#can someone help me decide on my first army
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Slaves to Darkness, we're the coolest army with the best rules of the 4 you noted
thats biased
But not inaccurate
Nurgle and KO are going to have issues this season
Skaven is decent
What playstyle are you looking for
not entirely sure
Slow or fast, horde or elite, damage or tanky
a slow, horde, dealing lots of damage
Idk how hordey nurgle can play but it hits 2/3
alright
Skaven has a few slow horde lists now because of the new brood terror and screaming bell, brood terror spam with a bell giving them -1 to wound every other battle round and an inbuilt D6 heal +D3 heal from screaming bell makes it a very powerful and fun faction now
alright though I dont think the nurgle models look cool (I really shouldnt have put them as one of the factions I was considering)
None of them has all 3
Skaven
Bit low on the damage side but you can put some buffs on them and make it work with volume
There aren’t any fast hordes in AoS apart from nighthaunt, they’re a fast horde with pretty great survivability now due to their new terrain and can output crazy damage if set up correctly
Skaven are quite fast
They aren’t really a horde army though I’d argue. You can HAVE hordes, but they’re usually screens for big units like verminlords, brood terrors, doom-flayers etc. Vissik and krittok help with the horde style armies but they’re still not amazing compared to the traditional way to play them
Skaven run 60-80 clanrats in a given list, thats a horde
3-4 units of clanrats or plague monks for screens and objectives, they’re not gonna play a huge role aside from that unless buffed up with inconsistent (if stupidly fun and good) prayers
A horde list of Skaven is playable, but not good imo