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Age of Sigmar: 4th Edition Stats (April Battlescroll) – 26th April 2026

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)

  • Age of Sigmar: Warhammer Open Maastricht
  • Baden Bash
  • Battle for GreenHollow: Age of Sigmar
  • Brawla in Valhalla GT
  • Cabinhammer AoS GT 2026
  • ColtonCon
  • Dala Stompen 5
  • Dwellers Below GT
  • Easter Smash!
  • Exploding Dice AoS GT 2026
  • False Alarm 2026
  • Fantasia Fanatic XLIX Age of Sigmar
  • Field of Slaughter 26 GT 1
  • Foolcon 2026
  • Golden Potato Cup 4
  • Grand Clash Skaune IV
  • Iron Brawl 2026
  • K/Qota S9 E12 !!!Ironman!!!
  • Leipzig Major AoS 2026
  • Mercia Madness V
  • Realms 6: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Realms 7: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Road to Freak Wars 26 – Final IV CN
  • Storm of Corruption II
  • Tax Man Cometh III
  • Tennessee Elite Open AoS
  • The April Annihilation
  • The War Dome AoS
  • Trash Clash in the Bluegrass
  • VTGT
  • Warpstone Wars GT 2026
  • Wartilyo Grand Tournament 2026

SOURCES
Best Coast Pairings
Tabletop Herald
Milarki
Championshub.app
MiniHeadQuarters
Ecksen
Longshanksv

GT Win Rates

As always, these are global stats from various sources around the internet. There is still not as much data as we would like, but enough to give an indication at least.

Factions by Average Elo

I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. Let me know if you want this chart to remain.

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 calculateBut 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 406.9. 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 406.9 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%)

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.

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.

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.

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Top Three AoS Lists for the Warhammer Open Maastricht

This is the top three AoS lists for the Warhammer Open Maastricht that took place in the Netherlands between the 24th and the 26th of April 2026. It saw 115 players vying to be crowned champion in a 8-game tournament.

Before I jump into the Top Three AoS Lists, I wanted to remind 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
Wargrove of the Burgeoning
Points: 2000/2000 points
Drops: 5 drops
Battle Tactics: Master the Paths / Scouting Force
Spell Lore: Lore of the Deepwood
Prayer Lore: Lore of the Spirit-song
Manifestation Lore: Manifestations of the Deepwood
Faction Terrain: Awakened Wyldwood


General’s Regiment
Branchwych (100)

• General
• Spellsinger
6x Kurnoth Hunters with Kurnoth Greatswords (400)

• Reinforced
6x Kurnoth Hunters with Kurnoth Scythes (380)

• Reinforced
5x Spite-Revenants (80)
8x The Twistweald (120)


Regiment 1
Drycha Hamadreth (250)
5x Spite-Revenants (80)


Regiment 2
Warsong Revenant (150)

• Seed of Rebirth


Regiment 3
Warsong Revenant (150)


Regiment 4
Belthanos, First Thorn of Kurnoth (290)

Flesh-eater Courts
Knightly Echelon
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 2
Spell Lore – Lore of Madness
Prayer Lore – Rites of Delusion
Manifestation Lore – Manifested Insanity
Battle Tactic Cards: Master The Paths, Restless Energy


General’s Regiment
Ushoran, Mortarch of Delusion (450)

• General
Crypt Haunter Courtier (150)

• Charnel Vestments – (30) Points
Crypt Horrors (320)

• Reinforced
Crypt Horrors (320)

• Reinforced
Royal Beastflayers (110)


Regiment 1
Abhorrant Ghoul King on Royal Terrorgheist (390)

• Stronger in Madness – (10) Points
• Horribly Resilient
Royal Zombie Dragon (250)


Faction Terrain
Charnel Throne (10 Points)

Ossiarch Bonereapers
Hekatos Drillmasters
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 4
Spell Lore – Lore of Ossian Sorcery
Manifestation Lore – Horrors of the Necropolis
Battle Tactics Cards: Restless Energy and Scouting Force


General’s Regiment
Liege-Kavalos (180)

• General
• Imperious Will
Immortis Guard (170)
Kavalos Deathriders (150)
Kavalos Deathriders (150)
Mortek Crawler (250)


