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Damn turds spamming Stormraven, hope their models break.

Hahahaha

This is the greatest thing I've seen today.

Thank Gork and Mork that I am transitioning into a more friendly gaming group. My last one (regrettably with some good friends) is starting to become more cutthroat, with IG gunline, Ynnari with SHV, SerpentSpam and StormRoboute all against my Orks.

As dirty as they are there is a fair bit of variety in there (Stormravens aside).

- RG, Flyers, and Dreads
- All Knights
- Conscripts and 6 manticores
-Barges and wraiths //no idea how this guy will kill flyers
- typical Harlequin fusion pistol madness //smite smite smite!
- Dark Angel flyer madness
- another RG raven list
- a gakload of tau commanders (not fusion) with kroot and drones
- Horrors and nurgle DPs
- BA raven spam
- Devastators, RG, and RBs
- Ghaz, 120 boys, 40 stormboyz, 20 lootas!
- 150 boyz and 8 weirdboyz



These would be fun matchups to watch and it will be interesting to see who comes out on top!

I can only imagine how many unpainted Stormravens will be there. The money spent to stay on top...good grief. Can't say i'll be sad when they get a point increase.

One thing I'm noticing is how the "Imperium" designation is going to make stat-tracking hard (though at least for this, them publishing the full list helps with that).

For example, "Imperium" that consists entirely of Ultramarines, except for one Sisters of Silence squad. Or one that consists entirely of Blood Angels, except for one or two assassins.

Holy gak - 400 conscripts and psykers. LOL

well Austria takes the lone Drop Pod


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Have fun trying to order a Stormraven..

So we've got lots of stormravens (usually backed by scouts I notice). After that, I saw demons, imperial guard, and eldar of all things relying on lots of cheap chaff (brimstone horrors, conscripts, and razorwing flocks respectively), with big models to back them up. Lots of demon princes and IG artillery, though the eldar lists look a bit more varied. I don't see a lot of harlequins despite having placed well in other tournaments.

It's nice to see sisters getting some representation as well.

Daedalus81 wrote:
Holy gak - 400 conscripts and psykers. LOL

There are a few like that, I'm curious if ETC allows more than one of each psychic power per turn, or if they are just there to smite.

I like that there's some variety even in the same kinds of lists. Even amongst the birdspam lists, there seems like a number of approaches to the concept. Should be interesting.

What is that one T'au list planning to do with all those Shield Drones?

Tylendal wrote:
What is that one T'au list planning to do with all those Shield Drones?

Hold objectives I imagine.

There is a list with 55 snipers and RG backed up by ravens. I'm not sure the all knight lists are going to have a good time considering they won't be able to shoot stormravens fast enough.

I'm wondering what that one IG list is planning to do with 46 Ratlings. Ratlings are entertaining, but 46 of them? XD

 ross-128 wrote:
I'm wondering what that one IG list is planning to do with 46 Ratlings. Ratlings are entertaining, but 46 of them? XD

46 ratlings versus 132 razorwings - go!

Many AM players seem to agree that psyker spam is the way to go. Can't blame them, 14 smites per turn is going to bring down at least one stormraven and probably damage another, as long as you can get them in range.

Adding up all the cost of those stormravens, holy moly :O

But, I'm not surprised. The amount spent on drop pods last edition was stupid, and now it's stormravens. Have fun when GW (rightly) adjust them to promote "diversity"! However, while most lists are pure WAAC, there's a few brilliantly silly lists in there that are guaranteed to raise a laugh when you see it.

Ratling spam GO!!!

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 Freddy Kruger wrote:
The amount spent on drop pods last edition was stupid, and now it's stormravens. Have fun when GW (rightly) adjust them to promote "diversity"!

Yeah, this is what's interesting to me.

40K players haven't adapted yet to the video game type living ruleset we now have. Dumping a few hundred bucks on he current FotM is no longer a safe bet as those FotM lists are literally flavor of the month. As in, GW may release a FAQ in a month that doubles the cost of whatever model you just splurged on.

I'm interested in seeing how the competitive gamers will react to how quickly the meta can change now.

 Brutallica wrote:
Damn turds spamming Stormraven, hope their models break.

