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Top Three AoS Lists for Bathurst GT

September 18, 2022 Brett & Peter Leave a comment

This is the Top Three AoS Lists for the Bathurst Grand Tournament that took place in Bathurst, NSW, Australia on 10th and 11th September. It involved 33 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament in the Mountains west of Sydney. The tournament didn’t allow book Battle Tactics or Grand Strategies, instead following the GHB Season 1 alternatives only.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Allegiance: Bonesplitterz
– Warclan: Icebone
– Grand Strategy: No Place for the Weak
– Triumphs: Inspired

Leaders
Wurrgog Prophet (150)**
– General
– Command Trait: Master of Magic
– Artefact: Mork’s Boney Bitz
– Universal Spell Lore: Levitate
– Krondspine Bond
Wurrgog Prophet (150)**
– Artefact: Glowin’ Tattooz
– Lore of the Savage Beast: Glowy Green Tusks
Wardokk (80)**
– Lore of the Savage Beast: Gorkamorka’s War Cry
Wardokk (80)***
– Lore of the Savage Beast: Gorkamorka’s War Cry

Battleline
5 x Savage Boarboys (140)**
– Chompas
5 x Savage Boarboys (140)
– Chompas
5 x Savage Boarboys (140)
– Chompas

Units
2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80)***
2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80)***
2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80)***
2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80)***
2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80)***
5 x Savage Boarboy Maniaks (145)*
5 x Savage Boarboy Maniaks (145)*

Behemoths
Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur (400)***

Core Battalions
*Bounty Hunters
**Warlord
***Battle Regiment

Additional Enhancements
Artefact

Total: 1970 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 0 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 139
Drops: 9

Brett: Another Bonesplitterz win, this time in the mountain country which seems like it would a natural home for the smaller orcs. And pretty cold at this time of year, especially nice for Icebone. Similar to some other recent Bonesplitterz lists but with extra Wurrgog and some Wardokks. Only one of the Wurrgog’s has the tattoos for the 4+ and the other is the general so you don’t want him to die. That means late game you’ve very likely got a screened Wurrgog that if you’re pushed you can still do the stare. Bottom of 3 or in turns 4/5 that’s a real game changer. Similarly the Krondspine is here as well, I can see that working really well by giving you a durable option, something the Bones are missing.

You can anchor one end of the line with him forcing your opponent to really commit then counter assault with either the Big Stabbas or the Boars. Lots of mobility from the pregame move and the 5 units of Boars. 4 casters giving 6 casts and unbinds, both the Wurrgog and Wardokk have unique abilities, the Wardokk healing, wounding or improving spell casts. A Wardokk near the Wurrgog General combined with the 6+ natural ward and the 4+ ward during the Waaagh makes him as dangerous as the Wurrgog with Glowing Tattoo’s combo. The Glowing Green Tusks improves a Boars rend by 2 (-2) and War Cry applies a fight last.

A lot of tricks even in a straight forward list with some nasty stings that would take a lot of thought to work around. Definitely a worthy winner, and no Purple Sun either.

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Allegiance: Sons of Behemat
– Tribe: Breaker Tribe (Fierce Loathing: Shiny ‘Uns)
– Grand Strategy: No Place for the Weak
– Triumphs: Inspired

Leaders
Kragnos, The End of Empires (720)
Gatebreaker Mega-Gargant (525)*
– General
– Command Trait: Extremely Bitter – Bossy Pants and Clever Clogs
– Artefact: Vial of Manticore Venom (Universal Artefact)
Gatebreaker Mega-Gargant (525)*
– Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact)
– Universal Spell Lore: Flaming Weapon

Battleline
1 x Mancrusher Gargants (170)

Core Battalions
*Bosses of the Stomp – Magnificent

Total: 1940 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 0 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 100
Drops: 4

Brett: Kragnos for mortals and 3D6 charges with a pair of Gatebreakers both with weapon enhancements (+1 to wound rolls for the Venom and +1 damage for Flaming Weapon) for extra deadliness. It does make you wonder why Kragnos has less wounds than a Gargant though. Otherwise there isn’t a heap to say, Extremely bitter for additional loathings – HQs and Wizards attract an extra +1 to hit rolls. Anything with a save of 1+ through to 4+ also attracts a +1 to hit. Terence only lost his last round match (to Dalton) and honestly that’s a pretty hard counter to this list. Wurrgogs can be hard on Gargants and are really dangerous for Kragnos, potentially killing him before he gets to Bellow. If I have the right army Terence also did really well in the painting on top of being a great general.

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Allegiance: Lumineth Realm-lords
– Great Nation: Alumnia
– Grand Strategy: Show of Dominance
– Triumphs: Indomitable

Leaders
Scinari Cathallar (110)*
– General
– Command Trait: Burning Gaze
– Artefact: Waystone
– Lore of Hysh: Total Eclipse
Vanari Lord Regent (155)*
– Lore of Hysh: Lambent Light

Battleline
10 x Vanari Auralan Wardens (145)***
– Lore of Hysh: Lambent Light
10 x Vanari Auralan Wardens (145)***
– Lore of Hysh: Lambent Light
10 x Vanari Auralan Wardens (145)***
– Lore of Hysh: Speed of Hysh
30 x Vanari Auralan Sentinels (510)*
– Lore of Hysh: Protection of Hysh
– Reinforced x 2
20 x Vanari Auralan Sentinels (340)*
– Lore of Hysh: Lambent Light
– Reinforced x 1
5 x Vanari Bladelords (130)**
5 x Vanari Dawnriders (140)**
– Lore of Hysh: Speed of Hysh

Units
5 x Vanari Dawnriders (140)**
– Spell1: Lore of Hysh: Lambent Light

Endless Spells & Invocations
Chronomantic Cogs (40)

Core Battalions
*Battle Regiment
**Bounty Hunters
***Expert Conquerors

Total: 2000 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 3 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 121
Drops: 7

Brett: Described by his own team members as a filthy list, we have the 50 x Sentinel shoot for the sun list. But there is a lot more than Sentinels happening here. By lightening his HQ slot Sam has left room for 3 multi purpose Warden units (MSU) and still had room for a decent mobile Bounty Hunter units (Bladelords and Dawnriders). The Wardens are useful as screens, very good on objectives (they are Expert Conquerors) and a decent threat with Power of Hysh giving them mortals on 5s and 6s. They are also boasting Lambent Light to serve as marker lights for the Sentinels making at least 2 units very dangerous to bully off objectives.

The Bladelords are probably going to stay near the Cathallar for their bodyguard but the 2 Dawnriders are useful not only as battleline to harry GV units but are a good way to pick up a Battle Tactic or 2 with their speed. Then there are the 50 Sentinels with their superior range, mortal wounds and indirect fire. Sam recovered from a first round loss to finish on 4/1. The first round was into a Fangs of Sotek list with Lord Kroak turning of most Lumineth magic making them much less effective. A difficult match up. Despite the description at the start this is a fairly risky list, maximising troops over some efficient HQs and a very good result as pay off.

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Allegiance: Blades of Khorne
– Slaughterhost: The Goretide
– Grand Strategy: Show of Dominance
– Triumphs: Indomitable

Leaders
Bloodsecrator (125)****
– Banner of Khorne (Artefact): Banner of Rage
Bloodsecrator (125)****
– Artefact: Thronebreaker’s Torc
Bloodstoker (80)****
– Artefact: Talisman of Burning Blood
Bloodstoker (80)***
Slaughterpriest (100)***
– Prayer: Bronzed Flesh
Skarr Bloodwrath (105)***
– General

Battleline
6 x Mighty Skullcrushers (330)*
– Bloodglaives
– Reinforced x 1
30 x Bloodreavers (240)*
– Meatripper Axes
– Reinforced x 2
10 x Bloodreavers (80)**
– Meatripper Axes
10 x Bloodreavers (80)**
– Meatripper Axes
10 x Bloodreavers (80)**
– Meatripper Axes

Units
10 x Ungor Raiders (80)***
10 x Wrathmongers (290)*
– Reinforced x 1
5 x Wrathmongers (145)****

Endless Spells & Invocations
Hexgorger Skulls (50)

Core Battalions
*Bounty Hunters
**Expert Conquerors
***Warlord
****Warlord

Additional Enhancements
Artefact
Artefact

Total: 1990 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 4 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 176
Drops: 14

Brett: Patrick is a member of Measured Gaming and you can find him running lists similar to this one on the Measured Gaming youtube channel. Great battle reports but they aren’t kid or work friendly. Pat went 3/2 and finished 10th with Khorne, but hasn’t taken any of the big Daemon models, instead sticking with mortals to make it much harder. Double warlord battalion for 2 extra relics so lets start with those. Thronebreaker’s Torc is mandatory for Goretide, Banner of Rage is 12″ aura of reroll 1s, and Talisman of Burning Blood adds 1 to charge rolls within 12″ of the bearer. Goretide includes a run and charge (with an auto 6″ run) command ability for mortal units, and more dangerously grants reroll 1s to wound within 12″ of an objective.

