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THE GAMER THAT WOULD NOT LEAVE

This one is fairly dated 3rd edition city fight, the game was played at my house. This was our second or third consecutive game that night. He was a bit bi-polar, when he was losing he was very morose, bitter, and often threatened to walk out on games; when he was winning he was practically dancing. He was in a really bad mood due to losing a previous game, so I gave him a 350-point handicap on a 1500 game. I was playing dark eldar and he was chaos marines. This was supposed to be a quick game as it was getting late. But, it went really late due mostly to my opponent taking long movement and shooting phases.

When we rolled for missions it came up as Gauntlet, which was for those who remember the most broken mission at the time. The attacker had to set up in a small deployment zone and cross the board to an exit point on the other side of the table. The defender gets to create a killing field between the two points.

My army was raider heavy and had webway gate. If I wanted to be a punk I could have just jetted over and drop the gate right next to the exit point. But, I felt I should play the game as in keeping with its design and not take an easy victory that would be salting my opponent’s wounded ego. So turn one I drop the gate 12” from my starting point an exited my ground troop with the raiders supporting the footsloggers. The game was a real challenge I crawled through buildings while getting gunned at from every angle. I sacrificed my raiders to block fire to my warriors and basically took abuse while making my way to the exit point. The game had a random turn length and it ended right when my entire army was 6 inches away from freedom. Because my army was moving together not a single one of my units made it to the exit point. So the mission read as a complete defeat for me, and a total victory for my opponent, despite the fact that I was inches away from an impressive victory. At the time the game ended it was getting close to 3 am.

This is where it gets a little trying. Instead of excusing himself, my now ecstatic opponent felt it would be more to his interest to go over his victory point by point, and I am too polite to say “Yeah… go home now”. So after about 30 minutes of his self graduations on his genius tactics (Please bare in mind it is late and I am tired), I could not help but point out it was only for but a single roll of a die that that prevented the outcome from being the reverse. Normally I would bite my tongue, but I allowed weariness to dull my social reservations. Anyway he didn’t like this and broke off in to a diatribe about me being a sore loser. He rather insisted we discuss this at length while I consider myself to be a low confrontational individual. I managed to steer the conversation to an adequate conclusion and he left allowing me to crawl into bed.

@Grunt13: I know that feeling all too well. The way I would have dealt with that is ask for a rematch and trounce him and say "See, I went easy on you, so STFU now"

ok, mine aren't so much warhammer, but are gaming related

first, i had a dnd game i was in, met once a week in the basement of the dm's dorm. I was playing a character that in theory i liked the idea of, but in practice didn't care much for. So during the games, if i made a bad decision with my character, i didn't try and take it back or whatever, i just rolled with it, since having the occassional bad decision is something that happens. This eventually lead to my characters death in an explosion, i think it was, and the dm storming out of the room in tears because i had somehow ruined the game. After a minute or so of silence, i packed up my stuff and told the other 3 or 4 players i would see them later. The dm was apparently surprised that i left for some reason. oh, and the dm was a guy a knew that was a few years older then myself.

Ok, i play casual magic sometimes, its a nice fast timekill and i like the art they use for some of the stuff. So having a spare 10 bucks or so, i went to one of those release events at a local place. And there i finally learned what serious magic people are like, and the awkwardness of meeting people who apparently sold organs to buy cards.
first dude i played was cool, but had with him life counters that were, if i recall directly, jade with gold leaf detailing, and were slightly larger then the top of a can of soda
Next we have this guy, who honestly was a bit scary. he looked a great deal like the people off those "this is what meth use will do to you" posters, dressed like someone who only left his cabin for more sugar and copper tubing, and had thick talon like nails he used to move things around with.
finally there was the dude who apparently sunk a few hundred bucks into each set when it came out so he could netdeck the best stuff, and continuously tried to talk to everyone about how he only slept every 3rd day or so, and that when he tried to sleep his mom would wake him out of fear he was in a coma
oh, and there was the token little kid who wandered around telling people how they should play and generally being a nuance
so yea, i stay away from magic events these days.

