I think the best thing about Auspex Tactics is his understated style. No shouting, easy to read slides, just interesting information delivered in a measured and low key fashion. Nice.
I agree but his voice is almost too perfect like he's the only person I can't listen to in the background, I have to actually focus and pay attention because this voice just flows so smoothly that if I don't my brain automatically just zones it out into like a soothing background noise and it just relaxes me puts me in the zone or helps me fall asleep but not so great for getting information lol. I mean I get plenty like I said I have to focus it's not something I can just throw on while I paint
Back in 4th edition I witnessed one six-man squad of Imperial Guard Ogryns table an entire 1500 point Tau army when they miraculously made it into melee.
A state of the game moment: In a 43 minute video about play styles over 13 minutes has to be spent taking about space marines. Then he could move on to talking about Adeptus Custodes (bigger space marines) for another 2 to 3 minutes. ...and he can finally move on from Imperial forces at the 21 Minute mark to address Chaos Space Marines.
And Meanwhile the guard doesn't even get any of their subfactions mentioned at all... I just want to play Guard, Games Workshop! Stop trying to force me into playing Space Marines!
@@richmcgee434 well it’s not that hard when you think about it. All marine armies will get brain dead easy and GSC will get “so fucking hard that you can win” I’m just joking btw
Look at what GW did with Stormcast. They're advertised as beginner-friendly and yet they are one of the most difficult armies to play well in the game.
I like this video as an already established player, but I wish there was another video like this oriented for beginners and not as technical, so I could send it to my friends who want to get into the game.
Just wanna say, thanks a ton for making these videos, they are by far the best competitive 40k resource available, with them being always extremely helpful and updated regularly. I'd say they have a higher production value than nearly every other 40k competitive channel, and you keep things straightforward. Keep up the fantastic work
It is a testament to GeeDubs' problems with updating of the rules when a new edition or codex can tank the viability of an army and over power others. I know some of it might be deliberate to sell stuff but I think most of it is difficulty considering all factions when making new rules. Tournaments exacerbate the meta and the meta exacerbates the issue with cookie cutter builds in tournaments. This translates into rules changes and the cycle starts over. I honestly think if the lore of 40K wasn't so strong the game itself would be regarded as very average, at best. Thanks for the vid though. Did enjoy it.
We need a revamp of allied species for Tau as well as maybe an introduction of new ones to the tabletop like the Demiurg or the Nicassar. The Demiurg could be fielded to help with machines like a Techmarine and the Nicassar could be fielded to help in the psychic phase. If they don't want to introduce the Nicassar they could at least revamp the Invocation of the Elements ability the ethereals have.
I like how in this video Auspex comes out and says "Yeah they're not a good army, you take one or two of their sorcerer's and run them in a DG or other chaos army and call it a "Thousand sons" army." In a game becoming ever increasingly mono army builds, Tsons are still stuck playing second fiddle to every other army while they sit on the bench begging to be put in the game coach when in reality they should be their own team, not a backup player for another.....
Problem is that's kind of what they have to do. Rubics have been the butt monkey of Chaos Space Marines for pretty much as long as they've existed, so Thousand Sons really have to rely on their HQs and elites to actually get things done. Problem is, unlike a certain other army that does that *coughcustodescough,* Thousand Sons don't get ObSec for their relevant units, so you're forced to put up with Rubics.
I know this may be easier said than done, but I would love a rough idea of the most to the least commonly played factions in 40k. Maybe even just a poll that viewers vote on? I know it will vary by area and by country etc but I am keen for any kind of rough guide to this. Really enjoyed this video AT!
You could read some of the Goonhammer meta analysis articles. When they do faction stuff, they show the amount of games that went into the statistics. But the data is only from ITC app and tournaments and obviously tailored vs competitive.
You can get a rough idea by looking at the size of Reddit communities for each armies. Last time I checked I think Chaos Knights and Grey Knights are quite low down the list.
According to a really big poll from early 2020, the most played ones are marines, chaos space marines, imperial guard, and death guard. The least played ones are genestealer cults, harlequins, grey knights, and the various incomplete factions.
Your videos are always so helpful and will eventually turn this long time painter into an actual player. Thanks for saving me a ton of time I'd otherwise have to spend combing the internet for info. Keep up the great work 😀
This was extremly helpful for helping decide which army to pick. Thank you for putting in the work to make such detail yet concise video. You have saved me from hours of research and guessing in the dark.
Ha! I was just explaining some of this to a couple of Magic the Gathering players that were asking after they heard about the 40k MTG crossover announcement.
