This is the top three AoS lists for OsloHammer #12 that took place in Norway between the 25th and 26th of July 2026. It saw 21 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.
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Kruleboyz Kruleboyz Klaw General’s Handbook 2026-27 Drops: 3 Spell Lore – Lore of the Swamp Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of Gorkamorka Battle Tactic Cards: Siege of Ashes, Legend of the Parch
General’s Regiment Kragnos, the End of Empires (580) • General Gutrippaz (300) • Reinforced Killaboss on Corpse-rippa Vulcha (240) • Slippery Skumbag Kruleboyz Monsta-killaz (120) Kruleboyz Monsta-killaz (120)
Regiment 1 Gobsprakk, the Mouth of Mork (240) Killaboss on Great Gnashtoof (130)
Regiment 2 Breaka-boss on Mirebrute Troggoth (190) • Tattermask • Sly ‘Un – (10) Points Murknob with Belcha-banna (80)
Faction Terrain Skaregob Totem
Skaven Warpcog Convocation General’s Handbook 2026-27 Drops: 2 Spell Lore – Lore of Ruin Manifestation Lore – Forbidden Power (20 Points) Battle Tactic Cards: Blazing Onslaught, Siege of Ashes
This is the top three AoS lists for the Siege of York IV that took place in the UK between the 25th and 26th of July 2026. It saw 22 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.
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A great showing from Daniel with a more unique Fyreslayers list than most. It's clear the Runesmiter + AHG combo is now on the rise.
The first thing to note is that this list is not a magmadroth heavy list: there is only one in the list and it's the Runefather Droth who is almost certainly here for supporting the infantry via his once per game attack boost and his save reduction rampage. Thickened Scales makes him a little tankier for the role.
The list itself is an infantry-heavy list making good use of the subfaction, Warrior Kinband, which gives +1 to wound rolls when making a charge and the newly-reduced-in-points Auric Hearthguard (aka "shoot guys") and Hearthguard Berserkers.
Notably, everything in both Runesmiter regiments can be deepstriked; over 1000 points of this list are likely not starting on the board. This leaves a Runemaster, Droth, and SoA Flameseekers as the only pieces having to be deployed.
The AHG are an incredibly swingy hammer that have to be respected for their potential to pop off. They also provide fire support for the Hearthguard and Flameseekers which are themselves a hammer.
SoA Flameseekers' ability is (Army) so having only one makes sense here, aside from their high cost, but it's a potent ability and so one unit of them is always worth having. An infantry unit that can move potentially 11" in the hero phase (from the Prayer Lore) and then 11" again is quite spicy. The Runemaster having +2 to chant rolls (from the faction terrain and Ash-beard) means getting that hero-phase move off is fairly likely.
This adds up to a list that really really wants to brawl in the middle, but doesn't have to and in fact with the chosen tactics probably won't all the time. While it is brawling there will be 30 Auric Hearthguard reigning down shots on anything that gets stuck in or is caught out, the AHG themselves have Shoot in Combat meaning even if tagged they are still unloading.
Add to this mix the Ash-Cloud Rune on a Runesmiter so that the FS player can stop all shooting to infantry wholly within 12" of that Runesmiter (no matter the range they are, it's a full block). Against opponents who may have their own mixed-arms armies like Skaven and Helsmiths (both played against) this removes their tools from the board while your threats gain positional advantage.
Opponents have to make really tough target priority decisions into this list and no matter what answer they arrive it they may find it was the wrong answer. This list is a "classic" Fyreslayers list in that it is a toolbox that has the answers for the opponents questions.
Still, it's a tricky list requiring careful decision making on when and where you deepstrike, especially map dependent due to the tactics and the unit types. Outside the turn with the enhanced ward rune, this is a squishy list that will fold to a stiff breeze if mispositioned. This list won't be for everyone, but clearly it is for Daniel.
Ogor Mawtribes (Beast Handlers) General’s Handbook 2026-27 Drops: 5 Spell Lore – Lore of Maw-magic Prayer Lore – Everwinter Prayers Manifestation Lore – Primal Energy (10 Points) Battle Tactics Cards: Burning for Vengeance and Siege of Ashes
General’s Regiment Frostlord on Stonehorn (340) • General • The Fang of Ghur • Touched by the Everwinter Gnoblars (130) Gnoblars (130) Huskard on Stonehorn (290) • 1 Harpoon Launcher
Regiment 4 Scourge of Aqshy: Huskard on Thundertusk (260) • 1 Harpoon Launcher Mournfang Pack (150)
Faction Terrain Mawpit
Mike Mercurio: An excellent example of the Beastclaw archetype, this list combines the army's strengths with solid secondary scoring. Beast Handlers is the standard subfaction choice, guaranteeing between 4 and 7 mortals per impact. With 4 priests, and the Aqshy Huskard at +1, this army can easily keep up the prayer cycle needed to maintain the 5+ ward around blizzarded objectives. The prayer lore also allows for some key scalpel play with Hailstorm combined with the Mawpit to remove support heroes or small scoring units. While most of the spell lore is of low value to BCR, the Slaughtermaster can be used to control space by occupying the Mawpit and extending it's range, while also casting the Primal manifestations to help keep the monsters health up. While Mage Eater is gone with the move to Aqshy, Ogors still have access to the Fang of Ghur for a once per game ward removal for when a unit needs to be driven off the board by the power of the Everwinter.
