It’s another week of mostly smaller armies, but all over the place. 2 events in the US, 1 in Canada and 1 in Austria. You know how much I like events that take place outside of the Anglosphere so let’s start with that one.
Tales in the Wood X – GT
40-player, 5-round Grand Tournament in Tirol, Austria on April 13 2024. All the lists for this event can be found in Best Coast Pairings.
The Showdown
Mission – Every Step is Forward
Silvan “BabyFace” Affolter – Seraphon: LEADERS BATTLELINE BEHEMOTH ENDLESS SPELL TERRAIN CORE BATTALIONS TOTAL POINTS: 2000 / 2000 vs. Alexander “Cedric19” Spörl – Blades of Khorne: LEADERS BATTLELINE OTHER ENDLESS SPELLS & INVOCATIONS CORE BATTALIONS TOTAL POINTS: 2000 / 2000 Ultimate magic mastery vs. anti magic mastery. While the Seraphon can excel quite well in this mission, Blades of Khorne may be the absolute worst faction for them to bump up against short of maybe Null Myriad OBR. I’d say Khorne still edges them out, 1 in 3 chance of negating a spell and generating blood tithes is real good for them. Khorne also tends to not care about retreating, it’s rare they would bother. They can use Murderlust to interrupt any possible charges that might give Seraphon an advantage on capturing and also charge themselves as needed. It ends in a pretty close victory for the Khorne army. Blades of Khorne Victory – 12 – 8 See Showdown Khorne good stuff. You know Khorne at this point. Bloodthirster of Unfettered Fury and Skarbrand lead the show while the other characters give necessary buffs. The Blood Warriors are a pretty solid hammer and tarpit unit as well to hold their ground against the enemy. Bloodreavers, Flesh Hounds and Furies can all scoop up open objectives and if they die, easy Blood tithes. There were 6 more players on 4-1 records. They were: 40-player, 5-round Grand Tournament in Sparwood, BC, Canada on April 13 2024. All the lists for this event can be found in Best Coast Pairings. Cole Winsor – Idoneth Deepkin: Leaders Battleline Behemoths Terrain Core Battalions Total: 1980 / 2000 vs. Dom Elson – Maggotkin of Nurgle: Leaders Battleline Core Battalions Total: 1990 / 2000 This is a tough one for Idoneth all around. Idoneth really want armies they can hit and clear out in one fell swoop. Against this list that is going to be extremely difficult. With all 3 Maggoth Lords and the Glottkin they struggle to make decent headway into something with that many wounds a 5+ save. Their movement is also handicapped by the Glottkin’s Blightkrieg allowing them to be charged before the proper moment. The saving grace for this list is the Allopexes, which can do a fair amount of damage at range (and not risk disease) but with the recent nerf to Fuethan the damage output is likely not going to cut it. The game ends with a pretty decisive victory for Nurgle. Blessed Sons Victory – 522 – 10 See Showdown Triple Maggoth Lords and Glottkin The Triple Maggoth Lord and Glottkin combo has gained a lot of traction as 3rd edition wraps up. Short of Sons of Behemat, few play the Monster game better. Bloab is one of the best casters in the army on both offense and defense while the other two are solid melee combatants. The Glottkin is a really difficult character to take down with his 20 wounds and 5+ ward. Blightkrieg allows you to charge at anyone trying to get clever and opens up a lot of disruptive tricks, making sure combat only happens on your terms. Army List - Click to Expand LEADER 1 x Skink Starseer (160)* 1 x Saurus Oldblood on Carnosaur (240)* 1 x Saurus Astrolith Bearer (160)** 1 x Saurus Oldblood on Carnosaur (240)** BATTLELINE 10 x Saurus Warriors (180)* 5 x Saurus Guard (140)* 20 x Saurus Warriors (180)** 10 x Saurus Warriors (180)** 10 x Saurus Warriors (180)** TERRAIN 1 x Coalesced Realmshaper Engine (0) OTHER 5 x Hunters of Huanchi with Starstone Bolas (80)* 5 x Hunters of Huanchi with Starstone Bolas (80)** CORE BATTALIONS: *Battle Regiment **Battle Regiment TOTAL POINTS: (2000/2000) Created with Warhammer Age of Sigmar: The App Saurus Warriors Finally a different Seraphon list! This not only excludes Kroak or a Slann but both. Instead this focuses on big Dinos doing big Dino things. The two Saurus Oldbloods function as your mobile command center, they do decent damage but the real highlight is issuing two orders from each, which plays well with the huge number of units here. All Out Attack and All Out Defence on 2 units a piece each round? Fantastic. The Saurus Guard and Astrolith Bearer provide their usual purpose, eating up hits attempting to shoot at their heroes (in particular the Starseer) while the Astrolith Bearer gives a 5+ ward and +1 to cast to the starseer. The Starseer took Heavenly Frenzy which lets a unit Run and Charge, hugely