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 Sim-Life wrote:
Why? The games was never designed for tournament play and tournament players use scummy tactics like min/maxing soup lists and spamming stormravens.

Their jobs is to make the game fun for the casual players who play games in their garage with their friends for an evening with models they like, not cater to the hardcore WAAC crowd who insist on using the most optimal lists possible.

Are you saying that the game isn't for everyone? Is it just for those non-scummy, non-soup extra fluffy players only? GW's job is to sell models and games to as many people as they can. That means all types of players. I'd be willing to guess that those scummy WAAC tournament players spend as much, if not more, money then casual gamers. This is based on the WAAC guys all needing to have the latest "hot stuff".

Who is this person or who is this a response from/by?

It appears that the studio team members must use the studio's minis and not their personal armies. They are saying that they're limited in their choices by only having 4K points in those 4 armies. So it isn't really a choice for them.

I wonder what they would take if they had their druthers.

beast_gts wrote:

Leo_the_Rat wrote:
It appears that the studio team members must use the studio's minis and not their personal armies. They are saying that they're limited in their choices by only having 4K points in those 4 armies. So it isn't really a choice for them.

Where are they saying that?

They keep stating that on their facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/Warhammer-40000-1575682476085719/?hc_ref=ARTNK7_fmj8D-Ehy0jNCWw13ADaxTB9F3vsQbXFsnAnVTfUk9a-jVh_23hU5nVHM4aU&fref=nf

 lolman1c wrote:

beast_gts wrote:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/03/13/help-us-choose-an-army/

I noticed they only picked some of the most competitive armies... where was the option for Orks?!

The explanation is on their facebook page. They claim that the only armies that studio has at 4K points are the 4 armies listed.

They literally said that they only had a week to get everything ready. They also had an army caveat that the models had to be a cohesive force. (As a GK player I'd love to have a cohesive force so don't get me started.)
I agree that it's strange that they can't do Orks but maybe they only have 1 unit of each type of Ork and it just doesn't add to 4K.

Or someone could go to their Facebook page and ask them why no Orks and ask for a specific reason.

There's no guarantee of an answer or the answer may have to do with the fact that there is something going on with the Ork codex and that they don't want to give anything away.

I don't know and am purely speculating.