O Fuck You

My rant today is about comp. In my small city their is only one wargaming club, which runs a few tournaments. 40k is not comped and looks fine for gaming. I however prefer to play fantasy and that is comped to the ground.

• NO Storm of Magic units/items/spells/abilities ect.
• Banned Special characters: Teclis
• Banned Items: Power scroll, Book of Hoeth, Infernal puppet and folding

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• Maximum of one (1) special character-this can be either a lord or hero                                                                                                                                    

• Any number of special champions may be used in addition to a single special character selection.

• Max 1 Lord choice of either a Warrior/Magic type. (An Archlector is mage for this purpose)

• Max 3 Hero choices of Warrior/Magic type

• Max 2 of the same Special choice (No Triplication)

• Max 1 of the same Rare choice (No Duplication). For the purposes of this rule it is permissible for double RBT’s and Eagles.
This compensation DOES NOT ALLOW double Hellcanons, Screaming Skull Catapults, Treemen or other similar choices. Further more, 2 for 1 choices count as a single selection. Also, units that are upgraded count as a single unit, for example Longbeard Rangers, Wood Elf Scouts and similar options.    

• Max 4 warmachines. This includes Daemon Engines, Steam Tanks, Hellcannons, Anvils of Doom and any other similar models that fire a missile weapon that is significantly more powerful than normal.  Salamanders and Stegadons count as a single Warmachine slot. Thus 3 Salamander models/bases will count as 3 warmachine slots. 

• In addition, for Skaven Players, a single Hellpit/Screaming Bell/Furnace/Warp Lighting cannon/Plague claw catapult/Doom Wheel are treated as a single Warmachine slot. The selection of a single weapons team does not count to this restriction. HOWEVER two weapon teams count as 1 warmachine slot (3 teams=1 slot, 4 teams=2 slots, 5 teams=2 slots, etc, etc.).

• Max 45 models with ranged attacks. Models with a range of 18”
or less count as ½ a model. These allowances DO NOT include warmachine slots described above. Further more, this does not include characters.

• Max 4 chariots or units of chariots. This includes characters mounted in a chariot.

• Only 1 unit may cost between 400-500 pts. This DOES NOT includes characters.                             

• Only 1 unit may have between 40-50 models.                   

• A MAXIMUM of 12 POWERDICE may be used in a single magic phase, regardless of the source. This may be reduced as listed below.

• If the LOREMASTER ability (page 76 WFB rulebook) is used it counts as 2PD, these dice will be subtracted from your power dice MAXIMUM.
• The use of RUINATION for a Lizardmen Slaan counts as 3PD. These dice will be subtracted from your power dice MAXIMUM.                                                                        

• Any ability that grants FREE POWERDICE (e.g. Dark Star Cloak) will minus the same number of powerdice from your POWERDICE MAXIMUM. An army with loremaster and +1 powerdice would therefore have a MAXIMUM total of 9 powerdice.

What bullshit. It is clear that a noob is organising this tournament.

From his point of view Warriors of Chaos are very strong, thats why they needed Puppet and Hellcannons removed or limited. Well actually he is a dumb fuck cause WoC are shit. Noobs are scared shit of them but good players can crush them. We need hell cannons and  puppet. We cant compete in magic compared to the big four, we cant shoot (apart from hellcannons, and there are things that slaughter us in combat. So what are we supposed to do when we play Dark of High elves. Marauder hordes will get dwellered/purple suned and then get the remained crushed. Bolt throwers and Okkams will slaughter our warriors. Sure we can take their magic and warmachines out turn two or three, but sadly we dont get super damage lores that work well on elves. To kill Swordsmasters and the like we need a couple of turns of dual hellcannon fire.

Dark Elves got the nerf bat as well. Sure they can still be good, but they wont be balanced and will lose to certain builds. They cant chariot monster spam. They cant sac dagger much. And they cant bolt thrower spam.

Lizards lost the best thing going for them, their great magic.

Shit dwarfs dont stand a chance with only four war machines, same as empire. 4 four machines in nothing with the low accuracy of skaven.

Why did they ban power scrolls. Sure they are good but everyone can get them.

Sure Teclis sucks to face. But he is normally in an expensive bunker unit. Just ignore it and kill the rest of the army or charge a flyer into him.

Wood elves cant even take many archers, and their rock bottom.

So this stupid noob has weakened everything. So what that your not smart enough to beat the good armies. It's not cheese, it is called good list building. Good players with good armies can deal with everything. So what if this tourney is aimed for less experienced players. They need to learn how to deal with things and the best way to do that is practise, and watch others deal with things. And finally, if you want it to be just a social occasion, that is what the game store is for. A tourney is supposed to be competitive.