Mine, hands down, is bitching about my bad luck when the dice turn on me. In a friendly game I laugh it off, but in a game I want to win, I get bitchy.

I swear I develop turrets and start cursing uncontrollably. I know it has to make the game less enjoyable for my opponent. I apologize as I don't want them to think I am mad at them, but I know it makes me look bad.

Example: I was going undefeated in a recent tournament, and ran into an unbelievable string of bad luck. It was a kill point game and after some just god awful rolling for the first four turns, I lost because I took two wounds on my master of the forge and rolled snake eyes on his armor save (he has a 2+ save). There went the game, 3 kill points to 2. I kicked a chair half way across the room! It was embarrassing.

That is the one thing I would change about myself if I had a magic wand.

How about some other Dakkaites?

Correcting other people's grammatical errors.

Example: there's only one 'b' in "habit".




Ghidorah

I get really mad when my opponents take too long on their turns when they are so freakin' dead on my next turn anyway....it happens a lot.

I usually just walk away during their movement phase unless I'm playing Warmachine and can't

Oops, hahah, thanks Ghidorah!

Mine is one of two things:
I tend to do the Manowar hammer or the metal-fist and go "HAAAAAA" in a very gutteral voice when i get a great move off.

That or I do the "caching" yes-fist-thing and go "SUCKSEX!" in lieu of success.

Sometime when I'm badly losing I can get mopey. However this is quickly rectified by the fact that I have given my friends permission to beat on me if I act too much like a puss.

I have a friend who throws in the towel whenever he realizes he's going to lose. I have to finish games for him all the time. It's really funny when I finish for him and I win.

Ghidorah wrote:Correcting other people's grammatical errors.

Example: there's only one 'b' in "habit".




Ghidorah

That is a spelling error, not a grammatical one

And its 'tourettes' - uncontrollable vocal tic's (shown in the media as uncontrollable swearing), not 'Turrets'. But developing 'turrets' is kinda funny in its own right.

So... apart from an annoying habit of correcting people's posts on forums, I too curse the dice gods, grind my teeth when Eldar fly down my slow chaos flank and chew my army apart, and crawl over websites like this looking for the magic strategy to win more often!

Dammit. I know... I had "spelling errors" first, but it didn't fit his criteria of "while playing games". Who spells during 40k? So I changed it to grammar. I thought the same thing you did, that grammar wasn't correct, so I changed it to 'spelling and grammar'.

Not sure where that went... I know I hit the submit button...


Ahh well. Egg on my face, I suppose. Won't be the last time... lol




So, my big bad habit while gaming is that I screw with opponents too much. I call them on stupid, little annoying things like, "So, your guys get to move 6.25"? or, "Go ahead and put that building anywhere you want." when they bump terrain. I say it kinda nasty and then when they react, I laugh and say I was just kidding. Then I do it again and again. It tends get inside people's heads and throw them off of thier game.

I only do this to people I know, however. I would never do it with a new face in our store or at a tourney, etc.




Ghidorah

Oh yeah, and the dancing when the dice occasionally fall in my favour - its quite disturbing, lots of hip thrusting, a$$ slapping and numerous shouts of "you like dat? YOU LIKE DAT!??".

(only in company I know of course)...

I must admit I too use randomness to throw off opponents in friendly games, if I know them well enough. If they're pondering the spiders that must be crawling around in my braincase, they're not pondering the game!

Mine is more traditional. I chew my fingernails.

ewwww...... fingernails.

Telling my opponent to hurry up, gets people mad at me

I have an urge to constantly hitch up my pants whenever I play a wargame. It's probably just nervousness, and it's way better than my old habit; trying to subtly slide my hand into my pants and scratch my balls.

My sister has an urge to show everyone our latest conversions at our flgs.



-Orkishly

Hmm.... I also tend to drink sodas a lot. Probably because I am talking and my mouth gets dry. How am I going to declare what I am doing with cottonmouth?

I sometimes get mopey when im in a losing streak, but the dice hardly ever favour me, my brother says the only reason i roll 1's is because there arent any 0's on the dice?

Other than that im a sod for hoarding dice? ill gather up handfulls of them as the game goes on and cant stand to see random dice laid about the table, i find it untidy lol?

I get mad at people when they put their drinks on the gaming table.

I'm too nice when playing in the sense i'm happy to let opponents have the is it or is it mm out of range calls as in range or lettin gthem take coversaves if the cover seems slightly lower han required for one.

Basically giving them the benefit of the doubt.

I often also get bad dice rolls and then end up shouting,"Why?" into the air for several minutes.I also kiss the dice,it is to ensure that the dice gods give me a lucky roll.

Yet my friend takes the cake,he is a bad winner.when he gets a good dice roll or wins a game he genrally will talk abouy it for an afternoon,or get up in his opponents face do a rather strange victory dance or even slap his opponents,

I'll call both my opponent's and my miniatures "jerks" or "a$$holes" during the game. A few times I've seen shocked expressions on my opponent's face... but I think they get that I'm just joking around after a little bit... hopefully.

Another... quirk... of mine is when I'm going to take a picture of a game-in-progress. I tell everyone to move any dice, tape measures, pencils, etc. out of the way. People have complained about it a time or two.

Would you find that irksome?



Ghidorah

I tend to forget rules a lot and then panic when I can't find them in their relevant book.

