40K Meta – What We’ve Become

5th Edition has been a long ride.  This is what we as players have become at the twilight of its days.  Adepticon has many secrets to reveal…

I present the player breakdown of the largest single 40k competitive event, the 256 player Warhammer 40,000 Championship.  Take a long look at player-codex breakdown and weep my friends – weep.

Some basics:

Grey Knights at 22% equaled the total of the bottom 9 codices!
Grey Knights, Space Wolves, and IG equaled  50% of the field.
Not one Tyranid player was on the floor – not one.

I don’t know about you, but I consider, Tyranids, Eldar, Orks, and Chaos Space Marines to be bedrock, foundational parts of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, yet here we are at the twilight of 5th Edition and between all four, they barely muster 11%.

I’m expecting BIG THINGS out of 6th edition to help this out.

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.