hello dont know if anyone has done this before but what exactly made you tick when you were having a game with somone.

i will start off when i was in newcastle GW and i played my TK against Dwarfs as we were having a game we only had half an hour do do a game as the staff needed the board we were on for the storm of magic release.

we were having a game untill 3 other lads came (they were older than us, were nice people but knew the rules well) over our table and even though we were playing right and they knew the rules and were helping us, they were trying to help the Dwarf player (who was a noob at the rules) and that were i felt penilised as the older lads were helping him with tactics (i had a hoard of 40 skellies but he had a cannon nuff'said) he then won the game and the only thing i learned out of this was that warsphinxs take crumble tests (which even if its right to was a bad thing) then for the whole day he was boasting about how he beat such a noob (well at least i know how to reform and what a full comand squad do) and the lines what he said were "I pwned you like a noob" every time he saw me.

needless to say I dont go to GW again and i will stay at games of war as it is just plain better.

so what has made you tick please post here.

cheers for your replies.

happygolucky wrote: "I pwned you like a noob"

Someone seriously said this in real life? Ugh. Anyone who says that without a hint of irony out loud should go to the gallows.

I played against an opponent who, every single time I rolled a die, would say something along the lines of "don't mess up" even after I politely asked him to stop. He then started going on about my Team Jacob Marines (which wasn't funny the first time, less funny the sixteenth) just because I was playing Space Wolves. When you're rolling really poorly and somebody is constantly pestering you like that, it makes for a really awful game.

GT Chicago 2006. Played a game on one of the lava pools style tables. My opponent rolled every dice one-ata-time into different lava pools...the WHOLE GAME!

Fun times....

Ok, I had one that was more grounded in gameplay but here it goes. I'll try to make it at least somewhat intelligible to no WM players.
In a game of warmachine I was playing cygnar(ranged faction) and my warcaster was kraye(terrain mitigation and doubles the speed of one melee model) vs. protectorate(buff heavy faction that's mostly melee) lead by Epic Severius(anti-infantry control-ish caster).
I had set up behind a big forest and planned on making him come close with his troops then trampling his infantry and going straight through to his caster and support models. Little did I know that the forest in question was just deep enough for him to hide inside, keep his two jacks with big guns behind, and use a rarely used spell to see through and blast away with no place for my planned trample to end up. I had to move up my own warcaster way too close for comfort to get any results and by then, I was out-maned. I did at least get one sold shot in on Severius before his jacks took down Kraye.
Long story short I misjudged a forest's depth by about an inch and got: outgunned by some churchies with a ranged faction, outmaneuvered by an old man when my guy had a horse and a jack with double speed, and had the terrain used against me in spite of having every tool to mitigate it.
Yea, that was a bad day for me. I am thankful my opponent was gracious in victory though, I don't think I would have handled such a tactless opponent as happygolucky had well at all.

A rules dispute that isn't solved quickly can really feth up a game for me.

I find nothing settles a drawn out rules dispute like jumping onto the table and stomping their army while screaming "APOCALYPTIC BARRAGE MUTHAFU#$%&!!!!"

The exact moment I realized I just didn't like the Ork army I built. Then immediately realizing I only picked them because they are Cheap.

*sigh* should have built my Tau army when I had the chance

For me is playing a game against space marines withmy necrons and watch the guy actually leave to talk to other people while I was moving my units and shooting...I mean wtf ._.

Well, I consider myself lucky then. The worst I've had was a game where the other guy just surrendered the moment a unit of mine got into combat.

Note: Neither of us had lost anything yet.

MrDwhitey wrote:Well, I consider myself lucky then. The worst I've had was a game where the other guy just surrendered the moment a unit of mine got into combat.

Note: Neither of us had lost anything yet.

Jeez, your army must be terrifying.

2009 'Ard Boyz semifinals in Arlington, Texas.

Round one lasts four hours (yes, four HOURS) because 2 people showed up late and the TO allowed them to start a full 1.5 hours into round one.

Then, with me in first place overall by a wide margin, the TO calls round 3 to cut short with no prior warning at the top of turn four, after I had completed my movement phase.

I have fewer table quarters and no models in the center, so I go from a near auto-win (Lash Chaos vs. footslogging Calgar/Lysander) to a minor loss, costing me the overall tournament win and a chance at Nationals. For a tournament that I had driven 6 hours to be at.

That was the first real wake-up call that I had to the state of competitive play in 40k.

sourclams wrote:That was the first real wake-up call that I had to the state of competitive play in 40k.

I think that was the first wake-up call that you shouldn't play at that store. Laying the state of competitive play in 40k at the feet of one bad TO in Texas is kind of silly. I'm sure you have other examples, but it just seems like a strange statement.

htj wrote:

MrDwhitey wrote:Well, I consider myself lucky then. The worst I've had was a game where the other guy just surrendered the moment a unit of mine got into combat.

Note: Neither of us had lost anything yet.

Jeez, your army must be terrifying.

I don't think it was that. He was playing Chaos Dwarfs, half gunline half infantry. But every turn (he deployed 12 on) he'd walk 3 inches backwards with all infantry. Eventually I got to him (Graveguard unit) and he just... "I give up".

It was highly annoying walking through a hail of gunfire and bolts and when I finally get to do something "You win".

MrDwhitey wrote:

htj wrote:

MrDwhitey wrote:Well, I consider myself lucky then. The worst I've had was a game where the other guy just surrendered the moment a unit of mine got into combat.

Note: Neither of us had lost anything yet.

Jeez, your army must be terrifying.

I don't think it was that. He was playing Chaos Dwarfs, half gunline half infantry. But every turn (he deployed 12 on) he'd walk 3 inches backwards with all infantry. Eventually I got to him (Graveguard unit) and he just... "I give up".

It was highly annoying walking through a hail of gunfire and bolts and when I finally get to do something "You win".

Ouch. Doesn't sound like a fun guy to play.

pretre wrote:

sourclams wrote:That was the first real wake-up call that I had to the state of competitive play in 40k.

I think that was the first wake-up call that you shouldn't play at that store. Laying the state of competitive play in 40k at the feet of one bad TO in Texas is kind of silly. I'm sure you have other examples, but it just seems like a strange statement.

It was the 'Ard Boyz semifinals. GW itself selects/authorizes the venues. There is very little option 'not to play there' unless you intend to fly to the east coast for the weekend. It is also, by far, the most significant prize support of any GW tournament.

The options within 6 hours of my location were Arlington, Texas or Springfield, Missouri. Ironically, my group decided on Texas due to all the scuttlebutt about TO favoritism and outright cheating that occurred at the Missouri location the year before.

Brother SRM wrote:

happygolucky wrote: "I pwned you like a noob"

Someone seriously said this in real life? Ugh. Anyone who says that without a hint of irony out loud should go to the gallows.

I played against an opponent who, every single time I rolled a die, would say something along the lines of "don't mess up" even after I politely asked him to stop. He then started going on about my Team Jacob Marines (which wasn't funny the first time, less funny the sixteenth) just because I was playing Space Wolves. When you're rolling really poorly and somebody is constantly pestering you like that, it makes for a really awful game.

I have a similar experience. I was playing Orks, and the opposing player, every time I was counting out dice for an attack roll or whatever, which is a lot for 30 or so boyz, would blurt out random numbers close to what I was counting up to and throw me off. Finally, I told him that I was just gonna roll all my dice, which was probably more than the actually number needed, but that's what happens when you screw with me. When he complained that I might score more hits than I was actually allowed, I simply told him it was an annoyance tax. It took nearly the whole game before he finally shut up.

so your pet peeve is bad TOs? Not competitive 40k?

sourclams wrote:It was the 'Ard Boyz semifinals. GW itself selects/authorizes the venues. There is very little option 'not to play there' unless you intend to fly to the east coast for the weekend. It is also, by far, the most significant prize support of any GW tournament.

Did you provide feedback on what occured to GW? GW selects locations based on a number of factors, but I think one of them is that they ask for it and say they have the space, etc. If they don't ever receive feedback to the contrary, they will assume everything is okay. It is not like they have staff to go do secret shopper type stuff at the tourneys.

I'm not defending bad TOs, but I am saying that it is our responsibility to report it if there are shenanigans. It is the same for people that complain about cheating players at Tourneys but still hand out good sports and never tell the TO.

The options within 6 hours of my location were Arlington, Texas or Springfield, Missouri. Ironically, my group decided on Texas due to all the scuttlebutt about TO favoritism and outright cheating that occurred at the Missouri location the year before.

Again, did someone with direct experience report it to GW? If they did, I imagine there would be a different situation.

You can go ahead and call me an apologist or a hopeless optimist, but I imagine GW doesn't want that kind of thing associated with their brand.

I did report it to GW, in a detailed non-rant letter expressing my disappointment with the event.

Arlington got the semifinals again in 2010.

Dreaded 1'sss they follow me... Every where....

sourclams wrote:I did report it to GW, in a detailed non-rant letter expressing my disappointment with the event.

Arlington got the semifinals again in 2010.

Now I'm not up on this stuff, someone else may be able to help me and we might want to break off this conversation, but...

Did you send your complaint to US trade sales (I think they're called that)? If I remember correctly, they're the ones who run 'AB (Someone more familiar with GW would know this, like mikhaila or Mannahnin, etc.) I'd complain again each year. It's not much, but it is something. Also, any others who were there should send it in. Having worked in corporations for quite a while... one complaint is a crazy person; many complaints is a problem.

Oh and a Brother that says lets play a game, so I get the table out set out the board get the armies ready get every thing out just to be told oh sorry this TV show is very interesting could we play another game tomorrow.

I don't have any problems with Warmachine, or it's players. It's not my kinda game, but that's just me.

EXCEPT when our FLGS is hosting a Warhammer night... and the majority of the tables have Warmachine being played on them!

Warmachine night is tomorrow night, guys! We don't show up to play Warhammer on Warmachine night; please render us the same courtesy!

What made me tick enough to actually think about quiting ALL hobby games? I havent been to my lgs in 7 months or so but even then I was planning on doing a starwars themed 40k army. I had everyone built and 3 squads painted went up yesterday and everyone said they wouldn't play vs my converstions. so half a year of work half my bitz box and who know how much the models themselves added up to play a game to go to the store to have no one willing to play me.

jariksolo wrote:What made me tick enough to actually think about quiting ALL hobby games? I havent been to my lgs in 7 months or so but even then I was planning on doing a starwars themed 40k army. I had everyone built and 3 squads painted went up yesterday and everyone said they wouldn't play vs my converstions. so half a year of work half my bitz box and who know how much the models themselves added up to play a game to go to the store to have no one willing to play me.

Sounds like it is time to find a new LGS.

I came in second at a local tournament because one of the rounds had an objective that used 2d+scatter to move every turn. It keept moving into my opponents deployment zone, jumping from unit to unit every turn, while he gained cumilative points for turns controling the objective.

Mohoc wrote:I came in second at a local tournament because one of the rounds had an objective that used 2d+scatter to move every turn. It keept moving into my opponents deployment zone, jumping from unit to unit every turn, while he gained cumilative points for turns controling the objective.

Agh, horribly conceived missions deserve a special place in hell. For the love of god, at least playtest it or think about it for 20 seconds before the tournament.

Random scattering objectives, random USRs for random units, unit does nothing if it rolls a 1 each turn, etc. so on. These are great for fun missions but not for tournaments.

Proxy man. "No, I told you, this AOBR dread is actually an ironclad, so it's armor is actually 13, not 12, and your guy you just assaulted with has no chance of hurting it, and is now stuck in combat with it". If you're going to do something like that, at least work a little plasticard magic, or even just a sign made of masking tape that says "ironclad", so I don't have to remember your 6 proxies and lose a chaplain to one of them.

micahaphone wrote:Proxy man. "No, I told you, this AOBR dread is actually an ironclad, so it's armor is actually 13, not 12, and your guy you just assaulted with has no chance of hurting it, and is now stuck in combat with it". If you're going to do something like that, at least work a little plasticard magic, or even just a sign made of masking tape that says "ironclad", so I don't have to remember your 6 proxies and lose a chaplain to one of them.

This is why when I proxy stuff, I let my opponents know what is going to happen if they attack. Not letting you know that you were going to attack an Ironclad is a pretty dick move. E

Even when I proxy stuff, I still continuously remind people of what the units are.

For me? My most annoying moment was when my Leman Russ Executioner (with plasma cannon sponsons no less!) failed to kill a Terminator unit with storm shields. I still hate Mat Ward for thinking of that. Though I shouldn't say think, that gives him too much credit

Vladsimpaler wrote:

micahaphone wrote:Proxy man. "No, I told you, this AOBR dread is actually an ironclad, so it's armor is actually 13, not 12, and your guy you just assaulted with has no chance of hurting it, and is now stuck in combat with it". If you're going to do something like that, at least work a little plasticard magic, or even just a sign made of masking tape that says "ironclad", so I don't have to remember your 6 proxies and lose a chaplain to one of them.

This is why when I proxy stuff, I let my opponents know what is going to happen if they attack. Not letting you know that you were going to attack an Ironclad is a pretty dick move. E

Even when I proxy stuff, I still continuously remind people of what the units are.

For me? My most annoying moment was when my Leman Russ Executioner (with plasma cannon sponsons no less!) failed to kill a Terminator unit with storm shields. I still hate Mat Ward for thinking of that. Though I shouldn't say think, that gives him too much credit

I'm completely fine with proxying, but when it's done en masse like that, without any effort to help out your opponent, and he actually was indignant that I couldn't remember what was really what, that's what got to me. If you wanted your librarian to be a termie librarian, fine. If you want your dread to be ironclad, fine. Rhino a razorback, okay. But being angry that I can't remember all your proxies? Not okay.

for me it was probably a game I played at a games shop just after I got back into the hobby about a year and a half ago


I was playing Blood Angels the opponent Salamanders.


He was using "special" rules he briefly mentioned at the beginning but went into no details about (I not knowing much about them/having just restarted gave him the benefit of the doubt)

It didnt take me long to realise during the game that his rules involving a 6 wound chapter master with eternal warrior and Sergeants with 4+ Invuns (no SS or anything like that) stunk a little bit.

He also continually cheated, by picking up dice which were clearly one's as quickly as possible and claiming them to be higher. Ontop of that he also tried to claim he could shoot through solid walls but I couldnt shoot him back.

At any rate I found the game massively frustrating and annoying but I gritted my teeth to just get through it.

The amusing thing in the end was despite all his cheating he still lost to me.

My most annoying moment is when I was at my LGS and I was pulling out models to play with someone new to the store. In my box I had my GK and my Blood angels, I happened to use my GK that game and the guy kept saying " OH NOES NOT THE GAY KNIGHTS AGAIN!!" when we were in CC. Finished the game and left the table with no real comments.

Later that day I went off to play with a friend since he wanted a small friendly game since he was still learning. I used my BA this time around and the same guy who kept saying "gay knights" walked over and started talking smack about my GK and wouldn't lay off about how uncool the BA are and how he kept saying I should GS nipple tassels on to them. Fed up at that point I told him to shove off and talked to the manager on duty and I haven't seen him since.

I can think of two situations.

1.) Many many years ago, when Dark Eldar were new and had their original crappy Codex, they were my army of choice. I was playing against a kid a bit younger than myself, and he was actually quite a good opponent.

His friends, on the other hand, were aggravating. At the time I wanted to try out some Incubi, so I proxied a squad of Necron Warriors. No one had a problem with this and since they were part of my Archon's retinue, and the only thing in the retinue, there was no confusion as to what they were. Just to be sure, whenever I did anything with them, I'd refer to them as "the Necrincubi". Anyway, this kid's friends were pretty terrible. They kept picking up my minis in the middle of the game, moving them around, etc. After the tenth or so occurrence of my Incubi proxies being moved around while a 10 year old squeals "INFILTRATE, INFLITRATE!" I just apologized to my opponent, packed up, and left. If I were to give them the benefit of the doubt I'd say that my use of proxies somehow made them think it's OK to behave like morons, but the more likely case is that... well, kids are often morons and they would've behaved the same way regardless.

Now, again, on proxies, I'm OK with it if you want to proxy one unit, maybe two, to see how they work in game before you plunk down the cash for them. However, if your entire army is proxies (not conversions, proxies) then you're getting close to

2.) The Net-List Kid. Long story short, he appears to just get uber lists off the net and then proxies literally everything except two squads of Space Marines using the store owners' stuff from the back room, except Drop Pods. He uses Coke cans for Drop Pods. He's also not a very good sport at all and is quite liberal when it comes to measuring movement and ranges. I missed out on like four easy kill points because I kept forgetting that the stupid friggin cans were drop pods and not terrain.


I find myself feverishly hoping I wasn't that bad when I was a kid. guess I just hate kids.

Vladsimpaler wrote:For me? My most annoying moment was when my Leman Russ Executioner (with plasma cannon sponsons no less!) failed to kill a Terminator unit with storm shields. I still hate Mat Ward for thinking of that. Though I shouldn't say think, that gives him too much credit

Wow and I thought that Draigo's Law was starting to die off.

Playing against a guy with my Necrons.

He had brought a list that wasn't really geared well to deal with Crons (Tac marine gubline in rhinos, and three LR crusaders)

He spend his first couple of turns smacktalking about how his bolter fire would just blow me away, and his multimeltas would fry my tank (i brought one lith) into powder. 'Necrons suck bad man.. you f@#$ up just bringing them... etc: as my necrons sloooowly crossed the table.

The guy was really a PITA, and the game was getting less and less fun as he moved onto my ancestry for insult time.

I finally got into shooting range, and he lost, badly, ragequitting over how OP necrons were. Can't say i was sorry to see him leave.


Real jerk.

jariksolo wrote:What made me tick enough to actually think about quiting ALL hobby games? I havent been to my lgs in 7 months or so but even then I was planning on doing a starwars themed 40k army. I had everyone built and 3 squads painted went up yesterday and everyone said they wouldn't play vs my converstions. so half a year of work half my bitz box and who know how much the models themselves added up to play a game to go to the store to have no one willing to play me.

I'd say firs toff that I'd be willing to play pretty much anything. I would want to know abotu the army though. things like

is this an established codex or is this a custom codex

if establish and modeled appropriatly or at least explained how things like chainswords are lightsabers and powerfists are double sabers or somethign then no problem , lets throw some dice

if custom I'd want to see that everythign is organised well with stats and descriptions for all gear. if no playtesting has been done I'd offer my thoughts on changing any points values up or down. either way I'd still play just be wary as most "personal" dexes are generally extremelt overpowered like hmmm how about a WS 10 BS 10 toughness 10 str 10 5 wound initiative 10 with 10 attacks 10 leadership and a 2++ troop with a standard power weapon that strikes on nitiative and a assault 3 twin linked plasma gun for 10 points pe rmodel oh and they have jump packs ...

Where's that guy who had someone eat one of his models? He always wins these threads.

Howard A Treesong wrote:Where's that guy who had someone eat one of his models? He always wins these threads.

You mean the guy who killed this TS CSM players "unbeaten" army via a DS mishap or his Termi deathstar unit and his Libby killing the Sorcerer Lord, when the guy offers to refight said combat the guy goes and clips off the Libby's Force Weapon and eats it, loudly proclaiming: "He can't use it now can he?!?". Then something about him nearly stabbing the guy with the aforementioned clippers.

Or it could be of that legendary child called Jordan, drinker of Enchanted Blue paint...

Grimtuff wrote:
Or it could be of that legendary child called Jordan, drinker of Enchanted Blue paint...

Ok, now this one I haven't heard. Do tell.

I was playing in a GW tourny a while back, and my opponnent came in dressed in some type of cosplay uniform. pirate vampire victorian hodge podge I dunno. he stunk to high heaven, and the whole game was just miserable.

aside from the above, ALL of his dice were craps dice. he played Eldar, so a fair amount of dice used. enough that it became annoying to slop them all over the terrain.

every time he failed a roll or lost a unit, he would LITERALLY stomp his feel and cry about it. seriously. its like he was 10. (but he was actually 26, I had to ask)

when he finally DID lose the game, he contested EVERYTHING after the game and just whined forever. horrible game, just horrible. it took every ounce of energy I had not to lace into the guy.

biggest reason not to lace into him? his girlfriend was at the table. dressed in a similar fashion with them bewbies staring at me the whole game . no bra, LOW (and I mean low) cut top in a near corset. and they were NICE. she was smokin hot too, though she had to be troubled in the head to be dating him. DAMN she was hot. painfully hot. made the whole game worth it.

so really, thats my worst AND my best game I suppose..... until I can convince my wife to play strip warhammer (she's a nid player)

I have two, both from the some LGS.

1] After getting back into the game after years of not playing, me and another started to show up on there open gaming night. For two solid months we were there every Saturday with our armies. Because we were not part of the normal players no one would play us. With 3 open tables I approached a player about a small game. He said he was waiting for another player and decided that he would rather not unless the game lasted to long, when I asked him at 2:00 pm when the other player was going to be there he said after 6:00 when he got off work.

