My LGS has always been a 40k dominated scene, always games being played, planned, and discussed but everyone who goes to the open play nights regularly also has a WarmaHords army. The game is fun, the rules are smooth and we always look forward to a match when someone brings it up. We take the time to build fun and competitive lists, set up detailed terrain and roll for the mission. We lay out our armies for our strategies in mind and and get excited for the match to begin. and that's when things fall apart.
In years of playing this game I can only think of one match that did not end in Caster assassination. Everyone in my LGS will ignore mission objectives, boost charge past the free hits and powermit pull their opponent's caster into charge range of the rest of their force. Yesterday I played a 25pt game that ended with only two units being activated and nothing but Kercheve the Terrible being touched as he was boatmurdered and the game being over without any other model being engaged.
We develop strategies from keeping our casters only close enough to keep the jacks active, to wrapping them in units to protect them from attack but nothing will keep them safe from the blood thirsty howls of an entire army doing everything it can to kill one single model. It has ruined WarmaHordes in my shop, a game that I really enjoy has pretty much vanished because nobody wants to play "kill the caster".
Are we missing a rule, a strategy, or just plain missing the spirit of the game? Privateer Press has such a huge following elsewhere and people seem to have so much fun playing, but this one single rule has single handily killed it for my community.
any help with this issue I'm open to