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Category Archives: Cities of Sigmar
Age of Sigmar: 4th Edition Stats (April Battlescroll) – 3rd May 2026
We’ve updated the method of calculating the Elo ratings into our Age of Sigmar stats, this includes an attempt to reflect both the tournament strength and the faction strength.
All of the results in this article are taken from Best Coast Pairings, , Ecksen, ChampionshipHub, Milarki, Mini Headquarters, Tabletop Herald and Longshanks. They include GT (Two day events) or GT+ (6 or more rounds) only.
For patrons, you’ll be able to download and play with the database as well (which includes all the lists and stats for all the factions).
As always, if you’re struggling to read a chart, you should be able to right click and then either view or download the image.
Tournaments Included (Using December Battlescroll)
- 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!
Age of Sigmar: 4th Edition Stats (April Battlescroll) – 26th April 2026
We’ve updated the method of calculating the Elo ratings into our Age of Sigmar stats, this includes an attempt to reflect both the tournament strength and the faction strength.
All of the results in this article are taken from Best Coast Pairings, , Ecksen, ChampionshipHub, Milarki, Mini Headquarters, Tabletop Herald and Longshanks. They include GT (Two day events) or GT+ (6 or more rounds) only.
For patrons, you’ll be able to download and play with the database as well (which includes all the lists and stats for all the factions).
As always, if you’re struggling to read a chart, you should be able to right click and then either view or download the image.
Tournaments Included (Using December Battlescroll)
- Age of Sigmar: Warhammer Open Maastricht
- Baden Bash
- Battle for GreenHollow: Age of Sigmar
- Brawla in Valhalla GT
- Cabinhammer AoS GT 2026
- ColtonCon
- Dala Stompen 5
- Dwellers Below GT
- Easter Smash!
- Exploding Dice AoS GT 2026
- False Alarm 2026
- Fantasia Fanatic XLIX Age of Sigmar
- Field of Slaughter 26 GT 1
- Foolcon 2026
- Golden Potato Cup 4
- Grand Clash Skaune IV
- Iron Brawl 2026
- K/Qota S9 E12 !!!Ironman!!!
- Leipzig Major AoS 2026
- Mercia Madness V
- Realms 6: An Age of Sigmar Event
- Realms 7: An Age of Sigmar Event
- Road to Freak Wars 26 – Final IV CN
- Storm of Corruption II
- Tax Man Cometh III
- Tennessee Elite Open AoS
- The April Annihilation
- The War Dome AoS
- Trash Clash in the Bluegrass
- VTGT
- Warpstone Wars GT 2026
- Wartilyo Grand Tournament 2026
SOURCES
Best Coast Pairings
Tabletop Herald
Milarki
Championshub.app
MiniHeadQuarters
Ecksen
Longshanksv
GT Win Rates
As always, these are global stats from various sources around the internet. There is still not as much data as we would like, but enough to give an indication at least.
Factions by Average Elo
I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. Let me know if you want this chart to remain.
Estimated Win Rates if the Player Skill Levels were Equal
What I’m trying to do here is work out what the win rates would be if the skill levels of all the players were the same (Yes, I realise this is nearly impossible to 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!
Age of Sigmar: 4th Edition Stats (April Battlescroll) – 19th April 2026
We’ve updated the method of calculating the Elo ratings into our Age of Sigmar stats, this includes an attempt to reflect both the tournament strength and the faction strength.
All of the results in this article are taken from Best Coast Pairings, , Ecksen, ChampionshipHub, Milarki, Mini Headquarters, Tabletop Herald and Longshanks. They include GT (Two day events) or GT+ (6 or more rounds) only.
For patrons, you’ll be able to download and play with the database as well (which includes all the lists and stats for all the factions) as reading this weeks Patreon only analysis of Seraphon.
As always, if you’re struggling to read a chart, you should be able to right click and then either view or download the image.
Tournaments Included (Using December Battlescroll)
- Baden Bash
- Battle for GreenHollow: Age of Sigmar
- Brawla in Valhalla GT
- Dala Stompen 5
- Dwellers Below GT
- Easter Smash!
- Exploding Dice AoS GT 2026
- False Alarm 2026
- Field of Slaughter 26 GT 1
- Foolcon 2026
- Golden Potato Cup 4
- Grand Clash Skaune IV
- K/Qota S9 E12 !!!Ironman!!!
