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Coverage of Age of Sigmar events and tournaments from around the world, including the event packs, results, awards and top Age of Sigmar lists.

Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament Final Report

So this weekend marked the finale of the official Games Workshop Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament season with the Grand Final held at Warhammer World in Nottingham. Just short of 80 players from across the UK and as far afield as the US met in battle.  Each having qualified at one of the three Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament heats held through 2017 and 2018.

In this post, I cover the Grand Tournament pack, the results and lists where I can get them.  Games Workshop don’t formally publish results and lists (with these usually only being due on the day).

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AoS Grand Tournament Grand Final 2018 Pack

The Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament Grand Final for 2018 was fought over six randomly selected scenarios from the 18 Pitched Battle battleplans.  The scenarios were drawn at the start of the tournament.  Realm rules (including spells), realmscape features and Malign Sorcery were all in play.   So the rounds were:

  1. Total Commitment – Realm of Fire – Clouds of Smoke and Steam
  2. Shifting Objectives – Realm of Life – Lifesprings
  3. Duality of Death – Realm of Metal – Metallic Hinterlands
  4. Knife to the Heart – Realm of Shadow – Perpetual Dark
  5. Better Part of Valour – Realm of Death – Eternal War
  6. Border War – Realm of Light – Gleaming Vista

In terms of scoring, there is always a strong element of painting and sports scores in the overall results.  The scoring system was:

  • major victory – 6 points
  • minor victory – 4 points
  • draw – 2 points
  • loss – 0 points
  • 1 point for each favourite game vote
  • 1 point for each favourite army vote

At the end of the event, you selected two of your opponents to receive favourite game (who you liked playing) votes, and two of your opponents to receive favourite army (what you liked the look of) votes.

Kill points earned was the tiebreaker.  Summoned units did not count towards the total points value of enemy units destroyed and you get the full 2,000 points if you wipe out the enemy.

You can read the full pack and 2018 update for AoS2 for more details.

AoS Grand Tournament Grand Final Results

With massive thanks to WHTV Dan, the final results were:

  1. Ben Savva – Daughters of Khaine
  2. Robert Sedgeman – Nighthaunt
  3. Terry Pike – Nurgle
  4. Gary Percival – Sacrosanct Chamber
  5. Steve Curtis – Death (Nagash)
  6. Nick Thompson-  Daughters of Khaine (Snakes)
  7. Chris Myhill – Order
  8. Dan Bradshaw – Idoneth Deepkin
  9. Tony Moore – Nagash
  10. Colin Cochrane – Daughters of Khaine (horde)

Based on gaming score alone, the top 5 would have been:

  1. Ben Savva – Daughters of Khaine
  2. Robert Sedgeman – Death
  3. Gary Percival – Sacrosanct Chamber
  4. Nick Thompson – Order
  5. Chris Myhill – Order

Ben took out the event with the same Daughters of Khaine list that he has been running for months, and that won the recent Angelcore event in London.

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Ben Savva – DoK

Terry Pike’s list. A stunning army. Witherstave on the bell GUO.

Gary Percival’s “Seqs bomb” list. You can check out Gary’s Masterclass Interview on KO (in AoS1) here.

Allegiance: Stormcast Eternals

Leaders
Lord-Arcanum (180)
– General
– Trait: We Cannot Fail 
– Spell: Azyrite Halo
Knight-Vexillor (120)
– Pennant of the Stormbringer
Gavriel Sureheart (100)
Lord-Castellant (100)
– Artefact: God-forged Blade 

Battleline
20 x Sequitors (400)
– Stormsmite Mauls and Soulshields
5 x Sequitors (120)
– Stormsmite Mauls and Soulshields
5 x Sequitors (120)
– Stormsmite Mauls and Soulshields

Units
10 x Evocators (400)
5 x Evocators (200)
5 x Evocators (200)

Total: 1940 / 2000
Extra Command Points: 1
Allies: 0 / 400
Wounds: 142

Steve Curtis, who also won favourite opponent, ran the following Death list with vile transference, orb and overwhelming dread on Nagash.

Tony Moore, regular tournament winner and UK masters attendee, came in 9th with the following list.  You can check out Tony’s Masterclass interview here.

  • Allegiance: Grand Host of Nagash
  • Nagash Supreme Lord Of The Undead (800) – General – Lores of the Dead Spell 1: Fading Vigour (Deathmages) – Lores of the Dead Spell 2: Amethystine Pinions (Vampires) – Lores of the Dead Spell 3: Vile Transference (Vampires)
  • Necromancer (110) – Lore of the Deathmages: Overwhelming Dread
  • Vampire Lord (140) – Mount: Nightmare – Artefact: Balefire Lantern – Lore of the Vampires: Amaranthine Orb
  • 40 x Skeleton Warriors (280) – Ancient Spears
  • 5 x Dire Wolves (60)
  • 5 x Dire Wolves (60)
  • 30 x Grimghast Reapers (360)
  • Umbral Spellportal (60)
  • Prismatic Palisade (30)
  • Total: 1900 / 2000 Extra Command Points: 2 Allies: 0 / 400 Wounds: 116

I’ll add more of the top lists, as and when I get them.

