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Top Three AoS Lists for Dice & Ducks: Decimation

September 4, 2022 Peter & Danny Leave a comment

This is the Top Three AoS Lists for Dice and Ducks: Decimation that took place in the UK on 27th and 28th August. It involved 16 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Army Faction: Sons of Behemat
– Army Type: Taker Tribe
– Grand Strategy: No Place for the Weak
– Triumph: Inspired

LEADERS
Kraken-Eater (490)*
– General
– Command Traits: Very Acquisitive
– Artefacts of Power: Glowy Lantern
– Bonding: Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur
– Spells: Flaming Weapon
Gatebreaker (525)*
– Artefacts of Power: Vial of Manticore Venom Gatebreaker (525)*
– Artefacts of Power: Arcane Tome
– Spells: Flaming Weapon

BEHEMOTH
(SPINEDOG) Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur (400)

CORE BATTALIONS
*Bosses of the Stomp – Magnificent

TOTAL POINTS: 1940/2000

Peter: There is a theory among some at Woehammer that the Sons are (despite appearances) going to be the leading faction going forwards. Not only that, but that this is the list that will lead the way.

With a Krondspine attached the a kraken the opponent is going to have to seriously consider where they want to focus their attention. Either way they go, they’ll be struggling to cope with the opposite side of that coin. Two Mega-Gargant with additional thanks to flaming weapons and another that has an easier time thanks to the vial of Manticore venom.

It’ll be interesting to see how often this list starts to crop up.

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Army Faction: Daughters of Khaine
– Subfaction: Khailebron
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumph: Inspired

LEADERS
Morathi-Khaine (680)**
The Shadow Queen (680)**
Melusai Ironscale (115)**
– General – Command Traits: Zealous Orator
– Artefacts of Power: Arcane Tome
– Spells: Mindrazor

BATTLELINE
Blood Sisters (280)*
– Gorgai
Blood Sisters (140)*
– Gorgai
Blood Stalkers (540)**
– Krone
Khainite Shadowstalkers (150)**

OTHER
Khinerai Heartrenders (95)**

CORE BATTALIONS
*Bounty Hunters
**Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: 2000/2000

Danny: It’s Morathi and the Bow Snakes! Backed up by 10 and 5 Blood Sisters and Shadowstalkers and a unit of Heartrenders, for teleporting objective/scoring plays. Simple, but effective – and a 3 drop means it’ll still have a good chance of dictating turn order. Shadowstalkers, despite their nerf in the new book, are becoming increasingly common – probably because, while Heartrenders are great for dropping down and being a nuisance, Shadowstalkers ability to teleport _every_ turn makes them that more flexible, and their 11 wounds on a 4+ makes them able to take a hit, whether while scoring or as an emergency snek-screen.

This list understandably beat Kboyz, Skaven, Sons and Khorne, but Fangs of Sotek probably confounded the stab sneks and could handle Morathi with plenty of ranged chip damage.

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Allegiance: Soulblight Gravelords
– Lineage: Legion of Night
– Mortal Realm: Shyish
– Grand Strategy: Vampiric Conquerors
– Triumphs: Bloodthirsty

LEADERS
Mannfred von Carstein, Mortarch of Night (380)
– Lore of the Deathmages: Decrepify
Necromancer (125)*
– General
– Command Trait: Unbending Will
– Artefact: Arcane Tome
– Lore of the Deathmages: Fading Vigour
Vampire Lord (140)*
– Lore of the Vampires: Amethystine Pinions

UNITS
5x Blood Knights (195)*
1x Corpse Cart with Balefire Brazier (80)*
30x Deathrattle Skeletons (240)**
10x Dire Wolves (135)**
10x Dire Wolves (135)**
20x Grave Guard (280)* – Great Wight Blades
20x Grave Guard (280)* – Great Wight Blades

CORE BATTALIONS
*Battle Regiment
**Expert Conquerors

TOTAL: 1990/2000

Danny: Legion of Night is a relatively off-meta pick for Soulblight these days, so it’s nice to see it being picked alongside Mannfred, which is thematically appropriate, and doing well with an unusual list.

The aforementioned Manny is a familiar sight and an excellent all-round utility piece. But he’s rarely backed up by _30_ Deathrattle, who everyone said were too fragile against bounty hunters to reinforce, and have thus been typically run in msu given their cheap, cheap cost of 80 pts making them a cost-effective screen. Deathrattle can bring back models on a 4+ when they activate though – so having a unit big enough to take a hit and activate 2nd means there’s a good chance they regen plenty before the end of the phase – combo that with Expert Conqs and unless you super-commit and wipe the entire squad (30 wounds on a 4+ with AoD, with a ward of 6 re-rolling 1s, and quite possibly some debuffs such as -1 to wound from the corpse cart) – you can see how it might be tricky to steal an objective off them.

The next unusual element of this list is not Graveguard, as they’re a standard hammer, but simply taking two bricks of them. And why not? They’re so good! Going lighter on Blood Knights (just the token 5, you’d be mad not to take any) frees up the points needed, and now there are two scary blobs, either/both of which can be buffed to Shyish and back by the Necromancer, vampire lord AND Manny’s CA (+1 hit and wound).

A nice spin on things that performed brilliantly, losing only to Khorne, who might have their weaknesses, but do not count ‘a shit load of attacks and 6″ pile ins’ among them.

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Allegiance: Big Waaagh!
– Grand Strategy: Waaagh!
– Triumphs: Indomitable

Leaders
Megaboss on Maw-Krusha (480)
– General
– Boss Choppa and Rip-tooth fist
– Command Trait: Heroic Stature
– Artefact: Armour of Gork
– Mount Trait: Mean ‘Un
Orruk Warchanter (115)
– Warbeat: Fixin’ Beat
Orruk Warchanter (115)
– Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact)
– Warbeat: Get ‘Em Beat
– Lore of the Weird: Foot of Gork
Orruk Weirdnob Shaman (90)
– Lore of the Weird: Da Great Big Green Hand of Gork
Wurrgog Prophet (150)
– Artefact: Glowin’ Tattooz
– Universal Spell Lore: Flaming Weapon
Wardokk (80)
– Lore of the Savage Beast: Gorkamorka’s War Cry

Battleline
10 x Orruk Brutes (320)****
– Jagged Gore-hackas
– Reinforced x 1
10 x Gutrippaz (180)****
5 x Orruk Ardboys (85)****
5 x Orruk Ardboys (85)***
5 x Orruk Ardboys (85)***
5 x Orruk Ardboys (85)
5 x Orruk Ardboys (85)

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

Additional Enhancements
Artefact
Artefact

Total: 1955 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 1 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 148
Drops: 13

Danny: Big Waagh are now one of the least represented factions at tournament level, and I can see why – first book of the edition syndrome (I know it was a twin with Stormcast, but one twin is always technically born first…) and their meta-lists have a high skill floor. So it’s great to see them hanging on in there.

This list represents what is looking like the way to go with Big Waagh for this season – msu ‘Ardboyz. They’ve always been a cost-effective package, and while vulnerable to Bounty Hunters, enough of them in msu format still asks some hard questions of your opponent in terms of target priority.

They’re backed up here by the seemingly entrenched HQ combo, although spicily, Thomas here also throws in a Wardokk with the ‘fight last’ spell as an additional tech piece – something the Wurrgog also has access to but rarely uses given his laser-eyes are so clutch.

Now for the elephant in the room. Or should I say, the Gutrippaz in the bin. Yes, this list takes a unit of Gutrippaz. With no support. Why? Let’s ask Thomas. Someone, please ask Thomas. The only thing I can think of is that they’re in Expert Conquerors as a way to count as 30 and, y’know, if their janky ability goes off -1 to hit against 20 wounds isn’t too bad. I guess?

Either way, congrats for a clutch place in the top 5 with an odd duck of a list that took down some difficult match ups!

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Top Three AoS Lists for the Season of War Grand Tournament

August 10, 2022 Brett & Peter 1 Comment

This is the Top Three AoS Lists for the Season of War Grand Tournament that took place in Ontario, Canada on 6th and 7th August. It involved 65 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament. The tournament was hosted and organised by Seaon of War, you can find out more on their youtube channel.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Allegiance: Seraphon
– Constellation: Fangs of Sotek
– Grand Strategy: Show of Dominance
– Triumphs: Inspired

Leaders
Slann Starmaster (265)*
– General
– Command Trait: Arcane Might
– Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact)
– Spell: Stellar Tempest
Skink Starpriest (130)***
– Spell: Hand of Glory
Skink Priest (90)***
– Universal Prayer Scripture: Curse
Saurus Astrolith Bearer (140)***
– Artefact: Serpent God Dagger

Battleline
10 x Skinks (75)**
– Meteoric Javelins Celestite Daggers & Star Bucklers
10 x Skinks (75)**
– Meteoric Javelins Celestite Daggers & Star Bucklers
30 x Skinks (225)**
– Boltspitters & Moonstone Clubs
– Reinforced x 2
5 x Saurus Guard (115)***

Units
2 x Salamander Hunting Pack (280)*
– Reinforced x 1
2 x Salamander Hunting Pack (280)*
– Reinforced x 1

Behemoths
Bastiladon with Ark of Sotek (165)*

Endless Spells & Invocations
Purple Sun of Shyish (70)
Ravenak’s Gnashing Jaws (60)

Core Battalions
*Battle Regiment
**Expert Conquerors
***Warlord

Additional Enhancements
Artefact

Total: 1970 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 4 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 116
Drops: 8

Brett: Seraphon but, interestingly, not Thunderlizard. The Seraphon book hasn’t been brought up to 3rd Edition standard yet but remains one of the best and most complete battletomes. We haven’t seen a lot of Skinks at the top recently but maybe Eternal Conquerors will bring them back into the light.