- Leipzig Major AoS 2026
- Mercia Madness V
- Realms 6: An Age of Sigmar Event
- Tax Man Cometh III
- Tennessee Elite Open AoS
- The April Annihilation
- The War Dome AoS
- Trash Clash in the Bluegrass
- Wartilyo Grand Tournament 2026
SOURCES
Best Coast Pairings
Tabletop Herald
Milarki
Championshub.app
MiniHeadQuarters
Ecksen
Longshanks
GT Win Rates
As always, these are global stats from various sources around the internet. There is still not as much data as we would like, but enough to give an indication at least.
Factions by Average Elo
I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. Let me know if you want this chart to remain.
Estimated Win Rates if the Player Skill Levels were Equal
What I’m trying to do here is work out what the win rates would be if the skill levels of all the players were the same (Yes, I realise this is nearly impossible to 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!
Age of Sigmar Early Meta Stats 12th April 2026
Top Three AoS Lists for Cake Or Death 2026 – Baking Bad
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
Final Tournament Placings
AoS April BattleScroll Review
We’re back again for another Battlescroll Review… a day late or right on time? As always, I needed a bit of “finking” time (hmmm…. Maybe I should work that into a slogan 😉) to sort of take things in and gauge my feelings about the changes. Also, I had promised the kids I would paint with them this week and I’ve spent most of my spare time today watching and supporting Ironjawz and Sylvaneth get painted up.
So we’ve got a new Battlescroll. On April Fool’s Day? Seriously GW, pull it together. This one’s a bit different too. Rather than punishing the high performing armies… we’ve seen a lot of greens lifting up the options within the books and more greens for the factions who are lower in the winrate tables. Now, is this GW being clever in their balancing or the fact that the new books are mostly sitting right up there at the top and they’ve clearly tried not to change much for them. I’ll try and cover things without going into too much detail as you can all read the pdf and see how the points have changed. I’ll also add in some of the comments from our “Sensei”s from the Woehammer Discord!
Just for reference, here’s what the GT Win Rates look like (which is often the first thing we think of when it comes to stats but it’s probably not the most important stat).
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:
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!
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.
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.
Age of Sigmar: 4th Edition Meta Stats (December Battlescroll) – 22nd March 2026
We’ve updated the method of calculating the Elo ratings into our Age of Sigmar stats, this includes an attempt to reflect both the tournament strength and the faction strength.
All of the results in this article are taken from Best Coast Pairings, , Ecksen, ChampionshipHub, Milarki, Mini Headquarters, Tabletop Herald and Longshanks. They include GT (Two day events) or GT+ (6 or more rounds) only.
For patrons, you’ll be able to download and play with the database as well (which includes all the lists and stats for all the factions) as reading this weeks Patreon only analysis of Seraphon.
As always, if you’re struggling to read a chart, you should be able to right click and then either view or download the image.
Tournaments Included (Using December Battlescroll)
- 1. War and Glory Games – Age of Sigmar GT
- 2026 Big Beef Beatdown AoS GT
- 2D6 Oslohammer #11
- Aegis Games Winter Age of Sigmar GT
- Age of Sigmar GG Lounge GT
- Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament
- Age of Sigmar GT – Warhammer Open Palm Springs
- Age of Sigmar Midtcon GT 2026
- Age of Sigmar: Winter War 2026
- Akron Brew Brawl – January GT – AoS
- Aniversario de Hashut
- Badger Bungalow Bash and Battle Bonanza, Bro-down
- Baltic Bash GT 3
- Call to Glory 2026
- Cascade Clash Age of Sigmar Major
- Cherokee Open 2026
- Colton’s Speed Dating Service
- Columbus Brewhammer ’26
- Crossroads Carnage: The Crossroadening
- Da Boyz GT Golden Sprue
- Evercon 26: Warhammer Age of Sigmar 2K Tournament
- First Annual – Age of Sigmar Redneck Rumble
- Geekfest – Winter War – Age of Sigmar
- Golden Age of Oheim GT I
- GT AoS du Wargame Club Des Pierres Dorees
- GT des Ducs d’angers
- Hamburg Major 2026 AoS
- Hawg Pit GT ’26
- Heartrender (At Wizard’s Alley)
- Horizon Dark Master GT
- I GT Girona War Fest Age of Sigmar
- Ides of March Age of Sigmar GT 2026
- January Offensive
