Forge world list legality?

[Xavier319]

I know, I know, it's been ages.  Question though. Are forge world army lists like the Ork dread mob list actually legal in stuff like tournies?  They reprinted the rules for them updated for the new stuff, So I was wondering how these lists are viewed.

[Guest]

Faced it in that planetary empires campaign. If not allowing escalation/super heavies, that one should be reasonably balanced.

 

EDIT: OFCC is allowing the FW units and lists.

[Gorgosaurusrex]

Like the Escalation supplement, some tournaments allow Forge World army lists and some tournaments don't.

[AbusePuppy]

Most of the tournaments I've seen don't allow them for whatever reason. I'm actually much more fine with the FW army lists than FW units as a whole, though; none of them are really "broken" in any particular way, and I think only the Necron one is even arguably better than its parent list- most of them are, in fact, significantly worse.

[Guest Mr. Bigglesworth]

Seems this is more of accessibility and familiarity issue as to why no.  Not so much a balance issue, but I read a post that made a lot of sense.  By playing an unknown list you are more likely to be taken advantage of, secondly a TO might be put in a hard spot where they are unfamiliar and make an uninformed ruling.

 

With that said, I'm all for it, it is fun playing lists you have no clue about and adapting as you go :).