Community Comp

yes its been play tested quite extensively, pretrty much every tournament that runs in the states of Victoria and South australia now use it. West Australia are beginning to use it as are ACT and NSW will soon be predominately Community Comp.
Its also used in Italy, Finland and starting to be used now in New zeland.

We have the army lists from several tournaments available as an example we can present but for a taste of that below is the list i have been playing are recent major events. I win most of my games and its one of the tougher lists at these events.
I am the kind of guy who trys to break the system and grind as many points out as i can. Im not a dick about it, im a good sport but i am what you might call a power gamer. This system really is designed to prevent power gamers from making really hard armies.


1850 pts eldar CAD // dark eldar allied
Asuremen

Farseer with Singing spear, Falochous wing, runes of whitnessing

9 Harlequins (codex eldar ones) with shaddow seer and all of them with harlequins kiss

5 dire avengers in wave serpent with scatter lasers, shuriken cannon and holo fileds

9 jetbikes with 3 shuriken cannons and a warlock on bike with singing spear

6 jetbikes with 2 shurien cannons with a warlock on bike with singing spear

3 war walkers with scatter lasers and star engines

Bastion with escape hatch and comms relay

Archon with armor of misery, shaddow field, hawywire grenades and husk blade

5 kabalite warriors in a raider with torment grenade launchers and night shields with a dissintergrator.



This list won the recent 1850 tournament called the western smash

HQ:

Mephiston - 175

Librarian (lvl 2) with force axe, combi-melta. Veritas Vitae (Warlord) - 115

Troops:

Tactical Squad (5) with Heavy Flamer. Drop Pod - 115

Tactical Squad (5) with combi-melta and meltagun. Drop Pod - 125

Elites:

Command Squad (5) with 3 melta guns, 2 storm shields. Drop Pod - 185

Fast Attack:

Drop Pod - 35

Drop Pod - 35

Heavy Support:

Vindicator with over-charged engines - 130


Grey Knight Allied Detachment:

HQ:

Grey Knight Librarian (lvl 2) with Nemesis Warding Staff and combi-melta - 120

Troops:

Strike Squad (5) - 110

Elites:

Purifier Squad (10) with 4 incinerators - 270

Heavy Support:

Dreadknight with Nemesis Greatsword and Personal Teleporter - 170

Legion of the Damned Deatchment:

8 Legion of the Damned with Combi-Grav, Meltagun, Multimelta and the Animus Malorum - 265




Overwhelmingly players are agreeing that the community comp format is the best they have played in.
The victorian state championships was a particulartly good example of this. Its traditionally a no comp event so the gloves are off. But with 7th the way it is we really couldnt justify running the event that way because we knew there were like 5 players who would do horrible things to the others.
We allowed players to spend up to 14 credits but we didnt use a comp score and we use the Community Comp missions. It was widely accepted as the most ballanced 40k we had all played.

There are teething problems that players commonly run into when they are learning the system, mostly them thinking that something should be worth less than it is by a little or them imagining ways they can break the system.
These wear off pretty quickly when they actually start making army lists and see the costs in the context of armies (which is how we decide on costs, nothing is just costed in a vacume)
The people who think they can break the system generally end up just making a good army that is costed appropriately and on the rare occasion that they DO come up with something that shoiuld be more expensive than it is we fix it.

Balancing might seem like a mountain to climb but over the last year and a half we have climbed it

essentially we look at the unit and the kinds of armies its likley to appear in and the way they contribute to the power level of those armies.
Then we make a targeted cost designed to hit spesisfically the thing that needs the cost but to leave other things alone.

This is why some things seem high, they are costed in context not in vacuum.


Really it doesnt get in the way of fluff at all its purely concerned with the power level of the game aspect, you as a player make lists according to your fluff boner.
The system HELPS fluff players because it softens the general power level of the tournament scene which allows players who make non optimal choices for fluff reasons arent having to face armies that are as strong.
The only time it will suck to be a fluff player is when your fluff would dictate that you bring are really really strong army and even then if you dont care about winning the event you can still do it.

The things you have raised are valid concerns that is always raised when people are introduced to the system but when you start making lists and seeing events use it then you realise they arent a problem

mine was 12 at the time and the pod army was 6.

My eldar has recently incurred an extra credit in asurmen so its now a 13.



We have basically decided after a very very large ammount of deliberation and several wide polls of the community and constant probing that there is a thick sentiment in the community that some super heavies are too much to deal with in comp game.
One of our fundimental principals that guide our decision making is:
"is it reasonable to expect that an average comp army can deal with this?"

an imperial knight most armies can either kill or dodge, 2 of them quite often they can kill one and dodge the other but 3 is getting pretty hard to deal with.
A stompa is more than twice as hard to kill as a knight but it also shoots 7 very dangerous weapons on the first turn a can kill a huge sectiion of a marine list on turn 1.

