You may have been wondering where the stats have been for the last couple of weeks. I’m pleased to say we’ve been working on something a bit special!
We have numerous members in the Woehammer team (39 members at the last count). Not all of these comment on lists. Some help me with graphics, others SEO and some are techy coders. Why am I telling you this?! Well it just so happens that one of the crew has written a piece of code that will allow us to automatically gather the tournament data from various TO websites, such as Best Coast Pairings and Stats & Ladders.
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This will mean I’ll be able to provide you with a stats breakdown for GTs and another for RTTs. We can even combine the two into a GW metawatch style report.
As well as this, we’ll also be able to make more detailed breakdowns for each faction. This will include analysing the matchups for each faction and also what enhancements and warscrolls are being regularly taken in lists.
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We’re going to make this coding free and available to anyone who wants to use it.
This is the top three AoS lists for Smash To Rubble II that took place in Serbia on the 3rd and 4th of November. It saw 23 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.
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The Top Three AoS Lists
Army Faction: Orruk Warclans – Army Type: Big Waaagh! – Grand Strategy: Waaagh! – Triumph: Indomitable
LEADERS Swampcalla Shaman and Pot-grot (100)* – Spells: Choking Mist Orruk Weirdnob Shaman (90)* – Spells: Da Great Big Green Hand of Gork Killaboss on Great Gnashtoof (120)** – General – Command Traits: Supa Sneaky – Artefacts of Power: Mork’s Eye Pebble – Mount Traits: Fast ’Un Orruk Warchanter (120)*** – Warbeats: Get ’Em Beat Wurrgog Prophet (170)*** – Artefacts of Power: Glowin’ Tattooz – Spells: Hoarfrost Swampboss Skumdrekk (280)***
BATTLELINE Gutrippaz (450)** – Gutrippa Drummer – Gutrippa Boss – Wicked Stikka – 2 x Gutrippa Hornblower – 3 x Gutrippa Banner Bearer Orruk Brutes (140)** – Brute Boss – Gore-choppa – Boss Klaw & Brute Smasha – Jagged Gore-hacka Hobgrot Slittaz (80)*** – Scrap Totem Bearer – Noise-maker – Hobgrot Boss
OTHER Orruk Gore-gruntas (170)** – Gore-grunta Boss – Jagged Gore-hacka Brute Ragerz (200)** – 6 x Chain-smasha Ironskull’s Boyz (80)**
Big Waaagh again here, but with some nice little tweaks to the usual Pig and Brute heavy core!
Firstly, and this makes my heart sing, we have a Gnashtoof, with Mork’s Eye Pebble for some early shooting resistance (a 5+++ ward bubble against ranged attacks) which definitely helps to mitigate one of the obvious counters to the techy but relatively fragile army. There’s also the named Sludgeraker, who has the usual Kboyz synergy with the triple Gutrippa blob, which functions as a giant objective holder or mid-board roadblock that can also throw out a tonne of MWs.
Running around behind the phalanx of skare-shields are a cheeky reinforced Ragerz unit – who’re quickly becoming popular as a small-footprint missile, and for good reason.
A really interesting spin on BWaagh that managed to deal with the tankiness of Koatl’s Claw (those Gutrippaz MWs would come in handy there), the meta-darlings Khorne and a heavy hitting varanaguard list – impressive!
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Army Faction: Slaves to Darkness – Damned Legion: Knights of the Empty Throne – Grand Strategy: Overshadow – Triumph: Bloodthirsty
LEADERS Chaos Sorcerer Lord (120)* – Mark of Chaos: Undivided – Artifact: Chaos Familiar – Lore of Primal Frost: Hoarfrost Varanguard (560)* – General – Mark of Chaos: Khorne – 6 x Fellspear Be’lakor (340)* – The Lore of the Damned: Daemonic Speed
BATTLELINE Chaos Knights (220)* – Mark of Chaos: Khorne – Doom Knight – Hornblower – Standard Bearer – Cursed Lance Varanguard (280)* – Mark of Chaos: Khorne – 3 x Fellspear Chaos Knights (440)* – Mark of Chaos: Nurgle – Doom Knight – Cursed Lance – 2 x Standard Bearer – 2 x Hornblower – Ensorcelled Banner: The Eroding Icon
CORE BATTALIONS *Battle Regiment
TOTAL POINTS: 1960/2000
Roland Rivera: Be’lakor has become a popular inclusion in Empty Throne lists of late in order to give that style of list a bit more spellcasting muscle as well as tactical depth, and this list is the latest example of how that approach can be successful. It enables this list to go light on chaff (not a Cultist unit as far as the eye can see), and instead focus on running a daunting lineup of cavalry hammers that can run through virtually any opponent.
While the list’s clear all-star is the 6 Khorne Fellspear Varanguard, the 10-man Nurgle Knights make for an anvil with a ton of punch, and the unreinforced Knights and Varanguard units make for useful complementary hammers that can swing key combats. Last but not least, the Chaos Sorcerer is also here to provide potent buffs to make it all run smoothly. As with other lists in this style, we see a deep triumph bid to have a strong chance at an on-demand charge reroll in Bloodthirsty.
The potency in this list lies in its reliability: it has picked a specialty and honed it to a razor’s edge, and is thus very good at executing its gameplan to devastating effect.
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Allegiance: Gloomspite Gitz – Gittish Horde: King’s Gitz – Grand Strategy: Chasing the moon – Triumphs: Indomitable
Leaders Skragrott, The Loonking (230) ** Loonboss (90) * – General – Command Trait: The Clammy Hand Madcap Shaman (70) ** – Artefact: Moonface Mommet – Lore of Primal Frost: Hoarfrost
Battleline 15 x Boingrot Bounderz (450) ** – Reinforced x 2 5 x Boingrot Bounderz (150) ** 40 x Moonclan Stabbas (240) * – Reinforced x 1
Units 5 x Gobbapalooza (170) ** – Spell1: Lore of the Moonclans: Itchy Nuisance 6 x Sneaky Snufflers (140) * 5 x Sporesplatta Fanatics (90) ** 6 x Rockgut Troggoths (340) ** – Reinforced x 1
Lodivicus: Whew! It feels like it’s been a while since we’ve seen much other than variations of the Jaws of Mork core lists placing. Here we have a Da King’s Gitz ‘soup’ list, which really is a bit of a welcome change for me to write about. I can’t completely escape the parallels to those lists, though, as it does contain most of the core we’ve seen in those builds at the moment. Skragrott, a Madcap Shaman with Moonface Mommet and Hoarfrost, Gobbapalooza, Sneaky Snufflers, Boingrot Bounderz and the Bad Moon Loonshrine. But I’ll take what I can get!
Let’s start with the subfaction choice, Da King’s Gitz. This simply allows us to reroll the dice roll when using the Bad Moon Loonshrine’s Moonclan Lairs ability. However, when combined with the Loonboss’ Clammy Hand command trait, it means you can make two Moonclan Lair rolls, both with rerolls. That’s potential for some pretty reliable recursion coming out of the shrine!
The Loonboss adds ‘mortals on 6s to wound in addition’ whenever he issues the All-out Attack command to a friendly Moonclan unit. I suspect he is primarily here to follow around the Stabbas and to contribute to their output (especially in conjunction with Hoarfrost) but could also buff any of the other Moonclan units in the list.
The forty Stabbas act as objective controllers (contesting an objective within 9” while they have twenty or more models) and still can have respectable output when fully buffed up (with Hoarfrost, All-out Attack from the Loonboss, Moonface Mommet on the target, and an extra attack from Sporesplatta Fanatics). With a lucky Looncap Mushrooms roll (from the Sneaky Snufflers), you could get them yet another attack each in addition to a 5+ ward.
Sporesplatta Fanatics with their pregame move and Spore Cloud ability make excellent screens for a fairly low price tag. It’s common to use them as a screen in early turns and then return half of them from the Loonshrine when they die to offer extra attacks later with their Puffshroom Frenzy ability.
Six Rockgut Troggoths are another hammer (along with Bounderz) and offer more durability (decent saves, decent wounds, and native 5+ wards) to the list as well. They benefit a lot from the +1 attack buffs that are present in the list.
Congratulations, Oleg, on battling back to a 3rd place finish after dropping a game to Daughters of Khaine in round 1. It’s really nice to see a Gitz ‘soup’ list doing so well.