@@ThatWildcard yea there's going to be some 40k MTG cards, my guess is just a secret lair but we don't know the details yet, and yea, it's an abomination that shouldn't exist... and I'm a chaos player, and an MTG player, lol
@@ThatWildcard if Tyranids count as slivers, Drukari are elves, Orks are orcs, or if there's a really interesting commander I'll get it, otherwise I'm out, lol
@@xMANinTAN Yes. Almost every sentence ends like a question. Shit. Why the fuck am I still viewing this? You guys have made me realize how utterly annoying he is
I'm really thankful for AT's simple and easy to understand presentation, because I had a few questions that other pages took way too long to answer. Things like confirming Iron Hands indeed benefited the most from vehicles and weren't just kitbashed marines, or the small differences between chaos space marines. Also, I hadn't heard about the zoats up until this point. I always learn something new with each video.
Just a few quibbles: Space Wolves have +1 to hit on the charge, not wound. Also +1 to hit if we are charged or if we intervene, and heroic intervention on any unit is very strong once you figure out how to use it. And we can't do without guns nearly as well as Blood Angels can. We need guns to focus fire and bait traps. I do like that we have just enough buff stacking to make even 4 or 5 Assault Intercessors pretty nasty but not so much that it's unmanageable.
As a custodes player it’s really not fun playing against space wolves. “I charge my bikes into your intercesors”. “Hold on let me just heroic intervene my whole army” I get +1 attack, +1 to hit exploding 6’s, extra ap oh let me cp that those thunder wolf cav with thunder hammer right there they ignore the -1 to hit now and explode on 5 oh and you see that judicar there you fight last now”. With an army like that honestly who needs to charge when you get just as much value from being charged
It got this way because people were complaining about how chapters other than the Ultrasmurfs weren't being represented properly by the standard codex, despite the fact that most of the chapters are just vanilla with sprinkles. We don't need a supplement for every single first founding chapter and then some, just give the more unique "vanilla with sprinkles" chapters the ability to refund their relevant detachment costs (Outrider for White Scars, Vanguard for Raven Guard for Vanguard Veterans, Spearhead for Iron Hands and Imperial Fists) and give their favored units Objective Secured if you take that chapter as your chapter tactics option in addition to Chapter Tactics. And demote Space Wolves, Blood Angles and Dark Angels to supliments - they're really just "vanilla with sprinkles" but with some specialist units unique to those chapters. The only chapters that really function different enough to need their own entire separate codex are Grey Knights and Deathwatch, since neither of them use standard units or equipment.
@@VestedUTuber And they seriously perpetuate the problem with the game's representaiton of other factions further. want space marine vikings? check. Space marine crusaders? check. Space marine kinda-vampires? check. cyborg space marines? yup. compassionate, Flamethrower lovin' space marines? yeah. Sneaky space marines? yeah. Meanwhile sisters of battle are all the same with different colors and some different strategies.There's no diversity in imperial guard regiments in game despite the PLETHORA of available lore and material, and that's just the empire. The tau could have more flavors, perhaps farsight followers could be aesthetically distinct with some unique rules, or different eldar craftworlds could have different views and strategies to fight the drukhari and stave off Slaanesh.
@@M3RUL3Z Farsight Enclaves actually got their own codex in 5th and 6th edition back to back, first with Codex Supplement: Farsight Enclaves and then the Farsight Enclaves supplement from Warzone: Damocles. The rules included XV-8s counting as troops and having slightly better weapon skill, a fully fleshed out version of The Eight, the introduction of the Fusion Blade as special issue wargear and a few other upgrades that improved their units ability to handle melee. All of this was at the expense of losing some of the more advanced Tau units, like Ghostkeels and variant XV-8s. It's a shame that the Enclaves have been relegated to a Sept keyword with no truly unique rules. I actually made a list for an all-battlesuit "close combat" Tau army back in 6th edition that relied on softening the enemy with close ranged shooting and overwatch before finishing them off by basically just punching them with the battlesuits after they charged in. Burst Cannons, Cyclic Ion Blasters and shield drones were everywhere in the list. Never got to play it, though. 7th edition dropped like a rock on the idea.
@@VestedUTuber Ah yeah that's good, but even then I moreso meant like certain space marine chapters having their own friggin unique units. Like Salamander, Dark Angel captains etc. and all that jazz, with primarchs and other named characters EXCLUSIVE to those legions. i know sisters of battle for example have different orders, but there are so many subsections of space marines from both a rules and aesthetics perspective that it's just mind boggling.. I love the idea of terrifying human infantry cutting through their foes, being expected to trade at a rate better than 1 for 1, but space marines are just so overrepresented I went and bought a box of those beautiful sisters of battle instead last month, my first WH40K box
To be fair, Space Marines have more subfactions than the rest of the other factions combined. Hell, Ultramarines have more Successor Chapters than T'au have planets!
Space Wolves now work very well with their first born units as well, now that they have 2 wounds. So something I'm going to start doing is rushing up with Blood- and Sky Claws along with some jump pack Wolf Guard. With as many power fists as possible. Covering them will be two packs of Primaris hunters (Intercessors). A pack of Aggressors, and some other units I can't remember.
