Many old "skool" players are those who think this sucks most. They are players who played mostly strategic part of the game. Battlemaster used to Strategic game with RP flavours, slowly it has turned other way around. Roleplaying game with strategic flavours. I dont say its bad thing, but unexpected "outside the rules" coming event doesnt fit well for those who are focusing strategic parts of game.
Everybody doesnt enjoy roleplaying, they enjoy fighting other realms, planning assaults, planning to fend of those assaults etc.
People enjoy diffrent things, some would love that on chess game there is random effect which swipes part of your(or your opponent) soldiers and officers away, some would like to play the game with the rules which were set when the game starts.
Jaune, BM started as a role playing game and evolved from there, not the other way around. Just because some people haven't been role playing for however many years they have been here, doesn't mean it all of a sudden was a strategy game first.
