Post by jpgreat1 on Aug 17, 2017 14:51:42 GMT
I must admitt that i`m getting really bored, and have been playing more and more other games.
I think the game rules and mechanics are better then ever, shure. Whats getting me down are:
1) Themes makes its more boring to build lists. Mostly a tournemant player myself, i find playing in theme obligatory. Most lists build themseselfs and its only very minor tweaking. Lists dojoing was something i enjoyed greatly. But not anymore.
2) In tournaments its ton of almost the same armies you play against, because of themes.
Going to disagree with you on themes entirely. Yes I was against them when they first announced this but after playing them and playing in a few tournaments its not cookie cutter. Last convention I went to had 4 cygnar players from my meta get into masters. We had 7 different lists(with 7 different casters) and 1 list brought by 2 players being similar but definitely not exact.
I can build a heavy metal list several different ways with casters like nemo3, haley2, haley3, and pstryker. I can do something similar(like 2 or 3 not several) for storm division for haley3, haley2, and stryker2. Trust me when I say this complaint of theme makes list building boring and you play the same lists all the time is a excuse for the unimaginative or people looking for something to bash. Not coming down on you Cain particularly more so in general. I've seen models used that I would never see used in mk2. I've seen odd ball lists or jank-fest casters masterfully played because a theme list allowed it to be done. In Mk2 while meta did somewhat change over the course of the years you still saw the same dominate lists over and over for almost a decade. I literally remember seeing skarre1 bane spam when I first wanted to get back into the game during MK2 field test and played Runes of War every year at a local convention of mine, sometimes twice a year til MK3 hit. Snipe-feat-Go was popular at several different conventions I went travelling too as well as lets not downplay Gaspy2 and his dominance when the convention before his 1st nerf he took 1st place, 3rd, 4th, 8th, 10th, 12th, and 16th. 5 of those lists literally exact copies of each other. So I think themes are doing quite the opposite. Obviously I feel we have a bit to go because I always say PP can do better but the playability in models and styles in mk3 are a lot better then in mk2.