Red Corsair wrote: Sim-Life wrote:I just don't buy that because someone takes a green tide list that they should have special concessions made for them.
This was my main point. Tournaments are not supposed to strive for making every army faction and list build type playable, they are supposed to provide a smooth and fair environment to play a game that was never intended for competition. This makes the job difficult enough. If you want to play an Ork horde army then do it in open play and not timed events. This idea that everything needs to start on a level base is idiotic. Tournaments already create an artificial meta that becomes even more evolved depending on whos organizing it. The meta is part of the deal and unfortunate as it may be, massive armies have never been great in any meta since tournaments have been held for
40k. Ironically 8th edition is the first edition to LOWER the hurdles by removing blasts and scatter, making things like these possible:
My
IG army runs at least 70 guardsmen and I can tell you that using those trays I actually finish deploying before some of the grey knight players I have faced. It's called knowing how to play in the environment and having a game plan before you get there. Ork deployment is one of the EASIEST things in the game to do when your running hordes and dropping 10 boys at a time using those bases should make deployment and movement last seconds per mob.
PS they come in 20 and most providers will make you custom ones if you email them.
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I quite agree on 'no concessions' for certain builds. As mentioned earlier, as soon as you know there's strict time limits to a game, most players will know that certain armies just aren't going to cut the mustard.
Those movement trays are a solid idea. Spesh if you've already magnetised your troops in for transport. Might take a while to properly catch on in
40k though, simply because people are used to blast templates making such things a bad idea in previous editions