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When people who aren't participating in said match/battle start giving "well I would do blah blah because blah blah" to me or my opponents during a game. It's one thing to help someone new to or learning a game but don't play someone elses match for them...... ugh.

when people use the word "die" when they mean "dice". I've long since come to terms with the fact that "dice" to refer to a single die is the norm in British English and it has leaked into American English, but "die" as a plural is just... incorrect.

When you play with people for months but you need to constantly remind them of rules....even their armies.... because for some reason they can't pick up the darn books and read it themselves....

That's when I just start making up preposterously bad things about their army and preposterously great rules for mine. Lol

Players that look down on others because

1. They cannot yet paint to a good standard.
2. They do not spend enough money on their stuff ( paints and
brushes).
3. They scratch build a lot of stuff.
4. They build sub optimal lists and use sub optimal units.

There is a lot of snobbery and looking down on other players in this hobby, that is what grinds my gears the most !
Everyone has to start somewhere, if you have nothing good to say about someones army, then dont say it, Constructive criticism is fine but at least find a good point to go with it.

 RatBot wrote:
when people use the word "die" when they mean "dice". I've long since come to terms with the fact that "dice" to refer to a single die is the norm in British English and it has leaked into American English, but "die" as a plural is just... incorrect.

People who say "dices" are far worse to me. Almost as bad as "codexes" instead of "codices".

People who've never played a tabletop game and assume it works like Dawn on war

DOW player: Just use orbital boimbardment
Marine player: I cant do that
DOW player: Then deploy your land raider
Marine player: I cant, it's been destroyed
DOW player: Then send a servitor to fix it

For me:

Dice for singular die.
Codexes, codex's and the like instead of codices.

Oh, and using "verse" as a verb. As in "I versed you already." - it just makes me think of people doing an improv poetry-off.

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
That's when I just start making up preposterously bad things about their army and preposterously great rules for mine. Lol

This. When I first started out in WHFB, my friends dwarves where simply unbeatable, due to the fact that I never read the Dwarf army book. His army couldn't be hurt by spells, always hit on 2+, installiert-killed everything in my army and his Runesmith had ALL the runes (most of them where probably made up, but ehh).

Then AoS dropped, and I could finally read the Dwarf rules without buying their book.

He hasn't won a game since.

Dwarfs were boring to fight in Warhammer.

Taken as a gunline, they reduced their opponent's options to 'cross the board as fast as we can, hope we've got enough left to win combat'

Perhaps more a fault of local gamers than the army itself.

KellyJ wrote:
Spending a year converting, customizing, and painting an entire Army, building and setting a themed display board...then losing "Best Painted/Hobby" to someone who paid one of the Judges to do his stuff for him.

Sorry to hear. That's super gakky.

I can sympathize a little. I was in a speed painting competition where the judge dismissed my entry because he wanted his buddies to win. Some of the other competitors noticed it as well and commented, but unfortunately there's not really anything anyone can do in these situations.

chromedog wrote:Codexes, codex's and the like instead of codices.

Just Tony wrote:Almost as bad as "codexes" instead of "codices".

If you're referring to 40K army books then codexes is the correct plural according to GW...

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Home/codex-gamers-editions.html

They also use inaccuracies like "the reason why" and "orientate", so I don't give them credence over the English language as taught by scholars worldwide.

I cant stand mold lines in places you cant get your knife into.

 Just Tony wrote:
They also inaccuracies like "the reason why" and "orientate", so I don't give them credence over the English language as taught by scholars worldwide.

+1 this.

They really should know better.

 Damikeis wrote:
I cant stand mold lines in places you cant get your knife into.

There is no such thing.

You're supposed to clean the mold lines on the pieces, not on the model.

When every piece is perfectly clean, you then assemble and no new mold lines appear.

morgoth wrote:

 Damikeis wrote:
I cant stand mold lines in places you cant get your knife into.

There is no such thing.

You're supposed to clean the mold lines on the pieces, not on the model.

When every piece is perfectly clean, you then assemble and no new mold lines appear.

That’s false. There are plenty of times I meticulously clean every piece before I assemble a mini, but once I prime it a few more have appeared. New lines, not once I just missed. Nope.

Jokes aside, some minis have mold lines/resin gates in some very awkward places. I recall when assembling my thunderfire cannon some of the ones on the track wheels were pretty much impossible to get a knife at. If I had some hooked dental tools, maybe, but no normal hobby kit was going to get them 100% clean.

Mold Lines are just another word for 'Warp Fractures'. This is why they appear from nowhere when painting models. It is also why coating models in Purity Seal is such an important step when finishing models. Without it you are prone to daemonic incursion and perils of the warp.

morgoth wrote:

 Damikeis wrote:
I cant stand mold lines in places you cant get your knife into.

There is no such thing.

You're supposed to clean the mold lines on the pieces, not on the model.

When every piece is perfectly clean, you then assemble and no new mold lines appear.

I disagree, there are plenty of spots where you have a mould line in a nook or small concave radius that you can't get a knife in to without having to whittle the detail back on after you've removed it.

Awkward injection points. Especially on FW stuff :(

I get pretty annoyed whenever I stab myself while trimming something or removing it from a sprue.

And I do that pretty often.

Other people don't bother me too much, at least in regards to hobby stuff. I do find people who chew extremely noisily while talking to be the epitome of evil, but, you know, that happens everywhere.

