I was at out local gaming store on 40k night looking for a quick pick up game and after asking around I found a guy to play with....he was paralyzed from the waste down and struggled a little with his upper body movements. First im gonna say im not against anybody thats like that, I applaud him for still coming out and playing. Back on topic, we decided to play a 1k game because we both had to leave in a few hours. I played my deathwing and him his gray knights. After a few turns I had taken two of the objectives and killed his warlord only loosing two or three terminators from each of my three squads. To make a long story short I ended up tabling the guy, I normally get that triumphant feeling after that but this time I just felt like a git. By no means was he a bad player and was a great sportsman about it, his list for 1k was quite a power list too. After he left I was talking to some of the other guys at the shop and they asked me how my game went and I told them I tabled the guy and one looked at me and went "dude, he was in a wheel chair and you tabled him"

So that might have been my most awkward game ive played in, whats yours?

also ive seen during a tournament a 15 year old kid play a 12 year old and make the 12 year old cry.....at a toys for tots tournament.

 theman99808 wrote:
I was at out local gaming store on 40k night looking for a quick pick up game and after asking around I found a guy to play with....he was paralyzed from the waste down and struggled a little with his upper body movements. First im gonna say im not against anybody thats like that, I applaud him for still coming out and playing. Back on topic, we decided to play a 1k game because we both had to leave in a few hours. I played my deathwing and him his gray knights. After a few turns I had taken two of the objectives and killed his warlord only loosing two or three terminators from each of my three squads. To make a long story short I ended up tabling the guy, I normally get that triumphant feeling after that but this time I just felt like a git. By no means was he a bad player and was a great sportsman about it, his list for 1k was quite a power list too. After he left I was talking to some of the other guys at the shop and they asked me how my game went and I told them I tabled the guy and one looked at me and went "dude, he was in a wheel chair and you tabled him"

So that might have been my most awkward game ive played in, whats yours?

also ive seen during a tournament a 15 year old kid play a 12 year old and make the 12 year old cry.....at a toys for tots tournament.

Hey, if the guy is in there playing im going to assume he does not want your pity, and judging that he was a competent player he came to win on his own merritt. In my experience working with the physically disabled they would rather be treated the same as anyone else and not any extra considerations because of their handicap (with some minor considerations for mobility). Purposely losing a game or going soft on someone with a disability would further give light to their disability and not let them do what they came to do, play and feel just like the rest of us.


As for uncomfortable games of an opposite yet similar vein, i did purposely lose a few times to a player who had a bit of a anger problem and i was more tired of his antics than anything else, but i craved playing no matter what. Granted it was a poor decision on my part but in the end i got to play and he got to act like a jerk and make himself feel better, and as for me, knowing i would have whooped his punk behind was enough.

My most awkward game was in 4th edition. Me vs. Tau.

It was a rather small point game (like 750 or 1000, I can't remember). He had a few broadsides, minimum-sized firewarrior squads, and the rest was all jet-pack suits. Terrain was set up in such a way where there was a wall for him to hide basically all of his army out of LOS behind.

I didn't happen to bring my basilisk in that game (the only real barrage weapon for guard at the time). I knew that if I deployed my stuff up in line of sight, he would just MSM me with missile pods and take long-range pot-shots with his railguns.

Put another way, there was literally nothing that I could do to my opponent, as my opponent made it so that he could attack my stuff without me being able to target a single unit in his army.

Rather than just stupidly get killed in a cross-board charge for no real gain, I decided to wait it out, out of LOS myself.

Turn 1: He MSMed. There were no targets. When it was my turn, he had MSMed everything out of LOS, so even if I had moved up to do anything, they wouldn't have had targets.

Turn 2: He MSMed. I stayed put.

Turn 3: He MSMed. I stayed put

Turn 4: He MSMed. I stayed put.

Turn 5: He MSMed. I stayed put.

Turn 6: He had spent the whole game carefully sneaking his broadsides around out of the range of my weapons (well, and out of LOS, of course). He just barely managed to make it to see the big toe of one of my sentinels, which he blew up with a railgun. In return, I try to attack his Sv2+/5++ suits, and don't manage to kill the squad.

The game ended.

The game took longer to set up than it did to play. My opponent won on victory points 50 to 0. It was so bad that I didn't even bother to write a battle report about it.

Ok this may be hard to believe but my first real game in 5th was the starter game at the GW store (long story short I started in 4th but my parents are separated so I game with my dad; this was with my mom) and lost. Mind you I was about 12 at the time, maybe a little younger and had yet to start my own army (borrowed my fathers-he has every single one) so I picked the good old boys in blue, got a little wonky and lo and behold my dread was ripped asunder by a power klaw, my marine squad shot up with rokkets, the termies died to a hail of fire combined with some bad cc saves. The dice gods were not happy (I got a LOT of 1's and 2's) and to make up for it I sacrificed a dozen dice in their name when I got home. The redshirt didn't know what to say but I was not disheartened, and proceeded to buy not only the SM codex but a battleforce and an AOBR box set from the guy, who looked rather surprised.

I once, pretty soon after getting interested in 40k, set up a tiny demo game so my friend could try it. Long story short, he eventually got addicted, got huge amount of orks and we've been great opponents ever since, but the game was awkward because he won. Now, granted, I hadn't actually played any games, but I had studied, and I was doing the demo game. After he won he said it was nice that I had let him win. I had to live with the shame and awkwardness of knowing I didn't xD

My inner commasar would have kicked in at that point and by turn 4 it would be FORWARD YOU DOGS! FOR THE EMPEROR! I have seen games where its just one deathstar chasing another around the whole game and nothing gets done as you play roll dice and tie.

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I fully understood that, people are people no matter what they stand/sit on. Ive also played against people who had some anger issues before and watched one kid almost push another though a glass case because his broadside fell off and almost broke.

My most akward game was in a tournament. My opponant basically didn't talk to me the entire time, and every time I tried to lighten the mood or make conversation he would basiclally just kind of stare blankly at me and not really say much. The unfortunate part is that it would have been a really great game had he been more interactive. It ended up being really close, and there was never really a clear leader until the very end.

Well my terminator chaplain with adamantine mantle and a terminator wolf lord with the eternal warrior thingy got into a slap fight for 4 turns...

There is a guy at our FLGS who has cochlear implants. His speech can be hard to understand and he generally has a hard time with what you say as well. That being said I always accept games when he is looking to play and he usually puts up a good fight, but I am a little more lenient with rules because trying to have an in depth discussion would be awkward for everyone.

I got put against a 12 year girl at a Tournament and it was her 1st time with 40k. Her parents were in the tournament and she wanted to play. 1st round was random then after highest points vs highest points. I am one of the better players if there is any doubt about how this was going to go......

on top of that I am 35 and if I wanted to play vs that age group I'd go play Pokemon. I quit playing magic at one store b/c all the players were 14 and under.

...... Anyway she got absolutely slaughtered. She lost interest and quit before the end. Now I look like the bad guy. Well I left with 1st place which was $90.00. she really assured -- it just didn't seem right.

I would rather play someone on my level than just go thru the motions of taking turns to just roll over someone. It also makes it not fair for other people at the Tournament on top of that.

 Mythra wrote:
I got put against a 12 year girl at a Tournament and it was her 1st time with 40k. Her parents were in the tournament and she wanted to play. 1st round was random then after highest points vs highest points. I am one of the better players if there is any doubt about how this was going to go......

on top of that I am 35 and if I wanted to play vs that age group I'd go play Pokemon. I quit playing magic at one store b/c all the players were 14 and under.

...... Anyway she got absolutely slaughtered. She lost interest and quit before the end. Now I look like the bad guy. Well I left with 1st place which was $90.00. she really assured -- it just didn't seem right.

I would rather play someone on my level than just go thru the motions of taking turns to just roll over someone. It also makes it not fair for other people at the Tournament on top of that.

Dude, you tabled a twelve year old girl, playing 40k for the first time?

Harsh bro!

-4 str

well...

... but it was a tournament...

I don't think there was a graceful solution to that one.

Played a 3vs3 1500 points a piece. Setup the board, then first turn one of the players on the other side leave to go hang out somewhere else in the store. While leaving he told one of his allies to play his army for him. Then every once in a while he would come back and see how the match was going. One of the allies came back and told us the guy who left said he didn't want to play with douchebags. At that point it was awkward because he just left again. Ended up just all of us quitting turn 3 and packed up. Really? If you didn't want to play the "douchebags" why start the game anyway with us? Turns out he just doesn't like playing teams, which my group likes. This was last Thursday. Really ruined the game night for us. Know better next time. We have had problems with him before. Just all tried taking the high road and be nice.

Most awkward game ever..hmmm

Had to be when I was playing my Tau against a fellow at a FLGS, and his girlfriend was watching and giving moral support, she was kinda easy on the eyes and obviously did not really want to be there, but as the game went along I kept noticing her looking my way, and standing on my side of the table a lot.
She also was making unfavorable comparisons between our models, being pretty harsh on her BF's painted minis, and laughing when he was taking a beating. I actually felt bad for the fellow, even made it a point to compliment some of his better conversions and models, and disagree with his girlfriends opinions of them.

Really uncomfortable, and the guy even won the game, and his girl told him he got lucky!

And to add insult to injury a few minutes after he left, she came back in to "buy some dice" and offered me her phone number, seriously awkward game.

 theman99808 wrote:
dude, he was in a wheel chair and you tabled him

You weren't playing basketball. The only way this could sound bad (and this is s stretch) is if he made different tactical decisions because he couldn't reach the center of the table.
They're all military, but anyone disabled I've ever met wants to be treated exactly like that, not different because of their issue.

 Mythra wrote:
I got put against a 12 year girl at a Tournament and it was her 1st time with 40k. Her parents were in the tournament and she wanted to play. 1st round was random then after highest points vs highest points. I am one of the better players if there is any doubt about how this was going to go......

on top of that I am 35 and if I wanted to play vs that age group I'd go play Pokemon. I quit playing magic at one store b/c all the players were 14 and under.

...... Anyway she got absolutely slaughtered. She lost interest and quit before the end. Now I look like the bad guy. Well I left with 1st place which was $90.00. she really assured -- it just didn't seem right.

I would rather play someone on my level than just go thru the motions of taking turns to just roll over someone. It also makes it not fair for other people at the Tournament on top of that.

Yeah, That is, Lose-lose situation.

Yeah sorry I am taking the cash.

I personally think the parents should run games w/ her and not enter her in a prize tourn. where there will be no mercy. I could havetold you ahead of time how that was going to turn out. She couldn't even beat some of the newer less skilled players. She didn't even know how far units move.

I really blame the parents. I see bad decisions all the time and think WTFudge.

A girl at work is watching previews for Abe Lincoln Vampire hunter and asks if Abe really was a Vampire hunter. I was so shocked or I would have told her of course but someone said no before I could recover.

 Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:
Most awkward game ever..hmmm

Had to be when I was playing my Tau against a fellow at a FLGS, and his girlfriend was watching and giving moral support, she was kinda easy on the eyes and obviously did not really want to be there, but as the game went along I kept noticing her looking my way, and standing on my side of the table a lot.
She also was making unfavorable comparisons between our models, being pretty harsh on her BF's painted minis, and laughing when he was taking a beating. I actually felt bad for the fellow, even made it a point to compliment some of his better conversions and models, and disagree with his girlfriends opinions of them.

Really uncomfortable, and the guy even won the game, and his girl told him he got lucky!

And to add insult to injury a few minutes after he left, she came back in to "buy some dice" and offered me her phone number, seriously awkward game.

Should've just offered to bend her over the gaming table right then and there lmao

Back on topic the only awkward games i see regularly are when 2 people cant agree on a rule and arent happy with a roll off. Tends to ruin the rest of the game

Yeah I would have called her. Wouldn't have been awkward at all. She isn't going to stay with him -- if he can't have her I might as well how often is there a strong mutual attraction? I dated several of my friends girlfriends. I got permission 1st of course. Do you really want to be with someone who wants to go? I welcome any of my friends to to take my girlfriend. I'd rather know now than 10 years down the road w/ 3 kids.

I bet you called her.

Naw, loyalty is the most important thing to me, a woman that would treat her current boyfriend like that is not one I would trust or invest any time in, (maybe its a soldier thing).

Besides the guy was not a bad dude, just think he had a girl that was to much car for him, saw him at the store a few times, but I never called her.

This wasn't a game I played, but watched. A couple weeks at my FLGS the owner was playing a game with a player in a annihilation game between the owner's Space Wolves and the other guy's Blood Angels. Long story short, the BA player's Mephiston was wrecking the owner's SWs without remorse and they were both new to 6th Edition rules. Every now and then they would look into the BRB to see what they had to do for certain parts. The owner and player would ask me, as I was watching and that the owner knew I played IG and knew most of the 6th edition rules, about certain things. For the most part, I was correct about the rules that they asked me about except where I made a big mistake regarding the Character Challenges. I knew how the challenges worked in that the two characters would face each other in single combat without any interference from the other models in the fight. What I failed to remember was that while the challenge was happening the fighting from the rest of the models still go on. So when I told them how the challenge system works I left that out by mistake.
So while the two ICs from each side were duking it out with each other, the rest of the units just kinda sat back watching the fight. Because I left the part of the unit continuing the fight out by mistake the owner's SWs almost got wiped out by the BA army until the last second where the SWs pulled a last minute victory by wiping the other army out with some great dice rolling. It wasn't until after the game that we looked up the challenge system and realized my mistake that almost cost him the victory, but the owner just laughed it off and said he had a fun game because of how close it was.
I still feel awkward and bad about it even now.

This thread is gold, tabling twelve year old girls and the mythical gaming store hookup. Continue!

It is pretty damn mythical. Especially since she was easy on the eyes! But good for your moral compass, mine.....probably not that strong but tbh ive actually seen a few cute girls actually playing the game....blew my mind but i was like hell yeah! Please come back lol

My bull gak sense is tingling, but I WANT to believe! :-)

The problem is they always have BFs that also play and are there.....damn them!!!!! lol

 Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:
Naw, loyalty is the most important thing to me, a woman that would treat her current boyfriend like that is not one I would trust or invest any time in, (maybe its a soldier thing).

Besides the guy was not a bad dude, just think he had a girl that was to much car for him, saw him at the store a few times, but I never called her.

I think you're thinking into it too much. Should have called her and just made sure you had paid the points for Vectored Retro Thrusters.

Not to certain if I like the term mythical attached to my statements, sounds a little to close to being called a liar.