I get irritated when I constantly role badly. Usually I can get around this with decent tactics and such and therefore manage a fun, competative game, but against better opponent I tend to get slaughtered. When you start loosing Assault Terminator Squads to Tau Gun Drones and Guard Conscripts something is wrong.

One guy I play knows my luck with the dice is so bad he'll send his worst units to pin down my best ones, safe in the knowledge that if I'm lucky it'll still take three turns to kill them all off. I'm not joking.

I curse a fair bit. I seem to be the only person who can lose Plague Maines to Str 3 anything...

Victory dances, Moshing and singing are not uncommon, and randomly quoting songs when I can use the lyrics in a sentance all make an appearence in my repotoir (spelling?)

Nothing is like yelling "LOOK AT THE SHELL THAT IS YOU! EMPTY, FRAGILE, WEAK. SOON THE BATTLE IS OVER, LOST TO APATHY!" and getting wierd glances from people in the shop. *sigh* I love Dark Tranquillity...

HMMM to make rules explainations really loudly pissed off my wife yesterday.

she was like "Babe can you settle down please" and then a gesture to lower the volume.

I was like

"ITS REALLY IMPORTANT IM TELLING HIM HOW TO FLEET OF FOOT!"

Hmmm slowed I know.

Well, every time I make even the slightest bit of progress on painting my brother jumps up and says "Oh, I'll get my camera!", like painting a god-damned basecoat is so fascinating it has to be immortalized on film.

Other than that, pretty much everything I do is a bad gaming habit. I get pissy when I lose or roll bad, I tell my opponent to hurry up, I sometimes forget an entire phase of the game...

I've been known to trash talk an opponent into doing something I want him to ('oh come on, you don't really want to run your chaos termies up and kill my scouts with them, do you?' when my Vindicator will lined up to take a shot on them as soon as they can see the scouts). I've also been known to look 'pissy' when my dice aren't cooperating (being 6'2", 270 and heavily tattooed, I've been told it's a little unnerving).

Reecius wrote:
I swear I develop turrets and start cursing uncontrollably.

Is this some sort of wierd obliterator virus or something? (ideas come to mind for an Emporers Children oblit conv involving speakers and an iPod loaded with expletives)

My worst habit is that I tend to forget special rules that models have lol
*while looking for the zzap gun table in the ork 'dex just after it came out and rules still unfamiliar*
me: hey, didn't know slugga boyz had furious charge! the assault I made 2 turns would have gone a lot better!
friend: too late now...
me: aww....

In said assault my sluggas got pwned by a guard command squad..

I don't know about other people i play with but i get extremely hot (body temperature) and can get quite frustrating i.e. randomly leaving the store in the middle of the game to get some fresh air.

I swear a lot when things start going poorly. Thankfully, being British it's more amusingly frustrated swearing, but it;s still not best practice.

For example, my Warboss on Wyvern charged some Dryads. I had 7 S77 attacks, hitting on 3's, 4 S6 Poisoned attacks also hitting on 3's, and I promptly only kill two, the remaining Dryads pimp slap the Warboss to death for his insolence, and the next turn, the Wyvern gets bummed to death off a Treeman, prompting from 'fornicationsticks' at every point of suckitude.

Forgetting rules.




Drugs are bad. (mmm'kay)

willydstyle wrote:I'll call both my opponent's and my miniatures "jerks" or "a$$holes" during the game. A few times I've seen shocked expressions on my opponent's face... but I think they get that I'm just joking around after a little bit... hopefully.

If it's someone you've met for the first time, perhaps you should give them a heads up?

Worst habbit invovles correcting my opponents (in my gaming group only, not random pick up games at my flgs) that they are getting their rules wrong. Is it bad that I know their armies rules better than they do?

My biggest bad habit is playing really slow, and to top that off for some crazy reason I always play horde armies that make my movement phase be 3x longer than normal.

Sometimes I forget to tell people what I'm rolling, or what I'm shooting at sometimes. I'll remember or be reminded once the dice are cast and declare it then, but it seems to annoy people. Well it's not like I'm going to change what the lasguns are shooting at just because they rolled well! But I can understand the frustration.

I also tend to sulk a tad (not overly much) when things start going ploin-shaped. You'd think I'd have gotten over that with how often I lose (95% of the time...).

Oh and lately I've actually been having a turn of luck and will occassionally have an exceptional shot. From this I've developed a new bad habit. I'll pat the successful soldier on the head and tell him he did a good job. It seems to offput some people. I'm just worried it seems like gloating, when really I'm just proud my men finally learned how to shoot.

Ghidorah wrote:Another... quirk... of mine is when I'm going to take a picture of a game-in-progress. I tell everyone to move any dice, tape measures, pencils, etc. out of the way. People have complained about it a time or two.

Would you find that irksome?

Depends on how often and what you do witht he pictures. If you write up good-looking battle reports I'd probably put up with a lot of being asked to clean the board.

When playing against fresh faces, at a new store, or in a tourny, I get quiet. The only words that I'll say are simple responses to questions, and declaring what Im doing. This hobby is very social, and when I'm playing a game against someone who I dont know, in order to avoid overstepping personal boundaries and to not look like a douche I just keep my mouth shut.

When im playing a game with close friends at home or at a local store that I frequent often I tend to curse a LOT and make lots of crude jokes, nothing harsh or violent, just very very dirty. This has gotten me in trouble a couple of times when young kids would walk in while I was not looking.

