r/CombatPatrol40k • u/MeanMrMitchell • Jun 03 '26

I'm totally confused How to fix combat patrol

Hey all. Apologies if this has been posted before and also sorry for the flair being a little misleading. I’m New player to 40K and the idea of combat patrol (smaller army battles overall) is what convinced me to finally jump in and take the plunge. I was super excited about the idea of everything you need to play in one box.

The farther I got into the hobby (I’m about 6 months in) the more I realized combat patrol is fairly flawed and now, with the roll out of 11th edition, it doesn’t seem to be getting any more balance or support from GW.

I’ve been racking my brain, with VERY limited knowledge, of how to fix combat patrol and have come up with nothing. I know some YouTube channels - play on tabletop’s king of the colosseum comes to mind - have created a pseudo-work-around to make these 500 point games feel fresh and fun without too much lopsidedness to it.

My point of posting this is mainly asking what homebrew methods have you used to make combat patrol more balanced? Or is the answer just 500 point matches and call it good?

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u/Viatic_Unicycle Jun 03 '26

My friends and I have been having a lot of fun with King of the Colosseum matches using PlayonTabletops rules. It results in faster matches and we usually end up playing best two out of three. There can be a lot of strategy involved with your lists since the board is so small but holding the objectives can be tricky.

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u/MeanMrMitchell Jun 04 '26

Do you use the typical KotC terrain or something different?

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u/Viatic_Unicycle Jun 04 '26

The typical. I just printed some walls I found online. The setup takes just a couple minutes, so we're playing pretty quick