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Top Three AoS Lists for the Alliance Open Masters GT

This is the Top Three AoS Lists for the Allaince Open Masters GT that took place in the Netherlands on the 11th and 12th of February. It involved 52 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Allegiance: Sylvaneth
– Glade: Oakenbrow
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumphs: Inspired
– Season: the Burgeoning (6+ ward)

Leaders
Arch-Revenant (120)*
Aspect of the Champion: Stubborn as a Rhinox
Spirit of Durthu (350)**
Artefact: Greenwood Gladius
Treelord Ancient (330)*
Lore of the Deepwood: Regrowth
Warsong Revenant (300)**
General
– Command Trait: Spellsinger
– Lore of the Deepwood: Treesong
Battlemage (100)**
Mortal Realm: Ghur
– Universal Spell Lore: Levitate
– Allies

Battleline
10 x Dryads (100)*
5 x Tree-Revenants (110)*
Treelord (230)**
Treelord (230)**

Endless Spells & Invocations
Chronomantic Cogs (70)
Spiteswarm Hive (40)

Faction Terrain
Awakened Wyldwood

Core Battalions
*Battle Regiment
**Battle Regiment

Total: 1980 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 0 / 4
Allies: 100 / 400
Wounds: 94
Drops: 2

Return of the Ents, a list that is seeing widespread use and success right now. Essentially, this list swaps Kurnoth for Tree Lords giving in 4 mini Gargants. In addition to high-quality attacks, they have a 6+ ward and serve in Oakenbrow, meaning they take twice as long to degrade. Combined with Strike and Fade, it can be very hard to take down a Treelord. Doubly for Durthu. With the Battlemage granting +2 to charge and Spiteswarm Hive, which gives either offensive or defensive buffs, there is a strong chance of 2 Treelords charging either 6 or 7″. Very high probability. This list can also drop back and protect the home objective using the Tree-revenants and Dryads or push out and punish exposed units. The Tree-revenants can snipe out objectives easily as well.

Tricky to play well with the overlapping buffs and the need to position Overgrown wildwoods carefully Sylvaneth are a deceptively powerful army. Their commanding spells, strong mortal wound play, and damaging units make them tough opponents if they are allowed to dictate the flow of play. The ability to use woods to travel makes it very difficult to focus fire (not to mention fire and fade). That’s a standout with this particular list. It’s been crafted very tightly to maximise the flexibility of the Treelords and hinge the off the devastation of the Warsong Revenant. The Arch Revenant with Stubborn as a Rhinox is fantastic, 12″ move and counts as 10 models on an objective but it can only be opposed by a Galletian Champion (the mount word is not on it’s warscroll). Down on wounds to a lot of lists, it outscored and out fought off all comers.

Congratulations to Mitchell, a fantastic win in the face of stiff competition.

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Allegiance: Lumineth Realm-lords
Great Nation: Helon
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumphs: Inspired

Leaders
Archmage Teclis and Celennar, Spirit of Hysh (700)*
General
Scinari Cathallar (110)*
– Artefact: Silver Wand
– Lore of Hysh: Speed of Hysh
– Aspect of the Champion: Tunnel Master

Battleline
10 x Vanari Auralan Wardens (150)*
– Lore of Hysh: Overwhelming Heat
5 x Hurakan Windchargers (130)*
5 x Hurakan Windchargers (130)*
20 x Vanari Auralan Sentinels (300)*
– Lore of Hysh: Speed of Hysh
– Reinforced x 1
– Champion with the bird

Units
20 x Vanari Auralan Sentinels (300)*
Lore of Hysh: Speed of Hysh
– Reinforced x 1

Endless Spells & Invocations
Umbral Spellportal (80)
The Burning Head (30)
Rune of Petrification (60)

Core Battalions
*Battle Regiment

Terrain
Shrine Luminor

Total: 1990 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 2 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 91
Drops: 1

Lumineth are back on their bullshit. After a brief period out of the sun as they grappled with Sentinels losing the ability to shoot you without line of sight, Helon lists are back with a vengeance. Turns out that you have to leave your shelter eventually – whereupon many, many sentinels with each unit able to cast Power of Hysh and do MWs on 5s in melee as well as at range will make you wish you’d stayed at home.

Then there’s Teclis, who doesn’t deign to roll dice to cast his spells, nor to dispel yours. Throw in a couple of fast shooty Windchargers and the Rune of Petrification to slow you down while you eat even more MWs and you have the new and improved recipe for elf cheese.

Look – I know it sounds like I’m hating on Lumineth. I’m not. It’s just that James Workshop seems to have a fundamental difficulty understanding how to make this army competitive without relying on two warscrolls, one of which doesn’t even have to roll dice.

Congrats to Paul for beating the mirror match to take the big W!

