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Meta Snapshot 4/27/2026

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  Hello fellow 40K enthusiasts! Welcome to my Meta Snapshot article, in which I look at the top three lists from all the GTs with 20 or more players held over the past weekend so we can tell who the top factions were! The results here were collected from 17 events with 20+ players, with a total player base of 635. I think it's fair to say the big story of the weekend was Defilers. Taken as a whole, all the Chaos Marine factions (both the mainline CSMs and the cult factions) had 20 Top 3 finishes, and out of those, 17 lists had Defilers in them. All told they ran 35 Defilers between them, for an average of 1.75 Defilers per list. 2 was the most common number per list, with 2 lists with just 1, and 5 lists with 3. They are all over the Chaos Marine meta-faction like a rash. With that background, I expect it will come as no surprise to learn that the Top Faction of the week is Chaos Space Marines, with a total of 8 Top 3 results, broken down as follows:  Placing Pactbound Zealots...
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Dark Angels Update 4/27/2026 - Corrected

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  Edit: Hello again honored battle brethren! This is an edited and corrected version of this article. Apparently when I was gathering data, I missed a whole event. And, wouldn't you know it, there were 2 lists that went X/1 at that event. So, I'm including them in the corrected article, and updating other parts as appropriate. Sorry for the mistake! Greetings honored battle brethren! Therer was one hell of a drop off of Dark Angels players at GTs between last weekend and the one before. There were 6 less events and about 60% less GT players total last weekend than the weekend before, but over the same period Dark Angels players went from 44 to 13.  I'm inclined to wonder if maybe some of our player base is migrating over to playing Ultramarines, or at least using that rules set. Inner Circle Companion models can stand in for Victrix, so assuming one has a solid collection of the models both armies have in common, swapping over would only require a few strategic purchases. U...
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Meta Snapshot 4/20/2026

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  Hello fellow 40K enthusiasts! We've had another weekend go by, and if you're like me, you like to know which armies are at the top of the pack. I've gathered that data, so I'm here to share it with you. It looks like we have a continuation of the three factions that have been at the top of the meta for weeks now trading positions with each other but collectively not letting anyone else up there. Top Faction this week is Chaos Space Marines, with two 1st Place showings, six (6!) 2nd Place showings, and one 3rd Place showing. Only one of these showings was at an event with over 100 players though. It almost doesn't seem to matter what detachment the CSM list is, because the scoring results are spread out across 5-6 detachments. The uncertainty comes from one of the lists not naming the detachment on BCP and not having any identifiable Enhancements for me to use to figure it out. Based on the unit choices, there's a chance it might be a Soulforged Warpack, but th...
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New Detachments Review: Armored Speartip and Headhunter Task Force

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  Greetings honored battle brethren and fellow 40K enthusiasts! I join you in rejoicing at the generous bounty Games Workshop has bestowed upon us! In their infinite wisdom, the game developers have released two new Space Marine detachments! Thank goodness, because when I got up this morning, I said to myself, "You know what Space Marine players need? More detachments!" Actually, when I was doom scrolling on Facebook this morning, I noticed that someone in the Dark Angels Competitive group mentioned there were two new Space Marine detachments that centered around tanks. My immediate thought was, "Don't we already have the Ironstorm for that?" I was curious and had time to go look. Now I'd like to share my thoughts with you.  Armored Speartip It's not entirely accurate to state that the Armored Speartip is centered around Tanks. It actually centers around Transports, and more to the point around the interactions of Transports and the units that they carry...
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Dark Angels Update 4/20/2026

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  Greetings honored battle brethren! Dark Angels players have battled it out with heretics, xenos, traitors, and misguided jealous lesser Astartes players across the globe over the weekend, and I have the honor of reporting on the lists that did the best. It was a bit of a slower weekend, with about 10 less Dark Angels players than usual. That said, it seems like the drop off of high performing lists is sharper than the drop off in player count, as only three lists went X/1 over the weekend. That said, one of those lists took 3rd place at the biggest event of the weekend, the ALPINE-CON 40K Singles 2026 - Alpine Cup, an event of up to 7 rounds with 202 players held in Graz, Austria. Zugzwang's Niklas Frerichs went 5-1 with a Gladius list and beat out 199 other players for his spot. You can see Niklas' list on BCP, and of course we'll check it out below. Niklas' list Lion Dad - Warlord Azrael Librarian Lieutenant with Combi-weapon Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky mac...
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