This list is going to fight near objectives, 4 of the 6 small heroes are buffing pieces – the Bloodstokers grants 3″ to run and charge where the Bloodsecrator adds an attack. Bloodsecrators also force rerolls of successful casts. The Slaughterpriest is the source of magic (since Khorne hates magic) including dispels and Skarr is a bomb looking for your large horde like blob to explode in. With luck he can return and fight again. Large blocks of Mighty Skullcrushers, Wrathmongers and Bloodreavers in Bounty Hunters for the potential extra damage and to take advantage of the increased attacks (or hand them out for Wrathmongers) Khorne loves to provide. The multiple smaller units are useful as screens but they are really here to die and give up Bloodtithe points. Khorne doesn’t care where the skulls come from.

Pat’s doubled up on their usefulness by putting them in Eternal Conquers for additional impact on objectives. Which they want to fight near due to Goretide. Very easy for a lot of factions to lose an objective to stray Bloodreavers. Great to see a variant list which I’m sure caused some issues for opponents.

Final Tournament Placings

Age of Sigmar, Army Lists, Baleful Lords, Blades of Khorne, Bloodgullet, Celestial Warbringers, Chaos, Destruction, Ethan & Peter, Fantasy, Fyreslayers, Games Workshop, Greyfyrd, Ogor Mawtribes, Order, Stormcast Eternals, Top three lists, Tournaments

Top Three AoS Lists for the Salt Lake Open 2022

September 5, 2022 Ethan & Peter Leave a comment

This is the Top Three AoS Lists for the Salt Lake Open 2022 that took place in the USA on 20th and 21st August. It involved 33 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Army Faction: Fyreslayers
– Subfaction: Greyfyrd
– Grand Strategy: Masters of the Forge
– Triumph: Inspired

LEADERS
Auric Runefather (125)**
– General
– Command Traits: Spirit of Grimnir
– Artefacts of Power: The Daemon Slayer
Battlesmith (150)**
– Artefacts of Power: Nulsidian Icon
Auric Runeson (80)**
– Ancestral War-axe
– Artefacts of Power: Axe of Grimnir
Auric Flamekeeper (90)****
– Artefacts of Power: Draught of Magmalt Ale
Auric Runemaster (125)****
– Artefacts of Power: Volatile Brazier
– Prayers: Heal
Auric Runesmiter (135)****
– Forge Key
– Prayers: Prayer Of Ash

BATTLELINE
Hearthguard Berzerkers (320)*
– Karl
– Berzerker Broadaxe
Hearthguard Berzerkers (320)*
– Karl
– Flamestrike Poleaxe
Vulkite Berzerkers with Bladed Slingshields (160)***
– Fyresteel War-pick and Bladed Slingshield
Vulkite Berzerkers with Fyresteel Handaxes (170)***

OTHER
Auric Hearthguard (250)**

ENDLESS SPELLS & INVOCATIONS
1 x Molten Infernoth (40)

TERRAIN
1 x Magmic Battleforge (0)

CORE BATTALIONS
*Bounty Hunters
**Warlord
***Expert Conquerors
****Command Entourage
– Magnificent

TOTAL POINTS: 1965/2000

Ethan: Holy moly what a collection of lists this tournament presents! In the vein of Bill Souza this list uses many battalions in order to stack up bonus enhancements and abilities but that is where the comparison ends. Fyreslayers are uniquely suited to taking high drop lists in that they, unlike most armies, don’t care about taking first and can weather an enemy double turn thanks to their durability. This opens up a broad cadre of list building options with the sheer number of heroes present here not reasonable for those armies relying on Battle Regiment to have play.

Getting into the list itself, this Greyfyrd army runs a large contingent of cheap foot heroes, using a combination of the subfaction and battalions to outfit the heroes with a selection of the Fyreslayers’ rather stacked artefact list. Prayers are made more consistent, damage output is improved and items like the Nulsidian icon provide spell ignores in a meta still often visited by Nagash’s Favourite Sphere. At 1965 points this list will often get its triumph and the selection of inspired helps to ensure the large units of troops aren’t losing more than they need to to battleshock.
The hero selection here gives this lists an absolute keyring of tools ranging from forgekeys and latchkey grandaxes to the extra CP of the Runemaster and the deepstrike of the Runesmiter. Of particular note is the Flamekeeper, the hero released with the Fyreslayers’ recent FOMO box, which doesn’t often see play in the tournament scene. With such large units of foot troops, his abilities – which are activated at the start of the combat phase whenever 6 models have died near the Flamekeeper since the previous turn – are going off with alarming frequency to provide powerful effects such as:
– 6+ ward (meh)
– Fight on death (alright)
– Charge, including during the enemy turn (!!!!!!!)
– +1 damage (still !!! but less so)

The rest of the list is still exciting (when was the last time anyone saw Auric Hearthguard?) but less in-depth than the heroes. Auric hearthguard deepstrike with the runesmiter and shoot quite well while the remainder of the army racks up objective scoring with difficult to shift statlines and wound characteristics. Putting these in Expert Conquerors and Bounty Hunters is a nice bonus in a list that already has drops to high heaven and the list is capped off with the Molten Infernoth, which gives the list an easy way to achieve its Grand Strategy. The notable bonus of the infernoth over other options is that you aren’t obligated to move it meaning, as the game is coming to a close, you can elect to not attempt a move and thus eliminate the chance of rolling it off the board with hot dice.

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Army Faction: Stormcast Eternals
– Army Type: Scions of the Storm
– Army Subfaction: Celestial Warbringers
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumphs: Inspired
– Holy Command: Thunderbolt Volley

LEADER
1 x Lord-Relictor (145)*
– General
– Command Traits: Master of Magic
– Artefacts: Arcane Tome
– Spells: Thundershock
– Prayers: Translocation
1 x Knight-Vexillor (120)*
– Meteoric Standard
1 x Knight-Vexillor (120)*
– Meteoric Standard
1 x Knight-Vexillor (120)**
– Meteoric Standard
1 x Knight-Vexillor (120)**
– Meteoric Standard
1 x Knight-Vexillor (120)**
– Meteoric Standard

BATTLELINE
5 x Judicators with Skybolt Bows (200)**
– Judicator-Prime
5 x Judicators with Skybolt Bows (200)**
– Judicator-Prime
5 x Judicators with Skybolt Bows (200)**
– Judicator-Prime

ENDLESS SPELL
1 x Everblaze Comet (90)

OTHER
3 x Annihilators (200)*
– Annihilator-Prime
3 x Annihilators (200)*
– Annihilator-Prime
1 x Stormstrike Chariot (165)*
– Stormstrike Axe and Tempestuous Spear

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Battle Regiment
**Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: (2000/2000)

Ethan: I mentioned it in the Fyreslayers but my goodness we’re in funkytown. The subfaction here is largely irrelevant but useful for re-rolling a save?

Now we’ve got that out of the way, let’s get to the fun bit. The completely normal general here is a translocating Lord-Relictor and that’s where our dose of normal ends. Five Knight Vexillors. Count ’em. Five. For those not in the know (and who would be?) the Knight-Vexillor is the little Stormcast bloke with a banner. His ability? Do d3 wounds to everything within 6″ of a point anywhere on the board. So that’s 5d3 Mortals, averaging around 8-10 mortals to everything in range. This is then topped off with the Everblaze Comet which does d3, or d6, Mortals within a large area at a 36″ range. What a combo. In a double battle-regiment this list comes in at 2-drop, being one of the few lists that is likely to take the first turn, hitting anything remotely resembling a castle like, well, a storm? (I’m so sorry).

The rest of the list backs up this combination with tools to turn this opening blow into a knockout with a stormstrike chariot thundering around the board (I’ve moved past shame) while the Annihilators and their 2+ save come crashing into the opponents lines and punch a hole while tying things up for the judicators to rain down a squall of shots (we’re still going).

The only loss for this list was against Gargants and honestly, that tracks, considering how the list functions. While the list does incredible damage spread across a huge number of units, it would struggle to deal the concentrated pain required to take down wound-dense Sons of Behemat. What a list. Noe Aquino should be absolutely thrilled with this exciting result.

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Army Faction: Ogor Mawtribes
– Army Subfaction: Bloodgullet
– Grand Strategy: No Place for the Weak
– Triumphs: Bloodthirsty

LEADER
1 x Huskard on Thundertusk (335)
– General
– Command Traits: ‘Nice Drop of the Red Stuff!’
– Blood Vulture
– Artefacts: Skullshards of Dragaar
– Prayers: Pulverising Hailstorm
1 x Frostlord on Stonehorn (430)*
– Artefacts: Splatter-cleaver
– Mount Traits: Metalcruncher
1 x Hrothgorn (170)*
1 x Butcher (135)**
– Tenderiser
– Spells: Ribcracker, Molten Entrails
1 x Frostlord on Stonehorn (430)**
1 x Slaughtermaster (140)**
– Spells: Ribcracker, Greasy Deluge

BATTLELINE
3 x Icefall Yhetees (120)*
3 x Icefall Yhetees (120)*
3 x Icefall Yhetees (120)*

TERRAIN
1 x Great Mawpot (0)

OTHER
3 x Hrothgorn’s Mantrappers (170)*

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Battle Regiment
**Command Entourage – Magnificent

TOTAL POINTS: (2000/2000)

Peter: I’m starting this with a caveat! None of us know anything about Ogors…. Mind you we still get some of the comments wrong on lists we do know about so….

We have three characters on Stonehorns or Thundertusks who have a threat distance of 24″ (average 19″). These boys are tough with 13 wounds each, a 3+ save AND a 5+ ward. The Frostlords on Stonehorns can kick out an average of 18 damage before saves if they get a charge in.