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Allegiance: Blades of Khorne – Slaughterhost: Reapers of Vengeance – Mortal Realm: Ghur – Grand Strategy: The Blood Legions March
Leaders Bloodsecrator (120)* as Private Leonard “Gomer Pyle” – Nullstone Adornments: Pouch of Nulldust Dromm (180)* as Sergeant “Cowboy” Evans – Prayers: Blood Sacrifice, Unholy Flames Slaughterpriest (110)* as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman – General – Command Traits: High-priest of Khorne – Bloodbathed Axe – Artefacts of Power: The Crimson Plate – Prayers: Bronzed Flesh, Killer Instinct Valkia the Bloody (140)** as Sergeant “Animal Mother” Bloodmaster (110)** as Sergeant J. T. “Joker” Davis – Artefacts of Power: Ar’gath, the King of Blades – Prayers: Bloodbind, Witchbane Curse Skulltaker (120)** as Corporal “Eightball”
Battlelines 8 x Claws of Karanak (100) 8 x Claws of Karanak (100) 10 x Bloodreavers (80) – Meatripper Axes (everyone)* 10 x Bloodreavers (80)** 10 x Bloodreavers (80) 10 x Bloodreavers (80) 10 x Bloodreavers (80) 10 x Bloodreavers (80)
Units Karanak (140) as Private First Class “Rafterman” 5x Wrathmongers (140) Gorechosen of Dromm (180) 6x Furies (80)
Endless Spells and Innvocations 1 x Wrath-Axe (70) 1 x Bleeding Icon (50) 1 x Hexgorger Skulls (50)
Core Battalions *Warlord **Warlord
Total: 1990 / 2000
Roland Rivera: Most Reapers of Vengeance lists go heavy on Daemons, especially Bloodthirsters, to take advantage of the bonus to hit for Daemons against Heroes, but here we have a list opting for the road less traveled (in fact, I’m not sure why they chose Reapers at all). Of all the units in the army, only the Bloodmaster, Skulltaker, and Karanak are Daemons!
Instead, this is opting for the increasingly-popular approach to Khorne lists, which is to flood the board with expendable units (Bloodreavers and Claws of Karanak, in this case). You usually see that paired with some big hitters to win key combats (such as Skullreapers), but this list has opted to handle it by committee, running tons of Priests with the full complement of Invocations to maximize the utility of the Hero phase. The Bloodmaster and Skulltaker can also serve as Hero assassins once the battle has been joined, as lone Heroes can find it easy to slip past screens and they are decently punchy for their points. They can easily take out a Hero that has been softened up by the Invocations, for example.
Even by the techy standards of Khorne, this feels like a finesse list that is difficult to pilot well, but Sergei seems to have been up to the task, as I find a 3-1-1 result from a list that does not have a clearly identifiable hammer to be fairly impressive.
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Final Tournament Placings
To view all of the results for the tournament please follow the link below to Best Coast Pairings
This is the top three AoS lists for Garage Skirmish I that took place in Serbia on the 18th of November. It saw 8 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.
Before I jump into the Top Three AoS Lists, 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.
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The Top Three AoS Lists
Army Faction: Idoneth Deepkin – Army Subfaction: Nautilar – Grand Strategy: Overshadow – Triumphs: Indomitable
LEADER 1 x Lotann (110) 1 x Akhelian King (220)* – General – Command Traits: Unstoppable Fury – Bladed Polearm and Falchion – Artefacts: Armour of the Cythai – Mount Traits: Voidchill Darkness 1 x Akhelian Thrallmaster (100)** 1 x Isharann Soulrender (100)** – Artefacts: Arcane Tome 1 x Isharann Tidecaster (130)** – Spells: Hoarfrost
BATTLELINE 20 x Namarti Thralls (110)* – Icon Bearer 3 x Akhelian Ishlaen Guard (170)* 3 x Akhelian Ishlaen Guard (170)* 10 x Namarti Reavers (160)** 10 x Namarti Reavers (160)**
BEHEMOTH 1 x Akhelian Leviadon (400) – Mount Traits: Reverberating Carapace
TERRAIN 1 x Gloomtide Shipwreck (0)
CORE BATTALIONS: *Vanguard **Warlord
TOTAL POINTS: (1940/2000)
Yuri Vybornov: In my list, I tried to combine all the best options Idoneth have – excluding sharks, which became a popular trend since the last Battlescroll, but will soon disappear again. Also, shark spam, in my opinion, isn’t the most thrilling way to play Idoneth and has some obvious weaknesses. So I decided to try a list of combined arms – my favourite type of list. Important note – i had only a couple of games with this army in the third edition, so I had to think theoretically about building my roster.
Heroes of the idoneth provide major buffs to the already decent units, so I packed five of them – Lotann, Thrallmaster and Soulrender for buffing and reviving, Tidecaster solely to give me access to the second Ritual if need arises (spoiler: it didn’t. Though there are always chances to meet some shooting-heavy lists, such as Hedonites, Kharadron Overlords, and Cities. In such situations, a combination of rituals of Deep-sight and creeping mist could grant me some major advantages). Akhelian King was there to do what Akhelian King does best – slaying stuff. And oh boy, did he deliver some major pain.
I’ve chosen Nautilar solely to make the otherwise lacking Leviadon worth 400 points – I knew that it was a controversial choice for the Enclave, but this sweet rend -3 on damage 4 attacks was needed, in my opinion. I think it paid off, as in all 3 games, the turtle did some heavy-lifting as well.
I also had doubts about 2 units of 3 Ishlaen, though I intended to use them as ultimate objective-grabbers. They did their job very well due to their speed, some consistent damage output, and decent survivability. These guys ain’t no joke, and now I think I will be taking them as the core part of the list as they do their part really well. It’s very easy for them to take control of the objective from other skirmish units – such as skinks, Dawnriders, or even river-trolls they faced in the 1st round of the event.
In all cases, they killed their opponents without losing any models themselves, which is very important, as they were able to continue their play until the end of the battle. After securing the objective, they also had plenty of roles to fulfil – chase down the opponent’s beaten units, assassinate heroes, and even support the main line if need be.
Finally, Namarti are Namarti – reavers were manoeuvrable shooting-support, capable of inflicting some hurt to enemy armies and sometimes even killing charging foes in unleash hell due to their bonuses «to hit». Their colleagues, thralls, backed up by Thrallmaster, Leviadon, Lotann, and Soulrender, were capable of holding their ground pretty well in all three games and inflicting solid damage in return. To round it up, the lists turned out to be quite well-balanced – it has speed, some high rends, weight of dice attacks, decent distance threats, and some decent survivability. The only weaknesses it has are inherited – idoneth strive to deliver and survive mortal wounds and playing with magic in general, which almost proved to be fatal against Seraphon and Lumineth. But their strong sides can mitigate those to some extent for sure.
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Army Faction: Lumineth Realm-lords – Subfaction: Zaitrec – Grand Strategy: Spellcasting Savant
LEADERS Sevireth (270)* The Light of Eltharion (230)* Ellania and Ellathor (190)* – Spells: Etheral Blessings, Speed of Hysh Vanari Lord Regent (150)* – Spells: Protection of Hysh, Speed of Hysh Scinari Cathallar (120)** – Spells: Merciless Blizzard, Total Eclipse Scinari Enlightener (170)** – General – Command Traits: Loremaster – Artefacts of Power: Phoenix Stone – Spells: Hoarfrost, Merciless Blizzard, Protection of Hysh, Speed of Hysh
Milan Popovic: My list has a few important things that make it joker-like. I have Sevireth that is fast and good at distraction and in chasing small heroes down. Bladelords are a good punching unit as well as Light of Eltharion. Dawnriders were in all games used as an additional screen with one unit of wardeners, but their purpose was to chase small units and to give support to Sevireth. Spell diversity I got from the Magnificent of Command Entourage battalion. The list is like a castle moving until I slingshot a unit of bladelords fully buffed that picks up important units and destroys them. Wih Enlightener that can cast speed of hysh if and his Rune of Enthlai it is possible to launch Light of Eltharion as well. It’s a well-rounded list that only suffers from spreading too much. Some small tweaks to the list would make it even more deadly. Better first strike placement with wardens, and maybe trading dawnriders for sentinels could make good change. Also, Sudden Translocation from Ellania and Ellathor makes them unreliable enough.
LEADERS Keeper of Secrets (400)* – General – Command Trait: Hunter Supreme – Shining Aegis – Artefact: Girdle of the Realm-racer – Lore of the Pursuer: Paths of the Dark Prince The Masque (150)** Sigvald, Prince of Slaanesh (200)* Syll’Esske, the Vengeful Allegiance (200)* – Lore of the Pursuer: Progency of Damnation
UNITS 5 x Seekers (140)* 5 x Seekers (140)* 5 x Seekers (140)* 5 x Blissbarb Seekers (220)* 5 x Slickblade Seekers (220)**
BEHEMOTHS Chaos Warshrine (180)* – Mark of Chaos: Slaanesh – Universal Prayer Scripture: Heal
CORE BATTALIONS *Battle Regiment **Vanguard
TOTAL: 1990/2000
Miljan Otovic: The idea behind this list is to play as much as possible to HoS’ main advantage, which is, in my opinion, speed.
So, all units are fast, and the main idea behind it is to concentrate heavily hitting units and take out as many of opponents’ damage dealers as possible – as fast as possible.
For screening and objective grabbing are used Seekers, while everything else is hitting and “pinning” the opponent in the opponent’s zone. Keeping his units and damaged dealers occupied, preferably for a few turns.
