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I was answering another post and the answer dragged out and moved OT so I thought I'd post it separately.
My concern is that the ruleset for our hobby is being tightened up too much to make it tournament ready.
The vast majority of gamers don't play in tournaments and I resent losing quirky and fun lists because they are over competitive. It could be argued that we can still use lists like speed freeks etc in fun games but over time they will become out dated and with only vanilla lists replacing them the game will IMO become poorer.
The solution is to address overpowered armies and units as they arise, in tournament rules. These rules should be a living document which could address seer villages, iron warriors etc. This would be easily justifiable by GW re-iterating that the rules are a gaming system not a water tight competition rule-set and therefore rquire tweaking for competition.
I have no problems with competitive play as such and often play for a beer or pizza but my concern is that the tail is starting to wag the dog. The answer I believe is more updates and the above tournament rules. These can be on the internet. GW claim this would disadvantage people without the internet. Since anybody with no internet access can't read this I say f*** em.
Anyway monday rant over
My concern is that the ruleset for our hobby is being tightened up too much to make it tournament ready.
The vast majority of gamers don't play in tournaments and I resent losing quirky and fun lists because they are over competitive. It could be argued that we can still use lists like speed freeks etc in fun games but over time they will become out dated and with only vanilla lists replacing them the game will IMO become poorer.
The solution is to address overpowered armies and units as they arise, in tournament rules. These rules should be a living document which could address seer villages, iron warriors etc. This would be easily justifiable by GW re-iterating that the rules are a gaming system not a water tight competition rule-set and therefore rquire tweaking for competition.
I have no problems with competitive play as such and often play for a beer or pizza but my concern is that the tail is starting to wag the dog. The answer I believe is more updates and the above tournament rules. These can be on the internet. GW claim this would disadvantage people without the internet. Since anybody with no internet access can't read this I say f*** em.
Anyway monday rant over