Types of 40K gamers

- This was, originally, from a Tau forum...

Intro

"The Man" means anyone who's got the gutz or who just wants to prove that they're tactically sound and so make things harder on themselves.

"The Fanatic" is anyone who doesn't necessarily care what's in his army, but plays the game to have fun, or because he enjoys the hobby. Winning is nice but not their primary goal.

"The Cheese-Head" is that well-known and disliked guy who fields an army with the single and only intent to win. If you’re not winning you’re not having fun.

"The Nut-Case" is that odd-man out who seems to lack any logic. Still he seems to be having fun.

Space Marines

The Man: Fields an army consisting of nothing but scouts, scout bikers, and veteran space marines with bolters.

The Fanatic: Is ecstatic that there's a new predator and buys 5 of them.

The Cheese-Head: Fields nothing but infantry and takes nothing but Lascannons and Heavy Bolters, but only takes two 5 man tactical-squads for troops.

The Nut-Case: Fields nothing but a leader with no equipment, 3 Land Raiders, 20 Terminators, and 2 half-squads of scouts... all in 1750 point games. And the Terminators and Scouts are NOT in the Land Raiders.

Blood Angels

The Man: Doesn't use any Sanguinary High Priests, Chaplains, or Librarians.

The Fanatic: Has modelled all of his characters into people he knows in real life.

The Cheese-Head: Has 6 dreadnoughts and 75% of all of his infantry are black with red 'X's on their shoulder pads.

The Nut-Case: Has a librarian, 6 death company models (total owned) and nothing but Scouts with shotguns (no, not even a heavy-bolter!)

Dark Angels

The Man: Fields Ravenwing

The Fanatic: Fields Deathwing

The Cheese-Head: Doesn't EVER use ANY Ravenwing or Deathwing.

The Nut-Case: Likes to play Deathwing because they have a 6+ Jink save (and yes, I realise the Ravenwing are the only ones who get that).

Salamanders

The Man: Doesn’t put Ceramite armour on his vehicles. And thinks the mantle of the Salamander is for little girls.

The Fanatic: Has sculpted the Mantle of the Salamander onto to all of his models (only one character can have them but they’ve done it for the look of the thing anyway)

The Cheese-Head:  Doesn’t use Salamanders. “Initiative 3?! No way. Those guys suck!”

The Nut-Case: Uses the play-on-one-more-turn rule even when he’s actually won on the final turn.

Imperial Guard

The Man: Fields nothing but Infantry

The Fanatic: Has a picture of the plastic Cadians as the background of his computer.

The Cheese-Head: Is fielding more vehicles than individual models of infantry.

The Nut-Case: Has nothing but infantry, but has equipped every squad with as much plasma weaponry as he can... 1/2 his army is gone at the end of the first player's first turn... even if it's his turn...

Armoured Company

The Man: Doesn’t use the Commissar Tank and won’t field Imperial Allies like assassins or death-watch kill teams.

The Fanatic: Owns all of the resin forgeworld kits.

The Cheese-Head: Uses Imperial Assassins, Kroot Mercenaries, and the Deathwatch to ‘fill the gaps’ in the army

The Nut-Case: Designs am army that doesn’t have ordinance and maxs out on Salamander Scout Vehicles.

Dark Eldar

The Man: Stubbornly refuses to field Raiders, Talos', Incubi, or Wyches.

The Fanatic: Has an all wych army, AND a normal dark Eldar army.

The Cheese-Head: Starts the game with 4 raider squads no matter how large of a game. The rest is in reserve...

The Nut-Case: Bought 31 copies of the new chapter approved codex, just so he can use a different one each day.

Eldar

The Man: Fields Sam-Hain

The Fanatic: Has built his army of Iyanden with 5 squads of Wraithguard.

The Cheese-Head: Is playing Biel-Tan and has nothing but Striking Scorpions, Howling Banshees, Wraithlords, and Dark Reapers.

The Nut-Case: Fields and entire army of Dire Avengers and Shining Spears.

Necrons

The Man: Only has 1 Lord and it isn't armed with veil of darkness or a resurrection Orb.

The Fanatic: Has nothing but the old models.

The Cheese-Head: Has nothing BUT warriors, a veil of darkness, and resurrection orbs.

The Nut-Case: Has spent most of his points on Scarab Swarms.

Orks

The Man: Fields lots of slugga boyz maybe a few killa-kans and very little else.

The Fanatic: The fanatic has used nothing but Gorka-Morka yuffs as his boyz.

The Cheese-Head: Thinks Orks are silly and doesn’t use them (they might occasionally be seen using a Kult of Speed).

The Nut-Case: Uses the Feral Orks list and lovingly sculpts huge nads onto his squiggoths (my god look at the size of those things things).

Tyrannids

The Man: Doesn’t use Carnifexes (fexi? fexitus?) and has only one Hive Tyrant (with a 3+ save rather then a 2+).

The Fanatic: Uses loads of the old metal gaunts and gargoyles. Has a forge world vehicle sized beasty.

The Cheese-Head: Never uses less then 2 Hive Tyrants both of which must have wings. The Gants have spine fists (they’re cheaper that way) and everything that can be mutable genus is.

The Nut-Case: Has spent hundreds of dollars on resin spore chimneys from forge world but doesn’t actually have enough troops to field an army larger then 1000 points.

Tau

The Man: Fields loads of Fire Warriors and Kroot but no vehicles or Crisis Suits.

The Fanatic: Has 6 Devilfish but no Hammerheads.

The Cheese-Head: Uses the combo of wargear and troops that allows them to dance around not getting shot and then bombs the enemy to bits with seeker missiles.

The Nut-Case: Fields are army almost entirely of path finders.