Don’t miss what rose to the top of the leaderboards at the Emperor’s Challenge IX Tournament as we look at 3 more top 40k Army lists.
The Emperor’s Challenge IX 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 army.
Top 3 40k Army Lists: Emperor’s Challenge IX Tournament
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3rd Place: Lars Palasin- Adepta Sororitas
The first list up is a Sisters of Battle List running a pretty standard HQ and Troop pool. Celestine and Triumph of Saint Katherine are both great pickups, plus 4 battle sister squads to form the meat of the objective taking force.
As for the Elites, there is an Imagifier, 2 squads of Repentia to get in melee and mainly serve as distractions, and 2 Zephyrim squads who would like to get in melee with weaker units and give the list some much-needed mobility.
The last chunk of the list is some more mobility in 2 Seraphim squads with a tad of ranged support. Adding more ranged support to the mix there are 2 squads of 5 Retributors running Multi-meltas which bring the anti-armor.
Lastly, they decided to take the Battle Sanctum for its aura, and at 55pts the only downside is having to take the extra detachment,
2nd Place: Simon Mogensen- Cult Mechanicus
For the HQ and Troops of the Mechanicus list, we see two different Tech-Priests bringing different weapons and traits to support the list. The Troops are 3 standard squads of Skitarii Vanguards.
As for the Elite section, we see they took 3 squads of Electro-Priests for some melee threats. While the Fast Attacks bring in 5 Ironstrider Ballistarius for a decent amount of mobility and ok range options, plus 2 squads of 3 Serbrys Raiders offering even more mobility to the list while being very cheap to field.
Moving onto the Heavy Support we see some of the heavy-hitters in 3 Skorpius Disintingrators, who each bring decent weapons for armor and chaff alike. The Transports feature two Duneriders with standard load-outs and a Termite Assault Drill, which not only transports but can do decent damage after arriving on the field as well.
1st Place: Juan Navarro- Chaos
For the Chaos list, they opted to go Slaanesh, however, they went Chaon Space Marines instead of the standard Slaanesh Daemon list.
For HQs, they went a Daemon Prince with Wings to offer some re-rolls and serve as a general threat himself, plus a Dark Apostle with the all-important Warp Time psychic power to get a melee beater (like the Daemon prince) into melee faster without taking as much damage from ranged fire. Troops feature 38 cultists for chaff to hold objective and screen while a squad of 20 Noise Marines offers great ranged support assuming you can keep them alive to keep the full damage potential. Fast Attacks have a single unit of Warp Talons as the trick up your sleeves to help tie up a unit for a turn, while two Baleflamer Heldrakes in the Flyers slot help wipe out the opponent’s chaff.
For the second detachment, they took a single Keeper of Secrets (to warp time up the board) and get into melee. While a squad of 30 Daemonettes offers a decent unit to deep strike in and cause havoc as well.
Chaos Victory- Congrats to Juan on the win!
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