I hold memorials for my dead. Play taps for each and every one of them. I have little orkish flags which I drap over their bodies before depositing them in the army case.

Seriously - when the dice go bad I get in a funk and am not the happiest person to be around.

1.) I like to keep a dip of Skoal in while I play. I have never had a spill, but I know it could happen someday. I don't bother to ask if somebody minds, but I probably should since spitting in a cup every 5 minutes is probably gross to some people.

2.) I also take a little longer than is necessary during the movement phase, but I speed through the other phases so I very rarely finish a game later than expected.

3.)Another bad habit is that I play with a bunch of dice and am constantly hauling them across the table.

Working on 2 and 3

Casper wrote:Worst habbit invovles correcting my opponents (in my gaming group only, not random pick up games at my flgs) that they are getting their rules wrong. Is it bad that I know their armies rules better than they do?

Being that I'm always forgetting rules, my group could use a player like you. Too bad you're on the other side of the world. :/

Casper wrote:Worst habbit invovles correcting my opponents (in my gaming group only, not random pick up games at my flgs) that they are getting their rules wrong. Is it bad that I know their armies rules better than they do?

Man I do that ALL the time. I'm always a little surprised I know an army that I haven't ever used, better than someone who uses it as their primary army. It can get a bit annoying when the other person refuses to accept that fact, too. I try not to mention it now unless it's giving them a stupid advantage.

My favorite response when I prove them wrong "They changed that, it used to be something else". Sometimes that's even true!

Reecius wrote:Mine, hands down, is bitching about my bad luck when the dice turn on me. In a friendly game I laugh it off, but in a game I want to win, I get bitchy.

I swear I develop turrets and start cursing uncontrollably. I know it has to make the game less enjoyable for my opponent. I apologize as I don't want them to think I am mad at them, but I know it makes me look bad.

Example: I was going undefeated in a recent tournament, and ran into an unbelievable string of bad luck. It was a kill point game and after some just god awful rolling for the first four turns, I lost because I took two wounds on my master of the forge and rolled snake eyes on his armor save (he has a 2+ save). There went the game, 3 kill points to 2. I kicked a chair half way across the room! It was embarrassing.

That is the one thing I would change about myself if I had a magic wand.

How about some other Dakkaites?

I missed you kicking the chair... I was on the table next to Reecius at this game and in his defense, NOTHING was going his way, even a little bit.


Anyway, my "bad" habit is playing with my dice. Not really that bad but I tend to drop them, a lot, and then I have to hunt around on the floor for the missing dice as they scatter all about the room. This usually happens several times per game.

Ozzy is a pleasure to play against, really nice guy. And congratz on the 2nd place finish in the tournament! He pulled that off with Dark Angels and only lost to a tough Ork list by 20 victory points!

You develop turrets? this some sort of wierd obliterator virus or something? (ideas come to mind for an Emporers Children oblit conv involving speakers and an iPod loaded with expletives)

Hahahaha, that was a good one! I look at the keyboard when I type, old bad habit, and I missed that I had written the wrong word. I know though, what do I do, turn into a tank when I get mad?

That might actually be a pretty sweet super power, like the hulk, just less green!

Sometimes I 40k my Warmachine, or Warmachine my 40k.

In Warmachine, I'll start moving everyone at once instead of the moving and then taking an action for each unit individually... as if I was performing a movement phase from 40k.

In 40k, I'll move and then shoot with an individual unit instead of moving everyone in the movement phase.


I don't do this as much any more.

Another way I'd mix things up is call difficult terrain (40k) rough terrain (Warmachine) and vice versa.


And don't get me started on how I get stuff from Star War Miniatures mixed up with these games....

My worst habit is that I often don't pay attention to my opponent.

Like, if it's not my turn, I'll talk to other friends or drink or eat something or listen to my iPod or go on the interweb. I only play friendly games though.

If it's a game at my apt, I smoke way too many cigerettes during my opp. turn. I also end up drinking more beers.

I'm also a dice nazi, they must be arranged in colored groups, and away from the actual game. I have a habit of moving my opps dice with out asking.

I've started yelling "head in the game" over and over if my opponent is jibber-jabbering while they should be taking their turn. It's just so F*ing annoying though.

I just forget about the shrouding with my Grey Knights... not like it ever works anyway but...

I'm very impatient with slow play, and I tend to sometimes phase into older edition rules if I haven't been playing a lot lately.

I dance. no real reason, I just start dancing like an idiot during the other person's turn.

I curse a lot too, not even just when my dice are bad. someone rolls snake eyes on their lord, I yell "fuuuuuuuuuuuu"

I'm also checking LOS on everything, all the time.

i throw my cube of 36 dice across the room and scream "FUCKK!" its a bad idea cuz i then have to go find them

By far my worse habit with friends is to try and coax them into building competitive lists.
If I'm trying out some new tactic I want to try it out on something that will be a challenge!
But alas, the best that they ever come up with is 20 standard termies...

I tend to 'act' everything out, e.g, my crisis suit wins combat against a squad of striking scorpions, and hacks them down, I literally pretend to be one of the scorpions being hacked down or the suit hacking them down somehow. I also dance a lot (mainly because I play at a GW store and they play the same music I dance to @ the night club)

AlexCage wrote:

Casper wrote:Worst habbit invovles correcting my opponents (in my gaming group only, not random pick up games at my flgs) that they are getting their rules wrong. Is it bad that I know their armies rules better than they do?

