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I guess I'm looking at things as a 7th ed/6th ed player, where more diverse and well designed scenarios were common.

I didn't play much of eighth because I didn't enjoy the process of laboriously unpacking all my troops for my O&G only to have to put them all away again on turn 1 because someone super-spelled the unit to death.

My 7th edition experience was the same. Pitched battle. That was it. That was a major contributor to why I quit 7th edition for three years waiting for 8th.

That and the daemon/vc/dark elf books and what they did to my area.

I guess a lot of it is down to the local scene. I never had problems getting people to play non standard scenarios back when I had a regular gaming group.

Agreed on daemons/vc/DE though.

Yeah - your local scene will definitely color your overall perception of the game.

If I had had a scene in 7th edition that wasn't as tournament / internet meta focused and who would play a variety of scenarios I would have had a lot more fun and would look on that edition a lot more favorably.

auticus wrote:Where I'm at, I could never get anyone to use any of the scenarios besides pitched battle, because "they aren't balanced".

Huh. We played a lot of quasi-Battleline up here, but often using tournament scenarios involving objectives of one kind or another, or variations on BRB scenarios (i.e. King of the Hill instead of Watchtower, B&G that doesn't auto-end, etc). But then I suppose the NE USA WHFB GT circuit we were always practicing for wasn't entirely like other regions. (And holy fakk the past tense on that hurt to type!)

auticus wrote:That and the daemon/vc/dark elf books and what they did to my area.

Da Boss wrote:Agreed on daemons/vc/DE though.

*shudders*

Yea, certainly a dark time. There were many things I didn't like about 7E as it went on, to a much greater extent than what I didn't like about 8E towards the end. That my entire Ogre army could be killed by a single DE assassin was one of them

- Salvage