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Alrighty, I feel that it is time to re-re-create this thread for gamers to share and discuss their Awkward Gaming Moments.

I recently had an awkward gaming moment, in which I was somewhat "kicked off" a board at a GW due to "Time Constraints" (The manager's best friend walked in and apparently patience was thrown out the door")

How long had you been playing for?

It was about game turn 4 (I'd hazard about 45-ish minutes)

Thats a bit irritating

Complain to customer service.

How long had you been occupying the board though, including setup?

Used to have customers a few years back who would clear a board off, THEN write their army lists (taking half an hour) setup (taking them an inexplicable half hour) and then play.very.slowly.

Not saying you did the same, but just asking. I reckon 1.5hrs is pretty reasonable expectation to have a board. IF you take up an hour of that before the first turn, tough I'm afraid.

Deployment was standard, about five minutes. We played pretty quickly, as it is, we probably got through a turn at 15-20 minutes per turn (Small 1,000 point game)

I'm not really that mad, as the manager means well, but he sometimes he makes a faux pas.

I saw my opponent dumped in the middle of a game. That was pretty awkward.

In fantasy, my calvary was charged by a Bloodthirst and chose to retreat into the woods rather than get killed. A whole slew of arguements insued as to if that was a valid charge reaction and what the flyer did. Needless to the game ended immediately with lots of people on both sides of the fence and many remaining on the fence. Most awkward moment ever with a GW game for me.

combatmedic wrote:I saw my opponent dumped in the middle of a game. That was pretty awkward.

Ouch. At that point you almost have to let the guy win.

I stepped on an opponents landspeeder once.
Granted he put it on the floor after I blew it up, and I didnt realize it until I heard the CRUNCH.
That was awkward.

KingCracker wrote:I stepped on an opponents landspeeder once.
Granted he put it on the floor after I blew it up, and I didnt realize it until I heard the CRUNCH.
That was awkward.

Admittedly he probably shouldn't have put it on the floor, atleast the Landspeeder didnt get killed by a 'Giant Cat of Doooom' which always gets my marines!

Some years ago ( 3rd edition ), my group had a game over at one of my friend´s house. We were playing in a new room ( just built ). After some turns of our mega-battle, we discovered we had the lovely company of a swarm of wasps, trying to get in and get their part of the action.....

Gornall wrote:

combatmedic wrote:I saw my opponent dumped in the middle of a game. That was pretty awkward.

Ouch. At that point you almost have to let the guy win.

Thats bloody shallow ouch.

BOSS_PIMPALOTZ wrote:

Gornall wrote:

combatmedic wrote:I saw my opponent dumped in the middle of a game. That was pretty awkward.

Ouch. At that point you almost have to let the guy win.

Thats bloody shallow ouch.

He was dumped, at least from what I understood from the yelling, over warhammer taking up all of his time. He thanked me for the game and slowly packed up his stuff. Not much I could do except offer to help him pack and buy him a coke.

combatmedic wrote:I saw my opponent dumped in the middle of a game. That was pretty awkward.

That's....just....brutal...

KingCracker wrote:I stepped on an opponents landspeeder once.
Granted he put it on the floor after I blew it up, and I didnt realize it until I heard the CRUNCH.
That was awkward.

I've stepped on a Grey Knight Termie once. That crunch sounds sickening

Techboss wrote:In fantasy, my calvary was charged by a Bloodthirster and chose to retreat into the woods rather than get killed. A whole slew of arguements insued as to if that was a valid charge reaction and what the flyer did. Needless to the game ended immediately with lots of people on both sides of the fence and many remaining on the fence. Most awkward moment ever with a GW game for me.

Rules debates don't tend to end well...

I also think you should be able to flee into woods...

Someone I occasionally gamed with let’s call him “Mike”, he asked for my help with hauling some furniture out of his room. I show up to his house and gave my assistance. After my assistance I was offered a raider kit with a partially assembled raider as a symbol of gratitude. The guy did not play dark eldar and I didn’t think to ask him why he had it. He was always in a bit of a daze and I reasoned that he just bought it for pleasure of building it and left it half assembled and lost some pieces.

I take the raider kit finish the vehicle using some conversions to make up for the missing pieces. I paint the model and add it to my army. Later I was approached by someone I didn’t know, asking me if I accepted a raider from "Mike". I stated that I had and he informed me that the raider was in fact his. Apparently he gave the raider to the “Mike” to assemble for him. But, there was a falling out or “Mike” just simply forgot where the raider came from (If you knew him you would see how this was a possibility). So the rightful owner of the raider I had assembled and painted tracked me down. It actually took me a moment to fully process the turn of events; I could not grasp how someone could just give away something that wasn’t his like that. I offered to play him the cost of a raider kit, but the guy understood my situation and said he would take his restitution up with “Mike”.

combatmedic wrote:I saw my opponent dumped in the middle of a game. That was pretty awkward.

Wow.

Was it over the phone or did the GF walk in and dump him?

combatmedic wrote:

BOSS_PIMPALOTZ wrote:

Gornall wrote:

combatmedic wrote:I saw my opponent dumped in the middle of a game. That was pretty awkward.

Ouch. At that point you almost have to let the guy win.

Thats bloody shallow ouch.

