AoS Tactics for other Armies

Oh Archaon's not a risk. Played right, he's almost unkillable.

 

Oh ok in that case maybe include Archaon in the army list then. I thought taking him would be a huge risk as once he's dead you lose 20 wounds of your army. I've never actually seen Archaon in action so I have no idea if he's easy to kill etc. I've read his rules and I didn't think he was that great. Like don't get me wrong he's a beast but I thought he'd be slightly better. However, that is coming from a guy with zero experience in AoS! What do I know hey!!!

Do you know if your friend runs chaos Knights?

 

Archaon's historically been extremely hard to kill in his various incarnations over the years, and his AoS version is no exception. The sheer amount of defense he has is terrifying.

No, but I know he runs chariots.

 

Well then I feel that you've made a sound case for his inclusion into the army. a slaves to darkness list would be great (I think anyway)

Yeah I think at 3 wounds a model, including Knights might be difficult. Although I'd probably run them just for nostalgic reasons.

 

A perfect reason to run them. AoS is made for people to include units they just like because they like them.

 

I think I might start collecting slaves to darkness along side Seraphon as my fun casual army. While Seraphon are going to be my get stuff done army.

 

I do a similar thing. Sort of. My Seraphon and Stormcast armies are power armies and my Fyreslayer army is going to be one when it's built (only because I love the Fyreslayers too much to not have them be powerhouses and my Stormcast were the army I really experimented with and used to learn all my tactics) but my Skaven Eshin army is for fun casual games, as will be my Undead Bretonnians, Ghouls, Chaos Dwarfs, Malignants, Gitmob, and Savage Orc armies once I make them. I'm undecided on how powerful I'll make my Cult of Valkia, probably strong enough to be competitive but not as powerful as I could make them.

 

Wow now that's a lot of armies! That must take you an age to paint. Fyreslayers Do look pretty cool. I think I'll stick with Seraphon and Slaves to Darkness. Seraphon will be my competitive army whereas the Slaves to Darkness will be more experimental and casual.

 

to be honest I could easily collect, Death, Seraphon, Slaves to Darkness and Goblins. However, I'm limiting myself to two armies.

 

Yup ...

I remember when I was limiting myself to one army.

 

AoS Starterbox was bad for me.. instant 2 new armies

 

I want to do an undead Bretonnian conversion army next, but I have the starter set so I already have some Bloodbound units, I'm tempted to get started on my Cult of Valkia army where it's just very cultist-esque models with very low armour like the Bloodreavers, nothing too big like a Mighty Lord or anything, all led by a smaller but nasty Aspiring Deathbringer.

 

I'll adjust the google doc later this week!

I just picked up the book of Death, and it seems that there have been a lot of casualties.
There is no Heinrich Kemmler, nor Konrad von Carstein any longer.
I'll be reviewing/adjusting my list when I have the time - to keep it up to date with the book.

 

I remember when I started collecting Warhammer I always said I'd only collect 1-2 armies max. I now have 3 40k armies all of which are about 5 thousand points worth, and am about to start 2 AoS armies! I want to really get stuck into AoS and I think the best way to do that is to limit myself to only 2 armies. However, knowing me I'll end up with more than I can count.

 

Well I always thought that the basic Necromancer was better than Kemmler because Kemmler didn't have Vanhel's, which is a boss spell that stacks great with all the Vampires' other abilities that increase the number of attacks that a unit makes, which helps their attack spam-factor.