When last we checked in on my progress towards the LVO, I was being thoroughly kicked in by fellow editor Corrode’s Crimson Fists. While I didn’t come out of the game feeling like my list was non-viable, it certainly did spook me a bit. The most notable concern was how against any flavour of Fists, it really doesn’t matter if my Fire Prisms start out of line-of-sight; there’s a good chance they just get blown to bits anyway if I go second, after which I have a distinct struggle to get into a game where my opponent is presenting a serious armoured threat. I had a good think about whether there was anything I could change in the list to try and mitigate this with what I had access to (my pre-event paint queue is pretty much already full) and concluded that there wasn’t really, and that hoping to dodge Fist Whirlwinds (and play on tables with good cover all weekend) was my lot.

However, out of the blue a major curveball has been thrown at me – a friend was selling up a good-sized contingent of painted Harlequins, and given that they’re something I’ve wanted access to as a tool for a while, I’ve snapped them up. I played around a bit with various army list options, and after a bit of tinkering and discussion with the Goonhammer brain trust I’ve ended up with what I think will end up being my final LVO list: