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As some of you may infer from the question, I could be starting AoS soon. What I would like to know is what is the best way to get started, both games-wise and army-wise?

If either of the armies in the starter interest you, buying a set and trading away the other side to double up is a great start.

Depends on what you're interested in. The get started boxs are some pretty good deals, and they have some box sets like the Slaves to Darkness or the Flesh-Eater Courts sets that are great deals. I got the Flesh Eaters box set for 145 on eBay, and it comes with enough stuff to build at least one of every unit they have. That's 6 kits at a huge discount.

I would look at all the discount boxes (including the starter and the Start Collecting boxes) and choose an army to play from those.

Buy the box. Buy the general's handbook - away you go! Open, Narrative or Matched. Whatever you want to do.

To start collecting an AoS army I would look at the Start Collecting boxes. Who would have known.

I picked up the Khorne half of the starter set from my FLGS's "bits box" for $60. Now I'm looking to get the Start Collecting Slave to Darkness and I'm hoping to find Lord Heldrath's Chaos Deathtide (seems to be completely out of production. If anyone has a link to where I can buy one, preferably US to avoid excess shipping fees, that would be freaking great!).

the getting started boxes or the large army boxes are a great place to start with virtually any army. If its available for the army you want

 d00mspire wrote:
As some of you may infer from the question, I could be starting AoS soon. What I would like to know is what is the best way to get started, both games-wise and army-wise?

First off, what interests you? Once we find out what interests you we can tell you what to get. If you like Stormcast Eternals (sigmarines if you don't know what a Stormcast Eternal is) and the Chaos dudes, then get the AoS starter set. If they don't interest you, there is quite a few "Get Started" boxes out now with 3 more coming out in 2 weeks I think. Those would be a great way to get into AoS. And they are great savings.

For example, the Sephron, the Lizard dudes. Just to buy the dinosaur thingy (yeah sadly I keep forgetting the names) is a $100 Canadian. Now you can get the Dinosaur with 2 sets of troops for a $100 if you buy the get started box. Storm Cast Eteranals are going to get a new box set. Thing is, if you like the chaos ones as well you might want to get the Starter set first since you can have two armies. If not, then get what interests you.

Second what is your play style? If you don't have something that interests you, what is your play style? Are you a shooty person or assaulty person? Maybe you want a horde army or a small elite army.

Once we know this we can really help you in what to start looking at to see if that interests you or not.

Davor wrote:

 d00mspire wrote:
As some of you may infer from the question, I could be starting AoS soon. What I would like to know is what is the best way to get started, both games-wise and army-wise?

First off, what interests you?

Possibly the Deathlords, the Flesh Eater Courts, or Slaves into Darkness. They seem to have interesting rules and interesting fluff. Personally, I like the models of the Flesh Eater Courts, but to my knowledge there isn't a Get Started box for them. I do know I would have to by the Death book.

 d00mspire wrote:
.Personally, I like the models of the Flesh Eater Courts, but to my knowledge there isn't a Get Started box for them.

Its coming next week.

 d00mspire wrote:
I like the models of the Flesh Eater Courts, but to my knowledge there isn't a Get Started box for them. I do know I would have to by the Death book.

That is why I asked. There are I believe 6 new Get Started boxes being released so wasn't sure if one of some of those 6 would interest you. Now I want to start what you are. It just looks so freaking awesome.

 Ghaz wrote:

 d00mspire wrote:
.Personally, I like the models of the Flesh Eater Courts, but to my knowledge there isn't a Get Started box for them.

Its coming next week.

Thank you for dropping that link, I wondered what was up next

OP , I agree with what was said before. You need to let people know what style you are after, not so much the armies but what qualities in armies you look for and what it is you'd like to do with the army (Stand back and shoot, charge in, mixed bag, loads of special rules etc ).

 Soldier0Fortune wrote:

OP , I agree with what was said before. You need to let people know what style you are after, not so much the armies but what qualities in armies you look for and what it is you'd like to do with the army (Stand back and shoot, charge in, mixed bag, loads of special rules etc ).

The style I'm after is close combat orientated, maybe some support in the form of huge monsters that can inflict heavy damage and take a lot of wounds before dying. All in all, I want to play an army whose style is opposite to that of the Tau, as I play them in 40K, and would like a change of play style.

 d00mspire wrote:

 Soldier0Fortune wrote:

OP , I agree with what was said before. You need to let people know what style you are after, not so much the armies but what qualities in armies you look for and what it is you'd like to do with the army (Stand back and shoot, charge in, mixed bag, loads of special rules etc ).

The style I'm after is close combat orientated, maybe some support in the form of huge monsters that can inflict heavy damage and take a lot of wounds before dying. All in all, I want to play an army whose style is opposite to that of the Tau, as I play them in 40K, and would like a change of play style.

Well, you came to the right place. With the exception of a couple armies (Tzeentch Daemons, Empire, certain Wanderer builds), no army can really be built pure ranged, and most armies don't have more than one or two good ranged options.

Combat comes in many forms. How many models do you want to paint, a lot or a little? Do you like mounted stuff? What aesthetic jumps out at you?

AoS is still in the infancy. There's not so much a "best" combat army at the moment, and many seem to be good. Destruction is one of the best at just running forward and hurting things, especially Ogres and Ironjawz. But, pick an army that you like stylistically before you do anything else imo.

 d00mspire wrote:

 Soldier0Fortune wrote:

OP , I agree with what was said before. You need to let people know what style you are after, not so much the armies but what qualities in armies you look for and what it is you'd like to do with the army (Stand back and shoot, charge in, mixed bag, loads of special rules etc ).

The style I'm after is close combat orientated, maybe some support in the form of huge monsters that can inflict heavy damage and take a lot of wounds before dying. All in all, I want to play an army whose style is opposite to that of the Tau, as I play them in 40K, and would like a change of play style.

How about Orruks? Awesome centre piece monster.

Davor wrote:

How about Orruks? Awesome centre piece monster.

The Orruks are pretty cool models, and the Maw-Krusha is awesome. However, I'm beginning to lean towards Flesh-Eater Courts or Everchosen Chaos/Slaves Into Darkness.

 d00mspire wrote:

Davor wrote:

How about Orruks? Awesome centre piece monster.

The Orruks are pretty cool models, and the Maw-Krusha is awesome. However, I'm beginning to lean towards Flesh-Eater Courts or Everchosen Chaos/Slaves Into Darkness.

That's great. You can do both right? Start one, then work on the other, or work on both slowly.

Davor wrote:

That's great. You can do both right? Start one, then work on the other, or work on both slowly.

I could do that.

if you want slaves to darkness I have a bunch of chaos stuff im willing to unload