2] The other: I decided I needed to work on a Teleporting army, so I bring out 2 Terminator Squads and some Tactical Squads [3 I think]. I finally [after 2 weeks] find an Eldar player. I tell him I would like to Practice with my Terminators I have not played under the current rules. He wind the imitative and has his Eldar Psyker use some powers that Ignore my Cover Saves and hits me buckets Lances wiping out my Tactical by the top of Turn 2. I then asked if we can restart so this time I had a chance to practice, and he goes “No I never Practice, you should play better!” and pack up.

For me, it was the second or third time I'd played 40K in years (And before that I'd only played 3rd ed...). My omnomnom melee-only adrenal gland & toxin-sac Nid warriors in the 1500 pt game saw the SM player's dreadnought.

Me: "What's the armor on that?"
Him: "12 Front, 12 sides, 10 Rear."
Me: "Cool, so I have a chance to glance on the charge."
Him: *silence*

I charge, and then he explains to me with a broad smile that I can't hit the rear armor of a walker (Unlike every other damn vehicle in 40K. Really, GW?), and I now can't disengage from combat or peg it with my warriors in other squads with venom cannons. The 700ish pt 9-strong squad with lashwhips and boneswords died a slow, painful death, and I forfeited the next turn (It was a KP mission)

Rolling 3 1's on two consecutive turns trying to charge my Iron Clad out of a small patch of woods into the enemy. A "2" an any of the 6 dice (over 2 turns) would have resulted in the charge hitting home and would probably have changed the outcome of the game in my favor.

When I was about nine, or so I desided to play a game of 40K with my Brother to show it to a friend. My bro was being a gakky opponent, making up rules and creating ridiculous conditions. After twenty miniutes of him being super annoying I chucked a sharpened, metal, dagger shaped letter opener at him (I know, it was dumb). Because I have terrible coordination it hit my friend in the leg and stuck there. Later that day I was trying to get the letter opener down from a shelf and It cut my face .
My mum banned me from 40K for a month.

When somebody kills one of your models, then THROWS it at you to remove it from play. Damn near drove my whippy-stick up his nose.

At my LGS, me and some friends go to play (we haven't made terrain or a board yet) Whenever we play, the owner and employees are play Magic: the Gathering on a table next to us and being pretentious d-bags when we play. For example, He says, "I'll shoot your stealth-suits with the missle launcher." I say, "They have stealth suits, you can't hit them over 3'' away."

Next to me, the owner of the store yells, "WOAH MAN! BREAK IT UP YOU TWO!" His dumbass employees laugh, and we have to ignore him.

I was playing some guy's Witch Hunters, and my shining spears were about to charge at his sisters repentia.

I said: I might as well shoot them - it won't make any difference [ie it won't put me out of charge range if causalties are removed]
He said: yeah, sure

Then I shot them, wounded 1 model, he announced that repentia had a special rule causing them to charge forward when shot, and if they contacted an enemy unit they counted as charging. So my shining spears got slaughtered. The pissy thing about this is I said very clearly at the start of the game "I've never played against Witch Hunters before". The d-bag was also really cagey, no army list, and toward the end of the game he seemed to have every relevant upgrade on his models.

I just have to say that your name made me Laugh at loud.

Whenever I see cut'n'paste Tau advice that are just an abrupt "drop FW's, MOAR Kroot, MOAR overcosted crisis suits, MOAR Markerlights and MOAR useless transports"

I mean I like looking for advice when I'm bored on the internet and someone else is asking for it, but the amount of replies that are just that and nothing else really peeves me.

I am very lucky that you Tau playing folks on Dakka don't do this

Oh but they do.

yamgrenade wrote:Oh but they do.

Citation?

To use Tau effectively, drop FW's, MOAR Kroot, MOAR overcosted crisis suits, MOAR Markerlights and MOAR useless transports. Everything else is utter crap.

You can go ahead and cite me on that

I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:I was playing some guy's Witch Hunters, and my shining spears were about to charge at his sisters repentia.

I said: I might as well shoot them - it won't make any difference [ie it won't put me out of charge range if causalties are removed]
He said: yeah, sure

Then I shot them, wounded 1 model, he announced that repentia had a special rule causing them to charge forward when shot, and if they contacted an enemy unit they counted as charging. So my shining spears got slaughtered. The pissy thing about this is I said very clearly at the start of the game "I've never played against Witch Hunters before". The d-bag was also really cagey, no army list, and toward the end of the game he seemed to have every relevant upgrade on his models.

I guess you were really peeved when you found out that they have no such rule, huh?

darkPrince010 wrote:To use Tau effectively, drop FW's, MOAR Kroot, MOAR overcosted crisis suits, MOAR Markerlights and MOAR useless transports. Everything else is utter crap.

You can go ahead and cite me on that

Dere ya go

jariksolo wrote:What made me tick enough to actually think about quiting ALL hobby games? I havent been to my lgs in 7 months or so but even then I was planning on doing a starwars themed 40k army. I had everyone built and 3 squads painted went up yesterday and everyone said they wouldn't play vs my converstions. so half a year of work half my bitz box and who know how much the models themselves added up to play a game to go to the store to have no one willing to play me.

What a bunch of jerks! If I saw that army on the field, I'd be fighting to play against you! (Well, if I actually played 40K I would.... )

It was when GW axed genestealer cultists and I found myself with a virtually useless collection of modles that I had spent hundered of dollars and hundreds of hours amassing, converting and painting.

I Didn't think I could be annoyed any more then that. Fast forward to when my custom LATD army was similarly $hit-canned.

On the plus side GW has conditioned me to avoid all specialty/gimmick armies and models, thus saving me tons of time and money. No hard feelings i guess...

I went to a doubles tournament up in Manchester.
I overheard a scary blood angels list, so I decided to go over and get an idea of what I could face possibly later in the rounder. It turned out the guy was running blood angels/eldar. No problem there, strong combo, a little annoying. But, the most annoying thing was, the guy running angels was running mephiston with a retinue of bodyguards, like he was an independent character.
So in the first turn these guys tabled some kids by running mephiston with 5 man honour guard. To this, my teammate and I, went to them, telling them that the unit he was running was completely illegal and garbage. The guy argued and kept trying to say that he honour guard can be attached to a HQ choice. As we all know, this is a load of crap. The TO overheard us, sided with us, the guy had to separate the units/take the honour guard out. Everyone was happy we called out the cheese, we won best sportsmanship.
So stupid that the guy tried to pull mephiston in a honour guard at a tourney...

the worst moment in my wargaming came shortly before i stopped 40k, maybe october or november 2009. i was playing with two really good friends and a pickup player at a gamestore in New York, and it was 2 v 2, myself with an in-progress(that never got finished, but no trukks or any transports) some orks and my friend with his ravenwing, and my other friend with 'nilla marines and the other guy with IG.

Basically, the opposing side put a huge three story building in their deployment zone as part of deployment, and put their ENTIRE 2k POINTS in it. this miffed myself and my teammate a little, but whatever.

in the middle of play, the only unit to get close to the building, a unit of ravenwing bikers with a powerfist, started getting shot with a questionable LoS(i, then being the group's rules lawyer, ruled in favor of the opposing team on a technicality, but whatever) and it turned into a literal shitstorm between my two friends as both armies poured fire into this model that was put in to be out of LoS, just that ravenwing player had a different angle than the SM player, and on and on ad nauseum.

they started yelling at each other and i *almost* had to break up a fight between a fencer/MMA enthusiast and an ex-offensive lineman. while taller than most and clocking 200 lbs, i would probably have been knocked out in the ensuing brawl. yeesh, the worst experience was with two good friends instead of a terrible stranger.

Too many to tell them all. One that sticks out is 2009 Ard Boyz Regional s in Omaha. After fielding a vehicle heavy army, and after deployment, I go to move over some terrain "making a DT test". My opponent who was a local, claimed that I was trying to move over impassible terrain. After telling him we never mentioned it as impassible, he claimed "That is the way this store plays it." The TO backed him up, and told me too bad you should of asked first.
Later in the tournament my friend was playing another local Necron player. The Necron deployed and declared all other units are entering from the board edge. When his Monolith was ready to enter play, he went to Deep Strike. My buddy said "You did not declare it was deepstriking." The Necron player said it's a monolith you should just expect it to Deep Strike. The TO backed him up.

Out of 20 people the 3 locals finished 1,2,3. Big surprise there.

Wow some of these stories contain terrible cases of D-baggery

Mine isn't that bad but it was a team tourney with eldar(me) and necrons vs marines and demons.
So first turn soul gringder gets dropped near the crons, in our turn the lord charges it (had warscythe), the demon player checks his codex for the I value, he says 4,found out a few days after they're I 3.
Anyways lord gets killed, soul grinder explodes. Next turn lord gets back up with full wounds and wrecks a dread
Went well overall.

This guy games alot, but cheats terribly, and nudges his models forward as he measures, it's awful to watch let alone play against

i played a ork foot slogger list against this guy who was playing marines. He told me he was going to have to proxy a few units. I think EVERY special weapon he fielded was a proxy. He fielded no vehicles and i am pretty sure he spec'd his list to beat me due to the vast number of plasma cannon and HB he had. Then, when we set up terrain he said lets take turns putting one piece at a time on the board. So he took the biggest peices and put them either at the side or the back o the board. The hill he lined the back of the board allowed his gunline unobstructed lines of fire into my warband. Only ONE ork made it across the board and into his lines.

Another time i entered a tourni with a guy i had never met. He posted on the local forum that everyone else sucked and that we could pay him not to play in the tourni since we would just loose to his amazing skill at stealing objectives with his space elf army. So I spec'd my list to beat his and won. He then complained about how he haddnt read the mission and had not realised that there was secondary objectives (there always are). When he lost the tourni he stormed out. Normally i wont spec my list to beat someone but he had said that he was the best and all that. With superior skill the disadvantage he faced should have been minimal.

SlaveToDorkness wrote:

I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:I was playing some guy's Witch Hunters, and my shining spears were about to charge at his sisters repentia.

I said: I might as well shoot them - it won't make any difference [ie it won't put me out of charge range if causalties are removed]
He said: yeah, sure

Then I shot them, wounded 1 model, he announced that repentia had a special rule causing them to charge forward when shot, and if they contacted an enemy unit they counted as charging. So my shining spears got slaughtered. The pissy thing about this is I said very clearly at the start of the game "I've never played against Witch Hunters before". The d-bag was also really cagey, no army list, and toward the end of the game he seemed to have every relevant upgrade on his models.

I guess you were really peeved when you found out that they have no such rule, huh?

? I made him show me in the codex, and it was right there in black and white. On taking a wound by shooting, they move forward d6 or 2d6, I forget, and if they contact an enemy they start combat next turn as if they had charged. Did my opponent pull some sort of Darren Brown mind trick on me?

I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:

SlaveToDorkness wrote:

I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:I was playing some guy's Witch Hunters, and my shining spears were about to charge at his sisters repentia.

I said: I might as well shoot them - it won't make any difference [ie it won't put me out of charge range if causalties are removed]
He said: yeah, sure

Then I shot them, wounded 1 model, he announced that repentia had a special rule causing them to charge forward when shot, and if they contacted an enemy unit they counted as charging. So my shining spears got slaughtered. The pissy thing about this is I said very clearly at the start of the game "I've never played against Witch Hunters before". The d-bag was also really cagey, no army list, and toward the end of the game he seemed to have every relevant upgrade on his models.

I guess you were really peeved when you found out that they have no such rule, huh?

? I made him show me in the codex, and it was right there in black and white. On taking a wound by shooting, they move forward d6 or 2d6, I forget, and if they contact an enemy they start combat next turn as if they had charged. Did my opponent pull some sort of Darren Brown mind trick on me?

Possibly, considering that in this case you should have gotten the charge. See bold print for why.

I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:

SlaveToDorkness wrote:

I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:I was playing some guy's Witch Hunters, and my shining spears were about to charge at his sisters repentia.

I said: I might as well shoot them - it won't make any difference [ie it won't put me out of charge range if causalties are removed]
He said: yeah, sure

Then I shot them, wounded 1 model, he announced that repentia had a special rule causing them to charge forward when shot, and if they contacted an enemy unit they counted as charging. So my shining spears got slaughtered. The pissy thing about this is I said very clearly at the start of the game "I've never played against Witch Hunters before". The d-bag was also really cagey, no army list, and toward the end of the game he seemed to have every relevant upgrade on his models.

I guess you were really peeved when you found out that they have no such rule, huh?

? I made him show me in the codex, and it was right there in black and white. On taking a wound by shooting, they move forward d6 or 2d6, I forget, and if they contact an enemy they start combat next turn as if they had charged. Did my opponent pull some sort of Darren Brown mind trick on me?

They only move forward if they fail a Morale test (at Ld 10), one casualty probably wouldn't have even caused them to check.

Possibly, considering that in this case you should have gotten the charge. See bold print for why.

The actual wording is

In the subsequent Assault Phase

So he at least did that right.

happygolucky wrote:"I pwned you like a noob"

And you're angry at this? He's the one looking like a complete basement-bound nutjob who uses his leet speak in real life encounters when he should be talking normally like the rest of us humans. At the end of the day you're higher on the totem pole because you use proper English and he can't differentiate between avatars and people.

/rantdone

Moving on, I mainly stick to my group of friends when I want a game. There's good-natured ragging and mutual despair at the dice. Once people realize it's a game they can have a bit more fun, I've found.

Rico...

SlaveToDorkness wrote:

I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:

SlaveToDorkness wrote:

I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:I was playing some guy's Witch Hunters, and my shining spears were about to charge at his sisters repentia.

I said: I might as well shoot them - it won't make any difference [ie it won't put me out of charge range if causalties are removed]
He said: yeah, sure

Then I shot them, wounded 1 model, he announced that repentia had a special rule causing them to charge forward when shot, and if they contacted an enemy unit they counted as charging. So my shining spears got slaughtered. The pissy thing about this is I said very clearly at the start of the game "I've never played against Witch Hunters before". The d-bag was also really cagey, no army list, and toward the end of the game he seemed to have every relevant upgrade on his models.

I guess you were really peeved when you found out that they have no such rule, huh?

? I made him show me in the codex, and it was right there in black and white. On taking a wound by shooting, they move forward d6 or 2d6, I forget, and if they contact an enemy they start combat next turn as if they had charged. Did my opponent pull some sort of Darren Brown mind trick on me?

They only move forward if they fail a Morale test (at Ld 10), one casualty probably wouldn't have even caused them to check.

Possibly, considering that in this case you should have gotten the charge. See bold print for why.

The actual wording is

In the subsequent Assault Phase

So he at least did that right.

Dammit, he did sort of mind trick me! I read the thing very carefully when shown to see that he really did count as charging me, but he rolled to PASS a ld10 morale check. [on recollection I probably did kill enough models to cause one] and then skillfully moved past that bit of the rule and kept me focussed on the effects. Cheating bastard!

Sorry to make you relive it, Dude.

cheating makes my lil Orc cry.

The "back-to-front scoot" with measuring also sucks. Same guy who screwed me with the walkers in CC rules above is notorious for doing that too... (Didn't know that at the time either...)

1. At 'Ard Boyz Prelims last year, I was matched up Round 1 against a kid that I swear had severe ADD. He couldn't stay at the table for more than five minutes, had no Codex/Rulebook, had an assload of "proxies" that made zero sense (A pro painted Saim Hann Vyper is a looted wagon? A piece of foam wit a bunch of crap stuck into it is a battlewagon, holding 40 'Ard Boyz no less?, CSM Aspiring Champions as Nobz?), pulled several fast ones on me only because I had not read the newer Ork codex at all (that's fething fixed) (Decided to Waaagh on turn 2, fine, except he used Ghazgull's Waaaagh without a Ghazgull model :/ ), he seriously left the damn table to go grab an IG bit out of a bitz box after he killed one of my infantry squads. WTF? If that clown is there next month, I will punish him severely for his sheer dumbassitude. I will be TFG if this guy is there.

Of course, due to this asshat taking forever to do anything, I would up drawing thanks to his (unintentional?) slow play. Wound up finishing 5th thanks to that (with a gakky list too!). donkey-cave.

Man...'Ard Boyz does not sound worth all the BS.

yamgrenade wrote:Man...'Ard Boyz does not sound worth all the BS.

It is at my FLGS, you get $60 store credit if you get 1st in Prelims. $40 for 2nd. $20 for third. Not bad for a free tourney.

Well I'm up for any free game It just seems that so many people have had bad experiences with it.

Stormrider wrote:

yamgrenade wrote:Man...'Ard Boyz does not sound worth all the BS.

It is at my FLGS, you get $60 store credit if you get 1st in Prelims. $40 for 2nd. $20 for third. Not bad for a free tourney.

Is sixty bucks worth getting tortured by try-hards, overly competitive tools and people who have the moral compass of a serial killer when it comes to their games?

Call me old fashioned, but I'll be damned if I enter a tournament to be miserable for a chance to get money.

I'm not trying to be condescending, I'm just a pessimist.

Rico..

One of my worst games was back in 2nd edition. Abbadon and his Black Guard dropped into my lines (IG). I failed 11 Ld tests because of the Talon of Horus (caused Terror at -1 Ld). There was only 1 unit of 5 infantry men that did not break and run. They were shot to pieces by Abbadon and Co. 1 special character destroyed an entire 2000 point army

boyd wrote:One of my worst games was back in 2nd edition. Abbadon and his Black Guard dropped into my lines (IG). I failed 11 Ld tests because of the Talon of Horus (caused Terror at -1 Ld). There was only 1 unit of 5 infantry men that did not break and run. They were shot to pieces by Abbadon and Co. 1 special character destroyed an entire 2000 point army

I can see myself thinking of this game...*Shudder* THE HORROR!

I hear too many bad stories about 'Ard Boyz for me to even consider playing in one. I also dislike the 2500pts level.

Thankfully I never played against people as bad as some of the stories in this thread, but I have a friend who is possibly the worst loser. Kind of a bad winner too, but he brings these terrible lists that have no real theme or cohesion with hugely bloated units. Played a team match with a CSM player against IG and CSM...now that I think of it, both sides were IG/CSM...weird.

Anyways, my poor loser friend brought two six man Noise Marine squads MAXED OUT. Literally every upgrade that could be taken was on the unit. I brought something like two or three mechvets with melta and plasma and no less than four if not five Leman Russes. Two were executioners...squadroned. His poor Noise Marines never stood a chance against six plasma cannon shots when all his models were bunched up to stay in terrain. He quit shortly thereafter, during turn 2 or 3.

I hold a special place in my collection of hatreds for poor losers. Drives me up the wall and completely ruins the game immediately. Why do people forget they're playing a game with futuristic army men?

For me it was going to a tournament with my cool Eldar army, the tournament starts, and I try to cast Mind War on some random marine with a flamer and the guy across the table from me tells me I now have to roll to hit with it because of some new stupid FAQ that came out right before the tournament started. Apparently he had downloaded it and printed it out right before the tournament.

Nothing irks me more than when a rule to the game is changed or "clarified" right before a tournament and only one guy knows about it but he can prove that it really has been changed. The tournament organizer didn't even know, it was only this guy that brought his lap top to the store. It's things like that that make me never want to play in tournaments again.

It's not really the rules change that bothers me, it's the fact that the tournament organizer didn't even know about the change before it started, so he should have locked the rules so they couldn't be changed for that tournament so people don't pull a rule out of thin air and change the way the game plays all of a sudden.

This was years ago at a tourney I went to. It was one of the first 40K events I had ever played in. This guy who was, and still is, TFG had built some terrain for the local store. He was playing an iron warriors list when they could still use basilisks. It wasn't until I played him that I noticed that all of the tree templates he had built were 'L' shaped. We took turns setting terrain, and lo and behold...he could put the trees in each corner and there was just enough room for a basilisk to fit without being in the terrain. Since it could fire indirect and the rules at the time said I couldn't see it if it wasn't in the cover, he had some free blasty fun, and there was little I could do, (I played foot slogging Eldar) Fascinating lesson there.

His shenanigans continue with such classics as measuring from front to back, model nudging, rule 'forgetfulness', and my personal favorite, he heated a whippy stick and stretched it to gain extra inches on moving/shooting. Just a class act.

Why are tournaments so angry and cruel

Another one, regarding LoS rubbish, with this particuler building
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440156a&prodId=prod40001a
I got called out on a chainsword being seen through the tiny little hole just next to the larger one on the right of the pic, i called bs as it's an 'accessory', they then worded it differently saying they could see the hand got my 4+ cover though yep 4+ through that tiny little hole. Makes me question the terrain rules

GW sucks at writing good rules.

Nonsense. They just suck at writing good rules for armies where the average trooper size is shorter than 8' tall...

And then the TFG's leaf through them with a microscope for abusable loopholes.

Look at the posts after any codex or edition release, and you'll see what i mean


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darkPrince010 wrote:Nonsense. They just suck at writing good rules for armies where the average trooper size is shorter than 8' tall...

QFT!


and wearing Imperial Power Armour. Important that

Necrons are about the same height as SM, but as they aren't IOM equipped... Orks ditto, if you can get them to stand straight.

