What this guy says! I am still hurting that my first opponent gave my Eucalyptus Drops 3 out of 7 for painting... apparently because my bases weren't based (is Chaos Black not based?) and that I had the *hide* to not fill in the slot gap of the base itself...
Seems to be a lot of attention to my bases... what about the Farking Halflings themselves!
*Credit to ozjesting for the link...
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I still say he's a complete tool.
3 was enough for full points in the tourney, so who cares?
I guess it's the principle that's at stake here more than anything.
I admit I do go that 'extra mile' with my stuff, but mostly for the love of the hobby more than anything. Whilst I can appreciate some people's primary focus is on the actual gameplay itself (and that's perfectly fine) - others like to go the extra mile in other areas as well to further the whole gaming experience.
It's kinda like arguing why the hell people go to all that effort to fine tune a car when all that really matters is that it gets you from A to B.
The question is more about the level of 'expectation' more than anything and when we put these sorts of expectations on a bell curve, it's understandable that one persons 'good enough' is another's 'not good enough'.
What matters more is how it's handled in the broader sense - that is, are you going to be penalised for not conforming to those lofty standards?
Fortunately, Eucbowl did it right - they had enough of a baseline for ensuring that you compete with minimal requirements, the rest was mostly just wank juice. I didn't get 'best painted' - scored 30 points for my effort - yet it mattered as much to my overall score as it would if someone only scored 15 points for 3 base colours and that's it.
And I don't have a problem with that at all.
By all means, props for the mad painters is a nice thing to have and I will continue to strive for it for my own personal satisfaction, but even though I can paint, I wouldn't expect everyone else would have the time, patience or even desire to go to such lengths, nor would I want to see people punished for it either!
Props to the system used by Euc, and I'd like to see it implemented more widely as well.
Being nasty... from a warhammer perspective chaos black is not based. You expect some sort of effort, flocking etc etc to be ticked off as based in whfb comps, so maybe they were basing their scoring from that level.
The painting standard is far more relaxed in bloodbowl, which is nice.
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