Except Britcon is my wedding anniversary, so absolute no go!

Time Of Inadequate Lighting?

Hope you have a good one Will.   You will just have to nurse your ire till Skullrollers '20 assuming that we are spared till then.
HH

Here I am, using my own meta army, which got incredibly lucky...
https://madlemmey.blogspot.com/2019/07/medieval-meg-early-scots-vs-city-state.html?m=1

Last night, Paul and I both turned up, at random, with meta breaking lists.
15-8 to Paul, it was BRUTAL, on both sides!!

Sledgehammer vs. Battering Ram. lol

More like road drill vs demolition ball!

Avg FA/2HCC/ME vs Exceptional/superior Prot/Impact/ME

nasty

I didn't know there was a meta. My bad.

If there is one the counter to it is skillful play.

What is a meta? 
Now Ray has had the courage to not know if there was one I can confess to not having an F clue what one is!?

Present British Meta is huge armies, my bête noire (or as they say in France, bête noire), especially as I like small, hard hitting armies...
e.g.  infantry without many skills in 8s, usually 6 to 8 TuGs, then average long spear cavalry to flank.
Army weighs in around a total of c14 TuGs, and has out deployed you, because he has more units, unless you actually fully outscout them. Inf deployed deep and move as one block, so they take forever to die, then once you are engaged, you get rolled up by the cav, because he always has more units than you, often with better generals (2 x T, 2 x C instinctive usually), so more cards.

So, Frisian, Arab Conquest, Feudal German, that sort of thing!

Austrailan Meta is fast moving, hard hitting cavalry...

Quote from: mad lemmey on August 23, 2019, 09:50:33 PM
Present British Meta is huge armies, my bête noire (or as they say in France, bête noire), especially as I like small, hard hitting armies...
e.g.  infantry without many skills in 8s, usually 6 to 8 TuGs, then average long spear cavalry to flank.
Army weighs in around a total of c14 TuGs, and has out deployed you, because he has more units, unless you actually fully outscout them. Inf deployed deep and move as one block, so they take forever to die, then once you are engaged, you get rolled up by the cav, because he always has more units than you, often with better generals (2 x T, 2 x C instinctive usually), so more cards.

So, Frisian, Arab Conquest, Feudal German, that sort of thing!

Austrailan Meta is fast moving, hard hitting cavalry...

Good summary and they are also a nightmare for Mounted shooting armies as they have so many bases and careful shepherding of bards means you can push through slowing effects. Hunter and myself cannot currently see beyond these behemoths for many of the reasons given above.

They won't outscout you in future due to having more TuGs.
Big armies are a challenge.

There is perhaps an argument to limit army break points to 6.
Extra volume beyond 11 TuGs is then to give you more to fight with.

Welcome thoughts.

S

I really don't think these armies are as "Meta" as Will is making out.  I think he has suffered from some bad match ups against them.

Top 10 armies at Britcon 2019


Feudal German   451
Catalan Company in Anatolia   428
BrTimurid   439
Feudal German   451
Aragonese Sicilian   457
Georgian   364
Medieval Burgundian   405
Medieval German City League   458
Eastern Seljuk Turk   367
Sultanate of Rum   370 

https://www.dracostandard.co.uk/CompResults/Index/Brt19

The comp wasnt open so maybe that skewed thimgs to the Germans.

The Germans were so popular they were on your list twice!!