This is the top three AoS lists for Roslaget 2023  that took place in Sweden on the 25th and 26th of November. It saw 16 players vying to be crowned champion in a 5-game tournament.

As a smaller tournament with fewer than 20 players we won’t be commenting on individual lists.

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The Top Three AoS Lists

Army Faction: Soulblight Gravelords
– Army Type: Legion of Blood
– Grand Strategy: Lust for Domination
– Triumphs: Inspired

LEADER
1 x Neferata (410)
– Spells: Waste Away
1 x Vampire Lord (150)*
– General
– Command Traits: Shaman of the Chilled Lands
– Spells: Soulpike
1 x Vampire Lord (150)*
– Spells: Spirit Gale
1 x Vampire Lord on Zombie Dragon (480)**
– Deathlance
– Artefacts: Cloak of Mists and Shadows
– Spells: Vile Transference

BATTLELINE
10 x Deathrattle Skeletons (110)**
– Skeleton Champion
– Standard Bearer
10 x Deathrattle Skeletons (110)**
– Standard Bearer
– Skeleton Champion
10 x Deathrattle Skeletons (110)**
– Skeleton Champion
– Standard Bearer

OTHER
5 x Blood Knights (230)**
– Kastellan
– Standard Bearer
5 x Blood Knights (230)**
– Kastellan
– Standard Bearer

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Andtorian Acolytes
**Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: (1980/2000)

Allegiance: Soulblight Gravelords
– Subfaction: Legion of Blood
– Grand Strategy: Barren Icescape
– Triumphs: inspired

Leaders
Vampire Lord on Zombie Dragon (480)
– General
– Deathlance
– Command Trait: Doomed Minions
– Artefact: Cloak of Mists and Shadows
– Universal Spell Lore: Flaming Weapon
Neferata, Mortarch of Blood (410)*
– Lore of the Deathmages: Waste Away
Vampire Lord (150)*
– Lore of Primal Frost: Hoarfrost

Battleline
10 x Deathrattle Skeletons (110)*
10 x Dire Wolves (150)*
20 x Deadwalker Zombies (150)*

Units
10 x Blood Knights (460)*
– Reinforced x 1
1 x Corpse Cart (90)*
– lodestone

Core Battalions
*Battle Regiment

Total: 2000 / 2000

Army Faction: Idoneth Deepkin
– Army Subfaction: Dhom-Hain
– Grand Strategy: Dominion of the Deep Ones

LEADER
1 x Isharann Tidecaster (130)*
– General
– Command Traits: Teachings of the Túrscoll
– Artefacts: Brain Barnacles
– Spells: Hoarfrost
1 x Knight-Arcanum (100)*
1 x Akhelian Thrallmaster (100)**
1 x Eidolon of Mathlann Aspect of the Sea (310)**
– Spells: Arcane Corrasion
1 x Lotann (110)**

BATTLELINE
20 x Namarti Thralls (110)**
20 x Namarti Thralls (110)**
10 x Namarti Thralls (110)**

BEHEMOTH
1 x Akhelian Leviadon (400)**
– Mount Traits: Reverberating Carapace

TERRAIN
1 x Gloomtide Shipwreck (0)

OTHER
1 x Akhelian Allopexes (150)**
– Razorshell Harpoon Launcher
– Barbed Hooks and Blades
1 x Akhelian Allopexes (150)**
– Razorshell Harpoon Launcher
– Barbed Hooks and Blades

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Andtorian Acolytes
**Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: (2000/2000)

Army Faction: Maggotkin of Nurgle
– Army Subfaction: Blessed Sons
– Grand Strategy: Blessed Desecration
– Triumphs: Bloodthirsty

LEADER
1 x Great Unclean One (430)*
– General
– Command Traits: Nurgling Infestation
– Bilesword and Bileblade
– Artefacts: The Witherstave
– Spells: Fleshy Abundance
1 x Sloppity Bilepiper (120)*
1 x Lord of Plagues (140)**
1 x Bloab Rotspawned (310)**
– Spells: Blades of Putrefaction

BATTLELINE
10 x Plaguebearers (120)*
– Plagueridden
– Icon Bearer
– Piper
10 x Plaguebearers (120)*
– Plagueridden
– Icon Bearer
– Piper
10 x Putrid Blightkings (230)**
– Blightlord
– 2 x Icon Bearer
– 2 x Sonorous Tocsin Bearer

ENDLESS SPELL
1 x Suffocating Gravetide (30)

TERRAIN
1 x Feculent Gnarlmaw (0)

OTHER
2 x Pusgoyle Blightlords (240)**
– Dolorous Tocsin

CORE BATTALIONS:
*Battle Regiment
**Battle Regiment

TOTAL POINTS: (1970/2000)

Roland Rivera: A Nurgle list with a reinforced unit of Putrid Blightkings is certainly something you don’t see every day, but Erik was able to pilot it to a very strong result. While getting all of your models into combat will be tricky due to their 40mm bases and 1″ reach, make no mistake – 41 Wounds on a 4+ save and a 5+ Ward do not go down easy, and thus make for quite the anchor in the middle. The list’s Lord of Plagues can also give them a bit of extra utility in the way of a short-range shooting attack.

These Blightkings are complemented by 2 units of Plaguebearers (which will doubtless be using the Sloppity Bilepiper’s ability to shut down pile-ins to great effect), a unit of Pusgoyle Blightlords as a mobile pinning piece, and the combination of Bloab Rotspawned and a Great Unclean One with the Witherstave as Hero Monster muscle.

While unconventional in its approach, there’s no denying that this list is tough as nails, and the difference in output between Blightkings and the more standard Plaguebearer-heavy lists may catch some of its opponents off guard. Sometimes the element of surprise is all you need.

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