Man I do that ALL the time. I'm always a little surprised I know an army that I haven't ever used, better than someone who uses it as their primary army. It can get a bit annoying when the other person refuses to accept that fact, too. I try not to mention it now unless it's giving them a stupid advantage.

My favorite response when I prove them wrong "They changed that, it used to be something else". Sometimes that's even true!

Heh that all sounds familiar, good to see I'm not the only one .

I could almost play a 2nd ed game without the rulebooks, but struggle to remember peoples names/birthdays etc.

I curse. A lot. And being in the buckle of the bible belt, that is generally Frowned Upon. Most of the players and customers don't mind, but the store owner has a short list of rules WELL posted that have been there for more than a decade. The first one is about language, and it is generally referred to as the Rob Rule. Rob being me.

I had a buddy of mine from the store introduce me to his ne SO as "You rememebr I told you about the Rob Rule? This is Rob." I was mortified because it was absolutely true.

I chewed someone out full-bore once about a dozen years ago, and when I was done a third party came up to me and said, "Did you know you just cursed a blue streak for seven minutes at high speed; without repeating a single phrase?" Again with the mortification.

Ah well. It's not cursing like a sailor for no reason eh, Grizgrin?
I swear while playing too, but luckily it's fairly acceptable here.

Sometimes I forget I 'm not on the Internet and I crack jokes about our game being a
"play-date" and how pretty our dollies look at our tea party. I also make other kinds of homo-
erotic jokes incessantly.

That would have me in stitches.

I don't mind it when people cuss during a game, but it can cross the line pretty quick. Dropping the F-bomb when you succed, ok. Dropping it when you just failed a bunch of saves and followed by other choice words, not ok.

I think it depends on the intent behind the words. I don't often swear when angry, for example.

Da Boss wrote:Ah well. It's not cursing like a sailor for no reason eh, Grizgrin?
I swear while playing too, but luckily it's fairly acceptable here.

Not that it's an excuse, but yeah. I try to hold back, and do a much better job than I did in my youth. My wife can almost take me out in public without the cattle prod these days. But yeah, I still slip. Also, while I may have the proverbial potty mouth something fierce; I make it pretty plain I am not cursing at my opponent, or anything they have done. Very infrequently do my opponents do anything other than laugh at me, or take notes.

One of my bad habits is giving my opponents good advice.

When I play a casual game, I'm fine. I find that when I play tournaments though, I tend to treat it like work a little too much. I work a lot (perhaps too much, but I'm sure there are lots of people able to say that these days) and some of my habits like working through breaks and lunches aren't terribly healthy.

I tend toward the same behaviour when I play tourneys. Off to the races and here we go. I'll play my games with a focus toward efficient put 'em on, take 'em off and go from there. I'll usually help out somehow over lunch and keep going. The problem is that after full work week, I tend to use weekends as (at least in part) rest time. So, after a full work week, an early morning for the tourney and 8 or 9 hours of gaming, having forgot food and such, I tend to start to want fresh air, a nap, a nice pint, that sort of thing. The problem is that at this point, there's usually a game or two to go. I'm not a jerk in the last few games or anything like that (at least I hope not), but I hold no illusions that I'm as good to play during those games as the earlier ones.

That's my cross though. I really need to learn to take a little more care during tourneys and it'll sort itself out.

back seat generaling. only with friends though, i dont go up to strangers unless theyre learning the game and help them out.

kirsanth wrote:One of my bad habits is giving my opponents good advice.

Its not a bad thing though. It shows you still have hope yet :"P

LunaHound wrote:

kirsanth wrote:One of my bad habits is giving my opponents good advice.

Its not a bad thing though. It shows you still have hope yet :"P

The BIG BIG problem with this, though, is when your good advice goes bad, either due to dice, or because it wasn't really that "good" in the first place. Then your opponent thinks you were just trying to get him to play poorly in your favor.

Somethings I loathe:

Correcting my opponent on something regarding THEIR army list rules-wise, finding that I AM correct, and them asking to "d6" on the rule because they state it's unclear.

People that don't know the rules what-so-ever. (New players aside.)

Unruly opponents. (Folks that are losing and completely take it out on me like it's my fault. I mean... Well, technically it is.)

People that bring the same unpainted miniatures in to play day in and day out w/ no progress.

Dice-throwers. (It's happened twice to me - different opponents. They get frustrated and throw their dice in anger.)

Back-seat 40Kers. (You know the ones... Sons' playing and Dad just has to throw in his two cents. Girlfriends' playing and the boyfriend has throw in his. Etc.)

-J.

Da Boss wrote:That would have me in stitches.

You know, I remember a day I was gaming with some fellas, and we'd joked around before
about various things. Had a good laugh about soulless Elven hookers (Eiryss from
Warmachine, in case you're wondering) and other odd cracks about various Iron Kingdom
rules and fluff.

Then one day I suggested that our game was a date, and my opponent just sort of froze.

Since that day, I've tried to rein it in a little.

malfred wrote:

Da Boss wrote:That would have me in stitches.

You know, I remember a day I was gaming with some fellas, and we'd joked around before
about various things. Had a good laugh about soulless Elven hookers (Eiryss from
Warmachine, in case you're wondering) and other odd cracks about various Iron Kingdom
rules and fluff.

