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Top Three AoS Lists for Quest of Champions – Heat 4

August 9, 2022 Patrick German 3 Comments

Peter: We’re always looking for fresh bl… I mean writers to join our team and expand our range of content. Patrick is trying his hand at a top three lists before he moves on to writing about the content he loves….. Horus Heresy.

This is the Top Three AoS lists for Quest of Champions Heat 4 that took place in the Sanctuary Gaming Centre and Coffee Shop in Sutton-in-Ashfield, UK on August 6th and 7th. Quest of Champions is run by Warrior Lodge in Nottingham, UK. There was a total of 38 players competing in this five-round heat, the top twelve of which will be invited back for a grand final later this year.

Want to watch some top AoS games for free? Ben Bailey’s new YouTube channel, Dice and Ducks were at the event giving live coverage. Round 4 and 5 are available to watch for free here.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Army Faction: Nighthaunt
– Army Subfaction: Scarlet Doom
– Grand Strategy: Fright or Flight
– Triumphs:

LEADER
Nagash, Supreme Lord of the Undead (955)
Spirit Torment (115)
– General
– Command Trait: Master of Magic
– Artefact: Arcane Tome

BATTLELINE
20 x Bladegheist Revenants (350)
10 x Bladegheist Revenants (175)
10 x Bladegheist Revenants (175)

OTHER
2 x Chainghasts (95)

ENDLESS SPELLS
Chronomatic Cogs (40)
Purple Sun of Shyish (70)

CORE BATTALIONS
Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: (1975/2000)

Patrick: One of the best parts of Age of Sigmar is seeing huge, god-tier centerpiece models not only regularly used on tables, but seeing those units perform to their points cost. Between the upgrades the Nighthaunt saw in their recent book, including their excellent spell lore, I imagine that we will begin to see Nagash show up in more Death lists as time goes on. Andrew’s list shows Nagash supporting (or being supported by) a big killy block of ghosts.

Nagash can produce an almost offensive number of spells in the Hero phase, and the re-roll from the Cogs makes those casts unlikely to be turned off by an early phase miscast. On top of that, Nagash is pulling double-duty by keeping the units of Bladegheists alive and closer to full strength throughout the fight.

Speaking of Bladegheists: there are 40 of them present in this list, including one reinforced unit. The buffs they can receive from the Chainghasts and Spirit Torment can turn them into a force to be reckoned with, and Andrew used them to great effect in this tournament. The units can be used both as mobile screens, protecting Nagash from incoming enemies, or as a melee threat while supported by the Spirit Torment and Chainghasts. The Scarlet Doom spirit host allows for the large unit of Bladegheists to reliably put out mortal wounds, leaning into one of the more common winning strategies in the current meta.

The Purple Sun makes an appearance in this list, as it does in most lists featuring wizards, and the forward push from the Arcane Tome wielding Spirit Torment allows for the Sun to be placed in a favorable position early in the game, rather than casting it and presenting opportunities for the opponent to dispel it as it works its way up the table 8” at a time.

This is also the only list featured today that uses a grand strategy other than No Place for the Weak. Fright or Flight seems to be leaning more towards a conservative defensive approach, relying on preventing enemies from contesting objectives rather than outright killing the opponent. Overall, a straightforward list, but one that saw Andrew win four of his games with a draw in the fourth round.

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Army Faction: Slaves to Darkness
– Army Subfaction: Knights of the Empty Throne
– Grand Strategy: No Place for the Weak
– Triumphs: Inspired

LEADER
Knights of the Empty Throne Varanguard x 6 (560)
– General
– Daemonforged Blade and Warpsteel Shield
– Command Trait: Inescapable Doom
– Artefact: Grasping Plate
– Mark of Chaos: Tzeentch
Knights of the Empty Throne Varanguard x 6 (560)
– Daemonforged Blade and Warpsteel Shield
– Artefact: Corrupted Nullstone
– Mark of Chaos: Tzeentch
Chaos Sorcerer Lord (135)
– Mark of Chaos: Tzeentch
– Spell: Mask of Darkness
Chaos Sorcerer Lord (135)
– Mark of Chaos: Tzeentch
– Spell: Mask of Darkness

BATTLELINE
8 x Iron Golems (75)
– Mark of Chaos: Tzeentch
8 x Iron Golems (75)
– Mark of Chaos: Tzeentch
8 x Iron Golems (75)
– Mark of Chaos: Tzeentch
8 x Iron Golems (75)
– Mark of Chaos: Tzeentch

OTHER
Mindstealer Sphiranx (95)

BEHEMOTH
Chaos Warshrine (215)
– Mark of Chaos: Tzeentch
– Prayer: Heal

CORE BATTALIONS
Battle Regiment
Command Entourage – Magnificent

ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENTS
Artefact

TOTAL POINTS: (2000 / 2000)

Patrick: What’s the best way to keep the Purple Sun from wiping your 500+ point leader on an unlucky roll? Have your 500+ point leader be a six-man squad of Varanguard! Or two of those units in Toby’s case. Toby is taking advantage of one of the stranger aspects of Knights of the Empty Throne, in that your leaders don’t need to be a single model, bringing a total of 12 Varanguard spread across two reinforced units. Both units carry Warpsteel Shields, providing them some resistance to spells and endless spells, and both have been improved through artefacts and command traits, allowing the two units to buff the defenses of nearby units, keep enemies locked in combat, and automatically dispel one spell. The leaders are rounded out through a pair of Sorcerer Lords, which can use Mask of Darkness to sling any given unit in the army to the other side of the board, allowing a unit of Iron Golems to catch a distant objective or place a 6-man unit of heroic Varanguard behind enemy lines.

The army wide Tzeentch mark and Chaos Warshrine give a clear image of how badly Toby doesn’t want his opponents to successfully cast, and when they do manage to get a spell off, he wants to make sure that it doesn’t hit as hard as his opponents expects. A Mindstealer is there to supplement the martial abilities of the already-proficient Varanguard, helping ensure that they can get the most out of the combat phase by delaying an opponent’s turn to fight.

The use of a Battle Regiment that doesn’t include all units in the army makes for an interesting addition, potentially preventing Toby’s priority but allowing him to deploy more reactively to his opponents. Those units may have been better placed in a battalion providing more utility benefits, such as an Expert Conquerors or Bounty Hunters battalion. Ultimately Toby drove this army to a top spot with the Battle Regiment, so it clearly worked. We can talk at length about the magic-heaviness of the current meta, but seeing a list that turns that around to focus on magical defense rather than output shows that there are hard counters present to arcane lists. The fact that Toby took this list to a 4/1 victory and 2nd place overall, with only a single loss to a Thunder Lizard list, shows that sometimes martial might makes right.

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Army Type: Seraphon
– Army Subfaction: Thunder Lizard
– Grand Strategy: No Place for the Weak
– Triumphs: Inspired

LEADER
Lord Kroak (430)
– Spell: Stellar Tempest
Engine of the Gods (265)
– General
– Command Trait: Prime Warbeast
– Artefact: Arcane Tome
– Mount Trait: Beastmaster
– Spell: Hand of Glory
– Universal Prayer Scripture: Heal
Saurus Astrolith Bearer (140)
– Artefact: Fusil of Conflagration
Skink Priest (90)
– Universal Prayer Scripture: Heal

BATTLELINE
5 x Saurus Guard (115)
5 x Saurus Knights (110)
5 x Saurus Knights (110)

OTHER
5 x Chameleon Skinks (115)

BEHEMOTH
Bastiladon with Solar Engine (250)
Bastiladon with Solar Engine (250)

ENDLESS SPELL
Chronomantic Cogs (40)
Purple Sun of Shyish (70)

CORE BATTALIONS
Bounty Hunters
Linebreaker
Warlord

ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENTS
Artefact

TOTAL POINTS: (1985/2000)

Patrick: Ah, Kroaknado, how we miss thee. In such a magic and mortal wound heavy meta, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Lord Kroak remains such a strong presence in high-ranking Seraphon lists, going 4/1 with a second-round loss to Hallowed Knights. Tom takes advantage of Kroak’s 4 casting attempts, a stock +2 to casting, unbind, and dispelling rolls, and the ability to unbind spells cast anywhere on the map, Kroak is an arcane powerhouse. While this list does not take advantage of the ability to measure line-of-sight from skink wizards or Oracles, it does include some Saurus Guard to help beef up Kroak’s already impressive defenses. It’s a shame that the Balewind Vortex is no longer available, otherwise we could see Tom run the true insanity of 2nd edition Kroak.

