The Greatest Weaknesses of Every 40K Army - The Weakest Abilities of Each Faction in 10th Edition 

Adeptus Mechanicus: Weakness- Games Workshop

Death guard better watch out, I heard there's a rough tech priest with a power washer out there CLEANING CHAOS OUTTA THE CRACKS

My biggest weaknesses is when my opponents dont 100% of the time overcharge their plasma

Chaos Daemons' other army capability is to be able to switch to HH/AoS/Warcry/KT/TOW/etc. whenever they aren't doing so hot in 40k.

"Over reliance on biovores and rippers to auto-complete some secondaries." Even that's an understatement: if mines became unable to score secondaries the 'Nids WR would drop 10-20% overnight. Credit to Auspex for outright stating it though, baller move.

AdMech weakness: Low paying jobs

AdMech slide is missing units listed under the underpowered units section. Its also missing mention of an actual heavy unit similar to the scope of the Astraeus tank. I know immediately you're all thinking "Knights" but those belong to another faction and we have no knight of the cog anymore.

The weakness of every meta army is bad players picking it up thinking it'll get them easy wins

Death Guard's biggest weakness is that we are too perfect.

Death Guard's greatest weakness is Agrax Earthshade shortages

If Aaron from my shop sees this, I’m using this for your grey knights

A comment I never saw myself typing, but: congrats on the placement! You are doing such consistent work for the community. It is nice seeing you getting the recognition that warrents sponsoring!

Unrelated to the video topic but I’d fucking love it if starforged made some Votann style jewellery. Their interlocking filigree would translate so well, as well as the Votann depictions.

Admech: Existing

Imperial knights have 3 big weaknesses. 1) terrain, generally never getting cover is a problem when you only have a 3+ save. 2) model count and actions, not having even 1 model in the fight is a lot of points that is potentially not helping you win the game. 3) close combat, the invun doesnt work in close combat and while they can hit hard, they still fold under dedicated heavy melee units . Had Old One Eye basicslly kill my gallant on his own in combat in one turn

Overall, big knights just dont feel durable enough for their points, no invulvs in melee and a overall save of 3+ really hurts them, so the worst part/weakness of the army is facing melee armies and/or with 4+ invs, since makes them overkill/or not perform well enough. This is the reason Custodes just flat out murders knights in general. - Chaos Knights: Army rules are trash, and most likely will stay even if new detachments are added, they encapsulate the worst parts of every other army rule into a single one. Limited range, limited activations, limited by turns, limited by condition of the enemy unit, and if all planets align... its still a coinflip. Big knights are still underpowered/Overcosted, and in many cases (like Rampager/Lancer) they feel this way BECAUSE the army rules are so bad. Others are plain overcosted still, and others are just awful (Abominant) - Imperial Knights are almost there, but they truly feel designed around having big knights benefit from their bondsman too, so they feel like they are missing something and it will remain that way until they get back bondsman on big ones. - Tyranids: many overcosted units, weak strength in most units, not enough AP. Weakest link on their army is Biovores/Ripper Swarms, and Neurolictors. Deal with those and they wont be able to score, nor deal damage consistently. - Necrons: rely too much in C'tan because most of their units are simply not durable enough after the nerfs (warriors, Lychguard, cryptothralls, reanimator, resurrection orb, etc) left most units super weak, once C'tan are nerfed (and possibly Wraiths too, heck, maybe even Immortals) they will have no staying power at all unless they get Warriors (at the very least) buffed again. Weakest part of their army, everything else that its not C'tan is not very durable, focus those down and limit their scoring. Ignore modifiers eats C'tans.

Right now T'au is not knowing what their points is

the first ever game of W40k I played was against a militarum army from my friend. I played death guard, i rolled so bad that i managed to do 1 wound on the entire game and he healed it

Yeah the BA not having Advance and Charge is why I got my hopes up when the White Scars detachment got revealed to do that but then it was all bikes and speeders. Still we spam Jump Packs for a reason and it's picking up in popularity.

Thousand Sons definitely have the issue where you need to play a very limited roster to make them work, and then that also limits how you play them too. I love my dusty boys, but I wish I could take some anti tank shooting besides Magnus without feels bad.