Then one day I suggested that our game was a date, and my opponent just sort of froze.

Since that day, I've tried to rein it in a little.

Take it as a joke, literally as I don't care what side of the fence you are on, but that's call for suspicion.

-J.

I just realized the title said MY worst habit. Yeah, I've got one. Well, one that I know of at least...

I get easily angered when people come up and try to talk to me during tournaments. Friendly games are fine because it's all joking, but at a tourney I'm out for blood.

-J.

Alazahr wrote:

malfred wrote:

Da Boss wrote:That would have me in stitches.

You know, I remember a day I was gaming with some fellas, and we'd joked around before
about various things. Had a good laugh about soulless Elven hookers (Eiryss from
Warmachine, in case you're wondering) and other odd cracks about various Iron Kingdom
rules and fluff.

Then one day I suggested that our game was a date, and my opponent just sort of froze.

Since that day, I've tried to rein it in a little.

Take it as a joke, literally as I don't care what side of the fence you are on, but that's call for suspicion.

-J.

We stand on the sides of fences? Or do you mean the take it as a joke part to be the
literal part of your statement.

I used to carry an can of spray deodorant and mouth spray around with me. Just put them on the table and tell them to use it or leave. They usually leave.

malfred wrote:

Alazahr wrote:

malfred wrote:

Da Boss wrote:That would have me in stitches.

You know, I remember a day I was gaming with some fellas, and we'd joked around before
about various things. Had a good laugh about soulless Elven hookers (Eiryss from
Warmachine, in case you're wondering) and other odd cracks about various Iron Kingdom
rules and fluff.

Then one day I suggested that our game was a date, and my opponent just sort of froze.

Since that day, I've tried to rein it in a little.

Take it as a joke, literally as I don't care what side of the fence you are on, but that's call for suspicion.

-J.

We stand on the sides of fences? Or do you mean the take it as a joke part to be the
literal part of your statement.

Maybe I'll use a different analogy to keep it polite. I don't care what team you play for, but the OP's on gay watch.

-J.

P.s. The above poster has an interesting point. Usuaully that's CCGers though, but they do trickle in. I remember going to GenCon one year and literally had to leave 'cause it smelled so bad...

I always tell people whenever they declare any action against my units... "HOW DARE YOU".

punkisntdeadyet wrote:I always tell people whenever they declare any action against my units... "HOW DARE YOU".

I lol'd. +1 'net cookie.

I highly suggest a monocle... For some reason. Try to fit in the word "Touche'." somewhere too. Oh, and as you run down units (i.e. Massacre.) raise a pinky to your mouth and in your best Dr. Evil voice say, "No... I expect you to DIE!" You may cackle at this time.

-J.

Pet a cat.

I also tend to take a mouthful of creaming soda and swish it around noisily and gargling it. Once, I saw the look on my opponent's face and started laughing, spraying creaming soda in vast torrents out of my nose and all over the table. Thankfully, we were only just starting deployment, so only one land raider got sticky.

My worst habit is really, really strange.

Every time I play a wargame, I forget almost ALL the special army rules (I.E. Eternal Hatred, Cold Blooded, at one point I played a turn with no animosity for my OnG)

Of course, my soda-spraying habit isn't restricted to Warhams. I do it most of the time when I have a can; at the internet/gaming cafe, at my friend's place, even in public.

malfred wrote:

Da Boss wrote:That would have me in stitches.

You know, I remember a day I was gaming with some fellas, and we'd joked around before
about various things. Had a good laugh about soulless Elven hookers (Eiryss from
Warmachine, in case you're wondering) and other odd cracks about various Iron Kingdom
rules and fluff.

Then one day I suggested that our game was a date, and my opponent just sort of froze.

Since that day, I've tried to rein it in a little.

That's too bad. That stuff is funny, I never get why people get so uptight regarding some jokes. I would've laughed my ass off if you said that to me.

I get too gleeful when I'm thoroughly whooping ass (combination of good tactics, weak opponent and good dice rolls) and then I feel bad and sometimes back off the whoop ass a bit (which I really shouldn't). This leads into...

When I'm thoroughly losing (combination of/and/or a better opponent, lousy dice rolls and poor tactics) I get really mopey and frustrated. Thankfully (unlike my younger days) now I just clam up and sport a scowl. I feel bad because sometimes the opponent thinks I'm mad at them specifically (younger players usually) and I'm really not.

I get forgetful and forget to bring in reserves or forget about certain units, even if I dropped them in to do a certain thing..I also overlook stuff right in front of me, like a squad of IG Vets with Meltaguns sneaking up on my Predator..I shot at the tank two feet away, but ignore the Vets that kill my Predator..
I also obsess about things I've misplaced, even though we play at my house and it will turn up during the week.

wittzo wrote:I get forgetful and forget to bring in reserves or forget about certain units, even if I dropped them in to do a certain thing..I also overlook stuff right in front of me, like a squad of IG Vets with Meltaguns sneaking up on my Predator..I shot at the tank two feet away, but ignore the Vets that kill my Predator..
I also obsess about things I've misplaced, even though we play at my house and it will turn up during the week.

You made me remember one: I leave models in terrain. Especially Woods.

-J.

I mathhammer everything out loud.

I sometimes threaten to smite my opponents with my big book of house rules. I think by now they know it doesn't really exist. If it did, they would worship me.