The most interesting design choice is choosing to go with only 4 monsters (3 Stonehorns and a Thundertusk). Typically BCR lists rely more heavily on monsters for their charge damage, but this list takes a different approach. Two units of Gnoblars provide important screening units to ensure the monsters are able to charge and maximize efficiency. While two small units of Mournfang offer anti-shooting tech, and some extra damage if needed. This lets the army operate as either two smaller castles, or as one large bulldozing wedge depending on mission and matchup.
Burning for Vengeance is an easy tactics pick for a list like this, where you intend to be aggressive right off the cuff. Siege of Ashes is a great synergy pick, especially because the tactic does not have a setup restriction for the first step. This makes the Icebrow Hunter a great tool to guarantee the tactic if the other pieces need to be somewhere else on the board. He can also be used for scoring additional primary, or to set up or future scoring either along the side of the board or opponent's backfield.
Overall a more technical take on the Beastclaw archetype, and shows that even Destruction can have some subtle tools in it's arsenal.
Daughters of Khaine Fervent Ritualists General’s Handbook 2026-27 Drops: 3 Spell Lore – Lore of Shadows Prayer Lore – Prayers of the Khainite Cult Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of Khaine Battle Tactics Cards: Burning for Vengeance and Flanking Firestorm
General’s Regiment Morathi-Khaine (750) • General Khainite Shadowstalkers (130) Khinerai Heartrenders (100) Khinerai Lifetakers (110) The Shadow Queen
Niel Addleman: As we start to see the meta form, a pair that seems to be doing well for Skaven is Thanquoul and six Stormfiends which this list managed to do well with. Stormfiends are a proper melee bruiser, and with the ability to drop on the board on your opponents or your own turn gives them great versatility as well. And with the new season now you can use the Transplanted Brains enhancement to either give them a free +1 to hit (great for a unit that hits on 4’s) or extra OC. Played well, they can win you games on their own.
Thanquol is a very solid support piece for them. With +1 to cast, as well as a possible +d3 to cast from the Masterclan Connections on the Warbinger, you can more easily get off his spell for no-commands to stop that pesky redeploy or covering fire or all out defense (as well as more niche things such as Sylvaneth’s strike first command), or strike last a big anvil so you can dogpile it. And with the Skaven teleport spell he can be wherever your Stormfiends need him to be.
Backing this power duo up is Doom-Flayers and a Verminlord Warbringer to give you some extra melee juice and even help with tactics. Flayers can tear up infantry, and Warbringer can certainly punch up with his damage 3 attacks if you roll well. While the Flayers charge mortals and Warbringers end of turn mortals can help with Blazing Onslaught step one. While some Skaven lists are forgoing the Warbringer for a foot hero and a doomwheel to help with tactics, Warbringer gives you a bigger threat while providing similar utility in terms of tactics. And between Foulhide healing him every turn and rage dice he can stick around and be a nuisance for sure.
Finally there are TWO reinforced units of Jezzails that are going to be shooting from behind 40 plague monks. Jezzails can be swingy with only having 13 attacks per reinforced unit, that rend 2 damage 2 profile can tear high armor save armies up. Or whittle down a hammer before you send your melee threats in.
Skaven lists are always better than the sum of their parts and this list shows that very well.
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, 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 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 December Battlescroll)
I’ve added in a colour code to show the rough age of the rules the faction is using.
As always, these are global stats from various sources around the internet.
Factions by Average Elo
I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo.
Estimated Win Rates if the Player Skill Levels were Equal
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 July battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 411.1. 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 411.1 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%)
Win Rates by Release Date
This chart shows the win rates for all the battletomes released within certain periods of time (every 6 months since 4th edition release).
This should show whether Battletomes are generally stronger the later they are released into the edition. As we can see they all fall within the 45-55% win area, though the battletomes released in the last 6 months are a little stronger than the other cohorts.
Battle Formation Win Rates
This chart shows the win rates for Battle Formations that have seen 100 games or more at GT events.
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.
The above is an aim to show how easy factions are to pilot for players. In this case I’ve narrowed the population down to players with an Elo between 200 and 400. What follows is then the % of those players to win in the first round. This continues, showing what % of players won in round 1 and round 2 in the next column. This continues to show how deep developing players are progressing into tournaments undefeated using that faction.
Bear in mind that although we have no tournament history on record for these players, they may be skilled outside of tournaments before their first recorded instance in the Woehammer database.
Battleplan Win Rates
This one could be useful for TO’s who are looking to run tournaments in the near future. If you’re hoping to curtail a few of the higher powered factions, you could perhaps look to use battleplans where those factions aren’t as dominant.
PlasticCraic mentioned the popularity of Battleplans earlier this week on his discord. So thought I’d include this.
Past Battlescroll Win Rates
Woehammer Database
To download out Age of Sigmar stats database, click on the button below.
For those of you who are counted among our legendary Patreons, you can view the full stats and download the stats database below which now includes warscroll win rates and lists.
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, 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 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 December Battlescroll)
I’ve added in a colour code to show the rough age of the rules the faction is using.
As always, these are global stats from various sources around the internet. Er… Kruleboyz?
Factions by Average Elo
I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. As mentioned in the last section, Daughters have the highest average Elo of all the factions currently which goes a long way to contributing to that 62% win rate.
Estimated Win Rates if the Player Skill Levels were Equal
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 July battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 409.1. 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 409.1 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%)
Win Rates by Release Date
This chart shows the win rates for all the battletomes released within certain periods of time (every 6 months since 4th edition release).
