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Top Three AoS Lists for the MAW Tribe Telarah Takedown 2025

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This is the top three lists for the MAW Tribe Telarah Takedown 2025 that took place in Australia between the 15th and 16th of November 2025. It saw 28 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Stormcast Eternals
Thunderhead Host
[Master the Paths]
[Restless Energy]
[Lore of the Storm]
[Aetherwrought Machineries]

Lord-Commander Bastian Carthalos (220)
[General]
– 1 x Gardus Steel Soul (160)
– 6 x Annihilators with Meteoric Grandhammers (360)
– 6 x Vanguard-Raptors with Longstrike Crossbows (400)
– 3 x Stormcoven (210)

Lord-Imperatant (110)
[Beacon of Azyr]
[Shock and Awe]
– 6 x Annihilators with Meteoric Grandhammers (360)
– 5 x Vigilors (140)

Stormreach Portal (20pts)

1980/2000pts
2 drops

Luis Mendoza: Great job, Jack! A perfect 5 – 0 using Bastian and Grandhammers – something that every single SCE player that owns these badass models is willing to do -.

The list is built using Thunderhead Host to benefit Warrior chambers with +1 hit if they are wholly within 12″ of a non-hero or Beast unit with a different Chamber keyword. The roster contains 2-drops, this could allow you to have the chance to decide priority in the most part of the time. The list is not including priest, something interesting, and only including a wizard unit. Let’s take a look in detail.

Bastian is the General, with the well-known abilities to move 3 units during the deployment phase and use Area of ​​Attack on any unit completely within 12″, even without any Command Points. Gardus Steel Soul is another favorite model of the faction, both for its lore and its usefulness in 3rd Edition. Now, he has a 12″ aura to share a ward with a 5+ save during the combat phase, provided if he’s charged. He also grants a +1 to charge and +1 melee attacks once per battle to up to 3 units completely within 6″. Rounding out the hero section is Lord Imperatant, with two upgrades: Beacon of Azyr, which allows him to automatically cast a spell or prayer in an unmodified 7 value, and Shock and Awe, which grants him and any unit under the Battle Trait Scions of the Storm a -1 hit on any attack during that same round; besides Imperatant allows you to pick up to 3 units wholly whitin combat range during movement phase and move upto D3″ what increases the chances to get a charge. So, the synergy in the support heros is to reduce the possibility failing a charge.

In the Non-heroic block, 2x units of reinforced Grandhammers, these guys have an ability to create a D3 Mortal Wounds when they are fielded using the battle trait Scions of the Storm, besides to assign strike last to an enemy when the charge is 8+; statistically 13 succesful wounds per attack with Rend 2 and Damage 3 is the output – this could means 12 damage points in a unit with 2+ safe and 5+ ward -; then we have the shooting hammer, a reinforced unit of Longstrikes, the elite shooting unit vs enemy heroes improving +1 Rend, in a 24″-30″ theatening range. Then a Vigilor unit, the supporting shooting to contribute with a +1 to hit to any kind of attack if they get damage to an enemy unit, and last infantry unit is the Stormcoven a wizard unit level 1, here the reason of Beacon trying to trigger the Strike Last / Strike First according the situation, and also increasing the opportunity of a sucessful charge with your hammers using the Aethervoid Pendulum. Also they offer a decent shooting attack.

So this list works in a synergic task to increase your opportunity of a good ending charge, with the chance to take strike first and strike last mechanics, so valuable for the type of units and taking +1 to hit so often to avoid efficiency reduction in youroverall output. Master the Paths and Resteless Energy tactic cards are the best fit in an elite army considering the profile and skills under this list.

Congrats again to Jack!

Stormcast Eternals
Lightning Echelon
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 2
Spell Lore – Lore of the Storm dildo
Prayer Lore – Prayers of the Stormhosts fetishes
Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of the Storm fleshlight
Battle Tactics Cards: Master The Paths and Restless Energy

General’s Regiment
Scourge of Ghyran Iridan the Moistener(320)
• General
Dirty Mike (Lord-Terminos) (140)
• Quicksilver Draught
• Legendary Tenacity
And the boys (Reclusians) (280)
• Reinforced
Double ended drake Guard (310)
• 2 Drakerider’s Warblade
Double ended drake Guard (310)
• 2 Drakerider’s Warblade

Regiment 1
The spanked tart (Knight-Arcanum) (120)
Circle jerk of lightning (Stormcoven)(210)
Premature discharges – Vigilors (140)
Premature discharges – Vigilors (140)

Faction Terrain
F-shack – Stormreach Portal (20)

Luis Mendoza: Nice SCE weekend here! Congrats Adam for this 4 -1. This 2-drops list is working under Lightning Echelon, this trying to use a strike first on a unit of Extremis Chamber that successful charged in a roll of 3+.