finally, there was a gaming club i went to for a few years. There was a guy there, who made it kind of awkward for everyone. the guy was a balding neckbeard of 20 or so years, to showed up to play board games and magic. Every meeting he showed up to, he would inevitably starting talking, and while he might start off ok, he always drifted off into areas not appropriate. an example being that one of the rather attractive girls that sometimes showed up excused herself from the game she was in to visit the restroom- as she walked out he began speaking about how "hot" that was- the restroom visit, not the leaving the game
One day i eventually just stopped mid game and told him that almost everything he says is crap. sadly, i think the gaming group is pretty much dead, and he's one of the reasons.

but, i've yet to have bad times with warhammer-woooo

When I was first started playing I had the misfortune to land in a bad store. Stayed there longer than I should have because of deep discounts, but ended up leaving after the owner revealed his true assmastery. When I first got "relearned" by some cool folks at me first real 40k related FLGS, I had one guy really taking the time, yknow? These guys realized that I had been taught by neck beards, and since I showed a true desire to learn how to play they really unscrewed my rules blues. Anyway, during one game this one dude in particular showed me a really terrile mistake I'd made, real dumb. I lost the plot for just a second, and smacked my hand on the table. His wraithlord, which had admittedly been poorly assembled, clattered to pieces. I. Was. MORTIFIED. I have rarely ever embarassed myself like that in public w/o having had a lot of booze.

Gwar! wrote:@Grunt13: I know that feeling all too well. The way I would have dealt with that is ask for a rematch and trounce him and say "See, I went easy on you, so STFU now"

Thanks for the support, but another game with him would have been a nightmare at least for that night. My sole desire was that he would leave so I could sleep. I slaughtered him regularly afterwards in future games. The game itself was actually quite entertaining in a tense challenging sort of way. It was just a bummer that after exposing my army to a gritty turkey shoot the outcome rest solely in a single die roll. Listening to the boasts was really salting the wound. What really gets me its that there would be no way he could take his own medicine. If he was losing and I was jumping with excitement and spewing self-praise he would storm out, if I was losing and spouting surly woe is me nonsense he wouldn't be able to stomach it, and if he would never agree to play a game which was geared against him in even in the slightest way.

One thing to note was that at that time I had such a win record with my dark eldar I ended up eventually retiring them, both for the challenge of another army and my consideration of my opponents. I could see how eventually defeating me was a source of pride of him and I should have let him have his moment without comment.

Wow, this is getting scary.


@ SwordGuy: Dude, What is that guy's problem. I would have hit him too, honestly.

Nurgleboy77 wrote:

I'm the fat guy looking all embarrassed......

LoL, you and Norgoth look like twins, Aldonis! lol

Only along the lines of Arnold and Danny Devito. And btw - I'm Arnold.......da President of Cah-li-fohria.

Duce wrote:

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malfred wrote:

Swordguy wrote:

swordguy wrote:
(Said GM is no longer involved in any way in HoR and is banned from GenCon - it's good to know the GenCon organizers socially...)

Yay.

Your story made my stomach turn.

Mine too, I don't even know you or your wife or the guy but even I wanted to beat the crap out of him reading that. You don't talk crap like that to a guy's wife, especially if the guy is standing right there. Seriously, who the hell did he think he was?

Didnt impress me either, people like that are a waste of space in my oinion. no manners.

And i think you could change that to you don't talk to anyone like that, unless they had given you a very good reaon to. and even then its very disrespectful. Hope Karma finds his dues for him.

If I were you I probably would have done worse than just bash his face in, he would probably be unconscious when I would be done with him... What a sicko some people can be seriously he should go get tested for mental retardedness...

Well, the right, wrong, or karma of the guys actions can't really be argued. Sounds like karma went and bit him, although who's to say if it really bit him hard enough? Bet I know someone who thinks not.

Really, though, beyond the Internet Toughguy posturing (admittedly, I'd be pretty fething pissed and ready to work on it); what the hell was this guy thinking? WHat possible aim was he trying to serve? I'm really drawing a blank.

My akward gaming moment [well more frustrating than akward] would be this...