Eh I figure if you factor in the nobs and destroyers for the "average troopers" (Since you see them so damn much on the table), they don't quite fit. Nids hit a bit lower than 8' b/c the little gaunts outnumber the MCs a bajillion to one

Warriors are 8+ ft though

You can only take 15 destroyers. You can take 120 warriors.(though why would you??- i've done it before on a bet.. it didn't end well..)

Same deal with 180 boyz to 30 nobz

I would like to see a ruleset with a tad more balance, but i'm not holding my breath that long

Balanced rule set. Bwah Ha Ha HAAAAAAAAAHAHAAAA.
gains composure.
That would mean throwing out all the dex that they have made since god knows when.

Having to re-learn 40k 5th with the new FAQs and actually buy the BRB in order to attend a local tourney...

Printed versions/eReaders not allowed.

sennacherib wrote:Balanced rule set. Bwah Ha Ha HAAAAAAAAAHAHAAAA.
gains composure.
That would mean throwing out all the dex that they have made since god knows when.

Hence my not trying to attempt the holding-one's-breath olympic record

I know it will never happen, but it would be good if it was

When a little kid told me that Alpharius was a weakling......
Also when a kid started saying Ultramarines are the best because my codex says so!
"HA!"

The Salamander Kid from Hell threw a Land Raider at my balls because my squad of Bloodclaws beat his terminators who charge out of his Land Raider.

rockerbikie wrote:The Salamander Kid from Hell threw a Land Raider at my balls because my squad of Bloodclaws beat his terminators who charge out of his Land Raider.

You get that in Wollongong...

I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:
Dammit, he did sort of mind trick me! I read the thing very carefully when shown to see that he really did count as charging me, but he rolled to PASS a ld10 morale check. [on recollection I probably did kill enough models to cause one] and then skillfully moved past that bit of the rule and kept me focussed on the effects. Cheating bastard!

To be fair, some folks pull the Mistress as a casualty first so it drops to Ld7 for those checks since they are fearless in CC.

Rico wrote:

happygolucky wrote:"I pwned you like a noob"

And you're angry at this? He's the one looking like a complete basement-bound nutjob who uses his leet speak in real life encounters when he should be talking normally like the rest of us humans. At the end of the day you're higher on the totem pole because you use proper English and he can't differentiate between avatars and people.

/rantdone

Moving on, I mainly stick to my group of friends when I want a game. There's good-natured ragging and mutual despair at the dice. Once people realize it's a game they can have a bit more fun, I've found.

Rico...

i was only angry at this since he said the same line over and over again and i left at 6PM

Quite simply when my rolls outright lose me a game.

Two more examples.

In a tourney play "Cheater Bob". Yes everyone called him Cheater Bob because he always cheated. A space marine unit of mine breaks and falls back. At the start of the next round I auto regroup and begin to move the correct amount. He then proceeds to tell me I can't move my guys because they regrouped. I get the book out and show him ATSKNF. He reads the line about normally units cant.... bla bla bla. I tell him to keep reading, that the next paragraph explains that I can do it. After arguing with him for 5 mins because he would not read the next paragraph, I finally yelled "Read the next paragraph you fat f$#@. I bet if there was a candy bar on the next paragraph you would read it." He conceeded the argument to me.

The most recent was in a tournament a few months ago. A player who came in 2nd in the 2009 Ohmaha Ard Boyz Regional (see above) had moved accross country to my new home as well. We were playing a game my Space Marines vs his bugs. Game was very close, but he had a slight edge. At the start of the game he asked if he could move and run at the same time. I told him no I have seen too many people use that to get an unfair advantage. He complained but agreed. Then all through the game he keep trying to run in the movement phase. I keep telling him not to do it.

Then my Death Company assaulted one of his big bugs. They killed it before he could swing. He was so upset, he said I was cheating. I took too many power weapon attacks with my 1 DC model. I told him I get 2base, 1 for charge, 1 for extra weapon (Armed with PW/Bolt Pistol) for a total of 4. He said that I don't get an extra attack with a power weapon since I did not have two Power weapons. After stopping play for 15mins to have me, and the TO prove to him that Power weapons do infact give an extra attack, he argued for 10 more that the extra attack was not infact a power weapon attack but a basic attack. His defense to his "error" was he does not play Space Marines and does not know their rules. Then the last straw for him. He had 2 guant squads assault Dante and his Sanguard squad. He moved a few models in the first Squad, and then moved a few in the second squad, and then finished the rest of the moves. After I protested that you have to finish one squads moves before moving another, he tried to say he could not reach with the back few so the other squad could go ahead a move. What he knew, was that if he had moved the first squad legally, then the second squad would not have been able to assault. Having enough, I quit the game, and he was asked not to come back.

Back when I played Tau, I was in a 2k pt game against a buddy's Marines. I fired with my entire army at his army and failed to get a single kill. Let me be more precise. When I say I didn't get a single kill, I should say, he didn't need to roll a single save. I missed or failed to wound on every single die. For the record, that includes 48 fire warriors, 4 devilfish, 2 broadsides, 2 hammerheads, and two teams of XV8 suits. Total whiff. My railguns actually didn't hit at all the entire game.

It should come to no surprise that I lost.

Vladsimpaler wrote:

Grimtuff wrote:
Or it could be of that legendary child called Jordan, drinker of Enchanted Blue paint...

Ok, now this one I haven't heard. Do tell.

I believe a first hand account of the story is kicking around this very forum somewhere, now I first heard of this story over 13 years ago when I first got into this hobby.

There was a kid that once frequented the local store named Jordan who was the attention whore that puts all others to shame and after some incident involving a smashed Leman Russ Jordan is kicked to the kerb and told to behave by the locals. Jordan, obviously wanting to the be centre of attention 100% of the time grabs a pot of Enchanted Blue off of the painting table and necks it.

A few minutes later they hear him say "I don't feel so good". wherein he runs outside and either barfs in the nearest postbox (or as I was told) all over the street (I personally believe the latter as there were blueish splashes to this day on the pavement outside said store).


Now onto some of my own:

There was this one guy who used to come to my local store who shall remain nameless (Because he IS like Voldemort). Imagine if Sheldon Cooper had rough angry sex with Sidshow Bob, The 4th Doctor and Heinrich Kemmler and they somehow managed to conceive a new life form, this would be it. This guy was a nightmare to play against, TFG in it's purest form. He would argue the sillest things claiming "oh look you're a millimetre out, now you can't charge!" The usual TFG stuff.

I'm so glad he's gone.

Then there was Steve, just Steve. Due to a high rotation of staffers at GW Loughborough this individual managed to get banned at least 4 times. He would get banned after completley throwing a fit and throwing his models back in the toolbox (so they had to be reassembled every time he played) and threatening to (or actually) punch his opponent that just beat him. Rinse and repeat. I had the dubious honour of playing him on the day he got banned after he got into a huge argument with me over what Spirit Stones did (he thought it went down to may not move or shoot to mayy not move, even though there was no such damage result (this was 4th ed.)) and in spite of the fact of the whole store telling him different, he throws a tantrum and the inevitable happens.

AvatarForm wrote:

rockerbikie wrote:The Salamander Kid from Hell threw a Land Raider at my balls because my squad of Bloodclaws beat his terminators who charge out of his Land Raider.

You get that in Wollongong...

Surely you mean in THE WollongongS.

jbunny wrote:"Read the next paragraph you fat f$#@. I bet if there was a candy bar on the next paragraph you would read it."

Tears, I have tears in my eyes and am light headed from laughing so hard. My dogs are freaking their shet.

Thank you, Good Sir!

Several years ago when I was playing Warmachine at my LGS, I decided to play a friendly game against the store's TFG, much to the amusement of the other players as this was my first time against him. Not only did he use a set of his own weighted dice, he smelled and quipped very poor tasting jokes. Needless to say, the game was not going well for him in the first couple of turns, so much so that he got up from the table and disappeared from view. My initial thought was that he went to the bathroom, but then for the next 40 minutes as I sat at the table, I watched him walk around the store, talk to the owner and other players, all the while completely ignoring me. I just sat patiently and waited. Thankfully when he finally returned as if he had just left we were able to continue the game...and things still went very poorly for him.

MikZor wrote:Why are tournaments so angry and cruel

Another one, regarding LoS rubbish, with this particuler building
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440156a&prodId=prod40001a
I got called out on a chainsword being seen through the tiny little hole just next to the larger one on the right of the pic, i called bs as it's an 'accessory', they then worded it differently saying they could see the hand got my 4+ cover though yep 4+ through that tiny little hole. Makes me question the terrain rules

just my two cents but you have to see 50% of a squad to be able to shoot it is that right?

No, that is not right. More than 50% must be clearly seen for them to not get a cover save.

This one concerns a Tournemant i wasnt even in.

I was with some friends playing in a local tournemant (cant remember why i wasnt playing, probably didnt feel up to it) and i am watching my friend (Daemonhunters) play a guy (Tau)

So the game starts and the first turn is played, and the tau get ripped into. The Tau player is swearing and mouthing off at his misfortune, and my friend offers to let him redeploy and retakes the first turn. The guy grumbles to himself, mutters alot of nasty things under his breath but the only thing he says to my friends face is that its his first time playing tau and he doesnt quite know how to play.

Anyway this continues, his battlesuits fail to come in on turn 3 and he gets visibly upset, my friend tells him to put them in anyways. They die quickly after they arrive, he lets him change where they deepstriked into. Amazingly despite his concessions, my friend still wins.

So the tau player gave my friend a zero for Sportsmanship on the comp points card he is issued after the game. A zero isnt just a low score, it actually involves the judge coming over in an attempt to resolve the dispute. The tau player didnt realise this, and the only explanation he could offer for the low score was that he always did that in tournemants, to put himself into a better position.

That one has always stuck with me, that someone who was handed such concessions would still be so low as to throw someone under the bus for some measly comp points.

I have more stories, but nothing that sickening.

Most annoying moment of my war gaming life was last night:

My friends first shooting phase - 4 ML in to my Seraphim with Cannoness attached. Hit direct with ALL GOD DAMN FOUR TEMPLATES...

Wiped 5 out, cause a LD check, and I roll a 5,6. I flee...OFF THE BOARD. Cannoness cannot leave and I loose her in the first turn...the first fething turn.

Needless to say I was just stood there in shock and awe.

Realising i cant paint flesh or faces, i havent painted for about a week due to this :@

mikeb2817 wrote:Realising i cant paint flesh or faces, i havent painted for about a week due to this :@

Tanned Flesh for basecoat

Flesh Wash to get in the deep parts

Dwarf Flesh over the top leaving deepest parts

Elf Flesh on the extremes. Noses etc.

In that order, now give it a go! ;-)

On turn 1, I had a rhino get destroyed with the Emperor's Champion and a 9-man crusade squad in it. 1 marine died in the explosion. I made the pinning check just fine, but since I'm Templars, I have to make a leadership check from 1 marine for Righteous Zeal. I rolled an 11 for morale and a 12 to run off the board. Fun times.

kronk wrote:On turn 1, I had a rhino get destroyed with the Emperor's Champion and a 9-man crusade squad in it. 1 marine died in the explosion. I made the pinning check just fine, but since I'm Templars, I have to make a leadership check from 1 marine for Righteous Zeal. I rolled an 11 for morale and a 12 to run off the board. Fun times.

Ouch...just...ouch :(

Wow. I was going to call you on playing RZ wrong, but read through it and that's actually what it says. Damn, that's a sucky rule.

I enjoy the hell out of RZ. Don't get me wrong.

Every once in a while, it bites you on the butt.

I was running a Creed/Kell List with Vox Casters for everyone that could take one [You will see why]. I am, taking on Marines.
on turn 2 I manage to give the Orders to my Rough Riders "For the Horno of Cadia" and destroyes a Marine Suqad down to the last man, the Sathrg with his Power Fist.
On his turn he cleans my clock forcing my RR to run. from that moment on the only moral test I fail [with the LD 10] if for the RR as they go running off the board.

I thought FTHoC was useless for RR, since the don't get the +1S for Lances? Either way, ouch.

pretre wrote:I thought FTHoC was useless for RR, since the don't get the +1S for Lances? Either way, ouch.

Wether they do or not, I it does gives me Fearless for the Turn.

Most annoying moment:

When all 3 of my 430pt Nobz squads end up pinned in the same turn in a tournament. Many Smurf Marines were not ripped in half due to this atrocity!

AvatarForm wrote:

rockerbikie wrote:The Salamander Kid from Hell threw a Land Raider at my balls because my squad of Bloodclaws beat his terminators who charge out of his Land Raider.

You get that in Wollongong...

The GW Staff was more concerned about calming him down then my condition.

One of my first ever games, I was aginst (apparently)... *deep breath*

3" infiltrating genestealers
rippers that make everything ignore armor and invulnerable saves
oh yeah, and they apparently deny my archon and his squad any attacks against them
He deployed everything right in front of me
The player also played his entire tyranid army vs a raider, an archon and (I think) a few warriors (old DE codex)

@ Mr. Norris: Wow. That is some serious BS right there. Did he invent a Magic phase and an auto-cast Purple Sun too, just for gaks and giggles?

Not sure what purple sun is, but that guy was one thing that spurred me on to learn the rules. Now my school club which thatwas at actually uses them.

(That same player also played IG in a shooting match. standing still, no scenery, nothing but shooting. It was close)

Wow. And Purple Sun is a WHFB high-level spell that basically drops a moving large blast template with crazy-high strength that scatters and roams around the board for a while, basically eating any models it touches.

I never really had any issues. Mainly stayed away from the local GW which is only gaming store closeby, I visit the LGW fairly often and so scary shops pets rageing about a rule in 40k to me when he over heard me disscussing it with the manager. Best thing was, hes never played 40k as is a hardcore WHF only player, the manager knowing this shut him up with "its 40k and you dont know gak" least to say the dweeb stfu and went back to minding his own bisness. Aside from that I've been fairly lucky with not meeting that TFG and so on.

Last night at my FLGS I had one. Was playing my SoB against a friends DE list that he wanted to practice. Was a friendly game, but my rolling was atrocious. I must have seriously angered the Dice Gods before that game. I could not make an armor or cover save.

It was at the point where he blow up one of my Immolators and I failed 5 of 5 saves I had to take with 5 ones that I swore profusely, not in anger nor towards my opponent, but in sheer disbelief of what just happened. As this was after 2100 and the store was mostly empty anyway there wasn't any issue with me swearing.

From that point on in the game I started a bag of failure dice. Anytime a die rolled a 1 or 2 for shooting or saves it was added to the bag. It was in great amusement to both of us at the speed at which my dice were joining their fellow failures, but I was thinning out the herd so to speak leaving me with only "good" dice left. I actually ended up winning that game with a mostly full bag of dice failures, only due to my friend losing track of the actual mission of the game (Capture & Control) and flamers generally denying both his cover and armor saves.

Was one of my worst and best games in a awhile.

I rolled 47 1's in a 1200 point game one time. Still won

yamgrenade wrote:I rolled 47 1's in a 1200 point game one time. Still won

Tell me you were playing Orks. Otherwise... omg.

If it's ork shootaboys, 47 1's is what, 1 round of shooting?

yamgrenade wrote:I rolled 47 1's in a 1200 point game one time. Still won

Well.... they might have been for your Morale, Psyker and Initiative tests...

Most annoying gaming moment I ever had was playing pitched battle against my friend's Eldar up at the LA Battle Bunker. He took first turn and used two units of Pathfinders to shoot at my Chapter Master and a separate Assault Squad with a dual Power Fist (i know) Sergeant. He fails to rend my Chapter Master but gets three wounds on him, . "Wow, really? Well that blows," and I pull my Chapter Master model. The second Pathfinder unit opens up on my Assault Squad scoring a few rends and regular wounds for a total of six wounds. I fail three of them and fail my pinning test. "Oh wow, this is going pretty badly so far." He finishes his shooting failing to do any more damage and so I roll morale on the pinned Assault Squad: . So now I roll to see how far they flee: . That was 435 Points of Jump Pack wearing Marines gone on turn one. I had a little payback at the end of the game though when a combat squad beat a Dire Avenger squad + Farseer in assault and swept them, making the Annihilation game a deceiving 4 to 2 in Eldar's favor.

I vomit into my mouth when my "lucky" scatter die sends Belial and his Deathwing Command squad into the Warp, but at least my friend's Chaos Space Marines with Plasma guns keep shooting themselves.

I was proxy testing sternguard, so i shoot the ap3 (gets hot) shots at the enemys final marine squad. 10 shots and close range with 5 guys. Five 1`s and then two 1`s and three 2`s. Really bad rolling there.

ryzouken wrote:

yamgrenade wrote:I rolled 47 1's in a 1200 point game one time. Still won

Tell me you were playing Orks. Otherwise... omg.

If it's ork shootaboys, 47 1's is what, 1 round of shooting?

No, I play tau (But FW warrior heavy tau)

Miraclefish wrote:
Well.... they might have been for your Morale, Psyker and Initiative tests...

Some for morale, but no Psykers for Tau, and this was when we were nooblets who didn't know when to do I tests

I won because the guy I was playing against didn't really know what to do in objective games. He killed a lot of my troops but he ignored 2/3 objectives, winning me the game.

Chuck Norris wrote:One of my first ever games, I was aginst (apparently)... *deep breath*

3" infiltrating genestealers
rippers that make everything ignore armor and invulnerable saves
oh yeah, and they apparently deny my archon and his squad any attacks against them
He deployed everything right in front of me
The player also played his entire tyranid army vs a raider, an archon and (I think) a few warriors (old DE codex)

ouch man...just ouch

happygolucky wrote:

Chuck Norris wrote:One of my first ever games, I was aginst (apparently)... *deep breath*

3" infiltrating genestealers
rippers that make everything ignore armor and invulnerable saves
oh yeah, and they apparently deny my archon and his squad any attacks against them
He deployed everything right in front of me
The player also played his entire tyranid army vs a raider, an archon and (I think) a few warriors (old DE codex)

ouch man...just ouch

To take advantage of a newer player like that is just plain wrong.

If you need your ego stroked that badly then don't play 40K. please ;0)

That's a bit beyond TFG.

I should add my second runner up. I once played my tau friend with my GK, and I built a mostly termie army and deep struck started everything except my dreadnaught (hidden behiind a building)

thinking I would be sneaky I took a Grand master with 9 termie ret squad

Stern with a 9 man ret squad

2x squads 1 justicar 9x GK's as fast attack

1x purgation squad deep strike

2x suad 1 justicar 4 GK's (minimum for deployment each in a rhino.

round one was uneventful as I hid the heck out of my vehicles. he didn't advance far.

round 2 I rolled for deep strike entry as reserve. got 3 of 4 units in. placed my markers, each scattered off the board.... and yes, both HQ squads and my FA GK squad scattered off the board.

turn 3 started (why I do not know because the game was essentially over at that point for VP objective) dropped in my purgation squade into the side of one of his hammerheads. *poof*

all that was left was my dread and 2 rhino's with minimum squads against an entire 1500 pt Tau army.

we had a good laugh about it though, still do to this day. but MAN did that suck!

I'll add my story if that be what it is. I was in my 1st tournement a bit ago and was over excited even though i was trying to keep calm, cool and strategized. I had enetered to meet new people but to mainly see how good i actually was under pressure in unknown situations. Numbers were picked and, tbh, i wanted to vs our thread maker happygolucky. The first match was annihilation and i had gotten paired up against a chaos daemons kid. I hadn't vs.ed daemons before (as well as nearly every army i played there ) so i was pretty much glad about it. There was one thing wrong, i was playing a kid who, this match, decided to be an arse. Before we did anything i said " I havn't played chaos before let alone daemons." he said no problem and explained a single rule which was the half army deepstrikes and half doesn't. I asked "can you go over some more rules as i wont know how to even play against you." my reply was "well, i think its fair and more fun if you play not knowing what the other army has." "so have you not played against IG before?" "Oh yeah, loads of times." -_-, first mistake was letting this go(he also had his own IG codex, but thats not exactly wrong looking up your enemy). The next thing that got on my nerves was that he didn't have ANYTHING of his own gear. (he vs.ed my other friend afterwards which i found out he did have his own templates, tape measure etc..., he must have just 'forgot' when it came to me) I had to share my tape measure, templates and one of my dice cubes (turned out to be the lucky one *rolls eyes*) the game set off but i was still optimistic 1750 pts of cool firepower, that is, if i had some good dice. im not blaming it on the dice, but when everything is 1's and 2's for IG and the hits that do get through are stopped by the single dice he's using for ALL saves that always scores 5 or 6. just from the 3rd turn i was getting sick of it, and fast. needless to say, i lost but took a soulgrinder with me...

