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that he actually picked up my converted Saurus Lord on a Carnosaur which was probably the best model I've ever painted. Threw it on the ground and stomped on it

I find these kind of posts so hard to believe, do people like this actually exist? Have they not been weeded out by evolution by now? Also, the sanctions these alleged people have gotten afterwards are usually very light. Nobody thought about making him pay for damages (including paint-time) and just keep his army as hostage if he didn't comply? Why did people stop you when you beat him? I just can't see this kind of behavior getting off that easy in any tournament I've attended.

No offence but wether you find it hard to believe or not it still happened, despite evolution (which has nothing to do with the immaturity or mind set of some players). Considering that there is no legal way you can "hold someones army hostage" and I didn't want to involve the cops over a single broken miniature which was the only way he could have been forced to pay for damages. Plus I'm not sure why you're asking why they woulden't just sit back and let me beat the crap out of some guy who most likely would have called the cops and then I would have been the bad guy. Just because it woulden't happen or be handeled the same way at any tourney you have been to dosen't mean it woulden't happen at all or that every tourney would handle it the same way.

Such behaviour will get you in trouble with the police, they see it as "assault" regardless if the other person "broke your toy", which is probably how they will see it. Other people holding you back from physically hurting someone are doing you a favour.

I know of one event where some guy wasn't happy that he didn't win one of the painting classes. He loudly voiced his dissatisfaction quite a bit and when the winner went up to get his award it turned into actual booing. You really don't expect these things at model shows, they're usually very quiet events. Unfortunately the winner's son was standing behind this git and belted him. End result was that *he* was then in trouble with the police, doubt anything really came of it though.

One of my mum's friends was involved in some gaming group or local meeting (not a proper tournament) where a kid lost a game, flew into a rage and kicked the table over with both his and his opponent's models. I guess your case proves that some people just don't grow up.

I played a two day tournament the other weekend.
Day One goes pretty well, we all win some lose some. have a pretty good time.
Day two, two more players show up, friends of the TO, and get shuffled right in because they didn't "know that the first two rounds happened the day before".
So I grumble but go along with it anyway, I was informed later that one of them couldn't make it the day before because he shattered his wrist, but then the TO steps in and starts playing games.
None of us are experienced players and generally had basic fun lists.
The TO on the other hand is playing a WAAC Mechdar melta spam list. He ends up taking first and best painted. I told the store owner the following week and she was appaled.

sorry for the rant. Had to get that off my chest.

I'm too nice during tournament events. I'm always the guy that's like "You forgot to shoot with that? No problem go ahead and do it now".

Deathwolf wrote:I'm too nice during tournament events. I'm always the guy that's like "You forgot to shoot with that? No problem go ahead and do it now".

That's me too... Now this didn't happen to me, but a friend of mine:

He was playing a game while a magic thing was going on at the same time, and one of the magic players broke his fantasy dragon that he did beautifully...

Later on that day the magic player was bragging about this extremely rare powerful card he got and my friend asked to see it and shredded it...

he he he shreddy!
worst for me is forgeting my INQ lord on my first ever tourney 600 points couldnt play

also my friend played a newbie who thought falling back was scatter dice....... he just let him do it because he was very new looked last min invite to it

fun school leagues..

I find some gamers to be really arrogant, maybe that's just me.

The worst thing that happened to me (though not strictly at a tournament, but rather a day of gaming) was having the whole shop laugh in my face for playing dark eldar with the old codex. I felt humiliated and like my intelligence was insulted. I reaped my vengeance when I tabled three of the five armies before the 5th turns. Drew with one and lost only one game.

never under estimate the guy with the Deldar. You can win with anything... If you know how.

Well maybe not the worst but certainly one of the most memorable....

Dice down the pants

muwhe wrote:

Well maybe not the worst but certainly one of the most memorable....

Dice down the pants

Like, he put his dice down your pants? Is that gamer euphemism....? I'm disconcerted yet strangely drawn in.

More like he took my cube of dice, and dumped them down his pants.

It was after some outstanding rolling on my part, and some less favorable dice rolls on his end that he mistakenly believed soiling my dice would turn the tide of the game to his favor by throwing me off my game, cooling off my dice, etc..

The day was still mine.

A friend of mine witnessed a player lift up his t-shirt and blow his nose into the middle of it during a GT. I was there but didn't see it myself.