And why it was awkward is the setting, I just never mixed women and gaming before, and found it very off putting, so it was awkward for me, if it was at a nightclub, or concert or bar then no biggie, but in a game store, it felt strange.

the store itself had a huge selection of hobby items though, everything from RC stuff, to scrapbooking supplies, there was always ladies strolling around in there, sometimes EVEN in the game sections, just never used it for a "hookup" spot.

We have a local player in our community who has epilepsy. Whenever he has a large seizure coming on, he starts to get a little "fuzzy." This gets progressively worse, with slurred speech, twitches, and lapses in judgement, until he has his seizure. I have, on occasion, found myself thrashing him only to realize that he's in a pre-seizure haze and I've essentially been whooping up on someone who's only at half-capacity. No big deal, of course, unless we're in a tournament, and then I have to decide whether or not to take the guaranteed win or ask the TO for a draw.

I've run into a guy before a tournament once, back in fifth edition, and we were sitting around comparing which armies were in attendance. Anyhow, he goes "Yeah, there's a lot of Marines of course. Some dumbass even brought Drop Pods. I don't know what the hell he was even thinking." Of course, I was the Drop Pod player, and of course we wound up playing each other. To make matters more teeth-grindingly frustrating, he beat me, and I came in next to last.

I was visting my aunt in London and it was both my very first time in UK and playing outside of Poland . My aunt drove me to Warhammer world and at first it was awesome , all those people playing , so many awesome models and terrain . We don't have as much stuff here to play with . I found an opponent ,he was like two , maybe three times my age. I told him I would like to play and he said ok , asked what I play . I play IG and had my two cases of models with me which was my 1750 army , he asked me If he can see my models and I had no problems with that. What happened after that was the worse game of my life . He took me to a table with no terrain other then some hill .And deployed his army. 3 units of elite hvy bolter devastators , 6x5 man hvy bolter tacticals , 3 whirlwinds and 9 hvy bolter and assault cannon land speeders . The game ended in 2 turn and he of course started . I have never before played against a tailored army , so it was a bit of a shock to me that people do that kind of a stuff . But the worse of it was that marine guy was laughing the whole 20 min of rolling dice and telling his 30 plus year old friends how is owning me and his friend asked me , If I want to play against his eldar . I said ok , the fool that I was back then, and the first thing he put on the same table was 9 scater laser war walkers . Same thing happened again , he gets first turn his army is made out of guardian squads with scater platforms and warwalkers and twin cannon vypers . After that I just packed my things , ignored the third guy asking me If I want to play his chaos and called my aunt to pick me up .
Worse and strangest day of gaming in my life.

 Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:
Most awkward game ever..hmmm

Had to be when I was playing my Tau against a fellow at a FLGS, and his girlfriend was watching and giving moral support, she was kinda easy on the eyes and obviously did not really want to be there, but as the game went along I kept noticing her looking my way, and standing on my side of the table a lot.
She also was making unfavorable comparisons between our models, being pretty harsh on her BF's painted minis, and laughing when he was taking a beating. I actually felt bad for the fellow, even made it a point to compliment some of his better conversions and models, and disagree with his girlfriends opinions of them.

Really uncomfortable, and the guy even won the game, and his girl told him he got lucky!

And to add insult to injury a few minutes after he left, she came back in to "buy some dice" and offered me her phone number, seriously awkward game.

Dude, that's not awkward, that's a win!

The game down the local GW where every girl that walked past the store and saw me playing couldn't help but come into the store and rub themselves up and down on me, whispering sweet nothings in my ear.

By the end of the game there must have been 20 women in there all swooning over me.

Of course I had to turn most of them down, I already had five women on the go at the time.

It was probably because word got out that the four times world body building champion was in GW.

Something about "tabling a twelve year old girl" just sounds wrong...

just... no

 XT-1984 wrote:
The game down the local GW where every girl that walked past the store and saw me playing couldn't help but come into the store and rub themselves up and down on me, whispering sweet nothings in my ear.

By the end of the game there must have been 20 women in there all swooning over me.

Of course I had to turn most of them down, I already had five women on the go at the time.

It was probably because word got out that the four times world body building champion was in GW.

And then you woke up.


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 Fifty wrote:
Something about "tabling a twelve year old girl" just sounds wrong...

Thanks for bringing us there. It was entirely necessary.

Guy screaming and yelling every time something didn't go his way. Silence until he settled back down again. Everyone just looked around at each other with that awkward look.

I think my most awkward, was playing at a random GW store for the first time. I was playing against someone I had never met, and he was a real git. Looked like a less charming version of a great unclean one. Aaanyway, he was a condescending git, for at least the first hour of the game, I had to endure such comment's as "But, why arent you playing sisters of battle, I mean, daemons are a bit too macho for you, right?" "You know how the movement phase works, right? Wouldn't expect you too, you know.." and "I'm gonna feel so bad tabling a chick."

This intermingled with the annoying, less than subtle attempts at creeper-flirting, almost put me off playing at the club entirely. That is, until I had him on the ropes by turn 3 of the game, through use of Epidemius and a total horde of nurglings (Which he assured me at the start of the game, were "total crap, but you probably picked them because they looked cute" -.-').

It felt seriously good, tabling him by turn 4, his face was totally priceless, and when he left (In quite the huff ) I got high fives all round from the actually genuinely nice rest of the crowd at that club.

Moral of the story: never judge an opponent on appearances

All of these posts are great, keep it going guys.

Another one of my awkward games would have to be when I started playing 40k I only had the battle for maccrage set and that was it. I hadnt flipped thought the rules book yet either so all bets were off. I ended up playing my friends IG army and he didnt know space marines at all so all bets were off.

To make a long story short it was 10-15 space marines with a flamer and a rocket, a land speeder and a razorback that i though I could move individually vs a leman russ demolisher, about 30 guardsmen, 3 sententials and a command squad......I got tabled about 3 times then ended up winning, no clue how but I did.

First tourney, I had three demo charges (IG) against a death wing all termie army.

All three of my demo charges scattered back into my squads and wiped them off the table. (Deep striking vets out of vendetta's)

We finished the game but I I knew he felt bad the entire game winning like that. (Even told me after)

Nothing worse then being on the winning side of a game where you know the dice handed you a victory.

There should be more chicks that game; it would make going to the club to game feel a lot better.

In my last game, it went 5 turns and all of my plasma cannons never scattered or got hot. On the flip side, my m. launcher very rarely hit anything (firing frag 1/2 the time) and only killed a single grey knight (krak overwatch). My opponents rage at the plasma death rain was very something to see.

 XT-1984 wrote:

By the end of the game there must have been 20 women in there all swooning over me.

Same thing happens to me when I roll out my artillery. Pretty common occurrence for IG players IIRC.

Most awkward game?
A friendly game at my FLGS. A new guy comes in, must be in his early 20's, not far off my age, so I agree to play. He proceeds to cheat at every opportunity. Moving silly distances (not like 6.5 or 7", I'm talking 12" or 18" for foot troops), claiming things were in LoS or range which were miles off. Or granting him self cover from the store shelf when I enter the shooting phase. It was awkward enough until he answered his phone (in the rather small store, where most people go outside) and proceeded to shout at the poor person on the other end how he wasn't ready to be picked up.

I decided to call the game on turn 3 and say I had no chance of winning.


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 Evileyes wrote:

Moral of the story: never judge an opponent on appearances

I thought the moral was "table people at every opportunity"

I think that the other people there are the ones that should be asshamed. People in wheelchairs who are active like that dont look for pity, as they get it often. They want you gave him, a good competitve game, and a nice time. Same what everyone else wants.

I didn't play it, but I witnessed a match between an exceptionally embarrassed looking teenager playing Eldar and maybe a ten year old BA player who during the course of the game alternated between crying, screaming, and throwing his minis everywhere.

As far as I could tell, they were on maybe turn 2 or 3, and nobody was in bad shape.

I am not envious of the redshirt who had to confront him. Also that Eldar player probably wished he was dead.

Yeaah, thats just terrible. I think everyone should be able to enjoy Warhammer overall. But people should know when not to let their children play.


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 XT-1984 wrote:
The game down the local GW where every girl that walked past the store and saw me playing couldn't help but come into the store and rub themselves up and down on me, whispering sweet nothings in my ear.

By the end of the game there must have been 20 women in there all swooning over me.

Of course I had to turn most of them down, I already had five women on the go at the time.

It was probably because word got out that the four times world body building champion was in GW.

Also, no offense... But why did you even post? Just no.

Mine was when I was about 25. You have to understand that when I was 25 I actually looked about 35. It just makes the story that much worse.

I was at my LGS and was, at the time, one of the better players. It was my friend's store and he needed help on certain game days so a lot of times I would end up going down just to hang out and help people with learning the game or sorting rules disputes, etc. Then, occasionally TFG would show up and, if he was obnoxious to the point that he was spoiling the atmosphere for everyone it was my job to thump him so hard and so unmercifully that he would either become instantly humble or just never come back (at this point I only vaguely remember being good at 40k lol).

So one day this guy walks in and is just "F' this, and F' that, and this store sucks and you suck and your army sucks and I'm the greatest, etc etc." So naturally I line him up and we play. My BA against what was just a really bad IG army. The list itself wasn't terrible, but it was a very unfortunate match up against what I had brought. By turn 3 he has almost nothing left and his bottom lip starts to tremble. I ask him if he's ok and he snatches up his stuff and just dumps it into the box he brought (you could actually see the pieces break when he chucked them in there) and storms out crying. Literally crying. We all just shrugged and went about our business.

An hour later my buddy pulls me into the office with a very irate woman. It was suddenly my job to explain to her why her son was forced out of the store in tears and had to call her to pick him up. I was like "Huh? The only person I played today was at least 19/20. I didn't play any kids today." Then I described him. Turns out, I had just obliterated the world's most physically developed 12 year old. He seriously looked 8/9 years older than he was. SOOOOOOOO awkward. lol

Arrived at the game store at around 1. Guys who i don't usually play are there at that time(i normally dont go there until 6) Nice guys, ask me how long i have been playing, I tell them about 3 months, one of them says "hey, are you that guy who keeps tabling the blood angels player" and after that point I tried to divert the topic away. Apparently, they really don't like the guy I have been playing with, which i feel bad about, considering he is homeschooled and might not get out much.(I'm not sure if he has mild asbergers or something, but he sometimes lines his dice up on the 6s, and he has alot of dice) So after I play a game with these guys, my friend comes into the store, and the the other guys finish their game and leave. I'm feeling bad about it, because he is a really nice guy, just has a few rough edges. He might seem less bad to me then they see him because I have more experience with people like that.(one of my best friends is a genius with asbergers and autism)

I really wasn't able to focus at all, and I ended up tabling this guy, AGAIN. I really need to start taking vespid.

A guy came into the club once having not played 6th ed, I offered to show him the ropes. Now im not familiar with the space marine codex, and after turn 2 I was wondering why I was getting beaten so hard by a guy who haddnt played for a few months. I asked to have a flick through his codex . Turned out he was feilding an illegal and incredibly tailored list. He had a thunderfire cannon, a vindicator, a whirlwind, a devistators squad with heavy bolters anf missile launchers and a predator. He seemed to think it was fair enough, and proceeded to annihilate my foot ork hoard wich I had perposefuly made soft so as not to put the new guy off.
To make it even more awkward he was one of those players that makes jokes at your expence and expects you to laugh at them and dosent even smile when you make one at him.
I probably wouldnt have minded if he wasnt such a donkey cave.

There is a FLGS I don't frequent very often if at all, and this story is one of the main reasons.
In my local area we actually have a decent amount of female players, I'd put it around 25%, so they aren't some rare thing guys around here ogle at. There is a store a little out of my way where I play only because a friend of mine lived very close and had no car so it was easier for us to play there. After a while I started going there to play other people, because they all seemed friendly. My friend who was a regular there would tell me snippets of stories about playing with a few girls from the group who were all friends and would hit on him all the time. I of course didn't believe him. Not because he is unattractive, or does handles himself poorly around members of the opposite gender, but because it sounded like he was just reading more into the situation than I thought he should be. Until...

I go in for a game, and see some of the girls from the above mentioned group. I make it clear to everyone there I am looking for a game, and one of the girls comes up and asks to play a 1500pt game with me. Sure, that's what I'm here for. There was no awkwardness to this point. I had seen them all there before, and even had conversations with them, so we weren't exactly strangers.
Before I go any further, I am in my mid 20s, and have been very happily married for a few years. A fact I make very clear. I wear a rather large Celtic wedding band, and I usually talk about my wife a lot with my friends who all know her. There three girls look like they are in their late teens, maybe early 20s. Sometimes I just find it hard to estimate a woman's age. Now the girls are attractive, albeit not quite as much as my friend I described earlier let on, Still attractive young women none the less.

We're setting up the board, making small talk, and when the first turn starts, the tone of conversation begins to change a bit. At first I'm playing it off like I'm reading too much into it, but it starts to get awkward by the beginning of turn two. See's playing with her hair more than usual, she's twisting things I say into suggestive or provocative things. Some of the things she said, and some of the body language she had were a little too obvious. I suddenly was forced to believe what my friend said before was true.

Around third turn, I clued in that it must have been a distraction tactic. Not because I'm unattractive and there is no way a girl should hit on me. I used to be an athlete, until I took a rugby player to the knee. But because my wedding ring is had to miss. I even mentioned my wife once or twice to try and tone down the behavior, but it made no difference. So a tactic it must have been. Her and her friends were good players, and could win without such tactics, so it wasn't really necessary. I mean no girl's undergarments require that amount of constant adjustment. I'll spare some of the details here, but it really was uncomfortable.

Reasoning out it was a tactic made it easier to ignore. Just like any other distraction tactic any opponent would use, the key to victory would be not to get lead into it. Around turn 5 the game was really close. If you over looked her inappropriate behavior, the game was a great one. Around this time, other people were finishing their games, and we had a couple observers. Two were her friends, and a few of the guys I had become friendly with during my time gaming there, and one guy I had never seen before. Her friend's started to behave the same way she did, it got pretty bad (and pretty cheesy) at this point. With renewed focus stirred by frustration, I managed to turn our 5th turn from a close fought battle to a sure win for me (ok the dice gods helped too).

This is where it got even worse. We ended up having a turn 6, and the whole thing turned from overly flirtatious to a giant guilt fest. The girl I was playing became very quiet and had a constant look on her face as though she was on the edge of tears. Her friends became nasty, saying things like I was picking on her, being mean, or going to make her cry. A few of the guys fed off this and joined in with some white knight chivalrous attitude. The mob mentality was palpable. I quickly finished the game, just barely not tabling her, but winning soundly none the less.