Keeper of Secrets and Sigvald are attacking characters (sometimes with Mask too) and destroying support ones on 1st turn if possible.
After that, there is trading between hitting elements of the army, but at that point, it goes in favour of the HoS.
One big drawback for this list is that it is “dice dependent”. Or more “average dependent”, any early skew in opponents’ favor makes victory near impossible. “
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Final Tournament Placings
To view all of the results for the tournament please follow the link below to Best Coast Pairings
This is the top three AoS lists for the TMagical Dominance Saigon Warhammer Age of Sigmar GT 2023/2 that took place in Vietnam on the 3rd and 4th of November. It saw 22 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.
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The Top Three AoS Lists
Allegiance: Flesh-eater Courts – Grand Court: Blisterskin – Grand Strategy: Spellcasting Savant – Triumphs: Bloodthirsty
LEADERS Abhorrant Archregent (240)* – General – Command Trait: Hellish Orator – Lore of Madness: Deranged Transformation Abhorrant Archregent (240)* – Lore of Madness: Spectral Host Abhorrant Ghoul King on Royal Terrorgheist (450)** – Artefact: Eye of Hysh – Mount Trait: Gruesome Bite – Lore of Madness: Blood Feast Abhorrant Ghoul King (170)** – Lore of Primal Frost: Rupture
UNITS 3 x Crypt Flayers (180)** 10 x Crypt Ghouls (80)** 10 x Crypt Ghouls (80)** 10 x Crypt Ghouls (80)** 3 x Crypt Flayers (180)**
Hanna Leppänen: This list is an interesting one! Blisterskin is not the most typical subfaction, but it gives +2″ move to all Blisterskin units and a teleport CA for flying units. The Hero section of this list looks rather typical with double Archreagents providing 2 casts each and summons. Goose King aka Aborrant Ghoul King on Royal Terrorgheist providing a good mobile hammer (especially when buffed up) and Foot King for that +1 A spell and 10 Ghouls summon. Spellcasting Savant is a good GS, especially with Flayers, who I think are playing a major role in this list, transporting the heroes and being super mobile.
Overall, this list is a neat take on how FEC can be super control heavy (this was earlier this year seen particularly in Morgaunt lists). Lots of movement, movement shenanigans, screens, and zoning pieces prevent armies from getting where they want to go, with a huge threat of Goose King and Terrorgheist looming around (possibly teleporting with Blisterskin CA).
The list plays vastly different to the typical “99” horrors lists seen around. It doesn’t hit hard apart from the terrorgheists, but it provides a lot of hard to counter, mobile pieces that can screen the Terrorgheist and bully the back lines. Flayers can carry the non-flying heroes surprisingly far when needed, and while they’re definitely in the short end of the recent changes FEC got in Dawnbringers, they can do work, especially against the squishier targets. The 2 Terrorgheists do the heavy lifting of this list, while summons and fast flayers outmanouver and threaten out of position units.
This all being said, this kind of list requires very good positioning to function well, so very well done to Trung for getting his 5-0 with the list!
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Army Faction: Seraphon – Army Type: Starborne – Army Subfaction: Fangs of Sotek – Grand Strategy: Continuous Expansion – Triumphs: Indomitable
LEADER 1 x Slann Starmaster (290)* – General – Command Traits: Lord of Celestial Resonance – Spells: Hoarfrost, Comet’s Call 1 x Saurus Astrolith Bearer (140)* – Artefacts: Arcane Tome 1 x Lord Kroak (410)** 1 x Skink Starseer (150)** – Spells: Merciless Blizzard, Cosmic Crush 1 x Skink Starpriest (130)** – Spells: Merciless Blizzard, Speed of Huanchi
BATTLELINE 10 x Skinks (90) – Skink Alpha – Boltspitter – Celestite Dagger and Star-buckler 10 x Skinks (90) – Skink Alpha – Boltspitter – Celestite Dagger and Star-buckler 10 x Saurus Warriors (180) – Saurus Warrior Alpha – Icon Bearer – War-drummer – Celestite Spear 5 x Saurus Guard (140)** – Icon Bearer – War-drummer – Saurus Guard Alpha
BEHEMOTH 1 x Bastiladon with Ark of Sotek (180)
ENDLESS SPELL 1 x Aethervoid Pendulum (40) 1 x Malevolent Maelstrom (50) 1 x Suffocating Gravetide (30)
TERRAIN 1 x Starborne Realmshaper Engine (0)
OTHER 5 x Hunters of Huanchi with Starstone Bolas (80) – Hornblower – Huanchi’s Claw – Chameleon Skink Alpha
CORE BATTALIONS: *Andtorian Acolytes **Warlord
TOTAL POINTS: (2000/2000)
Aaaah, Starborne. Last time I commented on a Starborne list, I just made a glib limerick. And I can’t exactly top that. So this time, I’m just going to speculate idly on what could be done in terms of internal balance to mix things up a little.
Firstly, kill ‘Lord of Celestial Resonance’. Just straight up delete it from the book. It’s so far and away the most competitive pick of Command Traits as to render the rest meaningless. Sure, there was that one no-Slann list at War in the Heartlands that just happened to go 5-0, and he’s a complete legend, but of course the rest of us mere mortals want double the star power for just playing the game. Delete that command trait and we’d see some experimentation with the others – plus, as a result, the Slann’s points could probably drop a little which would also make him much more viable in Coalesced lists.
Next, re-write the Dracothian’s Tale sub-faction rules. As it stands it’s fairly pointless as I see it – the army gives you teleporting, you want stuff on the board for generating star power and screening your Star Power Generators – and there’s even a handy artifact (which this list hasn’t even bothered to take) for bringing stuff in outside of 7″ as opposed to 9″. So what does Draco Tail actually offer? Change it to something like – I don’t know, it buffs Chotecs and Terradons, or makes monsters a bit better somehow so that it can function as the ‘wizard lizards with fighty friends’ playstyle.
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Army Faction: Ossiarch Bonereapers – Subfaction: Crematorians – Grand Strategy: Overshadow – Triumph: Inspired
LEADERS Liege-Kavalos (180) – General – Command Traits: Mighty Archaeossian – Artefacts of Power: Lode of Saturation Katakros (500)* Mortisan Boneshaper (140)* – Spells: Reinforce Constructs Mortisan Soulmason (160)* – Spells: Hoarfrost
ENDLESS SPELLS & INVOCATIONS 1 x Bone-tithe Shrieker (60) 1 x Soulstealer Carrion (40)
TERRAIN 1 x Bone-tithe Nexus (0)
CORE BATTALIONS *Ossiarch Cohort
TOTAL POINTS: 1950/2000
Roland Rivera: An interesting note about the Ossiarch Bonereapers 3rd edition tome is that the first list to earn 5-0 honors used the Crematorians subfaction. Clarificatory changes to the timing of the Gothizzar Harvester’s ability (which made it markedly worse) resulted in it falling out of favor, but recent points cuts to the Harvester and to Mortek Guard have made it an appealing option once again.
This list features an interesting General choice in the Liege-Kavalos, which has been kitted out to be an immovable object with the combination of Mighty Archaeossian (which gives it a 3+ ethereal save) and Lode of Saturation (which gives it a base 5+ Ward). Because this list is Mortek Guard-centric, a Soulmason is a strong choice thanks to the Soul-Guide spell. These choices join a Boneshaper and Katakros, which are common inclusions in most OBR lists.
As for the troops themselves, this list features 2 units of 20 Morteks that it will seek to get into combat, as well as 5 Kavalos Deathriders as an efficient skirmisher unit. Lastly, a Harvester provides a potent source of secondary healing for the Mortek as well as a cheap, decently hitty Monster to Roar into combat with.
Last but not least, the list includes some endless spells in the Bone-Tithe Shrieker (to combat wards) and the Soulstealer Carrion (to combat cheap objective grabbers). You don’t often see these spells in OBR lists with how tight their points situation currently is, but the pilot here clearly felt that they were needed, and who am I to argue?
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Lumineth Realm-Lords Great Nation: Zaitrec Grand Strategy: Spellcasting Savant Triumph: Indomitable Army Points: 1970
Leaders Enlightener (170)* – General – Command Trait: Loremaster – Artefact: Rune of Senthoi – Spells: Hoarfrost, Merciless Blizzard, Speed of Hysh, Protection of Hysh Cathallar (120)* – Spells: Total Eclipse, Hoarfrost Sevireth (270)** Calligrave (110)** – Spells: Etheral Blessing, Overwhelming heat The Light of Eltharion (230)** Bannerblade (80)***
Battleline 10 x Vanari Bladelords (120)*** – Bladelord Seneschal 10 x Vanari Bladelords (120)*** – Bladelord Seneschal 10 x Wardens (150)** – High Warden – Spells: Total Eclipse, Solare Flare 5 x Dawnriders (120) – Steedmaster – Standard Bearer – Spells: Overwhelming Heat, Speed of Hysh
Other 5 x Dawnriders (120) – Steedmaster – Standard Bearer – Spells: Overwhelming Heat, Speed of Hysh
Battalions: *Andtorian Acolytes **Warlord ***Wizard-finders of andtor
So we’ll be honest, we’re not too sure how this list works and didn’t want to give duff information. If you think you know how it works, why don’t you let us know in the commbelow?
