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I went flesh eater courts! Here's the start of my army! Thank you all for the help. I will def try those other factions in the future!

flesheater courts would be really interesting! My first impulse is to kitbash freeguild greatswords with crypt ghoul heads and hands (I like the weapons but like to go wysiwyg), make the crypt horrors into centaurs (use the horse half of free guild pistoliers and the top half of crypt horrors. For cypt flayers, add bat wings like a pegasus. And for the big general, take a dreadlord on black dragon, replace its head with a zombie dragon head, its wings with zombie dragon wings, and then replace the dreadlords head with a standard ghoul head. Does that sound first impression like it would work or are the models the wrong sizes? I actually have the sylvaneth vs skaven box unpainted but built sitting in my closet, so skaven would probably be a smart choice lol. That lore does sound REALLY fun! I should pick up their battletome! Skaven sound absolutly delightful!

That sounds pretty perfect if that is the release date! Googling it though, it seems like gw has been fairly ambiguous on when they plan on it? Some people are saying that it would make sense to wait untill the next edition of AoS in 2024, what do you think of that?

Thats the dawnbringer crusades right? Do we know when that is coming out? If its in 2023-2024 that would be really fun! (I really like the bit of lore they revleaed) but if its later than that I might just start with a different faction.

After finishing up my deathguard speed-painting project, I want to do a 180 and take as much time as possible with an AoS army. My idea is that it would be fun to, before touching a single model, really read the lore and get all the juicy bits. Then I want to use that lore to make a custom subfaction, with a thematic list, lore and a color scheme. Then spend ages painting each individual model (way longer than I usually do), and then finish it up with a massive diorama containing a whole 2k point army and a bunch of terrain. However, I am completly blanking on picking a faction to dig into for this project, and I would love y'all's help picking one! Here are my ideas for what I would find fun in the lore: People: So far, my two favorite bits of aos lore I've heard are: 1: an orruk cried when its favorite squig died in the end times 2: Some bonereapers are considered disposable and know it, so they buddy up and agree to fix each other if one survives. I want an army of people with thoughts and feelings who care about each other. For this project, I'd prefer to avoid mindless killing machines that can't love or care. I especially like seeing the emotional side of evil or non-human characters, but all good is also okay. Customization: My two favorite mini-painting projects I have seen were the eons of battle inquisitor kill team and the tabletop time space bears army. I really like the idea of kitbashing an armies models, deciding their place in the lore, and letting that influence their painting decisions! As a part of that, I want to make an army that doesn't have any pre-existing named characters, I want any characters in this project to be entirely made for this project (from what I understand, there are some factions that are hard to play right without named characters) History: I like having a history of a faction to draw on; for example, in tabletop time's space bears, I feel like knowing what happened to Lemun Russ, how the primaris got made, etc, really adds to the flavor of the legion, and helps tie it into things. Again with the space bears, I like having specific characters to build lore off of (but not included in the army); both lemun Russ and Guilliman are involved in their creation, but the space bears have their own chapter master separate from either of them and no primarch is actually in the army. Also, kitbashing, I'm very inexperianced with kitbashing, , and I want to try it here with some greenstuffing and reposing, so if you know of any models that are better or worse for that I would love to hear! Bit of tragedy: I'd like it if there is a bit of tragedy in the history of the faction, it makes them a bit sympathetic even if they are jerks. Models I can spend a bunch of time on: I want to spend some TIME on my next armies models, all layering and glazing. Any metals will be nmm (never done that before); I want to try some osl, etc. So if you know of models that are especially good/bad for practicing glazing and layering, or very receptive to haveing models that you take a long time on each, I'd love to know! I also am going to experiment a bunch with these, so models that look good without looking identical would be good (aka probably not an army where everyone is wearing a matching uniform) Also, in case it helps, here's a list of things with lore I really like. berserk-manga chainsaw man- manga hero, oh hero- webcomic the Magnus archives- podcast Spiderwick- novels Gideon the ninth- novels Any suggestions for factions to look at?

In whatever way you define best, what is the absolute best Age of Sigmar kit? What makes it the best to you?

Good point about the rules changing for gloomspite, I might wait a bit and see if the rules change, but I'll definitely pick up the gloomspite starter set at some point in the future! I'm currently thinking the skaven vs sylvaneth box is the route I'm going to go. (though I also really want to pick up some blightkings and troggoths some point in the future after that) Do y'all know if that box is going to be available in July? I could preorder it now, but I was planning on not getting anything till I worked through my backlog. Thank all of y'all for the advice!

