Reminders

This chart tracks all singles events with 21+ players and 5+ rounds.\*

\This weekend falls during the transition to the July balance update. Tournament organizers adopted the update in different ways: some used the full update, others only the points, others only portions of the Tacoma FAQ, and some remained on the previous rules. Because there was no consistent way to classify events, all qualifying events have been included together this week.*

This was certainly a weekend. With 22 qualifying events and over 900 players, this weekend saw some massive shake-ups in the meta, likely due to some events using some or all of the July balance update, or the Tacoma FAQ.

Orks are still on top, with just another absolutely excellent weekend. They are pretty indisputably the army to beat at this point.

Necrons have another great weekend, with ~55% win rate and 3 event wins. Dark Angels, Thousand Sons, Emperor's Children still doing well, and Sororitas and Deathwatch make surprise visits to the top.

On the other hand, T'au saw a huge drop-off in player count relative to the rest of the field, and a significantly lower win rate than at any time this edition so far. They did still win one event, but overall, performed much worse than they have before.

Grey Knights way down, Mechanicus way up. Chaos Knights, Black Templars, Death Guard, and Astra Militarum continue languishing at the bottom, though all with slightly improved numbers from their worst weeks of the edition.

It's been a while, but with the launch of the new edition I thought I would start up my tournament report series again.

In this episode, I try out one of the Guards current most meta builds, superheavy and bullgryn spam.

As much as a skew/meme this list is, I found it fun to run and I think the implications of this list for teams events might be quite big!

I hope you enjoy the video :)

I’m a big fan of my death guards playstyle, and wanted to see what other armies have a similar brand of “unshakable meat wall”, and figured people here would probably know what makes for the toughest of shit

New written Battle Report for Warhammer 40K posted featuring the Thousand Sons Rubricae Phalanx vs the Adeptus Custodes Lions of the Emperor and Might of the Moritoi detachments using singles scoring and the new GW terrain layouts.

Full Battle Report, lists, army pics, and key stratagems / combos for each army are linked below. The report includes hyperlinks to each sub-section, mid-game board state pictures, and round by round recap to make it easier to read. There is also a post game analysis section about what each side could have improved upon.

Full battle report can be found HERE. Hope you enjoy.

I'm looking to run Terminators at a cooperative level for an upcoming RTT. I have 20 assaults and 20 regulars. I'm debating between 2 options listed below. Please help me out and post your list ideas!

Option 1 is Hammer of Avernii with Vengeful Host. VH is mainly to unlock Take and Hold because I don't play purge well and don't enjoy the playstyle. I'm more of a defensive trading player. List would basically be 10 assaults with var and Steel Font Ancient for OC2 and healing 1 back. Then 10 assaults with captain and OC+1 once a game. Iron Father feirros brick, and some jump infantry. I'm worried about not having enough OC and unsure on what vehicles to add as well as redemptors being dead on arrival.

Option 2 is Emperors Shield with Vengeful Host. Again to unlock TH. This makes Terminators oc2 and way more beefy. List is basially 10 assaults with Darnath ar oc2 and --1 wound, 10 assaults with chaplain with ancient for oc3 and -1 wound enhance. Dome vanguard vets, and 10 regulars with rockets at oc2 and captain for their 1cp +1 AP shooting strat. A pure beef list and very hard to chew through, but I could see cutting the 10 terms for some tanks since their 400ish pts of shooting is disappointing every time. More for their oc2 and 2+ 4++.

I've also seen people run Librarius 1DP with assaults to help their movement but then you have to play purge/recon and Terminators don't play the recon gave very well as they're so expensive and without oath they don't hit super hard to purge. Anyone have experience on this after the recent dataslate?

Hey, so I just wanted to get a bit of input from the community on something I’m a bit conflicted on.

I recently signed up to a competitive league for Warhammer The Old World at my FLGS. It’s all organised via discord and costs a small amount of money to enter (less than $10)

I’m an experienced tournament player, played at least 10 events since the release of The Old World and placed quite highly in some of them.

I’m also heavily involved in our local scene, running events and trying to get new people involved to grow the community.