I know. It's as if this was a tournament to find out who could make the most boring, unfun list.

I only came to 43. I saw two tyranid armies, one with biovores, one with gaunts. Both had more cultists then anything else

All of the cultists had the magus. Is this to cast smite, or sole other power?

One of the ynari lists took the hq detachement for the eldar phoenix lords. That was cool.

Just a cursory glance at the numbers and noticed some silly things.

25 Chaos players. 4 of those chaos were Knights, other was mixed chaos. Leaving 20 that contained Brimstones. In these 20 armies, there were 175 units that contained Brimstone Horrors. Total of 2,675 Brimstone Horror models. By 20 people. This averaged 133.75 brimstones per player that was playing them (obviously not everyone had that many, some had way more, some less). At 10 models per box, that's 268 boxes of models (sorry blues, you're not as needed as the brims) at $35 USD per box, making those models cost $9,380 retail, and representing 5,350 points of models.

The stormravens are more silly. There were 206 of them across a large number of armies. At $82.50 each, that's a whopping $16,995 worth of ravens

 ross-128 wrote:
One thing I'm noticing is how the "Imperium" designation is going to make stat-tracking hard (though at least for this, them publishing the full list helps with that).

For example, "Imperium" that consists entirely of Ultramarines, except for one Sisters of Silence squad. Or one that consists entirely of Blood Angels, except for one or two assassins.

There probably should be a generic "Imperium" Category (Maybe "Marines" as well) and a generic "Eldar", all the others are stand alone factions?

Nice to see plenty of Sisters - well St C and the twins at least

 Mulletdude wrote:
At 10 models per box, that's 268 boxes of models (sorry blues, you're not as needed as the brims) at $35 USD per box, making those models cost $9,380 retail, and representing 5,350 points of models.

Isn't the ETC pretty notorious for players fielding tons of proxies?
That famous picture of the DE vs. TAU battle had only CMON murder of crowz as razorwing on it ...

Mutter wrote:

 Mulletdude wrote:
At 10 models per box, that's 268 boxes of models (sorry blues, you're not as needed as the brims) at $35 USD per box, making those models cost $9,380 retail, and representing 5,350 points of models.

Isn't the ETC pretty notorious for players fielding tons of proxies?
That famous picture of the DE vs. TAU battle had only CMON murder of crowz as razorwing on it ...

well yeah.. 16.50 for a single flock of birds (when 3 min is required) for 1pl is absurd. And its resin garbage to boot :/

If anyone needs more reason not to attend a tournament, here ya go.

I get it, and I'm glad that people with this amount of silliness have a place where they can play like-minded players, but I can't fathom the boredom of playing that many spam lists. Power be damned, I just can't stand

HQ 1
(Repeat)
(Repeat)
(Repeat)

Heavy Support 1
(Repeat)
(Repeat)
(Repeat)
(Repeat)

etc. Jesus Christ that's boring, lol.

 Elbows wrote:
If anyone needs more reason not to attend a tournament, here ya go.

I get it, and I'm glad that people with this amount of silliness have a place where they can play like-minded players, but I can't fathom the boredom of playing that many spam lists. Power be damned, I just can't stand

HQ 1
(Repeat)
(Repeat)
(Repeat)

Heavy Support 1
(Repeat)
(Repeat)
(Repeat)
(Repeat)

etc. Jesus Christ that's boring, lol.

Agreed. I know it's billed as the world's premier 40k tournament (And possibly the same for FoW too) but I just don't get it. Why go to all the hassle of flying out to another country, taking time off work, not to mention the expense, to end up playing...that? Maybe it's a great weekend away with lots of drinking and meeting with friends, but if you have to play a bunch of games against that crap just to enjoy yourself later I don't see the appeal.

It's about designing the best list and making correct decisions in the game, much like a card game in those respects. It's not about what the models represent in a fluffy sense, it's just competition. Not everyone's cup of tea.

Tourneys are not meant to be fun.

These lists are making me laugh.

Sure, they're dull and monotonous.

But 128 Razorwing Flocks. Why didn't the guy call himself Colonel Sanders?

Its *exactly* like a CCG or deckbuilding game. Only with super expensive plastic models.