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This is the top three lists for the Grudgefest GT 2025 that took place in Canada between the 8th and 9th of November 2025. It saw 50 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.
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The Top Three AoS Lists
Disciples of Tzeentch Wyrdflame Host General’s Handbook 2025-26 Drops: 2 Spell Lore – Lore of Change (30 Points) Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of Tzeentch Battle Tactic Cards: Wrathful Cycles, Restless Energy
General’s Regiment Kairos Fateweaver (420) • General Burning Chariot of Tzeentch (100) Burning Chariot of Tzeentch (100) Chaos Spawn of Tzeentch (60) Pink Horrors (320) • Reinforced
Regiment 1 Lord of Change (400) • Illusionist – (20) Points • Nine-eyed Tome – (20) Points • 1x Rod of Sorcery Blue Horrors and Brimstone Horrors (280) • Reinforced Blue Horrors and Brimstone Horrors (280) • Reinforced
Cities of Sigmar Fearless Exemplars General’s Handbook 2025-26 Drops: 5 Spell Lore – Spells of the Collegiate Arcane Prayer Lore – Scriptures of Sigmar Manifestation Lore – Aethwrought Machineries Battle Tactic Cards: Restless Energy, Master The Paths
General’s Regiment Freeguild Cavalier-Marshal (110) • General • Draw Steel! Ironweld Great Cannon (100) Ironweld Great Cannon (100) Scourge of Ghyran Freeguild Cavaliers (320) • Reinforced
Regiment 1 Steam Tank Commander (250) • Glimmering
Regiment 2 Callis and Toll (220) Toll’s Companions (0)
Regiments of Renown Drekki’s Privateers (500) Drekki Flynt Arkanaut Company Arkanaut Frigate
Faction Terrain Realmshaper Engine
Shawn Freed: “A vintage Thunderquake list! This list combines resiliency, ranged pressure, and swingy combat potential. Right off the bat, the formation gives all these monsters +2 wounds, putting most of them at 16, bastiladon at 14. This sits behind 4+ and 2+ saves respectively! Then the Engine of the Gods has the ability to heal D3 in a bubble every turn, with the Carnosaur and Troglodon healing an additional D3. Lore of Primal Jungles also has a healing spell that gets better with multi wound models. Since monsters still benefit from cover, this list can be incredibly hard to bring down.
The list also has a lot of ranged output, with over 40 low quality shots and 9+3d6 damage 2 attacks. All of this can be unleashed as they close the gap, which with Beastmaster handing out +2 to move, has these dinos moving surprisingly fast. Then when they get to combat, 6 of these monsters can get to damage 3!
Drekki’s Privateers add on to the ranged pressure, while providing a deepstrike and more reliable charging threat to punish weak flanks. Restless Energy fits in with the game plan, as the stampede marches into your territory with high control values, making it all but impossible to prevent steps 1 and 2 of this tactic. Taking a slow first turn can also set up for a comfortable underdog position to make Wrathful Cycles steps 1 and 2 achievable while not putting themselves too far behind.
A thoughtful and unique list, that appears to be a big damage check with 128 wounds on the big bodies, and plenty of healing and high saves. However, this list also has a surprisingly high damage output at both range and melee!”
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This is the top three lists for the Doom Fire 2-Dayer! that took place in the UK between the 15th and 16th of November 2025. It saw 38 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.
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The Top Three AoS Lists
Lumineth Realm-lords Alarith Temple General’s Handbook 2025-26 Drops: 3 Spell Lore – Lore of Hysh Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of Hysh Battle Tactic Cards: Master The Paths, Scouting Force
General’s Regiment Avalenor, The Stoneheart King (410) • General Alarith Stoneguard (240) • Reinforced Alarith Stoneguard (240) • Reinforced Scourge of Ghyran The Light of Eltharion (270)
Regiment 1 Sevireth, Lord of the Seventh Wind (340) Hurakan Windchargers (170) Hurakan Windchargers (170)
Eduardo Rodriguez: This lumineth list is very interesting as it is very different to the popular scinari/bladelords lists that we have been seeing lately.
