Smillie wrote:
I can't stand how GW are obsessed with hard selling stuff to adults, fine try and bambozle a child but I'm 26 for gods sake.


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CURNOW wrote:I went shoping with a friend yesterday in truro and after 2hrs of her trying on bikinis ...!

Lol I love how you made that sound like a chore, "god yes your breasts look fine in that one too, can't you speed this up a bit"

They hassle like that because they are put through a highly aggressive sales training program, then set very high sales target figures and the commissar takes the hindmost.


CURNOW, put those bikini shots up on facebook

sjefke wrote:a locator beacon only works if it was on the table the turn the droppods deepstrike, so in turn 1 it can't be used unless another model within the sufficient range is there.

Right.
Taken into account with my previous post:

You're right that there's no "no scatter" rule for Drop Pods. They do all Deep Strike, though. Half (rounded up) on Turn 1 & the rest as regular reserves (have seen people make legitimate mistakes with that, too).

Have you looked at what upgrades are available for them, though?

You can see that I was clear on that.

Haha what makes you think i took pics ? i wouldnt do such a thing ...

ok... back on topic please


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i had another bad experience,but it was not at a gw or lgs,i was cutting a dreadnought in half(which is not the brightest thing) and i was cutting the sarcophagus front and i slipped and the knife went all the way down my thumb,thankfully it didnt touch my tendone.i spent 4 and a half hours in the ER.but that means i cant go to gw for my b-day because i am going to be at home for the next 3 weeks.
which is kinda a bad experience involving gw.

CURNOW wrote:Samus_aran115

So this person is just a friend, but she invited you to come with her to try on bikinis?

And I don't really understand. There was a fat kid scratching his ass staring down your friend in short pants? Was he picking his nose?


yes and yes..

Ah, I see. Strange relationship you've got there, ;-D

And ew.

Not realy 80% of my friends are femail.

i agree with the agressive selling i only used to pop in every 2-3 mths and everytime would get the same thing ..
redshirt...HEY !
me ..hi
rs...SO WHAT ARMIES YOU COLLECTING AT THE MO ?
me..i dont i only paint single figures..
RS AH HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW{INSERT NEW ARMY HERE} THERE REALY COOL AND THE {X} RULE ALLOWS THEM TO DO {X} YOU SHOULD GET THEM...!
me nah im only in for some paint..
RS..BUT IF YOU PAY £5 TODAY WE WILL KEEP A ARMY BOX SET BACK FOR YOU WHEN THER OUT NEXT WEEK !!!!
me..no im not interested..
RS YEAH BUT THERES ONLY 20 AVALIBLE IN THIS STORE YOU HAVE TO GET THEM THERE ABLE TO {INSERT SPECIAL RULE} THERE THE BEST ARMY YOU CAN GET...
me..i havnt played for 10yrs i just paint..
RS STEVE ! STEVE ! CAN YOU SET THE TABLE UP FOR A INTRO GAME...OH HES GONE !!

THEY MUST DO THIS 20 TIMES A DAY LOL

Duce wrote:are you sure? I thought once the pod landed its locator beacon would then allow the rest to drop down around it with no scatter.

Ed_Bodger wrote:Duce you are correct.

The rules fail is strong with these two.

"Note that the locator beacon must be on the table at the start of the turn for it to be used."

Is it so hard to look at a codex? And Ed - check stuff before you give people advice.

My local Games Workshop has the best customer service of any store I've ever been to. Is this some sort of anomaly?

HadoukenAvenger wrote:My local Games Workshop has the best customer service of any store I've ever been to. Is this some sort of anomaly?

Are you conflating good customer service and helpfulness with them trying to sell you stuff?

CURNOW wrote:Not realy 80% of my friends are femail.

There's a joke trying to get out in this mispelling, but I just can't see it!

HadoukenAvenger wrote:My local Games Workshop has the best customer service of any store I've ever been to. Is this some sort of anomaly?

No, you just ignore it sub-consciously. It doesn't bother me either, but If I actually went to my games workshop more than once a year it would. Mine's pretty good too. Sort of.

There's a guy who works at fair oaks mall (in virginia,give a WOOT if you go there!) who's really awesome. He's this old black guy who's really knowledgeable, and looks like he's been playing for decades. Really cool guy. He treated me like a hobbyist, not an idiot, which I liked. Sorry if that sounded racist, I just thought it would set him apart from some old "Mid-forties, clean-cut,lanky" stereotypes.

I dropped the tape measure on my Necron Lord yesterday, snapping the tip of the staff off in the middle of the game.

First time it ever failed a WBB and attempts to reattach it back on are unsuccessful thus far...

Drk_Oblitr8r wrote:I dropped the tape measure on my Necron Lord yesterday, snapping the tip of the staff off in the middle of the game.

First time it ever failed a WBB and attempts to reattach it back on are unsuccessful thus far...

I guess that is telling you something eh? Seems like it.

CURNOW-Off to the ignore list, [Mod Edit - that's quite enough, actually.]

Time for an aussie experience.

I regularly go to Chaddy store and their service is great, not too pushy and real helpful when I need em.

Then one day, they told me to head down to another store for a tourney.

Everything was going great till I was playing a game against a guy who knew the manager quite well and the manager came round and started hassling me.

He kept shouting in my ear what he thought I should do every turn like "RUUUUN MAN, YOU GOTTA RUUUN HERE!" and yelling saying "YOU ARE SOOOO GONNA LOOOOOOOOSE"

It was so out of no where, I'd never talked to the guy before and now he's all up in my face.

He had one of those personalities like he was "King of the Kids" or something. But I was 20, so I took none of it. I told him to piss off, I'm trying to play a game. And he'd come back with "OOOOOOOOO, GETTING TO YA AM I?"

I mean, if I knew the guy, I might of known he was joking around or something. But ya dont just hassle random people hoping their gonna instantly be your buddy.

Total idiot.

Haven't gone back their since.

Ahh, king of the kids, sounds like a familiar story, too bad they have so many young kids at Chaddy otherwise I'd play there more. Your right, great service there though, once they know you they don't get all pushy, I mean, your already hooked if you're going in there regularly anyway!

What was the store with the 'friendly' manager?

OOOORRR DOOO YOOUUUU NOOOT WANNNAAA TEELL MEEE!!!

Seriously, though, us wargamers arent always the most socially adjusted people, getting in our faces without knowing us a bit is always a risky idea!

MunkeyKungFu wrote:I still remember one of the old managers for Broadmead. My girlfriend bought me some skaven stuff for my birthday. One of which was the WLC. I got it and it was missing the Chasis. I phoned up and was told to come down on Sunday and we will replace it. Suffice to say I turned up on Sunday and the shop was not open. I waited for ages for it to open only to be told to go away. Phoned up Customer Services straight away. The guy I spoke to knew the old manager Ben who I was friends with. I ended up on the phone to him for about 45 minutes. He said he would send out a replacement straight away. On the tuesday I get a huge box. In it is 2 WLC, 1 Screaming Bell and a handfull of blister. Worst and best service in one go.

I never know how to feel about GW's customer service. I had this impression of it being bad...nothing concrete, but just a general feeling from the past decade+.

Last week I'm putting together the Mawloc I got a few months ago. Those little sensor spine things on its back? One of them on the sprue (the model is -all- plastic) doesn't have the little bit that connects it to its back.
"*sigh* Looks like I'm going to have to make a Trygon instead." (for those unfamiliar with the model, it will make one of two different models that are very similar)
Decided to give GW a call, just in case, to see if they had any bits lying around or ideas or something. The rep I got ahold of was very nice, and sent me a whole new Mawloc in the mail, free of charge, when I was expecting a "Sorry, can't really help you, maybe tell people he was injured? But thanks for buying GW!".
I was amazed.
The original kit, of course, still makes a perfectly good Trygon.

Things like this, and the above story, make me question the previous conceptions I had about GW.

Someone once had no demolisher cannon on a baneblade. You got it. He ended up with two baneblades
+1 for GW customer service.

That's one thing they've always got right.

Friend of mine bought a bunch of tallarn heavy weapons (blister packed). One of them was missing wheels so back to the store we went.

Manager pulls one off the rack. No wheels. Gives it to him (my friend), pulls another one. No wheels. Gives it to him. Repeat for all the heavy bolter blisters on the shelf.

They get the box of spares from downstairs and he goes through it in the same manner until my friend has seven extra blisters (with no wheels) and one that does.

(and this was back when you could still mail order anything - a quick order for wheels and that would be eight free metal heavy weapon teams)

Inquisitor_Syphonious wrote:

CURNOW-Off to the ignore list, since you're quite simply, a dumb troll.

He's certainly been a good friend of mine for the past 14 years. Could you explain your comment before I flame you into your component atoms?

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Someone once had no demolisher cannon on a baneblade. You got it. He ended up with two baneblades
+1 for GW customer service.

Whaaaat? He really got another baneblade? Did he open it up in the store and show them, or did he just come to the store with an assembled baneblade without it? Lucky guy, regardless.

Samus_aran115 wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Someone once had no demolisher cannon on a baneblade. You got it. He ended up with two baneblades
+1 for GW customer service.

Whaaaat? He really got another baneblade? Did he open it up in the store and show them, or did he just come to the store with an assembled baneblade without it? Lucky guy, regardless.

Nope. He phoned them. Any disbelievers can go search Reddawn9091 on youtube.

Edit: Damn. He removed the video containing that. Ah well, you can ask him if you really want to.

Samus_aran115 wrote:

HadoukenAvenger wrote:My local Games Workshop has the best customer service of any store I've ever been to. Is this some sort of anomaly?

No, you just ignore it sub-consciously. It doesn't bother me either, but If I actually went to my games workshop more than once a year it would. Mine's pretty good too. Sort of.

There's a guy who works at fair oaks mall (in virginia,give a WOOT if you go there!) who's really awesome. He's this old black guy who's really knowledgeable, and looks like he's been playing for decades. Really cool guy. He treated me like a hobbyist, not an idiot, which I liked. Sorry if that sounded racist, I just thought it would set him apart from some old "Mid-forties, clean-cut,lanky" stereotypes.

That guy is awsome, i like him,he is a great guy.He is better than the old store manager that owened it when it was in richmond. virginia.But be careful what you say about space wolves around him.

Scott-S6 wrote:

Duce wrote:are you sure? I thought once the pod landed its locator beacon would then allow the rest to drop down around it with no scatter.

Ed_Bodger wrote:Duce you are correct.

The rules fail is strong with these two.

"Note that the locator beacon must be on the table at the start of the turn for it to be used."

Is it so hard to look at a codex? And Ed - check stuff before you give people advice.

Is it hard to read what i actually wrote? I was actually asking for confirmation for myself since my codex was at home and I posted that in work... hense me asking for confirmation on what i'd thought happened as I don't use them.

shame on me i suppose asking

And Scott remove the holier than thou advice from your ass. I misinterpreted what was being asked I thought the poster meant once one a drop pod had landed when your next wave comes in you can use the locator beacon to prevent scatter.

jetjetex wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:

HadoukenAvenger wrote:My local Games Workshop has the best customer service of any store I've ever been to. Is this some sort of anomaly?

No, you just ignore it sub-consciously. It doesn't bother me either, but If I actually went to my games workshop more than once a year it would. Mine's pretty good too. Sort of.

There's a guy who works at fair oaks mall (in virginia,give a WOOT if you go there!) who's really awesome. He's this old black guy who's really knowledgeable, and looks like he's been playing for decades. Really cool guy. He treated me like a hobbyist, not an idiot, which I liked. Sorry if that sounded racist, I just thought it would set him apart from some old "Mid-forties, clean-cut,lanky" stereotypes.

That guy is awsome, i like him,he is a great guy.He is better than the old store manager that owened it when it was in richmond. virginia.But be careful what you say about space wolves around him.

The last time I was there, it was before blood angels came out, and they had the codex on display. He let me put together a sanguinary guard, so he's forever in my favor. I drive the extra 20 miles to go to that store now.

Ed_Bodger wrote:And Scott remove the holier than thou advice from your ass. I misinterpreted what was being asked I thought the poster meant once one a drop pod had landed when your next wave comes in you can use the locator beacon to prevent scatter.

If we stand together and deny it then we can't lose. simple maths will dictate we are right he is wrong, and if he disagrees hes even more wrong. We cant lose Ed

No we certainly can't united we will stand in the face of criticism.

worst experience at my old GWS was my very first torny, it was for the battle missions book release, it was a 200p kill team mission.

basicly all models are independent and you could have 3 universal special rules one per character so 3 models could only have them.

i took an IG vet squad with a chimera, tank hunter of melta vet, relentless on a missile launcher and scouts. the scout rule lets you move before the 1st turn is taken and confers over to the dedicated transport its in, so i play one game goes ok i win, 2nd game is agains a guy who brings deamons so i take scout and he kicks up and the manager comes over and says that the rule doesnt work like that, so i go along with it then i find a rule book after the game and show him the rule and he says that i cant use it anyway as its unfair to the rest of the players, tho he allowed the deamons to deep strike i tabled the deamons guy and he then bitched to the manager i was cheating as i used a tank. To make this a more stupid complaint the guy that won the torny was playing deamons and evan beat me! for about a month after i didnt go the the shop as he was friends with all the staff and most of the regulares in there.

The best experience I had at a gaming store was actually at a GW retailer. One of the guys on the floor set up a demo for my friend and I. He was so charismatic, he really loved the hobby, and the table there was so well put together. It was a fantastic experience that got me into 40k.

The worst I had was at an independent gaming store. For some reason, my friends and I already had a bad feeling about this place because it was smack in the middle of Sketch-ville.

When we walk in, there's a coven of sasquatches huddled around some asian girl, talking in low voices. We're just sizing up the place, locating all the tables and counters and racks. I was looking to see what boxes they carried and the entire time I could feel eyes on my back. We were getting ready to leave, I was eye-balling a half assembled Corpse Cart, and my friend the Joker himself says in a stage whisper "hey, let's steal it." We know he's joking, the manager knows he joking, so I jokingly say "don't worry, we're leaving know," or something like that. As we're shutting the door we hear one of the sasquatches say "don't worry, I was watching them the whole time."

Creepy, Territorial nerds were creepy and territorial.

The greatest and worst GW store experience I've had has been at my local store.

My local GW is the Glen burnie Battle bunker in Maryland USA. The manager on duty that day was I can't say his name but he is marrying a co worker he got a job for. Very creepy very weird. That’s a story for another day. My club was starting a Blood bowl league allot of fun. I've never played before and I mainly play armies that aren’t played that much, so I started Ogres. <---- "If this football team is played allot please don't rip my head off I don't know".

I haven't even decided on this team yet but I said “I think I'm going to convert and paint my own ogre team” you know take some pride in it. Once he heard me say this he got me, a box of knoblars a box of bulls black primer and glue. About 150 dollars in product a real : cheese: dick if you ask me.

Needless to say he is a really big : bleep:Hat of a guy who killed the bunker, and now he killed another one in Memphis What a winner. I could go on and on about this guy and so could pretty much anyone who knows him.

But the bunker is back Tom Gruhala is the manager again. So that’s were I hangout at when I'm not out with real flesh and blood friends (not my toys). His approach to selling is fantastic he doesn’t care about selling all the toy men he can. Just want’s people to play games and kill things. Allot of fun when you don't have a guy telling you what you need to buy.

Samus_aran115 wrote:

jetjetex wrote:@samus_aran115,you still play yugioh?i have been tying to get rid of my cards for i while,i havent played in years.

I haven't changed my deck in months, I just lay with a couple friends over breakfast, but I guess that counts as playing.

A couple months back, when I'd just started 40k, I played against a marines player who was running dreadnought swarm. He was drop podding them all in. So I ask him, "Hey, what the hell are you rolling first turn for? Deep striking units come in on the second turn!" He says "No, they have a special rule"

I didn't play marines, so I had no idea how drop pods worked at the time. BUT THAT"S NOT IT! When he was deepstriking, he would never roll for scatter. I asked him why he wasn't rolling for scatter, "Yeah,uh, drop pods have a special rule."

So yeah, naturally I lost the game, on account that it was my second game. It's okay though, I stole his kayvaan shrike model, Bwahahaha. Don't leave your HQ on the floor next time, douchebag!

You stole from someone because they played the game wrong? AND you think that justifies theft? What is wrong with you?

The last time I was there, it was before blood angels came out, and they had the codex on display. He let me put together a sanguinary guard, so he's forever in my favor. I drive the extra 20 miles to go to that store now.

hmm...I know that guy...met him while that crew was between stores at my local GW. Frankly I think he was one of the worst red shirts I've ever run across. I could give multiple specific incidents that really grated on me about him, but ultimatly I think it was mostly personality conflict. I stopped going to that games workshop for about 3 months until they opened up their new store.

My worst experience is their store hours. They are never open. We used to have 2 people staffed there at all times now there is only 1 dude running the store. GW cut way back on people. It stinks! How can one dude handle the gaming going on, the painting (and academy) the register and the Q and A coming from noobs?! I went today at 1 during lunch and they don't open till 3? I was going to drop like 100 bucks but when they were closed went to Game stop and bought 100 worth of games my kids wanted. Good day for them, bad day for dad.

My GW is pretty awesome. My only disappointment was when it moved form the close mall (5 minute drive) to down to another mall which is about 40 minutes but hey, I am lucky enough to have two in a close radius. The one I go to in springfield, the manager is really cool. He lets you used custom models on one condition, they have to look good.

Lord Shag wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:

jetjetex wrote:@samus_aran115,you still play yugioh?i have been tying to get rid of my cards for i while,i havent played in years.

I haven't changed my deck in months, I just lay with a couple friends over breakfast, but I guess that counts as playing.