I reached out my hand for my customary good game hand shake, and she burst into tears. Her friends got VERY nasty, and started saying all kinds of rude things I will not repeat here. Some of the guys became borderline aggressive (except the guy I never saw before). They all but chased me out of the store. Over the next week I felt really bad. I kept playing the scenario over and over in my head. Was I harsh on her? She did seem to have really strong tactics, it was a well fought game. Did I mislead the young woman into thinking I was interested in some way? Did I unknowingly do any of those things I was accused of? I did my best to shrug it off, but it pestered me in the back of my mind all week.

The next week, my friend and I had planned to meet at the same store. We get there and start setting up, and those same girls walk in. They look all awkward around me, and slink over to have a private conversation with the owner. By the look on the one girls face, I could tell there was going to be trouble. I must have been particularly psychic that day, because once their conversation was over, the owner came over, and told me I had been rude and vulgar to the girls, and that behavior was not tolerated in his store, and I made them uncomfortable and, and, and... By the time he was done listing all the things I know I didn't do, he didn't even have to tell me that I was unwelcome there. Even my friend, who had known me for years bought into their sob story, and when we left further accosted me for my behavior and was doubting my side of the story. I felt even worse over the next week. Mostly because of the negative image I had been given unjustly.

The next weekend, I get a call from my friend. He was at the store, and said the girls weren't there and the owner had given me permission to play when they weren't there. I wasn't going to go, but my friend sincerely apologized for the way he had acted the week before, and even offered to buy me lunch when we were done. So I hesitantly got ready and went over. We started to have a good game. But I noticed I kept getting harsh stares from other patrons. Apparently the story of my game with the other girl had been retold and warped several times to the point my behavior bordered on the criminal. I just ignored it and tried to focus on having fun with my friend. That's when they walked in. We were in the middle of turn three, and they came through the door, looked at me and pulled an overly dramatic horrified act. The owner started my way, and frustration hit me. I started to tell my side of the story, a little louder than necessary (not quite yelling), to the owner and all who could hear. As I was finishing, I realized it would be hard to believe me over the word of those three near teary eyed girls. I mean if it was me watching this from another guy, I can't say I would for sure believe him either from an unbiased standpoint.

My shouldered sunk in defeat, I gave up and just about started to pack my models when I heard someone yell "wait!". I looked up to see the stranger from two weeks past. The guy I hadn't seen before who had watched my game. He walked in from, the back? He walked over to the owner and told him all about the actual events. The owner walked over to me, and quietly and embarrassingly apologized. He said "his brother" had been there the day in question, and told him I was telling the truth. Thank god the stranger was his brother, what luck for me!

I turned and went to go back to playing my game, with a big grin on my face akin to an innocent man going free from a courtroom after being cleared of a crime he did not commit. The girls took notice, and the girl I played threw a fit. The owner called them on it, and they just made more stuff up. Then another unrelated woman came out and said they pulled this on other guys at the club and she had seen them do it. Apparently I wasn't the first guy to be thrown out of there for something he didn't do. Hearing this, the owners face got all contorted as he clearly contemplated other situations similar to mine where he had made the wrong choice. He kicked them out, I didn't hear the whole thing, but they did put up quite a fuss.

I finished my game with my friend. He won, but it was still a good game. And free lunch was also great. I stopped going to that store to play still. The rumors had already spread. Everyone still treated me differently. I even heard a version of the story where I had apparently put my hand on the one girl's breast. The damage was done, and I didn't care enough to fix it after a while of trying to fight it. My friend ended up moving closer to another store anyway. We play at two other places. I have not seen those girls again, nor have I had any other real negative experiences (other than getting my but whooped) while playing with any of those stores female players.

Wow I just realized how long that story is typed out. Sorry for the long read.

If you TL;DR this, basically: beat a girl, she freaked out and tried to get me banned from the store, in the end justice prevails... mostly.

Oh i remember my most awkward game. A simple local tourney.
my WS vs his IG. His brothers and his father where there. He just whined the whole time, I just played his brother and he was a joy even though i lost. I ruined two guys my first turn(I love alpha stirking to cripple peoples abilities to counter). I was winning, any time a unit died he whined. It was no fun. The worst part? His dad was coming to MY defense, making it more awkward. I ended you just straight winning. The worse was when he thought he didn't past an Order test, but did, so he re rolled and failed, we moved on to other units but he realized he passed, but i enforced the "You have to take the re-roll" rule from the BRB.

 Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:
Naw, loyalty is the most important thing to me, a woman that would treat her current boyfriend like that is not one I would trust or invest any time in, (maybe its a soldier thing).

Besides the guy was not a bad dude, just think he had a girl that was to much car for him, saw him at the store a few times, but I never called her.

I'm with you there -- I feel like any relationship that starts from infidelity -- even if it's as simple as her giving you her number while she's still telling her boyfriend that everything is fine -- is going to end in infidelity.

As for my most awkward game, that was last Sunday. My 7-year-old has been really interested in 40k since I started working on models at the coffee table, so I told him I'd show him how to play. We set up Lego terrain on the 2.5'x3.5' coffee table, with a swampy area through the middle of the table made out of Dungeon Tiles (yeah, his first game had difficult terrain) -- all the while he's talking about how it would be cool if the terrain moved during the game (which, admittedly, it could be) and he didn't quite understand that it was supposed to remain stationary. Also, he wanted to use a Dungeon Tile boat to cross the difficult terrain. Eventually, I had to simply say, "Yeah, that would be awesome. It would work in a different game, too, but there aren't any rules for it in this one."

So, we set up, and we're both running 2 5-man Tac squads armed with nothing but Bolters -- I didn't want to start out with anything too complicated, deal with FoC, or anything outside of basic rules, and we get going. We're both ducking behind Lego walls, and within the first turn we're able to fire on each other -- He shoots at me (I went first, because I rolled higher, and his movement moved him into range) and immediately killed two guys. We go back and forth a few more turns, each time I fire on him and fail to get beyond his armor save, and each time he killed a few of my guys. On turn 3 or 4, he tables me, and I hadn't killed a single one of his guys.

My wife was sitting on the couch next to us just laughing as she watched him roll mostly 5s and 6s, and me roll 1s and 2s. That's not me being a sore loser and only noticing the negatives, either -- it became a joke by the end of turn two.

Most awkward because I thought I was going to have to go easy on him, and not get frustrated when he didn't get the rules, where in reality I got stomped on and literally laughed at.

 pwntallica wrote:
There is a FLGS I don't frequent very often if at all, and this story is one of the main reasons.
In my local area we actually have a decent amount of female players, I'd put it around 25%, so they aren't some rare thing guys around here ogle at. There is a store a little out of my way where I play only because a friend of mine lived very close and had no car so it was easier for us to play there. After a while I started going there to play other people, because they all seemed friendly. My friend who was a regular there would tell me snippets of stories about playing with a few girls from the group who were all friends and would hit on him all the time. I of course didn't believe him. Not because he is unattractive, or does handles himself poorly around members of the opposite gender, but because it sounded like he was just reading more into the situation than I thought he should be. Until...

I go in for a game, and see some of the girls from the above mentioned group. I make it clear to everyone there I am looking for a game, and one of the girls comes up and asks to play a 1500pt game with me. Sure, that's what I'm here for. There was no awkwardness to this point. I had seen them all there before, and even had conversations with them, so we weren't exactly strangers.
Before I go any further, I am in my mid 20s, and have been very happily married for a few years. A fact I make very clear. I wear a rather large Celtic wedding band, and I usually talk about my wife a lot with my friends who all know her. There three girls look like they are in their late teens, maybe early 20s. Sometimes I just find it hard to estimate a woman's age. Now the girls are attractive, albeit not quite as much as my friend I described earlier let on, Still attractive young women none the less.

We're setting up the board, making small talk, and when the first turn starts, the tone of conversation begins to change a bit. At first I'm playing it off like I'm reading too much into it, but it starts to get awkward by the beginning of turn two. See's playing with her hair more than usual, she's twisting things I say into suggestive or provocative things. Some of the things she said, and some of the body language she had were a little too obvious. I suddenly was forced to believe what my friend said before was true.

Around third turn, I clued in that it must have been a distraction tactic. Not because I'm unattractive and there is no way a girl should hit on me. I used to be an athlete, until I took a rugby player to the knee. But because my wedding ring is had to miss. I even mentioned my wife once or twice to try and tone down the behavior, but it made no difference. So a tactic it must have been. Her and her friends were good players, and could win without such tactics, so it wasn't really necessary. I mean no girl's undergarments require that amount of constant adjustment. I'll spare some of the details here, but it really was uncomfortable.

Reasoning out it was a tactic made it easier to ignore. Just like any other distraction tactic any opponent would use, the key to victory would be not to get lead into it. Around turn 5 the game was really close. If you over looked her inappropriate behavior, the game was a great one. Around this time, other people were finishing their games, and we had a couple observers. Two were her friends, and a few of the guys I had become friendly with during my time gaming there, and one guy I had never seen before. Her friend's started to behave the same way she did, it got pretty bad (and pretty cheesy) at this point. With renewed focus stirred by frustration, I managed to turn our 5th turn from a close fought battle to a sure win for me (ok the dice gods helped too).

This is where it got even worse. We ended up having a turn 6, and the whole thing turned from overly flirtatious to a giant guilt fest. The girl I was playing became very quiet and had a constant look on her face as though she was on the edge of tears. Her friends became nasty, saying things like I was picking on her, being mean, or going to make her cry. A few of the guys fed off this and joined in with some white knight chivalrous attitude. The mob mentality was palpable. I quickly finished the game, just barely not tabling her, but winning soundly none the less.

I reached out my hand for my customary good game hand shake, and she burst into tears. Her friends got VERY nasty, and started saying all kinds of rude things I will not repeat here. Some of the guys became borderline aggressive (except the guy I never saw before). They all but chased me out of the store. Over the next week I felt really bad. I kept playing the scenario over and over in my head. Was I harsh on her? She did seem to have really strong tactics, it was a well fought game. Did I mislead the young woman into thinking I was interested in some way? Did I unknowingly do any of those things I was accused of? I did my best to shrug it off, but it pestered me in the back of my mind all week.

The next week, my friend and I had planned to meet at the same store. We get there and start setting up, and those same girls walk in. They look all awkward around me, and slink over to have a private conversation with the owner. By the look on the one girls face, I could tell there was going to be trouble. I must have been particularly psychic that day, because once their conversation was over, the owner came over, and told me I had been rude and vulgar to the girls, and that behavior was not tolerated in his store, and I made them uncomfortable and, and, and... By the time he was done listing all the things I know I didn't do, he didn't even have to tell me that I was unwelcome there. Even my friend, who had known me for years bought into their sob story, and when we left further accosted me for my behavior and was doubting my side of the story. I felt even worse over the next week. Mostly because of the negative image I had been given unjustly.

The next weekend, I get a call from my friend. He was at the store, and said the girls weren't there and the owner had given me permission to play when they weren't there. I wasn't going to go, but my friend sincerely apologized for the way he had acted the week before, and even offered to buy me lunch when we were done. So I hesitantly got ready and went over. We started to have a good game. But I noticed I kept getting harsh stares from other patrons. Apparently the story of my game with the other girl had been retold and warped several times to the point my behavior bordered on the criminal. I just ignored it and tried to focus on having fun with my friend. That's when they walked in. We were in the middle of turn three, and they came through the door, looked at me and pulled an overly dramatic horrified act. The owner started my way, and frustration hit me. I started to tell my side of the story, a little louder than necessary (not quite yelling), to the owner and all who could hear. As I was finishing, I realized it would be hard to believe me over the word of those three near teary eyed girls. I mean if it was me watching this from another guy, I can't say I would for sure believe him either from an unbiased standpoint.

My shouldered sunk in defeat, I gave up and just about started to pack my models when I heard someone yell "wait!". I looked up to see the stranger from two weeks past. The guy I hadn't seen before who had watched my game. He walked in from, the back? He walked over to the owner and told him all about the actual events. The owner walked over to me, and quietly and embarrassingly apologized. He said "his brother" had been there the day in question, and told him I was telling the truth. Thank god the stranger was his brother, what luck for me!

I turned and went to go back to playing my game, with a big grin on my face akin to an innocent man going free from a courtroom after being cleared of a crime he did not commit. The girls took notice, and the girl I played threw a fit. The owner called them on it, and they just made more stuff up. Then another unrelated woman came out and said they pulled this on other guys at the club and she had seen them do it. Apparently I wasn't the first guy to be thrown out of there for something he didn't do. Hearing this, the owners face got all contorted as he clearly contemplated other situations similar to mine where he had made the wrong choice. He kicked them out, I didn't hear the whole thing, but they did put up quite a fuss.

I finished my game with my friend. He won, but it was still a good game. And free lunch was also great. I stopped going to that store to play still. The rumors had already spread. Everyone still treated me differently. I even heard a version of the story where I had apparently put my hand on the one girl's breast. The damage was done, and I didn't care enough to fix it after a while of trying to fight it. My friend ended up moving closer to another store anyway. We play at two other places. I have not seen those girls again, nor have I had any other real negative experiences (other than getting my but whooped) while playing with any of those stores female players.

Wow I just realized how long that story is typed out. Sorry for the long read.

If you TL;DR this, basically: beat a girl, she freaked out and tried to get me banned from the store, in the end justice prevails... mostly.

+1
See if it was me, depending on the army I was playing, I would of just crushed her. Like if I was playing my Nidz and I didn't use Trevi spam I would of laugh at tabling her.

Quick background on me: I'm in a R.O.P class studying Tactics to become a Field officer. I have become a Real fan of the German tactics in WW1, so being the Soulless officer that sends his troops to there death with out remorse I tend to treat my Allies like sandbags somethings. So on to the story. It was a doubles tournament 1.5k per teammate so it was 3k per side. I was playing DKoK and my partner was using a rainbow painted slaanesh chaos daemons (5th ed tourny at FLGS) also he was gay and this is important later on in the story. After 2 win we where off to the final round, for the final round we had to fight 3k of blobbed gun-line guard. Now this is where my cold efficient mind set in, so my Allie (lets call him bob) his Daemon army was set up to alpha strike and take out elite unites so he was more or less useless. I had a great Idea. and after whispering it to him he agreed. All he did that game was deepstrike in front of there gun line and provide me with cover. (Now I'm sure you guys are wondering why that maters...well remember I said I was playing DKoK what what are they know for? Thats right! ORDNANCE BATTERY! They make blobb's cry harder then flamers. the game was over by beginning of turn 4, we went first by the way. after the game we shook hands with the opponents, one of them said "I though I'v seen everything but I never guessed that a Skin head would play on the same team with a gay guy" I stood there in shock, I have never had anyone say that to me and Bob was just laughing away and trying to tell the guy In between breaths that I wasn't and Skin head and that we have been friend for a few years now. That story is still told every now and then at the FLGS I go to we all laugh about it but its still awkward the think that someone believing I was a Skin head.