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Final Tournament Placings
To view all of the results for the tournament please follow the link below to Best Coast Pairings
This is the top three AoS lists for tLay low the Tyrants Grand Tournament that took place in the US on the 21st and 22nd of October. It saw 54 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.
Before I jump into the Top Three AoS Lists, 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.
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The Top Three AoS Lists
Allegiance: Sons of Behemat – Tribe: King Brodd’s Stomp – Grand Strategy: Overshadow – Triumph: Inspired
Leaders/Battleline King Brodd (520) – General – Command Trait: Big Eater Gatebreaker Mega-Gargant (500) – Artefact: Brand of the Gargant Warstomper Mega-Gargant (450) Kraken-Eater Mega-Gargant (500)
Total: 1950 / 2000
Jeremy Hauck: Sons of Behemat are a menace to your local and grand tournament meta alike. With an imposing ability to control objectives using their Mightier Makes Rightier ability, few armies can hope to control the battlefield better than the lords of monsters. The core army boasts a suite of unique monstrous actions that display their dominance in the realm of Ghur.
A recent addition to the ongoing narrative, Dawnbringers, boasts a few exciting ways to play your towering monsters: King Brodd’s Stomp.With King Brodd’s Stomp (KBS), gargant players can enjoy new commands, artifacts, battle tactics, an unprecedented defense of their King, Brodd, and a devastating way to interact with terrain, Smash it all to Bits.
Walker Snapp recently displayed mastery of this army with his 5 and 0 at Vault Wars 2023. Walker employed the “one of everything” style of list writing for Sons of Behemat.
He has opted to have King Brodd be his general, and armed him with Big Eater, a command trait that allows Mega-Gargants wholly within 12” of this general to heal up to D3 wounds if that Mega-Gargant killed any models with melee attacks during the combat phase. Additionally, leaning into the offensive prowess of the Gatebreaker, has armed this gargant with his only artefact of power: The Brand of the Gargant. This scorching club allows the bearer to strike-first in the combat phase if this unit has made an unmodified charge roll of 8+.
His Warstomper Mega-Gargant is deployed for its horde clearing capabilities, gaining extra attacks for each model within 3” of the beast.
His Kraken-Eater Mega-Gargant likely played goalie for his team, with the unique ability to move objectives up to 2D6 inches in all of Walker’s hero phases.
Sons of Behemat have the uncanny ability to play both offense and defense tremendously. With bombastic attack profiles, 1950 points to consistently gain access to his powerful Triumph of +1 to wound, and the capability of a lucky 8+ inch charge to strike first on offense, Walker’s list positions itself to bring the fight to the enemy.
Within KBS, while any other gargant is within 3 inches of King Brodd, he also has an absolutely insane 5+ ward. Bringing this type of wound mitigation to his already absurd 40 wounds means jamming Brodd down the enemies front lines is a surefire way to get consistent damage out of the King all game long.
Coupled with this the new Smash to Bits ability, which gives a hilariously swingy ranged attack that, in my experience, is just as likely to do 0 damage as it is to do 18, the Sons of Behemat are no slouch when it comes to output.
But even more powerful than this output is the unique ability to transform the landscape of the game, as the only army that can currently remove terrain from the board. It can’t be undervalued that if your opponent has hidden a critical piece of their army behind terrain, it only takes a simple 2+ roll to remove that obstacle.
And when it comes to mobility, their new Monstrous action, bespoke to KBS, is The King’s Stomp: the ability to fly 3d6 inches after making a charge turns the Mega-Gargant into a locomotive that crashes into the unsuspecting target hiding behind their screens.
Walker has opted out of taking the arcane tome, foregoing access to the easy battle tactic of Magical Dominance. This, perhaps, telegraphs to his opponent that he intends to play aggressively. Though, as mentioned above, perhaps there was just nothing that could be done to meet his fury.
Additionally, this general has opted to make King Brodd his general instead of taking advantage of his Warmaster status. This author sees this as a less than optimal choice, as 2 generals seem better than one. With the caveat, it is hard to argue with his success.
Sons of Behemat feel like a powerful choice in the current meta. In my experience, there are few armies that feel like a hard counter to the army. If anything, even your worst matches feel like a 50-50 chance of victory if the dice fall your way. Walker put up an impressive display, going into some of the more dangerous match ups for Sons of Behemat, and came out on top. Keep stompin’ boyz.
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Allegiance: Idoneth Deepkin – Enclave: Fuethan – Grand Strategy: The Creeping Gloomtide
Leaders Akhelian King (220)** – General – Bladed Polearm – Command Trait: Unstoppable Fury – Artefact: Arcane Tome – Mount Trait: Voidchill Darkness Lotann, Warden of the Soul Ledgers (110)** Celestant-Prime, Hammer of Sigmar (330)* – Allies
Jon Anderson: I’ve written on the Fuethan sharknado list a few times, so I’d like to focus on the things that are different here than in the standard list.
Reducing the total count of sharks to six is a bold decision as you start losing the critical mass of being omnipresent in regards to your board presence. It worked for pauliswright, but I’d be hesitant to do so.
Choosing “The Creeping Gloomtide” as the grand strat was the initial take during the early iterations of list building but I ended up moving away from it because “Deny Trespassers” is a fairly easy battle tactic and denying yourself access to it is never fun.
I understand the “why” behind the aether void pendulum, but I think the bloodthirsty triumph has more value especially given the propensity to cast mystic shield with the arcane tome.
The shining points here though are celestant prime and the Akhelian King being reliable sources of rend 3 which the list needs in order to punch through thick armor.
Lotann continues to impress, and if you’re interested in running the Fuethan list he is one of the first things id include.
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Allegiance: Gloomspite Gitz – Gittish Horde: Jaws of Mork – Grand Strategy: Overshadow – Triumphs: Indomitable
Leaders Loonboss on Mangler Squigs (340)* – General – Command Trait: Fight Another Day – Artefact: Loonstone Teefcaps Squigboss with Gnasha-squig (110)* Fungoid Cave-Shaman (110)* – Artefact: Moonface Mommet – Lore of Primal Frost: Hoarfrost Loonboss (90)**
Battleline 10 x Boingrot Bounderz (300)* – Reinforced x 1 20 x Moonclan Stabbas (120)* 36 x Squig Herd (420)** – Reinforced x 2
Units 5 x Gobbapalooza (170) – Lore of the Moonclans: The Hand of Gork
Core Battalions *Warlord **Wizard-Finders of Andtor
Additional Enhancements Artefact
Total: 2000 / 2000
Lodivicus: What do we have here? Another unconventional Squigs list placing in the top 3 at an event? Yes please! The core of the list contains a lot of what we’ve been seeing place well lately. Squig Herd, Boingrot Bounderz, Squigboss with Gnasha-Squig, and Gobbapalooza anchor the Jaws of Mork core, as usual. The significantly more survivable Fungoid Cave-Shaman takes the place of the more common Madcap Shaman as the Moonface Mommet and Hoarfrost wizard. But after that there are some monsterous differences from the majority of the lists we’ve been seeing…
First off, Manglers! And not just one but two! With their run and charge from Lunar Squigs, the Giant Boing! monstrous action, and the extra attack on their Huge Fang-filled Gobs from Jaws of Mork they are almost certainly getting where they want to go and dealing solid damage once there. If the base model wasn’t enough, the Loonboss on Mangler Squigs equipped with Loonstone Teefcaps gets an additional point of rend on his Gobs attacks, can Bite Da Moon to add to Squig’s wound rolls, and can use his Fight Another Day command trait to get to safety after he attacks. The Manglers together are a pricey 600 points (likely contributing to why we haven’t been seeing them very often) but they are indeed a formidable threat.
Second, Moonclan Stabbas add some needed objective control and fulfil the battleline requirements of the list since so many points have been spent on the Manglers. While in the past it wasn’t uncommon to see Stabbas in Jaws of Mork, it has trended away from including them lately in favor of more Squig Herd or Bounderz.
Third, the Loonboss with his I’m Da Boss, Now Stab ‘Em Good! ability can give any Moonclan unit mortals on 6s to wound in addition to their normal attacks when he issues them All Out Attack. In this list, that’s everything besides the Squig Herd, as they can’t receive commands.
Lastly, and here’s where it gets really intriguing to me, the Umbral Spellportal. I can’t remember the last time I saw Umbral Spellportal in a Gitz list. With the only wizards being the Fungoid Cave-Shaman and Gobbapalooza, I suspect Joe was using this to get the Shroomancer’s Fungoid Cloud into optimal position (coordinating with the launch of the Squig units) or to allow the Fungoid Cave-Shaman to catch more units in his Spore Maws from relative safety.
