Angelwing wrote:I guess people find the software really useful? I've never tried it myself.
Good ones are helpful to noobs,helping them follow rules they can't be bothered to read, oh what you mean I can't have 4 powerfists mounted on my assault cannon?
Its helpful for pick up games.. whilst LH still swears by pen and paper (primarily due to his own accuracy with numbers) actually reading a list people have scribbled out 3 minutes before a game using all his own acronyms and """s and shorthand is V hard to follow. If you set the standard you can expect more from your opponent than "I have some stuff and 26 speeders, what do you mean list??".
Its easier in game to have one/two pages with your armies rules (rather than in force org page, unit pages, special character pages and
USR bits. (although thats probably the bit
GW get most upset with, and also the bit that frequently needs double checking with source).
For me.. they (as a general product) are a useful tool for defragmenting an army list. If you write out some long chain formula (with proper footnotes so someone else can understand it)it gets messy pulling on random loose threads if your not a logarithmic ninja (I'm not).Altering sub sub elements of it efficiently (hotswapping) makes army list ideas alot quicker to thrash out and then judge.It means I can play more varied lists without having to handicap them with bad math or worse the 'ooh yeah I didn't have time to scribble on my napkin, I've got 300 points left
We'll just add 2 squads of terminators and call it fair' guy.
Its a maths thing but its also a social thing.
(all above have occurred, bar the assualtcannon fist..but I want to do that..angry marines FTW
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