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Haha something random.. just wanted to talk about it.

I might be wrong, you might have another oppinion? you might have different naming, different ideas and etc.

Lets discuss! lol.


Yes, Yes, I know Of course there are hybrids of these stereo types that exist - but still interesting to have a list for the generalized categories!



Mathhammer nerds (lol dont mean to offend) : People who play by mathhammer or like to do mathhammer.

ex: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/260695.page


Model Molesters: People who like to friggin' pick up your models without asking, lol.

ex: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/254849.page



Power Gamers: People who love to win the game, and will pew pew cheese all over the table.

Army Hoarders: People who buy so much stuff - but don't paint it.

Fluff-Nuts : People who care about fluff!

Rules Lawyers: People who are down to the tea about rules.

Internet Junkie: People who believe that the internet is the truth! "I READ DAT FROM DAKKA SO IM RITE".
------Forum Junkie(Subcat): People who like to represent their favorite forum ;P (Sometimes judges you on where you go ;P "OMFG YOU G TO WARSEER?! PPISSSS OFFFF"

Girls: Stereotype.. would be that girls = warhammer = nerdy/ugly? lol....

Hobbyist: People who love the hobby.. sometimes only about the hobby than the game.
-------Conversionists: People who scratch build
-------Painters: People who love to paint.

Proxy gamers: People who proxy like heck..
------Paper Proxiers(subcat): People who cut out paper models.. lol.

Unsporty Gamers/Cry Babies: People who cry and QQ because they lose.




There are more = but i gotta jet to class!

The frustrated marine player, tries to make every army they turn their hand to into a marine clone army.

The creepy devil worshiping guy.

The creepy guy that thinks he's the ONLY one that came up with the GREAT idea of Slanesshi SOB's. Big breasted women in leather armor that derive pleasure from pain.

Two Letters- B.O.

Maybe it's just the special brand of people that I tend to wargame with, but it seems scheming and plotting the next conversion/mold casting/paintjob or discussing the value of certain units is a rather popular topic of conversation every time we walk in to the shop....

that, and we tend to have the biggest per-player footprint for tablespace.

I met a guy today who was an endangered stereo type: Day Glo painted army guy. Very, very rare. Like an albino Rhino or something.

The fat smelly gobby one.

Every store has one of these, they are usualy about 17-18 years old, they have scraggly facial hair that would look more at home on a goats arse, the idea of washing and using deoderant are as abhorent to them as a bacon sandwich at a Jewish buffet. They strut around the shop like a BurgerKing addicted Mick Jagger trying to impress/intimidate the younger kids with their worn for a week t-shirt and lank greasy hair. They spew forth an endless stream of drivel to anyone unfortunate to engage them in conversation. Are utterly convinced that they know every fact about the hobby and that their opinion is the only one which matters. On the rare occasions they do bring their armies to game, which look like they were painted by a four year old with sausages for fingers, they will cheat and bitch their way through every turn. They talk in a slow sardonic drawl which they believe makes them sound intelligent. It does not, it makes me wish they would do everyone a favour and take a long walk off a short peir.

Khornholio wrote:Like an albino Rhino or something.

You got something against White Scars or something?



People who identify too much with their army (shout WAAAGH!, talk like a Commissar while in the LGS...)

squilverine wrote:The fat smelly gobby one.

Every store has one of these, they are usualy about 17-18 years old, they have scraggly facial hair that would look more at home on a goats arse, the idea of washing and using deoderant are as abhorent to them as a bacon sandwich at a Jewish buffet. They strut around the shop like a BurgerKing addicted Mick Jagger trying to impress/intimidate the younger kids with their worn for a week t-shirt and lank greasy hair. They spew forth an endless stream of drivel to anyone unfortunate to engage them in conversation. Are utterly convinced that they know every fact about the hobby and that their opinion is the only one which matters. On the rare occasions they do bring their armies to game, which look like they were painted by a four year old with sausages for fingers, they will cheat and bitch their way through every turn. They talk in a slow sardonic drawl which they believe makes them sound intelligent. It does not, it makes me wish they would do everyone a favour and take a long walk off a short peir.

I remember these types of people when i used to go to my local GW. Was years ago but i still remember it like it was yesterday.



You always get the older gamer (30's) who lives at the store and doesn't play and just talks about anything and everything to do with the hobby with the staff. I swear every time i went to the my local GW there was the same guy there from when i arrived till i left, he just talked and talked and talked.

guide to the North American Neckbeard

I'll admit that I'm a talker - I talk more than I play/paint/model. This is more due to time constraints than anything, and I am working hard to change that, but facts are facts.

Poseur deluxe, as it were.

haha you guys got funny ones, i'll add em to the list.

Id say a webwheeler is one. A person that talks the talk on the internet, and thats about as far as it goes.