useful here. The legions of Saurus Warriors do the bulk of the work. They can do decent damage and are pretty resilient, throw enough of em at a problem and they’ll probably win out eventually. Hunters of Huachi provide covering fire, pelting chaff with ranged fire and popping out of nowhere to snag objectives. There were 5 more players on 4-1 records. They were: 30-player, 5-round Grand Tournament in Lexington, KY, United States on April 13 2024. All the lists for this event can be found in Best Coast Pairings. Nicholas True – Slaves to Darkness: Leaders Battleline Units Core Battalions Total: 2000 / 2000 vs. Thomas Lyons – Hollowmourne Grand Court: LEADER 1 x Abhorrant Archregent (150)* 1 x Abhorrant Archregent (150)* 1 x Abhorrant Gorewarden (150)** 1 x Grand Justice Gormayne (140)** 1 x Crypt Infernal Courtier (140)** BATTLELINE 9 x Crypt Horrors (390)** 6 x Crypt Horrors (260)** 20 x Crypt Ghouls (160)** OTHER 6 x Morbheg Knights (150)** 3 x Crypt Flayers (160)** CORE BATTALIONS: *Andtorian Acolytes **Battle Regiment TOTAL POINTS: (2000/2000) This one really could go either way. Lines of Communication doesn’t really favor mobility like some missions – if anything the ability to stand on two objectives and take a hit is a serious boon, which is a point for the Slaves to Darkness in normal circumstances. However this list lacks some of the more resilient units of the faction – only 10 Nurgle Chaos Warriors and no Chosen. Varanguard can be tanky with the Mark of Nurgle but these are Khorne boys. This list focuses more on fast charges, mobile units to steal objectives and screen units and Be’lakor to shut down major threats. The Flesh-Eater Courts in most versions tend to be heavy on high impact charges. While this doesn’t have near the Morbheg Knight spam we see in many lists, a unit of 6 can do some significant work. Between them counting as 18 units and the 20 man unit of Crypt Ghouls, the Slaves to Darkness are significantly outnumbered and likely lack the resilience to handle multiple charges. The battle ends pretty cleanly for Flesh Eater Courts. Hollowmourne Grand Court Victory – 13 – 7 See Showdown Grab bag with a focus on on Horrors Rather than skew any one way this comes in a few directions to have answers to multiple threats. The Archregent is just baseline good. Both a spellcaster and a source of recursion to any unit. The Gorewarden is a mobile piece, able to very easily set itself up for the blizzard on the next turn, especially if they get the double. The Infernal Courtier supports the Crypt Flayers, which are one of the only ranged attacks in the army, by giving them +1 damage. A 5+ Ward from the prayer granted by their artefact is not a bad deal either. Morbheg Knights are terrifying, even with only one unit of 6. They do Impact Wounds and count as 3 on the point if they charged. Since they can retreat and charge for free, this is basically guaranteed. Crypt Horrors are solid hammers for a low cost, and Crypt Flayers are as stated one of your only ranged attacks. It’s not even a bad one, and can soften up some units or remove Chaff before your charge. There were 4 more players on 4-1 records. They were: 30-player, 5-round Grand Tournament in Edmond, OK, United States on April 13 2024. All the lists for this event can be found in Best Coast Pairings. Marcus Miller – Sons of Behemat: Leaders Battleline Total: 1960 / 2000 vs. Alex Cotter – Gloomspite Gitz: This is a really good mission for Sons of Behemat. While they are at a slight disadvantage with lack of an Andtorian Locus, they can cover the 2 objectives each turn quite handedly, and there are multiple wizards for them to kill in the Gloomspites. A trogg list could table a Sons of Behemat list, the damage output is certainly there. But they would need to move quickly and that’s not always a guarantee, a lot of it is going to come down to Blizzard and spiking on attack rolls, which just didn’t seem to come together. Sons of Behemat Victory – 513 – 21 See Showdown King Brodd’s Stomp King Brodd is pretty much the way to play at this point. So you bring him for his buffs and just generally being a pretty good killing machine. Gatebreakers are the overall best DPS in the faction for most armies, so why not bring two? Warstomper is the cheapest, so it often needs to fill in the last slot. Not a lot of complexity here, it’s Sons of Behemat what did you expect? There were 6 more players on X-1 records. They were: Another quiet, but diverse week in the Mortal Realms. The events are smaller, as we wait between majors, and people are winding down waiting for Fourth Edition. The positive is this has led to some pretty interesting diverse list building and we keep seeing the meta shaking up. See you next week!
