AoS Drougen's noobie thread

[Drougen]

That is absolutely something you can do!

AWESOME! LOL I'M SO EXCITED TO FINISH MY ARMY AND PLAY LOL

 

[Bowser]

It's going to be awesome! I want pics of the oldblood scar-vet and Alpha!

 

[tom ndege]

AWESOME! LOL I'M SO EXCITED TO FINISH MY ARMY AND PLAY LOL

Male sure to make a thread on it in the painting and converting section!

...and don't mind if some of your girlfriend's minis find their way into it, too...

 

[Slanputin]

How do you decide that? Would it be a good idea to go half and half or something?

This can also depend on who you're playing against. If you're lucky like me, then your regular opponents won't care whether the models have spears/hand weapons as long as you have chosen what unit has what weapon before the game. To clarify this, at the beginning of game I state if a unit has a weapon different to it's model (e.g. Saurus models with spears have the rules for hand weapons.) I've never had problem with this but it's always best to check that you're opponent is ok with this before you draw up your army list - especially if they're a new opponent*.

That works, I find the Oldblood and Scarvet are a bit interchangeable, as most people don't care as long as you use the set of rules for the warscroll you're taking, then absolutely set up one of the scar-vet heads on a Knight body and bulk him up a bit.

^this adds on to my point above. When I model I do it purely for aesthetic value, so how they look and the rules that they have are two separate concepts in my mind. I prefer it this way as it doesn't establish any unnecessary restrictions on your creativity.

There's two cold ones with gold helmets in the start collecting set, so technically I could make the alpha knight and that head for the scar-vet's mount, right?

Following from my last comment: go wild. Model your army how you like it. I have Skinks wielding tridents and a Scar-Vet with a Dark Elf/Darkling Coven lance. As long as they can be clearly defines as discrete units, it's all good.

*Be careful when using proxies. Weapons are generally acceptable. Running with that concept can be dangerous though. For example: using a Sunblood model as an Oldblood is fine to me as long as you state that it's an Oldblood at the beginning of the game; using Skink models as Saurus is *very* unlikely to be accepted; using a box as unit of a Saurus Guard is irksome and laughable. Don't even get me started on unpainted models or, even worse, models just splashed with paint so they count in a game. We've had many threads dedicated to this discussion before!

It's going to be awesome! I want pics of the oldblood scar-vet and Alpha!

Male sure to make a thread on it in the painting and converting section!

^ this. It's always nice to see people progresses, whilst also providing inspiration and tips for others (intentionally or not)! Plus it's a great way to mark and motivate your own progress.

 

[Drougen]

It's going to be awesome! I want pics of the oldblood scar-vet and Alpha!

Oh dude, they should be good. I don't know if I'm any good at painting but, here's a sample of my gf's old dryads she had painted and she's gonna probably do a lot of my army and her new dryad army.

 

[Drougen]

Male sure to make a thread on it in the painting and converting section!

...and don't mind if some of your girlfriend's minis find their way into it, too...

Haha, I posted a pic of her old dryads she had.

 

[Drougen]

This can also depend on who you're playing against. If you're lucky like me, then your regular opponents won't care whether the models have spears/hand weapons as long as you have chosen what unit has what weapon before the game. To clarify this, at the beginning of game I state if a unit has a weapon different to it's model (e.g. Saurus models with spears have the rules for hand weapons.) I've never had problem with this but it's always best to check that you're opponent is ok with this before you draw up your army list - especially if they're a new opponent*.



^this adds on to my point above. When I model I do it purely for aesthetic value, so how they look and the rules that they have are two separate concepts in my mind. I prefer it this way as it doesn't establish any unnecessary restrictions on your creativity.



Following from my last comment: go wild. Model your army how you like it. I have Skinks wielding tridents and a Scar-Vet with a Dark Elf/Darkling Coven lance. As long as they can be clearly defines as discrete units, it's all good.

*Be careful when using proxies. Weapons are generally acceptable. Running with that concept can be dangerous though. For example: using a Sunblood model as an Oldblood is fine to me as long as you state that it's an Oldblood at the beginning of the game; using Skink models as Saurus is *very* unlikely to be accepted; using a box as unit of a Saurus Guard is irksome and laughable. Don't even get me started on unpainted models or, even worse, models just splashed with paint so they count in a game. We've had many threads dedicated to this discussion before!





^ this. It's always nice to see people progresses, whilst also providing inspiration and tips for others (intentionally or not)! Plus it's a great way to mark and motivate your own progress.

To calling units whatever you want to use vs. whatever the model shows is another good idea! Just starting I had a hard time wrapping my head around that until someone showed me space marines with hello kitty heads LOL. Talking about pure aesthetic value, I think I might take my carnisaur apart a little. I wanted the trogladon head because I thought it looked cooler maybe...I think I'm just gonna do all my models like that, for aesthetic value.

As far as taking one type of unit and completely using it as another type is silly, I'd never do that. But I do eventually want to make a better skink priest than what's offered from GW. I hate the cloak figure, it looks so cheap. I want one with a staff with skulls and a dagger!

And I will post more pictures! Here's my carnisaur so far!

 

[Drougen]

Okay here is my recommendation for starter build.
Build the Carnosaur, use the skink oracle as a skink priest or starpriest.
Take one of your knights and maybe give him one of the scar-vet heads, and embellish it to make it a scar-vet on cold one.
If you want to make a lot of guard, you should be able to convert the warriors into guard with the bits left over from the guard box.
After that get bastilladon, chameleon skinks or skinks, and ripperdactyls/terradons. Having a shadowstrike is a good starting point. Then eternity warden because shadowstrike combined with eternal is also great.
A second start collecting set should gibe you enough knights for a fire lance, and bulk out your warriors. Also another carno or a troglodon.

Just an FYI I'm about to buy chameleon skinks, skinks, and ripperdactyls.

 

[Skorp]

I made chama skinks from a box of skinks and green stuff. There's some posts of people doing it if you search the forum. Takes a bit more time, but more personal and cheaper. Might not look as good, but that depends on your skillz.