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Age of Sigmar: 4th Edition Stats (April Battlescroll) – 24th May 2026

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We’ve updated the method of calculating the Elo ratings into our Age of Sigmar stats, this includes an attempt to reflect both the tournament strength and the faction strength.

All of the results in this article are taken from Best Coast Pairings, , Ecksen, ChampionshipHub, Milarki, Mini Headquarters, Tabletop Herald and Longshanks. They include GT (Two day events) or GT+ (6 or more rounds) only.

For patrons, you’ll be able to download and play with the database as well (which includes all the lists and stats for all the factions).

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

Tournaments Included (Using December Battlescroll)

  • 2026 South China Spring Champion
  • Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament
  • Age of Sigmar GT
  • Age of Sigmar: NZ Masters 2026
  • Age of Sigmar: Warhammer Dallas Open
  • Age of Sigmar: Warhammer Open Maastricht
  • Alberta Classic
  • AOS Onslaught 2026
  • Baden Bash
  • Battle for GreenHollow: Age of Sigmar
  • Bay Area Open 2026
  • Brawla in Valhalla GT
  • Cabinhammer AoS GT 2026
  • Catch this Smoke – Marathon GT
  • ColtonCon
  • CTC 2026 Age of Sigmar Championship Open
  • Dala Stompen 5
  • Dwellers Below GT
  • Easter Smash!
  • End Times is (re)coming [AOS]
  • Exploding Dice AoS GT 2026
  • False Alarm 2026
  • Fantasia Fanatic XLIX Age of Sigmar
  • Field of Slaughter 26 GT 1
  • Foolcon 2026
  • German Super Major 2026 AoS
  • Golden Potato Cup 4
  • Golden Ticket Guarida del Goblin
  • Gopher Midwest Mayhem Age of Sigmar GT
  • Grand Clash Skaune IV
  • Grand Tournoi AOS – Grand Clash 2026
  • GT AOS SOLO – GHURNADO – Hérault Quest
  • GT du bout du monde Brest 2026
  • GT solo AoS Clermont Ferrand
  • III GT AoS Individual Sevilla
  • Iron Brawl 2026
  • K/Qota S9 E12 !!!Ironman!!!
  • Katago AOS Kollision
  • Leipzig Major AoS 2026
  • Masakr na Vysočině
  • Mercia Madness V
  • Midwest Conquest 2026 Age of Sigmar
  • Nidaros Grand Tournament 2026
  • Paris GT AOS Golden
  • PubHammer Open 6
  • Realms 6: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Realms 7: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Realms 8: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Realmshift Series 2026 – Chapter 1
  • Road to Freak Wars 26 – Final IV CN
  • Rocky Mountain Open 2026
  • ShireCon Age of Sigmar 2026
  • Sigmar Summit @Warpfire Minis: May 16th-17th
  • Storm of Corruption II
  • Swedish Championship GHB 25-26
  • Sylvan Skirmish GT 2026
  • Tax Man Cometh III
  • Tennessee Elite Open AoS
  • The April Annihilation
  • The Last Hunt Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament 2026
  • The Richmond Open
  • The War Dome AoS
  • Toast 3ème édition
  • Tournoi AOS Egide x Lyon War Club pour Octogone!
  • Trash Clash in the Bluegrass
  • ValleyCon 2026
  • VTGT
  • Warhammer AoS Thailand Grand Tournament Summer 2026
  • Warpstone Wars GT 2026
  • Wartilyo Grand Tournament 2026
  • Wicked Dice Tournament 2026

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

GT Win Rates

I’ve added in a colour code to show the rough age of the rules the faction is using.

As always, these are global stats from various sources around the internet. Daughters are currently dominating, but we do have to note that they have an exceptionally high average Elo suggesting that a lot of top players are using them.

Factions by Average Elo

I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. As mentioned in the last section, Daughters have the highest average Elo of all the factions currently which goes a long way to contributing to that 62% win rate.

Estimated Win Rates if the Player Skill Levels were Equal

What I’m trying to do here is work out what the win rates would be if the skill levels of all the players were the same (Yes, I realise this is nearly impossible to calculate – But I’m playing around here).