I've heard many stories of models thrown across the room and temper tantrums, but never experienced anything like that...at all actually.
Worst I've dealt with is awkwardly playing against that guy who's really competitive but is also trying a little too hard to make sure he gets a good sportsmanship score.

This one I think everyone has had issues with this in one time or another.

The Non Bather. One -who- has never placed a tooth brush in his mouth. One -who- delves in the game to the point of a being an over bearing rules freak. His whole life revolves around 40K and Cheetoes (as well as other assorted types of junk food). Aerobic bacteria thrives around him. The type of guy that can make Nurgle proud.


I met a man like that in play. I was able to -taste- that lingering Funk that was on his person when he was four feet away.

People like that should not be allowed to play in a congested area.

More a gah, how dumb am i..

I had an unpainted Vindicare assassin in with my painted inquisition force at a tourney, and put him in a great sniping position via infiltrate, where he could see just about everything on the board..

so what do i do? I forget that he's there, for the whole battle.. Not only thst but the next guys to get the table bring him over to me to ask if he's mine and i almost say no..

In my defense he was only bought that morning to add into my tourney list.

Next battle i do the same thing. I post him at the corner of the field, next to the graveyard off table, then due to the angle i keep thinking he's just another casualty..

I remember just in time to shoot the last member of a fire warrior squad, scraping me victory barely with seconds to go...

Third battle i put him somewhere prominent that i can't miss (in a steeple thats almost at eye level when you bend to measure. I'm thinking over and over to REMEMBER THE SNIPER!. I get one shot off, missing, then he gets pulverised by a Leman Russ ;0) Ah well....

Death Walker 2015 wrote:

Deathwolf wrote:I'm too nice during tournament events. I'm always the guy that's like "You forgot to shoot with that? No problem go ahead and do it now".

That's me too... Now this didn't happen to me, but a friend of mine:

He was playing a game while a magic thing was going on at the same time, and one of the magic players broke his fantasy dragon that he did beautifully...

Later on that day the magic player was bragging about this extremely rare powerful card he got and my friend asked to see it and shredded it...

And then laughed, and offered to pay for it if he paid for the dragon, proving that everyone there was a real adult? Because otherwise, you've just described the actions of my 4 and 2 year old daughters. 'She broke my toy so I'm breaking hers!' Worse, with a little skill you can fix most Games Workshop models. I've yet to find one I can't, assuming I can get the pieces together. A shredded card, some of which go for more than a Land Raider, is worthless even if you could tape it together since the cards marked.

And, of course, breaking something by accident clearly means that you are now completely justified in destroying someones else possesions. The next time some steps on my toes and scuffs my boot, I'm heading round there house to put out a few windows and paint hatred on there door. Because I am clearly justified! Even if the guy was a prick about breaking the model, which I've seen before, refusing to appologise let alone pay for damages and such, destroying his card wasn't going to magically repair the dragon, and was therefore pointless. It was just a petty, childish thing to do.



As for the worst thing I've run into, it was a very wierd tournament organized by a GW worker where each game allowed you a special power. You agreed points with your opponent, then played. Winner got a point and the one with the most points over the weekend got a Battle Force. And dear lord, was that battle force made of solid gold. I had three games. Game two was great, awesome opponent, we had a huge laugh as my commander with a meltabomb tried to gank his armless dread and both kept bounching off each other. Good fun.

Game 1 was a kid playing Tyranids. At 300 points, which I barely managed with Marines. He had Without Number on all his units, which he inisisted meant the Warrior Brood he'd split up (illegally) to lead each squad came back too, and that none of them counted as having died for kill points. Oi. I won fairly easily after several of the stores older players explained that no, it didn't work like that. Afterwards he wandered arround the store, yodelling that he had really won and that it wasn't fair until I told him to go tell the store guy it was a win, if he really needed it that badly.

Game 3 was against a slightly mad Ultramarines player. He had a Deathstar of ten terminators, a Captain, Marneus Calgar and a Chaplain. Yes, three HQ choices. When I pointed this out he started looking shifty, but I shrugged and let him go for it. I wasn't that fussed. Now, we both got a special ability. We could take over a single unit for a single turn. If that unit charged another unit it reamained there until combat ended, then reverted. On his first turn, in his shooting phase, he decides to take over my vindicator, turn it around and blow up a unit. Fine and dandy. He forgot to move in the movement phase, but what the hell. Then I get my turn. My plan was simple...take control of Calgar, have him attack his own unit, bog it down while my own Assault Terminators and Dreadnaught reached it. Oh no, I can't take control of Calgar. He's a special character who is immune! Oh no, that's not working? Fine, you missed your chance to use that power because it's your movement phase. What, I did it in the shooting phase, along with moving then? But now I remember the rules and we must follow them EXACTLY!

