[Cities of Sigmar in AoS 3]

3 hours ago, Lord Krungharr said:

You look to be in good shape using Hammerhal or Hallowheart, or even Living City....that would let you try Outflanking a Luminark; could be great fun as it would give you opportunity to find optimal beam line-ups.  Run up the Griffon/Hurricanum/Steam Tank together.  Good times!  Put Spear of the Hunt and Ironoak Artisan on the Griffon too for a real beatstick who can strike first and extra rend, heal a wound per hero phase.  You'd have like 2-3 power bubbles to absorb and clean up stuff, then expand to other objectives after thinning things out.  Outflanking doesn't necessarily mean go all the way to the other board edge either, just finding different points of entry, though you'll miss out on hero phase stuff.  But sometimes worth it.  For your artillery, I recommend finding points to get a Lord Ordinator Stormcast guy to give them +1 to hit.  Omitting battlemages is fine, unless you'll run Hallowheart, in which case you'll need them.

Thanks for that! I'll give it a try. I haven't played with general on griffon (Franz), luminark, or the steam tank yet as they're all new additions I've just added. I've found the hurricanum was the single thing that carried any victories I had. In hammerhal it did great and then in hallowheart I did the wound for casting bonus and rolled a 5 which gave me +5 to casting rolls (I think that's how the rule works). I don't think I'd want to do that in another friendly game. My friends already find my tzeentch magic phase pretty obnoxious. 😁

 

I liked hammerhal for the ignoring morale tests and cindercloud spell to add some durability to my paper armoured great words. 

 

With the artillery I've had no luck with the helblaster but have been sitting my general on foot near the handgunners and artillery to give them a +1h +1w. Would the ordinator add much to this? 

[Cities of Sigmar in AoS 3]

I can see this thread has gone a little quiet. I've found it pretty helpful as there doesn't seem to be a lot of CoS resources out there and with the faction having so many internal groupings it's hard to find the thing you want. I recently started playing CoS (freeguild) because I found some cheap second hand painted bodies and I snatched them up. I loved the empire in fantasy when I was a kid but collected tomb kings instead. 

I'm trying to keep this a thematic army as I already play Tzeentch and my friend group is sick of my Tzeentch shenanigans. I mostly play against Ironjawz, skaven, sylvaneth and nurgle. I'm after any advice anyone can throw my way on lists, city choices general tactics etc. Any help is appreciated ofc. :) 

 

Currently what I own and can work with: 

1x Freeguild general on griffon 

1x freeguild general on foot

1x Hurricanum (how good was that 2x broken realms box).

1x luminark 

1-2 battlemages depending on the previous two models.

1x steam tank/commander

 

30x greatswords

20x guard with sword/shield

20x handgunners

 

1x hellstorm 

1x hellblaster