Oh, absolutely, sorry if there was any confusion - yeah, I have no doubt that matched play will very much remain the standard game mode for the 40K world at large. I think this comes back to the idea you raised a bit ago of making a narrative framework for our 40K gaming in general - with any luck Crusade will help is work towards that, and if we get a story going it shouldn't be hard to start building missions too.Karantu wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:44 amOh, sorry I didn't mean that I wasn't going to play Crusade. I meant that Narrative is probably never going to be "balanced" and we need to understand that before we build lists that'll be fun for us and our opponents and play with a suitable mindset. Its just that in the 40k community as a whole, matched play is still going to tend to be more popular since its easier to play it against strangers while still having fun.
And I guess I can see everybody's trepidation at my mention of free summoning. You saw very directly last week just how bad I am, personally, at making synergistic lists that play to the strengths of the army I'm using (i.e, very bad indeed ) - my interest in summoning plaguebearers is colored by my self-image as someone who needs all the help he can get, heh. If it does turn out to be un-fun for opponents, you can be sure I'll stop, and at any rate the theoretical danger of Infinite Plaguebearers will be very strongly tempered by the fact that I'm extremely stingy.