Top Three AoS Lists for the Bay Area Open

This is the top three AoS lists for the Bay Area Open that took place in the USA on the 27th and 28th of May. It involved 48 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Army Faction: Slaves to Darkness
– Army Subfaction: Ravagers
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumphs: Indomitable

LEADER
1 x Slaves to Darkness Daemon Prince (170)*
– General
– Command Traits: Idolater Lord
– Trophy Rack
– Hellforged Sword
– Artefacts: The Conqueror’s Crown
– Prayers: Heal
– Mark of Chaos: Nurgle
1 x Darkoath Warqueen (100)*
– Aspects of the Champion: Tunnel Master

1 x Chaos Sorcerer Lord (120)*
– Artefacts: Gryph-feather Charm
– Spells: Binding Damnation
– Mark of Chaos: Undivided

BATTLELINE
9 x Corvus Cabal (80)
– Mark of Chaos: Nurgle
9 x Untamed Beasts (90)
– Mark of Chaos: Nurgle
9 x Untamed Beasts (90)
– Mark of Chaos: Nurgle
9 x Corvus Cabal (80)*
– Mark of Chaos: Nurgle
30 x Splintered Fang (300)**
– Mark of Chaos: Nurgle
30 x Splintered Fang (300)**
– Mark of Chaos: Nurgle
10 x Splintered Fang (100)**
– Mark of Chaos: Nurgle
9 x The Unmade (80)**
– Mark of Chaos: Nurgle

BEHEMOTH
1 x Chaos Gargant (145)
1 x Chaos Gargant (145)

OTHER
1 x Mindstealer Sphiranx (95)
1 x Mindstealer Sphiranx (95)

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Warlord
**Galletian Veterans

TOTAL POINTS: (1990/2000)

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Army Faction: Fyreslayers
– Army Subfaction: Greyfyrd
– Grand Strategy: Masters of the Forge
– Triumphs: Bloodthirsty

LEADER
1 x Auric Runemaster (130)*
– Artefacts: Volatile Brazier
– Prayers: Curse
1 x Auric Runesmiter (120)*
– Forge Key
– Prayers: Ember Storm
1 x Battlesmith (150)*
– Artefacts: Nulsidian Icon
– Aspects of the Champion: Leadership of the Alpha
1 x Auric Flamekeeper (90)**
1 x Auric Flamekeeper (90)**
1 x Auric Runefather (120)**
– General
– Command Traits: Spirit of Grimnir
– Artefacts: Axe of Grimnir

BATTLELINE
10 x Hearthguard Berzerkers (300)**
– Karl
– Berzerker Broadaxe
10 x Vulkite Berzerkers with Fyresteel Handaxes (160)***
– Hornblower of Grimnir
– Karl
10 x Vulkite Berzerkers with Fyresteel Handaxes (160)***
– Hornblower of Grimnir
– Karl
10 x Vulkite Berzerkers with Bladed Slingshields (150)***
– Karl
– Hornblower of Grimnir
– Fyresteel War-pick and Bladed Slingshield
10 x Hearthguard Berzerkers (300)****
– Karl
– Berzerker Broadaxe

INVOCATION
1 x Runic Fyrewall (40)

TERRAIN
1 x Magmic Battleforge (0)

OTHER
1 x Grimwrath Berzerker (110)*
– Artefacts: Draught of Magmalt Ale
1 x Doomseeker (80)****
– Artefacts: Nightflyer Cloak

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Warlord
**Warlord
***Galletian Veterans
****Galletian Command

TOTAL POINTS: (2000/2000)

Kevin Lathers: A greyfyrd list which somewhat mimics the Vostarg lists we’ve seen before. It’s got two flamekeepers, a Runefather leading some Hearthguard Berserkers (HGB), and everyone’s favorite Nulsidian Icon carrying Battlesmith.

But this list spices it up a bit by adding a couple extra GC’s: a Grimwrath Berserker with Ale and a Doomseeker with the GHB Nightflyer Cloak. It also knocks out a unit of Vulkites to pump the HGB up from one unit of 15 to 2 units of 10.

Still, this list will play in a similar manner to the previous iterations we’ve seen: become hard to move off objectives while swinging back like a ton of bricks by using flamekeepers to pump berserkers.