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Allegiance: Daughters of Khaine
– Temple: Hagg Nar
– Grand Strategy: Bloodthirsty Zealots
– Triumphs: Indomitable

Leaders
The Shadow Queen (350)*
Morathi-Khaine (350)*
Melusai Ironscale (120)*
General
– Command Trait: Zealous Orator
– Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact)
– Lore of Shadows: Mindrazor
– Aspect: Tunnel Master
– Bonded

Battleline
15 x Blood Sisters (450)*
Reinforced x 2
10 x Witch Aelves (120)*
Pairs of Sacrificial Knives
10 x Witch Aelves (120)*
Pairs of Sacrificial Knives

Behemoths
Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur (480)*
Allies

Core Battalions
*Battle Regiment

Total: 1990 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 2 / 4
Allies: 480 / 400
Wounds: 74
Drops: 1

Morathi and the Spinedog – two timed-unkillable models to pin you down while a giant blob of stab sneks slithers up behind for a 12-ish MW coup de grace. There’s really not much more I can say about this list, other than it’s interesting that it lost to Sylvaneth – which I imagine had the ranged output to whittle things down along with the mobility to avoid being utterly pinned.

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Allegiance: Ogor Mawtribes
Mawtribe: Meatfist
– Mortal Realm: Ghur
– Grand Strategy: Take whats theirs
– Triumphs:

Leaders
Tyrant (150)*
– General
– Command Trait: Killer Reputation
– Artefact: Gruesome Trophy Rack
– Big Name: Brawlerguts
– Big Name: Fateseeker
Tyrant (150)**
Big Name: Brawlerguts
– Tunnelmaster

Battleline
6 x Ogor Gluttons (260)*
Paired Ogor Clubs or Bluntblades
6 x Ogor Gluttons (260)*
Paired Ogor Clubs or Bluntblades
6 x Ogor Gluttons (260)*
Paired Ogor Clubs or Bluntblades
6 x Ogor Gluttons (260)*
Paired Ogor Clubs or Bluntblades
4 x Ironguts (270)*
4 x Ironguts (270)**

Units
3 x Icefall Yhetees (120)**

Core Battalions
*Battle Regiment
**Battle Regiment

Total: 2000 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 0 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 156
Drops: 2

Lots of hungry big lads and not an Ironblaster in sight – you love to see it! Luckily, we love to hear about it from the man himself too.

Dennis says this:

The strength of a Meatfist list lies in trading – and this list trades extremely well into melee armies. Every unit (apart from the Yhetees) can kill other hammer units – and most lists have like 2- 3 hammers, so its totally fine if they come in and kill 6 gluttons because it will always be a bad trade for them.

The second strength of this list lies in impact mortals [Ogors roll dice equal to the charge roll and do MWs on 6s, but with +1 to the roll from the sub-faction, and another +1 for units with 3 or more models].

The biggest problem for most melee armies is screens, and this list just absolutely wrecks screens in the charge phase just by charging. Most games I did between 40-60 mortal wounds just by charging. The yhetees are probably the most important part of my list (which sounds strange) because of their eligibility to fight and pile in within 6″. So what I did in most games was tag an enemy unit on the side, make sure you end the pile in 2,9 inch away from the unit. That way it was only possible for my opponent to get one model in, maybe two. Usually they weren’t able to kill the yhetees so they are stuck in combat for one whole turn.Which buys me time to put pressure elsewhere. Yhetees are imo the best techy unit in the ogor book, never leave home without 3 or 6! Downsides about this list, shooting armies and armies which can prevent me from charging (My game 4 was vs. DoK + Khrondspine) are really hard to beat…

Thanks, Dennis, for the insights and big props for bringing such an off-meta list. Not only that – but for beating Lumineth, two Tzeentch lists, and a shooty Ogor list!

Final Tournament Placings

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Top Three AoS Lists for Realm of Geddon 2023

This is the Top Three AoS Lists for Realm of Geddon 2023 that took place on the 4th and 5th February. It involved 14 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.

As a reminder, as this tournament has less than 20 players, there won’t be any comments from the Woehammer guys here. This frees up their time for the bugger tournament write ups.

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.