The full results are:

GT final 2018 results
GT final 2018 results

AoSGT Grand Final Painting

The painting results were split between Oscar and his amazing Stormcast and Terry Pike from Facehammer‘s sublime Nurgle.  For more of Oscar’s army, check out his Showcase on the site.  For more on Terry’s, check out his Twitter feed and the ProPainted Podcast’s website for more pictures of the armies.

Thanks to Warchief Baz for the photos of the Best Painted nominations.

You can find more pictures over on the Warhammer World Facebook page.

Social media coverage

As you would expect, the event was streamed all weekend on Games Workshop’s official Twitch channel.  So if you are a subscriber you can go back and watch the games.

However, what truly made the weekend for me following along at home, was all the epic Twitter coverage by the guys in attendance.  It just looked like everyone was having a blast.  So massive thanks to WHTV Dan, Rob Symes of the Honest Wargamer, Darren Watson, Ben Savva, Warchief Baz, the Pro Painted Podcast, Steve Wren, Kanamorf, Nico and countless others.

#sohotrightnow
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Angelcore 2018 – Tournament report

Angelcore

Hey everyone, its been a while.  I’m back with coverage of the Angelcore tournament run in London, UK, over the weekend.  22 players in a highly competitive tournament for both matched play and for painting, with 5 players from the UK top 20. The event was streamed throughout the weekend and the games have been hosted on YouTube – so check them out!

Congrats to Kieron (@Drats_hammer), Adam (@HadrielCaine), Matthew (@Skyel14) and everyone else involved in a great weekend.  Check out the host and sponsor – Magic Madhouse LDN.

For more reading, check out all my other event coverage, the Age of Sigmar Second Edition events packs page, the event calendar and the Age of Sigmar list archive.  I took a break for about 6 weeks but am now playing catch-up on event coverage, so expect a deluge over the coming weeks.

Angelcore 2018

Angelcore 2018 was a 5 game, 2,000 point matched play tournament using Age of Sigmar Second Edition, the General’s Handbook 2018 and Malign Sorcery.  Firestorm allegiances and realm rules were in play, as well as one pre-determined realm spell.

  • Round 1 – Focal Points –  Ghyran
  • Round 2 – Better Part of Valour – Shyish
  • Round 3 – Total Commitment – Aqshy
  • Round 4 – Places of Arcane Power – Chamon
  • Round 5 – Total Conquest – Hysh

Read the full pack.  The guys did a great job of covering all the practical things like hotels, transport, finding the venue etc.

Realm rules

The organisers picked the realmscape and realmsphere magic for each of the rounds (see the table below).  They also limited Shyish armies to just using the Soul-Force Sacrifice command ability, when playing a game in Shyish, rather than Honour the Dead.  Realm command abilities could not be used more than once per turn.

Angelcore realms

Secondary missions

Angelcore also ran secondary missions as a way of achieving differentiation in player scores.  With 30 points available for a major win, and 20 points available in secondary objectives each game, you definitely needed to keep an eye on picking up the secondary points.

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Round draws

You can find the draws here:

Angelcore 2018 Video Coverage

The guys did a great job of streaming the top games through the weekend on Twitch (Magic Madhouse on Twitch).  The commentary, sound and camera work were great for their first time streaming an Age of Sigmar event.

Round 1 walk around

Round 1

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Watch AngelCore Age of Sigmar all weekend! from magicmadhouselondon on www.twitch.tv

Round 3

Watch AngelCore Age of Sigmar all weekend! from magicmadhouselondon on www.twitch.tv

Round 4

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Round 5

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Angelcore 2018 Results

So all the results are in:

  • First – Ben Savva (Daughters of Khaine)
  • Second – Laurie Hugget-Wilde (Sylvaneth)
  • Third – James Warth (Sylvaneth)
  • Fourth – Ben Murphy (Grand Host of Nagash)
  • Fifth – Jack Armstrong (Hammerhal)

 

  • Best Death – Steve Curtis (Grand Host of Nagash)
  • Best Destruction – Tom Loyn (Grand Alliance Destruction)
  • Best Chaos – Marc Wilson (Grand Alliance Chaos)
  • Best Order – Ben Savva (Daughters of Khaine)

 

  • Best Painted – Adam Cunis
  • Coolest Army – John Greene

 

  • Best Sports – James Warth
  • Spirit of Angelcore – Adam Cunis

 

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Top Angelcore 2018 Lists

The top five players at Angelcore 2018 were:

  1. Ben Savva (Daughters of Khaine)
  2. Laurie Hugget-Wilde (Sylvaneth)
  3. James Warth (Sylvaneth)
  4. Ben Murphy (Grand Host of Nagash)
  5. Jack Armstrong (Hammerhal)

In terms of stats, the usual suspects were popular (although 4 palisades was a surprise).

Endless Spells

  • Cogs – 5
  • Palisade – 4
  • Geminids – 4
  • Shackles – 3
  • Portal – 3
  • Balewind – 2
  • Swords – 1

Realms

  • Shyish – 10
  • Ghyran – 3
  • Hysh – 3
  • Ulgu – 3
  • Aqshy – 2
  • Ghur – 1

Grand Alliances

  • Order – 10
  • Death – 7
  • Chaos – 3
  • Destruction – 2

You can find all the lists here.

Angelcore 2018 pictures

Now there was a tonne of social media coverage of the Angelcore 2018, so the below are just a potted summary of pictures from the across the weekend.  My apologies for any inadvertent omissions etc.