Lots of heroes starting with the Saurus Astrolith Bearer, buffing casting and providing a ward within 12″ his Celestial Conjuration Point (CCP) generation is probably amount the most powerful ability. CCP let you summon units, if you have more than 6 you can summon. A Slann General and Astrolith together give 2D3 CCP a turn making at least 6 CCP a turn feasible. That’s 10 Skinks as a minimum. The Starmaster is a nasty wizard with an inbuilt Spell Portal, 3 casts, +1 to cast/dispel/unbind and unlimited range on his dispel/unbind. Both his warscroll spell (Comet’s Call) and Stellar Tempest deal MW. His command trait allows 1 reroll for a cast/dispel/unbind in each hero phase (2 per turn). He’s built to get both the Purple Sun and Gnashing Jaws out on command and make if difficult to get your spells off.

Supporting him are another wizard and a priest, granting another 2 dispel/unbind attempts as well on top of their casts. The Starpriest is granting rerolls for hit rolls of 1 to a unit. The army has a range of offensive options, the salamander hunting packs with high quality attacks for targets with good saves, the Bastilidon for a little of everything. And the large Skink pack for removing low wound, poor save blobs. Having the 2 loadouts on the Skinks is an interesting play, 2 of the units are ideal for screening or taking objectives (where they count as 30) and the other for damage. With curse the 30 strong unit is on average able to produce MW. Special mention to the Purple Sun (MVP this season so far) and Gnashing Jaws.

Gnashing Jaws is a really strong choice now we are seeing a lot of armies with really strong but slow infantry (Fyreslayers, Kurnoth, Stormcast, Maggotkin). The potential MW output into a unit with a move of 4″ is eye watering. Something to remember is it can affect your foot heroes. This army is really set up to deal with hordes with massed 1 damage attacks but can, with a combination of spells/abilities and some stronger units pivot.

The range of lists taken down in the event shows the flexibility and balance of the army as well as the great generalship. More than just winning each round Ridge scored well in every round to secure the win over Rueben. A head to head between them would be interesting.

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Allegiance: Sons of Behemat
Tribe: Taker Tribe
Grand Strategy: Make the Land Tremble
Triumph: Inspired

Leader/Battleline
Gatebreaker Mega-Gargant (525pts)*
– Artefact: Arcane Tome
– Spell: Flaming Weapon
Kraken-Eater Mega-Gargant (490pts)*
– General
– Glowy Lantern
– Very Acquisitive
– Krakenskin Sandals

Battleline
Mancrusher Gargants (170pts)**
Mancrusher Gargants (170pts)**
Mancrusher Gargants (170pts)**
Warstompa Mega-Gargant (470pts)*

Core Battalions
*Bosses of the Stomp – Magnificent
**Bounty Hunters

Total: 1,995pts

Brett: Another strong showing from the Sons, this time with the less popular Mancrushers in the army as well. The army build is quite clever, creating 2 wizards in an army with next to no magic but still maintaining key artefacts. With endless sells on the rampage Wizards and Priests are almost mandatory inclusions now for the dispel/unbind. The text for Glowy Lantern is pretty cool too, apparently this is a smart Kraken-Eater.

No Montrously Tough here but Flaming Weapon on the Gatebreaker takes the flail to flat 4 damage. Even on his bottom profile that +1 damage is still making a difference with -3 Rend. The Kraken Eater is both well equipped with Very Acquisitive giving both the extra artefact and allows equipping 2. The second is Krakenskin Sandals making the his stomp a more reliable. Bosses of the Stomp provides the 3rd artefact which is on the Gate Breaker. The Mancrushers being in Bounty Hunters is potentially a solid move, it doubles their effect on Galetian Veterans of course.

Mancrushers are typically more vunerable to ranged attackes with their lower wound counts. Pity no one really brought that many, the Thunder Lizard Seraphon list having the most. It goes to show that in a spell heavy infantry meta, even with the risk of a Purple Sun, the giants have a place. The weakening of some shooting (SCE) will help that and they were never bad, so after 6 months we might start to see quite a few back on tables. It will be interesting to see what effect there is on the meta if there are more Sons on the table. To state the obvious, a very effective army with interesting choices that double down on it’s anti infantry roll. Congratulations on 5/0 in a tight field. A head to head between Reuben and Ridge would be quite a spectacle.

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Allegiance: Nighthaunt
– Procession: Scarlet Doom
– Grand Strategy: Fright or Flight
– Triumphs: Inspired

Leaders
Krulghast Cruciator (150)*
Guardian of Souls (150)*
– Artefact: Midnight Tome
– Lore of the Underworlds: Seal of Shyish
Spirit Torment (115)*
Spirit Torment (115)
– General
– Command Trait: Master of Magic
– Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact)
– Lore of the Underworlds: Shademist

Units
9 x Spirit Hosts (375)**
– Reinforced x 2
10 x Chainrasps (110)**
10 x Chainrasps (110)**
20 x Bladegheist Revenants (350)***
– Reinforced x 1
20 x Bladegheist Revenants (350)***
– Reinforced x 1
4 x Myrmourn Banshees (105)***

Endless Spells
Purple Sun of Shyish (70)

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

Total: 2000 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 4 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 112
Drops: 10

Brett: More familar territory here with a Nighthaunt Scarlet Doom army still it has it’s own quirks similar to the armies we’ve already looked at. From the Grand Strat (Fight or Flight – no enemies within 6″ of any NH unit contesting an objective) to the block of Spirit Hosts there are nuiances to the list. If you are going first the Grand Strat seems easy since NH can always fall back but with 10 drops going second is more likely. Inspired is a good choice for NH since battleshock isn’t really a thing for them.

4 reasonably standard heroes, providing damage reduction, spells and healing for multiple units. Master of Magic is particularly good with the Purple Sun allowing rerolls of a crucial spell. The unit selection is more interesting in this army. Spirit Hosts took a hit from 2nd to 3rd edition losing their MW on 6s ability for a body guard effect. With 3 wounds though a block of 9 is going to be tanky especially with Spirit Hosts to return a model every turn. The Myrmourn are here as stabby spell stealers, very useful in the Endless Spell era we are currently enjoying. The Chainrasps are really only here to meet battleline, they will probably provide some screening or more likely backline objective holding but will evaporate if pushed too hard.

The Bladegheist are here as the damage dealers, doing mortal wounds on the charge to fall back and charge again. Worse of course they get an extra attack and as bounty hunters are doing 2 damage into your GV units. I think people are getting a handle on Bladegheists now, you need to make sure you understand their threat range or try to remove them with shooting. They are devestating if they can hit you in full formation with the current rules meaning all will hit you most of the time. His only loss was against a Maggotkin list with 3 Lords and 12 Blightlords. With the Blightlords the Bladegheist wouldn’t get additional damage and the Maggotkin army would have superior magic. Their MW output and “shooting” would have been effective at blunting the NH.

Still don’t under estimate Bladegheist, putting down Sons in the first round and then the Hog spam in the last should give an idea of the damage potential. Nate’s first round match against Oliver from Season of War is now up on the Season of War website for anyone interested. Having watched it I am amazed at how tanky the Spirit Hosts turned out to be, great move.

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Allegiance: Bonesplitterz
– Warclan: Icebone
– Mortal Realm: Ghur
– Grand Strategy: Get Dem Bones!
– Triumphs: Inspired

Leaders
Wurrgog Prophet (150)*
– Artefact: Glowin’ Tattooz
– Lore of the Savage Beast: Glowy Green Tusks
– Lore of the Savage Beast: Power of the Were-boar
Maniak Weirdnob (100)*
– Artefact: Mork’s Boney Bitz
– Mount Trait: Fast ‘Un
– Lore of the Savage Beast: Glowy Green Tusks
– Lore of the Savage Beast: Power of the Were-boar
Savage Big Boss (65)*
– General
– Command Trait: Great Hunter
Savage Big Boss (65)**
Savage Big Boss (65)**
Savage Big Boss (65)**

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

Units
4 x Savage Big Stabbas (160)***
– Reinforced x 1
2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80)*
10 x Savage Boarboy Maniaks (290)***
– Reinforced x 1
10 x Savage Boarboy Maniaks (290)***
– Reinforced x 1

Endless Spells & Invocations
Purple Sun of Shyish (70)

Core Battalions
*Warlord
**Warlord
***Bounty Hunters

Additional Enhancements
Artefact
Spell

Total: 1960 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 3 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 181
Drops: 14

Brett: Wow where do I even start with this list, 181 wounds and 40 little pigs with more small heroes than most nations can handle. This list is making maximum use of Icebone’s MW on 6s to hit with melee weapon. Grand Strategy is to control a piece of terrain at the end of the battle. 3 casts from the Prophet and Shaman, including the Shaman is a great idea given the chance the Prophet will blow himself up. They concentrate on winding up their crazy mates with their spells.

The Savage Big Bosses have an ability to let another unit with 3″ of an enemy, wholly within 12″, fight immediately after this unit. That’s why there are so many, they are slow but they can fairly easily do 24, 2 damage attacks before letting so the Big Stabbas hit you (or more likely a small boar unit). With so many boars this is a solid tactic letting you concentrate a small castle of pain near an objective and the boars go wide. Combined with the Prophet lifting his mask and the Big Stabbas getting into combat this is enough damage to down a Gargant.

