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As the title says any predictions as to the top armies this year. I did a I told you so to some of my fellow dakkaites when I predicted that Crons would be a top finisher last year. This year I believe assault will be key so I am going with my top 3. Stealer shock, Black Templars, and Blood Angels. Combat is very decisive and all three off these armies have ways to give the majority of thier force prefered enemy. I think GW missed the loop holes with preferred enemies with all three of these forces. Templars are especially brutal with thier vow and still have terminator squads who can have two assault cannons along with Landraiders with Lance armor.

I don't know how you can bet against Orks. I predict that the Green Tide sweeps all before it.

I am going to bet that Chaos Space Marine and Sister of Battle will do best in the events.

You forgot demons. I mean if we're talking competative you've got to include the demons.

I can't give a good prediction, as I have yet to decide what I'm going to play.

I don't know that I see daemons doing particularly well. With so much potential for "oops" in the army, I suspect that even with the points to cram a lot of cool stuff in they will not be able to overcome needing to deep strike in half. However, I wouldn't be surprised to see some DH Inquisitors with Mystics showing up in most all Imperial armies.

I wouldn't be surprised to see assault oriented armies doing well otherwise though, but honestly I haven't a decent guess as to specific ones.

Chaos? That's what I play, hot damn!

No love for nidzilla with outflanking 'stealers?

Clearly pure grey knights ftw

The new Space Marines will probably win it all.

G

IG will crush all before them!!! No land raider or monolith will stand against their lascannons!

I expect to see Epidemius Daemons do well...
I think Chaos SM might surrise some people...
Orks and Eldar have good shots, too.

There's NO WAY Necrons will do well at an 'Ardboyz tournament. They just aren't 'ard enough.

Eric

Green Blow Fly wrote:The new Space Marines will probably win it all.

G

Their codex won't be out for round 1. Might not be out long enough for it to be legal in round 2.

Ork horde

Rbb wrote:

Green Blow Fly wrote:The new Space Marines will probably win it all.

G

Their codex won't be out for round 1. Might not be out long enough for it to be legal in round 2.

That's how good the new Codex will be!

I'm playing whatever Peter Elias is playing.

Maybe Chaos Marines. They do great with assault, but they don't have to rely on it. And they can Lash units out into the open. That gets rid of the all too common cover-save in 5th edition.

~Logic

It won't be with a newer codex (DA/BA/Eldar/Orks).

Folks are still finding interesting combos with the older codexes and how they interact with the new ruleset. I've seen some interesting Witch/Demon Hunter builds and some decent Black Templar builds.

grizgrin wrote:IG will crush all before them!!! No land raider or monolith will stand against their lascannons!

You have read the new vehicle rules right? You need 12 BS3 Lascannons firing for 6 turns straight to score one wrecked or asplode result against an AV14 vehicle in cover.

And meltaguns won't help you against Monoliths (though, thankfully, I doubt they'll be in cover).

BYE

Glance 6 versus a monolith still kills monoliths with melta fire, fyi.

Ain't easy, but it can and does happen.

Oh and what bloody cover do you play with that covers 50% of a monolith and can I play in crazy world too?

A lot will depend on missions. Most standard missions at that point level, make the Guard look pretty sweet. Same with the Horde armies (ork, Bugs, etc).

Eldar should be able to make a dominate build here also.

Marines...always good.

Reality is someone will make a build that happens to fit the missions well and win with something no one else thought of - and thus become a 40K genius.

Dunno about Orks; the metagame will be strongly anti-Orks due to their strength.

Current marine codex, lots of pods with Deathwind launchers, and vs. Orks (or other hordes), drop them without troops embarked...

Good time for a last hurrah for Castellan whirlies.

I don't think Chaos scales up well enough. Marines and Eldar scale up well and have better lists at 2500pts. Running Bugs can deny a turn or two of shooting to the enemy and they might excel this year.

Bigger horde lists have trouble finishing on time and one draw can knock you out of the running.

Actually, does 'Ard Boyz allow multiple force orgs?

no

HBMC: I would have thought the over-the-top enthusiasm would have been enough to indicate sarcasm. Next time I will attempt to make it more obvious. Prehaps bells and whistles?

I can see Blood Angels doing really well. That many jump assault troops can be pretty devastating.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Sisters
orks
SM

not in any particular order though

I can see Chaos winning it all. The army is a lot better now that V edition has been released and the high point total for the armies really helps them too.

G

Orks, Chaos and Dark Eldar. Yep, DE. I trust that those crafty bastards will figure out some way around the KP drawback and win it all.

DarthDiggler wrote:I don't think Chaos scales up well enough.

The 9 obliterators and 3 land raiders I'm thinking about running beg to differ.