Regiment 1
Liege-Mortek (120)

• Shard of Necris
Mortek Guard (110)
Mortek Triaxes (280)

• Reinforced


Regiment 2
Scourge of Ghyran Mortisan Boneshaper (100)
Immortis Guard (170)
Mortek Guard (110)
Mortis Reapers (90)


Regiment 3
Mortisan Ossifector (110)


Faction Terrain
Bone-tithe Nexus

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Age of Sigmar: 4th Edition Stats (April Battlescroll) – 19th April 2026

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 reading this weeks Patreon only analysis of Seraphon.

As always, if you’re struggling to read a chart, you should be able to right click and then either view or download the image.

Tournaments Included (Using December Battlescroll)

  • Baden Bash
  • Battle for GreenHollow: Age of Sigmar
  • Brawla in Valhalla GT
  • Dala Stompen 5
  • Dwellers Below GT
  • Easter Smash!
  • Exploding Dice AoS GT 2026
  • False Alarm 2026
  • Field of Slaughter 26 GT 1
  • Foolcon 2026
  • Golden Potato Cup 4
  • Grand Clash Skaune IV
  • K/Qota S9 E12 !!!Ironman!!!
  • Leipzig Major AoS 2026
  • Mercia Madness V
  • Realms 6: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Tax Man Cometh III
  • Tennessee Elite Open AoS
  • The April Annihilation
  • The War Dome AoS
  • Trash Clash in the Bluegrass
  • Wartilyo Grand Tournament 2026

SOURCES
Best Coast Pairings
Tabletop Herald
Milarki
Championshub.app
MiniHeadQuarters
Ecksen
Longshanks

GT Win Rates

As always, these are global stats from various sources around the internet. There is still not as much data as we would like, but enough to give an indication at least.

Factions by Average Elo

I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. Let me know if you want this chart to remain.

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 calculateBut 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 406.9. 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 406.9 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%)

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.

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.

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.

You can become a Patreon of Woehammer for as little as £2 a month!

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Age of Sigmar Early Meta Stats 12th April 2026

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Top Three AoS Lists for the Cascade Clash Age of Sigmar Major

This is the top three AoS lists for the Cascade Clash Age of Sigmar Major that took place in the US between the 21st and 22nd of March 2026. It saw 23 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.

Before I jump into the Top Three AoS Lists, I wanted to remind 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

Flesh-eater Courts
Impassioned Serfs
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 2
Wounds: 125
Spell Lore – Lore of Madness
Prayer Lore – Rites of Delusion
Manifestation Lore – Manifested Insanity
Battle Tactic Cards: Scouting Force, Master the Paths


General’s Regiment
Ushoran, Mortarch of Delusion (450)

• General
Royal Zombie Dragon (240)

• Horribly Resilient
Cryptguard (240)

• Reinforced
Cryptguard (240)

• Reinforced
Royal Beastflayers (110)


Regiment 1
Abhorrant Cardinal (130)

Crypt Horrors (320)
• Reinforced
Crypt Haunter Courtier (120)
• Charnel Vestments (20)

• Cruel Taskmaster
Royal Beastflayers (110)


Faction Terrain
Charnel Throne (10)

Kharadron Overlords
Veteran Ground Troops
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 2
Battle Tactic Cards: Restless Energy, Master The Paths


General’s Regiment
Brokk Grungsson, Lord-Magnate of Barak-Nar (260)

• General
Arkanaut Company (180)

• Reinforced
Arkanaut Frigate (300)
Skywardens (260)

• Reinforced
Skywardens (260)

• Reinforced


Regiment 1
Codewright (100)

• Celestium Burst Grenade – (10) Points
• Bold As Brass
Endrinriggers (220)

• Reinforced
Grundstok Gunhauler (160)

• Grandiose Fuselage
Vongrim Harpoon Crew (240)

• Reinforced


Faction Terrain
Zontari Endrin Dock (20 Points)

Soulblight Gravelords
Bacchanal of Blood
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 3
Spell Lore – Lore of Undeath
Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of the Grave
Battle Tactics Cards: Scouting Force and Wrathful Cycles