- K/Qota S9 E10
- La Classique d’Hiver 2026
- La Confrérie du D6 – 4ème édition
- La Rata Dorada GT Torneo Age of Sigmar
- Manners & Mayhem – IGB 2026
- March of the Phalanx: An AAG Event
- Mardi Gras Achievements
- Masters 2025
- Masters of Ghyran
- Mercia Madness IV
- Midwest Bash 2026 GT
- Mosspit 2026
- nPo Invitational: Basement Beatdown
- Old Man Gaming Open
- The Ogopogo Open
- Onslaught 2026
- Open AoS de Loire Atlantique by Les Dés’Luminatis
- Parabellum GT 2026
- Portal Invernal 2026
- Prleški Hammer V
- Pubhammer Open 5
- Realm of Gedon 2026
- Realms 1: An Age of Sigmar Event
- Realms 2: An Age of Sigmar Event
- Realms 4: An Age of Sigmar Event
- Realms 5: An Age of Sigmar Event
- Realmshift 3
- Red Rose Rumble 5
- Roslaget AoS 2026
- Saugus Shuffle GT 2026
- Scorched Earth Open 2026
- Sheffield Slaughter Age of Sigmar 2026
- Sigmar Calls 2026
- Simit Smash 2026
- Southern Smash GT 2026
- Sparkle Party Death Match XIV
- Spring Mad Alpaca Age of Sigmar GT
- Storm Watch GT
- TCC: Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament
- The Battle for the Bridge
- The Colorado Cup ’26 – Age of Sigmar
- The Gauntlet – age of Sigmar – Hosted by Threshold Tactics
- The Inaugral Sugmatational GT
- Threshold Invitational IX
- Troll Bowl II
- Trøndermaster 2025
- Vic GT
- Weekend Warlords IX – The Bad Moon
- Wheat City Open 2026
- Windy City WAAAGH! II: Attack of the Chorfs
- Winter Castle Siege II
- Winter Slaughter 2026
- YHP New Years Smash! GT
SOURCES
Best Coast Pairings
Tabletop Herald
Milarki
Championshub.app
MiniHeadQuarters
Ecksen
Longshanks
GT Win Rates
As always, these are global stats from various sources around the internet. We’ve split those factions who have received Battletomes this battlescroll period. Games played under the index are shown with (Index) following the name.
Factions by Average Elo
I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. Let me know if you want this chart to remain.
Win Rates Over the Last 4 Weeks
The most interesting faction here personally is Cities of Sigmar. They’ve consistently been near the bottom of the table in every respect over the current battlescroll. But following a couple of decent results by skilled players we’ve seen them reach 56% over the last four weeks.
Estimated Win Rates if the Player Skill Levels were Equal
What I’m trying to do here is work out what the win rates would be if the skill levels of all the players were the same (Yes, I realise this is nearly impossible to 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 December battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 431.6. I then calculated how much difference there was between a factions average Elo shown in our original win rate graph to this overall average. The difference between these two figures was then turned into a percentage difference over/under the 431.6 elo. I then increased or decreased their win rate by this percentage (But this isn’t as simple as deducting or adding the percentage different to the win rate – you have to work out for instance what 4% may be of say 53% and then apply that. For Example – 10% of 40% is 4%)
Faction Popularity (Broken Down by Player Elo Rating)
This is perhaps the most interesting chart to me personally. Here you can see the spread of the player skill levels for each faction according to our Elo rating system (updated each week in line with the Age of Sigmar stats).
The dark blue shows the really elite players of 700+ Elo. Interestingly, they don’t seem to give a damn about which faction is performing well in the meta and rely on their own skill (as they should!). Neither to 600-699 rated players. Where we start to see the swell in players possibly chasing the factions with more favourable rules is in players rated less than 600 Elo.
To make it a bit easier to see the effect of higher skilled players, I’ve added the below chart this week which breaks down each factions player base as a percentage.
Elite and Rookie Players by Faction
The blue section shows the percentage of a factions players which have an Elo rating of 500 or greater. While the Orange shows the number of new players to the faction where they have yet to attend a tournament (based on our database history).
The Fabien Chart
Fabien Barbusse is a top player in the AoS scene and a member of the Woehammer Discord who is one of many who points out any mistakes in the charts before we publish them. He stated he felt the most valuable chart would be a version of the one above, which shows the % of 4+ win results in a 5 game event compared to the other results.
