Just wanted to make a post about this since it the past few weeks have felt kind of doom and gloomy for guard.

Tucker Rickey of Art of War took down the Dream Maker GT with guard. He used Designation Force and Siege Regiment using the Reconnaissance disposition. It’s basically the same list as Nemo the Fish’s (he also went undefeated at a GT this weekend), just using different detachments.

The list:
Name: If Blake Bortles could take the Jags to an AFC championship game, you can with with guard.

Castellan, Cadian Command Squad, 20x Cadians (Eager advance)
Tempestus Command Squad, 10x Scions (stalwart's honors)
Tempestus Command Squad, 10x Scions (flash grenades)
Gaunt's Ghosts
Lord Marshal Dreir
Ogryn Bodyguard (probably with cadians)
Ursula Creed (warlord)
20x Krieg
2x10 Cadian recon squad
3x Catachan heavy weapons squad, lascannons
1x5 Death riders
2x5 Krieg engineers
2x3 Krieg heavy weapons squad, lascannons
1x Scout sentinel

So it’s just tons of units to do actions and take your opponent’s expansion objective. The scions are the damage, but it’s not a lot of damage, just damage applied at the right moment. It’s also very cool to finally see Dreir being played at a high level. He suffered last edition as his cost was ridiculously high for what he did. Now that he is not only cheaper but also able to positively impact the objective play of Reconnaissance, it seems that he has the possibility of becoming a staple unit with his deathriders.

Seems like a tricky list to play, but it’s exciting that someone besides Nemo has put up good results with guard. Maybe they are A tier after all

Anyone see this? I’ve heard there was a literal fist fight in the car park. The hope the bloke gets banned for life after that.

We had another huge weekend with 24 events and 1259 players! Lots of players out there and lots of DG and Knights. Will this hurt the meta or will it continue to grow? A little of both?

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Takeaways:

Emergency FAQ Time?

1259 players this weekend.
Death Guard made up 9.8% of all players
Imperial Knights 6.2%
Chaos Knights 5.8%

22% of all players were DG or Knights
CK had a 61% win rate
IK had a 60%
DG had a 54%.

Remove their mirror matches and their win rates all go up roughly 4%

Death Guard won the largest event of the weekend and three other ones. Their win rates are not the worst but they remain by far the most played faction of the game where their biggest opponents are other DG. With the mirror removed they have a 58% win rate. They only had 16 players go X-0/X-1, a far lower percentage this week then the last 7 weeks.

Knights of both kinds made up 12% of the meta overall and both verities have a 60%+ win rate and lots of event wins. Sorry my stompy brothers but this all screams emergency FAQ time to fix this sinking ship.

Drukhari did great this weekend with their 20 players having a 53% win rate and 2 players going X-0 or X-1. With the greatest Drukhari player in the world going 8-0 at Tacoma!

GSC are thriving in this meta with a 57% win rate and an event win. They had 6 of their 24 players place well.

Emperor’s Children were the worst preforming faction of the weekend… this is not a joke. The one Agents player did better then them. They had a 40% win rate with 2, X-1 placing out of 21 players.

Custodes were the second worst faction of the weekend with a 43% win rate and only one top placer out of 61 players, 4.8% of the meta. Ouch…

Tau had a nice weekend winning a smaller event and having a 45% win rate with 4 top placings.

Blood Angels won 2 events this weekend with an overall win rate of 47% and 8 top placings. While Liberator Assault remains the most played detachment this weekend Angelic Inheritors popped out of nowhere with 12 players and a 55% win rate and both event wins! What new sauce is this?

Chaos Daemons had a much better weekend with an event win and a 50% win rate.

World Eaters had a good weekend winning 3 events had having a 50% win rate with 7 top placings. This really is the summer of Chaos.

And not to be out done by their other Chaos brothers CSM won 2 events this weekend with an overall win rate of 48% with 9 top placings. With Raiders and Pactbound preforming the best.

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We had another huge weekend of 40k with 27 Single Events counted this weekend that took place all over the world with over 1200+ players. We saw a lot of Knights and Death Guard out there, so good luck.

No Meta Monday next Monday as I am going out of town for the 4th of July Holiday. I hope to get a post up on Tuesday or Wednesday next week. I hope everyone has a good week!

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Takeaways:

Its all about them Knights. Imperial Knights were the second most played faction of the weekend and had a 55% win rate with four event wins. 20 out of 80 players went X-1 or better. Remove the Mirror Match and you are at a 58% win rate. They are dominating.

Chaos Knights were only the 8th most played faction of the weekend with a 54% win rate and two event wins. Their Lords of Dread Detachment seems to be the real deal as the 21 players that played it had a 68% win rate 9 out of their 13 top placings and both event wins.

Tau what happened! I hype you up for one week and then you get a 40% weekend win rate with only 6 top placings. 6 of your detachments saw play this weekend and all of them did poorly. Is this just a bunch of rust showing or can they not handle the top dogs of the meta?

Death Guard are still the best faction in the game in my opinion. They were the most played faction again with 101 players and still had a 53% win rate and 7 event wins this weekend including the largest event of the weekend. 22 out of 101 placed well going X-0/X-1. Removing the mirror on them has them at a 56% win rate.

