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I've been playing 15 years, since 2nd edition, and I've only just attended my first 1,500pt tournament last week. I've been playing in GW GT's since '01 and they started at 1,750. So I've never seen this golden age of 1,500pts in the US that the OP seems to have seen. I like 1,500 cause it's different but based on playing almost every army in the game and lots of tourney play I have to say that 1,750-2k is the sweetspot. And closer to 2k for that sweetspot as it allows a lot more builds than lower point values do.