Sydney Infinity Town Hall (SITH) have recently painted up some mini's to share with other metas as a way of getting to know other metas as well as growing the hobby side of the game. We did an internal painting secret Santa at the end of last year and took it to other metas this year. It's been great to see what everyone brings and has been a blast been part of such a great group/meta. Here are some of the minis. Shout of to the SITH meta for making such a cool group of minis possible!!! New Zealand Tasmania
I guess meta in a gaming context refers to the area/group you play with. It includes the social context of the group of people who you play with though will also have practical implications about how the game is played as well eg rules interpretation, terrain, gaming etiquette.
I usually mean it in a rules-interpretations-and-army-building-habits sense, and it seems to be more important in the sense of army building habits. For example, I don't see any linked Grunt HFTs, my local Ariadna player prefers to Inferior Infiltrate Grunt HFTs and link Grunt Snipers.
Thanks for the explanation. So far the only use I known (gaming related) is short for meta-game so it seems to be kind of close to it but in a more local sense. The thing is that in French, meta alone is not a word but a prefix so I was a bit lost here Nice Randy Savage BTW.