Congratulations Joe! Thank you for showing us some out of the box thinking with this one, I know it’s got my wheels turning. I bet it was a blast, both for you to play and for your opponents to play against.
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Allegiance: Sylvaneth – Glade: Heartwood – Grand Strategy: Spellcasting Savant – Seasons of War: The Reaping
Leaders Warsong Revenant (300)* – General – Command Trait: Spellsinger – Artefact: The Vesperal Gem – Lore of the Deepwood: Treesong Branchwych (110)* – Lore of the Deepwood: Verdurous Harmony Knight-Incantor (120)** – Allies
Battleline 5 x Tree-Revenants (110)** 20 x Dryads (200)** – Reinforced x 1 6 x Kurnoth Hunters with Kurnoth Greatswords (440)** – Reinforced x 1
Units 6 x Spiterider Lancers (380)** – Reinforced x 1 3 x Aetherwings (70)** – Allies
This is a cool grab-bag list with some interesting allied tech – the knight-Incantor is a solid source of an auto-unbind, something that can be especially clutch in this season. Unusually, this list also opts for Lancers over Seekers – although it’s something I’m starting to see here and there – although a fast source of fight-first is not exactly hard to understand the appeal of. It allows a concerted hammer blow with the 6 Sword-noth, sped up by the Spiteswarm, to reliably pincer attack and cause a big swing in the table state, even if it gives up the longer-term durability and recursion that Seekers offer.
Also love to see the cheeky inclusion of a Treelord, who’re increasingly popular as ‘turn off pile-in’ tech, which could wreak havoc with an opponent’s plans to counter-attack and can generally just cause movement blocking.
Again, I wonder how often we’ll see ‘variety’ lists like this once Belthanos is tournament legal, but in the meantime it’s cool to see a wider range of the Sylvaneth book getting some table time!
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Final Tournament Placings
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This is the top three AoS lists for the TTB OPEN 2023 that took place in Norway on the 28th and 29th of October. It saw 22 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.
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The Top Three AoS Lists
Allegiance: Slaves to Darkness – Damned Legion: Knights of the Empty Throne – Grand Strategy: Spellcasting Savant – Triumphs: Bloodthirsty
Leaders Be’Lakor, the Dark Master (340)* – The Lore of the Damned: Daemonic Speed Exalted Hero of Chaos (90)* – General – Command Trait: Master of Magic – Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact) – Mark of Chaos: Undivided Chaos Sorcerer Lord (120)* – Mark of Chaos: Undivided – Lore of Primal Frost: Hoarfrost
Battleline 6 x Varanguard (560)* – 6x Fellspear – Mark of Chaos: Khorne – Reinforced x 1 3 x Varanguard (280)* – 3x Fellspear – Mark of Chaos: Khorne 3 x Varanguard (280)* – 3x Fellspear – Mark of Chaos: Khorne 9 x The Unmade (80)* – Mark of Chaos: Undivided 5 x Chaos Knights (220)* – Mark of Chaos: Khorne – Ensorcelled Banner: The Banner of Rage
Core Battalions *Battle Regiment
Total: 1970 / 2000
Roland Rivera: A classic ABC (Always Be Charging) Slaves to Darkness list, this list leverages the power and consistency of Khorne Fellspear Varanguard to the max by running a bunch of them (12, to be exact) in Knights of the Empty Throne, where they all get to run and charge. Complement them with a bit of control in Be’lakor, a caster with Daemonic Speed to make their threat range even bigger, some Unmade to make sure people can’t Redeploy away from your charges, some Knights as a Swiss army knife/cleanup crew, and just dare your opponents to stop you (most of them can’t).
There was a somewhat interesting choice made in the supporting Heroes, however. Instead of spending every last one of his 2000 points, Geir Vedeld (a Slaves to Darkness pilot with proven bona fides) decided to suit an Exalted Hero up with an Arcane Tome and instead angle for a triumph bid. An interesting choice that I can see the logic behind (this build lives and dies by making its charges), and I’d be interested to know how often it resulted in a critical charge reroll. Overall, if you’re looking to build a fast, aggressive, and effective Slaves to Darkness list, here’s your blueprint.
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Army Faction: Ossiarch Bonereapers – Army Subfaction: Petrifex Elite – Grand Strategy: Spellcasting Savant – Triumphs: Inspired
LEADER 1 x Liege-Kavalos (180) – Artefacts: Arcane Tome 1 x Katakros (500) 1 x Mortisan Ossifector (120) – General – Command Traits: Dark Acolyte – Spells: Empower Nadirite Weapons
OTHER 4 x Morghast Archai (220) – Spirit Halberd 2 x Morghast Archai (220) – Spirit Halberd
TOTAL POINTS: (2000/2000)
Walter Brock: We’re looking at an OBR list that went 4-1. Choosing Petrifex Elite to make The Immortis Guard and Morghasts harder to kill in combat. Spellcasting Savant is the go-to Grandstrat having so much synergy with Immortis guard.
The liege Kavalos with Arcane shield provides an extra cast to put up arcane shield so the Ossifector can put up Nadirite weapons. The liege also provides extra attacks making any unit hit harder. Altogether a power army multiplier.
Katakros is the big man providing all the value. Giving everything +1 to hit and +1 to save makes all units run at maximum efficiency. Combo with the other buffs that the list can provide, and a simple 10-person unit could even kill gods.
The Ossifector is the Glue that holds everything together. The Grand Strat is tied to this thing. It buffs Morghasts with extra rend. Has a 9-inch bubble of +1 to wound and Dark Acolyte to get a battle tactic very easily. Everything that this little guy gives is pure gas, but if it somehow dies. A lot of good things go away.
A unit of 5 Deathriders is a standard seen in most lists. Providing a battle tactic and being a fast uni. Deathriders can do many things from being a screen to clogging up the key piece of the opponent. The imagination is the limit of what Deathriders can do.
A unit of 10 Mortek guard. Act as easy filler to reach 3 battlelines. Can be a cheap screen or act as a unit to block off back line deep strikes. While not the most stellar inclusion for the list. They can provide a lot of unspoken support for the list that nothing else really wants to do.
Three Immortis guard Unlock an easy battle tactic for OBR and help protect the Ossifector so getting the Grandstrat is more likely.
The two units of Morghasts are the stars of the show. These units provide large amounts of Damage. Are incredibly fast and shut down commands. Whatever these guys get into will usually die. Katakros buffing their ability to hit. The Ossifector buffing the Rend and wound rolls, and Empower Weapons going onto a unit plus the extra attacks from the liege makes a unit of Morghasts able to take down almost any unit in the game.
This list is very good at getting its buffs reliably and dealing large amounts of damage while being difficult to kill thanks to Petrifex Elite and Katakros. A very well-rounded list. Well done to this player.
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Army Faction: Blades of Khorne – Subfaction: Reapers of Vengeance – Grand Strategy: Slaughter of Sorcery – Triumph: Bloodthirsty
LEADERS Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage (310) Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage (310) – Artefacts of Power: Ar’gath, the King of Blades Skarbrand (380) Wrath of Khorne Bloodthirster (300)* – General – Command Traits: Firebrand – Artefacts of Power: Halo of Blood – Prayers: Killer Instinct Bloodmaster (110)* – Prayers: Bronzed Flesh Slaughterpriest (110)* – Bloodbathed Axe – Prayers: Blood Sacrifice – Nullstone Adornments: Polished Nullstone Pebble
Roland Rivera: The big boys are back in town! This is another instance of a Khorne player pushing all their chips into the center of the table with the 4-Bloodthirster build, and this pilot was in quite a gambling mood, as he chose to roll with 2 Bloodthirsters of Insensate Rage, whose damage can be inconsistent but has huge spike potential. Those two slot machines were paired with Skarbrand’s steady output and a Wrath of Khorne Bloodthirster to tie the room together via activation tricks to make combat sequencing easier.
As you’d imagine for a list with 4 300+ point models, everything else in the list reolves around supporting the big guys. Flesh Hounds and Bloodreavers pressure objectives and can be cashed in for Blood Tithe in a pinch, and a couple of Priests will sit in the back line and provide buffs (or perhaps a bit of direct damage in the form of Blood Boil). Overall, this list is highly specialized, but the thing it does is good enough to be a strong choice in an all-comers tournament.