Mixing older sculpts and newer ones. If there is a newer version of a kit sometimes I can't stand having the older stuff in the same force. This has really hit me hard with my Infinity Haqqislam collection. To my knowledge CB has re sculpted the basic Haqqislam infantry twice and it drives me up the wall. I've replaced most of my Space Marines with the newer kits as well. Although, in that case, it's mostly a case of the models being ruined by poor conversion jobs and shoddy modelling.

Probably the most egregious case on my part regarding this issue is when I replaced a 60 man strong German army in Bolt Action once Warlord games released the grenadiers kit. There was nothing wrong with the older models. I just had to have a cohesive looking army.

STUFF ON THE TABLE

You both spend months painting an army, build a table of massive impressive terrain, and arrange all your models up into a game that looks really cool - then plaster the board with cups, bits of paper, books, keys, soda cans?

I'm one of those people that clears my dice back into my corner after I roll, and clear up my opponents' back into his before I start my turn. I pretend that I'm just doing it to clear the way for the movement phase, or to make sure he doesn't lose anything, but really it's because I want it to look pretty....

One of my pet peaves, and only realised it yesterday, is people always bringing special characters. I know that the way the rules have developed that this is fairly normal (especially with the counts as someone like them 'rule'). Now, if someone said, oh I will be using this special character, but he is actually [insert their own character that fits with their army], I would be ok with that. But people don't seem to bother with even that anymore. I'm sorry, but Marnius Calgar or Commissar Yarrick is not going to turn up to every skirmish on a back water world - they are Galaxy wide renowned hero's, they have far more pressing matters to attend to like leading the 2nd, 5th and 7th Companies in an attack on a Major Traitor Legion Stronghold, or advising the General of the crusade as to where best to deploy his forces.

Please, if you are going to use special characters, either have a good reason why they are in the battle or make them you're own.

icn1982 wrote:
One of my pet peaves, and only realised it yesterday, is people always bringing special characters. I know that the way the rules have developed that this is fairly normal (especially with the counts as someone like them 'rule'). Now, if someone said, oh I will be using this special character, but he is actually [insert their own character that fits with their army], I would be ok with that. But people don't seem to bother with even that anymore. I'm sorry, but Marnius Calgar or Commissar Yarrick is not going to turn up to every skirmish on a back water world - they are Galaxy wide renowned hero's, they have far more pressing matters to attend to like leading the 2nd, 5th and 7th Companies in an attack on a Major Traitor Legion Stronghold, or advising the General of the crusade as to where best to deploy his forces.

Please, if you are going to use special characters, either have a good reason why they are in the battle or make them you're own.

95% agree. I hate how in a VAST universe with countless battles across countless worlds that the same handful of characters always show up (only exception being Draigo because well...... hes Draigo, that's sorta his thing to just show up.... sorta like Doomrider). I always try to make special characters be somebody different using that rule set so at the very least its a unique special character in my army and not Castellan Crowe #7568. I will say though that the 5% that doesn't agree is that many people don't have the skill or want to create custom models/fluff for characters so while I don't like it, I don't fault people from using a special character.

When I ran Captain Cortez, it was because I liked the character. When I ran Pedro Kantor, it was because that was the only way to get Crimson Fists special rules at the time. When I ran Eltharion the Swordmaster, it was because he was the epitome of badassedry, I loved his backstory and his will, and because it unlocked a Saphery list for all intents and purposes. I personally don't see an issue with it. Now back when Lysander was showing up in Salamander armies? No, that gak pissed me straight the Hell off.

 Vankraken wrote:

icn1982 wrote:
One of my pet peaves, and only realised it yesterday, is people always bringing special characters. I know that the way the rules have developed that this is fairly normal (especially with the counts as someone like them 'rule'). Now, if someone said, oh I will be using this special character, but he is actually [insert their own character that fits with their army], I would be ok with that. But people don't seem to bother with even that anymore. I'm sorry, but Marnius Calgar or Commissar Yarrick is not going to turn up to every skirmish on a back water world - they are Galaxy wide renowned hero's, they have far more pressing matters to attend to like leading the 2nd, 5th and 7th Companies in an attack on a Major Traitor Legion Stronghold, or advising the General of the crusade as to where best to deploy his forces.

Please, if you are going to use special characters, either have a good reason why they are in the battle or make them you're own.

95% agree. I hate how in a VAST universe with countless battles across countless worlds that the same handful of characters always show up (only exception being Draigo because well...... hes Draigo, that's sorta his thing to just show up.... sorta like Doomrider). I always try to make special characters be somebody different using that rule set so at the very least its a unique special character in my army and not Castellan Crowe #7568. I will say though that the 5% that doesn't agree is that many people don't have the skill or want to create custom models/fluff for characters so while I don't like it, I don't fault people from using a special character.

This. Kairos seems to show up at A LOT of battles involving no other Tzeentch daemons at all.
I do love my Blue Scribes though (my favorite conversion), but games and armies with then always have a spell searching narrative.

Probably a demon character is the most justifiable for showing up in multiple battles all over the galaxy. They don't got to follow our rules.

 toasteroven wrote:
Probably a demon character is the most justifiable for showing up in multiple battles all over the galaxy. They don't got to follow our rules.

I'm worried about Cael showing up in all Armies of the Imperium from now on, but I like it when people have characters in their army. I DONT like home brew armies with no background thought.

Seeing no Cadians in the Gathering Storm pictures on GW's website. Yeah, I guess it doesn't take much. . .