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What's the best things people have said to you, or you've overheard when deploying your armies?

My personal favourite when i'm playing my Grey Knights:

"You need to field a legal army, terminators aren't troops"

With my orks:

"Are you sure that's 1000 points?!"

Best comment?

"Hey man, that's a nice looking army you got there." even though I'm not the greatest painter, most players are appreciative of seeing a painted force on the table.

Be gentle.

Are you deepstriking all those suits?

- Yes

Imperial Guard, at a league game (the guy knew I was IG before hand but didn't know what specifically):

*Looks at all his devastators.*
*Looks at my power blobs.*
"Oh... I, uh, thought there'd be more tanks."

When im playing my Skaven against the regional champion (yes, i lost to a filth list)
we have that scenario where you roll a dice for which third of a table you set up in, and with the exception of about four units, all my horde is crammed into the left corner.
Someone looks over and says "What happened there"?

"Oh wow, Sisters. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make such a tough army for them, I'm not really that hardcore of a player."

Said moments before I began trouncing a Space Marine army.

Orks -

'there's no way that many bodies are legal'

'You can take HOW many bikes? ' (running my 68 bike wazdakka list)

or my personal favourite

'Orks are gak. There's no way they can even touch my SM. Every book says so. I'm gonna shoot you right off the table before anything can even die to my close combat guys'

(immediately prior to a highly satisfying boardwiping)



Daemons

'That is a truly vile looking army you have there. It's making me want to puke' To which is said thank you (Mono-nurgle)

Dark Eldar

'My vehicles are so much better than yours. Sure yours are nice-looking, but on a battlefield would you rather have a Lamborghini or an M1A1 Abrams...'

From a guard player who had never fought DE before. Who then spent the rest of the game whining about how Lance weapons are broken as gak... Lamborghini for the win

"Look at the tiny rhinos, they're so cute!"

and

"Wow, that's old school. Nice beakies."

I take pride in my role as a living ancestor. Showing off older models to people who may have only seen pictures of them on the internet. I get a kick out of it when people notice and appreciate it.

 Nevelon wrote:
"Look at the tiny rhinos, they're so cute!"

and

"Wow, that's old school. Nice beakies."

I take pride in my role as a living ancestor. Showing off older models to people who may have only seen pictures of them on the internet. I get a kick out of it when people notice and appreciate it.

I fully expect to see this with my Minotaurs army. Mk3 for the most part across the board (fw models), but I've picked up 4 old RT era Rhino Chassis, I geek out when I see them, and I own them

"Where's your army?"
"It all deep strikes."
"Gak!"

Daemons in 5th with players who didn't understand how to fight them. They were great fun.

I saw that army on Warseer!

"Urr, what, are they converted? Are they even made with any GW parts?"




I think I actually did a literal facepalm. A literal one.

These 2 example from Tv tropes:

During a game at my local GW I was watching, the two players, and Ork and Imperial Guard player, were asked to improv a Rousing Speech to their men as delivered by the Warboss/Colonel. The Ork player kept it short and sweet, along the lines of "Get 'em, ya gitz! WAAAAAGH!". The Imperial Guard player, on the other hand, thought for about a minute then came out with this:
Colonel: If you go to the Emperor on this field of battle, then ensure that you take a score of the enemy with you! If you should fall now, then make them pay for every inch of ground they gain! If you must die, then die standing! For we are the Guard AND THEY SHALL NOT PASS!

/thread

"You're running MSU? This'll be an easy victory for me then!"

Some people never learn there's more to the game than shoving a big block straight ahead...

From the same person in a gaming group.

4th Edition: "Fielding a bunch of those expensive Wave Serpents I see. Hey, it's your game to lose."

5th Edition: "Wave Serpents? Why not Falcons?"

6th Edition: "I see you fielding lots of Wave Serpents, you netlist on all your armies?"

Tau 6th Edition: How are you attaching a independent character to a riptide?

 Compel wrote:
"Urr, what, are they converted? Are they even made with any GW parts?"




I think I actually did a literal facepalm. A literal one.

I have gotten similar comments when I use my Praetorian Guard army.

Hi

For me, it was the Adepticon Team Tournament, first round of 2011, the year after our team, the Sons of Shatner, won.

We lined up against our opponents, they looked at our shirts... then flipped to the second page of the player package that listed the winners...

"So... you are those Sons of Shatner?"

Small smiles from us "Yes"...

Barely stifled groans from our opponents...

Reputation Established... Fear Check Failed... Mission Accomplished!

Cheers,
Nate

"Are they Dark Eldar?"

Said by a small child to every. Single. Person. I was using Space Wolves...




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 carlosthecraven wrote:
Hi

For me, it was the Adepticon Team Tournament, first round of 2011, the year after our team, the Sons of Shatner, won.

We lined up against our opponents, they looked at our shirts... then flipped to the second page of the player package that listed the winners...

"So... you are those Sons of Shatner?"

Small smiles from us "Yes"...

Barely stifled groans from our opponents...

Reputation Established... Fear Check Failed... Mission Accomplished!

Cheers,
Nate

Friends of mine who won a tourney at Warhammer World with Eldar had their name refused to be said (or printed) by GW. The army name? The Serpents of Trau-sarr.

First time I played 40k was at my flgs and i painted all my 750 space marine army.
It was far from a good paint job but this is what the guy helping me learn the game said (who had a really nicely painted dark angels army)
"Wow you painted your entire army? It's not bad for your first time painting, good work!"

Not the best comment, but he was complimenting me on how I painted my entire army and that it was pretty good!
Which was pretty nice of him to say to a new player!

"You play scouts and tactical squads as dark angels? How do you even win with that?"

-.-

Yeah I get that alot before my melta gun frenzy kills them.

Not truly at deployement, but my horde-ish tyranids got a few comments along the lines of "There are MORE?!"...
Especially when my half of the board is crowded and I then tell them my large unit of Genestealers comes in ....

Deploying 100 models when playing with my mates frequently results in "I'll go make the coffee" when I get out the Great Big Case of Everything with Everything Inside.

I play a Drop Pod army.

"Some idiot even brought Drop Pods. Like those ever win." --Some guy behind me, at my first tournament ever.

"Where's your army?"

"Oh...I guess I should read peoples' lists before deploying..."

18 shots? Twin-linked? An Ork with BS 3? Feth me!!!

WTF!

after seeing my deployed Hello kitty space marine army

"Only one riptide ?"

Deploying my Emepror Children space marine army (i use a small 19 model count army, lots of armor.) Was playing against guard.

deployed against a power blob, and several armor tanks and air crafts in reserve.
"This seems fluffy, and in the favor of the Guard..." - around turn 5 there was 1 guardsmen left holding the objective and 3 space marines. I lost

Deploying my wraith guard army right after the supplement dropped.

"Holy hell that looks terrifying."

"Oh cool! I've never fought Sisters of Battle before!"

and

"Exactly how many Guardsmen are in your list?" (342 IIRC @ 1850)