The Huskard has the Blood Vulture which allows him to cause a free mortal each turn on any enemy unit within 24″. On top of this he has a tasty missile weapon which on its top bracket will roll 12 dice and will cause mortal wounds on 6’s (if the unit is less than 10 models), 5+ if the target had 10+ models or 4+ if it has 20+ models. He also has a command ability which allows other Beastclaw Raider (those Stonehorns) units within 12″ to re-roll their charges.

Hrothgorn and the Mantrappers are a clever inclusion for objective capturing and battle tactics as they can be set up in reserve and bought on in a friendly turn anywhere on the board more than 9″ from the enemy.

The Yhetees, while not great at dishing out damage can run and charge if they’re with 16″ of a Thundertusk when they do so. They also have the annoying ability to pile in from 6″ away instead of the usual 3″.

Both the Butcher and Slaughtermaster know additional spells thanks to their Bloodgullet allegiance and both have Ribcracker which deducts 1 from a an enemy units save. Molten entrails allows a Ogor Monster to add 1 to the damage of their mounts attacks (great on the Stonehorns), while Greasy Deluge forces an enemy unit to deduct 1 from their attacks.

Sprinkle in things like the Splatter-Cleaver which allows you to heal nearby Ogor units D3 wounds if you were successful with any of that models attacks. And a Nice Drop of the Red Stuff which is a command ability that allows units within 12″ of the general an additional 3″ pile in (9″ pile in for Yhetees).

All of this adds up to a tough and hard hitting army

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Allegiance: Khorne
– Slaughterhost: Baleful Lords (Host of Chaos)
– Mortal Realm: Ghur
– Grand Strategy: Show of Dominance
– Triumphs: Bloodthirsty

Leaders
Bloodstoker (80)****
– Artefact: Talisman of Burning Blood
Bloodstoker (80)****
Bloodsecrator (125)***
– General
– Command Trait: Thirst for Carnage
– Artefact: Black Brass Crown
Skarbrand (380)***
Valkia the Bloody (135)***
Slaughterpriest (100)****
– Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact)
– Universal Spell Lore: Ghost-mist
– Prayer: Blood Sacrifice

Battleline
10 x Bloodreavers (80)**
– Meatripper Axes
10 x Bloodreavers (80)**
– Meatripper Axes
10 x Bloodreavers (80)**
– Meatripper Axes

Units
5 x Wrathmongers (145)*
1 x Chaos Chariots (100)***
– Greatblades
– Mark of Chaos: Khorne
1 x Chaos Chariots (100)****
– Greatblades
– Mark of Chaos: Khorne
4 x Khagra’s Ravagers (125)*
– Spell1: Universal Spell Lore: Flaming Weapon
– Allies
9 x Untamed Beasts (70)***
– Allies
9 x Untamed Beasts (70)****
– Allies

Behemoths
Jabberslythe (150)

Endless Spells & Invocations
Hexgorger Skulls (50)
Prismatic Palisade (40)

Core Battalions
*Bounty Hunters
**Expert Conquerors
***Warlord
****Warlord

Additional Enhancements
Artefact
Artefact

Total: 1990 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 0 / 4
Allies: 265 / 400
Wounds: 135
Drops: 16

Ethan: I’m going to coin this list the “Skarbrand launcher”. A multitude of battalions provide a slew of artefacts to this list, mitigated by the untamed beasts’ pregame move ensuring that objectives are contested from word go. The Baleful lords subfaction is usually utilised by “Oops, All Bloodthirsters” builds, however this list has eschewed such choices in favour of a hectic collection of units which all seem to be built around the uniting goal of “Skarbrand runs and charges at anything on the board”.

In the Heroes section, the arcane tome and ghost-mist, in combination with the prismatic palisade create powerful counterplay against shooting lists, ensuring the army’s lack of ranged options aren’t punished before it has a chance to walk up and beat you to a bloody pulp. The combination of Bloodsecrator, Wrathmongers and Valkia ensure that the Reavers punch above their very cheap cost and, with the benefit of additional attacks, the chaos chariots become a threat, aided by their incredible movement to be a scary prospect across the board. Bloodstokers double down on the theme handing out more movement bonuses to their willing whipees. The keyword for this list is mobility and it has it in spades. Castle build? This is the trebutchet, and the keystone boulder is a running and charging Skarbrand, enough to put fear into the heart of even the most seasoned Living Cities player.

Now, let’s talk about the Jabberslythe. I don’t quite get it? For 150 points, Sean knows something I don’t. It can make a high-output unit absolutely self destruct with self inflicted mortals or kill something that is killing it, Magmadroth style, but I’ll be real with y’all: I’m not sure what this does in the list. That said, it’s a very cool inclusion and provides a wonderful end point for a top 3 article discussing some of the most thrillingly different lists I’ve seen in the last few years. AoS is feeling spicy right now for the Johnnys of the world, with the GHB’s maturation proving that initial overreactions to Bounty Hunters were exactly that. Exciting times!

Final Tournament Placings

Age of Sigmar, Beasts of chaos, Big Waaagh!, Blades of Khorne, Bonesplitterz, Chaos, Cities of Sigmar, Daughters of Khaine, Death, Destruction, Disciples of Tzeentch, Fantasy, Flesh-Eater Courts, Fyreslayers, Games Workshop, Gloomspite Gitz, Hedonites of Slaanesh, Idoneth Deepkin, Ironjawz, Kharadron Overlords, Kruleboyz, Legion of the First Prince, Lumineth Realm-Lords, Maggotkin of Nurgle, Meta Analysis, Nighthaunt, Ogor Mawtribes, Order, Orruk Warclans, Ossiarch Bonereapers, Peter Holland, Seraphon, Skaventide, Slaves to Darkness, Sons of Behemat, Soulblight Gravelords, Stormcast Eternals, Sylvaneth, Tournaments

AoS Meta Stats (w/e 28th August 2022)

September 4, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

Unfortunately they’ll be no meta stats next weekend as I am on holiday. Normal service will resume for the week ending of 11th September.

Grand Tournaments

Emerald City Open 2 – USA
32 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Daughters of Khaine	Hagg Nar	5-0-0
2nd	Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	5-0-0
3rd	Disciples of Tzeentch	Hosts Arcanum	4-0-1
4th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	4-0-1
5th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1

Emerald City Open 2

Sacremento Slam – USA
12 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	5-0-0
2nd	Daughters of Khaine	Hagg Nar	4-0-1
3rd	Ossiarch Bonereapers	Petrifex Elite	3-0-2
4th	Skaven		3-0-2
5th	Hedonites of Slaanesh	Lurid Haze	3-0-2

Sacremento Slam

Dice and Ducks: Decimation – UK
16 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Sons of Behemat	Taker Tribe	4-0-1
2nd	Seraphon	Fangs of Sotek	3-0-1
3rd	Daughters of Khaine	Khailebron	4-0-1
4th	Soulblight Gravelords	Legion of Night	4-0-1
5th	Blades of Khorne	Reapers of Vengeance	2-0-2

Dice and Ducks: Decimation

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This Weeks Stats

The following stats are for the week ending 28th August only, essentially GT’s that took place on the 27th and 28th August.

Rolling 4 Week Stats

The rolling stats includes all GT’s since the weekend of 30th/31st July to the 20th/21st August. This covers a total of 983 players (+152 players) across 24 Grand Tournaments (+3 GT).

As the new release of the GHB takes hold it looks as though the overall effect is a positive one, although the stats are starting to shift away from the 50% mark slightly again. With Destruction once again falling.

Its not been a good week for the Kruleboyz and this is also reflected in the four weeks stats with them falling to 35.0%. Come on GW, show them some love.

Here are the rolling four weeks win rates since we began tracking this information:

Faction Stats (Version)

The below stats are for every match in a grand tournament since the release of the new General’s Handbook.

A great week for Seraphon sees them extend a lead over the Daughters of Khaine with 9 clean sweeps to their 6.

Meanwhile at the lower end of the tables factions who have gone a whole tournament with five losses…

As for the win rates of each faction since the release of the new GHB:

In terms of faction popularity:

By rights, each faction should have an equal share of the player base, however we know this will not be the case due to either the appeal of the miniatures or the rules for the factions. Here we can see the most popular factions are Stormcast Eternals, Nighthaunt, Sylvaneth, Daughters of Khaine, Maggotkin of Nurgle, Seraphon and Skaven.

Currently it would appear that Seraphon players have the highest chance of going 5-0 at an even.

