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If one (simplistically) divides 40k into 5 phases:

Movement
Psychic
Shooting
Hand to hand
Morale

where do you think each faction suffers in build/playstyle/ability with each?

The obvious jump outs would be with Crons or Tau not having psychic offense at all and very little defense
Tau again probably suffer in the hth phase (albeit they do have some capability)
I dont know too much about GSC but from what I've read they lack long range, hard hitting shooting units
Castle armies like IG parking lot would suffer with movement/ board control

etc etc

What are your views on each factions weaknesses per phase and how much do they impact them? Any way to negate them?

Movement+: Tyranids, Eldar (all flavours), Imperial Knights
Psychic+: Eldar (Craftworlds), Thousand Sons, Orks.
Shooting+: T'au, Astra Copywritum, Sweaty Sex-Goblins, Imperial Knights, Orks (ironically), Admech
Fight+: Orks, Tyranids, Eldar (Clown Goblins)
Morale+: Hahahahaha Morale doesn't mean anything in 8th.

Movement-: Necrons, Custard Creams, Admech
Psychic-: Necrons, Tau, Grey Knights (upsetting, I know)
Shooting-: Chaos Daemons
Fight-: T'au (Kroot don't count), Astra Copywritum (Crusaders don't count), Eldar (Craftwords, Howling Banshees/Striking Scorpions don't count)
Morale-: Conscripts

IG don't have much problems with fast movment. Sure they aren't doing 40" per turn like eldar jetbikes, but catachans zip around the board faster then marines, and they have a much bigger foot print for little to no points.

All armies that were constructed with reserve deployment in mind as their type of movment this edition, are suffering from the nerf FAQs right now.

There is also the question of soup. It is hard to judge an army with 3-4 DPs, on its weak shoting, when the rest of the points is 1ksons characters and a knight well protected by cheap screens of cultists or tzangors.


The 32+cpt+castellan list has no psychic presence. So it is technically their weakness.