Here's something I've been working on for 3 days, tearing it apart and putting it back together again until it shined. My mind feels that an army should be beautiful in appearance as well as implimentation. This army layed out is almost a perfect mirror of both sides in both appearance and power making it a tough choice which direction an opponent should break to. It's beauty is only matched by it's overwhelming presense on the battlefield.

Formation 1: (3-5 actions)
** Heavy Stonethrower
** Heavy Stonethrower
Emerald Glade Mystery

Formation 2:
* Heavy Lancer
* Heavy Lancer
* Standard Bearer
*** Elf At Arms
Willow Nock

Formation 3:
* Heavy Lancer
* Heavy Lancer
* Standard Bearer
*** Elf At Arms
* Longbow Archer

Formation 4: 3 actions
Magus
*** Amotep Gunner
* Elite Surok Apprentice
* Shaman
*** War Hatchetkrugg

Formation 5: 2 Actions
Storm Golem
Krugg Seer
*** Amotep Gunner
* Elite Surok Apprentice

Formation 5-6-7:
4 goblin Volunteers

Loners:
* Shade
* Shade

The army itself has very few weak points and only a couple of fun ideas thrown in including willow and a longbow archer to make the KI formations more interesting. I wanted a touch of ML/Ram to make the army feel complete since my dice have been giving me fits lately. 2 stonethrowers with emerald nestled between them however should be the biggie giving my opponent fits, and with enough volunteers to create a wall 3 figures thick around them if need be they're going to learn the lesson of 16" indirect fire even if it takes their whole army to do it.

What can I say about this army , Endrick ?
WOW.

What do you think about replacing Stormy with the Striker?
In this army , with his speed and maneuverability and with EGM back-up I think you can play him very agressively ( much more than you would be able to play stormy)

The Striker would certainly draw attention immediately
especially if he shows up in your opponent's face from the get go.
That would take some pressure off your HOSTS
who could set up and start up some REAL problems for your opponent in the ensuing turns.

Two HOSTs and a Striker .................... ouch.

You could play it somewhat like the Wind Minion/Arties strategy.
Striker plays deep.
Instead of LI he has superior range.
Anything that comes b2b with striker - Striker flies and HOSTs shoot.
I already like the thought of it . ;)

Striker was in previous builds of this army actually, The only issue that crops up is the formation that is held down by stormy wouldn't work with striker since it would slow him down and cost more actions. When laid out this army has the 2 HOSTs flanked by 2 very similar atlantis formations. I want both the look, feel, and power that this creates as well as keeping me from playing too agressive. Striker has also seen a lot of use in my armies lately since I got him, he needs a break and so does my venue. But it's there for future reference.

And in tune with your idea of 2 throwers and a striker, I've done well with that at the 500 pt level. I took my 300 pt striker army and added in 2 light throwers and a little more harassment. Looked pretty too.

Well , I do agree aesthetics are important as well ;) lol

forgive me, I'm guessing HOST = heavy stone thrower?

Yes, there are HOSTS and LOSTS now, something new to add to your mage knight vocabulary.