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Top Three AoS Lists for the Gateway Open 2022

August 28, 2022 Brett & Peter Leave a comment

This is the Top Three AoS Lists for the Gateway Open that took place in USA on 20th and 21st August. It involved 43 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Allegiance: Stormcast Eternals
– Stormhost: Knights Excelsior (Scions of the Storm)
– Mortal Realm: Ghyran
– Grand Strategy: No Place for the Weak
– Triumphs: Inspired

Leaders
Lord-Imperatant (175)*
Lord-Relictor (145)*
– General
– Command Trait: Master of Magic
– Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact)
– Spell: Thundershock
– Prayer: Translocation
Knight-Incantor (125)*
– Spell: Lightning Blast

Battleline
3 x Annihilators with Meteoric Grandhammers (240)***
3 x Annihilators with Meteoric Grandhammers (240)**
5 x Vanquishers (125)**

Units
2 x Stormdrake Guard (340)**
– Drakerider’s Warblade
3 x Vanguard-Raptors with Longstrike Crossbows (240)***
3 x Vanguard-Raptors with Longstrike Crossbows (240)***
3 x Aetherwings (65)*

Endless Spells & Invocations
Horrorghast (40)

Core Battalions
*Warlord
**Bounty Hunters
***Redemption Brotherhood

Additional Enhancements
Holy Command: Thunderbolt Volley
Holy Command: Call for Aid

Total: 1975 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 0 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 82
Drops: 8

Brett: A rare venture into top spot by Stormcast with an army composition that is showing a lot of promise in the current meta. A few subtleties in the construction of the list though. Firstly the Grand Strategy – that will force you to hunt down the opponents battleline. It’s a fair chance that you’d be doing that to win anyway, and an equally fair chance that the drakes (Bounty Hunters) will be doing that if any try to hide. The Magnificent Bonus from Warlord is important, Warlord is rarely used by Stormcast, but they probably benefit the most from it with their Holy Commands. The chosen 2 are amoung the best, in one turn one of the raptors are shooting in both the Hero and Shooting phase.

That gives you an effective 9 Raptors worth of shooting (one turn, 18 shots for 36 potential damage). Call for aid returns the Vanquishers the first time they are killed (recycling if you will). The heroes are the standard combination – Lord Imperatant for 7″ charges, Lord Relictor for Translocate (here with the Tome to increase utility) and the Knight Incantor for casting an a clutch dispel (one guaranteed/battle). The 7″ charge applies to any Thunderstrike unit (includes the Lord, Storm Drake and Vanquishers as well as the Annihilators) put only one unit per turn. This list is sometimes called a gambler’s list – you are banking on the 7″ charge (82% chance with reroll) otherwise you have 10 wounds with a 4+ save waiting to die.

This list is a bit low in durability with 85 wounds, mostly on a 4+ vs the normal SCE 3+. And 3 Galletian Veteran units make 28 of those wounds. The Aetherwings and Vanquishers are valuable as screens to begin with to keep the raptors safe. Later turns their mobility (Aetherwings) and damage is useful for board control and grabbing objectives. The drakes provide mobile, swingy damage – their breath weapons can hit hard or whiff horribly. Even the number of drops plays into the strategy – does your opponent make you go first? Or do they try to blunt your shooting (unlikely)? His matches were basically melee armies and the DoK armed (10 Blood Sisters) are overmatched by the Raptors.

Quite a few good players are using variants of this list, with Prime Hunters gone it should see man improvement in SCE win rates. It’s not instant win by any measure but gives you the tools to get the job done. The high drops is a nice touch, as is Horrorghast to maximise the impact on low bravery units of that long range shooting.

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Allegiance: Cities of Sigmar
– City: Living City
– Mortal Realm: Ghur
– Grand Strategy: Bastions of Hope
– Triumphs: Inspired

Leaders
Anointed on Frostheart Phoenix (315)*
– General
– Command Trait: Ironoak Artisan
– Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact)
– Lore of Leaves: Lifesurge
Battlemage (100)*
– Mortal Realm: Ghur
– Lore of Leaves: Ironoak Skin
Sorceress (90)*
– Lore of Leaves: Lifesurge
Gotrek Gurnisson (485)**
– Allies

Battleline
10 x Dreadspears (85)*
– City Role: Honoured Retinue (Must be 5-20 models)
10 x Dreadspears (85)*
10 x Dreadspears (85)*

Units
4 x Stormdrake Guard (680)**
– Drakerider’s Warblade
– Reinforced x 1

Endless Spells & Invocations
Purple Sun of Shyish (70)

Core Battalions
*Battle Regiment
**Bounty Hunters

Total: 1995 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 1 / 4
Allies: 485 / 400
Wounds: 96
Drops: 3

Brett: Living cities with SCE based hammers was popular before Prime Hunters so no surprise they are back with the new season. Gotrek is arguably a Cities character since he hangs there between adventures. The book Grand Strategy is interesting, you need to control more terrain features than your opponent at the end of the battle. Interesting since that implies keeping the Dreadspears alive, 1 W and a 4+ save makes that “fun”. Doubly so since the Sorceress is likely taking wounds from them to empower her spells (kills a model for +2 to cast). Overall with the Tome there are 3 casters and 3 casts. Lifesurge can heal D6 wounds and Ironoak Skin makes incoming attacks -1 to wound.

The Battlemage has Wildform which you could put on Gotrek (+2 to run and charge) to make him more mobile. Otherwise the Stormdrakes or Anointed could benefit. The Stormdrakes and Gotrek are in bounty hunters (so Gotrek is rocking a 4 damage axe). Using the Anointed early might be risky but he is quite tanking particularly with Ironoak Artisan that also grants +1 to wound rolls with melee weapons, it shouldn’t apply to the mount unfortunately. A big block of Dragons to threaten any open flanks or open objectives, they can also be covered by the Anointed (and cover the Anointed). Lifesurge is very useful healing the 9 wound dragons for D6 every turn. A very mobile hard hitting block. And of course the Purple Sun for both it’s debuff and it’s board control abilities. Your opponent will normally try to avoid it as much as possible.

A dependable list, Gotrek is an interesting addition even though he suffers from a lack of mobility. It’s possible to play around him but with the Dragons and Purple Sun there isn’t that much board to play with. In this case Ryan’s opponents for the most part needed to come to him to play making it much easier to get Gotrek into combat.

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Army Faction: Blades of Khorne
– Subfaction: Reapers of Vengeance
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumph: Bloodthirsty

LEADERS
Bloodthirster of Unfettered Fury (295)
– General
– Command Traits: Mage Eater
– Artefacts of Power: The Crimson Crown
Skarr Bloodwrath (105)**
Slaughterpriest (100)**
– Hackblade and Wrath-hammer
– Prayers: Blood Sacrifice
Skarbrand (380)**
Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage (280)***
– Artefacts of Power: Skullshard Mantle
Bloodsecrator (125)***

BATTLELINE
Bloodletters (220)*
Bloodletters (220)*
Bloodreavers (80)***
– Reaver Blades

OTHER
Untamed Beasts (70)***
Untamed Beasts (70)***

ENDLESS SPELLS & INVOCATIONS
1 x Hexgorger Skulls (50)

CORE BATTALIONS
*Bounty Hunters
**Command Entourage – Magnificent
***Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: 1995/2000

Brett: Ahead of a possible new book (40k is getting new Daemons codex and Tzeentch is due soon, does that mean a new Khorne tome?). Khorne is another faction that really benefited with the end of Prime Hunters, it gives them more freedom with their Greater Daemons. Reapers of Vengence subfaction granting a Horrorghast effect (D3 extra fail battleshock) and a 3″ pile in and fight again command. Mage-Eater and Skullshatter are the mandatory trait/artefact but grant a spell deny and a 2+ spell ignore. The Crimson Crown effectively grants a free CP every round (5) that can only be used on the bearer’s warscroll ability (if they have one). In this case a 6″ pile in within 16″.

The key to Khorne in AoS are the big Daemons,, the Bloodthirsters and Skarbrand. Unusually there is no (Slaves to Darkness) Daemon Prince to affect movement/charges. Each of the Greater Daemons can do appalling levels of damage but each has an element of chance so they can also whiff horribly. The Unfettered Rage is probably the least damaging with a 12″ ranged attack and 6 melee attacks all doing D3 damage. The Insensate Range. His number of ranged attacks and to wound chance in melee degrade with wounds. Insensate Rage does D6 damage with his axe, and the number of attacks plus the Mortal Wounds (MW) caused on 6s degrade. The MW are to all units within 8″. Your best tactic against these is to get some damage in early to degrade them. Skarbrand needs to be treated differently though.

Skarbrand’s attacks increase as he degrades, and if he isn’t engaged in combat he fights next round as if he was in his lowest bracket. His main weapon is a flat 3 damage, his 8″ ranged attack is a 50% chance to inflict 1 MW for each successful attack and his Carnage 8MW. At lowest bracket it does that on a 1. Skarbrand either needs to be engaged all the time or removed early. Haven’t even mentioned the smaller heroes – Skarr can return to the field after death on a 8 (2D6) and is an anti horde fighter (either 5 attacks or the number of models within 3″), the Bloodsectator forces wizards to reroll successful casts within 16″. He also grants an additional attack to Khorne units within 16″. The Slaughter Priest is here to farm Blood Tithe points for summoning.

Finally we finish with the troops and summoning. Reinforced Bloodletters get +1 to hit (for 20 models in the unit), 6s do MWs, they can force rerolls on successful bravery rolls for the enemy and on a battleshock roll of 1 return D6 models to this unit. They only have 1 wound and a 5+ save so die easily. Bloodreavers are even more fragile but double up on the bonus attacks from the presence of a Bloodsectrator. Unnamed Beasts are very fragile but bring a lot of mobility and potentially grab outlying points or Battle Tactics. The Hexgorger is a nice touch, it is a prayer that is an endless spell. It inflicts a -2 to casting within 12″ and if a wizard within 8″ casts an 8, the spell fails, they forget the spell and take D6 MW. Nice.

