You can see a handy visual representation of this below: You may have seen the various ratings Dexefiend has been putting together for our meta reviews – these are tremendously helpful as they let us see trends in faction performance over time – and this time around in particular a few armies have swung hard either up or down in the last 30 days. We’ve got a new way of visualising our data behind the scenes that helps us decide on marginal cases.

Because of that, we’re not flagging all the things we voted on behind the scenes in the list itself – the cases where our team were split on things now manifest by those factions ending up at the top or bottom of tiers.It’s also lets us express which factions are either chomping at the heels of the next tier up or at risk of relegation. This time around we have roughly tried to order the factions within each tier.The only changes for people familiar are: Good news – our process is now almost stable, so if you’ve read through this last time, you don’t need to go through all the details again. Our expectation is that they have a strong chance of landing in Tier 1, and are extremely unlikely to be anywhere below Tier 2, and where that has factored into the list a little bit this time is deciding where marginal cases fall, because we expect Drukhari to be a matchup that players need to be able to win to succeed at the highest level. They’ll get a rating as normal next time around. They’ve been in a very odd place for the last few months thanks to getting their new points costs ahead of their new rules, which has lead to multiple strong builds centred around interactions that (now) no longer exist. Drukhari, in particular, we’ve taken the decision not to rate them in this list. January FAQ – Mission and rule changes.ĭrukhari and the Book of Rust get an asterisk here as these books are new enough that they haven’t really had time to impact where things are sitting.In terms of rules releases, since the last tier list was published Games Workshop has released the following rules: The second and third factors here are somewhat subjective, and we’ll dig into them as we go through the factions later on in the article. Metagame Shifts: Even if a faction’s rules stay the same, shifts in popularity of other armies can impact on its performance if it has strong or weak matchups against them.

Innovation: Players come up with a new angle on a faction that substantially changes its fortunes.

New Rules: Games Workshop releasing new books or rules changes can increase or decrease a faction’s power.

A number of factors can influence faction rankings, mostly coming under three headings:

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