A couple months back, when I'd just started 40k, I played against a marines player who was running dreadnought swarm. He was drop podding them all in. So I ask him, "Hey, what the hell are you rolling first turn for? Deep striking units come in on the second turn!" He says "No, they have a special rule"

I didn't play marines, so I had no idea how drop pods worked at the time. BUT THAT"S NOT IT! When he was deepstriking, he would never roll for scatter. I asked him why he wasn't rolling for scatter, "Yeah,uh, drop pods have a special rule."

So yeah, naturally I lost the game, on account that it was my second game. It's okay though, I stole his kayvaan shrike model, Bwahahaha. Don't leave your HQ on the floor next time, douchebag!

You stole from someone because they played the game wrong? AND you think that justifies theft? What is wrong with you?

He plays runescape, so I think he is under 18. (Which doesn't mean you should be any more lenient.)

Mewiththeface wrote:My GW is pretty awesome. My only disappointment was when it moved form the close mall (5 minute drive) to down to another mall which is about 40 minutes but hey, I am lucky enough to have two in a close radius. The one I go to in springfield, the manager is really cool. He lets you used custom models on one condition, they have to look good.

The "rule of cool".

Okay you're late....Drop it already. That was over a week ago..

It's never too late to chastize someone for being a thief. Especially an unrepentant one!

Eric

Samus_aran115 wrote:Okay you're late....Drop it already. That was over a week ago..

Did a week make you any less of a terrible person?

GW Hamburg I
The store manager is really a nice person, but some of his staff is terrible.
One screams and the other makes bad jokes about newbies. But hey, this guy is also a newb.

Lord Shag wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:Okay you're late....Drop it already. That was over a week ago..

Did a week make you any less of a terrible person?

I just kind of think it's funny that he speaks as if a week is a great length of time after committing a crime.

Samus_aran115 wrote:Okay you're late....Drop it already. That was over a week ago..

A week doesn't make things just blow over. Especially when you took something that he spent 17 dollars plus time, energy, and love on. I hope that guy finds out that you stole it.

Lord Shag wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:Okay you're late....Drop it already. That was over a week ago..

Did a week make you any less of a terrible person?

The answer to that should be self evident!

Personally I can't understand this "he was a jerk so I stole from him lol" mentality, surely if the guy really was that bad it's better to be the better person and do the right thing.

I guess the whole point of this being a hobby which generates a sense of fair play and community has been lost on the "Dawn of War generation", who seem to think that it's OK to be rude and ill mannered towards other players.

Samus if you can't take the roasting for being a fething grox loving thief, don't post your stories on here in future!

Rant over ................ for now

I just want to say, this thread has put me off ever going into a games-workshop store and playing strangers.

I'll stick to just playing my brother and his friends.

My regular is Warhammer World, so I don't have any bad stories~ amazing terrain, always free tables, Bugmans next door~ literally perfect. The only two negatives are they have no craters anywhere, so we always have a small trauma with vehicle wrecks, and the staff never remember who I am and so ask me the same questions every time I am in there, neither are particularly troublesome though! ^^

A new store opened up fairly close to where I used to live - I called to sign my wife up for a league, and the owner denied me permission to participate. He said, "I've heard about you - you're too competitive and I don't want you beating up on my players and scaring them away from the hobby."

Lame.

Wow.

He's TFshop-ownerG!

LOL

Well, Dash... You'd be welcome at the FLGS here in St. Louis (or to drop in on my game group), if you ever came around. Nobody there that would worry about your ultra-competetive streak.

Eric

Dashofpepper wrote:A new store opened up fairly close to where I used to live - I called to sign my wife up for a league, and the owner denied me permission to participate. He said, "I've heard about you - you're too competitive and I don't want you beating up on my players and scaring them away from the hobby."

Lame.

Wow that sucks. Being denied entry due to... wanting to win? I understand different aspects of the hobby but it's still a league (and they usually want to win no?).

Cool that he knew who you were though lol...

Bottle wrote:I just want to say, this thread has put me off ever going into a games-workshop store and playing strangers.

I'll stick to just playing my brother and his friends.

My regular is Warhammer World, so I don't have any bad stories~ amazing terrain, always free tables, Bugmans next door~ literally perfect. The only two negatives are they have no craters anywhere, so we always have a small trauma with vehicle wrecks, and the staff never remember who I am and so ask me the same questions every time I am in there, neither are particularly troublesome though! ^^

Don't be put off by it, if a thread is of all the bad in FLGSs and GWs, of course some horror stories are going to pop up.

There is a thread about the good, though it isn't as flashy and what not.

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Samus_Aran, if I were to shoot you in the thigh, and wait a week, would it be O.K.?

@Dashofpepper, they knew you played competitively, so they wouldn't let your wife play?

Did you announce yourself over the phone as "Hello! Dashofpepper here!..."? I wonder how you got it through to him that you were Dashofpepper, not Justin~. I personally would have just said "my wife wants to sign up... [rest of conversation]"... That might be the problem right there.

scooter wrote:The greatest and worst GW store experience I've had has been at my local store.

My local GW is the Glen burnie Battle bunker in Maryland USA. The manager on duty that day was I can't say his name but he is marrying a co worker he got a job for. Very creepy very weird. That’s a story for another day. My club was starting a Blood bowl league allot of fun. I've never played before and I mainly play armies that aren’t played that much, so I started Ogres. <---- "If this football team is played allot please don't rip my head off I don't know".

I haven't even decided on this team yet but I said “I think I'm going to convert and paint my own ogre team” you know take some pride in it. Once he heard me say this he got me, a box of knoblars a box of bulls black primer and glue. About 150 dollars in product a real : cheese: dick if you ask me.

Needless to say he is a really big : bleep:Hat of a guy who killed the bunker, and now he killed another one in Memphis What a winner. I could go on and on about this guy and so could pretty much anyone who knows him.

Wait, this is bad? He offered you a solution... I don't think he physically forced you to buy the stuff, did he? It's a bit "aggressive salesmanship", but it's not like he said you were a horrible painter and should die or something. He just... tried to help you.

I'm assuming the guy did some other annoying things, but this example doesn't sound that bad unless there's something I'm missing.

@Dash -
I've got it.
Tell him you're just trying to increase sales. Remind him about your open challenge to buy a battleforce for anyone who beats you! Every time you play at his shop is a chance he might sell a Battleforce.
See? YOu just gotta spin it right. : )

@Balance
I think you missed the point.
The employee heard him say he was going to play Ogres, so he went and grabbed $15o in product off of the shelves that he had no idea whether scooter wanted or not. He was trying to force a sale...

Eric

I have a new 'worst experience' GW story to add to the heap. After driving 90 minutes to Chiba city to go pick up some black primer and a magazine in English, I find the GW CLOSED FOREVER. This happened about a month ago. Now, if I want to go to a GW, I have to drag my a$$ into Tokyo and lug all my junk through Tokyo Station, which is a mission in itself. Driving into Megacity One is not an option in my whale of a car.

Whatever. Maelstrom is cheaper and it comes right to the door. Yellow Submarine in Chiba has some GW stuff, but they never have primer.

I personaly get tired of gamers who dont wash ever, it drives me mad. We also have a little kid who insists on picking up every model you are playing with or painting. Last time he did that it was a good job i had some super glue remover in my tool box as he stuck himself to my Forgeworld Marcharius. The staff member then had a go at me for using non GW producsts in the store, i told him it was either that or the kid go off to a and e and i loose my tank and who knows what the kids parents would do.

I seem to have gained the ability to block out annoying WAAG shouts and the general bad music they play. I hate to admit to it but if im painting i will have my MP3 player on so i cant hear it.

We also have one ex staff member who likes to bend every rule to the maximum and no one wants to play him but he cant work out why.

Wait a GW employee was mad you were using a forgeworld thing? Is that standard practice? It's not like it's not part of gw...

CrazyThang wrote:Wait a GW employee was mad you were using a forgeworld thing? Is that standard practice? It's not like it's not part of gw...

It sounds like he was mad at him for using non-GW superglue remover....which....yeah...*sigh*

The only gw store I had gone too was the one in woodbridge, va years ago when I was stationed at fort belvoir, VA. The were rude, and down right nasty. Never went back.

The second was playing a gt best general winner in the late 90s at fayetteville, nc in his store. The man through a fit when my smurf marines destroyed all of his rhinos and land raiders on turn one with lucky lascannon shots. He yeld, screamed, threw his dice and said that I was cheating. I packed my stuff up and left the store. As I was getting in my car he came out of the store yelling that there was no way a novice could beat him, that I was banned from the store and he would call the cops on me if I returned.

The third was playing in a 500 point tourny. They would allow people to show up four hours late to play and say that it would reflect bad on my score if I didn't play even though I had already played three games already. Then when I played the guy he was still playing 4th edition even though 5th had been out for a year. I game that should have taken 45 minutes took 2 hours because he argued and screamed about every roll and move it made. Curbed stomped his army in four turns but never played a tourny in that store again.

The last was when I just got into fow. I wanted to learn the rules and the store owner hooked me up with a vet player. Well instead of showing me how to play he just said over abd over "look at how much better my army is".

I hate playing at most stores because the owners are to scared to police the because they are barely hold onto their profit margains anyways.

Samus_aran115 wrote:Okay you're late....Drop it already. That was over a week ago..

How about this: we'll stop bitching when you return the model to its rightful owner, confess completely, and then beg like the dog you are for the owner not to permenantly ban you from his store.

Fafnir wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:Okay you're late....Drop it already. That was over a week ago..

How about this: we'll stop bitching when you return the model to its rightful owner, confess completely, and then beg like the dog you are for the owner not to permenantly ban you from his store.

This. Although you're being a bit strong, Fafnir, I agree he should give it back. How would you like it if someone stole your favorite model, Aran?

Fafnir wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:Okay you're late....Drop it already. That was over a week ago..

How about this: we'll stop bitching when you return the model to its rightful owner, confess completely, and then beg like the dog you are for the owner not to permenantly ban you from his store.

I think I would shut up equally if he took a permanent vacation from dakka.

Though seriously, you stole from someone who cheated slightly...

You stole a model he probably put multiple hours into to paint...

And you called him a d-bag over the internet. Internet tough guy!

Over 40,000... you stole... a model... from someone who played something (probably correctly) and you steal from him... steal from him...?

I don't get it...

Inquisitor_Syphonious wrote:

Fafnir wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:Okay you're late....Drop it already. That was over a week ago..

How about this: we'll stop bitching when you return the model to its rightful owner, confess completely, and then beg like the dog you are for the owner not to permenantly ban you from his store.

I think I would shut up equally if he took a permanent vacation from dakka.

Though seriously, you stole from someone who cheated slightly...

You stole a model he probably put multiple hours into to paint...

And you called him a d-bag over the internet. Internet tough guy!

Over 40,000... you stole... a model... from someone who played something (probably correctly) and you steal from him... steal from him...?

I don't get it...

TFG situation?

plastictrees wrote:

CrazyThang wrote:Wait a GW employee was mad you were using a forgeworld thing? Is that standard practice? It's not like it's not part of gw...

It sounds like he was mad at him for using non-GW superglue remover....which....yeah...*sigh*

Sadly GW dont do a Super Glue remover and its becoming harder and harder to find in the UK so it was lucky i had some on me. Its not the first time ive unstuck kids from models, the previous store staff didnt mind and where actualy greatfull i had some on me.

ollieholmes wrote:

plastictrees wrote:

CrazyThang wrote:Wait a GW employee was mad you were using a forgeworld thing? Is that standard practice? It's not like it's not part of gw...

It sounds like he was mad at him for using non-GW superglue remover....which....yeah...*sigh*

Sadly GW dont do a Super Glue remover and its becoming harder and harder to find in the UK so it was lucky i had some on me. Its not the first time ive unstuck kids from models, the previous store staff didnt mind and where actualy greatfull i had some on me.

That's gw for you:
95% TFGs.
5% awesome.

Bit like white dwarf..

Dashofpepper wrote:A new store opened up fairly close to where I used to live - I called to sign my wife up for a league, and the owner denied me permission to participate. He said, "I've heard about you - you're too competitive and I don't want you beating up on my players and scaring them away from the hobby."

Lame.

That's totally unfair. The whole point of a league is for competitive players to get together to explore the competitive side of the game! That's why there's the term "league competition." You should appeal or something.

I have to add another worst experience. =p

I just moved to Jacksonville, FL.

In Apex North Carolina (by Raleigh) there is a store called "All Fun and Games." It's an hour from where I used to live, so I don't game there for fun, and tended to only make the trip when there was a tournament I thought would be decent sized.

Over the two years that I'd lived in North Carolina, I'd been to decent number of tournaments there; maybe one every 4 months on average? I've won every tournament at the store with the exception of one....in which a tie caused me to take second place. Since I don't game there often, the TO (Mike) said that I wasn't one of the "store's gamers" although I made an effort to buy something there every time I was in town (Paint, blister, dice cup, etc). In two years of playing at this store and beating on the locals, I've consistently been friendly, well-mannered, and polite.

First weekend in June, they host a "Warhammer Weekend" 40k tournament, and I pack up my models, call a friend to join me there, and go to play. Here's the relevant battle reports.

1. The missions were awful. They were imbalanced, poorly written, unfair....read the bat reps for details, but the first mission for example - my opponent could not win. No matter who he played against, or how deployment happened, there was no way for him to win the mission; he could tie at best. I tabled all three opponents, won the tournament, but it was still crappy missions.

2. Two of my opponents were slow, one of them enough so that I went up to the TO and commented that I was worried we wouldn't get through the game (Table #1, game 3). He told me to deal with it.

3. The player who I got a tie against in a previous tournament didn't make it to the store in time to play in the tournament - after the tournament I went over to him and his friends and was joking with them, and announced that I was going to make a joke....and said "So, when you guys going to bring a challenge?" It was a joke because I was moving to Florida in two weeks and wouldn't be gaming there again...

The fallout was epic. =p

Some slow linked my battle reports to the yahoo group where the TO reads/posts and said I was sniping at the store (read them for yourself). That, combined with accusations that I was drinking in the store, had a bad attitude, was a poor sportsmanship, cry and scream to get my way, was a bad person, kill babies....most of it stemming from anger that an "outsider" was winning all their tournaments and that I was bashing them for being uncompetitive" I was subsequently banned from the store (that I wasn't ever going back to) and banned from the yahoo group.

In exchange, the folks causing the drama got banned from Dakka for their ridiculous behavior.

Moral of the story: Joke very carefully with gamers outside your circle of friends, they may turn out to be insecure lemons?


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Austragalis wrote:

Dashofpepper wrote:A new store opened up fairly close to where I used to live - I called to sign my wife up for a league, and the owner denied me permission to participate. He said, "I've heard about you - you're too competitive and I don't want you beating up on my players and scaring them away from the hobby."

Lame.

That's totally unfair. The whole point of a league is for competitive players to get together to explore the competitive side of the game! That's why there's the term "league competition." You should appeal or something.

I moved; I don't live in the same state anymore.

Samus, I'd like to congratulate you on what I reckon to be one of the best put together trolls ever. You've successfully had multiple posters raging at you for several pages over a week now. And on Dakka, where most people can spot them a mile off, that's quite something.

And I'm not insulting you here. Considering the definition of a troll is:- 'In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response[1] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.', you've pulled it off perfectly.

I think that all that's left for me to say is:-

Dashofpepper wrote: That, combined with accusations that I was drinking in the store, had a bad attitude, was a poor sportsmanship, cry and scream to get my way, was a bad person, kill babies....

but............you DO drink in the stores, I've seen it Mr. Captain Morgan ........... and DO kill babies.....

Sergeant Horse wrote:

Dashofpepper wrote: That, combined with accusations that I was drinking in the store, had a bad attitude, was a poor sportsmanship, cry and scream to get my way, was a bad person, kill babies....

but............you DO drink in the stores, I've seen it Mr. Captain Morgan ........... and DO kill babies.....

Not true. I drink at GTs. Proudly! I display my bottle of Captain, share it with my opponents, take pictures of my bottle as it empties....but I have my wife as a DD for those. Local hole in the wall 40k tournament that I drive myself to and from...not so much.

Dashofpepper wrote:

Sergeant Horse wrote:

Dashofpepper wrote: That, combined with accusations that I was drinking in the store, had a bad attitude, was a poor sportsmanship, cry and scream to get my way, was a bad person, kill babies....

but............you DO drink in the stores, I've seen it Mr. Captain Morgan ........... and DO kill babies.....

Not true. I drink at GTs. Proudly! I display my bottle of Captain, share it with my opponents, take pictures of my bottle as it empties....but I have my wife as a DD for those. Local hole in the wall 40k tournament that I drive myself to and from...not so much.

Cept the circuit events Don't worry, I'm only trying to rise ya

I haven't been to any gamestores more than two times (GW Edinburgh three weeks ago, GW Oslo yesterday), so there's not much I've experienced from such places. The service is good in both stores though, they simply ask what you play, you answer, they offer help if there's anything you want to know, etc. without being pushy.
So far my only bad experience is my mom not letting me buy that extra Commisar.

I work at a hobby store that sells all different models including GW. I work once a week teaching kids how to play 40k and supervising the games of the more experienced kids. I was watching an IG vs. Tau game. The Tau were just getting killed! It was the 2nd turn and they were all almost dead. I moved to another table when I hear "I HATE LOSEING!!!" and then a massive crash. I turn my head and see a flipped over table and models everywhere! Because he lost he flipped over his case that was holding all of his models onto the floor! It’s not like this kid was 8 either, He was around 12 or 13. I couldn’t believe it. I was wondering what kind of sore losers you guys have seen.

zing165 wrote:I will be interested to see if any of them were as bad as this.

