Warhammer 40K Tabletop XXXII: I Got 99 Guardsmen and Morale Killed One.

[Voidhawk]

If he had brought more than like, two Leman Russes, I would have lost - and I did tell him so. The fact is, I knew what my opponent would have before he even put it on the table, because that's the kind of meta I'm in. That's why I won. Not because I have a broken list, but because my opponents are bad.

"What site did you get your list from?"
'What s-?' Holy ****. No.

Spoiler: You'll Never Guess

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He played Jetbikes and Wraithknights in 7th Ed., and would also complain when his opponents would bring AP3> Ignores Cover and somehow win.

Interestingly, if you'd faced my casual opponent from yesterday I think you'd have struggled (because that's how meta-busting lists go). He's a pretty big tread-head, so when asked how he'd cut his list down to 2000pts he said he'd just drop the Militarum Tempestus Battalion but keep the Brigade and all the tanks: 4 Russes, 2 Hellhounds, a Basilisk, a Manticore, 6 Plasma-Sentinels, backed up by 9 heavy-weapon bases, a Primaris Pysker and 6 infantry squads with plasmaguns to bubble wrap. His Commissar died on turn 1 to a Reaver charge, but the rest of the officers were either in a Chimera or safely out of sight behind terrain/Russes.

He's encountered the "But I like Saim-Hann!" problem, and is a little sad that everything got buffed so much. Because now in order to have a balanced game he can't take the stuff he enjoys. I'm considering if a Points Handicap might be the way forward for IG in our group, but so much of the issues seem to stem from basic game-mechanics favouring them I'm not sure it would help.