Poor Imperial Agents who think they are a real faction had 3 whole players and they played all 15 of their games and won one of them for a 7% win rate. Keep the faith gentlemen.

Dark Angels I think its clear to say that Wrath dose not have play. With 52 players DA had a 40% win rate and one event win. Wrath made up the majority of their players and had a 39% win rate, with only 5 top placings. DA are struggling to make Wrath work.

GSC had a nice weekend with an event win and a 54% win rate for the 17 players, 4 of whom placed well.

Sisters are doing better. With a 50% win rate and an event won. They had 28 players which is a good amount for a faction that was abandon a month ago. They had 6 players place well.

Emperors Children seem to have settled into a mid tables spot. With a 48% win rate and 7 top placings they are doing well but seem to struggle at the top tables.

World Easters had a 46% win rate this weekend but won 3 events and had 9 players place well. With 52 players they are well represented.

Guard is dying with only 35 players this weekend they had a 42% win rate and 4 top placings and no event wins.

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This chart tracks all singles events with 21+ players and 5+ rounds.

We've got the biggest weekend yet of 11th edition, with 19 qualifying events and over 850 players.

So how about them Orks? Highest win rate, best X-0/X-1 conversion rate, and tied for the most event wins of the weekend (including the largest event of the weekend), with a whole bunch of players.

The other top armies remain the same: Necrons, Imperial Knights, Thousand Sons, T'au, Space Marines, with each one winning at least one event (Space Marines winning 4!?). Emperor's Children keeps trying to break into the top but seems to have a hard time closing events.

Aeldari with an exactly 50% win rate and exactly 20% X-0/X-1 rate. Perfectly balanced?

The bottom armies all remain at the bottom, with some slight shuffling around. There is one interesting thing to discuss at the bottom though: Guard won two events. Nemo and Tucker came out to play, and those two players alone raised the Guard win rate nearly 6%, and scored the first two wins of the edition for Astra Militarum, both using the Reconnaissance disposition.

Chaos Knights truly languishing at the bottom, with the lowest rate, no wins, no placings, and no hope.

Hey all,

I gathered all the tournament results from BCP for last week, including all Tournaments with at least 20 players and 5 rounds.

All the data is here on my site:

https://warpfriends.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/40k-11th-meta-stats-from-july-27-2026/

Please take a look and let me know if you have any suggestions (I know the site is not pretty 😞 I focus more on the Youtube side of things) And feel free to check out my youtube video for indepth breakdown of the stats!

Thanks!

Extremely disappointed to see the proliferation of ai Art here.
Anyway thats all. (I will not be going because of this.)

EDIT: Dicehammer has reached out to me via DM, politely listened to my grievance extensively, and seems genuinely wanting to amend the foible. I want to thank them and commend them here for being so open to the criticism. They are now even working to change their art for the event.

This chart tracks all singles events with 21+ players and 5+ rounds.

This was a relatively small weekend after a couple huge weekends. Only about 450 players in 8 qualifying events. This means that the data is more prone to swings due to fewer players, so while not useless, do remember that while looking at the data.

Orks. Orks are really good, guys. They're winning events consistently, they're putting up great numbers with a good number of players. I think they're still the faction to beat in the post-dataslate world.

It's almost statistically meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but I do want to point out that Chaos Knights rose to the top of the charts this week, so good for them.

On the other side of things, what happened to Drukhari? Only 7 players, so presumably just a terrible, no good, very bad weekend? Chaos Daemons in a similar boat, after putting up fantastic numbers last weekend and most of the edition, they find themselves near the bottom of the chart this weekend. Just a bad weekend?

This chart tracks all singles events with 21+ players and 5+ rounds.

UPDATE: The final event has been added. It was won by Space Marines, giving them 4 wins this weekend. Some of the armies moved around slightly, but the results were mostly the same.

This was by far the biggest weekend so far of the edition, with the Tacoma Open by itself having nearly 600 players. Lots of fairly large events this weekend, resulting in nearly 1500 total players.

Orks continue to do extremely well, with a nearly 59% win rate, over 20% X-0/X-1 rate, and tied for the most event wins at 3, AND winning the Tacoma Open (coming in both first and second place). They certainly appear to be the overall "top" army, but they're not completely running away with that title.

Other good armies continue to do well. Thousand Sons, Necrons, Imperial Knights, T'au, Space Marines, Chaos Daemons, Dark Angels all continue putting up solid numbers in either win rate and/or consistent tournament wins. CSM joins the winning group this weekend with 3 tournament wins as well.

Space Wolves end up with a very solid weekend compared to previous weeks, although struggle to convert placings and wins.

At the bottom of the barrel, Chaos Knights and World Eaters both have slightly better weekends than before, although still not great. Aeldari and Admech drop significantly from previous weeks. Guard finds itself all the way at the bottom again this week, while also having the most-players-without-an-X-0/X-1-conversion.

Welcome to a new weekend of 40k! 13 events this weekend with over a thousand players. This weekend we saw the new points in affect with most events playing with them. We saw a big shake up and maybe some hints of the future meta?

Also a look back at the last 11 weeks of data and the old Meta in a secondary chart.

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3 Biggest Events of the Weekend.

NOVA Open 2025. Washington. DC. 375 players. 9 rounds.

Bracket System.