Read 70% of all previous posts in this thread .

MagickalMemories wrote:@Balance
I think you missed the point.
The employee heard him say he was going to play Ogres, so he went and grabbed $15o in product off of the shelves that he had no idea whether scooter wanted or not. He was trying to force a sale...

Didn't scooter say he wanted to play Ogres?

What's problem?

whitedragon wrote:

MagickalMemories wrote:@Balance
I think you missed the point.
The employee heard him say he was going to play Ogres, so he went and grabbed $15o in product off of the shelves that he had no idea whether scooter wanted or not. He was trying to force a sale...

Didn't scooter say he wanted to play Ogres?

What's problem?

Wasn't it for blood bowl or something, and I think he was only considering it..

I travel on a hovercraft (ah, the joys of living on an island) then travel via taxi with my mum to town, do some jobs for my nan, get a bit of money (usually about a tenner, but i'll have more anyway) then eventually get to the GW, while mum and gran do womany-stuff in town. Usually the store is pretty good, the employees are nice enough, though despite taking my case with roughly 2000 points several times (guard, usually, but some times necrons) i've never had a game.

I have had one rather positive experience, where some guys were already playing, they were noobs, so i helped with rules, kept an eye on the game, and generally had a good laugh. The last time, i was ignored almost entirely, only spoken to when i was paying (for my first high elves) and even then, the black shirt was more involved in conversation with another person (who was just leaving with his son, who he had let crawl under the table filled with models) Not my money, or miniatures on the line, but i felt sorry for the guys trying to get to grips with the new fantasy rules having every sentence interrupted by banging. That kid had one thick skull...

Lord Shag wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:Okay you're late....Drop it already. That was over a week ago..

Did a week make you any less of a terrible person?

Did a week make me give a poop? Shut up already, who are you? Jesus?

You're clearly annoyed by the attention, which certainly seems to indicate that you care what others think; even on the internet. As such, it makes sense to continue the social pressure.

dogma wrote:You're clearly annoyed by the attention, which certainly seems to indicate that you care what others think; even on the internet. As such, it makes sense to continue the social pressure.

Well said.

Samus_aran115 wrote:
Did a week make me give a poop? Shut up already, who are you? Jesus?

Obviously not. No. Me. I doubt it,but who knows?

whitedragon wrote:

MagickalMemories wrote:@Balance
I think you missed the point.
The employee heard him say he was going to play Ogres, so he went and grabbed $15o in product off of the shelves that he had no idea whether scooter wanted or not. He was trying to force a sale...

Didn't scooter say he wanted to play Ogres?

What's problem?

He said he was considering converting an ogre team. He didn't ask the guy to grab $150 in product off the shelves (that he didn't even know would be what scooter wanted) and pressure him into buying it.
Saying, "Ogres, huh? If you want, I can go round everything up for you & have it waiting at the register," is good customer service. Actually doing it without checking with the customer first and saying, basically, "Here's your stuff. See you at the register,*" is something entirely different.


*I know scooter didn't say the guy said this. I'm using that quote to demonstrate the attitude the guy had about it that scooter reflected with his comments.


Eric

dogma wrote:You're clearly annoyed by the attention, which certainly seems to indicate that you care what others think; even on the internet. As such, it makes sense to continue the social pressure.

Dogma? Out of the OT forum? (I kid, though this is the only thread I remember seeing you out of there!)

Samus_aran115 wrote:

Lord Shag wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:Okay you're late....Drop it already. That was over a week ago..

Did a week make you any less of a terrible person?

Did a week make me give a poop? Shut up already, who are you? Jesus?

Wow. Yes. Dogma has it, you did something wrong, and we will force you into either ignoring all of us, getting this thread locked (not likely), fixing the problem (also not likely), or simply feel terrible, which you should. Your opponent did nothing warranting your socially unnacceptable actions.

liquidjoshi wrote:I travel on a hovercraft (ah, the joys of living on an island)

You travel on a hovercraft? Now THAT is boss. It's like you're living in the future...but it's the present! Yes, I know it's just a vacuum bag with a chair on it, but it's still cool

Samus_aran115 wrote:

Lord Shag wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:Okay you're late....Drop it already. That was over a week ago..

Did a week make you any less of a terrible person?

Did a week make me give a poop? Shut up already, who are you? Jesus?

What you just said is that you don't care that you have the same amount of moral fiber as a bowl of Child-Rape-O's, and that you won't be held accountable for yourself unless you get mad-dog'd by Jesus himself. For shame, young one.

karimabuseer wrote:Canada seems much better, but us in the UK are given the best service, with the exception of GW Stockholm which is uberuber.

I love my GW Stockholm as a couple of the staff love to talk tactics and army lists with customers, although I make sure to go there
after 3 PM when all the 11-year olds tend to leave.

So back to topic, the only bad experience I have had at GW Stockholm is related to little kids with no politeness. I walk into the
store to buy 2 boxes of Howling Banshees. I pick them up from the shelf, when suddenly one of the 10-year olds at the painting table
shouts, no, SCREAMS at the top of his lungs: YAAAAAY OMG ELDAAAAAAR AWESOME!!!!!! CAN I LOOK!!!!????

Seriously, I never walk into the store before 3pm.

Samus_aran115 wrote:

Lord Shag wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:Okay you're late....Drop it already. That was over a week ago..

Did a week make you any less of a terrible person?

Did a week make me give a poop? Shut up already, who are you? Jesus?

I must ask...what exactly kind of response were you expecting? 'You stole the model of some guy for getting some rules wrong? The model he spented hours painting? Just like I have? And sometimes I get my rules wrong too? Dude, you're so awesome! Steal my model when I mess up some rules too!'

You're not exactly likely to get credit for, what for many of us, is a real concern...that some bastard is going to steal something we've speant a great deal of time, cash and effort on.

As for my worst experience...being challenged to playing the old Tyranids codex. At 300 pts. When he was using without number. And cheated as much as humanly possible. And when he lost (Hey kid, I have three kill point total) went and whined and whined and whined until he got it down as a win for him.

Samus_aran115 wrote:

Did a week make me give a poop? Shut up already, who are you? Jesus?

Poop?

Could you not come up with anything better?

Go back to playing runescape with the rest of your socially inept troll like friends and leave the rest of us alone.

May Karma come back on you and cause you to lose every game you ever play!

I think you have got this game confused with Pokemon you little douchebag

My worst gaming experience is just all the ork players at my Flgs that just scream waaaaaaagh every 20 minutes or so as one of them launches a waaagh. This is done at the top of their voices (and boy is it loud) in a pretty small area that seems to amplify their cries, I mean all I wanna do is do the first part of a dark heresy mission find one clue and then jump straight to the end, kill a bunch of cultists, summon a greater deamon in doing so and then wonder if jumping to the end was the right thing to do.

Samus_aran115 wrote:Did a week make me give a poop? Shut up already, who are you? Jesus?

<mentoring mode>
Stop posting!
Take a week considering what people here have posted & why.
Then either let it blow over – and live with the stigma of being pointed out as a thief – or make the guy you stole the figure from post and tell everyone what an upstanding guy you are that not only gave him back his figure but also apologized profusely for being so childish.
</mentoring mode>

Ediin wrote:
I love my GW Stockholm as a couple of the staff love to talk tactics and army lists with customers, although I make sure to go there
after 3 PM when all the 11-year olds tend to leave.

[…]

Seriously, I never walk into the store before 3pm.

If that's not a pro-tip I don't know what is. I'll make sure to try going there after 3pm this week. I've always been forced to wade through a horde of 11 year olds when going there.

I had my worst experience a not that long ago. I'm admittadly a new player, and just finished assembling my drop pod army. I know I should probably have practiced with some friends first, but I figured that the guys at the gaming store would be fun to play with.

I met this one guy who seemed a little off, but he was also a new player. He kept scratching his butt and smelling his hands. I didn't let him touch my models.He kept getting snippy about my drop pods, saying they were lame and stuff. I dunno. I still think they can work. Anyway, I thought that the didn't scatter, but I read that rule wrong. Also, I knew that only half would land on turn 1, but I thought that you get the rest on turn 2. I now know that you have to roll for the rest. But it was my first time with drop pods, and I'm learning.

He kept arguing a lot. Like he knew the rules, like when he tried to say that all of his nids had the "Without numbers" rule. He kept talking to his dice. He said he punished one of them by eating it...I didn't ask how he got it back or which one it was. He did pause everytime he said "Let me roll for scat...ter." *shudder*

Anyway, I told him that I had to go wash my hair and packed my stuff to leave. In my haste to get away from him, I think I left my shrike that I painted. I called and asked the store manager, but he hasn't found it, yet.

whitedragon wrote:
MagickalMemories wrote:
@Balance
I think you missed the point.
The employee heard him say he was going to play Ogres, so he went and grabbed $15o in product off of the shelves that he had no idea whether scooter wanted or not. He was trying to force a sale...



Didn't scooter say he wanted to play Ogres?

What's problem?

The problem is simple when you’re a veteran gamer meaning several armies in all systems. A store manager should not be pressure selling me anything.

This is the same manager who is now working at the Memphis bunker and ing that place up just as good as he did the Baltimore bunker. It took Tom about 2 months but people are starting to come in again to play and hangout. Gw has a bad track record with hiring people and who they keep.

My little brother who is a amazing seller and people person plays the games they sell and is loving it, Perfect for the company. Tried to get a job there he went thru the hiring process and everything. They went with a guy who has never even played the game. I'm sure they have there reasons but it's never makes sense to me.

If Gw wants to fix some of the problems they have maybe they shouldn't hire morons to run and work at stores.

P.S. The Memphis manager got a death threat his first week there. That should say all. A death thereat by a 30 something guy.

Dashofpepper wrote:A new store opened up fairly close to where I used to live - I called to sign my wife up for a league, and the owner denied me permission to participate. He said, "I've heard about you - you're too competitive and I don't want you beating up on my players and scaring them away from the hobby."

Lame.

Just sign yourself up as Austin Powers. Come dressed for the part.

kronk wrote:I had my worst experience a not that long ago. I'm admittadly a new player, and just finished assembling my drop pod army. I know I should probably have practiced with some friends first, but I figured that the guys at the gaming store would be fun to play with.

I met this one guy who seemed a little off, but he was also a new player. He kept scratching his butt and smelling his hands. I didn't let him touch my models.He kept getting snippy about my drop pods, saying they were lame and stuff. I dunno. I still think they can work. Anyway, I thought that the didn't scatter, but I read that rule wrong. Also, I knew that only half would land on turn 1, but I thought that you get the rest on turn 2. I now know that you have to roll for the rest. But it was my first time with drop pods, and I'm learning.

He kept arguing a lot. Like he knew the rules, like when he tried to say that all of his nids had the "Without numbers" rule. He kept talking to his dice. He said he punished one of them by eating it...I didn't ask how he got it back or which one it was. He did pause everytime he said "Let me roll for scat...ter." *shudder*

Anyway, I told him that I had to go wash my hair and packed my stuff to leave. In my haste to get away from him, I think I left my shrike that I painted. I called and asked the store manager, but he hasn't found it, yet.

Hmm, this sounds familiar...

Samus_aran115 wrote:
A couple months back, when I'd just started 40k, I played against a marines player who was running dreadnought swarm. He was drop podding them all in. So I ask him, "Hey, what the hell are you rolling first turn for? Deep striking units come in on the second turn!" He says "No, they have a special rule"

I didn't play marines, so I had no idea how drop pods worked at the time. BUT THAT"S NOT IT! When he was deepstriking, he would never roll for scatter. I asked him why he wasn't rolling for scatter, "Yeah,uh, drop pods have a special rule."

So yeah, naturally I lost the game, on account that it was my second game. It's okay though, I stole his kayvaan shrike model, Bwahahaha. Don't leave your HQ on the floor next time, douchebag!

Well, let´s see what happens now

This just got way more interesting.

kronk wrote:Anyway, I told him that I had to go wash my hair and packed my stuff to leave. In my haste to get away from him, I think I left my shrike that I painted. I called and asked the store manager, but he hasn't found it, yet.

Thread.
Win.
You.

Whilst the topic being discussed is, clearly, of the utmost importance and seriousness, could we all watch our language and tone please, and perhaps give some though as to the appropriateness of some of the more colourful metaphors we bandy about please. Ta.

CruoAngelus wrote:

kronk wrote:I had my worst experience a not that long ago. I'm admittadly a new player, and just finished assembling my drop pod army. I know I should probably have practiced with some friends first, but I figured that the guys at the gaming store would be fun to play with.

I met this one guy who seemed a little off, but he was also a new player. He kept scratching his butt and smelling his hands. I didn't let him touch my models.He kept getting snippy about my drop pods, saying they were lame and stuff. I dunno. I still think they can work. Anyway, I thought that the didn't scatter, but I read that rule wrong. Also, I knew that only half would land on turn 1, but I thought that you get the rest on turn 2. I now know that you have to roll for the rest. But it was my first time with drop pods, and I'm learning.

He kept arguing a lot. Like he knew the rules, like when he tried to say that all of his nids had the "Without numbers" rule. He kept talking to his dice. He said he punished one of them by eating it...I didn't ask how he got it back or which one it was. He did pause everytime he said "Let me roll for scat...ter." *shudder*

Anyway, I told him that I had to go wash my hair and packed my stuff to leave. In my haste to get away from him, I think I left my shrike that I painted. I called and asked the store manager, but he hasn't found it, yet.

Hmm, this sounds familiar...

Samus_aran115 wrote:
A couple months back, when I'd just started 40k, I played against a marines player who was running dreadnought swarm. He was drop podding them all in. So I ask him, "Hey, what the hell are you rolling first turn for? Deep striking units come in on the second turn!" He says "No, they have a special rule"

I didn't play marines, so I had no idea how drop pods worked at the time. BUT THAT"S NOT IT! When he was deepstriking, he would never roll for scatter. I asked him why he wasn't rolling for scatter, "Yeah,uh, drop pods have a special rule."

So yeah, naturally I lost the game, on account that it was my second game. It's okay though, I stole his kayvaan shrike model, Bwahahaha. Don't leave your HQ on the floor next time, douchebag!

Well, let´s see what happens now

Wow... now that's what I call karma...

CruoAngelus wrote:
kronk wrote:
I had my worst experience a not that long ago. I'm admittadly a new player, and just finished assembling my drop pod army. I know I should probably have practiced with some friends first, but I figured that the guys at the gaming store would be fun to play with.

I met this one guy who seemed a little off, but he was also a new player. He kept scratching his butt and smelling his hands. I didn't let him touch my models.He kept getting snippy about my drop pods, saying they were lame and stuff. I dunno. I still think they can work. Anyway, I thought that the didn't scatter, but I read that rule wrong. Also, I knew that only half would land on turn 1, but I thought that you get the rest on turn 2. I now know that you have to roll for the rest. But it was my first time with drop pods, and I'm learning.

He kept arguing a lot. Like he knew the rules, like when he tried to say that all of his nids had the "Without numbers" rule. He kept talking to his dice. He said he punished one of them by eating it...I didn't ask how he got it back or which one it was. He did pause everytime he said "Let me roll for scat...ter." *shudder*

Anyway, I told him that I had to go wash my hair and packed my stuff to leave. In my haste to get away from him, I think I left my shrike that I painted. I called and asked the store manager, but he hasn't found it, yet.
Hmm, this sounds familiar...


Samus_aran115 wrote:

A couple months back, when I'd just started 40k, I played against a marines player who was running dreadnought swarm. He was drop podding them all in. So I ask him, "Hey, what the hell are you rolling first turn for? Deep striking units come in on the second turn!" He says "No, they have a special rule"

I didn't play marines, so I had no idea how drop pods worked at the time. BUT THAT"S NOT IT! When he was deepstriking, he would never roll for scatter. I asked him why he wasn't rolling for scatter, "Yeah,uh, drop pods have a special rule."

So yeah, naturally I lost the game, on account that it was my second game. It's okay though, I stole his kayvaan shrike model, Bwahahaha. Don't leave your HQ on the floor next time, douchebag!
Well, let´s see what happens now


Wow... now that's what I call karma...

LOL now that is funny

CruoAngelus... thanks for that.

Actually made me die a little inside. It may sound a bit wierd, though I kind of do hope that you're said person. (Even though you're not... )

Samus_Aran115 seems to have left this thread, net gain for this thread!

Kayvaan Shrike model = bad luck charm ?

Frazzled wrote:

Dashofpepper wrote:A new store opened up fairly close to where I used to live - I called to sign my wife up for a league, and the owner denied me permission to participate. He said, "I've heard about you - you're too competitive and I don't want you beating up on my players and scaring them away from the hobby."

Lame.

Just sign yourself up as Austin Powers. Come dressed for the part.

Frazzled, you are now my favorite mod on dakka.

CruoAngelus wrote:

kronk wrote:I had my worst experience a not that long ago. I'm admittadly a new player, and just finished assembling my drop pod army. I know I should probably have practiced with some friends first, but I figured that the guys at the gaming store would be fun to play with.

I met this one guy who seemed a little off, but he was also a new player. He kept scratching his butt and smelling his hands. I didn't let him touch my models.He kept getting snippy about my drop pods, saying they were lame and stuff. I dunno. I still think they can work. Anyway, I thought that the didn't scatter, but I read that rule wrong. Also, I knew that only half would land on turn 1, but I thought that you get the rest on turn 2. I now know that you have to roll for the rest. But it was my first time with drop pods, and I'm learning.

