Top Three AoS Lists from Battle in the Misty Mountains AoS GT

The Battle in the Misty Mountains took place in Tennessee, USA on 28th and 29th May. It involved 29 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament.

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Army Faction: Stormcast Eternals
– Army Type: Stormkeep
– Army Subfaction: Hammers of Sigmar
– Grand Strategy: Hold the Line
– Triumphs: Inspired
– Holy Commands: Thunderbolt Volley, Call for Aid

LEADER
Bastian Carthalos (300)**
Lord-Arcanum on Gryph-Charger (195)**
– General
– Command Traits: Master of Magic
– Mount Traits: Scintillating Trail
– Spells: Chain Lightning
Lord-Castellant (155)**
– Artefacts: Arcane Tome
– Spells: Celestial Blades

BATTLELINE
1 x Dracothian Guard Fulminators (460)*
Liberators (115)*
– Heavens-wrought Weapon and Sigmarite Shield
Liberators (115)*
– Heavens-wrought Weapon and Sigmarite Shield
Liberators (115)**
– Heavens-wrought Weapon and Sigmarite Shield

OTHER
Aetherwings (65)
1 x Vanguard-Raptors with Longstrike Crossbows (480)**

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Hunters of the Heartlands
**Warlord

TOTAL POINTS: (2000/2000)

Danny: Turns out double-shooting Longstrikes and Fulminators are still good! Bastian is a tactical beat-stick with his re-deploy options and healing-on-killing stuff which makes him an excellent distraction carnifex, that you really only want to engage with at range – but then you have the reinforced Fulminators running rampant.

Tough target priority against this list. A trio of liberators – who are still excellent objective guardians – fill the battleline requirement in style. It’s not especially clever, but it will body you if you don’t have good screens and some kind of answer to the Longstrikes. Which is asking a lot.

Honestly it would be great to see Fulminators and Longstrikes get some kind of change in the near future just so the other 50 units in the SCE book get more of a look in!

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Army Faction: Lumineth Realm-lords
– Subfaction: Zaitrec
– Grand Strategy: Prized Sorcery
– Triumph: Bloodthirsty

LEADERS
Scinari Loreseeker (170)*
– Spells: Lambent Light, Overwhelming Heat, Protection of Hysh
Sevireth (345)*
Vanari Lord Regent (155)*
– General
– Command Traits: Fast Learner
– Artefacts of Power: Gift of Celennar
– Spells: Overwhelming Heat, Speed of Hysh, Total Eclipse

BATTLELINE
Vanari Auralan Wardens (145)*
– Spells: Lambent Light, Overwhelming Heat
Vanari Auralan Wardens (145)*
– Spells: Overwhelming Heat, Protection of Hysh
Vanari Auralan Sentinels (510)*
– Spells: Overwhelming Heat, Total Eclipse

OTHER
Hurakan Spirit of the Wind (265)*
Hurakan Spirit of the Wind (265)*

TERRAIN
1 x Shrine Luminor (0)

CORE BATTALIONS
*Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: 2000/2000

Danny: Lumineth seem to be everyone’s ‘love to hate’ army, but at the highest level they’re not setting the world on fire. On the face of it they definitely have the tools – well, they have every single possible tool – and this list packs them all in, sometimes twice. You’ve got the Scoreseeker (who controls an objective he’s on until you kill him – no matter how many bodies you have) for early grabbing and battle tactic denial. Severith and TWO OTHER flying foxes offer an eye-watering set of interference, chip damage and utility that you basically can’t kill in melee. You’ve got your standard Warden and Sentinel blobs for MW output and surprising tankiness, and the underrated Lord Regent for aggro-ing a key threat and buying the infantry time to gank it. Brutal, and my heart goes out to whomever had to ‘play’ against this!

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Army Faction: Kharadron Overlords
– Subfaction: Barak-Zilfin
– Grand Strategy: Hold the Line
– Triumph: Large-calibre Augmentation

LEADERS
Arkanaut Admiral (125)***
– Artefacts of Power: Staff of Ocular Optimisation
Aether-Khemist (90)***
– General
– Command Traits: Collector
– Artefacts of Power: Spell in a Bottle
Endrinmaster with Dirigible Suit (180)***
– Artefacts of Power: Phosphorite Bomblets
– Bonding: Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur

BATTLELINE
Arkanaut Company (100)**
– Volley Pistol
Arkanaut Company (100)**
– Volley Pistol
Arkanaut Frigate (250)**
– Heavy Sky Cannon

BEHEMOTH
Arkanaut Ironclad (490)*
– Great Sky Cannon
– Great Endrinworks: Zonbarcorp ‘Dealbreaker’ Battle Ram
Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur (400)*

OTHER
Grundstok Gunhauler (155)***
– Drill Cannon
– Great Endrinworks: Zonbarcorp ‘Debtsettler’ Spar Torpedo

ENDLESS SPELLS & INVOCATIONS
1 x Warp Lightning Vortex (90)

CORE BATTALIONS
*Alpha-Beast Pack
**Hunters of the Heartlands
***Warlord

TOTAL POINTS: 1980/2000

Danny: KO simply don’t play 3rd edition well – and it doesn’t help them that a few important rules – such as how the garrison rule applies to boats and objective scoring, etc – still haven’t been adequately FAQd, and so TOs apparently often rule inconsistently on them. But of course they still have some insanely good movement and very nasty shooting – the warp lightning vortex is a once per game spell in a bottle that’s a stable of comp KO lists for how much damage it can do, shutting down movement and pinning stuff while they fire away. The other usual suspects are joined by a Krondspine, which we’re seeing prop up a few armies recently who don’t have access to objective bullies, and it makes sense. It offers a durable, good rend melee threat that KO just do not have, so until they get a new book – why not make the most of the tools available? A clever list and congrats for the 3 wins in a hostile meta for the floaty dwarves.