A pair of Bastiladons are near constants in Thunder Lizard lists. Their tremendous defense and high-quality shooting always impress and taking two allows Tom to take advantage of Thunder Lizards command ability throughout the fight, leading the pair to push out an average of 18 wounds at their top bracket with more against Chaos armies or with the use of All-out Attack, enough to potentially wipe some reinforced squads of Galletian Veterans off a nearby objective.

The list includes a trio of utility heroes largely meant to improve the defenses and recover from heavy losses throughout the battle. A pair of non-reinforced Saurus Warriors act as excellent mobile screens to block the progress of enemy melee units. There is also a small cadre of Chameleon Skinks, which are an excellent harassing unit, and surprisingly durable when taking advantage of their “Perfect Mimicry” ability. While unreliable, the mortal wounds that can be caused by their dart pipes will always be appreciated when the dice are in Tom’s favor.

Two of the top three placing armies at this event included the Chronomantic Cogs and Purple Sun. These endless spells are highly effective at their current points cost, and the added boost the Cogs provide to any magic-heavy army cannot be understated. The Purple Sun remains ever-present in the meta and will probably be here to stay until the next General’s Handbook gets released.

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Army Type: Flesh-eater Courts
– Army Subfaction: Hollowmourne
– Grand Strategy: No Place for the Weak

LEADER
Abhorrent Ghoul King on Royal Terrorgheist (445)
– Artefacts: Corpsefane Gauntlet
– Mount Traits: Gruesome Bite
– Spells: Deranged Transformation
Abhorrent Archregent (245)
– Spell: Spectral Host
Crypt Infernal Courtier (130)
– General
– Command Trait: Grave Robber
Varghulf Courtier (160)

BATTLELINE
10 x Crypt Ghouls (85)
9 x Crypt Horrors (330)
9 x Crypt Flayers (540)

ENDLESS SPELL
Chronomantic Cogs (40)

CORE BATTALIONS
Battle Regiment

ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENTS
Artefact

TOTAL POINTS: (1975/2000)

Patrick: Hero-hammer is a thing of beauty and dropping half of your army’s cost on fitting four different rotting corpses into the leader slot of your roster is an excellent place to start. Thomas took an uncommon FEC list to the top ten, going 4/1 with a loss in the second round to a Scarlet Doom Nighthaunt list (I suppose Nagash is allowed to have a favorite child for the moment).

Thomas is using Hollowmourne to its full effect by taking two double-reinforced units of Crypt Horrors, with the right support from the Archregent the damage potential of these units can quickly build from fearsome to terrifying. The ability for the Terrorgheist to keep up with the extra speed provided to one unit by Deranged Transformation makes sure to keep the unit in the aura of hit roll re-rolls. The summons from both Abhorrent units can also help supplement the army’s relatively low model count by bringing large blocks of Crypt Ghouls to the field (up to 40 between the two).

The Crypt Infernal Courtier’s high Movement characteristic and artefact make it an excellent hero hunter. The Varghulf pulls its weight both by being a support hero for the Ghouls and Horrors, but also by being a melee threat by itself.

Final Tournament Placings

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AoS Meta Stats (w/e 31st July 2022)

August 7, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

A change is afoot for the Woehammer stats. We’re going more in depth. You’ll still find the tournament results for GT’s in the last week below along with links. Then there is statistic sections for the rolling four weeks stats and the current Age of Sigmar version (i.e. since the most recent update in terms of GHB or Battletome release).

Grand Tournaments

Ranked from largest to smallest.

Boise Cup O AoS GT – Texas/USA
52 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Soulblight Gravelords	Legion of Blood	5-0-0
2nd	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	5-0-0
3rd	Hedonites of Slaanesh	Lurid Haze	4-0-1
4th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
5th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	4-0-1
6th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
7th	Ironjawz	Bloodtoofs	4-0-1
8th	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	4-0-1
9th	Kharadron Overlords	None/Unknown	4-0-1
10th	Sylvaneth	Gnarlroot	4-0-1

Boise Cup O AoS GT

Shropshire Slaughter: Telford Onslaught AoS GT July 2022 – England/UK
32 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Beasts of Chaos	Allherd	5-0-0
2nd	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	4-0-1
3rd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1
4th	Sylvaneth	Harvestboon	4-0-1
5th	Sylvaneth	Dreadwood	4-0-1
6th	Daughters of Khaine	Khailebron	4-0-1
7th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	3-0-2
8th	Idoneth Deepkin	Nautilar	3-0-2
9th	Sylvaneth	Heartwood	3-0-2
10th	Big Waaagh!		3-0-2

Shropshire Slaughter: Telford Onslaught AoS GT July 2022

Armed Forces Day 5 – Illinois/USA
34 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	5-0-0
2nd	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	4-0-1
3rd	Daughters of Khaine	Hagg Nar	4-0-1
4th	Sylvaneth	Gnarlroot	4-0-1
5th	Beasts of Chaos	Gavespawn	4-0-1
6th	Disciples of Tzeentch	Hosts Arcanum	4-0-1
7th	Legion of the First Prince		4-0-1
8th	Stormcast Eternals	Anvils of Heldenhammer	3-0-2
9th	Ironjawz	Bloodtoofs	3-0-2
10th	Idoneth Deepkin	Nautilar	3-0-2

Armed Forces Day 5

Peace Through Dakka AoS GT – Delaware/USA
16 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	5-0-0
2nd	Sylvaneth	Heartwood	4-0-1
3rd	Ironjawz	Bloodtoofs	4-0-1
4th	Sylvaneth	Heartwood	3-0-2
5th	Gloomspite Gitz	Glogg’s Megamob	3-0-2
6th	Hedonites of Slaanesh	Godseekers Host	3-0-2
7th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	3-0-2
8th	Cities of Sigmar	Hallowheart	3-0-2
9th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	2-1-2
10th	Nighthaunt	Emerald Host	2-1-2

Peace Through Dakka AoS GT

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This Weeks Stats

The following stats are for the week ending 31st July only, essentially GT’s that took place on the 30th and 31st July.

Rolling 4 Week Stats

The rolling stats includes all GT’s since the weekend of 9th/10th July to the 30th/31st July. This covers a total of 689 players (+86 players) across 19 Grand Tournaments (+1 GT).

As the new release of the GHB takes hold it looks as though the overall effect is a positive one on the overall win rates for each Grand Alliance as they all get close to that 50.0% mark.

Here are the rolling four weeks win rates since we began tracking this information:

Faction Stats (Version)

The below stats are for every match in a grand tournament since the release of the new General’s Handbook.

Factions that have achieved 5 wins at a GT

Under this new General’s Handbook we can see a number of factions have achieved 5-0 wins. Following on from last week, Stormcast Eternals and Maggotkin of Nurgle now join Seraphon and Kharadron Overlords with 2 each.

Looking at factions with four wins and the table opens out vastly with only Flesh-eater Courts, Big Waaagh! and Legion of Azorgh yet to achieve a 4 win result over a weekend.

