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My answer is quite simple. Are the GK overpowered? To me, I'll have to say yes in this case. Am I afraid of all of the most common of the power lists?

Nope and the reason is that within all Codex's there are inherent weaknesses that can be exploited by those pros that have been at this game for so long. I know their weaknesses and I can exploit them.

Anyone can play an "uber" list, but not everyone can play it correctly.

experiment 626 Wrote:

Still, I highly doubt GW is going to do too much to nerf GK's in the 6th ed since they're an amazing cashcow! What I'd more worried about is the changes that are supposed to balance GK's don't do much overall and instead, one or two other armies get slaped silly with a nerf bat they don't really need... (look at what happened to undead in 8th )

Cash cow? Depends on did it bring more people to the hobby or not.

Quote from ICv2's article "Games Had Hot Summer" that was posted on their site on 11-1-11

Games Workshop, the leader in the non-collectible miniatures category, had a rough summer, with quality issues on its new Finecast resin line, spotty supply, and shorter solicitation cycles all affecting sales. Meanwhile, Privateer continued steps to shore up its backlist availability, and coupled with GW’s problems, was picking up customers.

GK are not a cash cow. They did not increase the customer base. According to the article they lost customer base (IMHO) by their shoddy practices. If they did get any profit from the release, it came from those people who are already within their shrinking customer base and are willing to buy another army.

You can look at the entire article here.
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/21399.html

As far the "Top 5 Non-Collectible Miniature Lines--Summer 2011" is posted here.
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/21404.html

-666- wrote:Some people felt the same way about IG two years ago.

Compared to the GK codex the IG was an easy beat. Meta is Meta. The GK codex gives so much flexibility that it is hard to beat. As I have stated in my previous postings about the GK (in 2011), the Cortez build is a brutal build and the person who won Adepticon used a Cortez Build.

Lets see what happens when 6th ed comes out and then see who and what codex gets nerfed. I got a sneaky suspicion that MSU units are going to go by the wayside.