% of Players with a Positive GT Result
Ideally you would want 50% of the players having a positive results for a truly balanced game system.
Consecutive Wins
This chart shows firstly the % of players with a negative result from 5 games at GT’s or GT+ in purple for each faction.
Dark blue shows the percentage of players who achieved 5 wins from 5 in the first five rounds of a GT or GT+.
Orange shows the players who achieved four wins from the first four rounds of a GT or GT+ but were unable to achieve the full house and lost their round 5 match.
Green shows the players who achieved three wins from three wins but were unable to win in their fourth round match.
Light blue shows all other players aside from those shown in the first three categories, who were able to achieve a positive result at a GT or GT+ i.e. 3 or more wins.
Battleplan Win Rates
This one could be useful for TO’s who are looking to run tournaments in the near future. If you’re hoping to curtail a few of the higher powered factions, you could perhaps look to use battleplans where those factions aren’t as dominant.
For those of you who are counted among our legendary Patreons, you can download the stats database below which now includes warscroll win rates and lists.
On top of this there is some added extras in the form of a faction dive into Seraphon.
You can become a Patreon of Woehammer for as little as £2 a month!
Woehammer Database
To download out Age of Sigmar stats database, click on the button below.
Age of Sigmar: 4th Edition Meta Stats (December Battlescroll) – 8th March 2026
We’ve updated the method of calculating the Elo ratings into our Age of Sigmar stats, this includes an attempt to reflect both the tournament strength and the faction strength.
All of the results in this article are taken from Best Coast Pairings, , Ecksen, ChampionshipHub, Milarki, Mini Headquarters, Tabletop Herald and Longshanks. They include GT (Two day events) or GT+ (6 or more rounds) only.
For patrons, you’ll be able to download and play with the database as well (which includes all the lists and stats for all the factions) as reading this weeks Patreon only analysis of Seraphon.
As always, if you’re struggling to read a chart, you should be able to right click and then either view or download the image.
Tournaments Included (Using December Battlescroll)
- 1. War and Glory Games – Age of Sigmar GT
- 2026 Big Beef Beatdown AoS GT
- 2D6 Oslohammer #11
- Aegis Games Winter Age of Sigmar GT
- Age of Sigmar GG Lounge GT
- Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament
- Age of Sigmar GT – Warhammer Open Palm Springs
- Age of Sigmar Midtcon GT 2026
- Age of Sigmar: Winter War 2026
- Akron Brew Brawl – January GT – AoS
- Aniversario de Hashut
- Badger Bungalow Bash and Battle Bonanza, Bro-down
- Call to Glory 2026
- Cherokee Open 2026
- Colton’s Speed Dating Service
- Columbus Brewhammer ’26
- Crossroads Carnage: The Crossroadening
- Da Boyz GT Golden Sprue
- Evercon 26: Warhammer Age of Sigmar 2K Tournament
- First Annual – Age of Sigmar Redneck Rumble
- Geekfest – Winter War – Age of Sigmar
- Golden Age of Oheim GT I
- Hamburg Major 2026 AoS
- Heartrender (At Wizard’s Alley)
- Horizon Dark Master GT
- January Offensive
- K/Qota S9 E10
- La Classique d’Hiver 2026
- La Confrérie du D6 – 4ème édition
- Manners & Mayhem – IGB 2026
- March of the Phalanx: An AAG Event
- Mardi Gras Achievements
- Masters 2025
- Masters of Ghyran
- Mercia Madness IV
- Mosspit 2026
- nPo Invitational: Basement Beatdown
- Old Man Gaming Open
- The Ogopogo Open
- Onslaught 2026
- Open AoS de Loire Atlantique by Les Dés’Luminatis
- Parabellum GT 2026
- Portal Invernal 2026
- Prleški Hammer V
- Realm of Gedon 2026
- Realms 1: An Age of Sigmar Event
- Realms 2: An Age of Sigmar Event
- Realms 4: An Age of Sigmar Event
- Realms 5: An Age of Sigmar Event
- Realmshift 3
- Red Rose Rumble 5
- Roslaget AoS 2026
- Saugus Shuffle GT 2026
- Scorched Earth Open 2026
- Sheffield Slaughter Age of Sigmar 2026
- Sigmar Calls 2026
- Simit Smash 2026
- Southern Smash GT 2026
- Sparkle Party Death Match XIV
- Spring Mad Alpaca Age of Sigmar GT
- TCC: Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament
- The Battle for the Bridge
- The Gauntlet – age of Sigmar – Hosted by Threshold Tactics
- The Inaugral Sugmatational GT
- Threshold Invitational IX
- Troll Bowl II
- Trøndermaster 2025
- Weekend Warlords IX – The Bad Moon
- Windy City WAAAGH! II: Attack of the Chorfs
- Winter Castle Siege II
- Winter Slaughter 2026
- YHP New Years Smash! GT
SOURCES
Best Coast Pairings
Tabletop Herald
Milarki
Championshub.app
MiniHeadQuarters
Ecksen
Longshanks
GT Win Rates
As always, these are global stats from various sources around the internet. We’ve split those factions who have received Battletomes this battlescroll period. Games played under the index are shown with (Index) following the name.
