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So, sitting around, procrastinating doing something usefull, my mind has wandered to what/how much I've been playing here in 9e....

July of 2020 - Sept.14, 2022

Different armies I've played & #of games with each:
•Space Wolves x3
•SoB x3
•Necrons x120+*
•Tyranids x3 - looong before the 9e Codex
•Drukhari x15
•Gretchin (no, not orks, Grots) x31
•Knights (Imperial) x1
•Imperial Guard + Reaver Titan x1
•Demons (pure Khorne) x3

So 179+ games, 9 different armies

Completely NEW armies I've built since 9th launched:
•Drukhari
•Knights (Imperial)
•Grots
•coming real soon: LoV!

The army I've got the most intact data for?
•Grots
31 games
19 Wins
11 losses
1 game = na -
# of unique opponents = 26
# of unique armies my grots have faced = 24
# of months my grots have been active: 7 (March 16th - September 12)

*

How about you?

80ish 2k Necron games, 55% win rate. 30ish 500 pt intro games half Necrons, half Ultramarines, 90ish% WR. 100ish unique opponents, played against every faction more or less.

57 games of 9th so far. 17 with Sisters of Battle, 19 with Craftworlds Eldar, 11 with Custodes, 8 with Primaris Marines, 1 with Guard.

I haven't gotten my Knights on the table this edition yet.

Almost all my games are Crusade games, mostly with the same half dozen or so opponents.

Starting GSC for a new Crusade starting in January (that will replace the one I'm playing Eldar in).

Each week since 9th ed started I have been doing the same thing every week. 2 w40k games on Saturday, and 1 game of AoS or 1 game of w40k on Sunday.

w40k is GK. AoS is Lumineth Lords. Win rate with GK is maybe 15%, maybe 10%. With LL it is around 50%, but it would be lower if I played SoB or the sea elfs. AoS is very fun, w40k not so much. But there are a lot more w40k players then AoS ones. So I play more w40k.

Can you share your grot list? Curious what you did to find so much success with it.

I am extremely lucky to be able to live near a 24/7 game store, i also can play at home, and on TTS. So I honestly have no idea even how many games I have played, but its 2-3 a week normally (up until the last 2 months when i had to be a caregiver). With that said, about 1/4 of the games are also AoS games.

When you play as much as me you dont really care about lists, game points, wins, etc.. anymore, just to have fun with people and do different things. I take a new list every week, and a lot of times they are crazy off meta lol. Its great for me and my opponents at times bc its always fun and fresh (everyone knows they can ask me to play anything and I will if they wanted a meta game).

chaos0xomega wrote:
Can you share your grot list? Curious what you did to find so much success with it.

Well I'll post my inventory. And some thoughts/expla
You see, I don't have "a list" as I play games ranging from 500pts up to 3k. And sometimes I just rotate something in/out on a whim.
I also play ALOT of Crusade (probably 95% of my 9e games)

My grots:
Usually run as Evil Sunz - doesn't do anything for most of my force, but comes in handy for my Warboss.

●Warboss in MegaArmor

●The Red Gobbo on Gobbler
●Makari
●60 grots

●5 trucks
All have grabbing claws. 1 always has the Fortress upgrade. Another often has Squig Tyres.
Each unique & dedicated to a specific grot squad
●3 Runt Herders

●24 Grot tanks (3 full squadrons worth)

●3 Grot Mega-Tanks
I've built enough turrets to be able to do any combo of weapons fir each tank. My favorite combos are all rokkits (looks cool + effective), all KMB & all Skorcha.
If I do a Skorcha tank I give it a shokka Hull & put it on a tellyport pad.
●2 Grot Bomb Launchas.
Great 1st strike punch & then they sieze objectives%Ramming Speed things as needed.
●max # of Mek Gunz.
I built all of mine as bubble chuckers as I like the random.
●3 Killa Kanz - stock build straight from the box.
●5 lobbas
●5 Zap Guns
●5 Kannon
●1 Wazbomb fully kitted out & with the FF


How my grots win:
•The truck/foot grots take the objectives.
•Everything else shoots the piss out of the opponent.
And unlike ORK armies my grots back this up with BS4, high Ap, high Str, considerable RoF, and quite a volume of said fire.
•If something gets caught in CC (& survives)? They will fallback & let other units blast the target off the board.
•If I can help it, truck grots do not dismount- despite some having ObSec. (The truck is tougher than they are). If they do dismount? Then they will often do so with the truck between them & enemies (the truck blocks Los usually & is tougher than they are... )
•I do not worry about giving up vp to bring it down. It'll happen, I just have to out kill/out score the foe in the meantime.