The boarboys and Maniacs are always going to be best on the charge so you want to make sure that isn’t an option first round. And I haven’t mentioned it but there is a reason for the 2 wizards, Purple Sun to eat something important. No shame in drawing against Maggotkin who could outlast most of the charges and blunt them with disease points. His only loss was to our 2nd place Gargants, again understandalbe because you are relying on swingy units to drop them.

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Top Three AoS Lists for the Midwest Bash Grand Tournament

July 19, 2022 Brett & Peter 2 Comments

This is the Top Three AoS Lists for the Midwest Bash Grand Tournament event that took place in Missouri, USA on 16th and 17th July. It involved 32 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament.

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Top Three AoS Lists - 1st Place, Maggotkin of Nurgle

Allegiance: Stormcast Eternals
– Stormhost: Hammers of Sigmar (Scions of the Storm)
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs

Leaders
Celestant-Prime, Hammer of Sigmar (325)*
Lord-Commander Bastian Carthalos (300)*
Knight-Relictor (140)*
– General
– Command Trait: High Priest
– Prayer: Translocation
Lord-Castellant (155)*
– Artefact: Arcane Tome
– Spell: Celestial Blades

Battleline
10 x Judicators with Skybolt Bows (400)**
– Reinforced x 1
5 x Liberators (115)**
– Heavens-wrought Weapon and Shield
– 1x Grandweapons
5 x Liberators (115)***
– Heavens-wrought Weapon and Shield
– 1x Grandweapons

Units
10 x Protectors (450)***
– 4x Starsoul Maces
– Reinforced x 1

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

Additional Enhancements
Holy Command: Call for Aid
Holy Command: Unleash Thy Hatred

Total: 2000 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 2 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 100
Drops: 8

Brett: A strong return to hero hammer, and after a year of experimenting it’s probably the best way to play Stormcast Eternals (SCE), with a very hero heavy list taking first. The list isn’t without it’s tricks however. Using a Knight Relictor vs a Lord Relictor, an uncommon choice, but when you are staying close to a particular unit – the judicators – the 6″ prayer range isn’t important. The model is more available and importantly saved the 5 points needed to make the list work. Bastian hits very hard (D4) and once per turn can inflict mortal wounds on a unit by rolling D6 against their wound characteristic, on a 6 inflicting a mortal wound. Into a Mega Gargant that’s an average of 6MW per turn. Anyone that plays 40k will recognise the Terminator block at the heart of the list, 10 Protectors. With half the models having Glaives they have +1 to save and can easily receive +1 to hit. As bounty hunters they receive a +1 to damage (D2 against Galletian Veterans). They are also inflicting 4D3 mortal wounds 80% of the time.

The Lord Castellan either stays with the Protectors (+1 to hit and +1 to Save) or the Liberators making the Liberators save on 2s with a 6+ ward near objectives. And Call for Aid means that there are 15 Liberators not 10 in this list. Even placing the judicators into Eternal Conquerors plays a roll, they will count as 30 models on objectives and attacking them exposes you to Unleash Hell. Usually they have the Relictor to translocate them to the rear, a real late game objective threat. The Celestant-Prime is a hero deleter, the trickiest part is whether to use him Turn 2 or 3. Usually in that turn Orrery will guarantee a successful charge. Without his shooting and arriving turn 3 that’s an average of 12wounds into the hero of his choice. Like Bastian he has a 4+ ward.

A very balanced list that deserves to go 5/0 it’s only real weakness is mobility. The combination of Scions and Steadfast March help a lot there as well. It was a very low scoring victory (65) indicating that board control and forcing the opponent off their game was a major part of the victory. In other words a very good general won using this list.

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Army Faction: Stormcast Eternals
– Army Type: Scions of the Storm
– Army Subfaction: Hammers of Sigmar
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumphs: Inspired

LEADER
Krondys (600)*
– Spells: Thundershock
Lord-Relictor (145)*
– General
– Command Traits: High Priest
– Artefacts: Mirrorshield
– Prayers: Translocation

BATTLELINE
1 x Dracothian Guard Tempestors (440)*
Judicators with Boltstorm Crossbows (190)*
– Thunderbolt Crossbow
Dracothian Guard Desolators (220)**

ENDLESS SPELL
Purple Sun of Shyish (70)

OTHER
Stormstrike Chariot (165)*
– Stormstrike Axe and Tempestuous Spear
Stormstrike Chariot (165)**
– Stormstrike Axe and Tempestuous Spear

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Battle Regiment
**Bounty Hunters

TOTAL POINTS: (1995/2000)

Brett: Another SCE list doing well, it’s only loss was to the eventual winner. In contrast to our first list this has brought some needed mobility. Interesting choices of Dracothian’s here; Tempestor’s (ranged) and Desolators (axe murderers). Tempestor’s will have an average of 4 hits from their 3 ranged attacks on top of their Dracothian’s breath attack. On top of that by using a unit of 2 for the Desolators they will almost always have an extra 2 attacks. Stormstrike Chariots are very mobile, hard to kill and their impact mortals make them dangerous to most opponents. Along with the Dracothian’s we have the Purple Sun and Krondys. The Purple sun is difficult to cast but Krondys gets a +3 to cast at his top profile making the Sun a CV of 5 and probably on the board from Turn 1. Importantly this list has 4 denies which is a big part of the current meta.

No Holy Command is included on the list but Thunderbolt Volley is likely, given the unreinforced unit of Judicators. All up a very different list to the winner with a lot of mobility but few units so a focus on killing your opponents. The lists he faced in this run up were interesting but ultimately until the last round very exposed to this combination of mobility and Mortal Wounds. Wound output into that Protector brisk wouldn’t have been enough. Well done on the 4/1 result.

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Top Three AoS Lists - 3rd place, Legion of the First Prince

Allegiance: Sons of Behemat
– Tribe: Taker Tribe
– Grand Strategy: Tame the Land
– Triumphs: Inspired

Leaders
Kraken-eater Mega-Gargant (490)*
– General
– Command Trait: Monstrously Tough
– Artefact: Krakenskin Sandals
Gatebreaker Mega-Gargant (525)**
– Artefact: Vial of Manticore Venom (Universal Artefact)
Warstomper Mega-Gargant (470)**
Kraken-eater Mega-Gargant (490)*
– Artefact: Glowy Lantern
– Universal Spell Lore: Flaming Weapon

Core Battalions
*Bosses of the Stomp – Magnificent
**Bosses of the Stomp – Magnificent

Additional Enhancements
Artefact
Artefact

Total: 1975 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 0 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 140
Drops: 4

Brett: Stompy boys are back, well they never really went away, they aren’t as common or as dominate as they were late last year but they are still dangerous. 4 big boys that count as 20 models on objectives means the list can win the objective game without moving very far. The combination of Trait and Artefact on the General make him a hard target (20) with a very nasty stomp attack. All of the artefacts in Taker Tribe increase or do damage and this is one of the better ones. The match ups are very interesting but a combination of limited wound output (Nighthaunt and Idoneth) and durability (Nighthaunt, DoK and Idoneth) would have made it hard to compete.

Bladegheist could do a lot of wounds on the charge but are very vunerable to the low number of high damage attacks including the ranged attacks the Gargants put out. You can’t heal back 10/12 models a turn easily. The same is true for all one wound troop choices which affects the impact of Namarti or Blood Sisters/Aelves. Allopexes won’t do a lot into a Gargant either with their relatively low attack count and wounds, they will tend to bounce and get smashed. Match ups into Morathi would have been interesting given her damage per turn limit and defeating a SCE army with 9 Vanguard Raptors is solid. It shows the impact of the changes from the new season that limits the use of Thuderbolt Volley. 9 x D2 shots per turn isn’t terrifying a Sons army.

A solid performance with a previous favourite showing they are still a good meta choice in the new season.

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Allegiance: Tzeentch
– Change Coven: Hosts Arcanum
– Mortal Realm: Chamon
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumphs: Indomitable

Leaders
Gaunt Summoner of Tzeentch (235)*
– Lore of Fate: Arcane Suggestion
Kairos Fateweaver (435)*
– Lore of Change: Bolt of Tzeentch
Magister on Disc of Tzeentch (145)*
– Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact)
– Lore of Fate: Glimpse the Future
The Blue Scribes (160)*
– Lore of Change: Treason of Tzeentch
Tzaangor Shaman (135)*
– General
– Command Trait: Spell Hunters
– Artefact: The Fanged Circlet
– Lore of Fate: Shield of Fate

Battleline
10 x Kairic Acolytes (120)**
– 1x Pair of Cursed Blades
– 6x Cursed Blade & Arcanite Shield
– 3x Cursed Glaives
3 x Screamers of Tzeentch (100)**
20 x Tzaangors (350)**
– 4x Pair of Savage Blade
– 8x Savage Greatblade
– 8x Savage Blade & Arcanite Shield
– Reinforced x 1

Units
3 x Tzaangor Skyfires (190)*

Endless Spells & Invocations
Burning Sigil of Tzeentch (50)
Umbral Spellportal (70)

Core Battalions
*Warlord
**Expert Conquerors

Additional Enhancements
Artefact

Total: 1990 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 1 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 107
Drops: 9

Brett: Fair play to Cody, his army went 4/1 with a book that is on the wane at the moment and did so with an interesting mix of units. No horrors and a lot of heroes all of whom are casters. That’s 7 casts and 7 denies a turn. That also gives a lot of Wizards to accompany the Tzaangors (Ornate Totems) giving mortal wounds on a 4. Running the Tzaangors as a 20 block in Expert Conquerors gives you a lot of bodies for objective control and maintains Savagery Unleashed. Save stacking, hit buffing and leadership shenanigans are what Tzeentch is all about and this army takes that to the limit. Very hard to play but very hard to play against because you have to know the army to understand what to deal with first.

