![]() One of the most striking aspects of Nephilim’s faction secondaries is that while every faction now has access to a set of secondary objectives all their own, these are by no means created equal. If you wanted to go with Engage as the benchmark here, fine – then 6.2 is the number to beat, though realistically anything over 7 in this category is a win.Īlright, so we’ve got our baselines, let’s look at some faction secondaries. And then finally there’s the Battlefield Supremacy category, where our options are Behind Enemy Lines and Engage on All Fronts. Likewise, not every army can do Raise the Banners High, but for the most part our Shadow Operations secondaries have to beat 7.3 to be worth taking, and likewise for Psychic Interrogation/Warpcraft. This is a great start, though there are some big caveats here – the first is that not every enemy will give you an opportunity to max Bring it Down, but if they do, you should have something that you’re confident can beat 9-10 points. So let’s look at the best secondary option per category: For example, the Chaos Space Marines legions have access to a large number of Shadow Operations faction secondaries, but unless these are better than Raise the Banners High, they’re functionally traps – more on that later. Every faction has access to multiple secondary objectives now, but how do we evaluate them against the generic options? Well, the best way to think about them is to think about the secondaries they replace, and whether they’re likely to be worth more or less than those secondaries. Let’s talk about that benchmark for a second. It’s slightly easier to score than it was in Nachmund, but on average players are doing even worse with it. Engage on All Fronts is now the lowest-scoring generic secondary, yet shows up nearly 20% of the time. Grind Them Down and Engage on All Fronts remain traps. These are just bad secondaries.Though if it causes more people to realize that Grind Them Down is a trap, good for them. Psychic Interrogation and No Prisoners are the big winners of Nephilim’s generic secondaries. Both secondaries appear to be driving higher scoring and more use in Nephilim than Nachmund, though for the latter it’s likely out of necessity.Now our benchmark for secondary scoring is 7.7, though it’s worth giving that number a bit more scrutiny (see below). The average (weighted) value of generic secondaries has gone down a bit. This is primarily because of the loss of Stranglehold, which was the second highest scoring secondary in Nachmund at 9 VP.Previously most games would see one faction secondary in play. The actual math here around how often they show up in games is tricky, because each game has six secondary slots for something to show up in, but the net here is that you’re only seeing them about half as often, and there are naturally going to be many games where they don’t show up at all, if you’re up against say, Necrons (more on them later). Generic secondaries see about half as much use.There’s a lot of great stuff to unpack here, so I’m going to list out the most interesting bits and things to note: Let’s start with the generic secondaries, i.e. While you can find this data on 40kstats – check out the Secondary Scoring page – today I’m going to be doing some additional work with this data and diving in to what it all means. To-date we’ve collected data on nearly 16 thousand games played with the Nephilim GT pack, covering every faction. In addition to data from Best Coast Pairings and other tournament apps out there (such as Tabletop.to and Tourneykeeper), we have data from the ITC Battles app, the premier app for tracking games of Warhammer 40k. For those of you unfamiliar, in Nephilim games players can now choose all of their secondary objectives from their faction-specific set, while some key secondaries – namely Stranglehold and To the Last – were removed from the general set available to everyone. ![]() The War Zone Nephilim GT Tournament pack absolutely upended the 40k competitive scene, dramatically changing the fortunes of a number of the game’s factions and generally changing how objectives are scored. Primaris Kevin couldn’t be here this week so you once again have me filling in with some stats and data from our wonderful dataset over at 40kstats. Welcome, Dear Reader to another fill-in Hammer of Math.
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