Top Three AoS Lists for the Facehammer GT

This is the Top Three AoS Lists for the Facehammer Grand Tournament that took place in the UK on 8th and 9th October. It involved 50 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Allegiance: Fyreslayers
– Lodge: Lofnir

LEADERS
Auric Runefather on Magmadroth (360)
– General
– Command Trait: Blood of the Berzerker
– Artefact: Axe of Grimnir
– Magmadroth Trait: Coal-heart Ancient
Battlesmith (150)
Auric Runemaster (125)

BATTLELINE
Auric Runeson on Magmadroth (320)
– Ancestral War-axe
– Magmadroth Trait: Flame-scale Youngblood
Auric Runeson on Magmadroth (320)
– Ancestral War-axe
– Magmadroth Trait: Lava-tongue Adult
Auric Runeson on Magmadroth (320)
– Ancestral War-axe
10 x Vulkite Berzerkers with Bladed Slingshields (160)
10 x Vulkite Berzerkers with Bladed Slingshields (160)
10 x Freeguild Guard (85)
– Swords and Shields
– Allies

Total: 2000 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 0 / 4
Allies: 85 / 400
Wounds: 125
Drops: 9

Danny: Fyreslayers have been in an interesting place since their 3e tome – hovering around sub-par stats and, despite their limited roster, flitting between ‘meta’ builds. So it’s great to see them take down an event without resorting to a spam list.

Theres’ not too much we haven’t seen before here – the usual must-have HQs, followed by three more Magmadroths with Runesons. These guys are just *good* for their points, and offer durability, decent ranged attacks and ‘speed’. Two units of basic vulkites, who are surprisingly tanky by default and perfectly capable of screening effectively or picking up chaff. Finally, a unit of freeguild guard get allied in – presumably as a cheap-as-chips screen.

Taking down the mortal output and speed of Nighthaunt, a mirror-match and the shooting/flexibility of Skaven, plus the general ‘all the good stuff’ of Tempest’s Eye Cities is no mean feat, so big up Ritchie for a large contribution towards Fyreslayers being taken very seriously at the competitive level.

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Allegiance: Kharadron Overlords
– Sky Port: Barak Zilfin
– Grand Strategy:
– Triumphs: Inspired

Kharadron Code
– Artycle: Master The Skies
– Amendment: Don’t Argue With the Wind
– Footnote: There’s Always a Breeze If You Look For It

Leaders
Arkanaut Admiral (125)
– Artefact: Staff of Ocular Optimisation
Arkanaut Admiral (125)
Aether-Khemist (90)
– General
– Command Trait: Collector
– Artefact: Spell in a Bottle
Aetheric Navigator (85)
– Artefact: Svaregg-Stein Illuminator Flarepistol
Aetheric Navigator (85)

Battleline
20 x Arkanaut Company (180)
– 2x Light Skyhooks
– 2x Aethermatic Volley Guns
– Reinforced x 1
10 x Arkanaut Company (90)
– 1x Light Skyhooks
– 1x Aethermatic Volley Guns
10 x Arkanaut Company (90)
– 1x Light Skyhooks
– 1x Aethermatic Volley Guns

Behemoths
Arkanaut Ironclad (490)
– Main Gun: Great Volley Cannon
– Great Endrinworks: The Last Word
Arkanaut Ironclad (490)
– Main Gun: Great Volley Cannon
– Great Endrinworks: Ebullient Buoyancy Aid

Endless Spells & Invocations
Purple Sun of Shyish (90)

Additional Enhancements
Artefact Magnificent (50)

Total: 1990 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 1 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 103
Drops: 10

Danny: GUNS. Two especially big, floating ones dominate this undefeated list, as is the trend these days. Fabian’s list here is packed with HQs, but they all offer plenty of utility – with the double admiral also being a hot new trend – understandably, given they offer run and shoot to a skyvessel, and a choice of three powerful effects to pick from at the start of the battle. This kind of tactical flexibility is always valuable, and at 125 points – especially given they’re actually pretty darn nasty in melee – you’d be mad not to take two.

Double navigator can also utterly shut down the main threats to a KO list, namely flying units, because of their ability to tag skyvessels and turn off their fly high. Given ‘Aetherstorm’ stacks, taking 2 makes halving the movement of one nasty flying thing almost a given, and makes either doing it to two things, or quartering the movement of one a likely event too – completely shutting down threats like Morathi, a Maw Krusha, dragons et al.

A bunch of objective grabbing cannon fodder (in both senses!) rounds out the list along with the Purp Sun, who KO still love because of the rend. KO are back on the scene in a big way these days…probably to the chagrin of anyone who doesn’t have an answer to teleporting giant cannons or relies on anything with the fly keyword…

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Allegiance: Maggotkin of Nurgle
– Subfaction: Drowned Men
– Mortal Realm: Ghur
– Triumphs: Bloodthirsty

Leaders
Lord of Afflictions (210)
– General
– Command Trait: Overpowering Stench
– Artefact: Muttergrub- 1x Dolorous Tocsin
Festus the Leechlord (150)
– Lore of Malignance: Blades of Putrefaction
Orghotts Daemonspew (300)

Battleline
5 x Putrid Blightkings (250)
2 x Pusgoyle Blightlords (220)
– 1x Dolorous Tocsin
2 x Pusgoyle Blightlords (220)
– 1x Dolorous Tocsin

Units
10 x Rotmire Creed (125)
1 x Beasts of Nurgle (110)
1 x Beasts of Nurgle (110)
3 x Plague Drones (200)
3 x Nurglings (105)

Total: 2000 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 0 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 133
Drops: 11

Danny: Another undefeated list, who only tied with 2nd place KO – this event looks to have been a photo finish!

And pleasingly for a Nurgle list, there’s something to write about. But let’s get the same ol’ outta the way first – Aaron has here brought the new, disease point catalysing hotness of the Rotmire Creed (basically, when a disease point is put on an enemy by them, every other unit within 3! also gets one – splash damage!) He also opts for the best of the Maggoths – Orghotts – a unit of blightkings and 5 flies as usual buzz along for the ride, side-eyeing the imminent Battlescroll all the while.

The fun part is, those big ol’ bluebottles bring along their slightly less chonky cousins the plague drones too. They’re nowhere near as good but they are an additional model and slightly cheaper – a nice screening option perhaps with a good horde clearing 7″ ranged attack for utility. 2 Beasts of nurgle – beautiful, beautiful beasts of nurgle – slither along to generally annoy folks with their ability to run/retreat and charge, disease you with their slime on the way out, and do impact mortals on said charge. Aaron has also snuck in a Festus (what a dude!) who offers reliable healing and a great warscroll spell to subtract 1 from save rolls to a unit.

Nurglings for a cheeky early objective grab finish up a nice, relatively varied Nurgle-goodstuff list which clearly sets out the stall for them not needing to worry too much about the incoming fly nerf.