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I normally do not swear. I can splash hot grease on my hand, have a horrible day at work, whatever, I can keep myself from swearing. As soon as you hand me an un-assembled model and some glue I turn into the most foul mouthed sailor in the world. I have threatened pieces with horrible horrible acts that would make Hitler cringe.

Anyone else get the same way or have another aspect of this hobby that makes you want to flay babies?

The aspects that get on my nerves tend to involve other players; infantile fluff, refusal to comprehend the nature of the game (griping about lack of traditional 'heroic' characters, griping about having to paint your own models, griping about 'unfair' rules...), and poor sportsmanship are all difficult to deal with.

I manage. Somehow.

 Dannyevilguy wrote:
I normally do not swear. I can splash hot grease on my hand, have a horrible day at work, whatever, I can keep myself from swearing. As soon as you hand me an un-assembled model and some glue I turn into the most foul mouthed sailor in the world. I have threatened pieces with horrible horrible acts that would make Hitler cringe.

Anyone else get the same way or have another aspect of this hobby that makes you want to flay babies?

I am the same exact way as you

The loose rules, which cause huge flamestorms.

Doubly so when the meaning of the rule is pretty clearly one thing, but it can be twisted 'strict RAW..' to mean something quite different.

Also the folks who insist there is only one way to play this game, be it competitive, fluffy, FW is standard 40K, FW is not standard 40 K, or anything with the word 'legal' in it

The allies chart. Allies are a decent idea, if you like that sort of thing, but some of the combinations..

Finally the imbalances in the game. Vastly differing power levels for the same pts, half the codexes and more for one faction, no xeno secenery barring a dinky little nid thing in the Macragge set and some dodgy ork barricades...

I love 40K, and have since it's inception, but the pile of annoyance is higher for me these days than it used to be.

Besides what the others have said, table etiquette is huge for me. I love playing the game, but one bad opponent can ruin it for everyone. Im not a rules lawyer, Im not a fluff nazi. Just be respectful of your opponent, play the game, and be a good sport win or lose. Act your age people!

Mostly when other players are poor sports, rude, etc. Doesn't happen now that I only play with a small group of friends.

And painting too, painting is my least favorite part of the game.

Mainly when people walk away in the middle of a game, or take my codex off the table and look at my units rules when they can just ask me.

Also, when other people join into a game that they are not involved in and give tactical advice or tell the players what to do when they know perfectly well how to play.

Finally, people without codexs and rulebooks are soooo annoying when they have to take codexs off of shelves or other people to find out what their units do.

Money. I do get a bit depressed when I realize just how much money I'd have to put down in order to make a competitive army. Especially when the guy with a better-paying job goes out and buys seven Doom/Nightscythe kits just because he can.

When someone has a turn where I roll horribly on all of my 2+ saves and wounds and acts like it's funny or I shouldn't care... and then has a fit when they fail one save with a 4+ model

"Proxy armies" where it's just one person using the same army and using the codex for everything else without buying the models (I had a friend who owned a guard army and used them for sisters of battle and "iron brigade" which really just meant using a bunch of toy cars and cans as tanks.

People who don't know the rules and look at me like i'm cheating when I do something that they JUST did on their turn and I said it was okay per the rulebook.

People who want to play but don't own the models they want on their list and expect me to either supply them or be ok with a weak proxy.

Picking up anything that I own...at all, ever. I know it's cliche, but freaking ask first.

Caling something that's categorically uncheesy, cheesy. (I make only lists that are for all comers and don't tailor, so this one really irks me, as I don't even try to look up competetive lists, I just do what I like)

How every person I talk to that has a poorly painted army somehow has golden daemon quality work at home that they just don't want to play with

Threads likes this....and teenagers

That terrible joke where a model has an oversized gun or sword and someone *always* says "Oh they must be compensating for something!"

The random warlord traits. I always get something absolutely useless while my opponent gets something that makes a big difference. E.g., last game I got redeploy (whoop do doo) while my opponent got stealth in ruins. All of our terrain that game was ruins. That made an enormous difference to me as I play a shooty army, Guard. Nothing like trying to take down an opponent with Terminator-like stacking cover saves to make your blood boil.

Pointless threads

When playing with my friends (well... against), my brother coming out (i set up an ourdoor pavillion for 40k, coz its awesome), and constantly telling my friends exactly what to do to beat me.. And constantly talking loudly over us all about gak which we care nothing of, while trying to play...

That, and australian models costing 2x as much as american models, even with our dollars being worth the same..

People who won't play against me just because I'm not a rabid tournament junkie. Yes, I just want to have some fun and play the game, whether you like it or not.

