Building my first 1,000 pts Army SCE

[iKorbinian]

Hey Lads,

 

trying to build my first AOS SCE army with 1,000 points as a total beginner. I ordered the "start collecting" box, but it wasn't delivered yet. What also is required to build a versatile good list from this point on? Ordering additional units is not an issue. 

 

By now I think about getting Annihilators, Fulminators or Stormdrake Guard. Any input for a hitting army with some flair to it? 

 

Yours,

K. 

[Dogmantra]

For 1k point games, the 10 Liberators from the start collecting box will be enough battleline, if you want to move onto 2k points at some point I'd recommend another 5 Liberators (they can be found pretty cheap on ebay) for your third battleline just to give you a base. But really you have everything you need for a legal 1k list already, it's about choosing what you want to add for flavour. The Retributors that come in the starter box, frustratingly, have a unit size of 5. If you want to run them (and they're decent infantry), you'll need to find another couple. They're not too hard to find second hand either.

Annihilators, Fulminators, and Stormdrake Guard are all solid units, and any of them would make a good addition. In 1k games you might struggle to have enough models to properly contest objectives, which is a point in favour of Stormdrake Guard, as they're Monsters, counting as 5 models each.

Annihilators are probably my personal preference of the three options you mentioned, especially for "flair" because they really lean into the dropping from the sky mechanic, which is one of my favourite things about the army. You'll need to source a Lord Imperatant to make them work properly (he lets them drop from the sky 7" away rather than 9" which is a massive increase to the chance they'll successfully make their first charge), and unfortunately the Lord Imperatant is only available in the Harbinger and Extremis starter sets, as well as the out of print Dominion box. Ebay is probably good here.

Other models you didn't mention that I would consider are the Knight Incantor and the Stormstrike Chariot. Knight Incantor is the cheapest wizard in the faction and has a useful automatic spell unbind once a game. Having a single wizard is a nice to have so you can try to unbind spells and cast mystic shield. The Stormstrike Chariot is, depending on what exactly you mean by flair, exactly what you're looking for. It's not super common to see them played despite the fact they're good, so you get the unique angle. They hit hard on the charge, are tricky to shift, and pretty cheap. They're also a fun model to build & paint, and I think kind of underrated. At 165 points, they also slot really nicely into almost any list.

[iKorbinian]

Would something like this work? Just playing around with the builder… The Knight Vexillors will bomb the enemy units as long as they're clumped together. Liberators for objectives. And Annihilators and Presecutors are deep striked to unleash hell behind enemy lines… what do you think? 

 

LEADERS

Knight-Vexillor (120)

- Meteoric Standard

Knight-Vexillor (120)

- Meteoric Standard

Lord-Imperatant (175)

- General

UNITS

5 x Liberators (115)

- Heavens-wrought Weapon and Shield

5 x Liberators (115)

- Heavens-wrought Weapon and Shield

3 x Annihilators with Meteoric Grandhammers (240)

3 x Prosecutors with Celestial Hammers (110)