When posting list ideas to the Forums, you quite often get replies along the lines of :
- Any decent player will just smoke it
- Any decent player will just ignore it and kill the squishy platoons
- Any decent player will destroy that list
And so on, well I sincerely believe that if you play a lot, you get better, and when the people who play a lot, play against other people who play a lot, these perceptions might apply.
However, any decent player hasn't played against every decent lists frequently, and so needs to adapt when they meet something different. If everybody would play the 'Cookie-cutter' builds, there would be even more truth to the matter, still, Murphy's laws do apply here as well:
Fearless - Isn't
5 rolls in DF equals 5 hits
Smoke it: Smoke needs to range-in, need to remember to do it first (even decent players forget stuff)
Ignore it: I'm sure somebody said the same thing about Hitler
Dice are fickle
Well Said and I am adding you to my Blog Roll.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that and yes, it's not very wise to accept every advice thrown at you as the truth. Hopefully today's kids learn to be bit more critical of 'found it on internet, so must be the truth', in general.
DeleteSome very true words there! Lots of people mistake their own experiences for the conclusive truth on something, makes for some hilarious reading on forums when two opposing views clash. Your comment about 5 DF dice = 5 hits is true though, but strangely only when I'm on the receiving end of it!
ReplyDeleteWell, that's the nature of Murphy's laws, the your side would be 5 dice is never enough to pin a target :) And strangely, when those 5 DF hits happen with 5 dice, you end up failing 4 saves... As opposed to saving 10 out of 11 usually...
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