That's super weird about warcry, I would have thought that they would be the MOST customizable minis games workshop would have made! maybe I should just buy the core rulebook and make a custom warband. Oh that's actually super cool lore! Thats hilarious and amazing omg! As long as I did all 3 types of horrors (and didn't just overload on pink) I think I would be good then! The main nurgle models I want outside the blightlords are the horticulous slimux (this is my favorite nurgle model by far, honestly one of my favorite warhammer models period) and the beast of nurgle. I also really like the glotkin, but I'm not sure if its worth its price (Its hard to get a feel or the quality of a model that big from pictures) If I got a box of blightkings and then the vanguard, would I still have room for all those models? Should I just skip the vanguard and only buy those models and the blightkings? OMG THATS AMAZING!!! I wouldn't go that route but now I'm tempted lol. I do kind of like the idea of leaning into nurgle bieng a god of life, adding some green stuff mushrooms everywhere. Sort of like the guy in this comic https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/crow-time/forest-spirits/viewer?title_no=693372&episode_no=39 I have mixed feelings about gloomspite. On one hand, I used to play warhammer underworlds years ago, and zarbag's gitz and Mollog's mobs where by FAR my favorite warbands, I loved painting their models! Just some great characters with great personality. And with my orks in my current warhammer models I have found the two squigs I have painted to be super fun! The gloomspite are also tied in my mind with nurgle for having the most fun models in warhammer. But I don't love hordes, I prefer elite armies. Also, from what I have heard you can't really make a good army with a mix of the models? I would love to have one unit of each of the troggoths, some big squig riders, and then some battleline of grots. But it looks like you need to really lean into one species to make the army work. Having to go full horde and not being able to mix units turned me off them. Which is a shame since I love the models. Though as I'm typing this I realize I don't need to build a full army. It could be fun to just pick up a couple as a display project! Those minis look awesome!!! I love the kitbashing, that is super cool!!! I don't mind painting hordes but I do mind the building, are the skaven horde units fairly easy to put together? If not then I would prefer models like stormfiends, hillpit abomination, verminlord, etc. I am up for trying out converting, I've never done it but I have been very curious (I also have wanted to try out some older warhammer models, I watched eons of battle's videos about old models and they looked really fun!) Skaven have a really great aesthetic to them, that army you posted is tempting me into wanting to try them out!

I forgot about that box, that could be fun! I hadn't realized I have been avoiding chaos by accident, I could have a ton of fun with that! Part of me wants to get the warcry box with two chaos mini-factions in it, but from what I heard thats getting replaced sometime but we don't know when? Maggotkin are super fun! I will admit that level of grossness is a bit much for me, but I also objectively think that they are the most fun designs warhammer has ever made, some of those sculpts are hilarious and awesome! I could see myself getting a warband or maybe like 1000 points of these. Getting some putrid blightkings would be awesome, I have heard those also have a ton of bits for conversion! Would the vangaurd be the best place to start there? Slaves to darkness are really cool as well! the newer models in particular will be awesome, but I love their dark knight vibe with their current models as well! I really like the idea of a warcry warband with a Chaos Lord on Karkadrak, its such a big model! Tzeentch is a weird one for me tbh, I loved lovecraft as a kid and am still huge into eldritch horror. I also just started using inks through my airbrush and I LOVE painting in bright colors, and I also love monsters! But I don't get the basic concept of the disciples, why does eldritch god of knowledge and magic translate to barbarians and birds? I feel like I am just missing the basic idea, which is a shame since the models are super cool! If horrors are easy to build I am up for it, the building was a lot worse than the painting, and the horrors would paint up QUICK with some inks. If I was to go for a chaos faction any suggestions on where to start?

Sylvaneth and Skaven both look fun! I had been thinking of picking up a stormfiend at some point, any suggestions for sylvaneth? I'm also open to other skaven models!