I held up my hands and packed up, despite the constant yelling that I should keep going. From him. Apparently he twigged too late that he was being a tool, and since half the shop was watching he wasn't likely to get many a game in after that. The only reason I was even at the tournament was that it gave me a chance to get a ton of games in. If two thirds were gonna be against people so desperate for a battleforce, they could fight among themselves. I'm not a tournament player in the slightest, I simply don't have the dedication and drive it requires, so I didn't care much about winning. It's always nice, but certainly not enough to start winding my opponent up.

Foda_Bett wrote:Probably the Last Waaagh indy GT. First off I ordered a shirt and they weren't there at the event. I thought this wouldn't be a problem but it turns out it was (read the end).
I'm having a great tourney until round 5. I walk up and my opponent is playing with his dice and acting really funny. I explain that since we're so low on the totem pole we might as well play for fun and he agrees. What follows was the oddest game of my life.
The entire game he's constantly shuffling through his dice, instead of talking having a good time or looking up at the field he's playing with his dice. I'm also noticing that EVERY time he needs to roll one die for something he passes it. 1 cover save, 1 penetrating hit, 1 lascannon, it doesn't matter if it only rolls 1 die he gets it. He rolls the die really fast and even after a couple of requests to slow down a bit he doesn't.
So the game is wrapping up and I look down and say "Hey wait I thought those symbols on your dice were 6's, why does that die also have a 6?" He responds with "Oh yeah, I meant to find that one before the game started but I didn't have time."
I go to the TO and he says that since it was only 1 die it really didn't matter.
Now 2 years later I still don't have my shirt or a refund.

I know the player you speak of and I am happy I did not order a shirt! I wonder why it was the last waaagh.... :p

I've had one or two grumpy players, bitchy players or people whom tried to bend the rules... Most time (90%) if you call them out on it they'll quickly correct the issue. No huge foul tournament experiences.

Adam LongWalker wrote:The Non Bather.

This was my second worst experience... The worst I will not dredge from my memory where I hid it never to be looked back upon again!

I was at a major tournament, against a player I never had to face before. As the game started, I noticed, shall we say, a unpleasent odor wafting across the table. Wrinkling my nose, i continued on. Oh, but it got worse! As the game continued, It got bad.. I mean it began to REEK! My eyes started to litteraly water, and I had to repress a gag. I have never before smelled anything so bad, and i have two kids who at times I was changing the diapers! I had to stumble back from the table, and stand a decent way back. I am sure my opponent assumed I was stepping back for a more tactical look at the models, terrain or something, but in fact it was a desperate attempt to suck in some untainted air and to get my eyes to quit watering.

I decided at turn 2 that none of my models were going to his side of the table, as the thought of leaning CLOSER to the putrid stench was laughable.
Funnily enough, the guy was pleasent and polite, but for the love of god, dogs would have run yelping away from this guy...

Upon tallying objectives the guy flipped and claimed I'd cheated and moved the unit closer, and that there was no way I could of contested. I informed him I hadnt, and that if I wanted to I still had the run move I didnt even use. He then went on a tirade about how I was no fun to play, Id been pulling crap all game, etc etc. During his final tirade, I started to say "You know what, you've...(and then caught myself) and said "nevermind..it's not worth it, lets just tally this up and be done with it." He refused to score the game and just kept saying "whatever, take max points, I dont give an f'ing shXX".

Some people have a level of patience that I could not hope to match...

Fists of the emperor wrote:I heard about this the other day, a guy at our local store has an all bike army, his opponent reserves everything, first turn turbo boost, second turn spreading every bike out in his opponents deployment zone preventing him from coming on the board thus winning the game.

LMAO

Dude got pissed at his own rolls and chucked his hammerhead acrossss the room. We no joke now make him draw true Los from the railgun barrel, which is bent pointing @ the ceiling.

I remember once this dude threw his plastic dread against the cinder block wall - caught it on the bounce and threw it again!

