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Reply To: The issue of the "elite" army (and finding opponents)….

February 15, 2019 at 11:05 pm #1349644

elessar2590

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Price is definitely a massive part of people not doing horde armies along with all the extra painting time and transportation issues.

I enjoy games like Sharp Practice and Muskets and Tomahawks because they force you to take Regular Troops. Granted you could take an army of elites but you’ll be beaten very easily in almost every game.

Any free choice game is going to see a lot of uber armies because they work. Scenario’s defeat Uber Lists and if more people played a wider variety of scenarios rather than Kill Points I think we’d see a lot more variety in lists.

Uber armies are generally easier to learn, Space Marines are a lot easier to learn than Dark Eldar.

I personally recommend people build both sides for any game they play so long as it’s within reason. You’re much less likely to build an elite army when you know about half the time it’s in the hands of an opponent.