Time is ticking down to the final hour before my appointment with the editor.

I am also happy to announce that I am still on track to get my manuscript over to said editor at the appointed time. I have started on chapter 23 and once it is finished, only the epilogue will remain. I'm still making frequent edits on every scene in recent chapters. I've gotten so used to correcting the mistakes that I recognize commonly and using the streamlining process that I've become accustomed with, it's honestly not requiring too much effort to get each scene and their respective chapters to a good place.

Once this is completed - it's time to hit the paint table again.

So my problem is that they finally got to a good playable spot for me, not the meta ...

Sorry, I misread the Meta watch article.  Harlequins at the 4th highest win percentage for the US Open series of tournament.  Overall, they had the highest win percentage for 2022 with 61%.  You might not be playing them as a meta list, but they very much were meta and absolutely dominated the game.  They needed the nerf hammer dropped.  Again, it maybe didn't need to come down so hard, but it certainly needed to come down.

Sick of these changes when the marines just get stronger.

They may have swung the pendulum a bit far the other way, but you have to keep in mind that Harlequins at the 4th highest win percentage at 55%.  Marines, on the other hand, were all sub 50%.  Blood Angels had the highest win percentage at 47%, and every other chapter was at 42% or less.

So, yeah, it may seem frustrating that "Oh look, marines are getting another buff," but they need it.  Marines are being far outclassed by every other army in the game except for Mechanicum.

Harlequins have always had one of the most unstable sets of rules.  Sometimes they have their own codex, sometimes they do not.  Sometimes their defence is exceptionally good, at other times they are as flimsy and wet paper.  All I can say is that I am confident that it will go full circle again, so it's just a question of patience .

This is a very impressive force that you've assembled.  I really do like the colour combinations.  Once everything is finished, it's going to look very good indeed.