At my local GW store they were holding their usual 'big games' for the weekend. Since apocalipse had come out recently they put it to use and everybody got to use anything and everything. Good vs Evil with 3 objectives, 1 on each table. I was at the end of one playing with my Nids. Opposite me was what looked like a 10yr old kid who thought he was a 'super star gamer'. He only brought 1 vindicator and a razorback so he asked the staff if he could borrow more. When he saw that they had an extra 4 he took them.

So we set up and he noticed that i was opposite with my army. He thought he'd look really tough if he took down my Carnifix, Hive Tyrant with 1 guard and 2 squads of genestealers with his 5 vindicators and razorback [with las cannons by the way]. In the 2nd turn i managed to get into assult with his vindicators and destroyed 2 within that turn. On the third turn he fired and blew up his own vindicator [and ovcourse blamed me] and in combat I destroyed the 2 remaining vindicators and his razorback.

After that i laughed hard [it was maybe a bit cruel but come on he was a punk ass 10 year old wanna-be gamer]. He then stormed around to my side of the table, took a big swing and kicked me 3 times repeatedly [it wasnt hard cause he was 10 but come on it was extreamly innapropreate and poor sportsmanship]. The GW staff didnt seem to notice or care. I really wanted to give the kid a good knee to the face but i didnt want to be banned from my local GW store so i just stood there and took it. Eventually he walked off and left the store [thankfully].

grizgrin wrote:Well, the right, wrong, or karma of the guys actions can't really be argued. Sounds like karma went and bit him, although who's to say if it really bit him hard enough? Bet I know someone who thinks not.

Really, though, beyond the Internet Toughguy posturing (admittedly, I'd be pretty fething pissed and ready to work on it); what the hell was this guy thinking? WHat possible aim was he trying to serve? I'm really drawing a blank.

I honestly think he gets delight from shock factor and has gotten so used to saying what he thinks outloud and not being beatup due to not having picked the wrong person to say it to has lost grasp on what is appropriate and what is downright rude.

Either that or he does not care and see's females like some 80's pimp in a movie which he thinks is awesome and thus acts like it.

Eitherway hes a tool, and personaly a little more karma in the form of him mouthing off at some guys girlfriend who happens to be a boxer would be nice for his learning curve.

Bugsfromhell wrote:
He then stormed around to my side of the table, took a big swing and kicked me 3 times repeatedly [it wasnt hard cause he was 10 but come on it was extreamly innapropreate and poor sportsmanship]. The GW staff didnt seem to notice or care. I really wanted to give the kid a good knee to the face but i didnt want to be banned from my local GW store so i just stood there and took it. Eventually he walked off and left the store [thankfully].

This would have been very tough to deal with, on one hand letting him kick you is not right and you shouldnt have let him, even stepping out of the way, as much as i'd like to have said pushing him not hard away would be nice it could end up with a very bad situation. But he kids should know better and personally his parents should beat him for acting like that. No excuse him thinking he can do that.

Ive had many cases of "Super star gamer" brandished in my face but I ignore and just play I win I win I lose I lose its not going down on any CV after all I just love playing.

The reason why I no longer play at my local GW is the amount of winner takes all players it just does my head right in mainly Tournament junkies.

I am hopefull that our youngest son (who is 11) is learning how to win and loose better then some. He goes up to senior school a tthe end of this year where they have a gamming club, I just HOPE he learns from the games he plays with us and treats the older players appropriatly!

Win or Loose, the GAME is the thing.

I remember many moons ago demonstrating Space Hulk to a new guy, I was county champ (having won the local tournament) and was known as bad ass, but I always demonstrate by playing nice.... this one game however the dice gods left me! 7 sets of over watch roles, not one kill and 3 jams later, I'd lost half my force..... Much hard playing latter I scrapped a draw! The guy enjoyed it and I think baught the game right away, I was a little embarrassed... but al this time later, I still remember it fondly as a VERY hard fought game!

Its the "Friendly Game" concept I think gets lost on people. I also believe its why Apoc has gone down so well!

Its supposed to be fun! and loosing a fun game is still fun!!!

Swordguy wrote:Not GW-related, but an "awkward gaming moment" nontheless...

Mate, seriously, any fether spoke to my woman like that, I'd gnaw the eyes out of his still-screaming skull...