How it works is by calculating the average Elo of all the players that have had matches since the April battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 422.7. 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 422.7 elo. I then increased or decreased their win rate by this percentage (But this isn’t as simple as deducting or adding the percentage different to the win rate – you have to work out for instance what 4% may be of say 53% and then apply that. For Example – 10% of 40% is 4%)

Win Rates by Release Date

This is a new one this week, and will be temporary for now until the new GHB is released.

Essentially this shows the win rates for all the battletomes released within certain periods of time (every 6 months since 4th edition release).

This should show whether Battletomes are generally stronger the later they are released into the edition. As we can see they all fall within the 45-55% win area, though the battletomes released in the last 6 months are a little stronger than the other cohorts.

Battle Formation Win Rates

The above shows the win rates for all Battle Formations that been played in 100 GT games or more.

Faction Popularity (Broken Down by Player Elo Rating)

This week saw Sylvaneth overtake Stormcast Eternals as the most popular competitive faction in AoS currently.

This is perhaps the most interesting chart to me personally. Here you can see the spread of the player skill levels for each faction according to our Elo rating system (updated each week in line with the Age of Sigmar stats).

The dark blue shows the really elite players of 700+ Elo. Interestingly, they don’t seem to give a damn about which faction is performing well in the meta and rely on their own skill (as they should!). Neither to 600-699 rated players. Where we start to see the swell in players possibly chasing the factions with more favourable rules is in players rated less than 600 Elo.

To make it a bit easier to see the effect of higher skilled players, I’ve added the below chart this week which breaks down each factions player base as a percentage.

Elite and Rookie Players by Faction

The blue section shows the percentage of a factions players which have an Elo rating of 500 or greater. While the Orange shows the number of new players to the faction where they have yet to attend a tournament (based on our database history).

The Fabien Chart

Fabien Barbusse is a top player in the AoS scene and a member of the Woehammer Discord who is one of many who points out any mistakes in the charts before we publish them. He stated he felt the most valuable chart would be a version of the one above, which shows the % of 4+ win results in a 5 game event compared to the other results.

% of Players with a Positive GT Result

Ideally you would want 50% of the players having a positive results for a truly balanced game system.

Consecutive Wins

This chart shows firstly the % of players with a negative result from 5 games at GT’s or GT+ in purple for each faction.

Dark blue shows the percentage of players who achieved 5 wins from 5 in the first five rounds of a GT or GT+.

Orange shows the players who achieved four wins from the first four rounds of a GT or GT+ but were unable to achieve the full house and lost their round 5 match.

Green shows the players who achieved three wins from three wins but were unable to win in their fourth round match.

Light blue shows all other players aside from those shown in the first three categories, who were able to achieve a positive result at a GT or GT+ i.e. 3 or more wins.

The above is an aim to show how easy factions are to pilot for players. In this case I’ve narrowed the population down to players with an Elo between 200 and 400. What follows is then the % of those players to win in the first round. This continues, showing what % of players won in round 1 and round 2 in the next column. This continues to show how deep developing players are progressing into tournaments undefeated using that faction.

Bear in mind that although we have no tournament history on record for these players, they may be skilled outside of tournaments before their first recorded instance in the Woehammer database.

Battleplan Win Rates

This one could be useful for TO’s who are looking to run tournaments in the near future. If you’re hoping to curtail a few of the higher powered factions, you could perhaps look to use battleplans where those factions aren’t as dominant.

Past Battlescroll Win Rates

Woehammer Database

To download out Age of Sigmar stats database, click on the button below.

For those of you who are counted among our legendary Patreons, you can view the full stats and download the stats database below which now includes warscroll win rates and lists.

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

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Are New Battletomes Stronger?

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Every edition of 40k and Age of Sigmar eventually reaches the same point. A few battletomes are released and once the tournament results start to settle, the strong factions show their heads.

Sooner or later someone asks: “Are the newer books better than the old ones? Are we seeing power creep?”

Recently I was chatting to PlasticCraic and the Craic Heads about this exact thing over on his discord. Pete had suggested that perhaps we were headed towards a two-tier meta where newer battletomes operate at a different level while the older ones struggle to keep up.

