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Put the Codexs in order of strongest to weakest from your 6th edition purposes! I have seen it done for 5th, and I'm curious what the landscape is like now that everyone has a good amount of time with 6th and the new Chaos Codex.

Black Templars
Blood Angels
Chaos Daemons
Chaos Space Marines
Dark Angels
Dark Eldar
Eldar
Grey Knights
Imperial Guard
Necrons
Orks
Sisters of Battle
Space Marines
Space Wolves
Tau Empire
Tyranids

(Not my order, just Alphabetical for your Copy-Paste use).

Necrons
Imperial Guard
Grey Knights
Orks
Tau Empire
Space Marines
Black Templars
Dark Eldar
Blood Angels
Eldar
Chaos Space Marines
Tyranids
Chaos Daemons
Sisters of Battle
Dark Angels


Listed by group, so same color are roughly same power level.

My list, OP forgot space wolves so I added them, I play sisters mainly and they are a fun army to run. i probably got a few out of place, but generally this is how I see the armies stack up.

Blood Angels
Space Wolves
Imperial Guard
Necrons
Chaos Space Marines
Grey Knights
Space Marines
Sisters of Battle
Chaos Daemons
Orks
Dark Angels
Eldar
Dark Eldar
Tau Empire
Tyranids
Black Templars

Necron
Grey Knights
Blood Angels
Imperial Guard
Space Wolves
Orks
Dark Eldar
CSM
SM
Tau
Tyranid
Eldar
Demons
Sisters
Black Templar

Necrons
Imperial Guard
Space Wolves
Grey Knights
Blood Angels
Dark Eldar
Daemons
Chaos Space Marines
Space Marines
Orks
Sisters of Battle
Tau
Tyranid
Dark Angels
Eldar
Black Templars

Daemons
Imperial Guard
Space Wolves
Grey Knights
Blood Angels
Necrons
Dark Eldar
Chaos Space Marines
Tau
Space Marines
Eldar
Tyranid
Orks
Dark Angels
Sisters of Battle
Black Templars

Necrons
Grey knights
Imperial guard
Space wolves
Deamons
Blood angels
Dark eldar
Tyranids
Chaos space marines
Orks
Tau
Eldar
Space marines
Dark angels
Sisters of battle
Black templars

Imperial Guard
Space Wolves
Necrons
Grey Knights
Blood Angels
Chaos Space Marines
Black Templars
Dark Eldar
Space Marines
Orks
Eldar
Chaos Daemons
Sisters of Battle
Dark Angels
Tau Empire
Tyranids

May I ask why DA are bottom 3 in almost every single one?

 riverhawks32 wrote:
May I ask why DA are bottom 3 in almost every single one?

Hmm 10% overcost on most 30% overcost on bikes. Idiot librarians. As a whole they suck. Deathwing - if separated is a fair to middling army choice but suffers from small numbers and slow. Still 30 termies is pretty impressive.

TOURNAMENT WINNERS
Necrons
Grey Knights
Imperial Guard
Chaos Daemons

STRONGLY COMPETITIVE
Space Wolves
Orks
Blood Angels

COMPETITIVE
Chaos Space Marines
Dark Angels
Space Marines
Sisters of Battle
Tyranids

Almost might have a chance maybe?
Tau Empire
Black Templars
Dark Eldar
Eldar

Why are people rating SoB so low? I have made SoB my primary 6th Ed army and have been able to win or draw to just about every army. The only armies my SoB really have trouble with are Necron Flying Circus and Daemons. While they may not be top tier, they are FAR from bottom.

 riverhawks32 wrote:
May I ask why DA are bottom 3 in almost every single one?

Dark Angels offer exactly one thing that you can't get a better version of in another codex: Scoring TH/SS Terminators. While impressive, I feel that between GK, Codex Marines, and Space Wolves, almost anything you could want from DA can be offered by other codices in a better package. As somebody else said, Deathwing is decent but altogether mediocre.

 Salted Diamond wrote:
Why are people rating SoB so low? I have made SoB my primary 6th Ed army and have been able to win or draw to just about every army. The only armies my SoB really have trouble with are Necron Flying Circus and Daemons. While they may not be top tier, they are FAR from bottom.

My guess is that they may not know how to rate them, as most people honestly have never played them. I find it surprising that Eldar are being rated so low. I expected Black Templars to be rated pretty low on the board, IDK about dead last though.

 DarkCorsair wrote:

TOURNAMENT WINNERS
Necrons
Grey Knights
Imperial Guard
Chaos Daemons

STRONGLY COMPETITIVE
Space Wolves
Orks
Blood Angels

COMPETITIVE
Chaos Space Marines
Dark Angels
Space Marines
Sisters of Battle
Tyranids

Almost might have a chance maybe?
Tau Empire
Black Templars
Dark Eldar
Eldar

This guy gets it.

Necrons
Imperial Guard
Knights/Wolves
Chaos Daemons
Dark Eldar
Blood Angels
Orks
Eldar
Space Marines
Sisters of Battle
Tau
Dark Angels
Tyranids
Black Templars

Hmm using the general consensus from the tiers thread I made.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/481945.page


Necrons - Flying Circus

Imperial Guard
Necrons
Space Wolves
Grey Knights
Blood Angels

Chaos Daemons
Orks
Space Marines
Dark Eldar

Chaos Space Marines
Tau
Dark Angels - Death Wing
Tyranids
Sisters of Battle

Eldar
Black Templars
Dark Angels

Tier rankings considering the codex as a whole, not just the dominance of single units (for example, DA are garbage because the book consists of exactly two units: Belial and Deathwing terminators).



