Lord Krungharr Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 I've been hankering for a fast flying army. What are some ideas for such an army in AoS? My first thoughts were perhaps a Tzeentch Screamer themed army, and those are battleline with a Hosts Arcanum. They're kinda weak overall though but would be cheap and plentiful. Guess Enlightened on Discs are a possibility? Or what about Morghasts for a Death army, maybe OBR? More elite tanky types and not as fast but pretty nasty in halberds I think. Not sure if they're battleline IF under any occasion though. Of course the IDK eels and sharks seem to fit the bill too. I've been eaten and electrocuted by them, but never tried them myself. Any other units that might be good flying battleliners? Seems like Stormcast should have something like that but I think they mostly just deepstrike or ride dragons and I'm not keen on doing just a few Stormdrakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zilberfrid Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 Endrinriggers, Gunhaulers or Frigates can be battleline. Sadly, Gyrocopters can't. There are also some non-dwarf options if you really want, like the General on Griffin. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domowoj Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 Nighthaunt! The whole army flies and is fvery fast (high movement and teleportation.) The new battletome looks to be great fun. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Krungharr Posted May 9, 2022 Author Share Posted May 9, 2022 Oh duh, hadn't thought of KO. I like gold Nighthaunt is definitely a great looking choice too! Hmmm, I don't have a Death army yet, and I imagine I could ally in Morghasts to Nighthaunt? KO would jive with my Dispossessed. And both would prevent me from dirtying my soul with Aelvish models. No rush of course, I'm content to see how the new battletomes pan out and wait for cheap deals. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zilberfrid Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 6 hours ago, Lord Krungharr said: Oh duh, hadn't thought of KO. I like gold Nighthaunt is definitely a great looking choice too! Hmmm, I don't have a Death army yet, and I imagine I could ally in Morghasts to Nighthaunt? KO would jive with my Dispossessed. And both would prevent me from dirtying my soul with Aelvish models. No rush of course, I'm content to see how the new battletomes pan out and wait for cheap deals. Thryng is made to work with Disposessed, and Gyros fit even better in the theme. Though Nighthaunt are also pretty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogmantra Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 (edited) 16 hours ago, Lord Krungharr said: Any other units that might be good flying battleliners? Seems like Stormcast should have something like that but I think they mostly just deepstrike or ride dragons and I'm not keen on doing just a few Stormdrakes. Stormcasts do also have Prosecutors as a battleline option with the Tempest Lords subfaction. Although if you're not super keen on stormdrakes then you might find the troop choices lacking if you want to go all flying. There are enough flying heroes to be getting on with, but flying troop choices outside of stormdrakes are limited to just two flavours of Prosecutor and Aetherwings. Would be pretty cool to see an all flying army though, and would be quite reliable for charges since Prosecutors charge with 3d6, and tempest lords lets you reroll one die for the charge on all your flying units. Edited May 10, 2022 by Dogmantra 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber SunStorm Posted May 10, 2022 Subscriber Share Posted May 10, 2022 (edited) I don't know about "best" in game terms, but one option I didn't see mentioned is Maggotkin of Nurgle. Not the fastest, but can do all flying units quite easily. https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/plague-drones-of-nurgle-2017 https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Nurgle-Rotbringers-Pusgoyle-Blightlords-2018 Both units can be taken as Battleline with the right sub-faction or having Lord of Afflictions as leader. I'm sure you could maybe ally in some Nurgle marked StD as well, such as a flying Daemon Prince or Sorcerer on Manticore and have the whole thing as flying. As a bonus I think the Daemon Plague Toads of Nurgle also have the Fly rule, so have them bounding alongside your winged monsters. Edited May 10, 2022 by SunStorm 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Krungharr Posted May 11, 2022 Author Share Posted May 11, 2022 Ooh, I totally forgot about the rotflies. Those are pretty awesome! Gonna have to look at the Plague Toads too. Like that movie FROGS! . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zilberfrid Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 3 minutes ago, Lord Krungharr said: Ooh, I totally forgot about the rotflies. Those are pretty awesome! Gonna have to look at the Plague Toads too. Like that movie FROGS! . Do note that plague toads are Forge World, with the quality, customer service and rules support you can expect from them. I'd lok for alternate sculpts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaskier Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Nighthaunt. The whole army flies. The whole army can retreat and charge. Multiple units can innately teleport. There's a hero that can teleport himself and a friendly unit, and there's another hero that can duplicate that ability to slingshot itself and another unit across the board. Almost everything (there's like two exceptions) in the army moves at least 8", and there's one unit that can move 24". They inflict random, awesome debuffs - such as strikes last - on units they charge. Hell, you can even ambush/deep strike a couple units for free. They are the flying army, and have more mobility tricks than almost any other faction - and did I mention it's an army of GHOSTS!? Say it with me; Nighthaunt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skreech Verminking Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 (edited) On 5/9/2022 at 10:37 PM, Lord Krungharr said: I've been hankering for a fast flying army. What are some ideas for such an army in AoS? My first thoughts were perhaps a Tzeentch Screamer themed army, and those are battleline with a Hosts Arcanum. They're kinda weak overall though but would be cheap and plentiful. Guess Enlightened on Discs are a possibility? Or what about Morghasts for a Death army, maybe OBR? More elite tanky types and not as fast but pretty nasty in halberds I think. Not sure if they're battleline IF under any occasion though. Of course the IDK eels and sharks seem to fit the bill too. I've been eaten and electrocuted by them, but never tried them myself. Any other units that might be good flying battleliners? Seems like Stormcast should have something like that but I think they mostly just deepstrike or ride dragons and I'm not keen on doing just a few Stormdrakes. Buy yourself a doomwheel. get a some kind of a skaven warlock. give him the spell levitate. laugh at your frenemy when he looses all of his heroes, do to a single doomwheel having flown over his entire army, twice! (Movement and charge phase) Edited May 11, 2022 by Skreech Verminking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zilberfrid Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Skreech Verminking said: Buy yourself a doomwheel. get a some kind of a skaven warlock. give him the spell levitate. laugh at your frenemy when he looses all of his heroes, do to a single doomwheel having flown over his entire army, twice! (Movement and charge phase) Hopefully, the Warlock can ride said doomwheel in the new book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skreech Verminking Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 45 minutes ago, zilberfrid said: Hopefully, the Warlock can ride said doomwheel in the new book! Hopefully😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painbringer Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 Varanguard, the 8th Circle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravinsild Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 Uh. What about Girstlegore? It’s all Terrorgheists and those fly and also is a death army. also Vargheists fly. I don’t know if any other death battleline flies though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightbox Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 Soulblight can do a similar thing to gristlegore with battleline dragons and terrogheists with a subfaction as well as various flavours of flying vampires and some flocks of angry bats to fly alongside them. Plus you can have Manfred or Neferata zooming about of their skeletal hoverbikes monster steeds and if you want an extra bit of fun in narrative the anvil of apotheosis for soulblight can let you make someone who literally turns into a bat. Otherwise an all squig gloomspite force technically flies (bounces) everywhere and you get the rule of cool of being a space hopper army. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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