This should show whether Battletomes are generally stronger the later they are released into the edition. As we can see they all fall within the 45-55% win area, though the battletomes released in the last 6 months are a little stronger than the other cohorts.
Battle Formation Win Rates
This chart shows the win rates for Battle Formations that have seen 100 games or more at GT events.
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.
The above is an aim to show how easy factions are to pilot for players. In this case I’ve narrowed the population down to players with an Elo between 200 and 400. What follows is then the % of those players to win in the first round. This continues, showing what % of players won in round 1 and round 2 in the next column. This continues to show how deep developing players are progressing into tournaments undefeated using that faction.
Bear in mind that although we have no tournament history on record for these players, they may be skilled outside of tournaments before their first recorded instance in the Woehammer database.
Battleplan Win Rates
This one could be useful for TO’s who are looking to run tournaments in the near future. If you’re hoping to curtail a few of the higher powered factions, you could perhaps look to use battleplans where those factions aren’t as dominant.
PlasticCraic mentioned the popularity of Battleplans earlier this week on his discord. So thought I’d include this.
Past Battlescroll Win Rates
Woehammer Database
To download out Age of Sigmar stats database, click on the button below.
For those of you who are counted among our legendary Patreons, you can view the full stats and download the stats database below which now includes warscroll win rates and lists.
This is the top three AoS lists for La classique d’été that took place in Canada between the 11th and 12th of 2026. It saw 28 players in an invitational format vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.
Before we jump into the Top Three AoS Lists, I want to invite everyone of our friendly Discord server where you can join in the conversation with the Woehammer crew and suggest articles or series for the website.
If you like what we’re doing, why not join our Patreon and help keep it going?
Also if there’s a one day or two day tournament you’d like us to cover drop us a comment on this post and we’ll have a look at it for you.
The Top Three AoS Lists
Sylvaneth Lords of the Clan General’s Handbook 2026-27 Drops: 5 Wounds: 104 Spell Lore – Lore of the Deepwood Prayer Lore – Lore of the Spirit-Song Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of the Deepwood Battle Tactic Cards: Blazing Onslaught, Legend of the Parch
General’s Regiment The Lady of Vines (280) • General
Regiment 1 Belthanos, First Thorn of Kurnoth (290) Kurnoth Hunters with Kurnoth Greatswords (420) • Reinforced • Aspect of Heartwood (10) Kurnoth Hunters with Kurnoth Scythes (200)
Regiment 2 Spirit of Durthu (320) • Glamourweave (20)
Regiment 3 Treelord Ancient (Scourge of Aqshy) (290) • Spellsinger
Regiment 4 Warsong Revenant (170)
Faction Terrain Awakened Wyldwood
Luis Mendoza (Warhammex): At first glance, this list stands out by fielding four Monster Heroes, something we haven’t seen very often since the release of the Sylvaneth Battletome. It concentrates durability, magical support and combat power into its heroes, making Lords of the Clan the natural Battle Formation to maximize their resilience. More importantly, these heroes are not merely support pieces—they are genuine offensive threats.
The magical core revolves around The Lady of Vines and the Treelord Ancient (Scourge of Aqshy). Together they project spells through the Overgrown network while enhancing the army’s durability. The Lady of Vines provides her invaluable 5+ ward spell, while the Aqshy Treelord Ancient adds further magical resilience through his unique spell. As Level 2 Wizards with positive casting modifiers, both also contribute meaningful ranged pressure.
The Warsong Revenant complements this package by unlocking the Lore of Prayers, adding both offensive and defensive utility. His prayers improve friendly durability, reduce enemy ward saves, and Song of the Dread punishes enemy movement, creating constant positional pressure.
In combat, Spirit of Durthu anchors the frontline with Glamourweave improving the consistency of his attacks. Belthanos enhances the army’s board projection through his slingshot ability while granting nearby Kurnothi infantry an extra 2″ of movement. The reinforced Kurnoth Hunters with Greatswords serve as the primary hammer, while the Scythes provide a durable anvil. The Greatswords also benefit from the Aspect of Heartwood update, with Endless Growth healing 6 wounds once per battle instead of D3, often enough to return a fallen Greatsword model to the unit.
The chosen Battle Tactics fit the army naturally. Blazing Onslaught rewards its ability to apply pressure across multiple phases while maintaining board control, whereas Legend of the Parch capitalizes on the mobility and offensive power of its Monster Heroes to combine territorial pressure with reliable damage.
Overall, this is a cohesive and well-balanced list that combines resilient heroes, layered magical support and powerful melee threats into a clear, effective game plan. Congratulations to Jessy on an excellent build.
Fittsy: We’re seeing some new riffs on KO list archetypes and I’m really liking this one. 2nd place is also a really great result with KO as an army which can be tough to pilot but rewards a shrewd opportunist.
A few points drops and increased effectiveness from shooting is seeing the ironclad hit the tables more often again. It’s commonly paired with 20 arks for a really prickly anti charge mobile shooting blob. That Endrinmaster is still key to keep the Ironclad firing turn after turn and is a good spot to have the artefact and trait if you’re trying to stick to 2 drops.
Burst grenade is still great for stripping a ward and dropping a big target and shrewd opportunist looks really good to get units onto objectives or even a hero to a PoP early game with the deployment phase move.
