Well, most people
want the game to scale up to regiments, because they are awesome. Seriously:
The problem of course is that your 30th model
isn't going to be your 24th Dark Elf Hoplite, and your 42nd model is
not going to be your 36th Stormvermin. Regiments have a place on the battlefield, but only if that battlefield has hundreds of models on it.
The issue is that regiments and single-race armies are things that players can put together if they have been collecting miniatures for
years. The Ravening Hordes rules in 1987 were written for players who had been playing since 1983 and collecting since 1978. And five years later they really locked it down with 4th edition. Warhammer Fantasy pulled the drawbridge up and locked out all the teenagers and scrubs
in 1992. Is it any surprise that the game died and was canceled in 2015? For fuck's sake, the teenagers who started in the hobby in 1st edition are literally in their fifties now, and they've set up elitist and exclusionary rules to keep new blood from joining their games for an entire generation.
You don't let people play your game with the minis they actually own for an entire generation, and a generation later your game is dead. Are you fucking surprised? I am not surprised.
If you want your game to survive, you need to have games that people can play and reasons to get further involved with the hobby. There needs to be a reason and a means to transition between a small collection and a medium collection. And reason and means to transition between a medium collection and a large collection. Warhammer provided those
for the first generation of players. The first rules let you bring whatever the fuck you had. They only locked those doors and said "Mr. Suitcase or GTFO" after the first generation had already had years to develop their collections. The second generation of players got some side games like Necromunda and Mordheim, but there was no game they could play when they owned 40-80 models. Which is fucking insanity. And the third generation saw GW simply set fire to the place for the insurance money and walk away.
But yes, there should be a point total where the players want to put down big formations. It looks cool and it's a thing that bigger armies actually do. Also, it's a money making proposition because if the 100 model army has two 24 model phallanxes in it and the 60 model army has zero, then you're going to have to collect more than 40 models to transition from a 60 model army to a 100 model army.
-Username17