ANOTHER Age of Sigmar force... largely started because of Age of Sigmar (Fourth Edtion) Spearhead. Initially the force only really consistsed of a Spearhead/Vanguard box, a few Warhammer underworlds warbands, and a handful of Tree/Spite Revenants I got in a trade!
While the Vanguard box did make up a Spearhead army, I was mostly thinking about their usefulness in Soulbound (the Age of Sigmar Role-Playing Game) when I picked them up... The Kurnoth, Branchwych, and Tree-Revenants all being playable Archtypes! Shortly afterward I picked up the Faction Terrain - the Awakened Wyldwoods - as it seemed very important to how the army plays in games that aren't Spearhead - and makes a nice piece of terrain for any army of any period.
I am beginning to develop a bit of a narrative for this force, built around a region of Ghyran known as Adharcach Hollow, their homelands...
More recently, Amanda has kind of taken over this army as her own for playing Age of Sigmar. She initially tried out Spearhead, but we quickly moved on to playing Path of Glory campaigns (Path to Glory - Methervale Campaign and later Blighted Wilds). I used this as an excuse to pick up the Endless Spells and Gossamid Archers, and then the 2025 Battleforce Box - the Outcast Spitegrove!
PAINTED
The Sylvaneth, so far...
Heroes
Heglog the Treelord
Ceitllwyn Branchwych
Units
Kurnothi Hunters
Tree-Revenants
Spite-Revenants
MORE Spite-Revenants
Gossamid Archers
Dryads
A few more Dryads - not a full unit. At some point I acquired a sprue of them (back when they were a unit in the Warhammer Fantasy Wood Elf army) and had three or four of them... These three were originally based together for Hordes of the Things. Not having a full unit makes these not so useful in Age of Sigmar - but they are lovely models, I'll love to make use of them in role-playing games and/or something like A Song of Blades and Heroes.
Legends
Ylthari's Guardians (Warhammer Underworlds warband - Legends Unit)
Faction Terrain
Awakened Wyldwoods - the Sylvaneth Faction Terrain!
Endless Spells
The Vengeful Skullroot - endless spell
The Gladewyrm - endless spell
STILL TO DO
This is what I have still to do:
- 5x Skaeth’s Wild Hunt
- 1x Endless Spell
- 1x Drycha Hamadreth
- 1x Spirit of Durthu
- 15x Spite-Revenants (or Tree-Revenants)
- 20x Dryads
Currently the PRIORITY for painting is... all of them...? There aren't a LOT!?
THE PLAN
As with most others... the plan was first to complete the Spearhead army, which I finished up pretty quick. Next I figured it would be fun to fill it out to a 1000 point force that could be used for Paths to Glory... I wasn't sure if I'd worry about anything beyond that... but one of the 2025 Age of Sigmar Battleforce Boxes turned out to be a really interesting Sylvaneth force, which would bring my force to 1920 points - still not sure if I have any interst in playing with forces that big... but decided to get that and get it all put together and painted as Amanda had kind of taken over the Sylvaneth at that point and it would give her lots of options for playing Path to Glory!
Also there is a fun Regiments of Renown that can join DEATH faction armies - The Lost-Song Spirits! I decided it would be fun to have them show up in a Soulblight Gravelord army from time to time, so I picked up the extra Spite-Revenants I needed for that. I later acquired enough Nighthaunts that I could field it with that them to make a sizeable force!
Spearhead Army
The Sylvaneth Bitterbark Copse Spearhead Army consists of:
General
- 1x Branchwych
Units
- 1x Treelord
- 3x Kurnoth Hunters
- 5x Tree-Revenants
Paths to Glory
This is the force that Amana started our Path to Glory - Methervale Campaign with!
Branchwych General’s Regiment
- Hero - Branchwych (1) 110 - Any Infantry
- Unit - Spite-Revenants (5) 80 Infantry
- Unit - Spite-Revenants (5) 80 Infantry
- Unit -Gossamid Archers (5) 120 Infantry
Total: 390
Treelord General’s Regiment
- Hero - Treelord (1) 210 - Any SylvanethUnit -
- Unit - Kurnoth Hunters with Kurnoth Greatbows (3) - 200 Kurnothi, Infantry
- Unit - Tree-Revenants (10) 180 - Infantry
Total: 590
Faction Terrain: Awakened Wyldwood
ARMY TOTAL: 980
Large Army Option (2000 points)
if I were to pick up the Outcast Spitegrove and one more box of Spite-Revenants... I could field something like...