The other half is Brokk and the Wardens combo with a Frigate and Drekki for some melee punch. Brokk’s OPB run and shoot/charge for both big boats is great for applying pressure. I haven’t been looking at Drekki myself in a while… But he’s a fan favourite and packs a little extra punch into a monster meta.
But wait there’s more… Well, 5 harpooners are just a good value high speed unit but 5 Thunderers for a second ward strip or to drop control score and bully the opponent off objectives is an interesting piece in this list with the Frigate able to bring them up and into place before charging in.
The long range shooting from the two big boats let’s the KO player put a bit of pressure on the opponent and they can make it tougher on the opponent to get those battle tictacs if you’re blasting their chaff units off the field. On the other hand, Blazing and Siege in this list make sense with good ways to tick off the first tactics and the movement to enable scoring Blazing or force the opponent to block it.
The Frigate is great for working around the constraints on Siege’s Strike too. All that said… These lists take a lot of brain work to play and taking 2nd at an event this early is no mean feat!
Sylvaneth Followers of Kurnoth General’s Handbook 2026-27 Drops: 4 Spell Lore – Lore of the Deepwood Prayer Lore – Lore of the Spirit-Song Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of the Deepwood Battle Tactics Cards: Blazing Onslaught and Burning for Vengeance
General’s Regiment Alarielle the Everqueen (620) • General Kurnoth Hunters with Greatscythes (410) • Reinforced • Aspect of Heartwood
Regiment 2 Belthanos, First Thorn of Kurnoth (290)
Regiment 3 Warsong Revenant (170)
Faction Terrain Awakened Wyldwood
Luis Mendoza (Warhammex): Congratulations to Anthony on an impressive 4–1 finish! This list revolves around a simple but effective concept: an elite Kurnothi core supported by one of the strongest magical packages available to Sylvaneth. Followers of Kurnoth naturally complements this strategy by increasing the offensive potential of the army’s elite infantry while maintaining excellent board presence.
The magical core is led by Alarielle the Everqueen, whose flexibility, spellcasting and battlefield presence make her the centerpiece of the army throughout the game. Supporting her is a Branchwych equipped with Spellsinger and Dancing Mistflies, extending the army’s spell projection while improving casting reliability. Completing the package is the Warsong Revenant, whose access to the Lore of Prayers provides both offensive and defensive utility through improved friendly ward saves, reduced enemy wards and the constant positional threat created by Song of the Dread or Song of War.
The combat element is built around Belthanos and two reinforced units of Kurnoth Hunters with Greatscythes. Belthanos provides exceptional board projection and increasing the mobility of nearby Kurnothi, allowing the army to dictate engagements, specially with Zephyrspite Rush. The reinforced Scythes form a resilient frontline while still delivering significant damage, and the Aspect of Heartwood upgrade further improves their staying power by allowing Endless Growth to heal 6 wounds once per battle instead of D3, and returning a slain Scythe model to the unit.
The selected Battle Tactics also complement the list’s game plan. Blazing Onslaught rewards sustained pressure across multiple phases, while Burning for Vengeance encourages the army’s natural advance into enemy territory, combining board control with consistent combat output.
Overall, this is a focused and highly synergistic list that combines elite infantry, outstanding magical support and strong battlefield projection into a cohesive strategy. Congratulations again to Anthony on an excellent performance.
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Skaven Fleshmeld Menagerie General’s Handbook 2026-27 Drops: 2 Wounds: 142 Spell Lore – Lore of Ruin Prayer Lore – Noxious Prayers Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of Doom Battle Tactic Cards: Siege of Ashes, Burning for Vengeance
General’s Regiment Verminlord Warbringer (260) • General • Foulhide Stormfiends (230) • Ratling Cannons and Clubbing Blows • Warpfire Projectors and Clubbing Blows • Doomflayer Gauntlets Night Runners (130) Warpvolt Scourgers (340) • Reinforced
Regiment 1 Grey Seer on Screaming Bell (Scourge of Aqshy) (330) • Masterclan Connections Rat Ogors (280) • Reinforced • 2x Warpfire Gun • Transplanted Brains (10) Rat Ogors (280) • Reinforced • 2x Warpfire Gun Plague Monks (140)
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, 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 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 December Battlescroll)
I’ve added in a colour code to show the rough age of the rules the faction is using.
As always, these are global stats from various sources around the internet. Er… Kruleboyz?
Factions by Average Elo
I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. As mentioned in the last section, Daughters have the highest average Elo of all the factions currently which goes a long way to contributing to that 62% win rate.
Estimated Win Rates if the Player Skill Levels were Equal
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 July battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 403.6. 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 403.6 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%)
Win Rates by Release Date
This is a new one this week, and will be temporary for now until the new GHB is released.
Essentially this shows the win rates for all the battletomes released within certain periods of time (every 6 months since 4th edition release).
This should show whether Battletomes are generally stronger the later they are released into the edition. As we can see they all fall within the 45-55% win area, though the battletomes released in the last 6 months are a little stronger than the other cohorts.
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.
The above is an aim to show how easy factions are to pilot for players. In this case I’ve narrowed the population down to players with an Elo between 200 and 400. What follows is then the % of those players to win in the first round. This continues, showing what % of players won in round 1 and round 2 in the next column. This continues to show how deep developing players are progressing into tournaments undefeated using that faction.
Bear in mind that although we have no tournament history on record for these players, they may be skilled outside of tournaments before their first recorded instance in the Woehammer database.