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Army Faction: Seraphon
– Army Type: Starborne
– Army Subfaction: Fangs of Sotek
– Grand Strategy: Spellcasting Savant
– Triumphs: Inspired
1 x Skink Starpriest (130)*
– Spells: Merciless Blizzard
1 x Slann Starmaster (310)*
– General
– Command Traits: Lord of Celestial Resonance
– Artefacts: Spacefolder’s Stave
– Spells: Comet’s Call
1 x Lord Kroak (440)**
– Spells: all Spells from the Lore of Celestial Domination
1 x Saurus Astrolith Bearer (160)**
1 x Skink Starseer (160)**
– Spells: Speed of Huanchi
5 x Raptadon Chargers (150)**
– Raptadon Charger Alpha
– Icon Bearer
– Hornblower
5 x Saurus Guard (140)**
– Saurus Guard Alpha
– Icon Bearer
– War-drummer
10 x Skinks (90)**
– Skink Alpha
– Moonstone Club and Star-buckler
10 x Skinks (90)**
– Skink Alpha
– Moonstone Club and Star-buckler
1 x Bastiladon with Ark of Sotek (180)**
1 x Suffocating Gravetide (30)
1 x Ravenak’s Gnashing Jaws (70)
1 x Malevolent Maelstrom (50)
1 x Starborne Realmshaper Engine (0)
*Andtorian Acolytes
**Battle Regiment
DROPS: 3
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Allegiance: Khorne
– Slaughterhost: Reapers of Vengeance
– Mortal Realm: Ghur
– Grand Strategy: Slaughter of Sorcery
– Triumphs:
Bloodsecrator (120)*
– Nullstone Adornment: Hand-carved Nullstone Icon
Realmgore Ritualist (110)*
– Prayer: Bronzed Flesh
– Prayer: Blood Sacrifice
Skarbrand (380)**
Slaughterpriest (110)*
– Prayer: Bronzed Flesh
– Prayer: Killer Instinct
Bloodthirster of Unfettered Fury (330)***
– General
– Command Trait: Firebrand
– Artefact: A’rgath the King of Blades
– Prayer: Killer Instinct
– Prayer: Bloodbind
20 x Blood Warriors (380)***
– Goreaxe & Gorefist
– 2x Goreglaives
– Reinforced x 1
10 x Bloodreavers (80)***
– Reaver Blades
10 x Bloodreavers (80)***
– Meatripper Axes
10 x Bloodreavers (80)***
– Meatripper Axes
5 x Flesh Hounds (100)**
6 x Furies (80)**
6 x Furies (80)*
1 x Wrath-Axe (70)
*Warlord (Prayer)
**Battle Regiment
***Battle Regiment
DROPS: 6
Thoughts
Result
Alexander “Cedric19” Spörl – Blades of Khorne (Reapers of Vengeance) – 1st Place
The List
Archetype
Thoughts
The Best of the Rest
False Alarm GT/24
The Showdown
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Allegiance: Idoneth Deepkin
– Enclave: Fuethan
– Grand Strategy: The Creeping Gloomtide
– Triumphs: Ignore battleshock
Akhelian King (220)*
– General
– Bladed Polearm
– Command Trait: Unstoppable Fury
– Mount Trait: Voidchill Darkness
Isharann Soulrender (100)*
– Artefact: Arcane Tome (Universal Artefact)
Lotann, Warden of the Soul Ledgers (110)*
30 x Namarti Reavers (480)*
– Reinforced x 2
20 x Namarti Thralls (220)*
– Reinforced x 1
1 x Bloodthirsty Shiver Akhelian Allopex (150)*
1 x Bloodthirsty Shiver Akhelian Allopex (150)*
1 x Bloodthirsty Shiver Akhelian Allopex (150)*
Akhelian Leviadon (400)*
Gloomtide Shipwreck (0)
*Battle Regiment
Reinforced Units: 3 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 107
Drops: 1
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Allegiance: Maggotkin of Nurgle
– Subfaction: Blessed Sons
– Grand Strategy: Spellcasting Savant
– Triumphs: Bloodthirsty
Bloab Rotspawned (310)
– Lore of Malignance: Gift of Disease
Morbidex Twiceborn (300)
The Glottkin (580)
– Lore of Malignance: Rancid Visitations
Orghotts Daemonspew (320)*
Rotbringer Sorcerer (120)*
– General
– Command Trait: Grandfather’s Blessing
– Artefact: The Splithorn Helm
– Lore of Primal Frost: Merciless Blizzard
10 x Plaguebearers (120)*
10 x Plaguebearers (120)*
10 x Plaguebearers (120)*
*Battle Regiment
Reinforced Units: 0 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 125
Drops: 4
Thoughts
Result
