Friday 26 August 2016

Age of Sigmar #7 - 7 Hours to kill... Multiple wishlists!

Last night I had the pleasure of taking the overnight National Express down to London which is a gruelling cramped 7 hours on a coach that is both too hot and freezing, it was my personal hell.
With nothing to do and not being able to sleep I decided to write up a few wishlists for a couple of armies I'm interested in playing at the moment after having a thorough read of several of the Battletomes and the Age of Sigmar app. I'm sticking to 1000 points with a small tolerance above and below as with these new Age of Sigmar points values it is actually quite difficult to hit 1000 dead on.

Spiderfang Grots
What's not to like about an army of Spiders running towards your enemy with howling Grots on their backs? Ever since The Battle for Skull Pass I loved Spider Riders and now in Age of Sigmar I can field an army just of them.

Grot Big Boss on Gigantic Spider
Arachnarok Spider
10 Grot Spider Riders
10 Grot Spider Riders
10 Grot Spider Riders

Grot Spider Riders, taken from the Grot Spider Riders warscroll
Clans Pestilens
This list started as a list I wrote for a friend and though he didn't use it too well on the table the amount of models on the board is quite impressive and I really like the look of a unified Pestilen army. I have never liked Skaven but now they are part of the Chaos allegiance there should be some rats that actually have ties to the other deities of the Chaos pantheon and that's something I can get behind.

Plague Furnace
Plague Priest
30 Plague Monks
30 Plague Monks
Plagueclaw

Plague Priest, taken from Plague Priest warscroll
Ironjawz
My favourite character of the previous setting was Grimgor Ironhide. In my eyes, there is nothing better in a fantasy setting then hard as nails hordes of Orcs or Orruks that have no goal other than causing a ruckus. The expansion of the Black Orc range into the Ironjawz was something I really loved and had to really resist not dropping countless pounds on during its initial release.

Weirdnob Shaman
10 Brutes
10 Ardboys
10 Ardboys
3 Gore-gruntas

Ardboys, taken from the Ardboys warscroll
Devoted of Sigmar
Another part of the World the Was that I liked was the religious fanaticism of The Empire, in Age of Sigmar I really did struggle to see where The Empires models would fit in with this super high fantasy aesthetic till I saw the Golden armour clad Warrior Priests being flanked by uncountable Flagellants on their warscrolls just proved to me these models have a place in both Age of Sigmar and my growing collection of models.

Warrior Priest
Warrior Priest
Warrior Priest
War Altar of Sigmar
20 Flagellants
20 Flagellants
20 Flagellants

Warrior Priest, taken from the Warrior Priest warscroll
The one army I'm really wanting to play is a mortal Tzeentch cultist army lead by a Gaunt Summoner. I'm hoping that the models coming from The Silver Tower get released as their own Battletome and miniature line much like most of the models from the Warhammer 40k boxed games have in recent months.

What to do on the coach back north in a few days then?

3 comments:

  1. I like so much your contribution to Age of Sigmar, your posts are very interesting and we like to see your examples of army list 1000 points. Congrats for the blog. I really like your Nighthaunt list :DD

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    1. By the way, I did reference to you in our blog of friends because I copied your examples of armys to show it to newbies gamers. I hope you don't matter. It's www.goty.es Thank's ^^

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    2. Thank you for reading! I'm really enjoying Age of Sigmar so will continue to write about it as much as I can.
      Feel free to share anything from here as you see fit as long as I am clearly sourced. I shall have to translate your site as I do not read Spanish but I look forward to having a browse.

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