Junior Afllejetook home the gold at the Lone Star Open 2025. Here’s his Warhammer 40K list that went all the way!
This past weekend was the LSO – the Lone Star Open up in North Dallas. The event was brought to you by Frontline Gaming and I ended up trekking up there with my family for a weekend of dice rolling on neoprene battle mats. The event was dominated by the Death Guard army as well as a ton of Imperial Knights and Chaos Knights. It was brutal and lots of things were crushed under the weight of rotten Bloat Drones and giant machines of death.
Junior Aflleje won the LSO this past weekend and ended up being the supreme Plague Master in a sea of Death Guard nonsense. His list is the common Mortarion’s Hammer build you have seen lately. It has a lot of vehicles, some utility in the Death Shroud, and just a consistent way of grinding the game down. There were a ton of Death Guard lists in the top 8 with 3 Undefeated lists.
DG 0-6 here we go!
Junior Aflleje’s Death Guard
Death Guard
Mortarion’s Hammer
Strike Force (2,000 Points)
CHARACTERS
Lord of Contagion (110 Points)
• 1x Manreaper
Lord of Contagion (125 Points)
• 1x Manreaper
• Enhancements: Shriekworm Familiar
Lord of Virulence (110 Points)
• Warlord
• 1x Power fist
• 1x Twin plague spewer
• Enhancements: Tendrilous Emissions
OTHER DATASHEETS
Deathshroud Terminators (140 Points)
• 1x Deathshroud Champion
◦ 1x Icon of Despair (Aura)
◦ 1x Manreaper
◦ 2x Plaguespurt gauntlet
• 2x Deathshroud Terminator
◦ 2x Manreaper
◦ 2x Plaguespurt gauntlet
Deathshroud Terminators (140 Points)
• 1x Deathshroud Champion
◦ 1x Icon of Despair (Aura)
◦ 1x Manreaper
◦ 2x Plaguespurt gauntlet
• 2x Deathshroud Terminator
◦ 2x Manreaper
◦ 2x Plaguespurt gauntlet
Deathshroud Terminators (140 Points)
• 1x Deathshroud Champion
◦ 1x Icon of Despair (Aura)
◦ 1x Manreaper
◦ 2x Plaguespurt gauntlet
• 2x Deathshroud Terminator
◦ 2x Manreaper
◦ 2x Plaguespurt gauntlet
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Foetid Bloat-Drone with Heavy Blight Launcher (100 Points)
• 1x Heavy blight launcher
• 1x Plague probe
Foetid Bloat-Drone with Heavy Blight Launcher (100 Points)
• 1x Heavy blight launcher
• 1x Plague probe
Foetid Bloat-Drone with Heavy Blight Launcher (100 Points)
• 1x Heavy blight launcher
• 1x Plague probe
Myphitic Blight-Haulers (90 Points)
• 1x Bile spurt
• 1x Gnashing maw
• 1x Missile launcher
• 1x Multi-melta
Myphitic Blight-Haulers (90 Points)
• 1x Bile spurt
• 1x Gnashing maw
• 1x Missile launcher
• 1x Multi-melta
Myphitic Blight-Haulers (180 Points)
• 2x Myphitic Blight-hauler
◦ 2x Bile spurt
◦ 2x Gnashing maw
◦ 2x Missile launcher
◦ 2x Multi-melta
Plagueburst Crawler (195 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
• 2x Entropy cannon
• 1x Heavy slugger
• 1x Plagueburst mortar
Plagueburst Crawler (195 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
• 2x Entropy cannon
• 1x Heavy slugger
• 1x Plagueburst mortar
Poxwalkers (60 Points)
• 10x Poxwalker
◦ 10x Improvised weapon
Poxwalkers (60 Points)
• 10x Poxwalker
◦ 10x Improvised weapon
Poxwalkers (60 Points)
• 10x Poxwalker
◦ 10x Improvised weapon
1995 Points
Junior Aflleje’s Death Guard Tactics
This is a pretty simple list you can utilize the Poxwalkers to box in opponents if needed. You have a bunch of tough bodies, and methods to “afflict” units to help your other options kill them with shooting. It is a brutal hammer of a list and as you can see how at the LSO 2025, there were three of this style of list Undefeated and a ton more with only one loss. You can guess 40K needs some help to bring this nonsense in check.
Junior though did a great job kicking the butts of six players. He is a buddy of mine and it is a great thing to see him doing well. The whole team came in matching blue/red plaid track suits which is a rough decision to make when coming to Texas in August. Congrats to Junior and Team Zero Comp for coming out and doing well.
Everyone give it up for Junior – well played sir!
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