All my other games were really fun which is another main reason for playing. i layed a tau, who is a friend of a friend and was quite scared whenever he saw something of mine even step towards him(drew). a grey knights on objectives. that played out well and really close to a win but ended short on turn 4(loss) and blood angels. the only bit in there that hugely sucked was his dreadnaught with bloodclaw talons or something. Majorly my fault as i saw he had diff weps and didnt bother asking and went ahead and piled an inf squad with yarrick into the blades. that was a close to a win too but was cut short yet again (darn luck, and time i take on movement.) Oh nd a friendly SM player who was the best sportsman i've seen

So I am playing the newest incarnation of my beloved Space Wolves, and end up against an Eldar army being fielded by a guy of no more than 16. While my army is WYSIWYG, full of conversions and painted to a very high standard, his is mostly bare plastic. After the second turn of him getting slaughtered due to a complete lack of strategy on his part, he decided to begin referring to my army as Team Jacob (apparently this is not that isolated of an incident, as this was also described in a previous post). Problem with this is the fact that my wife and oldest daughter are Twilight stupid and I have been already lost more hours of my life than I care to while being forced to endure these movies. Apparently, he decided this was a bad idea when I growled at him (at 6'2" and 275 - linebacker style, I guess I made an impression), as he became very quiet and agreeable for the rest of the game!

Most annoying moment? When a player at your club only tailor's armies to beating yours.

Avrik_Shasla wrote:Most annoying moment? When a player at your club only tailor's armies to beating yours.

Are you the only one he plays?

Why do you keep bringing the same army? [just google a new netlist ]

I somehow came in second place in a tournament in which I won every game. The final game was against the other guy who was undefeated. Beat him in a tight game, but I was the overall winner right? Wrong. The guy who I played in the final somehow won, as soon as he recieved his prize he bolted. I just shrugged and figured it was a points thing.

Someone questioned the result a few days later and it turned out I was the winner. The GW tourney setup that was used confused the organizer which was understandable. I suppose it was somewhat frustrating but I still had fun so didn't make a big deal about it.

Playing daemons against a Strike squad spam Grey knights player...

Yarrick The Necron wrote:I'll add my story if that be what it is. I was in my 1st tournement a bit ago and was over excited even though i was trying to keep calm, cool and strategized. I had enetered to meet new people but to mainly see how good i actually was under pressure in unknown situations. Numbers were picked and, tbh, i wanted to vs our thread maker happygolucky. The first match was annihilation and i had gotten paired up against a chaos daemons kid. I hadn't vs.ed daemons before (as well as nearly every army i played there ) so i was pretty much glad about it. There was one thing wrong, i was playing a kid who, this match, decided to be an arse. Before we did anything i said " I havn't played chaos before let alone daemons." he said no problem and explained a single rule which was the half army deepstrikes and half doesn't. I asked "can you go over some more rules as i wont know how to even play against you." my reply was "well, i think its fair and more fun if you play not knowing what the other army has." "so have you not played against IG before?" "Oh yeah, loads of times." -_-, first mistake was letting this go(he also had his own IG codex, but thats not exactly wrong looking up your enemy). The next thing that got on my nerves was that he didn't have ANYTHING of his own gear. (he vs.ed my other friend afterwards which i found out he did have his own templates, tape measure etc..., he must have just 'forgot' when it came to me) I had to share my tape measure, templates and one of my dice cubes (turned out to be the lucky one *rolls eyes*) the game set off but i was still optimistic 1750 pts of cool firepower, that is, if i had some good dice. im not blaming it on the dice, but when everything is 1's and 2's for IG and the hits that do get through are stopped by the single dice he's using for ALL saves that always scores 5 or 6. just from the 3rd turn i was getting sick of it, and fast. needless to say, i lost but took a soulgrinder with me...

All my other games were really fun which is another main reason for playing. i layed a tau, who is a friend of a friend and was quite scared whenever he saw something of mine even step towards him(drew). a grey knights on objectives. that played out well and really close to a win but ended short on turn 4(loss) and blood angels. the only bit in there that hugely sucked was his dreadnaught with bloodclaw talons or something. Majorly my fault as i saw he had diff weps and didnt bother asking and went ahead and piled an inf squad with yarrick into the blades. that was a close to a win too but was cut short yet again (darn luck, and time i take on movement.) Oh nd a friendly SM player who was the best sportsman i've seen

i was wanting to fight you on the first match but to my (un)suprise i was fighting the IG player who had too-many-tanks (seriously most armys are only allowed 3).

what me off was the fact that he has been using a leafblower list that got someone else to win at ard boys

now most of you may think "you only play in tourneys to win" but at the tourneys me and yarrick go to there not that competitive compared to ard boys.


oh and he got 1st place...

Oh this one is to easy. It didn't happen to me but I watched it happen and it infuriated me. So there is this kid who plays tau up at our LGS. He isn't half bad he just tends to look at the bad side of his dice rolling. He also gets very emotional. There is another guy who is much older and has a much more gruff attitude. (see where this is going?) We have all played this kid before and if things are going really bad for him, ie I instant death his shas'o commander with a lucky dark lance, he will sometimes tear up and go off to the bathroom to recollect himself and come back. Everyone has just let him call the game there and move on to another game, and none of us try to do it just happens on accident. Well the kid is playing this older guys death company BA (30 freaking guys) with termis in a LR and assault marines. We also have a rule that we don't use special characters...this guy had Sanginor AND Dante (great ) Well about turn 3 he has the kid backed into a corner with the BA taking minimal casuallties and the tau down to half a FW squad and some pathfinders and he is bawling. This older guy screams...and I mean SCREAMS in the middle of the game calling people a cheater even though he doesn't know all the rules. So here is this guy 50 yrs old screaming at a kid who is crying his eyes out over a game of toy soldiers, calling him a cheater even though he is clearly about to win and he didn't play all the rules right. (wound allocation) I was ready to deck the guy but the store owner asked him to leave for the evening, which he did albeit loudly and throwing his models everywhere in a rage.

On a happy note he tried to manipulate rules in a tournament against a buddy of mine who also saw this. My buddy (who never does this) rules lawyered him into the ground and that guy took home dead last, and my buddy had the highest sportsmanship score because of that one game.

Moral of the story its plastic soldiers don't make kids cry.

Akroma06 wrote:Oh this one is to easy. It didn't happen to me but I watched it happen and it infuriated me. So there is this kid who plays tau up at our LGS. He isn't half bad he just tends to look at the bad side of his dice rolling. He also gets very emotional. There is another guy who is much older and has a much more gruff attitude. (see where this is going?) We have all played this kid before and if things are going really bad for him, ie I instant death his shas'o commander with a lucky dark lance, he will sometimes tear up and go off to the bathroom to recollect himself and come back. Everyone has just let him call the game there and move on to another game, and none of us try to do it just happens on accident. Well the kid is playing this older guys death company BA (30 freaking guys) with termis in a LR and assault marines. We also have a rule that we don't use special characters...this guy had Sanginor AND Dante (great ) Well about turn 3 he has the kid backed into a corner with the BA taking minimal casuallties and the tau down to half a FW squad and some pathfinders and he is bawling. This older guy screams...and I mean SCREAMS in the middle of the game calling people a cheater even though he doesn't know all the rules. So here is this guy 50 yrs old screaming at a kid who is crying his eyes out over a game of toy soldiers, calling him a cheater even though he is clearly about to win and he didn't play all the rules right. (wound allocation) I was ready to deck the guy but the store owner asked him to leave for the evening, which he did albeit loudly and throwing his models everywhere in a rage.

On a happy note he tried to manipulate rules in a tournament against a buddy of mine who also saw this. My buddy (who never does this) rules lawyered him into the ground and that guy took home dead last, and my buddy had the highest sportsmanship score because of that one game.

Moral of the story its plastic soldiers don't make kids cry.

That's a sad story. That older gentleman is the type of person I do not get along with.

My worst time was when playing a 2v2 at my FLGS with my friends me with my tau with my friends orks against my two friends with 'nilla marines 500pts per player. I had my commander and bodyguard on a hill exactly 12" away from a land speeder I measure it carefully and I say That it can hit with its fusion blaster they disagree and go to remeasure. But, as they do this they knock the models over as the hill was steep and it was hard to balance them in the first place so i try to stand them were they were. They then remeasure not being sure so the other one measures too again knocking them over but this time moving them further down the hill by about 1". Well this means that I am out of range and they refuse to let me fire it, needless to say I still blew it up. Also I continued to take out one of my friends entire 500pts by turn 3. Whilst the orks went at the other. Also I didnt lose a model all game and the commander only took a single wound, but he starts with 4 so no biggy. But still, unfortunately the one I play against more often does it every game and I even show him but he still has to use his tape measure in case I am measuring it wrong.

redkeyboard wrote:worst time is when playing a 2v2 at my FLGC with my friends me with my tau with my friends orks against my two friends with nilla marines 500pts per player i had my commader and bodygaurd on a hill exactly 12" away from a land speeder i measure and i say it can hit with its fusion blaster they disagree and go to remeasure but as they do this they knock the models over as the hill was steep and it was hard to balance them in the first place so i try to stand them were they were they then remeasure not being sure so the other one measures too again knocking them over but this time moving them further down the hill by about 1" well this means im out of range and they refuse to let me fire it needless to say i still blew it up and took out one of my friends entire 500pts whilst the orks went at the other taking him out completely by turn 3 and not losing one model only a wound on the commander but he starts with 4 so no biggy but still the one i play against more often does it every game and i even show him but he still has to use his tape measure in case im measuring it wrong

Dude, there is no punctuation at all in that post, nobody really wants to read through that because its diffictult to do, so could you pleas sort it out. For instance.

The worst time was when playing a 2v2 at my FLGC with my friends; me with my tau, and my friends orks against my other two friends with vanilla space marines at 500pts per player. When i had my commader and bodygaurd on a hill exactly 12" away from a land speeder i measure, and my commander can hit it with his fusion blaster. But they disagree and go to measure but as they do, they knock my models over as they brush them with the tape measure because of the hill it was difficult to stand them there in the first place. So i try to stand them back were they were, then they then measure again saying that they arent sure about the range, so the other one measures too, knocking them over but this time moving my commander and bodyguard further down the hill by about 1". Well this means im out of range and they refuse to let me fire it. Needless to say i still blew it up and took out one of my friends entire 500pts whilst the mate on my team went at the other foe taking him out completely by turn 3 and not losing one model, only a wound on the commander, but as he starts with 4 so its no biggy. But unfortunatly the friend i play against more often than not does it every game, and i even show him but he still has to use his tape measure in case im measuring it wrong.

Is that easier to read?

Edit: oh and welcome to dakka!

Ok I have edited my first post I hope it is all right now.

nectarprime wrote:

Akroma06 wrote:Oh this one is to easy. It didn't happen to me but I watched it happen and it infuriated me. So there is this kid who plays tau up at our LGS. He isn't half bad he just tends to look at the bad side of his dice rolling. He also gets very emotional. There is another guy who is much older and has a much more gruff attitude. (see where this is going?) We have all played this kid before and if things are going really bad for him, ie I instant death his shas'o commander with a lucky dark lance, he will sometimes tear up and go off to the bathroom to recollect himself and come back. Everyone has just let him call the game there and move on to another game, and none of us try to do it just happens on accident. Well the kid is playing this older guys death company BA (30 freaking guys) with termis in a LR and assault marines. We also have a rule that we don't use special characters...this guy had Sanginor AND Dante (great ) Well about turn 3 he has the kid backed into a corner with the BA taking minimal casuallties and the tau down to half a FW squad and some pathfinders and he is bawling. This older guy screams...and I mean SCREAMS in the middle of the game calling people a cheater even though he doesn't know all the rules. So here is this guy 50 yrs old screaming at a kid who is crying his eyes out over a game of toy soldiers, calling him a cheater even though he is clearly about to win and he didn't play all the rules right. (wound allocation) I was ready to deck the guy but the store owner asked him to leave for the evening, which he did albeit loudly and throwing his models everywhere in a rage.

On a happy note he tried to manipulate rules in a tournament against a buddy of mine who also saw this. My buddy (who never does this) rules lawyered him into the ground and that guy took home dead last, and my buddy had the highest sportsmanship score because of that one game.

Moral of the story its plastic soldiers don't make kids cry.

That's a sad story. That older gentleman is the type of person I do not get along with.

No he ended up getting banned from the store as well as an RPG shop down the street for his behavior. I believe that incedent was his second strike. (Third was when he cussed out the owner, independent retailer, in front of customers.) But we make fun of him now. Like the other day I accidentaly knocked over my vendetta, after my opponent playing orks measured ranged (he was in range.) When I set it up I was a little back, still in range mind you, and to kinda mock this guy he went "cheater!" We all knew he was joking, I ooched it closser by 1/4" and we all went on and had a good day (hope he doesn't show up behind one day and we are doing that though.)

RatBot wrote:I can think of two situations.

1.) Many many years ago, when Dark Eldar were new and had their original crappy Codex, they were my army of choice. I was playing against a kid a bit younger than myself, and he was actually quite a good opponent.

His friends, on the other hand, were aggravating. At the time I wanted to try out some Incubi, so I proxied a squad of Necron Warriors. No one had a problem with this and since they were part of my Archon's retinue, and the only thing in the retinue, there was no confusion as to what they were. Just to be sure, whenever I did anything with them, I'd refer to them as "the Necrincubi". Anyway, this kid's friends were pretty terrible. They kept picking up my minis in the middle of the game, moving them around, etc. After the tenth or so occurrence of my Incubi proxies being moved around while a 10 year old squeals "INFILTRATE, INFLITRATE!" I just apologized to my opponent, packed up, and left. If I were to give them the benefit of the doubt I'd say that my use of proxies somehow made them think it's OK to behave like morons, but the more likely case is that... well, kids are often morons and they would've behaved the same way regardless.

Now, again, on proxies, I'm OK with it if you want to proxy one unit, maybe two, to see how they work in game before you plunk down the cash for them. However, if your entire army is proxies (not conversions, proxies) then you're getting close to

2.) The Net-List Kid. Long story short, he appears to just get uber lists off the net and then proxies literally everything except two squads of Space Marines using the store owners' stuff from the back room, except Drop Pods. He uses Coke cans for Drop Pods. He's also not a very good sport at all and is quite liberal when it comes to measuring movement and ranges. I missed out on like four easy kill points because I kept forgetting that the stupid friggin cans were drop pods and not terrain.


I find myself feverishly hoping I wasn't that bad when I was a kid. guess I just hate kids.

There is as many bad adults as there is bad kids. And you got some BAD kids.

There is as many bad adults as there is bad kids. And you got some BAD kids.

Yea, my friends brother (eleven years old mind you) Is more mature than our other 15 year old friend. While when we play the game (the kid), he tells me about his lists, new units he would like to buy, etc.etc., all my other friend can say is "Marneus Calgar is gonna own you man I gonna kick your ass!" While we play, whenever I kill a single guy, he yells "YOU SUCK!" With the younger guy, the worst he says is "Dangit." Oh, and the kid is much better than my friend. I beat my friend nearly every time, the kid beats me a fair amount of the time.

My most annoying moment:
Game was going well, 2000p each, Chaos got obliterated by my SM. then Daemon Prince of Nurgle appears and systematically kills all 1500p I had left.
The most annoying move I ever made:
Had to stop a dreadnaught in a capture and control. iI ws near my table edge and I was Tyranids. Rushed it with termagaunts and held it there for 4 turns using without number to keep it trapped. If the dreadnaught had broken out, it would have buchered the hormagaunts holding the objective and I would have lost.

Spartan 117 wrote:Quite simply when my rolls outright lose me a game.

Just not too long ago, i had three games(in a row) where i didnt get nearly any hits to actually even draw nevermind win.

what annoys me isn't so much war40k related, but hobby stores in general.

Kids don't bother me - little kids who have heard of 'those guys called space marines' stand around and offer editorial comments do.

I wrote up a list for our qualifying 'ard boyz player to beat up on and this kid was going on for minutes about how I should just quit cause I was going to lose cause 'when the big bugs get you, its over!.' I ended up losing, but we both learned from the experience which is good and then the little kid does the goobery 'neener neener' to me and he is completely oblivious to what the point of the game actually was. Both myself and my opponent are in their mid to late 20's, and this kid was maybe 13.

It shouldn't bother me as much as it should, but an immature peanut gallery makes me want to punch a baby.

EDIT - Terrible grammar, stupid little kids

I've rolled 4 dice before, which all came out as ones. Does that count?

Once I had an Orc Shaman in a unit of Black Orcs. In 3 consecutive turns, I rolled 3 miscasts (rolling double 6s with 2 dice even) and every time managing to roll on the miscast table a 7 or so which meant a STR 10 hit to all models in base contact. In 3 rounds, I killed 15 of my own Black Orcs!

MrDwhitey wrote:Well, I consider myself lucky then. The worst I've had was a game where the other guy just surrendered the moment a unit of mine got into combat.

Note: Neither of us had lost anything yet.

I've "surrendered" by simply taking a look at an army (I know if I am gonna get royally slaughtered on turn 1 lol) so often I just step out of a game to find a better/more balanced opponent

for me I guess it would be the dropping of the lost and the damned codex, I converted an entire army and its now completely useless

On the Privateer Press forum, I said I wanted to play a Warjack heavy Khador list. Someone told me to go play Hordes because Khador 'Jacks suck.

Worst piece of advice I've ever gotten.

Painting the eyes of space marines... or the eyes of any mini.

So maddening.

I had a somewhat conflicted altercation some time ago at the glendale GW.

I had just got done playing a friendly game with my pal when I saw a young player (Probably 11 or 12) come in with his necrons for a game. I didn't want to undermine whether or not if he was experienced at the game because of his age, but he when I chatted with him he was very mature for his age and knew the rules as well as myself.

So he gets situated to play a match (I didn't want to because I was relaxing) a dark angels player comes in looking for somebody to play so I direct him towards the necron player. Keep in mind the Dark angels player must have been a 20 something.

So about an hour or two after they start playing I had started a small kill team game with another friend and all the sudden I hear shouting and rage.

The dark angel player is completely frustrated and fuming because the necron player is wiping the floor with him, when I went to inspect I saw that the Dark angel player was playing into the oldest tricks in the book, being kited by a lord with a veil of darkness, and being picked off by 2 necron warrior squads that were in ruins overlooking the battlefield.

So the dark angels player starts accusing the necron player of cheating, using too much points and poor sportsmanship. So since the redshirt on duty meeked out at that point I took it upon myself to intervene before the bigger Dark angel player got physical with the necron player.

I looked over lists, calculated points, checked deployment, ranges and rules from the BRB and nothing was amiss. The Dark angel player just thought by screaming and throwing a bitch fit he could intimidate the necron player.

So I set him straight, tell him we don't have to have a problem here it's just a game, a game against an opponent probably half his age I might add and there's no reason to resort to shouting, insults and physicalities.

I showed him that everything the necron player did was in correlation of the rules and not against.

The dark angel player then saw reason and decided to clam up until the game was over then left.

It was extremely annoying for me to not only get involved, but do the redshirt's work and deal with an unruly. I commended the kid for keeping his cool with such a jackass opponent but in the end I'm glad it didn't escalate.

But I swear, situations like this are becoming more and more prevalent and it's sad to see a grown man act like a child to a child.

CPTPromotable wrote:the worst moment in my wargaming came shortly before i stopped 40k, maybe october or november 2009. i was playing with two really good friends and a pickup player at a gamestore in New York, and it was 2 v 2, myself with an in-progress(that never got finished, but no trukks or any transports) some orks and my friend with his ravenwing, and my other friend with 'nilla marines and the other guy with IG.

Basically, the opposing side put a huge three story building in their deployment zone as part of deployment, and put their ENTIRE 2k POINTS in it. this miffed myself and my teammate a little, but whatever.

in the middle of play, the only unit to get close to the building, a unit of ravenwing bikers with a powerfist, started getting shot with a questionable LoS(i, then being the group's rules lawyer, ruled in favor of the opposing team on a technicality, but whatever) and it turned into a literal shitstorm between my two friends as both armies poured fire into this model that was put in to be out of LoS, just that ravenwing player had a different angle than the SM player, and on and on ad nauseum.

they started yelling at each other and i *almost* had to break up a fight between a fencer/MMA enthusiast and an ex-offensive lineman. while taller than most and clocking 200 lbs, i would probably have been knocked out in the ensuing brawl. yeesh, the worst experience was with two good friends instead of a terrible stranger.

This is what I'd consider to be the worst experience ever. Bad enough when you have to deal with players you don't know or don't know well, but when you need to be a mediator between 2 of your friends? No one wins in this case...

Having my cat pee in my opened carrying case. I could not get that mad at the cat. She's 21 years old and did not have the heart to get angry at her when she gave me that mournful meow.

Guess she did not like my Chaos army

Assaulting with Nightbringer, missing range by 3 mm.

Then being shot up by an entire 2000 Pt mechdar army (he still had one wound left afterwards - epic ! ) before being put down in CC by a Warlock and some amazingly cruddy save rolling..

Ascalam wrote:Assaulting with Nightbringer, missing range by 3 mm.

Then being shot up by an entire 2000 Pt mechdar army (he still had one wound left afterwards - epic ! ) before being put down in CC by a Warlock and some amazingly cruddy save rolling..

That made me do this:

having my opponent, a 200 pound man, have a seizure and demolish the table on which we were playing, as well as harming several of my pain in the ass to put together metal undead creatures.

resipsa wrote:having my opponent, a 200 pound man, have a seizure and demolish the table on which we were playing, as well as harming several of my pain in the ass to put together metal undead creatures.