Nxt time wait in the carpark and express your ire via the medium of a tyre iron.

Agreed Id punch the leering fethers teeth down his throat my wife is my world and no fool is going to disrespect her

Most annoying people we have around here are the kind who walk up to you, ask you what army you play and then proceed to go through very long lengths to verbally assert their army (not yours!) is the best army in the game, EVAR. I always try to be polite with these people, hoping that they would go away or find someone else to annoy. My brother, being less patient and less polite, told one guy in particular to feth off and cry himself to sleep as he always does.

At my college's club there was a really wierd guy. He become known as "Scary Bloke" to me and the other guys that joined that year.

The members that had been around longer knew that his name was Richard. We later learned that they called him "Scary Richard".

The awkward part was that he was a really nice guy. Always a good sportsman, if not a good player. Owned at least 2000 points of every 40K army - all painted (badly but still painted). Always had a typed army list and explained what he was doing as he did it (often with sound effects).

He was just so incredibly socially inept that it was painful to be around him and the club was his one and only social outlet.

Apparently he went into accountancy.....

one of the oddest moments i remember is when i was first introduced to Vampire the Mascarade RPG. there were 2 male roomates that always played RPGs together, the one was playing the character of a young boyish vampire and the other's was in love with him. I never knew if he was really good at RPing or just coming out of the closet. Nonetheless i was scared.

Bugsfromhell wrote:
After that i laughed hard (at a kid)
...
(the kid act is) extreamly innapropreate and poor sportsmanship

I'm not saying the 10 years old was right, but I find it funny to underline the poor sportmanship of the kid...

We were playing a big team game of Axis and Allies minis a few months ago. We had divided up into teams and I was with a guy who is an old school 40k player and generally an ok guy. I had played maybe two games beforehand so I was still pretty green. We were the defenders so we were placing our units first. I began to place my soldiers and tanks in a way that I thought would be beneficial. After every, and I mean every, placement he would ask me why I was putting them there. He would then suggest that I place them elsewhere. This went on for 15 minutes. I finally just said that I wouldn't be able to stay and had another guy jump in for me. I was getting so frustrated. It was a team game, not a one guy takes control of everything game.

I stayed and watched the game for a few turns. If he would have left probably half the units where I put them then they would have had a lot easier time dealing with several forces.

It's amazing to me how stubborn some people are.

barlio wrote:

I stayed and watched the game for a few turns. If he would have left probably half the units where I put them then they would have had a lot easier time dealing with several forces.

It's amazing to me how stubborn some people are.

Now, it would have been priceless if, when every unit was forced back or destroyed, you said.. "Man if only you'd left my stuff alone, you be winning now.. )Then all of the starts would have lined up.

Scott-S6 wrote:At my college's club there was a really wierd guy. He become known as "Scary Bloke" to me and the other guys that joined that year.

The members that had been around longer knew that his name was Richard. We later learned that they called him "Scary Richard".

The awkward part was that he was a really nice guy. Always a good sportsman, if not a good player. Owned at least 2000 points of every 40K army - all painted (badly but still painted). Always had a typed army list and explained what he was doing as he did it (often with sound effects).

He was just so incredibly socially inept that it was painful to be around him and the club was his one and only social outlet.

Apparently he went into accountancy.....

Yea I knew a dude like that had a 22,000 point Space Marine army painted really badly he was 46years old lived with his mum made sound effects after every shot and chose what company he would field in every game we had.

but the point was during the Armageddon 3 campaign we got this story running where his commander and my chaos lord became bitter enemies and to be honest for all his quirks and eccentricities he was a bloody good Warhammer 40k buddy when you play with light hearted good fair players its a bloody good experience.

My regular opponent now (who is only 9 years old) gels well with our gaming group and all those decent Warhammer 40k moments such as heroic charges,last stands, one on one character combat are all coming back just makes me wanna play more!.

Roll on the August Apocolypse Ichar 4 campaign opener I have planned!! its gonna rock!

BOSS_PIMPALOTZ wrote:so I pose the question why is it one side you can have excellent sportsmen of all ages and then on the other you have these idiots who cant and wont accept losing at a game which in essentiality involves pushing little Toy Soldiers around

Mostly?

