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Every Monday, The Tactical Uplink reads the whole week of competitive 40K — tournament results, creator breakdowns, podcasts, and the stats boards — and distils it into one briefing: what’s plausible, and what’s just noise. Then it connects the dots across all of it — where the week’s best players and sharpest creators converge, where they split, and what the results actually prove.
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This week’s briefing
Deathwatch Terminators at 71.9%, a Paris major won at 8-0, and a one-event Halloween weekend: the week’s headlines and the Top 10, in one briefing.
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Meta Analysis
The state of the competitive meta
The builds, detachments and missions defining competitive 40K right now — drawn from each week’s tournament results, battle reports and top tables, and updated every Monday.
+ Art of War
Deathwatch Terminators inside Assault Brethren
The package is running at 71.9% in the Listhammer data. The same Ultramarines build, Deathwatch Support with Terminator Storm Force and Assault Brethren, won or placed at four events in the Goonhammer roundup.
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Shamblerot, minus the centrepieces
Alban de Polignac won Paris at 8-0 with an MSU Shamblerot list that skips Mortarion and the Defilers the standard build runs. Small units with quality characters, built to trade up.
+ BCP collection
One qualifying event, six factions absent
The Halloween weekend produced one qualifying event on the Sunday Night Stats cut and four events in our collection. Six factions fielded nobody at the qualifying event, Guard among them for the second straight week.
Warhammer Tournament Shinjuku, October
The Top 10 — podium
The week’s biggest event, in stored finishing order. The full Top 10 — with every army list in full — runs in the issue.
OZ MC, Adeptus Mechanicus
Belisarius Cawl as warlord and Thulia Ghuld behind a four-model Kastelan Robot block with a Cybernetica Datasmith.
Top score 2
Paolo Di Fonzo, World Eaters
Angron in Berzerker Warband, with a Lord on Juggernaut as warlord and twelve Eightbound and Exalted Eightbound.
Top score 3
Daisuke Nakashima, Death Guard
Mortarion as warlord in Virulent Vectorium, with two 10-model Plague Marine squads and two Deathshroud Terminator units.
Top score
Placings 4–10, all ten complete army lists, and the BCP source links are in the full Week 45 briefing.
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