We’ve enough tournament data now that we thought we’d have a go at answering the question.

Does the data support it?

Rather than looking at the armies individually, I grouped armies based on their release date into cohorts, 6 month windows based on their release date.

Index Factions (still waiting for Battletomes as of writing): Cities of Sigmar, Fyreslayers, Hedonites of Slaanesh, Ogor Mawtribes, Seraphon and Sons of Behemat

1st Cohort (Battletomes released between July 2024 to December 2024): Orruk Warclans, Skaven, Slaves to Darkness and Stormcast Eternals

2nd Cohort (Battletomes released between January 2025 to June 2025): Gloomspite Gitz and Soulblight Gravelords

3rd Cohort (Battletomes released between July 2025 to December 2025): Blades of Khorne, Flesh-eater Courts, Helsmiths of Hashut, Idoneth Deepkin, Kharadron Overlords and Nighthaunt

4th Cohort (Battletomes released between January 2026 to Present): Daughters of Khaine, Disciples of Tzeentch, Lumineth Realm-lords, Maggotkin of Nurgle, Ossiarch Bonereapers and Sylvaneth

If newer battletomes are stronger, we should see the third and fourth cohorts win more games and reach the top tables more often.

Overall Win Rates

The newest battletome cohort currently sits at 54% as a collective, while the third cohort is a bit further behind at 51%. The remaining indices and 1st and 2nd cohorts site around 46-47%.

That’s already noticeable. the newer books aren’t just marginally ahead, as a group they’re threatening to break out of the 45-55% bracket. Six battletomes that together have a 54% win rate.

But we’ve spoken before about taking win rates in isolation. So what else?

Well first off, we know that a number of these factions have a strong player base.

Top of the Meta

Looking at the current faction rankings, this backs up our previous table. The top six factions by win rate are:

  • Daughters of Khaine (4th Cohort) – 62%
  • Lumineth Realm-lords (4th Cohort) – 55%
  • Flesh-eater Courts (3rd Cohort) – 54%
  • Disciples of Tzeentch (4th Cohort) – 54%
  • Sylvaneth (4th Cohort) – 54%
  • Maggotkin of Nurgle (4th Cohort) – 53%

Five of the six strongest performing factions have been released since January this year. That’s difficult to dismiss, especially when many of the older battletomes and index factions are clustering towards the bottom.

What Happens as Tournaments Progress?

Theoretically if newer books bully weaker players we would expect newer tomes to fade as events continue. Instead we’re seeing the opposite.

The newest cohort dominates in the first three rounds of an event. The above shows the percentage of players who achieve 3 wins from the first 3 rounds of an event and head in to the 2nd day of a GT undefeated.

Daughters lead, followed by Lumineth and Sylvaneth. By round three players are no longer facing random opponents, the players begin to meets the more elite of the tournament.

The pattern remains at the start of the 2nd day. The above, once more, shows the percentage of players who are achieving four wins from four rounds at a GT, going undefeated into the final round.

Easy games have gone now, and the armies are increasingly fighting one another.

Daughters of Khaine sit clear of everyone with the highest percentage of players achieving 5 wins at GTs. What is interesting though is we do see some drop off in the newer books. Maggotkin of Nurgle really suffer in the last round and while 7% of their players go four from four, they cannot break the armies they’re facing in the last round, the likes of Daughters and Slaanesh and they often cannot convert that final win.

Likewise for Kharadon Overlords who have 9% of their players going four wins from four, but then struggle in the final round, with only 2% achieving five from five.

Ironjawz perform a little better and do creep up the table.

But why are we seeing this?

Some factions seem excellent at generating momentum early in events.

Others prove much better at surviving increasingly difficult pairings.

If battletome age alone explained success, Hedonites should not be here. Yet somehow, despite remaining on Index rules, the faction continues converting strong starts into tournament-winning finishes at an impressive rate.

Clearly, there are exceptions. But exceptions do not necessarily erase broader trends.

The Broader Pattern Still Exists

But, unfortunately the newest cohort still appears overly represented among factions that have undefeated starts and stay in contention after harder pairings.

