Age of Sigmar: Pool Choices Comp

The Independent Age of Sigmar Pool Choices army composition, sometimes known as "Clash Comp" for its use as the Clash of Swords event in 2015, or as "Mo Comp" named after its main proponent Mo Ashraf (@channel_4_news if you want to check out ongoing updates), is an army composition system that uses pool choices of warscrolls to create your army for a tournament or friendly game. The constantly updated composition pack (currently at Version 1.2) is available online here. Let's take a look at how the system works.

The Pool Choice system is an army composition system in which each warscroll is given a value of pool points for that warscroll and each warscroll has a set number of models per scroll. Thus, when given a set "pool" value for the game, say like 20 pool choices, you can create a more balanced list as the more powerful warscrolls take up a higher number of pool choices.

For example, let's build a 20 pool Wood Elf list from the system. In the Wood Elf list, a warscroll of Glade Guard is set at ten models per unit and costs 1.5 pool choices. So a solid base of 20 Glade Guard, either in two separate units or a single unit of 20, is 3 pool choices. In comparison, a Treeman warscroll is a single model per warscroll and takes up a similar 3 pool choices. Thus, under the system, 20 Glade Guard are the equivalent of a single Treeman.

So, a realistic 20 pool Wood Elf list would look something like this:

• Spellweaver (1.5 pool points)
• Glade Captain Battle Standard Bearer (1 pool points)
• Treeman Ancient (3.5 pool points)
• Wild Riders (2 pool points - 10 models)
• Wild Riders (2 pool points - 10 models)
• Waywatchers (3 pool points - 15 models)
• Waywatchers (3 pool points - 15 models)
• Glade Guard (1.5 pool points)
• Glade Guard (1.5 pool points)
• Sylvaneth Wyldwood (1 pool point)

I know that attempting to discern the quality of this army composition system is difficult without context. So over the next few days I'll break down a couple of different tournament composition systems that use the Independent Pool Choice composition.