It’s that time of year again where we show you the best armies of the Las Vegas Open! What an awesome event and congratulations to Richard Siegler and all the top guys on a great showing! LVO is a monster event so we’ve had our servitors crunching numbers all weekend to give you the breakdowns. We’ve heard some great analysis already across the community so we’re going to keep it short and just give the data to play with and our highlights below. If you want to see how the game has evolved since the Marine meta check out our Best Armies of NOVA 2019 as well!

Best Factions:

Faction Avg Battlepoints Avg Wins Avg Place Players Khorne 176 4 110 1 Slaanesh 162.67 4 193.33 3 Forces of the Hive Mind 152.44 3.5 263.56 9 Aeldari 148.53 3.23 301.49 45 Adeptus Astartes 146.26 3.41 287.39 201 Ynnari 144 2 491 1 Asuryani 142.56 2.92 357.94 32 Tzeentch 140 3 365.5 2 Deathwatch 139.75 3.38 308 4 Chaos 139.49 2.69 386.6 63 Drukhari 139.33 2.63 402.67 15 Eldar Corsairs 139 3 368 1 Overall Average 135 2.8 326 750 Knights Renegades 134.29 2.64 414.36 14 Adeptus Mechanicus 132.42 2.54 413.85 26 T'au Empire 131.36 2.47 428.88 33 Necrons 130.57 2.93 363.24 21 Chaos Space Marines 129.91 2.64 406.94 33 Imperium 128.33 2.55 430.15 61 Blood Angels 127.88 2.28 444.38 16 Death Guard 127.23 2.23 476.69 13 Orks 125.62 2.6 427.18 34 Hive Fleet Kraken 125.5 1.5 575.5 2 Space Wolves 124.88 2.13 467.88 8 Dark Angels 123.4 2.5 458.6 5 Harlequins 123 2.33 447 3 Imperial Agents 123 0 729 1 Astra Militarum 122.94 2.72 410.17 18 Thousand Sons 122.83 2.42 458.67 6 Adepta Sororitas 122.75 2.55 434.75 20 Nurgle 120.25 2.5 444 4 Tyranids 117.4 2.73 421.27 15 Imperial Knights 112 2 533.09 11 Adeptus Custodes 111.15 2 522.38 13 Grey Knights 111 2 520.44 9 Inquisition 108 2 577 1 Genestealer Cult 102.75 2 493.25 4 Chaos Daemons 85.5 1 615 2

Best Sub-factions:

Sub-Faction Avg Battlepoints Avg Wins Players Minotaurs 180 5 1 Khorne 176 4 1 Red Scorpions 171.75 4.5 4 Raptors 168 4.33 6 Slaanesh 162.67 4 3 Kabal of the Flayed Skull 159 3 1 Black Templars 158 4 1 Alpha Legion 157.5 3 2 Imperial Fists 153.71 3.33 24 Forces of the Hive Mind 152.44 3.5 9 Black Legion 151 3 1 Raven Guard 150.44 3.5 16 Aeldari 149.43 3.25 42 Iron Hands 146.38 3.54 63 Adeptus Astartes 144.98 3.45 57 Ynnari 144 2 1 Adeptus Mechanicus 143.52 2.81 21 Asuryani 142.56 2.92 32 Iron Warriors 142 4 1 Tallarn 142 3 1 Tzeentch 140 3 2 Deathwatch 139.75 3.38 4 Chaos 139.49 2.69 63 Eldar Corsairs 139 3 1 White Scars 138.67 2.67 6 Drukhari 138 2.58 13 Cult of the Cursed Blade 137 3 1 Alaitoc 136 3 3 Overall Average 135.16 2.84 750 T'au Empire 134.82 2.55 22 Knights Renegades 134.29 2.64 14 Necrons 133.5 2.92 18 Ultramarines 128.61 2.64 18 Chaos Space Marines 128.58 2.58 26 Imperium 128.33 2.55 61 Blood Angels 127.88 2.28 16 Death Guard 127.23 2.23 13 Salamanders 127.2 2.8 5 Orks 126.13 2.56 31 Deathskulls 125 3 1 Space Wolves 124.88 2.13 8 T'au Sept 124.45 2.32 11 Adepta Sororitas 123.89 2.55 19 Hive Fleet Kraken 123.67 2 3 Dark Angels 123.4 2.5 5 Evil Sunz 123 3 1 Harlequins 123 2.33 3 Imperial Agents 123 0 1 Thousand Sons 122.83 2.42 6 Astra Militarum 122 2.66 16 Nurgle 120.25 2.5 4 Cadian Shock Troops 119 3.5 1 Emperor's Children 118 2.5 2 Tyranids 117.21 2.71 14 Freebooterz 113 3 1 Sautekh 113 3 3 Imperial Knights 112 2 11 Adeptus Custodes 111.15 2 13 Grey Knights 111 2 9 Inquisition 108 2 1 Genestealer Cult 102.75 2 4 Adeptus Ministorum 101 2.5 1 World Eaters 100 2 1 Cult Mechanicus 85.8 1.4 5 Chaos Daemons 85.5 1 2

