Disorder wiped out all the order forces on the moon. I guess that is what happens when you put two giants like the emperor's together to see who's got the bigger template.....
Go big or go home!
Last two years I've lined up opposite players who had gone big... four stompas last year, and the Black Emperor this year. There is some truth to the saying, "Go big or go home." While both years I had considered the possibility of seeing Big Stuff, and had slanted my force accordingly, it seems difficult to design a force that can reasonably fight either an all Big Stuff player or 4000 points of codex stuff.
From what I heard on the Surface table, Rob's titans gave Order a supremacy in D templates, which made Disorder vehicles die quickly while monstrous creatures with no invulnerable saves just vanished with toughness doubled. On the moon, we had two of five Disorder players going all big stuff. It wasn't all just the Big Stuff that produced the lunar wipe out. Disorder used their stratagems very effectively and used teamwork rather than just fighting one on one with the person stationed opposite them on the board. Yet, without Big Stuff to match the Black Emperor, I might as well have just gone home. The one on one duel between the 4000 point Emperor and the 530 point Frisbee wasn't exactly even. The Black Emperor never needed to dedicate more than one of its eight weapons to suppressing the Frisbee. The Frisbee never fired its main gun.
There are proposals to limit the amount of Big Stuff a player might field next year. I have proposed a limit of 700 points a player, a number which might be debated and tweaked. This would allow everyone a respectable toy, a Baneblade variant, a Warhound or a Frisbee. Perhaps different limits might be proposed for different tables.
On the other hand, I like the idea of seeing Rob's titans, the giant Red Emperor or Rich's exotic collection seeing battle again. I don't know that the all Big Stuff forces should be locked out, yet I don't know that it is fair to the people opposite them if some of them aren't.
Thus, there is a proposal for an 'Iron Man Table.' Rather than tell the Big Boy players to go home, might we put them somewhere where they can fight opposition in their own weight class?
If there were such a table, how many players would want to play on it, and with what sort of force? How many would try to spend 4000 points on super heavies? How many would go in with a more traditional force, and try to prove small models can go toe to toe with the Big Stuff?