Dom Elson – Maggotkin of Nurgle (Blessed Sons) – 1st Place
The List
Archetype
Thoughts
Michael Nonomura – Koatl’s Claw – 2nd Place (Undefeated)
The List
Army Faction: Seraphon
– Army Type: Coalesced
– Army Subfaction: Koatl’s Claw
– Grand Strategy: Continuous Expansion
– Spells: Heavenly Frenzy
– Artefacts: Blade of Realities
– General
– Saurus Warrior Alpha
– Icon Bearer
– War-drummer
– Celestite Club
– Saurus Guard Alpha
– Icon Bearer
– War-drummer
– Saurus Warrior Alpha
– Icon Bearer
– War-drummer
– Celestite Spear
– Saurus Warrior Alpha
– Icon Bearer
– War-drummer
– Celestite Club
– Saurus Warrior Alpha
– Icon Bearer
– War-drummer
– Celestite Club
– Chameleon Skink Alpha
– Huanchi’s Claw
– Hornblower
– Chameleon Skink Alpha
– Hornblower
– Huanchi’s Claw
Archetype
Thoughts
The Best of the Rest
Trash Clash in the Bluegrass
The Showdown
Mission – Lines of Communication
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Allegiance: Slaves to Darkness
– Damned Legion: Knights of the Empty Throne
– Grand Strategy: Overshadow
– Triumphs: Indomitable
Chaos Sorcerer Lord (120)*
– Artefact: Chaos Familiar
– Mark of Chaos: Undivided
– The Lore of the Damned: Daemonic Speed
Be’Lakor, the Dark Master (340)*
– The Lore of the Damned: Binding Damnation
Varanguard x 6 (560)*
– General
– Fellspear and Warpsteel Shield
– Mark of Chaos: Khorne
6 x Varanguard (560)*
– 6x Fellspear
– Mark of Chaos: Khorne
– Reinforced x 1
9 x Corvus Cabal (80)*
10 x Chaos Warriors (180)*
– Hand Weapon & Shield
– Mark of Chaos: Nurgle
– Ensorcelled Banner: The Eroding Icon
9 x The Unmade (80)*
6 x Furies (80)*
*Battle Regiment
Reinforced Units: 1 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 114
Drops: 1
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Army Faction: Flesh-eater Courts
– Army Subfaction: Hollowmourne
– General
– Command Traits: Feverish Scholar
– Spells: Deranged Transformation
– Spells: Hoarfrost
– Spells: Merciless Blizzard
– Artefacts: Charnel Vestments
– Prayers: Charnel Conviction
Thoughts
Result
Thomas Lyons – Flesh Eater Courts (Hollowmourne Grand Court) – 1st Place
The List
Archetype
Thoughts
The Best of the Rest
The Tax Man Cometh
The Showdown
Mission – Power Flux
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Allegiance: Sons of Behemat
– Tribe: King Brodd’s Stomp
– Grand Strategy: Overshadow
– Triumphs: Bloodthirsty
King Brodd (520)
Gatebreaker Mega-Gargant (500)
– General
– Command Trait: Big Eater
– Artefact: Amulet of Destiny (Universal Artefact)
Gatebreaker Mega-Gargant (500)
Warstomper Mega-Gargant (440)
– Nullstone Adornment: Hand-carved Nullstone Icon
Reinforced Units: 0 / 4
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 145
Drops: 4
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Army Name – Best LRL list ever
– Army Faction: Gloomspite Gitz
– Subfaction: Glogg’s Megamob
– Grand Strategy: Chasing the Moon
– Triumph: Inspired
LEADERS
Dankhold Troggboss (210)*
– General
– Command Traits: Alpha Trogg
– Artefacts of Power: Glowy Howzit
Skragrott, the Loonking (230)**
Trugg (320)**
Madcap Shaman (70)**
– Artefacts of Power: Staff of Sneaky Stealin’
– Spells: Blizzard
BATTLELINE
Rockgut Troggoths (340)**
Rockgut Troggoths (340)**
Fellwater Troggoths (170)**
Moonclan Stabbas (120)**
– Moonclan Boss
– Bad Moon Icon Bearer
– Gong Basher
– Stabba
– 3 Barbed Nets
OTHER
Dankhold Troggoths (190)*
TERRAIN
1 x Bad Moon Loonshrine (0)
CORE BATTALIONS
*Troggherd Heavies
**Battle Regiment
TOTAL POINTS: 1990/2000
Created with Warhammer Age of Sigmar: The App
Thoughts
Result
Marcus Miller – Sons of Behemat (King Brodd’s Stomp) – 1st Place
The List
Archetype
Thoughts
The Best of the Rest
Wrap Up
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