The subfaction ability will reduce the rend on all the weapons that target the big cow and the stoneguards, and the cow can reduce the rend on one other unit as well in the combat phase. Also, there are two ways for these units to get a 5+ ward save, by casting protection of hysh from inside the shrine, or when the stoneguard are on a controlled objective. This makes this block of models very hard to deal with, as the stoneguard can also get an extra attack from the cow, and the stonemage can increase their rend on a 3+. Charging into this block is very dangerous and the opponent should expect to get slapped back very hard, also a countercasting the rune of petrification can really mess your plan if you get your hammers to strike last.
To help with the lack of mobility of this list the 3 hurakan units surely were running around, shooting flanking units, and stealing away the objectives.
Also, as in all the other lists we can see that the Soggy Light of Eltharion is threatening to engage heroes or monsters, it is interesting that this list doesn’t have a Scinari Enlightener which can make him etheral, but with all the dangerous and durable alarith block, opponents surely had a hard time killing this sneaky deadly hero, which can go from obscuring into obscuring until it reaches its target.
An interesting choice is the battle tactic scouting force, as the stoneguard haven’t got high mobility, but with flawless commander (+2 to the move characteristic of infantry units) and speed of hysh (+4 to the movement characteristic) the scouting stoneguard could go for the tactics. We also have the two units of windchargers that help with this purpose, as they can retreat and shoot/charge without getting mortal wounds, and even move 2d6 after this.
In general I believe that this list will be very good at controlling the center with the alarith units while flanking opponents with the windchargers, Eltharion and Sevireth which will also try to snipe out other threats.
Maggotkin of Nurgle Tallyband of Nurgle General’s Handbook 2025-26 Drops: 3 Spell Lore – Lore of Malignance Manifestation Lore – Aetherwrought Machineries Battle Tactics Cards: Intercept and Recover and Restless Energy
Regiment 1 Lord of Afflictions (170) Pusgoyle Blightlords (420) • Reinforced Pusgoyle Blightlords (210) Pusgoyle Blightlords (210)
Regiments of Renown Godmarked Ascendant (260) Daemon Prince • Wings • Corpulent Avalanche • Rustfang
Faction Terrain Feculent Gnarlmaw
Raymond Lane: This list is very interesting, getting away from the classic Scourge Rotigus in favor of more mobility, and with this map pack i can’t blame them. Most of these maps are spread out a bit and being more mobile can be beneficial.
8 flies with the points drop and lord of affliction works nicely together with the daemon prince as more of a scalpel (sp?) to deal with hero threats or killing small heroes with Avalanche is something that has been popular with Nurgle for awhile, but adding in the extra flies means instead of a mobile solo op, its more of a mobile fotress while Bloab and the reinforced kings hold down a point in the middle of the map or at home.
Aetherwrought it nice for the reroll charge and the pendulem to attempt some area denial. Not a bad list by any means, refreshing to see something that isnt 30 blight kings.
Sons of Behemat Breaker Tribe General’s Handbook 2025-26 Drops: 2 Battle Tactic Cards: Intercept and Recover, Restless Energy
General’s Regiment King Brodd (540) • General Gatebreaker Mega-Gargant (500)
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This is the top three lists for the Dice Tower GT that took place in Italy between the 22nd and 23rd of November 2025. It saw 30 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.
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The Top Three AoS Lists
Lumineth Realm-lords Scinari Council (10 Points) General’s Handbook 2025-26 Drops: 5 Spell Lore – Lore of Prismatic Resonance (10 Points) Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of Hysh Battle Tactics Cards: Intercept and Recover and Master The Paths
General’s Regiment Sevireth, Lord of the Seventh Wind (340) * General
Regiment 4 Scourge of Ghyran The Light of Eltharion (270)
Faction Terrain Shrine Luminor (20)
Stefano: First of all, thank you for the opportunity to speak on this platform. I’m truly happy and honored!
I knew this tournament would feature some of the best Italian players, with a metagame tending toward “monstrous,” and what better counterplay than an elvish -1 hit? Haha, jokes aside, I chose to bring this list for its incredible versatility. It’s a very solid Herohammer based on a castle build that’s extremely difficult to remove, solid melee damage, and DMG chips in the heroic and shooting phases.