General’s Regiment
Prince Vhordrai (470)

• General
Askurgan Trueblades (130)
Askurgan Trueblades (130)
Barrow Knights (210)
Barrow Knights (210)


Regiment 1
Vengorian Lord (220
)
-Shard of Night
-Immortal Ego
Deadwalker Zombies (140)
Vargheists (120)
Wight Lord on Skeletal Steed (120)


Regiment 2
Radukar the Beast (250)

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Top Three AoS Lists for Windy City WAAAGH! II: Attack of the Chorfs

This is the top three AoS lists for Windy City WAAAGH! II: Attack of the Chorfs that took place in the US between the 28th of February and 1st of March 2026. It saw 52 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.

Before I jump into the Top Three AoS Lists, I wanted to remind 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

Flesh-eater Courts
Royal Menagerie
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 2
Spell Lore – Lore of Madness
Prayer Lore – Rites of Delusion
Manifestation Lore – Aetherwrought Machineries
Battle Tactic Cards: Restless Energy, Intercept and Recover


General’s Regiment
Abhorrant Ghoul King on Royal Terrorgheist (370)

• General
• The Grisly Pennant – (10) Points
• Savage Beyond Reason
Royal Terrorgheist (230)
Royal Terrorgheist (230)
Royal Terrorgheist (230)
Royal Terrorgheist (230)


Regiment 1
Abhorrant Ghoul King on Royal Zombie Dragon (360)

• Revered Monstrosity
Marrowscroll Herald (100)
Royal Zombie Dragon (240)


Faction Terrain
Charnel Throne (10 Points)

Kruleboyz
Swamphorde Bullies (30 Points)
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 3
Spell Lore – Lore of the Swamp
Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of Gorkamorka
Battle Tactic Cards: Intercept and Recover, Restless Energy


General’s Regiment
Scourge of Ghyran Killaboss on Great Gnashtoof (160)

• General
• Backstabba
Gutrippaz (320)

• Reinforced
Gutrippaz (320)

• Reinforced
Gutrippaz (320)

• Reinforced
Marshcrawla Sloggoth (140)


Regiment 1
Swampcalla Shaman with Pot-grot (120)
Kruleboyz Monsta-killaz (120)
Kruleboyz Monsta-killaz (120)
Kruleboyz Monsta-killaz (120)


Regiment 2
Killaboss with Stab-grot (90)

• Mork’s Eye Pebble – (10) Points
Kruleboyz Monsta-killaz (120)


Faction Terrain
Skaregob Totem (20 Points)

Blades of Khorne
The Baleful Lords
Points: 2000 / 2000
Drops: 5
Battle Tactics: Intercept and Recover, Master the Paths


— Regiment #1 —
Wrath of Khorne Bloodthirster (400 pts)

~ Unrivalled Battlelust


— Regiment #2 —
Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage (410 pts)

~ Crown of the Slaughterborn


— Regiment #3 —
Skarbrand (410 pts)


— Regiment #4 —
Bloodthirster of Unfettered Fury (390 pts)


— Regiment #5 —
Bloodthirster of Unfettered Fury (390 pts)

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AoS April BattleScroll Review

We’re back again for another Battlescroll Review… a day late or right on time? As always, I needed a bit of “finking” time (hmmm…. Maybe I should work that into a slogan 😉) to sort of take things in and gauge my feelings about the changes. Also, I had promised the kids I would paint with them this week and I’ve spent most of my spare time today watching and supporting Ironjawz and Sylvaneth get painted up.

So we’ve got a new Battlescroll. On April Fool’s Day? Seriously GW, pull it together. This one’s a bit different too. Rather than punishing the high performing armies… we’ve seen a lot of greens lifting up the options within the books and more greens for the factions who are lower in the winrate tables. Now, is this GW being clever in their balancing or the fact that the new books are mostly sitting right up there at the top and they’ve clearly tried not to change much for them. I’ll try and cover things without going into too much detail as you can all read the pdf and see how the points have changed. I’ll also add in some of the comments from our “Sensei”s from the Woehammer Discord!

