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I'll talk about the game a bit. Here's mucho texto most people won't read:

So my flgs runs a seasonal league which all the players like to participate in. I don't really like leagues because I don't like competitive list building or ugly terrain, but the vast majority of players in the community here only wanted to play games if they were league games, so I signed up just to make sure I always had games to play.

I actually did really well, went 11-1 and qualified for the tournament. But that 12th game I lost was the one that kind of turned me off to the whole thing.

I have found that when it's a casual pickup game I tend to crush, but as soon as you put me up against a tournament-tier list I get tabled by turn 3. So far as I can tell, it's a listbuilding problem - I am playing suboptimal units that just don't cut it at that level. The solution is to get better units...and I won't, because I hate the meta units in IG right now. Tauroxes? I refuse to ever purchase one. Ratlings? No thanks. Artillery? I prefer chimeras.

So I feel like I kind of hit a ceiling, and it's robbed me of the motivation to play. The way to get better seems like 'stop playing the army you like and play one that works better', and that's just an unfun concept to me.