Here are the AoS Meta Stats for all the Grand Tournaments that have taken place between Monday 27th June and Sunday 3rd July 2022. These are all the GT’s that I can locate on Tabletop.to or BestCoastPairing, if you know of any others please send me a link and I’ll add them.

Once again, another quiet week, with only 3 Grand Tournaments. Two of these were run using the new GHB, while the other was just a little event called the World tSports Champions…..

Grand Tournaments

Ranked from largest to smallest.

From the Ashes – Scotland/UK
22 Players – Generals Handbook: Pitched Battles 2022-23 Season 1

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Skaven		5-0-0
2nd	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
3rd	Idoneth Deepkin	Mor’Phann	4-0-1
4th	Bonesplitterz	Drakkfoot	4-0-1
5th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	3-0-2
6th	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	3-0-2
7th	Sylvaneth	Heartwood	3-0-2
8th	Beasts of Chaos		3-0-2
9th	Soulblight Gravelords	Kastelai Dynasty	3-0-2
10th	Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	2-1-2

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World tSports Champions – England/UK
16 Players – Generals Handbook 2021-22

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Nighthaunt	Grieving Legion	5-0-0
2nd	Idoneth Deepkin	Ionrach	3-0-2
3rd	Beasts of Chaos	Allherd	4-0-1
4th	Idoneth Deepkin	Fuethan	3-0-2
5th	Slaves to Darkness	Host of the Everchosen	4-0-1
6th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	3-0-2
7th	Cities of Sigmar	Hallowheart	2-0-3
8th	Bonesplitterz	Drakkfoot	2-0-3
9th	Legion of the First Prince		1-0-4
10th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	2-0-3

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Coliseum of Sigmar Carnage GT – Florida/USA
9 Players – Generals Handbook: Pitched Battles 2022-23 Season 1

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	3-0-1
2nd	Nighthaunt	Emerald Host	4-0-1
3rd	Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	3-1-1
4th	Legion of the First Prince		3-1-1
5th	Idoneth Deepkin	Nautilar	2-0-3
6th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	2-0-3
7th	Slaves to Darkness	Host of the Everchosen	0-0-2
8th	Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	2-0-3
9th	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	0-0-4

Grand Alliance Stats

As promised last week, I’ve changed the stats to reflect the last four weeks of GT’s that we’re aware of at Woehammer. Also if you read all the way to the end of the article I have a little surprise for you!

485 players took part in 16 GT’s over the last four weeks.

Grand Alliance	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins	4+ Wins
Chaos	56.7%	94	19.38%	6	27
Order	50.7%	218	44.95%	8	34
Death	45.8%	82	16.91%	2	11
Destruction	45.0%	91	18.76%	0	8

Chaos continue to lead the way in the win rates. While Order pick up the most number of armies represented, most 5-0’s and most 4+. When you compare army share to the number of battletomes each Grand Alliance possess you can see that Order are overrepresented, while Chaos are vastly under represented:

Grand Alliance	Battletomes	Battletome %	Actual Rep %
Order	9	37.50%	44.95%
Chaos	7	29.17%	19.38%
Death	4	16.67%	16.91%
Destruction	4	16.67%	18.76%

What can we take away from this? Perhaps that Order factions are more appealing than Chaos? New players gravitate towards Order? The Chaos range needs updated miniatures? Or all of the above?

Faction Stats

The below stat show the results for those factions represented by 5 armies or more only.