Meanwhile at the lower end of the tables factions who have gone a whole tournament with five losses…

As for the win rates of each faction since the release of the new GHB:

In terms of faction popularity:

By rights, each faction should have an equal share of the player base, however we know this will not be the case due to either the appeal of the miniatures or the rules for the factions. Here we can see the most popular factions are Stormcast Eternals, Nighthaunt, Sylvaneth, Daughters of Khaine, Maggotkin of Nurgle and Ironjawz.

5-0 Results as a % of the number of players for that faction

Currently it would appear that Kharadron Overlords players have the highest chance of going 5-0 at an event closely followed by Slaves to Darkness.

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AoS Meta Stats (w/e 24th July 2022)

July 31, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

Grand Tournaments

Ranked from largest to smallest.

BWG: Summer Slaughter Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament (Major) – Pennsylvania/USA
102 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Hedonites of Slaanesh	Lurid Haze	5-0-0
2nd	Kharadron Overlords	Barak-Zilfin	5-0-0
3rd	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	5-0-0
4th	Kharadron Overlords	None	4-0-1
5th	Disciples of Tzeentch	Hosts Duplicitous	4-0-1
6th	Skaven	None	4-0-1
7th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
8th	Skaven	None	4-0-1
9th	Sylvaneth	Heartwood	4-0-1
10th	Skaven	None	4-0-1

BWP: Summer Slaughter Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament (Major)

Outlaw Open at LSO – Texas/USA
46 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	5-0-0
2nd	Sons of Behemat	Breaker Tribe	4-1-0
3rd	Ogor Mawtribes	Bloodgullet	4-1-0
4th	Kharadron Overlords	Barak-Mhornar	4-0-1
5th	Nighthaunt	Quicksilver Dead	4-0-1
6th	Sons of Behemat	Stomper Tribe	4-0-1
7th	Ossiarch Bonereapers	Petrifex Elite	4-0-1
8th	Disciples of Tzeentch	Hosts Arcanum	3-1-1
9th	Ironjawz	Bloodtoofs	3-1-1
10th	Blades of Khorne	Reapers of Vengeance	3-0-2

The Outlaw Open at LSO

The Salt City GT Age of Sigmar – New York/USA
31 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Filthbringers	5-0-0
2nd	Fyreslayers	Greyfyrd	4-0-1
3rd	Ironjawz	Bloodtoofs	4-0-1
4th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
5th	Kruleboyz	Big Yellers	4-0-1
6th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Munificent Wanderers	4-0-1
7th	Hedonites of Slaanesh	Lurid Haze	3-0-2
8th	Hedonites pf Slaanesh	Lurid Haze	3-0-2
9th	Ossiarch Bonereapers	Petrifex Elite	3-0-2
10th	Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	3-0-2

The Salt City GT Age of Sigmar

Miniparadice Anniverary Tournament – Germany
38 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Disciples of Tzeentch	Hosts Arcanum	4-1-0
2nd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Filthbringers	4-1-0
3rd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1
4th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	4-0-1
5th	Sylvaneth	Heartwood	4-0-1
6th	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Zaitrec	4-0-1
7th	Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	4-0-1
8th	Fyreslayers	Vostarg	3-0-2
9th	Idoneth Deepkin	Briomdar	3-0-2
10th	Seraphon	Dracothion’s Tail	3-0-2

Miniparadice Anniversary Tournament

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This Weeks Stats

The following stats are for the week ending 24th July only, essentially GT’s that took place on the 23rd and 24th July.

Rolling 4 Week Stats

The rolling stats includes all GT’s since the weekend of 2nd/3rd July to the 23rd/24th July. This covers a total of 603 players (+151 players) across 18 Grand Tournaments (+2 GT’s).

Alliance Win Rates for a Rolling Four Week Period

As the new release of the GHB takes hold it looks as though the overall effect is a positive one on the overall win rates for each Grand Alliance as they all get close to that 50.0% mark.

Faction win rates over the last four weeks

Here are the rolling four weeks win rates since we began tracking this information:

Faction Stats (Version)

The below stats are for every match in a grand tournament since the release of the new General’s Handbook.

Under this new General’s Handbook we can see a number of factions have achieved 5-0 wins, but currently Seraphon and Kharadron Overlords lead the way with 2 a piece.

Looking at factions with four wins and the table opens out vastly with only Legion of the First Prince, Big Waaagh! and Legion of Azorgh (Hey, someone played them so I’m including them ok!?) yet to achieve a 4 win result over a weekend.

Meanwhile at the lower end of the tables factions who have gone a whole tournament with five losses…

And as for each factions current win rate under the new handbook:

Bonesplitterz, Disciples of Tzeentch and Seraphon lead the way at present while Legion of the First Prince, Flesh-eater Courts and Ossiarch Bonereapers prop every one else up.

If you don’t like graphs, here’s their win rates in a table format:

Faction in Green are considered to have a healthy win rate, those in Red are considered (by me) to be unbalanced

But who do Bonesplitterz struggle against?

Skaven and Ironjawz seem to have the most success against Bonesplitterz, though whether these particular matches were against the Drakkfoot Big Stabba spam, I’m not sure.

Meanwhile a revitalised Disciples of Tzeentch is struggling in their matches against Idoneth Deepkin, Cities of Sigmar, Maggotkin of Nurgle, Daughters of Khaine and surprisingly Fyreslayers!

In terms of faction popularity:

By rights, each faction should have an equal share of the player base, however we know this will not be the case due to either the appeal of the miniatures or the rules for the factions. Here we can see the most popular factions are Stormcast Eternals, Nighthaunt, Daughters of Khaine, Maggotkin of Nurgle, Sylvaneth, Ironjawz and Skaven.

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Faction Breakdown

After only a week, I’ve removed the faction breakdown, but this is becuase we’ll start a new series called ‘Faction Focus’ where each day we’ll analyse a specific factions results for the previous month and lists that performed well.

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Top Three AoS Lists for BWG: Summer Slaughter GT

July 26, 2022 Brett & Peter 3 Comments

This is the Top Three AoS Lists for the BWG: Summer Slaughter GT that took place in Pennsylvania, USA on 23rd and 24th July. It involved a massive 102 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament. An interesting result, 2 of the lists feature White Dwarf rule adjustments and we have Seraphon. In fact the whole top 5 is made up of AoS 2 books with 6th being the highest placed. Of course 5 to 10 are all the newest of books (Skaven and Sylvaneth).

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The Top Three AoS Lists

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

Allegiance: Slaanesh
– Host: Lurid Haze Invaders Host (Host of Chaos)
– Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs
– Triumphs: Inspired

Leaders
Sigvald, Prince of Slaanesh (205)*
– Host Option: General
The Contorted Epitome (245)*
– General
– Command Trait: Feverish Anticipation
– Artefact: Oil of Exultation
– Universal Spell Lore: Flaming Weapon
Krondspine Bladebringer, Herald on Seeker Chariot (185)*
– Lore of Slaanesh: Hysterical Frenzy

Battleline
22 x Blissbarb Archers (280)*
– Reinforced x 1
22 x Blissbarb Archers (280)*
– Reinforced x 1
11 x Blissbarb Archers (140)*

Units
5 x Centigors (85)*
10 x Gors (70)*
– Gor-Blades & Beastshields

Behemoths
Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur (400)*

Endless Spells & Invocations
Geminids of Uhl-Gysh (40)
Purple Sun of Shyish (70)

Core Battalions
*Battle Regiment

Total: 2000 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 2 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 96
Drops: 1

Brett: Tuned to excess (I know what I did there) with the most efficient Slaanesh Warscrolls combined alongside Krondspine and that Purple Sun. The result is a mobile army with brutal amounts of shooting backed by enough hitting power to remove your hammers (or anvils). This is a very interesting army which avoids any of the larger heroes (Glutos, Keeper of Secrets or Shalaxi) for Krondspine and maximum Blissbarb.