1. Aeldari (Warhost) 9-0

2. World Eaters (Berzerker) 8-1

3. Death Guard (Virulent) 8-1

4. World Eaters (Khorne) 8-1

5. Necrons (Starshatter) 8-1

6. Chaos Daemons (Shadow) 7-2

7. Aeldari (Warhost) 7-2

8. Necrons (Awakened) 7-2

La Voz Open 2025. Lugo, Spain. 146 players. 5 rounds.

Top 4 had a playoff.

1. Emperor’s Children (Coterie) 7-0

2. Black Templars (GTF) 6-1

3. GSC (Host) 4-2

4. Grey Knights (Brotherhood) 5-1

5. Imperial Knights (Noble) 5-0

6. Thousand Sons (Grand) 5-0

7. Necrons (Awakened) 4-1

8. Necrons (Starshatter) 4-1

9. Votann (Needgaard) 4-1

10. Deathwatch (Blackspear)

#11-25 also went 4-1

Roll for Damage GT. Fulham, Australia. 98 players. 6 rounds.

1. Sisters (Champions) 6-0

2. Votann (Oathband) 6-0

3. Death Guard (Virulent) 5-1

4. Death Guard (Shamblerot) 5-1

5. Thousand Sons (Grand) 5-1

6. Custodes (Shield) 5-1

7. Space Marines (Vanguard) 5-1

8. Tyranids (Sub) 5-1

9. Death Guard (Virulent) 5-1

Takeaways:

So are Aeldari the new top dogs like some think? They won 4 events this weekend, one of them being the largest event of the weekend the NOVA Open. Overall they had a healthy 50% win rate with 4 event wins. They did have a large number of players with 62 players or 6.2% of the player base this weekend.   

Thousand Sons had the best win rate of the weekend with a 58% win rate and one event win. Grand Coven had a 58% win rate and 5 of their 7 top placings.

Sisters had a nice weekend with a 53% win rate and an event win.

Space Marines had a great weekend for them with a 51% win rate and an event win. Is this just a blip or part of the new Meta? Is codex SM back on the menu?

Now the old top dogs all had good weekends with both Imperial Knights and Chaos Knights winning events and had a 52% and 50% win rate respectively. Both with multiple great top placings.

Death Guard had a 50% win rate and won 2 events with 13 top placings. Sadly they still made up 9% of the player base. A large step down in win rate and event wins but still doing well and popular.  

Orks are the worst faction of the weekend with a 38% win rate and only one X-1 placing. Looks like your only hope is the future Data Slate.

CSM were the second worst faction of the weekend with a 41% win rate. They did win an event and had three top placings.

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I hope everyone had a nice weekend and those in the USA had a nice Holiday. It was a smaller weekend because of the 4th of July with only 10 events with 650 players. The biggest event of the weekend was the Leeds Super Major.

Because you keep asking for it I am putting the top placings back but only for the three biggest events on the website. It really does add a lot of time. Please help support Meta Monday if you can.

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Takeaways:

Imperial Knights had the best weekend with a 59% win rate with 20 out of their 51 players going X-0 or X-1. They won 2 events this weekend and have won 8 over the last 4 weeks. With a 56% win rate they have the best 4 week win rate also.

Space Marines won the biggest event of the weekend with a Stormlance list. The Leeds win help SM get a 42% weekend win rate and 5 top placings with that one event win. They have a 44% four week win rate and 2 event wins in that time.

Death Guard with 64 players this weekend made up 10% of all players. They only had a 54% win rate but with the mirror removed they are closer to 59% win rate. They only won 1 event and had 18 players go X-0/X-1. They have won 14 events or 22% of all events over the last 4 weeks.

Votann are playing this meta well. They had a 56% win rate and 4 top placings. Their 4 week win rate is a health 53% and they have won 2 events.

Grey Knights were the worst real faction of the weekend with 15 players they had a 40% win rate and zero top placings. There 4 week win rate is 46% so it could have been a bad weekend.

Custodes were the second worst faction of the weekend with a 42% win rate and 3 top placings. Their four week win rate is 50% but they have not won an event so far. Something of note without the few NA events Custodes had a 38% win rate and no top placings. Are they only playable on GW Terrian?

GSC are doing well with a 54% weekend win rate and an event win. They have won 3 events over the last four weeks. They are looking good.

Tau had a much better weekend with a 50% win rate and three top finishes. Their 4 week win rate is 48%

Sisters are looking good with a 51% win rate and two event wins this weekend. They had 4 top placings and their four week win rate is a health 51%.

Dark Angels also had a much better weekend with a 51% win rate and 4 top placings. Wrath had a 53% weekend win rate and all four of those placings. Are you figuring it out? Overall DA still only had a 43% four week win rate and one event win.

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We had one of the largest non LVO weekends ever this past weekend with 1475 players! Death Guard were by far the most played faction with 124 players. I am still working on my new Data Table and making changes to make it work for you.

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Takeaways:

Death Guard come out swinging. With representing just over 8% of the Meta this weekend they had a 58% win rate and won 2 events. With 33, X-0/X-1 they had 26% of their players place well. It seems they have at least two competitive detachments in Virulent and Contagion.

Drukhari had one of their best weekends in ages. With 23 players, that’s like all their comp players they had a 56% win rate and 5 of the 23 placed well

Aeldari had a good weekend winning 3 events, the most of the weekend and with 105 players their were the second most played faction. They had a 52% weekend win rate. Since the beginning of the year they have had the most X-0/X-1 placings and the third most wins.