Parenting.

Mainly I would agree

My Nephew still has a problem with losing hes 13 years old and can get qute arsey about not winning but my brother has brought him up with this winning is everything attitude even at civil things like snap yes SNAP

Jon Garrett wrote:I got irked a while back when we were playing a game with some house rules. It was 1500 My opponent basically put all his points into Calgar, a Captain, a Chaplain (Wait, what?) and a squad of ten terminators. The rest of his army was admittedly tooled up Tactical Squads and I think a devastator squad.

There was a rule which allowed each of us to take control of an enemy unit for a turn. Before the game he tried convincing the guy at the store that Calgar was immunune to the take command rulem but this was denied. In the shooting phase he grabbed my Vindicator, used it to blast me and then turned it around so it's rear armour could get it hit and killed...and it was. Fair enough, although I did point out that usually you can't fire and then move but since it could have fired at the squad it did if it had moved first I let him off.

I start my go. I notice he has three HQ's and ask if one of the models is a stand in. He tells me no. I basically go what? But I say, 'What the hell, it's just for fun right? let's keeo going.' I get to my shooting phase and suddenly hear, 'Oh, you know you can only use that special rule if you announce it at the start, right?'

...wait, so let me get this straight. I allow you to use an extra HQ. I don't mind you not only doing the same thing, but moving the vehicle afterwards, in the shooting phase, so you can have a better shot at it because. And suddenly strick adherence to the rules are what matters, right?

Oi. I was so tempted to end my go there and then announce, at the start of his turn, that I was taking control of Calgar since the rules mentioned nothing about which player's turn and I suspect the guy running the show would have supported me, but eh. I just quit. Did not wanna play wit someone who was clearly so obsessed with winning. So I muttered about my plan not working anymore and packed up.

My temper was fairly short though...early that day I'd played a 300 pts game against a Tyranid player and without number, who insisted his Warrior squad HQ could lead three different sqauds each but you had to kill them all to earn any kill points. Because it works like that for Guard.

And at this point I resolved never to play 40k on days when there were anyone under the age of 16 playing. Although in fairness there was a couple of really nice little guys there, and one kid had a Guard army that puts mine to shame in terms of painting. So the day wasn't a whole loss.

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:My worst moment was when my friend(well my sort of friend he is a little b... well I won't say in good company)he and I squared off against his buddies Nids(the nids way out numbered us)and after turn one he left leaving me with the tactical squad from the assualt on maccrage and nothing more.I held up for three turns until the other guy started claiming that his nids had the power to come alive again after a certain amount of turns(I dont know if they can I have never played nids myself)but he was using the rules from the necron codex,and it degenrated into a shouting match with my friend whom had left the room after turn one charging in and shouting that the nid player was right.I then quit the game,the rest of the afternoon I was tormented by the other two guys for being a whimp,until I socked one of them in the stomach with a TV remote,aaah violence is there anything you can't do?

What the friggin f**k do you guys play with such messed-up rules for to eve begin with? O_o

BOSS_PIMPALOTZ wrote:Agreed Id punch the leering fethers teeth down his throat my wife is my world and no fool is going to disrespect her

I know my father would beat the living crap out of anybody who said anything like that to my mom.

Seriously though, that GM's behavior would be unforgivable. Don't they teach people to treat the ladies as ladies?

Brother Captain Andrecus wrote:

BOSS_PIMPALOTZ wrote:Agreed Id punch the leering fethers teeth down his throat my wife is my world and no fool is going to disrespect her

I know my father would beat the living crap out of anybody who said anything like that to my mom.

Seriously though, that GM's behavior would be unforgivable. Don't they teach people to treat the ladies as ladies?

You mean do all their heavy lifting and math for them?

Indeed. Where has chivalry gone to these days?

Lol.

BOSS_PIMPALOTZ wrote:Mainly I would agree

My Nephew still has a problem with losing hes 13 years old and can get qute arsey about not winning but my brother has brought him up with this winning is everything attitude even at civil things like snap yes SNAP

The Britishness is strong with this one... Or in other words, what's snap?