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Age of Sigmar: 4th Edition Stats (April Battlescroll) – 17th May 2026

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We’ve updated the method of calculating the Elo ratings into our Age of Sigmar stats, this includes an attempt to reflect both the tournament strength and the faction strength.

All of the results in this article are taken from Best Coast Pairings, , Ecksen, ChampionshipHub, Milarki, Mini Headquarters, Tabletop Herald and Longshanks. They include GT (Two day events) or GT+ (6 or more rounds) only.

For patrons, you’ll be able to download and play with the database as well (which includes all the lists and stats for all the factions).

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

Tournaments Included (Using December Battlescroll)

  • 2026 South China Spring Champion
  • Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament
  • Age of Sigmar: NZ Masters 2026
  • Age of Sigmar: Warhammer Open Maastricht
  • AOS Onslaught 2026
  • Baden Bash
  • Battle for GreenHollow: Age of Sigmar
  • Brawla in Valhalla GT
  • Cabinhammer AoS GT 2026
  • Catch this Smoke – Marathon GT
  • 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
  • Golden Ticket Guarida del Goblin
  • Grand Clash Skaune IV
  • Grand Tournoi AOS – Grand Clash 2026
  • GT du bout du monde Brest 2026
  • GT solo AoS Clermont Ferrand
  • III GT AoS Individual Sevilla
  • Iron Brawl 2026
  • K/Qota S9 E12 !!!Ironman!!!
  • Katago AOS Kollision
  • Leipzig Major AoS 2026
  • Masakr na Vysočině
  • Mercia Madness V
  • Nidaros Grand Tournament 2026
  • Realms 6: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Realms 7: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Realms 8: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Realmshift Series 2026 – Chapter 1
  • Road to Freak Wars 26 – Final IV CN
  • Rocky Mountain Open 2026
  • ShireCon Age of Sigmar 2026
  • Sigmar Summit @Warpfire Minis: May 16th-17th
  • Storm of Corruption II
  • Swedish Championship GHB 25-26
  • Sylvan Skirmish GT 2026
  • Tax Man Cometh III
  • Tennessee Elite Open AoS
  • The April Annihilation
  • The Richmond Open
  • The War Dome AoS
  • Toast 3ème édition
  • Trash Clash in the Bluegrass
  • VTGT
  • Warpstone Wars GT 2026
  • Wartilyo Grand Tournament 2026
  • Wicked Dice 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. Daughters are currently dominating, but we do have to note that they have an exceptionally high average Elo suggesting that a lot of top players are using them.

Factions by Average Elo

I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. As mentioned in the last section, Daughters have the highest average Elo of all the factions currently which goes a long way to contributing to that 62% win rate.

Estimated Win Rates if the Player Skill Levels were Equal

What I’m trying to do here is work out what the win rates would be if the skill levels of all the players were the same (Yes, I realise this is nearly impossible to calculate – But I’m playing around here).

How it works is by calculating the average Elo of all the players that have had matches since the April battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 422.7. 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 422.7 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.

Past Battlescroll Win Rates

Woehammer Database

To download out Age of Sigmar stats database, click on the button below.

For those of you who are counted among our legendary Patreons, you can view the full stats and download the stats database below which now includes warscroll win rates and lists.

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

Sorry! This part of content is hidden behind this box because it requires a higher contribution level ($1) at Patreon. Why not take this chance to increase your contribution?

4th Edition, Age of Sigmar, Beasts of chaos, Blades of Khorne, Chaos, Cities of Sigmar, Daughters of Khaine, Death, Destruction, Disciples of Tzeentch, Fantasy, Flesh-Eater Courts, Fyreslayers, Games Workshop, Gloomspite Gitz, Hedonites of Slaanesh, Idoneth Deepkin, Ironjawz, Kharadron Overlords, Kruleboyz, Lumineth Realm-Lords, Maggotkin of Nurgle, Meta Analysis, Nighthaunt, Ogor Mawtribes, Order, Ossiarch Bonereapers, Peter Holland, Player Ratings, Seraphon, Skaventide, Slaves to Darkness, Sons of Behemat, Soulblight Gravelords, Stormcast Eternals, Sylvaneth, Tournaments

Age of Sigmar: 4th Edition Stats (April Battlescroll) – 10th May 2026

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We’ve updated the method of calculating the Elo ratings into our Age of Sigmar stats, this includes an attempt to reflect both the tournament strength and the faction strength.

