AoS Looking for advice: What to build and how to expand my army

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  1. Chrisle
    Jungle Swarm

    Chrisle New Member

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    Hello fellow Lustrians!

    With some time during the Christmas break on my hands, I managed to dust my Seraphon army and provided some love and attention (mostly with glue) to bring them back in shape. I do have a pile of shame of still to build models, which turn out to be 1 Start Collecting! Seraphon Box and 1 Christmas Battleforce (Starclaw Strikehost).

    As I haven't been playing much since our new battletome arrived, I was hoping for some ideas and suggestions on how and what to build out of the two boxes, plus any glaring gaps I should be filling in order to realise current viable army lists (we mostly play 2k lists).

    I would love to be able to field many of our army varieties: skink focused, saurus focused, saurus knight focused, Thunder Lizard / Dino heavy

    My current (already built) list of models includes:
    • Heroes
      • Lord Kroak 320 Pts
      • Saurus Oldblood on Carnosaur 230 Pts
      • Saurus Oldblood on Foot (Old Metal Version, often used as Sunblood) 110 Pts
      • Scar-Veteran on Cold One #1 110 Pts
      • Scar-Veteran on Cold One #2 110 Pts
      • Saurus Eternity Warden 110 Pts
      • Skink Starpriest 120 Pts
      • Skink Priest #1 70 Pts
      • Skink Priest #2 (build from Troglodon) 70 Pts
      • Terradon Chief (old metal Tiktak'to) 70 Pts
      • Engine of the Gods 260 Pts
    • Battleline
      • 25 Saurus Warriors with spears 180 Pts
      • 11 Saurus Warriors with clubs: 90 Pts
      • 20 Saurus Guard: 400 Pts
      • 40 Skinks with blowpipes and dagger: 240 Pts
      • 15 Skinks withjavelin and shield: 60 Pts
      • 8 Saurus Knights with spears: 100 Pts
    • Behemoth
      • Stegadon with giant bow: 240 Pts
      • Bastiladon #1 with laser: 220 Pts
      • Bastiladon #2 with laser: 220 Pts
    • Artillery
      • 2 Salamanders: 220 Pts
    • Other
      • 3 Terradon Riders: 90 Pts
      • 5 Chameleon Skinks: 90 Pts
      • 3 Kroxigor: 140 Pts
      • Realmshaper Engine
      • Endless Spells

    Based on this list, I am struggling to decide on what to build of out the boxes:

    Start Collecting:
    • Scar-Vet on Carnosaurus + 3rd Priest or a Troglodon?
    • 10 Saurus Warriors: Spears or Clubs?
    • 8 Saurus Knights: Spears or Swords?

    Battleforce:
    • Bastiladon #3: With Arc of Sotec or another Laser?
    • Flying dinos (adding to the existing 3 Terradon): 3 Terradon and 3 Ripperdactyl? Or 6 Terradons? Any reason to go for 6 Ripperdactyls?
    • 24 skinks (adding to the 55 existing): All of them with Blowpipes and dagger? Or rather blowpipes and shields? Or go for 60 skinks with blowpipes and 20 with javelins?

    Finally, if you had a moderate budget to spend to round out the army, which additional units would you go for? Some ideas I have are:
    • Slann in addition to Kroak
    • Astrolith Bearer
    • Skink Chief on Stegadon
    • Additional Saurus warriors to be able to field 2 blocks of 40?
    • Additional Skinks to be able to field 2 blocks of 40?
    • Additional Saurus knights to be able to field 3 blocks of 10?
    Lower priority / other gaps:
    • Additional Salamanders
    • Skink Starseer
    • Stegadon with firethrower
    • Razordons
    • 3 additional Krox
    • Sunblood
    • Additional carno / Troglodon (depending on how I build the still available option from the SC box)
    Sorry for this quite long post (I hopefully put it in the correct subforum at least), but I would be really happy for any inputs from fellow Seraphon players!

    Thanks guys and a Happy New Year to everyone!

    BR

    Chrisle
     
  2. btrain16
    Saurus

    btrain16 Active Member

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    A few random thoughts from someone who paints much more than I play:

    Carnosaur because big dinosaur
    Terradons get better in bigger units, so more of those?
    At least 5 more Saurus warriors with spears to get your unit up to 30 models
    Skink Chief on Stegadon will be really good for a TL list
    More skinks are always handy
     
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