 

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BLACKOUT 2018 Report

BLACKOUT 2018

So this past weekend was the excellent BLACKOUT 2018 Age of Sigmar matched play event held in Cardiff, Wales.  BLACKOUT 2018 was the first large independent UK event to use the realmscape rules for Age of Sigmar Second Edition.   You’ll find the pack, results, top lists and pictures below.

For more event coverage, check out my event coverage page, the Age of Sigmar second edition event packs page, the events calendar and the tournament list archive.

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BLACKOUT 2018

BLACKOUT is run every year by the great Chris Tomlin, formerly of the Black Sun podcast.  This year it was held in sunny, sunny Cardiff at Firestorm Games.  Firestorm is a great location for events, being a large games store with massive dedicated area for gaming, including streaming the top table, while Cardiff always seems to be carnage on a night out if you like that sort of thing.

BLACKOUT 2018 Event Pack

The event was played at 2,000 points, over five rounds, with battleplans announced at the start of each round and randomly selected from the 18 Matched Play battleplans.  The battleplans and realms used were:

  • Round 1 – Shifting Objectives – Aqshy
  • Round 2 – Places of Arcane Power – Ulgu
  • Round 3 – Scorched Earth – Chamon
  • Round 4 – Total Commitment – Ghyran
  • Round 5 – Border War – Shyish

Realmscape features, realm commands and realm spells from the Core Book and Malign Sorcery were also in play (although Chris pre-selected the realmscape features for each round):

  • Shyish – Feature: Eternal War – “Add 1 to the Bravery characteristic of all units“
  • Aqshy – Feature: Burning Skies – “In the movement phase, if an enemy unit can fly and moves more than 6″, roll a dice.  On a 4+ the enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound.  On a 6+ it suffers D3 mortal wounds instead.“
  • Chamon – Feature: Rust Plague – “At the start of your hero phase, roll a dice.  On a 6+, pick an enemy unit that is in cover.  Subtract 1 from save rolls made for that unit for the rest of the battle.“
  • Ghyran – Feature: Lifesprings – “Before the battle begins, each player picks a HERO from their army.  Add 1 to the Wounds characteristic of the heroes that are picked.“
  • Ulgu – Feature: Shrouded Lands – “This realmscape feature has no effect on the battle“

The first tiebreaker for gameplay results was Best Sports votes, with kill points only being used as a second tiebreaker.  Kill points of summoned units counted for the tiebreaker (but not for the results of individual games).

Like all of Chris’ events, the event also has a high expectation that players will bring fully painted and cohesive armies (with large penalties if you don’t).  You can check out the full pack here.

BLACKOUT 2018 Results and Awards

The BLACKOUT 2018 results were:

You can find the full results here or check out the placings and allegiances below.

BLACKOUT 2018 – Best Painted

The standard of painting is always high at Chris’ events and this year was no exception.   I highly recommend checking out the ProPainted podcast for all of its coverage of the painting side of UK events.

The armies nominated for Best Painted at BLACKOUT 2018 were:

You can see more of Tim’s army in this showcase on the site.

You can see more of Danny’s army in this showcase on the site.

BLACKOUT 2018 Lists

You can read all the lists here.  Otherwise, the top three lists were:

Ady McWalter came third, but unfortunately his list was a bit hard to read in the list document.  He has kindly sent me his list:

  • Allegiance: Chaos
  • Archaon
  • Harbinger of Decay with Crown of Conquest
  • Lord of Blights with Gryph Feather Charm
  • Lord of Blights
  • 40 Marauders, Mark of Nurgle
  • 40 Marauders, Mark of Nurgle
  • 20 Marauders, Mark of Nurgle
  • 3 Putrid Blightkings
  • Plaguetouched Battalion

BLACKOUT 2018 Pictures

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Bravery One British Open (BOBO 2018)

BOBO 2018

So this last weekend (28 and 29 July 2018) saw the return of the Bravery One British Open, a unique event on the UK Age of Sigmar tournament scene held in the Engine Shed in Lincoln – think wargaming tournament, concert and lads football team weekend away all wrapped into one.  I can only think of a small number of other events which have produced the same amount of enthusiasm and compliments over social media.  The organisers obviously put on a very impressive show for the largest Age of Sigmar Second Edition singles tournament so far (80+ players!).

BOBO 2018

In this post, I’ll cover the pack, the results, the top 3 lists and as much of the great atmosphere of the event as I can reasonably do from half a world away.  However, before I dive into the recap post itself, I want to acknowledge @Warhammer_AoS, @thehonestwargamer, @nathprescott, @J0N_atan, @JonScrivens, @theadamhughes, Bravery One, @ws10gaming, Dark Fantastic Mills, Age of Hobby, feldherr.net (and Pwork Wargames for their involvement in and contribution to the event.

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The whole weekend was streamed by The Honest Wargamer on their Twitch channel, so you can go back and watch all the list analysis, games, interviews, clips and coverage.  The coverage received a massive amount of praise over the weekend from attendees and people around the world watching at home.

BOBO 2018

BOBO 2018 Age of Sigmar Rules

Due to the proximity of the event to the release of Age of Sigmar Second Edition and the new FAQ, the BOBO organisers had the difficult task of getting the lay of the new land quickly and deciding on the rules set which would be the most fun for players involved.  They chose GHB18 scenarios and Malign Sorcery realm artefacts (but without realm spells or realmscape effects).