As a guard player my usual strat is an artillery and leman Russ barrage, lashing and power weapon volley followed by a bullgryn charge into a weakened enemy with Scion’s providing distractions on the rear
Dude, the Zoat part. You tricksy tricksy so and so. I was just zoning working on a model in blender in that odd pre-noon office chair haze and about spilled coffee as well myself out of the chair trying to get to the TH-cam remote. I thought GW just went rogue and slipped that in. Thanks for waking me up
I like to play Tau like an actual mech infantry unit. A couple of devilfish loaded down with fire warriors, some battle suits ranging ahead on recon with some sniper drones for support and you have a seriously flexible and formidable force on your hands for small-scale engagements. Larger engagements I prefer to go with a more mobility-focused army like the White Scars or Dark Eldaar.
Raven Guard. Use “Strike From the Shadows” to deep-strike 10 Hellblasters with Assault Plasma Incinerators. If you can get a captain with them (with jump pack to come In with them) and a chaplain with recitation of focus, you can get 30 S7 AP-4 D2 shots hitting on 2s and re-rolling 1s.
I really like the look of the Chaos warrior armies. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. Start a Death Guard army and people think you are jumping on a bandwagon or start a Thousand Sons army and just get your butt kicked. Hmmm.
@@warlordwurzoggwigsplittaht2933 That's cool, too. I actually kind of like the Night Lords lore, as well. With the new codex coming soon for Thousand Sons, I went ahead and ordered a start collecting box, and we'll see what the GK/TS release is going to look like.
My Dad had a Cult army back in 8th, it was entirely undefeated because in practice it was Guard+Genestealers. A frustrating combination, it would seem.
This was me with Dark Eldar, now apparently known as Dhukari. At the time, not recommended for beginners but I didn't care! I was just all in for the theme. Edgy, intergalactic slavers. Who at the time literally could not be assigned as the defender, no matter what mission they played.
Here me out. 20,000 points imperial faction VS. Another(idk, idc) you can either it's 1V1 or points are split down equally between players (you can give another player your leftover points) coin flip, which ever side wins that sets up first and the other team leaves the room once the first team sets up their position is hidden and they leave while the other sets up. Then both leave and reenter when the curtain or whatever hides the other side is removed and then fight.
It would be nice if the section regarding Chaos Daemons was split between the different gods since they are so distinctive in power and playing style. It says some builds are strong, but does it goes for all the gods or just some of them?
This reminds me of my favorite own list. Its basically CSM IW with Obliterators a.e., two War Dog Allies and 9 Flamers, Herold (for +1S and psyker) and two heavy flamers for filling the ranks and often also TS allies... Its a bit trashy, but I basically took my fav chaos units and put them in this list. And it works not that bad. Its casual good.
There's actually nothing preventing you from putting 10 wulfen into a rhino atm since GW didn't care about it for the FAQ or 5/6 into a razorback. it may not be the best. but it's reeeaaally fun. although a landraider might be to pricey to be effective at all.
Really just the movement ones. The others we try... but we fail. Craftworlds are in a really rough spot. Luckily the change to bring it down helps a loooooooooot.
@@nathanieleck1023 also 'Abhor the Witch' got nerfed so our HQs aren't as much of a liability. I just hope we have a complete rework to Aspect Warriors as a whole because just adjusting certain parts of their stats aren't actually fixing them, and when is Warlock going to be an Elite because it really needs it.
I wonder what Sigils CSM units would take, depending on their mark. Nurgle clearly has Sigil of Decay, bolt weapons auto-wound on unmodified hit roll of 6...
Hey! I’m a new player and I’m a little confused on how vehicles and transport works, what vehicles can be used by what armies? I’m trying to make a Khorne chaos daemon army but I don’t know how limits on what can be used work
"Space marines just dont have a true horde style unit to flood the board with bodies" oh give it time, give it time. After all thats one of the few things marines CANT do right now. (inb4 squats suddenly show up and are T3 3+ save models with 1 attack/wound, boltpistol, combat knife, and cost 10ppm for some reason)
I don't know...every army I play tends to do the same thing: Run at the other side and hit then with sharp/blunt objects. Admittedly, it works better with some than others.
Spam the Anti-Magic perk when facing Psykers and Psyker heavy armies (Which is most of the 40k armies excluding Necrons, Dark Eldar, Khorne armies and Tau)
Sad how my Pure Thousand sons and my Imperial guard Infantry are weak, well guess its time to use my brain and not my rules. Ps Zoats are my favourite faction too XD
I managed to outplay a blood angels player with GSC through pure mindgames. His units made everything they touched explode. Nothing is impossible if you have enough chaotic-neutral energy and the blessing of Tzeentch on your side.
I have yet to see a Dark Angels army beat a Blood Angels army since their updates. I would go ahead and throw Blood Angels into that top tier. Dark Angels have a lot more individual parts that make them strong but the Blood Angels are just hyper efficient in exactly the right ways to win 9th ed games so it's less obvious.
i feel like im making a grave financial decision by watching this
You are.
Hahaha yes
You didn’t need a house anyway
😂
A grave financial decision would be buying an army you hate because you didn't know how they played.
