Here are the AoS Meta Stats for all the Grand Tournaments that have taken place between Monday 13th June and Sunday 19th June 2022. These are all the GT’s that I can locate on Tabletop.to or BestCoastPairing, if you know of any others please send me a link and I’ll add them.
There was a total of 3 Grand Tournaments last week, a quiet week! That being said, one of them was the awesome UK tSports Champions, which our very own Declan was invited to take part in. You can read up on his prep here.
286 players took part in 10 GT’s over the last week.
Grand Alliance
Win Rate
Armies
% Share of Armies
5-0 Wins
4+ Wins
Chaos
64.7%
19
21.59%
3
7
Order
49.2%
49
55.68%
0
5
Destruction
43.8%
8
9.09%
0
1
Death
34.2%
12
13.64%
0
0
Faction Stats
The below stat show the results for those factions represented by 5 armies or more only.
Faction
Win Rate
Armies
% Share of Armies
5-0 Wins
0-5 Losses
Maggotkin of Nurgle
66.0%
10
11.36%
1
4
Cities of Sigmar
58.6%
7
7.95%
0
0
Stormcast Eternals
54.0%
10
11.36%
0
3
Idoneth Deepkin
46.0%
5
5.68%
0
0
Seraphon
43.0%
10
11.36%
0
0
Fyrselayers
40.0%
7
7.95%
0
1
Soulblight Gravelords
33.3%
6
6.82%
0
0
Maggotkin of Nurgle top the charts this week in a very small data set. With a win rate of 66.0% Followed closely by Cities of Sigmar with a win rate of 58.6%. Seraphon, Fyreslayers and Soulblight Gravelords all struggling to make that magical 45% mark with Soulblight Gravelords being the only faction below 40%.
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Subfaction Stats
Only Seraphon/Thunder Lizard and Maggotkin of Nurgle/Drowned Men made the requirement for this table (min 5 armies represented). Thunder Lizard managed a win rate of 43% while Drowned Men achieved 72.5%……
San Diego Open took place in California, USA on 11th and 12th June. It involved 74 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament.
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Danny: Sometimes a Seraphon list comes along that makes me do a little ‘whoop’ because it has something new to talk about! This list has the usual core HQ, but goes off piste by taking 6 Terradons! These super fast moving (16″) ‘tiny dragons’ pop up here and there because they can drop a once per game d3 mw bomb (aka ‘rocks’) over a unit they move over on a 4+. So a unit of 6 can zoom over something important and do an average of 6 mws. It even packs the Terradon Chief who makes the Terradons do their MWs on a 2+ instead of a 4+. That changes the maths to (checks calculations…) a boat load! 2 cheap-as-chips Ark Bastiladons form a durable objective grabbing core while the rest does what Seraphon do. But props for an unusual list that no doubt caught a few people off-guard on the way to 5-0.
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List name: Definitely not Gavin’s 2022 LVO list
Allegiance: Cities of Sigmar – City: Living City – Mortal Realm: Ghyran – Grand Strategy: Hold the Line – Triumphs: Inspired
Leaders Doralia ven Denst (115)* Sorceress (95)* – General – Command Trait: Master of Magic – Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact) – Lore of Leaves: Ironoak Skin Freeguild General (100)* – City Role: General’s Adjutant
Battleline 30 x Freeguild Crossbowmen (315)* – Reinforced x 2 See it is different! He took crossbows. 10 x Freeguild Handgunners (105)* 10 x Dreadspears (90)* – City Role: Honoured Retinue (Must be 5-20 models)
Units 4 x Dracothian Guard Fulminators (460)** – Reinforced x 1 4 x Stormdrake Guard (680)** – Drakerider’s Lance – Reinforced x 1
Core Battalions *Battle Regiment **Hunters of the Heartlands
Danny: It’s hard to write about Cities lists, mainly because they have so many damn options. As you might guess from the list name, this one has been tried and tested and revolves around the great Living City trait of shooting units being able to move after shooting, which makes them all surprisingly fast and agile, and no doubt leads to many shenanigans and gnashing of teeth and whiffing of charges. Doralia also makes a cameo for wizard sniping, there’s a Sorceress for very cheap magic support, and a few other little tricks. Oh yeah, and 4 Fulminators and 4 Stormdrake Guard. Just a little kicker there. Just imagining playing this list gives me more of a headache than trying to remember what all the random cities units do!
