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Trying to schedule a game when everyone can play,
Or being the one who's schedule changes, causing me to have to cancel.

Assembly.

I hate glue, and knives, and the combination of the two with my fingers.

 Skriker wrote:
There is another side to that concept as well. I have a good friend who will ONLY paint to that higher level standard, but his life these days affords him few opportunities to paint to that level anymore, so he hasn't painted anything in about 8 years. It is sad really, but his army hasn't changed in all that time just because he demands that level of excellence of his painting, but can't fulfill it. So his crazy expectation has pretty muched stopped his hobby dead in its tracks.
Skriker

Bam. That right there is my biggest problem.

I just can't bear to put down a tidy basecoat, a wash, and some highlights and leave it at that.... I browse galleries and see awesome exaples of zenthial highlighting, source lighting, non-metal metallics, etc and think 'wow! I've got a steady hand and the ability to learn, i'm sure with a little dedication I can do stuff like that'. The result is I have a ton of models that are either unfinished - because I want to make sure that I can paint the 'perfect' skull before I start painting all seven million of them - or just sat basecoated in a drawer because I have convinced myself that painting an entire army to showcase standard is what I will do even if it kills me and I just don't have the time to do it

And mould lines. Natch.

 Formosa wrote:
The people, my god it's the people, over the years it's started to grind me down so now I can't even pretend to listen to why some 40 year old neckbeard thinks that blood angels are the best and ultramarines are crap.. Just walk away now, sad thing is I feel rude doing it but just cannot be bothered with the great unwashed breathing all over me anymore..

This is like the attitude of Faulty Towers: I could play 40k properly if it were not for all the players...

It takes all kinds to make the planet go round.
The really insane people can be fun to play (only once mind you!).
Approach it as good material for comedy and you are part way there.
I know a guy that cringes when I say "I paint my space marines while the bolter is attached"... I say it often.
I played a guy that ONLY fields Forge World stuff, yes, he has a Titan...
I played a guy with partially assembled Orks with splashes of green here and there but he literally has hundreds of them and plays them like a green tide. To this day I still have no idea what those blob squads had for load-out. He carries them in a box.
I have played against hardboard cut-outs with printed pictures of models pasted to them and they were spammed within an inch of their lives, I said I would be back with my cardboard Titan and Baneblade.

There are so many people in these forums I would love to play from the worst of fluff bunny furries to the hard core WAAC monsters out there: you all have passion for the hobby so I can respect that.

Annoying is GW changing things so fundamentally that I feel a need to rage at them even though "it is only a game".

 Osbad wrote:
I would rank number one as "fat blokes who insist on wearing backpacks when wandering around crowded conventions". The next time I get whacked in the face by some ignorant neck-bearded loon's flask-and-sandwich-box-containing-backpack because he is too stupid to realize, or even care, that he can't comfortably squeeze his sweaty, lard-encrusted frame through the narrow space between me and my neighbour, I swear I am going to ram it down his cheeto-stained gullet!

.... and breathe.

I actually laughed out loud reading this, hahaha.

 Osbad wrote:

However, of all the irritating, self-absorbed personality types that have caused irritation however, I would rank number one as "fat blokes who insist on wearing backpacks when wandering around crowded conventions". The next time I get whacked in the face by some ignorant neck-bearded loon's flask-and-sandwich-box-containing-backpack because he is too stupid to realize, or even care, that he can't comfortably squeeze his sweaty, lard-encrusted frame through the narrow space between me and my neighbour, I swear I am going to ram it down his cheeto-stained gullet!

.... and breathe.

It sounds like you've been to GenCon! In addition to the over-sized backpack, they also have a giant cart they're dragging behind them, banging into people's shins, knees, display cases, children, baby strollers...

1) The fact that at night when I'm trying to sleep I can come up with great ideas for characters and fluff but in the morning I can't really remember the good points.