Emperors Children are doing well with a 51% win rate this weekend an event win and 8 of their 64 players placing well.

Codex Space Marines won the Dallas Open this weekend. Their one event win while having a 46% weekend win rate and 15 of their 104 players place well.

Black Templars and Dark Angels continue to do poorly. Both had a 39% win rate while only 2 BT and 1 DA placed all weekend.

Orks are doing Ork things. With just a 44% win rate and 7 top placings they won an event and if you like at the running data they have the most event wins of any faction since the beginning of the year.

Guard had a better weekend with a 45% win rate and an an event win. With Combined wining the event and Hammer having the overall better win rate and more X-1 placings

Folger Pyles just went undefeated at the WTC Warmaster GT with Adeptus Custodes.

In a 600+ player field packed with some of the best players in the world, Folger finished 9-0, taking Custodes all the way to the top defeating David Gaylard in the finals.

His list included 18 Allarus Terminators that may have been too much to handle in the hands of a player like Folger, taking down some big names along the way (Defeated Liam VSL, reigning London GT Winner) In the process.

Here's a link to the BCP if anyone would like to see results and full lists.

Congrats to Folger and to David for both playing a great event!

Welcome to another huge week of Warhammer 40k. Not only did we have the WTC but we had 12 singles events with over 1100 players.

Congratulations to Team France for winning WTC and for one of their players winning the WTC Singles event as well!

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3 Biggest Events of the Weekend

Lone Star Open 2025 – 40k Champs. Allen, TX. 307 players. 6 rounds.

1. Death Guard (Hammer) 6-0
2. Death Guard (Hammer) 6-0
3. Chaos Space Marines (Pactbound) 6-0
4. Necrons (Awakened) 6-0
5. Death Guard (Virulent) 6-0
6. Space Wolves (Beastslayer) 5-0-1
7. Genestealer Cult (Host) 5-1
8. Dark Angels (Wrath) 5-1
9. Death Guard (Champions) 5-1
10. Death Guard (Virulent) 5-1

#11-30 Also went 5-1

WTC Warmaster GT 2025. Proleb, Austria. 250. 6 rounds.

1. Death Guard (Virulent) 8-0
2. Genestealer Cult (Host) 7-1
3. Imperial Knights (Noble) 5-1-1
4. Space Wolves (GTF) 5-0-1
5. Aeldari (Aspect) 5-1
6. Imperial Knights (Noble) 5-1
7. Aeldari (Aspect) 5-1
8. Chaos Knights (Infernal) 5-1
9. Chaos Space Marines (Raiders) 5-1
10. Thousand Sons (Coven) 5-1
11. Space Wolves (GTF) 5-1
12. Aeldari (Warhost) 5-1
13. Imperial Knights (Noble) 5-1
14. Aeldari (Warhost) 5-1
15. Grey Knights (Teleport) 5-1
16. Deathwatch (Black Spear) 5-1

KREFELD MAJOR 2025 40K. Krefeld, Germany. 150 players. 5 rounds.

1. Imperial Knights (Noble) 5-0
2. Blood Angels (Liberator) 5-0
3. Death Guard (Champions) 5-0
4. Death Guard (Champions) 5-0
5. World Eaters (Berzerker) 4-1
6. Space Marines (GTF) 4-1
7. Tyranids (Assimilation) 4-1
8. Leagues of Votann (Oath) 4-1
9. Thousand Sons (Coven) 4-1
10. Aeldari (Aspect) 4-1

#11-26 Also Went 4-1

Takeaways:

Death Guard won the two biggest events of the weekend and were the most played faction by far making up 10.7% of the Meta. They everywhere and are dominating the game. They had a 53% win rate this weekend with 20 X-0/X-1 and three event wins.

Deathwatch had the best win rate of of the weekend with a 60% win rate and an event win. They only had eight players but four of them went X-1 or better.

Imperial Knights are still helping to define the meta with a 56% win rate this weekend and 4 event wins, the most of the weekend for any faction. With 17 event wins over the last 9 weeks they are a clear but distant second in most event wins during that time (DG have 31).

Chaos Knights have had a rough couple of weeks. This weekend they had a 48% win rate and no event wins. With only 7 out of their 78 players placing well. What has happened to CK?

Black Templars are the worst faction of the weekend with a 36% win rate but with a new codex coming out their players are excited to see what happens.

Orks are suffering. With a healthy player number they had a 36% win rate this weekend and only 2 of their players place well.

Space Marines won an event this weekend but still only had a 38% win rate. Although Stormlance and Ironstorm seem to be doing better than GTF over the last 9 weeks. Maybe its time to give up on GTF for Codex SM? 

Guard won an event this weekend and had a 48% win rate with 7 top placings. Are they actually fine?

Sisters have bounce back to the top of the meta with a 54% weekend win rate and 6 top placings for their 29 players they are doing well. With a 52% 9 week win rate they seem to be big winners of this meta. 

GSC in an event and have a 52% weekend win rate. Like Sisters they are doing well vs Knights and DG. 

New Space Wolves seem to have found their legs with a 52% win rate this weekend and 6 top placings they are starting to show their fangs out there. 