Further, the organisers added a number of rules changes intended by them to reduce negative play experiences.  The most notable of these being:

  • priority for the first turn was determined by a roll-off rather than who finished deploying first.  In the event of a draw, the player who finished deploying first won
  • no stacking of any command abilities
  • armies could only summon one unit a turn
  • only one Engine of the Gods could summon a turn
  • Lord Kroak could only cast Celestial Deliverance once per turn
  • Wyldwoods did not block line of sight (which had been confirmed by the 24 July FAQ).

Check out the full pack for more details.

BOBO 2018 Prizes

The BOBO guys put on a fantastic spread of prizes, including some amazing 3D printed trophies from Dark Fantastic Mills.

BOBO 2018 Results

The full gaming results were:

BOBO 2018

The sports results were:

BOBO 2018

BOBO 2018 Top Age of Sigmar Army Lists

1st Jack Armstrong – Stormcast Eternals

BOBO 2018

2nd Dan Ford – Murderhost

3rd Pete Humpage – Order Draconis

Order Draconis
Realm Shadow
Strategic Genius

Dragonlord Host Battalion
Dragonlord
Dragonlord (quicksilver potion)
Dragonlord (Doppleganger cloak)

5 Dragon Princes
5 Dragon Princes
5 Dragon Princes

Archmage on Dragon

Spells
Maelstrom
Shackles
Palisade
Geminids

For more list discussion from BOBO 2018, check out the Honest Wargamer’s list preview video.

You can also check out the round 5 draw to see the armies that were around the top tables going into the last round.

BOBO 2018

BOBO 2018 Best Painted Armies

Here are some shots of the armies nominated for Best Painted at BOBO 2018 that I’ve managed to locate from Twitter.  A big thanks to @WarchiefBaz for putting up pictures.

For more, better quality pictures of the Best Painted armies at BOBO 2018, check out the Honest Wargamer’s Facebook page gallery.

#Streethammer

So one event unique to BOBO is the infamous Streethammer.  Players buy a start collecting set, assemble it and then compete against other players in a winner takes all battle literally.  If you defeat your opponent, you get their start collecting set.  The battles are fought on the floor, using cups and any old thing as terrain.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, Jack Armstrong came away victorious again by using a Beastclaw box to beat a Death set, and then using the Death set to beat Darren Watson’s Beastclaw.

The weekend may also have included:

  • “gryphracing”
  • “Through the Keyhole” – guess which of the organisers’ owns the house in the video (in true UK 90s style)
  • nerf gun firing squad for the guy with square bases
  • random prize bingo
  • spot prizes including best dressed, monster hunter, priority choker
  • a 30ft bar

More BOBO 2018 Pictures

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Midwest Meltdown 2018 Recap

So, slightly delayed thanks to the new FAQ dropping, but here is my recap of the Midwest Meltdown 2018.  While not there personally, all the coverage over Twitter and Facebook made it look like an absolute blast!  Domus as always did a stellar job catering for new and veteran players a like.  The US Midwest has a really strong scene at the moment with Detroit and Milwaukee leading the charge.   In this post, I cover the results, top lists and have lots of pictures from the event.

For more reading, check out the Midwest Meltdown preview post, all my other event coverage, the Age of Sigmar Second Edition events packs page, the event calendar and the Age of Sigmar list archive.

Midwest Meltdown 2018

As previously mentioned, the Meltdown Meltdown 2018 was 5 games of 2,000 points matched play using Age of Sigmar Second Edition, the General’s Handbook 2018 and Malign Sorcery.  Realm artefacts and Firestorm allegiances were in play.  5 battleplans were randomly selected, some realm of battle rules and secondary objectives were also in play.

Game 1
Gift of the Heavens
Shyish – Life Leeching
Secondary Obj = #52 – Blood on the Ground

Game 2
Better Part of Valour
Chamon – Rust Plague
Secondary Obj = #42 – Control 4 Obj (pg 319)

Game 3
Relocation Orb
Ghur – Reckless Agression
Secondary Obj = #66 – Slay the Enemy General

Game 4
Places of Arcane Power
Hysh – Speed of Light
Secondary Obj = #41 – Dominate – control at least 2 more obj than your opponent.

Game 5
Total Commitment
Ghyran – Seeds of Hope
Secondary Obj = #46 – Retake – Control an Obj that was held by your opp at the start of the turn.

Midwest Meltdown 2018 Results

There were a lot of awards at stake at Meltdown, along with a significant number of substantial spot prizes awarded throughout the event (think an Eidolon etc).  But there could only be one winner, Mr Brad Schwandt (@Rhellion) himself rocking the big bad boy, Nagash.  As you may know, Rhellion is a top matched play gamer in the US and a member of the US playtest team.   You can check out my Masterclass interview with Rhellion for tips on improving your matched play performance.

The full awards for Midwest Meltdown 2018 were:

  • Best Overall – Brad Schwandt (@Rhellion)
  • Best Order – Kyle Western
  • Best Destruction – Isaiah Ramczyk (@felvatar)
  • Best Death – Brendan Melnick (@Hobby_Bear)
  • Best Chaos – Jeremy Tucker (@BMT_Painting)
  • Coolest Army – Aaron Schmidt (@horrorshowminis)
  • Best Painted – Andrea Schwandt (@LuckySixes)
  • Best Terrain Piece – Nick McKenna
  • Best Sports – Brice and accompanying puppy (@MooseGeek_)

You can find the full results on Warscore or in a Google Sheet.