Guard have exceptionally good melee. Bullgryn as you mentioned, Rough Riders, Straken-Nork Blob combo, Solar-Ogryn as a diluted version of the Strak Nork too. These units can all move 9" due to an order, or get +1 to hit in melee. RRs keep coming back too. At an RTT this weekend I played into Custodes twice and WE once with a melee guard list. Lost narrowly in the first game against the tournament winners Custodes (primarily due to supply drop mission and running out of time), beat WE by a good margin and had a 100-38 win in the final game against Custodes. Guard can absolutely hold their own in melee against the very best melee factions and very often prevail.

Honestly the biggest weakness of space marines is how overvalued the 3+ save is with AoS esque rules.

Imperial Guard: you can't win without finely -tuned lists and Lord Horsey-Boy.

Starforged is pretty great, well done accepting the sponsorship and keep the content coming.

Generally, my biggest weakness is awful dice luck.

I'd love for you to cover bits of Kill Team from time to time.

You mentioned Blood Angels have no access to advance and charge, but you missed both Gabriel Seth and Tycho the Lost. Tycho can be thrown in a Death Company squad and really pack one hell of a punch, and Seth can be paired up with a Sanguinary Priest in an Assault Intercessor Squad and make them pretty damn killy as well.

Mek gunz led by shock attack meks have been the bane of my existence. My buddy runs two units of 3 each and my god. Boatload of high damage high strength high ap shots hitting on 4's and rerolling ones. Even without proper ranged support rules they are monsters.

Adeptus mechanicus Weakness: a stiff breeze Strength: dying

CSM has quite a few bigger units at 10+ wounds but almost none of them preform in their weight class compared to other factions. Abaddon perhaps, but he's hella expensive, dependent on bodyguards and slow as shit while the primarchs for example are moving across the board with ease..

Sacresants make more sense with Junith leading them. Miracle dice can be sacrificed sometimes - like Palatine ability so ones are okay, plus you can use Dialogus, Imagifier and Saintly Exaample to get better results.

Just wanted to give you compliments for the funny thumbnail. :D the DG makes me exhale from the nose a little bit more then normal. 😂

Best PowerPoint I've seen all week

Waiting for the Ork codex to see how they change.

everybody gangsta until Baneblade make it out of deployment zone

For GSC, deep strike doesn't remove the Cult Ambush tokens anymore since the last Rules Commentary stated that deep strike is a 'counts as move' and isn't an actual move

Tyranids: playing anything else than infantry

Eldar dice nerf hit me hard, but luckily there's other ways to plan around it. Some units give fate dice on kills (Wraithlord), or Eldrad gives you an extra 3. Imo Eldrad was always pretty much auto include, but tons of people are sleeping on the Wraithlord. I run infantry heavy, but I do happen to own one aircraft that isn't too hot because of how they work in 10th.

I really hope when the Necron nerfs come, and they are coming, it’s inevitable, they only direct the detachments and maybe the C’Tan, because those are the problems, everything else is basically fine

Finally someone acknowledged how the Guard Army Rule is easily taken away unlike every other faction in the game! Too bad Auspex then claimed that the index is good when we've been bottom tier and 35-40% winrate the entire Edition so far...

Custodies just got a huge weakness added to them.

I was expecting some hilarious weakness for the tau Weakness: Anything that gets in melee

Daemons are also fairly lacking in anti-tank. The only units they have at Strength 10 or higher are either super-expensive Epic Heroes and characters (Be'lakor, Skarbrand, Shalaxi, Bloodthirster), not too reliable (Infernal Enrapturess' single-shot BS3+), or the Soul Grinder and Khornate Daemon Prince, the latter of which barely reaches 10 without the Enhancement, and the former is really, really ugly.

And for Dark angels we have, the whole codex accept Azreal….

Every armies weaknes is my imperial fist army Tor garadon 60 heavy intercessors 6 fire strike srevo turets and 2 devastator squad

As a blood angels player I really think we need a way to generate extra cp, and an advance and charge strategem that can only be used once per turn. If we had those two things, we'd be top in the meta. Extra cp would be mostly used for armor of contempt while the rest for fallback and charge, and red rampage, sometimes the 6" consolidate.

As a DG player im allergic to rolling 3+

The greatest weakness of World Eaters is that GW seems to believe they can overprice them like Chaos Custodes instead of the glass cannons they actually are.

