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Fakepi

Where to start?

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I want to get into AoS after playing 40k for a long time. A friend of mine gave me the book Nagash and I love the lore of the death faction. I want to start building a list and I am a bit over whelmed with the number of different sub factions in the base book alone. I would love for some input from death players on what are the good units and some general tactics used by the faction.

I want to build a list that I can run all the spooky ghosts as they look amazing. Any help given would be greatly appreciated on this. Books I need to read to get a better handle on the lore plus just generally cool facts about the faction.

Posted Aug 8, 2019, 9:30 AM UTC

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GypsyBreathSkaven•

What do you fancy playing? What do you fancy painting? What do you like the look of?

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FakepiOP•

Olynder is one of my favorite looking models in the game. I also love the look of the revenants.

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birddog_47•

Sounds like Nighthaunt is calling to you as it did to me! Buying Soul Wars is certainly your best bet. It’s worth the money for the NH side alone. Most importantly you get heroes you can’t actually buy (guardian of souls, knight of shrouds on steed).

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Arazlam666•

I currently play nighthaunt and they are alot of fun, verry high risk high reward, allienge ability gives them a free fight if they succeed a unmodified charge ROLL of 10+ so even if your 4" away and roll a 10 you get a free fight. And that's per unit. You can also deep strike half your army for free aswell, your entire army can fly, and is ethereal(you don't care about rend, but you can't make your saves better). Your fast, but squishy. Nighthaunt lack the sustainability of legions, but make up for it with movement tricks, and high damage output. Anvils-chainrasp and spirit hosts supported by heros Hammers- chainrasps(if buffed up good) bladegheist revenants(can retreat and charge same turn), dreadscythe harridans(damage buff built in) , and grimghast reapers(rerolls hits on units bigger than 5) also supported by heros.

As with all death armies, heros are really key to keeping your bois in the fight. Screen them well :) Guardian of souls-support god. Run 2 if possible :) their lanterns stack. Knight of shrouds--basically the ghostly wight king. Run the one on steed if possible his command ability is much better than the on foot variant. Spirit tormert- gives rerolls bubble with his chsinghast homies extending it Dread blade harrow- teleporty boi, I use him as character assassin and deep strike support :)

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FakepiOP•

What spells should I be thinking about taking?

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Arazlam666•

If your referring to endless spells, I don't own any, but chromatic cogs if you speed up time gives +3 move making chainrasp and hosts 9" move. And nighthaunt has it own faction endless spells and it's own lore spells, the default spell of the guardian is the mvp if you give him the lantern artefact and the battalion you can heal 2d6+3 models to the chainrasps and you can give the other guardian tether to heal ur heros as they are 6 wound apiece and are squiiishy

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