Edit: spelling

Thatguyhsagun wrote:
Ok this may be hard to believe but my first real game in 5th was the starter game at the GW store (long story short I started in 4th but my parents are separated so I game with my dad; this was with my mom) and lost. Mind you I was about 12 at the time, maybe a little younger and had yet to start my own army (borrowed my fathers-he has every single one) so I picked the good old boys in blue, got a little wonky and lo and behold my dread was ripped asunder by a power klaw, my marine squad shot up with rokkets, the termies died to a hail of fire combined with some bad cc saves. The dice gods were not happy (I got a LOT of 1's and 2's) and to make up for it I sacrificed a dozen dice in their name when I got home. The redshirt didn't know what to say but I was not disheartened, and proceeded to buy not only the SM codex but a battleforce and an AOBR box set from the guy, who looked rather surprised.

Same for me mate.

Rocked up to have a go at it for the first time. Black shirt (used to be red I suppose) goes Orks with mentality to lose using only the Boyz, Nobz and Warboss. I'm sitting blue with Terminators, Troops, Dreadnaught and Boss.

3 turns later I was tabled and he couldn't believe it. Went on to get a few hundred bucks worth of starting supplies and AOBR, I was more interested in the painting TBH. Getting there and now wanting to make a decent force to win lol. SMs didn't do it for me, here's hoping CSM go better.

 kinratha wrote:

 pwntallica wrote:
***see above for my very long original story***

+1
See if it was me, depending on the army I was playing, I would of just crushed her. Like if I was playing my Nidz and I didn't use Trevi spam I would of laugh at tabling her.

The point was, she was a good player with a solid army. It wasn't a matter of just crushing her. She played a good game despite her shenanigans. I did play the whole game to win, I just happened to pull clearly ahead on the 5th turn thanks to some good plays on my part, and a solid backing from the dice gods.

 kinratha wrote:
...its still awkward the think that someone believing I was a Skin head

I shave my head. Mostly because I had terrible receding hair lines by the age of 19, also I like to think I pull it off. Still, every so often people assume I am a skin head, or racist because I'm a bald white dude (kind of an oxymoron if you ask me).

Try being a bald white dude with stretched ears and tattoos. :p

Matney X wrote:
Try being a bald white dude with stretched ears and tattoos. :p

Well I have a few tattoos, but not stretched ears. One of my gaming buddies does though, and rocks a huge mohawk. I guess the two of us at a table must be quite the sight then

I had the mohawk 'til I was 19 and started going bald. Now I either shave it or look homeless. But enough of that... back to game talk.

 theman99808 wrote:
I was at out local gaming store on 40k night looking for a quick pick up game and after asking around I found a guy to play with....he was paralyzed from the waste down and struggled a little with his upper body movements. First im gonna say im not against anybody thats like that, I applaud him for still coming out and playing. Back on topic, we decided to play a 1k game because we both had to leave in a few hours. I played my deathwing and him his gray knights. After a few turns I had taken two of the objectives and killed his warlord only loosing two or three terminators from each of my three squads. To make a long story short I ended up tabling the guy, I normally get that triumphant feeling after that but this time I just felt like a git. By no means was he a bad player and was a great sportsman about it, his list for 1k was quite a power list too. After he left I was talking to some of the other guys at the shop and they asked me how my game went and I told them I tabled the guy and one looked at me and went "dude, he was in a wheel chair and you tabled him"

So that might have been my most awkward game ive played in, whats yours?

also ive seen during a tournament a 15 year old kid play a 12 year old and make the 12 year old cry.....at a toys for tots tournament.

Why should you feel awkard for winning a game against an opponent who played a power list, was a good player and was a good sportsman to boot? Just because he was in a wheelchair? That is dumb. So because someone is in a wheelchair you are supposed to not really play the game so that they win? Is winning a game of 40k because someone let you going to make up for you being stuck in a wheelchair? Hardly. I have a friend who is now a parapalegic and in a wheelchair or using a walker because of some idiot ramming into the back of his stopped car at full speed. His upper body strength is amazing and he would punch your lights out if you played that maudlin crap on him and let him win because he was in a wheel chair. That friend also has started competitive biking with a hand pedaling bike as well.

No need for you to have felt awkward winning that game in the least. As for the second example you gave, if you can't lose a game without throwing a temper tantrum or crying then you are not ready to play 40k in public. I know a few too many older players who also fail this test regularly.

My most awkward game was one where everything just went completely wrong for my opponent. At first it was funny, the first few mess ups. Never hitting. Never making an armor save. Always just too far away for charging. Then he started getting frustrated and careless and started breaking his models while moving stuff. He wasn't angry and banging things, just getting so frustrated his attention was straying. Small things at first and then a nice piece that was lost is bumped from the edge of the table and ruined on the floor. It just kept going like that for the whole game. The guy lost horribly, I lost pretty much nothing at all on the table, parts of his army were damaged or ruined. I just felt really bad. Started with people laughing at first and then by the end everyone around the game was cringing when the next bad thing would happen to the poor guy. :(

Skriker

I'm by no mean the worlds most serious gamer, in fact, I prefer to paint, but after getting past 2,000 worth of BA I figured I'd best learn to play.

Back before 6th came out, a friend of mine came round whilst I was painting and had a few models out on the dining table. Figuring the hobby could do with a new player, introduced him to 40k.

Fast forward 7 months, he decides to play Orks, and has Magpie syndrome.

He turns up with 4k worth of Orks, which he has not looked into tactics, not thought about using wagons as infantry shields, shooting at the target which could do most damage etc, etc. by turn 5 I had almost gunned him to death and then unleashed my CC squads, which "put him to the sword".

The game took a good 8 hours or so, counting cigarette breaks, food breaks etc.

I feel real awkward, his first game with his army, and now he ducks out of playing every time I challenge him!

 Evileyes wrote:
Moral of the story: never judge an opponent on appearances

The other moral is never judge the entirety of a gaming group based solely on the idiocy of the sexist douchebag who still thinks women are rare in the world. My guess is you were playing him because no one else would anymore and he saw a new player, and a "girl" to boot and was thinking easy win. Sorry, but I doubt he would have thought woman...

Unlike many other nerdy folks I've never lacked for female company in life in general or in gaming. Mind you I've not seen as many women into the full sized mini games and if they are it is usually more fantasy than sci-fi or historicals, but they are definitely out there. Never understood the patronizing attitude some male players show to women who show up to game. If they show up with a prepared army, the rules and their army book/codex it is HIGHLY likely that they have some clue about what they are there for in the first place and you will just look like an ass if you act like they got lost on their way to the Barbie doll aisle or something.

Skriker

 Skriker wrote:

 Evileyes wrote:
Moral of the story: never judge an opponent on appearances

The other moral is never judge the entirety of a gaming group based solely on the idiocy of the sexist douchebag who still thinks women are rare in the world. My guess is you were playing him because no one else would anymore and he saw a new player, and a "girl" to boot and was thinking easy win. Sorry, but I doubt he would have thought woman...

Unlike many other nerdy folks I've never lacked for female company in life in general or in gaming. Mind you I've not seen as many women into the full sized mini games and if they are it is usually more fantasy than sci-fi or historicals, but they are definitely out there. Never understood the patronizing attitude some male players show to women who show up to game. If they show up with a prepared army, the rules and their army book/codex it is HIGHLY likely that they have some clue about what they are there for in the first place and you will just look like an ass if you act like they got lost on their way to the Barbie doll aisle or something.

Skriker

Indeed, i'm fortunate enough now to play outside of a FLGS, the club I go to is full of very friendly folk, who are not at all like that guy, but I do tend to steer clear of GW stores because there is inevitably always a few guy's like that there.

I don't judge the community based on those idiots, but the community, does have a disproportionately large amount of those kind's of idiots, at least from my experience.

 Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:
Most awkward game ever..hmmm

Had to be when I was playing my Tau against a fellow at a FLGS, and his girlfriend was watching and giving moral support, she was kinda easy on the eyes and obviously did not really want to be there, but as the game went along I kept noticing her looking my way, and standing on my side of the table a lot.
She also was making unfavorable comparisons between our models, being pretty harsh on her BF's painted minis, and laughing when he was taking a beating. I actually felt bad for the fellow, even made it a point to compliment some of his better conversions and models, and disagree with his girlfriends opinions of them.

Really uncomfortable, and the guy even won the game, and his girl told him he got lucky!

And to add insult to injury a few minutes after he left, she came back in to "buy some dice" and offered me her phone number, seriously awkward game.

Minus the phone number part, I've had a pretty similar thing happen... although I didn't find it awkward.

I think this exchange sums it up fairly well:

Vesper Lynd: Am I going to have a problem with you, Mr. Bond?
James Bond: No, don't worry, you're not my type.
Vesper Lynd: Smart?
James Bond: Single.

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As for awkward situations... I didn't actually end up playing this game, but... well, you'll see. I will note that the last time I posted this story it derailed the thread, so try to keep it civil please.

I was playing a game of 40k with Crablezworth when a guy in the GW store asked if I wanted to play a game with him after. I was like "eh why not?" and didn't really worry too much about it, instead concentrating on the game I had in progress. However, it was a few minutes later that I noticed that the guy was wearing this shirt:

Suffice to say that I found that rather tasteless and figured that douche shirt = douche player and so I made up an excuse about why I couldn't play and just left the guy hanging. Say what you will about how easily I get offended (and I honestly do not get offended easily), but there is nothing funny about the deaths of almost 3000 people... and beyond that, putting the joke on a tacky t-shirt is even worse.

Well my most awkward game would have to be a fight breaking out in store over a rules argument. I wasn't part of the fight but the fact that there was over 6k points of models on the board between them 1500 of which were mine was pretty awkward. There's that uncomfortable silience that decsends when a fights about to happen we're everybodies just kinda staring at the two would be combatents.

Some people just don't know when to stop mouthing off I guess. Plus it's never a good idea to make an aggressive move at an Iraq war veteran. No harm done, we were able to calm everybody down with no damage to property or persons but still was way uncomfortable.

 wowsmash wrote:
Well my most awkward game would have to be a fight breaking out in store over a rules argument. I wasn't part of the fight but the fact that there was over 6k points of models on the board between them 1500 of which were mine was pretty awkward. There's that uncomfortable silience that decsends when a fights about to happen we're everybodies just kinda staring at the two would be combatents.

Some people just don't know when to stop mouthing off I guess. Plus it's never a good idea to make an aggressive move at an Iraq war veteran. No harm done, we were able to calm everybody down with no damage to property or persons but still was way uncomfortable.

I know the feel. Not wise to do that to ANY Vet. Many of us are wired differently and perceive things with another explanation. And then again, some people are just too into a game

So, my wife has supported my hobby for many years now, the only caveat was that in addition to painting my own army, i make sure her space wolves are up to spec, and she occassionally brings them out for doubles matches when she insists on being on my side. she refuses to play against me, on account of she can never beat me, and she likes to be able to beat me at things.

So i'd signed up to a local tournament with my best friend, taken great care in selecting my army, and then the day before he comes down with the flu and is unable to attend. My wife says not to worry, she will go in his place so the entry fee isn't wasted (more an excuse to spend time with me i think).

The tournament went well for both of us, and we both have an impressive winning streak, but we then find ourselves, on the penultimate game of the tournament, on the same table.... since i was all for winning the tournament (and so was she) i ended up tabling her.... but it wasn't a pleasant experience during or after.

I hooked up with two gaming store hotties after totally destroying an 8 year old in 'The Relic' mission, That day was awkwardly priceless...

Played a bloke in our 40k league with my Eldar. We played a 1k point game, me Eldar, him Dark Angels. I stuck my Guardian squads with Starcannons in buildings. I was not prepared for Belial and the corresponding turn 1, no scatter Termies in my deployment zone. Consequently, perhaps due to the fact that my Wraithlord was in reserve, I was tabled in turn 4.

We felt a bit awkward after the game, thankfully it passed quickly.

I played a game with a guy who had really bad shakes. Not sure if it was nerves or a medical issue. He got first deployment, right before I deployed even one fig, He bumped the table, tripped, KNOCKED THE TABLE OVER and busted about 2k worth of Figs under a wooden table....I felt bad for the guy and yet awesome because not one ork was harmed.

I have yet to see a table flipped yet thankfully but i have seen dice turned into projectiles of frustration. 40k is a game that if you cant just laugh it off you will end up like ''that guy'' at the store.

Another story that I have is I was playing in a local weekly tournament. You met there and whoever had showed up and had payed earlier in the month played on another people could join in later too.

To make a long story short after about 3 weeks of playing (and playing the better players in the store. So there were no run away games) I overhear them totaling the points up for a game from a new guy that had joined. we were playing planet strike games that week. according to the TO the kid had scored 21 points in one game.....everybody else had maby 18-27 points after 3 weeks.

This kid had played somebody who wasnt in the tournament and was playing orks. Somehow he destroyed the objectives so the secondary was kill points.....how do you get 21 points of kill points?

I ended the tournament in 3rd to last because all of my games had been very close only netting me 2-4 points a week or a draw. this git played two weeks and came in 3rd.

 dreamakuma wrote:
I played a game with a guy who had really bad shakes. Not sure if it was nerves or a medical issue. He got first deployment, right before I deployed even one fig, He bumped the table, tripped, KNOCKED THE TABLE OVER and busted about 2k worth of Figs under a wooden table....I felt bad for the guy and yet awesome because not one ork was harmed.

It's hard not to feel sorry for a guy like that. He wants to live a normal, albeit geeky, existence and he can't even do that because of his disability. Hopefully something from that debacle wasn't broken.

I've never had a truly awkward experience in a gaming store yet, but I was playing a doubles game couple of weeks ago and kept rolling dice into my allies (completely unintentionally) extremely lovingly painted Marines, losing arms, pads, and heads. Suffice to say he was not pleased... and it kept happening.

My most awkward game was against a long time friend, he's actually the one who got me into the hobby. He's in his early 50's and an ex-military type who is obsessed with his Imperial Guard and only his Imperial Guard (namely his tank company.)

After a few weeks of discussion he sold me a necron army that his son (his painting/commission factory) had only put together but had no interest painting (this was 4-5th edition, so old limited crons.)

