The Blood of Kittens RU-vid Channel where we discuss lore, history, tournaments, and tactics in the Warhammer 40k universe. This wargaming tabletop centric channel will often use humor and rants to make for a fun and easy place to discuss everything Games Workshop.
They won't fix it and it's why Warhammer 40k is the most popular tabletop wargame. If you take a average say 10 person player group and they play a very balanced wargame like say Chess the group will quickly stagnate. One or two players will be good at it and occupy the top slots winning most all the games. Most will sort of shift about the middle, and a couple of people will lose a lot. So the game quickly becomes somewhat stagnant and people soon decide connect 4 or some other game is more to their liking. Now we look at 40k as compared to other balanced wargames it is in fact completely unbalance. In fact in 8th and 9th if not for flooding the table with tall line of sight blocking terrain, building extremely vanilla unfluffy hardcore gamers lists, and other ways gamers sort of "balance" competitive play the game played with just random lists is basically just trash. However because of the constantly shifting unbalanced armies you basically have a revolving plastic arms race. This is why in other games nobody cares about 3D printing but 40k players get very upset about it especially if those 3D printed proxies are of top tier units. Because that person skipped paying the sometimes $200 - 700 fee of buy that over powered new super unit. However this means the only way for a player to stay on top regardless of their skill is to constantly buy new armies, and units. People who stick with a faction are basically on a constant roller coast of being good for a minute when a brand new codex drops for them, and then quickly falling behind as more codex's drop. People kind of placate themselves into thinking it's not a terrible game balance wise nowadays by tracking online stats like it's some MMO video game and saying well I might lose every tournament I go to but I'm ranked in the top 10 of <insert currently trash codex army>. IE They are not a bad player but rather play a bad army. Which is ok since 90% of the hobby isn't gaming it's modelling, rolling numbers around your head, and painting. So you get 10 people to play Bolt Action quickly 8 of them will get bored of it and stop within a year. You get 10 people playing 40k 6 people will sort of play, mostly paint, 2 people will play but constantly complain, and 2 people will spend thousands per year trying to win the plastic arms race.
Yeah... these videos pick only one list from each event and it doesn't have to be the 1st place person. If you want to see the 1st place list it is linked in the description of the video. 😀
Hi there, I’m looking to get into the game with an army of about 2 thousand points (chaos space marines) I want to get a very professional paint commission done and stuff but I’ve been wondering since there doesn’t seem to be any sources for competitive lists etc and in general new player resources. How often do armies rotate out and how often are new editions and codex’s released?
Expect your army to get a full update every 3-5 years, but the game is updated every 6 months that can invalidate your army. So if you want to play competitive with a single army I would get at least 3k so you can mix and match units for when things change.
Yeah a bit. As an Aeldari player I think either some slight points nerfs across the board( emphasis on slight) or some movement nerfs would be okay without butchering the faction. And as for nids some points increases for sure. There’s some units that are stupidly cheap for everything you get.