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Army Faction: Cities of Sigmar – Army Type: Living City – Grand Strategy: Mighty Beachhead – Triumph: Inspired
LEADERS Celestial Hurricanum with Celestial Battlemage (280)* – Spells: Lifesurge Celestant-Prime (325)** Celestial Hurricanum with Celestial Battlemage (280)** – General – Command Traits: Master of Magic – Artefacts of Power: Arcane Tome – Spells: Ironoak Skin
BATTLELINE Longbeards (105)* – Ancestral Weapon and Gromril Shield Longbeards (105)* – Ancestral Weapon and Gromril Shield Longbeards (105)** – Ancestral Weapon and Gromril Shield
Danny: pops some headache meds Ok, another 5-0 Cities list with a bunch of odd units that synergise in a hundred ways I’m probably missing. At a glance, it’s a really smart list already – a sneaky unit of Khinerai who can now drop out of reserves, fire then move 6″ make for some very cheeky objective grabbers, while the Fulminators and Celestant Prime offer pure, fast moving hammers who wouldn’t have a huge amount of trouble taking down a gargant by themselves. Then there’s the artillery – 3 Celestial Hurricanums – who on top bracket roll 3 dice each and do d3 mortals on a 2+ and give out a 10″ +1 hit aura each – that’s a lot of CP saved with careful positioning over the course of a game. The Longbeards are a tanky battleline choice at a budget cost of 105 too. Is it thematic though? Is it fuck, dwarves would be well sus of all that human magic flying over their heads!
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Allegiance: Bonesplitterz – Warclan: Drakkfoot – Grand Strategy: Get Dem Bones! – Triumphs:
Leaders Savage Big Boss (65)** – General – Command Trait: Great Hunter Wurrgog Prophet (150)** – Artefact: Glowin’ Tattooz – Lore of the Savage Beast: Gorkamorka’s War Cry Wurrgog Prophet (150)** – Artefact: Mork’s Boney Bitz – Lore of the Savage Beast: Gorkamorka’s War Cry
Battleline 10 x Savage Orruk Morboys (155)* 10 x Savage Orruk Morboys (155)* 10 x Savage Orruks (165)* – Chompas
Units 2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80) 2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80) 2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80) 2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80) 2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80) 2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80) 2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80) 2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80) 2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80) 2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80) 2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80) 2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80) 2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80)** 2 x Savage Big Stabbas (80)
Endless Spells & Invocations The Burning Head (20)
Core Battalions *Hunters of the Heartlands **Warlord
Danny: Big. Stabbas. Lots. And Lots. Of. Big. Stabbas. I don’t normally applaud spam lists but going 4-1 at a major with Savage Orruks right now – no Big Chadnos in sight! – is definitely a feat. Props to the double Wurrgog too for what assuredly would be a series of hilarious staring contests and heart-stopping dice rolls (for this list’s opponents).
It’s clever, but it is hilarious. And bloody successful!
On Reddit Warhammer 40k has the Meta Mondays posted by the brilliant u/JCMS85 on r/WarhammerCompetitive. So why can’t we have one for AoS? Well we can….
Here are the stats for all the Grand Tournaments that have taken place between Monday 6th June and Sunday 12th June 2022. These are all the GT’s that I can locate on Tabletop.to or BestCoastPairing, if you know of any others please send me a link and I’ll add them.
There was a total of 10 Grand Tournaments last week, however only 9 had data available to analyse. Valleycon 2022 was a 26 player tournament but no lists were available at the time of publishing these stats.
286 players took part in 10 GT’s over the last week.
Grand Alliance
Win Rate
Armies
% Share of Armies
5-0 Wins
4+ Wins
Chaos
54.5%
56
19.6%
2
13
Order
51.0%
119
41.6%
6
22
Death
46.6%
48
16.8%
1
7
Destruction
46.1%
56
22.0%
0
5
Faction Stats
The below stat show the results for those factions represented by 5 armies or more only.