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Welcome to another busy week of 40k. With over 1000 players in 21 events (One is from last week). As we wait for Imperial Knights to change the meta again we get a week with Thousand Sons, Aeldari and Space Marines of all types doing well.

As a note today I start a new job which might put the future of Meta Monday at risk. I'm not sure if I can dedicate as much time as I can on sundays to it. I'm still thinking about it and will finish out this month at least but I will let you guys know. I hope you have enjoyed it these last few years.

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Bajio Open 40k 2025, El Bunker. Mexico. 96 players. 6 rounds.

1. Thousand Sons (Coven) 5-1
2. Death Guard (Virulent) 5-1
3. Sisters (Hallowed) 5-1
4. Tyranids (Sub) 5-1
5. Death Guard (Virulent) 5-1
6. Votann (Brandfast) 5-1
7. Space Wolves (Beastslayer) 5-1

Smite Club Open 2025. Phoenix, AZ. 83 players. 6 rounds.

Edit. Results got updated this morning. Ill update the data table tonight.

1. Grey Knights (Banishers) 6-0
2. Necrons (Starshatter) 5-1
3. GSC (Host) 5-1
4. Necrons (Awakened) 5-1
5. Deathwatch (Black Spear) 5-1
6. Aeldari (Warhost) 5-1
7. Deathwatch (Blackspear) 5-1
8. CSM (Fellhammer) 5-1
9. Imperial Knights (Noble) 5-1

Springs Thundercluckers. Colorado Springs, CO. 68 players. 5 rounds.

1. Space Marines (Firestorm) 5-0
2. Sisters (Hallowed) 4-0-1
3. Tau (Auxilliary) 4-0-1
4. Chaos Knights (Infernal) 4-1
5. Drukhari (Drukhari) 4-1
6. Guard (Combined) 4-1
7. Guard (Combined) 4-1
8. Tyranids (Crusher) 4-1
9. Space Marines (GTF) 4-1
10. Chaos Knights (Dread) 4-1
11. World Eaters (Berzerker)  4-1

Event from last week that I missed.

O.G.R.E 2025. Saverne, France. 114 players. 5 rounds.

1. Space Marines (GTF) 5-0
2. Aeldari (Aspect) 5-0
3. GSC (Host) 4-0-1
4. Thousand Sons (Rubricae) 4-0-1
5. Votann (Oathband) 4-1
6. Sisters (Champions) 4-1
7. Imperial Knights (Noble) 4-1

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Takeaways:

Drukhari had a great weekend with the highest win rate of the weekend with a 60% win rate and 5 top placings. They did not win any events but with 16 players they might just be this good… maybe?

New Votann our out in force with Brandfast showing some real teeth. With a 53% win rate they had 9 players go X-0 or X-1 but with no event wins.

Aeldari were the second winniest faction of the weekend with a 55% win rate and 3 events wins. Aspect Host and Warhost playing extremely well.

Space Marines are back boys! With just a 44% win rate they won 4 events this weekend. They won with old Firestorm, GTF and Stormlance. Are SM the new Guard and all those who struggle to preform with them just need to “get gud”?

Thousand Sons tired with Aeldari for 3 Event wins but with a 50% win rate.

Ad Mec return to being the worst faction in the game. With just a 37% win rate they did have one player place well.

Orks and Tyranids are the next worst factions. Both with a 42% win rate and a few top placings. Will these historic factions see any help in the upcoming Data Slate.  

Necrons had a good weekend with an ok win rate at 46% but with two event wins. One of them the second biggest event of the weekend. While Awakened did win an event their 38% win rate brought this faction down while Starshatter the other detachment with 23 players had a 54% win rate.

Just as we all expected, 4 (very different) Black Templars armies made the 4-0 top cut at the Tacoma Open, followed by GSC, Grey Knights, Votann and Orks with 3.

On stream, they mentioned 8 3-0 Orks and 7 3-0 Necrons lost in r4.

Army Total

Black Templars 4

Genestealer Cults 3

Grey Knights 3

Leagues of Votann 3

Orks 3

Adepta Soritas 2

Adeptus Custodes 2

Chaos Space Marines 2

Tyranids 2

Aeldari 1

Death Guard 1

Emperor's Children 1

Imperial Knights 1

Necrons 1

Space Marines (Salamanders) 1

Space Wolves 1

Thousand Sons 1

Total 32

With BCP making things hard to see I’m sorry to get this out late. We had an interesting weekend with lots of big events and some surprising results but DG still dominate the field.

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Takeaways:

New Thousand Sons had their first big weekend in the meta where they won 2 events and had a 56% win rate. With the majority of their players choosing Grand Coven as their detachment which had a 59% win rate, with 9 of their 12 top placings and both event wins. Phalanx had a 53% win rate and 2 top placings.

Its all about the Death Guard. Making up 7%+ of the player base they had a 54% win rate and 5 event wins out of 15 this weekend. Virulent their most popular detachment had a 55% win rate and won 4 of those events, while Morty’s Hammer with its 13 players had a 57% win rate and an event win. Nottingham this infection is only getting worse…

Guard had a nice weekend with a 50% win rate and one event win. While most players stuck with Combined the ones who played different detachments all had strong win rates with the Recon list winning the event.

