StevekCole wrote:
Blip, with your mission the change I'd make is going back to 4 turns rather than 3 which gives non-horde armies the chance to whittle down their more cumbersome horde opponents. I was really up for trying Dark Eldar at that event until it dropped to 3 turns at which point Krieg were a no-brainier.
Yep, the drop to 3 turns was made as we found players tended to take longer to play the game when it was new to them - Because any accumulator scenario relies on making a judgement as to whether to go for early or late points we felt we had to set a manageable turn limit so that everyone had the same opportunity to gain victory points. We kept the larger deployment zones the same as the AoS original (30cm) to accommodate slow armies like Krieg, though i'm not sure that was actually necessary in retrospect.
Richard's victory conditions relying on margin of victory is a good move in this regard, though i would still think you still need a set turn limit as a player using a tough army could string it out to turn 4 in order to achieve a crushing 10 point victory in turn 4 rather thank small victory in turn 3. Maybe a earlier victory should be weighted somehow as it is in the EpicUK points table currently?
Over all, I think krieg and ferrals need careful testing in this scenario. Especially when amplified with the "half strength" and "one formation per objective" rules. In fact, as this scenario already favours tough armies, i'm not so sure it is necessary. They would be interesting modifications to the old tournament scenario though...
I've also thought for a while that the tournament scenario is already weighted against defensive play (which i'm sure was intentional). However the need to hold all 3 own half objectives, 2 of which are placed by your opponent, for one VP is quite a task when weighed against blitz+1 placed by yourself being worth 2VPs. Not sure if others agree?
* BTW - I couldn't find this thread on my phone before, but now at a PC I've dug it up and i should credit Matty_C's work converting the AoSigmar scenarios to EA, from which Ian an I "borrowed" heavily :
http://www.tacticalwargames.net/taccmd/viewtopic.php?f=177&t=31785&hilit=age+of+sigmar They are worth a look.