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November meta update and discussion

Liam VSL Interview

New Ultramarines Datasheets Breakdown — Marneus Calgar, Cato Sicarius, and the new Victrix Honor Guard (are they actually upgrades?)Back from Coventry and Raven Guard testing, and today we're talking ULTRAMARINES.Games Workshop just dropped new datasheets for:- Marneus Calgar (new version),- Cato Sicarius (Terminator armour profile),- Victrix Honor Guard (as a standalone unit).These have been...

🔥 Welcome back to Fireside! In this episode, Dave and Vik dive deep into the London Grand Tournament (LGT) 2025 – now officially the largest singles Warhammer 40K tournament in history with over 1,050 players! We cover:The rise of the LGT vs. LVO as the world’s biggest singles eventMeta breakdown: most popular factions, sleeper picks & underdogsWhy World Eaters top the charts, the surprise su...

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Hey there everyone, Vik and I have both been LONG TIME Knight players, absolute power houses and veterans of the faction! So we're here to discuss some of the two more powerful Knight detachments and the new Knight Defender. We've got movement examples, and discuss a lot about hwo this impacts the game. We cover our thoughts on how design spaces like this impact the wider philosophy of the...

Mr Votann is here guys! Earlier in the week Tim and I recorded the Votann Masterclass :) It was an absolute blast! Tim has over 30+ games with Votann already. So we sat down to evaluate all of the Votann units and the detachments! We decided to rank each datasheet with regards to its best detachments, some units like Yeigars are just super auto include, whereas others, like berserks are more appli...

Hey everyone,I had a really fun time putting this together, I asked my friends and other players if they had any pre-turn things they do. I've come back and distilled it down to 5 key rules that you can take away to implement a stronger game plan. They are:THE POITNS:You win games of Warhammer... by having the most amount of points. PRE-MEASURING:"Hey, can you put a dice where you maximum movement...

Hey there everyone,I wasn't able to attend WTC so I thought it would be a cool idea to have some awesome guests on and discuss some of the higher level topics for WTC so they hopefully translate to your up and coming team events! We've got:Brian Seipp - Team USAAlex Sacco - Team FranceJonathan Sleigh-johnson - Team SwedenLiam VSL - Team BelgiumOn to discuss some of the questions that I hav...

WTC List Analysis & Winner Predictions! | Fireside 40K,Welcome back to Episode 74 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite. WTC Lists are out! In this video we discuss the popular factions and team compositions for the top teams at the WTC. We also take a guess at our prediction of the top 5! Tune in to find out who we think will win the event! Grab a...

The first episode in my series 'Up To Speed' designed to help you boostrap in understanding armies and changes in the meta!

Hey everyone, a quick episode ranking the tyranid datasheets for the subterranean detachment :)

Welcome back to Episode 72 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite. The 40K Q2 balance update is out and we sit down to try to filter out the main take-aways and meta analysis from the suite of changes GW has brought to the game. Grab a drink, sit back, relax and enjoy the episode. See you by the Fireside,Dave & Vik-----------------------------The lat...

Hey guys, This is quite a visual one, but I've been slacking on uploading to Spotify for awhile - shout out to Tom A. https://40kfireside.com for more information on the master class.

Welcome back to Episode 71 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite. This last weekend saw both of us playing at smaller events (Vik at the 100-person Glasshammer Major and Dave at the 45-person Dark Sphere GT) and going 5-0. In this episode we chat about the meta, our plans, and a do a recap of the lists/games at the tournaments we attended. Grab a drink,...

Welcome back to Episode 70 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite. With Dave (Guard - Mechanised Assault) & Team Ignite winning the Saffron Slam Team Event and Vik going 7-0 at Sheffield Super-Major with his Ynnari, we've got plenty to discuss in this episode of Fireside 40K. More Dakka! has officially been nerfed by GW, in this episode we discus...

Welcome back to Episode 69 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite. We go back to our roots with this one! An audio-only update on the factions we've been testing, our thoughts on the meta as a whole, tournaments we've got coming up and our thoughts on the how to improve the balance of the game. Grab a drink, sit back, relax and enjoy the episode....

Welcome back to Episode 67 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite. With the massive 300-person Manchester Super Major this weekend, we finally get to take out the new Aeldari and Astra Militarum codexes to an event. The hype is real and we've both brought lots of spicy, innovative tech to the event. In this video we analyse the overall faction distri...

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Hey there everyone! Chatting through the Guard Combined Arms detachment, it's the index one we're all familiar with a few changes! It's a bit of insight into how I build lists, what my thought process is, so hopefully you can take some of the points here and apply them yourself :) As mentioned in the video, if you're interested in the Guard master class with Dave send an email to 4...

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Welcome back to Episode 65 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite. With the massive 400-person Nottingham Super Major this weekend, we get to see how the meta shapes up at the first big event following the Winter Balance Update and the grotmas detachments. We analyse the overall faction distribution at the event (which looks incredibly balanced and inter...

Welcome back to Episode 64 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite. Grotmas detachments galore and a full MFM/Balance Dataslate update - what a time to be a competitive 40K player! With loads of information to process/analyse, we've spent the last few days gathering our thoughts on every faction to be able to update our Fireside 40K Tier List. We've focus...