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Re: Genre and the Metagame: The Place of Sci-Fi/Historical U
As I was updating the genre thread this started in, it got me thinking about this year's GenCon. I wasn't there, so feel free to correct me someone who was, but my sense was the D&D had an impact, but not a huge one. Also, there still seemed to be a nice range of figures, across the genres.
dok's winning army--Q9/Raelin/Rats/Hydra(Krav)--certainly shows some genre mishmash at its finest. In fact, I'd argue that the Hydra has introduced one of the first truly dominant melee fantasy units to the game. The Hydra (like the Dragons) is one of the truly solid fantasy units (and even, interestingly, works well with other fantasy units, like Kelda and Raelin, though his uses are broader as well). Any other post-GenCon thoughts on genre's place/role (or lack of) in the current metagame? New? Read this. | The INDEX 2.0 | Mmirg's Maps Magnify Your Scape: BoV | SoV | C3V (Playtest!) | C3G The Dice Tower Con w/ Scape! |
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Re: Genre and the Metagame: The Place of Sci-Fi/Historical U
Interesting topic, 1Mmirg. This does speak to why I don't worry about the growth of the fantasy genre in Heroscape to the exclusion of Scifi/Historical - we already have plenty of competitive figures in those genres, and the lack of power creeep in the game means they're not going anywhere.
Because we have full army listings for the entire main event, you can slice and dice and look at the fantasy/historical/scifi breakdown to your heart's content. Just going through the top 16:
So, of the 16:
ETA: the winner through the years: 2006 - fantasy 2007 - scifi + Raelin 2008 - scifi + Raelin 2009 - total mishmash 2010 - scifi/fantasy mix The Airborne Elite in Mattser's 2009 army are the only thing keeping historical from being completely shut out. Last edited by dok; September 15th, 2010 at 03:38 PM. |
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Re: Genre and the Metagame: The Place of Sci-Fi/Historical U
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Fantasy also is the most represented in the top 16 and has consistently been in the top (but that is because of Raelin--even taking her out, Fantasy has done quite well). Clearly, some of this is just about "what's new"--but Fantasy does have a strong position any way you look at it. The Dragons and Orcs are solid and go way back into Scape history. I'm curious to see if the 4th will ever see an overall win (or perhaps a 10th hybrid army). The Knights and AE remain solid units, even if they aren't the most dominant thing out there. And Sci-Fi has plenty of solid pieces, even if many of them seem to be the units most often being metagamed "against" by the newer units (though this goes back to Repulsors, Quasatch, etc. and isn't about D&D, per se). I do like that the overall place holds up my original point--mishmash armies seem to bring about powerful synergies and pay off well.* New? Read this. | The INDEX 2.0 | Mmirg's Maps Magnify Your Scape: BoV | SoV | C3V (Playtest!) | C3G The Dice Tower Con w/ Scape! Last edited by 1Mmirg; September 15th, 2010 at 05:18 PM. Reason: *Sure Raelin is a stretch, but the point is that she seems to often be best with units not of her genre--interesting to me... |
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Re: Genre and the Metagame: The Place of Sci-Fi/Historical U
Super here, but did you (or anyone else) ever breakdown what those numbers are at for historical/fantasy/sci-fi with C3V/SoV releases included? I'm wondering if they've changed the ratio at all.
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