Dude, I'd be more worried about the guy rather than the table and minis. Did you call an ambulance?

Doctadeth wrote:

resipsa wrote:having my opponent, a 200 pound man, have a seizure and demolish the table on which we were playing, as well as harming several of my pain in the ass to put together metal undead creatures.

Dude, I'd be more worried about the guy rather than the table and minis. Did you call an ambulance?

+1 i'd be concerned for the poor guy, you can worry about your minis after he's ok(or not )

Played a guy in a Tourney recently - He had the IG 'Leafblower list" - whatever the hell that is...

Anyhow - I am fielding 60 Basic Marines, no vehicles, 6 LC, 6 Melta guns, and 1 Chapter master, BP and Chainsword. Plus 20 Scouts that had Sniper Rifles and 1 ML per 10 man squad(The seargents each had a Melta Grenade)

His Tactic - Bring EVERYTHING on from reserve. So - after seeing some army reports on Dakka(Thanks) - I infiltrate my 20 scouts in a long-ass line along his deployment side. This guy had just pwned his 2 previous opponents - was used to winning I would say - WAS NOT HAPPY when I deployed my infils and left like a 12" gap for him to bring his Tank list on(In the middle of the table - about 24" away from 60 Marines in a block with 6 LC's and Meltas on the run over). I offered him the 'death or glory' deployment option - quite wisely he did not take it.

So, his furst turn - all the Tanks manage to sqeeeeeze through the gap I left - and all travelled 12"(or more) - he then proceeded to shoot EVERY weapon on his vehicles at my Scouts, and whittled them down a Tad. So the game goes along, with those stupid bloody IG tanks that kill basically everything with that OP'd Poison turret crapnola. Constantly throughout the game - essentially " I can shoot the crap outta you and because of this that and the other - you get no cover saves, I do, blah blah blah ad nauseum. NOTHING more friustrating than being shot the crap out of by someone who cant be shot back at.... (apparently :rolls eyes: ) . Turn 6 - I have 3 of the Table quarters, and have smashed most of the Tanks. He then grabs one of the tanks - moves it 12" across the board and states "Damn - I wish I didn't have to move 12" to contest that Table quarter! Now I cant shoot that Scout Squad and claim it totally!"

I replied "It was OK to shoot the crap out of them when you deployed 12" onto the table? Has there been an FAQ since Turn 1 I haven't read - or was it a bs call from Turn 1 ??" The look on his face was priceless - and the TO was standing there when it was said - we were the last game playing.."Oh......so what do you want to do?"

"Keep playing" I said.

He is a good guy - but wants to win at all costs - and cites rules whern they suit - and neglects to mention rules that do not work in his favour.

I smashed his 'Leaf Blower' List and wion the Tourney. Still HATED the game against him though.....

having an entire squad of enemy necrons get up after
blasting them with a stormlord is somewhat annoying!
*eyes twitch*

MikZor wrote:

Doctadeth wrote:

resipsa wrote:having my opponent, a 200 pound man, have a seizure and demolish the table on which we were playing, as well as harming several of my pain in the ass to put together metal undead creatures.

Dude, I'd be more worried about the guy rather than the table and minis. Did you call an ambulance?

+1 i'd be concerned for the poor guy, you can worry about your minis after he's ok(or not )

That has happened to me too, i didn't fall over the models though, but down on the floor

The most annoying thing I have experienced was playing agame against some exchange student who didn't speak swedish and hardly could speak english. He also had a german codex, however he could hardly speak german either. he was nearly impossible to play against (if I recall correctly, he wanted to use a single sniper scout as a unit). he also behaved seriously childish, more like if he was playing with dolls rather than playing a game.

The day GW decided that due to 'internet freeloaders', Maelstrom Games - a place that has more gaming tables than any GW I've ever seen - would be disallowed from selling me their products.

Was at my LGS, playing a game with My Templars against my friends CSM. While were playing, a kid comes up and starts talking with us, which we don't really mind, the three of us talking about tactics and what not(nothing with our game) and the game ends, i win, and we continue to talk, i bring up that i play Guard and was looking to sell a tank or two.

He just starts $hiting all over the guard and what they do.

"GUARD CAN HAS 9 TANKS IN A 1500 POINT GAME"

"STRAKEN IS OP AND OILY GAYWAD"

"MECH VETS ARE FAGS WITH 3 MELTA GUNS"

Then i ask him what he plays. He answers back with Space Wolves. I was about to lose it, not only did he say SW, his most used unit were long fangs, with ML's. Then when i retort, he just goes on -

Him: "Oh but once you get into close combat they suck"

Me: "And 5+ save, T 3 Guardsmen don't?"

Him: "Your just buttangry" These were literally the words he used.

After asking him if he thought he was a troll, and then himself calling my guardsmen things like gay.

Then he left and i was severely annoyed.

resipsa wrote:having my opponent, a 200 pound man, have a seizure and demolish the table on which we were playing, as well as harming several of my pain in the ass to put together metal undead creatures.

Goddamnit! Stop dying on my stuff!

Ladies and Gents,

Despite my annoyance at having to reglue stuff, I did help get him up and into EMT hands, I'm not that evil, what do you people take me for, a health insurance worker at the hospital in NY? SHEESH!

I suppose my second most annoying experience was funnier: , the Kid I'm playing has his army with him, pulled the whole thing out of ziplocks and lunch tupperware, once he gets his two green tides down and ready to play (I was going first in the apoc game because I was trying a logan wing terminator heavy SW list, with a lot of vehicles) his mom runs into the store screaming like a banshee and proceeds to beat/swat him out of the store, into her car, and away... leaving the orks right there.

(He had somewhere in the vicinity of 150 ork boys)

The store manager was cool enough to play his side for the game, then we packed his crap and left it in the back room, which he apparently NEVER came back for.

resipsa wrote:I suppose my second most annoying experience was funnier: circa 2002, the Kid I'm playing has his army with him, pulled the whole thing out of ziplocks and lunch tupperware, once he gets his two green tides down and ready to play (I was going first in the apoc game because I was trying a logan wing terminator heavy SW list, with a lot of vehicles) his mom runs into the store screaming like a banshee and proceeds to beat/swat him out of the store, into her car, and away... leaving the orks right there.

The store manager was cool enough to play his side for the game, then we packed his crap and left it in the back room, which he apparently NEVER came back for.

...What kind of mother would do that...
Was she one of those extremists who believe Warhammer is treading the path to damnation?

Hmmmm

I suppose mine is the moment I realised my 2000pts+ Space Marine army is effectively useless to play with because it lacks any coherency... and requires in excess of £100 worth of models to buff it to a reasonable standard of play. I'm still "young" and out of work so there's no way in hell I'm buying more stuff.

Norn King wrote:having an entire squad of enemy necrons get up after
blasting them with a stormlord is somewhat annoying!
*eyes twitch*

Was he within 6" of another necron warrior, because if not he was cheating.

Juvieus Kaine wrote:Hmmmm

I suppose mine is the moment I realised my 2000pts+ Space Marine army is effectively useless to play with because it lacks any coherency... and requires in excess of £100 worth of models to buff it to a reasonable standard of play. I'm still "young" and out of work so there's no way in hell I'm buying more stuff.

I hate that. As a new player you buy loads of stuff and then realise none of its any good in a tournament without Such an Such.


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happygolucky wrote:

Norn King wrote:having an entire squad of enemy necrons get up after
blasting them with a stormlord is somewhat annoying!
*eyes twitch*

Was he within 6" of another necron warrior, because if not he was cheating.

Or a lord

ChocolateGork wrote:

Juvieus Kaine wrote:Hmmmm

I suppose mine is the moment I realised my 2000pts+ Space Marine army is effectively useless to play with because it lacks any coherency... and requires in excess of £100 worth of models to buff it to a reasonable standard of play. I'm still "young" and out of work so there's no way in hell I'm buying more stuff.

I hate that. As a new player you buy loads of stuff and then realise none of its any good in a tournament without Such an Such.


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happygolucky wrote:

Norn King wrote:having an entire squad of enemy necrons get up after
blasting them with a stormlord is somewhat annoying!
*eyes twitch*

Was he within 6" of another necron warrior, because if not he was cheating.

Or a lord

with an orb? I remembering someont telling me that if the WHOLE unit is destroyed in a turn then if another necron of the same type isn't within 6" of the unit then the unit is destroyed Orb or no orb.
?

Lords don't count as a 'model of the same type' for WBB. You need another unit nearby, or a spyder nearby and another unit on the field.

Lords can self repair themselves without another lord nearby, but regular Crons need moral support

Playing orkz, i got a 1500 points army, and come this guy with his 1850 points IG, he ask me for a 1850 games, and i gladly accept, adding some more or less usefull 350 points on the army.

I got 3 BW full of boyz, 1 Big Mek w/ KFF, 1 Warboss and Nobs in bikes, some storm boyz.
He got 2 Valks w/ vets, some troops in chimeras, 1 Leman Russ w/ plasma, 4 of that missile launchers IG have, and some other things.

I deployed bad, he get the first turn, killed the nobs with lots of AP2 fire, advanced w/ valks, deployed with demolitions vets at my BWs (all lined up, to use the "fortress formation").

3 BWs exloded at first turn, almost 40 boyz killed by explosions, half the storm boyz killed by the explosion too, Nob squad DEAD. The storm-boyz fleed (3-4 inch from the table end). He loose 2 vets to the explosion.

After that, i always shiver wen i see IG on the other side...

I played at a local event and I rolled nothing but 1s the first turn. It was so bad the guy I went against me felt bad and said I could do it over and I rolled more 1s. Later in the game he asked if I had weighted dice to lose and I laughed and we switched dice. I kept rolling bad with his dice. In the end I shod have won based on my list against his but bad rolls are bad rolls. I was so annoyed and wanted to leave not cause I am a bad sport but that serious put a cloud over my head.

Well this has not much to do about gaming, but what the hell:

One time, when I was in my LGS, I decided with my friend to play some warmachine. He played Skorne and I Cryx. When we had set up some random kids just pop-off from nowhere and start to touch, move and break our miniatures when we were not looking (All my miniatures were metal, and so very fragile). My Cryx Nightmares (an warjack) hand snipped off, and so did my friends Titan Gladiators horn (the kid who broke it seemed like he was trying to steal it, covering the whole miniature with his hands), We tried to talk some sense to them, but they didn't seem to notice us, continuing their rampage. It took about 5 minutes to drive them off (seemed like foreigners, since they never said anything or looked in to the eyes). In the end, the game went well.

The other time (god I hate this) was, when I was (again) playing warmachine with my friends. In the middle of the game some random kid pops up (we have these kids a lot in our LGS, stealing and messing stuff up), who had bought an metal LotR Sauron model. He started yelling at us on how Sauron had to take a s*** (Im not kidding) and how he would own our miniatures. He also started to move our miniatures around the table, in the middle of the game. Thank god that we managed to drive him off. (those douchbags or "Jonnes" as said in finnish, are an real nuisance).

There has also been some stealing happening in our LGS, one of my friends even loosing 60€ because his Magic the Gathering deck was stolen in bare day-light.

Spent almost 2 hours setting up a table + 8000 points for a 4-player game (pre-Apoc, house rules)...only to have one player remember they had plans, didn't have time to pack up their stuff, couldn't play the following night, and "oh, could we just leave the models out and play in a few days instead..?" Note: at that time, I lived in a cramped apartment and my gaming table was anything but "out of the way".

Most annoying thing that's ever happened to me was in an FLGS tournament. I'm playing 2000pts Necrons against what is supposed to be 2000pts SM. I had never read the SM codex, so I said it was ok.
I hit phase out on turn four. So I ask to look at his list. He tells me "I forgot it." I'm immediately suspicious, so I call over a friend of mine who plays SM and knows the codex very well. He takes one look at the table and says "no way in hell that's 2000pts." So the TO and my friend tally up what this guy has out there. They ask him "what's this equipped with?" and he will lie, telling them it doesn't have things that he had used on me, etc. His total is almost 3200pts.

Another time was this kid. Nobody knew this kid, but one day he comes into the store and starts picking things up, asking about them. I'm ok if people touch my models, as long as they ask me first. He grabs one of my monoliths, and is looking at it. I see this from the other side of the store, and begin to walk over to tell him to put it down, and when he sees me, he gets this deer in the headlights look, drops the monolith, and runs screaming from the store. I never found all the pieces. The store owner was cool and gave me a free one though.

I was at a tournament once, and it was going pretty well. I wasn't losing too horribly, which was odd. At one point though, the room quiets down for some reason, (you know, when everybody's conversations lull at the same time?) and then we hear the distinct sound of liquid under pressure hitting plastic. And the smell!! It was awful. Some guy at a painting table pulls a 2 liter bottle from under the table and sets it down. You can guess what was in that bottle...

There was a guy who used to come to the gaming club, nobody really liked him. One day I'm playing my CSM against him, and he loses his command squad to a round of shooting. He swears, but nothing bad. It isn't until I knock out his 10 man terminator squad with my Thousand Sons (an awesome round of shooting for me...) that he stands up, screams "YOU CALL YOURSELF SPESS MEHREENZ!?!?!?" hurls a land raider at a wall, and storms out of the store. We never saw him again, and to this day there is a beautifully painted Ultramarines army sitting in the display case.

There was one time a hobo came into the store, grabbed someone's case, and tried to sell them to somebody in the store. Just a hint, if your trying to sell stolen models, don't sell them to the owner. To this day I have never seen someone get punched that hard.

I was playing a 16,000 pts per side apoc game one time, it was late, about 3am, and these guys came into the store, they were fairly stupid, and obviously drunk wanna be gangster types. "Yo man, wtf is this?" "Ohh, dice? You wanna bet?" "This sh** is tight yo." The other person on my team and I could not stop laughing. They looked at us funny, and walked out of the store.

A guy took a piss In a bottle right there in the store???

He did. IN FRONT OF EVERYONE. And everybody knew what he had tone too. He tries to play it off like he didn't do anything, like it's apple juice or something. Someone call him on it, and he just left.

Damn. You have some pretty bad ones

Vladsimpaler wrote:

Grimtuff wrote:
Or it could be of that legendary child called Jordan, drinker of Enchanted Blue paint...

Ok, now this one I haven't heard. Do tell.

Found the original.

Miraclefish wrote:There was a lad called Jordan who played when I first got into GW about 12 years ago. He was the archetypal Annoying Game Store Child.

He ran around, barely painted his models, picked up and broke other peoples' and kicked off when his Space Wolves didn't win everything.

After a while, when he broke a nice, kind customer's Leman Russ tank by dropping it, the staff told him he was banned from the store for a month and should take the time to think about his behaviour.

Well, Jordan wasn't having this. He ran to the modeling table to enact some sort of bitter revenge. Sadly there was naught to destroy.

But look! Paints! So Jordan reaches for a pot of Ultramarines Blue and flips the cap. Everyone steps back, fearing the pigment will fly. And then...

...he drinks it.

No, I don't know why, either. But he laughs, and runs for the door, through a sea of people frozen into inaction through confusion.

He get to the door and falters, stumbles. "I..... I don't feel well...."

We watch in silence as he staggers a few steps and clutches his stomach. He looks for a bin to throw up in. He finds none. Which leads to one of the most surreal moments of my life.

I watch a young lad sobbing quietly as he throws up blue-tainted vomit and bitter bile time and time again into the slot of an unfortunate Royal Mail postbox.

Then his mum came to collect him.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

Jesus, man. My heart goes out to you and your FLGS.

0_0 thats pretty pathetic

Anyway here are some of mine I can't remember them all as I've had lots of problems with depression, anxiety and memory loss but anyway here are ones i do remember

A few years ago I had an Iron Warriors army under the 3rd edition rules (the nice ones lol) and some really lovely models in the box. I took them to my local store at the time and had a few battles. during my 3rd battle of the day a couple of kids had come up and started looking at my models in the box which i wasn't using or which had died. Next thing I know the box was knocked on the floor so i had to pick the models back up and put thme back in the box. Now first off the kid i was playing took the opportunity to move his predator away from my meltagun when it was MY turn (he got kicked out for that the staff saw him) then when i got back home i realised some of my best models were gone. Thats when i realised what happened those kids were nicking my models and one of them knocked the box. I didn't go back into the shop for 3 years after that.

Another case at my club my opponent was using brettonians against my WoC army. I had forgotton my dice so i was borrowing someone elses dice. I couldn't roll more then a 2 for the whole battle literally :-( i looked closer at the dice then apologised to my opponent for quitting the battle, the dice i took were LOADED dice. I quickly pointed it out to the other players and the person i borrowed the dice wasn't seen at the club again. It's not nice to find out someone is cheating badly and that you find out the way i did :-(

There was a case where I had a lost and damned army (best army i had so much fun :-) ) and I played a game against my friends blood angels. I didn't have many anti tank weaponry and he saw that and decided to take a load of rhinos and hide in them, even his Death Company didn't leave thier rhino and my guys were just getting killed with no kills of their own. sadly the game ended turn 3 :-(

My friend (who has suffered a few cases of bad games) was facing a kid we all called CPK. My friend had his Necrons and CPK had SM army using the doctrines in the old codex (so this was a forth edition game). Half way through the battle My friend was being beaten badly by CPK and i noticed something wierd. He had picked Flesh over steel which meant he could only have 0-1 of each heavy support choice and any squad with transports were fast attack. I looked at his army list and realised he had 2 troop choices and 5 fast attack choices. He kicked off a fuss and accused me of lying!! my friend asked to see his army list so i passed it to him and the staff member who came over when he shouted i was lying and they saw what i saw. CPK then said "its ok i'll change it right away to eye to eye" but the staff member said no you lose for cheating.

Another case of CPK was if he lost he became determined to keep facing you until he won a battle. GOD that kind of person annoys me. He cheats, uses beardy army lists and if he loses (all the time near enough) he goes mardy and wants to face you again the next week preventing other people from playing you :-( in a campaign we had he kept trying to beat my Khorne army at the time but kept losing. I got fed up and took his base out knocking him out the contest but he went mardy that the campaign organiser said he could set up on the other side of the map away from me. He then made a bee line to my areas good ****ing christ >:-( after the campaign he played me, cheated, was beaten then he left. I felt so much happier then.

I particulary hate people looking over my shoulder or who crowd while i'm playing. I had massive panic attacks because of people behind me or crowding. I don't do it i always stand at the side of the table so i don't get in the way and can watch whats happening. I've had numerous games where I turn to do something only to bump into someone watching over my shoulder >:-( i would shout at them if it weren't for the fact i don't shout or get angry in public so I have to ask them politely to move. If you see me playing a game and wanna watch please stand to the side not near or behind me thank you

Just remembered another case. I think 2 years ago me and my friend entered the warhammer doubles tournament. We didn't do to well with the first couple of games and, while i didn't care about it since i normally play for fun, my friend became miserable and didn't seem to care what happened. The third game he sort of given up, telling his opponent to kill his stuff sor he can go and then half way through the game he just upped and left to the shop O_0 i was left with his stuff and two opponents who didn't realise what just happened. I apologised to them making up an excuse why he was like this and carried on with the battle. I still don't know why he did that but he did it the following tournament with another friend (i didn't join this time as i couldn't be bothered but i still tagged along for a weekend away lol)

Have had a couple of these.

Was playing an apocalypse game at GW. Nice big one. Using rex before the GK changeup (nice stats for him). The table had castors on it and the kids tend to lean. I told one kid to stop leaning on the table after the table drifted about 4 inches towards me. Next thing I know is a HUGE smash, rex drops to the floor and smashes. 29 bucks down the drain. The GW employees didn't even care.

Second
first game of 5th edition W40K. Had a guy with a cocklear impant try and change his heavy's weapons in the middle of his turn. I asked for his list, and he refused, saying it wasn't needed. Hmm, turned to the GW employees, who counted up our points for the 1000 point game. He had 1500 points of units on the board. I accused him of cheating and he hasn't gone to the GW since.

Lastly.
We had our 40 000 point apocalypse game, something like 10 super heavies, and a ****load of characters. Someone bought a battle company, to a TIMED game, and couldn't finish all the combats in the formation. My Eversor and Callidus assassins wiped out his assault squad with the Dark Templar Chaplain in a single round. He was LIVID, turns round and stops all my combats with my deathwing. Doesn't even do squat with my missus' space wolves as well. I asked him to come outside to explain why he won't resolve the combats. He refuses and spits in my face. I then call him an i***t, walk out of the store before I hit him, and mop the spittle off my face. The GW staffer walks outside and tells me off for calling him names. I tell him what happened, and guess what. The GW staffer does GAK all, The other player went for a break, and I resolved the combats with another player on his team, removing casualties and carefully putting them in his case with the GW staff's permission. He comes back, gets even more irate and then calls me a cheater. I then tell him to stop being a child, and actually resolve my combats, and my missus's combats or else we'll continue using the other players to resolve it. He turns to the staff, No support there. Turns to his team, none there. Finally he agrees.

The joke ended up on him. Our team won 4 nil. despite being outnumbered, outgunned and with one less asset. Oh, plus our guys never used Rok 'em boys.