Battleplan Win Rates
This one could be useful for TO’s who are looking to run tournaments in the near future. If you’re hoping to curtail a few of the higher powered factions, you could perhaps look to use battleplans where those factions aren’t as dominant.
PlasticCraic mentioned the popularity of Battleplans earlier this week on his discord. So thought I’d include this.
Past Battlescroll Win Rates
Woehammer Database
To download out Age of Sigmar stats database, click on the button below.
For those of you who are counted among our legendary Patreons, you can view the full stats and download the stats database below which now includes warscroll win rates and lists.
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, 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 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 December Battlescroll)
2026 Bugeater AoS GT
2026 South China Spring Champion
A Big Beast Summer
Aetherforce Age of Sigmar GT
Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament
Age of Sigmar GT
Age of Sigmar: NZ Masters 2026
Age of Sigmar: Warhammer Dallas Open
Age of Sigmar: Warhammer Open Maastricht
Age of Sigmar: Warhammer Open UK Games Expo, Birmingham
Akron Brew Brawl – Summer AoS GT
Alberta Classic
AoS Madrid Championship 2026
AOS Onslaught 2026
AoS Worlds 2026 Singles
Atlantic City Open 2026
Baden Bash
Bastion Grand Tournament – Juin
Battle for GreenHollow: Age of Sigmar
Bay Area Open 2026
Black Gate: The Godking’s Gauntlet
Brawla in Valhalla GT
Cabinhammer AoS GT 2026
Catch this Smoke – Marathon GT
Circle City Slaughter
Clowns Requiem II 2026 AoS GT Vietnam
ColtonCon
CTC 2026 Age of Sigmar Championship Open
Dala Stompen 5
Dwellers Below GT
Easter Smash!
End Times is (re)coming [AOS]
Exploding Dice AoS GT 2026
Fal-Con 2026: Fly Harder AoS Edition
False Alarm 2026
Fantasia Fanatic XLIX Age of Sigmar
Field of Slaughter 26 GT 1
First Founding 2 Day Event – Chaos Uprising
Foolcon 2026
German Super Major 2026 AoS
Giga-Bites Grand Tournament
Golden Potato Cup 4
Golden Ticket Guarida del Goblin
Gopher Midwest Mayhem Age of Sigmar GT
Grand Clash Skaune IV
Grand Tournoi AOS – Grand Clash 2026
GT de l’Arène de Crussif
GT AOS SOLO – GHURNADO – Hérault Quest
GT du bout du monde Brest 2026
GT Made in Hell’saciens
GT solo AoS Clermont Ferrand
GT Solo AoS Mootland Clan
HawgHammer Age of Sigmar Gt 2026 @ AdventureCon
II High Tide AoS Mallorca
III GT AoS Individual Sevilla
III PUÑO DE SIGMAR
Iron Brawl 2026
K/Qota S9 E12 !!!Ironman!!!
Katago AOS Kollision
Leipzig Major AoS 2026
Łódzka Strefa Starcia II Edycja – Macki Wojny GT (Master)
Ludomaniacs 1v1 Aos
Masakr na Vysočině
Masters of Ghyran 2
May Offensive
Mercia Madness V
Midwest Conquest 2026 Age of Sigmar
Mountain West Classic Grand Tournament ’26 – Age of Sigmar
Nidaros Grand Tournament 2026
Paris GT AOS Golden
PubHammer Open 6
Realms 6: An Age of Sigmar Event
Realms 7: An Age of Sigmar Event
Realms 8: An Age of Sigmar Event
Realms 9: An Age of Sigmar Event
Realmshift Series 2026 – Chapter 1
River City Rumble 2026
Road to Freak Wars 26 – Final IV CN
Rocky Mountain Open 2026
ShireCon Age of Sigmar 2026
Sigmar Summerfest ’26 GT
Sigmar Summit @Warpfire Minis: May 16th-17th
SoPac AoS GT
Southcon: A New Wind
Split Personality – Competitive
Storm of Corruption II
Summer Con Age of Sigmar GT
Summertime Madness AoS GT
Swedish Championship GHB 25-26
Sydney Slaughter 2026
Sylvan Skirmish GT 2026
Tax Man Cometh III
Tennessee Elite Open AoS
The April Annihilation
The Big Thaw
The Last Hunt Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament 2026
The Richmond Open
The War Dome AoS
Toast 3ème édition
Tournoi AOS Egide x Lyon War Club pour Octogone!
Trash Clash in the Bluegrass
Trash Panda GT
ValleyCon 2026
Västkust Mästerskapen
VTGT
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Edmonton Open 2026
Warhammer AoS Thailand Grand Tournament Summer 2026
I’ve added in a colour code to show the rough age of the rules the faction is using.
As always, these are global stats from various sources around the internet. Daughters are currently dominating, but we do have to note that they have an exceptionally high average Elo suggesting that a lot of top players are using them.
Factions by Average Elo
I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. As mentioned in the last section, Daughters have the highest average Elo of all the factions currently which goes a long way to contributing to that 62% win rate.
GT Win Rates Over the Last 60 Days
We’ve passed the 60 day mark since the first events of the battlescroll dropped. These win rates would more likely show the effect of players adjusting to the competitive lists of armies as the Battle scroll progresses.
Estimated Win Rates if the Player Skill Levels were Equal
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 April battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 435.5. 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 435.5 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%)
Win Rates by Release Date
This is a new one this week, and will be temporary for now until the new GHB is released.
