Top Three AoS Lists for Northern Wastes GT

This is the Top Three AoS Lists for the Northern Wastes Grand Tournament that took place in Prince George, BC, Canada. It involved 28 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament. A little bit of a blast from the past with lists that would be pretty familiar to anyone from 2nd Editions, leavened with a few new units.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Army Faction: Skaven
– Grand Strategy: Defend What’s Ours
– Triumph: Indomitable

LEADERS
Grey Seer (125)**
– Spells: Levitate
Grey Seer On Screaming Bell (325)**
– General
– Command Traits: Master of Magic
– Artefacts of Power: Skavenbrew
– Spells: Death Frenzy
Grey Seer (125)**
– Spells: Skitterleap
Deathmaster (165)****
– Artefacts of Power: Gnawbomb
Warlock Bombardier (115)****
– Artefacts of Power: The Brass Orb
– Spells: Warp Lightning Shield
Plague Priest (100)****
– Prayers: Rabid-rabid!

BATTLELINE
Clanrats (100)***
– Rusty Blade
Clanrats (100)***
– Rusty Blade
Skryre Acolytes (150)****

OTHER
Warpfire Thrower (70)
Ratling Gun (65)
Ratling Gun (65)
Plague Monks (180)*
– Pair of Foetid Blades
Plague Monks (180)*
– Pair of Foetid Blades

ENDLESS SPELLS & INVOCATIONS
1 x Purple Sun of Shyish (70)
1 x Vermintide (60)

TERRAIN
1 x Gnawhole (0)

CORE BATTALIONS
*Bounty Hunters
**Command Entourage – Magnificent
***Expert Conquerors
****Warlord
TOTAL POINTS: 1995/2000

Brett: A good spell/plague monk heavy list which we haven’t seen as much of recently with the majority of successful lists running Thanquol and/or Deceivers or Stormfiends. Solid reminder of the depth of this book because and the number of options. With 4 wizards and a priest this list has 7 casts and 8 denies (and a prayer). The Screaming Bell has an entire table of command abilities that buff the unit or adjacent units, do mortal wounds or just try to kill the unit. More importantly it adds at least 1 to cast until it hits bottom bracket (+2 at top bracket) and if damaged to half health (8) can summon a Verminlord. This is the unit that is most likely to cast Purple Sun and is pretty durable, with a 4+ save and 5+ ward it has an effective health of 27 against Rend -2.

Master of Magic for rerolls, Death Frenzy is it’s known spell (fight on death) and Skitterbrew (does D3 MW but grants 1 attack). Feasibly you could have Plague Monks with 4 attacks and fighting on death (with 4 attacks). 136 attacks (assuming 3 died to Skitterbrew), 22 of which on average will be -2 Rend. Other spells include Levitate (fly for a unit), Skittleap (teleport) and Warp Lightning Shield (negate the first 3 wounds in a phase, if a 4 wound is caused, take 3 MW). This is mostly so the Bombardier doesn’t blow himself up with the Doomrocket or empowered Warp Lighting. In the course of a game he definitely will blow up, that’s what he’s here for.

Rabid- Rabid adds another attack to a unit within 13″ (5 attacks for the Plague Monks? – with fight on death and the unit wiped after a charge that’s a potential 200 attacks)And that’s the heart of this list, 80 rats, some of which will have ratling guns or warpfire throwers hiding in them to surprise you. Even more fun the Deathmaster is probably hiding in one of the clanrats units as well. Run and charge, D3 mortals on 6s he’s a nasty little assassin. This list is all about the small attacks adding up, with some nasty mortal wounds and spells in there as well. It’s a lot for the general to keep up with but even more so for opponents.

Most of his opponents had things that were very good at removing threats, built around the common 2 or 3 hammer style of list. What is the hammer in this list? If you remove only one block of rats a turn they’ll outscore and overwhelm you pretty quickly.

