Quote Originally Posted by 40kGamer View Post
Welcome to the wild and wonderful world of traditional historical wargaming. Every game has to be meticulously planned, self balanced and scenario driven.
Didn't that end ages ago, though? When people decided to start playing more "what-if" style games for fun. I can't think of a historical game right now without points values or something similar. I'm not sure how far back you'd have to go for that idea to be "mainstream."

I'd like to meet up with someone, say, "Want to do a quick 1000 point game?", and then throw down with models, without having to have a discussion/debate over what type of units to bring, how many models, what kind of models are acceptable, etc.

Yeah, I know they don't do a great job of balancing things, but just giving up completely seems lazy at best.