Essentially this shows the win rates for all the battletomes released within certain periods of time (every 6 months since 4th edition release).
This should show whether Battletomes are generally stronger the later they are released into the edition. As we can see they all fall within the 45-55% win area, though the battletomes released in the last 6 months are a little stronger than the other cohorts.
Battle Formation Win Rates
The above shows the win rates for all Battle Formations that been played in 100 GT games or more.
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.
The above is an aim to show how easy factions are to pilot for players. In this case I’ve narrowed the population down to players with an Elo between 200 and 400. What follows is then the % of those players to win in the first round. This continues, showing what % of players won in round 1 and round 2 in the next column. This continues to show how deep developing players are progressing into tournaments undefeated using that faction.
Bear in mind that although we have no tournament history on record for these players, they may be skilled outside of tournaments before their first recorded instance in the Woehammer database.
Battleplan Win Rates
This one could be useful for TO’s who are looking to run tournaments in the near future. If you’re hoping to curtail a few of the higher powered factions, you could perhaps look to use battleplans where those factions aren’t as dominant.
PlasticCraic mentioned the popularity of Battleplans earlier this week on his discord. So thought I’d include this.
Past Battlescroll Win Rates
Woehammer Database
To download out Age of Sigmar stats database, click on the button below.
For those of you who are counted among our legendary Patreons, you can view the full stats and download the stats database below which now includes warscroll win rates and lists.
Here we go again! A new season has dropped! People are already getting games in with and will be deciding which armies it will suit (or not) the best. I’m going to try and avoid that.
Not because those impressions are worthless (they aren’t). The early reactions can identify real strengths and weaknesses. But they rarely tell the full story.
The real problem with reviewing a General’s Handbook on the week of release week is that we lack data and we don’t know how reliable the future data will be.
That is perhaps especially true for the 2026–27 handbook. Only because it may be harder to evaluate the GHB by win rate alone may be one of the most difficult GHBs yet to evaluate using raw win rate alone.
The introduction of the Rage Mechanic may introduce additional swing, which may require deeper analysis.
So rather than declaring instant winners and losers, I’ll do what I always try to do. First, review the early impressions, and then, once there’s enough GT data, I’ll start plugging in some numbers:
My first reaction after reading the new handbook was straightforward:
See PlasticCraic, I can use GIFs too!
My old brain can’t seem to cope with this level of complexity at first glance.
But this complexity isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as it can create better tactical depth and skill expression. But Age of Sigmar 4th Edition launched in a relatively clean, and what was intended to be a streamlined state. This GHB feels like a step back towards heavier rules overhead.
Players are now going to be asked to track their Fury levels and Rage Dice on top of the usual admin of an Age of Sigmar game and their own army mechanics. That is a lot.
Several players I’ve spoken to described the same experience: after their first read-through, they felt interested but slightly overwhelmed. One comment in particular stuck with me as it echoed my own thoughts: “Maybe I’m getting old, but this feels like a lot to keep track of.”
I think many players will feel the same initially. But, will the extra complexity will be worth it?
Lore and Presentation
It would be bad if I did not mention the presentation of the GHB, because as always GW have done a great job.
The Aqshy setting feels fleshed out and with the locations of Embergard, the Adamantine Chain and others, you have a believable (if that can be applied to fantasy) setting for a campaign with multiple fronts.
For competitive players this may not matter much, but for everyone else the added flavour and world building is always a welcome bonus.
Are we getting hints of the end of the Mortal Realms here before 5th Edition rebuilds the world again?
Aqshian Crusades
The Aqshian Crusades are basically pre-built mission packs for RTTs, GTs and longer running campaigns. They’re curated battleplan sets with some thematic flavour layered on top.
But will TOs uses them? Some will no doubt embrace the pre-built packs initially, while others will continue curating their own.
I’ll be tracking that out of interest through the stats where I can.
Fury and Rage Dice
The headline mechanic of the Aqshy season is Fury and Rage Dice. As the battle progresses, armies generate Rage Dice that can be spent offensively or defensively.
After reading the rules, I’m less worried about pure randomness than I initially was. In practice, Rage is another resource management system. They function as a damage amplifier and a way to protect your troops. Spending the dice aggressively can swing combat, but banking them for reducing future damage may prove equally powerful.
My main concern is over who benefits the most, combat armies already built to dominate in melee will gain more value from Rage than armies that prefer pressure or precision I think. If that is the case then we could see games coming down to midboard fighting which brings us to…
Battleplans – Welcome to the Midboard
The battleplans are always the most important part of the handbook, and it would seem that the early feedback suggests that there’s a shift towards controlling the centre of the board as many objective layouts reward controlling the middle of the table.
An overlooked factor in this GHB may be that several battleplans now directly interact with terrain pieces in ways that previous seasons rarely did.
Previous GHBs had allowed scoring through mobility and objective trading, whereas this GHB could be down to who wins the centre. This could favour armies with tough infantry that are able to create a strong board presence. Armies that prefer precision strikes may struggle a bit more.
But as with every GHB, not all the Battleplans are created equal, some look excellent while some will see very little play at all (Some have already been given nicknames).
Objective heat map across all the battleplans. Thanks to Warhammex
Hidden Under Ash-Clouds, for example, fundamentally alters movement, deployment and visibility, which could create very different win conditions for shooting, magic and melee armies.
