Rules for a 'balanced' army for a future event/s?

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Wayniac wrote:
No PL higher than 32 (even if using points), I would say require a detachment to be filled out completely before you can add another detachment (I think GW should implement this one themselves)

Still screws over, say, Chaos Marines kinda hard, while leaving IG sitting pretty.

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Warpspy wrote:
Nice idea. I'm a returning player from the first year or so of 5th edition and all the "competitive" lists i have seen make me cringe in pain...

I don't know if makes sense, but i would like a return to the "good old days" of 3rd to 5th in terms of restrictions and army composition, like:

- To be considered "battle-forged" an army must have at least 2 faction keywords in common for all its units (So yes, in my opinion those abominations of "soup-list" should never had been possible)
- Only 1 detachment per army
- No Lords of War allowed (those were originally FW models for showcase and then a few years later, apocalypse. The current state where you can field 3 imperial knights or 3 baneblades or things like that makes me bleed my eyes, and i think is not good at all...)
- Only 1 flyer allowed per army (most of these are very powerful and 40k was always about the ground war)
- Supreme command detachment not allowed (to avoid powerful HQ aura and powers spam)
- Cannot take more than 3 units of the same entry (to avoid classic "6 x 5 tactical marines las-plas" and still let some armies fulfill a batallion)
- Imperial assasins is one and only one regardless of its class (that is, only 1 eversor OR 1 vindicare OR 1 culexus OR 1 callidus, as it was originally like that if i'm not wrong)
- If you want to use FW rules for your models, you have to have the actual FW model to do so (so, less chance to unscrupulous players to "convert" something and use as the FW broken unit of choice)
- No FW army lists allowed

And as a bonus, i would add: no named characters allowed. Those were originally "only with your oponent's permission", so in a "competitive event" it would not be the place for them...

Well, that's how i would tweak the game to be more fun and playable, but GW only want to sell more expensive models so i guess we will have more flyers, lords of wars and primarchs...

1 Detachment means Supreme Command is out unless you have ridiculously expensive HQs.
No more than three of the same cripples some armies, barely hurts others. What do Harlequins do?
Imperial Assassins can't be taken at all in this, since it's a max of one Detachment and one Assassin that have to share at least two keywords... So...
No FW unless you have the actual model is okay, I guess... But what if the conversion is actually really cool and took a lot of effort?
And why no FW army lists? They're no more broken than GW is.