Outcasts: the board-control formation (AoS 4th Ed)

It strengthens the Creeping Dread battle trait so enemy units have to stay much closer to their own heroes to avoid paying the command-point tax on their first ability each turn. In practice you tighten the screws on the opponent's command economy, and the formation also hampers the enemy's ability to control objectives while you are in combat with them. The net effect is an army that dictates tempo and starves opponents of resources.

Players who enjoy a methodical, control-and-attrition game and who often face wide, model-heavy or horde armies where being outnumbered on objectives is the real threat. If you like winning on points denied and command points taxed rather than raw kills, this is your formation.

• Dryads and Revenant infantry to screen, hold objectives, and contest control.
• Kurnoth Hunters as the elite damage core that punishes anything forced to bunch up.
• Support heroes to keep the overgrowth growing and the woods spreading.
• Awakened Wyldwoods, always, to maximise overgrowth coverage and Creeping Dread's reach.

Choose Outcasts into command-point-reliant armies and into hordes that would otherwise swamp your objectives, since taxing their commands and clipping their control blunts both. It is less exciting into small elite lists that do not lean on many command abilities, where an offensive formation may serve you better.