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Army Faction: Kharadron Overlords – Army Subfaction: Barak-Urbaz – Grand Strategy: Rule the Skies – Triumphs: Inspired – Stick To The Code (Amendments): Trust To Your Guns – Stick To The Code (Artycles): Honour is Everything, Settle the Grudges – Stick To The Code (Footnotes): Without Our Ships, We Are Naught
LEADER 1 x Arkanaut Admiral (140)* – General – Command Traits: Ex-Grundstok 1 x Aetheric Navigator (100)* – Artefacts: Voidstone Orb 1 x Aether-Khemist (100)* – Nullstone Adornments: Hand-carved Nullstone Icon
BATTLELINE 10 x Grundstok Thunderers (160)* – Gunnery Sergeant – 2 x Honour Bearer – 2 x Grundstok Mortar – 2 x Aethercannon – 2 x Aetheric Fumigator – 2 x Decksweeper 10 x Arkanaut Company (90)* – Company Captain – Light Skyhook and Gun Butt – Skypike – Volley Pistol – Aethermatic Volley Gun and Gun Butt 10 x Arkanaut Company (90)* – Company Captain – Light Skyhook and Gun Butt – Skypike – Volley Pistol – Aethermatic Volley Gun and Gun Butt 1 x Grundstok Gunhauler (170)* – Sky Cannon
BEHEMOTH 1 x Arkanaut Ironclad (500)* – Great Sky Cannon – Great Endrinworks: The Last Word – The Admiral’s Flagship: The Admiral’s Flagship
OTHER 1 x Gotrek Gurnisson (480)*
CORE BATTALIONS: *Battle Regiment
TOTAL POINTS: (1990/2000)
Carl Stokes: Another day, another KO list featuring everyone’s Old World remnant! This Gotrek list takes a slightly different approach than many others in that, rather than take one large thunderer block, it takes a slightly smaller one in order to afford a gunhauler.
I’ve already made it abundantly clear why I think Gotrek is an incredible addition to KO armies in previous write-ups so won’t wax poetic on this one, but safe to say that I think he patches a lot of the intrinsic weaknesses of KO while allowing the army to retain their core identity as a mobile firebase.
The usual cadre of characters provides support/disruption while 20 arkanauts screen in the early game before transitioning to objective holders in the mid/late game. A single gunhauler provides another way to score battle tactics and threaten little wizards while being juuuust tough enough to pin targets in place for Gotrek. The gunhauler is another excellent way to hunt down those pesky Andtorian Loci that can cause KO all sorts of problems.
But as usual, the backbone of the list lies in the 10 thunderers and Ironclad that ferries them around. The thunderers are a very tough unit that’s extremely prickly at close range and can be juiced to ridiculous levels by the characters. Generally, the classic approach to this list is to take the single unit of 15 but as the meta shifts towards more anti-shooting, the decision here was made to prioritize mobility to improve the matchup into lists that have a strong anti-shooting presence.
Will that be the case moving forward? Nobody can tell for sure, but the ability of KO to quickly adapt to a changing metagame by drawing on their ally pool and the various different skyports while still being able to easily achieve their many battle tactics is one of the many things that makes them a top-tier army.
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Final Tournament Placings
To view all of the results for the tournament please follow the link below to Best Coast Pairings
The data contained inside this article is only Woehammer’s interpretation. There are differing methods and analyses of the data available from Games Workshop and Honest Wargamer, whose methodology differs slightly from our own.
All of these sources should be viewed as a collective whole to allow you to gather a larger picture of the Age of Sigmar meta. The win rates, while accurate for events we have on record so far, are likely to change in the coming weeks and shouldn’t be the single point of reference for a factions strength.
How Win Rates are Calculated
All of our data is pulled from two day single events. We split all draws between the wins and losses of a faction evenly, as we believe this provides a fair reflection of a factions win rate. For example, as a player, you may achieve 2 wins, 2 losses, and a draw at an event. Some sites will only count the wins towards the faction rate, so in this case, 40% (2/5=0.4). Woehammer includes half of the draws, so our result would be 50% (2.5/5=0.5).
We have also included a confidence interval based on the sample size and their results. This interval has a 95% confidence rate. What does this mean? Essentially, we’re 95% sure that the win rate of the faction will fall inside this band at the release of the next battlescroll.
We have decided to include this as each factions win rates can (and will) fluctuate as more and more players post their results. While the faction win rate may be that specified right now, it is more than likely to change in the future. So when looking at a win rate, take into account the number of players who have posted results, as well as the upper and lower limit of that 95% confidence interval. This will give a good indication of the future win rate of that faction.
Event Submission
If you have organised an event that doesn’t appear in our database and has the following minimum requirements to be included:
Two Day Event
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Then why not complete the form attached and send the results to thewoehammer@gmail.com? We’ll include them the next time we produce the stats.
Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament 2023 by Dragonforge & Wartilyo
2D6 Carnage
Sir GT’s-A-Lot
Coventry AoS GT
Farmhammer Brewdog
King Cheese GT
Flying Monkey Con 2023
TM Gaming
Wappler Harvest Gathering
Crucible 2023
North China Open
Mowan Autumn Championship 2023
AoS Champs at the 2023 Michigan GT
Sovereign Smash 2023
Symposium SELWG
Justice Series GT
Fantasia Fanatic XLIV AoS
GAF Jamboree
Suge & Dice Annual AoS Tournament
SoCal Open
Duckstravaganza 2: Battle for the Pond
I. Lay Low the Tyrants Grand Tournament
Malmo Wargaming Weekend 7
Realmgate Rumble
Grudgefest GT 2023
Tetsworth’s War and Treachery (T.W.A.T)
Magical Dominance Saigon Warhammer Age of Sigmar GT
Slambo GT
Realm of Geddon BSK 40
Threshold Invitational II
Battle of the Bend
PNW Masters 2023
Gitz go to War(fare) 2023
Faction Win Rates
As we have now included a confidence interval within our data based on the sample size and results, we have now included all factions within the below tables regardless of their player base.
Soulblight Gravelords and Ossiarch Bonereaper nerfs appear to have worked at first glance, but the Kharadron Overlords who were possibly being held back a little in the last battlescroll have probably benefitted from this power vacuum and find themselves in the top spot.
The Kruleboyz appear to have been put back in their box down at 44% .
Win Rates
You’ll see in the chart above that each faction shows its current win rate as a % inside a text box. The paler green and yellow segments show the margin of error of that win rate. We predict with 95% confidence that the win rate will be within the paler bars upon the release of the next battlescroll. The size of this segment is determined by the number of tournament entries using that faction, the spread of their win rates at competitions and finally how many weeks are estimated to be left until the next battlescroll update.
Using our old format of win rate reporting and removing factions with less than 20 results, we have the following table:
I thought it may be interesting to also view the win rates by month during the battlescroll. This may allow us to see the effect of new Ironjawz or the like on their particular faction. Or it may show whether armies with high win rates are being adapted to by their opposition.
Subfaction and Army of Renown Win Rates
We’ve started having subfactions hit the 20 player min representation, so have taken those factions for the chart above.
ARMIES OF RENOWN
I’ve decided to have a little chart recording their progress as the Battlescroll progresses, they may well track against their own faction as a whole, but I though it would be interesting to see nonetheless.
Player Results by Wins
This graph has at least two purposes. Firstly, it shows the faction popularity by the number of players, and secondly, it breaks down those players’ results in terms of the number of wins they achieve.
Here, we’ve included all the factions that have been played to date, as there is no benefit in removing those with a small sample size.
Faction Popularity
The full list month-by-month is below:
When looking at the above table, bear in mind that this is the worldwide meta, and region to region or even city to city may differ. So while this gives us a general idea of the meta it may not be representative of your local meta.
We’re seeing (as always) a massive spike in the player base of the new tomes that have been released and fall off on the older Tomes. This is to be expected really as competitive players jump around following the “Oooo shiny” method of collecting. They’ll likely always be a strong base for Stormcast Eternals, thanks to them appearing in nearly all beginner army sets, as magazine collections and the feature of many stories in Age of Sigmar.
Players Achieving 5-0 Wins, Tournaments in Winning Positions and 3 Wins from
Out of all the players using that faction (shown in brackets next to the faction name), this graph shows the number achieving a whitewash at a GT with 5 wins from 5. Those achieving 4 wins from 4 after the fourth round and those achieving 3 wins from 3 after the 3rd round. Take into account that those who achieve 5-0 are included in the numbers of 4 wins from 4 and 3 wins from 3. Likewise, those achieving 4 from 4 are included with the 3 from 3 data.
Results Split
This chart tells you which factions are more capable of achieving positive results at tournaments.
Conclusions
If you’re planning your list for a GT, look at the data as a whole. Don’t just look at our data either, look at TSN and also GW. Get a big picture, use these sites as sources to make your own informed opinion on the meta. Think about which armies are popular, as you’ll likely face at least one or two of these armies at some point during an event, especially in the earlier rounds.
Look at those factions that are regularly in a tournament winning position and winning GTs, as these are likely to be your opponents in the later rounds. I believe you should look at building a list that is able to cope with playing the following factions at some point in a GT if you’re looking to compete;
Blades of Khorne
Seraphon
Stormcast Eternals
Soulblight Gravelords
Gloomspite Gitz
But also, if you’re playing a local GT with your club, then bear in mind that meta may be completely different to those given in the stats above. All of what is presented here, should be taken with a pinch of salt, but hopefully it gives you some guidance when it comes to list construction, or even army choice if you’re looking to play Age of Sigmar.
This is the top three AoS lists for the SoCal Open that took place in the US on the 21st and 22nd of October. It saw 37 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.