A kid spit in your face because he was a ***ing arsehead O_O thats really pathetic, you have a lot more control then me I would have lost it cause thats disgusting >:O at least you got your revenge on that ****head

GentlemanGuy wrote:A kid spit in your face because he was a ***ing arsehead O_O thats really pathetic, you have a lot more control then me I would have lost it cause thats disgusting >:O at least you got your revenge on that ****head

Not just a kid, he was over 18. This guy twists the rules or even takes *fun* events seriously (like bringing a flying mount to a WFB lords clash).

some one over 18!!!! WTF

liars who say that a hive tyrant is strength and toughness 10, and that it gets a 3+ cover save if its foot is behind a rock, and I cant see it with a monolith at the left flank of it because the crystal isnt facing towards it, also how he can fit a hive tyrant, 2 tervigons, 6 warriors a mawloc and roughly 70 gaunts... in 750points... pain in the ass really, specially in a friendly game were its just for fun and suddenly he goes gloating about how his suddenly strength 10 tyrant destroyed the monolith in turn 3.

I just remembered another case at a doubles tournament. Me and my friend were facing 2 little kids and they were annoying the hell out of us, they were cheating left right and center but the TO's never caught on and it's only thanks to the fact me and my friend were so annoyed with them that we forgot about our last turn and the game ended in us winng wierd and frustrating

Oh I have a friend who play's nids and even when playing friendly games he uses WAAC lists and thinks that playing is importent BUT winning is more.

I tell him to bring his salamanders SM to our LGS but he say that he will lose, some time I will say that playing is more importent than winng...some day.

When a guy scouts his Valkkyrie, then in his turn 1, lets out a special weapons team, drops 3 Democharges on my lines, and kills Njal, 10 blood Claws, 5 grey hunters, a razorback and apredator, then says it was just ... lucky .... yes 3 S10 Large Blasts were ..... lucky ....

Doctadeth wrote:

GentlemanGuy wrote:A kid spit in your face because he was a ***ing arsehead O_O thats really pathetic, you have a lot more control then me I would have lost it cause thats disgusting >:O at least you got your revenge on that ****head

Not just a kid, he was over 18. This guy twists the rules or even takes *fun* events seriously (like bringing a flying mount to a WFB lords clash).

You sir must have more self control than Gandhi. I don't think I would have exhibited that level of self control.

[quote=Flaming_SpiderI was at a tournament once, and it was going pretty well. I wasn't losing too horribly, which was odd. At one point though, the room quiets down for some reason, (you know, when everybody's conversations lull at the same time?) and then we hear the distinct sound of liquid under pressure hitting plastic. And the smell!! It was awful. Some guy at a painting table pulls a 2 liter bottle from under the table and sets it down. You can guess what was in that bottle...

I cannot believe an 18 year old spit in your face, Doctadeth.

my most annoyed is when my opponent opens up on turn one after stealing the initiative, on a table with 3 whole terrain pieces on it, shoots 3 missle launchers, 4 plasma cannons, and destroys 3 rhinos, 2 razorbacks, and one dakka predator. all of which are wrecks.

i then go on to play the rest of the game and loose. (not a big deal, he got 6 kill points off of me in turn 1 and it ended up ending the game at 8-6 his favor. not bad if i do say so myself!) my opponent then states that "i made some serious tactical errors in the game and he clearly out played me." i dont have a problem loosing, i do have a proglem loosing to someone that cant recognize the difference between luck and skill.

i am also severly annoyed by other games that say things like "WH40K IS THE MOAST STRATEGICLLY GME SRLSE EVAR" and then proceede to tell me why i could have won or lost with but a single die roll, and i was just lucky and they weren't.

those same people also see me playing a game of war in the east or of Russian campaign, and tell me that WH40K requires more intelligence to play it since it has a bigger rule book.....

nothing to you 40k players out there, i am one of them, but if any one thinks that 40k is the end all be all strategy game out there, well, we all have another thing coming.

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Wow, these are some doozies. I gotta say the cheating stories always surprise me. I have been lucky enough to have almost never had anyone cheat (or at least I didn’t realize it) in about 18 years of gaming.

A few stories I can think of.
A couple years ago I was running a game at a historical convention. The ruleset I had written was intended to be easy to learn and fast paced since most games at the conventions I go to have to be taught (just about every game uses a different rule set). I made the point that in this game a tank was a tank. I know one side had models that looked like t-34s and the other side pz IV Fs, but for this game they were just tanks. After a player received a result he was unhappy with he griped for the remainder of the game about how what had happened was so unrealistic and that a t34 could never have done that against an experienced panzer crew blah blah blah and so on. Exactly the type of thing I had hoped to avoid with my lengthy pre game explanation of games vs simulations and how this was a game.

A similar event, though this one was a bit funnier, was when I was 14. By then I had 5 years of gaming under my belt and actually knew what I was doing, but most of the 40 years olds a played expected a dumb kid. I was playing a civil war game (actually another young gamer on my side, we both wanted rebs) against two older gentleman playing a game of Fire and Fury which I was pretty familiar with back then. We were handling them rather tidily and one of them began to nitpick every little thing. Every good roll we made was somehow cocked, we didn’t have line of sight because a piece of gravel was in the way and so on. He argued rather voluminously that the rules were unrealistic until the GM called it a draw. He told is after the guy left that we had actually won. More funny than annoying when I look back on that one.

Last one makes me seem like a d-bag but I am admittedly quite arrogant. My painting is not golden daemon worthy but there are a lot of painter worse than me. I had brought an army to a new game store and was proudly showing them off, my head swelling to epic proportions. One guy made it clear he was un-impressed, stating “yeah, that’s almost as good as some of mine.” My delicate ego shattered, I went look at this guys stuff. His paint jobs were fair, but (and here is where I sound most like an arrogant d-bag) they were clearly inferior to my figures. Luckily for him a weathered this slight of my honor stoically. Had I been a Space Marine I most likely would have removed his head and placed in on a stake outside the shop with a sign that read “This be the fate of all heretics who mock my Glorious Paintjobs, beloved by all.”

Setting up my Savage Orcs for a game against High Elves (7th Edition)

Warboss on Wyvern is deployed behind a wood, ready for a potential first turn strike against the enemy Level 4, hiding in a tiddly unit of Phoenix Guard. Rest of the army goes on the same flank, ready to smash up the enemy.

So far so good. Even better, I win the first turn. I call the Waaagh! Wyvern goes 6" forwards, right up to the near edge of the wood. Rest of the army pelts it forward. Then it's time to declare charges. 'Wyvern is going to charge the Phoenix Guard' I say 'but you don't have LoS' says my opponent. 'Large Targets can see and be seen over intervening terrain, and as a flier, can also charge over, it's in the book' says I, knowing that this is a sneaky tactic, and many gamers weren't aware it was possible. 'Yes, I know' continues my opponent. 'But we play by tournament rules here, and all terrain is infinitely high' So I reply 'well, you know, it would have been nice to explain the house rules to me before we set up, seeing as it would have changed my tactics and setup quite a lot'. Opponent? 'Well, you don't have to game here you know'.

Suffice to say, this pretty much cost me the game, as the Wyvern had to wait a turn to do anything, and in the intervening time got shot to bits by Bolt Throwers. Rest of the army did alright, but couldn't get to the Lvl 4, who magiced my arse into the ground. And all because a house rule was kept schtum....

Prick.

Wow. Some of these stories sound pretty damn bad (likely an understatement), particularly the one about a fellow peeing in a bottle or Doctadeth being spat on by an adult.

My first one is, admittedly, my own fault. I was playing with my Guard against a pretty good CSM player. He didn't know very much about IG rules, so I
went over most of the rules. Unfortunately, I accidentally misrepresented my Lord Commissar's leadership radius, which led to most of my units not fleeing when they should have, which
allowed me to hold onto all the objectives and win the game. Didn't notice until it was too late to apologize, felt crummy and annoyed with myself for a while afterward.

Worst one that I wasn't responsible for was playing SM against CSM and using a dreadnaught with multi-melta when, suddenly, someone from the bathroom yells "MULTI-MELTAS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY", so we both look at the door as a guy leaves, still smelling of "business" , and approaches us and begins to (quite angrily) explain how multi-meltas work, moving our models and generally being a nuisance while getting spittle all over us and our models. We just sort of move on with how we were doing it after he left and found out later, after checking, that we were doing it the right way all along.

Okay, I can't top having people pee in bottles at the tables or spitting, but my FLGS has had a couple of "those guys" before. Plenty of stories on them, but for a personal story...

It was my second game of 40k. I had the Assault on Black Reach marines and another 5-man squad and I was going to play against someone who was equally new and had a squad of scouts. I figure we're both still fresh to the game and we have just a tad over 500 points, so it'd be a good learning experience for both of us.
Before anyone gets any ideas, this guy turns out to be one of the nicest guys at the shop and while I rarely get to play with him any more, it's always a pleasure when I do.

One of the store regulars comes up to us and asks if we want to pool together and play with him. Since we each have about 500 points, he'd make a 1000 point list for his Eldar and we'd be good to go. Sounds good, right? His list involves a lot of jetbikes and a grav tank and all our units are on foot. Already, this is looking bad for us. The actual events of the battle are a bit fuzzy to me now, but he started throwing out arbitrary rules like we couldn't take armor saves (or even invul saves) because the strength of the weapon was too high, or he automatically wounded our units when he hit for similar reasons. He pre-measured, and he picked which models froum our groups he wounded. Talking to people later, it sounds like he was using some combination of 4th edition and whatever benefitted him at the moment. He tried some of those rules on people in other games, and they called him on them. He made them point it out in the rule book where it said what he could and couldn't do.
Turns out he was even LESS familiar with the rules than the two guys that just started... and because he spoke as if he knew the rules, we just took it.

Now, to add insult to injury (almost literally), he taunted us. The entire blipping game. As he was systematically picking off our heavy weapons (remember, he got to decide that the heavy weapons died first), he kept making comments that we'd never catch him because he was so fast. Every move, every turn. It was the worst game I played and it made me almost quit then and there.

I did end up watching him play in games months later and I got to observe all the things that mark a bad player. Loud, obnoxious, always questioning when someone goes for an unconventional (but legal) rule, trying to cheat and getting offended when people call him when he tries to cheat. He takes half-hour smoke breaks during his turn and is known for stopping in the middle of his turn to talk about paint schemes with people that not only weren't playing with him, weren't even talking to him.

Some day, I want to go against him again and grind him into the dust. Or have fun with the game and taunt the smelly hippy right back. One of those two.

The only reason I haven't played 40k in a while is because most everyone at my FLGS plays WAAC, and I'd much rather have an army that fits a fun theme.


We also have a guy at the shop who we joke about eating his Eldar, but I've never heard of anyone actually eating a model before. o_O;

I guess I have two
1. I'm playing in the school leuge, my 26 peasant bowmen cause 7 wounds, (lucky rolls), the opponent (WoC guy) claims his sorcerer has no armor, I won due to that (only unit I killed), made me fell gakky when I found out. The thing is I questioned him on it and he was certain it had no armor.

2. I'm playing a 1000 point WHFB game (8th), I bring 250 points of lord made to own in challenges, I charge a lord of chaos, lose epically, and lose the game, find out after he used about 400 points on that model. and since the limit is 25% (250 points for our game), that is very illegal

I once saw a 35ish year old guy air hump a table and yell "OH YEAH CAN YOU FEEL IT?! CAN YOU FEEL IT?!" over and over after he killed a young kids decked out Ork Warboss in hth with a small squad of Marines. He kept going even when the kid started crying.

Another guy forced his 9 year old daughter into a tournament and after she lost, berated her for 45 minutes.

resipsa wrote:Ladies and Gents,

Despite my annoyance at having to reglue stuff, I did help get him up and into EMT hands, I'm not that evil, what do you people take me for, a health insurance worker at the hospital in NY? SHEESH!

I suppose my second most annoying experience was funnier: , the Kid I'm playing has his army with him, pulled the whole thing out of ziplocks and lunch tupperware, once he gets his two green tides down and ready to play (I was going first in the apoc game because I was trying a logan wing terminator heavy SW list, with a lot of vehicles) his mom runs into the store screaming like a banshee and proceeds to beat/swat him out of the store, into her car, and away... leaving the orks right there.

(He had somewhere in the vicinity of 150 ork boys)

The store manager was cool enough to play his side for the game, then we packed his crap and left it in the back room, which he apparently NEVER came back for.

Wow didn't anyone tell her she can't assault after she deepstrikes in?
Just as well I guess you probably would have had to death or glory to stop her

Horribly, I think the most annoying thing that has happened very recently in my wargaming career was done by myself.
I have only started playing in tournaments over the last year, despite collecting, and playing W40k for upwards of 13 years, and after some very hard results I had decided to take increasingly harder lists to my games. I try to make them as themed as possible and not go ridiculously cheesy as I know that they are just no fun to play against.

My latest list that I was trying out at our local gaming club, to which I am a committee member of, is a deathwing list that consists of 3 units of deathwing terminators, all travelling around in land raiders with a chaplain and belial. It is harsh in some ways but can be taken out fairly easily as there are only 17 infantry and 3 tanks in my army. My friend was playing a guard army. Being a soldier himself he tries to replicate his training with a very balanced list that can take on almost anything but in doing so he lacks the punch that most players have in that they are built to do something very well but struggle in other areas.

Our game was a kill points mission using pitched battle. He deployed first, and so I positioned myself in such a way as to avoid his heavy weapons that could destroy my tanks. In a 7 turn game, his lascannon team, demolisher, master of ordnance could do nothing. He only got one kill point by deepstriking stormtroopers with 2 melta guns right next to one landraider, as I systematically destroyed his other anti tank weapons.

He finished the game admirably and despite saying how bad the game was he did not complain to me about it. I felt like such an a**hole playing against him like that though. I knew my list was very strong and had few things to worry about in his army and yet i felt so bad about it during and afterwards that I bought him a few drinks the next time we went out.

Well, this has just really p***ed me off, school club today, training for the school league, all goes well with the orks I used, alot of rules were learned, when a bunch of "Chavs" (if your british XD) come into the club, they ask what were doing and start to secretly taunt and mock us, which I can get over, when suddenly one of them picks up the monolith i was painting and "accidentally" lobs it at the wall, couldn't find even half the pieces, and now I wasted £41, so yeah, my day absolutely f***ing ruined.

Im british, i know what a chav is, and if given the choice, i'd run a Crusade, and cleanse all the scum off the planet, my heart goes out to your Monolith :(

Honestly you should have just cracked the little prat one. Then take the £41 from him. Was there anyone else in the room like a teacher if so why did they not stop it and also do your parents know that you they destroyed it.

This isn't to do with wargaming, but on the way to the school league, I nearly get hit with a car, then near the end of the year my teacher goes
"you remember when you nearly died, that was funny."

I have a couple (the first is NOT for the light hearted... you've been warned):

First, I was playing a game with my girlfriend at my FLGS on 'Friday Night Magic' night and everything is going fine... she's actually kicking my ass (and I'm grateful, as she'd been getting frustrated lately at losing so much)... and across the room there is this big guy playing Magic that keeps putting his hands down his pants and announcing it and making a big deal of it, raising his hand up and and making a big deal of touching his cards with them, etc. He is getting a few laughs from folks that know him well, but general glares from the wargamers as the guy definitely doesn't have the best hygiene (you could smell him from a couple tables over) and he keeps doing this... my girlfriend makes the gagging motion when she then starts to gag for real... I catch that her eyes wandered over and the dude lets out a scream... he had pulled his hand out of his pants and it was covered in blood! He then screams, amid his game and the rest of the games: the store goes silent as he stands up (THANKFULLY he spins...) and spins around with his back to us... DROPS HIS PANTS and screems as he almost trips himself DRIPPING BLOOD from parts unknown and hurries to the bathroom with his pants around his ankles...
My girlfriend left the room after that (as did many) and I was left to clean up and we left for the night.


Second, playing my girlfriend again... she's doing ok with her orks and I'm playing a variation of 'Draigo-wing' Grey Knights (wasn't using Draigo, just was using termies and pallies for giggles)... and this HUGE dude that most people don't like, mainly because he painted HIS orks up as confederate soldiers with racial epitaphs and his racial slurs and comments are disturbing and pretty damned uncool...

Anyway, he sees her playing orks, and so he thinks she wants to talk to him or something and plops down to tell her how to play...now I'm ok with folks giving advice and whatnot... I have no issues with folks that watch, give rules, etc. BUT I do have a problem when some dude litterally comes in and starts moving models for her (she was NOT amused at all and I could tell she was getting super-pissed... I've seen that look before >.> ) and starts touching her on the shoulder and in general being a complete ass...

Now... I'm not jealous or anything like that... we live together, we do everything together and we've been dating about 5 years and started making 'plans for the future', etc... but I got pretty pissed that he was hitting on her and creeping all over her. SO, I tell him... politely at first to settle down and let her play... I was very nice... very polite and he just stops (I think he is complying) with his 'leaning over the table and looks up at me, mid-model-moving, and says in a completely serious tone: "DAWW the wittle SPEZZ MAREEN doesn't want to wooz to you..."

This is a dude in his late 40s early 50s... HUGE and one scare away from a heart attack... and he said this to me, but having known the type of guy he was, I was expecting it. So I stood there, looked him in the eye and waited for him to stop talking. He continued like this for a few moments...

I put what I was holding down in a calm manner and said quietly: "Put her models down and let her play."

He complied quickly and sat down next to the game.

He then continued to watch us telling her how much he 'Liked her' and glaring at me...

Then he started whispering that he liked her...

She gave me a look and I knew it was time to leave or she might kill the guy if I didn't get there first... so we picked up and left without a word.

Later on, a friend of mine told me that when he saw this he thought the dude was finally gonna get 'it'... and that I got all 'scarey' on him...

I thought I underacted.

Anywho, I have a few bad-luck stories, etc, but those have been my worst experiences thus far...

FOr me it probably came when i held the tyranids new dex in my hands and saw what GW had done.

Outside of this moment it was playing against a real jerk in a tourni in LA. the individual i played agianst was really hard to deal with. argued rules, assert very biased interpretation of rules, and then ask me how great his crappy looking army looked. I flet like telling him the truth that his army looked like a six year old had painted it, but i just kept mum.

Playing the kind of people who are all happy and joyous when they stomp your army flat and suddenly get sour and ready to pack up the moment you start making a comeback THEN get all super happy and talking about how he had the entire game in his control when he BARELY squeaks out a win.

Love playing those people.

Revarien wrote:I have a couple (the first is NOT for the light hearted... you've been warned):

First, I was playing a game with my girlfriend at my FLGS on 'Friday Night Magic' night and everything is going fine... she's actually kicking my ass (and I'm grateful, as she'd been getting frustrated lately at losing so much)... and across the room there is this big guy playing Magic that keeps putting his hands down his pants and announcing it and making a big deal of it, raising his hand up and and making a big deal of touching his cards with them, etc. He is getting a few laughs from folks that know him well, but general glares from the wargamers as the guy definitely doesn't have the best hygiene (you could smell him from a couple tables over) and he keeps doing this... my girlfriend makes the gagging motion when she then starts to gag for real... I catch that her eyes wandered over and the dude lets out a scream... he had pulled his hand out of his pants and it was covered in blood! He then screams, amid his game and the rest of the games: the store goes silent as he stands up (THANKFULLY he spins...) and spins around with his back to us... DROPS HIS PANTS and screems as he almost trips himself DRIPPING BLOOD from parts unknown and hurries to the bathroom with his pants around his ankles...
My girlfriend left the room after that (as did many) and I was left to clean up and we left for the night.


Second, playing my girlfriend again... she's doing ok with her orks and I'm playing a variation of 'Draigo-wing' Grey Knights (wasn't using Draigo, just was using termies and pallies for giggles)... and this HUGE dude that most people don't like, mainly because he painted HIS orks up as confederate soldiers with racial epitaphs and his racial slurs and comments are disturbing and pretty damned uncool...

Anyway, he sees her playing orks, and so he thinks she wants to talk to him or something and plops down to tell her how to play...now I'm ok with folks giving advice and whatnot... I have no issues with folks that watch, give rules, etc. BUT I do have a problem when some dude litterally comes in and starts moving models for her (she was NOT amused at all and I could tell she was getting super-pissed... I've seen that look before >.> ) and starts touching her on the shoulder and in general being a complete ass...

Now... I'm not jealous or anything like that... we live together, we do everything together and we've been dating about 5 years and started making 'plans for the future', etc... but I got pretty pissed that he was hitting on her and creeping all over her. SO, I tell him... politely at first to settle down and let her play... I was very nice... very polite and he just stops (I think he is complying) with his 'leaning over the table and looks up at me, mid-model-moving, and says in a completely serious tone: "DAWW the wittle SPEZZ MAREEN doesn't want to wooz to you..."

This is a dude in his late 40s early 50s... HUGE and one scare away from a heart attack... and he said this to me, but having known the type of guy he was, I was expecting it. So I stood there, looked him in the eye and waited for him to stop talking. He continued like this for a few moments...

I put what I was holding down in a calm manner and said quietly: "Put her models down and let her play."

He complied quickly and sat down next to the game.