Faction	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins	0-5 Losses
Beasts of Chaos	67.1%	14	2.89%	2	0
Legion of the First Prince	61.5%	13	2.68%	0	0
Slaves to Darkness	61.1%	6	1.24%	0	1
Seraphon	59.7%	30	6.19%	5	2
Blades of Khorne	56.7%	6	1.24%	0	0
Maggotkin of Nurgle	56.6%	35	7.22%	3	2
Bonesplitterz	55.4%	10	2.06%	0	0
Cities of Sigmar	54.2%	24	4.95%	2	1
Daughters of Khaine	52.8%	22	4.54%	0	2
Nighthaunt	52.2%	32	6.60%	1	2
Idoneth Deepkin	51.8%	23	4.74%	1	0
Flesh-eater Courts	51.7%	6	1.24%	0	0
Lumineth Realm-Lords	51.5%	21	4.33%	0	0
Kharadron Overlords	51.4%	7	1.44%	0	1
Sylvaneth	49.1%	11	2.27%	0	1
Sons of Behemat	48.5%	21	4.33%	0	1
Soulblight Gravelords	47.1%	28	5.77%	1	1
Stormcast Eternals	47.1%	60	12.37%	0	4
Ogor Mawtribes	47.1%	28	2.89%	0	1
Ironjawz	44.7%	16	3.30%	0	1
Kruleboyz	44.3%	11	2.27%	0	1
Hedonites of Slaanesh	44.3%	7	1.44%	0	0
Skaven	43.0%	9	1.86%	1	0
Big Waaagh!	41.3%	8	1.65%	0	0
Fyreslayers	39.5%	20	4.12%	0	2
Gloomspite Gitz	30.9%	11	2.27%	0	1
Ossiarch Bonereapers	28.2%	16	3.30%	0	2

I’ve highlighted all those faction win rates in red which are outside of the parameters that players have stated would make the game roughly balanced (45-55%).

I’m looking at the bottom of the table as I’m writing this, and its hard not to overlook Fyreslayers, Gloomspite Gitz and Ossiarch Bonereapers with win rates of less than 40%! Gloomspite Gitz are getting their new book this year, so hopefully we’ll see that improve. Fyreslayers have been mugged by Games Workshop rules writers, and it just shows how awful that book is. I feel for long term Fyreslayers players…

At the top of the table Beasts of Chaos now currently lead the way with a win rate of 67.1%! They’ve gone from trash tier to S tier in the space of 3 months. Slaves to Darkness are a bit of an anomaly at the top there, and this is primarily driven by a few high level players who vastly our performed the faction this month, much like Anthony Trentanelli did a few weeks ago with Skaven. Maggotkin of Nurgle and Seraphon win rates have both dropped, but its too early to tell why, as the new rules for Seraphon only really came into effect last week.

Subfaction Stats

Faction	Subfaction	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins	0-5 Losses
Beasts of Chaos	None	70.0%	5	1.03%	1	0
Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	68.0%	20	4.12%	2	0
Legion of the First Prince		61.5%	13	2.68%	0	0
Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	60.0%	11	2.27%	0	0
Beasts of Chaos	Gavespawn	60.0%	6	1.24%	0	0
Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	59.6%	28	5.77%	4	2
Bonesplitterz	Drakkfoot	58.3%	6	1.24%	0	0
Cities of Sigmar	Living City	57.7%	13	2.68%	2	0
Ogor Mawtribes	Boulderhead	56.0%	5	1.03%	0	0
Kharadron Overlords	Barak-Zilfin	53.3%	6	1.24%	0	1
Idoneth Deepkin	Mor’Phann	53.3%	6	1.24%	1	0
Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	52.9%	15	3.09%	0	0
Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	52.8%	15	3.09%	0	0
Idoneth Deepkin	Nautilar	51.3%	8	1.65%	0	0
Ironjawz	Ironsunz	50.0%	6	1.24%	0	1
Daughters of Khaine	Hagg Nar	50.0%	7	1.44%	0	1
Stormcast Eternals	Astral Templars	50.0%	6	1.24%	0	0
Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	49.2%	12	2.47%	0	1
Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	48.8%	33	6.80%	0	2
Soulblight Gravelords	Vyrkos Dynasty	48.0%	10	2.06%	0	0
Soulblight Gravelords	Kastelai Dynasty	45.5%	11	2.27%	0	1
Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	44.7%	15	3.09%	0	1
Kruleboyz	Big Yellers	43.4%	8	1.65%	0	1
Skaven		43.0%	9	1.86%	1	0
Fyreslayers	Lofnir	42.9%	7	1.44%	0	1
Hedonites of Slaanesh	Lurid Haze	42.0%	5	1.03%	0	0
Ironjawz	Bloodtoofs	41.7%	10	2.06%	0	0
Nighthaunt	Emerald Host	41.5%	13	2.68%	0	2
Big Waaagh!		41.3%	8	1.65%	0	0
Maggotkin of Nurgle	Befouling Host	40.0%	7	1.44%	1	1
Fyreslayers	Greyfyrd	35.8%	12	2.47%	0	1
Ossiarch Bonereapers	Petrifex Elite	28.8%	15	3.09%	0	2
Gloomspite Gitz		25.0%	8	1.65%	0	1

