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So these lists started off as an effort to try and limit my model buying. I want to pick an army that I can get a core to, one that would be good and fun one two or three casters.

I came up with a set of 2 Steamroller lists that share almost all the same models and which can at least compete (even soft counter) quite a few compositions between them.

List 1:
-Ravyn
--Discordia
--Sylys
-Magehunter Strikeforce 10x
-UA
-House Guard Riflepeople 10x
--UA
-House Guard Halberdiers 10x
--UA
-Stormfall archers 4x
-House Guard Thane
-Arcanist
-pEiryss
-Aiyana and Holt

List 2:
-Ossyn
--Hypnos
--Sylys
-Magehunter Strikeforce 10x
--UA
-House Guard Riflepeople 10x
--UA
-House Guard Halberdiers 10x
--UA
-Stormfall archers 4x
-Stormfall archers 4x
-House Guard Thane
-Arcanist
-eEiryss

Ossyn and Ravyn, with the y's even, seem like very complimentary casters. Feat wise, one brings extra shooting accuracy, one brings extra shooting damage. Their spells/attacks seem to shore up the weak side of their feat. Vortex gives more damage, Ossyn's gun lowers defence. Ravyn has snipe to extend range, Ossyn has quicken.

Ravyn seems to have a bit of a warmachine bent. She's good at assassinating casters with her patented snipe feat go. Give her Aiyana and holt and suddenly there isn't a whole lot of army out there that can take her. She'll be the drop against more balanced, less armor skewed lists (and against Warmachine most of the time, maybe except against jack/colossus spam). Throw in A&H to add some hitting power against key targets. Discordia because that spray is amazing on the feat turn (and hits hard with the arcanist boost).

Ossyn and Hypnos, on the other hand,have a powerful synergy against Hordes. Shutting down a beast, relatively reliably thanks to boost, is amazing and unique. Against warmachine-style heavy armor skew (some Menoth, Khador, double colossus) he can shut down 2 jacks a turn with arcantrik bolts, hypnos, and eiryss (and Hypnos is one of the few things that can deny a colossal focus). He's the a bad mother and can bring the pain on his feat turn, even to Meat Mountains. The double stormfalls are amazing for him: early they can help with the slightly low mat of the army via sniped AOE, late they can do a ridiculous amount of damage with brutals under his feat (maybe on a stationary jack).

What do yall think, worth the investment?