Cheese Elemental wrote:I also tend to take a mouthful of creaming soda and swish it around noisily and gargling it. Once, I saw the look on my opponent's face and started laughing, spraying creaming soda in vast torrents out of my nose and all over the table. Thankfully, we were only just starting deployment, so only one land raider got sticky.

The mental image of this had me rolling on the floor....

I also have this "Movement Nazi" thing I kinda think if squads are going to move they move move in bunched up groups 2 inches apart as par with unit coherencey you know how squads will normally look moving.

Not in lines........DEAR GOD NOT IN A LINE! I had to stop a game on Monday because of this....

Top of turn 2 and I was like "no no no" opponent looks up I was like "Not in lines troops dont move across the battlefield in neat little lines least of all Eldar" so I watched like a sentinel hawk as my opponent rearranged his troops into proper movement formations.

Its my tick I know and it sounds bloody insane.

Yeah, it does kinda. I wouldn't be happy if somebody else told me how I could move my units, as long as I adhered to the measurement rules.

malfred wrote:Sometimes I forget I 'm not on the Internet and I crack jokes about our game being a
"play-date" and how pretty our dollies look at our tea party. I also make other kinds of homo-
erotic jokes incessantly.

Hehe...I feel you there.
I've been a Correctional Officer for over 17 years and we prison employees tend to have a very crude sense of humor when it comes to things like that. I sometimes slip up and will tell one of my non-prison friends something like "Do that again and I'll bend you over and f--- you!". The look of horror that I get is priceless.


As to my bad gaming habits, I have an annoying habit of "talking out" my opponent's dice rolls as i would my own. For example I will say something like "your looking for threes to hit, fours to wound". I don't know how I picked that up, and thnkfully my regular opponents don't seem to mind. However I did get a nasty comment from an opponent at a tourny who snapped "I know what I need to roll!" at me.

I also curse a bit. Although I do try to tone it down in public...especially when there are children present.

TR

Trench-Raider wrote:

malfred wrote:Sometimes I forget I 'm not on the Internet and I crack jokes about our game being a
"play-date" and how pretty our dollies look at our tea party. I also make other kinds of homo-
erotic jokes incessantly.

Hehe...I feel you there.

Gay!

I've been a Correctional Officer for over 17 years and we prison employees tend to have a very crude sense of humor when it comes to things like that. I sometimes slip up and will tell one of my non-prison friends something like "Do that again and I'll bend you over and f--- you!". The look of horror that I get is priceless.
TR

It doesn't help saying that to him during a shower or bath or something.

Goofing around while playing. Some people just take it too seriously for some reason.

Gay!

Hey, don't forget that in the prison enviorment, it's only gay if you are on the recieving end!

No, I don't buy it either, but it sounds good!

TR

Trench-Raider wrote:

malfred wrote:Sometimes I forget I 'm not on the Internet and I crack jokes about our game being a
"play-date" and how pretty our dollies look at our tea party. I also make other kinds of homo-
erotic jokes incessantly.

Hehe...I feel you there.
I've been a Correctional Officer for over 17 years and we prison employees tend to have a very crude sense of humor when it comes to things like that. I sometimes slip up and will tell one of my non-prison friends something like "Do that again and I'll bend you over and f--- you!". The look of horror that I get is priceless.


As to my bad gaming habits, I have an annoying habit of "talking out" my opponent's dice rolls as i would my own. For example I will say something like "your looking for threes to hit, fours to wound". I don't know how I picked that up, and thnkfully my regular opponents don't seem to mind. However I did get a nasty comment from an opponent at a tourny who snapped "I know what I need to roll!" at me.

I also curse a bit. Although I do try to tone it down in public...especially when there are children present.

TR

Yarr, I sometimes tell people what they need to roll or look for in their roll's. I put this down to being a hangover from the days when I used to work as a Part Timer in my local store. Did it for 18 months, and the intro games...they get into your head man. I must have run at least 3 a week, meaning in my initial 18 month reign of terror, I'd have done...erm...3 to the power of frog, divide by superman...umm...258 at a minimum. It's ingrained in my consciousness! And it's not just me. Some of the guys who proceeded and followed me in that position do the same thing!

Unless I'm really steamrolling the other guy, I always end up losing some VP loaded, only-thing-that-can-kill-you-in-my-army unit because I was ballsy with it or depended on the dice to make something happen, and then fatalistically declare "Well, that's game." What follows is a winner of a turn in which I either sulkily lament about dice or angrily toss f-bombs about probability being a trap ... and then I often win anyway, to make myself more ridiculous

More generally, whining about dice and angry rolling (which is always worse than normal rolling, if possible!) makes me want to smack myself.

Also, I'm apparently a terrible spectator, who can't let the dudes work their own game out and have to pipe up in answer to rules questions and whatever. Thankfully I just manage to bite my tongue and not actually point out what to do in the game.

- Salvage

Well Doc, at least being the ex-GW staffer you have an excuse. I've never worked at a game shop, so I have no clue were my habit comes from....and I've been doing it for years!
It's also not confined to GW games. In a Field of Glory game I tend to work through the "points of advantage" table even during my opponent's turn. "Ok, the Romans get two points for being impact foot on the charge, while the Seleucids have one point for being three ranks of pike stationary and another for their fourth rank. Looks like we are even with both needing fours to hit."...that sort of thing.

