If you like the idea of elite units with great base stats, powerful heroes that grant helpful boons, and a wide variety of units to choose from, the Stormcast Eternals are for you. They’re versatile, tough, hard-hitting, and can be tailored to your play style in a number of different ways. In battle, the Stormcast Eternals have always been a versatile army, and the addition of new units over time has allowed them to cater to an even wider variety of play styles. Their infantry troops are stoic and hard to shift, their heavy hitters ride fanged Dracoths and mighty Stardrakes, and Sigmar grants their Wizards the power to call down meteors. What’s more, they’re a joy to collect, and they look fantastic on the table. While the Stormcast Eternals are the “face” of Age of Sigmar, they are few in number. The mortals they were made to protect live in massive fortress cities; bastions of hope, strength, and civilization standing amongst the wilds of the Mortal Realms. These are the Cities of Sigmar. Inside each of these metropolises lies a Stormkeep in which their Stormcast Eternal protectors live, but on the streets are common people – Humans, Aelves, and Duardin, who live their day to day lives. These are the folks who put “mortal” in “Mortal Realms”, and this army represents the collective military might of those relatively ordinary people. Army Strengths Small Numbers. Because the Stormcast Eternals are a bit more on the elite side, taking any casualties can be a big problem for you – you’ll feel every casualty. At the same time, this is the only box where you can find all hero options contained in it (and the Khorgorath). Some of these heroes like Bloodsecrator and Bloodstoker are good options for any Khorne list, especially those focussed on the mortal side.

The game started with the Swampcall Shaman, who cast Arcane Missile on the pair of Vindicors on the eastern side of the board. With a casting value of 5, and 5 being rolled on two dice, one of the Vindictors suffered a Mortal Wound. The Shaman decided to stay put for the rest of the turn and wait for the Stormcasts to come to him. The Start Collecting of this faction was not available for long before being replaced by the Vanguard box (you can probably still find it on third party retailers and it contains good value thanks to the centrepiece and its multiple assembly options).

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Scions of the Storm lets you place units in reserve and bring them on to the table at the end of any of your movement phases (so Turn 1). The eel-riding unit can be assembled as a more defensive Ishlaen Guard or a more offensive Morrsarr Guard. Whichever you choose they are both valid choices. Flexibility. All of your units have higher than average stats and can fill any battle role. There’s a reason Stormcast are jokingly referred to as “Sigmarines.”

The other elite unit in the box can be assembled either as Hearthguard Berzerker or Auric Hearthguard, doubling the versatility of this sprue. Discount: The discount in price if you compare the price of the box with buying each unit individually (with GW prices).The main hero now is a Battlesmith, a totem and a good option for a leader. Probably not good enough to justify two of these boxes, but the decision comes from how many Vulkite you need. Flexibility. While this is also a high point, it can be an intimidating army to start. There are so many choices and different builds available, it can be difficult to parse which one is “right” for any individual player. That’s why you’re reading this guide, right? The current AoS starter sets offer 2 armies, SCE and Kruleboyz Orcs as well as a core rule book and a special campaign book. The Extremis set adds some useful Terrain pieces. For SCE the set provides: Slot

The Vindictors, with a Bravery stat of 7 (+1 thanks to the Banner Bearer), a roll of 2 remained resolute in spite of their two losses. With all the objectives contested – bar the one the Stormcast Eternals had abandoned – no-one was awarded any points. Once again, you will notice some crossover. The five battleplans included in the Warrior, Harbinger and Extremis books are all the same – save that they have been appropriately tweaked to foster in the slight variation in units and terrain that you’d find from set to set. The rest of the box however is pure gold with 2 battlelines and 2 conditional battlelines you will have plenty of opportunities to use most of the content of this box. The Vanguard box replaced the recent Start Collecting box, adding the long awaited updated sprues that allows to change weapon options and add the command group with standard bearer and musician. Because Raptors are pretty strong shooting units and their warscroll isn’t bad. This whole box is actually ideally set up to start you on the road to using all the warscrolls available to the Vanguard chamber and combined, they’re pretty spicy.Allies. In addition to having access to allies like anyone else, 1 in every 4 units in your army can be Stormcast Eternals. Furthermore, specific cities can do the same with Sylvaneth and Kharadron Overlords. This is an ideal jumping off point from owners of those armies, people looking to start those a new army without buying in too much, or those looking to further diversify the already huge number of potential units in a Cities of Sigmar army. Things still feel fairly well-balanced. Things could have gone either way in the final confrontation if the orruks had rolled a little better. Had the Gutrippaz been able to keep up their slaughter of the Vindictors as they did in their opening turns, things could have gone very differently. Magic. There are no faction-specific Endless Spells available here, but the generic ones are always Empowered by their realm, no matter what. Wizards are cheap and readily available, and there’s a spell lore specific to whichever City you choose. Aside from the Start Collecting/Vanguard sets, Games Workshop occasionally produces limited edition sets, around a theme (like the recent Broken Realms campaign or with the new Regiments of Renown), an edition (like the recent Dominion box set for AoS 3.0 launch) or for Christmas (the famous battleforces). Since those are limited editions, whose availability can be from few minutes to few weeks, they are not considered here. Through laughter and carbonated tears, he informed me that Stormcast Eternals were, without doubt, the most boring faction to build and paint ever created by Games Workshop. “They’re all just so dull!” he said, before telling me to stop wasting my time and to get something interesting and fun like Kharadon Overlords or, better yet, scrap Age of Sigmar altogether and buy some 40K stuff instead. When I told a Seraphon-collecting friend of mine I was planning on getting some of the God-King’s finest, he simply looked at me like I was an idiot.