Raze and Ruin: The Stats

With less than two weeks to go until the event, it's time to take a look at the stats and the armies!

Armies

There are currently 58 players at the event, as we have had a couple of drop outs. There may be people filling those spots, but for now I am going to assume they don't get filled! Out of the 20 different armies, we have representatives for 18 of them. No appearences for Beastmen (sort of...) or for Chaos Dwarfs. (Not a real army) 

Here is a break-down of the numbers of each race, sorted by popularity, and the average Tally Comp score for each race:

Army	Number of Players	Average Comp Score
Warriors of Chaos	10	-0.1
Ogre Kingdoms	5	-0.9
Dark Elves	4	+0.3
Dwarfs	4	+7
High Elves	4	+1.8
Lizardmen	4	0
Orcs and Goblins	4	+7.5
Tomb Kings	4 (inc Spare Player)	+7 (+8 without)
Legions of Chaos	3	+4.7
Skaven	3	0
Wood Elves	3	+1.7
Bretonnia	2	-1.5
The Empire	2	+0.5
Vampire Counts	2	-3
Undead Legion	2	+4
Daemons of Chaos	1	-1
Host of the Aestyrion	1	-20
Host of the Phoenix King	1	-16
Beastmen	0
Chaos Dwarf	0

Some interesting things to take from that table:

• It kinda gives away the scores for three of the lists!
• Warriors of Chaos make up almost one sixth of the event...
• Of those armies that have more than one entrant, VC have the lowest average and Orcs & Goblins the highest (if I include the Spare Player and his Tomb King list!) 
• We may have no Beastmen, but one of the Legion of Chaos lists is a pure Beastmen list. I say that counts!

I have put together a PDF containing all of the Closed versions of the list - that is, the lists disclosing anything that your opponent can see or will know at the start of the game. This document is sorted by Race, then by Comp Score within that race. You can find that document here.

Units
Something I was interested in seeing was how many different End Times units and characters were going to appear. The obvious place to start is with the big characters. We have 5 End Times Special Ccharacters at the event: Grimgor, Incarnate of Beasts, Thanquol & Boneripper, Festus Empowered, Tyrion Avatar of Khaine and Malekith the Phoenix King. Both of the Elven Special Characters are starting with hefty Comp penalties, and therefore will be matched up against each other in Round One, so it will be very interesting to see which prevails in that game!
Aside from the characters, Skaven are the biggest End Times culprits with 3 Storm Fiend units across the armies. The only Daemon list also dips into the End Times book with 2 (yes, 2!) Wrath of Khorne Bloodthirsters leading it.

Magic Items
Someone has asked me to do a little research about some of the Magic Items that have been taken to the event - mainly in reference to the Comp bonuses that some of the items provide. This is much harder to do than the previous one, as the Magic Items are not shown on the Closed lists! However, I've gone through the lists I was sent and I think the following are accurate. But if not, then feel free to take a poll at the event!

• Racial Magic Item: 13
• Araybian Carpet: 6
• Book of Ashur: 6
• Shivejir's Hex Scroll: 3
• Wizarding Hat: 2

So the big winners of the new comp pack are obviously the Hex scroll and the Book of Ashur. My quick look through didn't see any Swords of Bloodshed or Rampager's Standards at all, so even the +1 didn't seem to attract people to them.

Comp
In addition to the table, there are some interesting things to note about the various Comp Scores:

• The most common Comp Score is -1
• The average of all 58 lists is +1.2
• The full range of +20 to -20 is covered!
• There are 19 lists that qualify for a single Look Out Sir roll for the big spells, and 12 that qualify for 2 Look Out Sirs.
• There are 24 negative scoring lists altogether.

Well, that's it for this post. If there is anything else that you want to see before the event, just give me a shout and I'll do what I can!