The One Guy

That One Guy

So we have all herd of that one player that no one wants to play. I think a lot of this has to do knowing what type of player you are. In my opinion there are three types of players.

You got the tournament player (Kenny Hill, Mike Stanford). These types of players want a clean game by the rules and are going to bring a hard list. Their not dbags for running hard list its just that’s the type of game they want to play. To see who can be the best general around. As a general statement tournament players will know the rules the best and will in force them the hardest. This helps keep up good practice for when it comes time to play in a big event. Some players will find this off putting it is not meant to be but good practice will make good TOs later down the road.   

The next type of player is your Fluff player (Gregg Etter, Rick Morang). These types of players want to make a story out of the game. Lots of league play or lists that are not optimized but if you saw the army on the field or read about them in a book that’s what it would look like. The Fluff player will know the rule set but, will let some little things slip just to make a better game. These types of players are for a lack of better words what GWs target players are forging the narrative and what not. You will see a lot of fluff players calling out what they say is cheese a list thou. This is where the tournament player and the fluff player will start to fight if they don’t understand what type of game that they are going to play.

The last type of player is the Beer and pretzels player (Luci Breed, Cliff Shelton). These types of players are just looking to have fun. They may or may not be a bit lacking on the rules. Or may know the rules and not care because they like to play the game a different way. Beer and pretzels players have a lot of problems with someone who is looking for a clean game. Lots of these players are in the game to just sit around a table and BS for a few hours while playing and if the rules fall to the wayside so be it.

 Now I play all kinds of players. And I have seen all kinds of fights that didn’t have to happen. People being labeled a rules Nazi or a cheese player. There is no right or wrong way to play but you do need to know the type of player or game that you are playing. I think that if you know what type of player you are playing that it will stop a lot of that whole that one guy label but you will have to have an open mind to how they play the game.

Sarge