This is the top three AoS lists for the HAMBURG MAJOR 2025  that took place in Germany on the 18th and 19th of January 2025. It saw 28 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Slaves to Darkness
Godswrath Warband
Drops: 2
Spell Lore – Lore of the Damned
Manifestation Lore – Forbidden Power

General’s Regiment
Be’lakor, the Dark Master (440)
• General
Chaos Chosen (520)
• Reinforced
Chaos Furies (120)
Chaos Furies (120)

Regiment 1
Chaos Sorcerer Lord (120)
• Infernal Puppet
• Radiance of Dark Glory
Varanguard (330)
Varanguard (330)

I don’t think anyone can talk about this list anymore surely?

Stormcast Eternals
Sentinels of the Bleak Citadels
Drops: 2
Spell Lore – Lore of the Storm
Prayer Lore – Prayers of the Stormhosts
Manifestation Lore – Morbid Conjuration

General’s Regiment
Krondys, Son of Dracothion (560)
• General
Prosecutors (280)
• Reinforced
Vanguard-Palladors with Starstrike Javelins (480)
• Reinforced
Vanguard-Raptors with Longstrike Crossbows (400)
• Reinforced
Vigilors (130)

Regiment 1
Knight-Incantor (140)
• Mirrorshield
• Envoy of the Heavens

Faction Terrain
Stormreach Portal

Fittsy: Lukas is a solid player (and all round nice guy) who is well known in Germany. He took a single loss to the winner against one of Germany’s best players. He was running a pretty common Stormcast list and getting reps with it. Krondys forms the core of this list as a hard to bring down strong wizard. With the opponent needing to get into those Longstrikes or suffer the consequences.

Declan: Krondys was rarely seen in AoS3 so its good to see that at least some monsters are back to monster-mash and monster-smash their opponents. Sure its a lot of points but – along with the Longstrikes – its not his job to get close at the beginning. Krondys is great at mopping up anything softened by the Longstrikes, or intercepting anything brave (or foolish) enough to get close to them. A great 4-1, even if he did beat up a Gloomspite along the way.

Ogor Mawtribes
Beast Handlers
Drops: 3
Spell Lore – Lore of Maw-magic
Prayer Lore – Everwinter Prayers
Manifestation Lore – Morbid Conjuration

General’s Regiment
Frostlord on Stonehorn (320)
• General
• The Fang of Ghur
• Touched by the Everwinter
Huskard on Stonehorn (280)
• 1 Chaintrap
Stonehorn Beastriders (270)
• 1 Chaintrap
Stonehorn Beastriders (270)
• 1 Chaintrap

Regiment 1
Frostlord on Thundertusk (300)
Frost Sabres (70)
Frost Sabres (70)
Huskard on Stonehorn (280)
• 1 Chaintrap

Regiment 2
Slaughtermaster (140)

Faction Terrain
Mawpit

Carson Whitlock: Looks like BCR is making a comeback! In a meta with a heavy emphasis on elite units with good saves, nothing’s better than absolutely spamming mortal damage output before combat even starts. This list has a plethora of mortal damage bombs waiting to chip away at high value targets before even getting to the big show that is a monster trucks charge phase.

We see two priests in this list (the Huskard as well as the frostlord with “Touched by the Everwinter”), which are both powering up high value prayers every turn. With pulverizing hailstorm’s enhanced effect being moved to a chanting value of 8, it’s much easier to be slamming D3 * 2 mortals into a 3 inch radius at range. We also have a slaughtermaster manning the mawpit, chewing on enemies up to 18″ away with a potential D3 + 1 mortals, and the ability to cast shackles for an additional potential D3 mortals on top of that.

Then when it’s finally time to send the trucks in we see the Frostlord on Thundertusk popping his once per game +1 to Trampling Charge rolls, making each truck that makes contact inflict a MINIMUM of 5 mortal wounds (and a max of 7). If things go right for this list, it’s relatively easy to be handing your opponent north of 50 mortal damage in one turn; an absolutely crippling amount of damage for most of the top meta picks right now.

All of the above happens before any of the 5 stonehorns that are now in your face roll a single attack. Truly devastating into the right opponents, however it has the potential to be shut down by effective use of screens and any relatively good shooting output. Either way, congratulations on the podium finish! Great to see our meat lads doing well.

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Nighthaunt
Death Stalkers
Drops: 2
Spell Lore – Lore of the Underworlds
Manifestation Lore – Primal Energy

General’s Regiment
Lord Executioner (170)
• General
• Ruler of the Spectral Hosts
Bladegheist Revenants (360)
• Reinforced
Grimghast Reapers (300)
• Reinforced

Regiment 1
Reikenor the Grimhailer (240)
Cairn Wraith (130)
• Lightshard of the Harvest Moon
Hexwraiths (400)
• Reinforced
Hexwraiths (400)
• Reinforced

Fitts: Congrats to Fitts on his performance with this list which was also his first tournament with Nighthaunt in 4th ed. All joking aside. I was pretty happy with this list and although I see some other options for directions (utilising Lady O or bringing Awlrach in), this list is doing enough to perform well… not ignoring that it will struggle into certain match ups. The list operates with 2 cores broken down for the most part into the 2 regiments. The first part being the mobile threats… now they may not necessarily be all around damage threats but Hexwraiths are very good at pinging mortals and pinning opponents which worked very well (except for the game where I didn’t do it). Reikenor is a star… in a strange way. He’s a relatively cheap but mobile way to get two manifestations out a turn and can also drop that handy -1 to wound onto a unit or bring back models. The +1 to cast is key here for the reliability. As everyone knows he also slaps into little priests and wizards. Something which he did quite well was to play as a distraction piece, either trying to bait the opponent into targeting him or to force the opponent to play more cautiously with those tasty tasty wizard/priest heroes. The idea with the rest was to have a solid and slightly scary block with the Lord Ex, Cairn Wraith, Bladegheists and Reapers moving up a little more slowly to then charge opportunistically. The regiments were set up so that the Lord Ex could get bodyguard from the Reapers. This is bad. Don’t do it. It works well… but instead, it’s much better to do that with the Cairn Wraith so that the Lord Ex can counter-charge and get that extra -1 Attack off still. Also, I found I was splitting them up quite often and losing the benefits of either bodyguard or the +1 attack. So just swap the Cairn Wraith and Lord Ex.

I got some criticism for taking a Cairn Wraith as it’s probably not the most optimal way to play with only 1 unit of Reapers. On the other hand, it’s the first model I painted when I returned to Warhammer so stuff you, I’m bringing him! Is this list going to go 5:0 any time soon after the 2 rounds of nerfs? With lucky matchups and some good prio rolls, sure. Otherwise, it can struggle a bit into some of the meta lists such as Chosen and Krondys/Karazai. It is a fun list to play and I still love the mobility a list like this can bring even if I do miss the deepstrikes from 3rd ed. That being said, I don’t want to give up my retreat and charge or perhaps even more importantly the run and charge so I’ll be sticking with this for now and eagerly watching the other well performing lists out there.

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