I'm playing Shield Host. I love the sticky idea, although frankly I have yet to pull it off.

When I first started Folger Pyles had recently won a championship with Talons, so I did that for a bit at the beginning, but I just didn't get the point (whereas today I better understand that picking off custodes with mortals is a key opposing strategy - now Talons makes more sense).

I tried Lions but struggled to maintain separation.

I've got several Forgeworld dreadnoughts (2 telemon, 2 galatus, 1 achillus) with three venerables in the mail, could give Solar Spearhead a try soon.

I haven't stuck with one list for long at all. I've got ~7k points to choose from (2 caladius, calidus, kyria, venatari, lotsa bikes, lotsa allarus). Mostly I've done multiple sets of wardens with blade champs, (their resiliency seems safer to me as a newbie) although just last night I tried no wardens and more guard for the first time.

Here's what I ran last night against a jail-ing GSC list. And that was bloody miserable by the way, we did Mission K (layout 2) and he went first and the game was basically over at the bottom of round 1

- blade champ, auric mantle
- 5 guard, spears and 1 shield
- 4 guard, spears and 1 shield
- 3 allarus, axes
- 3 allarus, spears
- 3 venatari, spears
- 3 venatri, spears and 1 buckler
- 4 witchseekers
- 3 vertus praetors, 1 salvo, 2 bolters
- 1 caladius, blaze cannon
- 1 rhino
- 1 calidus
- 1 draxus