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Assuming I keep the same base size, would there be any issue if I modeled my skycutters without the roc? I'm not a fan of how it looks and want to use the piece (the roc) as an eagle.

No, you will be fine. Its a chariot not a ridden monster. Account for its steed attacks another way.

It'd be a good use for the millions of loose Island Of Blood Griffons on ebay right now.

I already have a couple of those griffins. Plus the old metal empire one, which I think looks cooler. Eventually I'm going to find the money to get a brentonian hippogrif model to be another griffin. (I like griffins)

Also, thanks for the feed back.

 Just Tony wrote:
It'd be a good use for the millions of loose Island Of Blood Griffons on ebay right now.

I kept one as is and converted another for Empire. I am thinking about de-ridering a third for a D&D monster.
it is a very nice model.

 Orlanth wrote:

 Just Tony wrote:
It'd be a good use for the millions of loose Island Of Blood Griffons on ebay right now.

I kept one as is and converted another for Empire. I am thinking about de-ridering a third for a D&D monster.
it is a very nice model.

There was a mission in the Albion campaign where you fight an entire army comprised of monsters. A ten Griffon army sounds quite saucy to me, and I will make that dream a reality, along with a battle report.

That's how my first (and last) AoS game went.

"You should try it, you can use whatever models you want!"

Me: no limits?

Them: Nope, sky's the limit.

Me: should I stick to a theme?

Them: Sure, that would make it better.

---later---
Me: here's my army, three dragons, four griffins, and some eagles.

Them: that's broken, I only took 150+ chaos warriors.

Me: I have like 12 models, and you just told me anything goes.

Them: You're a try hard.

Me...done.

To be fair, in the Dark Shadows campaign the points values are not even, and favor the non-monster army distinctly. All the battles from that campaign were based around themes, it's what made playing it so fun. There were actually TONS of 6th Ed. scenarios and the like, kind of like how 3rd Ed. 40K was scenario heavy.

If you're interested in reading the Dark Shadows booklet, just for giggles since you're not playing 6th, there is a site that has it in PDF format. Not here, obviously.

 Just Tony wrote:

 Orlanth wrote:

 Just Tony wrote:
It'd be a good use for the millions of loose Island Of Blood Griffons on ebay right now.

I kept one as is and converted another for Empire. I am thinking about de-ridering a third for a D&D monster.
it is a very nice model.

There was a mission in the Albion campaign where you fight an entire army comprised of monsters. A ten Griffon army sounds quite saucy to me, and I will make that dream a reality, along with a battle report.

I have zero problems with that as a concept. I took a look on ebay out of curiosity after my last post, griffons are still there but no longer are so cheap.

 Mmmpi wrote:
That's how my first (and last) AoS game went.

"You should try it, you can use whatever models you want!"

Me: no limits?

Them: Nope, sky's the limit.

Me: should I stick to a theme?

Them: Sure, that would make it better.

---later---
Me: here's my army, three dragons, four griffins, and some eagles.

Them: that's broken, I only took 150+ chaos warriors.

Me: I have like 12 models, and you just told me anything goes.

Them: You're a try hard.

Me...done.

Thing is he could have won that with 150 chaos warriors. I am not sure he would need many champions amongst them. Hordes work in AoS. To give GW some credit while removing army composition they blurred the lines between monsters and infantry. Monsters can have scary attacks, but with fixed hit and wound stats strength in numbers add up, especially if you get bonuses for unit size thresholds.

I have one AoS army, Moonclan, the only faction I call by its new name; because the silly stuff like Night Goblins never fit into my O&G army. I accept it is part of canon, and that others love the whimsy in the faction, but I prefer my greenskins to be a serious barbarian menace not a troupe of clowns.
In a way my Moonclan is a sign of underlying contempt I have for AoS, yet they play well, and so I admit does the core game.
Squigs of various types are a nasty equaliser, but even the goblins themselves are a nasty opponent to face, far nastier than I ever remembered them being. Maybe I should be afraid of a flying circus of monsters, but my goblins are not.

Poke 'em with stabbas, chomp em with squigs. Poke and chomp until they stop wriggling and squealing, then dump what's left in the pot for goblin sup.

 Mmmpi wrote:
That's how my first (and last) AoS game went.

"You should try it, you can use whatever models you want!"

Me: no limits?

Them: Nope, sky's the limit.

Me: should I stick to a theme?

Them: Sure, that would make it better.

---later---
Me: here's my army, three dragons, four griffins, and some eagles.

Them: that's broken, I only took 150+ chaos warriors.

Me: I have like 12 models, and you just told me anything goes.

Them: You're a try hard.

Me...done.

And that's why the casual super lazy launch rules for AoS were particularly daft and rubbish. Sure you could take whatever you wanted, but yeah it relied heavily on sitting down and working out between you both what was fair for you both to take without an army building system or points system - esp since most people just then defaulted to whatever the points were before AoS was released.


AOS today is VASTLY different and far better. It's got proper rules (as proper as 40K) and proper armies with points and sensible stats and everything. It's one weakness is that many factions are still fractured up from its early days and armies like the old High Elves are not yet cleaned up into a proper working force(s) with battletomes. That said GW are focusing more and more on AoS and I figure 2019 will see a lot of updates now that 40K is nearly completed in terms of codex releases.

That was my attempt to get into it. I've no interest in going back. Play it if you like it, but I'm done with it.