I think the best thing about Auspex Tactics is his understated style. No shouting, easy to read slides, just interesting information delivered in a measured and low key fashion. Nice.
a 40K gent
I agree but his voice is almost too perfect like he's the only person I can't listen to in the background, I have to actually focus and pay attention because this voice just flows so smoothly that if I don't my brain automatically just zones it out into like a soothing background noise and it just relaxes me puts me in the zone or helps me fall asleep but not so great for getting information lol. I mean I get plenty like I said I have to focus it's not something I can just throw on while I paint
He talks a bit too slowly sometimes for me so I just play the vid at 1.25 speed hehehe
if you dont fall asleep
I like his narration!
Another cool thing you can do as a Tau player is stick your pinky out as you remove your models from the board, to add some flair.
I personally pull out a middle but that works too
@@chennysstudios8006 that’s if you choose to Mont’ka lmao
That made me laugh a lot 😂
Lololol
This killed me 🤣🤣 In another life we'd be very good mates
Back in 4th edition I witnessed one six-man squad of Imperial Guard Ogryns
table an entire 1500 point Tau army when they miraculously made it into melee.
Laughs in guard
Very interesting and entertaining, I especially liked that the tongue in cheek reference to the fictional factions like Zoats and Tau.
🤣
Wow, you murdered the Tau quicker then a turn one charge.
My poor, poor Tau...
Oh well, friendship ended with the Greater Good. Now Custodes are my friends.
@@VestedUTuber how you feeling now that they are both great 😂
Tau are made up. After all, nobody gets close enough to see them.
Puts T'au Below Zoats
T'au: Am I A joke to you?
I'd assume it's because Tau are just so bad right now, but I'm a little offended of Auspexs' bias :/
at least he mentions Tau, Ynnari didnt even got mentioned at all :D
Yes
Ynarri are three models, they barely exist.
@@SgtDax zoats have one
Includes Zoats, forgets Ynnari. We can all see the writing on the wall, haha
And he didn't do squat with Squats!
I mean Ynnari are Ynarri on GW's page so... we're quite forgotten :')
Heard the same thing about adeptas sororitas in their early years. I am not certain the Ynnari are circling the drain, yet.
🎵 wHo pUt tHe wRiTinG oN thE Wall!!
@@attemptedunkindness3632 Why would they be going down the drain when they got introduced like 3-4 years ago?
Auspex tactics video notifications are like a gentle reminder that life isn’t all bad
Unless you play Craftworlds and Tau... FML
@@ThaneOfBahamut I actually play craftworlds and have recently started Tau, I'm a glutton for punishment
@@depalapili-pala4859 9 broadsides bro ez.
@@genestealerjon3033 actually ordered my first one today!
@@ThaneOfBahamut keep at it. Geedubs couldn't balance their armies with an digital scale but the power imbalance shifts eventually
A state of the game moment: In a 43 minute video about play styles over 13 minutes has to be spent taking about space marines. Then he could move on to talking about Adeptus Custodes (bigger space marines) for another 2 to 3 minutes.
...and he can finally move on from Imperial forces at the 21 Minute mark to address Chaos Space Marines.
Says a lot about the status of 40k when the Space marines part take half of the video...
And Meanwhile the guard doesn't even get any of their subfactions mentioned at all... I just want to play Guard, Games Workshop! Stop trying to force me into playing Space Marines!
At this point seeing space marines in these videos just gets my skipping finger excited
Just be thankful he didn't extend their part further to better differentiate between Primaris and normal Marines...
Says a lot about 40k when everything EXCEPT Imperium shit seems to be "Weak" to "moderate".
40K is now 30k with less resin
I do think maybe GW should put a difficulty rating for each army for new players.
They can't balance the armies worth a damn in the first place. You really trust them to tell new players what's complex and what isn't?
@@richmcgee434 well it’s not that hard when you think about it. All marine armies will get brain dead easy and GSC will get “so fucking hard that you can win”
I’m just joking btw
They’ll just tell you to buy everything. Every faction, every army. Just buy GW product.
The easier way to go is just buy space marines.
Look at what GW did with Stormcast. They're advertised as beginner-friendly and yet they are one of the most difficult armies to play well in the game.
Any weapon that can kill a 3 wound 2+ 4++ termanator easily wipes Tyranids and xenos off the table. How to balance this?
I like how basically half this video is just space marines and their chapters
I like this video as an already established player, but I wish there was another video like this oriented for beginners and not as technical, so I could send it to my friends who want to get into the game.
Yes
Bricky's "Every faction in 40k" video might be what you are looking for ^^
@@OTnvJuna He didn't really tell much specifics about the armies on the tabletop, it was more about the lore.
@@NexterZulu i think he also did a sequel looking specifically at the game elements.