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The Top Three AoS Lists
Army Faction: Idoneth Deepkin – Subfaction: Dhom-Hain – Grand Strategy: Dominion of the Deep Ones – Triumph: Bloodthirsty
LEADERS Isharann Tidecaster (130)* – General – Command Traits: Teachings of the Túrscoll – Spells: Hoarfrost Battlemage (100)* – Magic of the Realms: Wildform (Ghur) Akhelian Thrallmaster (100)** Eidolon of Mathlann Aspect of the Storm (300)** – Artefacts of Power: Arcane Tome Akhelian Thrallmaster (100)**
BEHEMOTH Akhelian Leviadon (400)** – Mount Traits: Reverberating Carapace
OTHER Akhelian Allopexes (150)** – Retarius Net Launcher, Barbed Hooks and Blades Akhelian Allopexes (150)** – Retarius Net Launcher, Barbed Hooks and Blades
Peter Holland: A few weeks ago our very own Aaron Newbom won the SoCal Open with a Dhom-Hain list. He wrote an entire tournament breakdown for us of the event and you can read that here.
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Army Faction: Maggotkin of Nurgle – Army Subfaction: Befouling Host – Grand Strategy: Spellcasting Savant – Triumphs: Bloodthirsty
LEADER 1 x Skabbik Plagueseeker (140)* 1 x The Glottkin (580)** – Spells: Rancid Visitations 1 x Sloppity Bilepiper (120)** – Artefacts: Arcane Tome 1 x Poxbringer (130)** – General – Command Traits: Master of Magic – Spells: Fleshy Abundance
BATTLELINE 20 x Plaguebearers (120)** 10 x Plaguebearers (120)** 10 x Plaguebearers (120)** 10 x Plaguebearers (120)**
TERRAIN 1 x Feculent Gnarlmaw (0) 1 x Feculent Gnarlmaw (0)
OTHER 3 x Nurglings (100)* 3 x Nurglings (100)* 6 x Furies (80)* 6 x Furies (80)* 5 x Skabbik’s Plaguepack (140)*
Roland Rivera: At this point in the season, seeing a Glottkin Nurgle list do well isn’t much of a surprise – Nurgle’s favored mortal servants have been on quite the run as of late. However, this list has a couple of interesting twists to it. First among them is the Befouling Host subfaction and the Poxbringer General to give the summoning a bit more oomph. Second is the deep triumph bid – going 70 points under is not a trivial commitment. The reason why this list is doing so is to add a bit of an insurance policy on the Blightkrieg charges, as Bloodthirsty is the only way to get a reroll on them. Last but not least, this list is using its Ally allowance fairly extensively with 2 units of Furies and Skabbik’s Plaguepack, all of which are here to screen and put forward pressure on objectives.
Beyond them, this is very meat-and-potatoes Nurgle – lots of Plaguebearers to dominate the board, a Sloppity Bilepiper to shut off pile-ins, Nurglings to pester enemy deployment and rack up extra Contagion points. But hey, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I think Alec’s additions give a nice bit of depth to the classic Nurgle Glottkin gameplan, and were probably a real factor in securing the 5-0 finish.
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Army Faction: Ossiarch Bonereapers – Army Subfaction: Mortis Praetorians – Grand Strategy: Barren Icescape – Triumphs: Bloodthirsty
LEADER 1 x Katakros (500)* 1 x Arkhan the Black (380)** 1 x Liege-Kavalos (180)** – General – Command Traits: Mighty Archaeossian – Artefacts: Lode of Saturation 1 x Mortisan Boneshaper (140)** – Artefacts: Artisan’s Key – Spells: Hoarfrost
BATTLELINE 5 x Kavalos Deathriders (190)* – Mortek Hekatos – Necrophoros – Nadirite Blade 30 x Mortek Guard (130)* – Mortek Hekatos – 3 x Necrophoros – Nadirite Blade – 3 x Soulcleaver Greatblade 2 x Morghast Archai (220)* – Spirit Halberd
Walter Brock: Today we are looking at a list that went 4-1 with Mortis Praetorians. Praetorians allow a unit to potentially counter charge after an enemy unit has finished a charge. This has many possible applications that lead to incredibly powerful moments to swing the tide of battle. From stopping key enemy charges to denying battle tactics. The praetorians’ counter charge is only limited by the players imagination. Instead of Spellcasting Savant this player opted for Barren Icescape. This option makes sense since there is no Locus in the list.
We start off with the Katakros and Arkhan double trouble pairing. We have seen this before and will again. These two are a deadly duo that cover each other’s weaknesses and buff each other’s strengths. From Katakros buffing everything up to 11 with his +1 hit and save aura. To Arkhans Spell casting to support the army with buff spells and stop key enemy spells. The synergies between these two are incredibly deadly and I could go on and on about how powerful these two works together if allowed, but we would be here all day.
Next is whats one of the toughest to kill models in the game. A liege Kavalos with the Lode stone Relic and Might Archaeossian command trait. The combination of the two lets the Liege ignore all negative save modifiers and gains +1 to its ward saves. With a command point for a 5+ ward a liege can achieve a 2+ “ethereal” save and a 4+ ward. This combination makes the liege tanky enough to go places that even Katakros and Arkhan Might fear. Top it off with the command ability to give a unit +1 attack and the liege brings a lot to the table for this list. A boneshaper with Artisans key and Hoarfrost. With katakros, Arkhan and the Boneshaper. This list could potentially bring back 12 Mortek Guard with just the healing abilities alone each OBR hero phase. Hoarfrost on top of all the buffs that the other characters bring can make any unit perform far and above their weight class.
Deathriders are a very powerful all rounder unit. Capable of multiple roles. From screening to protecting the back field or even denying the opponent the ability to move on an objective. They have an answer for almost any situation.
30 Mortek Guard. A giant block of 30 is a threat to behold. With all the buffs added you can easily engage multiple units with these Mortek units, and they can take out multiple units with their one fight. Imagine 30 Mortek. Hitting on 2s and 5s to hit, gain an additional hit. Wounding on 2s at rend 2. Each model has three attacks a piece. That will bring down almost any target they reach. On top of that they have incredible defensive capabilities. Beinh able to potentially ignore negative modifiers due to their command ability. Or all out defense, or a 5+ ward plus the healing mentioned before. This makes Mortek guard incredibly hard to take down.
Lastly is a unit of 2 Archai. This unit’s biggest value is from its no command aura. Being able to stop enemy commands can easily turn the tides of battle. Turning off all out defense and unleash hell. Make it so a unit can’t pass their battle shock. This unit stops the enemies plans dead in their tracks and lets the Bonereapers keep trucking along.
This list ends up as a four drop with a command entourage and a battle regiment. Opting to go for the extra relic. Well done to this player.
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Allegiance: Gloomspite Gitz – Gittish Horde: Jaws of Mork (squig +1 atk on charge) – Mortal Realm: Ghur – Grand Strategy: Overshadow – Triumphs: Indomitable
Leaders Skragrott, The Loonking (230)** Squigboss with Gnasha-squig (110)*** – General – Command Trait: The Clammy Hand (Loonshrine roll x2) Madcap Shaman (70)* – Artefact: Moonface Mommet (12” start combat 1 unit -1 save) – Lore of Primal Frost: Hoarfrost Webspinner Shaman (65)* – Lore of Primal Frost: Merciless Blizzard
Units 24 x Squig Herd (280)*** – Reinforced x 1 24 x Squig Herd (280)*** – Reinforced x 1 10 x Boingrot Bounderz (300)** – Reinforced x 1 5 x Boingrot Bounderz (150)** 5 x Boingrot Bounderz (150)** 5 x Gobbapalooza (170)** – Lore of the Moonclans: Itchy Nuisance 1 x Marshcrawla Sloggoth (170)**
Lodivicus: The Jaws of Mork core trend continues! The currently trending core consists of Skragrott, a Madcap Shaman (with Moonface Mommet and Hoarfrost), a Squigboss, Squig Herd, Boingrot Bounderz, Gobbapalooza and the Bad Moon Loonshrine. The quantity of the battleline units varies a bit from list to list, as we see here. Tad chooses two single reinforced Squig Herd (as opposed to one double reinforced unit) and he cuts back the large Bounderz unit to a single reinforced unit to do so. So rather than rehash the core, as we’ve done in previous commentaries, let’s have a look at what the rest of the points are spent on.
A popular choice, the Webspinner Shaman (on foot) is a 65 point Blizzard wizard with a native 5+ ward. He pairs up with the Madcap Shaman as the two Andtorian Loci of the list and together they unlock the Andtorian Acolyte battalion for (hopefully) more primal dice.
In his version, Tad chose offense over defense by forgoing the more common Sneaky Snufflers in favor of the Kruleboyz troggoth cousin, the Marshcrawla Sloggoth. His 18” aura of +1 hit rolls for attacks made with melee weapons is a huge boon to the output of the list, but in particular the Squig Herd units as they can’t receive commands like All Out Attack.
