Nitpick wrote:
One thing that I liked about the Epic 40K list meta game, is how it was focused on creating somewhat battered unique companies. I like your idea and to be honest, I can see nothing that would stop you from realizing it using the current Redux list and creative proxying. The number of lads/ladies/things in a coven roughly matches an IG co, even! (after all, after a few hundred years, the standard template is bound to be currupted. What else is chaos good for?) There are many things I struggle with in EA, the exponential list growth is one. All good stories do not merit new lists methinks (Though I do think that the split of LatD into two is beneficial, so I have arguably not decided if this is good or bad myself.)
Yeah, the detail you could put in to companies in Epic 40k was great, one of the best things about that game. And I'm not much of a fan of the creation of lots of sub-lists either. I like the split in to Vraks and LatD, but any more than that would be too far.
But within lists, flexibility is good so long as it avoids weakening the overall theme. In this case I think you keep the theme by preventing Imperial stuff being taken in stand alone formations - so you can't take 6 strong Leman Russ formations, but you can add a Leman Russ or two to a Coven. Then there's the flexibility to add that kind of thing if you want to, or you can just focus on dedicated units if you want.
Anyhow, I think my idea or similar notions are probably best either put in the main list, or dropped entirely. If the idea isn't popular enough to merit inclusion in the main list, it isn't popular enough to justify yet another sub-list.