The new battle tactics look to be well thought out this season. Previous seasons often included tactics that felt too passive and that you could achieve without thinking too hard.
That may not be the case now as many have said the tactics feel a lot more deliberate and that lists may now need to be written with achieving the tactics you choose in mind. Some tactics may appear to be broadly achievable while others will reward access to specific tools such as ranged damage, magic or movement tricks.
This raises a question though, are the tactics testing player skill or simply rewarding armies that naturally tick more boxes during list building?
This has the potential to be one of the most tactical General’s Handbooks in recent memory. Strong competitive players will likely enjoy the increased decision making and complexity while casual players may find a steep learning curve with the additional bookkeeping.
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, 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 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 December Battlescroll)
2026 Bugeater AoS GT
2026 South China Spring Champion
A Big Beast Summer
Aetherforce Age of Sigmar GT
Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament
Age of Sigmar GT
Age of Sigmar: NZ Masters 2026
Age of Sigmar: Warhammer Dallas Open
Age of Sigmar: Warhammer Open Maastricht
Age of Sigmar: Warhammer Open UK Games Expo, Birmingham
Akron Brew Brawl – Summer AoS GT
Alberta Classic
AoS Madrid Championship 2026
AOS Onslaught 2026
AoS Worlds 2026 Singles
Atlantic City Open 2026
Baden Bash
Bastion Grand Tournament – Juin
Battle for GreenHollow: Age of Sigmar
Bay Area Open 2026
Black Gate: The Godking’s Gauntlet
Brawla in Valhalla GT
Cabinhammer AoS GT 2026
Catch this Smoke – Marathon GT
Clowns Requiem II 2026 AoS GT Vietnam
ColtonCon
CTC 2026 Age of Sigmar Championship Open
Dala Stompen 5
Dwellers Below GT
Easter Smash!
End Times is (re)coming [AOS]
Exploding Dice AoS GT 2026
Fal-Con 2026: Fly Harder AoS Edition
False Alarm 2026
Fantasia Fanatic XLIX Age of Sigmar
Field of Slaughter 26 GT 1
Foolcon 2026
German Super Major 2026 AoS
Golden Potato Cup 4
Golden Ticket Guarida del Goblin
Gopher Midwest Mayhem Age of Sigmar GT
Grand Clash Skaune IV
Grand Tournoi AOS – Grand Clash 2026
GT AOS SOLO – GHURNADO – Hérault Quest
GT du bout du monde Brest 2026
GT solo AoS Clermont Ferrand
GT Solo AoS Mootland Clan
HawgHammer Age of Sigmar Gt 2026 @ AdventureCon
II High Tide AoS Mallorca
III GT AoS Individual Sevilla
III PUÑO DE SIGMAR
Iron Brawl 2026
K/Qota S9 E12 !!!Ironman!!!
Katago AOS Kollision
Leipzig Major AoS 2026
Łódzka Strefa Starcia II Edycja – Macki Wojny GT (Master)
Ludomaniacs 1v1 Aos
Masakr na Vysočině
Masters of Ghyran 2
May Offensive
Mercia Madness V
Midwest Conquest 2026 Age of Sigmar
Mountain West Classic Grand Tournament ’26 – Age of Sigmar
Nidaros Grand Tournament 2026
Paris GT AOS Golden
PubHammer Open 6
Realms 6: An Age of Sigmar Event
Realms 7: An Age of Sigmar Event
Realms 8: An Age of Sigmar Event
Realms 9: An Age of Sigmar Event
Realmshift Series 2026 – Chapter 1
River City Rumble 2026
Road to Freak Wars 26 – Final IV CN
Rocky Mountain Open 2026
ShireCon Age of Sigmar 2026
Sigmar Summerfest ’26 GT
Sigmar Summit @Warpfire Minis: May 16th-17th
SoPac AoS GT
Southcon: A New Wind
Split Personality – Competitive
Storm of Corruption II
Summer Con Age of Sigmar GT
Swedish Championship GHB 25-26
Sydney Slaughter 2026
Sylvan Skirmish GT 2026
Tax Man Cometh III
Tennessee Elite Open AoS
The April Annihilation
The Big Thaw
The Last Hunt Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament 2026
The Richmond Open
The War Dome AoS
Toast 3ème édition
Tournoi AOS Egide x Lyon War Club pour Octogone!
Trash Clash in the Bluegrass
Trash Panda GT
ValleyCon 2026
Västkust Mästerskapen
VTGT
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Edmonton Open 2026
Warhammer AoS Thailand Grand Tournament Summer 2026
I’ve added in a colour code to show the rough age of the rules the faction is using.
As always, these are global stats from various sources around the internet. Daughters are currently dominating, but we do have to note that they have an exceptionally high average Elo suggesting that a lot of top players are using them.
Factions by Average Elo
I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. As mentioned in the last section, Daughters have the highest average Elo of all the factions currently which goes a long way to contributing to that 62% win rate.
GT Win Rates Over the Last 60 Days
We’ve passed the 60 day mark since the first events of the battlescroll dropped. These win rates would more likely show the effect of players adjusting to the competitive lists of armies as the Battle scroll progresses.
Estimated Win Rates if the Player Skill Levels were Equal
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 April battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 435.5. 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 435.5 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%)
Win Rates by Release Date
This is a new one this week, and will be temporary for now until the new GHB is released.
Essentially this shows the win rates for all the battletomes released within certain periods of time (every 6 months since 4th edition release).
