So this has always been a hotly debated and contested argument that i've had with people in the past. When you get your codex you should read through it a few times try and get a grasp of how your army is intended to play and then start from there. Other people look to the dreaded net list and look and go okay so this is how i play my army and this is what i need to buy. Me i am to stubborn and certinally to muh of a verteran to simply follow the internet when it comes to list building and construction. Yet so many people fall into the category. What happened? at what point did gamers in general decided that it is easier to take the top tournament list and copy and paste it and run that as your list. For me i never understand why it happens. Do the netlisters ask what the list faced how the list held up? do they even understand the lists limittions? its pros its cons? i remember a long time ago i got dragged into a flamming war on one of the other blogs we shall call it whineseer. The basic argument had been running standard razorbacks over running either las plas or one of the other configurations. This is where i know my loathing for the net list began. You had so many people jump down my throat personally attack me because i went againt the man.... yes apparently the internet as a man and when the man says lasplas is the only way to run a razorback it must be true... Alas my argument stemmed from the fact that the points spend on las plas could and were spent on other units to mak them better and the list i ran with was ompetitive and fun for me to play.
But i Digress so what i want to know or atleast the ?'s i would like answered are when did we simply stop playing our own books and seeing for ourselves what works and what doesn't work and fall into this if your army doesnt have x and y then its garbage or this whole concept of your an idiot if you don't agree with something and you don't just take the internets word for it and actually play a unit or an army for yourself and see what you like and what you don't. It could just be my nature but i'm never one to just take the internets word for anything. i play test and try different combinations with in my own codex to find what units i like and what units i don't like or which units do not fit the way i want my army to interact.