AoS Secondary Army

This is a discussion I would love to have

With Seraphon as your primary army and you had to pick a secondary army, what secondary army would you pick and why?

I will ofcourse answer this question myself in this thread when I get the time and opportunity

 

Personally I like an order army, picking just one I use Collegiate arcane. But Stormcast or Sylvaneth would be good as well. Kinda looking forward to the new dwarfs. But, Seraphon is my main, I usually branch out to an order general army. A little from a few different factions.

 

I'm going with Collegiate Arcane and Fyreslayers, I've got a list that includes the two of them and now I'm working on mixing them into Seraphon, both as 1&1 and as a trio.

Collegiate Arcane bring magical long range mortal wounds to any Order army.

Fyreslayers look rad.

 

Well I loved dwarves since day one. Old wood elves as well ( Sylvaneth are awesome but I tend to avoid playing armies used too much ! )

So I am thinking that at some point I ll either go for dwarves or play something completely different and go for Undead with Skeletons !

Can't really decide yet. One thing I know for sure :
I 'm really into our army

 

I have also always loved dwarves, and they have been my primary race in Total War: Warhammer. However, for some reason, I dont really feel like playing them here cause the models don't speak to me. I wish and hope that the new race will speak to me more.

Atm I am looking at Stormcast Eternals cause their models are so amazingly good looking! And I like how few models can cause damage. Somehow the armies that speak to me all seem to be in the order faction. But my god, those Stormcast Eternals... mmm, I would love to get my hands on some of those!

 

Bretonnians



I like the Lizardmen (haven't transitioned in my mind yet), and Bretonnians are my second army. Love the medieval knights motif, and I want to make lots more dirty peasants too.

 

Nice question!
I have always been a lizardmen/seraphon "purist"... << Seraphon, or nothing! >>
But if I imagined GW had never made the Lizardmen range, my answer to your question would be:
- Chaos demons (in order from favourite to least favourite: Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle, Slaneesh)
They are a lot, they differ a lot from each other, they are nasty, disturbing, violent monstruosities.
So yeah, nice stuff.
Since in a fantasy game what I look for is something different from standard humans, Deamons sound like the right choice (after Seraphon, of course ).
- Death faction
Although I'm not a big fun of thousands of identical skeleton on the battlefield or Death's troups in general, I admit there're some incredible models I force me not to buy.
Mortis Engine, Terrorgheist, Wargheists, Spirit Hosts, Vampire Lord, Wight King, Cairn Wraith (but also lots of things from the "old" Tomb Kings range)... They are all amazing.

P.S. To me, when choosing an army, my choice is based
- 85% on the look of the models
- 5% on the style of gameplay
- 10% on the price of the miniatures of that race
- 0% on the lore of it


What about you?

 

I think for me it's 90% looks and 10% functionality!

You're going to spend many hours painting these guys, you better like the look of them!

 

Exactly.
That's also the reason why I like armies with lots of variety in them (Seraphon are the masters, in it):
races like, let's say, ironjaws may have beautiful models, but they lack in differentiation in my opinion, and it tends to make them a little bit boring.

 

I consider fyreslayers an even better example. The army as if is right now seems like a naked orange thingie on the tabletop

 

They can have variation, they're not all orange! But all their infantry looks the same it's very true... Magmadroth still a good reason to field them though!

 

You're right, @Seraphage , and this is why it would be nice to see some other new Fyreslayer models from GW, but I'm afraid it will take quite a bit before we'll see addictions to the naked orange thingie!

I once had the idea to start collecting High Elves, but it never really happened...
Maybe it was the best thing to do, seeing how GW has handled them from the release of AoS!

 

For me it's about 70% Looks, 20% if I'm able to paint them (my painting skills are severely lacking, so I want the figures to feel like they have received a good paint job even though they haven't) and 10% functionality

The able to paint them pretty much removes Sylvaneth from the equation, even though I really like that race. There would have to be too much color blending for them to look really good. With Seraphon you can just basecoat, put on a wash and then drybrush the scales! You can highlight to make them look really good, but from what I've done I think they pass as "looks pretty good", which is enough for me atm

 

I do like Elves, the wife is slowly becoming tempted to start playing and she loves high fantasy style things, so thinking an oldhammer Wanderers army might be on the cards at some point for m... erm, I mean, her...

 

Sylvaneth are super easy to paint quickly and make them look good, pretty much the same as you said - basecoat, wash, drybrush... Job done!

 

went with khorne daemons so I could play 40k too.

ended up buying grey knights anyway so that was a waste