Just for reference, here’s what the GT Win Rates look like (which is often the first thing we think of when it comes to stats but it’s probably not the most important stat).

People who are good at maths and stuff like Peter deserve all the credit here for putting together the stats we all love to see

It’s pretty green! At the end of the day we want the armies to be close to the 50% winrate ideally. And honestly, it’s not too far off. I’m personally happy so long as my army is in that green band. We can see then that Cities and Gits need a fair boost to get up to that 50% but everyone else is practically in that sweet spot already. Not to say that GW shouldn’t try to tune the factions closer to that ideal. This of course doesn’t take into account the “internal balance” of the books (how good units within one faction compare with each other) but we see a pretty good effort in this Battlescroll to try and address some of those differences.

General Rules Changes

Well… it’s goodbye to spam lists because of a change to auxiliaries where each auxiliary beyond the first will add more and more points to your list. It’s hard to write out so here’s the actual rule change:

I’m glad I don’t need to write these rules out! That looks hard!

Honestly, I’m a bit sad to see this one go. I really like the idea of “Oops all Doomwheels” for anyone willing to buy build and paint an entire army of them. Funny that GW even used this one as an example of the new list building back on release of 4th ed. People are largely blaming Spawn of Chotec spam for this one but it was really Darren Watson running the Doomwheel spam that had GW take our toys away.

And well, that’s pretty much it. It might have been nice to see other changes mixing things up a little but we are in the last quarter before the new General’s Handbook so not unexpected.

Losers

Flesh Eater Courts – The lists leaning heavily into the dragons/terrorgheists have been doing well for quite a while and they can feel quite oppressive for a number of armies to go into it. They’d had a pretty good long time near the top of the win rate rankings so I don’t think anyone feels like this one is unfair.

EXCEPT! They’re really the only ones to cop a fair amount of reds (point increases) and the rest are really light touches so that’s pretty much it for the Losers.

I don’t want to call the changes for Cities, Fyreslayers, and Gitz “losers” but it does feel like they could have gotten more drops without that being too dangerous.

Bonus Slight Loser: Baleful Lords got a not insignificant rules debuff as now Skarbrand can’t be brought back. He was nice to throw in early to pull bac with that 3d6 charge. I think we’ll still see the AoR played because who doesn’t want to play with a bunch of Bloodthirsters rampaging around the table!

Here’s a sexy example from “The Dude Abides”. Who wouldn’t want to play with this guy!

Winners

Lumineth – well, at least they didn’t get any green! But I reckon they’ve been incredibly lucky not to catch some reds already. Will the greens for other armies be enough to match LRL? Probably not, I’m quite sure we’ll be seeing them dominating top tables for a while yet!

Maggotkin of Nurgle – Tallyband not going up is criminal. Oooooh how I dislike that ability! Not that I blame the MoN players, if I had that as an option I’d want to take that too!

I mean look, may as well just say all the new books have done well not to get significant impacts yet. They all look pretty good (even OBRs is alright just maybe a bit boring)

Helsmiths of Hashut – I’m just calling them out there because of the 20 point drop on the Anointed Sentinels making them a pretty juicy unit at 130 points. I like how these changes help you to reflect and look at new options!

Idoneth – some nice points changes to open up some new list options… or just keep taking all sharks 😛

Slaves to Darkness – Plenty of decent units seeing some points drops. This probably isn’t a huge difference though considering that their units aren’t on the cheapside but this looks like it might just give enough flexibility to help Slaves out.

Seraphon – I think the changes will help some of the big monster and cavalry lists we’ve seen running around. On the other hand, they’ll probably have a battletome soon anyway

Stormcast – more options have definitely been opened up for the poster boys…. I can’t keep track of all their units without the app in one hand but I trust all the word on the street that things look good for them.

Destruction overall – I was going to go into detail with the Ironjawz and Sons of Behemat changes but Plastic Craic beat me to it so go make sure and check out their article. Things look pretty good here for the destruction factions this time around (Gitz could have had more points drops imo). Pretty interestingly, they reversed the points hikes on the formations/artefacts/traits for Kruleboyz so I hope they can get closer to a nice 50% win rate again.

