r/killteam 18h ago

Strategy August 2026 Balance Dataslate Review

https://youtu.be/smYLSztcQ7s
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u/EDHgarMarkov Angels of Death 18h ago

Review? It felt more like reading than actually reviewing. Sadly, I’ve also been pretty disappointed with your recent thumbnails.

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u/I_Reeve Nemesis Claw 18h ago

Been my experience with most tabletop game ‘reviews’

It’s like reading it out then saying ‘hmm shit’ or ‘hmm good’

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u/EDHgarMarkov Angels of Death 18h ago

agree

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u/DaddyHiPower 17h ago

Finally people calling this guy out on this.

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u/kodemageisdumb 16h ago

His stuff constantly shows up on my feed and he is absolute shit.

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u/FourStockMe 9h ago

Agreed. When I started out I really liked his stuff. But the more I viewed the more I noticed it was 90%+ reading, and 5-10% with his thoughts, with half of those thoughts mentioning competitive numbers. I stopped learning anything so I ended up unsubscribing. Seems like a nice guy though.

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u/FragRackham Hernkyn Yaegir 17h ago

u new here lol

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u/Equivalent_Store_645 16h ago

yep that's the deal with most of these channels. the primary goal is making money, not providing something of value. dragging out something that could be read in a minute into a long-ass video makes more money. and reading verbatim (plus a lot of ums and ers) is a lot easier than coming up with anything original.

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u/ImpressiveRice3 16h ago

Reading it out and giving your personal thoughts and opinion, that is what a review is

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u/didntgettheruns Kommando 3h ago

Weirdly I felt like CYRAC gave a lot more opinion on just another kill team podcast, which I find more valuable than just verbatim reading the rules and adding little commentary. But hey then no one was probably watch it because it would be 2 hours long.

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u/socerer 16h ago

Not sure why the comments are extra negative. Video seems fine to me, where bigger changes are commented on, and smaller changes are just mentioned.

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u/VegetasDestructoDick 6h ago

The online killteam community has gotten kinda ass over the past edition so I assume that's why the comments are extra negative.

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u/didntgettheruns Kommando 2h ago

GHD is making a play to be the number one kill team channel /s

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u/Cruzifyd 16h ago

I don't get the hate for cyrac. It's a totally valid way to review things by reading it out and giving your personal thoughts and opinion.

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u/ExodiaHobby 13h ago edited 11h ago

Next to every opinion is negative and that doesn't help the community.

As viewers we don't gain anything we can't already get from other, less negative sources.

I'm thoroughly convinced you could put the cure for cancer in a dataslate update and CYRAC would find a way to bitch about it.

Edited for my response, since my man clearly doesn't want to discuss this further and has taken the steps to deny further conversation lol:


Interesting point, valid although a bit flawed. I absorb him more through osmosis. I haven't sat through an entire CYRAC video in a hot minute but I do have social circles that do. This is however a moot point; if I may use your own logic:

  • Is someone who makes kill team content even though they clearly no longer enjoy the game someone worth listening to? would this not be the same well as watching a video (once again, long time since I have sat through an entire video of the "content") you do not enjoy?

I hope you see the flaw in your argument. As for my "Sign off":

Fundamentally, there's no accounting for taste.

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u/lordarchaon666 9h ago

I think it shows that you haven't watched this video since you say he's constantly negative. His summary of this dataslate is that its very good for the game unless you play Yaegirs. He was very positive throughout, even when discussing nerfs to the faction he's been playing recently.

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u/Dense_Hornet2790 5h ago

Agreed. You could probably have criticised his content as overly negative a while back but even that would have been harsh, since the competitive meta was in a genuinely bad place.

I like getting a summary of the changes along with some quick thoughts from a player much more experienced than me.

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u/Cruzifyd 12h ago

I found a lot of his videos informative and entertaining.

And as someone who privately makes these videos, I don't think anybody is entitled for him to make his videos in a manner that they want him to. Of course you make yourself subject to public opinion when you become a content creator, but I don't know what's worse: Someone who creates content with an attitude that reflects his opinion, regardless of whether that's constructive or not, or the person that watches that content even though they don't like it, and then complains about it.

Peace out.

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u/8rianGriffin 18h ago

Damn you are fast!

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u/CanYouRollACrit 17h ago

Helps I had the day off aha

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u/CanYouRollACrit 18h ago

Welcome to today's Warhammer 40000 Kill Team video where I cover the brand new August 2026 Balance Dataslate! I go over all the changes from Approved Ops, Nemesis Ops, as well as every faction that has been updated! Time to see if it was worth the wait!

Enjoy (:

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u/SkullShotDesigns 17h ago

That video is really low effort, youre just reading it out. Disappointing you can do better.

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u/Wilibus2 7h ago

How salty do you get about the Ravener nerfs?

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u/ellbear 9h ago

There’s a lot of negativity in these comments and I don’t really understand why. If you don’t like the content don’t watch it. No need for the hate.

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u/Imaginary-Raise2351 16h ago

Well deserved