Maggotkin of Nurgle are a bit of a strange faction. While you have one of the meta leading Subfactions inside the tome with Drowned Men (68.0%, at the bottom of the pack you have Befouling Host (40.0%). It’s not an irregularity either as 7 players have played that subfaction and one claimed 5 wins at an event and another 5 losses. This suggests to me that while Drowned Men is a simple list to play, Befouling Host is completely the opposite and requires good memory and skill from the pilot.

After almost a year of publication now, both Stormcast and Orruk Warclan battletomes are beginning to show a little lag behind the other updated factions (apart from Fyreslayers of course). As the first of the Battletomes perhaps this has played into their stats slightly as the rules writers learn from their mistakes (apart from Fyreslayers of course) when writing the newer tomes.

Scarlet Doom shows that its the faction of choice for a reason in the new Nighthaunt battletome (60.0%) however, its still early days for this battletome and the other factions could be more complicated to pick up and play. However 60.0% win rate for any subfaction is too high and so they may need a future nerf at some point.

Going forwards as the weeks go on, I’ll be keeping an eye out for Grinin’ Blades beginning to get some more play with their updated allegiance abilities after not being placed at all due to all the Kruleboyz players choosing Big Yellers – this will change. I expect to see them nearing the 50% mark and above. Likewise with Skaven, I expect them to begin climbing the rankings as their new rules come into effect.

THE SUPRISE

I said I had a surprise, and here it is!

Woehammer will be doing a player ranking system for the new General’s Handbook based on the Elo system used by Chess.

Who gets ranked?

Everyone who takes part in a two day event using the General’s Handbook: Pitched Battles Season 1 2022-23. Each week I’ll update the scores of the players as they happen and post them in a separate rankings post which will be published every Saturday.

All players will begin with a rating of 1,000 at the beginning of the season, player ratings will be carried over into season 2 and beyond in the future.

I’ve included the current rankings below (there’s only been two GT’s using the new Handbook) which includes everyone at present. However, I will limit this to the top 20 as more players are ranked. The full downloadable player rankings will be available on the site to download next weekend.

Player	Country	Region	Rating
John B	Scotland	Europe	1,049.4
David Jack	Scotland	Europe	1,031.2
Leigh Martin	Scotland	Europe	1,030.3
Zachary Shinn	USA	North America	1,029.7
Nathan Watson	Scotland	Europe	1,029.4
Jonathon Roberts	USA	North America	1,020.0
Daniel Gomez	USA	North America	1,019.2
Cara Newby	Scotland	Europe	1,010.6
Richard McQuarrie	Scotland	Europe	1,010.3
Karl Rohr	USA	North America	1,010.0
Alastair Maxwell	Scotland	Europe	1,010.0
Reece Fraser	Scotland	Europe	1,010.0
Jamie McHugh	Scotland	Europe	1,010.0
Ryan Pothecary	Scotland	Europe	1,010.0
Ian (Yes, just Ian)	Scotland	Europe	1,009.7
Aaron Burns Lees	Scotland	Europe	1,009.4
Allan George	Scotland	Europe	1,000.3
Douglas Klem	USA	North America	1,000.0
Frank Kelly	Scotland	Europe	999.1
Scott Semple	Scotland	Europe	999.1
Alasdair Robertson	Scotland	Europe	990.0
Michael Smith	USA	North America	989.4
James Hobson	Scotland	Europe	988.3
Michael Peterson	USA	North America	980.3
Lewis Mitchell	Scotland	Europe	971.2
Grant Fraser	Scotland	Europe	968.9
Andrew Dowling	USA	North America	961.7