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THIS WEEK'S HEADLINE

Munitorum Field Manual v1.13 drops — broad refresh, no single faction nuked

GW's quarterly points pass touched 27 factions and surfaced an unusually broad pattern: more units moved than in any MFM since the 10th edition launch, but the magnitudes were small. The average increase was modest, the average decrease was modest, and the aggregate effect on the top-tier metagame appears to be a soft pressure release rather than a structural correction. Goonhammer and Woehammer both characterize it as "tuning," which is the closest the community comes to consensus.

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DISPATCHES

7 ARTICLES TRACKED · WEEK 19 · 2026

TUEMAY 13

Munitorum Field Manual v1.13 published

Quarterly points refresh covering 27 factions. The Archive tracks the diff across MFM versions; no specific point values are republished here.

POINTS Warhammer Community Goonhammer recap

MONMAY 12

Pariah Nexus FAQ #4 released — mission deck clarifications

Six clarifications, mostly around objective control timing and Devastating Wounds interaction. None are score-changing for the average game, but two close exploits that had been driving lists in specific factions.

RULES Warhammer Community Auspex breakdown

MONMAY 12

Warhammer World GT — full results published

196 players, 5 rounds. Necrons took top three, Aeldari topped the X-1 bracket. Goonhammer's Competitive Innovations 47 has the full Top 16 + matchups.

EVENTS Goonhammer recap BCP standings

SUNMAY 11

New Heavy Intercessors squad reveal (preview)

Plastic refresh of the older box. No datasheet preview yet; release date "later this year." File under future-watch.

RELEASES Warhammer Community

FRIMAY 09

Apocalypse format: developer interview

GW design team confirms Apocalypse will see a 10th-edition rules pass, no timeline. Notable for what wasn't said — no Crusade update mentioned.

DESIGN Warhammer Community

THUMAY 08

UKTC season opener results

First UKTC weekend of the WTC qualifier season. T'au won the team-event side; on the singles side, Adeptus Custodes had three players in the top 8.

EVENTS TEAMS UKTC site Woehammer notes

WEDMAY 07

Goonhammer Competitive Innovations 47 published

Weekly meta recap. Headline this week: the gap between Necrons and the rest of the field tightened, primarily on the back of an Aeldari resurgence at smaller GTs.

ANALYSIS Goonhammer

CROSS-SOURCE PULSE

WHAT THE AGGREGATORS ARE SAYING · WEEK OF MAY 11

SOURCE	TAKEAWAY	AGREEMENT
GOONHAMMER COMP. INNOV. 47	Necrons remain top, but the lead narrowed. Aeldari trending up at small/mid GTs. Top-3 is Necrons / Aeldari / T'au.	HIGH 3 of 3 agree
WOEHAMMER WEEK 19 SNAPSHOT	Same top-3, slightly different ordering: Necrons / T'au / Aeldari. Calls out Custodes as the "hidden mid-tier" given small-event success.	HIGH 3 of 3 agree
STAT CHECK DASHBOARD · LIVE	Necrons / Aeldari / T'au at the top across 30-day rolling. Sample sizes meaningful for top 5, thin for bottom 4.	HIGH 3 of 3 agree
40KSTATS ROLLING 30D	Same shape. Notes that Necron win rate dropped 1.4 points week-over-week — first decline in 6 weeks.	HIGH SAME ORDERING

SYNTHESIS: Strong cross-source agreement this week — four independent samples all put Necrons, Aeldari, and T'au in the top three with similar tightening. This is the kind of weekly agreement that should make you confident. The Aeldari rebound is the story; whether it survives MFM v1.13's adjustments is the question we'll be answering by issue 049.

METHODOLOGY NOTE OF THE WEEK

WEEK 19 · COLUMN BY THE EDITOR

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Cross-source agreement is the signal, not the noise

The interesting thing about this week's Cross-Source Pulse isn't that the four trackers all say "Necrons at the top" — that's been true for six weeks. It's that they all flagged the same narrowing, the same Aeldari resurgence, and the same Necron 1.4-point week-over-week decline.

Four independent samples agreeing on a 1.4-point shift is much stronger evidence than any single source claiming a 5-point shift. When sources disagree, the disagreement is often inside the noise. When they all agree, you have something approaching ground truth.

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FIELD GUIDE DEEP DIVE

LONG-READ · ESTIMATED 14 MIN

Pariah Nexus FAQ #4: the two clarifications that actually matter

Most FAQ updates are housekeeping — typo fixes, language tightening, edge-case clarifications nobody had hit. This one is mostly that, but two of its six changes have real metagame implications. We walk through both, with the original mission language alongside the clarified version, and explain which lists they affect and by how much.

The short version: one closes a Devastating Wounds + cover interaction that was lifting Tyranid win rate against vehicle-heavy lists; the other tightens objective-control timing in Crucible of Battle. Both are subtle. Both will produce visible win-rate movement on aggregator data by issue 050.

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AT A GLANCE

WEEK 19 · METRICS

v1.13

MFM VERSION

FACTIONS TOUCHED

UNITS UP

UNITS DOWN

FAQ POINTS

EVENTS COVERED

Metrics are counts only. The Archive does not republish specific MFM values; see the linked Goonhammer / Woehammer coverage for breakdowns.

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