Hi all
I feel currently the sky is not falling.
There are some horrible, horrible things that your opponent can legally put across the table from you these days.
Not long ago we didn't have:
- Formations
- Knights
- Flyers
- Superheavies
- Flying Monsterous Creatures
- Fortifications
in regular 40K, now we do.
More than ever before an opponent can bring a list that your list simply has no answer to.
I don't think you can simply take you old well thought out 5th edition list and expect it to stand up against these changes.
I think adaptions need to be made.
How can we deal with the above new threats:
- Bring Flyers of our own
- Bring your own Super Heavies
- Bring your own knights
- Bring your own flying monsterous creatures
- Bring your own fortifications
- Bring High AP shooting
- Bring a large volume of shots
- Bring Melta Bombs and haywire
- Bring Melta guns
- Use reserves and alternative deployment to avoid being wiped off the table and keep you opponent guessing.
- Play to the mission
- Use special rules (Battle Focus, Chapter Tactics to you advantage)
Any other ideas as to how to adapt to the changing game welcome.
I seems the game has changed and we all need to be looking to put some filth (also known as powerful combinations) in our old lists to make them viable.
Not everyone will bring a Revenant and if they do the guy that has gone against all advice and taken 3 squads of Raven Guard assault Marines will smash the Revenant into oblivion. These new lists can be beaten.
I think what we have at the moment is a situation where over specializing your list will means there will be lists you can't beat but I also believe you literally cannot build an all commers list with an answer to everything any more.
In short we have to decide on a list build, play our list and adapt our list and repeat. We will most likely never come up with the magic list to beat everyone.
The meta will keep changing, we have the tools and the choices avaliable to change with it without having to go and spend £85 on an imperial Knight if we don't want to.
I for one know I am going back to my old lists and looking not to rebuild them entirely but seek to adapt them to our current ever changing meta.
I have a 1500pts 6 Dreadnought, 9 Drop Pod, counts as Star Phantoms list.......6 Assault Cannons......it has no answer to may lists but it can tear others to peices......I really enjoy playing it.
What are all your thoughts......how do we cope with all this change.