AoS Just started but I don't know where to go...

[Drakon787]

Hello amazing people! Here's a list of what I have acquired in my one month of playing AOS. But before I get that started let me tell you what I play against. I play a lot against stormcast with a side of 3 big rat things that deal 6d3 mortal wounds in the shooting phase.. literally just melts anything I have. And not as often in my group I play against sylvaneth from one player and oruks from the other with a lot of goblins. Like a lot of goblins.

Ok now with what I have

1x oldblood on a carny
1x converted scar vet on a coldone
1x converted sunblood
1x converted astrolith bearer
1x slann starmaster
1x kroak
1x bastiladon
1x eternity warden in the mail
14x guard 1 was built as the astrolith which can easly be an icon
7x knights w/ lances
70x warriors w/ spears

 

[Bowser]

A few more things to get, make the oracle from your carno kit into a skink starpriest, chamleon skinks, ripperdactyls. You will need your own deep strikers, if you want to get competitive branch out to support factions, celestial hurricanum and battlemage from the collegiate arcane faction are probably the best. Right now you have a list like this, which is decent but could benefit from a scar-vet on carno. A new start collecting box might be the way to go.

Leaders
Saurus Oldblood on Carnosaur (320)
Saurus Scar-Veteran on Cold One (100)
Saurus Sunblood (120)
Saurus Eternity Warden (140)
Skink Starpriest (100)

Battleline
20 x Saurus Warriors (200)
- Spears
30 x Saurus Warriors (300)
- Spears
20 x Saurus Warriors (200)
- Spears
5 x Saurus Knights (120)
- Blades
- Seraphon Battleline

Units

Behemoths
Bastiladon (300)

Battalions
Bloodclaw Starhost (100)

Total: 2000/2000

 

[m0gstar]

I agree completely with Bowser. Unfortunately your guard won't be very useful as you are against a ton of mortal wounding units.

As with Bowser list, your counter to the mortal wound dealing units will be your saurus blocks. A lot of players are hesitant to use mortal wounds on basic Battleline units which allows you to play to that advantage.

When your list fills out with some more support type units you tweak the list to allow you for some counterplay

 

[Drakon787]

I also have a few units of sylvaneth to boot a dryca
Durthu
3x bow kurnoth hunters
5x tree revenants
16x dryads
1x branchwych

I'm probably not going in to the very competitive scene till maybe next year I will take a look at what other factions have in store for the army.

I noticed that you didn't place a slann or lord kroak in the list. Is that bec they would be a prime target for mortal wounds?

 

[Bowser]

That and there isn't enough there for the slann to benefit from. Troglodons, skink priests and starpriests, engine of the gods, or if you were playing more chaos I would put him in there. Durthu, Nymphs, and Kurnoth hunters are great too. Can definitely be added into armies for some variety. Branchwych is a great unit as well and can be added in to any order army for some good effect.