Sacrilege83 wrote: Well this topic reminded me of one of the reasons why I prefer SBG over WotR. And WHFB has become that way too with overpowering wizards and warmachines mostly dictating the game. It's like you just assemble up these hundreds of models just to get mowed down quickly in these games, like there's no chance to set up battlefield tactics for the infantry troops.
While I too prefer SBG to WotR, I find WotR is a nice change of pace from time to time. Like Beowulf, I'm fortunate enough to have a group of players that doesn't abuse loopholes and over-stacked combinations, but it's hard when the game is so unbalanced. Hence why for our larger battles, the majority of us transfered over to Warhammer which is far more balanced then you may think. I play an all-cavalry army of Bretonnian Knights, with no warmachines and 1-2 really weak mages, which (according to everything I've heard from 'experts') should be getting tabled every game. I've won every battle they've entered, though often with heavy casualties. Why is that? Because the sole purpose of my mages is negating enemy magic and the Blessing of the Lady (with help from natural mobility) means warmachines barely harm my troops. I don't think you've seen a lot of the new Warhammer scenarios being played as many of them make it more difficult for the armies you describe (such as the Meeting Engagement scenario) and others make it nigh impossible for mine (Watchtower scenario, damn victory condition of being in the blasted tower).
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