Considering it will revolve around the Khaine book and that will make valid all the rules and the army lists introduced with it, I know a lot of players at our local club are willing to give a try at the Host of the Eternity King.
I'm probably going to face Malekhit with shooty armies, Alarielle in support of combat blocks and maybe even Tyrion in a cavalry bus or Teclis leading a Light Coven.
Since I'm not willing to abuse of the new characters, I thought to play a mainly Asrai force, with the possible inclusion of few units from the other two books.
Anyway, since I know the field will be very tough if not strictly competitive, I intend to take the most from the new rules.
Considering that all mages will be Loremasters, I had in mind to run an Eternal Guard death star with a couple of Shadowdancers, a Dark Sorceress and a Dark BSB (I was tempted by an High BSB with world Dragon at first, but then my club mates would scream cheese without even thinking about the silliness of some of their lists ), backed up either by a Moonstone Beastweaver with Sisters or a Treeman Ancient alongside a regular one.
What I have to know is if our club will be willing to grant to Sisters and Warlocks Loremaster in their two lores or not.
Because if that is the case, I'll simply forego the L4 caster and my list will look like this:
Dark Sorceress L2, Dispel Scroll, Opal Amulet, Ironcurse Icon 160
Shadowdancer, The Terrifying Mask of EEE! 125
Shadowdancer, Potion of Strength, charmed shield (General) 125
Master BSB, heavy armour, sea dragon cloak, shield, Ring of Hotek 157
2 x 5 Dark Riders, shields, xbows, musicians 220
30 Eternal Guards, shields, full command, Banner of Discipline 405
2 x 5 Sisters of the Thorn, musician 280
6 Deepwood Scouts, HBT 96
7 Deepwood Scouts, HBT 112
3 x Reaper Bolt Thrower 210
2 x 5 Doomfire Warlocks 250
Frostheart Phoenix 240
6 Waywatchers 120
Otherwise, the list could be something like this:
Characters - 892
Treeman Ancient L3 325
Dark Sorceress L2, Dispel Scroll, Opal Amulet, Ironcurse Icon 160
Shadowdancer, The Terrifying Mask of EEE! 125
Shadowdancer, Potion of Strength 120
Master BSB, heavy armour, sea dragon cloak, shield, Ring of Hotek 157
Core - 625
2 x 5 Dark Riders, shields, xbows, musicians 220
30 Eternal Guards, shields, full command, Banner of Discipline 405
Special - 370
3 Reaper Bolt Throwers 210
2 x 5 Deepwood Scouts HBT 160
Rare - 615
Treeman, Strangleroot 245
Frostheart Phoenix 240
6 Waywatchers 120
Or else a Beastweaver with Moonstone, Power Stone and Obsidian Amulet instead of the Ancient and a unit of 8 Sisters with Banner of the Discipline (swiftness on Eternal Guard) instead of the regular Treeman. The BSB also will get mounted and swap the Ring of Hotek for Talisman of Preservation and Charmed Shield.
The plain is pretty simple and straightforward. March and Fight.
Multiple casting of Power of Darkness will make Eternal Guards a real kkiling machine, especially with the two Dancers. The Mask is there to enable some nice SoD combos and to make the unit immune to Terror.
If available, Wyssan is a backup to Power of Darkness for times in which I fail to cast it or I have just one die for the spell, while Lore of Life is there to ensure the big unit to keep rocking all the match trough.
The Frostie is in there mainly because I need a pretext to paint it.
Nonetheless its support is great for combat infantries and with the whole lot of shooting, scouts and fast cavalries war machines should be dealt pretty quickly.
Granted that you think all of this viable, my main concerns are about the lack of Eagles and the short count of arrows.
MAybe the list could work with Glade Guards in place of Dark Riders and an two Eagles in place of Waywatchers (considering that I already have 3 RBTs to counter armour.
What do you think?
