[Playtesting - an advantage or disadvantage for competitive play?]

I think this is an interesting debate, and having spent a fair amount of time as a playtester in the past i think it can really vary.

The main thing for any game is knowing it inside out, including your army and your opponents.  This comes with time spent playing the game, and yes the PT are often people that play the game lots.  

However, often the role, as it suggests, is to test items out.  This may be a new rule, a new model, a new ability etc does it work, is it clear, how does it play, does it break something, is it pointed correctly.

Now fast forward 6 months to a release date, do the PT still have the advantage?  Not only have they been looking at other books in the interim and new rules etc.  They have even more knowledge and yet they still have to remember how the "current" book plays.  In some ways this can be a disadvantage.  I distinctly remember in WFB there being a few times as a group or at an event I was like that's not how the rule works, only for my opponent to say yes it here here is the book / FAQ and then I just go quiet as i realise why I the rule was not as I remembered.

Can a PT think that unit is ace i will buy one of them when they are released?  Sure, but how long does the hive mind of the internet also take to find that unit?  0.0001 seconds?

So in summary being a PT means you are a good player already but imo it does not give you a real advantage anymore.

Caveat - if the internet did not exisit then i would change this opinion.  One of my fav things was to go to a tournament our group of 5-6 players would have theorised lists etc, but before all these forums existed we were in our own bubble, you attended a GT and boom 100 players and lots of new tactics and choices were found.  That was the internet forum of the day, so back then a PT would have had an advantage as they had longer to find that combo and although lots of bubbles may have found it the internet was not as it is today with the hive mind of sharing.   However, after 1 GT this was out in the world and so people then copied it.

 

[[Cards] for Blades of Khorne]

Love the cards, any chance of making a card up for the two standard prayers too?

 

[Events UK: Blood and Glory]

Yes it was my first and only event last year and lots of fun (although i might play x-wing again this year...) Will decide nearer the time...  Either way this weekend is a great one.

[Bugs and things to sort]

Ben, looking at the gallery there seem to be stars that i assume you can rate others models.  It just seems that it is turned off or at least clicking on them seemed to do nothing!

P.s. i created this thread as a bug report thread since i could not see another general queries area

[Bugs and things to sort]

Ben at the bottom of the forum are two custom columns that need sorting before the live date.