I'm on schedule to finish my backlog of minis by the start of July, which puts me just in time to start a new project when my birthday comes around, and I am thinking something AOS could be fun. However, I am not sure what to get. I know I want something different from what i have done so far. Any suggestions for a fun project would be super appreciated! Here's a list of all the minis I am currently working on or have finished (in various levels of completion, all have at least one model in the unit fully done). Also some thoughts on them because why not: soulblight gravelords battleforce (y'all helped me pick this out and it was a ton of fun!) Deathwalker zombies: Great models with a ton of personality, some of my favorite sculpts, but I don't want to put together 40 of any one unit ever again. Deathrattle skeletons: like the zombies but even harder to build. Painting was amazing, building 20 was a nightmare. Blood knights: Simple cool sculpts that paint up well. Lauka vai: still working on her but such a fantastic sculpt, I love giant monsters and weird things that are uniquely warhammer. My favorite looking individual model. kill team starter set Ork kommandos: so much fun to paint! lots of personality and just big enough to really add detail to. Veteran gaurdsmen: Fun models, great poses, though I am glad I only had to do 10. imperium magazine Easy Build ultramarines: Just an all around good time, I like anachronism and these fit the space knight vibe I love perfectly. I didn't expect to like them as much as I did. Airbrushing inks on them looks really good and is a ton of fun. Easy Build Necrons: the fastest models to paint up, I really love the techno-organic look! I think these are prob my best paint jobs. Dominion Dominion stormcasts: Great models that painted up quick and look amazing, but I do feel like I am kinda painting the same model 20 times. Dominion Kruleboyz: I JUST started on these but so far they are SO COOL! good variety in weapons and pose, contrast paint works wonders on them. My favorites so far. Any ideas for what might be a good next project to work on? I am looking for something that would be fun but also pretty different from what I have worked on so farl Thank you for any suggestions you have!

Frost grave looks awesome! I'll deffinitly be picking them up! The warrior box would be perfect for having a bunch of bandits to swarm pcs. So in the end with Soulblight I will have the battleforce box, cursed city, a start collecting flesheater corpse and MAAAAAAYBE nagash if I am still in a skeleton mood after all that.. Anyone have any recommendations on what to build from those models? (aka lauka vai vs vengorian lore, should the zombie dragon have a prince on it, etc). Are there any other models that would help tie it together or should those work?

Based off of y'alls advice I bought a Soulblight Gravelords battleforce box that I found for cheap! ($150)! after I finish painting that I'll try building a Free Cities warband. If cursed cities is released when I am done with the warband I will pick it up. Between the zombie dragon I have, the battleforce box, and cursed cities I think that'll add up to a 2000 point army! After that I might flesh out the free cities army! I don't paint that often so it'll probably be a year or so, but it would be something to look forward to! Thank you all for the advice!

If underworlds warbands count as warcry warbands I technically own three! I really like warhammer underworlds, and I didn't realize it was compatible! I have mollog's mobs, the grymwatch, and zarbag's gitz! Some of my favorite minis I have ever painted, Mollog's mobs was my main warband. I also have a start collecting flesheater courts box that I started 3 years ago and never finished. I made all the crytpt goals, and got 3/4 of the way done with one crypt horror (I had based him and applied shadows but not highlights or details. I could deffinitly build a zombie dragon from that (and potentially rip the head and arms off the crypt horror and build some varghests) Would Sepulchral Guard be a good next buy?

I'll try out playing gridless! I still want to prepare for if I keep using a grid, but I'll give it a shot! Tournaments are not a priority, so I am super up for focusing on big elite units! What got me re-interested in getting an Age of Sigmar model was seeing Nagash used as the mini for a villain in a dnd stream; the big models are super cool! Cities of Sigmar has some great soldier minis, but I will admit I am somewhat underwhelmed by their monsters. If they are not beginner-friendly, it might be best to avoid them; the rules of AOS are a bit intimidating to me, ill admit. Ogors seem cool, and I could always use a couple ogre minis, but ogres aren't one of the minis that you use a lot of in one campaign; I have trouble picturing myself running an encounter with more than 15. Can you make Ogor Mawtribes with a reasonably low model count? Both gloomspite gitz and soulblight gravelords look like a ton of fun! I painted a couple grots I got from a friend, and they were a lot of fun to work with, but from what I understand, getting a gloomspite gitz army is pretty complicated? I have heard that the starter set isn't very good. My ideal would be to get both grots and trollogs, with a couple squigs and spiders thrown in for fun, but am I correct that you need to focus on one? Can you use all types of undead with soulblight gravelords, or is it better to focus on one?? Because I would love to have a combo of zombies, skeletons, wolves, a couple vampires (I prefer to not use 32, but I am up for a couple), and a couple of the big set-piece models (the zombie dragon, in particular, seems pretty rad)! If I had to focus on one skeletons would work, but I would prefer to have variety. I am up for painting swarms of undead; I like throwing my players up against groups of enemies! Is the starter set a good purchase for this army? Any recommendations for a list that might work? Thank you for the advice!