to fill out.

So plenty of plans, fair bit already bought. Just getting myself to actually get going!

Vampire counts and brettonians due to warhammers fluff, I dont like any of the fluff for AoS at all, but I still love my original armies.

I've got a fairly large Nurgle army now, made up of daemons, mortals and Clan Pestilens. They're probably my main army. I've also got a Khorne army of daemons and mortals. And then I've got a whole bunch of Stormcast I'm slowly working through.

That said, since I was a kid, I've always identified through fluff and play style with Skaven, and it lasts even now. I find painting Skaven a slog though and I'm not interested in models with a billion fiddly bits and wheels, so I'm not about to collect them (unless maybe a Start Collecting box came out...). I'm also less interested in horde armies in AoS.

So although I have large, finished armies of other races and don't even have a Skaven army anymore except the Pestilens in my Nurgle, at my heart Skaven is my favourite army.

My main army at the moment is Stormcasts Eternals. I like them because they are heroic and I like heroes. I have heard some compare them to Masters of the Universe. I don't see anything wrong with that. I happen to like that mythos.

 Kenshinzo 7 wrote:
My main army at the moment is Stormcasts Eternals. I like them because they are heroic and I like heroes.

This. A thousand times this.

My Stormcast Eternals, the Knights of Saint Luther are composed mostly of scholars and poets who were forced into battle and fell trying to do what their warrior comrades could not, they're particularly, if overly, compassionate and hold high respect for mortals. They also happen to work closely with some humans who dress and act a lot like their ancestors from the destroyed Empire provinces. Good guys for the win! I like armies that are genuinely about protecting people, and doing the right thing rather than the useful thing, but still manage to have an air of pompousness. I'd like to think I see a bit of myself in them. Also, evil dudes tend to be ugly in Fantasy games, and I like the pretties.

What's your Stormhost like?

I have two main armies for AoS, Skaven and Ogres, but I have been working on a little project... A DnD style adventuring party for AoS. It has four characters and may include their retinues. I have Valkia the Bloody, Queek Headtaker, Bragg the Gutsman and Krell, Lord of Undeath. I'm not sure about the retinues yet, but I'll get there.... it's fun so far, even if it hasn't won yet.

Stormcast because they were new and shiny, and I like the savior/hero thing going on.
But after discussion with a mate, going to try a multi-faction force... Ghosts, Dryads, Fenrisian Wolves, LotR eagles and riderless spiders on my shopping list at present..

Main army is, umm, most of them, because we are following the Realmgate Wars storyline and need most of the forces

Still have Seraphon and dwarfs back home, needing to be rebased eventually. Fyreslayers pushed me over the edge to start a new force NOW I love dwarfs, having trouble mentally moving on from 21 years of dwarfs to an entirely new race and world, despite similarities. So I love slayers and ran a few all-slayer armies with Ungrim since AoS came out but now they have it for me and I can't resist. Painting them up in an elemental theme, reddish-black skin and fire hair, like that famous pic of Grimnir slaying Vulkatrix in the AoS source books.

Thanks for posting a thread about enjoyment of our hobby

Having only recently got back into gaming after many years absence I'm building on the starter box forces, concentrating on Chaos. What I love about AoS is the mixing of factions, so I'm going to get some Warrior of Chaos and some daemons to bulk the army out. And a giant. I need a giant. And some Fyreslayers for the Order side. And some - (you get the idea...)

Agreed, nice to see a post that encourages some positivity.

richstrach wrote:
Having only recently got back into gaming after many years absence I'm building on the starter box forces, concentrating on Chaos. What I love about AoS is the mixing of factions, so I'm going to get some Warrior of Chaos and some daemons to bulk the army out. And a giant. I need a giant. And some Fyreslayers for the Order side. And some - (you get the idea...)

Agreed, nice to see a post that encourages some positivity.

This... People need to get past ye olde "army" mentality time to mix and match, if you are building a treeman army why not add undead spirit hosts to them or rat swarms or jungle swarms etc...

I agree, the ability to mix and match is one of my favourite things about AoS.

My main army is undead because I love the regal villain aspect of warhammer vampires. I'm thinking I might add some peasants or militia as the mortal servants of the vampire lord. I'm also starting a beastmen herd because a horde of monsters coming from the deepest, darkest part of the forest is the sort of thing that appeals to me. Some people like playing heroes, I like playing monsters and villains.

