[TheCuttingEdge]

Truthfully, the only people that could be defined as cheesy in my opinion are the ones that take no joy in playing the game, win or lose. You feel like you're not even playing a human being. They don't even make small talk beyond conveying rules or actions to you. Although i will quote a player who's army was featured in the White Dwarf a few months back, he also happens to work for GW:

"There's no point in playing the game if you're not at least trying to win it, and leaving out units because they're too "cheesy" isnt always in line with the character of your army. Play to the strengths of your army! That's not to say win at all cost, though. I'd much rather lose a close game than totally destroy my opponent. When I write up an army list, it's always after i've read through the background. This gives me an idea about what the army is all about and how each of the units is suppoed to work in a game. More importantly though, it gives me ideas about how I can transfer all that theme and character into how i paint or convert the models in the army. Also, any models that are so awesome I must paint them go in the army, regardless of how good they are in the game."

I wholly agree with this. My Wood Elves are based on the concept of the shadow fey. Coeddil the Treeman ancient, gripped by madness from exposure to Morghur leads the army. I painted darker greens for them (Orkhide, Catachan). I have 2 spellsingers which fluff fine, as it says that the forest spirits of the Wild wood deeply covet the ability of the spellsingers. One of the spellsingers is a converted brettonian damsel, as in the wood elf background there is a mention of the Wild Hunt overrunning a Brettonian settlement accidentally, with all being slaughtered save for the duke's daughter, who was spirited away to the forest by dryads.

No matter what, i always find a way to humor what is happening in the game, and i suppose thats why my games are always great. But ultimately it comes down to your opponent. If they don't care about the fun, dont expect a fun game and massacre the CR@P outta them for their horrible attitude.