Just wanna say, thanks a ton for making these videos, they are by far the best competitive 40k resource available, with them being always extremely helpful and updated regularly. I'd say they have a higher production value than nearly every other 40k competitive channel, and you keep things straightforward. Keep up the fantastic work
It is a testament to GeeDubs' problems with updating of the rules when a new edition or codex can tank the viability of an army and over power others. I know some of it might be deliberate to sell stuff but I think most of it is difficulty considering all factions when making new rules. Tournaments exacerbate the meta and the meta exacerbates the issue with cookie cutter builds in tournaments. This translates into rules changes and the cycle starts over. I honestly think if the lore of 40K wasn't so strong the game itself would be regarded as very average, at best.
Thanks for the vid though. Did enjoy it.
I just got tabled by a Zoats army. They are very under-rated by AT.
We need a revamp of allied species for Tau as well as maybe an introduction of new ones to the tabletop like the Demiurg or the Nicassar. The Demiurg could be fielded to help with machines like a Techmarine and the Nicassar could be fielded to help in the psychic phase. If they don't want to introduce the Nicassar they could at least revamp the Invocation of the Elements ability the ethereals have.
Man, we need those new codexes badly.
My Catachans are hurting..
Yup! Specially since 10th edition is coming.
As a t’au player I was hoping for a little bit more then “battlesuits”.
to be fair, thats all they can do right now, commanders and triptides.
as someone that loves 40k, I think Auspex was really hoping for a little more than "Battlesuits" as well. Like he said, that codex is crucial.
That's how Nids players have been feeling about hearing "Flyrants" for 5 editions
I like how in this video Auspex comes out and says "Yeah they're not a good army, you take one or two of their sorcerer's and run them in a DG or other chaos army and call it a "Thousand sons" army." In a game becoming ever increasingly mono army builds, Tsons are still stuck playing second fiddle to every other army while they sit on the bench begging to be put in the game coach when in reality they should be their own team, not a backup player for another.....
Problem is that's kind of what they have to do. Rubics have been the butt monkey of Chaos Space Marines for pretty much as long as they've existed, so Thousand Sons really have to rely on their HQs and elites to actually get things done. Problem is, unlike a certain other army that does that *coughcustodescough,* Thousand Sons don't get ObSec for their relevant units, so you're forced to put up with Rubics.
@@VestedUTuber lol
I know this may be easier said than done, but I would love a rough idea of the most to the least commonly played factions in 40k.
Maybe even just a poll that viewers vote on?
I know it will vary by area and by country etc but I am keen for any kind of rough guide to this.
Really enjoyed this video AT!
You could read some of the Goonhammer meta analysis articles. When they do faction stuff, they show the amount of games that went into the statistics. But the data is only from ITC app and tournaments and obviously tailored vs competitive.
You can get a rough idea by looking at the size of Reddit communities for each armies. Last time I checked I think Chaos Knights and Grey Knights are quite low down the list.
According to a really big poll from early 2020, the most played ones are marines, chaos space marines, imperial guard, and death guard.
The least played ones are genestealer cults, harlequins, grey knights, and the various incomplete factions.
Spess Mehreens. Bcuz their enemies DAI
If it helps, i skipped to the 30 minute mark before finding an army i use 😂
Your videos are always so helpful and will eventually turn this long time painter into an actual player. Thanks for saving me a ton of time I'd otherwise have to spend combing the internet for info. Keep up the great work 😀
How anyone can give thumb down to this movie? This incredible amount of work only deserve for our gratitude and respect. Keep up the good work!
This was extremly helpful for helping decide which army to pick. Thank you for putting in the work to make such detail yet concise video. You have saved me from hours of research and guessing in the dark.
Ha! I was just explaining some of this to a couple of Magic the Gathering players that were asking after they heard about the 40k MTG crossover announcement.
Excuse me the WHAT now?!
@@ThatWildcard yea there's going to be some 40k MTG cards, my guess is just a secret lair but we don't know the details yet, and yea, it's an abomination that shouldn't exist... and I'm a chaos player, and an MTG player, lol
@@JohnnyMayHymn thats horrible, where can i buy it
@@ThatWildcard my guess is here, but if it's not a secret lair, it might be in stores or amazon, we don't know details yet: secretlair.wizards.com/
@@ThatWildcard if Tyranids count as slivers, Drukari are elves, Orks are orcs, or if there's a really interesting commander I'll get it, otherwise I'm out, lol
The volume gets lower with every video.
I know right? AT needs to be reminded that this is not an ASMR whispering channel.
@@Beau74 yet
Tbh I’m still waiting for a sentence to end on a downward intonation
@@xMANinTAN Yes. Almost every sentence ends like a question.
Shit. Why the fuck am I still viewing this? You guys have made me realize how utterly annoying he is
this short run thru on each faction was good. Just no Ynnari ya need to sneak in them some how lol.
I'm really thankful for AT's simple and easy to understand presentation, because I had a few questions that other pages took way too long to answer. Things like confirming Iron Hands indeed benefited the most from vehicles and weren't just kitbashed marines, or the small differences between chaos space marines.
Also, I hadn't heard about the zoats up until this point. I always learn something new with each video.