The low scores suggest that Cody had issues scoring early with only one unit to really contest objectives, otherwise you are trying to out-kill the opponent. Depending on initiative (including deciding proving grounds) it can be hard to score consistently in the early turns, or before your opponent runs out of models. His only loss was to an army well outside the top 10 but almost perfectly able to counter Tzeentch. They could limit the range of any spells in the first 2 rounds and Allopexes/Namarti could make short work of the troops.

Tricky to make this list work and it demonstrates the difficulties in scoring well in the new season without a lot of mobility and flexibility. At the same time the sort of MSU lists that flexibility encourages won’t succeed against a list like this.

A few things at play in this tournament that are unusual. The podium is dominated by a few factions that have faded in more recent times. A full 1/4 of the lists in this tournament were Stormcast. Stormcast play well into Stormcast. Stormcast is relatively low in damage output something Bastian and Krondys can take advantage of. There was also a team tournament the day before which might have reflected in the players present. Overall though the lists and placings continue to show that there is good balance, even if at times it doesn’t feel like it, in AoS 3. The game currently lets good generals shine (and Maggotkin float, they aren’t shiny).

Final Tournament Placings

Age of Sigmar, Barak Zilfin, Beasts of chaos, Befouling Host, big Yellers, Blades of Khorne, Blisterskin, Bloodgullet, Bloodtoofs, Bonesplitterz, Boulderhead, Breaker Tribe, Celestial Vindicators, Chaos, Cities of Sigmar, Daughters of Khaine, Death, Destruction, Disciples of Tzeentch, Dracothion's Tail, Droning Guard, Drowned Men, Fantasy, Flesh-Eater Courts, Fyreslayers, Games Workshop, Gavespawn, Glogg's Megamob, Gloomspite Gitz, Gnarlroot, Godseekers Host, Greyfyrd, Hagg Nar, Hallowed Knights, Hallowheart, Hammers of Sigmar, Hedonites of Slaanesh, Hosts Arcanum, Icebone, Idoneth Deepkin, Ironjawz, Ironsunz, Kastelai Dynasty, Kharadron Overlords, Kruleboyz, Legion of the First Prince, living city, Lumineth Realm-Lords, Maggotkin of Nurgle, Meta Analysis, Mor'Phann, Mortis Praetorians, Nighthaunt, Ogor Mawtribes, Order, Orruk Warclans, Ossiarch Bonereapers, Peter Holland, Petrifex Elite, Reapers of Vengeance, Reikenor's Comdemned, Seraphon, Skaventide, Sons of Behemat, Soulblight Gravelords, Stormcast Eternals, Syar, Sylvaneth, Taker Tribe, Tempest's Eye, The Scarlet Doom, thunder Lizard, Tournaments, Ymetrica, Zaitrec

AoS Meta Stats (w/e 10th July 2022)

July 17, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

Here are the AoS Meta Stats for all the Grand Tournaments that have taken place between Monday 4th July and Sunday 10th July 2022. These are all the GT’s that I can locate on Tabletop.to or BestCoastPairing, if you know of any others please send me a link and I’ll add them.

Once again, another quiet week, with only 3 Grand Tournaments.

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Grand Tournaments

Ranked from largest to smallest.

South Coast Series July – England/UK
40 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Slaves to Darkness	Host of the Everchosen	5-0-0
2nd	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
3rd	Sylvaneth	Heartwood	4-0-1
4th	Sylvaneth	Gnarlroot	4-0-1
5th	Seraphon	Fangs of Sotek	4-0-1
6th	Idoneth Deepkin	Fuethan	4-0-1
7th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1
8th	Bonesplitterz	Drakkfoot	3-1-1
9th	Nighthaunt	Emerald Host	3-0-2
10th	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	3-0-2

South Coast Series July

Summer on the Coast AoS GT – Washington/USA
37 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Kharadron Overlords	Barak-Zilfin	5-0-0
2nd	Daughters of Khaine	Hagg Nar	4-0-1
3rd	Blades of Khorne	Goretide	4-0-1
4th	Hedonites of Slaanesh	Lurid Haze	4-0-1
5th	Slaves to Darkness	Host of the Everchosen	4-0-1
6th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
7th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	3-0-2
8th	Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	3-0-2
9th	Sylvaneth	Heartwood	3-0-2
10th	Sylvaneth	Gnarlroot	3-0-2

Summer on the Coast AoS GT

Kingdom of Skrappa Spill – England/UK
28 Players – Generals Handbook: Pitched Battles 2022-23 Season 1

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Cities of Sigmar	Hallowheart	5-0-0
2nd	Daughters of Khaine	Khailebron	4-0-1
3rd	Cities of Sigmar	Hammerhal	4-0-1
4th	Skaven		4-0-1
5th	Maggotkin of Nurgle		3-1-1
6th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	3-1-1
7th	Daughters of Khaine	Khailebron	3-0-2
8th	Daughters of Khaine	Hagg Nar	3-0-2
9th	Nighthaunt		3-0-2

Kingdom of Skrappa Spill

Grand Alliance Stats

These stats reflect the last four weeks of GT’s that we’re aware of at Woehammer.

303 players (-182) took part in 12 GT’s (-4) over the last four weeks.

Grand Alliance	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins	4+ Wins
Chaos	56.4%	62	20.46%	5	20
Order	51.0%	149	49.17%	4	21
Death	43.8%	50	16.50%	1	6
Destruction	43.8%	42	13.86%	0	3

Chaos continue to lead the way in the win rates, dropping only slightly from 56.7% last week to 56.4% this week. While Order pick up the most number of armies represented and most 4+. Chaos steal the crown this week for most 5-0’s.

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Faction Stats

The below stat show the results for those factions represented by 5 armies or more only.

Faction	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins	0-5 Losses
Slaves to Darkness	72.2%	6	1.98%	1	1
Beasts of Chaos	63.1%	13	4.29%	2	0
Nighthaunt	61.3%	17	5.61%	1	0
Blades of Khorne	60.0%	5	1.65%	0	0
Sylvaneth	58.5%	13	4.29%	0	0
Cities of Sigmar	57.1%	17	5.61%	1	1
Seraphon	56.3%	24	7.92%	2	1
Kharadron Overlords	55.0%	6	1.98%	1	1
Big Waaagh!	54.0%	5	1.65%	0	0
Maggotkin of Nurgle	53.8%	21	6.93%	1	2
Bonesplitterz	51.5%	7	2.31%	0	0
Lumineth Realm-Lords	50.0%	12	3.96%	0	0
Daughters of Khaine	50.0%	17	5.61%	0	1
Sons of Behemat	50.0%	8	2.64%	0	0
Idoneth Deepkin	47.8%	18	5.94%	0	0
Sons of Behemat	48.5%	21	4.33%	0	1
Skaven	46.7%	6	1.98%	1	0
Legion of the First Prince	46.7%	6	1.98%	0	1
Stormcast Eternals	45.6%	26	8.58%	0	3
Ogor Mawtribes	44.8%	6	1.98%	0	1
Fyreslayers	43.0%	16	5.28%	0	1
Flesh-eater Courts	40.0%	5	1.65%	0	0
Soulblight Gravelords	37.8%	18	5.94%	0	2
Gloomspite Gitz	33.3%	6	1.98%	0	0
Ironjawz	32.8%	7	2.31%	0	2
Ossiarch Bonereapers	27.0%	10	3.30%	0	2

Slaves to Darkness and Blades of Khorne continue their run of good form in experienced hands. While the new battletomes of Nighthaunt and Sylvaneth can also be seen in the +55% area. Daughters of Khaine are smack in the middle with a perfect 50% win rate. While Skaven are beginning to climb.

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Subfactions

All factions listed below have been represented at tournaments by at least 5 players.

Faction	Subfaction	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins	0-5 Losses
Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	69.1%	11	3.63%	1	0
Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	67.6%	7	2.31%	0	0
Beasts of Chaos	None	61.4%	7	2.31%	1	0
Cities of Sigmar	Living City	57.1%	7	2.31%	0	0
Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	55.7%	21	6.93%	2	1
Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	53.4%	6	1.98%	0	0
Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	52.9%	7	2.31%	0	0
Fyreslayers	Lofnir	51.7%	6	1.98%	0	0
Nighthaunt	Emerald Host	48.3%	6	1.98%	0	0
Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	48.1%	11	3.63%	0	0
Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	47.1%	7	2.31%	0	1
Legion of the First Prince		46.7%	6	1.98%	0	1
Skaven		46.7%	6	1.98%	1	0
Soulblight Gravelords	Vyrkos Dynasty	43.3%	6	1.98%	0	0
Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	42.3%	15	4.95%	0	3
Soulblight Gravelords	Kastelai Dynasty	38.6%	7	2.31%	0	1
Fyreslayers	Greyfyrd	35.2%	9	2.97%	0	1
Ossiarch Bonereapers	Petrifex Elite	27.5%	8	2.64%	0	1

Drowned Men continue to lead the way with a win rate of 69.1% despite Maggotkin overall only having a win rate of 53.8%. Nighthaunt and Scarlet Doom find themselves near the top now as predicted by Danny some weeks ago. Meanwhile at the bottom of the table Ossiarch Bonereapers/Petrifex Elite are the only subfaction below 30% win rate.

Interestingly Fyreslayers have Lofnir (6 PLayers) with a win rate of 51.7% and the more popular Greyfyrd (9 Players) at 35.2%, are people playing the wrong subfaction?

Next Week

I’ll have graphs. Because nothing says stats like some graphs…..