After striking a deal, we decided I should pit them against his armoured company (basically nothing on the table but tanks.), given the small nature of our local, he had never played necrons before and didn't know what to expect, he'd never even seen the codex.

Remembering that glancing vehicles to death was a preferable option in those days and Necrons being able to always glance on 6's, made this a relatively short game as my Necron army was just mass warriors backed up by destroyers and a few wraiths.

After the 2nd turn there was barely a tank capable of firing back let alone doing any damage, safe to say he lost his temper and feverently started flicking through the codex several times to ensure how gauss etc worked.

By the 3rd turn it was over, all that was left was 3 DF Wraiths chewing the back of a badly disabled Russ.

After the handshakes and humour, he was insistent on buying the army back after the 'impressive rules' and firepower.

Safe to say I didn't sell them back, but there was an awkward air around us the rest of the night, a few weeks later looking back we laughed about it, and even now remains a hilarious story between us.

 Mythra wrote:
I got put against a 12 year girl at a Tournament and it was her 1st time with 40k. Her parents were in the tournament and she wanted to play. 1st round was random then after highest points vs highest points. I am one of the better players if there is any doubt about how this was going to go......

on top of that I am 35 and if I wanted to play vs that age group I'd go play Pokemon. I quit playing magic at one store b/c all the players were 14 and under.

...... Anyway she got absolutely slaughtered. She lost interest and quit before the end. Now I look like the bad guy. Well I left with 1st place which was $90.00. she really assured -- it just didn't seem right.

I would rather play someone on my level than just go thru the motions of taking turns to just roll over someone. It also makes it not fair for other people at the Tournament on top of that.

Brutal.

I mean, not just that you tabled a newbie player like that but... totally brutal situation to be put in. I mean, yeah, you could throw the match, but that'd be obvious and she might get mad that you're letting her win... not to mention the fact that you're basically throwing a tourney but... also... you're being handed what is basically a free win in the tourney, so everyone who placed under you has that to throw at you forever.

Absolutely brutal.

Only awkward game was when I was teaching my son to play whfb and we were invited over to a guy's house I met at the game store. He was really nice person and a golden demon level painter.

We decided that my 14 year old son would play beastmen (6th edition rules) against his wife with her wood elf army. Now she is a very nice person also which just made matters worse. Everything just went perfect for my son and the poor wood elf army was just getting crushed due rolls and everything just going awry for her. My friends wife became very upset and started crying which was just horribly awkward for all of us.

JWhex wrote:
Only awkward game was when I was teaching my son to play whfb and we were invited over to a guy's house I met at the game store. He was really nice person and a golden demon level painter.

We decided that my 14 year old son would play beastmen (6th edition rules) against his wife with her wood elf army. Now she is a very nice person also which just made matters worse. Everything just went perfect for my son and the poor wood elf army was just getting crushed due rolls and everything just going awry for her. My friends wife became very upset and started crying which was just horribly awkward for all of us.

I'm not sure why people take losses in Warhammer so personally. Had a chap in the game store who lost a necrons vs necrons cheesefest today and he was so utterly crushed. He took 40-50 mins to pack up his models while people were waiting for the table because he was utterly inconsolable.

 Mythra wrote:
I got put against a 12 year girl at a Tournament and it was her 1st time with 40k.

I had something similar happen to me, though not quite as bad. A year or two back I had my Tau up against a 12-14 year old Marine player in a tournament. He basically made bad decision after bad decision, to the point where the only way for him to win would be to just stop shooting at the targets he fed me.
I even started telling him things like "If you move your captain out into the open i'm going to cook him with Shadowsun, so you should join him to the tac squad", or "your assault marines should be advancing, because they are still in range of my guns and cover isn't helping you at all". But he didn't listen to me. I ended up with a massacre victory, and getting no sportsmanship points at all.

The most awkward game I've played... is probably with my buddy against a 10-13 year old kid and his mother. My ig, my buddies Chaos and the kid was Grey Knights and she was Daemons.

Not only were her tits hanging out in person while leaning over the table, she was openly flirting with the both us and had converted slaanesh models that could have been in a porn store. This was coupled with how obnoxiously bratty the kid was.

I care. I put a lot of time and money into this game. I heard it's only a game again last night. I just don't want to play kids. I always win and it isn't fun. I also don't want to play cheaters.

I charged an Eldar transport w/ Eldrad and Fire dragons in it with 8 Scarabs. The transport was right on the edge of the board actually the fins were hanging off. No way they could have deployed. I didn't manage to blow it up (only wrecked it) even w/ 13 or so pens so he picks it up takes off the flight stand and sets the vehicle slightly to one side of where it was. All of the sudden there is room to deploy.

I said no way they could deploy. He says maybe but the Vehicle couldn't have any part off the board so he had to move it b/c it was an illegal placement. He also said some of my scarabs were under the transport and had to be moved b/c you can't be under the skimmer when it wrecks b/c he has to remove the stand. Then he started saying its only a game don't get so worked up.

The game before that one with him he had his Wolves w/o arms. I thought I had killed all the MLs so i didn't move my doom into cover as it 10 wounds and I thought he had only bolters left. He of course said the guys w/o arms were MLs and insta killed my Doom.

I really think I'll just refuse to play him.

Yeah I agree we all put much effort, time and money into the hobby. When there is £500 or $800 worth of stuff on the board, you can't really say "it's just a game".

Of course it's just a game. The amount of money you put into something has no bearing on its definition. People pump tons of cash into sports games of all time and its still a game. Just becuase somebody pays more than someone else doesn't give that person the right to be a tool.

As for the guy who had to beat a 12 year old girl that's ruff man. On the lighter side you gave your buddies joking matterial for weeks regardless of the out come. My group of friends loves to give each other consistent ribbing. We would have loved it if one of our friends was in that situation. You could play the guilt card for picking on a little girl or even better, hey you remeber the time you got beat by a 12 year old girl.

My most awkward game of 40k was also the game that to date has made me the most angry as well.

It was about about 2 years ago at a 2500 point team tourney event, 1250 per side with modified FOC. As an additional twist, teams were not made beforehand, but rather randomized at the start of the event.

I got pair with I guy I have previously been partners with and there were no issues there. I was play Inquisition Witch Hunters and he was playing IG so that worked out fairly well.

The problems started with a father and son that came as well. The father was in his mid 30's or so, but his kid was maybe10 at the oldest. They both brought Orks and the father had designed the lists as though they were going to be on the same team for sure.

So first issue was that the father demanded that he and his son be allowed to be kept together as a team. Now, our FLGS is a safe place and there is no where he could be where he could not see his son, but for the sake of avoiding any problems and given the age of the child, both the TO and store owner allowed them to be an exception. This was not a problem really with any of us actually playing in the event either as we're all pretty reasonable guys, but it was a sign of behavior to come.

Me and my partner get paired up with said father and son team first round. We made our way to our table and made out introductions. It was at this time that the father made it clear that he himself was still fairly new to the game and that this would be his son's first game or so. In a tournament event, with Orks. I sighed inside at the time, but still resigned myself to having a good game, winning, and helping my opponents at the same time.

Their lists were one of pretty much a Green Tide at 1250 with almost all 30 man units Boyz and a Warboss, and another of Nobs, Lootas, Stormboyz, and some more Boyz in a truck. They had somewhere around 200 models between the two of them.

Their lack of experience horribly showed in deployment. The father was directing most of it and kept changing his mind about where this unit of Boyz should be or that unit Boyz. All the while the son was just putting stuff on the table. I had to explain to them the concept of deployment zones to them and that they could only deploy in a certain space on their side of the board (Pitched Battle IIRC). Their deployment took upwards of 30 minutes.

I was still trying to be accommodating and understanding at this point, not wanting to ruin the whole experience for the kid and seem like a total prick to the father for doing so.

There Turn 1 movement phase alone took about another 30 minutes. This was also where their terrible deployment plans made things worse for them. Just as an example: The father deployed his Lootas behind a ruins instead of inside (which he could have done easily) and thus spent their first movement phase moving them into a better position that he instead could have just started them out in. And then I got to explain the wonderfulness of Difficult Terrain and how that effects movement distance and such as they were trying to move their full distance without rolling.

I really should have done something more at this point with the TO, as it was apparent that they didn't even have the basic rules of the game down.

This was further demonstrated when the father then tried to shoot the same Lootas that had moved previously in their Movement Phase in their Shooting Phase. I had to explain Heavy Weapons at that point growing slowly more and more aggravated with the game while still trying to keep face.

This continued for the whole 2.5 hours. We went second and only just barely got to our Turn 2. At that point I simply didn't care and just said, "Fine, you guys win." They made me reach my limit of patience and hospitality at that point.

The whole time, it was constantly explain or show in the BRB about how to play, or their own Codex for rules. The son was clearly not getting much fun out of the game either as he didn't understand the more nuanced aspects of the game and just wanted to move and shoot models. He would have been much better off playing with Green Army Men IMO. The father was also getting more and more agitated with me for actually *knowing* the rules or how to play as opposed to just rolling with whatever he and his kid wanted to do. This was a tournament still. He too would probably have been better off playing with Green Army Men now that I think about it. If it weren't for the fact that my partner is a very cool, laid back guy, I probably would've blown up more, but he helped keep me from doing so.

I strongly recommended to both the father and the TO that they would be better served being refunded their money and spend their time actually learning the rules and how to play, probably with some more casual games, than to continue to play in the tournament. The father was still getting angry at me for ruining what could have been a fun experience for him and his son.

Fortunately it did not come to fisticuffs. They ended up staying, but I was done with them and didn't care anymore at that point. That game had soured my mood for the day and made my other games less enjoyable overall to the point where I can't even remember them. I think the TO ended up giving both teams a Tie, but I already knew we were out of the running.

TL;DR: Guy and his son both new to the game didn't know the rules to the game with Horde Orks go first and made it so that time was called during my team's second turn.

 TechmarineNic wrote:
Yeah I agree we all put much effort, time and money into the hobby. When there is £500 or $800 worth of stuff on the board, you can't really say "it's just a game".

game (/gām/) -
Noun - A form of play or sport, esp. a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck.
Adjective - Eager and willing to do something new or challenging: "they were game for anything".


Sorry, there's nothing in Merriam-Webster that says "unless you spend all of your money on it."

@Makumba,
They were "ork mob leaderz" if you know what I mean.
At the moment I'm tailoring a force to play a friend of mine, he'll be doing the same. It'll throw him a little bit of the game and vice versa but we always have a fun game. No fun tabling people in the first few turns.

@Mythra,
You should have taken your foot off the gas when you realised she was out of her depth; yong'un can be tricky and lucky! Well done on the overall win.

I played a young kid, roughly 12 or so when I was 16-17 and he had eldar. I also used eldar but for this game I was running Emperors Children so I knew his rules really well.

Turns out.....he didn't. I spent most of my time reminding him what things did and stuff because all he did was move forward, no tactics or nothing, and just shoot what he could at pretty much whatever was closest regardless of what little damage he could do.

It was daft because he'd added options to his list that he just never used which baffled me as to why he picked them. My younger brother was a year or so older and he understood after turn 1 what I was doing to help the other kid play abit and learn something but I couldn't enjoy it.

It was even more awkward when he had no models on the table by the end and I had to explain he'd lost....he just looked blankly and packed away.

 Evil Lamp 6 wrote:

Snip.

LOL... Almost the same thing happened to me at the same type of tourny... Two brothers with IG and Orks.. Horde style. They thought manticore missles had more than one shot each..... They took so much time, they finished turn one when the game was supposed to end. It was 3 hours per game.

We still whupped em though!

Lucarikx

Manticores have more than one shot

 Bobthehero wrote:
Manticores have more than one shot

He said EACH missile was 4 shots.... I told him I think not. It does have the flipping thing due to Barrage, I know.

Lucarikx

Each missile, there's 4 of them, have D3 large blast.

I know. He just though Barrage gave you X4 templates than normal.... So instead of X3 Barrage Templates, he almost did 12 templates.

Lucarikx

 Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:
Most awkward game ever..hmmm

Had to be when I was playing my Tau against a fellow at a FLGS, and his girlfriend was watching and giving moral support, she was kinda easy on the eyes and obviously did not really want to be there, but as the game went along I kept noticing her looking my way, and standing on my side of the table a lot.
She also was making unfavorable comparisons between our models, being pretty harsh on her BF's painted minis, and laughing when he was taking a beating. I actually felt bad for the fellow, even made it a point to compliment some of his better conversions and models, and disagree with his girlfriends opinions of them.

Really uncomfortable, and the guy even won the game, and his girl told him he got lucky!

And to add insult to injury a few minutes after he left, she came back in to "buy some dice" and offered me her phone number, seriously awkward game.

Good on you for dodging that. Action isn't worth having to deal with someone that doesn't know the first bit about respect.

Last year I went to a tournament with my son and one of his friends. I played well, winning 2 of my 3 games and the 3rd was a very close one.

We all kept track of the points accumulated and compared notes before the results were posted. I had twice the points they each had. The posted standings were quite a bit different though.

Out of 12 people I was listed in 11th place. The score listed bore no resemblence to what had written down. So, I asked the to what was up. He pulled the three sheets that had been turned in. Two of my opponents ( who came in together, both of whom I had beat. Badly. ) had changed the scores before turning the sheets in.

The correct scores would have placed me in 3rd place. I would have raised holy hell, except that 3rd was a pass to another tournament I couldn't go to anyway and neither of those "people" were in the top 3. Have to admit that I felt the entire day was a waste of time though.

I remember I had been playing tau for 1 months (now its been 3 years and am much wiser) and this kid who had just picked up a tau battleforce and built it asked me to teach him, I felt I couldn't say no so I did. He asked me about heavy support and I *facepalm* recommended skyfire as the best heavy support and VESPIDS, FREAKING VESPIDS as the best fast attack. I just felt so freaking stupid as I didn't know as much about the army either. Now I look back and realized I gave him the worst advice possible, I hope he didn't listen to me....

 Lucarikx wrote:
They thought manticore missles had more than one shot each.....Lucarikx

They can, they are Heavy D3...

Edit: I thought I was at the end of the previous page, Looks like I need another beer. nevermind me, nothing to see here.

What if he did, and he became amazing with those units?