That’s a lot to take in for a simple army that wants to get close,bash, stab, slash and generally maim you. You are best to shoot them from afar and hope for the best. When you look at his opponents though almost all of them had decent shooting (not the Skaven, those poor rats) but only one was able to use it effectively. That’s the difference between 24″ and 30″ range I suspect.

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Allegiance: Legion of the First Prince
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumphs: Inspired

Leaders
Be’Lakor, the Dark Master (360)*
– Lore of Ruinous Sorcery: The Master’s Command
Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage (280)
– General
– Command Trait: Ruinous Aura
Kairos Fateweaver (435)
– Lore of Ruinous Sorcery: The Master’s Command
The Blue Scribes (160)*
– Lore of Ruinous Sorcery: The Master’s Command
The Contorted Epitome (245)*
– Artefact: Fourfold Blade
– Universal Spell Lore: Ghost-mist

Battleline
5 x Flesh Hounds (105)*
5 x Flesh Hounds (105)*
5 x Flesh Hounds (105)*

Endless Spells & Invocations
Emerald Lifeswarm (60)
Purple Sun of Shyish (70)
Umbral Spellportal (70)

Core Battalions
*Battle Regiment

Total: 1995 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 0 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 84
Drops: 3

Brett: Another hero based list with 3 combat and 2 caster heroes, all with 10″+ movement. 3 Greater Demons is fairly common, we’ve already covered The Unfettered Rage above. Otherwise, and even with the Khorne elements, this is a casting army with 7 casts. The “Masters Command” on most of the leaders lets model, if slain, fight on Death. Otherwise Be’Lakor’s warscroll spell is enfeeblement giving an opposing unit -1 to wound. That’s on top of his once a game ability to stop pretty much all actions from a unit on a 3+ in each phase. Kairos is the epitome of a caster, his key ability is everytime he casts, dispels or unbinds he can set the lowest D6 (of the 2D6 roll) to match the highest D6. To summon the Purple Sun or his warscroll spell he only needs one 4 on 2 dice.

His Oracle of Eternity is also clutch, allowing him to set the number on a dice once per battle. It doesn’t have to be his roll, there is no range and no limit on what type of roll it’s used on. That’s on top of his 3 spells. You may be wondering why there is no Cogs in this list, the Blue Scribes are why. They have a warscroll spell with a casting value (CV) of 4 that allows other wizards to reroll. They can also copy spells and ensure successful casting once per hero phase on a 2+. Kairos then summons whatever Endless Spells are needed that turn. Umbral Spellportal to extend spells range, Purple Sun for threat and Lifeswarm for healing. The Contorted Epitome is mostly a combat unit but Ghost mist is a good choice to hide it’s approach.

The Flesh Hounds are here because outside of Gargants you need battle line. They are somewhat durable (2 wounds on a 5+), fast (8″) and annoying in combat. They are expendable and of course more units can be summoned. For LoFP it’s a battleline unit based on the Chaos god they represent (Bloodletters, Horrors, Demonettes etc). Belakor can summon any of these or 6 Furies. Chose which hero based on what you need and where it on the board (the reinforcements are arriving within 12″). A very broad range of abilities that it would be hard to track and apply but that means the list plays well into almost anything. The only loss was to 2nd place, Gotrek is great into daemons and the Stormdrake block is capable of clearing anything in this list in a turn. Once the Greater Daemons start dying this list is pretty fragile.

Final Tournament Placings

AoS Meta Stats (w/e 21st August 2022)

August 27, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

A change is afoot for the Woehammer stats. We’re going more in depth. You’ll still find the tournament results for GT’s in the last week below along with links. Then there is statistic sections for the rolling four weeks stats and the current Age of Sigmar version (i.e. since the most recent update in terms of GHB or Battletome release).

Grand Tournaments

Northern Ireland GT – UK
32 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Daughters of Khaine	Khailebron	5-0-0
2nd	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	4-0-1
3rd	Nighthaunt	Emerald Host	4-0-1
4th	Fyreslayers	Lofnir	4-0-1
5th	Stormcast Eternals	HAmmers of Sigmar	4-0-1

Northern Ireland GT

Capital City Bloodbath – Canada
43 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Flesh-eater Courts	Feast Day	5-0-1
2nd	Bonesplitterz	Icebone	5-0-1
3rd	Cities of Sigmar	Hallowheart	5-0-1
4th	Idoneth Deepkin	Mor’Phann	5-0-1
5th	Seraphon	Fangs of Sotek	5-0-1

Capital City Bloodbath

Gateway Open 2022 – USA
43 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Stormcast Eternals	Knights Excelsior	5-0-0
2nd	Cities of Sigmar	Living City	5-0-0
3rd	Blades of Khorne	Reapers of Vengeance	4-0-1
4th	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	4-0-1
5th	Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	4-0-1

Gateway Open 2022

Salt Lake Open 2022 – USA
33 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Fyreslayers	Greyfyrd	5-0-0
2nd	Stormcast Eternals	Celestial Warbringers	4-0-1
3rd	Ogor Mawtribes	Boulderhead	4-0-1
4th	Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	4-0-1
5th	Flesh-eater Courts	Blisterskin	4-0-1

Salt Lake Open 2022

Nashcon GT 2022 – USA
81 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Seraphon	Fangs of Sotek	5-0-0
2nd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Blessed Sons	5-0-0
3rd	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
4th	Beasts of Chaos	Darkwalkers	4-0-1
5th	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	4-0-1

Nashcon GT 2022

Snake Eyes – Australia
81 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Seraphon	Fangs of Sotek	5-0-0
2nd	Kharadron Overlords	Barak-Zilfin	5-0-0
3rd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1
4th	Sylvaneth	Gnarlroot	4-0-1
5th	Skaven		4-0-1

Snake Eyes

Mancunian Carnage: Summer 2022 – Australia
81 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Ironjawz		5-0-0
2nd	Slaves to Darkness	Knights of the Empty Throne	5-0-0
3rd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1
4th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
5th	Nighthaunt	Emerald Host	4-0-1

Mancunian Carnage: Summer 2022

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This Weeks Stats

The following stats are for the week ending 21st August only, essentially GT’s that took place on the 20th and 21st August.

Rolling 4 Week Stats

The rolling stats includes all GT’s since the weekend of 30th/31st July to the 20th/21st August. This covers a total of 983 players (+152 players) across 24 Grand Tournaments (+3 GT).

Its not been a good week for the Kruleboyz and this is also reflected in the four weeks stats with them falling to 36.5%. Come on GW, show them some love.

Here are the rolling four weeks win rates since we began tracking this information:

Faction Stats (Version)

The below stats are for every match in a grand tournament since the release of the new General’s Handbook.

A great week for Seraphon sees them extend a lead over the Daughters of Khaine and Maggotkin of Nurgle with 7 clean sweeps to their 5.

Meanwhile at the lower end of the tables factions who have gone a whole tournament with five losses…

As for the win rates of each faction since the release of the new GHB:

Beasts of Chaos cling to their top spot but the Maggotkin of Nurgle seem to be having a resurgence and are not too far off their heels. Seraphon and Bonesplitterz are falling closely behind.

Kruleboyz fall back down the table and join Flesh-eater Courts, Ogors, Bonereapers and Gloomspite in the sub 45% win rate.

In terms of faction popularity:

Currently it would appear that Seraphon players have the highest chance of going 5-0 at an even.

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AoS Meta Stats (w/e 14th August 2022)

August 21, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

Grand Tournaments

Ranked from largest to smallest.

Age of Sigmar Matched Play Event – UK
74 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	5-0-0
2nd	Daughters of Khaine	Hagg Nar	5-0-0
3rd	Idoneth Deepkin	Ionrach	4-1-0
4th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	4-1-0
5th	Ogor Mawtribes	Boulderhead	4-0-1

Age of Sigmar Matched Play Event

Old Town Throwdown Summer Smash – USA
72 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Big Waaagh!		5-0-0
2nd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	5-0-0
3rd	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	5-0-0
4th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
5th	Bonesplitterz	Drakkfoot	4-0-1

Old Town Throwdown Summer Smash

Storm of Magic GT – UK
23 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Stormcast Eternals	Celestial Vindicators	4-0-1
2nd	Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	4-0-1
3rd	Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	4-0-1
4th	Cities of Sigmar	Hammerhal	4-0-1
5th	Fyreslayers	Lofnir	4-0-1

Storm of Magic GT

Turnaj O Nacelnika Opicich Hor – Czech Republic
24 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	4-1-0
2nd	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	4-0-1
3rd	Kharadron Overlords		4-0-1
4th	Sylvaneth	Heatwood	4-0-1
5th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1

Turnaj O Nacelnika Opicich Hor

King in the North! 22 – Norway
31 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-1-0
2nd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1
3rd	Beasts of Chaos	Allherd	4-0-1
4th	Sylvaneth	Harvestboon	4-0-1
5th	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	4-0-1

King in the North! 22

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This Weeks Stats

The following stats are for the week ending 14th August only, essentially GT’s that took place on the 13th and 14th August.

Rolling 4 Week Stats

The rolling stats includes all GT’s since the weekend of 23rd/24th July to the 13th/14th August. This covers a total of 831 players (-13 players) across 21 Grand Tournaments (+2 GT).

As the new release of the GHB takes hold it looks as though the overall effect is a positive one on the overall win rates for each Grand Alliance as they all get close to that 50.0% mark.