The obelisk from necrons is banned because the guns shoot 270 degrees so it can very easily lay down 20 HITS of s7 per turn and is tough enough that it will do that every turn for the whole game. its jsut too much to kill and too much to weather for most armies. the tesseract labrynth is even worse.

we have jsut released an imperial armor expansion pack with quite a few super heavies that are legal.

its not 1x2 for cumulative its 1+2. the third one is 1+2+2

4th is 1+2+2+2 etc etc.

Hey are the comp rules going to be made into an excellent sheet or an app?

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Great question.

We have a very skilled Web designer on our team who has grand plans of a Battle scribe type app. but a first step will be an online army building program that lets you write in your army with all the resources at your finger tips. you can submit your list online to your tournament organiser if they have registered thier event with us.

We dont just offer a comp system, handy cheat sheets, army list templates etc. We are about to release a full tournament organisers pack which is quite literally a basic shell for a players pack, mission pack, comp system, Score calculation system for runnning things on the day, score sheet proformers to be printed etc. Just everything a TO needs to run an event and all they have to do is fill in the blanks.
We offer the service to check over everyones lists to make sure they have the right comp scores calculated etc which saves TOS further time. The thing we get out of this deal is all the data from thier event. This means all the army lists, the final standings and all the round scores so we can analyse it using our handy dandy statistical tools and better improve the system.

Were always looking for new people to help out as well. There is a list as long as my arm of things to do, its an embarrassingly large ammount of work to get it to this point and maintain it. I have become quite obsessed lol.

Vaz we arent rapidly changing the metagame and this system does not just move the goal posts. That idea is a common one that people notice when they are first introduced to the system.


We define a balanced metagame as one where all codexes can be used to make competitive armies and there is many possible competitive armies.
In addition the "best army" in a ballanced metagame is not very much more powerful than "second teir armies".

What Community comp does is lower the power level of the format enough that all codexes can make multiple competitive armies and it specifically targets powerfull builds and combinations so that the best army/s are not very much more powerfull than second teir armies.

This is different to say a highlander system where they Change the meta game rather than lowering the power level generally.
When doing this they aim at the more powerfull armies but in doing so they wound second teir armeis as well. in these systems the best army is still far more powerfull than second teir armies, they are just all different armies.


You must understand, i am "that guy" and so are most of the people on the community comp pannel. Breaking systems is what we do, we enjoy it and were good at it.
Myself i have been getting away with murder under the pannel comp system for years now. We made this system because we are watching 40k generally take a nose dive because of the series of massive mistakes GW have been making. players are leaving for x wing in droves and tournament attendance is dropping to the point where in several states in Australia (where im from) events arent even running.

We made this system to Fix whats wrong with 40k. They do everything right exept accurately written rules and ballance.
This system provides ballance not just a different metagame and it does this in part by providing a deliberately engineered "sweet spot" in the system.
I dont care who knows it because it doesnt change the systems efficacy but f you spend 5 or 6 credits you have the best chance to win a tournament. You get the most comp points for your army and the good players who try and win notice this.
Across the board the best players are playing 5s and 6s which is the softer end of the scale. We suggest that all players use an army that spends between 8 and 12 so the average player ends up with an army thats in fact inhearently more powerfull than the top players are using.

This contrbutes significantly to the effect i mentioned earlier where a newer or less capable general meets thier opponent on the table and can look across the board and think to themselves "well this might be a hard game, but i know i can deal with those units, That unit might be a bit scary but if i do x/y or z i can probbaly bring it down eventually and if i play well and get a bit lucky i might win"

thats what were looking for because thats when newer players have fun and are enticed to come back.

Nurgle oblits are actually 2 credits for a unit of 3 actually. maybe ill have to have another look at the table and see if i can clarify it some more.

You actually have limited detachment options in CC. You will notice there is a page for detachemts which details it.
you cant have double CAD and we are debating now making the decurion style detachment take up all your detachments which will probably change in the next update in june.

The 55 models rule like all the rules there has a specific purpose. Marine equivilent armies rarely trigger 55 models and when they do its by a few models and they can almost always make a small tweak to dodge it.
horde armies find themselves making a small tweak around 110 models.
essentially what this rule does is to provide a soft pressure for armies to think about thier model count which helps to curb model spam a little.
It seems like a meaninless rule now but when and if you start making lists in the system it will make sense.

I havent figured out a way to make the system look like it works on first impressions but i think its actually a sign that its been done right.
So often these systems look snazzy in the begginning but it ends up being crap when you use it. This is kind of the opposite, looks like its full of holes now but when you use it you find out it is pretty solid