The 40K champ is here and the new boogie man of the competitive scene has reared its head. Take a look at Adepticon Fall 2025’s winner!
LVO wasn’t too long ago and while I couldn’t make it this year it seems to have gone over pretty well. The venue was new, the location felt better, and it appears players had a great time. All of these things are good for the game as again more tournaments allow players to get more chances to play. This LVO was won by a wild Astra Militarum list that looks like a nightmare to play against and a hard list to truly master.
The event was won by a player that goes by Nemo the Fish who plays a lot of TTS – Tabletop Simulator online. He has won a few of the bigger events online and is well known amongst that crowd that love to practice with that game. He also played on some friends team that took 2nd place at the Challenger’s cup so while I didn’t get a chance to talk to him I did see his army. It looked pretty dang good and just seeing the sheer amount of models on the table top look pretty wild.
Here is the list and as you can see – yes it was 200+ models.
Nemo the Fish – Avalanche of Guard
Astra Militarum
Recon Element
Strike Force (2,000 Points)
CHARACTERS
Cadian Castellan (55 Points)
• 1x Plasma pistol
• 1x Power fist
Cadian Castellan (55 Points)
• 1x Plasma pistol
• 1x Power fist
Cadian Castellan (55 Points)
• 1x Plasma pistol
• 1x Power fist
Cadian Command Squad (65 Points)
• 1x Cadian Commander
◦ 1x Plasma pistol
◦ 1x Power fist
• 1x Cadian Veteran Guardsman
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Plasma gun
◦ 1x Plasma pistol
• 1x Cadian Veteran Guardsman
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Lasgun
◦ 1x Master Vox
• 1x Cadian Veteran Guardsman
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Lasgun
◦ 1x Medi-pack
• 1x Cadian Veteran Guardsman
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Plasma gun
Cadian Command Squad (65 Points)
• 1x Cadian Commander
◦ 1x Plasma pistol
◦ 1x Power fist
• 1x Cadian Veteran Guardsman
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Plasma gun
◦ 1x Plasma pistol
• 1x Cadian Veteran Guardsman
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Lasgun
◦ 1x Master Vox
• 1x Cadian Veteran Guardsman
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Lasgun
◦ 1x Medi-pack
• 1x Cadian Veteran Guardsman
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Plasma gun
Cadian Command Squad (65 Points)
• 1x Cadian Commander
◦ 1x Plasma pistol
◦ 1x Power fist
• 1x Cadian Veteran Guardsman
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Plasma gun
◦ 1x Plasma pistol
• 1x Cadian Veteran Guardsman
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Lasgun
◦ 1x Master Vox
• 1x Cadian Veteran Guardsman
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Lasgun
◦ 1x Medi-pack
• 1x Cadian Veteran Guardsman
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Lasgun
◦ 1x Regimental Standard
Gaunt’s Ghosts (100 Points)
• 1x Ibram Gaunt
◦ 1x Bolt Pistol
◦ 1x Gaunt’s chainsword
• 1x Colm Corbec
◦ 1x Corbec’s hot-shot lascarbine
◦ 1x Straight silver knife
• 1x Elim Rawne
◦ 1x Rawne’s lascarbine
◦ 1x Straight silver knife
• 1x Hlaine Larkin
◦ 1x Larkin’s long-las
◦ 1x Straight silver knife
• 1x ‘Try Again’ Bragg
◦ 1x Bragg’s autocannon
◦ 1x Straight silver knife
• 1x Oan Mkoll
◦ 1x Lascarbine
◦ 1x Mkoll’s straight silver knife
Ursula Creed (85 Points)
• Warlord
• 1x Duty and Vengeance
• 1x Power weapon
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BATTLELINE
Cadian Shock Troops (120 Points)
• 2x Shock Trooper Sergeant
◦ 2x Close combat weapon
◦ 2x Sergeant’s autogun
• 18x Shock Trooper
◦ 18x Close combat weapon
◦ 14x Lasgun
◦ 2x Meltagun
◦ 2x Plasma gun
◦ 2x Vox-caster
Cadian Shock Troops (120 Points)
• 2x Shock Trooper Sergeant
◦ 2x Close combat weapon
◦ 2x Sergeant’s autogun
• 18x Shock Trooper
◦ 18x Close combat weapon
◦ 14x Lasgun
◦ 2x Meltagun
◦ 2x Plasma gun
◦ 2x Vox-caster
Cadian Shock Troops (120 Points)
• 2x Shock Trooper Sergeant
◦ 2x Close combat weapon
◦ 2x Sergeant’s autogun
• 18x Shock Trooper
◦ 18x Close combat weapon
◦ 14x Lasgun
◦ 2x Meltagun
◦ 2x Plasma gun
◦ 2x Vox-caster
Cadian Shock Troops (120 Points)
• 2x Shock Trooper Sergeant
◦ 2x Close combat weapon
◦ 2x Sergeant’s autogun
• 18x Shock Trooper
◦ 18x Close combat weapon
◦ 14x Lasgun
◦ 2x Meltagun
◦ 2x Plasma gun
◦ 2x Vox-caster
Catachan Jungle Fighters (65 Points)
• 1x Jungle Fighter Sergeant
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Laspistol
• 9x Jungle Fighter