Ngl I kinda love that world eaters got a slots mechanic I like having to adapt to uncertainty that or I'm just a gambling addict

I'm very interested to see what the 8 Chaos Marine Detachments do when they revealed how many would be within the Chaos Marine Codex? I've been interested in the Chaos Marine Index abilities and aesthetics for either Black Legion or a Daemonkin Army with units of Possessed, Cultists, Masters of Possessed, the Dark Commune as a unit that counts as a leader, Chosen, Daemon Engines, etc..painting them as Word Bearers. GW needs to do something for Codex Compliant Marine Chapters since Epic Heroes in this edition determine how strong a chapter is. For example White Scars and Ravenguard basically get nothing except maybe 1 good Epic hero. I feel like GW could give the Chapter examples I just mentioned a 1-2 minor trait bonuses when they take the detachment that was basically built around their specific playstyle (Stormlance and the Vanguard Phobos detachment) I got double screwed this edition because I play Necrons and have been collecting Dark Angels since I bought the Indomitus Box and kept both halves. GW made Necrons way too strong at the very starts of the edition and I had a feeling Reanimators having a 12" aura waa way over the top. I firmly believe the Reanimator would currently have a 6" aura if they started 20th edition with a 6" aura, but 12"created such a bad play experience they cut his aura down to 3", which I assume puts him back on the shelf. Awakened Dynasty is still excellent and is the only detachment that has access to some of the best reactive reanimation tech, especially Protocol of the Undying Legion which allows you to reactively target a unit in your Shooting and Fight phase if that unit just had a model destroyed, plus it gets to use the enhanced version if the unit contains a Leader which changes the standard D3 each unit gets at the end of your Command Phase to a Reanimation wounds using a D3+1. Warriors are another example that kept on receiving several but minor rules changes that eventually forced players to take Immortals instead. They also seem to benefit more from the detachment rule that grant units with Leaders with a +1 to hit on all attacks. Many unit types that should be more effective in a detachment that was supposed to reflect their playstyle, actually do betterin Awakened Dynasty such as Skorpekh Destroyers with a Lord, which gives unit a permanent +1 to hit on top of their own datasheet rules, plus the Protcol of te Hungry Void giving a unit of 6 Skorpekhs with a Destroyer Lord access to a simultaneous +1 to Hit, +1 Str and a bonus -1 ap. You can always give the Destroyer Lord one of the enhancements such as the one that grants the bearers unit with Stealth for the entire Game. I'm still frustrated the 2 Skorpek models wielding the larger two handed Hyper Phase Blade doesn't have its own weapom Characteristics as they were in 9th (slightly higher Str, 1 less attack, -1 AP and a damage characteristic of 3 which you could only have a total of 2vin a max unit of 6. Regarding C'Tan, GW created another mistake by not carrying over a 9th edition rule that restricted Necron players to taking only 1 per detachmen. points wise they were nearly the same as they are now except the Nightbringer cost more than 155.v The Necron and Dark Angel faction books are going to drive me mad if they make any more nerfs when the edition still has several factions still using thier index detachment which places many of them in a position where they will alway have lower win rates until they receive thier new Codex ( 8 Detachments in the upcoming Chaos Marine Codex ) I'm hoping the Chaos Daemons Coex contains s5 detachments, 1 for Chaos Undivided and then 1 for each chaos God so a player caan play a pure Khorne Blood Letter list. Im also very frustrated with the Dark Angels Supplement. They messed up the keywords, especially for non-epic heroe Captains, Chaplins and Librarians character datasheets. For example, all of the Dark Angel Ravenwing datasheets in the actual supplement all have free 5++. You can taake certain units from the Space Marine book such as Outriders and they automatically become Ravenwing because the DA Supplementd , however since GW hasn't presented any special rules or benefits for having the Ravenwing(All that is required is a unit has sthe mounted keyword or any Vehices that can Flyvsuch as the new Storm Speeders), These datasheets are missing the 5++ and its hard to say if this was intentional or not.

BA have 2 character options to add advance and charge

Iron Hands: Lack of chapter specific Dreadnaughts

Saying that CSM havocs are overcosted is crazy. Only 135 pts for 4 lascannons that with either 5+ sustained or lethals? Amazing unit.

