Let’s talk through GW’s latest metawatch update and the changes coming to Warhammer 40K…
Metawatch article here – https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/03/09/warhammer-40000-metawatch-reading-the-omens-of-the-arks-of-omen/
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0:00 Intro
0:34 Balance Changes
2:58 Codex Warfare
5:00 Strongest Armies
7:26 Weakest Armies
11:02 Middling Armies
13:15 Closing Thoughts
13:45 Outro
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Probably should have mentioned both Ynnari and World Eaters in the 'top section' – both seem to be roughly around 51-54% with low player numbers (World Eaters due to codex not being out long). Could be potential targets for balance changes I guess, might depend on how well they do over the next month or so…
Warhammer 40k is dead to me.
i will play warhammer age of sigmar.
Quick, let's nerf the terminators that we just boosted, and then we'll put out the new primaris terminators overpowered!
The crying about Codex Warfare is dumb. It takes killing off 8 units of your opponent's army to max. 8 whole units. If you max it, that means you won the game anyways because you've tabled your opponent. The crybaby-fest from melee ABC armies is intense. Iron hands have a garbage faction secondary but no crying about changing it? You can take it with Codex and hope you shoot your opponent off the board, but 9/10 you're not going to max it. While GSC and other armies literally just have to be on the table to max out their 2ndary. Marines have 3 months in the spotlight and it's all "nerf this" "nerf that", but not a month before the change those same people were like "marines are in a bad place" (sanguine guard blood angles aside).
Why is 100% of 40k talk all about how broken the game is and what needs fixing? How long has 9th Ed. or even 40k existed for and yet we can still all say it is broken pay-to-win rubbish. Do better GW
Just play MESBG instead, you'll thank me later
Raven Guard actually scored 5 points in a game, GW will probably be addressing this to give them another nerf. Probably only able to have their army ability once per game and increase it to 36 inches to activate.
That’s how 9th has felt to me. Not my edition. Lol
The best thing GW could do for balancing 40k is fire Rob Cruddace and bring back Andy Chambers.
Buff Custodes. They deserve to be the best, always, by far. Never nerf, always buff.
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Revs dirtbike accelerating down the highway, kenny loggins blaring
pls stop with votann pts nerf.
Here is my hot take on the situation of Space Marines, each chapter is the equivalent of a sub-faction so if the chapter sucks than too bad. Every faction in the game has bad sub-factions that never see play but the fact is even when the bad chapters compete they still get decent win percentages. Compare that to Dalyth tau or pure Wych Cult Drukhari, you start seeing win percentages at 0%.
If they straight up give DW their army of renown back or give the stratagems from it to the DW they will get a lot better.
I have studied the trends, and I predict that GW will nerf hive guard. Again. For some reason.
All Codex warfare needs is that one little tweak to bring dev doct kills to 1VP and it's fixed.
Custodes will definitely need something done to them like rules. but a point raise of any kind will destroy them
No way Guard have a 53% win rate, highest ive seen is 49% even after the new codex.
Making ravenwing and deathwing a cost upgrade with specialist units having the keyword baked into the profiles, like terminators and black knights. The units that are generic among all marine armies would have to pay the tax to gain said keyword. Charging 10pts per model to include a keyword adds up. It still allows other factions to use said units without incurring a penalty.
Maybe can you make a video on what “index” codex’s are? What it was like last time?
I want them to back pedal on the spore mine rule change and make the ability free once per a game.
As a Deathwatch player, there are 3 things that I think are holding us down: Special Issue Amunitions is pretty useles since only a few datasheets have it and overall are not very good themselves. Veterans are overpriced, regardless of gear, there is always another primaris unit that does it better and cheaper. And the most important, overpriced stratagems, most notably Special Issue Loadout (2cp to nerf your weapon to Heavy1), Brotherhood of Veterans (Which was changed in Boarding Actions to 1cp, so there's hope) and Shroud Field which is useless since the Aircraft change. Also, we have no interaction with Leagues of Votann despite being classified as xenos…weird they haven't said anything about it yet.
Dark angels made me take a break from the game. I went down to play after work, placed my ig on the battle field, and removed it all before I even got to move.
how can they nerf gsc when 99.9% of players cant do shit with them?
