Can't Cheese a Cheeser

[Hijiri Byakuren]

A funny Warhammer 40k story I found. Apparently this happened during a 5th Edition tournament.

http://imgur.com/a/V0gND

Player 1 (white shirt, henceforth called Wheels) is a Warhammer powergamer. His gimmick is to hold his entire army in reserve. The opponent will be forced to deploy conservatively, since Wheels' side of the field will be empty. At the beginning of his first turn, Wheels will deploy his entire force in a compact "spearhead", then advance and pierce the enemy line at its weakest point.

Player 2 (black shirt, let's call him Shooter) is aware of Wheels' gimmick.
 
During the normal deployment/setup phase, Shooter places his commander on the field. In Warhammer, two players are supposed to take turns - deploying and counter-deploying until everything is on the field. However, Wheels announces that he's deploying nothing - he'll hold his entire force in reserve (as he planned all along).

Shooter places a row of scouts into a single thin skirmish line covering Wheels' entire edge of the table. Scouts can be deployed anywhere, but anti-cheese rules prevent him putting a scout within 30 cm of an opposing unit, but there are no opposing units anywhere on the field and so the rule is moot. Tactically, these scouts are fucked - they have no cover, no support, and they're on open ground. As soon as the opposing cavalry takes the field, these guys will die. The deployment phase ends.

It's now Wheels' turn. Shooter informs him that the game is over. Wheels can't actually deploy any of his motorcycles - anti-cheese rules prevent him from placing a reserve unit within 5cm of an enemy model. There isn't a single 5cm gap anywhere on Wheels' edge of the field. Wheels' entire force is doomed to sit uselessly "in reserve" until the game ends, at which point he'll lose automatically because Shooter controls the entire map.

The tournament officials declared that Shooter's interpretation of the rules was technically correct and granted him the victory.

And now you know why Shooter is smiling while Wheels is poring over a rulebook.

[Poison Tree]

That is absolutely brilliant  =D>


Am I the only one who misread the title as "Can't cheese a cracker"  

[Plu]

Hehe. I absolutely love counter-cheese. It's the most amazing thing ever :)

I also love original cheese. It's also awesome.

The only thing that sucks is stale cheese, and unfortunately that's the most common type.

[Jason78]

There's nothing I like better than wiping the smug grin off of a cheesers face.