TR

If you've introduced a lot of people to gaming, it's little different to my experience.

But is it a bad thing really? After all, you're just showing you are paying attention.

I dunno if this is good or bad , but in situations where both sides cant figure out what to do next, instead of rolling for it i always say let the other player get the benefit.

So they say im a docile gamer ( hmm...... )
well cant complain i get free food after playing with them xD

LunaHound wrote:

well cant complain i get free food after playing with them xD

FNARR FNARR!

?? Whats fnar?

er....

fnarr
noun, verb
When used singularly:
a slightly self-dejectory nasal exclamation, not disimilar to the common nerd or geek's 'gowoohayyay'


I dont get it

Trench-Raider wrote:

Gay!

Hey, don't forget that in the prison enviorment, it's only gay if you are on the recieving end!

No, I don't buy it either, but it sounds good!

TR

I thought it wasn't gay as long as you don't make eye contact, hold hands, or cuddle afterwards.

Fnarr fnarr! ; exclam.

Suppressed childish exclamation of amusement uttered after a double entendre. Also k-yak k-yak, wurple wurple, yik yik yik.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Fnarr fnarr! ; exclam.

Suppressed childish exclamation of amusement uttered after a double entendre. Also k-yak k-yak, wurple wurple, yik yik yik.

I understand what double entendre means but ...... the rest of the sentence is just weird lol

Do you mean "harr harr" or "herr herr" by chance?

Ah, blessed is the mind unaware of Viz!

Profanisaurus for the win! Where would I be without my lexicon of 10,000 foul-mouthed definitions?

halonachos wrote:

Trench-Raider wrote:

Gay!

Hey, don't forget that in the prison enviorment, it's only gay if you are on the recieving end!

No, I don't buy it either, but it sounds good!

TR

I thought it wasn't gay as long as you don't make eye contact, hold hands, or cuddle afterwards.

Your balls can't touch either.

yiff!

Oh wait, that's different.

CrimsonTurkey wrote:

halonachos wrote:

Trench-Raider wrote:

Gay!

Hey, don't forget that in the prison enviorment, it's only gay if you are on the recieving end!

No, I don't buy it either, but it sounds good!

TR

I thought it wasn't gay as long as you don't make eye contact, hold hands, or cuddle afterwards.

Your balls can't touch either.

You also can't enjoy it I believe.



This is what I meant when I said goofing around.(not the gay sex, the jokes about gay sex)

i tend to laugh when i make a good move
it seems to piss off alot of people and i dont mean to do it

also when i make a charge i tend to bellow a waagh of my own hahaha, although not in a glass shattering way

I'm generally very loud and boisterous during games. Often cheering my own troops on and cursing my opponents, but sometimes cursing my own and cheering my opponent's

I can't be too bad because I've had a few people tell me that I'm their favorite opponent... despite the fact that I stomp them into the ground most of the time.

Reminding my opponent of anything and everything they can use as an advantage against me. Mind you, it's only really annoying for me.

With me I ask my opponent for a stat (eg toughness of a Carnifex) and then quote it before my opponent says it. Half of the time I have never even read the book but remember it from an online tactics article or summat. Damm photographic memory.

I bite my fingernails.

I'm a total prince amongst grots, other then that.

I often get really depressed if I'm loosing. My opponents can usually tell when it happens to.
I also hate when people woun't roll their scatter die near their target, and will often threaten to not allow shots (or abuse) if it happens more than 3 times in a game.

I'm a backseat general. I can't help but make comments on what people should be doing. And it's not just with 40K. The other day I did it to someone playing Fallout 2. Fallout 2 for feth's sake!!!

I also concede too quickly, but that's often tempered by my stubborn refusal to just give up. I know that's contradictory, but that's just the way it is.

Could be worse though, I could be like the guy in our group that laughs hysterically whenever something goes right for him or wrong for us. And I mean every time.

I also concede too quickly, but that's often tempered by my stubborn refusal to just give up. I know that's contradictory, but that's just the way it is.

This can and does come up in other discussions, but I don't see a willingness to admit defeat and concede when the conclusion is obvious a bad habit. I suppose it comes from my long history in real wargaming were the ability to accept when one is beaten and admit such in order to avoid a tiresome time wasting conclusion that is no fun for the loser is seen as a sign of a gentleman.

edit-
The ability to be man enough to admit when I was beaten and honor my opponent's ability by stating as much and the willingness to offer a quick ending to a defeated opponent was drilled into me quite early in my wargaming career. The first time I ever recall it coming into play was about 1983 or so in a Colonial Zulu war game against one of my early wargaming mentors. I was playing the British and was getting very roughly handled by my opponent. At one point he told me "look, you don;t have to play these games out to the last figure if there is no feasable way the outcome will change. Your last infantry figure is going to die within six inches of that nail in the table top within the next three turns and there is really not alot you can do to change that at this point." I stubbornly refused to give in, and about 45 minutes later my last figure did get slaughtered very near the place my opponent predicted. Playing out this unavoidable conclusion really did not seem to add much to the gaming experience for either me or my opponent. So from then on i had learned my lesson.



TR

I have slightly different versions of the below.

H.B.M.C. wrote:I'm a backseat general. I can't help but make comments on what people should be doing. And it's not just with 40K. The other day I did it to someone playing Fallout 2. Fallout 2 for feth's sake!!!