2 things that i am adamant about:
-The meta was in a really good and definitly better place before Arks dropped
-I dont mind GSCs high win rate since they are a really interesting army to play against, since its not the basic "push two battle lines closer together each round" that usually is 40k. Let them be on the top for longer so that more people buy and play them.
55% is not balanced. There is a MASSIVE gulf between the top and bottom tiers.
I hope the custodes don’t get there stratagems once per game back that was stupid, the only nerf and a little buff they should get is remove the emperors chosen nonsense to change subfaction and replace that with something else, and e small buff to the 1- Ap ability from the Aquilan shield, that is utter useless with all the AP bonuses and the space marine spam who all have AP 2 with doctrines
I feel an easy fix to Iron Hands is to remove the reroll 1s in Dev Doctrine. Still allow them to ignore the penalty for move n shoot with them, but not get the reroll 1s. It's a downgrade, but doesn't drastically drop them, to somewhere near the imperial fists lol.
Idk what I'm more suprised about. GSC being top tier or Harlequins being balanced.
Sick to death of the CONSTANT rules changes making every single rules book irrelevant. The rules books amount to over £100 to play a single army before you've even bought a single miniature and they're immediately defunct. Sort it out GW
dude, this is bananas , Ive never heard such nonsense… explain to me, do we treat ALL SM chapters as one? or not? Because you use both as a idea to nerf SM. If you treat them separatly, nerf IH, but boost Imperial Fists, Ultramarines,etc, If you treat them as one, leave them , dont nerf IH. You cant have both. It is childish like whole GW – "wanna" balance game…
cries in Thousand Sons perpetually being stuck near the bottom
When armies get launched with new codex and models they are seriously buffed, people rush out to buy and then a few months get nerfed proper. Almost sounds like a bizarre GW sales strategy that works for them.
Being a 9th edition imperial fists player is depressing… Just give us something! Please!!
Daemons need tweaks not nerfs…if you cherry pick the codex, daemons are good, but if you play mono-god pretty much each sub faction is no where near as good
Honestly, without completely butchering Custodes again I feel the main issue is that Wardens are allowed 10 man squads which makes the rerolls excessively powerful. If they remove our obsecs again we will go straight back to being way below. Prefer they just limit the squad sizes back down to 5.
This won't happen but I just hope Broadsides regain core, they're all but useless in the current meta.
On one hand I’m glad that the gaurd are winning stuff… on the flip side I am going to a grand tournament today and there are 8 imperial gaurd players coming so I’m scared
The Space Marine Doctrine change was a bad idea. They should have allowed the option of allowing Devastator Doctrine 2 turns just like Tactical and Assault. Also, Stop with the free weapons and wargear…
GW needs to review all Necron units that do 1D6 Attacks and 1D6 Damage. No other 9th Codex has this many Datasheets for example Void Dragon, Doomstalkers, Doomsday Ark, Monolith, Transcendant C'Tan, etc…
Really not excited to have everyone revert to indexes – I was super happy to get a new 9th book last year and am really enjoying playing it. Honestly if they just reset everything I think I'll just give up on keeping up, waiting years for a book that only lasts one year is a miserable existence.
Bring back Tyranids' Hyper Adaptation. It is very fluffy and Nids only need a small push to get a beter average win rate.
They should look into fixing the imperial and chaos knights, to encourage using the larger knights. Almost since their codexi, the smaller ones has been spammed, especially in chaos knights, to the point of the big ones not being present at all.
I find it amusing that gw looked at armywide transhuman on tyranids and went "nope, op", then let the dark angles continue to have it. Don't get me wrong. It was way to strong on tyranids, but I feel armywide transhuman just shouldn't really be a thing
I feel Astra Militarum is in a great position right now, save for one thing I hope gets a buff: CATACHANS AND SERGEANT HARKER ARE WORTHLESS AND THERE IS NO REASON TO TAKE THEM EVER OUTSIDE OF A MEME LIST.
Delete Judgment tokens from Votann please ! These are absolute cheating code….or a least just rerolls not auto wounds
Wow, my white scars aren't even on the list
I’m getting my first 40K army with the intention of playing boarding patrol and eventually regular 40K. Should I not buy a codex? Will it be wasted money in 4 months?
Genestealer Cult having a better WR then Games Workshops beloves Space Marines gives them a stroke I am sure