InfestedKerrigan Posted September 20, 2016 Report Share Posted September 20, 2016 How'd this last year go? 2015 there was a lot of talk against KnightS and similar. Has the LRC changed? Has the general consensus changed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfestedKerrigan Posted September 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2016 Did anyone bring multi-Knight lists? How were they received? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splinx Posted September 20, 2016 Report Share Posted September 20, 2016 I had no problem going up against 2 Knights and a Kytan out of the 5 games i played. Pretty easy to dispatch quickly if you have the right tools in your army. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 Splinx was far from the only one who didn't have trouble dealing with my Kytan. That said, I don't recall off the top of my head any Armies with multiple LoW. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edosaurus Rex Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 The only superheavy I played against this year was a Greater Brass Scorpion, and it rekt me. I had the tools to deal with it (theoretically at least), but my dice turned sour and I just wasn't able to get any good hits on it. Oh well, bad dice happen! Oh and the fact that he also had seven or eight Soulgrinders may have had something to do with my loss. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 The only superheavy I played against this year was a Greater Brass Scorpion, and it rekt me. I had the tools to deal with it (theoretically at least), but my dice turned sour and I just wasn't able to get any good hits on it. Oh well, bad dice happen! Oh and the fact that he also had seven or eight Soulgrinders may have had something to do with my loss. Ouch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
generalripphook Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 When I fought a knight my heavy weapon teams/units that could hurt it decided to hit only once regardless of the number of dice from the unit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Hanaur Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 The only superheavy I played against this year was a Greater Brass Scorpion, and it rekt me. I had the tools to deal with it (theoretically at least), but my dice turned sour and I just wasn't able to get any good hits on it. Oh well, bad dice happen! Oh and the fact that he also had seven or eight Soulgrinders may have had something to do with my loss. WOWA. That army was at OFCC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgosaurusrex Posted September 21, 2016 Report Share Posted September 21, 2016 I took a Baneblade to this year's OFCC. While none of my opponents told me they didn't want to play against it, I felt that it definitely caused unbalanced games overall. I had a great time with each of my games but they all devolved into "can my opponent kill the Baneblade", which is not where I want to be at OFCC. I don't want my opponent's dedicated anti-infantry units to have nothing to do. I had 5 great games, but I won't be taking a superheavy next year. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Hanaur Posted September 22, 2016 Report Share Posted September 22, 2016 I took a Baneblade to this year's OFCC. While none of my opponents told me they didn't want to play against it, I felt that it definitely caused unbalanced games overall. I had a great time with each of my games but they all devolved into "can my opponent kill the Baneblade", which is not where I want to be at OFCC. I don't want my opponent's dedicated anti-infantry units to have nothing to do. I had 5 great games, but I won't be taking a superheavy next year. Lol. I want talking about that. I was talking about the list in general. It wasnt the super heavy that surprised me. Even Rory took one (albeit his list was otherwise not imposing). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 22, 2016 Report Share Posted September 22, 2016 I took a Baneblade to this year's OFCC. While none of my opponents told me they didn't want to play against it, I felt that it definitely caused unbalanced games overall. I had a great time with each of my games but they all devolved into "can my opponent kill the Baneblade", which is not where I want to be at OFCC. I don't want my opponent's dedicated anti-infantry units to have nothing to do. I had 5 great games, but I won't be taking a superheavy next year. How different is that from bringing a list with lots of flyers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgosaurusrex Posted September 22, 2016 Report Share Posted September 22, 2016 Lol. I want talking about that. I was talking about the list in general. I know you weren't talking about my army, my comment wasn't in response to yours. The Brass Scorpion/Soulgrinder army was not a good fit for OFCC in my opinion - it was actually an 1850 list. The player didn't add 150 points to make it more "fair", but I think it still won all of its games. I kinda threw Ed under the bus by pairing him against it lol. How different is that from bringing a list with lots of flyers? Not very different. I don't think lots of flyers (or any extreme list) should be common at OFCC either, though ironically two of my players from this year ran the Storm Wing formation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 22, 2016 Report Share Posted September 22, 2016 I took a Baneblade to this year's OFCC. While none of my opponents told me they didn't want to play against it, I felt that it definitely caused unbalanced games overall. I had a great time with each of my games but they all devolved into "can my opponent kill the Baneblade", which is not where I want to be at OFCC. I don't want my opponent's dedicated anti-infantry units to have nothing to do. I've run Land Raider lists themed around this sort of thing. But with a Land raider, the Opponent really should be able to cope with overpriced AV14 spam which includes very little damage output. The game does break down into me focusing on the units that can damage me, and them having many units which become objective holders instead of their normal roles. Tyranids in particular, often struggle against Land Raider lists. Though this isn't because any army lacks the tools, anymore, it's just a list creation thing. Anti-AV14 should be very easy to acquire in any army and I'd shouldn't design the list handicapped for players that don't bring the tools they need. Baneblades are easily one of the weakest super heavy options (for the most part, I'd rate them lower than imperial knights). But that said, I have run into the situation you describe for your baneblade, but with my land raiders, and it's annoying for both players, because the game is unbalanced by the presence of something they really can't cope with adequately. It's a bad list match-up, not really an issue in any other way because in both respects, the player's lists are fine for other opponents and this rare situation is what creates the issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisruptiveConduct Posted September 22, 2016 Report Share Posted September 22, 2016 As far as balanced lists and OFCC are concerned, this is why we have Team Captains. All captains should be engaging their opponents in conversations to setup good matchups so that no one is stuck fighting a battle that is already lost. It does not always work. We had great luck with everyone policing the power level of their lists this year and it made for some even matchups for the majority of people. Being a Tyranid player myself, I would hate to be surprised by getting to a table and seeing a Brass Scorpion on the other side because my list does not have the tools to deal with it. However, someone else on my team hopefully would have a list that could and that list would play against the Brass Scorpion. We will be having a Senate Meeting this weekend. If anyone has a desire to be HoG for OFCC 2017, we would love to have you come down and give us your ideas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 22, 2016 Report Share Posted September 22, 2016 As far as balanced lists and OFCC are concerned, this is why we have Team Captains. All captains should be engaging their opponents in conversations to setup good matchups so that no one is stuck fighting a battle that is already lost. That is one of things I really like about the OFCC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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