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INFP-T. Play/Own Tau, Space Marines, Necrons, Tyranids, Orks, AdMech, IG, Grey Knights, Imperial Knights, Custodes, Eldar, Forge Fathers, House Marik, Germany (WoW/WW2), US (WoW/WW2, Team Yankee), Circle Oroborus, Cygnar, Khador, Vampire Counts, Stormcast, Nighthaunt, Skaven, High Elves, Daqan, Lateri Elves, Martians, Federation, Romulan, Klingon, Imperial (Armada, X-Wing, Legion), Rebel (X-Wing), USMC, Xenomorphs, AADA, and GI Joe/the Corps (& Cobra!).

Personally, I think you'd have more luck with horoscopes or the aforementioned "Which Street Fighter character are you?"

ENTP-T

Extroverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Prospecting, Turbulent


I play Guard, Sisters, Wolves, and am now developing my Custodes into a full army. I also have token representation of the AdMech, Deathwatch, and Imperial Knights, and might make Grey Knights my 5th army [if not, then as my kill team] since, well, I've got a set to complete .

I also have DZC.


All things considered, I think the personality test was right on the money, but I don't think there's a correlation.

ENFP

I play mostly elves and more elves(Craftworlds, Drukhari, Daughters of Khaine). Also have Dark Angels.

auticus wrote:
I don't think there is a correlation. Many gamers fall into an introverted category, but our interests in armies vary wildly.

I am an INTJ. I play chaos, necrons, and eldar. My necrons are more defensive based. My eldar are much more attack oriented. My death guard are more defensive based. My thousand sons more attack oriented.

Similar - different code but I love to play my favs: Orks, Sisters, Marines and Dark Eldar depending on what mood I am in.

In my experience, the PCL-R is likely to be more relevant to this community.

ENFJ, allegedly. Almost certainly it's total bottom-gravy. I collect Slaanesh 'soup'.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
I collect Slaanesh 'soup'.

I hope you wear many layers of gloves.

ENTP-t

I play Space Wolves in 30K and 40K and Nurgle in Age of Sigmar, although I started both of these armies for aesthetic/nostalgic reasons rather than gameplay.

Interestingly, I always seem to play a combat-focussed army while always feeling jealous of shooting armies. Quite often I'll wish I played X or Y for gameplay reasons but I can never bring myself to start a project that isn't aesthetically appealing to me - I even started Iron Warriors in 30K months ago but haven't brought myself to actually finish my army because I'd rather play my less-common, more interesting aesthetically to me army (Space Wolves) at events than one who I'm actually more hankering after playing more of (SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT). There's definitely an argument to be made for me having a bit of an underdog complex in that regard.

 Kommissar Kel wrote:

 Polonius wrote:
I'm an ENTJ and I play Imperial Guard.

Same.

Maybe it is a Cleveland thing though.

Also play space marines(sons of medusa), orks, and IK.

I grew up around Cleveland,
lived downtown for a few years and went to CSU for masters.

Came in similar, but not same:
ENFJ-T
Didn't know what to make of it till reading the blurb:
"With vision and determination, nothing is impossible."
Yup... That's it.

Favorite collection is mixed Imperial including Marines supporting Inquisition,
followed by Orks,
then eldar and harlies (first armies).





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 Excommunicatus wrote:
In my experience, the PCL-R is likely to be more relevant to this community.

ENFJ, allegedly. Almost certainly it's total bottom-gravy. I collect Slaanesh 'soup'.

EEK.
Psychopathy, really?

Hmmm...
Nope.


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 Inquisitor Lord Katherine wrote:
ENTP-T

Extroverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Prospecting, Turbulent


I play Guard, Sisters, Wolves, and am now developing my Custodes into a full army. I also have token representation of the AdMech, Deathwatch, and Imperial Knights, and might make Grey Knights my 5th army [if not, then as my kill team] since, well, I've got a set to complete .

I also have DZC.


All things considered, I think the personality test was right on the money, but I don't think there's a correlation[i][u].

