Age of Sigmar: How to Play Seraphon
Today take a look at the basics of how to play Age of Sigmar Seraphon- the synergistic, supernatural Star-Lizards!
With magical supremacy powered by Azyr, the cold-blooded forces of the Seraphon tame the forces of Chaos across the Mortal Realms. While the Coalesced Seraphon settled the land of the Realms, the Starborne strike from vast temple-ships wherever evil takes refuge. If you want to play an elite army that has layered synergies and gorgeous models, you’ll want to check out these reptilian warriors.
Who are the Seraphon?
The Seraphon are lead by the Slann, who spend most of their time in deep meditation, communicating telepathically with each other, attempting to gain vision of the future and interpret the will of the Old Ones. The known world is only a small element of the ancient plan that the Slann still try to serve.
During this they are attended by the Skinks and carefully guarded by the mighty Saurus Temple Guard. In these states of serene contemplation a Slann will appear dead to the casual observer, not moving for centuries and only speaking to mutter some half understood prophecies that the Skink Priests must decipher the true meaning of. While the rest of the Seraphon obey the Slann without question, the fact that Slann spend most of their time in meditation means that the day-to-day running of Seraphon society is often left up to the Skinks, and the commanding of armies to the Saurus.
Why Play Seraphon?
The lizard boys are a lot of fun and simultaneously, the Seraphon excel at reliably chipping away damage, units punching above their weight class, and a variety of builds. You’ll have many unit types, so you really need to focus on overall play versus leaning into lots of complicated Warscroll rules.
Seraphon Strengths
- Spell supremacy- whether Starborne or Coalesced, Seraphon have some of the best wizards in the game.
- Unit variety- large number of units to compete in all phases of the game- spells, combat, and shooting are all on the menu.
- Beautiful new model range.
Seraphon Weaknesses
- Unless going very heavy into Skinks, you will be outnumbered and have no extra mechanics for claiming objectives.
Signature Starborne Seraphon Rules
- Lords of Space and Time– a couple of special Heroic Actions for Starborne Slann.
- Cosmic Power – gain power by casting spells and spend it on devastating and powerful effects.
- Summoning Seraphon– also use your Cosmic Power points to summon free units- this is huge!
Signature Coalesced Seraphon Rules
- Predatory Fighters– Bonus to bite rolld means you’ll do more mortal wounds.
- Scaly Skin – flat minus one damage to enemy attacks- this is huge!
- Beasts of the Dark Jungles– bespoke Monstrous Actions for your Monstrous dinos.
Key Seraphon Units
There are quite a few warscrolls in the battletome, so here’s a quick rundown.
1. Slann Starmaster
The Starmaster is one of the preeminent spell casters in the game. With natural bonuses and lots of casts, the Starmaster produces a ton of Cosmic Power in a Starborne list. No matter what, they have access to an excellent spell lore.
2. Saurus Scar-Veteran on Aggradon
A great medium-sized melee character, the Aggrodon riding Scar-Veteran is a huge benefit to Aggrodon Lancers. Not to mention, it’ll put out a good amount of damage on its own.
3. Saurus Warriors
The classic Seraphon Battleline, Saurus are tough and dish out a reliable, if not amazing, amount of damage. Bites putting out mortal wounds will certainly help that reliability.
4. Raptadons
Whether Hunters or Chargers, Raptadons look great and are super quick! Really think about fielding these fierce dinos as Battleline if you are using Fangs of Sotek- they are expensive, but very vast and greatly benefit from the free Redeploy.
5. Spawn of Chotec
This big critter is a living artillery piece. The neat part is that those who take damage from its acidic bile have their armour reduced for the remainder of the game.
Sample Seraphon Army (2000 pts)
Allegiance: Seraphon
– Constellation: Fangs of Sotek
Leaders
Slann Starmaster
Skink Starpriest
Saurus Astrolith Bearer
Skink Oracle on Troglodon
Skink Starpriest
Battleline
5 x Raptadon Chargers
5 x Raptadon Chargers
10 x Skinks
Behemoths
Bastiladon with Ark of Sotek
Bastiladon with Ark of Sotek
Solar Engine Bastiladon
Total: ~ 2000
~By the Will of the Old Ones…