Makumba wrote:
I was visting my aunt in London and it was both my very first time in UK and playing outside of Poland . My aunt drove me to Warhammer world and at first it was awesome , all those people playing , so many awesome models and terrain . We don't have as much stuff here to play with . I found an opponent ,he was like two , maybe three times my age. I told him I would like to play and he said ok , asked what I play . I play IG and had my two cases of models with me which was my 1750 army , he asked me If he can see my models and I had no problems with that. What happened after that was the worse game of my life . He took me to a table with no terrain other then some hill .And deployed his army. 3 units of elite hvy bolter devastators , 6x5 man hvy bolter tacticals , 3 whirlwinds and 9 hvy bolter and assault cannon land speeders . The game ended in 2 turn and he of course started . I have never before played against a tailored army , so it was a bit of a shock to me that people do that kind of a stuff . But the worse of it was that marine guy was laughing the whole 20 min of rolling dice and telling his 30 plus year old friends how is owning me and his friend asked me , If I want to play against his eldar . I said ok , the fool that I was back then, and the first thing he put on the same table was 9 scater laser war walkers . Same thing happened again , he gets first turn his army is made out of guardian squads with scater platforms and warwalkers and twin cannon vypers . After that I just packed my things , ignored the third guy asking me If I want to play his chaos and called my aunt to pick me up .
Worse and strangest day of gaming in my life.

This sounds like a game of Battletech I played with these two guys that were much older than me and they treated me like garbage...what a way to show people how great that game was. I know it wasn't 40k, but I've never had an awkward game of 40k....maybe I just don't play enough?

In any case it's players like these that I'd never play with. Where I'm at the atmosphere is very sportsmanlike and anyone berating another player is first warned. If it continues, they are asked to leave the store....at least that's what it was like, haven't been there in a while do to real life considerations (like gas). Suffice to say if they come back, they'll have no luck finding a game as everyone will be privy to their disrespectful antics. New players are usually forwarned of said douchebag and don't play with him either.

I suspect my next tournament games will be awkward.
My dad wants to come by and watch.........
This is going to be scary.

Mine was yesterday at my first tournament. The kid I was up against in the second round was very very quiet until we got going and he started to speak up a little. He wasn't a bad player just nervous I imagine

My most awkward game was many editions ago. My friend scratch built a baneblade from WD plans. He was bad at painting so i painted it (was fun). The first and only game i remember seeing it played was at local hobby store and people loved looking at it. Turn 1 on my turn... i had a assasin in terminator armor thunderhammer and stormshield. I teleport down thunderhammer it rolled crit on tank blew it up one shot reactor.. made my armor save and walked away unscratched... i won but the blow to him was awkward yet funny in a way.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I suspect my next tournament games will be awkward.
My dad wants to come by and watch.........
This is going to be scary.

That's strange... but why exactly will it be awkward?

 Andilus Greatsword wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I suspect my next tournament games will be awkward.
My dad wants to come by and watch.........
This is going to be scary.

That's strange... but why exactly will it be awkward?

Maybe he's one of those, "THATS MY KID!! Look how awesome they are!" kinda dads lol

I had the pleasure of watching an incredably funny (for me) game. It was a fantasy game in my local gamesworkshop between dark elves and lizard men. The thing was that the Lizard man was infact a Lizard-Woman who was constantly flirted with by the dark elf. Even though he was being thrashed by her great play, he still had that puppy-dog look that if she asked to let her win, he would. She said to him to play properly (between the comments of ''my eyes are up here'') because he was so lusty he wasn't playing well.

It got too far when her skinks blow-gunned (a few turns ago he made a Tera-bad joke about 'blow'-guns...) his witch elves to death, to which he replyed ''you've killed my brides of khaine, I'll have to find me a replacement bride''. It was sickening, so i squirted some of my cold water into his lap, his face was ridiculous. He was about to kick of when she started laughting and decided it was best to agree with her, but he was less flirty.

She then gave me her GamerTag (Yes, GamerGirls are real!!!) and now she's my.....best Call of Duty zombies friend

 Andilus Greatsword wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I suspect my next tournament games will be awkward.
My dad wants to come by and watch.........
This is going to be scary.

That's strange... but why exactly will it be awkward?

Because, what other warhammer players have their dads(me age 20) come watch?

I've had some pretty awkward moments in my short time as a 40k player, but today's game was one of the worst ever. We had an odd number of people show up for today's 1500 point battle mission, so I ended up playing Necrons and IG against a DE player and a DA player. Both agreed that I had a pretty good list, and because of the mission type, neither expected to survive much beyond turn 2. They couldn't have been more wrong. I rolled nothing but 1's and 2's, except when I needed to make a leadership test, for which I rolled double 6's. Twice. My Primaris Psyker killed himself via perils of the warp, my DLord was killed in CC by a normal marine, and my 6 wraiths got picked off 1-2 at a time in CC. My Overlord's CCB got blown up on turn 2, my Ghost Ark on turn 1, and even my wall of AV14 Russes didn't slow the opponent down. The awkward part was my opponents shaking their heads, saying they shouldn't have been alive. The DA player said it would be a hollow victory because it was clear that the dice gods were against me today. I didn't want to be TFG and give up in the middle of a game because of my bad rolls, but there comes a point where it gets pretty ridiculous.

 ALEXisAWESOME wrote:
I had the pleasure of watching an incredably funny (for me) game. It was a fantasy game in my local gamesworkshop between dark elves and lizard men. The thing was that the Lizard man was infact a Lizard-Woman who was constantly flirted with by the dark elf. Even though he was being thrashed by her great play, he still had that puppy-dog look that if she asked to let her win, he would. She said to him to play properly (between the comments of ''my eyes are up here'') because he was so lusty he wasn't playing well.

It got too far when her skinks blow-gunned (a few turns ago he made a Tera-bad joke about 'blow'-guns...) his witch elves to death, to which he replyed ''you've killed my brides of khaine, I'll have to find me a replacement bride''. It was sickening, so i squirted some of my cold water into his lap, his face was ridiculous. He was about to kick of when she started laughting and decided it was best to agree with her, but he was less flirty.

She then gave me her GamerTag (Yes, GamerGirls are real!!!) and now she's my.....best Call of Duty zombies friend

If you'd have been a stranger spraying me with cold water we'd have had a problem, regardless of your sex.

That awkward moment when everyone in the store hears you laugh and say "I can't believe I killed 68 marines in three turns... Good game"

It was hard to find another pickup game that day.

 jose kantor wrote:
That awkward moment when everyone in the store hears you laugh and say "I can't believe I killed 68 marines in three turns... Good game"

It was hard to find another pickup game that day.

Was it followed by "those three Helldrakes were really worth the cash I splurged on them!" ?

There is a poor Tau player in my store who can't get games with anyone because the first thing he does every game is take a Imperial Bastion from the scenery box and plonk his Broadsides in it in a far corner of his side of the map... and doesn't pay the point for it in his army list.

Asmodai Asmodean wrote:

 jose kantor wrote:
That awkward moment when everyone in the store hears you laugh and say "I can't believe I killed 68 marines in three turns... Good game"

It was hard to find another pickup game that day.

Was it followed by "those three Helldrakes were really worth the cash I splurged on them!" ?

There is a poor Tau player in my store who can't get games with anyone because the first thing he does every game is take a Imperial Bastion from the scenery box and plonk his Broadsides in it in a far corner of his side of the map... and doesn't pay the point for it in his army list.

Has anyone called him on it?

Matney X wrote:

Asmodai Asmodean wrote:

 jose kantor wrote:
That awkward moment when everyone in the store hears you laugh and say "I can't believe I killed 68 marines in three turns... Good game"

It was hard to find another pickup game that day.

Was it followed by "those three Helldrakes were really worth the cash I splurged on them!" ?

There is a poor Tau player in my store who can't get games with anyone because the first thing he does every game is take a Imperial Bastion from the scenery box and plonk his Broadsides in it in a far corner of his side of the map... and doesn't pay the point for it in his army list.

Has anyone called him on it?

For what, it is a piece or terrain and can be used without paying the points to make it "yours"

However there are consequences to this. It becomes dilapidated, full rules are on Page 96

This weekend I had a Tzeentch Lord with the Scroll of Magnus, Teminator Armor + Sigil as my warlord.. so 2+/3++ Rolling around in hilarity against my friends Orks by the time he had managed to get to me, my Lord managed a disgusting GoM roll of Multiple Boons to grant himself FnP + Cosmic Fate and Bloated...

then on the very last turn (game went on to turn 6) I decided to gaks and giggles to try and roll for 1 more boon before I tabled him, and turned my unstoppable, unkillable Lord, into a chaos spawn.... :(

These are starting to sound like unfortunate game luck, not awkward in the slightest

It's awkward when your friends are upset because they havent gotten a single kill point, and you manage to kill your own model, who just so happens to be the most powerful model on the board... lol

I got some weird looks from my friends after that....=/

My most awkward game was me with my Eldar with someone else with Grey Knights against Chaos Deamons and CSM. The guy with the Chaos Demons was on the Opposed side to me and just ignored my eldar and went straight to the GK togeather with the CSM of yet another player. But most of the time the whole battle was out of my line of sight, so I had no kills nor deaths. The GK player killed both their armies with a single dead GK. I facepalmed pretty hard as the GK player didn't even need me as a backup.

Sounds like alot of these people need a dice poll. after horrible rolling and finding random dice in the store you take the dice and glue them to the pole. dice for the dice god!

 DeathReaper wrote:

Matney X wrote:

Asmodai Asmodean wrote:

 jose kantor wrote:
That awkward moment when everyone in the store hears you laugh and say "I can't believe I killed 68 marines in three turns... Good game"

It was hard to find another pickup game that day.

Was it followed by "those three Helldrakes were really worth the cash I splurged on them!" ?

There is a poor Tau player in my store who can't get games with anyone because the first thing he does every game is take a Imperial Bastion from the scenery box and plonk his Broadsides in it in a far corner of his side of the map... and doesn't pay the point for it in his army list.

Has anyone called him on it?

For what, it is a piece or terrain and can be used without paying the points to make it "yours"

However there are consequences to this. It becomes dilapidated, full rules are on Page 96

For abusing a loophole and being unsportsmanlike. Is it legal? Yeah. Is it fun when the first thing you throw down is obviously intended to give you an edge, and you do it over and over and over? No, not really.

Matney X wrote:

 DeathReaper wrote:

For what, it is a piece or terrain and can be used without paying the points to make it "yours"

However there are consequences to this. It becomes dilapidated, full rules are on Page 96

For abusing a loophole and being unsportsmanlike. Is it legal? Yeah. Is it fun when the first thing you throw down is obviously intended to give you an edge, and you do it over and over and over? No, not really.

You realize that an AV 12 building is really easy to kill right?

Get a Glance, or a Pen with a result of Partial Collapse, Structural Collapse, Catastrophic Breach, Total Collapse, or Detonation! result and the guys inside take hits at Str 6 or wounds of some sort.

It is not tough to do.

On the case with the bastion, for fortifications you actually have to pay the points for it, if you dont: YOU ARE CHEATING!

just sayin`

DeathReaper wrote:

Matney X wrote:

 DeathReaper wrote:

For what, it is a piece or terrain and can be used without paying the points to make it "yours"

However there are consequences to this. It becomes dilapidated, full rules are on Page 96

For abusing a loophole and being unsportsmanlike. Is it legal? Yeah. Is it fun when the first thing you throw down is obviously intended to give you an edge, and you do it over and over and over? No, not really.

You realize that an AV 12 building is really easy to kill right?

Get a Glance, or a Pen with a result of Partial Collapse, Structural Collapse, Catastrophic Breach, Total Collapse, or Detonation! result and the guys inside take hits at Str 6 or wounds of some sort.

It is not tough to do.

No, it's not tough to do, but if the Bastion is part of the player's game plan, he needs to be paying points for it.

Arguing that it's really easy to do doesn't bypass the idea that he's being a jerk. Punching him in the face is easy to do, too, but I'm sure there would be repercussions from that.

Would you be arguing on his side if he always dropped a huge LoS blocking piece of terrain in front of your quad gun? It's technically legal, but it's a jerk move.

Dracoknight wrote:On the case with the bastion, for fortifications you actually have to pay the points for it, if you dont: YOU ARE CHEATING!

just sayin`

That's what I'm saying.

If he's dropping it VERY FIRST, it sounds like it's going down before any other terrain, during Fortification deployment.

Sound like a jerk move to me but remeber we can place those as terrain as well without paying points for them. They just count as a ruined or abandoned fortification. So the weapons systems don't work and the armor value is less.

 DeathReaper wrote:
For what, it is a piece or terrain and can be used without paying the points to make it "yours"

However there are consequences to this. It becomes dilapidated, full rules are on Page 96

The rule you are refering to is for using terrain that is already on the table. If it is deployed during his deployment it is not just standard table terrain and needs to be paid for as normal. Of course he *can* do what he does and then have no one play him and the problem will either correct itself or he'll never play in the store again. He might have felt he deserved a free bastion because his codex is so old, but just because he belives it doesn't make it so.

Skriker

I think the situation here is:

1. Players are using the competitive terrain placement rules.
2. Tau player places a dilapidated bastion on his side as his first terrain placement.

I see no problem with this. Let's see how those broadsides like the ceiling falling on them, because dilapidated bastions ain't exactly all that sturdy. If he's trying to argue that he gets to use the profile in the fortifications section (AV 14 instead of 12, emplaced HBs) then he's just plain incorrect, but the above scenario is perfectly legitimate (and if it's that much of an annoyance to the regulars, yet another argument in favor of doing cinematic terrain placement).

 DeathReaper wrote:
You realize that an AV 12 building is really easy to kill right?

Get a Glance, or a Pen with a result of Partial Collapse, Structural Collapse, Catastrophic Breach, Total Collapse, or Detonation! result and the guys inside take hits at Str 6 or wounds of some sort.

It is not tough to do.

Only problem is you can't actually shoot at the building unless there's someone inside it; you can only target the models on top. So essentially he is just getting a great firing position, and a regular 4+ cover save from the battlements.

Man, my most awkward game haunts me to this day...

So, me and a group at the University of Nottingham decided to head down to Warhammer World for some pickup games, and it turned out that it would be just me and another guy (Space Wolf player, for future reference). On our way, we bump in to this girl who's also heading to Warhammer World, after not playing since something like 3rd Edition.

At this point, I'd like to stress that the girl looked fairly androgynous (and I think you may be able to see where this is going...), but it was definitely clear that she was a girl. Her hair wasn't particularly long, clothing could have belonged to a man or a woman, and the voice was in that awkward area where it could be a high male or a low female.

Some time around turn 3 SpaceWolf yells over to me, asking how the game is going. Due to my deployment, uncompetitive list and poor tactical decisions I'm able to reply that "this guy is beating me pretty bad!".

