Friday AoS Plans: Chasing 1000 Points and Printing Bloodcrushers
We love those hobby days that start with a simple message and suddenly turn into actual army-building plans.
This time Michał managed to reshuffle his meetings and opened the door for a Friday session from 19:00 onwards. The plan was flexible, but let’s be honest: it quickly became very clear that Age of Sigmar was going to be the main event. There was some talk about trying a bit of 40k as well, but the real energy was around AoS, new Spearheads, and maybe some bigger games at 1,000 or 2,000 points.
AoS first, everything else second
Pegi made it clear that if AoS was happening, he was in — even despite getting hammered by overtime at work lately. That’s a very familiar hobby mood: tired from real life, but still ready to throw dice if the right system hits the table.
Michał confirmed what has basically become the default state of our recent meetings: we keep playing AoS non-stop. The immediate wishlist for the evening looked something like this:
- try some of the new Spearhead matchups,
- maybe get a 2,000-point game in,
- or go for a more manageable 1,000-point “bigmar”.
Ender was also ready for AoS in pretty much any form, which is usually the best kind of answer when a gaming night is still taking shape.
The really fun part: filling the list gap
Then the conversation took a very army-building turn.
Michał mentioned he was planning to fire up the 3D printer over the weekend and asked Pegi whether he’d be interested in a specific print. That print turned out to be very relevant, because Pegi had already been thinking about getting Bloodcrushers at some point — and, as anyone who has looked at Khorne units recently knows, they are not exactly cheap.
So suddenly this stopped being just “what are we playing tonight?” and became “wait, can we actually push this army to 1,000 points?”
The quick math looked promising:
- 3 Bloodcrushers = 160 points
- Pegi estimated he was 110 points short of 1,000
- his Spearhead was listed at 730 points according to a Reddit graphic he found
At that point the mood was basically: yeah, we can make this work.
Checking the points properly
Because no list discussion is complete without at least one moment of “hang on, are these points even current?”, Pegi rightly pointed out that the graphic he was using came from an older thread. In Age of Sigmar, that matters a lot — points move, and they move often enough that old screenshots can become misleading surprisingly fast.
Ender came in with the sensible answer: there had been a recent update, and he linked the current Battle Profiles from Warhammer Community. He also gave a great example of why checking the latest document matters — Kharadron Overlords had apparently gone from 740 down to 630 since that older image.
With the updated points in hand, the Khorne math became much clearer:
- Blades of Khorne Spearhead: 690 points
- Bloodcrushers: 160 points
- total so far: 850 points
- leaving 150 points for one more unit
That’s exactly the kind of hobby problem we enjoy: not some abstract list-building exercise, but a very practical “what can we print, proxy, or add so this army actually lands on the table this week?”
A night that sums up our hobby nicely
What we like about this little exchange is that it captures our normal rhythm pretty well.
A game night starts as a scheduling question. Then somebody says AoS. Then somebody else starts talking about Spearheads. Then there’s a points discussion, a rules update link, a possible print job, and suddenly an army that was almost there is now one unit away from being ready.
At the same time, the wider hobby mess is still alive in the background: Ender was bringing Votann anyway, because maybe they’d be useful for 40k the next day, or maybe even for proxying something sooner. And by the end of the chat, there was already another printing question on the table — this time for CP/40k.
That’s pretty much how it goes with us: one evening plan turns into three hobby threads at once.
Where this leaves us
The main takeaway from this Friday planning session was simple:
- AoS remains our default system right now
- Spearhead is doing a great job of getting armies moving
- a small print project can be the difference between “someday” and “ready for 1,000 points”
- and it’s always worth checking the current points document before getting too attached to list math from Reddit screenshots
If all goes well, a few printed Bloodcrushers might be enough to push this Khorne force much closer to a proper table-ready 1k list. And honestly, we’re big fans of exactly that kind of progress — the sort that happens through a mix of enthusiasm, group chat logistics, and a dangerous willingness to solve problems with a printer.
Sometimes army-building doesn’t happen in Army Builder. Sometimes it happens in chat at 9 in the morning.