AaronWilson

So I've for my first 2k test of my Gnarlroot tonight, I'll be playing a buddy who plays Stormcast and is a fan of the fella who +3 to charge (Gabriel? Garvel?) sureheart as well as Evocatord and Sequitors so it should be a really good test. After a lot of juggling relics and artefacts and good advice from you guys this is what I've ended on. Allegiance - Sylvaneth Treelord Ancient - 300 Artefact - Ethereal Amulet Trait - Warsinger Deepword Lore - Regrowth Drycha Hamadreth - 280 Deepword Lore - Regrowth Branchwych - 80 Artefact - Acorn of the Ages Deepword Lore - Throne of Vines Branchwraith - 80 Artefact - Ranu's Lamentiri Deepword Lore - Verdant Blessing Dryads (30) - 270 Tree Revenants (5) - 80 Tree Revenants (5) - 80 Kurnoth Hunters (Scythes, 6) - 400 Kurnoth Hunters (Bows, 3) - 200 Household - 100 Gnarlroot Wargrove - 130. The list comes out at 2k on the head and there is definately things I think that may change on the lead up the christmas BOBO. I think a gryph feather charm on the TLA for a potential - 2 to hit AND ability to fly could be worth a shout. I could see having the 3 hunters with swords instead of bows potential as well. All in all I'm happy with the core of what I have. I have 3 games coming up this week, Stormcast this evening, Nagash tomorrow and Tzeentch on Friday. I'll keep you all updated

The noble spirits have heard the spiritsong. The Gnarlroot Wargrove marches to war That's the first unit of Tree Revenants done! 5 more to go

This morning I managed to finish up Drycha, I'm pretty happy with the result! I'm not a grat painter and I'm under no illusion I'll ever contest a best painted army but my main focus is that I paint models that are pleasing on my eyes to make the game better for me and the opponent. I think? I've done it

Oh then I'm just super slow

I know we can't post spoilers, but I have a image from a white dwarf confirming Battletome : Chaos Beasts is coming

The new troll is pretty darn boss, I love it. That mushroom on his back is all sorts of amazing.

With my eyes on a Gnarlroot Wargrove list for the christmas BOBO coming up, I've started work on my Tree Revenants. I've got the basecoat down and I'm confident once the bark has had work done on it the models are going to really pop, I'll keeep you all updated!

Yeah I actually get the impession Dreadwood can be quite hard to execute correctly. It would be very easy to alpha in games where it's not correct to do so, etc etc.

Thanks for your help, really appreciate all those comments. I have made the changes 1/2. I'm going to keep them i na unit of 6 for now but I will try them 2 x3 down the road. I'll keep you all updated with test games, first one is on sunday

I appreciate those comments, you certainly probably know more then me about the army. Do you think Gnarlroot can work, if so do you think it's woth me dropping the hunters with bows for some endless spells?

So I just secured my self a ticket to the christmas BOBO event, it'll be my first ever AoS event so I'm pretty pumped! Do people think we 100% need Alarielle to be competitive? I really think Gnarlroot is going to be very strong in a meta were realm will be used. That extra spell slot for wizards really open ups your spells, it also allows you to get the best 4 spells in there (Reaping, Blessing, Regrowth & Dwellers) as well as all the signature spells. I really like the below list (yet to test it but on paper I like it ALOT) Treelord Ancient Artefact - Ethereal Amulet Trait - Gift of Gyhyran Deepword Lore - The Reaping Drycha Deepword Lore - Dwellers Below Branchwraith Artefact - Ranus Lamentiri Deepword Lore - Verdant Blessing Branchwych Deepword Lore - Regrowth Artefact - Acorn of the Ages Dryads (30) Tree Revenants (5) Tree Revenants (5) Kurnoth Hunters (6) - Scythes Kurnoth Hunters (3) - Bows Household Batallion Gnarlroot Wargrove I really like the list on paper. The anncient being a 4+ ingoring rend re-rolliings 1s and potentially healing D3 + D6 a turn seems super potent. You have a lot of potential for wyldwoods (potentially could see 4 on the table turn one). The double tree revenants give you really solid scenario options, and the sycthe hunters, dycha and ancient are solid bully units.

So I got my first three games down, they were all 1000 points so nothing serious but I learned alot throughout all my games. I played Stormcast on Scorched Earth, Nurgle on Starstrike and Ironjawz on Total Comittment. All my games were scenario wins, with the tightest one being Stormcast on Scorched earth. My tree revenants were fantastic at threatening backfield objectives every game, though I realise not every scenario has those sort of objectives to threaten. In the first two games I was able to place down 2 wyldwoods which again let me threaten to teleport to either side of the board, in the third I could only ever place one due to models and terrain. The branchwych spell was very good, and got me atleast 10 dryads in every game (got me 30 in the last!) the branchwych I wasn't impressed with at all. Kurnoth hutners with Sychthe and bows were very good and dryads in a pack fo 30 were always awesome.

Hi guys, I recently traded my AoS force for a large Sylvaneth force (Have the whole range and really everything I need). Playing my first few 1000 point games this week, going with - Branchwraith - 80 Branchwych - 80 30 Dryads - 270 10 Tree Revenants - 160 3 Kurnoth Hunters (Bows) - 200 3 Kunroth Hunters ( Scythes) - 200 will let you know how they go

This has been covered in the FAQ and changed so it is now 10 mate.

Yeah I just had no room for a Balewind at 1990 I have 0 wiggle room. I could drop down to only have 3 heroes, but with two scenarios being placed with need wizards and heroes I'm a fan of having more then less.

So in light of trying different lists for the Throne of Skulls in October, especially now the Spelll Portal change I'm a bit lost. So here's the next test list Allegiance - Tzeentch Tzaangor Shaman Gaunt Summoner Magister Herald 30 Tzaangors 6 Skyfires 3 Enlightened 10 Acolytes 10 Acolytes Tzaangor Coven It's 1990, starting with a command point. I'm not sure I totally like it but I'll try it on the table.

The Tzeentch section genuinly had me dying of laughter in the car, ****** you guys are good.

So with the lack of a batallion to build around & the loss of spell portal, what sort of lists are people currently running? I'm a little lost for direction right now.

I think I will be using Balewind / Arcane sacrifice now rather then a spell porta.

I think the thing that really confuses me about the Spell Portal is where they originaly designed clearly they thought at 60 points that's what was it worth to cast doe myself 6-7 spells a turn through it. Now, they've reduced that effectiveness by 500-600% percent but it's the same cost?

Now spell portal is once per turn I'm most likely trading them in for the cogs. 6 Fate points turn just form him will mean I will genrate upto 13 fate points a turn, which can mean a free herald turn one or horrors turn 2. The spell portal change will really hurt though.