2)The fact there's no FLGS near me, there's something about going into a shop and being able to browse the shelves to find something and I hate waiting for stuff top arrive.

3)How much I love modelling, which means that I make models at a rate my painting just can't keep up to.

My massive backlog of partially painted models hat i was going to finish until i saw the next shiny thing

The odd game when Murphys law kicks in and every roll goes the wrong way.

 master of ordinance wrote:
My massive backlog of partially painted models hat i was going to finish until i saw the next shiny thing

I think there are a lot of people in this same position.

Skriker

 master of ordinance wrote:
My massive backlog of partially painted models hat i was going to finish until i saw the next shiny thing

Backlog? Try being a Tyranid player

Tyranids have it easy. Try being an ORK player

High cost just to get fantasy bitz for my ig. Don't worry 'Steel Bone' Sven, you'll get your great sword and orc helmet soon, just, standard guardsmen come first since I use them more.

 Ascalam wrote:
Tyranids have it easy. Try being an ORK player

Think that's bad? Try Skaven.

 malfred wrote:
Assembly.

I hate glue, and knives, and the combination of the two with my fingers.

On the plus side when the knives combine with your fingers, the glue will help solve the problem. I put a new blade on and forgot that when the blade is new, cleaning A. requires less force, and B. Hand placement needs to be different for your fingers sake.

Was bleeding all over, literally made a solid chunk of bandages and super glue on my finger. Two days later took it off, was good to go..

Mold lines and most of my WM army being direct order metal.

EDIT: superglue fingers.

 master of ordinance wrote:

 Ascalam wrote:
Tyranids have it easy. Try being an ORK player

Think that's bad? Try Skaven.

I have. I found them far easier to paint, even en-masse, than orks.

Far less buckles, straps, and gubbins

I lurked on this thread for awhile, but I just moved to a new area, so instead of inviting friends over for a game, I went to the FLGS this week to try and meet some new people and get a game. I have to sound off here. It's the smell.

I went on Tuesday night. The layout of the store is such that there's a fairly large gaming room (I'd say about 40'x80') at the back; the actual sales part of the store is about the same size, and you have to walk through there to get to the gaming room.

I could smell the BO from about ten feet into the store.

Granted, I have a somewhat sensitive nose, and it turned out to be one particular culprit, and eventually he left. But please:

If you are going to a gaming store anywhere to interact with strangers, and you haven't taken a shower in 24 hours, do so first. It's the goddamned civil thing to do.

Cleaning and getting mold lines off of Forge World. I'm so nervous about the dust that I wear a makeshift Hazmat suit every time I clean/drill/scream at/etc. a FW model

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
The Power Creep trends.

We had the flyer craze (Stormtalons, Storm Ravens, etc)
We had the Big Walker craze (Riptide, Wraithknight, Imperial Knight).
And now we've got the Superheavy, Fortification and D-Weapon craze. (Titans and D-Weapons in small games of 40K? )


Is it even possible to have fun when you take a sensible balanced list including a variety of infantry, jump infantry, flyers and tanks...and your opponent slaps down a massive Superheavy with powerful D-Weapons and void shields that you can barely scratch and the bare minimum of HQ & Troops?

While a ton of stuff on this thread I agree with, I'd say this would have to be #1, especially since my one friend makes up for his bad luck by going overboard on that crap.
I'm not kidding when I say the has almost every flier GWS/Forge World makes (excluding the Necron Croissants and the large superheavy fliers like the Manta), and his tau has 4 "classic" Riptides and a "R'Varna" Riptide (I haven't checked his points, but with he claims he can fit 4 riptides into a 2000 point game). Im dreading the day we start killing his Riptides and he goes all Escalation expansion on us

Along the same vein I'd have to say the "Fluff Power Creep" in 40k and Fantasy as well. I know that 40k is over the top anyway, but its getting crazy... or I guess.... crazier. I'll bet that 7th Ed space marine sergeants can punch a planet in half