Perspective comparison/mild rant

[PeterPotamus]

Some two or three months ago when I had taken my first exploratory steps into 40k, I landed on a wiki called 1d4chan. I read a few of their articles, very reluctantly due to the instant gag reflex I have developed with 4chan-related browsing, but I then ended up reading every single Tactics article they have there, absorbing the information hungrily. At first I was impressed with what I though was a wealth of tactical advice and general 40k wisdom, but it gradually became obvious that the wiki is written by a proper collection of half-witted powergamers sharing the same disturbing obsessions of their "colleagues" on all the chan boards, namely incessant and exaggerated vulgarity, infantile assertiveness, and a rather abusive relationship with the thing they should cherish. It doesn't take long to realize that "take this unit because it's strong, don't take that unit because it sucks" is not tactics, and "this new stuff I read sucks because me and two other guys didn't like it" is not analysis. It's psycho-babble, topped with more of the same. That being said, a good 20% of what I've read there was actually correct and helpful, but I have since found out that most of it is easy to deduce by simply reading the rulebook and playing the game. I also don't care for all of their bitching.
If you want some REAL insights into the meta-game of 40k, check out this guy http://thepontificateofnurglitch.blogspot.ca/

[G-Ram]

There are good resources for info on the game out there, but playing it for yourself and seeing what works and what doesn't is the best idea.

[Steel Paladin]

There are good resources for info on the game out there, but playing it for yourself and seeing what works and what doesn't is the best idea.

That's how the G-Ram has been beating scrubs since 2006 - playing lots.

[G-Ram]

There are good resources for info on the game out there, but playing it for yourself and seeing what works and what doesn't is the best idea.

That's how the G-Ram has been beating scrubs since 2006 - playing lots.

This ^

[Twinlinked]

There are good resources for info on the game out there, but playing it for yourself and seeing what works and what doesn't is the best idea.

That's how the G-Ram has been beating scrubs since 2006 - playing lots.

This ^

playing lots o games gainst scrubs means ur bound to win a few.. Just watch out fo da 40k pigeons..

A.

[Steel Paladin]

That's how the G-Ram has been beating scrubs since 2006 - playing lots.

This ^

playing lots o games gainst scrubs means ur bound to win a few.. Just watch out fo da 40k pigeons..

A.

I don't want no 40k pigeons - those are the kind of playas who don't get no love from me, hangin' out at the Bayshore Mall, at tha' Gee Dubya, tryin' to holla at me.

[Matt Varnish]

Ahh Nurglitch.. he kind of has a rep online too.. and for a while lived in Ottawa (still might)

[Desc440]

I don't know much about Nurglitch, but two good places to read about 40k are 3++ is the new black (http://www.3plusplus.net/) and Yes The Truth Hurts (http://www.yesthetruthhurts.com/).

[Henshini]

I haven't heard of 3++, but I'm not a fan of YTTH. To say the writer(stelek)'s personality is abrasive would be calling the titanic a dinghy. After the incident he had playing against the BoK guy, I lost what shred of respect I had for him.

[Nurglitch]

PeterPotamus:

Thanks for the positive review. As Matt Varnish alludes, positive reactions to me are few and far between!

I don't live in Ottawa anymore, which is a bit of a shame from a gaming perspective: I don't think I had a single bad game of Warhammer 40,000 while I was in Ottawa, and I think I learned a lot from playing there. I'm back out in Halifax these days, and it's a smaller community; be thankful for the depth and width of the Ottawa scene. Not better, just easier to get games with a variety of cool people.