Factions by Average Elo
I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. Let me know if you want this chart to remain.
Win Rates Over the Last 4 Weeks
The most interesting faction here personally is Cities of Sigmar. They’ve consistently been near the bottom of the table in every respect over the current battlescroll. But following a couple of decent results by skilled players we’ve seen them reach 56% over the last four weeks.
Estimated Win Rates if the Player Skill Levels were Equal
What I’m trying to do here is work out what the win rates would be if the skill levels of all the players were the same (Yes, I realise this is nearly impossible to 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 December battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 430.6. I then calculated how much difference there was between a factions average Elo shown in our original win rate graph to this overall average. The difference between these two figures was then turned into a percentage difference over/under the 430.6 elo. I then increased or decreased their win rate by this percentage (But this isn’t as simple as deducting or adding the percentage different to the win rate – you have to work out for instance what 4% may be of say 53% and then apply that. For Example – 10% of 40% is 4%)
Faction Popularity (Broken Down by Player Elo Rating)
This is perhaps the most interesting chart to me personally. Here you can see the spread of the player skill levels for each faction according to our Elo rating system (updated each week in line with the Age of Sigmar stats).
The dark blue shows the really elite players of 700+ Elo. Interestingly, they don’t seem to give a damn about which faction is performing well in the meta and rely on their own skill (as they should!). Neither to 600-699 rated players. Where we start to see the swell in players possibly chasing the factions with more favourable rules is in players rated less than 600 Elo.
To make it a bit easier to see the effect of higher skilled players, I’ve added the below chart this week which breaks down each factions player base as a percentage.
Elite and Rookie Players by Faction
The blue section shows the percentage of a factions players which have an Elo rating of 500 or greater. While the Orange shows the number of new players to the faction where they have yet to attend a tournament (based on our database history).
The Fabien Chart
Fabien Barbusse is a top player in the AoS scene and a member of the Woehammer Discord who is one of many who points out any mistakes in the charts before we publish them. He stated he felt the most valuable chart would be a version of the one above, which shows the % of 4+ win results in a 5 game event compared to the other results.
% of Players with a Positive GT Result
Ideally you would want 50% of the players having a positive results for a truly balanced game system.
Consecutive Wins
This chart shows firstly the % of players with a negative result from 5 games at GT’s or GT+ in purple for each faction.
Dark blue shows the percentage of players who achieved 5 wins from 5 in the first five rounds of a GT or GT+.
Orange shows the players who achieved four wins from the first four rounds of a GT or GT+ but were unable to achieve the full house and lost their round 5 match.
Green shows the players who achieved three wins from three wins but were unable to win in their fourth round match.
Light blue shows all other players aside from those shown in the first three categories, who were able to achieve a positive result at a GT or GT+ i.e. 3 or more wins.
Battleplan Win Rates
This one could be useful for TO’s who are looking to run tournaments in the near future. If you’re hoping to curtail a few of the higher powered factions, you could perhaps look to use battleplans where those factions aren’t as dominant.
For those of you who are counted among our legendary Patreons, you can download the stats database below which now includes warscroll win rates and lists.
On top of this there is some added extras in the form of a faction dive into Seraphon.
You can become a Patreon of Woehammer for as little as £2 a month!
Woehammer Database
To download out Age of Sigmar stats database, click on the button below.