Just a few quibbles: Space Wolves have +1 to hit on the charge, not wound. Also +1 to hit if we are charged or if we intervene, and heroic intervention on any unit is very strong once you figure out how to use it. And we can't do without guns nearly as well as Blood Angels can. We need guns to focus fire and bait traps.
I do like that we have just enough buff stacking to make even 4 or 5 Assault Intercessors pretty nasty but not so much that it's unmanageable.
As a custodes player it’s really not fun playing against space wolves. “I charge my bikes into your intercesors”. “Hold on let me just heroic intervene my whole army” I get +1 attack, +1 to hit exploding 6’s, extra ap oh let me cp that those thunder wolf cav with thunder hammer right there they ignore the -1 to hit now and explode on 5 oh and you see that judicar there you fight last now”. With an army like that honestly who needs to charge when you get just as much value from being charged
@@danielhanson2417 and all your melle DMG is d3
@@danielhanson2417 i play wolves and custodes so it's fun for me no matter what
I absolutely lost it at 39:19
But great and very informative video!
"Every faction"
>One third of the video is about space marines
It's all so tiresome, not Auspex's fault though don't get me wrong.
It got this way because people were complaining about how chapters other than the Ultrasmurfs weren't being represented properly by the standard codex, despite the fact that most of the chapters are just vanilla with sprinkles. We don't need a supplement for every single first founding chapter and then some, just give the more unique "vanilla with sprinkles" chapters the ability to refund their relevant detachment costs (Outrider for White Scars, Vanguard for Raven Guard for Vanguard Veterans, Spearhead for Iron Hands and Imperial Fists) and give their favored units Objective Secured if you take that chapter as your chapter tactics option in addition to Chapter Tactics. And demote Space Wolves, Blood Angles and Dark Angels to supliments - they're really just "vanilla with sprinkles" but with some specialist units unique to those chapters. The only chapters that really function different enough to need their own entire separate codex are Grey Knights and Deathwatch, since neither of them use standard units or equipment.
@@VestedUTuber And they seriously perpetuate the problem with the game's representaiton of other factions further. want space marine vikings? check. Space marine crusaders? check. Space marine kinda-vampires? check. cyborg space marines? yup. compassionate, Flamethrower lovin' space marines? yeah. Sneaky space marines? yeah.
Meanwhile sisters of battle are all the same with different colors and some different strategies.There's no diversity in imperial guard regiments in game despite the PLETHORA of available lore and material, and that's just the empire. The tau could have more flavors, perhaps farsight followers could be aesthetically distinct with some unique rules, or different eldar craftworlds could have different views and strategies to fight the drukhari and stave off Slaanesh.
@@M3RUL3Z
Farsight Enclaves actually got their own codex in 5th and 6th edition back to back, first with Codex Supplement: Farsight Enclaves and then the Farsight Enclaves supplement from Warzone: Damocles. The rules included XV-8s counting as troops and having slightly better weapon skill, a fully fleshed out version of The Eight, the introduction of the Fusion Blade as special issue wargear and a few other upgrades that improved their units ability to handle melee. All of this was at the expense of losing some of the more advanced Tau units, like Ghostkeels and variant XV-8s. It's a shame that the Enclaves have been relegated to a Sept keyword with no truly unique rules. I actually made a list for an all-battlesuit "close combat" Tau army back in 6th edition that relied on softening the enemy with close ranged shooting and overwatch before finishing them off by basically just punching them with the battlesuits after they charged in. Burst Cannons, Cyclic Ion Blasters and shield drones were everywhere in the list. Never got to play it, though. 7th edition dropped like a rock on the idea.
@@VestedUTuber Ah yeah that's good, but even then I moreso meant like certain space marine chapters having their own friggin unique units. Like Salamander, Dark Angel captains etc. and all that jazz, with primarchs and other named characters EXCLUSIVE to those legions. i know sisters of battle for example have different orders, but there are so many subsections of space marines from both a rules and aesthetics perspective that it's just mind boggling..
I love the idea of terrifying human infantry cutting through their foes, being expected to trade at a rate better than 1 for 1, but space marines are just so overrepresented I went and bought a box of those beautiful sisters of battle instead last month, my first WH40K box
To be fair, Space Marines have more subfactions than the rest of the other factions combined. Hell, Ultramarines have more Successor Chapters than T'au have planets!
A castled ork army with massive dakka is very strong..... but I feel dirty doing it
You never win when playing orks, your opponent loses.
@@ThatWildcard always!
You always win as Orks, because you’re always having fun
I just got my warboss yesterday, funny how that works out
I'm just waiting for the day for the Craftworld Aspect Warrior comeback.
You are one of the greatest Warhammer 40K channels on TH-cam!
Space Wolves now work very well with their first born units as well, now that they have 2 wounds. So something I'm going to start doing is rushing up with Blood- and Sky Claws along with some jump pack Wolf Guard. With as many power fists as possible. Covering them will be two packs of Primaris hunters (Intercessors). A pack of Aggressors, and some other units I can't remember.