He kept arguing a lot. Like he knew the rules, like when he tried to say that all of his nids had the "Without numbers" rule. He kept talking to his dice. He said he punished one of them by eating it...I didn't ask how he got it back or which one it was. He did pause everytime he said "Let me roll for scat...ter." *shudder*

Anyway, I told him that I had to go wash my hair and packed my stuff to leave. In my haste to get away from him, I think I left my shrike that I painted. I called and asked the store manager, but he hasn't found it, yet.

Hmm, this sounds familiar...

Samus_aran115 wrote:
A couple months back, when I'd just started 40k, I played against a marines player who was running dreadnought swarm. He was drop podding them all in. So I ask him, "Hey, what the hell are you rolling first turn for? Deep striking units come in on the second turn!" He says "No, they have a special rule"

I didn't play marines, so I had no idea how drop pods worked at the time. BUT THAT"S NOT IT! When he was deepstriking, he would never roll for scatter. I asked him why he wasn't rolling for scatter, "Yeah,uh, drop pods have a special rule."

So yeah, naturally I lost the game, on account that it was my second game. It's okay though, I stole his kayvaan shrike model, Bwahahaha. Don't leave your HQ on the floor next time, douchebag!

Well, let´s see what happens now

10/10

sharkticon wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Dashofpepper wrote:A new store opened up fairly close to where I used to live - I called to sign my wife up for a league, and the owner denied me permission to participate. He said, "I've heard about you - you're too competitive and I don't want you beating up on my players and scaring them away from the hobby."

Lame.

Just sign yourself up as Austin Powers. Come dressed for the part.

Frazzled, you are now my favorite mod on dakka.

What took you so long to join the rest of us?

sharkticon wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Dashofpepper wrote:A new store opened up fairly close to where I used to live - I called to sign my wife up for a league, and the owner denied me permission to participate. He said, "I've heard about you - you're too competitive and I don't want you beating up on my players and scaring them away from the hobby."

Lame.

Just sign yourself up as Austin Powers. Come dressed for the part.

Frazzled, you are now my favorite mod on dakka.

Excellent.

now my local GW is nice enough they try and sell stuff I do not need but I not to worried.

The thing is that I went in to the store just after the nids came out was going to get back in to the game as my wife liked the models I have painted wanted me to get back into the game.

So I hunt around grab a few bits and start heading for the counter when my wife say "how much is that going to cost you?" so I told her and knowing the answer before opening my mouth get a "you’re not spending that much!!!"

Being in one of my coffee induced silly moods I acted like a big kid and was all “please please please, aahhh come on it’s not that much let me buy it”

Where apon the manager walked up to me and said that I was banned from the store for a month???????

WTF..... Well after speaking to my wife yes I was acting badly but to ban me I was not happy about that. Still has given me time to decide what army to build

linarn wrote:now my local GW is nice enough they try and sell stuff I do not need but I not to worried.

The thing is that I went in to the store just after the nids came out was going to get back in to the game as my wife liked the models I have painted wanted me to get back into the game.

So I hunt around grab a few bits and start heading for the counter when my wife say "how much is that going to cost you?" so I told her and knowing the answer before opening my mouth get a "you’re not spending that much!!!"

Being in one of my coffee induced silly moods I acted like a big kid and was all “please please please, aahhh come on it’s not that much let me buy it”

Where apon the manager walked up to me and said that I was banned from the store for a month???????

WTF..... Well after speaking to my wife yes I was acting badly but to ban me I was not happy about that. Still has given me time to decide what army to build

Right, first off, yes you were acting pretty pathetically... but don't you have your own money? Other people shouldn't tell you what to buy, only advise you on the subject.

But being banned for that was just stupid. If anything you were only helping Games Workshop's plans at economical domination. Damn them and their pocket-money thieving ways..

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

... but don't you have your own money? Other people shouldn't tell you what to buy, only advise you on the subject.

I take it you aren't married then.

linarn wrote:now my local GW is nice enough they try and sell stuff I do not need but I not to worried.

The thing is that I went in to the store just after the nids came out was going to get back in to the game as my wife liked the models I have painted wanted me to get back into the game.

So I hunt around grab a few bits and start heading for the counter when my wife say "how much is that going to cost you?" so I told her and knowing the answer before opening my mouth get a "you’re not spending that much!!!"

Being in one of my coffee induced silly moods I acted like a big kid and was all “please please please, aahhh come on it’s not that much let me buy it”

Where apon the manager walked up to me and said that I was banned from the store for a month???????

WTF..... Well after speaking to my wife yes I was acting badly but to ban me I was not happy about that. Still has given me time to decide what army to build

Pardon me for suspecting more than that to the story.

I don't have a GW store nearby (closest is about 5 hrs away I think) but when I was about 17 I was walking into my FLGS (where I now work 7 years later) for my first warhammer tournament. I'd only previously played against high elves, dark elves and dwarves, so I was excited to see the other armies. I had also only been playing for a year or so. I asked some of the guys what armies they were playing and many were friendly and showed me. However, one guy who was playing ogres at the time blew up at me and screamed that it was "none of my F*&^ing business what he was playing." This guy is thankfully no longer playing warhammer with us. He used to bounce back and forth between warhammer and magic and when he played magic he would rip up all of his cards (and the stores) cards when he lost and he constantly swears at the manager's/owner's son. This guy is also a father in his 30s. Now he just plays pokemon cards with little kids

Darkvoidof40k wrote:
Right, first off, yes you were acting pretty pathetically... but don't you have your own money? Other people shouldn't tell you what to buy, only advise you on the subject.

You married? LOL
Yes. Some couples have separate accounts. it's still ALWAYS a good idea to run large purchases by your spouse/signifigant other (i.e. She Who Must be Obeyed) to make sure there are no pressing necessities elsewhere.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:
But being banned for that was just stupid. If anything you were only helping Games Workshop's plans at economical domination. Damn them and their pocket-money thieving ways..

Agreed. Absolutely stupid.
I'd have asked if he was serious. When he confirmed that he was, I'd have dropped the $x in product on the closest table and told him I'd do him one better. I'd ban myself (and my wallet) from his store permanently. With better deals available online, there's NO reason to put up with crappy customer service.

Eric

MagickalMemories wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:
Right, first off, yes you were acting pretty pathetically... but don't you have your own money? Other people shouldn't tell you what to buy, only advise you on the subject.

You married? LOL
Yes. Some couples have separate accounts. it's still ALWAYS a good idea to run large purchases by your spouse/signifigant other (i.e. She Who Must be Obeyed) to make sure there are no pressing necessities elsewhere.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:
But being banned for that was just stupid. If anything you were only helping Games Workshop's plans at economical domination. Damn them and their pocket-money thieving ways..

Agreed. Absolutely stupid.
I'd have asked if he was serious. When he confirmed that he was, I'd have dropped the $x in product on the closest table and told him I'd do him one better. I'd ban myself (and my wallet) from his store permanently. With better deals available online, there's NO reason to put up with crappy customer service.

Eric

Yeah my last large purchase got me in so much trouble I was sleeping on the sofa lol. being married can sometimes be a drag but I would not trade it for a GW army.

As for the ban well yes there loss I will purchased most of the kit I want online as I have found some good pricing there.

Two weeks ago I was at my FLGS playing in a local Tourney. It was the final match, and I had deployed horribly and was paying the price. My opponent, who knew he had it in the bag, wiffed shooting with his long fang squad and was so upset, he head butted the table…

Frazzled wrote:Weiner Dogs!

I'm beginning to suspect, all these stock photos of Weiner dogs you summon, are because you're breeding them for war under the local gaming store...

When you release the hounds I'll have my best/worst experience at my local gaming store... I assume they tunnel towards all basements of GW everywhere.

filbert wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

... but don't you have your own money? Other people shouldn't tell you what to buy, only advise you on the subject.

I take it you aren't married then.

Evidently not.


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ChrisCP wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Weiner Dogs!

I'm beginning to suspect, all these stock photos of Weiner dogs you summon, are because you're breeding them for war under the local gaming store...

When you release the hounds I'll have my best/worst experience at my local gaming store... I assume they tunnel towards all basements of GW everywhere.

No you're completely wrong (reaches under desk and pushes the red button). Just stay where you're at...

My GF was asked by the local game bunker/store to build and paint up a big terrain board (for free) for a showcase deal (helping the store earn money at a convention that is).
After she did the job they all laughed at her and made jokes (not fun and not in a fun way) because she used some purple colours (they were ok with it in the beginning) and it was apparently soooo damn girly.

She got upset like hell and left and didnt come back and I left too, our both wallets left simultaneously.
Talk about fking ungrateful retards but hey, another gaming store gets all our money now and we buy tons of fun gaming and reading things. That it is further away is of no importance, it just feels good not spending money there any more.

On second thought I am seriously thinking about sculpting objective markers or a "bad guy" special character that looks like the store owner but ridiculed like hell and keep having 40k games in there with the "bad guy" being a really embarrassing objective or that enemy general that always dies from a stray grot pistol shot.

When I first started trying to find a flgs I looked to the GW website and used their store finder. The closest store(s) I could find was just over an hour away, fair enough I suppose.

Except that the directions from the GW website were dead wrong, one of the stores had closed a year earlier and the other had a completely diffrent address from the one listed on the website.

Not exactily a horror story but it was annoying.

Nothing wrong with purple. It's a wonderful colour.

Fafnir wrote:Nothing wrong with purple. It's a wonderful colour.

Clearly those people were fking retards, making fun of colours...


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Pryiel, you did the right thing leaving that store.

Wings of Purity wrote:

Fafnir wrote:Nothing wrong with purple. It's a wonderful colour.

Clearly those people were fking retards, making fun of colours...


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Pryiel, you did the right thing leaving that store.

I'm just dissapointed they didn't take their display board with them.

Hehe, should have smashed it, it was made by her after all so "property" destruction would be hard to prove.

Hmm... worst experience... there hasnt be too many that is SO bad that happened to me personally.

Have walked into a saturday battle bunker day though where the manager was screaming at a customer.
Initially i thought maybe he caught a thief so screaming is good. But it turns out they are just disagreeing on some rules.

Ppl were telling him to calm down and he said "well w/e im going to my lunch break" Then a red shirt told him to wash his hand ,
then the manager replied he is not going to wash his hands after using washroom ( no idea what that means , some sort of hidden meaning? )

So that was that.

I had a 5 drop pod army 4 of them died on entering deep strike, 1 landed in front of a war boss and a squad of nobs...

they fought honorably, but were slaughtered....

filbert wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

... but don't you have your own money? Other people shouldn't tell you what to buy, only advise you on the subject.

I take it you aren't married then.

How sadly true, I've worked for free for 9 years now


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Fafnir wrote:Nothing wrong with purple. It's a wonderful colour.

My wife and her entire purple Trollblood army would agree. People laugh when they hear about it, but tend to stop when she gets it out. I don't inform them beforehand she's has her B.S. degree in art therapy and sculpture and is working on her masters for the same. She spends as much time on each figure as she does for her final projects.

I had a 5 drop pod army 4 of them died on entering deep strike,

Unless you placed them in each table corner and then scattered out and rolled a bad mishap I would say it is impossible.

My wife and her entire purple Trollblood army would agree. People laugh when they hear about it, but tend to stop when she gets it out. I don't inform them beforehand she's has her B.S. degree in art therapy and sculpture and is working on her masters for the same. She spends as much time on each figure as she does for her final projects.

Sounds awesome! Any pics?

I knew a store that had a staff member cloning cards.

People on here who know what I do for a living can imagine what delight I had in sorting that out.

Over a good decade ago I was in Hammersmith GW on he second floor when a staff member leaned against a full lenght window and it broke , sending him a floor down with horrific injuries, That was not good karama

Tauzor wrote:I knew a store that had a staff member cloning cards.

People on here who know what I do for a living can imagine what delight I had in sorting that out.

Over a good decade ago I was in Hammersmith GW on he second floor when a staff member leaned against a full lenght window and it broke , sending him a floor down with horrific injuries, That was not good karama

What do you do for us who don't know (until you respond I shall assume male striper ).

Tauzor wrote:I knew a store that had a staff member cloning cards.

People on here who know what I do for a living can imagine what delight I had in sorting that out.

Over a good decade ago I was in Hammersmith GW on he second floor when a staff member leaned against a full lenght window and it broke , sending him a floor down with horrific injuries, That was not good karama

I think you've won this one. No smelly gamer/annoying kid story is going to beat somebody suffering serious injury.

I didn't post to "win" , but thank you for your comments !
I do pause sometimes and wonder what did happen to him after the ambulance whisked him away as he didn't return to the store as it closed shortly after, moved a few streets over , etc etc

He had some very hairy injuries, glad the store had a very decent medic kit (the owner was ex services and had a decent bag of goodies on him)


Male stripper... sounds good. Somehow I think only my wife would pay me, oh hang on perhaps not. I believe I have to pay her to watch me.
That's life for you after 9 years of marriage

But back then a uniform isn't far from the mark.


(edited for spelling due to 4 bottles of cider consumed)

I am a gamer from way back and I have seen everything from stinky gamers to leaking smelly bathrooms. Even a 30ish red head fat man throw a temper tantrum in a Battletech game because the store house rules did not allow him to play his custom 100 ton LAM. Which he threw against the wall shattering the figure and putting a nice hole in the other wall. But what gets me is theives, these guys drive me nuts I have had my whole Chaos terminator squad taken from my large sports bag at a tourney in GamCon once I was so made, got them back after a player pointed out the guy before he left the tourney room. Another time in a gaming store a 10 man plastic assualt squad was taken as I was taking a break in an Appocolips tourney and got the mini's on my own and not called the cops, like they would do anything about $10 of plastic mini's. But to make a long story short I was banned from the store as the store owner thought I was trying to start trouble with a rival store, not true just getting my mini's back my way. Now if I get this right, the other guy commited a crime and I get punished now thats what I call a screw job. I do hate it when stores take a rivalry to the point of making death threats among each other and others as that is bad sportmanship. I think I handled my buisiness in a fair and unviolent way not involving the police, no one went to jail yet gamers threaten my life as well as threatening a 4 on 1 beating if I showed up to the store again. I showed up 2 weeks latter to see if these clowns wanted to make good on their so-called threats..guess what they backed down and never spoke to me again. Hence I don't go to that store anymore as it still keeps to their standards as Regs have all the rights and newbies have no rights. And thats about all I got to say about that....; )

I would like to hear this "long story" that you made short.

I guess that I haven't really had any bad events. All the people at the store I go to (Westfield Oakridge in south San Jose!) Are really quite awesome and helpful to me as a noob gamer. I have yet to see one do any ridiculously aggressive sales pitching. They ask me the standard 'Do ya have all the pain/primer/brushes you need?"

I'm not sure if that's an exception to the rule, but just wondering if anyone else happens to go to that GW? And if they do, any TFG I should look out for?

CruoAngelus wrote:

kronk wrote:I had my worst experience a not that long ago. I'm admittadly a new player, and just finished assembling my drop pod army. I know I should probably have practiced with some friends first, but I figured that the guys at the gaming store would be fun to play with.

I met this one guy who seemed a little off, but he was also a new player. He kept scratching his butt and smelling his hands. I didn't let him touch my models.He kept getting snippy about my drop pods, saying they were lame and stuff. I dunno. I still think they can work. Anyway, I thought that the didn't scatter, but I read that rule wrong. Also, I knew that only half would land on turn 1, but I thought that you get the rest on turn 2. I now know that you have to roll for the rest. But it was my first time with drop pods, and I'm learning.

He kept arguing a lot. Like he knew the rules, like when he tried to say that all of his nids had the "Without numbers" rule. He kept talking to his dice. He said he punished one of them by eating it...I didn't ask how he got it back or which one it was. He did pause everytime he said "Let me roll for scat...ter." *shudder*

Anyway, I told him that I had to go wash my hair and packed my stuff to leave. In my haste to get away from him, I think I left my shrike that I painted. I called and asked the store manager, but he hasn't found it, yet.

Hmm, this sounds familiar...

Samus_aran115 wrote:
A couple months back, when I'd just started 40k, I played against a marines player who was running dreadnought swarm. He was drop podding them all in. So I ask him, "Hey, what the hell are you rolling first turn for? Deep striking units come in on the second turn!" He says "No, they have a special rule"

I didn't play marines, so I had no idea how drop pods worked at the time. BUT THAT"S NOT IT! When he was deepstriking, he would never roll for scatter. I asked him why he wasn't rolling for scatter, "Yeah,uh, drop pods have a special rule."

So yeah, naturally I lost the game, on account that it was my second game. It's okay though, I stole his kayvaan shrike model, Bwahahaha. Don't leave your HQ on the floor next time, douchebag!

Well, let´s see what happens now

Kronk, please confront him about the theft. I will buy you a new shrike model if you film it for comedic gold

what about people reading the books on the shelfs...lol store employee..."This is not a library!" so funny...but happens daily....as for my last post the long story would just be to painful to remember and I dun want to upset others.

My wife and her entire purple Trollblood army would agree. People laugh when they hear about it, but tend to stop when she gets it out. I don't inform them beforehand she's has her B.S. degree in art therapy and sculpture and is working on her masters for the same. She spends as much time on each figure as she does for her final projects.

Sounds awesome! Any pics?

LunaHound wrote:Hmm... worst experience...

Ppl were telling him to calm down and he said "well w/e im going to my lunch break" Then a red shirt told him to wash his hand ,
then the manager replied he is not going to wash his hands after using washroom ( no idea what that means , some sort of hidden meaning? )

So that was that.

means that he planned on going to the bathroom, have a piss and not wash his hands.. so everything he'd touch would have gross nerd rage dick food germs on it.

MagickalMemories wrote: You married? LOL
Yes. Some couples have separate accounts. it's still ALWAYS a good idea to run large purchases by your spouse/signifigant other (i.e. She Who Must be Obeyed) to make sure there are no pressing necessities elsewhere.

