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

[Chrisle]

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

 

[btrain16]

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