Top Three AoS Lists for Sigmar at the Arena

This is the top three AoS lists for Sigmar at the Arena that took place in Australia on the 24th and 25th of August 2024. It saw 42 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Nighthaunt
Death Stalkers
2000 Points
Drops: 2
Spell Lore – Lore of the Underworlds
Manifestation Lore – Morbid Conjuration

Regiments
General’s Regiment
Nagash, Supreme Lord of the Undead (880 Points)
• General
Bladegheist Revenants (300 Points)
• Reinforced

Regiment 1
Knight of Shrouds on Ethereal Steed (180 Points)
• Ruler of the Spectral Hosts
• Lightshard of the Harvest Moon
Dreadblade Harrows (160 Points)
Hexwraiths (320 Points)
• Reinforced
Hexwraiths (160 Points)

Fittsy: We’ve got Thomas taking a 1st here with a 5-0 with a Nagash list.
We’ve got a lot of the standard choices in this list to go together with Nagash. Reinforced Bladeghesists and Hexwraiths who are great for returning at full or half strength. Together with a single Dreadblades and another 5 Hexwraiths. The Knight of Shrouds is a common enough pick with a list like this to be the bearer of Ruler and Lighshard (OPB return half a unit and OPB +1 attack). The KoSoS’ speed helps it to stay out of trouble and be where it needs to be to ping off that +1 attack or chain activate the Hexwraiths with a +1 to hit.

Round 5 has seen Thomas go up against NH… a matchup in which Nagash has come out on top to round out the 5 wins, nice work there Thomas!

Skaven
Virulent Procession
2000 Points
Drops: 3
Spell Lore – Lore of Ruin
Manifestation Lore – Morbid Conjuration

Regiments
General’s Regiment
Thanquol on Boneripper (360 Points)
• General
Doom-Flayer (80 Points)
Warplock Jezzails (300 Points)
• Reinforced

Regiment 1
Verminlord Deceiver (410 Points)
• Foulhide
• Scurry Away
Clanrats (160 Points)

Regiment 2
Grey Seer (120 Points)
Plague Monks (140 Points)
Plague Monks (140 Points)
Plague Monks (280 Points)
• Reinforced

Faction Terrain
Gnawhole

Kieren Coates: Skaven is in an interesting place right now, with a variety of lists going 4-1 and a variety of different units, so by no means is this the only way to play the book, but one that I have found works nicely for my play style

Inspired by Mechrat (Keegan) and Warpfire Mini’s (Jordan) and fusing the best parts of all of our lists, we came together with a stable core of 1600ish points with our lists differing on the last 400 to suit each local meta

In a world where no-one runs chaff or models, the list is designed to easily score with 100+ models, recursion, movement tricks, while also being able to use scalpels to take out key hammers and slow the enemy down

The monks job is to not die, get in the way and survive on the objectives, use their end of turn pile in to move from out of combat and lock enemies in combat in their turn (note – this may not still be true in the new book).

Monks deal mortals on pile, mortals on death, and a high volume of low rend attacks, so they’re surprisngly reliable for getting damage in

Jezzails in priority target means they are able to kill enemy general regiments quickly, as well as provide cover fire

Thanquol is a great all rounder, especially at using skitterleap during the opponents turn at +1 to cast – if the enemy makes the fault of killing him or the deceiver for a tactic, just teleport them out to safety

The deceiver is incredibly tricky, and as the list is designed for control games failing 1-2 tactics for the enemy is often enough to call it game, and with our mobility and recursion most armies struggle to stop skaven scoring later in the game

Again – skaven is a great toolbox list and there has been 4-1 lists using over half the book, so there’s plenty of options, and with a new book on the way it’s a great time to worship the horned rat

Blades of Khorne
Murder Host
2000 Points
Drops: 4
Prayer Lore – Blood Blesssings of Khorne
Manifestation Lore – Judgements of Khorne

Regiments
General’s Regiment
Bloodthirster of Unfettered Fury (440 Points)
• General
• Favoured of Khorne
• Ar’gath, The King of Blades
Bloodletters (400 Points)
• Reinforced

Regiment 1
Bloodmaster, Herald of Khorne (150 Points)
Bloodletters (400 Points)
• Reinforced
Bloodletters (400 Points)
• Reinforced

Regiment 2
Herald of Khorne on Blood Throne (210 Points)

Faction Terrain
Skull Altar

Patrick German: As a fan of Bloodletters myself, it’s nice to see a list that digs into them so heavily do well. Bloodletters are a very straightforward melee unit with a decent stat line: 2W on a 5+. 6+ ward going to a 5+ after they fight with the formation. hitting and wounding on 3s with crit (mortals). All of this combines for a unit that can weather an incoming unit’s attacks while delivering some punishment of their own. Their recursion also helps with that survivability, so long as you don’t completely wipe what you attack.

Past there you have three heroes that are just there to buff the bloodletters. The Fury-thirster provides a much-needed 3d6 charge that can easily land your letters in combat early. The bloodmaster has a fight phase double-activation that allows those bloodletters to ignore enemy wards. Finally, The Blood Throne provides even more recursion by restoring a destroyed unit at half strength.

Overall this list seems more straightforward than what we saw from Khorne last edition, but clearly met the needs of the tournament, given the 3rd place landing. If you’re looking for inspiration to get a survivable force on the battlefield to tarpit your opponent while you wear them down, this list would be a great way to accomplish your goal.

Ossiarch Bonereapers
Kavalos Lance
2000 Points Limit
Drops: 1
Spell Lore – Lore of Ossian Sorcery
Manifestation Lore – Morbid Conjuration

Regiments
General’s Regiment
Nagash, Supreme Lord of the Undead (880)
• General
Immortis Guard (200)
Kavalos Deathriders (180)
Kavalos Deathriders (180)
Morghast Harbingers (540)
• Reinforced

Faction Terrain
Bone-tithe Nexus