 The Coolest Army

Best Painted

 

Top Midwest Meltdown Lists

The top five players at Midwest Meltdown 2018 were:

  1. Brad Schwandt (Grand Host of Nagash)
  2. Brendan Melnick (Grand Host of Nagash)
  3. Kyle Western (Sylvaneth)
  4. Jake L’Ecuyer (Grand Host of Nagash)
  5. Jeremy Tucker (Maggotkin)

As you’ll see, it really was Nagash’s event (although Sylvaneth and Ironjawz were playing off on table 2 in the final round).

As well as the top 5 lists, you can find all the lists from the event here.

Nagash

Midwest Meltdown 2018 Stories

One of the best parts of attending Age of Sigmar tournaments is the number of stories that emerge from the build-up or on the table top.  I’ve collected a few here, but let me know of any other heroic deeds, grudges or acts of misfortune which need to be recorded for the annals of history.

  • #Drakegate and the foundation of Team New Zealand’s Midwest Chapter
  • Rhellion’s  Hand of Dust tally
    • King on Terrogheist
    • Frostlord on Stonehorn
    • Great Unclean One
    • Nagash
    • Nagash
  • Rhellion dusting Nagash off the board turn 1 final game
  • Rhellion won every roll for deployment and played 4 lists with the same drops (7)
  • Sword of Judgment Megaboss gets 21 Mortal Wounds on a Stardrake
  • Michael Kopack’s Purple Sun killed more than its points cost in 4 out of 5 games, with a full kill tally (excluding battleshock) of:
    • 2 fulminators
    • 1 gryph houn
    • 2 spirit hosts
    • 1 Lord executioner
    • 3 grave guard
    • 1 hexwrait
    • 1 blood thirster
    • 1 slaughter priest
    • 7 Marauders
    • 1 Vampire lord
    • Friendly fire: 7 skeletons

Midwest Meltdown 2018 Pictures

Now there was a tonne of social media coverage of the Midwest Meltdown this year, so the below are just a potted summary of pictures from the across the weekend.  My apologies for any inadvertent omissions etc.

 

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Midwest Meltdown 2018 Preview

Hey all, this weekend is the first large Warhammer Age of Sigmar singles tournament using the Second Edition rules – the Midwest Meltdown.  Hosted by Domus in East Peoria, Illinois, almost 60 players will battle it out in a 2,000 point matched play event.  In this post, I’ll cover the pack, the army lists and some stats.

Follow along over the weekend on Twitter by keeping an eye on Domus’ Twitter account and using #midwestmeltdown.  For more Age of Sigmar Second Edition event news, check out my event coverage, AoS 2 events packs page, the Age of Sigmar event calendar and the tournament list archive.

The Midwest Meltdown 2018 Pack

So let’s talk about the tournament pack.  In this new edition, but pre-FAQ world, tournament organisers have a hard job making an accessible pack that uses the new rules, while avoiding the rare negative play experience which can sometimes arise from something which may have slipped through play-testing.  Now, its only a problem for a short window because Games Workshop now tidy up any stray points quickly, but if your event is in the interim you need to make arrangements.

Rules

The Midwest Meltdown 2018 is 5 games of 2,000 points matched play using Age of Sigmar Second Edition, the General’s Handbook 2018 and Malign Sorcery.  You can nominate that your army is from a specific realm and use the artefacts.  Firestorm allegiances are also in play.

Battleplans

Players will play 5 of the following 9 battleplans, with the battleplan being announced at the end of the following round.

  • Total Commitment
  • Focal Points
  • The Better Part of Valour
  • Shifting Objectives
  • Places of Arcane Power
  • The Relocation Orb
  • Duality of Death
  • Border Wars
  • Gift from the Heavens

Realms of Battle

The Realms of Battle rules will be in use with a house rule to Ghur below. The realm will be set by the tournament organiser each round for all players as well as the Realmscape Feature.  Additionally, the Spells of the Realms will be in play for that realm per Malign Sorcery.  Realms may be duplicated.  Ghur – will not be using the Monstrous Beasts rule.

Scoring

For gaming, the Midwest Meltdown uses a 12.9.6.3.0 system with secondary objectives announced on the day worth an extra 3 pts a game (i.e. the difference between a minor and a major result).

House Rules

Finally, the event has a number of house rules for clarity and to address a couple of issues that have arisen pre-FAQ.  Its worth reading the full pack to check these out.  View the full pack here.

The Midwest Meltdown Prizes

Domus has arranged some awesome trophies, along with swag from popular US Warhammer retailer, Ministomp (@ministomp).  There are awards for:

  • Best Overall
  • Best Player in Each Grand Alliance
  • Best Painted
  • Best Sportsman
  • Best Terrain Piece
  • Coolest Army

Age of Sigmar Second Edition Lists

Domus has also done a great job in the lead-up to the event teasing lots of great statistics for the event.  I’ve reproduced the stats here, otherwise you can jump straight to the lists.