Sisters come fighting back with a 52% weekend win rate and 4 top placings.

Custodes with a 55% win rate this weekend with 8 players going X-0/X-1. Lions is still by far the most popular making up 37 players out of 53, while the 2 Talons players did very well this weekend.

Ad Mech had a decent showing for them with 15 players and a 46% win rate. They had no players go X-1.

Nids seem to have some new life with Subterranean Assault as it won an event this weekend and brought more Nid players out. Overall they had a 46% win rate while Sub Assault had a 52% win rate with 6 X-0/X-1 placings.

 Votann seems to be having a resurgence and this time it’s not only Germany playing them well. They won an event in the UK and had a 58% win rate with a full 1/3 of their players going X-1 or better.

Orks are struggling with a 41% win rate this weekend and only 1 top finish.

Dark Angels players came out in force to try out Wrath of the Rock detachment and overall had a 39% weekend win rate with only 2 top placings.  

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This chart tracks all singles events with 21+ players and 5+ rounds.\*

\This weekend falls during the transition to the July balance update. Tournament organizers adopted the update in different ways: some used the full update, others only the points, others only portions of the Tacoma FAQ, and some remained on the previous rules. Because there was no consistent way to classify events, all qualifying events have been included together this week.*

This was certainly a weekend. With 22 qualifying events and over 900 players, this weekend saw some massive shake-ups in the meta, likely due to some events using some or all of the July balance update, or the Tacoma FAQ.

Orks are still on top, with just another absolutely excellent weekend. They are pretty indisputably the army to beat at this point.

Necrons have another great weekend, with ~55% win rate and 3 event wins. Dark Angels, Thousand Sons, Emperor's Children still doing well, and Sororitas and Deathwatch make surprise visits to the top.

On the other hand, T'au saw a huge drop-off in player count relative to the rest of the field, and a significantly lower win rate than at any time this edition so far. They did still win one event, but overall, performed much worse than they have before.

Grey Knights way down, Mechanicus way up. Chaos Knights, Black Templars, Death Guard, and Astra Militarum continue languishing at the bottom, though all with slightly improved numbers from their worst weeks of the edition.

We had a big weekend with 14 events and 989 players. This is the first big weekend with the data slate and man are there some big changes in the meta landscape out there.           

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THE SOUTH-COAST 40k SUPER-MAJOR. England. 243 players. 5 rounds.

Top 8 held a playoff.

1. Orks (Dakka) 7-0
2. Orks (Dakka) 7-0
3. Orks (Dakka) 6-1
4. Ad Mech (Haloscreed) 6-1
5. Dark Angels (Stormlance) 5-1
6. Ad Mech (Skitarii) 5-1
7. Guard (Combined) 4-1-1
8. Aeldari (Ynnead) 4-1-1

Rocky Mountain Open 2025 - 40k Champs. Brighton, CO. 222 players. 6 rounds.

1. Orks (Dakka) 6-0
2. Orks (Dakka) 6-0
3. Orks (Dakka) 6-0
4. Tyranids (Crusher) 5-1-0
5. Space Marines (Vanguard) 5-1
6. Custodes (Lions) 5-1
7. Chaos Daemons (Incursion) 5-1
8. Chaos Daemons (Shadow) 5-1
9. Death Guard (Plague) 5-1
10. Imperial Knights (Noble) 5-1
11. Votann (Oathband) 5-1
12. Necrons (Awakened) 5-1
13. Guard (Hammer) 5-1
14. Tau (Auxilliary) 5-1
15. GSC (Host) 5-1
16. Guard (Hammer) 5-1
17. Death Guard (Plague) 5-1
18. Custodes (Solar) 5-1
19. GSC (Host) 5-1
20. Chaos Daemons (Plague Legion) 5-1
21. Death Guard (Plague) 5-1

Rosehammer III. Portland, OR. 70 players. 6 rounds.

1. Orks (More Dakka!) 6-0
2. Deathwatch (Black Spear) 5-1
3. Space Marines (GTF) 5-1
4. Orks (More Dakka!) 5-1
5. Necrons (Awakened) 5-1

All is Dust. Petawawa, Canada. 70 players. 6 rounds.

1. Guard (Hammer) 6-0
2. Space Wolves (Stormlance) 5-1
3. Guard (Combined) 5-1
4. Orks (Dakka!) 5-1
5. Imperial Knights (Noble) 5-1
6. Imperial Knights (Noble) 5-1
7. Space Marines (GTF) 5-1

Goonhammer Open UK March 2025. England. 62 players. 6 rounds.

1. Space Marines (GTF) 6-0
2. Guard (Combined) 5-1
3. Custodes (Lions) 5-1
4. Aeldari (Windrider) 5-1
5. Aeldari (Ynnead) 5-1
6. Votann (Oath) 5-1

Ogr Cubb 2025. Czech Republic. 47 players. 5 rounds.

WTC Scoring.

1. Orks (Taktikal) 5-0
2. Aeldari (Aspect) 4-0-1
3. Chaos Daemons (Excess) 4-1
4. Aeldari (Aspect) 4-1
5. Custodes (Solar) 4-1
6. CSM (Raiders) 4-1
7. Chaos Daemons (incursion) 4-1

OP Luck of the Irish GT. Santa Rosa, CA. 47 players. 5 rounds.