◦ 9x Close combat weapon
◦ 2x Flamer
◦ 7x Lasgun
◦ 1x Vox-caster
Catachan Jungle Fighters (65 Points)
• 1x Jungle Fighter Sergeant
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Laspistol
• 9x Jungle Fighter
◦ 9x Close combat weapon
◦ 2x Flamer
◦ 7x Lasgun
◦ 1x Vox-caster
Death Korps of Krieg (65 Points)
• 1x Death Korps Watchmaster
◦ 1x Plasma pistol
◦ 1x Power weapon
• 9x Death Korps Trooper
◦ 9x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Death Korps Medi-pack
◦ 7x Lasgun
◦ 1x Meltagun
◦ 1x Plasma gun
◦ 1x Vox-caster
Death Korps of Krieg (65 Points)
• 1x Death Korps Watchmaster
◦ 1x Plasma pistol
◦ 1x Power weapon
• 9x Death Korps Trooper
◦ 9x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Death Korps Medi-pack
◦ 7x Lasgun
◦ 1x Meltagun
◦ 1x Plasma gun
◦ 1x Vox-caster
Death Korps of Krieg (65 Points)
• 1x Death Korps Watchmaster
◦ 1x Plasma pistol
◦ 1x Power weapon
• 9x Death Korps Trooper
◦ 9x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Death Korps Medi-pack
◦ 7x Lasgun
◦ 1x Meltagun
◦ 1x Plasma gun
◦ 1x Vox-caster
Death Korps of Krieg (65 Points)
• 1x Death Korps Watchmaster
◦ 1x Plasma pistol
◦ 1x Power weapon
• 9x Death Korps Trooper
◦ 9x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Death Korps Medi-pack
◦ 7x Lasgun
◦ 1x Meltagun
◦ 1x Plasma gun
◦ 1x Vox-caster
Death Korps of Krieg (145 Points)
• 2x Death Korps Watchmaster
◦ 2x Plasma pistol
◦ 2x Power weapon
• 18x Death Korps Trooper
◦ 18x Close combat weapon
◦ 2x Death Korps Medi-pack
◦ 14x Lasgun
◦ 2x Meltagun
◦ 2x Plasma gun
◦ 2x Vox-caster
Death Korps of Krieg (145 Points)
• 2x Death Korps Watchmaster
◦ 2x Plasma pistol
◦ 2x Power weapon
• 18x Death Korps Trooper
◦ 18x Close combat weapon
◦ 2x Death Korps Medi-pack
◦ 14x Lasgun
◦ 2x Meltagun
◦ 2x Plasma gun
◦ 2x Vox-caster
OTHER DATASHEETS
Attilan Rough Riders (120 Points)
• 1x Rough Rider Sergeant
◦ 1x Hunting lance
◦ 1x Lasgun
◦ 1x Laspistol
◦ 1x Steed’s hooves
• 9x Rough Rider
◦ 9x Hunting lance
◦ 9x Lasgun
◦ 9x Laspistol
◦ 9x Steed’s hooves
Attilan Rough Riders (120 Points)
• 1x Rough Rider Sergeant
◦ 1x Hunting lance
◦ 1x Lasgun
◦ 1x Laspistol
◦ 1x Steed’s hooves
• 9x Rough Rider
◦ 9x Hunting lance
◦ 9x Lasgun
◦ 9x Laspistol
◦ 9x Steed’s hooves
Scout Sentinels (55 Points)
• 1x Close combat weapon
• 1x Hunter-killer missile
• 1x Lascannon
• 1x Sentinel chainsaw
Avalanche of Guard Tactics
What is wild about this list is that you could basically not roll a ton of shooting dice as all you had to do was move onto objectives, control it with your piles of high OC models, and watch as your opponent tries to figure out ways to quickly kill 20 man blobs that can regen models back. It just feels like a nightmare to play against as it is just waves and waves of bodies.
If your army can’t easily crack 20 man blobs with good armor saves you won’t last long against it. This detachment rules helps give your models cover if they don’t have it and if they do they gain extra pip of armor saves as well. This gets your regular squishy guardsman up to a maximum of a 3+ armor saves which is just wild to think about. Then with the units Med-Pack kits they can easily respawn models if you don’t kill the entire squad.
I don’t know about you but just seeing this many models on the table would have me reaching for my chess clock and hoping I can figure out ways to drive Bezerker blobs into those units. Of course he also can throw out a ton of damage as there are so many little hidden power weapons, Powerfist, and plasma guns they can just chew thru things as needed. The Rough Riders also help give you some counter punch action as you take over the board with your piles of bodies.
Good job for bringing a giant horde of nonsense list and just having the ability to get all those models moving on the table top. I think having 20 man units be that cheap is an issue and will see if others try this out. I just couldn’t imagine trying to get all those models together plus having to paint them all.
Everyone give it up for Nemo the Fish. Well played kind sir!
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Thomas Reidy, aka Goatboy, the ever-evil member of BoLS. I do arts, play 40k, and even paint a lot of stuff. I have been playing Warhammer 40K since the 1990s, and have won multiple national events including Adepticon and GW GTs. I’ve been writing for BoLS for 15 years. Look at my Instagram to see what I am working on – or working on for someone. I am always doing something hobby related.
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