Anyone who’s played Warhammer 40,000 has probably faced a cheesy army or two. From my personal experience, it seems like there are a lot of cheesy armies out there these days. I don’t mean the armies themselves, I mean the army lists that some players put together. The good old space wolves army can also be used to make an extremely cheesy list if their players so choose. I don’t believe cheesy armies are the way to go at all. Of course this is just my opinion. If the first thing you field when you create your army is Land Raiders and terminators, you may be slightly cheesy. Ard boys tournaments tend to bring out the cheesy players. This article are my thoughts on cheesy players and cheesy Space Wolves armies.

Ever since Games Workshop started doing “Ard Boys” tournaments, Warhammer 40k Space Wolves have become cheesier. What I mean is, it seems a lot of players refuse to lose. This is pretty annoying. I’ve been playing this game since its second edition. I’ve always been a Space Wolves player.  There are games where I’ve got my butt kicked due to my bad dice rolling. So what I’ve seen people do, is try to put the most powerful units down on the table and have as many of them as they can. This leads to armies with only terminators, land raiders etc. From my experience, balanced armies will always do better in tournaments. You need numbers so you can sustain some losses. You’re always going to lose parts of your army when you play Warhammer 40,000. Some people can’t take the idea that their tank will be blown up or that there commander will be killed. The only thing that I have to say to that is, get used to it. 40k Space Wolves die sometimes and it’s just part of the game.

The majority of 40K players use space marines. This is fine, however when you decide to field four land raiders in the 2000 point game, you’re definitely cheesing it up. There is absolutely no reason to spend that many points on vehicles. Especially ones that wont make their points back. Land raiders are effective, no doubt, but to have four is overkill. I’ve heard of some space wolves players making armies of entirely Thunder Wolf cavalry. While this is legal, to me it sounds cheesy. I love my thunder Wolf cavalry, but to spend 2000 points on 15 to 18 models sounds ridiculous. If I want to play Warhammer 40,000 casually and the person I’m planning lays a cheesy army before me, I simply won’t play them. I play this game to have fun not to prove “how great I am.”  People need to take this game less seriously and have fun with it like people used to in second edition. Again this is all just opinion. Thanks for reading.

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