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An approximate level of competiveness and army composition would be what I'm looking for mine is at least 2x tau 3x chaos 2x Orks 1x Eldar 2x DE 4x IOM. Id say we're low to middle competitively no one brings superheavys or knights to low point games no Nobs that I've met everyone s nice and friendly but we play to win, not a lot of spam. How about you guys?

Mostly Space Marines of the "woof" flavor (something like 5-7 I've seen)
Some Imperial Guard (3 I've seen)
Some Daemons (3 I've seen)
A couple of Chaos Space Marines (including myself, that's two I've seen)
And I think I've seen one of each of the following: Tyranids, Tau, Eldar, Necrons and Dark Eldar.

No one seems to love orks.

As for the competitive level, most everyone is pretty casual except for one player who uses space wolves to farm daemons. Nice guy, just makes me wince whenever I see him play.

My meta is.... interesting. It's united by a hatred of the "Internet", but some people use comp ridiculousness and some use casual stuff.

I don't currently have a group up and running, so I'll answer for my last one:

About as far from power gaming as you can get, rule of cool trumps all, armies generally built for fluff or cool units, effectiveness is an afterthought.

For a long time I was the only Marine player, and we had Tau, Eldar, CSM, IG, Orks, Crons, SoB and Nids. Never played Demons or DE.

2x orks, 1x 30k iron hands, 1x minotaurs, 4x necrons, 1x tau, 2x eldar, 1x nids, 1x salamanders, 1x BA (me!), 2x space wolves, 2x dark eldar, 2x Astra Militarum, 1x sisters, 2x chaos marines.

Competitiveness of lists ranges from 3/10 to 7/10. Only one of the DE guys and one of the ork guys tryhard in funsies matches, and their collections (and skill) aren't all that competitive, so it works out.

I keep my knights and flyers shelved most of the time unless I'm heading to an out of town tourney.

Sudbury has almost everything, with the exception of Sisters of Battle. CentStar hasn't really gained much ground here, nor has AdLance, and the lists aren't WAAC-levels of competition. Daemons are a rare sight. For each major Chapter there's someone that plays it, though Nurgle is the most common Chaos force. It's pretty great actually, considering our low population.

Our meta is pretty chill, we make fluffy lists, and we're all in it for fun. A really cool guy made both a Xeno Rising tourney and later a Chaos tourney for us.

We don't have any knights, but I know there is some interest in getting some.

We have almost every army in our area except for Eldar (YAYYYYY) We also have 2 Tau players, 2 Guard players, and 2 space marine players

3-Necrons, 3-5 SM players 1 DE player, 0.5 Eldar player(does alot of allies stuff), 2 Nids players 1 Ork player. Me all i play is in my Sig tho i dont play Tau much more my 30k and Harlequins

A lot of SM players, a couple DE, one or two Orkz, at least three Tau, a couple DA (myself included), one or two CSM, a few Eldar, a few Nidz, and I'm the only 40k Daemons player.

For 40k.

A few CSM players, me included.
One Daemon Player, lovely guy, absolute power gamer.
One guy who plays Eldar, IK, Grey Knights, IG, also a lovely guy, but an absolute power gamer.
Few marinen guys.
Another pure Eldar guy, rules lawyer, but not a power gamer.
Few other armies, Necrons, Space Marines, DE, IG, Nid.

1 Blood Angel
1 Thousand Son
1 World Eater
1 Dark Angel

Everybody else quit.

Lots of marines, a couple ork players, a couple eldar players, etc. No, I don't 'distinguish between marines iwth spikes or not.

We have roughly, 1xCron, 4xSM, 1xDE, 2xNid, 1xTau, 1xSoB, 1xEldar, 2xChaos/Daemon.

Most games are between 1000-1500. Most lists will include 0-1 Fliers rarely more.

No superheavies outside of apoc or agreed upon.

No "netlists".

Mostly a friendly but competative environment, People want a fun game without the need for Min/Maxed lists they pull from the net, with some experimentation going on fairly often.

We have one of each Dark Angels, Eldar, Necrons, Imperial Guard, Tau, Dark Eldar, Ork, Blood Angels, and Space Wolves.

The Imperial guard player also has collections of Sisters of Battle and chaos space marines.
The Eldar player has a collection of Daemons
The Dark Angels player has a large collection of smurfs.

Pretty much every faction is represented by one player.

Some sm , 3 eldar players , 3 necron players , 2 nid player, 1 IG player aka me. no orcs, no sob. 3 GK players. 1 demon players, 2people that have chaos sm armies. there is probably 10+ different type of marine players. And this are regulars. There is another 30+ people that have armies, but their shops were closed and they have no place to play or they don't like the new edition and don't want to buy a new army.

I just moved here, but so far I've seen 1x Ork, 1x DA, 1x GK and 1xIron Hands (with Imperial Knights).