I have a great fondness for Rumploe of the bailey both the books and the miniseries.

I once donated a whole box of terrain, buildings, walls, tree's and old vehicles to a store for a big tourney comming up. After the turner the store owner threw away all those perfectly made and painted goodies I donated saying there was no room in the store for em. I was real sad I put alot of work into that stuff ::sobs remembering the thought again::

No bad experiences for me. My FLGS manager is a pretty laid back person. I mean he even took an hour long nap while me and my friend were playing a game

I'm sure he was "just resting his eyes"...

Resting his eyes while snoring?

He had something stuck in his throat...

How about a distinctly Unfriendly Game Store attending a wargames show? Where the guy on the stand started talking quite loudly to his friends about my wife's Stonewall bag. (Stonewall being a british gay/lesbian charity). He started mocking how "they" complain about discrimination but "bring it upon themselves" and then started pouring disgust upon a local gay pride march that he had seen.

Needless to say we put the stuff down and didn't make any purchases but fortunately found the same stuff cheaper elsewhere - cheers douchbag!

Cletusthebold wrote:Two weeks ago I was at my FLGS playing in a local Tourney. It was the final match, and I had deployed horribly and was paying the price. My opponent, who knew he had it in the bag, wiffed shooting with his long fang squad and was so upset, he head butted the table…

Same guy was at this last weekend's Tourney. In the first round, Saturday, his drop pod scatters off the table so he throws it and it shatters. Game store owners gave him a warning. Yesterday at the semi finals, he blows a dice roll, throws his dice across the room and ragequits. He then packs his stuff and leaves.

Cletusthebold wrote:

Cletusthebold wrote:Two weeks ago I was at my FLGS playing in a local Tourney. It was the final match, and I had deployed horribly and was paying the price. My opponent, who knew he had it in the bag, wiffed shooting with his long fang squad and was so upset, he head butted the table…

Same guy was at this last weekend's Tourney. In the first round, Saturday, his drop pod scatters off the table so he throws it and it shatters. Game store owners gave him a warning. Yesterday at the semi finals, he blows a dice roll, throws his dice across the room and ragequits. He then packs his stuff and leaves.

At this rate, in a few weeks, he'll be lucky if he can play a kill-team game.. I mean, this guy is either really dumb or has serious anger management issues. Or both.

If I told the long story in this forum someone might get upsetr and get me kicked off the forum I could PM it lol

LordWynne wrote:If I told the long story in this forum someone might get upsetr and get me kicked off the forum I could PM it lol

Umm...why would you be kicked off for a long story?

Coincidentally, one of the long running employees at my flgs in cork city had his Shrike stolen out of the store too.

Is this model cursed or something? lol

I'm painting his second one at the moment and I'm starting to worry it is going to vanish into thin air before I get to deliver it back to him.

LordWynne wrote:If I told the long story in this forum someone might get upsetr and get me kicked off the forum I could PM it lol

go ahead and tell it.

jetjetex wrote:

LordWynne wrote:If I told the long story in this forum someone might get upsetr and get me kicked off the forum I could PM it lol

go ahead and tell it,im the op so go ahead.

Just cause your the OP doesnt mean you can give people permission to post things that could possibly be against the forum rules in your thread...

There is no rule about it,i already checked before i posted.

I think because of its content, not just because it is long.



I want PM.

@ LordWynne-can you PM me and i'll post it?

jetjetex wrote:@ LordWynne-can you PM me and i'll post it?

This really defeats the point of a PrivateMessage.

Also, I wouldn't mind the PM either.

i'm sortof interested in this long story aswell, pm would be nice

as of ontopic, no bad gamers yet, i play very little and also at a person's house instead of a store so if someone's obnoxious you can kick him out

Fine i would like a PM as well.

Ok, so it wasn't my worst experience, but it was a pretty bad one for a redshirt. I went in there with my younger cousin to kill some time while we were waiting for my sisters' flight, and during the 2 hours we were there he ended up getting into a really good conversation with the redshirt's girlfriend, who met him at a bar later that night and came with him to my wedding 3 days later. Needless to say, we are no longer welcome at that location.

I've had rather few poor experiences truth be told.

However one sticks out in my head.

This guy who showed up to the store tourneys every other month comes with an attitude of basically he knows all the rules (but knows them wrong) and gets super pissed whenever something bad happens to his army. He brought several different armies over the course of almost a year. His first one being Tyranids where he steadfastly maintained that his Gaunts granted a cover save to his Carnifex and Hive Tyrants, and got very angry when people tried to point out that this was not the case. It goes on like this pretty much every time he shows up, nobody enjoys games against him, and by the end of the day he always looks like someone pissed in his cheerios. The prizes are done by raffle and gets annoyed when he doesn't get anything.

He has consistent major vocal rules issues just about every game he plays (trying to demand that his lascannons, despite their fire originating from the front arc must hit side arc since that's all he could see, but without the 3+ cover save for angled fire, throws a profanity laced fit at a 14 year old over Calgar's pass/fail Ld rules calling him a blatant liar, demanding that any immobilzed skimmer was dead period, refusing to play a GK player he would have tabled with his CSM's because of the DH armies special rules, etc) and then finally after several events he faces me in the last round of a store tournament. We were using the Battle Missions, so nobody was too happy with the missions, however he had the best of all worlds in deployment and turn order, but every time I would harm one of his units he looked like I just ran over his cat, and would argue for cover saves for having two of seven guys hidden or for tanks firing clearly *over* (not through) other units, spending lots of time looking up rules and reading, then proceeds to do all sorts of derpy things like not allocating wounds properly, playing his Chaos Terminators as though they were Fearless (didn't like it at all when I pointed that out to him) etc.

Finally during the game I just stop playing seriously and just roll dice at whatever I see. He is clearly agitated about time, wanting to rush through the last 3 turns in 15 minutes despite very vocally wanting to stop his previous game at turn 4 with about the same amount of time left. The game ends in an objectives draw. Fine, whatever. We end the tournament and go to prize drawings and the event ends.

He then goes on to complain about how slow games went and how the TO always seems bothered to have to deal with rules questions. When the TO responds that if he played in a more sportsmanlike manner with fewer rules issues that time might not be a problem, he blows a gasket. After we respond basically pointing out his past behavior and issues (the stuff above) he goes on a tirade about how I went out of my way to model for advantage and how I was apparently changing Leman Russ weapons every single turn (without bringing anything like that up during the game of course, only after he gets called out) and stalling for time and ravaging another player who spoke out about his behavior for making huge measurement errors and says he always looks pissed because of the rampant cheating, basically addressing none of the complaints and instead just slinging mud, the store manager finally decides enough is enough and asks him not to return to the store.

A terrible experience really that I hope not to have to endure again.

i wanna know

Oddest thing was at the Toulouse store, last summer, with a lady friend. We passed by a table, a guy drops a single dice in front of her, picks it up, and proceeds to say something about being terribly sorry and incoherent blubber from then on (about 30 seconds of it). She thinks he was hitting on her, so she just nods, and walks past him to my side.

Other than that, I really loved, in 2000/2001, the Oxford street store and Swansea store - the staff was just ace. As I left the Oxford St. store I heard my father say, "600€ on miniatures? Fawk". While at Swansea I just picked up a Vindicator to make up for it. And some more Tactical Marines.

OT, can I still get a snyde remark at Samus?
Kidding. I just hope you don't go over the same thing - not that you probably didn't deserve it, but because it's a rotten feeling I wouldn't wish for anyone to experience.

LordWynne could you PM me the story as well?

syanticraven wrote:I haven't had a bad experience in my GW (glasgow), I dont go often but everytime I go in the boys are friendly and helpful, they usually shout hello to you when you come in.

There is one guy who I love, I asked him about the new Dark elves around the time they where set to come out and he talked to me for ages about them, showed me his copy of the new codex, some of the new model figures. It was how a staff member should be.

That's pretty much how the ladies and gentlemen working at my local GW in Gothenburg are. They are always happy to see people walking into the store, and everytime I've entered the store, they've always asked me if I need any help. IE last week I had a hard time to choose vehicle for my Imperial Guard army. Then this guy comes up to me and recommends the new Manticore set and the new Leman Russ set. He said he thought there's nothing cooler than to have a looted rocket-shooting vehicle in his Ork army. In my personal opinion I think stuff like that is really fun. It's not always about yourself - what you play and are looking for - they tell stuff about themselves aswell.

The only negative experience I've had was... Hmm.
One day I was gonna buy the new Hellhound set for my army. I entered the store, said hello to the black shirts, went to the Imperial Guard section. But then I see this guy heading to the checkout with the last available Hellhound kit in the store. Nothing too bad, but that's the "worst" experience I've ever had at the local GW.

Cheese Elemental wrote:

CruoAngelus wrote:

kronk wrote:I had my worst experience a not that long ago. I'm admittadly a new player, and just finished assembling my drop pod army. I know I should probably have practiced with some friends first, but I figured that the guys at the gaming store would be fun to play with.

I met this one guy who seemed a little off, but he was also a new player. He kept scratching his butt and smelling his hands. I didn't let him touch my models.He kept getting snippy about my drop pods, saying they were lame and stuff. I dunno. I still think they can work. Anyway, I thought that the didn't scatter, but I read that rule wrong. Also, I knew that only half would land on turn 1, but I thought that you get the rest on turn 2. I now know that you have to roll for the rest. But it was my first time with drop pods, and I'm learning.

He kept arguing a lot. Like he knew the rules, like when he tried to say that all of his nids had the "Without numbers" rule. He kept talking to his dice. He said he punished one of them by eating it...I didn't ask how he got it back or which one it was. He did pause everytime he said "Let me roll for scat...ter." *shudder*

Anyway, I told him that I had to go wash my hair and packed my stuff to leave. In my haste to get away from him, I think I left my shrike that I painted. I called and asked the store manager, but he hasn't found it, yet.

Hmm, this sounds familiar...

Samus_aran115 wrote:
A couple months back, when I'd just started 40k, I played against a marines player who was running dreadnought swarm. He was drop podding them all in. So I ask him, "Hey, what the hell are you rolling first turn for? Deep striking units come in on the second turn!" He says "No, they have a special rule"

I didn't play marines, so I had no idea how drop pods worked at the time. BUT THAT"S NOT IT! When he was deepstriking, he would never roll for scatter. I asked him why he wasn't rolling for scatter, "Yeah,uh, drop pods have a special rule."

So yeah, naturally I lost the game, on account that it was my second game. It's okay though, I stole his kayvaan shrike model, Bwahahaha. Don't leave your HQ on the floor next time, douchebag!

Well, let´s see what happens now

10/10

Worse expierence i had was @ my local GW when they had a GW store by me. I was playing a small game with a friend. Then this little kid came up and grabbed one of my mini's. I was like, " dude, thats not yours." The manager, who was a good friend of mine basically asked where the kids mother was. It was rosie o'donnel walking it saying" Kids go ahead and touch what you want." THe friend(the manager) walked over and nicely ask mr o'donell to please ask your kids not to touch the minuatures in the store. They are for people over the age of 13. She flipped out on him. She started to say, how dare you speak to me like that, you have no right to tell what my childern what to do..." I honestly stood there and laughed the whole time.
I find out 5 years later, that same kid is playing @ my lcgs, and his mother bought him two Thunderhawks...hmmmmm

Ma55ter_fett wrote:

MagickalMemories wrote: You married? LOL
Yes. Some couples have separate accounts. it's still ALWAYS a good idea to run large purchases by your spouse/signifigant other (i.e. She Who Must be Obeyed) to make sure there are no pressing necessities elsewhere.

I have a great fondness for Rumploe of the bailey both the books and the miniseries.

I'm 100% certain that I have absolutely NO idea what you just said. : )

Eric

once i was at my GW and ws playing a game against my friend's IG when this little kid tan up and grabbed my newly assembled Chaos LR and and starts running around the room like it's a HotWheels car and is racing it around. I go to the kid and ask for it back and the kid's dad starts yelling at me for not sharing with his kid. I explain to the guy that its a fifty dollar model and not all the glue is dry yet as the kid starts spinning around. Finally the little guy puts the model down and the dad gives me a filthy "i told you so look" and tells his son that he's gonna buy him an ice cream cone. I weep for the future. Too may spoiled rotten kids/

Finding out my nearest GW store changed its hours to close at 8 pm when I need an hour to drive there and finish work at 5:30.

My worst GW experience was a month or two ago....

Basically it was just me and my dad at home and my dad had to go to a meeting at work. So he said "why don't i drop you off at the GW store (which is on the way) and pick you up after my meeting?" I agreed and my dad dropped me off and said he'd be back in about 4 hours.

So i got into the GW store and see what i normally see, the regualrs playin games and painting. From what i hear these guys are here ever day, well every day they aren't at school/college whatever, they're in there everytime i go, and i often hear them saying things "ooh, remember that gaem yesterday..." and "i'll bring my orks and play you tomorrow" so you can gather they're in there a lot. So i walk in and the GW guy says "hey, what are you here for today then?" i reply "just to play a game or two" then follows a small exchange about what armies i've brought etc... At the end of this he says "you'll just have to wait a bit, the tables are full atm". So i walk over to the game that looks closest to finishing and watch.

After twenty minutes or so it finishes. I reach for my celebraations tin, packed with tyranids, but two people (the regualrs) get there first. I say that i was about to play and oferred to play one of them but they said they had reserved the table after the previuos guys had finished. Basically this goes on and on, the regular people getiing games beofre me, and although i talk to the GW guy about this he says wait and continues to say this even when i explain that my dad'll be here soon. He didnt even let me clear the table where the AoBR was being shown off, which the other store worker lets us do. So all i did for that two hours was set and read the planetstrike book! :(

Im basically blaming the GW guy for not saying "hey this guy has been waiting for a while and you guys always come here" or clearing the table and the regular kids (who probably play more games in a weekend than i do in a month) for hogging the tables.

Hehe the kid stories get me...

I cant believe some parents will drop their 12/13 year old child off at the store and leave him unattended for hours. I understand that some kids are mature and will do fine, and once they prove themselves mature i have no problem with it. Untill then tho, parent really need to accompany their kids into the store...

One FLGS i played at had pokemon card day on saturday morning, there were parents dropping off their 8 year old kids and leaving them there....

Eventually the manager got annoyed with it and put up a sign saying, "children under 16 must be accompanied by a parent at all times unless they have manager permission".

The only bad expirience I've had at my FLGS is that neither of the owners/managers are interested in 40k at all. We did manage to subvert an employee though .

CrazyThang wrote:The only bad expirience I've had at my FLGS is that neither of the owners/managers are interested in 40k at all. We did manage to subvert an employee though .

Meh i have the opposite problem in my area. 90% of the gaming stores do "40k and fantasy" but they have ZERO fantasy crowd.

Luckily i found a store that does fantasy mostly and has a decent crowd their.

The worst?

A 12 year old throwing up a couple of Happy Meals over a gaming table right next to me. Feth the smell, I made that table along with everything that was displayed on it, including a mutated hag tree and the best custom trees I ever created. The hag tree was sealed with varnish but they had to dump the table itself and most of the foliage. Two weeks worth of work down the drain.

Though the guy that had to wash the Beastmen army had it even worse.

ShivanAngel wrote:

Meh i have the opposite problem in my area. 90% of the gaming stores do "40k and fantasy" but they have ZERO fantasy crowd.

Luckily i found a store that does fantasy mostly and has a decent crowd their.

Somthing looks weird about this. what could it be?

90% of the gaming stores do "40k and fantasy" but they have ZERO fantasy crowd.

MMMM were is it?

do "40k and fantasy" but they have ZERO fantasy crowd

I think

do.......Fantasy....... O never mind.




LOL sorry about to leave work I'm trolling

They say that they have both 40k and fantasy there, but no one actually plays fantasy!!!

IF people showed up the would tho!

KamenRiderW wrote:Worse expierence i had was @ my local GW when they had a GW store by me. I was playing a small game with a friend. Then this little kid came up and grabbed one of my mini's. I was like, " dude, thats not yours." The manager, who was a good friend of mine basically asked where the kids mother was. It was rosie o'donnel walking it saying" Kids go ahead and touch what you want." THe friend(the manager) walked over and nicely ask mr o'donell to please ask your kids not to touch the minuatures in the store. They are for people over the age of 13. She flipped out on him. She started to say, how dare you speak to me like that, you have no right to tell what my childern what to do..." I honestly stood there and laughed the whole time.
I find out 5 years later, that same kid is playing @ my lcgs, and his mother bought him two Thunderhawks...hmmmmm

2 thunderhawks?that kid is freakin' spoiled!

Leaving empty handed.

oni wrote:Leaving empty handed.

Atleast your wallet's happy.

My worst experience was when I went In and all the employees asked me what army I collected one after the other with about 2 mins inbetween each one.

IT WAS ANNOYING!

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

oni wrote:Leaving empty handed.

Atleast your wallet's happy.

That's a good point, it's not normally us who have a bad time at GW, it's our wallets....

I would love q pm of the story as well

Little lord Fauntleroy wrote:

CrazyThang wrote:Pwease Faunt? Sit me down by the fire and tell me a fun story of the olden times. I'll just grab my milk, cookies, and blankie...

Here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/210/258425.page#1070666. Scroll down a little if my post doesn't appear immeadiatly

And weep, for his like shall never walk the galaxy again.

Draw blood on me I draw blood on you. You had every right to bust his nose open as a lesson in common sense. He should have been charged with assault with ( as you described it ) intent to kill... What a freaking nut!

DA's Forever wrote:Resting his eyes while snoring?