This army from one of my kids probably won’t be finished before the next GHB but I’m still glad to see Ironjawz getting some points drops

Actual Expert Opinions

I mean look, I have a decent grasp on this game and I read way too much about the game but what does the Sensei channel have to say about what they think the impacts will be:

I’ll try and check in with the experts / paid patreons over the next weeks to see how we think things are going and have gone on this GHB.

Talking about experts, Goonhammer have their article out as of this afternoon too. Go and check it out here it’s much more orderly and structured than this good old ramble of an article!

Overall Impression

Honestly, I like these sort of changes where we’ve seen a lot of reduction to help armies out rather than hurting the top performers too much. This means that those with the good toys get to keep them but they’re helping the other armies get closer or match them for power level. Maybe you get to add an extra unit or maybe it’s just changing to other formations / artefacts. Will it be enough to help pick up those sitting with lower winrates? I think we’ll see improvement through this approach over the next couple of months.

This is a nice place to be for most of us. I know we all like to complain a bit about the balancing approach but considering how notoroiously difficult it is to balance a moving system (i.e. introducing new battletomes, rules modifications and changing GHBs), I’m really happy with how GW have been handling things in 4th. This feels like the most balanced we’ve seen AoS and the numbers look like they back that up too.

I know I get a bit of flak sometimes for being too positive but fuck it.

Good job AoS rules dudes! Keep it up!

Go buy yourself a beer or have a nice cuppa to celebrate and thanks for putting the hard work to try and make this funny little wargame we play be fun and fair.

Here is a “Seal of Approval”!

Age of Sigmar: 4th Edition Meta Stats (December Battlescroll) – 22nd March 2026

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 reading this weeks Patreon only analysis of Seraphon.

As always, if you’re struggling to read a chart, you should be able to right click and then either view or download the image.

Tournaments Included (Using December Battlescroll)

  • 1. War and Glory Games – Age of Sigmar GT
  • 2026 Big Beef Beatdown AoS GT
  • 2D6 Oslohammer #11
  • Aegis Games Winter Age of Sigmar GT
  • Age of Sigmar GG Lounge GT
  • Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament
  • Age of Sigmar GT – Warhammer Open Palm Springs
  • Age of Sigmar Midtcon GT 2026
  • Age of Sigmar: Winter War 2026
  • Akron Brew Brawl – January GT – AoS
  • Aniversario de Hashut
  • Badger Bungalow Bash and Battle Bonanza, Bro-down
  • Baltic Bash GT 3
  • Call to Glory 2026
  • Cascade Clash Age of Sigmar Major
  • Cherokee Open 2026
  • Colton’s Speed Dating Service
  • Columbus Brewhammer ’26
  • Crossroads Carnage: The Crossroadening
  • Da Boyz GT Golden Sprue
  • Evercon 26: Warhammer Age of Sigmar 2K Tournament
  • First Annual – Age of Sigmar Redneck Rumble
  • Geekfest – Winter War – Age of Sigmar
  • Golden Age of Oheim GT I
  • GT AoS du Wargame Club Des Pierres Dorees
  • GT des Ducs d’angers
  • Hamburg Major 2026 AoS
  • Hawg Pit GT ’26
  • Heartrender (At Wizard’s Alley)
  • Horizon Dark Master GT
  • I GT Girona War Fest Age of Sigmar
  • Ides of March Age of Sigmar GT 2026
  • January Offensive
  • K/Qota S9 E10
  • La Classique d’Hiver 2026
  • La Confrérie du D6 – 4ème édition
  • La Rata Dorada GT Torneo Age of Sigmar
  • Manners & Mayhem – IGB 2026
  • March of the Phalanx: An AAG Event
  • Mardi Gras Achievements
  • Masters 2025
  • Masters of Ghyran
  • Mercia Madness IV
  • Midwest Bash 2026 GT
  • Mosspit 2026
  • nPo Invitational: Basement Beatdown
  • Old Man Gaming Open
  • The Ogopogo Open
  • Onslaught 2026
  • Open AoS de Loire Atlantique by Les Dés’Luminatis
  • Parabellum GT 2026
  • Portal Invernal 2026
  • Prleški Hammer V
  • Pubhammer Open 5
  • Realm of Gedon 2026
  • Realms 1: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Realms 2: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Realms 4: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Realms 5: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Realmshift 3
  • Red Rose Rumble 5
  • Roslaget AoS 2026
  • Saugus Shuffle GT 2026
  • Scorched Earth Open 2026
  • Sheffield Slaughter Age of Sigmar 2026
  • Sigmar Calls 2026
  • Simit Smash 2026
  • Southern Smash GT 2026
  • Sparkle Party Death Match XIV
  • Spring Mad Alpaca Age of Sigmar GT
  • Storm Watch GT
  • TCC: Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament
  • The Battle for the Bridge
  • The Colorado Cup ’26 – Age of Sigmar
  • The Gauntlet – age of Sigmar – Hosted by Threshold Tactics
  • The Inaugral Sugmatational GT
  • Threshold Invitational IX
  • Troll Bowl II
  • Trøndermaster 2025
  • Vic GT
  • Weekend Warlords IX – The Bad Moon
  • Wheat City Open 2026
  • Windy City WAAAGH! II: Attack of the Chorfs
  • Winter Castle Siege II
  • Winter Slaughter 2026
  • YHP New Years Smash! GT

