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Summarised from the free Games Workshop rules download named in the sources. Check the current Battle Profiles before a game.
Points, unit sizes and regiment options live in the free Battle Profiles download, last republished 29 July 2026. A newer Battle Profiles always replaces an older one, so check the current version before a game.
Unit picks are SprueSentry commentary, not part of the formation rule. The formation ability itself is summarised from the free Faction Pack: Fyreslayers.
Add 3 to the control scores of friendly Fyreslayers Heroes, and those control scores cannot be modified by enemy abilities. It is an objective-scoring formation, not a combat one.
One of the cheapest Heroes in the army, which makes the flat control bonus very efficient per point.
See the box: price and offersAnother cheap Hero body to spread across objectives.
See the box: price and offersA low-cost Hero that can hold ground on its own once the control bonus applies.
See the box: price and offersA Hero with a monster's presence, so the control bonus lands on something that is already hard to shift.
See the box: price and offersYou pick exactly one battle formation for your army, so choosing this one means you do not take these.
How to play Lords of the Lodge, the Fyreslayers battle formation that adds 3 to Hero control scores and shields them from enemy modifiers.
Sprue Sentry strategy commentary for Age of Sigmar 4th edition, not official rules. Games Workshop updates points and rules regularly; always confirm against the current official rules and latest update before a game.
Lords of the Lodge is the objective-scoring battle formation for Fyreslayers in Age of Sigmar 4th edition. It changes how you win rather than how you fight.
SprueSentry strategy commentary, not official rules. Summarised from the free Faction Pack: Fyreslayers, page-stamped August 2026.
The formation ability is Martial Pride and Stubborn Will, and it is passive. Add 3 to the control scores of friendly Fyreslayers Heroes, and those control scores cannot be modified by enemy abilities.
The second clause is the one that wins games. Plenty of armies hold objectives by dropping your control score rather than by out-bodying you, and against Lords of the Lodge that entire line of play does nothing to your Heroes.
The bonus is flat and per Hero, so it scales with the number of Heroes rather than with how expensive they are. Fyreslayers happen to have an unusually deep bench of cheap single-model Heroes, which is what makes this formation viable: an Auric Flamekeeper, a Doomseeker, a Battlesmith and a Grimhold Exile sitting on four different objectives is a lot of control for very few points.
The cost is that those Heroes are individually fragile. This formation wants them spread out and protected, not stacked into one blob where a single enemy activation clears the lot.
Players who want to win on points against a stronger combat army. It is the most mission-dependent of the four formations and the one that most rewards reading the scoring conditions before you deploy.
Pick Lords of the Lodge when the battlepack rewards holding several objectives, when your opponent's plan is to shove you off them with control-score debuffs, or when your list is genuinely Hero-heavy. If you have two Heroes and a wall of Vulkites, Warrior Kinband will do more.
It is passive: friendly Fyreslayers Heroes add 3 to their control scores, and enemy abilities cannot modify those control scores.
Yes. The bonus is a flat amount per Hero, so it is most efficient across several inexpensive single-model Heroes rather than one expensive centrepiece.
No. It protects their control scores from enemy modifiers. The Heroes themselves are as fragile as ever, so spread them out rather than clustering them.
Written by Sprue Sentry, grounded in the cited sources. Original commentary, not Games Workshop rules text.