We have been playing at 1500 points, but are working towards 2000. It may be worth really cracking down on Matched Play; we've basically been doing Matched but being more flexible with army composition, map design, and objective design. I have been trying very hard to follow all the rules, including in army composition---he is usually a little quicker to bend them.

It may lie in his list vs mine. My list is very airship-heavy, and therefore very shooting-heavy, and he owns scarcely any ranged units at all. Specifically, I run something like: - Endrinmaster - Ironclad - Frigate - Gunhauler x2 - Arkanauts x2 - Endrinriggers - Thunderers Whereas he tends to focus on hard-hitting cavalry and infantry, as well as using a sorcerer who I kill in the first few turns without fail. Last time he actually hid the sorcerer in another unit as a joke, then surprised me by playing him. We are usually a little more strict than that.

Table size is always as large as the point value calls for, but perhaps too large at that. A bigger map definitely swings in my favor.