SOURCES
Best Coast Pairings
Tabletop Herald
Milarki
Championshub.app
MiniHeadQuarters
Ecksen
Longshanks

GT Win Rates

As always, these are global stats from various sources around the internet. We’ve split those factions who have received Battletomes this battlescroll period. Games played under the index are shown with (Index) following the name.

Factions by Average Elo

I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. Let me know if you want this chart to remain.

Win Rates Over the Last 4 Weeks

The most interesting faction here personally is Cities of Sigmar. They’ve consistently been near the bottom of the table in every respect over the current battlescroll. But following a couple of decent results by skilled players we’ve seen them reach 56% over the last four weeks.

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 calculateBut I’m playing around here).

How it works is by calculating the average Elo of all the players that have had matches since the December battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 431.6. 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 431.6 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%)

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.

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.

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On top of this there is some added extras in the form of a faction dive into Seraphon.


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Top Three AoS Lists for the La Rata Dorada GT (The Golden Rat GT)

This is the top three Warhammex lists for the La Rata Dorada GT that took place in Mexico on the 14th and 15th March. It saw 20 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Flesh-eater Courts
Royal Menagerie
Spell Lore – Lore of Madness
Prayer Lore – Rites of Delusion
Manifestation Lore – Manifested Insanity
Battletactics – Restless Energy, Master The Paths


General’s Regiment
Ushoran, Mortarch of Delusion (450)
• General
Royal Beastflayers
(110)
Royal Zombie Dragon (240)
• Horribly Resilient


Regiment 1
Abhorrant Cardinal (130)

Regiment 2
Abhorrant Ghoul King on Royal Terrorgheist (360)
• Stronger in Madness
• The Splintered Femur

Cryptguard (240)

• Reinforced
Royal Terrorgheist (230)
Royal Terrorgheist (230)


Faction Terrain
Charnel Throne

Sylvaneth
Wargrove of the Burgeoning
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 5
Spell Lore: Lore of the Deepwood
Manifestation Lore: Aetherwrought Machineries
Battle Tactic Cards: Restless Energy, Master The Paths


General’s Regiment
The Lady of Vines (210)
• General


Regiment 1
Belthanos, First Thorn of Kurnoth (350)
Scourge of Ghyran Revenant Seekers (230)
Spiterider Lancers (380)
• Reinforced


Regiment 2
Scourge of Ghyran Drycha Hamadreth (300)

Regiment 3
Branchwych (110)
Tree-Revenants (90)


Regiment 4
Spirit of Durthu (320)
• Radiant Spirit
• Glamourweave

Faction Terrain
Awakened Wyldwood

Luis Mendoza: Sylvaneth is an army living a good moment.
The list is offering a good board presence and forcing mistakes in the opponent and eventually scoring tactics.

My roster is using the Sylvaneth core, Wargrove of Burgeoning and 5 regiments, 4 Monster-Heroes, all of them with a synchronized role in the field.

