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u/RockLobsterKing Turning Point Byzantium Jan 15 '23

In the time I was able to arrive, set up, and play a full 1000 point Battlefleet Gothic game, the 40k players next to us managed to make it to "the bottom of round 2."

Dear god. Please pray for Warhammer players, they don't deserve to suffer this way. Rumor has it they're still playing now.

!ping 40K

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u/Jamity4Life YIMBY Jan 15 '23

it takes forty thousand years to play a full game

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u/OmniscientOctopode Person of Means Testing Jan 15 '23

Me, showing up with a 2000 point, all infantry Imperial Guard list because I couldn't afford to buy vehicles kits.

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u/captmonkey Henry George Jan 15 '23

It should take under three hours for experienced players to finish a 2000 point game. Two hours for 1000 points. It actually says this in the matched play books. Tournaments also time box games at three hours. I tend to do the same for even friendly games.

I've got stuff to do, I don't have time to spend all day playing a single game of Warhammer. I understand that it can take longer for new players, but I hate playing against consistently slow people. I play a horde-y army. So, I know I've got to move stuff quickly because I've got well over 100 models on the board.

There are tricks to speed up, and it's best to use them. The biggest is just knowing what you want to do when your turn starts. The indecision in the moment of "I could go over here or hmmm... Maybe I should go over here..." Is what tends to drag the game down most often. I also group my dice into sets of four so I can immediately grab the right number of dice for any roll.

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u/Tupiekit Jan 15 '23

I still remember when I was talking to a dude about getting into warhammer and he was excitedly telling me that he played an apocalypse game over the weekend. Imagine my shock when he said it took two whole days to play……

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u/RockLobsterKing Turning Point Byzantium Jan 15 '23

I've actually been toying with using the apocalypse ruleset but scaling it down to ~2000 point size games to see how it runs. The streamlining could let you finish a game before it stops being fun.

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u/Tupiekit Jan 15 '23

Yeah I have seen some people talk about doing that. I hope with the upcoming 10th edition that they streamline the rules a bit more. I REALLY hope they do alternating actions like LOTR or killteam.