All of the results in this article are taken from Best Coast Pairings, , Ecksen, ChampionshipHub, Milarki, Mini Headquarters, Tabletop Herald and Longshanks. They include GT (Two day events) or GT+ (6 or more rounds) only.

For patrons, you’ll be able to download and play with the database as well (which includes all the lists and stats for all the factions).

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

Tournaments Included (Using December Battlescroll)

  • 2026 South China Spring Champion
  • Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament
  • 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
  • Golden Ticket Guarida del Goblin
  • Grand Clash Skaune IV
  • Grand Tournoi AOS – Grand Clash 2026
  • GT du bout du monde Brest 2026
  • GT solo AoS Clermont Ferrand
  • Iron Brawl 2026
  • K/Qota S9 E12 !!!Ironman!!!
  • Leipzig Major AoS 2026
  • Masakr na Vysočině
  • Mercia Madness V
  • Nidaros Grand Tournament 2026
  • Realms 6: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Realms 7: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Realms 8: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Road to Freak Wars 26 – Final IV CN
  • Rocky Mountain Open 2026
  • Storm of Corruption II
  • Tax Man Cometh III
  • Tennessee Elite Open AoS
  • The April Annihilation
  • The Richmond Open
  • The War Dome AoS
  • Toast 3ème édition
  • 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. Daughters are currently dominating, but we do have to note that they have an exceptionally high average Elo suggesting that a lot of top players are using them.

Factions by Average Elo

I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. As mentioned in the last section, Daughters have the highest average Elo of all the factions currently which goes a long way to contributing to that 63% win rate.

While Cities have an average Elo that sits fairly highly on the table, but still can only manage a win rate of 42%. Their new book can’t drop soon enough.

Estimated Win Rates if the Player Skill Levels were Equal

What I’m trying to do here is work out what the win rates would be if the skill levels of all the players were the same (Yes, I realise this is nearly impossible to calculate – But I’m playing around here).

How it works is by calculating the average Elo of all the players that have had matches since the April battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 417.7. 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 417.7 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.

Past Battlescroll Win Rates

Woehammer Database

To download out Age of Sigmar stats database, click on the button below.

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Age of Sigmar: 4th Edition Stats (April Battlescroll) – 3rd May 2026

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We’ve updated the method of calculating the Elo ratings into our Age of Sigmar stats, this includes an attempt to reflect both the tournament strength and the faction strength.

All of the results in this article are taken from Best Coast Pairings, , Ecksen, ChampionshipHub, Milarki, Mini Headquarters, Tabletop Herald and Longshanks. They include GT (Two day events) or GT+ (6 or more rounds) only.

For patrons, you’ll be able to download and play with the database as well (which includes all the lists and stats for all the factions).

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

Tournaments Included (Using December Battlescroll)

  • 2026 South China Spring Champion
  • 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
  • Golden Ticket Guarida del Goblin
  • Grand Clash Skaune IV
  • Grand Tournoi AOS – Grand Clash 2026
  • Iron Brawl 2026
  • K/Qota S9 E12 !!!Ironman!!!
  • Leipzig Major AoS 2026
  • Masakr na Vysočině
  • Mercia Madness V
  • Nidaros Grand Tournament 2026
  • Realms 6: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Realms 7: An Age of Sigmar Event
  • Road to Freak Wars 26 – Final IV CN
  • Rocky Mountain Open 2026
  • Storm of Corruption II
  • Tax Man Cometh III
  • Tennessee Elite Open AoS
  • The April Annihilation
  • The Richmond Open
  • 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. Daughters are currently dominating, but we do have to note that they have an exceptionally high average Elo suggesting that a lot of top players are using them.

Factions by Average Elo

I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. As mentioned in the last section, Daughters have the highest average Elo of all the factions currently which goes a long way to contributing to that 62% win rate.

While Cities have an average Elo that sits fairly highly on the table, but still can only manage a win rate of 44%. Their new book can’t drop soon enough.

