Yep 4 weeks in and I missed a release already. SO……… I’ll
have to do a double release next time.
Well back from Cancon and suffering the PTS or Post
Tournament Stress. I really have no drive at the moment as I put everything
into having my army ready for Cancon. So no minis to look at today. I do have
one thing I wanted to rant / discuss though and it occurred during a tournament
I played in.
I entered the Speed machine. It’s a fun little tourney that
takes about 3 hours total as each round is only a 16 minute death clock, . Rules
are you may only bring warcasters/warlocks and warjacks/warbeasts. The first
round I played a Cryx player and I thought I was in with a chance. It was going
great till his caster pulled his feat and out comes 6 banes knights who then
charge my Mulg and kill it in that turn. I questioned weather that was legal as
its only supposed to be warcaster/warbeast and not troops and he said that the
rules state the army list has those restrictions but nothing was said about
summoning troops after the game starts.
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| Not my minis |
For those of you that know me you will probably guess my response
to that. Comments like “Well you really know how to suck the fun out of what
was suppose to be a fun tourney.” and “I hope you can live with yourself
knowing you can only win by cheating.” may or may not have been said but this
is not the first time I have experienced this type of attitude. We have a
yearly retreat that has a Grande Melee Magic game. The winner picks the rules
for next year to make it the fun little thing that it is. One year the winner
said the rules will be no creatures in your deck. The first conversation I
heard was how can we get around that rule by using token which don’t count as
creatures.
So it brings me to the point I am trying to make. Is it
better to play in the spirit of the rules, or to play by the rules and find a
way to get around the rules. In my mind you should try to win in the spirit of
the rules. So in the instance of the caster in question he would be banned or
his feat would not be allowed and to use him would be cheating.(As an aside the
guy won the tournament so maybe there is something in that). And in the magic
example you would have to find a way in the spirit of the rules to win and not
use tokens to get around the rules. (Tokens are summoned creatures that don’t count
as creatures and don’t get me started on that)
Now I know plenty of people that will say that if the rules don’t
state it then you can do it. But is that playing to the spirit of the games. We
play a modified game of warmachine where it is only the warcasters and we make
very specific rules to null out bringing followers and summoning extra
creatures etc as we want to see caster vs caster and the extra bodies would
make the game too skewed.
I have argued the point around and around and I know I will
never convince those players who think that getting around the rules is a legal
way to play and maybe I should just give in and play chess or checkers which is
one of the few really balanced mini games. Anyway let me know what you think
and happy gaming.
Cheers
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