Age of Sigmar: How to Play Flesh-eater Courts
Today take a look at the basics of how to play Age of Sigmar Flesh-eater Courts – crazy, carnivore cannibals!
The Flesh-eater Courts are deranged Vampires and Ghouls who hold wild delusions of nobility and grandeur. Your army will consist of slavering ghouls of various sizes, both winged and unwinged, undead monsters, and the horrible Abhorrents who lead the army into battle. If you want to play a glass hammer that is hilarious to role-play, you’ll want to check out these gruesome ghoulies.
Who are the Flesh-eater Courts?
Flesh-Eater Courts are the courts of madness that serve and are bound to the vampires known as the Abhorrant Ghoul Kings. Most of them are Mordants, former mortals starved by famine and desolation that trapped themselves within a horrific delusion.
Some of the courts still revere Nagash as their god and seek to please him in any way that they can, raising great churches and monuments to his glory such as the famed Corpsefane of the Nightlands. Others distrust and hate the Great Necromancer and it is these that are most often found beyond the Realm of Shyish and are usually regarded a plague upon those lands.
Why Play Flesh-eater Courts?
These gruesome guys are a lot of fun and have a variety of builds and built-in recursion mechanics. Your army is built around speed and offense, with a large amount of variable and interlacing buffs. They can be built as a horde, built with all bigger models like Horrors, or even have an all monster build.
Flesh-eater Courts Strengths
- Speed- very high base moves all around.
- Numbers- if you choose to go Ghouls, you’ll have a ton of them.
- Model recursion- with the right Heroes/builds, your units can go back to full strength almost every turn
Flesh-eater Courts Weaknesses
- Nothing tough.
- Very reliant on Heroes.
Signature Flesh-eater Courts Rules
- Noble Deeds- Heroes earn up to 6 points by doing damage, casting spells, and chanting prayers (plus additional specific rule sources).
- Feeding Frenzy – Add 1 to Attacks for units near Heroes with maxed out Deeds.
- Deathless Courtiers – an army wide 6+ Ward save.
- Muster Guard – Courtiers can spend Deed points to return models to units.
- Summon Loyal Subjects – Abhorrents can spend Deed points to return destroyed units.
Key Flesh-eater Courts Units
There are quite a few warscrolls in the battletome, so here’s a quick rundown.
1. Ushoran, Mortarch of Delusion
The big bad boy of the faction, Ushoran is an absolute unit. This double-casting Warmaster has a huge suite of buffs for his units and debuffs for the enemy. In addition, he is a beatstick monster in combat. Ushoran really seems to do it all.
2. Marrowscroll Herald
This Harbinger can offer a close by enemy unit an infected bone. Depending on if they accept it either buffs Flesh-eater units or debuffs that enemy unit.
3. Flayers
Flayers are very fast, fly, and and have a lovely singing voice (Deathscream shooting attack). Add that to the fact that they sling out tons of Attacks in combat and can be Battleline, and it’s easy to see why they are a popular choice.
4. Abhorrant Archregent
The ultimate General and a great leader for a Flesh-eater Courts army. The Archregent gets two casts and unbinds, and can automatically return multiple models per turn with its Countless Servants rule. It wouldn’t at all be crazy to use two of them.
5. Royal Beastflayers
These super characterful guys are beast hunters extraordinaire- with a suite of specifically-targetted rules. Plus- they have crazy undead baboon-ape dogs, so what’s not to love.
6. Crypt Ghouls
These guys put the ‘ooly’ in Ghouly and present a classic cockroach problem- they’re easy to dispatch, but there are an absolute ton of them.
7. Cryptguard
Your “elite” Ghoulies. They have a neat body guard ability for Heroes, a good debuff, and the ability to become Battleline.
8. Terrorghiests
The Terrorghiest is most often seen as the Hero option being ridden by a Ghoul King or as a Battleline in Gristlegore subfaction. In either case its most distinguishing feature is its Gaping Maw which has the ability to inflict 6 Mortal Wounds on a 6 to hit (with 3 attacks), and let’s not forget that it can receive a multitude of buffs
Sample Flesh-eater Courts Army (2000 pts)
Allegiance: Flesh-eater Courts
-Blisterkin
Leaders
Abhorrant Ghoul King on Royal Terrorgheist
Abhorrant Archregent
Abhorrant Cardinal
Battleline
60 x Crypt Ghouls
– Reinforced x 2
20 x Crypt Ghouls
9 x Crypt Flayers
– Reinforced x 2
3 x Crypt Flayers
Total: ~ 2000
~With Noble Intent!