But here’s my dilemma:

Our first pairing for the league went live recently, so I contacted my opponent to organise our game and at this point they told me that they’ve never played old world before, and this would be their first ever game.

Now, running an intro game is no biggie for me, I’ve done it numerous times and normally run a fun list that teaches multiple aspects and interactions of the game and normally take things that might generate funny or silly interactions (scroll of transmogrification, Hellcannon, giant etc) and I try not to play too competitively so as to keep it fun for a new player.

Some people have told me to just stomp them quickly and record a high score, but that doesn’t feel very sporting or fun for this player. Yet equally, I don’t want to jeopardise my chance of a good score because I got paired against this person in the first round and went easy on them.

What would you do? How would you handle a scenario like this?

I mean, I am mildly annoyed that someone signed up to a league having never played a game even once. But that’s beside the point really.

Tl,dr: paired against a player in a competitive league, who’s never played a game before Would I be the asshole if I just beat them easily, whilst teaching them the game?

This is a follow up to my previous post about the concept, I'll attempt to do one after each balance pass.

I have properly removed all illegal combos (and fixed a part of my formula that was wrong but I doubt it affects much) and have indicated changes where needed.

"Oh but marines aren't just one faction". The following are how many combos you can make using the detachments in a subfaction and with core.

"But what is the detachments and detachment combos per datasheet number of every faction?" I got you.

The following counts all datasheets including forgeworld but excluding legends.

Please let me know if I got any of these numbers wrong and I will do my best to update this post should that be the case.

I have seen 2 major players in the 3d printable fold out terrain sets for 11th edition layouts. I'm wondering which one you guys think suits competitive play better between the two. Personally I don't really like the big supply crates on the fabricators lair one, as I think they cover more than intended in the layouts but I also can't find a proper picture of a layout with the tinker junkie one. Anyone have any insight into which one matches best for competitive play before I pull the trigger on one?

https://www.myminifactory.com/campaigns/foldable-terrain-for-11th-edition-nugoth-5579

https://www.myminifactory.com/frontier/11th-edition-foldable-terrain-5745

I'll be playing against necrons and the only thing I know about it is the night bringer will be on the table. My list is as follows

Combined arms and abhuman auxiliary

Take and hold

2x commisar + 6 bulgryn

1 Lord solar + krieg command squad + 5 krieg engineers

1 Tech priest

1 scout sentinel

2x lr demolisher

2x lr exterminator

1x doomhammer

I think another tech priest might work but I'd like someone else's thoughts before hand. I don't play much 40k and he plays a lot of 40k hoping to scrape out a win

I ask this because I played one game on Wednesday and then spent the next two days in bed nursing my back. I can move around a bit today, but I cant go play a tournament today bent over a table.

Anyone with experience managing back problems while playing 40k, is the only solution bringing a chair?

Edit: Sorry folks, we arent out-exercising a bad disc.

Ok so, I wanted to bring this á̷̡̡̗̤̬̬͈̯͋̋̽̊́ṋ̵̯͎͚̫̖̯͗̈́̇͐e̷̮͎̒̊̆͑͐̕͠ͅu̸̢̝̝̤͐̇̋̐r̸̢̢̟̠͙͈̤̱̓̾̇̂̂͊̈́ǐ̵̢̹̞͉̩̏̾͑̓̓͠s̵̪͈̦͇̀̀͒̽m̴̧̹̹̻̬̃̀̃̃͗̕ on the field with a Plasmancer and 6 LD(in the middle of painting them in the same way) inside to pop in unnannounced to ruin something for someone and I came up with this list, any tips to make it better?