Anthony has taken advantage of the Invaders battle traits to gain a second hero for command purposes. Useful to increase the sweep of command abilities. 2 Wizards with 3 casts and denies but neither are true wizards so the list really has 3 combat heros with denies. Starting with Sigvald; he continues to be a machine, ignoring wards but has a 4+ ward, with his minimum 5 attacks hitting on 2s and wounding on 3s with Rend -2 and D3 damage. If he charges he can use his charge roll for his attacks. Invaders allow the placement of 3 units into ambush (deep strike) so there is an excellent chance of meeting him after he charges (3+ to his charge roll), of course he strikes first. Avoid hm by staying more than 15″ from the edge of the board. Any edge.

The Contorted Epitome is quite tanky in this build with +1 wound and it’s normal 2+ ward on MW. 14″ move and with Flaming Weapon (presumably on the Ravaging Claws) for 9 attacks with a rend -1 and 2 damage weapon. And ability to make other units fight after it if it charges. The Chariot and Epitome have warscroll spells to grant rerolls for 1s. The Chariot has an impressive melee profile but more importantly can retreat and charge, it inflicts mortal wounds on the charge. The Hysterical Frenzy spell inflicts more MW. These combat characters make sense when the rest of the list is mostly Blissbarb. 2 attacks but a 6+ save and 1 wound mean they will melt under pressure. With a 6″ move (but they can run and shoot) mobility is limited but they can take Sigvald up the board with them.

With the limited casting and no real wizards (who have buffed casting) getting Purple Sun out might be hard. Geminids have a CV of only 5 though and are no where near as powerful as the Purple Sun. Still they inflict MW on a unit with 1″ at the end of their movement on a 2+ and if they do they turn off commands. An army that is going to apply pressure from the start, it pretty much always wants to go second to see where the best places to drop in units. If they take Sigvald into ambush with 2 of the Blissbard Archers units their opponent is going to have real trouble. Anthony scored consistently through all rounds (26+), most of his opponents had either Eternal Conquerers or Bounty Hunters or both which this list largely negates (they are shooting you off objectives, your numbers won’t count).

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Allegiance: Kharadron Overlords
– Sky Port: Barak Zilfin
– Mortal Realm: Chamon
– Grand Strategy: Masters of the High Airs
– Triumphs: Inspired

Leaders
Aether-Khemist (90)*
– General
– Command Trait: Collector
– Artefact: Spell in a Bottle
Aetheric Navigator (85)*
Arkanaut Admiral (125)*
– Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact)
– Universal Spell Lore: Flaming Weapon

Battleline
10 x Arkanaut Company (90)**
– 1x Light Skyhooks
– 1x Aethermatic Volley Guns
10 x Arkanaut Company (90)**
– 1x Light Skyhooks
– 1x Aethermatic Volley Guns
10 x Arkanaut Company (90)**
– 1x Light Skyhooks
– 1x Aethermatic Volley Guns

Units
10 x Grundstok Thunderers (270)*
– Reinforced x 1
1 x Grundstok Gunhauler (155)
– Main Gun: Sky Cannon
– Great Endrinworks: Zonbarcorp ‘Debtsettler’ Spar Torpedo

Behemoths
Arkanaut Ironclad (490)
– Main Gun: Great Sky Cannon
– Great Endrinworks: Zonbarcorp ‘Dealbreaker’ Battle Ram
Admiral’s Krondspine (400)
Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur

Endless Spells & Invocations
Purple Sun of Shyish (70)

Core Battalions
*Warlord
**Expert Conquerors

Additional Enhancements
Artefact

Total: 1955 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 1 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 94
Drops: 10

Brett: It’s been a while since Kharadron Overlords have climbed to the top of the tree. Coming off a recent buff from both the mid year points (only 2 units) and White Dwarf revision Carl is one of 3 to go 5/0 in the event. He does have both the Purple Sun and Krondspine and 2 wizards to bind them thanks to the Arcane Tome. I wonder if we will see anything about the Purple Sun and Krondspine before the next Battlescroll is due in September.The general, the Aether-Khemist is an obvious choice, one of 3 Khemist only artefacts guarantees an endless spell can be cast once per game. The Purple Sun has a casting value of 8 so if there is anyway to make it a sure thing take it.

Slow moving he also hands out a re-roll wound rolls of 1 to a unit within 12″ and reduces to-hit rolls within 3″ (himself and another character typically) unless garrisoned, so he has to be on foot. His own attacks are much riskier, 3D6 with rend -2 sound great but only 9″ range make it a risky proposition. Of course he can garrison a vessel. The Navigator is here for his dispel and reroll run and charges for vessels if they are visible to him. Lastly the Admiral, who was the most changed by White Dwarf here. He lost 3 of his 4 unique command abilities, keeping the ability to allow a unit to fire even if it had run (Master of the Skies). Flaming Weapon is an interesting choice, he has reroll hits and wounds against monsters and heroes.

He is a small beatstick with only 3 attacks, -2 rend, 2 damage. He can divert wounds to the Arkanaut Companies (Skyfarers). Otherwise 3 battle line Arkanauts with minimal upgrades, Thunderers for some punch. With limited capacity in the flying units I would garrison the Thunderers and forgo the hero buffs to minimise their exposure. All of the KO shooting units have quite short ranges, typically 18″ or less except for the boats. The addition of the Purple Sun to increase saving throws for adjacent units with the number of shots from even the Arkanauts is a great combo. The Krondspine is pure distraction and menace, it takes a lot to deal with but can’t easily be ignored. In melee he can delete weaker units and at least bracket most bigger heroes in a single turn.

His highest ranked opponent was 11th, so it’s not clear how much we can take from his matchups. Most of the armies this went against were a bit short on shooting with the exception of his 2nd opponent. 5/0 is no small accomplishment and the list is quite different with so few boats and mostly footsloggers who aren’t riding.

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

Army Faction: Seraphon
– Army Type: Coalesced
– Subfaction: Thunder Lizard
– Grand Strategy: Show of Dominance
– Triumph: Inspired

LEADERS
Saurus Astrolith Bearer (140)**
– Artefacts of Power: Fusil of Conflagration
Lord Kroak (430)**
Celestant-Prime (325)**
Engine of the Gods (265)***
– General
– Command Traits: Prime Warbeast
– Artefacts of Power: Incandescent Rectrices
– Mount Traits: Beastmaster
– Prayers: Curse

BATTLELINE
Skinks (75)*
– Skink Alpha
– Boltspitter and Moonstone Club
Skinks (75)*
– Skink Alpha
– Boltspitter and Moonstone Club
Saurus Guard (115)**
– Saurus Guard Alpha
– Stardrake Icon Bearer
– Wardrummer

BEHEMOTH
Bastiladon with Ark of Sotek (165)***
Bastiladon with Ark of Sotek (165)***
Bastiladon with Ark of Sotek (165)***

ENDLESS SPELLS & INVOCATIONS
1 x Horrorghast (40)

TERRAIN
1 x Realmshaper Engine (0)

CORE BATTALIONS
*Expert Conquerors
**Warlord
***Linebreaker

TOTAL POINTS: 1960/2000

Brett: The last of the 5/0 armies coming in 3rd with an absolute hero hammer of a army. Over a 1000 points in heroes, some skinks and Saurus to fill those pesky battleine and 3 Bastiladons because why not. The inclusion of Horrorghast in interesting and the decision to play into the Triumph (Inspired). Those 40 points could have upgraded Skinks to Saurus or Chronomatic Cogs for casting rerolls. I wonder what Michael thinks after the event. Again this army wasn’t paired into any of the top 10 armies so not a lot can be drawn from the matchups.

