GlynG wrote:
The Supa Stompa and Stompa formation are regarded as fine as is aren't they? Thought it was just the pure regular Stompa formation that isn't much good? Adding a free Stompa to an already good formation seems uneeded (I tried and failed to kill one of these formations as BTS with my titan legion at the tournament last weekend). Dropping the Stompa cost 25 and upping the Supa-Stompa 25 keeps the most commonly taken formation the same cost while specifically helping the underperforming bits. +50 for a Stompa worth testing too.
This is such a no-brainer. The fact that the Stompa change wasn't automatically coupled with a supa-stompa change is mind-boggling. That's always settled on like page 1 of any discussion of Stompas in the Ork section of the forums.
GlynG wrote:
Yey for 175 Baneblades? Is this intended to be as well as the 2 shot proposal or instead?
This here is the canary in the coal mine for me. I was involved in the 18 page long Baneblade thread. I didn't like the 2 shot proposal at first but after some extensive mathhammering against other ideas it was the only one that made sense. It's the simplest way to make Baneblades not look like dog doo compared to Leman Russes without resorting to insane point drops or stepping on the toes of other variants. Eventually consensus was reached and playtesting was started.
I am not saying the 2 shot is the best or only solution, but I still have my spreadsheet. I could show that a 25 point drop does virtually nothing to improve the abysmal point for point damage output compared to Russes (whether in a Company or a Platoon). The fact that a 25 point drop made the cut instead of the original proposed change indicates to me that the NDC is 30 people who are voting based on gut checks rather than extensive debate.
No offense to the members of the NDC. No matter how experienced they all are as players, they can't possibly be intimately familiar with ~50 different proposed rule changes, vote on them and play test them all within a few months.
I don't know enough about every unit to spot the other flubs like this in the proposed changes, but I bet there are knowledgeable people who could spot at least one nonsensical change for each army list and support their case.
I think this is a fundamental problem with this system. I think you've bitten off more than you can chew.