<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Adepticon Lists"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/7.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Adepticon Lists 40k championship tournament?

I for one think it would be cool if they would post up the top 20-30 or so (in terms of battle points) in order for the community to get an idea of what is doing well.

Lets be honest, seeing the top 1-2 lists doesn't really do anything at all to give a statistical summary of what is doing well.

Hasn't Adepticon always tried to be an innovator? Well here is your change, be the first to start posting tournament lists (if you still have them) and I am sure many others will follow suite.

Having a summary of the top 20+ lists at every major tournament would be great for the competitive side of the hobby and could push list building ideas forward.

Any thoughts on this?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1448802.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1448802.page GMT Adepticon Lists 40k doing this. You need to make your own lists, play the game and tweek your list after seeing what works and what doesn't work.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1448848.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1448848.page GMT Re:Adepticon Lists
That is just me dude. To me its the player not the list.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1448860.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1448860.page GMT Adepticon Lists
Every other competitive game posts lists. So people see whats winning and what they need to deal with.

Their are already plenty of places to copy netlists off the internets. This isn't about that, this is about showing what is actually doing well in tournaments, what kind of lists.


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I don't agree with Darth, that by seeing other lists, you don't learn the game. But, my theory on army lists is that it is more important how you play, than what you play. (This is a large part of the reason that I never bring the same list to anything twice). Over the weekend, there were several games that I probably should have lost based on list analysis, but ended up winning by outplaying my opponent.

Certainly, a list is a vital component to the game, and I don't mean to say that they're unimportant. If you don't have the tools to do the jobs that need doing, you will lose. But, having those tools (having a copy of a list), and knowing how to use those tools are completely different things. There were over 30 mech-guard team armies at the con. Some placed well, and some placed poorly. Some of that is matchups, but much of it is knowing how to use what you have.


I guess I see army lists as being the least interesting part of the game. It's like the most basic level of strategy. You need to bring anti-tank, and anti-troop, in some balance that you believe the metagame will be composed of. You need to bring some movey stuff and some survivey stuff. Sure...

The far more interesting part of the game's strategy, in my mind, is how do you get the tabletop mismatches that favour you? Your opponent is going to have stuff that hurts your army, just as you are going to have stuff that hurts their army. What lets you get the upperhand? What is it that allows you to defeat their anti-tank, before their anti-tank defeats your tanks?

Once we all get past the basic-level strategy that is army list discussion, I think the level of discourse about the game will be much more interesting. And I think that's why I dislike spam-lists so much, and like the approach that Darth and Blackmoor's (among others) marines and eldar take - having a variety of tools, rather than lots of the same thing that leads to only one tabletop play.




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Heck if they sent me scans of the top 20 lists or even all the lists, I would be more than willing to sort out the top 20 (based on battle points) and type them up.




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@Redbeard: I pretty much agree with everything you said.
I do disagree that list building is the easiest and part of being competitive and that it doesn't really need to be discussed in depth.

However, what if at every tournament there was a complete breakdown of lists all categorized.


Like:
30 mech IG showed up, 3 finished in the top 20 in battle points
5 mech dark eldar showed up, 1 finished top 20

It would lead to a lot of thoughtful discussion I believe. And while being a better player still matters a lot. Taking the correct list is important too.
]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1448923.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1448923.page GMT Re:Adepticon Lists 40K lists for Sunday alone...another 440 from Saturday and still another 140 from Friday...and then we'd have to do Fantasy too which is another 400+ lists...not happening.

If people what to post their lists - they should, but AdeptiCon is not going to do this. Most of us just spent 6 months of our lives planning/running this convention. It's time for a break.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1448948.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1448948.page GMT Adepticon Lists
In the realm of things that would never happen, I'd like to see tournaments that had everyone play the same list, and see what happens.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1448957.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1448957.page GMT Re:Adepticon Lists http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1448961.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1448961.page GMT Adepticon Lists
As I am sure the TO's are pretty beat by now and prolly want a vacation from 40k. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1448976.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1448976.page GMT Adepticon Lists
I posted my lists in the Results thread. I top-tenned in the Championship again.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1452641.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1452641.page GMT Re:Adepticon Lists
Redbeard wrote:Once we all get past the basic-level strategy that is army list discussion, I think the level of discourse about the game will be much more interesting. And I think that's why I dislike spam-lists so much, and like the approach that Darth and Blackmoor's (among others) marines and eldar take - having a variety of tools, rather than lots of the same thing that leads to only one tabletop play.

I agree. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1452661.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/286784/1452661.page GMT