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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

Allegiance: Disciples of Tzeentch
– Change Coven: Hosts Arcanum
– Grand Strategy: Master of Destiny
– Triumphs:

Leaders
Kairos Fateweaver (440)**
Curseling, Eye of Tzeentch (180)**
General
– Command Trait: Cult Demagogue
– Lore of Fate: Arcane Suggestion
– Aspect of the Champion: Fuelled by Ghurish Rage
Fatemaster (140)*
– Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact)
– Lore of Fate: Shield of Fate
Fluxmaster, Herald of Tzeentch on Disc (170)**
Lore of Change: Fold Reality
Great Bray-Shaman (100)*
Universal Spell Lore: Ghost-mist

Battleline
10 x Tzaangors (180)**
10 x Tzaangors (180)**
3 x Screamers of Tzeentch (110)**
10 x Kairic Acolytes (120)*

Units
3 x Tzaangor Enlightened on Disc (180)**

Endless Spells & Invocations
Chronomantic Cogs (70)
Daemonic Simulacrum (70)
Quicksilver Swords (60)

Core Battalions
*Battle Regiment
**Battle Regiment

Total: 2000 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 0 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 107
Drops: 2

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Allegiance: Ogor Mawtribes
Mawtribe: Meatfist
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumphs: Bloodthirsty

Leaders
Butcher (140)***
General
– Cleaver
– Command Trait: Gastromancer
– Artefact: Gruesome Trophy Rack
– Lore of Gutmagic: Blood Feast
Butcher (140)*
Cleaver
– Lore of Gutmagic: Blubbergrub Stench
– Aspect of the Champion: Tunnel Master

Battleline
4 x Ironguts (270)***
4 x Ironguts (270)
4 x Leadbelchers (170)**
4 x Leadbelchers (170)**
4 x Leadbelchers (170)**

Artillery
Ironblaster (200)*
Ironblaster (200)*
Ironblaster (200)*

Core Battalions
*Grand Battery
**Galletian Sharpshooters
***Galletian Command

Total: 1930 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 0 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 121
Drops: 10

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Allegiance: Slaves to Darkness
Damned Legion: Despoilers
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumphs: Bloodthirsty

Leaders
Chaos Lord on Karkadrak (220)*
General
– Command Trait: Idolator Lord
– Mark of Chaos: Khorne
– Prayer: Heal
Chaos Sorcerer Lord (120)*
– Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact)
– Mark of Chaos: Nurgle
– The Lore of the Damned: Chaotic Conduit
Exalted Hero of Chaos (100)***
Mark of Chaos: Slaanesh
– Aspect of the Champion: Tunnel Master
Slaves to Darkness Daemon Prince (195)*
Axe
– Wings
– Command Trait: Bolstered by Chaos
– Artefact: Helm of Many Eyes
– Mark of Chaos: Nurgle

Battleline
5 x Chaos Knights (230)*
Mark of Chaos: Nurgle
5 x Chaos Knights (230)*
Mark of Chaos: Nurgle
9 x Corvus Cabal (80)**
Mark of Chaos: Khorne
10 x Splintered Fang (100)**
Mark of Chaos: Khorne
10 x Splintered Fang (100)**
Mark of Chaos: Khorne
10 x Ungors (65)**
Mauls & Half-Shields

Units
10 x Chaos Chosen (480)***
Mark of Chaos: Slaanesh
– Ensorcelled Banner: The Banner of Screaming Flesh
– Reinforced x 1

Endless Spells & Invocations
Soulscream Bridge (80)

Core Battalions
*Warlord
**Galletian Veterans
***Galletian Command

Additional Enhancements
Artefact

Total: 2000 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 1 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 129
Drops: 11

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Allegiance: Daughters of Khaine
– Temple: Khailebron
– Mortal Realm: Ulgu
– Grand Strategy: Bloodthirsty Zealots
– Triumphs: Inspired

Leaders
Melusai Ironscale (120)*
– General
– Command Trait: Zealous Orator
– Artefact: Crown of Woe
– Aspect of the Champion: Fuelled by Ghurish Rage
Morathi-Khaine (350)*
The Shadow Queen (350)*

Battleline
15 x Blood Stalkers (540)**
Reinforced x 2
10 x Blood Sisters (300)*
Reinforced x 1
10 x Witch Aelves (120)*
Sacrificial Knives and Blade Bucklers

Units
5 x Khinerai Heartrenders (100)**
5 x Khinerai Heartrenders (100)**

Core Battalions
*Battle Regiment
**Galletian Sharpshooters

Total: 1980 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 3 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 94
Drops: 4

Final Tournament Placings

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Top Three AoS Lists for CaptainCon 2023

This is the top three AoS lists for CaptainCon that took place in the USA on the 4th and 5th of February. It involved 17 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.

As mentioned earlier this week, this tournament has less than 20 players. Therefore, we won’t add any comments onto this past, and I’ll save our commentators’ brain power for the bigger events.

