Here we are back on the last day of March looking at our List Challenge for the month. We’ve got LRL at the top of the pack causing a bunch of trouble (although I wouldn’t say that it’s their casting making all of the issues). Running Kharadron recently, it’s no surprise that I’m not a big wizard fan so I was happy to lay down the gauntlet for the best anti-magic list.
I guess like lots of us out there I’ve been taking it a little easy on the AoS side of things waiting for the next Battlescroll. Please please please give me the battlescroll this week!
Up first is a pair of lists from Xaine going in heavy on the classic lets kill the wizards Khorne side of things!
The first is leaning into a themed list although I believe the moral of the story of several iconic 80s films was that we should all beware the nerds 😉
But you know… if all else fails, why not just try and kill all the wizards / bring bloodthirsters back with a Baleful Lords list?
Netx up we’re heading over to Seraphon with what feels a bit like if you can’t beat ‘em join em sort of thing but that’s a fair approach here and mass unbinds definitely works to counter casting heavy armies.
From Popliteal themself:
“What better way to tell wizards to mind their own goddamn business than 6 board-wide unbinds? What if three of them are at +1?
If that’s not enough, the starpriests bring two more unbinds, and the flying cavalry ignores their pathetic attempt at screening their squishy warm-blooded “wizards”. Combine all this with Run and charge from the spell lore, extra movement from the astorism, and you’ve got a very speedy wizard blender. (Results for any other matchups may vary)“
I know if I’d be entering myself, I’d probably be throwing in an anti-magic KO list looking at multiple ways to stop spells through wards, unbinds, and spell blocking boatefacts… and maybe even bringing a pointy eared ally wizard. This leans into that idea of trying to stop them at their game. However, there is another way to deal with the mortal wounds output from spellcasting armies…
The Envoy: “Just 203 wounds of angry mob”
And it’s bloody well true! I’m giving this months top prize to The Envoy on this one! Sure, this list is going to cause a spell casting army headaches… but it’s also got enough to it to really help carry it in a meta that needs to be able to deal with other mortal wounds sources and, at the end of the day, this list will happily go take and keep objectives and slap back too. Congrats to The Envoy for winning this month’s challenge.
Next month: Assuming we’ve got a battlescroll this week… I know all you List Addicts will be out there theory crafting and trying to see how to best adjust after whatever changes we see (I hope it’s LRL getting nerfed hard :P). So let’s see your best Battlescrol Reaction lists.
This time I’m going to give bonus points to submission with some combination of the following: a) clever adjustments
b) new lists opened up by the battlescroll… and yeah, I do also mean lists spamming silly shit
c) lists with a good explanation /commentary of what they do.
Good luck out there and don’t forget to drop your submissions to me over on the Discord: https://discord.gg/s8qytsGz
In the meantime… I’ll get back to impatiently waiting for the Battlescroll!