The list starts with the SoG Iridan, priest level 1 and move 12″, with her own prayer that can improve in +1 Rend in 1 or 2 Ruination Chamber units, also supporting the defensive game re-rolling the resistance ability to deny non core ability effects on same type units. Lord Terminos is the next supporting hero, holding 2 enhancements, QSD to get Strike First and Legendary Tenacity to stay in the game in a 3+ even when an attack has taking down him and not counting as slain, both enhacements once per battle; in case of Quicksilver Draught, is usable chaining the attacks with the Reclusians, fighting immediatly after Terminos. Then Knight Arcanum, a wizard level 1, with the +1 in rolls summoning Endless Spells, this absolutely necessary using the Everblaze Comet, not easily seen nowadays.
Then are the 2x Stormdrake Guard units, 18 health points, moving 12″ and shooting in 10″ and 2 profiles in melee, this unit can create a decent damage, specially charging against Infantry units, with Finest Hour they are a nightmare for the opponents. Since the SdG belongs to Extremis Chamber they can trigger the 3+ roll to get Strike First. Also the reinforced unit of Reclusians, same Health Point in total, one of the few SCE units creating Mortal Wounds on 6s, 19 attacks with the chance to create statistically 27 successful wounds per attack if they are totally buffed – 11 damage points in average on units with 2+ safe and 5+ ward -, nothing despicable at all for 280 points. Stormcoven as supporting infantry unit, that could add the Strike First or Strike Last and the Vigilors with the +1 to hit on all the subsequent attacks on a damaged unit by their shooting.

The Tactic Cards are Master the Paths and Restless Energy, the best synergy with the type of roster since are working in parallel according the match is progressing.

Cheers for the good results!

Flesh-eater Courts
Knightly Echelon
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 3
Spell Lore – Lore of Madness
Prayer Lore – Rites of Delusion
Manifestation Lore – Manifested Insanity
Battle Tactic Cards: Restless Energy, Master The Paths

General’s Regiment

Regiment 1
Abhorrant Ghoul King on Royal Terrorgheist (350)
• Stronger in Madness
• Horribly Resilient
Crypt Horrors (320)
• Reinforced
Crypt Horrors (320)
• Reinforced

Regiment 2
Abhorrant Cardinal (150)
• Charnel Vestments – (20) Points
Crypt Ghouls (160)

Faction Terrain
Charnel Throne (10 Points)

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Warhammer Quest: Darkwater Release Day

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It’s the day we’ve all been waiting for! The day when we spend the cash we’ve been putting aside to buy Christmas presents for our loved ones on Plastic crack instead!

I had the opportunity to play through the first scenario earlier this week, and I’ve got to say it’s refreshing from Cursed City.

Two of us, who didn’t know how to play, had managed to set up, play the game, and finish the scenario in just 40 minutes.

The book of maps is a massive benefit to the tiles you get in Cursed City, and the models are beautiful.

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Top Three AoS Lists for the Grudgefest GT 2025

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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)

Regiment 3
Battlemage on Celestial Hurricanum (240)
Freeguild Fusiliers (110)
Freeguild Steelhelms (180)
• Reinforced

Regiment 4
Freeguild Marshal and Relic Envoy (100)
• 1x Duelling Pistols and Silvered Shortsword
Freeguild Command Corps (170)
Wildercorps Hunters (100)

Seraphon
Thunderquake Starhost
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 4
Spell Lore – Lore of Primal Jungles
Manifestation Lore – Aetherwrought Machineries
Battle Tactics Cards: Restless Energy and Wrathful Cycles

General’s Regiment
Scourge of Ghyran Saurus Oldblood on Carnosaur (320)
• General
• Incandescent Rectrices
• Beastmaster
• Ancient Defender
Engine of the Gods (170)
Stegadon (170)
• 1 Skystreak Bow

Regiment 1
Stegadon Chief (180)
• 1 Skystreak Bow
Bastiladon with Ark of Sotek (230)

Regiment 2
Skink Oracle on Troglodon (240)
Stegadon (170)
• 1 Skystreak Bow

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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Top Three AoS Lists for the Doom Fire 2-Dayer!

