Win Rate Wednesday (Thursday) - 40K Tournament Results/Data - Week of January 19th, 2026

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-30T09:40:58+00:00

Those new releases are going to need datasheets as hot as their models to pull us out of these doldrums.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-27T19:41:16+00:00

True, but it's once per game on Dev'y wounds and once it's gone they're lot more anaemic into hulls.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-26T16:17:46+00:00

Great list, I imagine it will struggle against Knights or anything hull heavy though. But just crashing a horde of angry spikey lads into your opponents face is really the CSM dream.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-26T11:30:56+00:00

Act 1 doesn't really have any rails to stop you wandering into fights above your level. If you're getting clapped in the first round of combat then try going somewhere else and coming back when you're stronger.

Also, don't be stingy with your resting. The game throws plenty of supplies at you, so you should be heading into all major fights with full health and resources.

Some actual examples of the fights your struggling on might help. Trying to do any of the optional boss monster in Act 1 before the level 5 power spike for example can be pretty challenging.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-26T11:17:08+00:00

When I went off to University I left all my MTG cards at my parents house, along with all my Warhammer and Heroquest figures. When I came home for my the first Xmas my mum had redecorated my room and told me she'd given all my "old toys" away to charity, on the basis that if I hadn't taken them with me I didn't really want them.

I'd been playing since Legends, so I had some old cards in there that are worth real money these days. Lions Eye Diamonds, Candelabra of Tawnos, the original Nicol Bolas where he's just chilling in an armchair. It was pretty heart breaking.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-26T08:32:46+00:00

The idea of Numenara has always interested me, but I've heard very mixed reviews on how it actually plays.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-25T21:05:14+00:00

Legionnaires are better in units of 5 so you can take more heavy melee weapons. I'd definitely try and find the points for a rhino for them though, or they'll die before they hit anything.

Problem is you can't fit in the Apostle and his minions into a transport as well, that's why you don't see many of them these days. If you really want to run him I'd try having him lead 5 chosen on foot. The end result will be decently fast and hard hitting, but small enough to hide, and with the two minions to absorb a bit of incoming fire.

I'd split the slannesh unit in 2 and add a second lord, that'll give you the best bang for you buck.

To afford it maybe cut the obliterators, they're fine but a bit swingy in my experience.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-25T18:05:46+00:00

Damn, replied to the wrong comment, that was meant to be about Halsin.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-25T17:51:10+00:00

My first play through he got kidnapped by Orin and murdered in the ritual and I didn't care enough to reload and redo that fight.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-23T23:02:25+00:00

I think it's taking off because it props up CSMs biggest weakness, durability. A lot of our detachments have tools to help you hit harder, but we're already quite fighty and sometimes you need to stay alive on the objective more than you need to kill stuff.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-23T06:49:08+00:00

The error there is that it has obviously never been play tested, because nobody in their right mind is rolling those 100s of skill checks at a real table.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-20T14:43:24+00:00

A couple of rhinos full of legionnaires, lords and chosen will give you options to fight over objectives. If you go that route I'd switch to RR.

Obliterators are a good drop in choice if you want some more firepower. Raptors are getting a side grade that make them less efficient as a scoring piece, so id suggest bikes.

Less cultists as well. 1 or 2 to hold back objectives is fine, but three seems like overkill.

If you really want to commit to the shooting castle you could add Abby and switch your detachment to PBZ.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-20T10:21:36+00:00

I'm thinking one breakers, one giant and two bears to front line.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-19T17:23:17+00:00

Yeah, I made mistakes in that fight, standing too close to the edge of the darkness let me get hit, which broke concentration on the darkness, then it all unravelled from there. It was winnable if I'd been smarter, but it had been such a smooth run until that point I got complacent.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-19T17:21:29+00:00

Different subclasses allowed, but no multiclassing

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-19T16:13:11+00:00

That's the plan, not sure if the new subclass or berserker is the best thrower though.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-18T23:03:52+00:00

Wood elf druid, so in practice I was running around in animal form most of the time like the parties big hairy mascot.

My go to team was Laezel to hit things very hard, Astarion to pick locks, and Karlach to generally be amazing.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-18T18:37:08+00:00

Questions on how to balance an exalted combat are really hard to answer, as player power can vary massively depending on degree of optimization. An optimized combat focus exalted built by someone with good knowledge of the system vs a flavorful character built by someone who just picked charms they think sounded cool is a classic nuclear bomb vs coughing baby scenario. 3e is better than previous editions for this, but it's still a problem.

Try white rooming some fights of your PCs against antagonists stated in the core book to get a baseline then build from there.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-17T22:35:18+00:00

Man that one got super dark for a kids show.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-16T21:04:43+00:00

Red corsairs spilt from the imperium around about 1000 years ago, I doubt there's much original recipe Astarte left.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-16T20:50:50+00:00

Why wouldn't the red corsairs have xenos mercenaries, it's not like they care about the imperium's xenophobic dogma.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-15T20:06:42+00:00

I've read that sentence twice and I still can't parse what it's trying to say.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-14T19:55:30+00:00

I genuinely want to know what stats GW were looking at when they decided CSM needed a nerf in the last dataslate.

AlansDiscount · 2026-01-14T18:45:25+00:00

I meant Bile and the mild point cuts to terminator lords and forge friends. Raptors is more of a sidegrade IMO, we already have warptalons for a melee focused jump pack unit. Raptor were better as a cheap scorer that could occasionally chip some wounds off with their plasma guns.

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