This is the first time in a rolling four week period where only two factions have fallen below the 45% win rate. Are things getting even better for AoS?

Here are the rolling four weeks win rates since we began tracking this information:

Faction Stats (Version)

The below stats are for every match in a grand tournament since the release of the new General’s Handbook.

Daughters of Khaine, Seraphon and Maggotkin of Nurgle now have both achieved 4 5-0 wins a piece.

Meanwhile at the lower end of the tables factions who have gone a whole tournament with five losses…

As for the win rates of each faction since the release of the new GHB:

Bonesplitterz relinquish their top spot to Beasts of Chaos, however they both have win rates of over 57%, as do Maggotkin of Nurgle and Big Waaagh!

At the other end of the table Gloomspite Gitz are the only sub 40% faction, their new book can’t come soon enough.

In terms of faction popularity:

Currently it would appear that Big Waaagh! players have the highest chance of going 5-0 at an event, however this is from a small player base so will fall as more players register under the Big Waaagh! banner.

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AoS Meta Stats (w/e 7th August 2022)

August 14, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

Grand Tournaments

Ranked from largest to smallest.

GT Lodz 2 – Poland
70 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Beasts of Chaos	Gavespawn	5-0-0
2nd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	3-2-0
3rd	Sylvaneth	Gnarlroot	4-0-1
4th	Bonesplitterz	Drakkfoot	3-1-1
5th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	3-1-1

GT Lodz 2

Quest of Champions – Heat 4 – England/UK
38 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-1-0
2nd	Slaves to Darkness	Knights of the Empty Throne	4-0-1
3rd	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	4-0-1
4th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Filthbringers	4-0-1
5th	Idoneth Deepkin	Mor’Phann	4-0-1

Quest of Champions – Heat 4

G&T GT 2 – England/UK
14 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	5-0-0
2nd	Sylvaneth	Heartwood	4-0-1
3rd	Disciples of Tzeentch	Hosts Arcanum	3-1-1
4th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	3-0-2
5th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	3-0-2

G&T GT2

Season of War Grand Tournament – Ontario/Canada
66 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Seraphon	Fangs of Sotek	5-0-0
2nd	Sons of Behemat	Taker Tribe	5-0-0
3rd	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
4th	Hedonites of Slaanesh	Lurid Haze	4-0-1
5th	Idoneth Deepkin	Nautilar	4-0-1

Season of War Grand Tournament

Age of Sigmar Steel City GT – Pennsylvania/USA
24 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Fyreslayers	Lofnir	5-0-0
2nd	Blades of Khorne	Reapers of Vengeance	4-0-1
3rd	Bonesplitterz	Icebone	4-0-1
4th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	4-0-1
5th	Bi g Waaagh!		4-0-1

Age of Sigmar Steel City GT

Harambe’s Heroes and Goldmine Games Rumble in the Jungle – USA
28 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	5-0-0
2nd	Nighthaunt	Quicksilver Dead	4-0-1
3rd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1
4th	Sons of Behemat	Stomper Tribe	4-0-1
5th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	4-0-1

Harambe’s Heroes and Goldmine Games Rumble in the Jungle

Summer of Sigmar – Gamers Guild Grand Tournament – USA
15 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	5-0-0
2nd	Sylvaneth	Gnarlroot	4-0-1
3rd	Slaves to Darkness	Ravagers	4-0-1
4th	Kharadron Overlords		3-0-2
5th	Idoneth Deepkin	Dhom-Hain	3-0-2

Summer 0f Sigmar – Gamers Guild Grand Tournament

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This Weeks Stats

The following stats are for the week ending 31st July only, essentially GT’s that took place on the 30th and 31st July.

Rolling 4 Week Stats

The rolling stats includes all GT’s since the weekend of 16th/17th July to the 6th/7th August. This covers a total of 844 players (+177 players) across 19 Grand Tournaments (+4 GT).

As the new release of the GHB takes hold it looks as though the overall effect is a positive one on the overall win rates for each Grand Alliance as they all get close to that 50.0% mark.

Here are the rolling four weeks win rates since we began tracking this information:

Faction Stats (Version)

The below stats are for every match in a grand tournament since the release of the new General’s Handbook.

Daughters of Khaine and Seraphon now have both achieved 3 5-0 wins a piece.

After the last weekend, all the factions have now achieved at least one weekend where they’ve had an army go to 4 wins.

Meanwhile at the lower end of the tables factions who have gone a whole tournament with five losses…

As for the win rates of each faction since the release of the new GHB:

Bonesplitterz increase their win rate to over 60%, while at the other end of the table Gloomspite Gitz fall to 35.8%

In terms of faction popularity:

Currently it would appear that Kharadron Overlords players have the highest chance of going 5-0 at an event closely followed by Beasts of Chaos and Hedonites of Slaanesh

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Top Three AoS Lists for the Steel City GT

August 12, 2022 Ethan & Peter 2 Comments

This article is the debut article for Ethan Armstrong who has joined us from our Discord Server. Ethan will be joining our list doctors, a small team of players who will talk you through your lists and give suggestions on how you may be able to improve.

If you’re interested in having the list doctors look at your army list, then please send it to thewoehammer@gmail.com and we’ll be sure to include it in a future article.

This is the Top Three AoS Lists for the Steel City GT that took place in Pennsylvania, USA on 6th and 7th August. It involved 24 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Allegiance: Fyreslayers
– Lodge: Lofnir
– Grand Strategy: Master of the Forge
– Triumphs: Bloodthirsty

Leaders
Auric Runefather (125)**
– General
– Command Trait: Spirit of Grimnir
Auric Runesmiter (135)**
– Runic Iron
– Prayer: Prayer of Ash
Runelord (95)**
– Allies

Battleline
10 x Hearthguard Berzerkers (320)***
– Broadaxes
– Reinforced x 1
10 x Hearthguard Berzerkers (320)***
– Broadaxes
– Reinforced x 1
Auric Runeson on Magmadroth (320)*
– Ancestral War-axe
– Artefact: Master Rune of Unbreakable Resolve
– Magmadroth Trait: Flame-scale Youngblood
Auric Runeson on Magmadroth (320)*
– Ancestral War-axe
– Artefact: Axe of Grimnir
– Magmadroth Trait: Coal-heart Ancient
Auric Runeson on Magmadroth (320)*
– Ancestral War-axe
– Magmadroth Trait: Lava-tongue Adult

Endless Spells & Invocations
Runic Fyrewall (40)

Core Battalions
*Bounty Hunters
**Command Entourage – Magnificent
***Expert Conquerors

Additional Enhancements
Artefact

Total: 1995 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 2 / 4
Allies: 95 / 400
Wounds: 104
Drops: 8

Ethan: In a meta increasingly leaning towards magic dominance, recent tournaments have returned a suite of powerful results for a variety of armies running anti-magic tools. Bill Souza, in this vein, has expertly piloted his Lofnir Lodge to a 5-0 utilising a variety of tools tailored to meta-mancy. The inclusion of a Runelord as ally speaks to the prevalence of endless spells in the current game, with his +2 to dispel rolls and additional unbind giving the army tools to put a damper on the ability of purple sun (and other spells! They also exist!) to affect Bill’s hero and monster-reliant list. The easy scoring of Bill’s Grand Strategy (have an invocation on the field at the end of the game) solves a problem many armies struggle with under the new GHB neatly, taking advantage of the lack of banishment found across most armies to pick up a consistent source of VP to boot!

Bill has taken Lofnir into this tournament, unlocking Runesons on Magmadroths as battleline and allowing for inclusion of all three mount traits. Magmadroths provide a monster of a warscroll (pun intended) – taking hits well, providing huge amounts of output and being excellent carriers of the artefacts Bill has included (more on this later!). Looking at Bill’s path through the tournament, his army is well equipped to the challenges of both melee-focused enemies who struggle to displace his army off of objectives at the same time as preventing the magmadroths punching holes in their own lines. Trickier foes like the Lumineth are tempered at least in part by the Runelord and the sheer prevalence of powerful ward saves in Bill’s force.

An exceptionally clever layer of complexity in this list is the expert use of the new battalions Bill has used, using both his sub-faction and general selection to satisfy conditions of these battalion for the inclusion of powerful units in Expert Conquerors and Bounty Hunters. The selection of the Auric Runefather as the general, make the Auric Hearthguard battleline, allowing them to be Expert conquerers, counting as 3 models on objectives. On such a notoriously durable unit, so long as they remain close to their heroes to activate their 4+ ward, an opponent is forced to invest significant quantities of damage onto these units if they intend to displace them, losing primary points for every turn they fail to do so. Additionally, the Magmadroths becoming battleline allow them to be selected as bounty hunters, increasing their already incredible output further when paired up against Galletian Veterans. Having committed so heavily to the new battalions, it only makes sense to round things out with a Command Entourage, picking up an extra artefact in the process.

With a strong alternative to Battle-regiment focused lists and a suite of tools tailor made to handle current meta conditions Bill has proven the Ur-Gold fiends of the Fyreslayers have fight in them yet after many dismissed their most recent battletome. Things are looking up for the Dwarves!

