Okay so I've been playing quite a few games at my local shop and I don't want to be
TFG or a
WAAC type player as I really like my gaming community but it's diverse - there are members who play quite challenging list and there are those who play only what they have and so sometimes I feel it gets a bit difficult to be able to play nice so to speak. I started the hobby almost three years ago and I went for the models I wanted to play and now I've got all of my armies situated basically how I want them - while I was building them I went for models I liked and also based how I build my list on survivability/durability and effect on the table. However I think that puts me into a certain category as I have many tools in my toolbox so I can build my list based on the armies my opponents are bringing. I don't like to think of it as list tailoring but for instance if I know my opponent is bringing Eldar I fear wave serpent/wraith spam so I might bring a Farsight Enclave Missile Commander Bomb(
My "Orca" Enclave) to deal with jinking wave serpents and high toughness wraith models. I also have used this build against a couple other heavily armored list because it is effective and I'm not taking these against new players (although I did try out a new
GK list the other day against a relatively new Tau player and he ended up conceeding before my turn two and I only had three units on the board - which makes me feel like a jerk but...it's tau, and he does have a decent selection in his army and I have had horrible experiences in the past against them and was merely experimenting with a list) but I don't want players to not want to play against me because other than how I play on the table top I get along with pretty much the entire group.
few examples of my other list (all at 2000 pts)
GK (
Grey Knights w/ Assassin)
Tau (
"Orca" Enclave)
Tyranids "Monster Mash"
So basically I'm wondering - how do I build a list that is effective but not so "
WAAC" or "mean" or...I don't know this is exceedingly difficult. It used to be easy when I was just starting but then I faced things like Mechcrons(wall of AV13) and Wraith based armies or back in sixth Commander Buffed Riptides and so I started building to face these types of elements. I want the game to be fun for both parties but I also don't want to get smashed either. Any recommendations? Discussion on this thought of playing "nice"?