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barlio wrote:This sounds counter-intuitive, but I quit asking people I play against if I can get them a drink (soda, water, etc...) during tourneys. I found that when I would ask they would always decline. I think they believed that I was trying to bribe them at some level. I am just trying to be polite and I'm getting up anyways.

Has this happened to anybody else? Am I imagining thing?

I use to take skittles to yugioh tournaments and spill a few on the table then change their order during the opponents turn and offer them one at a time and stuff. Broke their concentration a few times

I was thinking some more. I tend to give a sort of commentary about how I feel the game is going. Sorta dispassionately, and mostly to see if I'll be right at the end. I have a habit of calling (usually fairly accurately) when I have lost it. I don't concede unless my opponent wants me to though- I find a lot of people like to stomp every last dude, and I'm okay with letting them.

barlio wrote:This sounds counter-intuitive, but I quit asking people I play against if I can get them a drink (soda, water, etc...) during tourneys. I found that when I would ask they would always decline. I think they believed that I was trying to bribe them at some level. I am just trying to be polite and I'm getting up anyways.

Has this happened to anybody else? Am I imagining thing?

I don't play at tournaments, but once my roommate and I were playing a guy down at the mall of Georgia and we had to end the game early due to the store closing. We agreed to come back and play the guy again later in the week and he bought us breakfast for out trouble. (45 minute drive) Bribe or not, I would play that guy again anytime!

My main problem is that I am an idiot, but allow me to clarify how this problem makes me annoying to play warhammer against. Because I have, in the past, remembered a stat wrong (because the ork stat line has changed since their last codex) and played with I3 on my boyz for a whole game, I now look up stats most times I am asked. It keeps me from being stupid, but slows the game down. Also I have found that if I do not pay close attention to my rolls, or am more focused on how badly I am getting beaten, I will forget to do certain rolls, like roll to wound.

This is how my being an idiot makes me annoying to play against.

I paint my bezerkers in fresh blood before the game.

I cut myself when my commander dies.

I yell waaagh even though I have bezerkers.

When I lose I tip the table over.

Actually Im just bad at math.

One habit is that I usually know people's armies better than they do themselves. I also have the habit of working and speaking aloud what you need to hit/wound etc. The last habit is that when ever I guess the range for a guess weapon(empire great cannon springs to mind), it's miles of.

When I declare what I am doing, I use "we."

"We are going to fire at that tank."

I am close with my doods.

Mines is picking up a handful of dice and shaking them continuously while it's my opponents turn.

Annoying after a time. Not deliberate.

Pouting everytime a boy gets killed.
Wimpering evertime one of my friends decides to make/bring out something powerful looking.

I have a tendency to be a backseat general. Mostly with my mates though. The worst (for me, they didn't seem to mind) was when 2 of my wargaming buddies were in the midlle of a local tournament game and the SM player forgot wound allocation on his tactical squad. He was ready to remove all his models (only 3 left) and I pointed out that if he allocated the 4 power weapons onto 1 man he had a fighting chance. I felt bad afterwards since it was not a casual game, but like I said, they didn't really seem to mind since the IG guy is a real vet and was going to win regardless.

Forgetting to put units on the table. I put reserves aside on a side table, and most of the time I forget about them until it's time to put away my army.

Then I'm stuck wondering whether my Predator would have made a difference.

Brother Bartius wrote:Mines is picking up a handful of dice and shaking them continuously while it's my opponents turn.

Annoying after a time. Not deliberate.

I often get flashes of my old Monopoly habits, which include;
-Spitting or breathing heavily on dice that I'm shaking
-Instictively reaching into my pocket for those hidden 100's
-And trying to buy Mayfair off someone.

My main problem is I dive right into a my move phase and actions without giving it much thought. Afterwards I always go "Why did I do that??"