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It's a trend I've noticed where I play locally; Space Marines are not the most commonly played army. The last tourney I went to, there were more Eldar players than Marines (this is probably b/c of the new Eldar dex being released).

Many gamers gather every Saturday and I have to say we get a very good mix of armies that get played every weekend. It's nothing statistical that I've put together, just observation, but is the trend I see locally happening anywhere else? It makes for some decidely different games when you always aren't trying to tailor lists for MEQ's.

Thoughts?

 

Well then, you're a lucky man. The Chicago Gamesday 2006 roster has 72 Space Marine, Chaos, or Necron armies out of 143, with two blank spots.

That's roughly half of the armies at the tournie were "Marine Equivilent", and i didn't count Daemonhunters or Witchhunters. And i think i might have skipped one or two Chaos ones....Legion of the Damned?

Ok so most armies had T4 and a 3+ Save.

That doesn't change the fact that playing against Marines is much different than playing against Chaos, and it's VERY different than playing Necrons.

I remember hearing years ago there were more Space Marines in England than people.

That's a whole lotta marines.

And while every army is different, a drop pod force is different from a footslogginf force, is different from a demon bomb etc, mathamatically it still comes down to the same cold equasions.

Non marine forces take the same wargear that's best at stopping marines.

Autocannons and grenade launchers are great IG weapons, but not against marines. So you rarely see them. Las/plas is the name of the game for the IG.

Stopped by the LGS to get the new Fire Dragons. Three games of 40K played today:

Tau vs. Drop Pod Marines (mostly Scouts coming out of Drop Pods, go figure)
Tau vs. World Eaters
Eldar vs. Necrons

Ok, I may have mispoke with MEQ, but a significant decrease in Marines is the trend that I've seen. Our games have modified a bit as a result. Weapons that may normally be looked over get use nowadays. It's almost like learning aspects of 40K all over again.

 

I've noticed this myself. Last 3 tournaments I played in ( the last month and a half) there were maybe 2-3 marines players in the first 2 out of 12-18 players and 4-5 out of 16 in the last one.

In the old days you geared your army to beat Marines...hence why I think Eldar did so well back then. ( I mean 98-2003). Now I'm seeing more tau, guard, dark eldar, eldar, and nids.

That's interesting. The last two tourneys I played in, I didn't have one game against a MEQ. That freaked me out a bit, because up to that point, I'd been at more than a few, where it was all I ended up playing against. Is the tide slowly shifting? I'm loving it myself.

The tide hasn't turned at the recent UK GT.

I played in a tourney first week of December. Dark Eldar, Necrons and Speed Freaks were the opposing armies.

The tourney before that in November was Demonhunters, Orks and Eldar.

Just my luck when I getting used to the non Marine armies, I'll face 3 of them in our local tourney next month.

Thats just microlooking. Marines are still on top, over all.

Hell at the club we have as many, or more ork players than marine players.....

lately i been playing against those 4+ armies like tau , hardly ever get to play against soe hard target armies like marines but my DE are made too take out T4 and 3+ armies so its pretty un common too see marines and necrons here were im at thses days its all about the tau and eldar and gaurd(whose knows why)

most people play marines still or MEQ armies for simple reasons-balistic skill, toughness, and the vast ability to modify or have variety.   althoug i do find people who start out with marines usually end up building a non marine army along the way. i am dark angels to the bone(with 3 seperate armies) but i got a wild ich and built a tau army. i know lots of others who have done the same.