AOS tourney results - no Seraphon? what?

[Jack Shrapnel]

Looks like people are leveraging the "what to do about bounty hunters" into some pretty deadly lists:


www.goonhammer.com/competitive-innovations-in-the-mortal-realms-somehow-aelf-nonsense-returned/

hmmm it seems as though (see recent AOS GT results) that I'm not the only one trying to figure out battleline vs. Bounty Hunters issue.



seems that there's a couple schools of thought:



1 - very minimal battleline (weird that in the season that was supposed to be all about battleline infantry the opposite appears true)



2 - major turn one shooting to kill the bounty hunter units



I found the soulblight vampires list that won the first tourney to be very interesting in that it is pretty much the exact opposite of how I play (and how I'm playing just isn't working, I haven't won a single game with my vamps) - hero-hammer with spell overload and minimal troops with some heavy hammers.



The beast list that won it's GT was CRAZY... 10 cockatrices? what?

[dave]

People have been floating the all-cockatrice meme list in the BoC group for a while, but this is the first time I've seen it played outside of TTS. I guess it can do the business, though I'm sure belakor did his part too.

Definitely seems like, outside of a few armies that can double down onto a super tanky tarpit, minimizing the Veterans in your army, and focusing on Bountyhunters is the way to go. Melt the opponent’s vet's and make their bountyhunters mostly pointless.

I guess I was already doing this. The beauty of min units of gors or ungors is that they were already being overkilled by a good margin whenever faced with a decent threat. Anything my opponent wants to put into bounty hunters really doesn't need that +1dmg anyway.

I guess the other strat is to run a shooty army. But don't. Because no one likes those 😜

I am disappointed, but not totally surprised, that GW envisioned a season focusing on footslogging battleline, and then wrote rules pushing you to run everything but, haha.

[Jack Shrapnel]

My problem is my vamp, ogre and snakes are mostly battleline!

[dave]

Yeah, there are definitely some armies and builds that struggle not to become easy targets.

I'm a bit disappointed I'm incentivized to run the same units as last year, when I wanted a reason to flood the board with goats, but I really can't complain. Besides gors and ungors, everything is conditional battleline in Beasts.