1 hour ago, Angry Ewok said:The OP was aimed at
1. pointing out the really cookie cutter meta that is being played, (max long range efficient cores, plus snipers) and challenge the community to do better than simply spamming this easy button in order to win, ( we all can crunch the numbers and see why its good (your not special and smarter than everyone else bc you bought 3 boxes of snipers)
2. to hopefully get people to consider a kill point oriented mission option or an alternate means of scoring that diminishes the overwhelming advantage MSU style lists have in a purely objective based mission. there need to be other missions in the deck that they must plan to counter, hopefully discouraging the mono build style we are seeing
3. point out that very few if any lists in the top 8 of LVO, LCQ, or Adepticon HC did not have at least 1, if not 2-3 Sniper teams regardless of faction, I chaff hard against a unit that is that ubiquitous across both factions, people should not feel like they have to play with at least 2 snipers or they are starting behind, but the results we are seeing bears that out repeatedly. We should not have to buy multiple copies of no-core units to be competitive. Hopefully the shore troopers have a range 4+ indirect fire weapon to counter this massively disproportionate use of a single non-core unit option.
#SniperTeamsAreTheFlotillasofLegion
PS we hate flotilla spam for the same reason
Go read Orks response about halfway up the page, then, watch some of the streams (especially the High Command ones) to get an idea of what competitive legion is actually like.
Thank your our lucky stars we didn’t all have to run the literal exact same list (Specter cell in IA). I’m sorry, but with how few units we have in the game, there’s going to be repetition. At least the 8 lists aren’t actually copies of each other like what I saw next to us at the IA Worlds.
I also don’t agree with the discredit this post does to the 6 months of practice I put in with my list to earn a spot at worlds. I didn’t run snipers because of a spread sheet, I ran them because they’re an efficient tool that did the job I needed them to do (which was mostly activate hunter on Boba Fett!). They had very little to do with my game plan.
Lastly, you don’t have to buy multiple non cores to be competitive. The core units that come in the starter set are still going strong, and may early units and upgrades are still valid. Instead, I challenge you to be like Lupo who saw the sniper meta and directly challenged it, and engineered a solution that also earned him a spot at Worlds. Be the change you’d like to see in Legion - and hold on tight, because this game is changing all the time.