The one wrinkle this list throws at opponents is the Grimwrath. With the Runefather, Ale, Rend Rune, Heroic Action, and/or Smiter prayer, a Grimwrath can have 9 attacks hitting on 2’s and 2’s with -3 or -4 rend and 2 damage each swing. It then fights again or fights on death. That’s extremely POTENT, meaning this list now has an absolute missile that can run and charge into a key enemy piece and absolutely wreck it. The Doomseeker will act a much smaller, weaker, missile that will have one single target instead of taking a more opportunistic approach, but still makes opponents have to tiptoe around these GC’s.

Army Faction: Gloomspite Gitz
– Army Subfaction: King’s Gitz
– Grand Strategy: Chasing the Moon
– Triumphs: Indomitable

LEADER
1 x Dankhold Troggboss (200)*
– General
– Command Traits: Loonskin
– Artefacts: Glowy Howzit
1 x Skragrott, the Loonking (210)*
1 x Fungoid Cave-Shaman (90)*
– Spells: The Hand of Gork
– Aspects of the Champion: Tunnel Master

BATTLELINE
9 x Rockgut Troggoths (480)*
6 x Rockgut Troggoths (320)*
3 x Fellwater Troggoths (160)*
6 x Rockgut Troggoths (320)*

ENDLESS SPELL
1 x Loonskin Scuttletide (0)

TERRAIN
1 x Bad Moon Loonshrine (0)

OTHER
5 x Gobbapalooza (160)*
– Spells: The Hand of Gork

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: (1940/2000)

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Army Faction: Beasts of Chaos
– Army Subfaction: Darkwalkers
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumphs: Bloodthirsty

LEADER
1 x Doombull (180)*
– General
– Command Traits: Bestial Cunning
– Artefacts: Slitherwrack Helm
– Aspects of the Champion: Fuelled by Ghurish Rage
1 x Great Bray-Shaman (95)*
– Artefacts: Brayblast Trumpet
– Spells: Viletide
1 x Great Bray-Shaman (95)*
– Spells: Vicious Stranglethorns

BATTLELINE
10 x Ungors (80)*
– Brayhorn Blower
– Banner Bearer
– Halfhorn
– Pitted Blade
10 x Ungor Raiders (115)**
6 x Bullgors (420)***
– Bloodkine
– Warheard Drummer
– Warheard Banner Bearer
– Paired Cleaving Axes
6 x Bullgors (420)***
– Warheard Drummer
– Bloodkine
– Warheard Banner Bearer
– Paired Cleaving Axes

OTHER
10 x Ungor Raiders (115)**
10 x Ungor Raiders (115)**
6 x Beasts of Chaos Tzaangor Enlightened (180)***
6 x Beasts of Chaos Tzaangor Enlightened (180)***

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Warlord
**Galletian Sharpshooters
***Galletian Veterans

TOTAL POINTS: (1995/2000)

This list reads like a top 10 of the beast (see what I did there?) BoC units. A thin screen of Ungors for whatever you need them for and Bullgors to push up the centre. They have quite the glow up with the recent book, good to see them on tables in big numbers. Tzaangor Enlightened without discs for solid output if a bit slow. Hard to think of Ungor Raides as “Sharpshooters,” but with the Darkwalkers’ ability to slink off a board edge and back on, they are significant, mobile threat.

The Doombull and Bullgors offer excellent control, be that the centre or an edge objective with the Raiders providing some ranged backup and movement potential. The Doombull is rigged for durability and trouble, allowing a reserve unit to set up within 7″ (Bestial Cunning), applying a strike last to a unit after charging (Slitherwrack) and a once per game heal. The spells on the Shaman either straight mortal wounds (Viletide) or apply fights last (Stranglevine). Good choices with the limited spell casting buffs available and once a game summoning a unit helps to (Brayblast). Most to the time the Tzaangor Enlightened will start in Ambush with the Bullgor weathering the storm in the first round.

I’m assuming the Herdstone was included in the list (but not shown). With it’s rend increase from Round 2 and again in Round 4, it’s an autotake that means you need to preserve units until they are at their most effective. Handled well, they are a strong army, as seen here, taking most of the top armies on and winning until undone by Nurgle Chaos Knights (Slaves to Darkness). They are hard to kill and mobile enough to create a lot of issues, especially for an army limited to teleports and 6″ moves.