There's an awkward silence and they both look at me oddly, with the girl saying "You do know I'm a girl, right?" and, I kid you not, GRABBING HER BREAST to make it obvious. I'm not entirely sure I'm remembering correctly when my mind adds the words "Did you notice these?", but there you go. By this point, I realise that my gender-neutral use of "guy" was probably a bad idea in the scenario, and explain that I'd just wasn't used to playing a female gamer and said it out of habit... The game continued and she showed a remarkable mastery of the 5th edition Tyranid codex and wipes me by turn 4/5.

I cringe about it to this day, and Space Wolf has brought it up before, to my eternal shame... >.>

 DakkaHammer wrote:

 DeathReaper wrote:
You realize that an AV 12 building is really easy to kill right?

Get a Glance, or a Pen with a result of Partial Collapse, Structural Collapse, Catastrophic Breach, Total Collapse, or Detonation! result and the guys inside take hits at Str 6 or wounds of some sort.

It is not tough to do.

Only problem is you can't actually shoot at the building unless there's someone inside it; you can only target the models on top. So essentially he is just getting a great firing position, and a regular 4+ cover save from the battlements.

I'm pretty sure occupying the battle mounts are still counting as the build so you should be able to.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 Andilus Greatsword wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I suspect my next tournament games will be awkward.
My dad wants to come by and watch.........
This is going to be scary.

That's strange... but why exactly will it be awkward?

Because, what other warhammer players have their dads(me age 20) come watch?

I'm 34. I love it when my dad wants to come watch me play at a tournament. We then go out for beers afterward.
He used to be a very active historicals player, is the one that got me into tabletop gaming in the first place, etc.
Since his stroke he games far less but loves watching.

Seriously, it's only going to be awkward if you make it that way.

I am much better at the game than my friend. I run fun lists and play to win lists. And I usually beat him with both. He just gets mad and then loses to me without trying too hard. Whenever I want to play test a tourney list against him it is really awkward because I know I will win.

Shas'o_Longshot wrote:Man, my most awkward game haunts me to this day...

So, me and a group at the University of Nottingham decided to head down to Warhammer World for some pickup games, and it turned out that it would be just me and another guy (Space Wolf player, for future reference). On our way, we bump in to this girl who's also heading to Warhammer World, after not playing since something like 3rd Edition.

At this point, I'd like to stress that the girl looked fairly androgynous (and I think you may be able to see where this is going...), but it was definitely clear that she was a girl. Her hair wasn't particularly long, clothing could have belonged to a man or a woman, and the voice was in that awkward area where it could be a high male or a low female.

Some time around turn 3 SpaceWolf yells over to me, asking how the game is going. Due to my deployment, uncompetitive list and poor tactical decisions I'm able to reply that "this guy is beating me pretty bad!".

There's an awkward silence and they both look at me oddly, with the girl saying "You do know I'm a girl, right?" and, I kid you not, GRABBING HER BREAST to make it obvious. I'm not entirely sure I'm remembering correctly when my mind adds the words "Did you notice these?", but there you go. By this point, I realise that my gender-neutral use of "guy" was probably a bad idea in the scenario, and explain that I'd just wasn't used to playing a female gamer and said it out of habit... The game continued and she showed a remarkable mastery of the 5th edition Tyranid codex and wipes me by turn 4/5.

I cringe about it to this day, and Space Wolf has brought it up before, to my eternal shame... >.>

What was so cringe worthy? The fact you said she was a guy, or the fact she had to grab her breast to illustrate the point?

Either way it seems more funny than cringe.

Bludbaff wrote:I think the situation here is:

1. Players are using the competitive terrain placement rules.
2. Tau player places a dilapidated bastion on his side as his first terrain placement.

I see no problem with this. Let's see how those broadsides like the ceiling falling on them, because dilapidated bastions ain't exactly all that sturdy. If he's trying to argue that he gets to use the profile in the fortifications section (AV 14 instead of 12, emplaced HBs) then he's just plain incorrect, but the above scenario is perfectly legitimate (and if it's that much of an annoyance to the regulars, yet another argument in favor of doing cinematic terrain placement).

Helllll no. It's just casual play at the Games Night at the local GW, and terrain setup is pretty much casual and laissez-faire except the first piece that goes on the board is always a Bastion (which counts as ruins 4+) which invariably his Broadsides magically appear in. It's become a sort of injoke, and we all have bets on when we will play a game when there isn't a free Bastion on the board with broadsides in it.

I have called him out on it a couple of times, heck every time he does it, but he's Polish and doesn't quite understand how it's not cricket.

DakkaHammer wrote:

 DeathReaper wrote:
You realize that an AV 12 building is really easy to kill right?

Get a Glance, or a Pen with a result of Partial Collapse, Structural Collapse, Catastrophic Breach, Total Collapse, or Detonation! result and the guys inside take hits at Str 6 or wounds of some sort.

It is not tough to do.

Only problem is you can't actually shoot at the building unless there's someone inside it; you can only target the models on top. So essentially he is just getting a great firing position, and a regular 4+ cover save from the battlements.

That's the idea, pretty much.

Nafarious wrote:I am much better at the game than my friend. I run fun lists and play to win lists. And I usually beat him with both. He just gets mad and then loses to me without trying too hard. Whenever I want to play test a tourney list against him it is really awkward because I know I will win.

So,,, every game with your friend is a most awkward game?

Shas'o_Longshot wrote:
Man, my most awkward game haunts me to this day...

So, me and a group at the University of Nottingham decided to head down to Warhammer World for some pickup games, and it turned out that it would be just me and another guy (Space Wolf player, for future reference). On our way, we bump in to this girl who's also heading to Warhammer World, after not playing since something like 3rd Edition.

At this point, I'd like to stress that the girl looked fairly androgynous (and I think you may be able to see where this is going...), but it was definitely clear that she was a girl. Her hair wasn't particularly long, clothing could have belonged to a man or a woman, and the voice was in that awkward area where it could be a high male or a low female.

Some time around turn 3 SpaceWolf yells over to me, asking how the game is going. Due to my deployment, uncompetitive list and poor tactical decisions I'm able to reply that "this guy is beating me pretty bad!".

There's an awkward silence and they both look at me oddly, with the girl saying "You do know I'm a girl, right?" and, I kid you not, GRABBING HER BREAST to make it obvious. I'm not entirely sure I'm remembering correctly when my mind adds the words "Did you notice these?", but there you go. By this point, I realise that my gender-neutral use of "guy" was probably a bad idea in the scenario, and explain that I'd just wasn't used to playing a female gamer and said it out of habit... The game continued and she showed a remarkable mastery of the 5th edition Tyranid codex and wipes me by turn 4/5.

I cringe about it to this day, and Space Wolf has brought it up before, to my eternal shame... >.>

I have to admit, that story comes close to rivaling mine.

 pwntallica wrote:

Shas'o_Longshot wrote:
Man, my most awkward game haunts me to this day...

So, me and a group at the University of Nottingham decided to head down to Warhammer World for some pickup games, and it turned out that it would be just me and another guy (Space Wolf player, for future reference). On our way, we bump in to this girl who's also heading to Warhammer World, after not playing since something like 3rd Edition.

At this point, I'd like to stress that the girl looked fairly androgynous (and I think you may be able to see where this is going...), but it was definitely clear that she was a girl. Her hair wasn't particularly long, clothing could have belonged to a man or a woman, and the voice was in that awkward area where it could be a high male or a low female.

Some time around turn 3 SpaceWolf yells over to me, asking how the game is going. Due to my deployment, uncompetitive list and poor tactical decisions I'm able to reply that "this guy is beating me pretty bad!".

There's an awkward silence and they both look at me oddly, with the girl saying "You do know I'm a girl, right?" and, I kid you not, GRABBING HER BREAST to make it obvious. I'm not entirely sure I'm remembering correctly when my mind adds the words "Did you notice these?", but there you go. By this point, I realise that my gender-neutral use of "guy" was probably a bad idea in the scenario, and explain that I'd just wasn't used to playing a female gamer and said it out of habit... The game continued and she showed a remarkable mastery of the 5th edition Tyranid codex and wipes me by turn 4/5.

I cringe about it to this day, and Space Wolf has brought it up before, to my eternal shame... >.>

I have to admit, that story comes close to rivaling mine.

One would think that if it's something that comes up often and it bothers you, you'd attempt to change it. However, we all know that's not the case.

Asmodai Asmodean wrote:

Helllll no. It's just casual play at the Games Night at the local GW, and terrain setup is pretty much casual and laissez-faire except the first piece that goes on the board is always a Bastion (which counts as ruins 4+) which invariably his Broadsides magically appear in. It's become a sort of injoke, and we all have bets on when we will play a game when there isn't a free Bastion on the board with broadsides in it.

Well, if you want to put a stop to it, you could point out that it can't count as ruins because there are rules in the book that explicitly address how to treat a bastion that isn't paid for by either side. But if that's how he's running it I don't see it being all that different from sticking them in an actual ruin piece on the top floor. Is he claiming that you can't assault them because there's no way to move up there? If so, then he is flat-out cheating, but if not, then I'm not really seeing the problem. I know I always try to park my high-value long-range infantry in a ruin for the extra protection.

Oh, one more thing. If you're doing cinematic/casual terrain setup, you should really roll for sides after all the terrain is on the board and the deployment type is known.

I had a long story, but I'll sum it up as this:
Playing against a bad sport, who's obviously fudging rules/rolls.
Girlfriend pipes up after explaining basic stuff with "Get your f--king rulebook" and gets the iciest of stares.
Proceed to barely win game as two others show up and basically do the same thing as she did.
Was just glad to wrap up the game.

I've mistaken a girl for a guy before too and it does suck. It makes you feel like a dirt bag but hey, if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck then how am I supposed to know your not a duck.

Asmodai Asmodean wrote:

There is a poor Tau player in my store who can't get games with anyone because the first thing he does every game is take a Imperial Bastion from the scenery box and plonk his Broadsides in it in a far corner of his side of the map... and doesn't pay the point for it in his army list.

Both players get to place terrain. Find a bigger piece and put it directly in the way of said terrain-bastion.

He'll evolve.

 DarknessEternal wrote:

Asmodai Asmodean wrote:

There is a poor Tau player in my store who can't get games with anyone because the first thing he does every game is take a Imperial Bastion from the scenery box and plonk his Broadsides in it in a far corner of his side of the map... and doesn't pay the point for it in his army list.

Both players get to place terrain. Find a bigger piece and put it directly in the way of said terrain-bastion.

He'll evolve.

"Oh, this cardboard box represents massive cliffs."

 The Grumpy Eldar wrote:
My most awkward game was me with my Eldar with someone else with Grey Knights against Chaos Deamons and CSM. The guy with the Chaos Demons was on the Opposed side to me and just ignored my eldar and went straight to the GK togeather with the CSM of yet another player. But most of the time the whole battle was out of my line of sight, so I had no kills nor deaths. The GK player killed both their armies with a single dead GK. I facepalmed pretty hard as the GK player didn't even need me as a backup.

It was even more awkward. I was the CSM player in this instance, but instead of sticking to the plan, my CSM against GK and my ally with Deamons against Eldar, he decided it was smart to help me out. Ended up moving his entire force in front of mine, thereby blocking my Thousand Sons squads from shooting at the GK. Also placing his HQ in the front of his plaguebearers, losing it and fnp immediatly, and deepstriking a whole squad near Coteaz(?). Well a mishap and 0/20 k/d ratio later he was wiped and not too happy, starting to pack up in the middle of the game even when he had some units left. Then watching my ally rage quit, not knowing how to proceed anymore, left me outnumbered by two times as many points and in charge range of GK squads in their immediate next turn. Needless to say it was pretty awkward, he didnt accept any advice, and was completely massacred. Immediatly after that combat (which was in our turn and still ongoing if he hadnt packed up his units) my squads got charged, only getting to overwatch (only time they fired due to terrain and deamon squads blocking los). Ever tried overwatching a dreadknight to death? Well we were tabled (me making the only two kills, enemy farseer (first blood) and a justicar), only losing my first and all units on one turn. That was my most awkward game so far, my ally ignored all advice (even the GK player's advice) even before deployment and proceeded to lock out two people for the whole game (Me and Eldar player) due to leaving us horribly outmanoeuvred and blocked by allied forces. The three (GK, Eldar and CSM) of us laughed it off after the game, but shamefully it was a loss for me on the ongoing tournament.

tl;dr My Deamon ally blocked me off with los and got tabled by GK (on my side of the board), in a 2 vs 2 game, leaving us to get wiped and me and the Eldar guy doing almost nothing for 5 turns, Deamon player ragequitting before the end.

 DarknessEternal wrote:
Both players get to place terrain. Find a bigger piece and put it directly in the way of said terrain-bastion.

He'll evolve.

Well there it is then.

Skriker


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 Disciple of Fate wrote:
tl;dr My Deamon ally blocked me off with los and got tabled by GK (on my side of the board), in a 2 vs 2 game, leaving us to get wiped and me and the Eldar guy doing almost nothing for 5 turns, Deamon player ragequitting before the end.

Wow...one player going off script results in a complete crushing defeat for one side of the table and half the opposing force having absolutely nothing to do in the game. And THIS is why I dislike random doubles games. Hahahahahahahaha!

Skriker

Most akward moment was when I arranged to have a game at my house and my wife accidently knocked over half of my opponents army. She was bringing us drinks and food so it was kind of funny to see the mixture of emotions in his face. We spent the rest of the night fixing the broken minis in mostly silence. The first few minutes were even more akward because my wife started crying. I don't play at my house anymore.

Forgot to mention he was there to help me better learn the rules since I am new to playing.

 djdakkadakka wrote:
Most akward moment was when I arranged to have a game at my house and my wife accidently knocked over half of my opponents army. She was bringing us drinks and food so it was kind of funny to see the mixture of emotions in his face. We spent the rest of the night fixing the broken minis in mostly silence. The first few minutes were even more akward because my wife started crying. I don't play at my house anymore.

Forgot to mention he was there to help me better learn the rules since I am new to playing.

This is awkward gold. Two wives reduced to tears because of grown men's plastic soldiers. More! Tears for the Tear God! Awkwardness for the Awkward Throne!

Dracoknight wrote:
On the case with the bastion, for fortifications you actually have to pay the points for it, if you dont: YOU ARE CHEATING!

just sayin`

This is not true at all.

You have to pay for the Fortification, you do not have to pay for the dilapidated building used as terrain. (There are even rules for this in the BRB).

 wowsmash wrote:
I've mistaken a girl for a guy before too and it does suck. It makes you feel like a dirt bag but hey, if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck then how am I supposed to know your not a duck.