MVBrandt wrote:Dude got pissed at his own rolls and chucked his hammerhead acrossss the room. We no joke now make him draw true Los from the railgun barrel, which is bent pointing @ the ceiling.

That's great

Was playing Ard Boyz in round 1 and was crushing the guy and me and him are suppose to be cool known him for a while. I let him fix small mistakes and rules we didn't relise like he found out he couldn't target a certian unit with JOTWW I told him he could repick honest mistake and in the rules you can do that. Well turn 6 comes around and I"m 6 models from tabling him 1 is a rune priest on the other side of the board. I roll up with my Redeemer to finish off the Long fangs on the building I shoot them with a cannon to finish it and he tells me i can't shoot there too high on building (which is true) so I'm like kay well ill shoot something else or target the single guy with my assault cannon but he REFUSES and gets all pissy like i'd killed his children to think I could do this this gives him another turn of shooting and kills my troops off my point so the game ends in a tie with him the turn after only having 1 model left. I'll see if im ever nice in a tourney again to anyone.

bloodaxegit wrote:Say this: "I dont want to play as an evil army any more, my CSM won't be ready in time ."
Me:"Use your IG as traitor guard"
" OK, I will "

Corrected that for you. As for the worst thing someone's ever done to me, there was one guy who said his Swooping Hawks were T4 and that's all I can remember at the moment.

1000pt Doubles Tourney at my FLGS, you could do a 1000pt army between the pair or 2 500pt ones. Won Game 1 hands down, only casualties being 4 Ratlings and a lone Guardsmen. Anywho, Game 2 is a draw, Game 3 rolls around and we're facing a Nid 2-0-0 team. Me and friend are 1-1-0 so if we win this, we win tournament (and get a free box of models ). Standard Nid tactics with the players rushing towards us. Anyway, we decide to knock out the ONE unit of Warriors they brought, the crux of their Synapse bubble (their only bubble)

Two Basilisks and one Russ later, all 3 Warriors (can't remember, may have been more) lie dead, me and friend grinning at prospect of facing an army without Synapse, except for the Carnifex on the flank who blah blah blah

Their turn starts, they move their models really quickly. Following conversation:

Friend-"What about the Ld tests?"
Opponent-"What tests?"
F-"Y'know, Synapse tests?"
Almost comedically they look at each other then back to us
O-"We thought that was optional"

For the next ten minutes we explained how the Synapse rules work, how, where, even why. They refuse to listen to us after we finish and say we should keep playing. Friend asks to see codex, they refuse, so we get one from a shelf, and show them. They get angry, involve the manager and an argument ensues (Me and Friend were being yelled at a bit, but could have been worse). The manager raises his voice and they both shut up and pack up their models before leaving the store. Nice waste of my time. Game counted as invalid or something so we came 2nd

pretre wrote:

LegendJRG wrote:

ChrisWWII wrote:In a purely academic sense then yes, you are correct. It is impossible for a charge to occur with in the open infiltration on turn 1. However, on the table top, I still hold that I fulfillthe more than 18" away requirement by standing right behind the line, and if I measure out a 6" move, with a 6" fleet, followed by a 6" charge, I can get into b2b contact, given that the .01 inches will almost certainly be lost, or be tossed aside as insignifcant as far as the game goes.

Ehhh I have used it in 1000 point games with cc scouts, infiltrate 18 away followed by a scout move than, all dependent on going first of course, move fleet assault. I do run Shrike though this is still technically impossible with non-fleeting scouts as you should be 18.01 inches away at least thats how I interpret it.

Infiltrate, scout (no closer than 12.01), move, fleet, assault is legal. You're right that Infiltrate (18.01 or 12.01), move, assault is illegal and not even likely for scouts.

I run shrike with Korvydae and vanguard veterans. Infiltrate to 18", jump to 6", fleet to 5" (min.), assault to the rest. That's 5 hit & running, furious charging, jump-pack-armed, multiple-attacking, thunder-hammer-wielding marines, backed up by a hit & running, furious charging, jump-pack-armed, multiple-attacking, thunder-hammer-wielding special character, and a hit & running, furious charging, jump-pack-armed, multiple-attacking, re-roll hitting & wounding, rending, lightning-claw-wielding captain. Overkill.
I've never been in a tourney, but at GD '09 I had a kid his shadowsword could transport 40 men...a little confusion there...and relentlessly insist that it could, even when multiple staff, gamers and rulebooks told him otherwise. He went off in a huff to play another game.