While Eltharion played the dirty trick of disrupting enemy lines or threatening counter charges when I chose to keep him defensive, Sevireth was the army’s Swiss Army Knife: 18″ movement, the chance to spike shooting damage, his fantastic rampage, and tactical power throughs to steal objectives or retreat behind defensive lines to threaten cover fire again in the enemy’s phase—definitely my MVP for the tournament.
Honorable mention for the Ydrilans: after the points nerf in the last battlescroll, I started using them in place of the regiment of renown Callis & Toll, and I have to say they were a truly excellent replacement! They’re certainly less durable, but their constant teleport and the ability to perform a 2D6 movement in combat were definitely mind-blowing!
Fyreslayers Scales of Vulcatrix (10 Points) General’s Handbook 2025-26 Drops: 5 Prayer Lore – Vulkyn Gifts Manifestation Lore – Magmic Invocations Battle Tactic Cards: Master The Paths, Intercept and Recover
General’s Regiment Auric Runefather on Magmadroth (320) • General Vulkyn Flameseekers (160) Vulkyn Flameseekers (160) Vulkyn Flameseekers (160)
Regiment 1 Scourge of Ghyran Auric Runeson on Magmadroth (330) • Fiercely Competitive • Droth-helm – (10) Points
Regiment 2 Scourge of Ghyran Auric Runeson on Magmadroth (320) • Incandescent Blaze
Regiment 3 Scourge of Ghyran Auric Runeson on Magmadroth (320)
Regiment 4 Auric Runemaster (180)
Faction Terrain Magmic Battleforge
Ambrogio: Classic Magmadroth-based list. 1 runefather to boost 3 Ghyran sons. I preferred to take “Fiercely Competitive” instead of “Ash-Beard” to counter Durthu, Belakor rampage and Vhordrai’s Spell, all common monsters in italian meta. Incandescent Blaze is perfect to sniper heroes when they get close to boost enemy units. 3 Flamekeeper units are also good thanks to their 3+ to hit and 3 atk each, when they atk in combo with Runefather each unit can do 37 atk with up to rend 4 against monsters! lovely.
Nighthaunt Death Stalkers General’s Handbook 2025-26 Drops: 3 Spell Lore – Lore of the Underworlds Manifestation Lore – Infernal Sorceries Battle Tactic Cards: Attuned to Ghyran, Scouting Force
General’s Regiment Lady Olynder, Mortarch of Grief (300) • General Myrmourn Banshees (180) • Reinforced Pyregheists (150) Pyregheists (150)
Regiment 1 Knight of Shrouds (120) • Deathly Possessor • Lightshard of the Harvest Moon – (20) Points Myrmourn Banshees (180) • Reinforced Myrmourn Banshees (180) • Reinforced Pyregheists (150)
Regiment 2 Scourge of Ghyran Kurdoss Valentian, the Craven King (200) Chainghasts (90) Pyregheists (150) Pyregheists (150)
Faction Terrain Nexus of Grief
Enrico: The list was designed to address as many situations as possible. It ensures a strong presence on objectives thanks to the use of five Pyregheist units, but at the same time manages to find sources of damage in the three reinforced Banshee units and the Ghyran Kurdoss.
Scouting Force and Attuned to Ghyran are two tactics cards that work very well with the chosen subfaction and army. The frequently used “Master the Paths” and “Intercept and Recover” tactic combo is easily circumvented by hiding the heroes behind the mass of Ghosts.
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We’ve updated the method of calculating the Elo ratings into our Age of Sigmar stats, this includes an attempt to reflect both the tournament strength and the faction strength.
All of the results in this article are taken from Best Coast Pairings, , Ecksen, New Recruit, ChampionshipHub, Milarki, Mini Headquarters, Tabletop Herald and Longshanks. They include GT (Two day events) or GT+ (6 or more rounds) only.
For patrons, you’ll be able to download and play with the database as well (which includes all the lists and stats for all the factions) as reading this weeks Patreon only analysis of Seraphon.
As always, if you’re struggling to read a chart, you should be able to right click and then either view or download the image.
Tournaments Included (Using September Battlescroll)
[AO!D] All Out! Davao!