Grand Alliance breakdown

  • 19 Chaos
  • 17 Order
  • 15 DEATH
  • 5 Destruction

Allegiance Breakdown

  • 1 Beastclaw
  • 1 Clan Skryre
  • 1 Flesh Eater Courts
  • 1 Kharadron Overlords
  • 1 Legion of Blood
  • 1 Moonclan
  • 1 Slaanesh
  • 2 Idoneth Deepkin
  • 2 Seraphon
  • 3 Chaos
  • 3 Daughters of Khaine
  • 3 Ironjawz
  • 3 Khorne
  • 3 Nighthaunt
  • 3 Order
  • 3 Tzeentch
  • 5 Grand Hosts of Nagash
  • 5 Legion of Sacrament
  • 6 Stormcast Eternals
  • 8 Maggotkin

Chosen Realms

  • The most popular realm is Shyish, closely followed by Hysh (surprise, surprise).

Artefacts

  • Lens, Ethereal Amulet and Muttergrub are the run-away most popular artefacts.

Battalions

  • The most popular battalions are Blight Cyst and Lords of Sacrament

Characters

  • The most popular named characters are Nagash and Arkhan (5 each)

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Endless Spells

  • Geminids is the most popular Endless Spell
  • The list with the most Endless Spells has 5 spells
  • 17 lists with no Endless Spells

Check out the full lists here, if you missed them along the way 😉

Photos of armies mustering

Twitter has been awash with people putting together great looking armies and display boards (always a feature of the US Age of Sigmar scene) for the event.  I’ve just grabbed a few pics below (I’ll come back and add Twitter handles etc).

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AoS 2 Early Event Round-Up

Hey all, with Age of Sigmar Second Edition now out for a few weeks, we have had a number of events testing out the new rule-set.  To the extent that I have been able to get them, I have a wrap-up of the events, AoS2 lists, and results.  This post covers Summer Massacre (UK), Summer Carnage (US), the ATC Singles event (US), a German event hosted by the Würfelgötter club, and the Games Cube (Aus).

You can also check out the coverage of Warhost 2018 and the AoS 6 Nations for more Age of Sigmar second edition event coverage.  For more event details, check out the events page and the tournament list archive.

Summer Massacre – UK

First up is Summer Massacre.  Hosted by the Newcastle Warlords and run by James Chalmers of the Tales of Sigmar podcast/YouTube.  The Warlords have a really great set of club nights going and seem to be growing from strength to strength.  They are definitely worth checking out if you are in the area – you can find them on Facebook.

Summer Massacre event pack and lists

Summer Massacre Pack

Summer Massacre AoS2 Lists

Summer Massacre Results

The podium places went to:

  • 1st place – Richard Hudspith – @13on2D6 – Seraphon
  • 2nd place – Martin Swaffield – @martinswaffield – Nighthaunt
  • 3rd place – Lee Hamilton – @leehamilton86 – Fyreslayers
  • MOST SPORTING – Kyle Brunskill
  • The Reserved (Least Kill Points) – Ian Crew
  • Last Place (Winning is for Losers) – Scott Wall
  • BEST IN FACTION (Kill Points)
    • Chaos – Philip Gibbons
    • Order – Richard Hudspith
    • Death – Tom Healey (@ladvoncarstein)
    • Destruction – Andy Thompson

The full results were:

Armies on display at the event

There were also painting prizes:

  • 1st – Mike Plissken (Maggotkin of Nurgle)
  • 2nd – Samuel Robert Goodwin (Legions of Nagash)
  • 3rd – Tom Healey (Legions of Blood) (@ladvoncarstein)

Germany event hosted by Würfelgötter (the Dice Gods)

The Würfelgötter club have recently hosted the biggest Age of Sigmar tournament in Germany.  This last weekend they had 20 players testing out Age of Sigmar Second Edition.   You can find the pack and lists here.

The event was won by Stormcast, with Nurgle Blight Cyst second and Gnarlroot third.

For more on the European Age of Sigmar scene, check out the T3 Tournaments site and this forum.

Age of Sigmar Europe

Summer Carnage – US

Regular readers of the site will know that Scott Reed (@thelnorn1) runs a number of Age of Sigmar events in the West of the US.  Recently he ran Summer Carnage at @AtEaseGames in San Diego.

Scott always does great Age of Sigmar event packs, so it is worth checking his out here: Summer Carnage pack.  The event used Realm of Battle Rules and allowed players to pick one realm spell from the realm for use in their army.

Congrats to the following podium winners:

  • Jarrett Zazuetta – Seraphon
  • James Thomas – Tzeentch
  • Mathew Jones – Grand Host of Nagash

American Team Championships (ATC) Singles Event

The ATC has traditionally been a large 40k team event.  This year it added an Age of Sigmar event at (fairly) short notice.  I understand 12 players turned up and the podium places were:

  • William Soehaili – Tzeentch
  • Robert Baer – Beastclaw Raiders
  • Terry Throop – Seraphon.

The Games Cube – Sydney, Australia

Every month runs a monthly 3 game mini-tournament in Sydney.  24 players turned up to the first event under Age of Sigmar Second Edition and it was taken out by friend of the show, Mr Anthony Magro (Legion of Night with Mannfred).

If you are in or near Sydney, check out Anthony’s Sydney GT in September.