AoS Meta Stats (w/e 3rd July 2022)

July 10, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

Here are the AoS Meta Stats for all the Grand Tournaments that have taken place between Monday 27th June and Sunday 3rd July 2022. These are all the GT’s that I can locate on Tabletop.to or BestCoastPairing, if you know of any others please send me a link and I’ll add them.

Once again, another quiet week, with only 3 Grand Tournaments. Two of these were run using the new GHB, while the other was just a little event called the World tSports Champions…..

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Grand Tournaments

Ranked from largest to smallest.

From the Ashes – Scotland/UK
22 Players – Generals Handbook: Pitched Battles 2022-23 Season 1

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Skaven		5-0-0
2nd	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
3rd	Idoneth Deepkin	Mor’Phann	4-0-1
4th	Bonesplitterz	Drakkfoot	4-0-1
5th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	3-0-2
6th	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	3-0-2
7th	Sylvaneth	Heartwood	3-0-2
8th	Beasts of Chaos		3-0-2
9th	Soulblight Gravelords	Kastelai Dynasty	3-0-2
10th	Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	2-1-2

From the Ashes 2022

World tSports Champions – England/UK
16 Players – Generals Handbook 2021-22

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Nighthaunt	Grieving Legion	5-0-0
2nd	Idoneth Deepkin	Ionrach	3-0-2
3rd	Beasts of Chaos	Allherd	4-0-1
4th	Idoneth Deepkin	Fuethan	3-0-2
5th	Slaves to Darkness	Host of the Everchosen	4-0-1
6th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	3-0-2
7th	Cities of Sigmar	Hallowheart	2-0-3
8th	Bonesplitterz	Drakkfoot	2-0-3
9th	Legion of the First Prince		1-0-4
10th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	2-0-3

World tSports Champions

Coliseum of Sigmar Carnage GT – Florida/USA
9 Players – Generals Handbook: Pitched Battles 2022-23 Season 1

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	3-0-1
2nd	Nighthaunt	Emerald Host	4-0-1
3rd	Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	3-1-1
4th	Legion of the First Prince		3-1-1
5th	Idoneth Deepkin	Nautilar	2-0-3
6th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	2-0-3
7th	Slaves to Darkness	Host of the Everchosen	0-0-2
8th	Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	2-0-3
9th	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	0-0-4

Coliseum of Sigmar Carnage GT

Grand Alliance Stats

As promised last week, I’ve changed the stats to reflect the last four weeks of GT’s that we’re aware of at Woehammer. Also if you read all the way to the end of the article I have a little surprise for you!

485 players took part in 16 GT’s over the last four weeks.

Grand Alliance	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins	4+ Wins
Chaos	56.7%	94	19.38%	6	27
Order	50.7%	218	44.95%	8	34
Death	45.8%	82	16.91%	2	11
Destruction	45.0%	91	18.76%	0	8

Chaos continue to lead the way in the win rates. While Order pick up the most number of armies represented, most 5-0’s and most 4+. When you compare army share to the number of battletomes each Grand Alliance possess you can see that Order are overrepresented, while Chaos are vastly under represented:

Grand Alliance	Battletomes	Battletome %	Actual Rep %
Order	9	37.50%	44.95%
Chaos	7	29.17%	19.38%
Death	4	16.67%	16.91%
Destruction	4	16.67%	18.76%

What can we take away from this? Perhaps that Order factions are more appealing than Chaos? New players gravitate towards Order? The Chaos range needs updated miniatures? Or all of the above?

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Faction Stats

The below stat show the results for those factions represented by 5 armies or more only.

Faction	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins	0-5 Losses
Beasts of Chaos	67.1%	14	2.89%	2	0
Legion of the First Prince	61.5%	13	2.68%	0	0
Slaves to Darkness	61.1%	6	1.24%	0	1
Seraphon	59.7%	30	6.19%	5	2
Blades of Khorne	56.7%	6	1.24%	0	0
Maggotkin of Nurgle	56.6%	35	7.22%	3	2
Bonesplitterz	55.4%	10	2.06%	0	0
Cities of Sigmar	54.2%	24	4.95%	2	1
Daughters of Khaine	52.8%	22	4.54%	0	2
Nighthaunt	52.2%	32	6.60%	1	2
Idoneth Deepkin	51.8%	23	4.74%	1	0
Flesh-eater Courts	51.7%	6	1.24%	0	0
Lumineth Realm-Lords	51.5%	21	4.33%	0	0
Kharadron Overlords	51.4%	7	1.44%	0	1
Sylvaneth	49.1%	11	2.27%	0	1
Sons of Behemat	48.5%	21	4.33%	0	1
Soulblight Gravelords	47.1%	28	5.77%	1	1
Stormcast Eternals	47.1%	60	12.37%	0	4
Ogor Mawtribes	47.1%	28	2.89%	0	1
Ironjawz	44.7%	16	3.30%	0	1
Kruleboyz	44.3%	11	2.27%	0	1
Hedonites of Slaanesh	44.3%	7	1.44%	0	0
Skaven	43.0%	9	1.86%	1	0
Big Waaagh!	41.3%	8	1.65%	0	0
Fyreslayers	39.5%	20	4.12%	0	2
Gloomspite Gitz	30.9%	11	2.27%	0	1
Ossiarch Bonereapers	28.2%	16	3.30%	0	2

Factions in Bold are those with 3rd Edition Battletomes published before or during this time period

I’ve highlighted all those faction win rates in red which are outside of the parameters that players have stated would make the game roughly balanced (45-55%).

I’m looking at the bottom of the table as I’m writing this, and its hard not to overlook Fyreslayers, Gloomspite Gitz and Ossiarch Bonereapers with win rates of less than 40%! Gloomspite Gitz are getting their new book this year, so hopefully we’ll see that improve. Fyreslayers have been mugged by Games Workshop rules writers, and it just shows how awful that book is. I feel for long term Fyreslayers players…

At the top of the table Beasts of Chaos now currently lead the way with a win rate of 67.1%! They’ve gone from trash tier to S tier in the space of 3 months. Slaves to Darkness are a bit of an anomaly at the top there, and this is primarily driven by a few high level players who vastly our performed the faction this month, much like Anthony Trentanelli did a few weeks ago with Skaven. Maggotkin of Nurgle and Seraphon win rates have both dropped, but its too early to tell why, as the new rules for Seraphon only really came into effect last week.

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Subfaction Stats

Faction	Subfaction	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins	0-5 Losses
Beasts of Chaos	None	70.0%	5	1.03%	1	0
Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	68.0%	20	4.12%	2	0
Legion of the First Prince		61.5%	13	2.68%	0	0
Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	60.0%	11	2.27%	0	0
Beasts of Chaos	Gavespawn	60.0%	6	1.24%	0	0
Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	59.6%	28	5.77%	4	2
Bonesplitterz	Drakkfoot	58.3%	6	1.24%	0	0
Cities of Sigmar	Living City	57.7%	13	2.68%	2	0
Ogor Mawtribes	Boulderhead	56.0%	5	1.03%	0	0
Kharadron Overlords	Barak-Zilfin	53.3%	6	1.24%	0	1
Idoneth Deepkin	Mor’Phann	53.3%	6	1.24%	1	0
Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	52.9%	15	3.09%	0	0
Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	52.8%	15	3.09%	0	0
Idoneth Deepkin	Nautilar	51.3%	8	1.65%	0	0
Ironjawz	Ironsunz	50.0%	6	1.24%	0	1
Daughters of Khaine	Hagg Nar	50.0%	7	1.44%	0	1
Stormcast Eternals	Astral Templars	50.0%	6	1.24%	0	0
Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	49.2%	12	2.47%	0	1
Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	48.8%	33	6.80%	0	2
Soulblight Gravelords	Vyrkos Dynasty	48.0%	10	2.06%	0	0
Soulblight Gravelords	Kastelai Dynasty	45.5%	11	2.27%	0	1
Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	44.7%	15	3.09%	0	1
Kruleboyz	Big Yellers	43.4%	8	1.65%	0	1
Skaven		43.0%	9	1.86%	1	0
Fyreslayers	Lofnir	42.9%	7	1.44%	0	1
Hedonites of Slaanesh	Lurid Haze	42.0%	5	1.03%	0	0
Ironjawz	Bloodtoofs	41.7%	10	2.06%	0	0
Nighthaunt	Emerald Host	41.5%	13	2.68%	0	2
Big Waaagh!		41.3%	8	1.65%	0	0
Maggotkin of Nurgle	Befouling Host	40.0%	7	1.44%	1	1
Fyreslayers	Greyfyrd	35.8%	12	2.47%	0	1
Ossiarch Bonereapers	Petrifex Elite	28.8%	15	3.09%	0	2
Gloomspite Gitz		25.0%	8	1.65%	0	1

Factions in Bold are those with 3rd Edition Battletomes published before or during this time period

Maggotkin of Nurgle are a bit of a strange faction. While you have one of the meta leading Subfactions inside the tome with Drowned Men (68.0%, at the bottom of the pack you have Befouling Host (40.0%). It’s not an irregularity either as 7 players have played that subfaction and one claimed 5 wins at an event and another 5 losses. This suggests to me that while Drowned Men is a simple list to play, Befouling Host is completely the opposite and requires good memory and skill from the pilot.

After almost a year of publication now, both Stormcast and Orruk Warclan battletomes are beginning to show a little lag behind the other updated factions (apart from Fyreslayers of course). As the first of the Battletomes perhaps this has played into their stats slightly as the rules writers learn from their mistakes (apart from Fyreslayers of course) when writing the newer tomes.

Scarlet Doom shows that its the faction of choice for a reason in the new Nighthaunt battletome (60.0%) however, its still early days for this battletome and the other factions could be more complicated to pick up and play. However 60.0% win rate for any subfaction is too high and so they may need a future nerf at some point.