2. Dresdner Festspiele (in AoS)
2025 South China Autumn Championship
2025 World Championships of Warhammer
2D6 Carnage
A Kerfuffle at Shuffle – GT Edition
Age of Sigmar Badmoon Rising GT 2025
Age of Sigmar Doom Fire
Age of Sigmar Medellin Grand Open
All-Realm Battlemania XXXIX Deluxe
Amulet D20 Grand Tournament 2025
AOS 1vs1 – La conquête de Ghyran
AOS Aarhus Open
BadAss Bockbier Season Opening GT
Barfight GT
Batalha de Corvos XX
Battle of the Bend 2025
Battle Rage Ballerup 2025
Bendigo’s Bush Bash Bonanza 2025
Bloomington Brewhammer at Upland Brewing
Boltercon 2025: Age of Sigmar GT
Boo-grass Brawl GT – Actual Trash Wargaming
Bread or Dead 2025 – Fresh Out the Oven
Castle Banger Turniej Klasy Master w Warszawie
DaBoyz GT Rochester 2025 AoS 1v1
Dice Tower GT
DragonFall 2025
Elbcoast Cup 19 Age of Sigmar
End Times Grand Tournament 2025
Fantasia Fanatic XLVIII AoS
Farmhammer @Brewdog
GAF Jamboree Volume 4
Garden City Slughter
Geekfest -Arc’s of Fire- Age of Sigmar
Ghyran Resistance
Grudgefest GT 2025
GT Huertano Individual III
I GT Malaka en Guerra
II GT Zaragoza: Puño de Sigmar
K/Qota S9 E4
Kippers’ Melee – 2025 Age of Sigmar
LVO XII Warhammer Age of Sigmar Champs
MAW Tribe Telarah Takedown 2025
Mektoberfest AoS GT
Mercia Madness III
Michigan GT 2025
Might of the Righteous 2025 Age of Sigmar
New York Open 4: Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament
November Offensive
Nyköping Wargaming – War of the Osprey 2025
Oklahoma Open – Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament
Paragon City Games Presents: 2025 AoS Store Championship
Paris Wargame Expo – Warhammer AoS – Solo
PubHammer Open 4
Raccoon Rumble 2025
Realm of Geddon Borås spelkonvent 2025
Realm Wars
Realmgate Rebellion 14
Renegade Open 2025 – AoS GT
River City Rumble
Rose City Rampage 3: Rex Marks the Spot
SAGT 2025
Season of War GT II
Show Me Showdown Age of Sigmar Championships
Southeastern Slaughter Battles and BBQ
Storm of Sigmar
Sugar & Dice Annual Age of Sigmar Tournament 2025
Sydney Grand Tournament 2025
The Great Mawpit Cookout
The Poisoned Dice
The Standoff 2025 AOS
Threshold Tactics Invitational X
Turnaj Tří
Vault Wars 2025
Well of Mayhem #4 Grand Tournament
We have chosen not to include the following events:
Lamoine Last Stand IX (Due to having optional draw rounds)
III GT De Sevilla (Team Event)
LVO XII Warhammer Age of Sigmar Champs Round 6-8 (Due to only being available to the top 8)
Season of War GT II (Anything played after Round 5 – due to only a few players taking part)
The Hogtowner (Primarily a narrative event with bespoke battleplans)
As always, these are global stats from various sources around the internet.
Faction Win Rates over the Last 4 Weeks
This covers the period from 25th October to 16th November 2025.
Estimated Win Rates if the Player Skill Levels were Equal
That’s a mouthful of title isn’t it!?
Essentially, what I’m trying to do here is work out what the win rates would be if the skill levels of all the players were the same (Yes, I realise this is nearly impossible to calculate – But I’m playing around here).
How it works is by calculating the average Elo of all the players that have had matches since the September battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 435.4. I then calculated how much difference there was between a factions average Elo shown in our original win rate graph to this overall average. The difference between these two figures was then turned into a percentage difference over/under the 435.4 elo. I then increased or decreased their win rate by this percentage (But this isn’t as simple as deducting or adding the percentage different to the win rate – you have to work out for instance what 4% may be of say 53% and then apply that. For Example – 10% of 40% is 4%)
Battle Formation GT Win Rates
This data is calculated in the same way as the win rates for factions. This only shows data for subfactions that have reached 100 games played since the battlescroll dropped.
