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AoS 2k Shadowstrike/Sunclaw

Wazz
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My friends and I are going to start a 2k tournament I was thinking of running the following list
Slann- great rememberer, rez artifact
Shadowstrike Starhost with
6 rippers
2 units of 5 Cham skinks
Starpriest not sure on relic
Sunclaw Starhost
Sunblood with blade of realities
3x20 warrs with spears
1 unit of 2 Salamanders
1 unit of skink handlers
My opponents will be pretty varied and once we submit our lists they are set. I know I'm going to see Flesh eater courts, Stormcast, Ironjawz for sure, maybe Wood Elves, Nurgle and Slyvanth too. Thanks in advance!
 
Wazz said:
My friends and I are going to start a 2k tournament I was thinking of running the following list
Slann- great rememberer, rez artifact
Shadowstrike Starhost with
6 rippers
2 units of 5 Cham skinks
Starpriest not sure on relic
Sunclaw Starhost
Sunblood with blade of realities
3x20 warrs with spears
1 unit of 2 Salamanders
1 unit of skink handlers
My opponents will be pretty varied and once we submit our lists they are set. I know I'm going to see Flesh eater courts, Stormcast, Ironjawz for sure, maybe Wood Elves, Nurgle and Slyvanth too. Thanks in advance!
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Your going to facing a lot of shooting those warriors will die fast without protection, are you planning on keeping all 3 units in range of the Sunblood?
 
@Aginor I totally agree! The main reason Im doing 20 is bc I barely have the 60 to do it and didnt want a mega blob with 2 little units lol. @Crowsfoot what do you mean? Im lost lol sorry. Im using the Shadowstrike to do a hopefully really strong alpha strike on the stuff that must die asap, with the 6 rippers and 10 cham skinks rerolling 1s to hit and wound from the startpriest and the reroll everything from the swooping dive. If my teleports work, the salamanders help with the alpha strike. Hopefully making my opponent focus on that as the 20 man squads come up or hold objectives, with mystic shield amd starlight on them.
 
Wazz said:
@Aginor I totally agree! The main reason Im doing 20 is bc I barely have the 60 to do it and didnt want a mega blob with 2 little units lol. @Crowsfoot what do you mean? Im lost lol sorry. Im using the Shadowstrike to do a hopefully really strong alpha strike on the stuff that must die asap, with the 6 rippers and 10 cham skinks rerolling 1s to hit and wound from the startpriest and the reroll everything from the swooping dive. If my teleports work, the salamanders help with the alpha strike. Hopefully making my opponent focus on that as the 20 man squads come up or hold objectives, with mystic shield amd starlight on them.
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Been running a Sunclaw for a couple of months. Besides the HUGE impact of a 40man that I cannot describe just HOW much damage output has with the reroll from Sunblood, 20 man really have no impact at all. You won't be having any units to oppose any mid power unit and stronger. Go for the 40, 10, 10 !
 
Well ok! Lol I couls proxy temple guard as saurus warriors, drop the salamanders and hunting pack to maybe make it 40 20 10. @Seraphage how do you like using the Sunclaw over the Slann as your general?
 
Wazz said:
@Aginor I totally agree! The main reason Im doing 20 is bc I barely have the 60 to do it and didnt want a mega blob with 2 little units lol. @Crowsfoot what do you mean? Im lost lol sorry. Im using the Shadowstrike to do a hopefully really strong alpha strike on the stuff that must die asap, with the 6 rippers and 10 cham skinks rerolling 1s to hit and wound from the startpriest and the reroll everything from the swooping dive. If my teleports work, the salamanders help with the alpha strike. Hopefully making my opponent focus on that as the 20 man squads come up or hold objectives, with mystic shield amd starlight on them.
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You can only Mystic one unit so bulk one up and use the other two as bait
 
Wazz said:
Well ok! Lol I couls proxy temple guard as saurus warriors, drop the salamanders and hunting pack to maybe make it 40 20 10. @Seraphage how do you like using the Sunclaw over the Slann as your general?
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Have only played 3 games with the new one and to be honest with the sunclaw list * not one with 2 blobs of 40man but with 1 that I am currently playing * I am NOT missing the 2nd teleport. One is just fine. Slann is overly useful due to mystic shield at all rounds etc.

The 20man group won't do much. Imho drop those 10 and with the rest 10 take yourselve some skinks to screen the important units - or take objectives if needed, it ll be screen msot of the times on a sunclaw - or an oldblood on foot ! I have tried him just "for fun" and those 5" rerollable wounds on a unit that already rerolls failed hits.. well.. those elven dragons hurt :p

Finally, if you ever experiment with Sunblood as a L instead of Slann, gief slann the rez item and give Sunblood Coronal Shield. That -1 to hit is WAY too awesome.
Remember : the modifiers come AFTER the rolls - a rerollable 4+ when you have buffed him with -1 to hit and thus he needs a 5, does NOT reroll the 4s because they are successful at the time and right after he finished rolling they get cancelled !
Now combine this with -1 of starlight and you get -2 to hit.. he was hitting on 2 rerollable and couldnt reroll ALL of his 2s and 3s.. it was fun.
 
Nice! @Seraphage I did try a 40 man unit and it was crazy, I was trying all kinds of crazy stuff that game like dropping the slann, adding a skink priest, troglodon, and 10 skinks none of those really mattered in the game other than the trog soaking up some hits bc they saw a big guy lol. I added the slann back in and dropped the salamander hunting pack, and the 10 skinks stayed.
 
I'm also thinking of using
Slann- rez item skink spells
Eternity warden shield
3 x10 saurus guard
Eternal Starhost
710 points for summoning. Since the lists are set I can kind of tailor to my opponent each game.
 
Wazz said:
I'm also thinking of using
Slann- rez item skink spells
Eternity warden shield
3 x10 saurus guard
Eternal Starhost
710 points for summoning. Since the lists are set I can kind of tailor to my opponent each game.
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Always liked the idea of lists with a tough backbone and lots of summoning points. Didn't have the time so far but I plan to try it myself, especially with the buffed up Slann we got ourselves !
 
The 40man unit you run as your main hitter and then you can use the two 10mans as screening units. You'll need them to protect your slann.
Otherwise i like the list, i might give it a shot myself.
 
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