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 focussed on high level singles play as our benchmark and made an active effort to split up armies into different tiers (e.g. A & B tier could be in the A tier together, but we've split them up and moved our B tier armies into C tier) representing their relative power to each other rather than a particular WR% band or any other statistical metric. FINAL TIER LIST: https://imgur.com/a/dSEEgR9 Thank you so much to all the members who've joined both the CATACHAN level and are enjoying our members-only detailed content on factions / competitive strategy, and the PHOENIX LORD level who've been discussing ideas and asking questions on the discord. If you like our content and want more please do join as a youtube member: LINK TO JOIN FROM MOBILE APP (On browser, use this link or the 'Join' button which will be available next to the video title). https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyYYtA8JdF-04NKO7ZmORkQ/join For Coaching enquiries with Dave please contact at: [email protected] Grab a drink, sit back, relax and enjoy the episode. See you by the Fireside, Dave & Vik TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Introduction 06:10 Adepta Sororitas 17:32 Adeptus Mechanicus 22:12 Chaos Space Marines 27:48 Aeldari 33:25 Space Marines (Ultramarines) 42:40 Astra Militarum 52:55 Necrons 58:09 Custodes 1:02:20 Genestealer Cults 1:07:33 Tyranids 1:11:37 Death Guard 1:14:37 Dark Angels 1:15:44 Drukhari 1:17:40 Grey Knights 1:19:35 Imperial Knights 1:21:24 Thousand Sons 1:23:37 Orks 1:26:25 Space Wolves 1:27:50 Tau 1:30:03 Chaos Daemons 1:31:51 Votann 1:33:22 World Eaters 1:35:18 Blood Angels 1:36:33 Chaos Knights 1:39:23 FINAL TIER LIST!

Hey there everyone,

Walking through a review of the new tyranid detachment!

I've been playing tyranids on-and-off in practice since the last WTC and this detachment got me excited for unboxing my old Tyranid Warriors again :D

*A few minor corrections, the venom cannon goes to s11, and the exocrine goes to s11 also!

https://youtu.be/IptkK0jfedc

Thanks for listening,

David Gaylard

Welcome back to Episode 63 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite. It's tier list time again, we've had some time and an event each to gather our thoughts on the latest MFM update, join us for a full faction tier list and our wishlist for the next balance update due at the end of the year.[Final Tier List --> https://imgur.com/a/40k-fireside-tier-list-mKnXllz] In this episode we also announce a huge landmark moment for us as a podcast! We've released our YouTube Membership Area for exclusive content deep diving into our faction specialities, list design and high-level game theory to hopefully help you all improve as Competitive Warhammer 40K players. We've got 2 video immediately available on there (Guard Board Control Theory & Adepta Sororitas Singles List Design) so feel free to sign up straight away for access. LINK TO JOIN FROM MOBILE APP (On browser, use this link or the 'Join' button which will be available next to the video title).https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyYYtA8JdF-04NKO7ZmORkQ/join For Coaching enquiries with Dave please contact at: [email protected] Grab a drink, sit back, relax and enjoy the episode. See you by the Fireside, Dave & Vik (edited)

Walking through the new Guard changes after playing at the Pyra Team tournament. Topics covered: About Pyra Current Key units Guard’s Role in Teams Guard in Singles Guard Weaknesses Coaching Closing David is also launching some limited coaching over the next few months. If you're interested in coaching, or if your team is interested in coaching, please feel free to get in touch at: [email protected] Rates have yet to be decided, but will be on the cheaper side. Enjoy, David.

Welcome back to Episode 62 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite. A huge shoutout to Aaron for letting us know about an initiative with the American Cancer Society called the 'Battle Against Breast Cancer' which is bringing together 25+ tournaments in the USA with live streaming from Tactical Tortoise, Wargames Live, Warpcharged Gaming and Tabletop Live. The primary way of raising money is a raffle - for more information and to buy raffle tickets, check out www.noveopenfoundation.org We're back from LGT, and couldn't be happier with a Team Ignite finals between Liam VSL (CSM) and Brian Seipp (Orks), with Liam managing to take the win to give him back-to-back LGT wins (insane!). In this episode we analyse the meta as a whole, how it presented itself at the LGT, reflect on our lists and our results at the event. We make some spicy fireside hot takes on chess clocks and what we think should be in the upcoming balance slate! Grab a drink, sit back, relax and enjoy the episode. See you by the Fireside, Dave & Vik

Welcome back to Episode 61 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite. Another year flies by and LGT is back! Dave, Vik and a bunch of Team Ignite are attending this year. To mix things up this episode, we thought we'd try to do a slightly unusual tier list. TO CLARIFY BEFORE THE INTERNET IMPLODES, the tier list we've done here is not ranking the strongest armies in the game, so if you've skipped through to the end and are about to shoot us an angry comment, read our method below. This tier list is going to compare the prevalence of factions at the LGT (the LGT Meta) to whether we think the overall player base (not just the top tier, but the entire spectrum of player skills/expectations) of that faction will overperform or underperform (on UKTC terrain). This was a super interesting discussion and we'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments! Grab a drink, sit back, relax and enjoy the episode. See you by the Fireside, Dave & Vik

Welcome back to Episode 60 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite. The World Team Championships (WTC) are over! New Zealand absolutely smashed it, pushing into the top 10, winning best sportsmanship and Dave coming out as the Rank No. 1 for individual rankings with his innovative Thousand Sons list. Team England had a worse time, taking some heavy losses across the event pushing them down to 7th place in the rankings. Join us as we run through how the event went for Team New Zealand and Team England, our reflections on how to improve for next year and our takes on how the teams/singles meta sits currently. Grab a drink, sit back, relax and enjoy the episode. See you by the Fireside, Dave & Vik

Welcome back to Episode 59 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite. We’ve heard lots of talk in the community that because WTC is a team event it isn’t relevant for the singles 40K meta, and we’re here to prove that theory wrong! The WTC lists are a culmination of months of preparation from some of the best players from across the world. We run through the most represented factions at the event, how they sit in the meta and an example of a WTC list for each faction that you can consider for your next singles event. Grab a drink, sit back, relax and enjoy the episode. See you by the Fireside, Dave & Vik

Welcome back to Episode 58 of the Fireside 40K podcast hosted by Vik Vijay & David Gaylard of Team Ignite.

The World Team Championships (WTC) has come back around and lists are in! That means we are free to share our thoughts on the WTC and wider 40K meta. Tune in and hear us discuss our teams factions (Dave=New Zealand, Vik=England), a few players/teams to watch through the WTC and, as always, some spicy hot-takes.

Grab a drink, sit back, relax and enjoy the episode. See you by the Fireside,

Dave & Vik