Cross-posted from...lots of places.
So another forum I'm on got into another "Is Warhammer balanced?". I decided to break out the statistics, and find out. Crunching the numbers from the latest 'Throne of Skulls' tournament, it turns out that
40K is pretty balanced, and doesn't so much have a codex creep problem, while Fantasy has a bit of both right now.
The full analysis is here:
http://confoundingblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/is-warhammer-balanced/