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

Army Faction: Kharadron Overlords
Army Subfaction: Barak-Zilfin
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumphs: Inspired

LEADER
1 x Endrinmaster with Endrinharness (80)
1 x Arkanaut Admiral (140)*
Aspects of the Champion: Leadership of the Alpha
1 x Endrinmaster with Dirigible Suit (160)*
Artefacts: Staff of Ocular Optimisation
1 x Aether-Khemist (90)*
General
– Command Traits: Collector
– Artefacts: Spell in a Bottle
1 x Aetheric Navigator (100)**
– Artefacts: Svaregg-Stein ‘Illuminator’ Flarepistol

BATTLELINE
10 x Arkanaut Company (90)**
Company Captain
– Light Skyhook and Gun Butt
– Skypike
– Aethermatic Volley Gun and Gun Butt
– Volley Pistol
10 x Arkanaut Company (90)**
Company Captain
– Light Skyhook and Gun Butt
– Skypike
– Aethermatic Volley Gun and Gun Butt
– Volley Pistol
1 x Arkanaut Frigate (240)**
Heavy Sky Cannon
– Great Endrinworks: Malefic Skymines

BEHEMOTH
1 x Arkanaut Ironclad (490)**
Great Volley Cannon
– Great Endrinworks: The Last Word

ENDLESS SPELL
1 x Purple Sun of Shyish (90)

OTHER
10 x Grundstok Thunderers (260)*
Honour Bearer
– Gunnery Sergeant
– Grundstok Mortar
– Double-barrelled Aethershot Rifle
– Gun Butt and Drillbill
– 2 x Aethercannon
– 2 x Aetheric Fumigator
– 2 x Decksweeper
1 x Grundstok Gunhauler (160)**
Sky Cannon
– Great Endrinworks: Zonbarcorp ‘Debtsettler’ Spar Torpedo

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Warlord
**Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: (1990/2000)

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Army Faction: Lumineth Realm-lords
Army Subfaction: Helon
– Grand Strategy: Defend What’s Ours
– Triumphs: Inspired

LEADER
1 x Archmage Teclis (700)*
General
1 x Scinari Cathallar (110)*
Artefacts: Silver Wand
– Spells: Total Eclipse
– Aspects of the Champion: Leadership of the Alpha
1 x Scinari Loreseeker (160)*
Spells: Overwhelming Heat

BATTLELINE
20 x Vanari Auralan Sentinels (300)*
High Sentinel
– Spells: Overwhelming Heat
5 x Hurakan Windchargers (130)*
Windspeaker Seneschal
– Standard Bearer
10 x Vanari Auralan Wardens (150)*
High Warden
– Spells: Speed of Hysh

ENDLESS SPELL
1 x Umbral Spellportal (80)
1 x Rune of Petrification (60)

TERRAIN
1 x Shrine Luminor (0)

OTHER
20 x Vanari Auralan Sentinels (300)*
High Sentinel
– Spells: Speed of Hysh

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: (1990/2000)

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Army Faction: Ogor Mawtribes
Subfaction: Meatfist
– Grand Strategy: The Day is Ours!
– Triumph: Bloodthirsty

LEADERS
Kragnos (720)
Tyrant (150)*
– Artefacts of Power: Arcane Tome
– Spells: Flaming Weapon
– Big Name: Brawlerguts
Tyrant (150)*
Artefacts of Power: Gryph-feather Charm
– Big Name: Brawlerguts
Tyrant (150)*
Aspects of the Champion: Tunnel Master
– Big Name: Brawlerguts
Tyrant (150)**
General
– Command Traits: Killer Reputation
– Big Name: Deathcheater , Brawlerguts

BATTLELINE
Leadbelchers (170)**
Thunderfist
Leadbelchers (170)**
Thunderfist
Leadbelchers (170)**
Thunderfist

OTHER
Gnoblars (120)**

ENDLESS SPELLS & INVOCATIONS
1 x Lauchon the Soulseeker (50)

TERRAIN
1 x Great Mawpot (0)

CORE BATTALIONS
*Command Entourage – Magnificent
**Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: 2000/2000

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Army Faction: Soulblight Gravelords
Army Type: Legion of Night
– Grand Strategy: Show of Dominance
– Triumph: Inspired

LEADERS
Necromancer (130)*
Artefacts of Power: Arcane Tome
– Spells: Fading Vigour, Invigorating Aura
Vampire Lord (140)*
Spells: Amethystine Pinions, Invigorating Aura
– Aspects of the Champion: Tunnel Master
Wight King (90)*
General
– Command Traits: Above Suspicion
Mannfred Von Carstein (400)**
Spells: Invigorating Aura, Overwhelming Dread

BATTLELINE
Grave Guard (280)*
Seneschal
– Standard Bearer
– Great Wight Blade
Grave Guard (140)*
Seneschal
– Standard Bearer
– Hornblower
– Great Wight Blade
Dire Wolves (130)*
Grave Guard (140)**
Seneschal
– Standard Bearer
– Hornblower
– Great Wight Blade

OTHER
Black Knights (100)*
Myrmourn Banshees (100)**
Blood Knights (200)**
Fell Bats (70)**

ENDLESS SPELLS & INVOCATIONS
1 x Chronomantic Cogs (70)

CORE BATTALIONS
*Battle Regiment
**Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: 1990/2000

Final Tournament Placings