The problem with Sacrasants is that they are considerably more expensive than a normal battleline sister (13 pts vs. 10) and are no more difficult to chip away at with simple bolter fire unless they are joined by either a cannoness, palatine or imagifier. You really want to put a cannoness with that unit to allow them to re-roll hits as well as -1 to wound, but you also want the imagifier to increase their save to 2+ halving the failure rate of saving against AP0. Unlike a BSS however, you can't have both. If Sacrasants could have both characters join them, I don't think they'd need any other changes to be a powerful option.

Lethal hits messes up IK so hard it's not even funny. You fight an army that can give lethal hits to all their units like Custodes or new Tau detachment and you're in for a bad time.

Love the thumbnail, great video!

Tbh you should do more partnerships, such a good content deserves the money

Outstanding job, thanks a lot \m/

feels strange seeing rough riders in underpowered, they shredded everything in my chaos knights list when i went against militarum

For the starforged rings, suggest necron silver and green

Hyper informative!

All elves need to invest in their armory T3 really goes against them alot.

It'd be faster to list the only strong aspect of Mechanicus. Our style

I'd say the Adepta Sororitas biggest weakness is Mortal Wounds. We live and die by our armor saves.

To point out, adrax agatone and bladeguard in either gladius or firestorm slap.

For all the Space Marine Bodys i feel like Games Workshop tailored many weapons around deleting 2W 3+Save Bodys, i literly have no other profile where so many points can be deleted so fast.

Very nervous to see how necrons would do without Ctan... (i dont even play necrons)

I have a Grey Knight themed ring from Starforged, if you want the merch its definitely worth it!!

As a custodes player i have no idea how custodes are at 56% lol and I'm scared they are going to get gutted. They went from the worst win rate 40% to as low as 39% and are some how 56%? After the dataslate. I believe it's all because of Guard and warden Spam. So I think if you tone those down bam problem solved AGAIN instead of reroll all wounds for guard just keep it as reroll 1s to Wound.. and maybe give guards 5pts nerf.. point is I'm scared they are going to unnecessarily nerf everything, when alot of units need buffs or reworks and they wont get them. (Bikes, Dreads especially the Achilles/telemon, aquilons, sag. ECT.) The problem is Guards/wardens with characters 100% nothing else at least that's what I believe from my few games I've played. My list focuses on Allarus and I spam axes which suck but look cool.. lol

choose the army you like and will actually love an paint. Then use it and lose almost every game in glory. I played pure chaos berserkers and tanks long time ago, chaos land raider, rhinos. I actually don't ever remember winning lol.

Thanks

Can you do weaknesses of AOS army's

No Pity, No Remorse, No Fear!

When it comes to disposing of any army quickly, never underestimate the humble heavy bolter (or rough equivalent). Those are workhorse weapons. While it won't dispatch a titan, the volume of fire, decent strength stat with AP1 and D2 plus having Sustained Hits 1 (roughly equivalent to +1 to hit) means it lands huge numbers of hits and thanks to that D2 will take out even marines faster than a high S, high AP, multi (often wasted) wound single-shot weapon. Additionally should you find yourself staring down 100+ boyz, gaunts or whatever the humble heavy bolter packs a high enough rate of fire to make a dent. Never underestimate the humble heavy bolter.

The hydra is underpowered? no. You just haven't seen one in-game, or maybe you haven't seen one shooting one of the innumerable units that happen to have the keyword of fly, against which, you get... rerolls to hit, rerolls to wound, wound on a 2+ and do damage 3. It will ABSOLUTELY shrek anything that flys regardless of toughness. Including things like flying Hive tyrants, Mortarion, and Tau battlesuits. I get that most people think FLY means flyers like planes but it actually means the keyword Fly. At last check nearly every army has a core unit they take that has this, or can get this keyword. The hydra is a staple for anyone who knows how what it is & does. For both it's cost and ability to ruin the enemy's day. It is not Underpowered, it's actually perfectly balanced as is. For the love of all that is holy, it does NOT need a boost or a nerf.

