5e, GT and Army "nerfing"!

After playing at the Las Vegas GT a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been participating in a number of on-line discussion about how the “new” GT system works, how 5e works in competitive play and which (if any) armies suffer under 5e in competitive play.

Using the results from the Vegas GT (published by GW) I’ve done some VERY basic trends analysis

These results are in no way definitive, but they give some answers to some of the questions. I’m not going to overstate my opinions on the data, I’ll leave that up to the rest of you!

Q: Do soft scores skew the overall result and take away from the “competitive" nature of GTs and the Battle points system?

A: It does not appear to be that way.

Q: Are some armies “hurt” by the advent of Kill Points into the scenario package? How are “other” scorings affecting specific armies?

		total points	battle points	sports'	appearance
		130	56	49	25	Overall
Space Marines	36	126	54	49	24
Chaos Marines	21	128	54	48	26
Daemons	6	142	67	49	26
Eldar	15	134	59	48	26
Orks	7	140	63	50	28
Tyranids	12	128	53	49	25
Tau	5	125	54	49	23
Necrons	4	128	52	49	28
Witch Hunters	6	136	66	48	22
Daemon hunters	2	133	62	50	21
IG	10	128	55	48	25
Dark Eldar	3	117	43	49	25
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As you can see from the averages, most armies are comparable when you have a mix of the 3 scenarios at an event. the obvious exception is Dark Eldar, but we already know they need a major overhaul!