It
happens about once every year or two. I love my little group of
regular opponents, who are all friends of mine and not dicks, but
about once a year I find myself wanting a little extra variety. As it
happens my local GW has restarted its Saturday afternoon gaming club
and I am, tentatively, in.
I
have to choose a “House”, which is a fluffy little thing the
staff want to try. Each of the three full-timers is the head of a
Chapter (Ultramarines, Imperial Fists and Blood Angels) and the wins,
loses and whatever of those in their chapter are compared in some
way. The chapter you choose doesn't have to be relevant to your army
and I'm doing Orks. I'd like there to be some kind of fluffy link,
though, so I think I'll sign up as an Ultramarine (Arch-Arsonist of
Charadon and all that), though I still want a Flesh Tearers army so
maybe Blood Angels.
I
am looking forward to this but there is one question you can't
politely ask when agreeing to be part of something like this: how
many dicks are going to be there?
It
is a concern. I get involved in these clubs and then a power gamer
turns up and... you know that scene in John Carpenter's The Thing
where they use a computer to show how one Thing cell will take over
an entire organism and then spread out to infect he whole world?
Power gamers are like that. One turns up and at first everyone rolls
their eyes and tolerates them out of politeness but before you know
it people are bringing broken tournament lists in just to beat that
one guy and then there's no hope, the club is lost, irreversibly
contaminated.
Still,
it'll probably be fun while it lasts and I would like to get some
games in one the weekends the rest of my group are busy.
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