As a guard player my usual strat is an artillery and leman Russ barrage, lashing and power weapon volley followed by a bullgryn charge into a weakened enemy with Scion’s providing distractions on the rear
This...This is amazing content. I am constantly impressed by this platform.
Finally I've been waiting for a video about faction play style. Thankyoy
It's kinda depressing to see all the Xeno's being weak
Because GW doesn't like being creative
skeletons
As someone who's new to the hobby and thinking about what army I want, this was a really helpful video.
Dude, the Zoat part. You tricksy tricksy so and so. I was just zoning working on a model in blender in that odd pre-noon office chair haze and about spilled coffee as well myself out of the chair trying to get to the TH-cam remote. I thought GW just went rogue and slipped that in. Thanks for waking me up
Zoats are the kind of faction to be leaked on the back of a venezuelian corn flakes box.
listening to Aspex while painting...wtf, Zoat faction!?
Yup. Zoats are back. Or, well... _a_ Zoat is back, anyway.
I like to play Tau like an actual mech infantry unit. A couple of devilfish loaded down with fire warriors, some battle suits ranging ahead on recon with some sniper drones for support and you have a seriously flexible and formidable force on your hands for small-scale engagements.
Larger engagements I prefer to go with a more mobility-focused army like the White Scars or Dark Eldaar.
It's interesting watching this a year later and seeing how the "current strength" scores have changed.
The fact that half of this video the imperium is extremely irritating to me.
lol yep "fighting a losing war my ass"
@@darko-man8549 I heard someone call the Imperium "underdogs" the other day 🙃
@@molybdenumrose that’s apparently their “Lore” but....I see it less and less in the Lore and TT 🤣😂😅
@@darko-man8549 tfw the first win Chaos has gotten in years gives the Imperium 60 new models and a primarch.
@@molybdenumrose GW: "Perfectly Imbalanced"
Yes! This type of video is exactly what I’ve been looking for!
WE NEED MOAR DAKKA!!
Raven Guard. Use “Strike From the Shadows” to deep-strike 10 Hellblasters with Assault Plasma Incinerators. If you can get a captain with them (with jump pack to come In with them) and a chaplain with recitation of focus, you can get 30 S7 AP-4 D2 shots hitting on 2s and re-rolling 1s.
imagine being a tau commander and 10 hell blasters just land in front of you with cannons that they can fit in
The Imperium bloat is real.
I really like the look of the Chaos warrior armies. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. Start a Death Guard army and people think you are jumping on a bandwagon or start a Thousand Sons army and just get your butt kicked. Hmmm.
Play undivided and you can access plague marines and rubric marines as of right now. As well as the demon troop choices.
@@warlordwurzoggwigsplittaht2933 That's cool, too. I actually kind of like the Night Lords lore, as well. With the new codex coming soon for Thousand Sons, I went ahead and ordered a start collecting box, and we'll see what the GK/TS release is going to look like.
Orks be like "fight iz fight. we fight we win. We win we fight. Orks are never beatn"
"Preach it, weird boy!" ~Gobstoppa da Evalastin'
Yay thanks for mentioning the dread mob! There is more to orks than spamming boyz!
I look up anything about this game and you've made content. SSS tier.
My Dad had a Cult army back in 8th, it was entirely undefeated because in practice it was Guard+Genestealers. A frustrating combination, it would seem.
I just started chaos knights and I'm still a little confused about how households and other things stack together, can someone help?
The zoats are a bit limited, but that 2+ army wide invul save does help them out a lot.
This is a video that could use a revisit.
I'm starting a Harelquin army and I'm super hyped for em. I know I am pretty new to the tabletop, but they just seem super cool n' fun!
Watch tabletop titans batreps, one of the guys has a real nice clown army and would be a good example of what to buy and how to play.
This was me with Dark Eldar, now apparently known as Dhukari.
At the time, not recommended for beginners but I didn't care! I was just all in for the theme. Edgy, intergalactic slavers. Who at the time literally could not be assigned as the defender, no matter what mission they played.
Please make an in-depth zoat army video I’m so curious now
Can you have more than 1 chapter of space marines in your army? Like salamanders and Raven guard at the same time for example
Thanks man
I appreciate all you do I'm going to support you on Patreon
Really informative with a good breakdown.
Glad to see Ultramarines have a good defining tactic around gunline whilst still being flexible
Here me out. 20,000 points imperial faction VS. Another(idk, idc) you can either it's 1V1 or points are split down equally between players (you can give another player your leftover points) coin flip, which ever side wins that sets up first and the other team leaves the room once the first team sets up their position is hidden and they leave while the other sets up. Then both leave and reenter when the curtain or whatever hides the other side is removed and then fight.
Audio levels are now bang on, my dulcet toned friend.
Humans aren’t over represented in 40k
30 minutes in with 12 to go
And now we get to our first xenos
I was about to say something but I can't because you're right.
