Apprehensive for our 10e codex

[hivefleetkerrigan]

Gsc are the next codex. I'm apprehensive that our codex will not have internal balance, external balance, or different play styles.

Other than gsc, my two other armies are tyranids and custodes.

Tyranids are struggling competitively. Our codex is kept afloat by biovores and gargoyle shenanigans. Barring that, every competitive list seems to have to spam exocrines and maleceptors. Our weapon stats either lack strength, AP, damage, or shotcount to be great. Our games feel less like a wargame with five and take and more a battle of attrition. We're in a weird spot where the army might be able to go horde or big monsters but neither can be brought in the numbers needed to truly count.

For custodes, their codex was largely a nerf and opened up no viable competitive play styles. They lost the strats and abilities that made them durable. The codex appears to have been written before FAQs changed the free stats to be only battle tactics. The whole codex feels like a letdown.

All of this makes me worried for the GSC codex. I'd like to have an army that's viable to play either competitively or casually but I don't think GW is going to pull that off for GSC this edition.

[Hive Bahamut]

Casually there is nothing wrong with any of them. Garagehammer tier is fine.

Competetive is where it all falls apart. Nids were clearly written before all the Strength bumps to weapons, which means some went down somehow when everyone else went up (comparing Tyrant to Grenade launcher for example.)

The bigger issue is battleshock is trash and having a once per game trick that uses it while there is a stratagem to ignore Battleshock is hilarious. Chaos roll it with -1 all the time, and I feel that is going to be one of their weakest detachments.

Nids need some datsheet upgrades, while Admech needs some rule changes.

Custodes on the other hand I have no pity for. -1to hit, -1to wound and -1D ALL before it gets to their 2/4++/4+++ was ridiculous. People hail Acolytes as OP and do too much damage, my last game a squad with Crossfire, APA AND a Primus killed 2 models. Both stood back up. That is ridiculous, and I even rolled hot.

GSC will be stuck with this garbage army rule that doesn't even apply to anything mech/chars so roughly 1/2 the army. Also, Ascension Day is going to stay as the main detachment as the only other draw would be melee, and deepstrike charges are nonstart.

It will probably fall somewhere into obscurity and that is fine. Means we don't get FotM nerfed then left to smoulder. I am just excited to try something new.

[hivefleetkerrigan]

For nids, agree. I feel like I'm playing behind if I'm going casually competitive now. (Doesn't help I've gotten steamrolled by ad mech 2x when they're supposedly garbage tier)

Custodes needed a nerf but the codex was lacking in detachments and some provide almost no benefits.

Honestly, I want to have a fun codex where I can play different lists. I'd also love it if our army rule went back to crossfire. That rule was great. I still vote that the GSC 9e codex was the best codex GW wrote.