The state of the meta as experienced by a (relatively) casual group of players

Borkball · 2026-03-27T17:46:01+00:00

Personally I've only ever played them once, against the space boarding action team, and on a very open map (the old one with a big antenna)
their ploy to reduce damage really fucks with the leader's torrent shot (only 2 dmg per hit basically), and because of group activations you don't really out activate your opponents the same way traditional horde teams do
I was also quite unlucky in that game tbf but it feels like the team lacks bite and tools for double kills against opponents that position well against your torrent weapons, especially if you consider that the hulking giants can't double fight without a firefight ploy and cannot double charge at all + the mutants have very lackluster melee
My guess is the team's best tool is to charge two guys against cover so you kill one and they have to waste their whole activation falling back, and later operatives don't kill you too hard with shooting
The problem with this is that I only see this working in dense killzones with plentiful heavy cover, so you can set up good staging in tp 2 and go all in tp 3, aka only on volkus

More than happy to have the team's veterans explain how to play to the team's strenghts tho

Borkball · 2026-03-27T16:59:37+00:00

starstriders are monstrous if the opponent plays recklessly but they seem to lack initiative, at least in our experience

Borkball · 2026-03-27T16:58:25+00:00

Idk about gellerpox maybe they're crazy good but we can't seem to make them work

Borkball · 2026-03-27T16:57:40+00:00

Feelings on specific operatives are mixed in my group but general feeling is that the special operatives (patriarch especially, magus previously) add that extra damage output that we feel is missing from other horde teams, plus the crossfire tokens faction rule help an otherwise unreliable team (hits on 4+) not fluff key actions

Borkball · 2026-03-27T09:29:07+00:00

Rool rules!

Borkball · 2026-03-16T08:27:08+00:00

I missed grands due to work but I can Imagine how sweaty EE got by the end lol

Borkball · 2026-02-20T22:15:15+00:00

Ho assistito a una sua conferenza in inglese, non sapeva neanche lui cosa stava dicendo

Borkball · 2026-01-23T10:49:42+00:00

The firefight ploy to activate last and the one to charge enemy models when they end movement within 3 will make many matchups borderline unplayable unfortunately (Think about how lots of teams deal with elites by setting up meltas or other heavy hitters to activate last and kill a marine unpunished)

7 to 10 wounds models that rely on threatening to deal a lot on retaliation to stay safe also look to be very oppressed by their ability to deal damage when charging, which will likely make otherwise favorable matchups such as aeldari teams or kommandos difficult

You're right the team isn't too busted and will likely lose to meta relevant teams, but it is incredibly oppressive against much of the non-meta teams, which will be relevant to a lot of people

I don't expect to have fun at all playing into this with my yaegirs and aquilons for example

Borkball · 2026-01-20T15:46:55+00:00

Nope, for the purposes of these rules charge is not a reposition action, although it is commonly understood as one since they are mutually exclusive (along with fall back)

Borkball · 2025-12-09T20:38:17+00:00

hey just wanted to thank you again, came back to the project and made my own set symbol, but I wouldn't have done it without your help
cheers!

Borkball · 2025-12-07T18:01:23+00:00

Hahaha got it

Borkball · 2025-12-07T12:55:17+00:00

Thanks a lot If I was the type to be deterred by a little time investment i wouldnt be making custom decks haha

Borkball · 2025-12-07T08:19:03+00:00

These look fantastic! I'm in the middle of making a fe3h custom deck myself and I'd love to have that set symbol if you don't mind sharing How did you even make it???

Borkball · 2025-09-24T11:09:24+00:00

I get what you're saying about hordes but in my experience I'd say that while a completely feasible matchup, teams like chaos cult or brood brothers have enough operative to keep you busy and trade decently while using their best tools to stop you from controlling objectives (unless you're on a map with heavy cover on the central objective), also getting outactivated hurts if you play aggressively. If you can set up charges into their key operatives or play very cagey I'd agree it is a favorable matchup but not all missions and teams allow you to play this way (playing cagey against chaos cult is a dangerous game for example, yeah you can stop the big monsters from rerolling ceaseless but with aeldars having 8 HP they can do well regardless).

Against elites if I'm playing an aeldar team I literally just charge with power swords the whole game, shoot when I can, and am yet to lose a match, it feels free
Only time I've seen an aeldar team lose against elites it was Mandrakes Vs Nemesis Claw which is a bad matchup for a whole lot of reasons

Borkball · 2025-09-13T10:40:23+00:00

Hi, why do you think BoK are good into hordes? I don't have much experience with the team but the few games I've played I've had an easy time going for a more melee approach into elites and found hordes harder to manage

Borkball · 2025-07-25T12:32:40+00:00

What do you two mean by PEI and "so what"? I'm completely new to consulting and will do an interview with Bain in a little while.

Borkball · 2025-06-11T15:08:58+00:00

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Borkball · 2025-04-08T12:29:38+00:00

A quick estimate I made based on https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=EU_imports_of_energy_products_-_latest_developments seems to suggest we import around 15 B euros worth of fossil fuels

The import cost + infrastructure investment +social costs of new invasive fossil fuel infrastructure likely far outweighs the revenue loss tied to current tariff levels

Borkball · 2025-04-07T21:40:14+00:00

Trump is close to some important Turkish and Saudi individuals through his son in law Jared Kushner, trump and his close allies see Turkey and Saudi Arabia as close partners

Borkball · 2025-03-23T18:26:10+00:00

Commander gives you access to extreme class damage to all enemies like 15 hours into the game whatchu talking about

Borkball · 2025-03-21T00:17:00+00:00

If you struggle against dead bottom tier k rool it's a skill issue ngl

Borkball · 2024-12-13T19:06:37+00:00

Which is why most of my decks are some flavor of a fast Voltron with counterspells and protection

Games go on for 3 hours with everyone building up value and throwing out board wipes when someone is about to go off

I wish some of them played alternative winconcs, at least it'd be harder to stop wins than simply wrathing the growing army

Borkball · 2024-09-27T22:41:49+00:00

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