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66% of non impactful changes, 33% chance for GW to miss armie that are at 50-55% only becaue eldar and gsc exist. And suddenly we are back in mid end of 9th with necrons playing armies that play soliter, because no army can effciently kill a brick of warriors or lych guard. Making games where necron get turn 1, a GG, at the level of who starts first.

Also obligatory DG side grades and nerfs. As in 10th they seem to be the faction GW wants to bully. I imagine a heavy nerf to their artilery, so they really have nothing to play with.

I suspect 20% of it will be that they make small changes to Aeldari/GSC points and which alters their win rate by -3%. 50% of the changes will be head scratchers. The other 30% will be nerfs to Ad Mech and Votann

 Gibblets wrote:
The other 30% will be nerfs to Ad Mech and Votann

Hey, don't forget the Deathguard!

Hive Guard will be nerfed because it was good in 8th.

I hope something to nerf the Fate Dice and Devastating Wounds interaction is in the works. Make Fate Dice count as Modified. Simple(ish). And hit some of the other Aeldari stuff with points hikes.

This edition is off to a rough start balance wise, so some strong medicine is required.

Or maybe it will instead by something like:

Players: “The launch of 10th has been the worst balance of 40K”
GW Metawatch: “Worst balance of 40K, so far”

But I have some faith for what tomorrow will bring.

If the only "fixes" to armies are going to small rules changes to the top 4, and points changes to the bottom 4. Then we are going to end up with a meta where Eldar hover aorund 60% win rate, GSC are in their mid 50s GSC suddenly shoot up to be one of the best faction. Custodes join marines and knights join their chaos brother in win rates. Meanwhile the bad faction players will find out that, after spending X extra money to buy extra squads or squad, their armies still don't function, because their probelms weren't just points, but bad written rule on top of bad points.

I have huge doubts that people at GW sat down, and spent the last 2 months rewriting rules for the index armies.

GamesWorkshop being amazing as always, lets play the smurfs guys