Faction
Win Rate
Armies
% Share of Armies
5-0 Wins
0-5 Losses
Seraphon
66.2%
13
2.27%
3
1
Legion of the First Prince
65.0%
8
1.40%
0
0
Maggotkin of Nurgle
58.6%
21
3.67%
2
0
Idoneth Deepkin
58.5%
11
1.92%
1
0
Soulblight Gravelords
57.7%
13
2.27%
1
0
Cities of Sigmar
57.0%
10
1.75%
2
0
Daughters of Khaine
56.4%
14
2.45%
0
1
Lumineth Realm-Lords
52.1%
10
1.75%
0
0
Ironjawz
50.8%
13
2.27%
0
0
Sons of Behemat
48.5%
14
2.45%
0
1
Ogor Mawtribes
47.2%
11
1.92%
0
0
Nighthaunt
46.7%
21
3.67%
0
2
Stormcast Eternals
45.0%
43
7.52%
0
3
Kruleboyz
44.3%
11
1.92%
0
1
Sylvaneth
40.0%
5
0.87%
0
1
Hedonites of Slaanesh
38.3%
6
1.05%
0
0
Skaventide
37.9%
7
1.22%
0
0
Fyreslayers
34.4%
9
1.57%
0
1
Ossiarch Bonereapers
31.1%
11
1.92%
0
1
Gloomspite Gitz
30.0%
6
1.05%
0
1
Despite Nighthaunt and Daughters of Khaine being released now for a couple of weeks, we still see Seraphon, Legion of the First Prince and Maggotkin of Nurgle topping the win rates. On top of that Seraphon managed to grab three 5-0 results this week.
As a rough guide factions should have win rates of between 45-55% to ensure the game is roughly balance (true balance being impossible). The above shows that 7 factions have exceeded this band (including the new Daughters of Khaine) with Seraphon and Legion of the First Prince have exceeded the 60% win rate barrier. There are also seven factions below this ideal range, including one of the new battletomes for 3rd Edition (Fyreslayers). While Stormcast Eternals have a win rate of 45% we have to bear in mind that this is the most popular faction and is often the ones new players use when first playing Age of Sigmar, so the range of skill of the players inside this faction will vary widely, while many of the other faction will have a dedicated fan base or have tournament players looking for a faction that provides them the best chance at good results.
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Subfaction Stats
The below stat show the results for those subfactions represented by 5 armies or more only.
Faction
Subfaction
Win Rate
Armies
5-0 Wins
0-5 Losses
Seraphon
Thunder Lizard
67.3%
11
2
1
Maggotkin of Nurgle
Drowned Men
65.5%
11
1
0
Legion of the First Prince
65.0%
8
0
0
Lumineth Realm-Lords
Zaitrec
60.9%
5
0
0
Idoneth Deepkin
Nautilar
58.6%
6
0
0
Cities of Sigmar
Living City
58.3%
6
2
0
Nighthaunt
Scarlet Doom
54.3%
7
0
0
Daughters of Khaine
Zainthar Kai
54.3%
7
0
0
Soulblight Gravelords
Vyrkos Dynasty
53.3%
6
0
0
Sons of Behemat
Breaker Tribe
53.1%
10
0
0
Stormcast Eternals
Astral Templars
50.0%
6
0
0
Stormcast Eternals
Hammers of Sigmar
49.1%
23
0
1
Ironjawz
Bloodtoofs
44.2%
9
0
0
Kruleboyz
Big Yellers
43.4%
8
0
1
Hedonites of Slaanesh
Lurid Haze
42.0%
5
0
0
Nighthaunt
Emerald Host
41.5%
13
0
2
Fyreslayers
Greyfyrd
38.6%
7
0
0
Skaventide
37.9%
7
0
0
Stormcast Eternals
Hallowed Knights
35.6%
9
0
1
Ossiarch Bonereapers
Petrifex Elite
32.3%
10
0
1
Gloomspite Gitz
24.0%
5
0
1
The faction stats are pretty much replicated above with Lumineth Realm-Lords/Zaitrec joining the +60% club this week. Meanwhile despite Anthony Trentanelli’s heroics with Skaven recently (claiming two GT’s and going 4-1 this week) they still sit below 45% with a miserable 37.9% win rate. Will their new battletome and the Generals Handbook see a change in this though? A new tome can’t come soon enough for Gloomspite Gitz and Ossiarch Bonereapers….
