This is the top three AoS lists for Wargames for Warriors that took place in Utah, USA on the 20th and 21st of May. It involved 22 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Army Faction: Hedonites of Slaanesh
– Army Type: Pretenders
– Grand Strategy: Selfish Desire
– Triumphs: Inspired

LEADER
1 x Glutos Orscollion (480)*
– Spells: Phantasmagoria
1 x Contorted Epitome (190)**
– General
– Command Traits: Strength of Godhood
– Artefacts: The Crown of Dark Secrets
– Spells: Born of Damnation
– Aspects of the Champion: Fuelled by Ghurish Rage
1 x Lord of Pain (135)**

BATTLELINE
11 x Blissbarb Archers (150)**
– High Tempter
11 x Blissbarb Archers (150)**
– High Tempter
11 x Blissbarb Archers (150)**
– High Tempter

ENDLESS SPELL
1 x Mesmerising Mirror (60)

TERRAIN
1 x Fane of Slaanesh (0)

OTHER
5 x Slickblade Seekers (200)*
– Hunter-Seeker
5 x Symbaresh Twinsouls (140)*
– Egopomp
5 x Symbaresh Twinsouls (140)*
– Egopomp
5 x Blissbarb Seekers (200)**
– High Tempter

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Battle Regiment
**Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: (1995/2000)

Lots of head winds for Slaanesh since their book dropped with SBGL, KO, OBR and Khorne all vying for attention. We’ve seen a lot of Slaanesh armies podium but not always take first. Here we have first, with with an absolutely gorgeous army of mortals making this very accessible. We don’t often talk about this but apart from the Leaders and twinsouls you can build the rest of the army from the Vanguard kit.

So many sacrifices, I mean mortals, this list is designed to generate as many DP as quickly as possible while spreading you out. Whether its from Temptation (Archers), Euphoric Killers (Twinsouls) or Born of Damnation (Epitome) this list is going to generate a lot early. But the Grand Strategy is Selfish Desire, summon no daemons during the battle, no instead this army is taking advantage of Revel in Depravity. They are gambling you can’t kill them fast enough to avoid them gaining enough DP for the whole army to be at -1 to hit, Mortal wounds (MW) on 6s and a 5+ ward. At that point all of these frail mortal units become very tanky.

The list makes a lot of sense when you look at it like that, the Seekers can take objectives early with their movement and if targetted grant DP. The Blissbarbs stay back and pepper you forcing Temptaions with the Twin Souls as a screen. At the centre there is Gluttos who buffs the army and makes it hard to charge but can allow units to fall out of combat before they are struck back (in their and your combat phases) with Phantasmagoria. Then there is the Epitome to hunt any GCs or be a GC, Dark Crown lets him reduce attacks to 1 for something at the start of the game. That’s on top of extra rend and damage from Strength of Godhood.

This isn’t some fancy list tech, the army had to be handled and moved very carefully, until they generate enough DP it’s very fragile, except Gluttos and the Epitome. They are also a bit of an emergency button, if that’s all you have left you are still going to be able to push out a lot of damage and still score Battle Tactics. In the end this combination did very well beating out eveything except Sylvaneth treelords. There may be justice here, First beat second head to head and lost to third while second lost to first and beat third.

Army Faction: Soulblight Gravelords
– Army Type: Vyrkos
– Grand Strategy: Lust for Domination
– Triumphs: Inspired

LEADER
1 x Cado Ezechiar (135)*
1 x Radukar the Beast (290)*
1 x Vampire Lord (130)**
– General
– Command Traits: Master of Magic
– Spells: Spirit Gale
1 x Wight King (135)**
– Aspects of the Champion: Stubborn as a Rhinox
1 x Necromancer (90)**
– Spells: Waste Away

BATTLELINE
10 x Deathrattle Skeletons (85)*
10 x Deathrattle Skeletons (85)*
40 x Deadwalker Zombies (230)**

OTHER
20 x Grave Guard (280)*
– 2 x Standard Bearer
– 2 x Hornblower
– Great Wight Blade
5 x Blood Knights (230)*
– Kastellan
– Standard Bearer
– Templar Lance
5 x Blood Knights (230)*
– Kastellan
– Standard Bearer
– Templar Lance
1 x Corpse Cart (70)**
– Unholy Lodestone
– Corpse Lash

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Battle Regiment
**Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: (1990/2000)

Oh hey look it’s not Legion of Blood!

Turns out Vyrkos is pretty damn rad as well huh? The fluffier sub-faction of the book (although…troubling, this list has no wolves…) is the home of choice for chaff, given it can utilise a heroic action to bring models back over a deadwalker’s starting strength and also, once per game, just summon a pack of 10 direwolves.

The zombie and Deathrattle wall is backed here by the usual synergy-foot heroes, Graveguard blob, plus Radukar as a fantastically annoying (with his -1 to hit and wound) harassment piece who can also act as a nice trigger for the ‘hero then another unit fights’ Vyrkos ability.

Paired with two units of Blood Knights as fast movers who are part anvil, part hammer and packed neatly into a 2 drop double bat-reg, this is a much more flexible take on Soulblight that excels at board control and has mad levels of chaff recursion.

Of course – it lost to Slaanesh, which is the problem in this meta – this many bodies is just an irresistible depravity party for the purple pervs – an unfortunate scissors/rock scenario perhaps which is, of course, why Legion of Blood is the premier tournament choice at the moment. A shame that the one match up is probably keeping the other Soulblight factions from succeeding at a tourney level. Kudos to Aaron either way!

Army Faction: Sylvaneth
– Army Subfaction: Oakenbrow
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumphs: Bloodthirsty
– Seasons of War: The Dwindling

LEADER
1 x Spirit of Durthu (350)*
– Artefacts: Greenwood Gladius
1 x Warsong Revenant (300)*
– General
– Command Traits: Spellsinger
– Artefacts: The Vesperal Gem
– Spells: Regrowth
– Aspects of the Champion: Fuelled by Ghurish Rage
1 x Treelord Ancient (330)*
– Spells: Treesong

BATTLELINE
5 x Tree-Revenants (110)
5 x Tree-Revenants (110)
1 x Treelord (230)
1 x Treelord (230)*
1 x Treelord (230)*

ENDLESS SPELL
1 x Spiteswarm Hive (40)
1 x Chronomantic Cogs (70)

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Warlord

TOTAL POINTS: (2000/2000)

Allegiance: Nighthaunt
– Procession: Quicksilver Dead
– Mortal Realm: Shyish
– Grand Strategy: Fright or Flight
– Triumphs: Bloodthirsty

Leaders
Guardian of Souls (150)***
– General
– Command Trait: Master of Magic
– Artifact: Midnight Tome
– Aspect of the Champion: Fuelled by Ghurish Rage
Krulghast Cruciator (150)*
– Artefact: Pendant of the Fell Wind
Spirit Torment (120)***
Awlrach the Drowner (170)***

Battleline
20 x Dreadscythe Harridans (340)**
– Reinforced x 1
20 x Dreadscythe Harridans (340)**
– Reinforced x 1
10 x Chainrasps (110)*

Units
2 x Chainghasts (90)*
4 x Myrmourn Banshees (100)*

Behemoths
Black Coach (290)*

Endless Spells & Invocations
Purple Sun of Shyish (90)

Core Battalions
*Battle Regiment
**Galletian Veterans
***Command Entourage – Magnificent

Additional Enhancements
Artefact

Total: 1950 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 2 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 93
Drops: 6

Final Tournament Placings