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Not as sad as how many threads you've posted this whine on... lol

Ok, so joking aside....

If you don't care about competitive play, then there is no need to care about points. If you don't care about points, then who cares what you bring to the table, bring whatever.

If one does care about competitive play, then the community of those who do care need a common standard across groups so that when they meet they are not all over the map about what they bring. Inside a group, 450 or 350 or 475 whatever is fine. Between groups, a standard makes sense.

And this forum is a 'between groups' thing.

List building is perceived to be a puzzle. There are good solutions to the puzzle and not so good and we like to talk about which. But a 450/20% squadron puzzle is unique to you while other players, in their limited time and on this 'between groups' forum, are rightly focused on the puzzle that is relevant to a group of 'between groups' people.

Also, there is practice. If one is competitive, one wants to practice. And gaming time is limited. While a 450 or 500 pt game sounds fun, I'd personally rather get some more practice in. If we take a break and play a 450+ point game, that would be cool but a one off, and I'd throw the list together and get out there and pew-pew and not sweat the details.

So, what you are doing is somewhat akin to berating Madden 15 players for not looking at your football team that has 14 players on offense instead of 11.

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I will say this, at my home when we are having casual miniatures play, me and my brother generally dont bother with Objectives, and we try to use as much as we can with out it going to crazy. We like to look at how many points EVERYTHING we own costs, and then average that out to a more reasonable thing. Like we are definately getting enough points to field 4 squads + 1 of each type of ship for each faction + the commander. If we want to opt for more squads or doubles of a ship type we can obviously but it ends up with massive point values to allow all kinds of crazy things, but at that point I am just playing for fun oft things, and not really looking for "ship builds" since at that point its not really practiced or thought about for most people, so my guess is as good as there's.