by ds3272
These are not your homemade customs.They are commercially available minis with associated cards that have been exhaustively edited, tested, and prepared in such a way that they are not really distinguishable from traditional 'Scape. I've been allowing SoV and C3V customs at my tournaments - and I've been running tournaments for several years - and there has not been a problem and I do not believe there will be a problem.
No offense to your blob of plastic, but these ain't no blobs of plastic.
As anyone who knows me from 'Scapers will tell you about me, I think every tournament director needs to do what's best for his local 'Scaping scene.
But it would not hurt said tournament director to be aware that this option is out there. Two full waves and one large expansion pack - a total of 35 new units - since Heroscape went OOP and every one of them worthy of appearing alongside Sgt. Drake.
Anyway.
If everyone is going to be bringing large/huge unique heroes, you can do the evil metagame thing and bring:
Stingers x5 (180/15)
[3 inexpensive large/unique heroes of your choice]
That looks like a winner right there. Stingers' specialty is tearing down heroes, especially the big high defense ones like dragons.
A similar choice would be:
Axegrinders x5 (350/20)
[Me Burq Sa / Nerak / whatever]
Forget the bonding, your evil little dwarves will be moving at a rate of 6 hexes / turn and hitting and defending with 4 dice against your opponent's dragons and Q9s.
Cyprien is also a good dragon-killer, if you think you aren't especially likely to see one of the Q brothers.
Do I have your attention? Good. Please check out our blobs of plastic. They are really good, even if your local crew decides not to use them, at least give it some thought. The important thing is to play.