Faction Popularity (Broken Down by Player Elo Rating)
This is perhaps the most interesting chart to me personally. Here you can see the spread of the player skill levels for each faction according to our Elo rating system (updated each week in line with the Age of Sigmar stats).
The dark blue shows the really elite players of 700+ Elo. Interestingly, they don’t seem to give a damn about which faction is performing well in the meta and rely on their own skill (as they should!). Neither to 600-699 rated players. Where we start to see the swell in players possibly chasing the factions with more favourable rules is in players rated less than 600 Elo.
To make it a bit easier to see the effect of higher skilled players, I’ve added the below chart this week which breaks down each factions player base as a percentage.
Elite and Rookie Players by Faction
The blue section shows the percentage of a factions players which have an Elo rating of 500 or greater. While the Orange shows the number of new players to the faction where they have yet to attend a tournament (based on our database history).
The Fabien Chart
Fabien Barbusse is a top player in the AoS scene and a member of the Woehammer Discord who is one of many who points out any mistakes in the charts before we publish them. He stated he felt the most valuable chart would be a version of the one above, which shows the % of 4+ win results in a 5 game event compared to the other results.
% of Players with a Positive GT Result
Ideally you would want 50% of the players having a positive results for a truly balanced game system.
Consecutive Wins
This chart shows firstly the % of players with a negative result from 5 games at GT’s or GT+ in purple for each faction.
Dark blue shows the percentage of players who achieved 5 wins from 5 in the first five rounds of a GT or GT+.
Orange shows the players who achieved four wins from the first four rounds of a GT or GT+ but were unable to achieve the full house and lost their round 5 match.
Green shows the players who achieved three wins from three wins but were unable to win in their fourth round match.
Light blue shows all other players aside from those shown in the first three categories, who were able to achieve a positive result at a GT or GT+ i.e. 3 or more wins.
Battle Tactic Win Rates
This table shows the most popular battle tactic pairings for each faction.
Battleplan Win Rates
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This is the top three lists for the Batalha de Corvos XX that took place in Portugal between the 15th and 16th of November 2025. It saw 17 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.
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The Top Three AoS Lists
Sylvaneth Wargrove of the Burgeoning General’s Handbook 2025-26 Drops: 4 Spell Lore – Lore of the Deepwood Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of the Deepwood Battle Tactic Cards: Scouting Force, Master The Paths
General’s Regiment Belthanos, First Thorn of Kurnoth (350) • General Gossamid Archers (120) Kurnoth Hunters with Kurnoth Greatswords (420) • Reinforced Kurnoth Hunters with Kurnoth Scythes (380) • Reinforced Tree-Revenants (90)
General’s Regiment Scourge of Ghyran Grey Seer on Screaming Bell (330) • General • Fleshmeddler Rat Ogors (280) • Reinforced Rat Ogors (280) • Reinforced Scourge of Ghyran Brood Terror (240) Stormvermin (240) • Reinforced
Blades of Khorne The Baleful Lords Army of Renown General’s Handbook 2025-26 Drops: 5 Battle Tactic Cards: Intercept and Recover, Wrathful Cycles
General’s Regiment Wrath of Khorne Bloodthirster (400) • General • Unrivalled Battlelust • Crown of the Slaughterborn
Regiment 1 Bloodthirster of Unfettered Fury (390)
Regiment 2 Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage (410)
Regiment 3 Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage (410)
Regiment 4 Bloodthirster of Unfettered Fury (390)
Luis Mendoza: Congrats to David! This 4 – 1 starts showing hope in the BoK options in the META gaming. This roster is based on AoR The Baleful Lords, including in the list Monster Hero Daemons only, 5 in fact since the last Battlescroll update. The AoR synergy between Baleful Lords and all the traits included are so juicy, offering you 2 additional Rampage abilities besides to the chance getting a replacement of a Baleful Lord that was destroyed and some other sniky skills.