Highlights:

Top 13:

1st – Richard Siegler – Adeptus Astartes

2nd Brad Chester – Adeptus Astartes – Raven Guard

3rd Sean Nayden – Aeldari

4th John Lennon – Adeptus Astartes

5th Boris Michev – Adeptus Astartes – Red Scorpions

6th Justin Lois – Imperium

7th Steven Pampreen – Adeptus Astartes – Raptors

8th Jeff Poole – Orks

9th Matt Schuchman – Asuryani

10th Richard martin – Adeptus Astartes – Iron Hands

11th Alex Petford – Adeptus Astartes

12th Tj Lanigan – Chaos

13th Alexander Fennell – Adeptus Astartes – Raptors

Top Factions:

Shout out to Red Powell for crushing it as Khorne and skewing all our numbers right off the bat! We see a couple armies that did well with very few players like Khorne, Slaanesh, and Forces of the Hive Mind messing with our averages. The real winners though are clearly Eldar and Marines. You know them, you love them. While the Astartes are the new upstarts are on the scene the Eldar have been with us for a while now. It’s worth noting only Eldar, Marines, and Chaos sub-factions broke the overall average in terms of battle points (not counting the Hive Mind outlier).

Instead of battle points we could look at it by most average wins and get Necrons to jump above the average but other than that If you’re playing non-pixie xenos, I feel for you. Maybe there will be some juicy new updates in your Psychic Awakening? Maybe? As a top 15 Guard I’m right there with you. One day saying “I’m a top 10 Tyranid player” won’t be like saying you’re the highest scoring player on your JV high school team. We’ll get through this, it’ll be okay. I hope.

Alright now that I’m done complaining it is worth noting that Aeldari fall behind the Emperor’s chosen sons when you sort by average wins or average placing. That makes me think that Eldar win big when they win but Marines are quite consistent. In a dice game with so much randomness there’s certainly something to be said for consistency.

Top Sub-Factions:

Who played Minotaurs? Now that’s a cool dude. I love it when people play their favorite faction and come up with something interesting to do well with like that! Speaking of Space Marine chapters, look at all those Iron Hands!

63 Iron Hands

24 Imperial Fist

18 Ultramarines

16 Raven Guard

6 White Scars

5 Salamanders

57 mixed Adeptus Astartes

Other assorted Chapters

The Iron Hands, Imperial Fists, Raven Guard, and White Scars all beat the average while their blue and green brothers didn’t perform quite as well. We could get lost in the data digging through all the other marine sub-factions but we’ll leave that to you so we don’t burn out our logic engines. One data point worth noting is that Alpha Legion and Black Legion both outperformed other Traitor Marines.

Overall:

The Las Vegas Open is always an awesome event with a great staff! Things have changed drastically since both ATC 2019 and NOVA 2019 with the release of the new Marine meta. You can check out BCP results yourself here. I’m sure you’ve heard enough about marines but it’s worth noting several best in faction players, like the winner Siegler, switched from their faction to the Astartes. That in and of itself says a lot to me. Hopefully with the revision and updates to the Forge World indexes we’ll see some balances and points changes that moderate at least some of those essential *cough* Chaplain Dreads *cough cough* units. It only took layers of point decreases, doctrines, super doctrines, expanded chapter tactics, bolter drill, new units, and new stratagems to make Marines dominant so a change to any one of those could alter their performance. In the mean time I’ve loved seeing everyone adapt and slug through it with what their factions have to offer. Congrats to all of you who fought it out this weekend at LVO 2020!

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