How to Play Seraphon in Warhammer Age of Sigmar (4th Edition)

Seraphon have four army-wide passives called Asterisms, and a pair of battle traits that control how many of them are switched on.

• The Great Plan happens once, in the deployment phase, and you must use it. You prophesy exactly one Asterism. The other three do nothing.
• Further the Great Plan happens once per battle round from the second round onward. You can prophesy another Asterism you have not picked yet, but only if its own condition is currently true. Its effect then stacks on top of the ones you already have.

The four Asterisms and the conditions that unlock them: - Itzl the Tamer - Companion weapons score double hits on critical rolls. Unlocked once three or more enemy units have been destroyed. - Quetzl the Preserver - enemy melee weapons lose a point of Rend against your units wholly inside friendly territory. Unlocked while no enemy unit is wholly inside your own territory. - Sotek the Deliverer - add 2 to the Move of every Seraphon unit. Unlocked once the enemy general is in combat or dead. - Tepok the Seer - add 1 to casting rolls for Seraphon units. Unlocked while you have a Slann on the battlefield that is neither in combat nor destroyed.

The practical point: your deployment-phase pick is the only one you are guaranteed. Everything after that is a plan you have to make true on the table.

You pick exactly one battle formation for your army and it grants a single ability. There is no budget to spend and no way to combine two. Seraphon have four Starhosts, all in the free faction pack and all confirmed in the free Battle Profiles:

• Eternal Starhost - once per turn, teleport a Seraphon unit that is near one of your Wizards to anywhere more than 9 inches from enemies.
• Shadowstrike Starhost - once per turn in your shooting phase, move up to three Skink Infantry or Skink Cavalry units a short rolled distance, but not into combat.
• Sunclaw Starhost - once per turn at the end of any turn, up to three Saurus or Kroxigor units already in combat pile in again and inflict a little mortal damage.
• Thunderquake Starhost - passive: every Seraphon Monster gets 2 extra Health.

The Scourge of Aqshy pack does not add a fifth, so this really is the whole list.

Alongside the General's Handbook 2026-27, Games Workshop published Scourge of Aqshy: a free per-faction rules layer. Every faction got one, and the contents vary. The Seraphon pack contains: - Servants of the Cosmic Order, a heroic traits table: Arcane Determination, Calm and Collected and Lord of Space and Time, the last of which is Slann Starmasters only; - Beasts of the Dark Jungle, a monstrous traits table: Armour Cruncher, Titanic Slam and Chameleonic Camouflage; - variant warscrolls for the Saurus Scar-Veteran on Aggradon and the Slann Starmaster.

It contains no battle formations. Two rules about how the layer plugs in matter more than the individual cards: a Scourge of Aqshy table replaces the equivalent faction pack table rather than adding to it, so taking Servants of the Cosmic Order means giving up Celestial Disciplines, and several of these cards key off the season's fury and rage rules, so they only do anything in a General's Handbook 2026-27 game.

This pack was one of the ones refreshed in the 26 August 2026 wave, so it is newer than the points document. Re-check it before the faction pack.

• Slann Starmaster and Lord Kroak - the casting engine, the reason Tepok is worth prophesying, and both the anchor and the passenger for Eternal Starhost.
• Skink Starseer and Skink Starpriest - cheaper Wizards, and the ones that make a teleport bubble mobile.
• Saurus Warriors and Saurus Guard - the Saurus infantry core that Sunclaw Starhost is built around.
• Kroxigor and Kroxigor Warspawned - slow, heavy hitters named directly in the Sunclaw ability.
• Skinks, Hunters of Huanchi, Raptadon Chargers and Hunters, Terradon and Ripperdactyl Riders - the Skink layer, and the only units Shadowstrike Starhost can move.
• Stegadon, Bastiladon, Engine of the Gods, Carnosaurs and the Troglodon - the Monsters, and the whole point of Thunderquake Starhost.
• Aggradon Lancers - Saurus Cavalry, so they qualify for Sunclaw as well.
• Realmshaper Engine - the faction terrain feature.

Which units are strongest shifts with each Battle Profiles republish, so treat this as a map of roles rather than a tier list.

Seraphon are the game's most complete generalist: real casting, real melee, real speed and real monsters in the same roster. The trade is that the army rule asks you to commit to a plan before the first dice roll and then earn the rest of it.

A workable script: prophesy the Asterism your list cannot function without, usually Tepok for a Slann build or Sotek for a fast one, then spend the early rounds meeting the conditions for the second and third. Your formation choice should cover the gap the Asterisms leave: Eternal Starhost if you need reach, Shadowstrike if you need to score, Sunclaw if you intend to grind, Thunderquake if you have committed to dinosaurs.

• Building around an Asterism you will not unlock. Quetzl needs your own territory clear, and Sotek needs you to reach the enemy general. If your list cannot make the condition true, the Asterism is decoration.
• Forgetting Eternal Starhost measures from a Wizard. The unit has to start wholly within 12 inches of a friendly Seraphon Wizard, so a dead or badly placed caster switches the formation off.
• Trying to charge with Shadowstrike. The move explicitly cannot end in combat. It is a scoring and repositioning tool, not an alpha strike.
• Expecting Sunclaw in the combat phase. It resolves at the end of any turn, so the units have to still be alive and still be in combat when it goes off.
• Assuming the Scourge of Aqshy tables add to the faction pack tables. They replace them.

Seraphon struggle when they are forced to react. The army rule rewards a plan carried out on schedule, so opponents who deny the conditions, kill the Slann or refuse to feed you kills can leave you playing with a quarter of your battle traits.