The general is Wrath of Khorne, our flaming Bloodthirster is the central piece, the quarterback of this team, he’s specialized to fight vs heroes, his Rampage ability and a melee profile were created to add a good amount of damage on annoying heroes; adding +1 attack characteristic in melee weapons of one visible Bloodthirsteris always pretty welcome that can combine perfectly with Unrivalled Batlelust to add also +1 attack characteristic in combat phase once per battle; and owning of Crown of the Slaughterborn, to avoid any unit within 12″ of him can’t be healed and returning models to them. As any good balanced footbal team, needs good line-breakers elements, 2 Insensate Rage BT, one of those charging with the 2 best dice of a 3D6 because Beckon the hunt from one of the UFBT, breaking the front lines specially if they are infantry. Creating a D3 Mortal Damage to any enemy unit for each roll showing crits. Then, 2 units of Unfettered Fury supporting the threatening range in charges, besides counting with a great profile fighting Monsters, supporting the defensive game reducing the damage in a selected enemy Monster’s melee profile with a -1 to hit, -1 to wound. The list is fast and hitting hard and focusing power can deal damage in the correct units in the proper moments.
And about Tactic cards, those are Master the Paths and Restless Energy, maybe the most reliable combination when your roster is so elite, allowing you to get scoring in a progressive way in parallel to the advance of your units along the game.
Once again, congrats to David!
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This is the top three lists for BOLTERCON 2025: Age of Sigmar GT that took place in Portugal between the 15th and 16th of November 2025. It saw 25 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.
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Gloomspite Gitz Squigalanche General’s Handbook 2025-26 Drops: 4 Spell Lore – Lore of the Clammy Dank Manifestation Lore – Dank Manifestations Battle Tactic Cards: Master The Paths, Attuned to Ghyran
General’s Regiment Rabble-Rowza (120) • General Moonclan Shootas (240) • Reinforced Moonclan Stabbas (110) Scourge of Ghyran Loonsmasha Fanatics (220) • Reinforced Scourge of Ghyran Loonsmasha Fanatics (110)
Regiment 1 Droggz Da Sunchompa (170) Scourge of Ghyran Sporesplatta Fanatics (70) Snarlfang Riders (120)
Regiment 2 Squigboss with Gnasha-Squig (120) • The Clammy Hand Boingrot Bounderz (220) • Reinforced Squig Herd (200) • Reinforced Squig Herd (200) • Reinforced
Senshi: The Squigalanche is the name that best fits the Gitz army right now. Tons of bodies with teeth, claws, and rusty weapons rush against you. In this case, Michael Rausch has brought a colorful mix of goblin factions to represent that, touching almost every keyword in the book (sorry Troggoth, you had your time!).
First, we’re going to take a look at the army traits themselves. In the last battlescroll, Gloomspite Gitz benefited from a big points drop. At this moment, they can bring a huge amount of wounds to the table. Add the Faction Terrain to that, which can revive half of your key units.
Speaking of key units, we have three “hammers” in the list: the two Squig Herd units and the Boingrot Bounders. But you cannot ignore the sneaky damage that the Fanatics or even the Shootas can deal.
With the appropriate moon phase, they control objectives very easily, and the list is full of traps and tricks. The Loonsmasha can jump out and move in any charge phase, while the Squig Herds can run and charge thanks to the Rabble-Rowza. Droggz is also a fantastic piece: that -1 to hit and AoA block can give combat-based enemies a big headache. And if that’s not enough, the Sporesplatta adds a -1 attack debuff.
In summary, this is a list that is uncomfortable to deal with—even for shooting armies—as almost all the units are obscurable.
From my experience playing Gloomspite, I would use the Moonclan as both screens and objective holders, the Fanatics for battle tactics and hunting support heroes, and finally the Squigs for taking down the enemy’s threatening units. Even if you lose several units in the first rounds, they can be replaced, and no single unit is a win condition in this list. Every trade the Goblin player makes should benefit them.
I will end the review by congratulating Michael Rausch for this 1st place. Well done!