WhiteBishop wrote:Game counted as invalid or something so we come 2nd.

OMG, this would've pissed me off so much....

Death Walker 2015 wrote:He was playing a game while a magic thing was going on at the same time, and one of the magic players broke his fantasy dragon that he did beautifully...

Later on that day the magic player was bragging about this extremely rare powerful card he got and my friend asked to see it and shredded it...

Dude, it was an accident...

InventionThirteen wrote:I find some gamers to be really arrogant, maybe that's just me.

The worst thing that happened to me (though not strictly at a tournament, but rather a day of gaming) was having the whole shop laugh in my face for playing dark eldar with the old codex. I felt humiliated and like my intelligence was insulted. I reaped my vengeance when I tabled three of the five armies before the 5th turns. Drew with one and lost only one game.

never under estimate the guy with the Deldar. You can win with anything... If you know how.

was it like "HAH let's all laugh at that dumb little idiot!", or like "HAH he's using the old codex...you know the new one came out a couple days ago, right? *chuckle*, continue.

Adam LongWalker wrote:This one I think everyone has had issues with this in one time or another.

The Non Bather. One -who- has never placed a tooth brush in his mouth. One -who- delves in the game to the point of a being an over bearing rules freak. His whole life revolves around 40K and Cheetoes (as well as other assorted types of junk food). Aerobic bacteria thrives around him. The type of guy that can make Nurgle proud.

^ there's a TFG at my store like that. He is immune to the prospect of personal hygiene, cheesy armies, and the fact that most of us just nod at his constant babble about how unit X is better than unit Y.

First game of my first tourny after learning how to play 40k back in '06. I was cheated by TFG.

Only consolation was that nearly everyone in the store knew him as a cheat, and although his Nids got through to the final, he was tabled by a pure GK list.

Avatar 720 wrote:First game of my first tourny after learning how to play 40k back in '06. I was cheated by TFG.

Only consolation was that nearly everyone in the store knew him as a cheat, and although his Nids got through to the final, he was tabled by a pure GK list.

how did he cheat you?

Aduro wrote:

Taoofss wrote:Quitting on turn 2.

This being like round 3, both of us where not in contention of winning the tournament. He said he wanted to play it out just for fun. He quit on turn two not because it was one sided but because "he changed his mind and the game didn't really matter."

Great, thank you for wasting an hour of my life.

Had a guy quit top of turn 1 on the first round of a tournament against me once. Back in maybe 4th ed, he deployed a Tau gunline all the way forward on his 12" deployment zone line, directly opposite my Hormagaunts who were deployed the full 12" up on their line. Rolled a 6 for Fleet and got a first turn charge on his Fire Warriors. He promptly forfeit. Didn't roll out the combat or anything.

It was Tau. Sounds like a valid time to throw in the towell. However, his bad for EVER deploying forward with Tau.

Unfortunately, I can very often be TFG. I get huffy when my plans fail (through dice rolling, not because i'm an idiot. When i'm the idiot, I usually just roll with it. though, I have been known to get frustrated with my opponant fails to see the gaping holes that i've left that would win them the game) and rant about the short comings of my strategy or dice rolling. I don't throw my figs, but i do heap them. I don't throw my dice (inside the store) but after one spectacularly bad run of luck (Rapid Firing plasma, I hit on twos. Snake eyes. Twin linked? Snake eyes. Next model: snake eyes. Twin linked? Snake eyes. Third model...) I looked my opponant in the eyes, forced a smile, and said "Excuse me." I walked out of the store, threw those dice across the parkinglot, then returned. "So," I began with a grin. "Would you like to continue raping me with the help of my dice?"

When i catch myself I TRY to make it funny. At one point watching my whole army rout I got really frustrated, then looked at my opponant and used my best Skeletor voice, "I'll get you next time, He-Man!"

On the other side of things, I enjoy having debriefings after games. I usually point out where my plans worked and what was just plain luck. It changes my attitude alot I've noticed in recent games to simply imagine warriors slipping on bloodsplattered ground or getting a bug in their mouth to explain away a series of botches. Describing such things helps the narrative of the game, as well.

So in summation, to the opponants to whom I've been overly coarse or brash: Sorry. I'm loud.