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Warhost 2018 – First AoS2 Matched Play Tournament

AoS2 lists

Hey all, a quick preview post for the world’s first* two day matched-play Age of Sigmar Second Edition matched play tournament happening this weekend in Hamilton, New Zealand.  Its going to be really interesting to see how the armies go in the Wild West of the early days of AoS2.  So check below for the crazy hot takes on AoS2 lists.

We are also trialing a few new things in order to encourage narrative and hobby involvement at a traditionally matched play focused event.  Game-play, narrative and painting all have separate scoring systems and prizes of equal value awarded at the end.  Check out the details below, and I’d encourage you to participate in the public voting for narrative and painting here over the weekend.

Finally, the event has been sponsored by Mighty Ape, a New Zealand online retailer and hobby store that is currently starting to host its own Age of Sigmar events in Auckland.  Mighty Ape have kindly provided prize support and discounted mats for use on the table tops.

AoS2 Lists

Warhost AoS2 Pack

The Warhost pack is 5 rounds of 2,000pt Age of Sigmar Second Edition using the General’s Handbook 2018, Endless Spells and Realm Artefacts.  The Realm of Battle Rules are not in play.  But apart from that, the event is straight out of the book.

We are playing Total Commitment, Focal Points, Shifting Objectives, Places of Arcane Power and the Relocation Orb.  We are also using 3 hour rounds so that everyone can get a grip with the new rules.

For the full details check out the pack.

Warhost AoS2 Lists

All our AoS2 lists are now in, and you can download and check them out.   As you will see there are quite a few lists rocking magical defence, some strong Death lists coming and a lot of order armies bringing the Lens from Hyish to protect their armies from mortal wounds.

I’ll have some coverage on these lists and how they did after the weekend, but check out the Notorious AoS podcast on Podbean and iTunes for a list preview show.

Warhost AoS2 Narrative

Each player has been encouraged to write a narrative for their army for the tournament, including a narrative that ties into the scenarios that are being played.  Players are invited to engage with their opponent about their narrative.

We are trying something a little different with this tournament. One of the things we love about the hobby is the ability to create a shared story between the players. For this tournament there will be a narrative competition judged by your pairs. Further details on this section will be discussed on page two of this pack. The minimum requirement for this section is that you must participate with your opponent in their story. This section is mostly optional we do not expect
players to come up with background information or a narrative story if they just wish to throw dice, however you will still be asked to rank your opponents on the narrative they presented to you during your games as discussed on page two

Event Narrative
For this event, YOU will be setting the narrative for your games. Examine what scenarios are being played on which rounds and come up with interesting narratives for your army on those scenarios. During each game you with play through your narrative with your opponent. The narrative could involve sub objectives for your army to accomplish or stop your opponent form accomplishing, however these sub objectives do not come into play for gameplay scoring in deciding who achieves victory. Effectively you are trying to create a story during gameplay with your opponent – perhaps during one scenario your heroes are attempting to draw power from one of the objectives or one of the objectives signify a hostage. The options are endless and it is up to the players to create an enjoyable story with their opponent.

Narrative Scoring
At the end of the tournament each player will score their opponents from favourite to least  favourite in terms of their narrative. Each players favourite opponent scores 5 points, second favourite 4 points down to 1 point for least favourite.

Already we have some players going to great lengths to really set the scene for their armies.  Just check out Andy Long (@golongdesign)’s work for his Slaanesh army.

AoS2 Event Coverage

I’ll be providing coverage over Twitter over the weekend, and you can follow along at #Warhost2018.  I’m also hoping to have some videos recorded 🙂

*as far as I know, and by only about 12 hours over the AoS 6 Nations in the UK 😉

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AoS 6 Nations Preview

AoS 6 Nations

Hey all, this weekend brings the premier international team competition for Warhammer Age of SIgmar – the AoS 6 Nations, hosted this year at Common Ground Games in Stirling, Scotland.  The 6 Nations is a 8 player team tournament featuring England (the 2017 champions), Scotland (2017 runners up), Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Sweden.  With Age of Sigmar second edition released a week ago, and so many more options available to the players, the lists and competition is expected to be crazy!  In this post I’ll cover the AoS 6 Nations lists, the tournament pack and tell you where to find all the coverage you need.

AoS 6 Nations Pack

The event is over 5 rounds of 2,000 points Age of Sigmar Second Edition.  The General’s Handbook 2018 and all current FAQs and Errata are in play.   All games will be played using the 6 new matched play scenarios from General’s Handbook 2018 and the Realm of Battle rules are not being using..

In terms of list-building restrictions, the key ones are:

  • Endless spells with a points value may be used by any player in a team and must be included as part of
    submitted list. Spells with models must use the correct models.
  • Realm Artefacts may not be duplicated within a team.
  • Excluding Battleline units Warscrolls may not be duplicated across armies in a team but may be duplicated
    within a single players’ army. For example, two players in a team using a Stormcast Eternal Army may
    include Judicators however a third player with a mixed order army cannot use them as they are only
    Battleline within a Stormcast Eternals army.

You can read the full event pack for all the pairing, victory point and tie breaker details here.  Key to note is the return of the round score cap – now a team will score between the minimum of 60 points and the maximum of 120 points per team per round.  Capping helps to reduce the potentially skewing effect of the random team match-up process in the first rounds.

