billiv15 wrote:
Grand Moff Boris wrote:
In an ironic twist, WotC once published an article explaining why maps with center chokepoints are bad for a miniatures game. And yet, it is the entire focus of tournament-level play for SWM.
I disagree. The time limit is by far the bigger issue. Gambit scoring has been significantly reduced by changes in the rules. The style of play you decry is not encouraged because tournaments require a time limit to finish games, and because some (perhaps many) players refused to believe that they could/should play fast enough to finish games in an hour. I have no problem playing a "sniping" style game in an hour, and finish it. The time limit is the biggest deterrent to it, not gambit.
As to the squad in question, there is a simple solution. With defenses as high as this, why would you want to just sit in gambit and hope you can't die? What's the point of that strategy? You can go base things, attack, and your odds of winning are equal to sitting alone. Make the comparison. Odds of killing anything by hiding a high d piece in gambit - 0. Odds of your opponent killing that piece - let's say 10% in an hour by not moving up. Odds of you killing pieces by charging in - 50%, odds of you dying by charging - maybe 50%. Your odds are better by being offensive anyways. Why should the rules further encourage not playing the game by stalling in the middle? It isn't even good strategy in all honesty - and it most certainly doesn't make the game fun for anyone involved.
I'm going to use Cad Bane just for the Flight/GMA option.
As your opponent, I'd be 9-11 away obviously so:
Base, no damage to Cad
Cad 4 shots at +20, so he still needs 12 (per vassal) 12, 2, 19, 8. 60 Damage and moves 6 away
Bariss Deflect (Force 3) 11, 50HPs
Gowk Soresu (force 4) 17, 12 120 HPs
Next round
Base, 20 Damage Bane at 60HP
Cad Repeats (18,17,2,9) 60 Damage
Bariss Deflect (Force 3) 13 20 Hps
Gowk 18,16 120 HPs
Base, 20 Damage Cad at 40
Cad 5,6,16,17 60 Damage
Bariss defeated
Gowk 11,15 120 Hps and like 6 Force at this point, but you can see him killing Bane is inevitable.
So yeah, it's still situational. He could definately charge with Gowk, Bariss, eh, not so much. Also I think a lot of those rolls may have hit Gowk, really didn't check all the +'s and -'s. The question is: Should he have had to in the first place?