He then continued to watch us telling her how much he 'Liked her' and glaring at me...

Then he started whispering that he liked her...

She gave me a look and I knew it was time to leave or she might kill the guy if I didn't get there first... so we picked up and left without a word.

Later on, a friend of mine told me that when he saw this he thought the dude was finally gonna get 'it'... and that I got all 'scarey' on him...

I thought I underacted.

Anywho, I have a few bad-luck stories, etc, but those have been my worst experiences thus far...

I should NOT HAVE READ THE FIRST ONE.

yeah. wow. I should not have read the first one too though it makes me wonder at what the heck happened.

The second one though. ANYone that is ignorant enough to have confederate orks and make racial comments is not worth anyones time. You did the right thing.

I have been fairly lucky in not drawing crazies at games. I do have two stories though

I was playing a 40K second edition game my Orks vs Impotent Guard against an older guy maybe in his 40s. First turn I launched a couple of pulsa rokkits that landed in the middle of his tanks including his brand new armorcast baneblade. Three leman russ tanks drove off the board after the scatter so did a basilisk. His griffin was smushed by his baneblade as it drove off the board. He grabbed a handfull of my dice and threw them at me.

There is also a couple of oddball older guys who play occasionally at my FLGS. They both don't have the best hygene and one wears a laser/led light headband around, but they are nice guys. Anyway the older brother is playing against me in fantasy when he suddenly turns green and leans up against the table. I ask him if he's ok, he says he thinks he may have "gak his pants". Sure enough as he is trotting to the bathroom everyone sees a little extra weight in the seat of his pants. I help his brother pack his army up and take him home (he of course had to ride in the bed of my truck).

Playing My Orks V Chaos, getting the luckiest start ever, stealing initiative, rushing my trucks , getting maxx hits with my lootas and taking out his Deffy and demon Prince in turn 2 looking at prolly the best win over choas ever, and getting his mum turn up demanding he leave the GW shop instantly as they were getting him to his University the next morning early, Then having my large carrying case run over and broken by a guy in a wheel chair all in the same evening!, wot can I say, £$%^ing frustratin!, say no more!


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sourclams wrote:2009 'Ard Boyz semifinals in Arlington, Texas.

Round one lasts four hours (yes, four HOURS) because 2 people showed up late and the TO allowed them to start a full 1.5 hours into round one.

Then, with me in first place overall by a wide margin, the TO calls round 3 to cut short with no prior warning at the top of turn four, after I had completed my movement phase.

I have fewer table quarters and no models in the center, so I go from a near auto-win (Lash Chaos vs. footslogging Calgar/Lysander) to a minor loss, costing me the overall tournament win and a chance at Nationals. For a tournament that I had driven 6 hours to be at.

That was the first real wake-up call that I had to the state of competitive play in 40k.

Man that sucks!!, beats mine!

Another Apocalypse game, this time sooner. Good old deafie deamonplayer rocks up, with the council of darkness, who have reroll demonic instability.
He says it gives him reroll all invuns, which is tetragon of darkness. I point it out, show him the two entries in the books for them. He chucks a spazz, got really upset and packed up and walked out.

Second game with him He takes the Chosen's formation, but he doesn't bring the rules for it, figuring that the GW has it. The GW manager had thrown it out the day before as he needed the space for rulebooks and so forth for his heroquest. I told the guy that he couldn't take the Chosen's formation if he didn't have the ruleset. He got angry again, stormed out and didn't return. Hasn't returned since. Now the store has a good 2000 pt deamon force well painted, for people without armies.

I'm going to have to go with "Counts as armies". In specific there is a gentleman that runs a tau sympathizer army that is a counts as grey knights. So no unit in the army looks anything like what it is supposed to. While I'm perfectly okay with a handful of stand-ins, a whole army is a tad much. Super nice guy, but I avoid playing him like the plague.

micahaphone wrote:

I'm completely fine with proxying, but when it's done en masse like that, without any effort to help out your opponent, and he actually was indignant that I couldn't remember what was really what, that's what got to me. If you wanted your librarian to be a termie librarian, fine. If you want your dread to be ironclad, fine. Rhino a razorback, okay. But being angry that I can't remember all your proxies? Not okay.

Only instance where I approve of proxying is where someone has converted (and painted, most important factor) a special character of their own design, backstory (must be relevant and believable) and so on. Yes I'm a Fluff Bunny. But to field this unit they have to use another character's statline. Like my own personal incarnation of a Female Farseer, but I use Eldrad Uthran's rules.

Anyway, that's fine and all, but I hate it when players are Proxying whole units, tanks etc. and then they use smaller bases than the real unit uses. Suddenly that unit becomes WAY TOO NIMBLE on my terrain laden board. Not on and not fair.

Also, when proxied models are unpainted, I mean, wtf?

redkeyboard wrote:Honestly you should have just cracked the little c**t one.

Priceless. If you ever run for office, you've got my vote!

CageUF wrote:I'm going to have to go with "Counts as armies". In specific there is a gentleman that runs a tau sympathizer army that is a counts as grey knights. So no unit in the army looks anything like what it is supposed to. While I'm perfectly okay with a handful of stand-ins, a whole army is a tad much. Super nice guy, but I avoid playing him like the plague.

I run an entire Iron Warriors army using C:SM. Everything is modelled as close to WYSIWYG as possibly. I'm wondering, would you have a problem with this?

IXBEHEMOTHXI wrote:Well, this has just really p***ed me off, school club today, training for the school league, all goes well with the orks I used, alot of rules were learned, when a bunch of "Chavs" (if your british XD) come into the club, they ask what were doing and start to secretly taunt and mock us, which I can get over, when suddenly one of them picks up the monolith i was painting and "accidentally" lobs it at the wall, couldn't find even half the pieces, and now I wasted £41, so yeah, my day absolutely f***ing ruined.

kill them, kill them all get the largest knives in your kitchen then carve out there eyes and smile while you are doing so (I know I would...).


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Ssgt Carl wrote:Wow, these are some doozies. I gotta say the cheating stories always surprise me. I have been lucky enough to have almost never had anyone cheat (or at least I didn’t realize it) in about 18 years of gaming.

A few stories I can think of.
A couple years ago I was running a game at a historical convention. The ruleset I had written was intended to be easy to learn and fast paced since most games at the conventions I go to have to be taught (just about every game uses a different rule set). I made the point that in this game a tank was a tank. I know one side had models that looked like t-34s and the other side pz IV Fs, but for this game they were just tanks. After a player received a result he was unhappy with he griped for the remainder of the game about how what had happened was so unrealistic and that a t34 could never have done that against an experienced panzer crew blah blah blah and so on. Exactly the type of thing I had hoped to avoid with my lengthy pre game explanation of games vs simulations and how this was a game.

A similar event, though this one was a bit funnier, was when I was 14. By then I had 5 years of gaming under my belt and actually knew what I was doing, but most of the 40 years olds a played expected a dumb kid. I was playing a civil war game (actually another young gamer on my side, we both wanted rebs) against two older gentleman playing a game of Fire and Fury which I was pretty familiar with back then. We were handling them rather tidily and one of them began to nitpick every little thing. Every good roll we made was somehow cocked, we didn’t have line of sight because a piece of gravel was in the way and so on. He argued rather voluminously that the rules were unrealistic until the GM called it a draw. He told is after the guy left that we had actually won. More funny than annoying when I look back on that one.

Last one makes me seem like a d-bag but I am admittedly quite arrogant. My painting is not golden daemon worthy but there are a lot of painter worse than me. I had brought an army to a new game store and was proudly showing them off, my head swelling to epic proportions. One guy made it clear he was un-impressed, stating “yeah, that’s almost as good as some of mine.” My delicate ego shattered, I went look at this guys stuff. His paint jobs were fair, but (and here is where I sound most like an arrogant d-bag) they were clearly inferior to my figures. Luckily for him a weathered this slight of my honor stoically. Had I been a Space Marine I most likely would have removed his head and placed in on a stake outside the shop with a sign that read “This be the fate of all heretics who mock my Glorious Paintjobs, beloved by all.”

Yeah im like this too and I learn (or try to do so) when painting to improve.

Another just came to mind. We run an escalation league with several new 40k players. The games are just for fun and almost the entire field uses fluffy or non optimized lists. As such I was running and pretty typical 4 horseman black legion list. Well a gamer from across town shows up with his dual lash noise marine list. First thing he tries is to give his Both of his DP daemon weapons, considering this is 5th edition I find this a little alarming... After 5 rounds and me almost tabling him the game ends, it happens to be 6 kp vs 6 kp draw. He then proceeds to talk smack that I don't know how to build a list and how unlucky he was to only get a tie.




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CageUF wrote:I'm going to have to go with "Counts as armies". In specific there is a gentleman that runs a tau sympathizer army that is a counts as grey knights. So no unit in the army looks anything like what it is supposed to. While I'm perfectly okay with a handful of stand-ins, a whole army is a tad much. Super nice guy, but I avoid playing him like the plague.

I run an entire Iron Warriors army using C:SM. Everything is modelled as close to WYSIWYG as possibly. I'm wondering, would you have a problem with this?

Not at all... Matter of fact I'd enjoy it. But running ig with tau bits as counts as grey knights is over then top.

This happened in my very first game of 40K ever. I was borrowing a friend's CSM army, and I was fighting... either some sort of eldar or Tau, I don't remember exactly, except that whatever army it was had Lance weapons. Anyway, the player had been playing for a while, and so I trusted he knew the rules.

At some point in the fight, he claimed that Lance weapons hit EVERYTHING in a straight line up to their max distance, not just the unit being fired at, and of course he used that to his advantage. Being a brand new player with no clue, I just took his word for it.

At some point during someone called him on it, and I was rather unimpressed. But I then proceeded to stomp his army into the dirt, so all was okay. XD Definitely an... interesting... intro to the world of 40K, heh.

Lol, my first foray into 40K was pretty good
My brother and I play the intro game together. We each get a squad of Death Guard-counts-as Tactical Squad (for simplicity), a Rhino for them to ride in, and we got to choose between a Dread with melta and DCCW, or a Pred w/Lascannons. First game, I won, with most of my squad, my Rhino, and my Pred with no turret.

The game we had right after that takes the cake. Here is what happened. For this battle, I had the Dread this time, and my bro had the Pred.

I move my Rhino up, and disembark my squad, and the squad proceeds to Rapid Fire (we were on a small table). My Dread moves up.

My bro's turn: he blows up my Rhino, I whiff my saves, and 5 of my guys die. They are subsequently brought down to 3 guys from the successive shooting.

After that sees me moving my guys, my Dread exploding the turn after the turn where my Rhino blew up, and then my guys get shot up and die.

EDIT: A large amount of grammer errors. Getting pretty tired...

Skits wrote:This happened in my very first game of 40K ever. I was borrowing a friend's CSM army, and I was fighting... either some sort of eldar or Tau, I don't remember exactly, except that whatever army it was had Lance weapons. Anyway, the player had been playing for a while, and so I trusted he knew the rules.

At some point in the fight, he claimed that Lance weapons hit EVERYTHING in a straight line up to their max distance, not just the unit being fired at, and of course he used that to his advantage. Being a brand new player with no clue, I just took his word for it.

At some point during someone called him on it, and I was rather unimpressed. But I then proceeded to stomp his army into the dirt, so all was okay. XD Definitely an... interesting... intro to the world of 40K, heh.

That was eldar then, Tau have no lances

Cerebrium wrote:

CageUF wrote:I'm going to have to go with "Counts as armies". In specific there is a gentleman that runs a tau sympathizer army that is a counts as grey knights. So no unit in the army looks anything like what it is supposed to. While I'm perfectly okay with a handful of stand-ins, a whole army is a tad much. Super nice guy, but I avoid playing him like the plague.

I run an entire Iron Warriors army using C:SM. Everything is modelled as close to WYSIWYG as possibly. I'm wondering, would you have a problem with this?

Yes the point is here thought that you have made an effort to make something tie in with its rules. I have tried to do the same thing, using Codex: BA for my pre-heresy World Eaters, and have really tried to rationalise and appropriately model each unit. I have only ever had 1 person refuse to play me on the basis my army wasn't using codex Chaos.

I think the problem most people have with 'counts as' is when whichever flavour of the month army comes out, people just start using there other models (usually with little or no modelling/painting effort) to represent those rules. It can: a) make it difficult for your opponent connecting troop types b) make the game look gak.

I have seem some truly awful proxying in my time, there is nothing worse than having your own squad of assault troopers (who represented a couple of weeks of effort) getting taken apart by a disembodied troll torso being used to represent a bloodthirster (!)

In the discussion of count as i wonder if any of you encoutered the 'base' count as army. One of my games of fantasy i faced a high elf army that was nothing but empty bases. I had to learn his army list aswell as remenber which unit was which what a headache :-(

I do remember a good time playing actually the best really i met a girl and she played dark elves. I invited her round mine for a game when half way through....well we never ended the game lmao best game ever that one

This wasn't too long ago, actually.

I had arranged a game with an aquaintance at my FLGS. 3000 Points WHFB SoM.

Due to terrible tactical decisions and bad rolling on his part and good rolling on mine, he loses 2 characters and I get a critical spell off. Granted, he was by no means finished, and on his turn, he starts making a comeback. During his magic phase, the effect of my spell kicks in and wipes out his 40-man Bloodletter horde. Despite having a large portion of his army in a good position, he immediately quits, claiming that I build OP lists.

Basically, I spent 1 hour packing and unpacking (I was playing pure Goblin O&G, so lots of stuff to pack) to play 30 minutes of a game.

BTW, next week he shows up and announces he's selling his Daemons and moving to 40K. Something about never winning...

Not quite in a game, but I was at the local gaming store, and some 7 year old and his mum were browsing the shelves of Xenos. He lectured me for an hour on false facts on 40k that he probably made up in his crib. "And dat's wot the necwons use to get from pwace to pwace." he said while pointing at a SW dreadnaught. Then he started telling me that Kroot were just firewarriors going kommando.

Luckily as he started to get towards the Slaneesh daemons (that could have gotten hairy), my mate bailed me out by saying that we had to get going because it was getting late (i.e. 3 in the afternoon, bedtime for that little creton.)

UUUGHH!

Having realized I'd forgottent the FAQ ruling of IG fliers NOT having anything off board, after being completely face rolled at a tourney by an IG player who jammed his vet-toting Vendetta into the very back corner behind my objective and troops holding it.

IXBEHEMOTHXI wrote:"Chavs"

Correct me if I'm wrong but just so I know what the terminology means for future's sake. Chav is the British equivalent of those Range-rover driving, "talk like their on Jersey Shore" spoiled brats from across the pond right?

A chav is an unsocial delinquint that believes in bling and wear either tracksuits or hoods. They normally talk like a black rapper when they most certainly are not. They hang around street.corners and are basically the most irritating lifeform in the world. If your not a chav they target you with foul language and acting tough. My friend pointed out that a chav is basically a human ork lol they speak the same language and everything. If you've seen ali g well thats a chav

ChiliPowderKeg wrote:Having realized I'd forgottent the FAQ ruling of IG fliers NOT having anything off board, after being completely face rolled at a tourney by an IG player who jammed his vet-toting Vendetta into the very back corner behind my objective and troops holding it.

IXBEHEMOTHXI wrote:"Chavs"

Correct me if I'm wrong but just so I know what the terminology means for future's sake. Chav is the British equivalent of those Range-rover driving, "talk like their on Jersey Shore" spoiled brats from across the pond right?

Not really. It's sort of a white trash wannabe gangster thing that isn't restricted to punk kids necessarily. There's the usual wacky British class stuff that makes it hard to equate directly to any equivalent in the US.

Playing really weird guy that look like he dressed right out of the Salvation Army clearance racks that was still playing 4th ed when everyone else were playing 5th. He had some really crazy lazy eye and he was getting down to check LOS of his Dark Reapers to my Fire Warriors.

He stated, "I can see your Fire Warriors."

Before I could stop myself, "Are you sure? They are over here."

You could hear crickets across the board. Then the next turn I deep struck my Crisis Suits and then flanked his Dire Avengers with my Kroot.

He screamed, "You can't put them there!"

I replied, "What? I'm playing fifth ed." He got so mad when Ageofegos pulled out the rule book and showed him that I could. When my Kroot and Crisis suits wiped out his army in the shooting phase he packed up and huffed off to his chester van and drove off trying to look cool in front of the 12 year old outside. Just sad. The guy gave me a bad vibe all around. I thought to myself after was I was glad that I was 33 at the time because I think that guy's catch phrase would be, "Strangers have the best candy."

The entire game was the most annoying game I have ever played. It was even worse than the guy that said when we were play, "Well, if you want to play by the rules. My wife lets me do it at home." WTF?!

Okay.
Theres this ex-vet at my LGS whom has quite literaly been collecting since GW day 1.
any way theres this killteam tourney going on and me and this other kid want to enter. at this point my guard army was only 1 vet squad strong and he played necrons.
so this guy hom is REALLY generous offers to give us split wise a 3K eldar army. thats 1.5K each. all old rare models.
any way it comes to the day and i walk in to my LGS. theres among other things` this woman whom ive never seen before sitting at the painting table getting to work on a lot (and i mean alot) of old rare eldar figures. anyone with half a brain can see were this is going.
so it turns out that this little peice of gak has turned up early and SOLD this entire 3K aspect warrior army of old rare figures to this woman.
needless to say both me and the Vet (whom has tought me to kill with my bare hands) are pissed off.
this kid literaly took one look at us and ran. didnt come back for 6 months.

i plan to take him down the miley(a haunted tunnel near to were i live) and introduce to him my dads 1st issue survival knife(my dad was a paratrooper in the 1st gulf war)

That bastard robbed me and i intend to make him pay.

When my former gaming group banned scarab swarms from turbo boosting as it was 'cheesy' (I'd used them in 3rd/4th to kill 8 plague marines in a rhino... back when plague marines were EVEN WORSE than now!)

Flaming_Spider wrote:

Vladsimpaler wrote:

Grimtuff wrote:
Or it could be of that legendary child called Jordan, drinker of Enchanted Blue paint...

Ok, now this one I haven't heard. Do tell.

Found the original.

Miraclefish wrote:There was a lad called Jordan who played when I first got into GW about 12 years ago. He was the archetypal Annoying Game Store Child.

He ran around, barely painted his models, picked up and broke other peoples' and kicked off when his Space Wolves didn't win everything.

After a while, when he broke a nice, kind customer's Leman Russ tank by dropping it, the staff told him he was banned from the store for a month and should take the time to think about his behaviour.

Well, Jordan wasn't having this. He ran to the modeling table to enact some sort of bitter revenge. Sadly there was naught to destroy.

But look! Paints! So Jordan reaches for a pot of Ultramarines Blue and flips the cap. Everyone steps back, fearing the pigment will fly. And then...

...he drinks it.

No, I don't know why, either. But he laughs, and runs for the door, through a sea of people frozen into inaction through confusion.

He get to the door and falters, stumbles. "I..... I don't feel well...."

We watch in silence as he staggers a few steps and clutches his stomach. He looks for a bin to throw up in. He finds none. Which leads to one of the most surreal moments of my life.

I watch a young lad sobbing quietly as he throws up blue-tainted vomit and bitter bile time and time again into the slot of an unfortunate Royal Mail postbox.

Then his mum came to collect him.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

LMAO
instantly cured MY boredom.

killykavekommando wrote:Not quite in a game, but I was at the local gaming store, and some 7 year old and his mum were browsing the shelves of Xenos. He lectured me for an hour on false facts on 40k that he probably made up in his crib. "And dat's wot the necwons use to get from pwace to pwace." he said while pointing at a SW dreadnaught. Then he started telling me that Kroot were just firewarriors going kommando.

Luckily as he started to get towards the Slaneesh daemons (that could have gotten hairy), my mate bailed me out by saying that we had to get going because it was getting late (i.e. 3 in the afternoon, bedtime for that little creton.)

UUUGHH!

So you got lectured by a 7 year old. Right.....

problems with chavs at my LGS. once had one nick the troll from the intro table.(this was in the time of blood pass)


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GentlemanGuy wrote:A chav is an unsocial delinquint that believes in bling and wear either tracksuits or hoods. They normally talk like a black rapper when they most certainly are not. They hang around street.corners and are basically the most irritating lifeform in the world. If your not a chav they target you with foul language and acting tough. My friend pointed out that a chav is basically a human ork lol they speak the same language and everything. If you've seen ali g well thats a chav

Try being a Goth in an area populated with chavs...

NOT fun

nectarprime wrote:

killykavekommando wrote:Not quite in a game, but I was at the local gaming store, and some 7 year old and his mum were browsing the shelves of Xenos. He lectured me for an hour on false facts on 40k that he probably made up in his crib. "And dat's wot the necwons use to get from pwace to pwace." he said while pointing at a SW dreadnaught. Then he started telling me that Kroot were just firewarriors going kommando.

Luckily as he started to get towards the Slaneesh daemons (that could have gotten hairy), my mate bailed me out by saying that we had to get going because it was getting late (i.e. 3 in the afternoon, bedtime for that little creton.)

UUUGHH!

