
Codex: Drukhari released on March 27th, meaning that our first events with the new book started happening two weeks later, on April 10th. Rob: Let’s start by talking about the results. We’re going to dig deep into past examples of dominant factions to answer the question “can the meta adapt?” And we’ll be talking a bit about Dark Angels and what’s on the horizon. We’re going to talk about how dominant the army is, what kind of changes we’ve seen as a result, and whether it’s possible for things to improve without an FAQ, rules change, or new Codex release to shift things. Today we’re going to primarily cover the meta impact of Codex: Drukhari. Look, even if you hadn’t seen my preview notes in last week’s round table, you should have seen this coming. We’re also joined by Peter “The Falcon” Colosimo of the wonderful site, who is helping us out with some analysis around what meta adjustments look like.Īs vaccination programs have rolled out across the United States and Europe, we’re now seeing an explosion of new events and tournaments, giving us a ton of new data to look at, both in the ITC Battle app and form Best Coast Pairings.
The ITC Battles App, a brilliant app for tracking games both in and out of tournaments and a great source of casual game data worldwide.
Best Coast Pairings / Down Under Pairings apps, the premier way to run, manage, and track results for tournaments. The data in this month’s study comes from: Thanks to the wonderful efforts of tournament organizers and app developers around the world, we have access to what is essentially every meaningful piece of data around competitive games of 40k. And today we’re going to be examining their impact and what it means for competitive play by digging deep into the stats behind their ascendancy and looking at historical comparisons. The short version is that Drukhari are really, really good – potentially meta-warpingly good. You may have seen our round table last week discussing the new Drukhari book, or Wings’ comments on the book in this week’s Competitive Innovations in 9th article or his editorial on what needs to be done. Welcome back, dear reader! It’s been a little over a month since our last update and while the Games Workshop release schedule has certainly slowed, we’ve got some massive changes to talk about.