AoS Rumour: GW's "Law of War"

[Slanputin]

GW said they'd be listening to feedback, perhaps this will be the first iteration of this:

The New Rules
Sources tell BoLS the new rules are described as “Laws of War” and work as follows:

– There are still no points

– Both sides will deploy forces as normal then check against a list of criteria for “mismatches” including things such as :

a) does one side use more factions?

b) does one side use more spammed warscrolls?

c) does one side use more special characters?

d) does one side use more monsters?

e)… There are several more

Both players tally up their total points and determine the difference in who has the most “mismatch” points.

The player who has the lowest total gets a number of free “Law of War” warscrolls based on a chart.

These “Law of War” warscrolls are themed after the 8 Realms and grant a variety of game altering effects. Some make your army harder to kill, some do damage to the enemy, some make casting magic more difficult for opponents, and so forth

 

[NIGHTBRINGER]

It's a start.

 

[DanBot]

I'm not sold that a points system is the answer since, the actual value of a unit varies depending on what is across the table from it. I feel an average can be determined and assigned, but that isn't without flaw. Not every match will be balanced using a points system like that. And I feel like GW isn't particularly good at accurately assigning points values to units. At the same time, I am definitely not satisfied with the what I'm seeing here. I feel like a points system would be more accurate still. But I'm not seeing every criteria yet, or every Rule of Law. I am glad to see they are trying something.

 

[n810]

Interesting approach,
I'm curious to see the abilities
on the Law of War scrolls.

 

[KingCheops]

I'm not sold that a points system is the answer since, the actual value of a unit varies depending on what is across the table from it. I feel an average can be determined and assigned, but that isn't without flaw. Not every match will be balanced using a points system like that. And I feel like GW isn't particularly good at accurately assigning points values to units. At the same time, I am definitely not satisfied with the what I'm seeing here. I feel like a points system would be more accurate still. But I'm not seeing every criteria yet, or every Rule of Law. I am glad to see they are trying something.

Actually it works pretty damn well in Blood Bowl. Sometimes you'd get a bum card or just never had the opportune moment to play it but as a catch up for lacking team points it worked pretty well. As with most things however it comes down to player skill and in my experience the guys drawing cards in Blood Bowl were generally newer players who didn't have the experience to use them correctly.