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Allegiance: Daughters of Khaine
– Temple: Zainthar Kai
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumphs: Indomitable

LEADERS
Morathi-Khaine (340)*
The Shadow Queen (340)*
Melusai Ironscale (115)*
– General
– Command Trait: Zealous Orator
– Artefact: Crown of Woe

BATTLELINE
10 x Blood Sisters (280)**
– Reinforced x 1
10 x Blood Sisters (280)**
– Reinforced x 1
15 x Blood Stalkers (540)*
– Reinforced x 2
5 x Khinerai Heartrenders (95)*

CORE BATTALIONS
*Battle Regiment
**Bounty Hunters

Total: 1990 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 4 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 99
Drops: 3

Brett: A familiar take on Daughters of Khaine so far, remembering that they only have slightly more than 20 warscrolls to choose from. Morathi and Shadow Queen taking 1/3 the list and the remainder devoted to Blood Sisters/Stalkers. Khinerai Heartrenders for opportunistic objective/battle tactic sniping. Melusai Ironscale mostly for her run and charge command with no range restrictions, +1 attack for Melusai (Blood Sisters/Stalkers) if she kills a model, 5+ ward against spell damage, and Turns to crystal for MW if she is in combat range. Crown of Woe turns off Rally or Inspiring Presence within 9″ (15″ after she kills something). A General that wants to be close to the action. Cruelly Zelous Orator lets her return a model on a 4+ when using Rally.

Morathi is the only caster (3 spells, 2 denys) and knows the complete spell lore of course. Of course she can issue a command allowing a unit to shoot (or fight) in the hero phase. Effectively allowing a unit to Shoot or Fight twice, in this list that is going to be the Blood Stalkers most of the time. Shadow Queen is a blender of course and the 3 wounds a turn is always fun. The sub faction is Zainthar Kai for fight on death and the Blood girls are battleline (the General does the same thing). And that is the heart of the list, Blood Sisters to apply pressure and take objectives as well as screening and Blood Stalkers to remove most threats. Your best option is to outrange them otherwise you need to survive a withering Unleash Hell.

It’s a popular list because it works quite well if you can manage the fragility of the sisters in combat (you only want to enter combat/be shot on your terms). Daytond can do that well, demonstrated by beating the mirror match. He lost to first place which exposes a weakness with most elite lists (this is 33 models) – hordes.

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Allegiance: Gloomspite Gitz
– Option: Gloomspite Gitz
– Mortal Realm: Ghur
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumphs: Indomitable

Leaders
Loonboss on Giant Cave Squig (110)*
– General
– Moonclan Stabba
– Command Trait: The Clammy Hand
– Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact)
– Lore of the Moonclans: Squig Lure
Fungoid Cave-Shaman (95)*
– Lore of the Moonclans: Itchy Nuisance
Skragrott, The Loonking (230)*
– Lore of the Moonclans: The Hand of Gork

Battleline
20 x Stabbas (150)*
– Pokin Spears & Moon Shields
– 3x Barbed Nets
– 1x Badmoon Icon Bearers
24 x Squig Herd (320)**
– Reinforced x 1
24 x Squig Herd (320)**
– Reinforced x 1

Units
6 x Sneaky Snufflers (75)*
6 x Rockgut Troggoths (290)*
– Reinforced x 1
10 x Boingrot Bounderz (210)**
– Reinforced x 1

Endless Spells & Invocations
Mork’s Mighty Mushroom (40)
Scuttletide (70)
Purple Sun of Shyish (70)

Core Battalions
*Battle Regiment
**Bounty Hunters

Total: 1980 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 4 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 188
Drops: 4

Brett: For our extra list this week keeping with the small folk we have Gitz. A mixed force of Squigs for mobile threats and Troggoths to ensure you are disappointed when they whiff against very possible odds. You go Gitz because they have the best warscrolls in the game. Efficient, no, but who else is empowered by eating mushrooms, gets extra movement because they bounce or has a small foot wizard that must be surrounded by enemies to do any real damage with his spell (Spore Maws). 180 points of Endless Spells to make them that more vicious, Purple Sun, Mork’s Might Mushroom (MW on a 5+ within 8″) and Scuttletide (more mortals).

With Arcane Tome 4 casts/unbinds, Squig Lure (run and charge for 3 units on a 5), Itchy Nuisance (fights last) and Hand of Gork (teleport a unit that is within 24″ – very generous). Skragrott and the Cave Shaman can generate extra command points every turn. This is a very slow list apart from the Boingrots and Loonboss (but he’s your general so probably not up front). It isn’t very durable but it does have the ability to put out a few mortal wounds and has, in some units like Squig Herds, a surprising number of rend 1 attacks. To shut it down you need to get to Skragrott and to get to him you need to get through a lot of bodies, including the Troggoths who can hit very hard. Gitz suffer from very poor saves and low moral so 3/2 is really fantastic.

That included Thunder Lizard (Seraphon) and Kharadron Overlord armies that are both doing really well right now. The Kruleboyz are with Gitz at the bottom of the tier list, it would have been a really interesting match up between Kruleboyz shooting and Gitz tricks.