Kroak is an amazing wizard, only Nagash and Teclis match him with 4 casts/unbinds and no range limitation on his unbinds. He adds +2 to casts, can make nearby units fly and give a +1 to save. He’s very hard to kill so those spells are there the whole game. The Astrolith is also a wizard and the Engine of the Gods has some decent combat prowess but is mostly here for the Cosmic Engine. Thunder Lizard means it rolls twice. Celestant-Prime is a SCE ally, their most expensive non dragon hero.

24″ shooting attack (D3 MW to units with 6″ of a point) and the mighty Ghaz Maral hammer. Starting at 3 attacks, -3 rend, 3 damage hitting on 3s and wounding on 2s he gains 2 attacks for each turn you leave him in reserve. Once a turn he can change a dice roll, including a charge roll. Arrive in Turn 3 with 7 attacks and a guaranteed turn or bring him in earlier if things are going badly. He is likely to delete any smaller hero when he arrives and is even a good chance (with help) to force an incarnate to lose a level.

The Bastiladons are rocking an extra 2 wounds, taking 4 wounds to bring them below a 1+ save. I know, stupid GW a 1+ roll always fails, except for Bastiladons and moral (40k). Anyway all of them are using the Ark of Sotek for maximum attacks (18 at top bracket) looking for MWs on 6s. Hunter Battalions are less common as well so there is a good chance of a monstrous action affecting opponents. A Thunder Lizard army with all of the big toys as we’ve come to know is pretty effective and has done extremely well here.

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Allegiance: Khorne
– Slaughterhost: Reapers of Vengeance
– Mortal Realm: Aqshy
– Grand Strategy: Show of Dominance
– Triumphs: Bloodthirsty

Leaders
Skarbrand (380)*
Bloodsecrator (125)*
Slaves to Darkness Daemon Prince (210)*
– Axe
– Artefact: The Crimson Crown
– Mark of Chaos: Khorne
Slaughterpriest (100)
– Prayer: Blood Sacrifice
Bloodthirster of Unfettered Fury (295)
– General
– Command Trait: Mage Eater
Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage (280)
– Artefact: Skullshard Mantle

Battleline
10 x Blood Warriors (190)**
– Goreaxe & Gorefist
– 1x Goreglaives
10 x Bloodreavers (80)**
– Meatripper Axes
10 x Bloodreavers (80)**
– Meatripper Axes

Units
5 x Centigors (85)***
5 x Centigors (85)***
5 x Centigors (85)***

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

Total: 1995 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 0 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 131
Drops: 12

Brett: 4/1 only gets you to 15th place in this tournament, only getting his Grand Strategy 3 times with the dropped game seeing Sam slide. The new Season 1 Battle Traits and Grand Strategies are that much harder. I am not sure that Show of Dominance is a good pick, it’s quite risky trying to place a GV unit in each quarter. Blades of Khorne can summon additional veterans though through Blood Tithe points which you earn by killing units. And that’s what this army is built for.

With Skarbrand and 2 more Bloodthirsters as well as a Demon Prince this army moves fast and hits very very hard. Or whiffs (nothing personal Skarbrand). Getting to 4 points shouldn’t be hard unless your opponent is super elite. 4 points grants 10 Bloodletters. Back to the heroes – the Crimson Crown is a good choice on the Demon Prince allowing him to use Bloodslicked Ground for free. Mage eater for a deny in an almost castless army (the Slaughterpriest has a deny as well) and Skullshard Mantle, because Blades of Vengenace must take it, round out the enhancements. Blood Scarifice allows the generation of Blood Tithe, farming 5 a game, at the cost of something cheap (Centigors or Bloodreavers).

13 drops (not 8) and 131 points without summoning Sam had a tough road facing 3 new books in his first 3 rounds and only dropping one. His last game was Lumineth, and interesting problem for a melee army. Solid effort Sam.

Final Tournament Placings (Top 32)

AoS Meta Stats (w/e 17th July 2022)

July 24, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

Here are the AoS Meta Stats for all the Grand Tournaments that have taken place between Monday 11th July and Sunday 17th July 2022. These are all the GT’s that I can locate on Tabletop.to or BestCoastPairing, if you know of any others please send me a link and I’ll add them.

A busy week this week with no less than 8 GT’s taking place across the globe!

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Grand Tournaments

Ranked from largest to smallest.

The ATC (American Team Championship) Age of Sigmar Team Event – Tennessee/USA
56 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-0
2nd	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	4-0-0
3rd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-0
4th	Ironjawz	Bloodtoofs	4-0-0
5th	Stormcast Eternals	Knights Excelsior	4-0-0
6th	Skaven		4-0-0
7th	Beasts of Chaos	Gavespawn	4-0-0
8th	Beasts of Chaos		4-0-0
9th	Skaven		3-1-0
10th	Bonesplitterz	Drakkfoot	3-0-1

The ATC (American Team Championship) Age of Sigmar Team Event

Clash 2022 – England/UK
46 Players

Position	Faction	Result
1st	Nighthaunt	5-0-0
2nd	Disciples of Tzeentch	4-0-1
3rd	Bonesplitterz	4-0-1
4th	Skaven	4-0-1
5th	Nighthaunt	4-0-1
6th	Sylvaneth	4-0-1
7th	Idoneth Deepkin	4-0-1
8th	Soulblight Gravelords	4-0-1
9th	Gloomspite Gitz	4-0-1
10th	Nighthaunt	3-0-2

Clash 2022

Texas Masters Grand Tournament – Texas/USA
32 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Bonesplitterz	Drakkfoot	4-1-0
2nd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Blessed Sons	4-1-0
3rd	Idoneth Deepkin	Nautilar	4-0-1
4th	Ossiarch Bonereapers	Petrifex Elite	4-0-1
5th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	4-0-1
6th	Idoneth Deepkin	Mor’Phann	4-0-1
7th	Soulblight Gravelords	Kastelai Dynasty	3-1-1
8th	Lumineth Realm-Lords	Syar	3-0-2
9th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	3-0-2
10th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	3-0-2

Texas Masters Grand Tournament

Midwest Bash – Grand Tournament – Missouri/USA
30 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	5-0-0
2nd	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	4-0-1
3rd	Sons of Behemat	Taker Tribe	4-0-1
4th	Stormcast Eternals	Celestial Vindicators	4-0-1
5th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	4-0-1
6th	Disciples of Tzeentch	Hosts Arcanum	4-0-1
7th	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	3-0-2
8th	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	3-0-2
9th	Sylvaneth	Heartwood	3-0-2
10th	Skaven		3-0-2

Midwest Bash – Grand Tournament

Midwest Makeup – Indiana/USA
27 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Ossiarch Bonereapers	Petrifex Elite	5-0-0
2nd	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	4-0-1
3rd	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Droning Guard	4-0-1
4th	Blades of Khorne	Reapers of Vengeance	4-0-1
5th	Bonesplitterz	Drakkfoot	4-0-1
6th	Sylvaneth	Gnarlroot	3-0-2
7th	Fyreslayers	Lofnir	3-0-2
8th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	3-0-2
9th	Beasts of Chaos	Allherd	3-0-2
10th	Fyreslayers	Greyfyrd	3-0-2

Midwest Makeup

Ragnarok the World Goes Dark – England/UK
18 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	5-0-0
2nd	Skaven		4-0-1
3rd	Beasts of Chaos	Gavespawn	4-0-1
4th	Nighthaunt	Scarlet Doom	3-0-2
5th	Daughters of Khaine	Draichi Ganeth	3-0-2
6th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	3-0-2
7th	Fyreslayers	Lofnir	3-0-2
8th	Maggotkin of Nurgle	Drowned Men	3-0-2
9th	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	2-0-3
10th	Flesh-eater Courts	Morgaunt	2-0-3