Going forwards as the weeks go on, I’ll be keeping an eye out for Grinin’ Blades beginning to get some more play with their updated allegiance abilities after not being placed at all due to all the Kruleboyz players choosing Big Yellers – this will change. I expect to see them nearing the 50% mark and above. Likewise with Skaven, I expect them to begin climbing the rankings as their new rules come into effect.

THE SUPRISE

I said I had a surprise, and here it is!

Woehammer will be doing a player ranking system for the new General’s Handbook based on the Elo system used by Chess.

Who gets ranked?

Everyone who takes part in a two day event using the General’s Handbook: Pitched Battles Season 1 2022-23. Each week I’ll update the scores of the players as they happen and post them in a separate rankings post which will be published every Saturday.

All players will begin with a rating of 1,000 at the beginning of the season, player ratings will be carried over into season 2 and beyond in the future.

I’ve included the current rankings below (there’s only been two GT’s using the new Handbook) which includes everyone at present. However, I will limit this to the top 20 as more players are ranked. The full downloadable player rankings will be available on the site to download next weekend.

Player	Country	Region	Rating
John B	Scotland	Europe	1,049.4
David Jack	Scotland	Europe	1,031.2
Leigh Martin	Scotland	Europe	1,030.3
Zachary Shinn	USA	North America	1,029.7
Nathan Watson	Scotland	Europe	1,029.4
Jonathon Roberts	USA	North America	1,020.0
Daniel Gomez	USA	North America	1,019.2
Cara Newby	Scotland	Europe	1,010.6
Richard McQuarrie	Scotland	Europe	1,010.3
Karl Rohr	USA	North America	1,010.0
Alastair Maxwell	Scotland	Europe	1,010.0
Reece Fraser	Scotland	Europe	1,010.0
Jamie McHugh	Scotland	Europe	1,010.0
Ryan Pothecary	Scotland	Europe	1,010.0
Ian (Yes, just Ian)	Scotland	Europe	1,009.7
Aaron Burns Lees	Scotland	Europe	1,009.4
Allan George	Scotland	Europe	1,000.3
Douglas Klem	USA	North America	1,000.0
Frank Kelly	Scotland	Europe	999.1
Scott Semple	Scotland	Europe	999.1
Alasdair Robertson	Scotland	Europe	990.0
Michael Smith	USA	North America	989.4
James Hobson	Scotland	Europe	988.3
Michael Peterson	USA	North America	980.3
Lewis Mitchell	Scotland	Europe	971.2
Grant Fraser	Scotland	Europe	968.9
Andrew Dowling	USA	North America	961.7

AoS Player Rankings on 3rd July 2022

AoS Meta Stats (w/e 26th June 2022)

July 3, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

Here are the AoS Meta Stats for all the Grand Tournaments that have taken place between Monday 20th June and Sunday 26th June 2022. These are all the GT’s that I can locate on Tabletop.to or BestCoastPairing, if you know of any others please send me a link and I’ll add them.

There were only 2 Grand Tournaments last week, a quiet week! But both have 32 players with a nice mix of factions.

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Grand Tournaments

Ranked from largest to smallest.

Giga-Con: Age of Sigmar Teams Event – Georgia/USA
32 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	5-0-0
2nd	Beasts of Chaos		4-1-0
3rd	Beasts of Chaos		4-0-1
4th	Ogor Mawtribes	Boulderhead	4-0-1
5th	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	4-0-1
6th	Hedonites of Slaanesh	Godseekers Host	4-0-1
7th	Cities of Sigmar	Living City	4-0-1
8th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
9th	Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	3-1-1
10th	Big Waaagh!		3-1-1

Giga-Con: Age of Sigmar Teams Event

Ironweld Open GT – Massachusetts/USA
32 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	5-0-0
2nd	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	4-0-1
3rd	Legion of the First Prince		4-0-1
4th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	4-0-1
5th	Bonesplitterz	Drakkfoot	3-1-1
6th	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	3-1-1
7th	Daughters of Khaine	Hagg Nar	3-0-2
8th	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	3-0-2
9th	Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	3-0-2
10th	Soulblight Gravelords	Vyrkos Dynasty	3-0-2

Ironweld Open GT

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Grand Alliance Stats

64 players took part in 2 GT’s over the last week.

Grand Alliance	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins	4+ Wins
Chaos	55.6%	9	14.1%	0	4
Order	53.7%	30	46.9%	2	6
Death	50.0%	10	15.6%	0	1
Death	39.3%	15	23.4%	0	1

Faction Stats

The below stat show the results for those factions represented by 5 armies or more only.

Faction	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins
Seraphon	80.0%	5	7.9%	2
Lumineth Realm-Lords	60.0%	5	7.9%	0
Soulblight Gravelords	40.0%	5	7.9%	0

With very few tournaments this week there’s not enough data to draw reliable win rates from.

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Subfaction Stats

Next week, I’ll have built up four weeks worth of data and at this point I will transition the stats over four weeks rather than a single week. This will helpfully give us more reliable data. At some point I’ll go backwards as well to the start of AoS 3.

AoS Meta Stats (w/e 19th June 2022)

June 26, 2022 Woehammer Leave a comment

Here are the AoS Meta Stats for all the Grand Tournaments that have taken place between Monday 13th June and Sunday 19th June 2022. These are all the GT’s that I can locate on Tabletop.to or BestCoastPairing, if you know of any others please send me a link and I’ll add them.

There was a total of 3 Grand Tournaments last week, a quiet week! That being said, one of them was the awesome UK tSports Champions, which our very own Declan was invited to take part in. You can read up on his prep here.

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Grand Tournaments

Ranked from largest to smallest.

Pyrehammer 2022 – Wielkopolskie/Poland
40 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	4-0-1
2nd	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	4-0-1
3rd	Beasts of Chaos		5-0-0
4th	Sylvaneth		4-0-1
5th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1
6th	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Syar	3-1-1
7th	Kharadron Overlords	Barak-Zilfin	3-1-1
8th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	3-0-2
9th	Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	4-0-1
10th	Maggotkin of Nurlge	Drowned Men	3-1-1

Pyrehammer AoS GT

Rise of the Everchosen – Emilia Romagna/Italy
32 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	5-0-0
2nd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-1-0
3rd	Slaves to Darkness	Knights of the Empty Throne	4-1-0
4th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	4-0-1
5th	Fyreslayers	Lofnir	4-0-1
6th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	3-0-2
7th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	3-0-2
8th	Sons of Behemat	Stomper Tribe	3-0-2
9th	Stormcast Eternals	Knights Excelsior	3-0-2
10th	Cities of Sigmar	Living City	3-0-2

Rise of the Everchosen AoS GT

UK tSports Champions – England/UK
16 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Beasts of Chaos	Allherd	5-0-0
2nd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1
3rd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Droning Guard	3-0-2
4th	Fyreslayers	Lofnir	3-0-2
5th	Cities of Sigmar	Tempest’s Eye	3-1-1
6th	Idoneth Deepkin	Mor’Phann	2-0-3
7th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	3-0-2
8th	Nighthaunt	Emerald Host	2-0-3
9th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	3-0-2
10th	Cities of Sigmar	Hallowheart	3-0-2

UK tSports Champions AoS GT

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Grand Alliance Stats

286 players took part in 10 GT’s over the last week.

Grand Alliance	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins	4+ Wins
Chaos	64.7%	19	21.59%	3	7
Order	49.2%	49	55.68%	0	5
Destruction	43.8%	8	9.09%	0	1
Death	34.2%	12	13.64%	0	0

Faction Stats

The below stat show the results for those factions represented by 5 armies or more only.

Faction	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins	0-5 Losses
Maggotkin of Nurgle	66.0%	10	11.36%	1	4
Cities of Sigmar	58.6%	7	7.95%	0	0
Stormcast Eternals	54.0%	10	11.36%	0	3
Idoneth Deepkin	46.0%	5	5.68%	0	0
Seraphon	43.0%	10	11.36%	0	0
Fyrselayers	40.0%	7	7.95%	0	1
Soulblight Gravelords	33.3%	6	6.82%	0	0

Maggotkin of Nurgle top the charts this week in a very small data set. With a win rate of 66.0% Followed closely by Cities of Sigmar with a win rate of 58.6%. Seraphon, Fyreslayers and Soulblight Gravelords all struggling to make that magical 45% mark with Soulblight Gravelords being the only faction below 40%.

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Subfaction Stats

Only Seraphon/Thunder Lizard and Maggotkin of Nurgle/Drowned Men made the requirement for this table (min 5 armies represented). Thunder Lizard managed a win rate of 43% while Drowned Men achieved 72.5%……

AoS Meta Stats (w/e 12th June 2022)

June 14, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

On Reddit Warhammer 40k has the Meta Mondays posted by the brilliant u/JCMS85 on r/WarhammerCompetitive. So why can’t we have one for AoS? Well we can….

Here are the stats for all the Grand Tournaments that have taken place between Monday 6th June and Sunday 12th June 2022. These are all the GT’s that I can locate on Tabletop.to or BestCoastPairing, if you know of any others please send me a link and I’ll add them.

There was a total of 10 Grand Tournaments last week, however only 9 had data available to analyse. Valleycon 2022 was a 26 player tournament but no lists were available at the time of publishing these stats.

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Grand Tournaments

Ranked from largest to smallest.