Weird how you didn't mention that Thousand Sons are just as limited in unique units as World Eaters have. Marines, Terminators or Tzaangors aren't the most varied choice

When you think your meta army is weak, know that, out in the wild, a random dude with a Nurgle Land Raider and a couple of Havoc teams inside is stomping the opposition

Bad players weakness is crying about armies that are 45-49% win rate because they suck playing but complain about YOUR mid low tier army. Sad.

Dark Angels - New Codex

Both my armies do pretty well against daemons. DG and salamanders just have huge volume of attacks.

So with Death Guard, is it fix soap instead of fix bayonets?

Tyranids' weakness is weakness.

Good on ya for accepting sponsors, Auspex. Though please, while we understand, if you do accept RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS!!!!!!!!! as a sponsor, give it your classic "taking the piss" touch.

Custodies has been wild from OP at the start to insane nerfs making us the worst to now being op again because we got a milk points cut We only have 3 main units to play with as everything else costs too much If they revert points back up then we just become super shit again 😂 even with fnp to devs that simply isn’t what helps us overall There’s a balance somewhere and I don’t think that’s hit custodies with more nerfs but instead to buff our opponents

What is most Armies Weakness? *An Assault 3 Strength 6 take a hike armor save Hellblaster that you can crank up with Weapons of the Dark Age* 😎 (And if you are a mad lad you overcharge it! And put a +1 to wound and Hit buff for shooting and/or a Ignore Cover!)

Iron hands always forgotten🫠

I took a shadow sword to a 1000 point game last week, and it turns out that’s the tyranids main weakness

Imperial Knights underpowered units list should be far greater. Acheron, Preceptor, Magaera/Styrix and Moirax

Could you more stuff on horus heresey miniatures

Only weaknesses I see is artillery, flyers and maybe some tank.

I scrolled to just before black templars, landed on the end of the space wolves content. Looked at the model and thought to myself why the f would anybody want to paint wack red-heads who aren’t grim-dark devoted to the emperor. Space-wolves players please prove me wrong with your best stories, quotes, and deeds because I’d like to think otherwise.

For Adepta Sororitas you want to have ways to manipulate the miracle dice results. When you have the ability to see results of an action ahead of time you can take greater risks knowing that a particular gambit will pay off because the big results will land when and where needed. Litanies of Faith is the most expensive enhancement the army can take for a reason allowing re-rolls of existing dice. Dialogus also convert any miracle dice used on their unit to a 6, great way to dispose of any low results. Don't forget Cherubs as well as several units carry them. Use a 4 (maybe 3) to ensure a multi-melta hits its target then roll another result. Saintly Example can also be overlooked for 10 points. It says D3 *additional* miracle dice when the bearer dies and says nothing about only happening once per game. So that's 2-4 miracle dice, not 1-3 AND you can use the strategem to stand the saint back up and trigger the enhancement again giving potentially 4-8 miracle dice rolls at a cost of 10 points and 1 CP. Luck is still a factor, but if you're setting your army up to take advantage of miracles you should be able to ensure more high results both from volume of dice rolled and re-rolls as well as better value from the low results. I don't consider normal dice variation to be any particular weakness here as the army has ways to mitigate that variance.

Anvil Siege needs to count as remain stationary if moved half or less. Firestorm maybe needs a +1 ap buff if within 6, they seem pretty ok. First company needs full reroll to wound on oath all the time

IRON HANDS MOTTO INTENSIFIES

Custodes biggest weakness- winning locals to get nerfed again.

As a necron player, been playing since index of 8th, I am slightly worried with how heavy handed GW will be with the nerfs to the necrons. So many competitive lists are running 2 to 4 ctan. 4 being more common in hypercrypt because you can get around the ctan's weakest of 6" movement. I really think GW needs to nerf the c'tan heavily but look more at the data sheets for necrons and make the internal balancing better. If canoptekh wraiths get nerfed pretty hard canoptekh court becomes pretty useless. Hypercrypt is as powerful as it is because teleport 4 ctan and they can be in your face turn 2. I hope ctan get nerfed heavily I don't like seeing people playing "necrons" but just trying to be ash ketchum. This is just my opinion ctan need to be nerfed; they are carrying necrons atm.

RAAAAAH FISTS RIGHT BACK WHERE WE BELONG ETERNAL UNDERDOGS WOOOOOOOOO

Magnus the red? Sobody should tell him he is blue

Custodes weakness = none

Best thumbnail 😂