u/Haidanaii

I usually only play Spearhead, but I’ve scheduled a practice game of standard AoS at my local game store for next week. To keep the game from getting too complex, the plan is to field 1,000-point armies. My opponent will be playing a Soulblight Gravelords army with a heavy focus on Blood Knights. Do you have any tips on which SCE units I should field and how best to counter his army?

I play the Vigilant Brotherhood Spearhead (Stormcast) and just got absolutely crushed by the Soulblight Gravelords “DEATHRATTLE Tomb” Spearhead. Looking for advice on how to approach this matchup, because right now I don’t see the path to victory.

What happened: their Deathrider cavalry (the lances) hit my Prosecutors on the charge and wiped them in a single activation. Charge (+1 Damage) plus Crit (Mortal) just punched straight through my ward, and with Move 10 I couldn’t keep my fast units out of reach. On top of that the whole army keeps healing back, the Bonehorde skeletons return D3 models at the end of every turn, the cavalry returns a model too, and one skeleton unit digs itself in from the board edge on turn 3. Their Curse-lord buffs everything with re-rolls and bonuses.

So I’m struggling with two things at once: a fast strike that kills my fragile units, and an opponent who heals back any damage I don’t fully commit to removing in one go.

My questions for people who play this matchup:

How do you handle the Deathrider cavalry ? Do you screen, hold back, or try to kill them first with shooting?

How do you deal with the constant resurrection? Is it worth focusing one unit down completely each turn, or is killing the Curse-lord the priority to shut off the buffs?

How should I deploy my fragile, fast units (Prosecutors etc.) so they don’t just get charged and deleted turn one?

Anything specific to the Vigilant Brotherhood Spearhead that helps here, or units/abilities I should be leaning on harder?

Any help appreciated. I came out of this game feeling like I had no answers, so I’d love to hear from people who’ve cracked this matchup.

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I'm fairly new to the hobby and I keep going back and forth on how to approach my
collection, so I'd love to hear how you all handle this.

So far I've followed the rule of cool, I buy and paint whatever I like the look of. That keeps
painting fun, but the result is a pile of units that are all over the place. Cool individually, but
they don't really come together into a coherent, playable army.

Then I see people who build their entire collection around the game and the current meta.
Lots of units, often reinforced, optimised for play, but with very little variety. The opposite
end.

And then there's the "collect everything" approach, where you have such a broad collection
that you can always pull whatever you need out of the cabinet and stay flexible.

So my question to you: how do you personally approach this? Do you build toward specific
playable lists, do you collect broadly for flexibility, or do you just paint what you love and let
the army form itself over time? And if you've been in the hobby a while, did your approach
change as you went?

Curious to hear different perspectives, especially from people who play regularly and not
just collect.

Hey fellow Reforged,
I’ve been reading a lot about the recent "The Last World" leaks (coming from Boole/Rob the Honest Wargamer) regarding the upcoming 5th Edition, and to be honest, I’m a bit torn and wanted to gather some thoughts from the Brotherhood.
If the rumors are true, we are looking at a massive shift for our faction:
Sigmar going MIA/dying and losing his divine spark.
The Realms collapsing into a single, finite world ("The Last World").
Reforging being gone or corrupted, meaning every SCE death on the tabletop is lore-wise final, leading towards an existential "extinction clock" for our kind.
A massive visual shift towards a grimmer, darker, fanatical "Black Templars-esque" aesthetic (chains, battle-worn armor, relic-worship).
On one hand, I’m deeply shocked. I chose Stormcast because of the epic, hopeful high-fantasy lore and the clean, majestic look of the armor. Seeing GW fundamentally rewrite our place in the universe and making us "hopeless crusaders" feels like a bitter pill. I just bought a Dominion box and now it feels visually disconnected from what the future might hold.
On the other hand... the thought of playing the literal last line of defense—tragic, finite warriors fighting a desperate war of survival where every model's death actually matters—does have a very strong grimdark appeal.
How is the community here handling this?
Are you embracing the potential "Grimdark/Ruination" shift with open arms and planning dirtier paint jobs (more Nuln Oil/Agrax!), or are you worried that GW is throwing away the unique identity that made AoS and the Stormcast great in the first place?
Let’s hear your thoughts. Only in die... well, maybe not anymore. For the Alliance!