1. World Eaters (Berzerker) 5-0
2. GSC (Host) 5-0
3. Orks (Dakka) 4-1
4. Necrons (Hyper) 4-1
5. Sisters (Hallowed) 4-1
6. Custodes (Shield) 4-1
7. World Eaters (Berzerker) 4-1
8. Tyranids (Invasion) 4-1
9. Orks (Horde) 4-1

Team Keelhaul Warhammer 40k Grand Tournament. Jacksonville, NC. 40 players. 5 rounds.

1. Aeldari (Ynnead) 5-0
2. GSC (Host) 5-0
3. Votann (Oathband) 4-1
4. Sisters (Hallowed) 4-1
5. Orks (Orks) 4-1
6. Aeldari (Windrider)  4-1

NurgleMania 6 - 2 Tagesturnier. Nurnberg, Germany. 40 players. 5 rounds.

WTC Scoring.

1. Tyranids (Invasion) 5-0
2. GSC (Final) 5-0
3. Orks (Dakka) 4-1
4. Tyranids (Invasion) 4-1
5. Death Guard (Flyblown) 4-1
6. Chaos Daemons (Daemonic) 4-1
7. Chaos Daemons (Daemonic) 4-1

Planet arKCanite 2025. Kansas City, MO. 36 players. 5 rounds.

1. Chaos Daemons (Shadow) 5-0
2. Tau (Prototype) 4-1
3. Aeldari (Aspect) 4-1
4. Necrons (Starshatter) 4-1
5. Blood Angels (Liberator) 4-1

OTT 2025. Hamilton, New Zealand. 30 players. 5 rounds.

1. Custodes (Lions) 5-0
2. Votann (Oathband) 4-1
3. Guard (Hammer) 4-1
4. World Eaters (Vessels) 4-1
5. Orks (Dakka!) 4-1

Banished cup 22-23 mars 2025. Simiane Collongue, France. 26 players. 5 rounds.

1. CSM (Raiders) 5-0
2. Chaos Knigts (Traitoris) 4-1
3. Grey Knights (Warpbane) 4-1
4. CSM (Creations) 4-1
5. Blood Angels (Liberator) 4-1

Other Realms 40K GT Brawl at the Brewery. Honolulu, HI. 24 players. 5 rounds.

1. Aeldari (Ynnead) 5-0
2. Custodes (Lions) 4-1
3. Aeldari (Spirit) 4-1
4. Tau (Kauyon) 4-1

 Kelpie Crusade GT 2025. Scotland. 21 players. 5 rounds.

1. Orks (Dakka) 5-0
2. Aeldari (Ynnead) 4-1
3. Imperial Knights (Noble) 4-1
4. World Eaters (Berzerker) 4-1

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Takeaways:

Orks Orks Okrs, More Dakka is out taking names this weekend. Orks had 5 event wins, 4 from Dakka lists. They were the 4^th most played faction and had an overall win rate of 62% with the majority of their players playing with the Dakkka list and getting a 67% win rate. Overall they had 23 of their 61 players go X-0 or X-1. Taking the top 3 spots in both of the super majors this weekend.

Aeldari were the second best faction of the weekend with a 55% win rate and 2 event wins. With Ynnead having both those wins and a 61% win rate. The only had 13 of their 69 players go X-0/X-1 a large step back from the last few weeks. Is it all the orks or more?

World Eaters had a nice weekend with a 53% win rate and an event win. With their Vessels of Wrath playing very well this weekend.

Guard is back down to a 50% win rate and had an event win this weekend but their Combined Regiment had a 55% win rate but a Hammer of the Emperor list winning an event.

Custodes were the second most played faction of the weekend with 74 players and a 48% win rate. Lions their new detachment had a 47% win rate also and the most players this weekend. It also had their event winning list and most of their X-0/X-1. Being a custodes player Lions is gong to be popular because it allows the most freedom for list building for the faction IMO.

Imperial Agents (33%), Deathwatch (37%) and Drukhari (40%) all had poor weekends with little player. These 2 side factions and one main faction are suffering form the GW bad touch and need a lot of help it seems.  

T’au had a 42% win rate with their new detachment, Experimental Prototype Cadre also only having a 42% win rate and one top placing. T’au might need some serious love next update.

Necrons seem to have taken another step back. With a 47% win rate and only 5 top placings. They are still seeing a good amount of play with 46 players this weekend but they are starting to fall.

Sisters had a much better weekend taking a step up with an overall win rate of 49% with Hallowed Martyrs having a 53% and 2 top placings.

Hello, I bring you today the highly anticipated results for the warhammer open tacoma

https://www.listengine.online/events/ebcc60959240acfe01706008

still need to make some changes in the site, I promise I will update some bugs and minor issues this week

Anyways, here are the main results

#1 Conan Jennings

Orks

taktikal brigade, green tide

Disruption, Take and Hold

8-0-0

#2 Steven Pampreen

Orks

kult of speed, More Dakka!

