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Hello Dakkites,
I am currently a Warhammer 40k player playing in Rochester,NY and I was planning on expanding my playing base to increase the number and variety of players that I am facing. For those who have played/live in buffalo i'd really like to know what the meta is like in buffalo? Thanks in advance for your help.

-harshr3ality

Taken from this thread: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/314983.page
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I offer this insight into the skills of a professional gamer:

Working on my META skills are definitely what helped me get ahead; if I had to rate META skills, its like my META is so far ahead of everyone elses' META that while everyone was catching up to 5th edition META, I was zooming through sixth edition, and now my META is so advanced that its gone full circle around to first edition and is about to hit third edition. Which is why I now play Necrons. Seriously. Sitting here right now getting ready to assemble some wraiths. My META skills are so advanced that I'm going to LAP everyone elses' understanding of META soon.

In reality, the META in Rochester is the same META in California as everywhere elses' META. Its cold, metallic, and definitely not edible. Unless you eat metal. That is cold. Which in itself is META far beyond any META I've seen.

In short, don't worry about the META. Build a list that you like. If you're trying to build a competitive list, build a take-all-comers list. If you don't know how, visit the tactics section of the forums here with your codex and a list of your models and someone appropriate will help you out. Or make a list, post it in the army list section of the forums, and ask for advice how how to make it more competitive against any possibility.

Welcome to Dakka, and here's your introductory advice: Transcend the idea of META. A good player can bring their army list into any region of the country and win with it. Local habits play no part, and can in no way be indicative of the gaming you might expect to face anyway.

As DashofPepper says, the real advances in tactics are now being made in the Meta-Meta-game.

Forget the Meta-game, it's so last season

As a player from Buffalo who has only traveled for a single tourney, I can't say what it is like anywhere else, but I can say that there is a good group of gamers here. We all drove down to a tournament in Binghamton last weekend and we took top three places and best painting. I kind of felt bad that we pushed out all of the local players. Oddly enough, the tourney had very big comp score component and the lists were a lot nastier than the previous local tourney when there was no comp score, so perhaps that was why we took top 3.