haven't played a whole heap. while i do play AOS I much prefer Warcry but here's my two cents.
I personally don't like it for a few reasons.
1) its boring. your either standing around a table waiting for your opponent to finish their turn or your racing around, your brain doing a mile a minute trying to figure out how to end this quickly.
2) it does basically determine who wins the game. if i wanted to play a game solely based on chance i would whip out candy-land but that's just not why im investing my time and money into this game.
and yes, im sure you could plan for it if you really think about how you build your army, but here's my thing. if im thinking like that then im not playing against my opponent anymore, im strategizing against the game mechanics. I just feel like it defeats the point of having two people playing together and borderline ought right ignoring each other.
just SFD'ing here. hope i didn't offend anyone. have a good day. :)