Congratulations Tad on going 4-1 (only losing in round 5 to the Dhom-Hain Deepkin) and continuing this Gitz trend. It will be interesting to see how the meta adjusts to account for this type of list and if it continues to gather steam.
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Final Tournament Placings
To view all of the results for the tournament please follow the link below to Best Coast Pairings
This is the top three AoS lists for the Total Escape Games Winter Warhammer Smash that took place in the US on the 3rd and 4th of November. It saw 14 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.
With less than 20 players we won’t be commenting on each list individually.
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The Top Three AoS Lists
Army Faction: Seraphon – Army Type: Starborne – Subfaction: Fangs of Sotek – Grand Strategy: Spellcasting Savant – Triumph: Inspired
LEADERS Skink Starpriest (130)* – Spells: Cosmic Crush, Merciless Blizzard Slann Starmaster (290)* – General – Command Traits: Lord of Celestial Resonance – Artefacts of Power: Spacefolder’s Stave – Spells: Hoarfrost, Stellar Tempest Saurus Astrolith Bearer (140)** Lord Kroak (410)** – Spells: Comet’s Call, Stellar Tempest Skink Starseer (150)** – Spells: Hoarfrost, Speed of Huanchi
OTHER Beasts of Chaos Tzaangor Enlightened (180) – Aviarch Dragon Ogors (420) Beasts of Chaos Tzaangors (170) – Icon Bearer – Brayhorn Blower – Twistbray – Pair of Savage Blades – 2 x Tzaangor Mutant
CORE BATTALIONS *Warlord
TOTAL POINTS: 2000/2000
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Army Faction: Seraphon – Army Type: Starborne – Army Subfaction: Fangs of Sotek – Grand Strategy: Spellcasting Savant – Triumphs: Inspired
LEADER 1 x Skink Starseer (150)* – Spells: Merciless Blizzard, Cosmic Crush 1 x Skink Starseer (150)* – Spells: Merciless Blizzard, Speed of Huanchi 1 x Lord Kroak (410)** 1 x Saurus Astrolith Bearer (140)** 1 x Slann Starmaster (290)** – General – Command Traits: Lord of Celestial Resonance – Artefacts: Spacefolder’s Stave – Spells: Drain Magic, Hoarfrost
BATTLELINE 5 x Saurus Guard (140) – Saurus Guard Alpha – Icon Bearer – War-drummer 10 x Skinks (90) – Skink Alpha – Boltspitter – Celestite Dagger and Star-buckler 10 x Saurus Warriors (180) – Icon Bearer – War-drummer – Saurus Warrior Alpha – Celestite Club 5 x Raptadon Chargers (150)**
BEHEMOTH 1 x Bastiladon with Ark of Sotek (180)
ENDLESS SPELL 1 x Malevolent Maelstrom (50) 1 x Suffocating Gravetide (30) 1 x Aethervoid Pendulum (40)
CORE BATTALIONS: *Andtorian Acolytes **Warlord
TOTAL POINTS: (2000/2000)
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Army Faction: Orruk Warclans – Army Type: Kruleboyz – Subfaction: Big Yellers – Grand Strategy: Waaagh! – Triumph: Indomitable
LEADERS Gobsprakk (240)* Killaboss on Corpse-rippa Vulcha (200)** – General – Command Traits: Supa Sneaky – Artefacts of Power: Arcane Tome – Mount Traits: Fast ’Un
This is the top three AoS lists for Halloween Hoedown that took place in the UK on the 28th and 29th of October. It saw 14 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.
Because the tournament has 20 or less players we won’t be commenting on the lists.
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The Top Three AoS Lists
Allegiance: Sons of Behemat – Tribe: King Brodd’s Stomp – Grand Strategy: Overshadow – Triumphs: Inspired
Leaders Kraknos, Gargant-Eater Mega-Kraken (520)* King Brodd – General – Command Trait: Big Eater Old Man Pete, Summoner of the Beast (500) Gatebreaker Mega-Gargant – Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact) The Last Stand of the “SS Kraken-Slayer” (480) Kraken-eater Mega-Gargant
Battleline Creeping Tentacle (140)* 1 x Mancrusher Gargants Creeping Tentacle (140)* 1 x Mancrusher Gargants Creeping Tentacle (140)* 1 x Mancrusher Gargants
Army Faction: Blades of Khorne – Army Subfaction: Reapers of Vengeance – Grand Strategy: Overshadow – Triumphs: Bloodthirsty
LEADER 1 x Be’lakor (340) 1 x Skarbrand (380) 1 x Bloodthirster of Unfettered Fury (330)* – General – Command Traits: Firebrand – Artefacts: Ar’gath, the King of Blades – Prayers: Unholy Flames, Killer Instinct 1 x Slaughterpriest (110)* – Bloodbathed Axe – Prayers: Killer Instinct, Blood Sacrifice 1 x Realmgore Ritualist (110)* – Prayers: Bronzed Flesh, Blood Sacrifice
BATTLELINE 5 x Flesh Hounds (100) – Gore Hound – Burning Roar 5 x Flesh Hounds (100) 8 x Claws of Karanak (100) 10 x Bloodreavers (80) – Blood Chieftain – Icon Bearer – Hornblower – Reaver Blades 10 x Bloodreavers (80)* – Blood Chieftain – Icon Bearer – Hornblower – Reaver Blades
ARTILLERY 1 x Skull Cannon (140)
INVOCATION 1 x Wrath-Axe (70) 1 x Hexgorger Skulls (50)
CORE BATTALIONS: *Warlord
TOTAL POINTS: (1990/2000)
Roland Rivera: Most Khorne lists are fairly controlling and playing to the board, but this one goes a step further than most with the inclusion of Be’lakor. While he costs quite a few points, he also adds a lot of depth to Khorne’s control toolbox, and provides access to spellcasting, which is yet another layer of buffs you can stack on your units.
In this list’s case, the units receiving the buffs will mostly be the Bloodthirsters that are accompanying Be’lakor, with the Unfettered Rage Thirster providing utility and defense and Skarbrand providing raw offensive punch. Beyond that, this list has lots of cheap bodies used to pressure objectives and generate Blood Tithe, a couple of Priests to chant prayers and Invocations with, and a Skull Cannon to thin down screens or finish off wounded units with.
While this list doesn’t quite have the number of boots on the ground that a typical Khorne list does, it more than makes up for it with its expanded control toolbox and ability to concentrate force exactly where you want it. Not an easy list to play, but very potent if you can master it.
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Allegiance: Maggotkin of Nurgle – Subfaction: Blessed Sons – Grand Strategy: Blessed Desecration – Triumphs: Bloodthirsty
Leaders Rotbringer Sorcerer (120)* – General – Command Trait: Grandfather’s Blessing (punts the wheel forward) – Artefact: Muttergrub (also knows gift of disease, and gets a +1 when he casts it) – Lore of Primal Frost: Merciless Blizzard The Glottkin (580)* – Lore of Malignance: Rancid Visitations (big meany horde clearer) Bloab Rotspawned (310) – Lore of Malignance: Blades of Putrefaction (Disease points on 5+) Orghotts Daemonspew (320) (free cp to mortal unit each turn) Morbidex Twiceborn (290) (heals half rounding up end of each battleshock phase)
Battleline 10 x Plaguebearers (120)* 10 x Plaguebearers (120)* 10 x Plaguebearers (120)*
Core Battalions *Battle Regiment
Total: 1980 / 2000
Roland Rivera: This list is going heavy on the Hero Monsters – not only does it have the Glottkin, but it also has all 3 Unique Maggoth Lords, which make for very potent dance partners when you active your Blightkrieg ability. Orghotts has the best raw numbers, Bloab brings utility via spellcasting buffs and ebuffs, and Morbidex is a tough fighter that is virtually immune to chip damage.
As these units take up most of the list, you’re mostly limited to pairing them with Plaguebearers to meet minimum Battleline, but having cheap, durable bodies is a perfect complement to elite Hero Monsters. Throw in a mortal Rotbringer Sorcerer for a bit of magical support and the ability to manipulate the Wheel of Corruption, and it’s clear to see that this list is trying to set up combat scenarios with power units in which you have every advantage going for you.
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Allegiance: Stormcast Eternals – Stormhost: Knights Excelsior (Scions of the Storm) – Grand Strategy: – Triumphs:
Leaders Lord-Imperatant (140)* – General – Command Trait: Master of Magic – Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact) Knight-Vexillor (120)* – Meteoric Standard Knight-Vexillor (120)* – Meteoric Standard Knight-Vexillor (120)** – Meteoric Standard Knight-Vexillor (120)** – Meteoric Standard
Battleline 3 x Annihilators (150)* 3 x Annihilators (150)* 3 x Annihilators (150)* 3 x Annihilators (150)* 3 x Annihilators (150)** 6 x Annihilators with Meteoric Grandhammers (400)** – Reinforced x 1
Units 3 x Aetherwings (70)** 3 x Aetherwings (70)**