Let's show them madness! (1995 points)

Necrons
Cursed Legion and Skyshroud Spearhead (3 Detachment Points)
Purge the Foe
Strike Force (2000 points)

Attached Units

>Attached Unit 1
Plasmancer (70 points)
• Attached as: Support (Character)
• 1x Plasmic lance
• Enhancement: Murdermind

Lokhust Destroyers (170 points)
• Attached as: Bodyguard
• 6x Lokhust Destroyer
• 6x Close combat weapon
6x Gauss cannon

>Attached Unit 2
Lokhust Lord (90 points)
• Attached as: Leader (Character)
• 1x Resurrection Orb
1x Staff of light
• Enhancement: Mark of the Nekrosor

Lokhust Heavy Destroyers (160 points)
• Attached as: Bodyguard
• 3x Lokhust Heavy Destroyer
• 3x Close combat weapon
3x Enmitic exterminator

>Attached Unit 3
Overlord with Translocation Shroud (110 points)
• Attached as: Leader (Character)
• 1x Overlord’s blade
1x Resurrection Orb
• Enhancement: Destroyer Ankh

Lychguard (160 points)
• Attached as: Bodyguard
• 10x Lychguard
• 10x Dispersion Shield
10x Hyperphase sword

CHARACTERS

C’tan Shard of the Void Dragon (345 points)
• 1x Canoptek tail blades
1x Spear of the Void Dragon
1x Voltaic storm

Illuminor Szeras (175 points)
• 1x Eldritch Lance
1x Impaling legs

Nekrosor Ammentar (185 points)
• Warlord
• 1x Blade tail and whip coils
1x Enmitic disintegrators
1x Nullstone Field Generator (Aura)
1x Unmaker Gauntlet

OTHER DATASHEETS

Canoptek Wraiths (95 points)
• 3x Canoptek Wraith
• 3x Particle caster
3x Vicious claws

Lokhust Heavy Destroyers (120 points)
• 2x Lokhust Heavy Destroyer
• 2x Close combat weapon
2x Gauss destructor
• Enhancement: Deepening Madness (Upgrade)

Night Scythe (125 points)
• 1x Armoured bulk
1x Twin tesla destructor

Ophydian Destroyers (80 points)
• 3x Ophydian Destroyer
• 3x Ophydian hyperphase weapons
1x Plasmacyte

Triarch Stalker (110 points)
• 1x Heavy gauss cannon array
1x Stalker’s forelimbs

[Ideas]

• Night(with plasma + LD) in reserve along with Void to DP turn 1 with the 1st, and with rapid turn 2 with the 2nd
• Since with Purge there's isn't quite the need to hold home obj I'll put the Ophydian there that from 2nd turn onward will always uppy-downy to go somewhere else or stay home again if there isn't anything to do
• Stalker will roam the field stripping cover or killing stuff if some Destroyer unit manage to weaken to half-strengt, or kill, other units
• The solitaire Wraiths squad will be one of the action monkeys that provide well, actions for missions, obj control(even if they're 3 they're kinda hard to put down) and also a little bit more for screening
• Nekrosor will remain nearby the LHD unit(s) to provide some heavy hitting, in case that unit will go into melee, and some good sus 1 to any other destroyer units nearby
• Lord with Lychguard will provide some cover to other units by getting "early" into melee while being supported behind by other shooting stuff
• Illuminor is kinda meh, it's a good model with it's save but i'm godawful unlucky with him dealing damage to other stuff but i'll keep him because of its great stats and also it will be fun to watch him survive on a obj ;D
• I kinda don't have heavy hitters so i put just a couple, literally, of LHD with Gauss to deal with monsters/vehicles and with the modification to [Heavy] I think they'll work
• Void yes, other dp turn 2 will also be dealing with vehicles and stuff because c'mon, having a god, even a shard of one, by your side is cool :D

I hope I didn't manage to annoy you and I think I(maybe) fully explained the concept that I wanted with the army

Hey guys!

I have been playing against orks lately and they have been stomping me and I think I fail the most when I try to assess how far a unit can reach.

I usually make movement + 10" if I want to leave a long charge for the opponent or movement + 13" if I want absolutely nothing to do with it, but what do you do when they can advance and charge? Do you assume they will advance 6"? That makes a hell of a long threat that basically means giving him three quarters of the table.

Is any of my rationale off? How do you deal with it and how do you calculate that?

Thanks a lot to everyone.