At least you never got it the other way around...

 DeathReaper wrote:

Dracoknight wrote:
On the case with the bastion, for fortifications you actually have to pay the points for it, if you dont: YOU ARE CHEATING!

just sayin`

This is not true at all.

You have to pay for the Fortification, you do not have to pay for the dilapidated building used as terrain. (There are even rules for this in the BRB).

Quite right. They are getting something else wrong though - you place terrain before choosing table sides. So putting down excellent fire positions can be a double edged sword.

So; I had never played 40K before.
Hadn't bothered to read the rulebook but the pictures were cool.
I thought it was like LARPing.
I spent days making myself a Daemonette costume.
You know the one with 4 pair of boobs.
Showed up at the game store in Chaos Drag.
Got hit on by near-sighted dudes.
1 Restraining Order + court ordered therapist visits.
You guys are right, this hobby is expensive.

My most awkward gaming experience was this january, when i was coaching a friend for an upcoming tournament that i was in a reserve spot in myself. We proceeded in playing our game and my friend told me not to hold back with my flamer/screamer spam list and he was playing a BT list, so it was in the end a real massacre for the BT. I felt bad as my list and gaming experience were much more advanced than my friends and he did not get much out of the coaching game as he was basically tabled at the start of turn 4.

The more awkward part came on the day of the tournament, when i got a spot in the tournament because of some last minute cancellation. We were talking with my friend when the TO was pulling pairs out from a hat and my friend was confident he would do well in the tournament. It was a 30 player event so facing my daemons was not high, but when the TO pulled our numbers from the hat my friend lost it. He was furious and i felt bad as i knew he had no chance to win. The game was a sorry affair as my friend threw down the towel after my first turn as i had had a dream start and literally decimated over half of his army in turn 1. I went to win the whole tournament with my list, but my friend ended up i the bottom 5 and threw all three of his matches as he could not be bothered to play well in his sour mood. I felt bad and would have hiped he could have gotten some better matchups in the tournament.

Was teaching my girlfriend how to play, not much of a list really only a few units each and no terrain. Anyway she managed to table me by turn 3. Despite the fact that we both had exactly the same units, I had nothing and i don't think she lost a model. Dice Gods hated me that day.

This thread features 100% too many girlfriends and wives and gaming store pickups. Nice try, fellas, but c'mon... ;-)

Oh, I've just thought of one, though this might be purely a gal thing. Annoying situation in which a guy believing himself to be a white knight, decides to play to lose.
I just don't understand their line of thinking. "Because surely, if I let her win, she will just throw herself at me, right?"
Logic.

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 Evileyes wrote:
Oh, I've just thought of one, though this might be purely a gal thing. Annoying situation in which a guy believing himself to be a white knight, decides to play to lose.
I just don't understand their line of thinking. "Because surely, if I let her win, she will just throw herself at me, right?"
Logic.

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this. Rather than throwing the match, win and then offer to take the gal out fir a pint to give some pointers on her list and tactics, and maybe make a new friend

Hearken ye to the tale of Smelly Joe!
(names changed in case the guy is on the site)

Now, Joe was this guy who'd come down to the store every weekend, same as all of us, and we'd play a bunch of casual games, get lunch, then if the store was running an event, we'd do that.
Joe was a hard guy to play against, all in all. Not because of his skill, but because he stunk. I dunno if he had a medical issue or just didn't shower, it's a mystery time has not solved.
I was playing him in a 1,500pts game (I believe I was still using my Iron Warriors at this point), and the smell just kept hitting me. It was kind of like that wet dog smell mixed with fish.
What made it awkward - as opposed to easily solved by demanding he leave right then and take a shower - was that Smelly Joe was actually a good player, and a fantastic sportsman when it came to the game. He was the sort of player who never made an opponent feel bad if he tabled them, always complimented any new models you'd brought to the table, offered comiserations when the dice acted up and was generally a wonderful guy. The games against him, as anyone would grudgingly say, were some of the most fun in the store, and there wasn't a person who would fault his manners and friendliness.
As a result, I felt it only proper to struggle through the game and act just as nicely to him, which wasn't easy as my nose was now engulfed in his less-than-pleasant odour.
It ended, eventually, in a win for him (I'd be doing him a disservice to claim I was distracted or anything, as he was a solid player), and we shook hands and traded compliments on our favourite moments of the game.
It was nice, but to this day I think he mistook mistake the tears in my eyes for disappointment.

 Doomsdave wrote:
So; I had never played 40K before.
Hadn't bothered to read the rulebook but the pictures were cool.
I thought it was like LARPing.
I spent days making myself a Daemonette costume.
You know the one with 4 pair of boobs.
Showed up at the game store in Chaos Drag.
Got hit on by near-sighted dudes.
1 Restraining Order + court ordered therapist visits.
You guys are right, this hobby is expensive.

Pics or it didn't happen. :p

Most awkward game had to be a 2v2 matchup we had. 5th edition prior to flyers coming out or new codexs for Demons or CSM. It was 4000 points per team in any combination. It was My orks i used to have with my team mate having Thousand Sons CSM. Our opponents were Daemons and Space Wolves.

Demons player rolls and gets the wrong set of Demons deployed. So no Fateweaver or Soul Grinders ect. A few Pink Horror squads and a Demon Prince. Possibly a Blood Crusher Squad cant remember for sure.

Every turn myself and my team mate manage to gun down the Demons dropping down. Fateweaver manages to eat the combined fire of 40 lootas that all rolled for 3 shots each. And of course goes down. Soul Grinder gets blown up to a single lascannon shot from a long fang. Ect ect.

The Demons guy starts yelling. Then he starts crying. Then he says feth it. Plays for one more roll (in which none of his reserves came in). He gets a weird gleam in his eyes and tells us that demons phase out at 25%. As the rest of us had been playing 40k less than a few months at that point we had to assume he was right and the game was called on the account that 2v1 is no fun for anyone really.

Awkward was watching the experienced players who found out what he did and berated him mercilessly. And the months after that he continued to show up.

Months passed.

Said Demons player comes back to the store with a sob story about how he needed to sell his Demons to pay for new Necrons. Everyone pretty much just laughed and said they didnt want Demons that phase out.

Played against grey knights. The player saw I was running csm and deamons so he really wanted to play me - he told me as much. He said he really didn't care about my allied deamons (it was obvious he thought he was going to curbstomp me)
He insisted I went first, so I blew up his land raider before it'd fired a shot (3 Oblits and an annihilator will do that on occasion...)

The rest of the game was very tense, he looked upset, he started rolling where i couldn't see, arguing rules (a lot) etc - I was happiest when we realised we were going to run out of time as I could offer him a draw to save face.

Some of my roughest 40k games as GKs were vs Demons. I stomped most everyone else.


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I like 2v2 games. Since I do well they have stuck me w/ the non winning people a lot. The one guys wife had never won with Dark Eldar. I took my Fortress for her even tho I was Nids. I went thru her list said no no no and no and why the hell??? Just no and no way. Take all the dark lances you can and put them in/on my bastion. Park your vehicles behind it for the saves. She had super good range at that point so I took 2 Tyrants w/ armored shell and 9 Hive guard w/ 2 Tervigons. Her range was awesome and my close up shots were disgusting. Also her HQ w/ a 2++ save and a 5 or higher BS on the Krakstorm ML was crazy he soaked up so much fire when they tried and tried to kill him.

I'd think about 10 DA terms w/ an HQ dropped in and killed 1 Hive Gaurd and wounded another then came all of our shooting. 3 or 4 Terminators did survive so I charged them w/ the 2 Tyrants(and they had the good close up load out Dev and BLW w/ Lash and Bone) , 8 Hive guard, and only 1 of the Terv would fit after that. Bye Bye. We tabled them on turn 4.

It was awkward b/c her husband is a good player and she asked me why he never helps her w/ her lists. All I could think to say is he wants you you to do it on your own. I really think he likes to be better than them tho. It was his 12 year daughter I had to play in that tournament.

When 6th 1st came out I played a 500 point game with his son. He was owning me but it was only b/c I didn't find out till over half way thru that his Vidi couldn't fire when I scored a stun/shaken w/ my Psycannon fire. Well he had already killed over half my units but when I told him his stunned vindi couldn't fire its big nasty pie templates he started crying and and surrendered. He had me too.

It was awkard esp. when his dad start explaining in front of the store his son has mental problems.

 masquerade81 wrote:
The more awkward part came on the day of the tournament, when i got a spot in the tournament because of some last minute cancellation. We were talking with my friend when the TO was pulling pairs out from a hat and my friend was confident he would do well in the tournament. It was a 30 player event so facing my daemons was not high, but when the TO pulled our numbers from the hat my friend lost it. He was furious and i felt bad as i knew he had no chance to win. The game was a sorry affair as my friend threw down the towel after my first turn as i had had a dream start and literally decimated over half of his army in turn 1. I went to win the whole tournament with my list, but my friend ended up i the bottom 5 and threw all three of his matches as he could not be bothered to play well in his sour mood. I felt bad and would have hiped he could have gotten some better matchups in the tournament.

I feel a little bad for your friend of getting stuck facing your daemons again, but did he do anything different with his force after that game where he lost in 4 turns? A 4 turn loss is hardly to be embarrassed by. It is 80% of the game, so if a winner is decided by then so what? Have no sympathy for the guy blowing off his other games because he lost to you. Poor sportsmanship is poor sportsmanship. Yeah it sucks to be hurt so badly in one turn, but if you can't take the pain then you shouldn't be playing with the big boys in a tournement in the first place. That is just the way tournement games can go sometimes. It is awesome when it happens to benefit *you*, but if it happens on the other side of the table you instead were cheated out of having a chance in the game...

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welshhoppo wrote:
Was teaching my girlfriend how to play, not much of a list really only a few units each and no terrain. Anyway she managed to table me by turn 3. Despite the fact that we both had exactly the same units, I had nothing and i don't think she lost a model. Dice Gods hated me that day.

Thank the dice Gods because if you had tabled her she would never bother to go near the gaming table again, plus you wouldn't get laid for weeks.

Skriker

welshhoppo wrote:
Was teaching my girlfriend how to play, not much of a list really only a few units each and no terrain. Anyway she managed to table me by turn 3. Despite the fact that we both had exactly the same units, I had nothing and i don't think she lost a model. Dice Gods hated me that day.

When I was teaching my son, I considered going without terrain, but we were playing on my coffee table and that would have simply ended in us shooting at each other unhindered.

 Skriker wrote:

 masquerade81 wrote:
The more awkward part came on the day of the tournament, when i got a spot in the tournament because of some last minute cancellation. We were talking with my friend when the TO was pulling pairs out from a hat and my friend was confident he would do well in the tournament. It was a 30 player event so facing my daemons was not high, but when the TO pulled our numbers from the hat my friend lost it. He was furious and i felt bad as i knew he had no chance to win. The game was a sorry affair as my friend threw down the towel after my first turn as i had had a dream start and literally decimated over half of his army in turn 1. I went to win the whole tournament with my list, but my friend ended up i the bottom 5 and threw all three of his matches as he could not be bothered to play well in his sour mood. I felt bad and would have hiped he could have gotten some better matchups in the tournament.

I feel a little bad for your friend of getting stuck facing your daemons again, but did he do anything different with his force after that game where he lost in 4 turns? A 4 turn loss is hardly to be embarrassed by. It is 80% of the game, so if a winner is decided by then so what? Have no sympathy for the guy blowing off his other games because he lost to you. Poor sportsmanship is poor sportsmanship. Yeah it sucks to be hurt so badly in one turn, but if you can't take the pain then you shouldn't be playing with the big boys in a tournement in the first place. That is just the way tournement games can go sometimes. It is awesome when it happens to benefit *you*, but if it happens on the other side of the table you instead were cheated out of having a chance in the game...

Skriker

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The first game was my win clearly before turn 4, but we decided to play as long as we could to see if his list could recover at all. In the second game i played my first turn and my friend didn't even bother to play his first before giving up the game. That sucked for the both of us as we had paid good money to play some games and now we had set up, played one half of a turn and had to wait almost three hours for the next round to start. It was a bit awkward for the both of us as we are still friends and i tried to coach him to have a bit better understanding of deployment and basic tactics that he seems to lack some skills in. Even so, he had clearly given up even before we started playing the tournament matchup. I could feel it in his mood when he deployed his units as it was almost like watching cattle be prodded to the slaughterhouse.

ok i see.alot of gf/so stories so ill.share mine.
I've been playing this one guy in our local group for the last 14 years, we met when i was 16 and im 30 now. he has always played eldar, and i chaos marines or demons. in this time he has beat me once, just once, we all made a big deal and laughed at my expence, even made and hung a notice to.all that came in the store of.his victory!!

but during our gaming history it hasnt gone very well for him... he has rage quit more times than any of us can remember, i feel bad for him and try to help but refuse to let him win.

fast forward to last summer.... I've started teaching my wife how to play a pure deathwing list, easy brutal forgiving...it's just th/ss terms with cyclones, thats all.

so her and said guy are talking about playing, and her learning experinces with me at home, he then challenges her to a 2k game... sheer terror shoots through me and the store owner and i just look at each other... this guy will commit.suicide if he loses!!! i tell me.wife "do not win!!!" she completely understands and is all laughs about it.
they set up, and go to roll first turn, he "lets" her have it because shes a girl, big mistake. she unleashes hell gladiator.style, detroying a fire prism and several wave serpents and warwalkers. he is still confiedent and moves his jet council up to assualt belial and the supersquad that dw assualted close to his lines. after a thorough beating in cc, the jetcouncil flees and runs off the table... turn two the game is over, he packs up all his stuff, rages out of the store, then posts on ourgaming groups facebook page that he's selling his army, rofl.

we still laugh about this to this day. good news he didnt quit, but still comedy gold.

Not so much a game per se but every time I take my girlfriend with me to the hobby store/GW (which lately is like all the time) it is awkward. I one time watched a GW employee attempt to converse with me while talking to my GFs chest haha.

When I had first started playing way back in the day (but not too far). I joined a tournament with my buddy to play my brand new just came out Tau army. First 3 opponents (this was a teams tournament) were a lot older then us, in the 30s area and I was about 16. Well with out going too much into it they were condescending and extremely rude to us. An to top it off the creamed us. Turns out they were cheating and got kicked out. The 3rd and final game we were winning and our opponents decided to just wander off and go watch other games. Popping in just long enough to roll dice and then disappear again. Needless to say I have never played another tournament again.