by Deroche
Matches can be played online now via google docs. Check out the online section at heroscapers.com:http://www.heroscapers.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=108
(and BlackRoot is one of the online maps, so easy enough to test hoards of 4th Mass against melee)
4th vs melee is very much map dependent.
My hoard of 4th Mass lost to a hoard of Knights of Weston (w/Sir Gilbert) at GenCon last year in General Wars because the map wasn't flat, but reflective of the current BoV standard: centralized height in the middle of the map that you race towards. The map was Jotun's Gap.
The very next match, the Knights of Weston player goes up against the same 4th Mass build as mine and gets crushed -- and quickly -- because they were playing on Fossil, which is something the 4th Mass can grab height quickly on.
(and I was the overall General Wars champ two years ago...by playing the 4th Mass)