He was dumped, at least from what I understood from the yelling, over warhammer taking up all of his time. He thanked me for the game and slowly packed up his stuff. Not much I could do except offer to help him pack and buy him a coke.

anyone that dumped someone in a game store is a bitch anyway

...seriously... happend to game designer once thats how the Eye of Terror formed.

I carry my miniatures in a hard-sided rifle case when I take 'em to my FLGS - it's a good, cheap carrying case.

Unfortunately, I also used to own a Chinese-made SKS rifle with all sorts of groovy accessories - a big 4X scope, a flash hider, a bipod and a big 50-round "banana clip." It was very much like having a Yugo car with a nitrous kit and a spoiler - a very simple, lame rifle with a whole bunch of toys on it. I kept the rifle in another, identical rifle case...

Can you see where this story is going? I whipped open what I thought were my miniatures in the FLGS, only to find this great big scary-looking gun instead. The kiddies' eyes got REAL big (they were probably thinking of all the post-Columbine after school specials which told them to RUN from the GUN) and all my buddies started laughing. Thankfully, the owner of the store is a great guy who knew I didn't do it on purpose, and everything was cool...

I've read that somewhere before lol

I wonder what your opponent was thinking, seeing that SKS rifle instead of mini's...

Commissar Molotov wrote:I carry my miniatures in a hard-sided rifle case when I take 'em to my FLGS - it's a good, cheap carrying case.

Unfortunately, I also used to own a Chinese-made SKS rifle with all sorts of groovy accessories - a big 4X scope, a flash hider, a bipod and a big 50-round "banana clip." It was very much like having a Yugo car with a nitrous kit and a spoiler - a very simple, lame rifle with a whole bunch of toys on it. I kept the rifle in another, identical rifle case...

Can you see where this story is going? I whipped open what I thought were my miniatures in the FLGS, only to find this great big scary-looking gun instead. The kiddies' eyes got REAL big cool

and you didnt look straight at them and say "I told You I would be Back"

Not to change the subject but how are king cracker and just dave going back in time and making posts on dakka? If you dont know what i am talking about look at the top of their posts. King cracker went back to 1970 and just dave is in the year 3. Sorry just made me scratch my head a little.


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Huh that was akward now i look like an idiot YAY!!

combatmedic wrote:I saw my opponent dumped in the middle of a game. That was pretty awkward.

I initially parsed this as "I saw my opponent dump in the middle of a game." and though "yeah, that would be pretty awkward." Nurgle player possibly.

Well, one thing that was kind of awkward was when, in a 4-player free for all, one mob of 30 Ork Boyz phased out my necron opponent's 1K point army in turn two...

After the game we had a discussion about why moving towards orks is never a good idea, but still...

Played at my friends house. He had a red strawberry soda on the side of his couch.

I think it was just after he beat my Tau I wanted to sit down cause I was tired as heck. I knock over the strawberry soda all over his WHITE couch. I just look at it and panic. He was cool though cause he said that he's owed one the next time I host and he breaks something of mine.

I just hope it aint my Tau...

Mine was first game of Starship Troopers versus a veteran player. I opted to play the jump troopers and the veteran fielded big bugs. There was a third person there to help me learn the rules. I kept my distance so the bugs could not assault me and shot them. The veteran kept trying to talk me into assaulting his bugs which I knew would spell imminent doom for my little troopers. The person helping me with the rules did not offer any tactical advice but I could easily see that he knew I was smart not to get into close combat. Finally when it was fairly certain I was going to win the veteran player said I was unfun to play because I would not assault. So I offered to play him again and we could switch armies. The second time around he used the same tactics I had used in the first the first game, which I did not bother to mention... But I moved the bugs in such a manner to cut off his army boxing them into a table corner and was eventually able to assault the troopers for the win. The veteran player got mad again but he couldn't really say much. The person helping me with the rules kept quite and then after the veteran left he told me it was great to see him lose twice in a row to a newbie. It turned out his GF had dumped him a few weeks prior and was now dating the veteran player. Later that day the veteran player returned to the shop with his new GF and kept staring at me. I kept my back turned to him and ignored him for the rest of the day.

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Green Blow Fly wrote:Mine was first game of Starship Troopers versus a veteran player. I opted to play the jump troopers and the veteran fielded big bugs. There was a third person there to help me learn the rules. I kept my distance so the bugs could not assault me and shot them. The veteran kept trying to talk me into assaulting his bugs which I knew would spell imminent doom for my little troopers. The person helping me with the rules did not offer any tactical advice but I could easily see that he knew I was smart not to get into close combat. Finally when it was fairly certain I was going to win the veteran player said I was unfun to play because I would not assault. So I offered to play him again and we could switch armies. The second time around he used the same tactics I had used in the first the first game, which I did not bother to mention... But I moved the bugs in such a manner to cut off his army boxing them into a table corner and was eventually able to assault the troopers for the win. The veteran player got mad again but he couldn't really say much. The person helping me with the rules kept quite and then after the veteran left he told me it was great to see him lose twice in a row to a newbie. It turned out his GF had dumped him a few weeks prior and was now dating the veteran player. Later that day the veteran player returned to the shop with his new GF and kept staring at me. I kept my back turned to him and ignored him for the rest of the day.

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Aaaaaah, you should have given him the biggest sh*&-eating grin and a big thumbs up!