Heh. Nice.
Funny how locally, we call the ringer the guy who fills the odd number slot for the tournaments so no one sits out a round...
I've been meaning to post about this, and now seems a good time. I don't believe in cheese. I believe in fluff, and I wouldn't call it cheesy to have an army that blatantly violates the fluff... I'd just consider it stupid and pointless from the perspective of the storyline. Cheese is, ultimately, what you're afraid of, or think you can't beat. The simple truth of the matter is that while there are a lot of "killer combos" out there that are considered cheesy, the challenge lies in beating them. And if you do beat them, then the people who think they need to rely on that sort of thing instead of sound tactics may eventually realize that this isn't a card game like Magic-- you can't just build the army to win, you have to lead it well when it's on the table. If someone can't do that and has to resort to the lamer things available to their army, then that's their own flaw-- and there are ways to exploit that flaw in the game. For example, someone who runs nothing but pure "cheese" may think they need to in order to win-- which would imply they're not confident in their own abilities. You can predict what they'll do because of that, and act accordingly. Daemon bomb? No problem. Set up to recieve chargers by keeping units in a firing line but with 3.5'' gaps between them, and cover the obvious lines of advance for the bikers with your heavy guns. Drop pods? Split your army up and make them split up theirs. Take each flank, put a sacrificial unit in the center, and let the drop pod units seperate themselves. You'll likely outrange them unless you're a choppy army yourself, in which case it doesn't matter much. What you can't shoot down, you fight with weight of numbers, since there are at most ten Space Marines in a drop pod, and it's surprising how isolated they can get deep-striking. Assault cannons out the wazoo? You have cover, use it to your advantage, and position units to funnel those land speeders into line of fire of multi-shot, moderate strength weapons. If they're terminators, they're SLOW... simply outmaneuver them.