A couple of notes...
First, for those that don't know me, I'm chris. I'm the guy that coordinates the LWGA and I post a lot on portent.net and some on the wps boards.
On the battle vs jlutin, it was a fun game that occurred right after the release of the beastman book. Yes the flank charge thing was an error.
Onto the crux of my post. I would say that most of our players play the game simply for fun. As was pointed out, most of us are not die hard WAAC attack players who strive to shove our list down someone's throat.
The lizardmen player was a wild card entry. He erased my army with the same list he used against Jesse. (I played chaos khorne this year). His salamander packs were ruthless, killing 10 furies, 5 knights, and a handful of chosen warriors. He did quite well against a lot of opponents this year.
Yeah his deployment was less then stellar, but calling it "moronic" and all is a little bit over the line.
The army lists we construct are not meant to be jammed up someone's butt. Yeah I realize I could have made a more powerful chaos list that had a shaggoth and all of the cheese items... Jesse could have taken the mandatory steam tank and dual units of inner circle knights, etc... but we don't usually play that way.
However, I have also watched Jesse take one of his lists, watch it get laughed at by some random WAAC player, and watch Jesse pound the living hell out of them, much to our amusement as the cheesed out WAAC player stands their drooling wondering how such a "crappy" army could have dusted him like that. Not once but twice have I seen him do that to a power gamer at a tournament.
Also our lists are fixed 1900 point lists with 300 points extra. We also play with *gasp* scenarios. So if you take your traditional jam cram tournament list you will do great in a pitched battle, but then have fun when you have to play a scenario. We have to keep all of that in mind when we make our army lists and submit them for posting on the website.
Sure if those lists would have been present at a super waac GT they would probably get spanked. I mean, it would probably appall some players that an empire army had neither a single war machine or a steam tank. But then again we play for fun, and we like more "realistic" armies, instead of the mandatory cookie cutter tournament crap armies that have become quite boring to play against.
Honestly, go to your next big tournament and take a not of the army lists. While they are going to have some minor differences, the majority will all have the same boring elements in them (read... the really hard stuff, all the time)
We break out the cheese graters every once in a while as well, but for the most part we also strive for a good army composition that is fun for the opponent to play against as well as for a good sportsmanship score. Bringing a super hard min/maxed list will probably not garner you those things, but if you win I guess to most people that's what it is all about.
In short, I post battle reports to show off our collections, players, and our games. We have fun. I don't post them so that our players can be attacked for their "moronic" choices. We are aware that our army composition would sicken most hardened tournament veterans. We are also aware most of us probably won't ever win a GT and are quite content with knowing we will never be the lord of the universe.
Enjoy reading how other players play the game and see some choices most of you probably would never take in a tournament enviornment. But please keep the nasty comments to yourself, lest someday you make a mistake and someone slams you for it.
And if anyone is around the Louisville area and wants to have a game we are more than happy to accomodate!
Thanks!
~chris