Someones a Sig hating fanboy.
*shrug* I can't deny I don't like him.
Baron, you sure do have a way of getting under people's skin, consciously or unconsciously! I didn't hear anything from what you said before Sig's post that would have made me that aggressive in my response. Anyways... 
cheer up people. Let's all take a deep breath.
It's long and involved and has it's roots in FAQ2010's alterations to SM and IN. I felt that deliberately creating a poorly balanced option, the SM SC lance option as made it into the FAQ, was bad game design. It creates a 'noob trap' that tricks noobs into spending more points for less firepower (people tend to assume if it costs more, it's better).
However, the very idea of SM ships having lances caused uproar the likes of which is not usually seen outside a thread by Doctor Thunder showing off a bevy of female space marine minis on dakka, and for much the same reason, it conflicted with canon. Or what they thought was canon but had been changed without the BFG community really noticing a year or so earlier.
(Amusingly enough, given Ray's more recent posts involving Necron fleets and shields, does this mean you've changed your mind about SM lances now, Horizon? Because there's pigs winging in low over the barn.)
So no one was in a mood to listen to more sensible options like limiting their numbers per point cost, (See above post's quotes for a general idea of the state of the forum at the time, if you missed it) and a lot of people proclaiming that they would never allow various and sundry things (Sig was particularly venomous about simultaneous fire) in 'their' BFG and a few of them got particularly abusive of the HA and anyone that supported SM lances.
The fluff argument against went up in smoke with
Planetstrike (despite Sig's rather creative argument that there was some other weapon on a starship called a lance that had just never been mentioned elsewhere), so the argument switched to moving the goal post, circular arguments, and some very large non-sequiters and strawmen on pretty much every side of the debate. For 70+ pages and resulted in neither side winning.
Following that every time I posted, I'd get hostile if not downright trolling posts etc from Sig regardless of subject.
Me - 'I like Ice Cream!'
Sig - 'DIE IN A FIRE!'
(Note: since I see he has yet to grasp this concept, that was called 'comedic exaggeration', in a similar vein to my earlier post about lances and VBBs.)
Which more or less is why I dropped off the BFG map for a while and took over Dark Reign. (which now has a BFG section.)
