There is a lot of talk the past few days about what’s wrong with 40k, and ways to fix it. Come take a look at what may be the symptoms of the ailment: 40k’s Top Armies?
40k’s Top Tier Lists?
- Eldar Wraithknight / Scat Bike Spam. Weak against Gravstars, alpha stike gravs, and Kataphrons. D weapons are also very bad for them where “allowed”
- Adeptus Mechanicus Conclave Lists. Weak against flyers, hordes and Daemons, and perhaps Knights.
- Imperial Knight Formation Armies (like Tripartite or Adamantite Lances) Weak against Eldar Wraithknight / Scat Bike Spam, and Tyranid / Daemon FMCs.
- “Super Friends” Bikestar (OR Thunder Wolf Star) lists. Weak against Eldar Wraithknight / Scat Bike Spam, and possibly grav lists depending on the player. Plus of course D weapons and STOMPS.
- Daemonbomb Armies with Multi Flying Monstrous Creatures. Weak Against Adeptus Mechanicus Conclave Lists, and “Super Friends” Bikestar lists.
- Tyranid Flying Monstrous Creature Lists – Weak Against Invisible Mechanic Armies like Superfriends and Grav heavy lists.
- Necron Decurion – Weak Against Invisible Mechanic Armies like Superfriends and Grav heavy lists, and lists the can close fast on static battle lines.
You’ll notice from that chart, a lot of those top lists seem to counter-balance each other. Sure ultimately it comes down to who’s piloting said lists because very rarely will you see a novice player trump a veteran player outside of the formulas above (but it can happen).
Except that is when you remove one of these lists from the meta, and create… a Power Vacuum.
I don’t want to derail this post about what happens to the 40k environment when army archtypes start getting banned. You can checkout a huge flowchart type article that breaks that all down here.
Suffice to say, it fundamentally changes not only the points value assigned to units, but also GW’s original intent on how armies stack up against each other.
So the question is how would you rank the armies above power level wise, and are any missing from this list?
Episode 21 -Fixing 40k, One Rule at a Time?
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