I'm surprised you forgot about the Guardian Drones and the Spindle Drones, their faction has 2 units!
Awesome work Auspex! Zoats though, hahaha. 🧙🏻♂️
Auspex's voice is really soothing ngl
Zoats made me laugh. Thanks for that
It would be nice if the section regarding Chaos Daemons was split between the different gods since they are so distinctive in power and playing style. It says some builds are strong, but does it goes for all the gods or just some of them?
This reminds me of my favorite own list. Its basically CSM IW with Obliterators a.e., two War Dog Allies and 9 Flamers, Herold (for +1S and psyker) and two heavy flamers for filling the ranks and often also TS allies... Its a bit trashy, but I basically took my fav chaos units and put them in this list. And it works not that bad. Its casual good.
Alpha Legion can't make vehicles auto explode, AT. You can only improve the roll vastly, but nothing automatic to it.
There's actually nothing preventing you from putting 10 wulfen into a rhino atm since GW didn't care about it for the FAQ or 5/6 into a razorback. it may not be the best. but it's reeeaaally fun. although a landraider might be to pricey to be effective at all.
You should convert one to look like a dogcatchers van with a big cage on the back
Did I miss the bit where playstyle is discussed? Seems to just refer to list composition?
The fully melee admech army is insane tbh
Loved the video. Well done sir.
Top content mate. Thx a lot for this overview :)
I’m just starting to play this, thaks, this is very useful.
Hey Asupex! Any chance we could get another video like this but updated? Saaay on the anniversary of this one? =D
Agree with this one. Would watch with new updates :)
Glad Craftworld Eldar at least can maximise many of the secondaries because otherwise we would be very screwed.
Really just the movement ones. The others we try... but we fail. Craftworlds are in a really rough spot. Luckily the change to bring it down helps a loooooooooot.
@@nathanieleck1023 also 'Abhor the Witch' got nerfed so our HQs aren't as much of a liability.
I just hope we have a complete rework to Aspect Warriors as a whole because just adjusting certain parts of their stats aren't actually fixing them, and when is Warlock going to be an Elite because it really needs it.
By current rules, can an Inquisitor be the commander in other army's lists? (Writing up an RP list for a friend, but my books are all 4th ed.)
Try using wahapedia for... modern rules. Also yes, you can bring an inquisitor in any detachment without breaking detachment rules.
@@nathanieleck1023 Once again, Marbo, The Inquisition, and thus The Imperium, is in your debt.
I wonder what Sigils CSM units would take, depending on their mark.
Nurgle clearly has Sigil of Decay, bolt weapons auto-wound on unmodified hit roll of 6...
Hey! I’m a new player and I’m a little confused on how vehicles and transport works, what vehicles can be used by what armies? I’m trying to make a Khorne chaos daemon army but I don’t know how limits on what can be used work
I'd never even heard of Zoats until this video
Cool video! I’ll send this to my friend who wants to get into the game. Oh and I think I’m supposed to say “first”?
Nice
Zoats, nice. Limited unit pool indeed.
I love nids and tau. Makes me feel better about having necrons
Raven Guard got mentioned thank god
"Space marines just dont have a true horde style unit to flood the board with bodies" oh give it time, give it time. After all thats one of the few things marines CANT do right now.
(inb4 squats suddenly show up and are T3 3+ save models with 1 attack/wound, boltpistol, combat knife, and cost 10ppm for some reason)
GIVE ME THE SQUATS
I must admit, I had no idea thst Zoats excisted. But now I am interested.
In falling asleep. When do they get to the Guard?
I don't know...every army I play tends to do the same thing: Run at the other side and hit then with sharp/blunt objects. Admittedly, it works better with some than others.
Nice vid. Any tips and tricks for chaos daemons. (I have a khorne focus so i know the tips and tricks is mainly - get the CHARGE).
Spam the Anti-Magic perk when facing Psykers and Psyker heavy armies (Which is most of the 40k armies excluding Necrons, Dark Eldar, Khorne armies and Tau)
My friend just got me one as a gift. Looking to employ it in a DA Army with Ravenwing.
Sad how my Pure Thousand sons and my Imperial guard Infantry are weak, well guess its time to use my brain and not my rules.
Ps Zoats are my favourite faction too XD
I managed to outplay a blood angels player with GSC through pure mindgames. His units made everything they touched explode. Nothing is impossible if you have enough chaotic-neutral energy and the blessing of Tzeentch on your side.
@@ThatWildcard EXACTLY Use your brain, not your rules but most of all pray to Tzeentch for his blessing.
Titsnitch... :D
what was the purpose of adding the Zoats?
Saving the best for last, obviously. :P
I have yet to see a Dark Angels army beat a Blood Angels army since their updates. I would go ahead and throw Blood Angels into that top tier. Dark Angels have a lot more individual parts that make them strong but the Blood Angels are just hyper efficient in exactly the right ways to win 9th ed games so it's less obvious.