Fall of the Old World VII took place in the UK on April 30th and May 1st. It involved 31 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament.
Before I jump into the Top Three, I wanted to remind everyone of our friendly Discord server where you can join in the conversation with the Woehammer crew and suggest articles or series for the website.
Allegiance: Skaventide – Grand Strategy: Prized Sorcery – Triumph: Inspired
Leaders Arch-Warlock (175)** – Artefact: Vigordust Injector – Lore of Warplock Galvanism: More-more-more Warp Power! Grey Seer (140)** – Lore of Ruin: Skitterleap Lord Screech Verminking (330) Verminlord Deceiver (345)** – General – Command Trait: Master of Magic – Artefact: Gnawbomb – Universal Spell Lore: Flaming Weapon
Peter: Skaven seem to be having a resurgence of late. This list, much like Anthony Trentanelli’s at the Motor City GT and the Slambo GT, relies on the Stormfiends to destroy anything they come up against. They have so many shooting attacks, and they’re super swingy. But! John has added an Arch-Warlock with More-more-more Warp Power which will allow him to re-roll all misses on those Stormfiends if he gets the spell off.
On top of that you have a teleporting giant-assassin-rat sneaking up on your lines and killing anything they can, and while all that is going on the Clanrats and Stormvermin are quietly going about their business claiming objectives.
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Allegiance: Maggotkin of Nurgle – Subfaction: Befouling Host – Grand Strategy: Prized Sorcery – Triumph: Inspired
Leaders Great Unclean One (495)* – General – Command Trait: Master of Magic – Bile Blade & Doomsday Bell – Artefact: The Witherstave – Universal Spell Lore: Flaming Weapon The Glottkin (700)** – Lore of Malignance: Rancid Visitations
Units 1x Beasts of Nurgle (110)* 3x Plague Drones (200)* 20x Plaguebearers (300)** – Reinforced: Once 10x Plaguebearers (150)**
Peter: A fairly eclectic Nurgle list that aims to out drop you and get the decision on who takes the first turn.Those plaguebearers are going to be hard to shift from any objectives with the disgustingly resilient rules and the Glottkin and GUO pack a punch in combat and love to cast spells which give you a tonne of mortal wounds.
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Allegiance: Cities of Sigmar – City: Living City – Grand Strategy: Mighty Beachhead -Triumphs: Inspired
Leaders Freeguild General on Griffon (290)* – General – Lance – Command Trait: Forest Strider – Artefact: Spear of the Hunt – Mount Trait: Soaring Guardian Freeguild General (100)* Doralia ven Denst (115)*
Peter: A single drop Cities list, which loves to chip wounds off you with its shooting and then tear whatever is left to shreds with charging Fulminators.
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Allegiance: Bonesplitterz – Warclan: Icebone – Grand Strategy: Hold the Line – Triumphs: Indomitable
Leaders Wurrgog Prophet (150)* – Artefact: Glowin’ Tattooz – Lore of the Savage Beast Glowy Green TusksManiak Weirdnob (100)* – General – Command Trait: Master of Magic – Mount Trait: Fast ‘Un – Lore of the Savage Beast Glowy Green TusksKragnos, The End of Empires (720)*
Battleline 5 × Savage Boarboys (140)* – Stikkas 5 x Savage Boarboys (140)* – Stikkas 5 x Savage Boarboys (140)* – Stikkas 5 x Savage Boarboys (140)* – Stikkas
Units 10 x Savage Boarboy Maniaks (290)* – Reinforced x 1
Peter: A nice fast, Orruk army that’s likely to outdrop you and claim objectives early. Chadnos, who’ll give all those units buffs to their charges and will do the Lions share of the fighting. Then, Wurrgog. Oh how we’ll miss Wurrgog once he’s been nerfed by GW….