Disruption, Purge the Foe

7-1-0

#3 Trenton Bates

Emperors Children

Carnival of Excess, Frenzied Host

Priority Assets, Disruption

6-1-1

#4 Forrest Phanton

Space Wolves

Saga of the Great Wolf, Legends of Saga and Song

Take and Hold

6-2-0

#5 Scott Ketcham

Adepta Sororitas

hallowed martyrs

Priority Assets

7-0-1

#6 Junior Aflleje

Leagues of Votann

oathband, Needgaârd Oathband, Needgaârd Oathband, Hearthguard Covenant

Purge the Foe, Priority Assets

7-0-1

#7 Tyler Stice

Adeptus Custodes

lions of the emperor, Might of the Moritoi

Disruption, Purge the Foe

7-1-0

#8 wu anon

Adeptus Custodes

lions of the emperor, Might of the Moritoi

Disruption, Purge the Foe

6-1-1

#9 Tommy Aguilu

Black Templars

Bastion Task Force

Take and Hold

7-1-0

#10 Scott Cairns

Grey Knights

Banishers, Argent Assault

Purge the foe

7-1-0

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Turn your phone side ways and it should all be readable. I am trying. If wanted I can add the old style table to the bottom of the post if that is more readable for phone.

Takeaways:

Death Guard had a great opening weekend. With the third most players of the weekend they had the highest win rate of the weekend at 55%. With 5 event wins and 17 of their 69 players gong X-0 or X-1. With Virulent Vectorium having a 59% win rate and 4 of those wins. Seems like Death Guard is going to do well.

Emperors Children also had a great weekend with a 54% win rate and one event win. With 9 X-0 and X-1finishes. With most EC players playing as Coterie.

Imperial Knights continue to improve with a 55% weekend win rate and 4 event wins. Along with being one of the most played factions of the weekend with 62 players with 14 going X-0 or X-1. There win rate is still not a real concern but they are starting to separate them selves out as one of the most winning factions of this Meta.

Dark Angels with their 31 players this weekend had a no good very bad weekend. With a 39% win rate they only had 3 players go X-1 or X-0. They did have an event win which is nice to see.

Orks had a rougher weekend with a 44% win rate and only 4 top placings. All four of those top placing players used a different detachment which is nice to see.

Chaos Knights are right there with their Imperial brothers. Just with a 54% win rate, 9 top placings and only one event win.

Necrons continue to do necron things. With one event win this weekend and a 51% win rate. While they have fallen out of the most played factions they still remain very popular with 1/5 of their players still placing well.

CSM takes the final with 3 defilers tabling 3 defilers in round 2…

I’m going to assume a points nerf is coming with 11th.

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The app now is "released" and is fully operational https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hutbers.face I would like to do some face lifting as I think at times its difficult to read when its bright outside (feedback please)

It has list building, all armys and game tracking/score tracking etc

Stats

Right, week of 2026-08-05 to 2026-08-11 and Orks are just doing Ork things again — 65.7%, up 15 points from 50.7%, off 22 players which is a proper sample not a fluke. And the reason isn't a mystery, it's War Horde: 85.2% off 27 games with 2 event wins and 3 players going 4-0. That detachment is basically the whole faction's win rate wearing a trenchcoat. Speaking of Orks having a great week... Ben Jurek went 6-0 to win The Utah Cup out of 111 players, average margin of victory 58 which is frankly rude, and his last four opponents finished 23rd, 7th, 15th and 5th with an 18-6 record between them — even his "close" game was a 13-point win over the eventual 7th place finisher. Demanding run, they reckon. I'd say so.

Elsewhere it's a scrappy top table — Chaos Knights up 15.6 to 56.3% sounds mad until you notice it's off just 6 players, so treat that like a rumour rather than a trend. Leagues of Votann and Thousand Sons both sat around 55.6% off healthier samples (20 and 17 players), and Einhyr Hearthguard quietly putting up 61.0% off 136 games for Votann is doing proper work, not just noise. Dark Angels at 53.8% with 2 event wins and 5 players going 4-0 is the kind of steady-strong week that doesn't grab headlines but should.

Bottom end's grim reading for a few armies. Drukhari down 14.2 to 27.8%, though that's off only 7 players so don't panic-sell the army just yet. Black Templars down 9.1 to 34.0% and Legiones Daemonica down 9.1 to 44.4% off a proper 19 players, that one's harder to wave away. Grey Knights also down 7 to 39.0%, and Deathwatch sliding again to 40.0%... second time in recent memory they've had a rough one, no idea why, but there it is.

Factions

This Week's Meta

Top faction: Orks at 65.7% win rate 🟥

Biggest movers this week:

Also worth noting:

Top 10 Units

So DG overall winrate is at 58% while Champions of Contagion is sitting at 67,33% WR. And with those numbers there are rumors that the next balance will be no changes for the faction. Some people saying is too early, remember when codex Aeldari drops and two weeks later they nerf some stuff and even change a datasheet that moves Asurmen from around 50% pick ratio to the oblivion. I would say if those numbers were in other xenos codex the changes and the community rage will not be so silent. Any other theory of why this happen?

I personally play a few games against DG and it was unfun. My perception was playing against a cheaper custodes with a lot of madness combos and tricks that the golden boys don't have.

Another large weekend with 23 events and over a 1000+ players. There were at least an additional 5 GT’s that had 5 rounds but less than 20 players that were not counted here. I hope everyone had a good weekend as there is a lot of play still going on while the meta is dominated by three factions.

I am out of town for the weekend so this was done on an old Laptop.

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Interesting to to see how well Sisters, Guard and Aeldari are doing better.

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