Yeah, a lot of things go into army choice, especially first armies.

Second, third, or fourth armies in the context of playstyle seems more likely to correlate.


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SirWeeble wrote:
Just a note on the Myer's-Briggs personality test: it's been widely discredited by psychology and the only place it is used is by clueless HR people who are trying to stupid their way into more enumerable job candidates.

And this isn't a recent thing. It has been discredited for a long time.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309/goodbye-mbti-the-fad-won-t-die

Maybe you are missing the point of the test,
because the real upshot is that people use it as a baseline
against which formal introspection can begin and work from
toward a deeper self-understanding.
Sure, people answer differently depending on mood and circumstance,
but simply seeing as much is quite a useful experience, also.

I would think the PCL-R more relevant to any community, since it is based on science and study while MBTI is based on pulling things out of your bottom.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
I would think the PCL-R more relevant to any community, since it is based on science and study while MBTI is based on pulling things out of your bottom.

Something of which Slaanesh approves.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
I would think the PCL-R more relevant to any community, since it is based on science and study while MBTI is based on pulling things out of your bottom.

Well, seeing as how there is little regard for neural processing in the PCL,
including the revised version,
and given the recent and ongoing controversies over the DSM-5,
the split in the field of psychiatry between those who would
stick with old school labels (psychopath, for example)
and those who would base diagnoses on information processing, essentially,
you might want to be a bit more specific as to what you mean by "science"
unless you contend that psychology is not "science"...


Besides that,
while remorseless negative empathy is a marker for psychopathy,
where one falls on a scale from psycho to saint is less interesting than
what the old general personality batteries have to say.
Again, either may serve introspection and self-determination,
in the right hands,
the more general battery delivers more 'food for thought' as it were.

That said, I have noticed a generational slide into the negative empathy side of the scale,
as well as a trend Westward, confirming old social psychology.
So, maybe the psychopathy test is useful for that,
figuring out where one stands in the community in terms of other-oriented care,
and helping players to figure out why they are the only ones who seem to do so,
with their peers taking at everyone else's expense,
and some players being the only ones to notice this as a dysfunction.


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 darkcloak wrote:

 Excommunicatus wrote:
I would think the PCL-R more relevant to any community, since it is based on science and study while MBTI is based on pulling things out of your bottom.

Something of which Slaanesh approves.

The only difference between established scientist and closeted fetishist being a few indexed publications...

That post was more entertaining than it should have been, because I read it as verse due to the line breaks.

I ended up like I always do on these tests. Right down the middle. Don't remember the code TBH. Everything was either 49%/51%, 51%/49%, or 50/50.

I play Sisters, Iyanden Eldar, IG, working on Lamenters and Blood Ravens (Deathwatch). I'm looking at eventually adding a small AdMech collection, Knights, and Night Lords.

I like putting a narrative in my list, or a bit of a theme, such as my IG, which are a tank equipped Navy police unit that guards a planetary facility. My non-unique eldar characters and exarchs are in the process of getting names as I repaint them, so I can fluff the army pieces both as a whole, and for casual game lists, such as a recent list which in head cannon was a Spiritseer looking for a Wraithlord who was off meditating on some planet. Which I need to remember for the next escalation league...

I did one of these as part of a graduate trainee leadership course a decade or more ago. Can't remember what I got.

Can you work back? I mostly play Elysian Drop Troops or ordinary Astra Militarum. I also have a Space Marines army (Astral Claws) that's been sidelined since 8th edition for background reasons but I'm considering a new Marines army. I also have small forces of Adeptus Mechanicus, Harlequins and Genestealer Cult, although they've yet to see play.

'Cause I said the PCL-R was a perfect diagnostic tool, didn't I?

Nice wheelie, though.

 Smotejob wrote:
I am curious if there is a relationship with everyone's MBTI (myers Briggs type indicator) and if they play Warhammer, and further if that has had an influence on your army choice.

