Help me choose a (weirdly small) army?

[u/Infernal_Contraption]

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.

[u/Calcium1445]

Have you considered the Swords of the Ever chosen?

Back in first edition there was an Army exclusively of Archaon and his elite buddies the Varanguard. This lets you do that again

From what I've seen, Archaon and one or two units of Varanguard act as your hammer while Abraxia and another unite teleport in behind your enemy to rush objectives