The UK Goonhammer Open happened over the weekend with some pretty sweet 40k army lists making it out towards the top!
The top overall army lists were a lot of the same stagnant meta that has hung over tournaments like the ghost of the Knight Castellan, so we’re featuring some of the more unique lists that placed high instead!
Top Warhammer 40k Army Lists: Goonhammer Open UK
Check out all the top army lists from the event on Best Coast Pairings here.
Thanks to Best Coast Pairings we are able to look back at the event as if we were there ourselves. You can check out the details for the event here.
10th Place: Jay Middlecoat- Knights
7th Place: Greg Chamberlain- Death Guard
5th Place: Konrad Bartkiewicz- Minotaurs
Konrad threw everyone a curveball by going Minotaurs, which are an Iron Hands successor. One of the main benefits of which is gaining access to Hecaton Aikos, a Minotaurs named Dreadnought. Overall he is just a slightly better dreadnought with a great stat line, who is harder to take down thanks to his -1 damage ability.
A Primaris Techmarine is the other HQ and helps out by healing the vehicles of the list, including Hecaton!
There is only one Troop, being a 5 man Incursor squad just to add a few bodies. Elites see the inclusion of a total of 4 Company Veterans who are cheap bodies that can all take storm shields making them very durable.
Heavy Support adds in a total of 10 Devastator Marines with 4 Multi-meltas and 4 Grav-cannons making for a nice suite of ranged anti-armor shots.
Finishing off the Patrol is a Drop pod and 2 Land Speeder Storms for some mobility!
The second Detachment is a Vanguard led by a Primaris Lieutenant. This is a good option because he has loadout flexibility and offers sweet re-rolls to wound rolls of 1 within 6″.
Elites start off strong with a single Relic Contemptor Dread, running Cyclone, and 2 Twin Volkites making it great chaff clearer with potential to sneak damage in on bigger models.
The rest of Elites bring in a whopping 20 Vanguard Vets with Jump Packs storm shields. 17 of them are running lightning claws, with 3 of them taking Thunder hammers. This makes for an extremely mobile and durable group of bodies, that can decimate once in melee. This is by far the biggest threat of the list!
Closing out the detachment (and list) is a Whirlwind Scorpius, which serves as another great chaff clearer.
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