This should show whether Battletomes are generally stronger the later they are released into the edition. As we can see they all fall within the 45-55% win area, though the battletomes released in the last 6 months are a little stronger than the other cohorts.
Battle Formation Win Rates
The above shows the win rates for all Battle Formations that been played in 100 GT games or more.
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.
The above is an aim to show how easy factions are to pilot for players. In this case I’ve narrowed the population down to players with an Elo between 200 and 400. What follows is then the % of those players to win in the first round. This continues, showing what % of players won in round 1 and round 2 in the next column. This continues to show how deep developing players are progressing into tournaments undefeated using that faction.
Bear in mind that although we have no tournament history on record for these players, they may be skilled outside of tournaments before their first recorded instance in the Woehammer database.
Battleplan Win Rates
This one could be useful for TO’s who are looking to run tournaments in the near future. If you’re hoping to curtail a few of the higher powered factions, you could perhaps look to use battleplans where those factions aren’t as dominant.
Past Battlescroll Win Rates
Woehammer Database
To download out Age of Sigmar stats database, click on the button below.
For those of you who are counted among our legendary Patreons, you can view the full stats and download the stats database below which now includes warscroll win rates and lists.
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, 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 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 December Battlescroll)
2026 Bugeater AoS GT
2026 South China Spring Champion
A Big Beast Summer
Aetherforce Age of Sigmar GT
Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament
Age of Sigmar GT
Age of Sigmar: NZ Masters 2026
Age of Sigmar: Warhammer Dallas Open
Age of Sigmar: Warhammer Open Maastricht
Age of Sigmar: Warhammer Open UK Games Expo, Birmingham
Akron Brew Brawl – Summer AoS GT
Alberta Classic
AoS Madrid Championship 2026
AOS Onslaught 2026
AoS Worlds 2026 Singles
Atlantic City Open 2026
Baden Bash
Bastion Grand Tournament – Juin
Battle for GreenHollow: Age of Sigmar
Bay Area Open 2026
Black Gate: The Godking’s Gauntlet
Brawla in Valhalla GT
Cabinhammer AoS GT 2026
Catch this Smoke – Marathon GT
Clowns Requiem II 2026 AoS GT Vietnam
ColtonCon
CTC 2026 Age of Sigmar Championship Open
Dala Stompen 5
Dwellers Below GT
Easter Smash!
End Times is (re)coming [AOS]
Exploding Dice AoS GT 2026
Fal-Con 2026: Fly Harder AoS Edition
False Alarm 2026
Fantasia Fanatic XLIX Age of Sigmar
Field of Slaughter 26 GT 1
Foolcon 2026
German Super Major 2026 AoS
Golden Potato Cup 4
Golden Ticket Guarida del Goblin
Gopher Midwest Mayhem Age of Sigmar GT
Grand Clash Skaune IV
Grand Tournoi AOS – Grand Clash 2026
GT AOS SOLO – GHURNADO – Hérault Quest
GT du bout du monde Brest 2026
GT solo AoS Clermont Ferrand
GT Solo AoS Mootland Clan
HawgHammer Age of Sigmar Gt 2026 @ AdventureCon
III GT AoS Individual Sevilla
III PUÑO DE SIGMAR
Iron Brawl 2026
K/Qota S9 E12 !!!Ironman!!!
Katago AOS Kollision
Leipzig Major AoS 2026
Ludomaniacs 1v1 Aos
Masakr na Vysočině
Masters of Ghyran 2
May Offensive
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I’ve added in a colour code to show the rough age of the rules the faction is using.
As always, these are global stats from various sources around the internet. Daughters are currently dominating, but we do have to note that they have an exceptionally high average Elo suggesting that a lot of top players are using them.
Factions by Average Elo
I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. As mentioned in the last section, Daughters have the highest average Elo of all the factions currently which goes a long way to contributing to that 62% win rate.
GT Win Rates Over the Last 60 Days
We’ve passed the 60 day mark since the first events of the battlescroll dropped. These win rates would more likely show the effect of players adjusting to the competitive lists of armies as the Battle scroll progresses.
Estimated Win Rates if the Player Skill Levels were Equal
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 April battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 435.5. 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 435.5 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%)
Win Rates by Release Date
This is a new one this week, and will be temporary for now until the new GHB is released.
Essentially this shows the win rates for all the battletomes released within certain periods of time (every 6 months since 4th edition release).
This should show whether Battletomes are generally stronger the later they are released into the edition. As we can see they all fall within the 45-55% win area, though the battletomes released in the last 6 months are a little stronger than the other cohorts.
Battle Formation Win Rates
The above shows the win rates for all Battle Formations that been played in 100 GT games or more.
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.
The above is an aim to show how easy factions are to pilot for players. In this case I’ve narrowed the population down to players with an Elo between 200 and 400. What follows is then the % of those players to win in the first round. This continues, showing what % of players won in round 1 and round 2 in the next column. This continues to show how deep developing players are progressing into tournaments undefeated using that faction.
Bear in mind that although we have no tournament history on record for these players, they may be skilled outside of tournaments before their first recorded instance in the Woehammer database.
Battleplan Win Rates
This one could be useful for TO’s who are looking to run tournaments in the near future. If you’re hoping to curtail a few of the higher powered factions, you could perhaps look to use battleplans where those factions aren’t as dominant.
Past Battlescroll Win Rates
Woehammer Database
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