For Chaos! For Pony!

This blog is for a friend. Apparently, me getting interested in AoS has dragged some others in. I figured the least I could do was tempt him by writing some lists for armies that he is interested in.

Criteria:

Smallish model count

Fairly straight forwards to paint

No models that make him want to vomit his brains out.

Right. First two are no problem, third… umm…. Moving on. He had been thinking about Khorne, Nurgle and Tzeentch, along with Kharadron Overlords, though they already failed the fiddly paint criteria.

Like before when I was planning my own army, each of these will be built for 2000 points rather than planned incrementally.

 

Khorne time

Research:

Khorne likes stuff to die, getting Blood Tithe points that they can use later (friendly deaths count, glorious carnage!).

Okay, this army is confusing. It seems to be three armies in one (Daemon/Mortal/Bloodbound). Luckily, we have the “no faff to paint” clause, so I’m going to make a Daemon army.

Actually, I’m going to make two.

Building the armies:

There’s two we’re looking at here, one because I want to and the other that is probably closer to Rich’s goal. The first will be FIVE BLOODTHIRSTERS BECAUSE ITS SO COOL. And expensive. The second will be Skullcrusher heavy… and probably expensive too. Let’s found out.

Bloodthirsters first, and we’ll be taking the battalion Tyrants of Blood within the Baleful Lords Slaughterhost. This allows us to take 5 behemoths so long as all are Bloodthirsters, and let’s the five run and charge.

For this list, we’ll have Skarbrand, the Wrath of Khorne Bloodthirster and a combination of three of the Unfettered Fury/Insensate Rage Bloodthirsters (they cost the same points). Our battleline is three units of five Flesh Hounds and… well, that’s 1930 points spent. Cool, add in a CP and we’re done.

That’s just 20 models, five of which are monsters, but costs £515 at GW prices. Ouch!

 

Next up, the Bloodcrusher army. First, we want these boys to be battleline, so Skullmaster will be our general. Second, we want to maximise their impact, so we’ll be using the Bloodthunder Stampede (means that there’s no chance of failure for their charging abilities, I love removing chance from the equation). That’s half our points spent. How does one round out a Khorne army?

First, let’s add something swift in to harass the enemy (so five Flesh Hounds), then lets look at the heroes. Frankly, I think if you can take a Bloodthirster, you should. The Insensate Rage has an ability to help charges go off, and deals out meaty damage (the shock, I know) so let’s add this little chappy in.

And Skarbrand. We have the points, he has the axes and will keep pace with the Bloodcrushers, in he goes. You know what’s funny? Karanak, the named Flesh Hound character being 140 points and being able to summon in 100 points worth of Flesh Hounds. That kinda makes him 40 points, right? In he goes.

That leaves 270 points to spend. Personally, I’d add a Soul Grinder to get at least some ranged threat into the list, and then use the last points to buy a CP in the game.

This army is:

Skullmaster

Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage

Skarbrand

Karanak

6 Bloodcrushers

6 Bloodcrushers

6 Bloodcrushers

5 Flesh Hounds (plus another five to summon)

Soul Grinder

So that’s 28 models for £456. And neither list has included models that your blood tithes can summon.

Man, Blades of Khorne are expensive.