Mission Statement
Comp carries with it several systemic problems that cause quite a lot of aggravation within the 40k
community.
The three main problems we have identified are as follows.
1. Weather its Panel or Peer comp, judges will sometimes get it wrong. Players get annoyed when
try their best to make fair lists to play at a comp event and get stung unreasonably on comp.
2. Panel, Peer and even the comp system that follows are unavoidably subjective.
Our opinions of how good or bad units or lists are can only be based on our own experiences
which differ sometimes greatly between person to person.
3. Because of both of these phenomenon, it can be nearly impossible for players to guess what
their comp score will be. Very often players give up on trying to make balanced and fair lists
because of this and will sometimes instead bring a list far too hard for a comp event.
Unfortunately the player that plays balanced list feels like a sucker when they don't get a decent
comp score and get trampled by one of these hard lists all the same.
The aim of this system is to remove the guessing game about comp by making everything as
transparent as possible. That way there will be no nasty surprises at the end of the event to upset people
and hopefully players wont give up on building fair and balanced comp armies.
We cant ever get rid of the subjectivity of comp but we can minimize it by tapping into the experience
and opinions of the best cross section of the community as we can.
A small committee will take feedback from the community to help guide their decisions on how best to
tweak the system every few months and after every new release. This will serve to keep the system
current and hopefully over time slowly improve to better balance the meta.
Simplicity is important so that the system remains easy to use and easy to identify if a player has made
a mistake. For this reason we will endeavor to keep the number of rules to a minimum.
Our consortium will host tournaments using this system and we are happy for you to use it for your
own tournaments if you wish.
We ask only that you give us feedback on how the system functioned at your event so that we can use
that information for continued improvements.
Thank you.