The small change in this list in comparison with the standard list is seeing Lady of Vines instead of Warsong Revenant. The reason is the spell to bring a 5+ ward, even if the chances are much lower. However, considering all the ward-disabling mechanics that currently exist in the game, it was well worth trying, in addition to its ability to support the defensive or offensive game as needed if it enters combat.

The last change is Radiant Spirit in Dhurtu. Bringing additional protection vs magic, something that gives a bit more of autonomy in special moments during the game – not used so frequent in game as Spellsinger in any Non-unique wizard but highly efficient when Durthu’s in action against Heavy-weight Magic armies like Nurgle, Tzeentch or Seraphon – increasing the chance to deny magic effects.

Thanks to our friends in Monterrey for this experience and to Miguel from WRGMTY for hosting this event.

Maggotkin of Nurgle
Tallyband of Nurgle
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops:
5
Spell Lore –
Lore of Malignance
Prayer Lore –
Bendictions of Sickness
Manifestation Lore – Aetherwrought Machineries
Battle Tactic Cards:
Attuned to Ghyran, Wrathful cycles

General’s Regiment
Belga the Cystwitch (120)
• General
Lord of Blights (140)
Pox-Wretches (100)
Putrid Blightkings (260)
Reinforced

Regiment 1
Harbinger of Decay (140)
Gift of Febrile Frenzy
Rustfang


Regiment 2
Horticulous Slimux (140)
Beast of Nurgle (120)
Nurglings (100)


Regiment 3
Shaman Foulhoof (110)
Pestigors (260)
Reinforced

Regiment 4
Lord of Plagues (100)
Rotswords (400)

• Reinforced


Faction Terrain
Feculent Gnarlmaw

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Top Three AoS Lists for the Midwest Bash 2026 GT

This is the top three AoS lists for the Midwest Bash 2026 GT that took place in the US between the 14th of and 15th of March 2026. It saw 34 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Flesh-eater Courts
Royal Menagerie
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 2
Spell Lore – Lore of Madness
Manifestation Lore – Aetherwrought Machineries
Battle Tactics Cards: Intercept and Recover and Restless Energy

General’s Regiment
Abhorrant Ghoul King on Royal Terrorgheist (370)
• General
• Revered Monstrosity
• The Grisly Pennant
• Stronger in Madness
Royal Terrorgheist (230)
Royal Terrorgheist (230)
Royal Terrorgheist (230)
Royal Terrorgheist (230)

Regiment 1
Abhorrant Ghoul King on Royal Zombie Dragon (360)
Marrowscroll Herald (100)
Royal Zombie Dragon (240)

Faction Terrain
Charnel Throne (10)

Disciples of Tzeentch
Fated Blades
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 2
Spell Lore – Lore of Change
Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of Tzeentch
Battle Tactics Cards: Master The Paths and Restless Energy

General’s Regiment
Kairos Fateweaver (400)
• General
Chaos Spawn of Tzeentch (60)
Chaos Spawn of Tzeentch (60)
Curseling, Eye of Tzeentch (150)
• Kairic Tome
Flamers of Tzeentch (260)
• Reinforced

Regiment 1
Fatemaster (150)
• Silver Summoner
Kairic Acolytes (180)
• Reinforced
Tzaangor Enlightened (400)
• Reinforced
Tzaangors (340)
• Reinforced

Faction Terrain
Argent Shard

Soulblight Gravelords
Bacchanal of Blood
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 3
Spell Lore – Lore of Undeath
Manifestation Lore – Aetherwrought Machineries
Battle Tactics Cards: Restless Energy and Scouting Force

General’s Regiment
Prince Vhordrai (470)
• General
Askurgan Trueblades (130)
Askurgan Trueblades (130)
Askurgan Trueblades (130)
Askurgan Trueblades (130)

Regiment 1
Radukar the Wolf (130)
Askurgan Trueblades (130)
Askurgan Trueblades (130)
Askurgan Trueblades (130)

Regiment 2
Vengorian Lord (220)
• Terminus Clock
• Immortal Ego
Askurgan Trueblades (130)
Askurgan Trueblades (130)

Faction Terrain
Cursed Sepulchre

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