Chaos Daemons because I had the models for 40k already. So that was a no brainer.

Will pick up Skaven (had an army when I was a teenager back in the day) once it's all rebased/repacked. Mix that in with some Tzeentch and see how it plays. Maybe add in some rogue ForgeWorld/Beastmen and play under the Chaos banner.

The Wolfenstein 3D inspired StormFiends are great.

Oh, and the Sylvaneth box set was amazing value. Gutted I didn't pick that up.

Daemons here.

I also have a gigantic Skaven army, but with Mantic working on rules for them in Kings of War, and my preference for "rank & flank" fantasy rules, they'really staying as-is.

Basically, my Daemons were a complete hodge-podge of paint jobs, and the only rules I have for them are either the broken 7th edition rules or the equally busted 6th edition ones. I said "what the hell" to myself, stripped the paint off them, and I'm rebasing them in between bouts of trying to dig out of this blizzard. Once done, I can either use them for AoS, or I can add them to my CSM ranks!

Well, I have sold my old Chaos Fantasy army. When AoS came out, I started Bloodbound in combination with Chaos Warriors, mainly fast units like Knights and Marauders on steeds.

When I do play AoS, it's Beastmen. I like their speediness. Just beastmen, no mixing it up.

They're the rainbow beastmen, because I'm painting them in every color I can. The story being that they want to serve the chaos gods, of course, but can never remember which one is which.

dsmith10 wrote:
I have two main armies for AoS, Skaven and Ogres, but I have been working on a little project... A DnD style adventuring party for AoS. It has four characters and may include their retinues. I have Valkia the Bloody, Queek Headtaker, Bragg the Gutsman and Krell, Lord of Undeath. I'm not sure about the retinues yet, but I'll get there.... it's fun so far, even if it hasn't won yet.

Hey man, we totally had the same idea (about the D&D style adventuring party to build an army around) although mine is a Heroic Party rather than an Antiheroic one like yours, anyway see it below:



I am a really big fan of the Warhammer Quest iPad game so I wanted to do something like that. This unit is super fun to play in games too as Alarielle acts as the "healer" restoring D6 wounds to a hero each magic phase.

So, I love Age Of Sigmar - and currently have one army for each of the grand alliances: Order is Empire but lots of Dwarves, Fyreslayers and the High Elf Characters above. Death is Vampire Counts, my smallest and newest faction. Destruction is Night Goblins and River Trolls and Chaos is Skaven (still entirely on sprue haha! - a project for 2016).

I would spam pictures, but I don't have any whole army shots yet.

 3AcresAndATau wrote:

 Kenshinzo 7 wrote:
My main army at the moment is Stormcasts Eternals. I like them because they are heroic and I like heroes.

This. A thousand times this.

My Stormcast Eternals, the Knights of Saint Luther are composed mostly of scholars and poets who were forced into battle and fell trying to do what their warrior comrades could not, they're particularly, if overly, compassionate and hold high respect for mortals. They also happen to work closely with some humans who dress and act a lot like their ancestors from the destroyed Empire provinces. Good guys for the win! I like armies that are genuinely about protecting people, and doing the right thing rather than the useful thing, but still manage to have an air of pompousness. I'd like to think I see a bit of myself in them. Also, evil dudes tend to be ugly in Fantasy games, and I like the pretties.

What's your Stormhost like?

Yeah I'm the same way. I like good guy's to be good and have morals and values. To stand for something and be unflinching in the face of evil. I have a couple of different stormhosts in progress. One GW specific and one of my own called The Celestial Sons, but I'm still working the back story.

I have armies that all have wildly different playstyles, for the most part. I like mixing up tactics and strategies.

The Undead Elite-

My undead army consists of the smallest model count for our regular 100 wound games.

Led by "The Necromancer", he prefers to spend his magic on undead elites rather than hordes of ineffective minions. A few vampires lead Blood Knights, Necrolith Colossi, and Morghasts. He doesn't spend much time summoning, but rather uses magic to boost his already deadly units.