Estimated Win Rates if the Player Skill Levels were Equal

What I’m trying to do here is work out what the win rates would be if the skill levels of all the players were the same (Yes, I realise this is nearly impossible to calculate – But I’m playing around here).

How it works is by calculating the average Elo of all the players that have had matches since the April battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 416.1. I then calculated how much difference there was between a factions average Elo shown in our original win rate graph to this overall average. The difference between these two figures was then turned into a percentage difference over/under the 416.1 elo. I then increased or decreased their win rate by this percentage (But this isn’t as simple as deducting or adding the percentage different to the win rate – you have to work out for instance what 4% may be of say 53% and then apply that. For Example – 10% of 40% is 4%)

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.

Past Battlescroll Win Rates

Woehammer Database

To download out Age of Sigmar stats database, click on the button below.

For those of you who are counted among our legendary Patreons, you can view the full stats and download the stats database below which now includes warscroll win rates and lists.

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

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

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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 calculate – But I’m playing around here).

How it works is by calculating the average Elo of all the players that have had matches since the April battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 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: 4th Edition Stats (April Battlescroll) – 19th April 2026

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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 calculate – But I’m playing around here).

How it works is by calculating the average Elo of all the players that have had matches since the April battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 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 Cake Or Death 2026 – Baking Bad

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This is the top three AoS lists for Cake Or Death 2026 – Baking Bad that took place in Canada between the 3rd and 4th of April 2026. It saw 54 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.

Before we jump into the Top Three AoS Lists, I want to invite everyone of our friendly Discord server where you can join in the conversation with the Woehammer crew and suggest articles or series for the website.

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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

Ogor Mawtribes
Mawpath Menaces (10 Points)
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 2
Spell Lore – Lore of Maw-magic
Prayer Lore – Everwinter Prayers
Manifestation Lore – Aetherwrought Machineries
Battle Tactic Cards: Intercept and Recover, Master The Paths

General’s Regiment
Butcher (170)
• General
• Mage-swallower
• Gruesome Trophies
• Touched by the Everwinter – (20) Points
Ironguts (460)
• Reinforced
Ogor Gluttons (440)
• Reinforced
Ogor Gluttons (220)
Scourge of Ghyran Ironblaster (180)

Regiment 1
Slaughtermaster (150)
Gnoblars (130)
Gorger Mawpack (240)

Faction Terrain
Mawpit

Maggotkin of Nurgle
Tallyband of Nurgle
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 5
Wounds: 203
Spell Lore – Lore of Malignance
Prayer Lore – Benedictions of Sickness
Manifestation Lore – Forbidden Power (20)
Battle Tactic Cards: Attuned to Ghyran, Intercept and Recover

General’s Regiment
Belga the Cystwitch (120)
• General
Pox-Wretches (100)
Rotswords (400)
• Reinforced
Lord of Plagues (100)
• The Witherstave
• Gift of Febrile Frenzy

Regiment 1
Harbinger of Decay (140)
Putrid Blightkings (260)
• Reinforced

Regiment 2
Poxbringer, Herald of Nurgle (90)
Plaguebearers (260)
• Reinforced

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

Regiment 4
Horticulous Slimux (140)

Faction Terrain
Feculent Gnarlmaw

Disciples of Tzeentch
Fated Blades
General’s Handbook 2025-26
Drops: 3
Spell Lore – Lore of Change
Manifestation Lore – Manifestations of Tzeentch
Battle Tactics Cards: Intercept and Recover and Restless Energy

General’s Regiment
Gaunt Summoner (180)
• General
• Silver Summoner
• Kairic Tome
Chaos Spawn of Tzeentch (60)
Chaos Spawn of Tzeentch (60)
Tzaangor Enlightened (400)
• Reinforced
Tzaangors (340)
• Reinforced

Regiment 1
Scourge of Ghyran Ogroid Thaumaturge (140)
Scourge of Ghyran Kairic Acolytes (220)
• Reinforced

Regiment 2
Fatemaster (150)
Jade Obelisk (100)
Tzaangors (340)
• Reinforced

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AoS April BattleScroll Review

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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”!