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I am already expecting tons of hate for this, but I'm going to suggest a Vigilant spam list.

Vindictus
Vigilants x12
Choir
Max zealots.

Pathfinder first turn thanks to tier1. Vindictus sac lambs a zealot to give all jacks 1 focus, casts true path, and off go the swarm of hard to kill, super annoying vigi's.

Certainly an interesting take on skew lists, I just don't think it'll have the stopping power necessary to be honest, as the list maxes out at pow 13/14, so even though it's armour skew, it will struggle against others with a few heavies (against most heavies, it'll they'll be dice-7 even when choir buffed), while most heavies will happily munch through 1-2 Vigilants a turn. That's why most light-spam lists need casters with the "Synergy" spell, or similar to really shine.

It'll also struggle against weaponmaster infantry swarm - Bane Thralls and similar will still rip even ARM21 easily, especially combined with other damage enhancers available to most armies.

The list could definitely be affective if the opponent took a lot of low-power attackers, not expecting the skew, but Jack/Warbeast heavy lists and WM-Infantry swarm lists are just too common generally to count on that a lot.

I suppose you could combine it with some sort of infantry swarm list yourself, and play list chicken in two-list formats Give the opponent a hard choice.

Sack four vigi's, take two Reckoners? Still 8 vigi's.

If you really must try to make Vigilants work, at least do it with Amon who can get their pow up to acceptable levels.

While I get the allure of synergy, the point of the list is to get upfield fast. True path in conjunction with the ability to sac lamb a zealot for that focus gets you to zones and objectives in a hurry. This list isn't going to be killing heavies left and right, not the point. It can, however, get to the scoring areas of the table first and start throwing small bases around out of control zones and into enemy charge lanes. It is weak against armor. No major surprise.

You know that true path doesn't work on jacks right?

Well that's a pretty salient point.

Not as fast as I would have hoped, then.