Age of Sigmar: 4th Edition Meta Stats (December Battlescroll) – 1st March 2026
We’ve updated the method of calculating the Elo ratings into our Age of Sigmar stats, this includes an attempt to reflect both the tournament strength and the faction strength.
All of the results in this article are taken from Best Coast Pairings, , Ecksen, ChampionshipHub, Milarki, Mini Headquarters, Tabletop Herald and Longshanks. They include GT (Two day events) or GT+ (6 or more rounds) only.
For patrons, you’ll be able to download and play with the database as well (which includes all the lists and stats for all the factions) as reading this weeks Patreon only analysis of Seraphon.
As always, if you’re struggling to read a chart, you should be able to right click and then either view or download the image.
Tournaments Included (Using December Battlescroll)
- 2026 Big Beef Beatdown AoS GT
- 2D6 Oslohammer #11
- Aegis Games Winter Age of Sigmar GT
- Age of Sigmar GG Lounge GT
- Age of Sigmar GT – Warhammer Open Palm Springs
- Age of Sigmar: Winter War 2026
- Akron Brew Brawl – January GT – AoS
- Aniversario de Hashut
- Badger Bungalow Bash and Battle Bonanza, Bro-down
- Call to Glory 2026
- Cherokee Open 2026
- Colton’s Speed Dating Service
- Columbus Brewhammer ’26
- Crossroads Carnage: The Crossroadening
- Da Boyz GT Golden Sprue
- First Annual – Age of Sigmar Redneck Rumble
- Geekfest – Winter War – Age of Sigmar
- Golden Age of Oheim GT I
- Hamburg Major 2026 AoS
- Heartrender (At Wizard’s Alley)
- Horizon Dark Master GT
- January Offensive
- La Classique d’Hiver 2026
- La Confrérie du D6 – 4ème édition
- Manners & Mayhem – IGB 2026
- March of the Phalanx: An AAG Event
- Masters 2025
- Masters of Ghyran
- Mercia Madness IV
- nPo Invitational: Basement Beatdown
- Old Man Gaming Open
- The Ogopogo Open
- Onslaught 2026
- Open AoS de Loire Atlantique by Les Dés’Luminatis
- Parabellum GT 2026
- Portal Invernal 2026
- Realms 1: An Age of Sigmar Event
- Realms 2: An Age of Sigmar Event
- Realms 4: An Age of Sigmar Event
- Realmshift 3
- Red Rose Rumble 5
- Roslaget AoS 2026
- Saugus Shuffle GT 2026
- Scorched Earth Open 2026
- Sheffield Slaughter Age of Sigmar 2026
- Sigmar Calls 2026
- Simit Smash 2026
- Southern Smash GT 2026
- Spring Mad Alpaca Age of Sigmar GT
- The Inaugral Sugmatational GT
- Threshold Invitational IX
- Troll Bowl II
- Trøndermaster 2025
- Weekend Warlords IX – The Bad Moon
- Windy City WAAAGH! II: Attack of the Chorfs
- Winter Castle Siege II
- Winter Slaughter 2026
- YHP New Years Smash! GT
SOURCES
Best Coast Pairings
Tabletop Herald
Milarki
Championshub.app
MiniHeadQuarters
Ecksen
Longshanks
GT Win Rates
As always, these are global stats from various sources around the internet. We’ve split those factions who have received Battletomes this battlescroll period. Games played under the index are shown with (Index) following the name.
Factions by Average Elo
I’ve included this one to show the rankings of factions by their average Elo. Let me know if you want this chart to remain.
Win Rates Over the Last 4 Weeks
The most interesting faction here personally is Cities of Sigmar. They’ve consistently been near the bottom of the table in every respect over the current battlescroll. But following a couple of decent results by skilled players we’ve seen them reach 56% over the last four weeks.
Estimated Win Rates if the Player Skill Levels were Equal
What I’m trying to do here is work out what the win rates would be if the skill levels of all the players were the same (Yes, I realise this is nearly impossible to 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 December battlescroll dropped. This worked out as 429.8. 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 429.8 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.
For those of you who are counted among our legendary Patreons, you can download the stats database below which now includes warscroll win rates and lists.
On top of this there is some added extras in the form of a faction dive into Seraphon.
You can become a Patreon of Woehammer for as little as £2 a month!
Woehammer Database
To download out Age of Sigmar stats database, click on the button below.