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Army Faction: Blades of Khorne
– Army Subfaction: Reapers of Vengeance
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumphs: Bloodthirsty

LEADER
1 x Bloodsecrator (125)*
1 x Bloodthirster of Unfettered Fury (295)*
– Artefacts: Skullshard Mantle
1 x Slaves to Darkness Daemon Prince (210)*
– Hellforged Sword and Malefic Talons
1 x Lord of Khorne on Juggernaut (140)**
– General
– Command Traits: Mage Eater
1 x Skarbrand (380)**

BATTLELINE
3 x Mighty Skullcrushers (165)*
– Skullhunter
– Standard Bearer
– Hornblower
– Bloodglaive
3 x Mighty Skullcrushers (165)*
– Hornblower
– Standard Bearer
– Skullhunter
– Bloodglaive
3 x Mighty Skullcrushers (165)*
– Hornblower
– Standard Bearer
– Skullhunter
– Bloodglaive
3 x Mighty Skullcrushers (165)**
– Standard Bearer
– Hornblower
– Skullhunter
– Bloodglaive
3 x Mighty Skullcrushers (165)**
– Standard Bearer
– Hornblower
– Skullhunter
– Bloodglaive

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Battle Regiment
**Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: (1975/2000)

Ethan: What year is it?!?! The inimitable Thomas Guan has flown in from the top rope with a Khorne list that looks like it’s straight out of their second edition glory days with a few notable tweaks to continue with the current trend of anti-magic tech. Everyone knows Khorne is good at dealing with magic due to their Blood Tithe dispel but the White Dwarf update to how the tithe is used opens up the ability for Khorne to really lay the smackdown on caster-heavy opponents. As if this weren’t powerful enough, Reapers of Khorne seems to be the premium Khorne sub-faction under the new GHB providing a suite of excellent command abilities, artefacts and traits to their heroes. In the old book style, these traits and artefacts are mandatory selections, though with abilities like a 2+ spell ignore and an additional unbind attempt (auto-unbinding and causing d6 mortal wounds on an 8!) I doubt you’ll find many among the bloodied hordes complaining.

This list includes a selection of the well-known Khorne combos and all-star units with the ever-powerful combination of a Pile-in Thirster and Skarbrand appearing. Usually in this combination Skarbrand is held back on the first turn to place him at his top bracket before being flung into combat with a 6” pile-in, no charge required. This combination is brutally doubled down on by the Reapers of Vengeance sub-faction command ability allowing Skarbrand to then fight again in the combat phase, again piling in 6” so long as they remain within range of the other Bloodthirster. A bloodsecrator acts as a buff-piece and powerful priest, allowing for additional attempts to dispel endless spells and a STD Daemon Prince gives Thomas the capacity to choose who he fights, and where. The combination of this Daemon Prince with the Pilethirster provides a lot of control for a list that, on the face of it just wants to smash you in the face but it’s only after looking at the remainder of the list that the flashbacks of a time when Khorne was the meta darling of the day begin. A Lord of Khorne on Juggernaut and five (count ‘em!) units of Mighty Skullcrushers round out the list, blasting mortal wounds into opponents on the charge and providing tanky bodies for objective taking with good movement to ensure the army is able to make contact with the enemy before its lack of ranged tools become an issue.

Thomas has done well with an off-meta pick, only falling to Fyreslayers in the final round. Sadly for Thomas, the Duardin possess (or maybe Dispossess?) many of the tools required to stare down this combat army and ask them if that’s all they’ve got? Also lacking in magic of their own, the durable, high-ward Fyreslayers waste many of the strengths of Thomas’s Subfaction, drawing them into a sit-down, drag out combat slog where the Skullcrusher’s charge effects will lack the punch they would otherwise provide. To go 4-1 with an off-meta pick is nevertheless an incredible achievement and show a level of list-building mastery that seems to be the joy of many an experienced player in the new GHB.

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Allegiance: Bonesplitterz
– Warclan: Icebone
– Grand Strategy: Waaagh!
– Triumphs: Indomitable

Leaders
Kragnos, The End of Empires (720)*
Wurrgog Prophet (150)*
– General
– Command Trait: Master of Magic
– Artefact: Glowin’ Tattooz
– Lore of the Savage Beast: Glowy Green Tusks

Battleline
5 x Savage Boarboys (140)*
– Chompas
5 x Savage Boarboys (140)*
– Chompas
5 x Savage Boarboys (140)*
– Chompas

Units
5 x Savage Boarboy Maniaks (145)*
4 x Savage Big Stabbas (160)*
– Reinforced x 1

Behemoths
Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur (400)*
– Allies

Core Battalions
*Battle Regiment

Total: 1995 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 1 / 4
Allies: 400 / 400
Wounds: 101
Drops: 1

Ethan: Holy moley what a brutal list:

Kragnos
Wurrgog
Krondspine
Big Stabbas

Ben’s army asks you which problem you’d like to deal with first and like the multiple choice quiz from hell, you’re always wrong. With the number of threats this list presents you can only pity the opponents Ben stared down ( 😊 ) throughout his journey on this eternal quest to krump.

Continuing the trend of book-based Grand Strategies, Waaagh! Simply requires either a battleline unit or your general (Does Kragnos count?) to be wholly within enemy territory when the battle ends. Realistically, if this doesn’t naturally happen in the course of play in an Ork army, you may need to return to school to do some fingerpainting and commune with old mate Mork.

There’s not a huge amount to say about the list as a whole, Kragnos is a brutal combat monster, the Wurrgog’s usual trick of staring something off the table removes notable threats and, in combination with a bound Incarnate provides a wonderful problem for your opponent should you ever lose the staring match. Boarboyz fill out the battleline slot while a reinforced unit of big stabbas… well… they stab?

With so many points invested into the Incarnate and Kragnos, Ben does a good job of rounding out his army, ensuring that he has enough bodies to threaten various objectives and the speed to get there, only falling over (in much the same way as Thomas’s Khorne) to the sheer durability of Bill’s fyreslayers. With such a stable of experienced players I’d kill to be a fly on the wall throughout these games but don’t let the relatively heavy combat focus of these lists trick you into thinking the games look much as a toddler playing with dinosaurs (leave that to Seraphon players), without the tools such as shooting and casting that many armies enjoy mastery of both deployment and the movement phase would have been key to these players.

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Allegiance: Big Waaagh!
– Grand Strategy: No Place for the Weak
– Triumphs: Indomitable

LEADERS
Breaka-Boss on Mirebrute Troggoth (180)
– Artefact: Mork’s Eye Pebble
– Mount Trait: Fast ‘Un
Gobsprakk, The Mouth of Mork (280)***
– Lore of the Swamp: All
Orruk Warchanter (115)
– Warbeat: Fixin’ Beat
Orruk Weirdnob Shaman (90)***
– Lore of the Weird: Da Great Big Green Hand of Gork
Wurrgog Prophet (150)***
– General
– Command Trait: Master of Magic
– Artefact: Glowin’ Tattooz
– Lore of the Savage Beast: Gorkamorka’s War Cry

BATTLELINE
5 x Orruk Ardboys (85)**
5 x Orruk Ardboys (85)**
5 x Orruk Ardboys (85)*

OTHER UNITS
3 x Orruk Gore-gruntas (170)*
– Jagged Gore-hackas
3 x Orruk Gore-gruntas (170)*
– Jagged Gore-hackas
3 x Man-skewer Boltboyz (120)***

BEHEMOTH
Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur (400)
– Allies
– Bonded: Wurgog Prophet

ENDLESS SPELLS
Umbral Spellportal (70)

CORE BATTALIONS
*Bounty Hunters
**Expert Conquerors
***Warlord

ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENTS
Artefact

Total: 2000 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 0 / 4
Allies: 400 / 400
Wounds: 111
Drops: 12

Ethan: This tournament’s wildcard list, piloted by Ben Mulshine, utilises a variety of the tools we’ve mentioned throughout the other lists above, only losing once to Thomas’s Khorne in its path. Much like Bill, Ben (must resist!) has potted (sorry.) his units into the triple combination of Warlord, Expert Conquerers and Bounty Hunters, eschewing any hope of turn selection in favour of an extra artefact, CP, Count-as-three capturing and bonus damage against Galletian Veterans. ‘Ardboyz capture objectives while the suite of powerful heroes and the Gore-Gruntas team up with the Incarnate to grab the opponent’s neck and beat them down with pure combat efficiency.

The previously discussed combination of Wurrgog and Incarnate present a Russian Roulette-esque threat to the opponent where even playing the game is to lose it. The hero loadouts all work together to solve one of the lists major weaknesses with the Eye-pebble, Fast’un and the Great Green Hand of Mork getting in the opponents face quickly and mitigating the ability for shooting armies to punch holes in Ben’s units before they’re able to do that they do best, foightin’.

I’d love to ask Ben how he felt various aspects of the list performed, the battalions make deployment a challenge as, while Ben can deploy in reaction to his opponent, the risk of a double turn or being alpha struck himself create a schrodinger’s cat of a deployment, where Ben must be ready to react depending on whether his opponent decides to give him the turn or not. The list is finely tuned with tools for a variety of situations and draws on one of the biggest advantages Big Waaagh! provides by allowing an all-star cast of the Orruk Warclans various Warscrolls. Listbuilding is always a matter of refining however and I do wonder whether Ben feels he’d make any changes or stick with the current list after such a respectable result.

Incredible work to the players of all of today’s lists! The new GHB continues to deliver as a factional wunderkind with tournaments around the world giving a variety of factions their time in the sun. It only remains to be seen whether the current trend of anti-magic continues to dominate the magic-heavy lists going around currently or if upcoming tomes (LRL and Tzeentch, though still a ways off) can break through a meta which seems pre-designed to keep them under wraps.

