by Peter Atkinson

Well it turns out that years of relentlessly shit-canning Order players has come back to haunt me, in the form of only a handful of entries this month. Who’d have picked that? The site has been growing rapdily, and yet we got more list entries that time we tried to write melee-focused KO lists a while back, which is saying something.

Anyway. The entries we did get included a couple of diamonds, which is all it takes to rinse an article out of it bring you, the readers some interesting army builds.

List of the Month: Nigel Weir, Misthavn

Melbourne Cities of Sigmar stalwart Nigel has been repping the Johanns for years, and he rocks up today with this interesting Misthavn build. Over to you, Nigel:

“Sure I’ll take top of 1”. The Alpha Strike Aelf package syncs with the Aelf Battle Tactic ‘Strike Without Warning‘ as an opener. The minimum distance crossed by those Knights is 18″ which requires 3x 2d6 rolls to come up snake eyes; the max is 38″ with an average of 28″.

Fusiliers are actually here to clear screens instead of nuke important stuff. The Black Dragon can issue the ASF Order to the strike pack: that 10 pack of Drakespawn Knights with Blades should lift most things. Although the Anklet doesn’t work with Blizzard, it’s there to boost the range of the Sorceress’s Warscroll spell which inflicts -1 to hit, which in turn means it synergises with the Black Dragon’s Duelist trait.

Even after you dig yourself out of 15 Drakespawn Knights there’s still the Black Guard-wrapped Fusiliers that can just freely roll around in a castle, moving 8″ a turn and losing zero benefits. Advance In Formation is cool and easily removing the negatives to powerful units while giving them a bonus on top is top tier game design. Gyrobomber makes the cut because it looks cool, and Nigel is sick of it being on the shelf. A mere 540pts of Humans.

Runner Up: Joel McGrath, Lethis

Friend of the blog, legend of Australian wargaming and a regular fixture here on the Listbuilding Challenge. Joel has been writing unique and awesome competitive lists for as long as the game’s been around. Run us through it, Joel.

The TL:DR:

Lethis makes Steam Tank Hero a priest. Gets to reroll chants. Lethis prayer turns off wards.

The human component works together to provide ranged damage, that being the Warforger and the Steam Tanks. We can Proc mortals on 6s to hit multiple ways.

Stormcast lost the Human keyword a few years ago, so that’s why I’m able to fit in an Ordinator too for +1 to hit on the Tanks as well as a unit of cav, who provide a nice amount of damage on the charge without any buffs.

The Aelves are the main block of the army. They’re supplying the screens mainly but are a dual role. The spell on the Sorceress can make a friendly Aelf unit ignore your saves. And they get up to 5 attacks a model if they’re attacking a wizard unit and get AOA from the Fleetmaster. Not too shabby on 25mm bases!

The doorfs are just in there for some easy battle tactics, such as bait and trap. They can also do a little bit of horde clearing but if they do 1 point of damage and score me VPs in a game, I’m happy.

I’d tweak this list depending on the battleplans used at an event, but this is a good place to start with.

Lots going on in this list especially when you add in orders etc. Fun to play with, looking forward to unlocking this book further.

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October Listbuilding Challenge: Armies of Renown

Predictable? Of course, but sometimes in life the most predictable outcomes are the most joyful.

This month we’re writing Armies of Renown lists:

• 2000 point Matched Play lists
• Must come from one of the following factions:
  • Brodd’s Stomp
  • Grunta Stampede
  • Trugg’s Troggherd
  • That bullshit KO shooting twice thing
• That’s it

Message me your lists over on twitter, or email me at PlasticCraicAOS@outlook.com

I’d love to get a good spread of entries so we can showcase one from each army, but if nobody is feeling that crappy pigs one I wouldn’t really blame you. Show me what you’ve got, we’ll pick the best ones and anywhere from one to four winners will be getting their name up there in lights and then swamped by adoring fans at future events.

Just imagine – that could be you. I only hope Nigel and Joel don’t wear out those right hands signing too many autographs, because I know that Order players need that to be fully operational for their other favourite hobby.

Well done though fellas, two cracking lists there. Have a good month, ladies and gents.

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