US Open San Diego – California/USA
74 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	5-0-0
2nd	Cities of Sigmar	Living City	5-0-0
3rd	Cities of Sigmar	Living City	5-0-0
4th	Bonesplitterz	Drakkfoot	4-0-1
5th	Blades of Khorne	Reapers of Vengeance	4-0-1
6th	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	4-0-1
7th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	4-0-1
8th	Legion of the First Prince		4-0-1
9th	Beasts of Chaos	Gavespawn	4-0-1
10th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	4-0-1

San Diego Open

Atlantic City Open – New Jersey/USA
73 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	5-0-0
2nd	Soulblight Gravelords	Legion of Blood	5-0-0
3rd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1
4th	Idoneth Deepkin	Nautilar	4-0-1
5th	Skaventide		4-0-1
6th	Daughters of Khaine	Khailebron	4-0-1
7th	Daughters of Khaine	Hagg Nar	4-0-1
8th	Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	4-0-1
9th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	4-0-1
10th	Legion of the First Prince		4-0-1

Atlantic City Open

GT de CAT – Catalunya/Spain
30 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	5-0-0
2nd	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	4-0-1
3rd	Legion of the First Prince		4-0-1
4th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1
5th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	4-0-1
6th	Nighthaunt	Reikenor’s Condemned	3-0-2
7th	Sylvaneth		3-0-2
8th	Daughters of Khaine	Khailebron	3-0-2
9th	Disciples of Tzeentch	Hosts Duplicitous	3-0-2
10th	Kharadon Overlords	Barak-Zilfin	3-0-2

GT de CAT

Mawtribes Massacre: Annihilation – England/UK
30 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	4-0-1
2nd	Ironjawz	Ironsunz	4-0-1
3rd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1
4th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	4-0-1
5th	Fyreslayers	Greyfyrd	3-1-1
6th	Beasts of Chaos	Gavespawn	3-0-2
7th	Daughters of Khaine	Hagg Nar	3-0-2
8th	Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	3-0-2
9th	Legion of the First Prince		3-0-2
10th	Soulblight Gravelords	Vyrkos Dynasty	3-0-2

Mawtribes Massacre: Annihilation

Sunshine Coast Open – England/UK
27 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Seraphon	Dracothion’s Tail	5-0-0
2nd	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-1-0
3rd	Idoneth Deepkin	Ionrach	4-0-1
4th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	3-1-1
5th	Sons of Behemat	Taker Tribe	3-1-1
6th	Nighthaunt	Emerald Host	3-0-2
7th	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Alumnia	3-0-2
8th	Cities of Sigmar	Tempest’s Eye	3-0-2
9th	Beasts of Chaos	Gavespawn	3-0-2
10th	Gloomspite Gitz	Glogg’s Megamob	3-0-2

Sunshine Coast Open

Wargames for Warriors – Utah/USA
22 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Legion of the First Prince		4-0-1
2nd	Daughters of Khaine	Khelt Nar	4-0-1
3rd	Nighthaunt	Emerald Host	4-0-1
4th	Soulblight Gravelords	Kastelai Dynasty	4-0-1
5th	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	3-0-2
6th	Slaves to Darkness	Ravagers	3-0-2
7th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	3-0-2
8th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Befouling Host	3-0-2
9th	Soulblight Gravelords	Kastelai Dynasty	3-0-2
10th	Soulblight Gravelords	Kastelai Dynasty	3-0-2

Wargames for Warriors

Justice Series – England/UK
18 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Befouling Host	5-0-0
2nd	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	4-0-1
3rd	Cities of Sigmar	Tempest’s Eye	4-0-1
4th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	3-0-2
5th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	3-0-2
6th	Soulblight Gravelords	Vyrkos Dynasty	3-0-2
7th	Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	3-0-2
8th	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	3-0-2
9th	Kruleboyz	Big Yellers	3-0-2
10th	Stormcast Eternals	Tempest Lords	2-0-3

Justice Series

Game Knight AoS GT – Ontario/Canada
12 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Idoneth Deepkin	Mor’Phann	5-0-0
2nd	Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	3-0-2
3rd	Ogor Mawtribes	Boulderhead	3-0-2
4th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	3-0-2
5th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Munificent Wanderers	3-0-2
6th	Bonesplitterz	Icebone	3-0-0
7th	Legion of the First Prince		2-0-3
8th	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	2-0-3
9th	Ossiarch Bonereapers	Petrifex Elite	2-0-3
10th	Blades of Khorne	Baleful Lords	2-0-3

Game Knight AoS GT

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Grand Alliance Stats

286 players took part in 10 GT’s over the last week.

Grand Alliance	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins	4+ Wins
Chaos	54.5%	56	19.6%	2	13
Order	51.0%	119	41.6%	6	22
Death	46.6%	48	16.8%	1	7
Destruction	46.1%	56	22.0%	0	5

Faction Stats

The below stat show the results for those factions represented by 5 armies or more only.

Faction	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins	0-5 Losses
Seraphon	66.2%	13	2.27%	3	1
Legion of the First Prince	65.0%	8	1.40%	0	0
Maggotkin of Nurgle	58.6%	21	3.67%	2	0
Idoneth Deepkin	58.5%	11	1.92%	1	0
Soulblight Gravelords	57.7%	13	2.27%	1	0
Cities of Sigmar	57.0%	10	1.75%	2	0
Daughters of Khaine	56.4%	14	2.45%	0	1
Lumineth Realm-Lords	52.1%	10	1.75%	0	0
Ironjawz	50.8%	13	2.27%	0	0
Sons of Behemat	48.5%	14	2.45%	0	1
Ogor Mawtribes	47.2%	11	1.92%	0	0
Nighthaunt	46.7%	21	3.67%	0	2
Stormcast Eternals	45.0%	43	7.52%	0	3
Kruleboyz	44.3%	11	1.92%	0	1
Sylvaneth	40.0%	5	0.87%	0	1
Hedonites of Slaanesh	38.3%	6	1.05%	0	0
Skaventide	37.9%	7	1.22%	0	0
Fyreslayers	34.4%	9	1.57%	0	1
Ossiarch Bonereapers	31.1%	11	1.92%	0	1
Gloomspite Gitz	30.0%	6	1.05%	0	1

Despite Nighthaunt and Daughters of Khaine being released now for a couple of weeks, we still see Seraphon, Legion of the First Prince and Maggotkin of Nurgle topping the win rates. On top of that Seraphon managed to grab three 5-0 results this week.

As a rough guide factions should have win rates of between 45-55% to ensure the game is roughly balance (true balance being impossible). The above shows that 7 factions have exceeded this band (including the new Daughters of Khaine) with Seraphon and Legion of the First Prince have exceeded the 60% win rate barrier. There are also seven factions below this ideal range, including one of the new battletomes for 3rd Edition (Fyreslayers). While Stormcast Eternals have a win rate of 45% we have to bear in mind that this is the most popular faction and is often the ones new players use when first playing Age of Sigmar, so the range of skill of the players inside this faction will vary widely, while many of the other faction will have a dedicated fan base or have tournament players looking for a faction that provides them the best chance at good results.

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Subfaction Stats

The below stat show the results for those subfactions represented by 5 armies or more only.

Faction	Subfaction	Win Rate	Armies	5-0 Wins	0-5 Losses
Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	67.3%	11	2	1
Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	65.5%	11	1	0
Legion of the First Prince		65.0%	8	0	0
Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	60.9%	5	0	0
Idoneth Deepkin	Nautilar	58.6%	6	0	0
Cities of Sigmar	Living City	58.3%	6	2	0
Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	54.3%	7	0	0
Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	54.3%	7	0	0
Soulblight Gravelords	Vyrkos Dynasty	53.3%	6	0	0
Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	53.1%	10	0	0
Stormcast Eternals	Astral Templars	50.0%	6	0	0
Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	49.1%	23	0	1
Ironjawz	Bloodtoofs	44.2%	9	0	0
Kruleboyz	Big Yellers	43.4%	8	0	1
Hedonites of Slaanesh	Lurid Haze	42.0%	5	0	0
Nighthaunt	Emerald Host	41.5%	13	0	2
Fyreslayers	Greyfyrd	38.6%	7	0	0
Skaventide		37.9%	7	0	0
Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	35.6%	9	0	1
Ossiarch Bonereapers	Petrifex Elite	32.3%	10	0	1
Gloomspite Gitz		24.0%	5	0	1

The faction stats are pretty much replicated above with Lumineth Realm-Lords/Zaitrec joining the +60% club this week. Meanwhile despite Anthony Trentanelli’s heroics with Skaven recently (claiming two GT’s and going 4-1 this week) they still sit below 45% with a miserable 37.9% win rate. Will their new battletome and the Generals Handbook see a change in this though? A new tome can’t come soon enough for Gloomspite Gitz and Ossiarch Bonereapers….

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Top Three AoS Lists from Skybert Turneringen

May 17, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

Skybert Turneringen took place in Norway on 14th and 15th May. It involved 12 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament.

Before I jump into the Top Three, 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.

1st Place – Thomas Nyland

Thomas won four out of the five games over the weekend. Along the way he beat Ossiarch Bonereaper/Mortis Praetorians in round 1, Lumineth Realm-Lords/Zaitrec in round 2, Seraphon/Thunder Lizard in round 3, Ogor Mawtribes/Bouldehead in round 4 before losing against Stormcast Eternals/Celestial Vindicators in Round 5.

