I Actually Think This Is More Interesting Than "because Tournaments Have Been Running Warhammer Culture

I actually think this is more interesting than "because tournaments have been running Warhammer culture since the 90s" (it has, mostly, FWIW, but there's More To It). It's a confluence of the rules in 10e, and the post-COVID 40k renaissance

The first puzzle piece is 9e terrain rules were a hot mess. Legitimately confusing and miserable to play with. If the only thing 10e had changed was terrain, it would still have been heralded as a golden new day.

The second is that the vastly simpler 10e rules work really, really well with ruins. Hills, woods, swamps, etc are all basically "ruins but worse".

Then there's the abject failure of 10e to rein in lethality. Turn one, anything you can see should probably die, regardless of what it is. If there isn't a lot of cover, melee armies cannot win. If there is, the game is fair, balanced and fun.

So, we have game that works great with busy terrain, and the default terrain in mechanics - corner ruins - is also cheap to make.

And suddenly the game gets wildly popular. Tournaments are popping up everywhere. One quote I saw this year said there were more tournaments run in 2024 than there were tournament players in 2016!

And they all need to fill 30+ boards with legal terrain, instantly creating demand for a veritable industry of corner ruin makers -mdf, 3d prints, etc.

We must destroy the plague of L-shaped ruins

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