Our group has been around for decades now, so all of us have more than one faction. But there are always Space Marines of some flavor and almost always Imperial Guard every time we get together

I have two distinct groups. One is more competitive and is made up of almost every army.

The other is more laid back and is primarily:
White Scars, Tyranids, Eldar, Ultramarines, Orks, Farsight Enclaves, Tau Empire, Imperial Guard, Raven Guard, Dark Angels, Imperial Fists, Grey Knights, Necrons

Imperial Guard and Space Marines make up the two most common choices.

Tyranids make up a small minority along with Chaos forces.

Eldar, Dark Eldar, Sisters of Battle, and Tau all suffer with only a single player representing them locally.

3 ork players,2 Chaos Space Marines, 2 Tyranid Players, 1 Eldar player, 1 Dark Eldar Player, 1 Space Wolves, 1 Imperial Guard, 1 Farsight Enclaves + Tau, 1 White Scars player and 1 Iron Hands SM player (me).

My group is pretty good at friendly pickup games, but when we organize our local tournaments the kiddy gloves come off for everybody.

The good news? Everyone here is a good sport, and are really enjoyable to play with.

I have two, one for my student address, one for my home address.

My student address has a lot of space marines, necrons and probably a lot of Eldar players too. A dash of Tyranids and DE and a smidgen of Chaos and Tau.

In my home meta, SM still rock the top but there are more Tau. Only two Necron players, one Chaos and one AM player. I am probably the lone nid player there, lol.

I usually play at a decently-big GW store here in Vancouver (4 gaming tables standard, and sometimes they convert the painting/demo table into a game table for events or busy days), so I don't have specific numbers.

But generally Space Marines are the most common army. Ultramarines and Imperial Fists are about tied for individual chapters.

I'm not quite sure about the order of non-SM armies. I'd say there's plenty of Tyranid players, one or two less Necron players, and even fewer Chaos Marine/Demon players. There's about as many Tau as there are Necron players.

I'm one of the few Eldar players (and the only one who would bring it regularly, though I'm trying out regular SM now), and Imperial Guard are nowhere to be seen in the store's meta. In fact, I've seen more Sisters and 30k Mechanicus than I've seen IG/AM/MT.

Mostly imperial, some necrons, tyranids, Eldar/dark Eldar, orks, chaos (both demons/chaos marines), skitarri and tau.

I play Orks in a sea of space marines. I've played against Daemons, CSM, Space Wolves, Necrons, and tyranids. But it's usually my horde against tac squads in rhinos. Casual play nothing to intense. Used to play a TFG in high school who had a guard/marine list, but everyone else I've ever played has been super chill.

Brutal, army-of-quarter, and unforgiving.

Martel732 wrote:
Brutal, army-of-quarter, and unforgiving.

Yikes! Sorry.

It wouldn't be so bad if GW could remotely do math. I'll be drowning in Eldar soon, as the only counter to scatbikes is scatbikes.

Martel732 wrote:
It wouldn't be so bad if GW could remotely do math. I'll be drowning in Eldar soon, as the only counter to scatbikes is scatbikes.

Yeah,, GW doesn't math. It's kind of crazy. Makes me glad for my group. I think any good bike list will help

Somewhat balanced

GK: 3 (1 me)
SM: 2
BA: 2
DA: 1
SW: 2
IG: 1
Nids: 2
Crons: 3 (4 while one guy builds his army)
DE: 2
CSM: 1
Demons: 2
Eldar: 3 (1 army has been retired for 4 years, 1 stopped showing up because comp-list vs fluff isn't fun, 1 in process of being built with news of this codex unknown)
SoB: 1
Orks: 5 (1 me but I don't think I count anymore)

upcoming forces: 2 Skitarii allies, 2 Harlies, 1 Deamonkin

Absent: Imperial Knights surprisingly, 30k

My local meta is pretty varied. I've seen almost every army be played at least once, but some are more common than others. For instance, at local tournaments, I almost always see at least one Guard army and a couple of different flavors of Space Marines (including my Dark Angels), with Grey Knights being perhaps the most popular. Eldar are pretty common around here, too, as are Tau. I've only ever seen Sisters of Battle once, ditto for Dark Eldar (both at the most recent tournament I was at, just the other day). There's usually at least one Ork player in the tournaments, as well. Imperial Knights are quite popular here, too, usually with at least one player running AdLance. One of the regulars likes to bring his Necrons, which are beautifully painted...by his wife! The only major army I have not seen at any of the tourneys I've been to is Tyranids. I've never seen very much Forge World stuff, either (no 30k armies), other than the occasional single model. I also don't think we have anyone around running Skitarii yet, but I'm sure someone will soon. Of course, once I get my new stuff assembled we will have a Khorne Daemonkin player too!