40K Deep Thought: Are Grey Knights the End of Foot Hordes?

So this evening as I was glancing through my Grey Knights codex, I keep having this tingling on the back of my neck.  Its the sensation of all the T:3 foot armies going up in flames across the world…

This is really an open thread regarding the main foot lists out there such as:

-Footdar
-Foot Dark Eldar
-Foot IG
-Foot Orks
-Nid Hordes

Now generally a lot of these have been pretty viable in the meta, especially of late – offering a refreshing alternative to the mech hordes. But the Grey Knights are packing a lot of nasty 100% accurate personal teleporters, cheap transports and easily accessible S:6 templates.  I just can’t see how a lot of the horde armies out there stand a chance.

To me, its kinda sad, as I think the last thing the game needs is a new shiny army to push folks back into mech heavy lists.  I feel particulrly sorry for Tyranids who get to choose between the soon to be Instant Death-ed big bug lists (say hello to my Nemesis Force Weapon), or the soon to be BBQed horde lists.

~What do you think the future holds for the horde-foot lists with the arrival of the Grey Knights?

Author: Larry Vela

Dad, Gamer, Publisher, Pilot, Texan. All games all the time since junior-high. I started BoLS Interactive in 2006. I’m a lifelong tabletop & RPG gaming enthusiast, and internet publisher working to entertain and inform my readers every day. I've been playing RPGs and Tabletop Games since the 1970s. I'm been playing and covering Warhammer and Warhammer 40K for over 35 years.