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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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To help with some of the analysis and to give you a little more information, the battlerounds played this event were:

Round 1 – Cyclic Shifts
Round 2 – Surge of Slaughter
Round 3 – Noxious Nexus
Round 4 – Grasp of Thorns
Round 5 – Roiling Roots

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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)

Regiment 2
Alarith Stonemage (140)
• Silver Wand – (20) Points
• Flawless Commander

Faction Terrain
Shrine Luminor (20 Points)

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

General’s Regiment
Bloab Rotspawned (300)
• General
Putrid Blightkings (380)
• Reinforced

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)

Regiment 1
Warstomper Mega-Gargant (470)
• Monstrously Tough
• Extra-calloused Feet – (10) Points
Beast-smasher Mega-Gargant (470)

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Top Three AoS Lists for the Dice Tower GT 

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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 1
Ellania and Ellathor, Eclipsian Warsages (290)
Vanari Bladelords (300)
* Reinforced
Vanari Bladelords (300)
* Reinforced

Regiment 2
Scinari Enlightener (180)
* Flawless Commander

Regiment 3
Scinari Cathallar (110)
* Waystone
Ydrilan Riverblades (160)

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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Age of Sigmar: 4th Edition Meta Stats (September Battlescroll) – 23rd November 2025

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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)

SOURCES
Best coast Pairings – 56 Events (1,770 Players)
Tabeltop Herald – 2 Events (227 Players)
Milarki – 6 Events (110 Players)
Championshub.app – 2 Events (91 Players)
MiniHeadQuarters – 1 Event (55 Players)
Ecksen – 1 Event (24 Players)

GT Win Rates

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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Top Three AoS Lists for the Batalha de Corvos XX

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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)

Regiment 1
Warsong Revenant (200)
• Ranu’s Lamentiri

Regiment 2
Branchwych (110)
• Warsinger

Regiment 3
Scourge of Ghyran Drycha Hamadreth (300)

Faction Terrain
Awakened Wyldwood

Skaven
Fleshmeld Menagerie
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 2
Spell Lore – Lore of Ruin
Prayer Lore – Noxious Prayers
Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of Doom
Battle Tactic Cards: Restless Energy, Scouting Force

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

Regiment 1
Plague Priest on Plague Furnace (320)
• Warpstone Charm
Clanrats (150)
Plague Monks (140)

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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Top Three AoS Lists for BOLTERCON 2025: Age of Sigmar GT

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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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The Top Three AoS Lists

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

Regiment 3
Webspinner Shaman (100)
• Leering Gitshield

Faction Terrain
Bad Moon Loonshrine

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!

Disciples of Tzeentch
Wyrdflame Host
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 3
Spell Lore – Lore of Change (30 Points)
Manifestation Lore – Morbid Conjuration (30 Points)
Battle Tactic Cards: Restless Energy, Wrathful Cycles

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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Orruk Warclans
Zoggrok’s Ironmongerz
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 5
Spell Lore – Zoggrok’s Ironmongerz Spell Lore
Prayer Lore – Zoggrok’s Ironmongerz Prayer Lore
Manifestation Lore – Zoggrok’s Ironmongerz Manifestation Lore
Battle Tactic Cards: Attuned to Ghyran, Wrathful Cycles

General’s Regiment
Zoggrok Anvilsmasha (160)
• General
• 1x Grunta-tongs
Ardboyz (340)
• Reinforced
Ardboyz (340)
• Reinforced
Ardboyz (170)
Ardboyz (170)

Regiment 1
Warchanter (110)
Ardboyz (340)
• Reinforced

Regiment 2
Warchanter (110)

Regiment 3
Weirdnob Shaman (120)
• Da Great Wollopa

Regiment 4
Ardboy Big Boss (110)
• Oi! Back To It!

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Woehammer Old World Narrative Event: The Circle of Blood 21st/22nd March

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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.

Battlefield Hobbies is located in Daventry, Northamptonshire in the UK.

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

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Event Ticket

The Circle of Blood

£55.00