Top-tier:
Imperial Guard
Grey Knights
Necrons

Mid-tier:
Blood Angels
Dark Eldar
Orks
Space Marines
Space Wolves

Garbage in need of updating:
Eldar
Tau Empire


GW's shameful errors that need to be removed from the game:
Black Templars
Dark Angels
Sisters of Battle
Tyranids

Haven't seen enough of in 6th to say:
Chaos Daemons
Chaos Space Marines

Peregrine wrote:GW's shameful errors that need to be removed from the game:

lol



You know who you are, GW game designers.

 Zande4 wrote:
Hmm using the general consensus from the tiers thread I made.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/481945.page


Necrons - Flying Circus

Imperial Guard
Necrons
Space Wolves
Grey Knights
Blood Angels

Chaos Daemons
Orks
Space Marines
Dark Eldar

Chaos Space Marines
Tau
Dark Angels - Death Wing
Tyranids
Sisters of Battle

Eldar
Black Templars
Dark Angels

Perfect list. The thread can end now, guys.

I'm going to do two lists here, potential and typical rankings, with potential being "how strong is this at it's strongest" not including allies or Imperial Armour, and typical being what would you expect to see from most players not running netlists/fluffbunnies/beer & pretzels players.

Bold=Highly competitive
Italic=Moderate
Underline=Have issues/very reliant on specific matchups and can win big/lose big.

Potential

Necrons
Grey Knights
Imperial Guard
Space Wolves
Blood Angels
Chaos Daemons
Dark Eldar
Tau Empire
Space Marines
Chaos Space Marines
Tyranids
Dark Angels
Orks
Eldar
Black Templars
Sisters of Battle


Typical:

Necrons
Grey Knights
Space Wolves
Blood Angels
Imperial Guard
Dark Eldar
Space Marines
Chaos Space Marines
Orks
Tyranids
Tau Empire
Dark Angels
Chaos Daemons
Eldar
Black Templars
Sisters of Battle

 Peregrine wrote:

GW's shameful errors that need to be removed from the game:

You can pry my Sisters from my cold, dead hands!

 Salted Diamond wrote:
Why are people rating SoB so low? I have made SoB my primary 6th Ed army and have been able to win or draw to just about every army. The only armies my SoB really have trouble with are Necron Flying Circus and Daemons. While they may not be top tier, they are FAR from bottom.

Agreed to the fullest, 6th has helped them out a lot. They are my primary army and so far my only loss in 6th edition was long fang rune priest spam.

God Tier:
Necrons

Top Tier:
Space Wolves
Grey Knights
Imperial Guard
Blood Angels


Nothing else really matters. If you're worried about the competitiveness of your army, you won't be picking from any of the other armies, and if you're thinking of playing any of the other armies, you have no reason to worry about tier placement.

Its funny Chaos daemons are ranked hire as they've been running rampant since the WD update. Surprised to see DE rated low they're actually a good army. Venom spam can be quite scary!

ianj253 wrote:
Its funny Chaos daemons are ranked hire as they've been running rampant since the WD update. Surprised to see DE rated low they're actually a good army. Venom spam can be quite scary!

The problem with DE is that they're pretty much a one-trick-pony right now. Yeah, venom spam is scary, but that's all they can really do. Dark Eldar were among the best back in 5th edition when they could crush an army in a huge variety of ways. Now that there's really only one viable playstyle that works for them, they'll work really well against a few poorly prepared armies, but are extremely easily countered otherwise.

I havent played against DE at all nor Eldar enough to rate them, only had two games against 'crons as well, now demons can rank up near the top

- OP-as-hell-tier
Grey Knights
Necrons w/ flyer spam
Imperial Guard w/ flyer spam

- Top Tier
Imperial Guard
Necrons

- Mid Tier
Blood Angels
Chaos Daemons
Chaos Space Marines
Dark Eldar
Space Marines
Tau
DA ORKZ

Bottom Tier
Black Templars
Dark Angels
Eldar
Tyranids

Wait-these-are-still-an-army? Tier
Sisters of Battle

 Sigvatr wrote:
- OP-as-hell-tier
Grey Knights
Necrons w/ flyer spam
Imperial Guard w/ flyer spam

- Top Tier
Imperial Guard
Necrons

- Mid Tier
Blood Angels
Chaos Daemons
Chaos Space Marines
Dark Eldar
Space Marines
Tau

Bottom Tier
Black Templars
Dark Angels
Eldar
Tyranids

Wait-these-are-still-an-army? Tier
Sisters of Battle

Orks apparently transcend tiers and have reached a competitive nirvana

 Sigvatr wrote:
- OP-as-hell-tier
Grey Knights
Necrons w/ flyer spam
Imperial Guard w/ flyer spam

- Top Tier
Imperial Guard
Necrons

- Mid Tier
Blood Angels
Chaos Daemons
Chaos Space Marines
Dark Eldar
Space Marines
Tau

Bottom Tier
Black Templars
Dark Angels
Eldar
Tyranids

Wait-these-are-still-an-army? Tier
Sisters of Battle

Do you even play grey knights?

They are far from OP in 6th edition now, top tier yes, but not OP