ITC results

[Jack Shrapnel]

interesting to look at the big GT's in North America (apparently there's an Independent Tournament Circuit that I was largely unaware of that keeps player and army rankings!) to see what the meta is shaping out to be on the tourney scene.

all results here:

www.frontlinegaming.org/community/frontline-gamings-independent-tournament-circuit/itc-individual-event-results/

Very interesting to see the shift in the tournament meta over the last six months.

[Jack Shrapnel]

....and very interesting that chaos daemons, once thought to be the uber-army for tournies with the infamous screamer-star and the new daemon factory, haven't cracked the top ten at a North American GT since LVO!  While Tyranids, decried by the interwebs as non-competitive has had SEVEN GT top ten placings including two wins since LVO!

oh interwebs... you amuse me so

[voodoo]

I'd be interested to see what the CSM players brought in their lists. I am however shocked to see so many Imperial Knights in those top 10.

[Frosty the Pirate]

Jul 29, 2014 10:36:20 GMT -5 Jack Shrapnel said:

oh interwebs... you amuse me so

Codex Releases since 6th Ed / Internet Reaction

Necrons / "OMG Cron Air unstoppable!"

Dark Angels / "Bolter Banner Bike Spam Unstoppable!"

Chaos Space Marines / "Bad dex is bad, Heldrake is only saving grace"

Chaos Daemons / "Warpstorm is lolbad, no one will ever play it"

Tau / "OMG Missile Spam So OP"

Eldar / "Meh, they aren't Tau"

Space Marines / "White Scars OP! Everything else crap!"

Inquisition / "Lol Allies are broken now!"

Astra Militarium / "Meh, pretty awful"

Imperial Knights / "Lol, they are really pushing LoW on us"

Tyranids / "Lol, such nerf, they are unplayable!"




Interestingly, Every dex perceived as bad (or as a mono-build dex), is represented in the top tens on that site.

Therefore, I conclude that the Internet can't compute for skilled players and meta-gaming.

[thesanityassassin]

Look at all the Space Marines in the top 15 at BAO....

The Scars list that won was based around a combat command squad as well, which is interesting....I haven't seen those in quite a while. I'm hopefully going to get a rundown from Julio Rodriguez, who finished 5th, but only lost one game (his 1st, against the eventual winner) with a White Scar Rhino Rush list.

[Hizack]

I feel as if some how, we called that? That maybe Nids weren't as bad as the internet said?

[calitom]

Leave it to an Eldar player to undersell the internet reaction to Eldar.


And the metagame is shaping up about where I thought it would with the changes in 7th. I fully expect the new Space Wolves codex to shake it all up again though.

Also Imperial knights are amazing hammer units, I wouldn't sell them short on their ability to carry games as long as they have proper anti air support. Awesome model and good rules, I'm surprised there aren't -more- in the top 10s of the various tournaments.