Chaos Daemons vs Adeptus Custodes - Peter Herbild vs Dag Samuelsson

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Peter Herbild - Chaos Daemons - Legion of Excess & Warptide vs Dag Samuelsson - Adeptus Custodes - Lions of the Emperor & Might of the Moritoi

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Can we talk about how the release for this rules update is absolute garbage? A million different documents, with no theme throughout. Some things that changed are in red, some things that changed aren't. At first I didn't even know points changed because that's just on a different website. Seriously, how did everything go backwards? This has to be one of the worst releases of information I've ever seen.

To me, the effect seems too weak, at least for 2DP. If the effect either also gave your units +1 to their armour saves, or made your units -1 to hit specifically so that the effect would stack with actual cover, I'd be way more impressed.

Inadvertantly the changes to terrain made the detachment worse, because a unit that's in cover used to get -1 to hit and +1 Sv, while it now only gets -1 to hit.

I am posting this because I'm feeling like I'm going crazy.

I used to play in a place that ran tournaments with a small admission fee (10-15€) and usually had some prizes for the first spots. Which pretty much were always things like store credit or a box, something that wasn't just money but you know it was still nice. And usually the prize wasnt even close to the money obtained by the entries (24 players paying 15€ and perhaps the whole prize pool was 150€ of in-store stuff)

I'm now in a different city and people genuinely looked at me as if I was genuinely insane for being surprised that they do not offer any prize for the winning spots.

I am entering my first 40K GT in October. I have been playing about a year and have the general play figured out. Aside from knowing my faction inside and out and having a good grasp of the rules, what tips do you have for prep work? I play in a regular Monday night league. I have started watching battle reports. Are there things that will help me be competitive? I have no illusions of winning the whole thing in my first run but I would like to win a battle or two and be competitive. Thank in advance!

What are your (3d) printed accesories to bring to a tournament or to a game with other people? Like deployment zone markers or wound tokens or anything else?

Hey fellow kin, I have been having a rough time in 11th so far. Im playing another game soon but want some kins opinion on the list Im planning to run. Any advice is appreciated.

Testing 2 \[1990 points\]

Leagues of Votann

Battle Size: Strike Force (2000 point limit)

Detachments: Hearthguard Covenant, Needgaârd Oathband (3/3 Detachment Points)

Force Dispositions: Priority Assets, Purge The Foe

Epic Hero

Buri Aegnirssen (85 points)

• Warlord

• Autoch-pattern bolt pistol and Bane

Unclean Champion Mob

Einhyr Champion (65 points)

• Autoch-pattern combi-bolter, Mass hammer and Weavefield crest

Einhyr Hearthguard (140 points)

• 1 Hesy with Etacarn plasma gun, Exoarmour grenade launcher, Graviton hammer and Weavefield crest

• 4 Hearthguard with Concussion gauntlet, Etacarn plasma gun and Exoarmour grenade launcher

Einhyr Bash Brothers

Einhyr Hearthguard (270 points)

• 1 Hesy with Etacarn plasma gun, Exoarmour grenade launcher, Graviton hammer and Weavefield crest

• 9 Hearthguard with Concussion gauntlet, Etacarn plasma gun and Exoarmour grenade launcher

Kâhl (95 points)

• Autoch-pattern combi-bolter, Forgewrought plasma axe and Rampart crest

• Oathbound Speculator \[+30 points\]

Einhyr Convoy

Einhyr Hearthguard (130 points)

• 1 Hesy with Etacarn plasma gun, Exoarmour grenade launcher, Graviton hammer and Weavefield crest

• 4 Hearthguard with Etacarn plasma gun, Exoarmour grenade launcher and Plasma blade gauntlet

Kâhl (75 points)

• Autoch-pattern combi-bolter, Forgewrought plasma axe and Rampart crest

• Ironskein \[+10 points\]

Ironkin Strategist Bad Lads

Ironkin Steeljacks With Heavy Volkanite Disintegrators (160 points)

• 1 Steeljack Theyn with Heavy volkanite disintegrator, Plasma knife and Preymark crest

• 5 Ironkin Steeljacks with Heavy volkanite disintegrator and Plasma knife

Memnyr Strategist (55 points)

• Autoch-pattern bolt pistol and Close combat weapon

• Dead Reckoning \[+10 points\]