Final Tournament Placings

AoS Meta Stats (w/e 31st July 2022)

August 7, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

Grand Tournaments

Ranked from largest to smallest.

Boise Cup O AoS GT – Texas/USA
52 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Soulblight Gravelords	Legion of Blood	5-0-0
2nd	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	5-0-0
3rd	Hedonites of Slaanesh	Lurid Haze	4-0-1
4th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
5th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	4-0-1
6th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
7th	Ironjawz	Bloodtoofs	4-0-1
8th	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	4-0-1
9th	Kharadron Overlords	None/Unknown	4-0-1
10th	Sylvaneth	Gnarlroot	4-0-1

Boise Cup O AoS GT

Shropshire Slaughter: Telford Onslaught AoS GT July 2022 – England/UK
32 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Beasts of Chaos	Allherd	5-0-0
2nd	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	4-0-1
3rd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1
4th	Sylvaneth	Harvestboon	4-0-1
5th	Sylvaneth	Dreadwood	4-0-1
6th	Daughters of Khaine	Khailebron	4-0-1
7th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	3-0-2
8th	Idoneth Deepkin	Nautilar	3-0-2
9th	Sylvaneth	Heartwood	3-0-2
10th	Big Waaagh!		3-0-2

Shropshire Slaughter: Telford Onslaught AoS GT July 2022

Armed Forces Day 5 – Illinois/USA
34 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	5-0-0
2nd	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	4-0-1
3rd	Daughters of Khaine	Hagg Nar	4-0-1
4th	Sylvaneth	Gnarlroot	4-0-1
5th	Beasts of Chaos	Gavespawn	4-0-1
6th	Disciples of Tzeentch	Hosts Arcanum	4-0-1
7th	Legion of the First Prince		4-0-1
8th	Stormcast Eternals	Anvils of Heldenhammer	3-0-2
9th	Ironjawz	Bloodtoofs	3-0-2
10th	Idoneth Deepkin	Nautilar	3-0-2

Armed Forces Day 5

Peace Through Dakka AoS GT – Delaware/USA
16 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	5-0-0
2nd	Sylvaneth	Heartwood	4-0-1
3rd	Ironjawz	Bloodtoofs	4-0-1
4th	Sylvaneth	Heartwood	3-0-2
5th	Gloomspite Gitz	Glogg’s Megamob	3-0-2
6th	Hedonites of Slaanesh	Godseekers Host	3-0-2
7th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	3-0-2
8th	Cities of Sigmar	Hallowheart	3-0-2
9th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	2-1-2
10th	Nighthaunt	Emerald Host	2-1-2

Peace Through Dakka AoS GT

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This Weeks Stats

The following stats are for the week ending 31st July only, essentially GT’s that took place on the 30th and 31st July.

Rolling 4 Week Stats

The rolling stats includes all GT’s since the weekend of 9th/10th July to the 30th/31st July. This covers a total of 689 players (+86 players) across 19 Grand Tournaments (+1 GT).

As the new release of the GHB takes hold it looks as though the overall effect is a positive one on the overall win rates for each Grand Alliance as they all get close to that 50.0% mark.

Here are the rolling four weeks win rates since we began tracking this information:

Faction Stats (Version)

The below stats are for every match in a grand tournament since the release of the new General’s Handbook.

Factions that have achieved 5 wins at a GT

Under this new General’s Handbook we can see a number of factions have achieved 5-0 wins. Following on from last week, Stormcast Eternals and Maggotkin of Nurgle now join Seraphon and Kharadron Overlords with 2 each.

Looking at factions with four wins and the table opens out vastly with only Flesh-eater Courts, Big Waaagh! and Legion of Azorgh yet to achieve a 4 win result over a weekend.

Meanwhile at the lower end of the tables factions who have gone a whole tournament with five losses…

As for the win rates of each faction since the release of the new GHB:

In terms of faction popularity:

5-0 Results as a % of the number of players for that faction

Currently it would appear that Kharadron Overlords players have the highest chance of going 5-0 at an event closely followed by Slaves to Darkness.

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AoS Meta Stats (w/e 24th July 2022)

July 31, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

Grand Tournaments

Ranked from largest to smallest.

BWG: Summer Slaughter Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament (Major) – Pennsylvania/USA
102 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Hedonites of Slaanesh	Lurid Haze	5-0-0
2nd	Kharadron Overlords	Barak-Zilfin	5-0-0
3rd	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	5-0-0
4th	Kharadron Overlords	None	4-0-1
5th	Disciples of Tzeentch	Hosts Duplicitous	4-0-1
6th	Skaven	None	4-0-1
7th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
8th	Skaven	None	4-0-1
9th	Sylvaneth	Heartwood	4-0-1
10th	Skaven	None	4-0-1

BWP: Summer Slaughter Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament (Major)

Outlaw Open at LSO – Texas/USA
46 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	5-0-0
2nd	Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	4-1-0
3rd	Ogor Mawtribes	Bloodgullet	4-1-0
4th	Kharadron Overlords	Barak-Mhornar	4-0-1
5th	Nighthaunt	Quicksilver Dead	4-0-1
6th	Sons of Behemat	Stomper Tribe	4-0-1
7th	Ossiarch Bonereapers	Petrifex Elite	4-0-1
8th	Disciples of Tzeentch	Hosts Arcanum	3-1-1
9th	Ironjawz	Bloodtoofs	3-1-1
10th	Blades of Khorne	Reapers of Vengeance	3-0-2

The Outlaw Open at LSO

The Salt City GT Age of Sigmar – New York/USA
31 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Filthbringers	5-0-0
2nd	Fyreslayers	Greyfyrd	4-0-1
3rd	Ironjawz	Bloodtoofs	4-0-1
4th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
5th	Kruleboyz	Big Yellers	4-0-1
6th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Munificent Wanderers	4-0-1
7th	Hedonites of Slaanesh	Lurid Haze	3-0-2
8th	Hedonites pf Slaanesh	Lurid Haze	3-0-2
9th	Ossiarch Bonereapers	Petrifex Elite	3-0-2
10th	Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	3-0-2

The Salt City GT Age of Sigmar

Miniparadice Anniverary Tournament – Germany
38 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Disciples of Tzeentch	Hosts Arcanum	4-1-0
2nd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Filthbringers	4-1-0
3rd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1
4th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	4-0-1
5th	Sylvaneth	Heartwood	4-0-1
6th	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	4-0-1
7th	Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	4-0-1
8th	Fyreslayers	Vostarg	3-0-2
9th	Idoneth Deepkin	Briomdar	3-0-2
10th	Seraphon	Dracothion’s Tail	3-0-2

Miniparadice Anniversary Tournament

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This Weeks Stats

The following stats are for the week ending 24th July only, essentially GT’s that took place on the 23rd and 24th July.

Rolling 4 Week Stats

The rolling stats includes all GT’s since the weekend of 2nd/3rd July to the 23rd/24th July. This covers a total of 603 players (+151 players) across 18 Grand Tournaments (+2 GT’s).

Alliance Win Rates for a Rolling Four Week Period

As the new release of the GHB takes hold it looks as though the overall effect is a positive one on the overall win rates for each Grand Alliance as they all get close to that 50.0% mark.

Faction win rates over the last four weeks

Here are the rolling four weeks win rates since we began tracking this information:

Faction Stats (Version)

The below stats are for every match in a grand tournament since the release of the new General’s Handbook.

Under this new General’s Handbook we can see a number of factions have achieved 5-0 wins, but currently Seraphon and Kharadron Overlords lead the way with 2 a piece.

Looking at factions with four wins and the table opens out vastly with only Legion of the First Prince, Big Waaagh! and Legion of Azorgh (Hey, someone played them so I’m including them ok!?) yet to achieve a 4 win result over a weekend.

Meanwhile at the lower end of the tables factions who have gone a whole tournament with five losses…

And as for each factions current win rate under the new handbook:

Bonesplitterz, Disciples of Tzeentch and Seraphon lead the way at present while Legion of the First Prince, Flesh-eater Courts and Ossiarch Bonereapers prop every one else up.

If you don’t like graphs, here’s their win rates in a table format:

Faction in Green are considered to have a healthy win rate, those in Red are considered (by me) to be unbalanced

But who do Bonesplitterz struggle against?

Skaven and Ironjawz seem to have the most success against Bonesplitterz, though whether these particular matches were against the Drakkfoot Big Stabba spam, I’m not sure.

Meanwhile a revitalised Disciples of Tzeentch is struggling in their matches against Idoneth Deepkin, Cities of Sigmar, Maggotkin of Nurgle, Daughters of Khaine and surprisingly Fyreslayers!

In terms of faction popularity:

By rights, each faction should have an equal share of the player base, however we know this will not be the case due to either the appeal of the miniatures or the rules for the factions. Here we can see the most popular factions are Stormcast Eternals, Nighthaunt, Daughters of Khaine, Maggotkin of Nurgle, Sylvaneth, Ironjawz and Skaven.

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Faction Breakdown

After only a week, I’ve removed the faction breakdown, but this is becuase we’ll start a new series called ‘Faction Focus’ where each day we’ll analyse a specific factions results for the previous month and lists that performed well.

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