TOP Armies for October

Okay, the overall meta as I see it.

So Orks are coming off a shooting nerf, but their melee builds did get cheaper.

So I'm expecting Orks to be popular and powerful.

They have a few different builds here, and if we look at the primary nerfs that were received, they were on the Dakkajet, uh, Killa Kans arguably, and then kind of to, uh, at a tertiary level, Tankbustas and Flash Gits.

Now, a lot of stuff that didn't get hit was in, uh, Jack Tides' list, for example, or Matt Bonnet's list that he played at, uh, LGT as well.

And I think a really good list looking forward are gonna be leaning into the Battlewagon or the Bustawagon as they call it, uh, with two units of Tankbustas in there, with just a lot of good stuff immediately after that.

Now we, we saw actually Nazdreg and I think Meganobz also go down, uh, which was kind of crazy because they were already played.

So those I expect to see everywhere as well.

Uh, I think the wagon detachment that gives you the auto advance six on the wagons is really powerful as well.

Combine that with the ability to get plus one to hit, uh, on the Bustawagon means that Tankbustas have a sixteen-inch threat range to touch into terrain and shoot.

So very powerful overall.

And then obviously, we've got the s- new Space Marines codex.

This will be the first weekend coming up now of the new Space Marines being played, and next weekend will be the second where I'm playing.

And I've got a build here from John Lennon.

He's playing at Battle for Salvation with the new codex, and we'll jump into that in a minute.

So I think this is gonna be a huge influx, uh, of Marine players.

Uh, and this already has a really large player base.

So I, I predict it'd probably be around Space Marine variants, around fifty percent of the meta now.

Now, I don't think they'll all be Ultramarines.

I'm playing Ultramarines myself.

However, uh, I think overall, you're probably looking at fifty percent of the meta, and that's mainly because a lot of people are going to be coming off their faction into Space Marines to come and play them.

So expect that to be the flavor of the month for October, I think.

Now, in my opinion, the meta seems to be going more and more, and has been trending this way since the launch of the edition, uh, but especially because of the recent changes to Marines and Orks, but it's been going more into a durable all-in build, right? And I think Take and Hold is gonna be becoming more popular in that way.

In my opinion, from what I've seen, Terminators, wagons, Meganobz, uh, Kastelan Robots, for example, these are all central archetypes which are all being played right at the top.

Now, we are seeing an exception.