FACTIONS

DOSSIERS

The faction field guide.

Every faction in 40k carries its own arithmetic — its archetypes, its hard counters, the matchups that consistently break in or against it. Dossiers is the section that catalogs that, faction by faction. It does not republish aggregator win-rate tables; it indexes signals, names patterns, and links out to where the deeper data already lives.

The Strength Index below gives the cross-faction Vital Signs view. Per-faction dossier pages drill into one army at a time: archetype, per-target / per-threat radar, Unit Lab roster, concentration callout, editorial perspective, and tournament-recap cross-links.

CROSS-FACTION VITAL SIGNS DASHBOARD

Strength Index
Four-signal vital-signs view of each faction — theory, performance, practice, attention. We don’t reduce to a single number; the disagreement between signals is the editorial product.
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PERFORMANCE DATA FIRST-PARTY TOURNAMENT METRICS

The Archive’s Pull
First-party BCP-derived faction performance — manually compiled weekly from 5+ round events with no player-count floor. Faction win rates, VP differentials, top-finish frequency, faction-vs-faction matchup matrix, and round attrition profiles for the current week’s competitive landscape.
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PER-FACTION DOSSIERS 29 FACTIONS · ALPHABETICAL

Adepta Sororitas
NARROW BUT DEEP z -0.1636
33 matched-play units
Adeptus Custodes
BROADLY CAPABLE z +0.3901
31 matched-play units
Adeptus Mechanicus
BROADLY CAPABLE z -0.1618
32 matched-play units
Adeptus Titanicus
BROADLY CAPABLE z -0.1248
4 matched-play units
Aeldari
BROADLY CAPABLE z +0.0729
69 matched-play units
Astra Militarum
BROADLY CAPABLE z -0.2448
69 matched-play units
Black Templars
BROADLY CAPABLE z +0.2371
18 matched-play units
Blood Angels
BROADLY CAPABLE z -0.0719
16 matched-play units
Chaos Daemons
BROADLY CAPABLE z -0.2435
54 matched-play units
Chaos Knights
NARROW BUT DEEP z +0.6603
20 matched-play units
Chaos Space Marines
BROADLY CAPABLE z +0.1442
57 matched-play units
Dark Angels
BROADLY CAPABLE z +0.5174
16 matched-play units
Death Guard
BROADLY CAPABLE z +0.1863
34 matched-play units
Deathwatch
BROADLY CAPABLE z -0.3387
10 matched-play units
Drukhari
BROADLY CAPABLE z +0.0998
22 matched-play units
Emperor’s Children
BROADLY CAPABLE z +0.2317
23 matched-play units
Genestealer Cults
BROADLY CAPABLE z -0.4268
24 matched-play units
Grey Knights
BROADLY CAPABLE z -0.1234
27 matched-play units
Imperial Agents
BROADLY CAPABLE z -0.2167
29 matched-play units
Imperial Knights
NARROW BUT DEEP z +0.523
22 matched-play units
Leagues of Votann
BROADLY CAPABLE z +0.0986
21 matched-play units
Necrons
BROADLY CAPABLE z +0.0208
49 matched-play units
Orks
BROADLY CAPABLE z -0.2328
53 matched-play units
Space Marines
BROADLY CAPABLE z -0.0883
103 matched-play units
Space Wolves
BROADLY CAPABLE z -0.1028
22 matched-play units
T’au Empire
BROADLY CAPABLE z -0.2014
42 matched-play units
Thousand Sons
BROADLY CAPABLE z +0.165
34 matched-play units
Tyranids
BROADLY CAPABLE z +0.1166
49 matched-play units
World Eaters
BROADLY CAPABLE z +0.2263
30 matched-play units

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A dossier is a description, not a verdict. The Strength Index reads four signals side by side without collapsing them; long-form essays live on Awakenings. Dossiers is the field guide between them.