AoS 6 Nations Lists

So, what you have probably been waiting for, the AoS 6 Nations lists 🙂 I’ll come back and add some notes on the lists later in the week.  I also understand some amendments to the Irish SCE list and Byron’s weapons choices (both submitted before deadline) are coming.

AoS 6 Nations

 

(credit to Stephen Mitchell)

AoS 6 Nations Schedule

Round 1

  • Scotland v Wales
  • England v Ireland
  • Northern Ireland v Sweden

Round 2

  • Scotland v Northern Ireland
  • Sweden v England
  • Ireland v Wales

Round 3

  • Ireland v Scotland
  • England v Northern Ireland
  • Sweden v Wales

Round 4

  • Northern Ireland v Ireland
  • Wales v England
  • Sweden v Scotland

Round 5

  • Wales v Northern Ireland
  • Ireland v Sweden
  • England v Scotland

AoS 6 Nations Coverage

As always, the best way to follow all the breaking news and coverage from the 6 Nations over the weekend is on Twitter (#AoS6Nations).  This year each of the teams have their own official Twitter accounts, so give them a follow and keep up to date:

When I get a chance, I’ll add the full team lists and links to individual twitter accounts.

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Last AoS 1 Tournament Round-up

Age of SIgmar lists

Today is the last Age of Sigmar matched play tournament round-up that I will be doing for first edition.  Yes, ‘Ardfists (Melbourne, Australia) and Flying Monkey Con (Wichita, US) are still to come, but I don’t realistically see myself having the time to cover them as well as all the Second Edition news that is hitting.  So today is the last time I’ll be covering Age of Sigmar lists for first edition.  Below, you’ll find the top Age of Sigmar lists, results and pictures (to the extent that I have them) for:

  • Games Workshop Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament Heat 3
  • Sydney Slaughter
  • Badgacon
  • Triumph GT

All four events were held over the weekend of 9 / 10 June 2018.  Given the number of events, and that we have a new edition around the corner, I have not covered the events in my usual detail, but I still wanted to have a record of them for posterity.

For more Age of Sigmar tournament lists and coverage, check out my archive, and the events coverage posts.

Age of Sigmar Grand Tournament Heat 3

Heat 3 saw a new range of armies around the top tables, as well as several old favourites as players took armies out for a spin for the last time.

The pack is here.

Heat 3 Results

So the Top 10 were:

  • Tony Moore – Changehost
  • Dan Bradshaw – Disciples of Tzeentch (Tzaangor)
  • Bryan Carmichael – Mixed Order
  • Daniel Ford – Maggotkin
  • Rob Symes – Seraphon
  • Carl Martin – Seraphon
  • Mark Busby – Skryre
  • Nick Thompson – Daughters of Khaine
  • Ant Lewis – Legions of Nagash
  • Hayden Long – Sylvaneth

The full results were:

Heat 3 Painting Nominations and Awards

As always, the standard of army painting was high at Warhammer World and you can check out my army showcases of Tim’s Daughters of Khaine and Brad’s crazy Skaven for more great pictures.

If you are a subscriber to the Warhammer Twitch channel, you can also check out the videos of the games.

Sydney Slaughter

The Sydney Slaughter is hosted by Chris Welfare of the Mortally Wounded podcast.  Chris is a great bloke and top tier gamer.  You can find the event’s page here.

Sydney Slaughter Pack

The pack has a number of cool custom scenarios which are worth checking out.

Sydney Slaughter Age of Sigmar Lists

The lists (here) were reviewed over on the Heralds of War podcast.

Sydney Slaughter Results

1st Place – Dave Kerr
2nd Place – Dan Brewer
3rd Place – Adam Burt
Wooden Spoon – Jakeb Sparke
Best Order – Rob Reimers
Best Chaos – Dave Kerr
Best Death – Anthony Magro
Best Destruction – Deano Matthews
Strategic Genius – Dave Kerr
Best Opponent – Dan Saye
Best Presented – Travis Cooper
Coolest Army – Ryan Kirby
Hero of Legend – Travis Cooper
Monstrous Marvel – Andrew Bigwood
Regiment of Renown – Travis Cooper
The Masterpiece – Steven Drury

Age of Sigmar lists

Age of Sigmar lists

Sydney Slaughter Pictures

Age of Sigmar lists

Badgacon

Badgacon looked like a mental event run in the Aussie bush by those great lads at the Measured Gaming club – seriously these guys have an enthusiastic Twitter presence.  Here is a pic of the guys from their trip to Cancon (currently the second biggest Age of Sigmar event in the world in 2018).

Badgacon

Badgacon Pack and Details

The event details can be found on Facebook and the pack is here.

The lists (here) were reviewed over on the Doom and Darkness YouTube channel.

Badgacon Results

Sam Morgan, wisened square base expert, now round base convert and Khainite devotee took first place with Daughters of Khaine.

Badgacon

Badgacon

Badgacon Armies

Badgacon Tables

Triumph GT

Hosted in New Jersey, with Martin Orlando as TO for the Age of Sigmar event, this was another medium sized US event.  The event was streamed over the weekend on Twitch here.

Unfortunately I seem to have misplaced the lists and results Martin sent me, but I do have a collection of pictures from the event for you to enjoy 🙂  I’ll update the post with the lists and results when I relocate them.

 

 

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