Rules layering in casual games when I previously let things slide for them. For example, Turn 1 I shoot out of a building. He claims that only 5 of my squad can see so I agree and only roll 5 dice, then when I use a template two guys are under it but just barely so we agree the blast only hits 3. Next turn his guys don't move but suddenly he can see 8 of my guys (how can you see them but they can't see you?) then he shoots a blast and says that my pulse rifle is under the marker and it counts. When claiming area terrain the area that the terrain covers is always largest when he needs the cover and smallest when I am claiming it as cover. Suddenly all the fun was taken out of the game.

 lambsandlions wrote:
Rules layering in casual games when I previously let things slide for them. For example, Turn 1 I shoot out of a building. He claims that only 5 of my squad can see so I agree and only roll 5 dice, then when I use a template two guys are under it but just barely so we agree the blast only hits 3. Next turn his guys don't move but suddenly he can see 8 of my guys (how can you see them but they can't see you?) then he shoots a blast and says that my pulse rifle is under the marker and it counts. When claiming area terrain the area that the terrain covers is always largest when he needs the cover and smallest when I am claiming it as cover. Suddenly all the fun was taken out of the game.

Maybe im lucky, ive been reading so much of people changing how things work when its advantageous to do so, and yet i have never experienced it...

Hate it when people just don't give a gak about the other players enjoyment of the game. Generally people who are playing really competitive in games which should not be really competitive.

When a crucial, usually load bearing, component of model won't glue.

For example, the Tyrannofex I recently built. Plastic cement worked fine for the whole model, and the cement I use acts rather quickly. When it got to the front legs, which hold the whole model up, the joints simply refused to bond. At all. I ended up cleaning the joints out and supergluing them instead just to get them to stick.

I then went and used the same glue 5 minutes later on the Rupture Cannon, which, of course, bonded almost instantly.

Luckily I have a large amount of patience, but things like that drive me batty. My Forgeworld Flyrant was the same - even after pinning and green stuffing the wing joints, they simply wouldn't stay attached. Took me a whole night just to attach the wings.

Finecast. It's like playing a game of "Will my model have bubbles/holes/lines" roulette

 Nerobellum wrote:
Finecast. It's like playing a game of "Will my model have bubbles/holes/lines" roulette

lol, I just got through saying something to this effect to a buddy of mine. God I hate Finecast.

Building Penitent Engines.

They caused me so much frustration over the three days I tried to build them that I just up and walked away from them for two months. Kept the components in boxes.

Then I came back to them, said, "Feth it," and used massive amounts of greenstuff and more superglue than was necessary.

I decided to keep the story polite, so I skipped all the swearing I did the first time I tried to build them.

I only really play with one person, so I haven't encountered many cases of social interaction that would make me lose my cool yet.

Edit: One positive thing about trying to build Penitent Engines is that I discovered that carpenter's glue is not a viable substitute for model glue. To explain this, I ask you to consider that I'm the kind of person who wondered what chocolate milk and root beer - two of my favorite drinks - would taste like when mixed together, then actually tried it. Thank god I was standing in front of a sink when I took that first swig, cause... well, the spit take was enormous. And another time, I tried taking liquid Risperdal with a small amount of pure Lime Cordial. I think I puked into my mouth, but I'm unsure because I swallowed it all while thinking that it was the meds and Lime Cordial that tasted like vomit. I did wonder vaguely why my mouth was so full, though.

. . . Look, no one told me I had to add water.

When people pick up my models either without asking, with sticky, food-covered fingers, or handle them roughly. I have the same issue with books. These books are expensive. I expect them to be handed back to me in the same condition as they were when you picked it up.

Uninvited "referees" trying to weigh in on friendly games at a store.

Unbalanced codexes.

People who consistently get their points wrong on pencil and paper. Occasional mistakes are cool, but at a certain point, time to buy Army Builder or something.

Removing mold lines, and people constantly making broad stereotypes about younger wargamers and claiming they are destroying the hobby. I avoid most of it IRL since most people I play think I'm 17 or thereabouts, but damn does it get annoying on forums.

6th edition.

So I quit.

 btr75 wrote:
People who consistently get their points wrong on pencil and paper. Occasional mistakes are cool, but at a certain point, time to buy Army Builder or something.

There's really no excuse for even getting it wrong on paper. Buy a $1 calculator. List building is nothing but simple addition, and subtraction if you got something wrong. No need to buy a list building program, simply buying a calculator will solve this.

When someone literally starts crying (even just a few tears) when they start losing.

Makes me want to grab their toy soldiers and stomp them into dust.

Lol finecast. Friend bought Areiman (think that's how you spell it). His staff was flacid.

I never lose my cool. I am the epitome of cool.