Ragnarok the World Goes Dark

Southern Fried Open – Georgia/USA
18 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Cities of Sigmar	Tempest’s Eye	4-0-1
2nd	Fyreslayers	Lofnir	4-0-1
3rd	Cities of Sigmar	Excelsis	4-0-1
4th	Sons of Behemat	Taker Tribe	4-0-1
5th	Sylvaneth	Gnarlroot	3-0-2
6th	Skaven		3-0-2
7th	Daughters of Khaine	Zainthar Kai	3-0-2
8th	Seraphon	Thunder Lizard	3-0-2
9th	Seraphon	Koatl’s Claw	3-0-2
10th	Stormcast Eternals	Hallowed Knights	2-0-3

Southern Fried Open

The Hogtown Hoedown – Ontario/Canada
10 Players

Position	Faction	Subfaction	Result
1st	Idoneth Deepkin	Mor’Phann	3-2-0
2nd	Sons of Behemat	Stomper Tribe	4-0-1
3rd	Nighthaunt	Emerald Host	3-1-1
4th	Skaven		3-0-2
5th	Blades of Khorne	Reapers of Vengeance	2-0-3
6th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	1-2-2
7th	Soulblight Gravelords	Legion of Blood	1-2-2
8th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	2-1-1
9th	Skaven		1-1-3
10th	Stormcast Eternals	Hammers of Sigmar	0-1-4

The Hogtown Hoedown

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Grand Alliance Stats

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

452 players (+149) took part in 16 GT’s (+4) over the last four weeks.

Grand Alliance	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins	4+ Wins
Chaos	51.8%	97	21.46%	2	27
Order	51.1%	200	44.25%	6	31
Death	47.9%	81	17.92%	3	12
Destruction	47.2%	74	16.37%	0	10

Chaos continue to lead the way in the win rates, but there’s a big drop in their win rate from 56.4% last week to 51.8% this week, only just beating Order with 51.1%. While Order once again pick up the most number of armies represented, 5-0 wins (taking the crown from Chaos) and most 4+ wins.

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Faction Stats

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

Faction	Win Rate	Armies	% Share of Armies	5-0 Wins	0-5 Losses
Bonesplitterz	64.5%	12	2.65%	0	0
Beasts of Chaos	62.2%	16	3.54%	0	0
Seraphon	61.2%	27	5.97%	3	0
Disciples of Tzeentch	56.7%	6	1.33%	0	0
Nighthaunt	56.6%	33	7.30%	2	2
Skaven	56.2%	16	3.54%	1	2
Sylvaneth	55.6%	20	4.42%	0	1
Lumineth Realm-Lords	51.7%	13	2.88%	0	0
Idoneth Deepkin	51.6%	25	5.53%	0	0
Maggotkin of Nurgle	50.7%	29	6.42%	0	3
Daughters of Khaine	50.7%	30	6.64%	0	1
Fyreslayers	50.6%	17	3.76%	0	0
Sons of Behemat	50.0%	14	3.10%	0	1
Cities of Sigmar	48.5%	20	4.42%	1	2
Slaves to Darkness	48.4%	7	1.55%	1	2
Blades of Khorne	47.7%	9	1.99%	0	1
Ironjawz	47.0%	16	3.54%	0	3
Hedonites of Slaanesh	46.7%	6	1.33%	0	1
Kharadron Overlords	45.6%	7	1.55%	1	1
Stormcast Eternals	44.1%	41	9.07%	1	4
Soulblight Gravelords	44.1%	25	5.53%	0	2
Ossiarch Bonereapers	41.0%	14	3.10%	1	2
Ogor Mawtribes	40.0%	10	2.21%	0	2
Kruleboyz	39.8%	9	1.99%	0	0
Legion of the First Prince	39.7%	7	1.55%	0	2
Flesh-eater Courts	37.5%	9	1.99%	0	1
Gloomspite Gitz	36.7%	9	1.99%	0	0

It’s back to normal for Slaves to Darkness this week as their win rate plummets back to 48.4% (which is still respectable) and Blades of Khorne fall to 47.7%. While the new battletomes of Nighthaunt and Sylvaneth can also be seen in the +55% area. Daughters of Khaine are smack in the middle with a perfect 50.7% win rate. While Skaven are continuing their climb and now have a win rate of 56.2%.

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Faction Breakdown

I’ve decided to do something a little different from subfaction analysis and instead will focus on one or two faction each week and how their stats are broken down. This week we’ll look at Sylvaneth and Nighthaunt.

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Top Three AoS Lists for Ragnarok the World Goes Dark

July 18, 2022 Brett & Peter 3 Comments

This is the Top Three AoS Lists Ragnarok the World Goes Dark event that took place in England, UK on 16th and 17th July. It involved 18 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Army Faction: Seraphon
– Army Type: Coalesced
– Army Subfaction: Thunder Lizard
– Grand Strategy: No Place for the Weak
– Triumphs: Indomitable

LEADER
1 x Lord Kroak (430)*
1 x Skink Starpriest (130)*
– Artefacts: Fusil of Conflagration
– Spells: Bind Endless Spell
1 x Engine of the Gods (265)**
– General
– Command Traits: Prime Warbeast
– Artefacts: Incandescent Rectrices
– Mount Traits: Beastmaster
– Prayers: Curse
1 x Saurus Astrolith Bearer (140)**
1 x Skink Priest (90)**
– Prayers: Heal

BATTLELINE
5 x Saurus Guard (115)*
5 x Saurus Knights (110)*
– Saurus Knight Alpha
– Stardrake Icon Bearer
– Wardrummer
– Celestite Warspear and Powerful Jaws
5 x Saurus Knights (110)*
– Saurus Knight Alpha
– Stardrake Icon Bearer
– Wardrummer
– Celestite Warspear and Powerful Jaws

BEHEMOTH
1 x Bastiladon with Solar Engine (250)
1 x Bastiladon with Solar Engine (250)*

ENDLESS SPELL
1 x Umbral Spellportal (70)
1 x Chronomantic Cogs (40)

TERRAIN
1 x Realmshaper Engine (0)

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Battle Regiment
**Command Entourage – Magnificent

TOTAL POINTS: (2000/2000)
Drops: 5

Brett: Thunder Lizards with Lord Kroak, Engine of the Gods and Bastiladons has been a very reliable since AoS2.0 so no surprise here. This list ignores AoS3 and even the new season completely to still produce a very strong performance. One change with the new season though is the return of endless spells to the list. For the cost of a Saurus unit you can both increase the reliability of your spells (decrease the flow of time with the Chronomantic Cogs) and increase range with Spellportal. Use the Starpriest to cast Cogs and then Lord Kroak can bring out the Portal if he needs to and cast another 3 spells. He also brings 4 unbinds, there are a total of 7 in this list, even with Teclis you are going to struggle in the hero phase. The list just meshes and has a lot of synergies down to the Astrolith providing +1 to cast and a 6+ ward which works on mortal wounds. The plan is to use the Saurus to take objectives, carry out actions and use the Bastilidon’s and Engine of the Gods to carry out ranged attacks. The Engine might even summon a few Saurus Warriors just to make things a bit harder. The Bastilidon’s 1+ save is a nightmare unless you have consistent Mortal Wound output, Stormstrike Chariots and Goregruntas with the impact hits are amoung the better options. For most armies their mortal wounds are from spells, we already covered how hard this list makes that.

Looking at the match ups this wasn’t an easy road with 2 DoK lists, Idoneth and Beasts. The first 3 lists all feature a lot of shooting (Reavers, Blood Sisters and Judicators) but none of it high quality or pushing out Mortals. The Idoneth “fog” wouldn’t have helped them because Seraphon shooting is short range and they will force you to come to them anyway. Even hordes aren’t effective into this sort of list. The Solar Engines and the Engine of the Gods are delivering upwards of 20 damage into high save units with Kroak having access to a lot of damaging spells. 5/0 is a great result and just goes to show how good this list really is.