Lately thats been me. My garage was taken over by a bunch of boxes that apparently have to live there for right now lol

squilverine wrote:The fat smelly gobby one.

Every store has one of these, they are usualy about 17-18 years old, they have scraggly facial hair that would look more at home on a goats arse, the idea of washing and using deoderant are as abhorent to them as a bacon sandwich at a Jewish buffet. They strut around the shop like a BurgerKing addicted Mick Jagger trying to impress/intimidate the younger kids with their worn for a week t-shirt and lank greasy hair. They spew forth an endless stream of drivel to anyone unfortunate to engage them in conversation. Are utterly convinced that they know every fact about the hobby and that their opinion is the only one which matters. On the rare occasions they do bring their armies to game, which look like they were painted by a four year old with sausages for fingers, they will cheat and bitch their way through every turn. They talk in a slow sardonic drawl which they believe makes them sound intelligent. It does not, it makes me wish they would do everyone a favour and take a long walk off a short peir.

In Canada, they wear red shirts and greet you when you enter the GW.

the Sympathy gamer: Plays a terrible army list and pretends to be a noob to try and get you to bend on some rules, or let him break rules while you are not watching so he can win the game.... and he has been doing this for years...

KingCracker wrote:Id say a webwheeler is one. A person that talks the talk on the internet, and thats about as far as it goes.


Lately thats been me. My garage was taken over by a bunch of boxes that apparently have to live there for right now lol

Hahah i think a LOT of us are like this.

LOL.

Myself included.

Damn. Got me too.

The 'pew-pew' noob.

Though generally fine, they happen to be more interested in awesome units (Terminators, Nobz, ANY Character, etc.) beating up everything than playing the game.

Still, we were all like that once.

The sound box: Will spend almost the entire game making sound effects for almost everything that happens on the table, until he starts losing and is shamed into blissful silence.

The 'Awesome!1': "Last night, like my DA Librarian, like totally charged Marneus Calgar, and put, like, 2 wounds on him. It was, like Awesome!" These people always have very punchable faces.

The painting table hog: Will sit at the painting area with in the region of 400 un-assembled minis strewn in front of him. 4 hours later, he will have managed to assemble about 5 but will still be sat there talking about nothing.

The crop-duster / flybyer

Walks past your table to let off and continues walking thus keeping his own area free fo self made taint smell.


The worstcase guy

Every roll he get smore and more vocl about how hes gonna fluff the roll and the games not going his way. Doesn't matter if hes winning, as soon as he fails a roll hes supposedly really screwed and is playing catchup.


fingers mcgrease

the guys who have filthy hands from eating food or whatever and like to give your models a coat of it when picking up and oggling models.


Captain this is my army

The guy who no matter what claims your army's race is his and he knows everything about it, when engaging in conersation no matter what you say he will know it since, well the chosen race are his in his mind and he knows their every ttic and weakness as hes played them since 10,000 BC

The obsessive list maker...

George Spiggott wrote:The obsessive list maker...

That would be me

@ OP, isn't a Rules Lawyer somebody who uses crap wording and RAW to interpret the rule in a way that wasn't intended?

If you can go into an individual one more, you can turn this into an article.

Something more along the lines of that Neckbeard link.

The older gamers who think because they were around since creation they are the best at the game.

The younger gamers who think that this should be more like a video game and constantly talk what kind of stats the minis would have in a video game.

The creepy guy in the duster who looms over the table watching the whole battle not saying anything then just walking away when its done.

The 'Pirate' the guy who always downloads rule books and codex and uses almost entire proxy army except one killer looking unit. But then complains about the price of that one unit.

The Eternal Newguy the kind of person that you have seen in the store several times through out the years that constantly says they got a small army and are just getting into it and would like advice every time you see them.

I have a worstcase guy out of Duces stereotype. This guy plays in every tourney and bitches and whines about bad dice and says he is going to sell his army everytime he loses or when things dont go his way. Talk about poor sportmanship. If the guy would stick with an army for more than a month he might actually win more often but the poor sportsman ship would never go away i am afraid.

The guy with really sweaty hands who will hold the scatter dice to keep them 'nice and warm' for when you next need them.

The cackler: The girl (or sometimes guy) that cackles over everything. The kind that shakes your bones.

The pushover: The kid that can't play his army effectively, be that he knows very little about the rules or he just doesnt grasp it. People play him to test out armies and/or get an easy win. (I was one of these)

Neckbeards: The creepy guy that smells funny and you just know willingly sides on the Confederates in his civil war group. Plays space wolves.

The Questioner: The guy that questions EVERY rule that benefits your army, and double checks your movements and shooting range for you, just to make sure. Counters every question with a question. Gets offended when questioned as well.

At our club, we used to refer to the "pushover" as the "speedbump".

The kid - Paints his entire army shiny silver and gold colors just cause it looks cool and doesn't really ever play a real game using the rules.