I Just ran some quick stats on team popularity on the Strike Team Builder so thought I'd share if it interests anyone.
| Faction | Teams* |
| Enforcers | 39% |
| Forge Fathers | 13% |
| Plague | 13% |
| Rebs | 11% |
| Marauders | 9% |
| Asterians | 7% |
| Veer-myn | 7% |
The outcome was not overly surprising with Enforcers being the most popular faction by far. This is reflected in reality at least for me as the most popular team at my club are Enforcers. Everything else is pretty much at the same levels with Asterians and Veer-myn teams being created less.
These are only teams which have been made on theStrike Team Builder by logged in users, but fits with what I have seen at the table. I think players probably own more factions but actually use specific ones more frequently and for Campaigns.
Let me know your thoughts and if you think we need a more even spread. Personally I would like to play against a diverse range of Factions but I'm not helping the issue I guess as I only have enforcers that I really play with. I think I have about six unpainted Forge Fathers together, the rest are still on sprue 😞
Interesting data you shared here.
ReplyDeleteJust my 2 cents here about those results :
- Enforcers are present in both V1/V2 2 players boxes
- They are the core of each Warpath universe related KS
- maybe not the most relevant reason, but a full armor faction is more appealing as you won't have to deal with skin/face pint :p
- humans factions are usually the more normalised one (not specific to Mantic) making them the easiest to play when you're not a hardcore gamer while the others require to be mastered first because of their specificity (weaker but cheaper, OP but with a higher price, specialised in CC or distance, ...)
- the small advance of the Forge Fathers and the Plague could also be explained by their presence in the V1/V2 boxes
My own experienced is not very helping a lot here cause some of my fellow adversaries are close to Mantic (they made the official translation) so they pledge anything and have enough minis to make the official catalog.
Others are sticking with their faction of choice whatever the licence is (you know who you are you Orc/Ork/Orque/Greenskin fans).