So you got lectured by a 7 year old. Right.....

Well, sort of. His mom was giving me the evil eye like "If you leave, then I'll find your family and eat them" look. Don't get me wrong, I would have bailed out in a second, but I didn't want to be rude, cause everyone there kind of knew me, so they'd think I was a jerk to small kids or something.
I'm not BSing you or anything, and I only became the rude, grumpy person I am in the past 6 months.

I think I had my most irritating moment this day. I was playing LOTR with a friend when a person walks up to the board, looks at us and ask if we realised that LOTR where for Emos and small kids, and he played Tau...... I felt like strangeling him with Easterling moddels

A tau fire warrior destroyed my dreadnought.

Trondheim wrote:I think I had my most irritating moment this day. I was playing LOTR with a friend when a person walks up to the board, looks at us and ask if we realised that LOTR where for Emos and small kids, and he played Tau...... I felt like strangeling him with Easterling moddels

I have copies of the LOTR books that are probably older than him.... damn kids today!!!

black templar wrote:A tau fire warrior destroyed my dreadnought.

This= WIN

yamgrenade wrote:

black templar wrote:A tau fire warrior destroyed my dreadnought.

This= WIN

Oh thanks

Going into the Off-Topic forums on DakkaDakka. I really should just stay out here where the air is fresh.

nectarprime wrote:

Trondheim wrote:I think I had my most irritating moment this day. I was playing LOTR with a friend when a person walks up to the board, looks at us and ask if we realised that LOTR where for Emos and small kids, and he played Tau...... I felt like strangeling him with Easterling moddels

I have copies of the LOTR books that are probably older than him.... damn kids today!!!

Yes, damned kids. However the local nid player nomnomed his commie space smurfs

About five years ago I stepped into Hobbytown USA for the first time with my brother-in-law to check out some warhammer stuff. While we were examining some of the warhammer boxes, this very odd, creepy guy came up to us, asked us what army we played and after telling him he went on and on and on about which armies were best, etc. I can't remember most of what he said, but it was very very weird. It's hard to put into words, but I'm sure most of you understand seeing how a lot of your stories are far worse. I had experienced nothing like it before, or since. We left after his 30+ minute lecture, never went back and TBH I have never entered a LGS because of this encounter.
These stories aren't helping my phobia either

I've just stuck to playing with friends/family.

Howard A Treesong wrote:Where's that guy who had someone eat one of his models? He always wins these threads.

Ahh, here it is:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/210/258425.page#1070666

Look for the post by Little lord Fauntleroy.

WOW. I wonder if he does indeed have a scar.

Here's a bit of annoyment from my life:

My entire MTG collection (unlimited and up), 2 giant 40k armies and extensive set of classic RPG material going up in a goddamn fire.

Only thing that survived was my Malifaux stuff. God bless metal minis.

Zarren Wevon wrote:Here's a bit of annoyment from my life:

My entire MTG collection (unlimited and up), 2 giant 40k armies and extensive set of classic RPG material going up in a goddamn fire.

Only thing that survived was my Malifaux stuff. God bless metal minis.

I get your sig now though

kronk wrote:Going into the Off-Topic forums on DakkaDakka. I really should just stay out here where the air is fresh.

That's how I feel about Dakka Discussions, Proposed Rules, and Background.

killykavekommando wrote:

nectarprime wrote:

killykavekommando wrote:Not quite in a game, but I was at the local gaming store, and some 7 year old and his mum were browsing the shelves of Xenos. He lectured me for an hour on false facts on 40k that he probably made up in his crib. "And dat's wot the necwons use to get from pwace to pwace." he said while pointing at a SW dreadnaught. Then he started telling me that Kroot were just firewarriors going kommando.

Luckily as he started to get towards the Slaneesh daemons (that could have gotten hairy), my mate bailed me out by saying that we had to get going because it was getting late (i.e. 3 in the afternoon, bedtime for that little creton.)

UUUGHH!

So you got lectured by a 7 year old. Right.....

Well, sort of. His mom was giving me the evil eye like "If you leave, then I'll find your family and eat them" look. Don't get me wrong, I would have bailed out in a second, but I didn't want to be rude, cause everyone there kind of knew me, so they'd think I was a jerk to small kids or something.
I'm not BSing you or anything, and I only became the rude, grumpy person I am in the past 6 months.

Sorry, but I still don't get why this could have annoyed anyone that much. Being the older (and presumably more mature) person, shouldn't you have put it on yourself to just accept the kid's ramblings as misguided opinions? And where does the mother's evil eye look come into play? As if she had any right to be mad at you for distancing yourself from her child. I think it was more of a matter of you not being able to diffuse the situation quickly yourself, and just leaving the kid be, honestly.

When you got to fart so bad and try to make it quit. Instead it comes out like the horn of Gondor. After that just go with it and shout charge and send in your calvary

Once some Deros came to my GW Store and threatened the Manager.

For me it didn't have anything to do with other players. My most annoying game was a 1500 point game of 40k and my first 3 turns with IG + issuing orders and didnt kill a single guy. I had a leman russ, a basilisk, 3 sentinels, 5 platoons, pltnd cmds and cmpny cmndr.

Jonesyboy12 wrote:For me it didn't have anything to do with other players. My most annoying game was a 1500 point game of 40k and my first 3 turns with IG + issuing orders and didnt kill a single guy. I had a leman russ, a basilisk, 3 sentinels, 5 platoons, pltnd cmds and cmpny cmndr.

Sir you appear to have run out of vowels near the end of that sentence...

Trondheim wrote:I think I had my most irritating moment this day. I was playing LOTR with a friend when a person walks up to the board, looks at us and ask if we realised that LOTR where for Emos and small kids, and he played Tau...... I felt like strangeling him with Easterling moddels

Even so, he was right you know...

PhantomViper wrote:

Trondheim wrote:I think I had my most irritating moment this day. I was playing LOTR with a friend when a person walks up to the board, looks at us and ask if we realised that LOTR where for Emos and small kids, and he played Tau...... I felt like strangeling him with Easterling moddels

Even so, he was right you know...

Hey! Leave Emos out of this.

I've only had a couple bad issues.

With one, it was a game with my IG against his SM's during a league. He know my list ahead of time, I tell him he needs to change a couple things in his list to deal with mine, doesn't do any of them, proceeds to start on the table with 7 AT guns (2 on a Land Raider) total, and then starts whining and complaining and having side converstations in the middle of the game, holding the game up, about how much he dislikes my army and how it isn't fun. Granted, it was a fairly hard list, but he knew what was coming and I'd offered advice, he was playing what basically amounted to one of those 3E example army lists in old codecies with a random smattering of everything and lots of relatively mediocre armed foot troops against a tank heavy IG army designed for 5E.

Another was against a guy, 40something year old dude, who was a known for showing up at every event and having a rules argument every game (and usually being shown wrong) and acting like someone pissed in his cheerios when he lost. He was playing a CSM army with plague marines and 20 nurgle termi's and outright would not play a Daemonhunters player. Well, this day he'd had multiple rules arguments and accused pretty much every single one of his opponents of cheating, gets to my game, pulls a ton of shady crap like arguing his nurgle terminators were fearless, arguing every single cover save (after asserting in multiple games at a previous event this his gaunts gave his Fex's a cover save), etc. Then goes on to complain about the results and the TO on the forums, at which point I call him out, and a community organizer has to step in and take action and the store bans him from future events.

Having teenagers walk into my FLGS, start to laugh and bag people playing a game. Thats when I say "kids your what 14, I am 28 you think I care what you think". Most of them hang their heads in shame and proceed to exit the store quickly.


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Vaktathi wrote:I've only had a couple bad issues.

With one, it was a game with my IG against his SM's during a league. He know my list ahead of time, I tell him he needs to change a couple things in his list to deal with mine, doesn't do any of them, proceeds to start on the table with 7 AT guns (2 on a Land Raider) total, and then starts whining and complaining and having side converstations in the middle of the game, holding the game up, about how much he dislikes my army and how it isn't fun. Granted, it was a fairly hard list, but he knew what was coming and I'd offered advice, he was playing what basically amounted to one of those 3E example army lists in old codecies with a random smattering of everything and lots of relatively mediocre armed foot troops against a tank heavy IG army designed for 5E.

Another was against a guy, 40something year old dude, who was a known for showing up at every event and having a rules argument every game (and usually being shown wrong) and acting like someone pissed in his cheerios when he lost. He was playing a CSM army with plague marines and 20 nurgle termi's and outright would not play a Daemonhunters player. Well, this day he'd had multiple rules arguments and accused pretty much every single one of his opponents of cheating, gets to my game, pulls a ton of shady crap like arguing his nurgle terminators were fearless, arguing every single cover save (after asserting in multiple games at a previous event this his gaunts gave his Fex's a cover save), etc. Then goes on to complain about the results and the TO on the forums, at which point I call him out, and a community organizer has to step in and take action and the store bans him from future events.

I feel your pain brother, When people act like this during a game I generally just get up and start to pack my minis away.

wowsmash wrote:When you got to fart so bad and try to make it quit. Instead it comes out like the horn of Gondor. After that just go with it and shout charge and send in your calvary

This made my night, lol.

This isn't reallly my most annoying moment but just one that annoys me when it happens.

I keep finding that when people try to move vehicles or MC's around the board they will often move them inbetween two terrain pieces. What annoys me is that the rules say that is a models base/hull cannot fit through a space it is to big to go through. When they find the base cannot fit through they start moving the terrain pieces to allow it to fit through and get it where they want between the two terrain pieces. Unless it is a wall on a building or something the will move it further than they should sometimes about 3-4inches from where it actually ended up.

My current most annoying moment was when I was playing a 2v1v1 game my tau vs orks vs grey knights (which hadn't come on yet). I had shot a large unit at a squad or boyz and used a marke light to boos to BS4. I took off the counters and made my rolls. Thinking I ws hitting on 4's I picked up all of my 3's which there was a fair few of. The opponents refused to let me re-roll them and would't even let me put the marke light back on the unit demanding i had used it up and it was my fault which granted it was. So I shrugged it off. But in his turn (this is what peeved me off) then he moved his deffkoptas over a unit of fire warriors and dropped 3 big bombs on them he rolled the scatter and 2d6 they all scattered and 2 of them hit his own units. he then was looking through the codex at da big bomb entry and the said 'oh wait it is only d6 scatter not two' he then picked up the dice and re-rolled all three 2 of which hit the other hiting nothing.

I said he coudn't do that as he didn't let me re-roll my to hit rolls. But he insisted it was the ruels (which it is) and had to re-roll them and he wouldn't listin to what i was saying. We asked an older player (grey knights) and he simply said " I don't want to get involved but if you didn't let him re-roll you shouldn't really do it either". They both still refused to listin. it was really vexing.

Sorry for the rant.

PhantomViper wrote:

Trondheim wrote:I think I had my most irritating moment this day. I was playing LOTR with a friend when a person walks up to the board, looks at us and ask if we realised that LOTR where for Emos and small kids, and he played Tau...... I felt like strangeling him with Easterling moddels

Even so, he was right you know...

Do enligthen me on this.

My opponents 15 phoenix guard deafeating 10 swordmasters, 15 spearmen, 5 shadow warriors, my noble and a mage....
Hey I think im getting some phoenix guard!

Bouncing goblins of Dain in lotr.

Was at for about half an hour and my brother never failed to at least roll one six to win the fight.....

Looked a bit like this:

g
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I think the max number of goblins I had on him at one point was 15

Damn his dice rolls!!!!

Vaktathi wrote:Another was against a guy, 40something year old dude, who was a known for showing up at every event and having a rules argument every game (and usually being shown wrong) and acting like someone pissed in his cheerios when he lost. He was playing a CSM army with plague marines and 20 nurgle termi's and outright would not play a Daemonhunters player. Well, this day he'd had multiple rules arguments and accused pretty much every single one of his opponents of cheating, gets to my game, pulls a ton of shady crap like arguing his nurgle terminators were fearless, arguing every single cover save (after asserting in multiple games at a previous event this his gaunts gave his Fex's a cover save), etc. Then goes on to complain about the results and the TO on the forums, at which point I call him out, and a community organizer has to step in and take action and the store bans him from future events.

^That reminds me of an American player we had over here a few years back.

Played one game against him and he kept whining about things, it got a little heated when he kept insisting that my IG heavy weapons teams were wiped out when he killed one of the guys simply because both guys were mounted on the same base....I told him all the other IG players at the club did the same thing and used a marker to denote when one of 'em had been killed. Plus that wasn't what it said in the rulebook.

Needless to say he quickly ran out of opponents and wasn't around for long.

Not so much annoying but 1500pts guard vs 1500pts of friends Tau.

Turn 1 armoured blitzkrieg half tau infantry killed and two out of three railguns destroyed
Turn 2 Broadside hits and destroys a lemman russ
Turn 3 Broadside hits and destroys another Lemman Russ
Turn 4 Broadside hits and destroys my vendetta gunship
Turn 5 That damn single broadside blows up my chimera before the last of army is killed!

warpcrafter wrote: I have a similar experience. I was playing Orks, and the opposing player, every time I was counting out dice for an attack roll or whatever, which is a lot for 30 or so boyz, would blurt out random numbers close to what I was counting up to and throw me off. Finally, I told him that I was just gonna roll all my dice, which was probably more than the actually number needed, but that's what happens when you screw with me. When he complained that I might score more hits than I was actually allowed, I simply told him it was an annoyance tax. It took nearly the whole game before he finally shut up.

Thats the dumbest thing Ive ever read. An annoyance tax...??? srry mate but you just broke the rules and cheated horribly, thats really silly, I play orks to bud, and if someone asks "OOooOooo I'm not sure if you should have that much, just come over why they get so much without saying "no, and now for asking that I GET MORE DICE"....I reckomend you stop wargaming if you have an attitude like that....


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1st turn of pitched battle kill points game. Comabt squad shoots Ghaz with 5 shots, I roll 4 ones and fail all my feel-no pain rolls.

Happy days

The moment i heard about the embargo. My thought went, well there goes my beloved hobby.

ParatrooperSimon wrote:

warpcrafter wrote: I have a similar experience. I was playing Orks, and the opposing player, every time I was counting out dice for an attack roll or whatever, which is a lot for 30 or so boyz, would blurt out random numbers close to what I was counting up to and throw me off. Finally, I told him that I was just gonna roll all my dice, which was probably more than the actually number needed, but that's what happens when you screw with me. When he complained that I might score more hits than I was actually allowed, I simply told him it was an annoyance tax. It took nearly the whole game before he finally shut up.

Thats the dumbest thing Ive ever read. An annoyance tax...??? srry mate but you just broke the rules and cheated horribly, thats really silly, I play orks to bud, and if someone asks "OOooOooo I'm not sure if you should have that much, just come over why they get so much without saying "no, and now for asking that I GET MORE DICE"....I reckomend you stop wargaming if you have an attitude like that....


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1st turn of pitched battle kill points game. Comabt squad shoots Ghaz with 5 shots, I roll 4 ones and fail all my feel-no pain rolls.

Happy days

To be fair the guy seemingly deserved it

ChocolateGork wrote:

ParatrooperSimon wrote:

warpcrafter wrote: I have a similar experience. I was playing Orks, and the opposing player, every time I was counting out dice for an attack roll or whatever, which is a lot for 30 or so boyz, would blurt out random numbers close to what I was counting up to and throw me off. Finally, I told him that I was just gonna roll all my dice, which was probably more than the actually number needed, but that's what happens when you screw with me. When he complained that I might score more hits than I was actually allowed, I simply told him it was an annoyance tax. It took nearly the whole game before he finally shut up.

Thats the dumbest thing Ive ever read. An annoyance tax...??? srry mate but you just broke the rules and cheated horribly, thats really silly, I play orks to bud, and if someone asks "OOooOooo I'm not sure if you should have that much, just come over why they get so much without saying "no, and now for asking that I GET MORE DICE"....I reckomend you stop wargaming if you have an attitude like that....


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1st turn of pitched battle kill points game. Comabt squad shoots Ghaz with 5 shots, I roll 4 ones and fail all my feel-no pain rolls.

Happy days

To be fair the guy seemingly deserved it

That's what I thought too. Plus, if you ask me, an 'annoyance tax' is a pretty clever and economical way of dealing with something like that.

A recent one, just yesterday wasn't really annoying, just dissapointing. I was asked to vs some grey knights ( the lads father also had ig) so i said give me a min, im gunna make room for some medusas! i had two basilisks so i equipped them both with medusa/bastion breacher shells. the game was capture and control and we both had one opposites to each other on the field. He had set up first with 3 land raider two ready to plow into my objective and one next to his. i deployed my things rather mediocerly a had just a medusa and platoon command on my objective, when i should have at least moved my russes over too. But whats was done is done. i tried to set up my medusa in behind the building but forgot to account for his moving so that ended up being wep destroyed, and immobilised i think on first turn. Okay! my bad for being an idiot, i still have one medusa ready topunch through some raider.
1st turn: hits 2d6 +10 on 14....i rolled a 1 and a 2.
2nd turn: hits, i rolled a 1 and 2 again...okay...
3rd turn: scatters 4 inches but -bs3 moves it back on. hit, 3 AGAIN c'mooon
4th turn: hits, Penetrates! wep destryoed moved to immobilised. its something
5th and 6th it went back to its usual.

On the 6th i gained some pride back when draigo was at my arc of tanks ready to kill, and lascannon'd him into the ground. HWS of lascannons, all hit al wound all dmg. two LRBT lascannons 1 hits,wounds dmg's and he was gone!

Overall its was a fun game and was a bit dissapointing to see the 1st proper time ive used the medusas in a game and they did nothing Oh well

When Ghazzy ran off the board on the fist turn...

I have a bad looser story. One of my mates' friends Deep Strikes a Drop Pod full of termies on my squad of Necron Warriors and said they had been squished with no WBB allowed. I belived him.(This happened in one of my very first games, so don't give me greif for not knowing the rules)

The funny thing, though, is that I got my Monolith, and I turned the trick against him in our next game, killing an entire horde of 40 Orks. (I still didn't know the rules) He then quit, leaving my mate with his 750 of tau to deal with 1500 of SM and Necrons together.

What a dick!

IHateNids wrote:I have a bad looser story. One of my mates' friends Deep Strikes a Drop Pod full of termies on my squad of Necron Warriors and said they had been squished with no WBB allowed. I belived him.(This happened in one of my very first games, so don't give me greif for not knowing the rules)

The funny thing, though, is that I got my Monolith, and I turned the trick against him in our next game, killing an entire horde of 40 Orks. (I still didn't know the rules) He then quit, leaving my mate with his 750 of tau to deal with 1500 of SM and Necrons together.

What a dick!

Drop Pods will adjust the minimum amount to avoid landing on things, as long as you purposely didn't try to land on them (which will cause a mishap, not killing the models it lands on). Your friend cheated you badly. Your monolith (under old rules) would move his models out of the way, but wouldn't kill any of them. However, he got what he deserved. He cheated and got it brought back on him. Don't do it to anyone else, but he deserved it.

First off I'de like t say that Malta is HOPELESS for 40k, as the only lgs is full of foul mouthed delinquints, crack addicts and 10 year old children, I havent played a game of 40k since 2 summers ago, simple reason being everyone gets net lists that specialise in staying at the back of the board and bombarding my poor nids ._. Anyways...


For my most annoying experience(s), I was playing a game against a friend of mine at the lgs, when some necron ''expert' comes behind me, ranting how my army composition sucked, (I was still 13 at the time, and only had 1000 points worth of Crons) he pretty much ruined the entire game for us, even though I ended up winning, after that he had the codex in his hands and wanted to talk to me ._.


For seconds, I was painting a DP with my EC paint scheme, when the managers pet came to give me some painting 'tips'...these tips included changing my paint scheme as it wasn't on par with his lame chaos army. I had told him to move away, but he tried to lay a couple of guilt trips on me to convince me that I was going to screw it up...

Meh, you get the point -.-

timetowaste85 wrote:

IHateNids wrote:I have a bad looser story. One of my mates' friends Deep Strikes a Drop Pod full of termies on my squad of Necron Warriors and said they had been squished with no WBB allowed. I belived him.(This happened in one of my very first games, so don't give me greif for not knowing the rules)

The funny thing, though, is that I got my Monolith, and I turned the trick against him in our next game, killing an entire horde of 40 Orks. (I still didn't know the rules) He then quit, leaving my mate with his 750 of tau to deal with 1500 of SM and Necrons together.

What a dick!

Drop Pods will adjust the minimum amount to avoid landing on things, as long as you purposely didn't try to land on them (which will cause a mishap, not killing the models it lands on). Your friend cheated you badly. Your monolith (under old rules) would move his models out of the way, but wouldn't kill any of them. However, he got what he deserved. He cheated and got it brought back on him. Don't do it to anyone else, but he deserved it.

I know the rules now, the example was last year.

Also, in one of my first games against our thread maker, happygolucky exploded my 'lith with an extreamely lucky twin-linked lascannon in his first turn:
to hit: 1
to hit: 6
to penetrate: 6
damage: 6
range: 6

explosion killed nothing though