Closed Battle Lists - wider availability

That's a pretty cool idea.

@HellLois might be interested in doing something along those lines for Season 10.

 

I can see it now, "CB is trying to force us to buy these models! How dare they! The dirty money grubbers!" And honestly, I doubt all of those lists would be equal. I'm not saying that as a knock against CB. I don't think anyone would be able to do it.

 

• Shasvastii Sabotage Corps
• Myrmidon Battle Company
• Trihedron Diplomatic Division
• Green Banner Army
• Sepentria Defense Front

etc

my memories of the paradiso campaign are a little sketchy i admit, just trying to name forces and units that took part.

...oh yeah. what was the name of ko dali's unit?

 

It'd be interesting for a theme tournament, since the lists aren't close to optimized by the forum's standards.

 

True that. For example the new IS "Shield Division/Butchers" list D has a Hsien HMG linked with a Crane, two Wu Ming Chain Rifle dudes and a Zhanying hacker - in a 10 order list that has only one (weak) ARO piece and nothing for board control!

 

Its a little off-path from the CBLs, but one can imagine premade lists as a way to cover both story/narrative development ("These are the actual forces who fought during this mission") and to provide interesting mechanical pairings... two opposing lists which don't have to be take-all-comers competitive, but rather optimized for a specific mission and/or for interactions with each other.

 

Oh, how I long for such things.

 

Some kind of mini-narrative/campaign with CBLs could be interesting - like the Outrage scenarios that came out long prior to Handleman and Uhahu getting true ITS profiles.

 

I like the idea of the narrative lists a lot. Reminds me of the Tagline missions where one side would get Toni and the others would get the CA units. It could be a lot more fun, and then you don't have to base it around the main ITS scene.

 

There was something kinda like that in some Paradiso missions.

 

So winner of "worst" list being PanO with under 10 order list ?

 

Nah, I'd say it'd be the Kouan Kyuuka lists without Tachikomas. 7 orders! Those sucked so hard they pulled the chrome off of trailer hitches...

 

I’d love it - if CB then dictated the layout and nature of terrain too. The idea of re-playing a ‘famous battle with the actual troops’ loses quite a bit, when the jungle is substituted by a frozen industrial harbor.

And closed battle lists would really do a lot for the balance of a game, that is generally regarded as very balanced. While players would really feel, that they got their moneys worth from troops with AD and CAMO. So yeah, go for it.

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Nah, I’m kidding. I actually hate anything, that reduces player choice and creativity. And the idea of replaying ‘historic’ battles is not really tournament friendly, where shasvasti and Aleph would have to replay the japanese insurgence.

CB’s domain when it comes to fluff, only goes to the books and model design, once those tiny dolls are in my hands, they’re mine.

 

I personally love this idea- narrative events would be awesome.

And would also be less inducive to "oh you were a fool and declared engage? Well then enjoy being stuck to this wall while I exploit rules as tournaments are about WINNING"

And to those who say this would be CB trying to dictate how we use our metal dollies: just play using the existing rules or go to a "real" tournament. I can't help but be unable to understand how more options to have fun with the game somehow = bad :D

 

This would be great!

Imagine if the new BoW campaign had CBL lists for all the factions representing the forces being deployed on Dawn.

 

A couple of the really old missions did give at least some terrain requirements. Lost Post and Beachhead.

 

I’d enjoy specified terrain, but not lists. My favorite part of infinity is lost building.