Spirit of Durthu General’s Regiment
- Hero - Spirit of Durthu (1) 320 0-1 - Forest Sentinel, Any Sylvaneth
- Unit - Treelord (1) 210 - This Hero can join an eligible regiment as a Forest Sentinel.
- Unit - Kurnoth Hunters with Kurnoth Greatbows (3) - 200 Kurnothi, Infantry
- Unit - Tree-Revenants (10) 180 - Infantry
Total: 910
Branchwych’s Regiment
- Hero - Branchwych (1) 110 - Any Infantry
- Unit - Dryads (10) 90 - Infantry
- Unit - Dryads (10) 90 - Infantry
Total: 290
Drycha Hamadreth's Regiment
- Hero - Drycha Hamadreth (1) 240 - 0-1 Forest Sentinel, Any Sylvaneth
- Unit - Spite-Revenants (10) 160 Infantry
- Unit - Spite-Revenants (10) 160 Infantry
- Unit - Spite-Revenants (10) 160 Infantry
Total: 720
Faction Terrain: Awakened Wyldwood
ARMY TOTAL: 1920
Lost Song Spirits - Regiment of Renown
With these forces I can also field a Lost Song Spirits - Regiment of Renown
The Lost Song Spirits Regiment of Renown include:
- Hero - Treelord (1) 210 - Any Sylvaneth
- Unit - Spite-Revenants (5) 80 - Infantry
- Unit - Spite-Revenants (5) 80 - Infantry
Total: 370 points
INCLUSION
This Regiment of Renown can be included in armies from the following factions:
- Flesh-eater Courts
- Ossiarch Bonereapers
- Idoneth Deepkin
- Soulblight Gravelords
- Nighthaunt
I HAVE Soulblight Gravelords and a growing force of Nighthaunts, so I could potentially include them in either of those!!
GAMES PLAYED
Below are links to games I (or Amanda!) have played with this force.
Spearhead
All of the Spearhead games are listed on the Spearhead Armies Page, but here they are again, for convenience:
- Last Spearhead League Game - versus Sean's Maggotkin of Nurgle - Loss!
- Sylvaneth Battling Soulblights in Shyish! - Versus Orion and her Soulblight Gravelords - Loss!
- Lizards and Trees Clash in Shyish! - Versus John with Seraphon - Loss!
- Sap for the Sap God...? - played by John versus myself with Khorne Bloodbound - Draw!
- Fangs of the Blood God Mark Trees in Ghyran - played by Amanda versus myself with Khorne - WIN!
- Defending the Soulpod Grove! - played by Amanda versus myself with Hedonites of Slaanesh - Loss!
- Vengeance of the Sylvaneth! - played by Amanda versus myself with Hedonites of Slaanesh - WIN!
- The Taming of the Trees - played by Amanda versus myself with Stormcast Eternals - Loss!
- Spearhead - Blood in the Trees - played by Amanda versus myself with Khorne Bloodbound - Draw!
- Spearhead - Nurgle versus Sylvaneth in Ghyran - played by Amanda versus myself with Nurgle - Loss!
- Spearhead - The Contagion Returns - played by Amanda versus myself with Nurgle - Loss!
Narrative Play
Path to Glory - Methervale Campaign - a brief campaign with just Amanda, to try out the Path to Glory rules!
- Age of Sigmar - Defending the Soulpod Grove - played by Amanda versus myself with Maggotkin of Nurgle - Win!
- Age of Sigmar - Ambush at The Blood-Pines - played by Amanda versus myself with Maggotkin of Nurgle - Win!
STUFF TO GET
Seriously considering picking up Outcast Spitegrove - the new Sylvaneth Battleforce Box. It would add a few more options to play - and with the addition of another unit of Spite-Revenants, would bring me to 2000 points... should I ever want to play a full-sized game!?
I might like to get a second (or THIRD!?) Awakened Wildwood...? It's just terrain that could be used for anything, really... but is a handy thing for the Sylvaneth...
The Endless Spells do look cool...
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