Correct, you run the risk of misidentifying players who naturally just really like eels/stonehorns/etc as waac, when in fact they are just playing what they like

@@HeyWoah Exactly. Sometimes what they like just happens to also be good. I started collecting KO last summer, and despite having never played a game yet, I technically have one of the more powerful tournament armies. Did I know they were powerful? No, I liked the balloon dwarfs, and if I played a game with them I'd probably lose. On an unrelated note, this was an excellent video. I didn't catch the main stream, but you did a great job of consilidating the main points of it and editing it into a watchable format for us viewers in KZfaq-land.

@@eleanorrock8913 I started KO as well with the thought of "If I buy skydwarves they better fly" and cause I like the baloon models. I played on tabletop sim to make sure investing my money on the models wouldn't leave me hopeless in ever winning. It was against an OBR player and I feel so sorry for his loss.

This is me to a T. I started idoneth a couple years ago when they first came out for the sharks and turtle. Because they fit in really well with fuethan and the akhelian battalions it made sense to go with eels. Now I dont really touch them in favor of my tzaangor army because people aren't going to give me "lul meta chaser" shit for a silly tzaangor army like they did when my akhelian force was top

TBH, even then I think it's poor design to run a list that's just *one* or two units. Then again, I've dropped AOS in favour of conquest, and that game doesn't really encourage spam beside 'necessity' (like drones being theonly choice or the cheapest choice for 3 heroes)

Yeah what a hilarious cop out, I was beside myself when I first learned it.

@@HeyWoah I think this misunderstands Blood Bowl a little bit :) Blood Bowl is trying to emulate a sport, and sport is naturally unbalanced. The Kansas City Chiefs would be the natural favourites vs the New York Jets, just like in Blood Bowl, Humans would be expected to beat Halflings. But, just like sport, you can have upsets, and that is what the Halfling coaches are playing for- they want the challenge, or they just enjoy playing Halflings because they're funny. GW doesn't claim they're equal, the teams are tiered in the rulebook- you know what you're getting into, whether teams are a challenge or not. I think blood bowl players would be driven away if all teams were equal, it would take away from what the players want out of blood bowl

One of the big asides I forgot to go on in the power point was expanding on why dungeon finder and lfr pushed them into design space that exacerbated a lot of the systems that people complain the most about today, gearscore, ilvl, raiderio, issues with gearing and class balance, etc. The convenience is top notch, and a substantial demo are perfectly content playing quasai-solo (which isn't problematic), but there was a better way without sacrificing so much.

Mythic is intended to be really difficult, you can't create group content for 20 people that is at the same time hard to solve and doesn't need any form of social interaction between players.

@@le_chimp Well that's why I said I'm fine with discussing fight mechanics. Also it's not like your keyboard is disabled in the dungeon finder. I just don't have the same desire to form a community with people that I used to. Ironically enough, even though I understand the point HeyWoah is trying to make, a randomized dungeon finder does not care about your spec or raiderio score and only cares that you meet the required ilevel to enter the content you want to do. It's when you have to start constructing the group by hand that you run into issues with those things, which is another reason why I'm not fond of social interaction in video games anymore. So... I dunno, I'm not sure it's the dungeon finder that caused that. It's the fact you can draw from multiple servers while constructing a group yourself. Unfortunately, heroics are laughably easy to the point of being boring and give very poor rewards, so we're in this worst of both worlds scenario now where there's no personalized server-by-server community but you still need to interact with other players to get anything done.

I think you might have been meaning to say intra-faction balance (balance amongst different options inside of one faction) instead of inter-faction balance (balance between two different faction options or factions as a whole) but I can't tell for certain

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@@HeyWoah Thats the "extra damage if they are in the battalion" one right?

@@TheDukeofOok yeah jaws of mork sub faction

Listen buddy, the rules are changing all the time. These models are expensive, go with what you love! Gloomspite are rad, you're gonna have the models for a long time and the rules will change a lot. What's amazing now might be terrible next year and vica versa! Also most people you play aren't hardcore power gamers they just want a fun game! Squigs are awesome dont let anyone tell you otherwise!

IDK was the single worst example of this I think in the whole game, and it's been improved a bit. I don't think it's too much to get past.

Never looked into it tbh, though I've heard people like it.

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@@HeyWoah I feel like your intro was almost preach esque. Not bad.

@@CartoreAOS the preview few seconds has to be snappy - I mostly don't mind preach tbh.