The Fabricator’s Forge LVO Primer happened over the weekend with some pretty sweet 40k army lists taking the top spots!
The tournament is over and now we’re able to look at which lists managed to secure a place at the top! Check out what these winners brought in their armies.
Custodes & GSC Are Day One Winners: Top 40k Army Lists
Thanks to Best Coast Pairings we are able to look back at the event as if we were there ourselves. You can also check out the event details here.
If you wanted to see the names and factions of the overall winners, we’ve included that below.
3rd Place: John Williams – Drukhari
2nd Place: Ryan Snyder – Custodes
It’s interesting to note that this list is from the new Adeptus Custodes book!
1st Place: TJ Lanigan – Genestealer Cults
Starting off, TJ went for a small patrol led by a Patriarch, who can support the list thanks to their psychic powers and hit/leadership auras that help boost the rest of the list. Troops see a 10 man squad of hybrids with 4 Heavy Rock Drills, which bring in crushing melee attacks if they can make it into combat. Finishing the small patrol is a Kelermorph, with its fantastic guns, and 10 Purestrain Genestealers, who add some more decent melee threats.
The second, and much larger detachment, is a battalion led by a Patriarch and a Primus. The patriarch gives additional sources of auras and the Primus helps by having both hit and wound auras to help out nearby units in combat.
Troops keep it simple with a total of 25 Hybrids and 6 Heavy Rock Drills for melee threats.
Elites bring in 15 Metamorphs, which are slightly better than the acolyte variants, making them more point dense and have better stats. 20 more Purestrain Genestealers also add in some more melee bodies to swarm enemies or even just hold lone objectives if needed.
Fast Attacks bring in 8 Atalan Jackals for their mobility and harass potential, all packaged in a relatively cheap model.
Finally, closing out the list are 2 Goliath Trucks, which can help transport units up the board while protecting those all-important Rock Drills so they have a better shot at making it into melee and chewing through some models
Editor’s note: Per our people at the tournament, TJ forgot to play with an entire squad the whole event, and if you want to believe the armchair live stream jockeys on Reddit he also set up one game over the deployment line. That post has since been deleted, and yes Reddit you can stop anytime.
It seems that even down points the new GSC and Custodes Army lists played here are day one winners. Will that trend keep up with Tau on the horizon?
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