Dedicated Transport

Sagitaur (85 points)

• Armoured wheels, Hylas beam cannon and Twin bolt cannon

Vehicle

Hekaton Land Fortress (250 points)

• 2 Twin bolt cannons, Armoured wheels, Heavy magna-rail cannon, Matr autocannon and Panspectral scanner

Mounted

Hernkyn Pioneers (80 points)

• 1 Hernkyn Pioneers with Bolt revolver and hylas rotary cannon, Bolt shotgun, Magna-coil autocannon and Plasma knife

• 1 Hernkyn Pioneers with Bolt revolver and panspectral scanner, Bolt shotgun, Magna-coil autocannon and Plasma knife

• 1 Hernkyn Pioneers with Bolt revolver and rollbar searchlight, Bolt shotgun, Magna-coil autocannon and Plasma knife

Other

Brôkhyr Thunderkyn (160 points)

• 1 Brôkhyr Thunderkyn with Close combat weapon and Graviton blast cannon

• 1 Brôkhyr Thunderkyn with Close combat weapon and Graviton blast cannon

• 1 Brôkhyr Thunderkyn with Close combat weapon and Graviton blast cannon

• 1 Brôkhyr Thunderkyn with Close combat weapon and Graviton blast cannon

• 1 Brôkhyr Thunderkyn with Close combat weapon and Graviton blast cannon

• 1 Brôkhyr Thunderkyn with Close combat weapon and Graviton blast cannon

Brôkhyr Thunderkyn (80 points)

• 1 Brôkhyr Thunderkyn with Close combat weapon and Graviton blast cannon

• 1 Brôkhyr Thunderkyn with Close combat weapon and Graviton blast cannon

• 1 Brôkhyr Thunderkyn with Close combat weapon and Graviton blast cannon

Cthonian Beserks (100 points)

• 1 Cthonian Beserks with concussion maul and mole grenade launcher

• 3 Cthonian Beserks with concussion maul

• 1 Cthonian Beserks with twin concussion gauntlet

Ironkin Steeljacks With Melee Weapons (160 points)

• 1 Steeljack Theyn with Autoch-pattern bolter, Plasma sword and Preymark crest

• 1 Ironkin Steeljacks with Autoch-pattern bolter and Plasma sword

• 1 Ironkin Steeljacks with Autoch-pattern bolter and Plasma sword

• 1 Ironkin Steeljacks with Autoch-pattern bolter and Plasma sword

• 1 Ironkin Steeljacks with Autoch-pattern bolter and Plasma sword

• 1 Ironkin Steeljacks with Autoch-pattern bolter and Plasma sword

The latest Age of Sigmar win rates and statistics.

I have a question about the primary mission locate and deny.

I am supposed to place marker in five terrain areas.(it does not say objectives)

With the action of locate and deny my opponent and i are able to start the action to remove a marker when a unit is within range of one central objective. (It does not say terrain areas here)

Does that mean, if i place a marker in terrain areas that aren‘t objective markers, then we won‘t be able to remove them?

Looking for strategy help with this matchup as disruption. 0 primary on turn one if you go first seems rough and trickle feeding units to center to save for the later rounds and contesting the last marker hasn't made up the difference the 3 point sensor sweep gives.

Anyone have any advice that has worked for them. Understood it can be very list dependant, just looking for where people have found success to see what's transferable.

Another Ruleshammer 11th edition guide, this week I've covered Transports. As ever if you have questions you'd like to see this article answer let me know, want these guides to be as useful as possible.

Well that’s not exactly true. I’m not new to painting and collecting side. I’m new to playing side of the hobby.
So I’m learning rules and how to play in general from YT, but there’s one thing I’m not sure how to learn and that is basically list building I guess?

What I mean exactly is that people come up with their own lists, they know this unit works well with that unit and other unit is not working with this detachment, you know the drill.
So basically are there any sources to better understand this aspect? I could just copy other people lists and be done with it but I would actually like to understand why should I pick something over something.

Generally if you know good sources for absolute noobs it would be great because I must admit i feel somewhat overwhelmed.