It's true. There's no way around it. I like stupid things.
Not like this kind of stupid:
I can be one of those 'fluffy gamers'. Doesn't mean I I don't sometimes stumble into a powerful army build or combination, I don't want to like stupid things, I just tend to by nature. To clarify, I don't think they are stupid, but the more competitive of gamers out there might pose questions about the teams, forces, and armies I gravitate toward with "Why not take X?" or "Beta would be a lot more effective than your Gamma." etc. But these suggestions invariably break the theme, the fluff, or the sheer goofiness of what I have in mind. And I'm left wondering how they could suggest these changes: like people who want to put mushrooms on pizza: I know it's common but it is just so wrong. And let's not even approach the taste bud imbalance required to want pineapple or BBQ sauce on pizza. Or Corn. Do you know that it is common to put corn on pizza in Belarus? To be fair though, I don't think anything called pizza there should count as pizza other than the home made pizzas I made there. OK, this is going off topic, as Pizza will tend to impose.
Back to the stupid: I like it.
I like to game with things that are different, odd, characterful and other euphemisms for stupid. Why? Because it is fun!
Having a theme makes an army or team more interesting. Compare it to a book or movie: the story is better if the characters are interesting. If a character has a sense of humor, serious flaws, personal limitations or requirements of conscience, then the character feels more real and draws you into the story more.
Gaming is like that, or it can be.
I tend to like some under powered things. When I played 40k years ago, I really liked orks (still do) but I liked the idea of orks with lots of shootas: the shootas looked cool (esp the ones with drum magazines). people would say "pistol & choppa is much better, much more point-effective".. so? Shootas are cool.
I was thinking about all this today because I've had the itch for something stupid.
I want to make a Lizardman stunty Blood Bowl team. Usually accepted as the '4th stunty team', Lizardmen can field a legal stunty team if they take no Saurus players: A Kroxigor & Skinks only.
This has got to be stupid.
Halflings can take 2 Treemen, strength 6! and if Star Players are allowed they can take Deeproot who is strength 7! Plus they have cheap access to the chef. That's not a bad team.
Goblins are also a good stunty team. Sure, trolls are not as strong as treemen, but they can have two of them, could have Ripper the star troll for a third Big Guy, and can have (with star players) up to 2 chainsaws, 2 ball & chains, 2 Bombers... yikes!
Ogres are considered the weakest stunty team, even though they can have 6 Ogres (and other Ogre Stars that are usually too pricey to squeeze in) because their stunties are only strength 1.
But the Lizardman stunty team gets only 1 Big Guy. Now, the skinks all move 8, but are very pricey for stunty players: twice the cost of halflings! It just seems like a hopeless team.
But it sounds so fun. I picture a skink village, or skink trade union guild who put together a team, simply because they love to play. They are who they are... sure, they're smaller and weaker, but that isn't going to stop them, they're fast! They'll give it a go.
Here is a skink I started to convert as a test:
I was really tempted to try to get such a team ready in time for the West Coast Quake. You probably can't imagine how tempted! But, I've been sick for almost a week, have a lot of work to get to, don't want to rush the team even if I could squeeze the time in, and the Orcs deserve their day on the field, they even have Orcvis all themed for the event. So it has to be. But the skinks are on my mind, and they'll have their turn, I have no doubt.
It's just too stupid not to do.
So go forth and do stupid things! Just make sure it's the right kind of stupid, or we'll end up like this:
With the final result being this:
Not like this kind of stupid:
But what 'serious gamers' might call stupid.
I can be one of those 'fluffy gamers'. Doesn't mean I I don't sometimes stumble into a powerful army build or combination, I don't want to like stupid things, I just tend to by nature. To clarify, I don't think they are stupid, but the more competitive of gamers out there might pose questions about the teams, forces, and armies I gravitate toward with "Why not take X?" or "Beta would be a lot more effective than your Gamma." etc. But these suggestions invariably break the theme, the fluff, or the sheer goofiness of what I have in mind. And I'm left wondering how they could suggest these changes: like people who want to put mushrooms on pizza: I know it's common but it is just so wrong. And let's not even approach the taste bud imbalance required to want pineapple or BBQ sauce on pizza. Or Corn. Do you know that it is common to put corn on pizza in Belarus? To be fair though, I don't think anything called pizza there should count as pizza other than the home made pizzas I made there. OK, this is going off topic, as Pizza will tend to impose.
Back to the stupid: I like it.
I like to game with things that are different, odd, characterful and other euphemisms for stupid. Why? Because it is fun!
Having a theme makes an army or team more interesting. Compare it to a book or movie: the story is better if the characters are interesting. If a character has a sense of humor, serious flaws, personal limitations or requirements of conscience, then the character feels more real and draws you into the story more.
Gaming is like that, or it can be.
I tend to like some under powered things. When I played 40k years ago, I really liked orks (still do) but I liked the idea of orks with lots of shootas: the shootas looked cool (esp the ones with drum magazines). people would say "pistol & choppa is much better, much more point-effective".. so? Shootas are cool.
I was thinking about all this today because I've had the itch for something stupid.
I want to make a Lizardman stunty Blood Bowl team. Usually accepted as the '4th stunty team', Lizardmen can field a legal stunty team if they take no Saurus players: A Kroxigor & Skinks only.
This has got to be stupid.
Halflings can take 2 Treemen, strength 6! and if Star Players are allowed they can take Deeproot who is strength 7! Plus they have cheap access to the chef. That's not a bad team.
Goblins are also a good stunty team. Sure, trolls are not as strong as treemen, but they can have two of them, could have Ripper the star troll for a third Big Guy, and can have (with star players) up to 2 chainsaws, 2 ball & chains, 2 Bombers... yikes!
Ogres are considered the weakest stunty team, even though they can have 6 Ogres (and other Ogre Stars that are usually too pricey to squeeze in) because their stunties are only strength 1.
But the Lizardman stunty team gets only 1 Big Guy. Now, the skinks all move 8, but are very pricey for stunty players: twice the cost of halflings! It just seems like a hopeless team.
But it sounds so fun. I picture a skink village, or skink trade union guild who put together a team, simply because they love to play. They are who they are... sure, they're smaller and weaker, but that isn't going to stop them, they're fast! They'll give it a go.
Here is a skink I started to convert as a test:
I was really tempted to try to get such a team ready in time for the West Coast Quake. You probably can't imagine how tempted! But, I've been sick for almost a week, have a lot of work to get to, don't want to rush the team even if I could squeeze the time in, and the Orcs deserve their day on the field, they even have Orcvis all themed for the event. So it has to be. But the skinks are on my mind, and they'll have their turn, I have no doubt.
It's just too stupid not to do.
So go forth and do stupid things! Just make sure it's the right kind of stupid, or we'll end up like this:
With the final result being this:
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