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Hey Guys,

At your local stomping ground, be it a FLGS , GW store or your buddies basement,

What army list / One trick pony is currently kicking butt?

No need for a point by point breakdown, just a general idea of what old boy is running, and has anyone found an effective counter yet.

Tau gunlines are kind of dominating, right now. At least at my local. We have a pretty balanced group, though, so it isn't a huge margin. Really, the Tau players are generally doing well in their initial games with people who aren't familiar with the new Tau yet.

Allies are abused to no end around here.

What game?

Last tournament it was IG artilleryspam and ADL forts.

I see a lot of SW Landraider/termie lists too, but then two of my main opponents are SW players..

You didn't specify a game, so going to say Reinforced EotBS medium squads and those god damn KoB lord hood attachments.

Sorry guys --

40k is the game in question -- my bad!

Moving to 40K Discussions...

In my last tournament all lists were very balanced except for one: Necron Croissant Spam.

Guess who finished first?

P.S: It's true no one was playing with Tau, yet. The ammount of fire one can bring with Tau would rip that list a new one.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
In my last tournament all lists were very balanced except for one: Necron Croissant Spam.

Guess who finished first?

P.S: It's true no one was playing with Tau, yet. The ammount of fire one can bring with Tau would rip that list a new one.

The new tau lists and using them as allies ( almost everyone can of course) make a lot of OP lists have to rethink things.

My local meta is filled with people who constantly tweak their list. If there is one thing you can regularly plan on, it's that people wont bring what the exact same thing they brought last time.

When someone does find a great list they do well with, and play it over and over, it usually only takes two or three weeks before other people have adapted to that list, and it is no longer running strong in our meta.

We had a guy show up a few months ago we had never seen. Walks into one of our FLGS with a cron flier spam list. We were friendly because he was a new player (to us anyway), and he proceeds to spend the weekend mercilessly stomping people(myself included) with his spammy list. No butt hurt, but people were not prepared as there wasn't a lot of flier spam at that point in our local meta. The next weekend he showed up, and didn't win a single game, because my local gamers adapt quickly. He stuck to his list for a few weeks, winning just under 50% of his games for a while until he started doing what we all do and changing his list constantly for new surprises.

I'll admit I was the first one to fall for it with him. He came in, asked around for a game. I set up my DA ready for some air destruction, and face palmed as he didn't have a single flier in his list and I was sorely prepared for his wraith spam list. It was a good game though, even though he soundly had me beat at the end of turn 5.

IG and Necrons are over powered. Necron wraith spam can be very difficult for anyone to deal with. Flyer spam has dropped in my meta because everyone takes a quad gun and tau. IG has many builds that are tough to deal with, they can do fliers or manticores or tons of troops.

CSM are only really good with heldrakes. If your opponent packs 3 you are going to have a bad day. If they have none, things aren't so bad.

Tau is doing great. It is very strong without feeling overpowered. The main thing is tau shoots better than any army (except maybe IG) so if you are trying to trade shots with tau you are probably going to lose.

Demons and tyranids flying monstrous creatures are insane and have been doing very well.

GKs and space wolves are still seeing lots of play.

Never under estimate orks. Because a lot of lists are tailored to fighting more elite opponents (ie taking weapons with high damage, low ap and low number of shots) a mass of orks can knock you around.

Everything else has a few list floating around but nothing to point out.






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 pwntallica wrote:
My local meta is filled with people who constantly tweak their list. If there is one thing you can regularly plan on, it's that people wont bring what the exact same thing they brought last time.

When someone does find a great list they do well with, and play it over and over, it usually only takes two or three weeks before other people have adapted to that list, and it is no longer running strong in our meta.

This happens where I play too. When everyone starts taking foot armies, everyone stops taking as much anti-tank and the land raiders start showing up. Then when the land raiders are popular, people start taking more anti-tank weapons and the foot lists start showing up again. A guy was winning with a psyker heavy demons list and then I noticed a lot of people playing with a proxy farseer "just to see if it was good." Some players will even play a bunch of games before a tournament with one army and then play a different army at the tournament to through people off.

Thanks guys!!

Reason I was asking is that im going to the Bugeater GT and I kinda wanted to get an idea of what was out there.

I see Belial with lots of termies quite often.

I too am going to bugeater. This will me my first big tournament, and I am quite excited.

Good Luck Ed!!

Maybe you and I will duke it out!

Ive got the Astral Claws Vanilla marines.

What are you bringing?

Mostly Tau. People wot stop whining about marker lights.

necron airlines and the new tau with skyray-railhead-ionhead combo is very common around here. Although the meta in turkey would be different than usa i supose

I'm seeing lots of Tau, but otherwise it's pretty balanced, a blend of GK, CSM, SM varients, IG with some Necrons, Eldar, DE and Nids.

My local meta has a healthy amount of Heldrakes, but nobody's started a new Chaos army for them or anything.

Good Luck Ed!!

Maybe you and I will duke it out!

Ive got the Astral Claws Vanilla marines.

What are you bringing?

I will be bringing my Nurgle Marines. Right now I am 5 models and one large base away from fully painted. I haven't had a fully painted army this size since I was 14; it has taken me over a year.