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Allegiance: Skaven
– Mortal Realm: Ulgu
– Grand Strategy: No Place for the Weak
– Triumphs: Inspired

LEADERS
Thanquol on Boneripper (415)
– 4 Warpfire Projectors
– Lore of Ruin: Scorch
Verminlord Deceiver (405)*
– General
– Command Trait: Devious Adversary
– Artefact: Shadow Magnet Trinket
– Universal Spell Lore: Flaming Weapon
Warlock Bombardier (115)*
– Lore of Warpvolt Galvanism: More-more-more Warp Power!

UNITS
20 x Clanrats (100)*
– Rusty Blade
– 1x Standard Bearers
– 1x Standard Bell Ringers
20 x Clanrats (100)*
– Rusty Blade
– 1x Standard Bearers
– 1x Standard Bell Ringers
5 x Gutter Runners (105)*
6 x Stormfiends (640)*
– 2x Windlaunchers
– 2x Ratling Cannons
– 2x Shock Gauntlets
– Reinforced x 1

ENDLESS SPELLS
Lauchon the Soulseeker (30)
Purple Sun of Shyish (70)

CORE BATTALIONS
*Battle Regiment

Total: 1980 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 1 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 113
Drops: 2Comments

Brett: New book and new rules sees the rats clamber back up onto the top table. I think it’s great, they are a crazy army with some great, if old, models. This list really needs some more Rat Swarms though for the ambience. Skaven, as is fitting for suriviors from the end times, have an amazing number of warscrolls although only the highlights are here. Undoubtedly for good reason this is really a hero hammer list disquised in a horde army. Thanquol and the Deceiver are almost half of the cost of the list. There is a very neat combo in this list, the Deceiver, can cast 2 spells including a teleport within 6″ for a model with 13 wounds or less. And flaming weapon. So he can teleport himself very close, then cast flaming weapon and now has 6 attacks, hitting on 3+ and wounding on 2+ with R-3, D3 if he can make a 6″ charge. Usually he will have 5 shooting attacks as well. Very nasty. Lauchon the Soulseeker can do the same thing with Thanquol with the major advantage that they can still carry out a normal or run move afterwards. The combination of traits/artefacts the Verminlord is carrying give him 8 attacks if he is near a unit that hasn’t activated. With Flaming Weapon this creates a very flexible nightmare for your opponent that is very difficult to screen Both of the big heros can be almost anywhere on the battlefield. The Purple Sun is here for threat, -1 to save rolls and that risk of it eating something important. Can’t overstate the usefulness of the Purple Sun at the moment. Especially in a list with large units with low rend like the clan rats. The Purple Sun can give their 21 attacks R-1. Clanrats are mostly for screening and objectives, Gutter Runners for forward deploy and Stormfiends. Stormfiends continue to be a very nasty unit with loads of rend in both their ranged and melee attacks. Not forgetting the Bombadier for the crazy Doom Rocket and Warp Lightning.

I would have liked to see how this list against the eventual winner. The only loss was to the eventual third. This list would struggle to produce enough wounds to deal with a Krondspine while it could easily absorb a lot of this list and make itself stronger. All in all a great list with plenty of rat craziness to go around.

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Army Faction: Beasts of Chaos
– Subfaction: Gavespawn
– Grand Strategy: No Place for the Weak
– Triumph: Inspired

LEADERS
Dragon Ogor Shaggoth (155)*
– General
– Command Traits: Unravelling Aura
– Spells: Hailstorm
Great Bray-Shaman (100)*
– Spells: Vicious Stranglethorns
– Bonding: Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur
Tzaangor Shaman (135)*
– Spells: Vicious Stranglethorns

BATTLELINE
Gors (70)*
– Banner Bearer
– Brayhorn
– Gor Blade and Beastshield
Dragon Ogors (250)*
– Draconic War-glaive
Gors (70)*
– Banner Bearer
– Brayhorn
– Gor Blade and Beastshield

BEHEMOTH
Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur (400)*

OTHER
Ungor Raiders (80)*
– Brayhorn
– Banner Bearer
Tzaangor Enlightened on Discs of Tzeentch (360)**
Tzaangor Enlightened on Discs of Tzeentch (360)**

TERRAIN
1 x Herdstone (0)

CORE BATTALIONS
*Battle Regiment
**Bounty Hunters

TOTAL POINTS: 1980/2000C

Brett: Another list with a recent glowup, White Dwarf this time, adding to the year of Chaos. A great 4/0 run here placing third but also beating second place in his run up. Joseph’s only loss was to our winner, the Seraphon. The Herdstone gives everything (except the Incarnate) R-1 for turns 1 and 2 and then R-2 for the rest of the game. Almost half of the list is the 2 bounty hunter lists but their mobility, number of attacks and the increasing rend with the +1 Damage would have made it very hard to hold objectives. And that’s before they make an extra model run. Given the design of the list I think the intention was to funnel units towards the Kronspine using Vicious Stranglethorns on terrain and making the opponent to play around it. The list provides a lot of screening and control with most of the killing being between the Krondpine and the Tzaangors. The gors also serve as a great target for Primordial Call.

The match up into the Seraphone is interesting because for once the Krondspine would struggle. The Bastildons aren’t vulnerable unless they are off their top bracket because there is no mortal wound output. And Kroak could afford to keep feeding endless spells towards it to reduce it’s level. Thunderlizard is probably the worst night mare for Incarnates in the game.

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Allegiance: Legion of Azgorh
– Grand Strategy: No
Place for the Weak
– Triumphs: Inspired

Leaders Bull Centaur Taur’ruk (175)***
– General
– Command Trait: Grotesque
– Artefact: Armour of Bazherak the Cruel Daemonsmith (110)***
– Darkforged Weapon
– Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact)
– Universal Spell Lore: Levitate Daemonsmith (110)***
– Darkforged Weapon

Battleline 20 x Infernal Guard Fireglaives (220)**
– Reinforced x 1
10 x Infernal Guard Fireglaives (110)**
10 x Infernal Guard Fireglaives (110)**

Units
6 x K’Daai Fireborn (300)*
– Reinforced x 1
3 x K’Daai Fireborn (150)*
3 x K’Daai Fireborn (150)*
3 x Bull Centaur Renders (195)
1 x Skullcracker War Engine (215)

Artillery Magma Cannon (150)

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

Total: 1995 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 2 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 125
Drops: 12

Brett: Not a lot I can say about this list, there is so little recent performance information on Dwarves. I think any of the fantasy factions would struggle in the modern meta given the shift to Save stacking and high rend weapons. You would have an advantage because most people won’t know your abilities. Limited shooting (apart from the big guns), poor saves, no rend (K’Daai in particular) and slow; the poor Dwarves and their Daemon allies were outgunned.

It’s great that someone is so committed to their faction that they are willing to take the risk and bring something so different to a large tournament. AoS3 is in a great place at the moment because, while there are some factions that do a little better than others (Thunder Lizard and DoK) there is a broad church of factions and ways within each of the factions that can take wins. It’s a really consistent broad meta. Even the approach with each of the lists on the podium is so different, 2 with endless spells but covering 4 different spells and one with an incarnate. They would all play very differently and take different tactics to counter.

Final Tournament Placings

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

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

July 17, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

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

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

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Grand Tournaments

Ranked from largest to smallest.

South Coast Series July – England/UK
40 Players

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

South Coast Series July

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

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

Summer on the Coast AoS GT

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

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

Kingdom of Skrappa Spill

Grand Alliance Stats

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

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

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

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

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Faction Stats

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

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

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

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Subfactions

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

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

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

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

Next Week

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

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

July 10, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

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

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

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Grand Tournaments

Ranked from largest to smallest.

