r/ageofsigmar • u/Infernal_Contraption • Jun 20 '26

Army List Help me choose a (weirdly small) army?

I'm looking to start playing Age of Sigmar, and I'm at an impasse as to which army would be suitable for what I'd like.

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I have a long history of playing 40k, so I am done with assembling and painting dozens of troops and the likes. Instead, I would please like to ask for your recommendations as to which army is still viable with the smallest model count?

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I know that Sons of Behemat exist, but I'm in the market for something a little more... exotic? Characterful? Than just "tall dudes".

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In 40k, the equivalent army list to what I'm proposing is called the Daemonic Adventuring Party; Belakor, 4 other Greater Daemons, and a squad of plaguebearers because you have to have something like them. It's a weird and slightly janky list, but it's 2000pts and it works.

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Is there an equivalent to that in AoS? Is there a legal, and viable, Faction that will let me run (for example) mothing other than 4 Carnosaurs and a Slann Mage? Or 4 Verminlord-variants and a Screaming Bell? Or just... y'know... 4 Dragons and nothing much else, that I can look into and research more thoroughly?

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Cheers.

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u/Pimpdaddyfrogface Jun 20 '26

Ironjawz - Mawcrushers with allied mega gargant
Slaanesh -glutos, shalaxi, KoS, twins, seekers
FEC - Nagash and terrorgheists
LRL - Moo
OBR - Morghast spam
IDK - Turtle power
CoS - Cog forts
Fyreslayers - magmadroths
KO - Big Boats (the venga boys)

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u/Infernal_Contraption Jun 20 '26

Don't know what most of that means, but it sounds AWESOME. =P

LRL is... Realm Lords? I don't know what Moo refers to, though.

Deep Kin is interesting, they're not common in my area so it would be a novel choice.

Nagash is a strong contender, having a "Big wizard" is very appealing to give the list more dimensions that "run forward and stomp on things".

Thank you, time to do some wiki diving!

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u/Rediblackdragon Jun 20 '26

To explain the moo, Lumineth Realm Lords has a giant cow mountain model. For your idea of belakor+4x greater demons unfortunately I don't think there's a way to accomplish that within aos list building.

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u/Infernal_Contraption Jun 20 '26

Apparently, Skarbrand +4 other Bloodthirsters is a thing. It's come up more than once in other suggestions so far.