The Gut-Tribe of Tzeentch (Slaves to Darkness and Demons)

Chaos Ogres and Pink Horrors, united under the Ogre-based Demon Prince Two-guts. He leads his former tribal leaders and a horde of pink horrors and screamers into battle, preferring to hunt and eat other demons after roasting them with warp-fire. The leftovers are tossed in the Helcannon and blasted across the battlefield.


Naestra and Arahan, Raiders of the Burning Forest

Being a father of twins, N&A were immediately some of my favorite wood-elves, which I bought because of them. They lead a skirmish force of riders, eagles, and stalwart rangers. Once a year, they set their own forest on fire, emerging from the burning woods to slaughter and kill, bringing forced renewal and rebuilding to anything around them, from beast tribes to settlements of man. While the forest burns, they raid, and in the morning retreat to rebuild into the darkest parts that refused to burn.

My only AOS army at the moment is Order Dwarves. But in the future I plan on adding Empire, Bretonnia, and Fyreslayer models to the force. I have a grand vision in mind of the 4 armies fighting alongside each other as one. In actuality AOS just gives me the excuse to buy models for all the armies I loved in 8th edition but didn't have the money to buy stuff for. Now I can buy units and insert them into my main army without a care in the world. Of course there are benefits to running mono builds, but running it this way is so much more interesting and fun (not to mention more interesting to paint)

I never really wanted to play WHF. I thought the fluff (where it differed from 40k) was boring and a lot of the games I saw played were dull medieval numbers (no fantasy to it).

the game itself looked really cool. Maneuvers and wheeling and pushing back and forth and magic and cannons and stuff, but the setting just never captured me like 40k did.

Now that the background is changing and becoming more interesting and armies are more about small unit numbers and big, bright centerpiece models, I'm much more interested.

I always thought Beastmen would be up my alley fluff-wise (see what I did there) and now I'm trying to decide if I should buy the old battalion before it goes out of stock or if I should wait and maybe get one of the newer start collecting boxes. I know the beastmen would come with square bases but replacing them with circles wouldn't be a problem for me. I have tons of spare circles from every other game system I play.

I'd appreciate advice on if I should buy one of the last battalion boxes, wait for a new Beastie box or maybe pick a different army.

And before anyone says anything about the hypocrisy of disliking "dull models" and then buying into beastmen, my next purchase would be a Vortex Mutalith Beast. That thing is frickin awesome

Beastmen are a great army to play with right now. Kit bashing the starter box with other chaos pieces is a lot of fun.

A buddy of mine here was talking with me Friday and I think my excitement to see beastmen on the battlefield again in AoS convinced him to get a small force/army/herd? in our opinion they can stay alive and useful much more in AoS.

I like the Stormcast Eternals (you can stop all the boos and hisses please...) I like the Roman/Greek style they have and they look good in my preferred scheme of dark bronze/gold and dark green and the fact I don't have to paint faces.... It's different as I don't usually go for the good guys but there's something about the Stormcast that just tick my boxes..... FOR THE CELESTIAL THRONE!!!! :-)

Hail to Sigmar, the living God Emperor! From high atop his golden throne he rules mankind!

Sword Of Caliban wrote:
I like the Stormcast Eternals (you can stop all the boos and hisses please...)

Nothing wrong in liking them, that's great that you do.

It was Beastmen for the past 3 editions of Warhammer. Going to stay the course with them, but building a side project. I'm in the process of rebasing the Beasts and touching up on all the cheating I did with ranked up models.

Anyone else guilty of that? "There are 40 of those dudes, no one will notice his belt and pouch not painted when they are ranked up!" Now, with round bases, all my cheating and cut corners are laid bare for the world to see, bringing shame to myself, my family, and my country.

While I do all that, I've been building Stormcast, with the Knights Excelsior upgrade packs. Its a completely different change of pace, theme and style. All the white, blue and gold, with red wings for the Prosecutors, is a welcome break from the fleshy, dirty drab and dark colors of my Beastmen.

I hope to get a good photo of my Knight-Venator posted up on the Age of Sigmar facebook group sometime this weekend, dependng on if I get his base finished.

Also, join that FB community, it rocks my socks.

 nels1031 wrote:
Anyone else guilty of that? "There are 40 of those dudes, no one will notice his belt and pouch not painted when they are ranked up!" Now, with round bases, all my cheating and cut corners are laid bare for the world to see, bringing shame to myself, my family, and my country.