The concept of "having fun"

Metachasers when I show up with my infantry only Imperial Guard army, they will never get to roll as my turn takes 8 hours

"I see you brought your space wolves today, allow me switch to tyranids, its a more fun matchup than my Tau.""Sounds good, but tyranids are kind of weak atm, you should take an extra squad of gaunts and 2 extra carnifex.""Splendid." >Proceed to have the best game of 2025

There is also fun in optimizing the hell out of your list through game after game and endless theory crafting.

If both you or your opponent doesn't have fun then you've both lost

Nids should be meta because lore go crazy Orkz second tier meta

I ONLY make thematic lists because I know I can't make a competitive one👍

I'm fond of fluffy lists but only if the opponent uses fluffy lists. I yearn to field 20 Blighlord Terminators supported by a Winged Nurgle prince and 3 Plague Burst Crawlers!

Conviniently, author of the meme plays shooty ultramarines list and proceeds to win the first turn and shoot the enemy off the board turn one because apparentely "fun, beautiful and narrative" terrain is incopatible with terrain footprints that prevent that

See also: every game EVER

Me and my buddy racking up Imperial Fists and Iron Warriors for yet another 30k siege layout as the competitive 40k crowd cries we're wasting a table.

The first thing I learned about Warhammer tabletop is to pick the army that you like the look of them or just the gameplay elements because meta changes and those usually don't

Metachasers: "It's just the way we're wired"

I just don’t know how to lay out terrain in a fun way, otherwise I would

Yeah screw those guys having fun in their own, different way that doesn't line up with your superior approach.

I'm so happy everyone I play with is super chill, idk how people can only play with hyper optimized bullshit no fun lists

Why is playing something meta not fun? Both can exist, to engage in competition at some level is vulnerability treatlerite fake "casuals" loathe.

I like playing meta chasers with my fun fluffy thematic list. Thematic doesn't have to mean bad.

EXACTLY!!!

Well I'm Ultramarines player, nobody would believe me if I say I brought thematic list anyways

tbf for the meta users, the meta *is* fun.

When I was first getting into the game I was playing orks and we were using an official terrain setup ant it was so unfun that I sold my models and quit the game for a couple years

Most fun I ever had was making a 1v1v1 matches with two friends. It was chaos, but so incredibly amusing...

Jokes on you I only play when my favorite lists are meta viable so I always stay up. Oh ya we having fun.

My first chaos list was 1 group of scarab marines and a bunch of cultists/chaos guard and IW termies with a daemon prince. The theme was the scarabs were bullshitting the cultist with a fake ritual and it actually worked and the IW showed up because of it lmao

Fun in Warhammer is a myth.

Oh fuck meta just do shit

This applies to pretty much every tabletop or video game on the planet

All fun and games till the asymmetrical terrain opens firing lanes and you loose most of your shit t1.

This is why I'm now heavily into Bolt Action/Konflikt 47. It's rare to have rules *Gotchas* and tanks being both a threat, and yet also 1 shotted, means that there is so much tension in having a tank ricochet AT rounds, while AT teams sneak around to set up an ambush.

Make them do it in 9th.