Just looking to satisfy a curiosity and seeing if there is a trend in 40k players as a whole

If you don't know your MBTI - https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

I'll start...hi, I'm Mike. I am an INTP and favorite army to play is Grey knights

I havr ben wondering something similar. But I thibk your research question is wrong, matching armies to meyer brigs is wrong. Instead you should use play styles. ENTP would likly have multiple army projects going etc, rarly fineshing them. While and INTP would have one well thought through army.

You should also not use Meyer Briggs. By most psychologists it is considered a bit pseudo scince. The reason it stays strong is because it sounds right, and a lot of paychologists sells it s a service to buisnisses. The current best model is the big five. "Unfortunatly" it does not break into 16 archtypes.

Also, you should not use armies but look for traits. The Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetic model (MDA) by Hunicke, LeBlanc and Zubek is much better. You should probably look into models that have comr after, but I do not know them. But from this we know that people who play to paint mixes bad with people who play to win/domonate and GW games have tendensies to throw them all into the same pool.

For further reading check out big five, MDA game model and some more on meyer briggs. The idea of the 16 arch types has it roots in people sharing a common unconsusnes while we sleep. Something most current science think is a bit balony.

Edit: After reading through the responses a bit more i see that people who are NT keep replying. Really? A volteraly self reporting information gathering about something theoretical and it is a huge increase in NT responses? Who could have predicted? :p

 Niiai wrote:

 Smotejob wrote:
I am curious if there is a relationship with everyone's MBTI (myers Briggs type indicator) and if they play Warhammer, and further if that has had an influence on your army choice.

Just looking to satisfy a curiosity and seeing if there is a trend in 40k players as a whole

If you don't know your MBTI - https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

I'll start...hi, I'm Mike. I am an INTP and favorite army to play is Grey knights

I havr ben wondering something similar. But I thibk your research question is wrong, matching armies to meyer brigs is wrong. Instead you should use play styles. ENTP would likly have multiple army projects going etc, rarly fineshing them. While and INTP would have one well thought through army.

Hah, well I'm a data point against that! INTP, and I have tons of sprawling projects going that I never finish. I plan them for sure, spend ages in Battlescribe working out different lists and what I need to buy to finish them.

But there's a huge disconnect between the plan and what actually happens. I lose interest before the plan is completed and start a new plan. Constantly.

Which probably is fitting for INTP tbh. Because logically the problem of what the best army is solved, so I need a new problem to solve rather than executing the plan for the original one.

That is not probably fitting for INTP. You are describing a textbook example of ENTP. ENTP are the scatter brains who are to lazy to finish (unless it is to prove a point) while INTP are textbook idea perfectionists given enough time and data.

I am putting it a bit pointy, but this is just another example of why meyer briggs is not regarded as a valid model.

 Niiai wrote:
That is not probably fitting for INTP. You are describing a textbook example of ENTP. ENTP are the scatter brains who are to lazy to finish (unless it is to prove a point) while INTP are textbook idea perfectionists given enough time and data.

I am putting it a bit pointy, but this is just another example of why meyer briggs is not regarded as a valid model.

I'm strongly I leaning over E, trust me.

It's not laziness, it's about what tasks interest me. The planning stage interests me, I want to perfect it. The execution interests me less. The idea is perfected, as you say. So I want new information to gather and digest.


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I agree it is not a good model though, so this is probably not worth getting into a debate over!

I think you origonally missunderstood my critesimn. I am not saying you are wrong. I am saying this 16 personalaty indicator is very ureliably if any reliable at all. I am not critesising you, I am saying aplying this model to you (or anyone) is bad.

 Niiai wrote:
I think you origonally missunderstood my critesimn. I am not saying you are wrong. I am saying this 16 personalaty indicator is very ureliably if any reliable at all. I am not critesising you, I am saying aplying this model to you (or anyone) is bad.

It's cool, I can certainly agree with that

Some quick googling shows a bit of researh in this. Not with warhammer armies. But perhaps the OP can strapulate something form them.

Or email GW and get a resurch grant. That would be cool.