Time to get my rant on!

In what is the first of what I am sure will be many rants, today I will be directing my hatred towards those gamers within the hobby that seem to have forgotten the fun. We all know who I am talking - the dreaded WAAC players. I was trolling my way through www.wargamerau.com last night and kept coming across many tales of people struggling to battle this blight within our hobby.

To come up against one of these spawns of Satan is to recognise that the next 2 hours of your life will not be enjoyable...unless ofcourse you table them :)

Now, let me be clear about this, there is a massive difference between someone who is a WAAC player and someone who enjoys a high level of competition. Take my friend, Nick for example. Within our gaming group he is affectionately know as the Cheese Hound, for his inate ability to pick up a Codex, find the cheesiest list combinations possible and banner it under the title of 'fluffy'. Whilst this many seem like douchery, Nick atleast provides us with a fair playing field in terms of his view of the rules and enjoyment levels of the game (Until he tables us in a rain of fire and brimstone.)

Now, let us compare this to another player within our group, Flynn. Flynn is the ultimate WAAC player in my view. Allow me to set the scene for you. We had just welcomed a new player to our group. Aidan, who is playing Blood Angels, accept to play his FIRST EVER GAME of 40k against Flynn. Young Flynn, sensing blood in the water, elected to play with his Ork army and threw 100 boyz at Aidan. In the view of myself and the group, this was an ultimate form of WAAC playing. Flynn tried his absolute hardest to use Aidan's lack of knowledge against him, by bending the rules to suit. Nick took it upon himself to help 'coach' Aidan, and in a win for the good guys, Aidan came out on top. The greatest sense of joy for our group is the fact that despite Flynn's constant WAAC approach, he is actually yet to win a game within our group. Good guys 2 Flynn 0 :)

Common tricks of the WAAC trade include:

• The use of loaded dice (I mean, really! Is that what your life has come to? Loading dice for a 40K game?)
• Making 'miscalculations' with points (We all screw up by 10 pts or so every now and then, but magically attaining an extra 100pts??)
• Wacky interpretations of rules that seems simply logical to all others
• Intimidating their opponent
• Claiming they have never lost a game/flaunting their douchery
• Somehow not understanding that 6inch movement means 6 inches, not 7 or 8...

Whilst I get that tournaments and such are highly competitive, players need to recognise that our great game is a lot more enjoyable when both members make it so. WAAC players suck the life out of games for those who are unfortunate enough to come across them. People will always tool lists to make them as powerful as possible (Hey, I'm running an Az blob...), but it is how people play the list and, more importantly, the rules that will have them on one way ticket to WAAC doucheville.