when the final decisions are made about what is allowed on what table then it will be left to the teams to respectively decide the best/most effective player placement. When the individual forums are up you will get a chance to talk to everyone that is signed up for your team and get a feel for who is bringing what and based on army composition and experience the best place for you too go.
I think this is the one aspect of the mega battle that we really haven't run into in the complaints department. Usually teams are good at self regulating and teaming players up in a manner where they can enjoy the game the most. Of course, there is always going to be one or two examples where this was not that case. But out of 40 people you can not always have everyone getting exactly what they want.
Well, I have heard many complaints. Moose claims to have predicted an escalation in superheavies immediately after the first megabattle ended. I understand he's be warning about said escalation all along. I'm another. There were also several chaos players at last year's big table who thought Sim's titans and their d-templates took out vehicles and produced a distinct advantage for Order. This discussion has taken place every year.
I reviewed the Order army lists last year after the fight. I haven't had access to the Disorder lists. To the best of my ability to reconstruct, we had four players who spent every single point on big models. No one else spent many more points than it would take to buy two baneblades. The vast majority of players, doing as they did last year, could fit under 1500 points of superheavies and gargantuan.
It's luck of the draw whether one ends up facing an all superheavy player, but twice in a row I've found myself opposite big walkers. I have no problems with players who enjoy big models putting down a lot of big models, but I don't understand why they think they should have the right to run over players who would prefer another style of game. Not everyone has the modeling skill, time, money or inclination to adopt to the big model style of play on a once a year basis.
My preference would be for a no holds barred table, with other tables having different points limits on how many points might be spent on gargantuans or superheavies. Perhaps the big table might be at 1500, with other tables at similar or smaller levels. Perhaps the cavern should again not allow walkers, gargantuans or flyers.
I might also suggest that we do not decide points in superheavies until lots of people have signed up. Along with t-shirt sizes, ask everyone signing up how many points of superheavies they intend to field, and how many points they would be comfortable playing against. If twenty players say they intend to field 4000 points of big models, let's have two no holds barred tables. If, as last year, the vast majority of players are going to be fielding a baneblade or two, let the majority of tables be set up for a baneblade or two.