General’s Regiment Kairos Fateweaver (420) • General Blue Horrors and Brimstone Horrors (280) • Reinforced Pink Horrors (160) Pink Horrors (160)
Regiment 1 Lord of Change (380) • Illusionist – (20) Points • Mutating Blade • 1x Baleful Sword Changecaster, Herald of Tzeentch (110) Screamers of Tzeentch (80)
Regiments of Renown The Curse-Steel Battery (340) Daemonsmith Deathshrieker Rocket Battery Tormentor Bombard
Slaves to Darkness Champions of Chaos General’s Handbook 2025-26 Drops: 5 Spell Lore – Lore of the Damned Manifestation Lore – Primal Energy (20 Points) Battle Tactics Cards: Intercept and Recover and Restless Energy
General’s Regiment Archaon, the Everchosen (810) • General Regiment 1 Be’lakor, the Dark Master (460)
Regiment 2 Eternus, Blade of the First Prince (180) Regiment 3 Chaos Lord on Daemonic Mount (140) • Amulet of Chaos Chaos Knights (250) • The Dread Banner Regiment 4 Centaurion Marshal (140) • Radiance of Dark Glory
Faction Terrain Nexus Chaotica
Neil Addleman: Being the person who ran this list I hope I can speak to it properly, although it is almost an exact copy of Nicolas Tassone’s list from Worlds I just moved around the regiments a little to make it a five drop.
The list is very much focused around Archaon and controlling the board while keeping him alive as long as possible. Archaon is fast, can hit hard (sometimes), eats manifestations, and can sometimes tank the world especially with the healing this list has. Between Archaon’s rampage to eat a model and heal equal to it’s health characteristic as long as he rolls over it, Lifeswarm from the Primal Energy Lore, and Radiance of Dark Glory Archaon can heal upwards of 11 damage in a single turn. And Be’lakor is one of the best support pieces for him. Deadly Trap allows him to sit behind Archaon and make charges much more unappealing due to threat of strike first, Dark Master can shut down a key hammer that threatens Archaon for a turn or two, and he can always join Archaon in combat to contribute some more damage.
Chaos Lord on Daemonic Mount carries your artefact to punch out a little more damage and turns the five knights into a proper damage piece with the +1 to wound. The Knights also carry the dread banner to shut down commands. While Eternus gives you another command shutdown and the late game resurrection to steal objectives making primary and possibly restless energy scoring easier. While Centaurion Marshal is mostly used for his speed to keep up with Archaon and heal him with the heroic trait, he can also hit harder than you’d expect because of the Battle Formation to give all non-monster heroes +2 attacks.
Then Restless Energy and Intercept and Recover round out the list as the tactics. While the list isn’t the highest output list in terms of damage, the speed and bulk of this list can score these better than you’d expect. An ideal game starts with you being given top of one, sending Archaon into something with Daemonic Speed to soften up the opponent then powering through back to your castle to heal up and get Deadly Trap protection. Then Dark Master bottom of two, hopefully be in a position where they have to play passively enough, and you use the hopeful reroll from being five regiments to force them into a double. Then finish it up by using Archaon’s Eye ability to double them back while still scoring tactics and having most if not all your army left.
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Following of the back of our most recent narrative event – the Return to Mortensholm – we’re looking to get back to the Old World soon. We’ll be returning to Battlefield Hobbies on the 21st and 22nd March 2026 whre we’ll be running through the Circle of Blood campaign from 6th Edition Warhammer Fantasy adapted for the Old World.
Players will need a 1,500 point painted Warhammer Old World army using either Warhammer official supplements. Full details of the battles and schedule for the weekend will follow in due course, but each player will receive their own mini Woehammer Circle of Blood campaign book on the weekend.
The event will start at 9am on Saturday 21st March and finish on Sunday the 22nd March at 5pm. You’ll be able to take part in 3 one-on-one games over the Saturday as well as a further one-on-one on Sunday monrning and a doubles game in the afternoon.
You don’t need to turn up with a friend, we can pair you with a friend-you-just-don’t-know-yet should the need arise.
We’ll have prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Best Ravening Hordes General, Best Forces of Fantasy General, Best Painted, Most Sporting and the popular Toilet Duck award!
If you’re interested in taking part, then please purchase a ticket below. Spaces are limited for this event with 16 places, but there will also be a waiting list, should we fill the slots.
If you have any questions, please drop me a message on thewoehammer@gmail.com
This article was originally posted on Woehammer back on 31st January 2022.
From December 21, we’d started to cover a few top 3s, and at the end of Jan, I ran my first stats article covering those events. Little did I know how popular this would become!
