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Tyler Bortel

Tyler Bortel

Competitive Warhammer 40,000 player and Stat Check podcast host; active member of Team USA who has coached at the World Team Championship (2023–2025).

Jul 2, 2026

12:34
Man,
12:34
Windrider is... an army that a lot of people seem very excited about that I just do not get the sauce out of.
12:41
I talk with a fellow Team USA member, Ruben Zhao, who is a bigger name in the field who really, really loves Wind Rider, and man, As soon as you know what that army is doing, it just doesn't have the juice to get through some of these higher durability toughness skews, right? And a lot of the missions that that kind of army wants to play, a lot of the disruption stuff in particular, Disruption into Purge has to run in, take the middle, and hit a button.
13:07
And my God, if you just park your whole fricking army on that center objective, because you know that your opponent can't do the kind of damage to face check you, or God forbid, if they try to face check you and fail that they then get tabled, right? They're never going to hit the button, man.
13:22
And as a result, the rat primaries, the recon and the disruption, they just don't have the juice into purge that I really think that they were trying to have.
13:29
So that strategy didn't work so well.
13:32
The second major strategy that you might consider is try to run and gun and risk it all and make it a coin flip.
17:29
Any thoughts on the disposition or any other lessons from 11th?

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