I'm not a backseat general, but I mock my friends who are playing the game. At one point I could do it in such a way that it would increase my friends anger towards the game to the extent he would yell at it, yet didn't have much angst towards me.

H.B.M.C. wrote:I also concede too quickly, but that's often tempered by my stubborn refusal to just give up. I know that's contradictory, but that's just the way it is.

I do this in some manner. I don't exactly concede but I can see the writing on the wall usually within the first couple turns on how the game is going to go. I refuse to quit and will make my opponent kill everything on the table, even if it's plainly obvious I'll loose.

I tend to gloat a bit if some thing particularly awesome occurs in the game. I recognize this and try to limit it because I do think it's annoying.

This sounds counter-intuitive, but I quit asking people I play against if I can get them a drink (soda, water, etc...) during tourneys. I found that when I would ask they would always decline. I think they believed that I was trying to bribe them at some level. I am just trying to be polite and I'm getting up anyways.

Has this happened to anybody else? Am I imagining thing?

My worst habit is losing too easily and denying my opponent a decent game.

Other than that, I can pace a lot.

barlio wrote:This sounds counter-intuitive, but I quit asking people I play against if I can get them a drink (soda, water, etc...) during tourneys. I found that when I would ask they would always decline. I think they believed that I was trying to bribe them at some level. I am just trying to be polite and I'm getting up anyways.

Has this happened to anybody else? Am I imagining thing?

You're not doing it right. What you do is you buy two for you and offer one to them.

If you're like a Filipino mom, you open the darn thing and practically pour the soda
down their throats as a gesture.

And if you're a Fremen, you spit on the ground to share water.

I swear when I miss-roll dice

barlio wrote:This sounds counter-intuitive, but I quit asking people I play against if I can get them a drink (soda, water, etc...) during tourneys. I found that when I would ask they would always decline. I think they believed that I was trying to bribe them at some level. I am just trying to be polite and I'm getting up anyways.

Has this happened to anybody else? Am I imagining thing?

I use to take skittles to yugioh tournaments and spill a few on the table then change their order during the opponents turn and offer them one at a time and stuff. Broke their concentration a few times

I was thinking some more. I tend to give a sort of commentary about how I feel the game is going. Sorta dispassionately, and mostly to see if I'll be right at the end. I have a habit of calling (usually fairly accurately) when I have lost it. I don't concede unless my opponent wants me to though- I find a lot of people like to stomp every last dude, and I'm okay with letting them.

barlio wrote:This sounds counter-intuitive, but I quit asking people I play against if I can get them a drink (soda, water, etc...) during tourneys. I found that when I would ask they would always decline. I think they believed that I was trying to bribe them at some level. I am just trying to be polite and I'm getting up anyways.

Has this happened to anybody else? Am I imagining thing?

I don't play at tournaments, but once my roommate and I were playing a guy down at the mall of Georgia and we had to end the game early due to the store closing. We agreed to come back and play the guy again later in the week and he bought us breakfast for out trouble. (45 minute drive) Bribe or not, I would play that guy again anytime!

My main problem is that I am an idiot, but allow me to clarify how this problem makes me annoying to play warhammer against. Because I have, in the past, remembered a stat wrong (because the ork stat line has changed since their last codex) and played with I3 on my boyz for a whole game, I now look up stats most times I am asked. It keeps me from being stupid, but slows the game down. Also I have found that if I do not pay close attention to my rolls, or am more focused on how badly I am getting beaten, I will forget to do certain rolls, like roll to wound.

This is how my being an idiot makes me annoying to play against.

I paint my bezerkers in fresh blood before the game.

I cut myself when my commander dies.

I yell waaagh even though I have bezerkers.

When I lose I tip the table over.

Actually Im just bad at math.

One habit is that I usually know people's armies better than they do themselves. I also have the habit of working and speaking aloud what you need to hit/wound etc. The last habit is that when ever I guess the range for a guess weapon(empire great cannon springs to mind), it's miles of.

When I declare what I am doing, I use "we."

"We are going to fire at that tank."

I am close with my doods.

Mines is picking up a handful of dice and shaking them continuously while it's my opponents turn.

Annoying after a time. Not deliberate.

Pouting everytime a boy gets killed.
Wimpering evertime one of my friends decides to make/bring out something powerful looking.

I have a tendency to be a backseat general. Mostly with my mates though. The worst (for me, they didn't seem to mind) was when 2 of my wargaming buddies were in the midlle of a local tournament game and the SM player forgot wound allocation on his tactical squad. He was ready to remove all his models (only 3 left) and I pointed out that if he allocated the 4 power weapons onto 1 man he had a fighting chance. I felt bad afterwards since it was not a casual game, but like I said, they didn't really seem to mind since the IG guy is a real vet and was going to win regardless.

Forgetting to put units on the table. I put reserves aside on a side table, and most of the time I forget about them until it's time to put away my army.

Then I'm stuck wondering whether my Predator would have made a difference.

Brother Bartius wrote:Mines is picking up a handful of dice and shaking them continuously while it's my opponents turn.

Annoying after a time. Not deliberate.

I often get flashes of my old Monopoly habits, which include;
-Spitting or breathing heavily on dice that I'm shaking
-Instictively reaching into my pocket for those hidden 100's
-And trying to buy Mayfair off someone.

My main problem is I dive right into a my move phase and actions without giving it much thought. Afterwards I always go "Why did I do that??"