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

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

From the Ashes 2022

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

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

World tSports Champions

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

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

Coliseum of Sigmar Carnage GT

Grand Alliance Stats

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Faction Stats

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Subfaction Stats

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE SUPRISE

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

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

Who gets ranked?

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

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

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

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

AoS Player Rankings on 3rd July 2022

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

July 3, 2022 Peter Holland Leave a comment

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

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

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Grand Tournaments

Ranked from largest to smallest.

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

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

Giga-Con: Age of Sigmar Teams Event

Ironweld Open GT – Massachusetts/USA
32 Players

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

Ironweld Open GT

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Grand Alliance Stats

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

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

Faction Stats

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

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

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

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Subfaction Stats

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

Age of Sigmar, Army Lists, Chaos, Fantasy, Games Workshop, Legion of the First Prince, Lumineth Realm-Lords, Order, Seraphon, thunder Lizard, Top three lists, Tournaments, Zaitrec

Top Three AoS Lists from the Ironweld GT

July 2, 2022 Declan and Peter Leave a comment

This is the Top Three AoS Lists for the Ironweld GT that took place in Massachusetts, USA on 25th and 26th June. It involved 32 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5 game tournament.

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Army Faction: Seraphon
– Army Type: Coalesced
– Subfaction: Thunder Lizard
– Grand Strategy: Beast Master

LEADERS
Engine of the Gods (265)**
– General
– Command Traits: Prime Warbeast
– Artefacts of Power: Incandescent Rectrices
– Mount Traits: Beastmaster
– Prayers: Heal
Saurus Astrolith Bearer (150)***
– Artefacts of Power: Fusil of Conflagration
Lord Kroak (430)***
Celestant-Prime (325)***

BATTLELINE
Skinks (75)**
– Skink Alpha
– Boltspitter and Moonstone Club
Skinks (75)**
– Skink Alpha
– Boltspitter and Moonstone Club
Saurus Guard (115)***
– Saurus Guard Alpha
– Stardrake Icon Bearer
– Wardrummer

BEHEMOTH
Bastiladon with Ark of Sotek (165)*
Bastiladon with Ark of Sotek (165)*
Bastiladon with Ark of Sotek (165)*

ENDLESS SPELLS & INVOCATIONS
1 x Horrorghast (65)

TERRAIN
1 x Realmshaper Engine (0)

CORE BATTALIONS
*Alpha-Beast Pack
**Battle Regiment
***Warlord – Magnificent

TOTAL POINTS: 1995/2000

Declan – Seraphon have been good throughout GHB21 and they end here also on top. There’s loads you can do with the list and that is why they remain on top. Normally people take the Solar Engines but Michael has taken 3 Ark of Soteks. These have some advantages over the Solar Engines – they are cheaper, don’t give up additional Hunt points, and they are great into the mirror. Lots of attacks, with mortal wounds and damage 1 mean a Thunder Lizard list has minimal impact on this.

Added to this Kroak throws out a tonne of mortal wound magic to be able to take down support characters at range with ease. There’s no surprise this list came out on top with all it’s tools!

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Top Three AoS Lists - 2nd Place, Fyreslayers

Allegiance: Seraphon
– Constellation: Thunder Lizard
– Grand Strategy: Beast Master
– Triumphs: Inspired

Leaders
Engine of the Gods (265)**
– Artefact: Fusil of Conflaguration
– Universal Prayer Scripture: Curse
Skink Priest (80)**
– Universal Prayer Scripture: Guidance
Skink Priest (80)**
– Universal Prayer Scripture: Heal
Skink Starpriest (130)***
– Spell: Hand of Glory
Slann Starmaster (265)***
– Artefact: Itxi Grubs
– Spell: Stellar Tempest
Stegadon with Skink Chief (305)***
– General
– Command Trait: Arcane Might
– Artefact: Cloak of Feathers
– Weapon: Skystreak Bow
– Mount Trait: Beastmaster

Battleline
30 x Skinks (225)****
– Boltspitters & Moonstone Clubs
– Reinforced x 2
10 x Skinks (75)****
– Boltspitters Celestite Daggers & Star Bucklers
10 x Skinks (75)****
– Boltspitters Celestite Daggers & Star Bucklers

Behemoths
Bastiladon with Solar Engine (250)*
Bastiladon with Solar Engine (250)*

Core Battalions
*Alpha-Beast Pack
**Command Entourage – Magnificent
***Command Entourage – Magnificent
****Hunters of the Heartlands

Additional Enhancements
Artefact
Artefact

Total: 2000 / 2000
Reinforced Units: 2 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 111
Drops: 11

Declan – a totally different type of Thunder Lizard army goes to show the strength in depth to the book. This relies on the Bastiladons shooting at range, and buffing the 30 skinks with 4 or 5 buffs (most automatic) and rending through an opponent at range.

If your opponent is lucky enough to reach you, the Bastiladons provide excellent blockers of space with their 1+ armour save. Unless you bring mortal wounds this a monster list to defeat. I tend to go for the big unit of Skinks, but you need to charge a sacrificial unit first to make them use unleash hell. That said I’ve always struggled against this list, and I imagine others do as well.

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

LEADER
Be’lakor (360)
– Spells: The Master’s Command
Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage (280)
– General
– Command Traits: Ruinous Aura
– Artefacts: Armour of the Pact
– Bonding: Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur
Kairos Fateweaver (435)*
– Spells: The Master’s Command

BATTLELINE
Flesh Hounds (105)*
Bloodletters (115)*
Plaguebearers (150)*

BEHEMOTH
Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur (400)*

ENDLESS SPELL
Umbral Spellportal (70)
Emerald Lifeswarm (60)

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: (1975/2000)

Declan – the Incarnate! Emma has brought a monstrous beast in the Incarnate, backing up a Legion of the First Prince list which has all the tech. If you’ve not seen it before it is very difficult to play against due to all the moving parts. It also does surprisingly little damage – although the Incarnate will change this.

This army wins by stopping opponents getting objectives and battle tactics with Belakor turning off one unit for a turn and Kairos to change a dice roll. If you think you’re running 6″ to get that objective, you’re probably not. This means it’s difficult to reliably score points against it whilst it racks them up. Nothing in GHB22 suggests this won’t work just as well.

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Army Faction: Lumineth Realm-lords
– Army Subfaction: Zaitrec

LEADER
Archmage Teclis (740)
– General
Scinari Loreseeker (170)
– Spells: Lambent Light, Solar Flare

BATTLELINE
Vanari Auralan Wardens (145)
– High Warden
– Spells: Overwhelming Heat, Total Eclipse
Vanari Auralan Wardens (145)
– High Warden
– Spells: Overwhelming Heat, Speed of Hysh
2 x Vanari Auralan Sentinels (510)
– High Sentinel
– Spells: Overwhelming Heat, Lambent Light

ENDLESS SPELL
Purple Sun of Shyish (70)
Rune of Petrification (75)

OTHER
Vanari Dawnriders (140)

TOTAL POINTS: (1995/2000)

Declan – LRL and the first Purple Sun of Shyish we’ve seen. And boy… is it a monster.

Whilst it’s difficult to cast the LRL shouldn’t have too much trouble, and they you’re looking at a huge area that big monsters can’t go into and – even they risk it – they’ll be at -1 save. An extra pip of rend is worth it’s weight in gold.

The rest of the army is based around Teclis who can auto-cast spells (look a Purple Sun!) and 20 Sentinels for some long range non-LOS shooting with mortal wounds and re-rolling thrown in for good measure.

I’ve fought Teclis before, and the answer I think is to charge en-masse and kill everything that isn’t Teclis – oh… and don’t roll a 1!

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