Army Faction: Sons of Behemat
– Army Type: Taker Tribe
– Grand Strategy: Beast Master
– Triumph: Bloodthirsty

LEADERS
Bundo Whalebiter (490)
Gatebreaker (525)*
– Artefacts of Power: Arcane Tome
Kraken-Eater (490)*
– General
– Command Traits: Very Acquisitive
– Artefacts of Power: Glowy Lantern, Krakenskin Sandals
Warstomper (470)*

CORE BATTALIONS
*Bosses of the Stomp

TOTAL POINTS: 1975/2000

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2nd Place – Kristoffer Mallberg

Kristoffer also managed four wins over the two days. Beating Maggotkin of Nurgle/Befouling Host in round 1, losing against Ogor Mawtribes/Boulderhead in round 2. He then recovered from his loss to go on and beat Idoneth Deepkin/Fuethan in round 3, Ironjawz/Bloodtoofs in round 4, and Cities of Sigmar/Living City in the final round.

Allegiance: Beasts of Chaos
– Grand Strategy: Hold the Line
– Triumphs: Inspired

Leaders
Dragon Ogor Shaggoth (155)*
– General
– Command Trait: Adamantine Scales
– Lore of Dark Storms: Sundering Blades
Great Bray-Shaman (100)*
– Artefact: The Knowing Eye
– Lore of the Twisted Wilds: Vicious Stranglethorns
Great Bray-Shaman (100)*
– Lore of the Twisted Wilds: Wild Rampage
Be’Lakor, the Dark Master (360)
– Allies

Battleline
9 x Dragon Ogors (375)**
– 9x Draconic War glaives
– Reinforced x 2
10 x Ungors (70)*
– Mauls & Half-Shields
10 x Ungors (70)
– Mauls & Half-Shields

Units
6 x Tzaangor Enlightened on Disc of Beasts of Chaos (360)**
– Reinforced x 1
10 x Bestigors (135)
10 x Bestigors (135)
10 x Bestigors (135)

Core Battalions
*Warlord
**Hunters of the Heartlands

Additional Enhancements
Artefact

Total: 1995 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 3 / 4
Allies: 360 / 400
Wounds: 153
Drops: 11

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3rd Place – Dagfinn Caspersen

Dagfinn, like the others in the top three, finished the weekend with one loss and four wins. His path saw him Seraphon/Thunder Lizard in round 1, then Idoneth Deepkin/Fuethan in round 2. He lost against Ogor Mawtribes/Boulderhead in round 3 before going on to beat Maggotkin of Nurgle/Befouling Host in round 4 and then beat 1st placed Thomas in round 5.

Army Faction: Stormcast Eternals
– Army Type: Scions of the Storm
– Subfaction: Celestial Vindicators
– Grand Strategy: Hold the Line
– Triumph: Inspired

LEADERS
Lord-Imperatant (175)*
– General
– Command Traits: Shock and Awe
– Artefacts of Power: Mirrorshield

BATTLELINE
Liberators (115)*
– Heavens-wrought Weapon and Sigmarite Shield
Vindictors (130)*
Vindictors (130)*

OTHER
Vanguard-Raptors with Longstrike Crossbows (480)*
Annihilators with Meteoric Grandhammers (480)**
Annihilators with Meteoric Grandhammers (240)**
Annihilators with Meteoric Grandhammers (240)**

CORE BATTALIONS
*Battle Regiment
**Hunters of the Heartlands

TOTAL POINTS: 1990/2000

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4th Place – Anders Tjelle Bjornstade

Anders won three games and lost two. Along the way he beat Stormcast Eternals/Knights Excelsior in round 1, then beat 2nd placed Kristoffer Mallberg in round 2, 3rd placed Dagfinn in round 3, before losing against 1sr placed Thomas in round 4 and Lumineth Realm-Lords/Zaitrec in round 5.

Army Faction: Ogor Mawtribes
– Subfaction: Boulderhead
– Grand Strategy: Beast Master
– Triumph: Inspired

LEADERS
Frostlord on Stonehorn (430)
– Artefacts of Power: Brand of the Svard
Frostlord on Stonehorn (430)*
Huskard on Thundertusk (335)**
– Blood Vulture
– Artefacts of Power: Amulet of Destiny
– Prayers: Guidance
Icebrow Hunter (125)**
– General
– Command Traits: Lord of Beasts
Slaughtermaster (140)**
– Spells: Ribcracker
Huskard on Thundertusk (335)**
– Blood Vulture
– Prayers: Heal

BATTLELINE
Frost Sabres (55)*
Frost Sabres (55)*
Frost Sabres (55)**

CORE BATTALIONS
– *Battle Regiment
– **Warlord

TOTAL POINTS: 1960/2000

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Top Three AoS Lists from Renegade Wargaming – Spring Up GT

May 7, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

The Renegade Wargaming – Spring Up GT took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA on 23rd and 24th April. It involved 38 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament.

Corey won all five games over the weekend. Along the way he beat Idoneth Deepkin/Fuethan in round 1, Stormcast Eternals/Hammers of Sigmar in round 2, Ogor Mawtribes/Boulderhead in round 3, Ironjawz/Bloodtoofs in round 4 and Maggotkin of Nurgle/Befouling Host in Round 5.

Allegiance: Legion of the First Prince
– Grand Strategy: Beast Master
– Triumphs: Inspired

LEADERS
Be’Lakor, the Dark Master (360)
– Lore of Ruinous Sorcery: The Master’s Command
Kairos Fateweaver (435)
– Lore of Ruinous Sorcery: The Master’s Command
Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage (280)*
– General
– Command Trait: Ruinous Aura
– Artefact: Armour of the Pact
The Changeling (170)*
– Lore of Ruinous Sorcery: The Master’s Command
Slaves to Darkness Daemon Prince (210)*
– Sword
– Mark of Chaos: Khorne

UNITS
10 x Pink Horrors of Tzeentch (250)*
5 x Flesh Hounds (105)*
5 x Flesh Hounds (105)*

ENDLESS SPELLS & INVOCATIONS
Umbral Spellportal (70)

CORE BATTALIONS
*Battle Regiment

TOTAL: 1985/2000
WOUNDS: 85
ALLIES: 0/400
REINFORCED UNITS: 0/4
DROPS: 3

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Alex managed four wins and a loss over the two days. Beating Stormcast Eternals/Hammers of Sigmar in round 1, then losing against Ironjawz/Bloodtoofs in round 2, then beating Soulblight Gravelords/Kastelai Dynasty in round 3, Sons of Behemat/Breaker Tribe in round 4, and Stormcast Eternals/Hallowed Knights in the final round.

Army Faction: Sons of Behemat
– Army Type: Taker Tribe
Grand Strategy: Beast Master

LEADER
Warstomper (470)*
– Artefacts: Arcane Tome
Gatebreaker (525)*
Kraken-Eater (490)**
– General
– Command Traits: Extremely Intimidating
– Artefacts: Jaws of the Mogalodon
Kraken-Eater (490)**
– Artefacts: Krakenskin Sandals

CORE BATTALIONS
*Bosses of the Stomp
**Bosses of the Stomp

TOTAL POINTS: (1975/2000)

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Pat also won four games and lost a fifth. Along the way they beat Ogor Mawtribes/Boulderhead in round 1, Idoneth Deepkin/Dhom-Hain in round 2, Sylvaneth/Gnarlroot in round 3. He then lost against Maggotkin of Nurgle/Befouling Host in round 4 before beating Ironjawz/Bloodtoofs in round 5.

Allegiance: Lumineth Realm-lords
– Great Nation: Syar
– Mortal Realm: Hysh
– Grand Strategy: Prized Sorcery
– Triumphs: Indomitable

LEADERS
Archmage Teclis and Celennar, Spirit of Hysh (740)*
Scinari Cathallar (145)*
– General
– Command Trait: Goading Arrogance
– Artefact: The Perfect Blade
– Lore of Hysh: Total Eclipse

UNITS
10 x Vanari Auralan Wardens (145)*
– Lore of Hysh: Lambent Light
10 x Vanari Auralan Wardens (145)*
– Lore of Hysh: Lambent Light
10 x Vanari Auralan Wardens (145)*
– Lore of Hysh: Protection of Hysh
20 x Vanari Auralan Sentinels (340)*
– Lore of Hysh: Speed of Hysh
10 x Vanari Auralan Sentinels (170)*
– Lore of Hysh: Lambent Light

ENDLESS SPELLS & INVOCATIONS
Umbral Spellportal (70)
Rune of Petrification (75)

CORE BATTALIONS
*Battle Regiment

TOTAL: 1975/2000
WOUNDS: 81
ALLIES: 0/400
REINFORCED UNITS: 1/4
DROPS: 1

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Walter finished 7th and claimed four victories over the two days. His path saw him lose against Daughters of Khaine/Hagg Nar in round 1, then going on to beat Ogor Mawtribes/Boulderhead in round 2, Seraphon/Thunder Lizard in round 3, Stormcast Eternals/Tempest Lords in round 4 and Sylvaneth/Gnarlroot in round 5.

Army Faction: Orruk Warclans
– Army Type: Kruleboyz
– Army Subfaction: Big Yellers
– Grand Strategy: Sever the Head
– Triumphs: Indomitable

LEADER
Breaka-boss on Mirebrute Troggoth (180)
Gobsprakk (280)
– Spells: Sneaky Miasma
Snatchaboss on Sludgeraker Beast (315)*
– General
– Command Traits: Egomaniak
– Artefacts: Mork’s Eye Pebble
– Mount Traits: Tough ’Un
Swampcalla Shaman and Pot-grot (105)*
– Spells: Choking Mist

BATTLELINE
1 x Gutrippaz (360)*
– Wicked Stikka
1 x Man-skewer Boltboyz (240)*
Man-skewer Boltboyz (120)*

ARTILLERY
Beast-skewer Killbow (130)*

OTHER
Hobgrot Slittaz (80)*
Marshcrawla Sloggoth (150)*

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: (1960/2000)