Roadkill Zombie wrote:
Seriously? Wow, that's just...I don't even know what to say. I had figured there were enough people interested in playing Squats that the list would have been submitted at least once. I mean how long has NetEA been in existence? And in all that time not one Squat list has made the grade?....I'm shocked to say the least.
Roadkill, lists aren't randomly invented on the fly by a various fan and submitted in the hopes that they get approved - there is a reasonably set out procedure that can take some time.
Inventing a list is surprisingly easy to do. Playtesting and balancing the final product is surprisingly hard. A lot of lists get most of the way there before stagnating.
Each army has an Army Commander, or AC. It's there job to drive the development of the list with lots of feedback from the fans and the sub AC's. If you scroll back through the forum list, you will see the many iterations put out be Moscovian over the years, 1.3...1.4...1.5. At each iteration problems have been identified and changes made.
It takes a fair while to playtest a list. Different playgroups have different play styles and metas. What looks like a balanced list to one group can be a completely different beast in another one.
Only when the AC is happy with the final list do they submit it for approval. Basically a list is usually pretty damned polished before it goes to the head chairs.
Epic Armageddon is kind of having a surge in popularity at the moment. Some might point to the fact that now that GW has discontinued support, it has allowed a lot of proxy suppliers to start making proxy models. But some can also point to the the fact that it is a very balanced and tactical game, which has only occurred through the slow and tedious playtesting process that EA has.