My cat snores while he is awake. I would not be surprised if this also happened to managers, much like getting a manager's paunch

The Night Lord wrote:My worst experience was when I went In and all the employees asked me what army I collected one after the other with about 2 mins inbetween each one.

IT WAS ANNOYING!

There's a trick to it, tell each of them seperate armies

I haven't had many bad experiences in my local GW stores, though never really frequented any FLGS, there was always a closer GW who would have more stock, though there was a hobbyist store which, while stocking prestiguous amounts of plasticard, rods, balsa wood, stamped plastic sheets and the like, was more leant towards train set enthuisiasts than anything else. There are however, a couple of things that stick out for both the best and worst.

Most of my best experiences revolve around my old GW in Grimsby (20 mins drive), who had a very laid-back attitude to the shop while at the same time being really friendly. They also stuck a big fan on at the back of the store and propped open the door on hot days so the smell wasn't too bad. One of the GW's where the mantra of making a store welcoming and that the longer people hang around the store the more likely they are to buy something has been really fulfilled, though you really if ever saw a manager on the shop floor . One thing in particular stands out, which is when my boyfriend bought a Basilisk and we got it home and found the wheels were missing. We took it back, and got given a new Basilisk no charge. He now fields a Basilisk and a Earthshaker Cannon Platform.

Worst experience I ever had in a GW was when I moved up to where I am currently in bonny Scotland, and went into the local GW (20 mins walk, oh yeah ) and was just looking around and saying hi, hoping for the same kind of atmosphere and welcome as I would have got from Grimsby. Ooohed over some amazing Tyranids in the windows which had me considering whether a third 40k army would be feasible vis a vis money and space, when someone comes up to me and starts talking about Warmachine. Myself, being a clueless newbie on anything non-GW related, went "Oh is that the one with the small models?" confusing it with Warmaster. At which point the redshirt, who had been listening in to this, gets quite aggressive and states they don't allow talking about Warmachine in the shop (making me incredibly confused) and if we want to do that, we can get out. I'm feeling confused and upset, the other guy leaves in a huff, and I'm ignored for the rest of the brief time I say in the shop like some kind of pariah, despite asking for an explanation.

Needless to say, I didn't really go back into the shop for a good nine months, until I saw someone new in there and went in. I bought a WD subscription, looked around, chatted happily and complained about my previous experience. I got an apology from the guy, even though he had nothing to do with it, and told that indeed, this person was no longer working there. Since then it's become my local in truth and I enjoy going in there for a quick catch-up, to see if there is anything new (I got to oggle the new Seekers before they were released, though after they were up for pre-order ). The manager is a joker and great with the kids, actually able to keep them under control without the screaming tantrums. Also highly entertaining for the adults . The other is always up for a discussion on models and armies, and has a real passion for the games which really shines through.

Also, I've never really had a problem with the "omg a girl" thing. Perhaps I'm just not enough of a looker.

And....to add a 4th story to this thread. =p


I played in a BMF (Baddest Mother F***er) tournament this past weekend. Single elimination, 1500 points. I brought my Dark Eldar; took down two space wolf players, a chaos daemon player, and an IG player and landed at the top of the heap as the winner.

No issues during the tournament, had a great time....

And afterwards, a couple of people who weren't even in the tournament started complaining on the local forum that I was a douche for bringing a tournament list and only entering the tournament to win, promising that they would never voluntarily play me, that their friends won't play me, and that I'm not welcome in the communty. I'm Shelix on the forums there if you want the entertainment.

Huh.

You sure seem to attract a certain... crowd, don't you?

And really, what the heck is a "Shelix"?

No way "Dashofpepper" was taken on "karakgorbard.com"!

Alpharius wrote:

And really, what the heck is a "Shelix"?

Sounds like a breed(?) of Pokemon...

I hate Shelix because he brings tournament lists to freaking tournaments. What a douche. Can't think of a better reason to get angry.


If that wasnt from another forum that would make a great sig.

Wasn't that from "Shelix/Dashofpepper" himself?

Quote away!

It was

Dash, we gotta get you up North one of these days, you should come to the War Store Weekend. We can play some 40k and then go get plastered.

Meh i feel kind of the same way as dash...

If im paying money to play, and there arent soft scores, im bring the baddest fething list i can...

Why pay to play in a tourny and not plan to win...

Yes, that was a quote from me - I was mocking the guy named Kieran in the thread because he called me a douche, and said he didn't enter because he knew some douchebaggery and WAAC-ish stuff was going to be in and ruin the fun.

You can quote me if you like - just insert "Dashofpepper" instead of Shelix.

Catypelius, if you'll change the words around you might get my interest. "We can go get plastered and then play some 40k" is right up my alley. Also, "We can go play some 40k and get plastered" works too.

I also dont mind tournies with comp rules. Its fine as long as its not your opponents doing it...

Nothing worse then someone losing and hitting you for comp cause they just werent as good as you and the blame "your cheesy list"

Catyrpelius wrote:It was

Dash, we gotta get you up North one of these days, you should come to the War Store Weekend. We can play some 40k and then go get plastered.

Also, are you coming to the Nova Open? D.C. isn't so far from Jersey. If you haven't signed up yet, they have a few slots open still I think.

Nope, I wont be in D.C. I started a new job about six months back and I have very little vacation time.

We can drink and play 40k in any order, I do all the time.

Catyrpelius wrote:Nope, I wont be in D.C. I started a new job about six months back and I have very little vacation time.

We can drink and play 40k in any order, I do all the time.

Careful about the order though - you might find yourself across the table from "Shelix" instead of "Dashofpepper"!

Or maybe even on... the same side of the table!!!

At my GW, we all practically know each other. Well, I was playing a game against someone that everyone pretty much disliked. When I started winning, he decides to insult my girlfriend in a perverse


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way for an hour straight. Needless to say, I tabled him. I am known as the 'nice guy' at my GW and all the others said I should have decked him.

BAD2 wrote:At my GW, we all practically know each other. Well, I was playing a game against someone that everyone pretty much disliked. When I started winning, he decides to insult my girlfriend in a perverse


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way for an hour straight. Needless to say, I tabled him. I am known as the 'nice guy' at my GW and all the others said I should have decked him.

All the trouble you would've gotten in aside, you should have decked him. Taken it outside first, then just roughed him up a bit. Who the feth insults someones girlfriend because they're loosing a miniature game? For one thing, I'd say that he probably doesn't even have a girlfriend.



I might have to go and make an alter ego of this thread - "What was the best experience you have ever had at a gw or a local gaming store?"

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

BAD2 wrote:At my GW, we all practically know each other. Well, I was playing a game against someone that everyone pretty much disliked. When I started winning, he decides to insult my girlfriend in a perverse


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way for an hour straight. Needless to say, I tabled him. I am known as the 'nice guy' at my GW and all the others said I should have decked him.

All the trouble you would've gotten in aside, you should have decked him. Taken it outside first, then just roughed him up a bit. Who the feth insults someones girlfriend because they're loosing a miniature game? For one thing, I'd say that he probably doesn't even have a girlfriend.



I might have to go and make an alter ego of this thread - "What was the best experience you have ever had at a gw or a local gaming store?"

Yeah my girlfriend totally digs it when I have wild outbursts of testosterone, it's even more intense when I boil it down to a focused rage and fail to control my actions in that fashion too.

If management won't remove someone being abusive from their store without your asking, then ask, if management want someone who behaves in that fashion there and you want to stay there with that knowledge... well that's your choice then.

Darkvoidof40k wrote: "What was the best experience you have ever had at a gw or a local gaming store?"

You would be the third person to do so...

Klawz wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote: "What was the best experience you have ever had at a gw or a local gaming store?"

You would be the third person to do so...

It has to be when a pesky staff member broke my Gigant, and then preceded to argue that he was not going to pay for a new one... I hate Plastic Gigants, metal is much more idiot safe

Anshal wrote:It has to be when a pesky staff member broke my Gigant, and then preceded to argue that he was not going to pay for a new one... I hate Plastic Gigants, metal is much more idiot safe

What's a gigant? Or are you referring to a Gargant? Or a giant perhaps? Also, it does depend on the amount of damage caused.. perhaps he should've atleast offered to sell you another one with 50% or more off.

You don't scratch build your gargants?! For shame!

Worst Experience? For me at the LGS. I'm a regular and most of the staff know me. So one day I was checking out the new imperial guard stuff and I see the manager of the store for the first time. The guy next to me was checking out the sprues that the manager laid out so people could check them out. I was in love with the command squad box so I got a box from the shelf and waited. The customer at the counter was talking to the manager for a while so I continued to look around the store.

The manager then comes up to me after a few minutes of looking around and asks me if I'm buying anything, if I wasn't I'd have to go away because his store isn't a place to loiter. I showed him I was going to buy the IG box and he just scowled and said "Pay for it already" So I payed for it at the counter and one of the staff which I knew came and talked with me about the new IG. I told him that his boss was very rude.

I came there another time and saw the manager again. This time I went in to buy a new pot of Dark Angels Green and a pack of City of Heroes CCG on special. The store was empty except for me and two people, and I walk up to the counter to pay but the guy just ignores me. I ask him respectfully but he just keeps ignoring me. After a few minutes of trying to get his attention I just told him that he's the worst manager I've ever met and walked off without buying anything. Since then I've never gone back.

Well I never thought I'd post in this thread as my LGS is freaking awesome, but here I am. Well my friend has really helped the 40k scene by getting our own website and setting up tournaments (we even got to run ard boyz this year) and one of the big factors was we got a lot of people to donate/buy terrain for the stores lack of terrain. Nothing to fancy but still it was pretty good. Well this Friday my friend and I go to the store to find that someone had literally taken all of the terrain and put it on one of the tables not like they were playing any sort of 40k I've ever seen. Basically buildings were stacked up on each other, hills and more terrain was shoved under the table etc... after cleaning up the mess we find that several of the crashed lander pieces were broken off, a building needs to be re-glued and just other pieces were missing from some terrain pieces.

Nothing really major but it's just that we had really worked hard on getting all of the terrain together and putting and painting it just have some kid or donkey-cave to come and mess with it. We don't know who did it, it must have happen during the week and we make sure whoever uses it puts it up after the game is over and the magic crowd doesn't mess with it. Like I said nothing really major just bummed that it happen.

Dashofpepper wrote:And....to add a 4th story to this thread. =p


I played in a BMF (Baddest Mother F***er) tournament this past weekend. Single elimination, 1500 points. I brought my Dark Eldar; took down two space wolf players, a chaos daemon player, and an IG player and landed at the top of the heap as the winner.

No issues during the tournament, had a great time....

And afterwards, a couple of people who weren't even in the tournament started complaining on the local forum that I was a douche for bringing a tournament list and only entering the tournament to win, promising that they would never voluntarily play me, that their friends won't play me, and that I'm not welcome in the communty. I'm Shelix on the forums there if you want the entertainment.

Thanks a lot dashofpepper. I just lost about 20 IQ points for reading that ing flame wars thread.

Those guys were just sad with the level that they take their miniatures game to.

I'm considering making up a batch of popcorn while reading the flamewar Dash mentioned. It's quite entertaining. I've read a few posts of his on here that I haven't fully agreed with, but I can't fault his actions at the BMF-if you're playing to see who's the best, then bring your best-play casual games with a casual list, play the most competitive list possible at a competitive tourney. I don't think it's rocket science. I'm not gonna join the other site to side with you Dash, but I'll say I'm in support on here. I don't want the guys on the other site to strain their minimum IQs and pop an embolism in their brain while trying to add me to their insults.

Wait, did he...did he seriously start b*tching, because you brought a good list to a tourney?
Is he seriously complaining that you attempted to win, in a tournament?

I think I need to go lie down now.

from the looks of it, the initial argument started because according to shelix (dashofpepper) someone yawned during a game, and it seemed as he/she found it boring.
i think someone else mentioned shelix having a lame list and because of this the person found the game boring or whatevs.
im on shelix's side for this one, because apparently the guys from the club are [the sort of people who would use a politically incorrect name for mentally disadvantaged people to describe people making poor judgements] to flame someone what appears to be someone yawning.
i also find it expecially funny since shelix started the original message saying he had a great time and that the tourny was awesome or something :p

Heh.

"I'm not yawning because your list is boring. I'm yawning because your mom kept me up all night."

Don't people know who to smack talk properly anymore?


EDIT: Now that I've read some of that flame war and seen that was a gamer chick, that would have made the smack talk SO much funnier... Sorry for that.

Flamewars make me die inside :(


The saddest bit was the desperate little "can't we just be friends?" plea from someone called zorba

sjefke wrote:from the looks of it, the initial argument started because according to shelix (dashofpepper) someone yawned during a game, and it seemed as he/she found it boring.
p

That isn't where it started, but that was added fuel. This whole thing has OFFICIALLY become the worst gaming experience and the worst LGS I've ever experienced. I went to a second tournament there, the TO played in his own tournament and matched himself up against me. He was changing the rules of the tournament around midway through to try gaining an advantage, measuring extra inches, rolling extra dice, making illegal assaults....BLATANTLY cheating.

I monkey-stomped him anyway.

Flame war later, I'm banned from the store. =p

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/310938.page

Me and a Mate whilst looking at some models being in there for about 30 seconds hear the cry from the dude working....
"DID SOME ONE SAY SPACE HULK?"
and quite clearly we had not!
Proceeded to then explain all about it and trying to get us to come back and play it with him, he was lonely, he only had one small kid for
company!

He quizzed me on Warhammer and I made some rubbish up about only collecting fun models with things like the staff of wisdom and the orb of
truth.
He talked to my mate instead.

To add my own little story with GW. The local GW had a run of different managers. One day/evening I wondered in looking for my next project to make. The manager comes over(1st meeting with him, never seen him before), says the usual stuff and I respond in a friendly manner as you do, just looking for my next conversion project. Get into conversation of sorts what I did for a living(call centre in customer service), invites me to a vets gaming night, and I mention that I'm more of a hobbist and dont really play that often. To which he took massive offence and had a full blowen go at me, saying that "I should and you think you are to good for playing the game with all us little freaks, is that it..well". He wasnt just talking it was quite agressive.

Least to say I stood there in complete shock, and I mean it was like did that actualy happen? is he being serious?(which he was as it turned out) I looked at the long term staff member and he just looked back in agreement of What just happened?. At which point I took my leave as any longer I would of had to extend my arm to connect my fist up side his fething head. Now I'll mention at this point I was 24 years of age. So wasnt being pissing with him, I'm not at all immature, so was all friendly converstaion till that point.

Next day I went back in with my missus to get the stuff I looked out, (always run it by the missus especaily when you just dropped £100 the fortnight before). Anyways, went in and the manager was there, he comes over as says looking for anything with the look of disgust across his face to say get out. I say yeah, he walks off sits back down at the store modeling/painting table and strikes up a conversation with the regulars about call centres (knowing full well I work in one) and makes a loud enough remark say that all people that work in a call centre are scum and deserve to die. With rage hitting me instantly like a ton of bricks and not wanting to spend the night in the slammer I exited the shop, got back to my house and tried to let it go. Thought F**k it I aint being treated like that by no muther fether. Called the GW HQ up on customer number and proceeded to clamly make the complaint. Next day the regional manager called me at home and disscussed the matter.
Now this wasnt my entention or goal, but that manager who spoke to me like I was somthing he stepped in wasnt at the store for much longer. Went in there 2-3 days after speaking with the higher manager and he was as nice as pie(wonder why) 2-3 days later he was gone, and gone from the GW company as I heard it. And good fething riddance

Stopped me buying from GW direct for 1-2 years.

Dude... didn't I read that somewhere already?

I don't have anything terrible but not to long ago the blueshirt at my local gw is a massive ultramarines fan and i once casualy mention that i dont like ultramarines and that their fluff is to clean and roman , so he goes into a bout of rage saying "how can you say that , what do you mean roman" and then tells me to walk away from the table and to buy something or leave , so i bought that paint i had planned to buy , the most annoying thing is that he has before passed "judgement " on my corsairs and that i think wood elves are horrid. hes cooll most of the time but some times complete graker

zing165 wrote:I work at a hobby store that sells all different models including GW. I work once a week teaching kids how to play 40k and supervising the games of the more experienced kids. I was watching an IG vs. Tau game. The Tau were just getting killed! It was the 2nd turn and they were all almost dead. I moved to another table when I hear "I HATE LOSEING!!!" and then a massive crash. I turn my head and see a flipped over table and models everywhere! Because he lost he flipped over his case that was holding all of his models onto the floor! It’s not like this kid was 8 either, He was around 12 or 13. I couldn’t believe it. I was wondering what kind of sore losers you guys have seen.

Well, despite being over a month ago, I'm responding to this one. The sorest loser I've seen is one of my buddies (although honestly, he's not that bad by comparison). After one particular loss (his proxy army on mine, which had a few borrowed models) he flung one of my models across the table and basically said that a rule was bull . (He lost an entire Necron Warrior squad and a Necron Lord on about turn 3 due to being escorted off the board). Thankfully, the model in question was a plastic Tau Crisis Suit, hadn't had much work done on it, and most importantly, didn't break.

The other time was when he lost his (much later) Tau command squad of a Shas'o with two bodyguards to a sweeping advance by my Wolf Lord and his squad of Grey Hunters. He basically kicked a wall in frustration and seemed close to tears over it. Which is a shame, because the game actually wound up in a minor loss on my part...(and thankfully, the wall in question was like 8 inches of concrete or so)

My store is actually pretty good. Probably the worst experience I had there was when a D&D session was held there. That in itself wasn't to bad. They only take up one table and there are plenty others to play on. The horrible part was this disgusting man who obviously never been taught a thing about personal hygeine. He had really bad patchy baldness that was probably cause by scabies or something, only 3 teeth, and his BO was so horrible that with both the front and back doors of the shop open, there was still no place in the building that you could escape the smell. And this is probably a good 1500 square foot store.

