Top Three AoS Lists for the Northern Ireland GT

This is the top three AoS lists for the Northern Ireland GT
that took place in the UK between the 1st and 2nd of August 2026. It saw 52 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Cities of Sigmar
Stalwart Guardians
General’s Handbook 2026-27
Drops: 3
Spell Lore – Spells of the Collegiate Arcane
Prayer Lore – Scriptures of Sigmar
Battle Tactics Cards: Blazing Onslaught and Legend of the Parch

General’s Regiment
Tahlia Vedra, Lioness of the Parch (340)
• General
Freeguild Cavalier-Marshal (120)
Freeguild Cavaliers (310)
• Reinforced
• The Living City Cross
Freeguild Cavaliers (300)
• Reinforced

Regiment 1
Alchemite Warforger (130)
• Bones of Saint Ignifus
Freeguild Steelhelms (90)
Freeguild Steelhelms (90)

Regiment 2
Fusil-Major on Ogor Warhulk (160)
• Beloved Leader
Gate Gargants (320)
Ironweld Great Cannon (140)

Faction Terrain
Dawners Triumph

Keegan Graves: This list is a culmination of all the good stuff cities has access to more or less. It’s designed to be a “I’m better at melee combat than you” list with a healthy smattering of shooting units.

Thalia is a monstrously good tech piece that, with the help of the Cavaliers, will control the tempo of the game. The name of the game here is superior mobility and activation control. The Cavaliers will always be where they want to with their charge in while in combat ability, and Thalia allows an infantry unit to move in the enemy hero phase. Top this off with the steelhelms forcing whatever they are in combat with to fight them, and the opponent will never get to pick a comfortable activation.

In order to force the opponent to engage, the list brings some solid shooting. Gate gargants and a cannon can easily blow up a unit every turn, and the Marshall on Ogor helps by giving them +1 to hit a unit he points at.

The list overall has a ton of synergy and access to superior movement. Gate gargants on top of their shooting and melee can give out retreat and charge as well as +2 to charge. Beloved leader negates debuffs for units under orders wholly within 12″ which is helpful in getting you melee damage through.

General game plan is focusing down problem units with the shooting, and gunking up the board with armor while you farm victory points. Waste the opponents time with tricks and bad activations, and then press the go button with Thalia to kill them dead.

Disciples of Tzeentch
Mutants and Mad Things
General’s Handbook 2026-27
Drops: 3
Spell Lore – Lore of Change
Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of Tzeentch
Battle Tactic Cards: Burning for Vengeance, Siege of Ashes

General’s Regiment
Lord of Change (400)
• General
• Kairic Tome – (20) Points
Chaos Spawn of Tzeentch (60)
Flamers of Tzeentch (130)
Flamers of Tzeentch (130)
Tzaangor Enlightened (400)
• Reinforced

Regiment 1
Changecaster, Herald of Tzeentch (140)
Blue Horrors and Brimstone Horrors (240)
• Reinforced
Burning Chariot of Tzeentch (120)
Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch (140)
• Vision of Arcane Sacrifice – (20) Points

Regiment 2
Curseling, Eye of Tzeentch (170)
• Devolving Aura
Chaos Spawn of Tzeentch (60)

Faction Terrain
Argent Shard

Hanna Leppänen: Solomon’s list is a Daemon archetype, with LoC + Kairic Tome (ww 6″ +1 or -1 to cast for friendly units, once per spell, but can otherwise use it for every cast), 20 Blues as a tarpit, almost compulsory 6 Enlightened as the hammer, with a lot of chip shooting which can add up quite a bit. Battle tactics are pretty normal for Tzeentch, Siege and Burning, which are reasonably easy for this list to achieve. Mutants and Mad Things give a lot of flexibility with MSU based list, threatening all the board edges, especially with Flamers.

Tzeentch generally has a couple of almost autopicks with 2 Spawns for Smoke&Mirrors usage, Curseling for melee casts and great spell and Enlightened for decently reliable hammer that can pick up most of the units in one go, only to disappear with S&M, Fold Reality or in this case, LoC spell Temporal Manipulation, which allows you to move a unit that was not set up this turn ww 18″ with normal move (so no retreating from combat).

The list has daemon recursion from LoC, which gives the list additional board presence, bringing back 2 Flamers for 3 dead, or Exalted Flamer/Burning Chariot wholly back for 1 CP. Exalted Flamer is “protected” by Arcane sacrifice trait, which gives D6 Fate pts if killed for the first time, then easily revived to give the -1 save possibility if it does damage, which does apply to shooting, unlike the Curseling Spell. LoC aura keeps daemons alive with -1 to hit, fate pts and rage dice. Also Bolt of Tzeentch and Sigil can dish out -1 to wound, which can make the Blues really hard to kill, especially with Weapon Curse (no weapon abilities) from the Changecaster. You really want to kill those Blues in one go, or they multiply to Brimstone horrors at the end of the turn, and then rallied with 9 dice from the Changecaster.

As said before the shooting element of this list deserves some looking into. Everything except for Enlightened and Chaos Spawns have a shooting attack, many of which do D3 dmg. This can be quite a surprise if you’re used to basically no shooting after last season with lots of obscuring. While Tzeentch shooting has poor rend in general, AoD is hard to use against so many sources of shooting and chip shooting can really add up to a lot of damage, especially with possible Exalted Flamer -1 to save debuff.

Curseling with Devolving Aura is a cool idea, because of the mobility Curseling can provide with combat phase casting, and all the other movement teleport tricks Tzeentch is entitled to. This can easily lead to him hopping around, giving max control score of 1 to units every hero phase, lasting until the start of your next turn. Take that OC 4 Gluttons!

Congrats to Solomon for going 5-0!

Daughters of Khaine
Coven of Blood
General’s Handbook 2026-27
Drops: 2
Spell Lore – Lore of Shadows
Prayer Lore – Prayers of the Khainite Cult
Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of Khaine
Battle Tactics Cards: Burning for Vengeance and Siege of Ashes

General’s Regiment
Morathi-Khaine (750)
• General
Blood Sisters (320)
• Reinforced
Khinerai Heartrenders (100)
Khinerai Lifetakers (110)
The Shadow Queen

Regiment 1
Slaughter Queen on Cauldron of Blood (300)
• Honoured Among Sects
• Witchbrew
Scourge of Aqshy: Melusai Ironscale (140)
Witch Aelves (250)
• Reinforced
• Talismans of Shadow

Faction Terrain
Shrine of Dark Tribute (20)

Kharadron Overlords
Pioneers and Scavengers (10 Points)
General’s Handbook 2026-27
Drops: 2
Battle Tactic Cards: Burning for Vengeance, Siege of Ashes

General’s Regiment
Brokk Grungsson, Lord-Magnate of Barak-Nar (260)
• General
Arkanaut Frigate (300)
• Gruksson Wide-bore Cylinders
Skywardens (270)
• Reinforced
• Artycle 15, Point 4 – (10) Points
Vongrim Salvagers (220)
• Reinforced

Regiment 1
Null-Khemist (140)
• Shrewd Opportunist – (10) Points
• Celestium Burst Grenade – (10) Points
Arkanaut Frigate (300)
Skywardens (260)
• Reinforced
Vongrim Salvagers (220)
• Reinforced

Faction Terrain
Zontari Endrin Dock (20 Points)