The manager kept dropping loud and not so subtle hints that the guy straight up stank and needed to leave, but either this man was beyond ignoring such comments, or was dumb as a brick. I never saw him there again, so I'm guessing the GM of that session just decided to stop inviting him until he learned what a shower was.


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Locclo wrote:

zing165 wrote:I work at a hobby store that sells all different models including GW. I work once a week teaching kids how to play 40k and supervising the games of the more experienced kids. I was watching an IG vs. Tau game. The Tau were just getting killed! It was the 2nd turn and they were all almost dead. I moved to another table when I hear "I HATE LOSEING!!!" and then a massive crash. I turn my head and see a flipped over table and models everywhere! Because he lost he flipped over his case that was holding all of his models onto the floor! It’s not like this kid was 8 either, He was around 12 or 13. I couldn’t believe it. I was wondering what kind of sore losers you guys have seen.

Well, despite being over a month ago, I'm responding to this one. The sorest loser I've seen is one of my buddies (although honestly, he's not that bad by comparison). After one particular loss (his proxy army on mine, which had a few borrowed models) he flung one of my models across the table and basically said that a rule was bull . (He lost an entire Necron Warrior squad and a Necron Lord on about turn 3 due to being escorted off the board). Thankfully, the model in question was a plastic Tau Crisis Suit, hadn't had much work done on it, and most importantly, didn't break.

The other time was when he lost his (much later) Tau command squad of a Shas'o with two bodyguards to a sweeping advance by my Wolf Lord and his squad of Grey Hunters. He basically kicked a wall in frustration and seemed close to tears over it. Which is a shame, because the game actually wound up in a minor loss on my part...(and thankfully, the wall in question was like 8 inches of concrete or so)

In my old group back in Japan, we had a SW player who would chuck his own models when he was losing a game or something. To the rest of us it was something we saw as being funny, because he always treated the rest of our stuff with the utmost respect.

Well I played him in a game one day, and let him use a few of my marines to fill in a squad of his. Things started going bad for him, and he picked up one of the dead models from the side of the table, and threw it across the room. About 5 seconds later we both realized it was one of my models. Turns out it landed behind a vending machine that weighed about 500lbs or was bolted to the floor or something. At anyrate, that model was long gone. He was extremely apologetic, and rushed back to his room and kit bashed a new plasma gunner for me as a replacement. Since the lost model wasn't one of my painted ones I was happy enough.

MagickalMemories wrote:Dude... didn't I read that somewhere already?

Certainly have my fellow dakite, but thought relevant to the thread and not eveyone would read the other thread to hear such a tale(a true tale).

ALL, the kids are annoying at GW Derby, shouting and screaming, not playing properly, I try to go when there aren't any. But the Managers are cool and so are the adults.

One kid is about 7 with hair down to his shoulders, he is one of those with really badly painted minis, what he does is:

1. Tips his models over when they die
2. Doesn't put anything in proper squads
3. Goes crazily hyper when given sugar, talks very, very loudly and quickly
4. When you unleash a good special rule he will make one up to counter it
5. When you tell him he is doing something wrong (ie cheating) he'll just go 'shhh'

And his mum just sits there and watches.

Sorry to say i've never been to my flgs or GW, i've got it into my head that there full of young kids who take the game way to seriously, I just stick to playing with mates who i know are a laugh and are fun to play with.

Worst gaming experience I've ever had was this time I was visiting a Gaming Store in southern WV. We were in town for a trip visiting some relatives, and I decided to pop into one of the LGS's in the area.

In the back of the room there was a 40k game going on between an Eldar Player and this teen playing Orks. The kid, maybe 15 or 16, was a totally stereotypical West Virginia country bumpkin. I'm talking cue the little twang from Deliverance when this kid walks into the store country bumpkin. So the games getting pretty heated; the Ork kid is getting totally devastated by Eldar firepower. I could tell the kid was getting irritated, and I saw that he was doing something under the table. I leaned over to see exactly what he was doing when suddenly, out of nowhere the kid bursts into action and screams (with an incredibly obnoxious and heavy hickish accent) "I FIRE MAH GUN AT YOU!" This kid chucks a lit cherry bomb at one of the Eldar player's Falcons. It explodes right on top of the tank, completely wrecking the thing.

Needless to say, the store owner and other patrons of the store colaboratively restrained the Eldar player and dragged the kid out of the store. I don't know what the hell happened after that because I left on that note, but I found it incredibly disturbing that this kid had to resort to explosives to solve his problems o_O.

Darth Bob wrote:Worst gaming experience I've ever had was this time I was visiting a Gaming Store in southern WV. We were in town for a trip visiting some relatives, and I decided to pop into one of the LGS's in the area.

In the back of the room there was a 40k game going on between an Eldar Player and this teen playing Orks. The kid, maybe 15 or 16, was a totally stereotypical West Virginia country bumpkin. I'm talking cue the little twang from Deliverance when this kid walks into the store country bumpkin. So the games getting pretty heated; the Ork kid is getting totally devastated by Eldar firepower. I could tell the kid was getting irritated, and I saw that he was doing something under the table. I leaned over to see exactly what he was doing when suddenly, out of nowhere the kid bursts into action and screams (with an incredibly obnoxious and heavy hickish accent) "I FIRE MAH GUN AT YOU!" This kid chucks a lit cherry bomb at one of the Eldar player's Falcons. It explodes right on top of the tank, completely wrecking the thing.

Needless to say, the store owner and other patrons of the store colaboratively restrained the Eldar player and dragged the kid out of the store. I don't know what the hell happened after that because I left on that note, but I found it incredibly disturbing that this kid had to resort to explosives to solve his problems o_O.

PIX or it didn't happen!! Hopefully he got dragged out without his models, and the Eldar player added to his suddenly growing Ork collection?

You know, this kid might be on to something...

Eberious wrote:

MagickalMemories wrote:Dude... didn't I read that somewhere already?

Certainly have my fellow dakite, but thought relevant to the thread and not eveyone would read the other thread to hear such a tale(a true tale).

That means I'm not crazy. : )

Good enough for me. : )

Eric

Just a cherry bomb? Could it have really wrecked the falcon?

I must admit since I got back into the hobby I've not had a bad experience in a GW store, most of the time I get on well with the staff (although the mob in Cambridge are very pushy when it comes to getting a sale) and pretty much everyone who turns up on Thursday nights at Norwich.

However first time round (3rd ed 40k) I did have some very bad experiences mainly with the GW Norwich staff, none of them were interested in helping someone who back then was new to the whole hobby, they didn't even try to sell me anything (which is really weird). Being completely ignored over a period of about 4 years really was off putting, and annoyingly at the time with no access to online ordering (parental refusal) the Norwich GW was the only place where I could regularly buy stuff.

Back in 1999/2000 there was the massive free for all game I wanted to play in, no sign up needed just turn up on the day, 500pts last man standing wins. Apparently since I was the last person to arrive before the game started (note deployment hadn't started) I was only allowed a single squad of marines. I just turned round and left as I clearly wasn't welcome. Never played a game in a GW again until this year.

that cherry bomb story is messed up. I probably would have punched the kid. I personally havent had anything stupid happen where I play. the whole store is really nice and for some reason none of the NJ gamers smell bad(although I cant speak for the d&d players ).

Karon wrote:Just a cherry bomb? Could it have really wrecked the falcon?

Yeah I was surprised too. I mean when it exploded it was literally right on top of the falcon. It was probably fixable, but the paint and plastic was warped and melted where the cherry bomb blew up.

The last time I brought my brother to play 40k at my FLGS, who made quite a show with his terrible sportmanship.
He was up against a Space Wolf(current codex) player with his C:SM. Throughout the game he was making remarks over how he had distaste in proxy armies, although he was using a multi-melta on his land raider although it wasn't there, and said things like "you're scum" in thinking that it was a friendly jesture when some CC scouts came on to the board to take out his sniper scouts. But where it gets interesting is when his chaptermaster dies. He yells his signature losing yell, pushes his chair away from the table shaking it up a bit and starts crying. I was stuck embarrassingly patting his head and motivating him to finish his game for 8 minutes or so. Good thing I'm friends with the SW player and everyone else who was there or else I'd be getting quite the hateful looks at my FLGS. Nowadays my brother's still a awful sport when he's playing his video games and every now and then I yell at him to calm down or get off.

Although he is a bad sport I don't blame him for yelling and crying from losing to the current Space Wolves as I hear that quite some people wish to do so as well.

Worst I had was the usual smelly guy gaming right next to me. Why are gaming stores synonymous with smelly guys, (not smelly kids but smelly fat men)

One of the worst things that has happened to me at a lgs was when I showed up for a tournament and found that someone was using my favorite and best painted models that had been stolen from the store a few months earlier (IE my entire Salamanders army at the time) when I had gone to the bathroom and came back to fine that my case was missing.

What the guy didnt know what that I had engraved my name into the inside of the bases of all my marines. I promptly called him out and showed him the engravings. After many minutes of arguing and him claiming that they were his the store owner escorted him out of the store. He was actually banned from the store and had the cops called on him for petty theft.

So as a warning to everyone dont leave your cases in the open when using the rest room. At least have the store owners look after it if they can.

'Petty theft' are you sure, how many models? Grand theft starts at ~$400 iirc, but your state have vary so idk for sure.

It was more than petty theft.... But that was the only word that came to mind lol. its was a 2000 pt salamanders army which consisted of 2 8 man squads of termies w/ 2 land raiders, right there is $200 the army case it was in was $140. Add 3 Squads of marines w/ rhinos a Vindi and to preds. I dont know the exact price but there were other models also in the bottem of the case.

The thing that ruins the experience for me are the loudmouth people who cannot separate fluff from reality and constantly bring up fluff to make him sound awesome.

and the worst part is I actually have a friend who I go to gw with and hes just constantly making stupid world of warcraft references, and keeps going on an ON! about how his space marines do such and such and how they would tear apart anything cuz they where shiny blue armor, and he always has to have the last word on everything and tried to one-up you with his fluff Bull S***
and then when he loses he whines a moans about how things were unfair, how everything goes against him and blablabla!

sorry if that was a bit of a rant, I have alot of pent up agitation from him, and how other people act. Its a game chill

Darth Bob wrote: "I FIRE MAH GUN AT YOU!" This kid chucks a lit cherry bomb at one of the Eldar player's Falcons. It explodes right on top of the tank, completely wrecking the thing. .

Now, I wonder, does this count as a bomb squig, or just a gretchin with a demo charge?

Seriously, that is screwed. I'm afraid of going into any Games-Workshop in english-speaking country now. :x

My worst FLGS experience was saved and its all because of dakka.
I was playing at the store a few months ago and there were a bunch of games going on. I wasn't really paying attention to the other people playing except one kid who kept coming over to admire my painted FW biker boss. He kept asking questions about it, how did i paint it, etc. He said he got one but hasn't painted it yet, he asked me to trade his for mine a few times, i wasn't really interested in, and wanted to keep playing my game.

Anyway my biker boss was killed turn 2 and i put him away in my bag and turn three comes around and i always like to take a break to smoke, think about the game, stretch, go to the bathroom whatever. when i come back i notice that kid isn't hanging around anymore, he's at the front getting ready to check out. for some reason my spider sense is tingling and i check my bag and the biker boss is gone. I run up to the front of the store and see he's buying a bunch of the paints i told him i used on my boss. i tell him to open his bag and let me see what he's got cause my boss was gone. he didn't want to but i guess i can be pretty intense sometimes, as i'm a former marine and covered in tattoos. so he opens the bag and lo there's my boss. he tries saying that its his and the store manager is starting to agree with him because he knows the kid and knows he has the fw boss. and i rarely go to that store. anyway to prove that its mine i bring dakka up on my phone and show him the pictures of my boss that i posted here. the manager says to the kid i think you better give it back.
so thatnks dakka.

Worst GW experience ever.

Got talked into doing a tournament in GW by a friend who does it. Second game, I am playing a cheater who also has a completely unpainted SW army. I can't tell what is what, and he keeps swapping his units between each other, and doesn't even bring a fecking army list with him. I beat him ingame. He complained about my tactics, so I took it outside. Told him downright to shut his face about it.

Oh and the raffle where I won every prize but one, but the GW store manager was an asswipe about it and refused to let me have the grand prize even AFTER I gave back the eldar strikeforce boxed set.

Phht.
He no longer works at GW.

Finally. Big apocalypse game. Guy has 2 squads in Chimeras, but leaves them on the table. I position marbo on the table to menace the two squads. The guy said they were being transported, and I pointed out their bases were on the table. he says *ease of placement* or some ****. I bought over the GW store guy, explained the situation. I got a redeploy on marbo, he got warned to keep transported troops off the table, or on the tank. Second one was a guy who popped a trygon in front of all my super-heavies (banehammer, shadowsword, baneblade) and got it blown away. Foom. Guy went to tears, and shouted at me *not fair you F*****g asswipe*. He got ordered to pack his models and leave. Five minutes later, there's a pile of tyranids in the corner next to the store entrance, the guys chucked them, so the store manager grabs them, and keeps them. Five days later he returns when I am instore, and apologises, then gives me cash for swearing at me...

Not really a gaming a gaming issue but at the Northridge, CA GW shop I had paid for something with my CC and then went to the food court. Realized that the GW guy never gave me my CC back. Went back to the store (Was gone all of 10 minutes) and he had already CUT UP AND TRASHED my CC stating that it was store policy that they cut up every CC that get's left there.... I don't live in CA... I was on vacation visiting a friend and that was my only way to pay for stuff. There were no weird charges or anything like that... But the hassle of having to get a new CC and borrow cash from my friend for the remainder of my vacation was a real pain

blackclaw1 wrote:I don't have anything terrible but not to long ago the blueshirt at my local gw is a massive ultramarines fan and i once casualy mention that i dont like ultramarines and that their fluff is to clean and roman , so he goes into a bout of rage saying "how can you say that , what do you mean roman" and then tells me to walk away from the table and to buy something or leave , so i bought that paint i had planned to buy , the most annoying thing is that he has before passed "judgement " on my corsairs and that i think wood elves are horrid. hes cooll most of the time but some times complete graker

Oh so typical... I haven't exeprienced quite a thing like that "don't you dare be negative about my army".

I do absolutely hate all GW/FLGS employees who ask "what army?" and respond to your reply with "what? that sucks! you should do the same army as me, or the brand new one that has just been released blahblah". I really hate that kind of thing, i hate it in players but it annoys me even more if it is a GW employee! these people should respond to the army in question with:
"oh, that's nice, have you got that certain relevant unit/character that could be effective for that army?"
and then I'd be like "no that certain relevant unit/character does not suit the style of my army which uses tactics and troops like so-and-so. Actually I am looking for this other relevant unit which might benefit my army greatly the way I play it"
and he'd say: "Indeed sir, If you use tactics and troops like so-and-so that other relevant unit might work wonders for the success of your battle plans. We have it right here, is there anything else you need?"
"Well, no, thank you, how much does this box cost?"
"Oh that's this price, do you want glue or paint with it"
"No thanks, I"still have enough, here's the money for the miniatures"
"Very good, thank you very much, have a nice day sir"
"You're welcome, have a nice day too sir"
"I will, thanks"
what a wonderfull world it would be if all us GW customers would have experiences like that.

After an "armee=sux" remark I am so tempted to ask "dude, how old are you? seven? go play stratego if your so obsessed with one-upmanship" but I'm way too polite and haven't been to a GW in ages.

RiTides wrote:I had a pretty miserable experience a few months ago. I've just started playing small tourneys and events for WHFB, and I was psyched for the "North American Tournament" and talked to the local GW manager about it. We talked several times since there are a few stores in the area that I could play at. We only had 3 of us signed up for the local store, so he called a friend earlier in the week to be an opponent for me, and it was all set.

Three of us showed up with well painted armies... the friend had an army that was falling apart and with some unpainted models. It was skaven, and some units he just piled onto a movement tray. His trays were larger than needed, so he often moved them saying that he "meant for them to be here". He got upset when I charged the flank of a unit, saying I should have warned him when he moved it.

He also mopped the floor with my army (figuratively speaking), only I found out on the last turn that he took an illeagal list.

I was bummed because I'd been talking to the manager about it for a few weeks, and would have much rather played the game at another store than have him line up this opponent for me...

I haven't been back to the store since then, although I think it's been long enough that I might give it another try. I don't know, I'd rather go to a store that plans out their events and pulls them off well.
I hate it when stuff like that happens.

By contrast, my best gaming experience so far has been the tournament at mikhaila's store. Aces all the way! I'll definitely be attending more events there in the future, despite the drive.

This one isn't mine, but my buddy's. I was with him at the time, and while I personally had a blast, he was really pissed off at what happened.

Basically, one of the guys at my FLGS decided to organize an 18,000 point Apoc game for the one off-week between league cycles. Good vs. Evil, 9000 points a side, 1500 points a player. Well, everyone brought what they had to the table, and my own Wolves decided to try out the Steinhammer's Wulfen Guard (to great effect, I might add) to take on the enemy. The problem was, all lists are not created equal. That is to say, one person brought a Warlord Titan to the field. Yes, it's 2500 points - he was acting as two people that game, and donated his 500 extra to another player.

Unfortunately, what wound up happening was that the Titan, with all of its wonderful Strength D super-large-blast template weapons, tabled my bud on turn one. Well, not totally - the guy had one Broadside left. But still, all he had was a deployment phase followed by a packing up one. The game in general was just a slaughterfest, with the Titan single-handedly taking on about 4 different armies (Tau - the first turn table, a Guard player, a Blood Angels player, and me with my Wolves).

While I thought the game was just hilarious in general, it was probably my buddy's worst experience at the store.

I've already posted my worst, but my most entertaining moment in a GW was when a nine year old started complaining at me because I was winning. I'm sure you guys have seen this before, and may have even experienced the feeling. It naturally occurs when your younger, from what I've gathered. So, you start to lose, and first of all you grumble about unfair opponents armies. When that works, you try and make it out that you wanted to lose all along, and to quote the kid:

"Good, I wanted my battle suits to die!"

And, as you still lose, when dice rolls seem to go against you at every turn, you start to watch other games, and just forfeit your turn, and maybe, maybe you even begin to pack up your army.

Wasn't that great, so a nice GW staff member came over and took charge of the kid's army, who had wandered off to complain to his mum or something. Either way, I actually lost the game, as the GW guy strategically obliterated my Synapse critters with cruel efficiency.

So... yeah. I don't really enjoy playing against kids, as they tend not to take loss well, which leads to them making mistakes, and so on and so forth.

By the by, best moment in GW recently would be when I listened into a GW guy trying to explain to someone that they cant really field a dragon and two griffon heroes in a game of 500pts.

Made me chortle!

themocaw wrote:Re: BO in gaming stores: Anime Expo has a tabletop gaming room. Every hour or so, a "Febreze Girl" goes through the entire room and sprays air freshener all over. She always gets cheers and applause.

I carry a small bottle of Axe spray in my backpack for these types of situations. One of my biggest pet peeves though, is when they purposely fart in a crowded area and laugh about it as if it's the most hilarious thing they've ever seen/done. Unfortunately, this happened to me before I started carrying the spray can, otherwise I probably would've emptied the entire can into his face....

But onto my worst experience, it was during a game that I was playing with a friend at my local FLGS. I'm pretty close and friendly with a lot of the regulars, and because so, I feel fairly safe about leaving some of my personal affects out in the open during gaming (ie - my phone, glasses, keys). One day, before going to a family gathering, I had a few hours to kill before the party, so I went to the FLGS to get a game of Axis and Allies (my gateway game to 40K, if you will). Anyways, it was a hot day, and I tend to sweat pretty easily. So I took off my watch (an Omega limited edition), placed it on the table, roll up my sleeves, and start going about the game. I noticed later a few new guys walking into the store, and they circle around the table my friend and I are playing at. After awhile, they leave, and my friend and I continue our game. Later, I notice that my watch is missing. Later, I asked my friend who worked there if he knew the kids that walked in earlier, and he said they didn't look familiar, in fact was even a little cautious of them being there in the first place. Mind you, it was also a Saturday afternoon, and there was a CCG tournament going on, so his attention was taken up most of the afternoon.

Needless to say, I was furious about having my watch stolen, but to the stores' and the regulars' credit, they all helped my try to find it at least. Since then, I've been a lot more careful with leaving my things around, and I still go back to that store each time I get a chance to. And of course, I now keep an eye out for potential "bad eggs".

Locclo wrote:This one isn't mine, but my buddy's. I was with him at the time, and while I personally had a blast, he was really pissed off at what happened.

Basically, one of the guys at my FLGS decided to organize an 18,000 point Apoc game for the one off-week between league cycles. Good vs. Evil, 9000 points a side, 1500 points a player. Well, everyone brought what they had to the table, and my own Wolves decided to try out the Steinhammer's Wulfen Guard (to great effect, I might add) to take on the enemy. The problem was, all lists are not created equal. That is to say, one person brought a Warlord Titan to the field. Yes, it's 2500 points - he was acting as two people that game, and donated his 500 extra to another player.

Unfortunately, what wound up happening was that the Titan, with all of its wonderful Strength D super-large-blast template weapons, tabled my bud on turn one. Well, not totally - the guy had one Broadside left. But still, all he had was a deployment phase followed by a packing up one. The game in general was just a slaughterfest, with the Titan single-handedly taking on about 4 different armies (Tau - the first turn table, a Guard player, a Blood Angels player, and me with my Wolves).

While I thought the game was just hilarious in general, it was probably my buddy's worst experience at the store.

That's the general issue with "free for all" style Apocalypse games. You really need to have a pretty tight control on who brings what. And by "tight control" I mean "step on some necks from the start."

It's unfortunate but Apocalypse games tend to be "TFG Gatherings"

Yeah, we learned our lesson. The general idea was "well your side has a Baneblade, our side should be able to have a Titan." Tactical geniuses, hurrrrr.

Just today there was a Warmachine tournament at my FLGS...We were in the only table that wasn't taken in the corner. Now there just so happened to be the most obnoxious person I think I've ever met in my life. Now it was packed and pretty loud anyways, but this person would shout his orders and make the most dumb sound effects. He then refused to take his army box off our table because of his "Senority" over us.

Now we couldn't use the corner we deployed in because of them, but to top it all off....I had 5 vanguard and a dreadnought ready to play and he swung his arms around making a swoosh like he was swinging a friggin' sword and knocked everything over. I asked him what the F@^k he thought he was doing that he is over 20 and shouldn't be flailing his arms around like a dumba$$...so he called me a noob....lol.


The FLGS manager assured me that he would be talked to...now weather that happened or not I don't know but it was a terrible experience to know one of the "Veterans" is a complete dbag.

revackey wrote:Just today there was a Warmachine tournament at my FLGS...We were in the only table that wasn't taken in the corner. Now there just so happened to be the most obnoxious person I think I've ever met in my life. Now it was packed and pretty loud anyways, but this person would shout his orders and make the most dumb sound effects. He then refused to take his army box off our table because of his "Senority" over us.

Now we couldn't use the corner we deployed in because of them, but to top it all off....I had 5 vanguard and a dreadnought ready to play and he swung his arms around making a swoosh like he was swinging a friggin' sword and knocked everything over. I asked him what the F@^k he thought he was doing that he is over 20 and shouldn't be flailing his arms around like a dumba$$...so he called me a noob....lol.


The FLGS manager assured me that he would be talked to...now weather that happened or not I don't know but it was a terrible experience to know one of the "Veterans" is a complete dbag.

I never quite understand how some LGS' stay in business for as long as they do. So many seem to foster a close knit cadre of outsider (or "customers" as they're known) warding weirdos.

I've noticed a trend of friendly, well lit, professionally run comics book stores recently, hopefully that catches on more in hobby shops.

My worst experience was also my first real introduction to GW and 40k. It was at a small game store in Jensen Beach FL, late 1995. I had seen the GS stuff at the FLGS/hobby shop I frequented in CT, but never payed much attention to it. I was into Battletech and RPG stuff at the time.

Well when I moved to FL this one particular game store was the only place even remotely close to me. So I checked it out. They had some RPG stuff, a small smattering of various minis, and bunch of GW. So I ended up buying some GW just to build and paint. One day the guys there talk me into trying some 40k. They knew I had never played before. They then proceeded to take turns mopping the table with me, and being more than mildly disgusted that I didnt know the rules, tactics, etc of the game.

Needless to say I didnt return there.


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revackey wrote:Just today there was a Warmachine tournament at my FLGS...We were in the only table that wasn't taken in the corner. Now there just so happened to be the most obnoxious person I think I've ever met in my life. Now it was packed and pretty loud anyways, but this person would shout his orders and make the most dumb sound effects. He then refused to take his army box off our table because of his "Senority" over us.

Now we couldn't use the corner we deployed in because of them, but to top it all off....I had 5 vanguard and a dreadnought ready to play and he swung his arms around making a swoosh like he was swinging a friggin' sword and knocked everything over. I asked him what the F@^k he thought he was doing that he is over 20 and shouldn't be flailing his arms around like a dumba$$...so he called me a noob....lol.


The FLGS manager assured me that he would be talked to...now weather that happened or not I don't know but it was a terrible experience to know one of the "Veterans" is a complete dbag.

I never quite understand how some LGS' stay in business for as long as they do. So many seem to foster a close knit cadre of outsider (or "customers" as they're known) warding weirdos.

I've noticed a trend of friendly, well lit, professionally run comics book stores recently, hopefully that catches on more in hobby shops.

Ive noticed the same problems before. I think it stems from the fact that many stores are started by gamers who then turn around and give the prefered treatment and constant "bro deals" to his buddies. Besides creating a bad atmosphere it also ultimately leads to the stores downfall, as a customer base made mostly of 5-10 people getting deep discounts isnt enough to keep a store going.

We had a great store going for a while. My buddy was the manager and I worked part time after my real job. We had a couple other good people there too. We used to chat it up with everyone...no matter what game, comic, anime, etc you were into one of us knew about it, or were even really into it. The place started as a small meta bookstore & comic store. My buddy got in there and introduced the owner to the world of games, both RPG and minis. It didnt take long before games were 55% of store sales. However, the owner was into the wicca/meta stuff, and that group frowned on her "selling out" by selling games. So she opened a yoga studio/meta store a few doors down in the same plaza...then proceeded to funnel the profits from the game/book store into the yoga shop until the stores debt was huge and she closed it.

That was about 8 years ago. There are several small games stores around, and many have come and gone, but none have/had it going like we did.

Mad4Minis wrote:My worst experience was also my first real introduction to GW and 40k. It was at a small game store in Jensen Beach FL, late 1995. I had seen the GS stuff at the FLGS/hobby shop I frequented in CT, but never payed much attention to it. I was into Battletech and RPG stuff at the time.

Well when I moved to FL this one particular game store was the only place even remotely close to me. So I checked it out. They had some RPG stuff, a small smattering of various minis, and bunch of GW. So I ended up buying some GW just to build and paint. One day the guys there talk me into trying some 40k. They knew I had never played before. They then proceeded to take turns mopping the table with me, and being more than mildly disgusted that I didnt know the rules, tactics, etc of the game.

Needless to say I didnt return there.


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plastictrees wrote:

revackey wrote:Just today there was a Warmachine tournament at my FLGS...We were in the only table that wasn't taken in the corner. Now there just so happened to be the most obnoxious person I think I've ever met in my life. Now it was packed and pretty loud anyways, but this person would shout his orders and make the most dumb sound effects. He then refused to take his army box off our table because of his "Senority" over us.

Now we couldn't use the corner we deployed in because of them, but to top it all off....I had 5 vanguard and a dreadnought ready to play and he swung his arms around making a swoosh like he was swinging a friggin' sword and knocked everything over. I asked him what the F@^k he thought he was doing that he is over 20 and shouldn't be flailing his arms around like a dumba$$...so he called me a noob....lol.


The FLGS manager assured me that he would be talked to...now weather that happened or not I don't know but it was a terrible experience to know one of the "Veterans" is a complete dbag.

I never quite understand how some LGS' stay in business for as long as they do. So many seem to foster a close knit cadre of outsider (or "customers" as they're known) warding weirdos.

I've noticed a trend of friendly, well lit, professionally run comics book stores recently, hopefully that catches on more in hobby shops.

Ive noticed the same problems before. I think it stems from the fact that many stores are started by gamers who then turn around and give the prefered treatment and constant "bro deals" to his buddies. Besides creating a bad atmosphere it also ultimately leads to the stores downfall, as a customer base made mostly of 5-10 people getting deep discounts isnt enough to keep a store going.

We had a great store going for a while. My buddy was the manager and I worked part time after my real job. We had a couple other good people there too. We used to chat it up with everyone...no matter what game, comic, anime, etc you were into one of us knew about it, or were even really into it. The place started as a small meta bookstore & comic store. My buddy got in there and introduced the owner to the world of games, both RPG and minis. It didnt take long before games were 55% of store sales. However, the owner was into the wicca/meta stuff, and that group frowned on her "selling out" by selling games. So she opened a yoga studio/meta store a few doors down in the same plaza...then proceeded to funnel the profits from the game/book store into the yoga shop until the stores debt was huge and she closed it.

That was about 8 years ago. There are several small games stores around, and many have come and gone, but none have/had it going like we did.

plastictrees wrote:

revackey wrote:Just today there was a Warmachine tournament at my FLGS...We were in the only table that wasn't taken in the corner. Now there just so happened to be the most obnoxious person I think I've ever met in my life. Now it was packed and pretty loud anyways, but this person would shout his orders and make the most dumb sound effects. He then refused to take his army box off our table because of his "Senority" over us.

Now we couldn't use the corner we deployed in because of them, but to top it all off....I had 5 vanguard and a dreadnought ready to play and he swung his arms around making a swoosh like he was swinging a friggin' sword and knocked everything over. I asked him what the F@^k he thought he was doing that he is over 20 and shouldn't be flailing his arms around like a dumba$$...so he called me a noob....lol.


The FLGS manager assured me that he would be talked to...now weather that happened or not I don't know but it was a terrible experience to know one of the "Veterans" is a complete dbag.

I never quite understand how some LGS' stay in business for as long as they do. So many seem to foster a close knit cadre of outsider (or "customers" as they're known) warding weirdos.

I've noticed a trend of friendly, well lit, professionally run comics book stores recently, hopefully that catches on more in hobby shops.

The shop just isn't as welcoming as you'd think. I asked if I could just check the codex for one quick rule because I forgot mine (NOT borrow it) and the shop clerk gives me a dirty look and just says, "No...what do you think you can just use this shop like its your home...god.."

Sadly being one of the only well established GW shops in CT I need to go there. I'm going to find a different one.


Oh! And they also gave me a stern talking to for taking 2 cars for objectives in our game from the terrain table...but then when a regular takes it nothing happens, they also give out primer, paint, etc. to their friends... thought it was free paint day.

revackey wrote:


The shop just isn't as welcoming as you'd think. I asked if I could just check the codex for one quick rule because I forgot mine (NOT borrow it) and the shop clerk gives me a dirty look and just says, "No...what do you think you can just use this shop like its your home...god.."

Sadly being one of the only well established GW shops in CT I need to go there. I'm going to find a different one.


Oh! And they also gave me a stern talking to for taking 2 cars for objectives in our game from the terrain table...but then when a regular takes it nothing happens, they also give out primer, paint, etc. to their friends... thought it was free paint day.

I would have thought there would be several good places to get GW and gaming stuff in general in CT. I know games/hobby shops werent too hard to come by when I left the state in 1996. Here in FL its very different. Besides the usual problems that plague game/hobby stores we have weather as well. In CT the winter seemed to fuel the indoor hobby, while here in FL the year round decent weather hurts it. Most people want to do outdoor stuff. There are a couple very small stores within an hour of me, but to get to a truly good one I have to drive around 2 1/2 hours. Even then their stock is sketchy. Like right now being the height of summer stock is low.



My friend and I used to frequent an awesome place called War and Pieces...they were in West Hartford. A google search tells me they went out of business around 2007. Must admit Im sad but not surprised...seems everytime I go home to visit or look up something its gone.

Mad4Minis wrote:

revackey wrote:


The shop just isn't as welcoming as you'd think. I asked if I could just check the codex for one quick rule because I forgot mine (NOT borrow it) and the shop clerk gives me a dirty look and just says, "No...what do you think you can just use this shop like its your home...god.."

Sadly being one of the only well established GW shops in CT I need to go there. I'm going to find a different one.


Oh! And they also gave me a stern talking to for taking 2 cars for objectives in our game from the terrain table...but then when a regular takes it nothing happens, they also give out primer, paint, etc. to their friends... thought it was free paint day.

Don't get me wrong, its a good hobby shop, but only when the obnoxious people aren't there. I found a couple places, hopefully gonna check em' out, but I'm in no rush I have about 5 friends that play together and we have a couple boards, it's just nice to see how to community is going.

I would have thought there would be several good places to get GW and gaming stuff in general in CT. I know games/hobby shops werent too hard to come by when I left the state in 1996. Here in FL its very different. Besides the usual problems that plague game/hobby stores we have weather as well. In CT the winter seemed to fuel the indoor hobby, while here in FL the year round decent weather hurts it. Most people want to do outdoor stuff. There are a couple very small stores within an hour of me, but to get to a truly good one I have to drive around 2 1/2 hours. Even then their stock is sketchy. Like right now being the height of summer stock is low.



My friend and I used to frequent an awesome place called War and Pieces...they were in West Hartford. A google search tells me they went out of business around 2007. Must admit Im sad but not surprised...seems everytime I go home to visit or look up something its gone.

I was shot and killed for being to competative.

ShivanAngel wrote:It's more the atmosphere when i go into the shops. One of my latest experiences, i was just running by for an ogre kingdoms codex.

First the guy took forever to ring me up trying to get my to buy the starter box for ogres, I told him i wasnt interested that i just wanted the codex and already had 2 fantasy armies at over 3000 points and was just getting the codex for now. He tried again saying that it was a great deal and explaining what was in it, i again told him no.

He then went off on a tangent asking if i played 40k, i said no that i wasnt really interested, and fantasy already took up most of my free time. He then said i should play a trial game with him to see if i liked the feel of it. Told him i wasnt interested and just wanted the codex. He said just let me show you how it works, you might like it.

Then i walked out of the store, without getting what i had came for.

I understand trying to get people into the game, but when someone walks in, goes straight to what they are after then straight to checkout, they obviously know what they want...[/quote.

This is exactly what bugs me about the stores. I buy my stuff from a small local store where the single staff member knows me, what I collect and what I am or am not interested in. Go to a larger store or a place where your face isn't regularly seen and they bombard you with insincere welcomes (the type of welcome that says, "Hi, we know you're here and we're watching you"). Add to that the fact that they ask what you play, "40k" "oh, ever tried fantasy, theres all this flash new stuff... look at the flash new stuff, come on play a game with the flash new stuff." No thank you I don't want to play fantasy battle, I just want my Khemri brown and some glue. "fantasy..." no, just khemri brown and glue for f*&k's sake!