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**odinsgrandson**

Worst game ever?

I had spent quite a while not playing in tournaments, and went back to play in a Steamroller (Warmachine) event without reading the updated tournament scenario rules.

Turn 1- I move my force forward cautiously. I put quite a few of my warbeasts halfway into the center circle of the board because it is an auto loss if I don't move forward.

- Then my opponent looks at the board and says that I need the minis to be completely in the zone in order to count (ie- all of my warbeats don't count because they're half way out).

Guy was cool about it- I don't think he realized what was going on until after I ended my turn. He wanted a judge to come over to make sure that what he was saying was accurate, and he was pretty sympathetic (but we both agreed that 'take backs' weren't cool in a tournament).

So- worst game ever was pretty squarely my own fault.

**Talizvar**

odinsgrandson wrote:
So- worst game ever was pretty squarely my own fault.

This scenario I would say is a unanimous "worst game" when you mess up in such a bad way basically ruining it for yourself.
I have done this a few times so this is not making fun of you specifically, the situation makes for the "worst gaming experience" made even worse when your opponent is awesome.
Need to change this to "Recall your worst gaming mess-up" and bonus points if your opponent showed no mercy or if they were a good friend and never let you live it down.

**Dakka Wolf**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
And this is why we wash before Nerd Events (again, only teasing!)

Wash? I'm afraid I don't get the reference.

**JNAProductions**

Like bathe. Shower. Cleanse yourself.

**Dakka Wolf**

JNAProductions wrote:
Like bathe. Shower. Cleanse yourself.

I understand the word, I don't understand what it has to do with bad gaming experiences.

That's why I'm asking for a reference rather than a definition.

**TheIronCrow**

My worst experiences started last year when every single tournament became ITC run and infested with rules manipulating D-bag win bros janking people with soulless easy button armies. 14 years in competitive gaming and 25 years in 40k and it was the first time something actually made me hate the game. Before ITC I could say only about 6 people in 14 years I wouldn't enjoy playing again, after last year that number was 6+ a month.

On the plus side AoS is killing it and has been a ton of fun and far more of a challenging game.

I look forward to 40k getting the same treatment.

**thekingofkings**

Hard to say, but pretty much most games of AoS I have played have been pretty miserable. Keep trying and hoping it gets better but it just doesnt seem to, maybe generals handbook really was the panacea it needed, but the 4 pages and scrolls just make for a lousy 4th rate game.

**gummyofallbears**

EverlastingNewb wrote:
The worst gaming 'experience' wasn't a game related one, it was just the owner of a pretty cheesy Tau-list that made me actually go Berserk in a GW-Store.
Now, i only play for a couple of Years now - maybe 2-3 years. So i consider myself still a noob or at least a pretty unexperienced player. Since the release of traitor legions and the 'finishing' of my World Eaters army, i wanted to take my army on the big stage - i.e. away from my FLGS to a GW-Store in the nearby major City. I called in and asked if they could find a nice, friendly player to play against my lore friendly & thematicly sound World Eaters CSM army. On the weekend the next week i arrived at the GW store to see an army - Tau - with 4 Riptides and a Stormsurge. Everything but a pleasant surprise.

I expected a "hammering" on my end, maybe to survive 2-3 turns before my inevitable end. But my World Eaters got first Turn; a real good chance to get off a couple of turn 1 charges and Threaten his battleplan to "shoot me into oblivion". So, my Chaos warband including 3x3 bikers, Autocannon havocs, a termicide unit & a juggerlord with Claw & Burning Brand of Skalathrax & my Auxiliary of 3 Maulerfiends & 3x3 Spawn and, last but not least, a second juggerlord with the Berserker's Glaive not only had turn 1 but also could move before the game - 2d6 inches can be a lot. And, for some reason this dude didn't knew that. So, he didn't deploy completely on his table edge.

My first turn, all my units had moved up at least 7 inches, my bikes and both of my juggerlords moved up 10 & 11 inches. "Bingo" i thought to myself. He wasn't able to cease so i had a good shot at charging a couple of units - overall, i had 2 units of spawn, all 3 bikes squads & my solo juggerlord with the Glaive in Close combat in this turn - 6 turn 1 charges messed with his plan. And, he showed his emotions quite clearly. He raged & threw dice around. "What a lovely chap" i thought to myself. After having some lucky rolls & and 1 awesome shooting phase with my Burning Brand Juggerlord that killed an entire squad of marker drones, a really angry red Glaive-Lord-dude that chew threw his Stormsurge like a hot, blood-encrusted knife threw warm butter & a couple of Riptides & drones locked with Spawn & bikes in combat i called my turn 1. His turn 1 was basically damage control & the attempt to destroy my Maulerfiends & the troops. Unfortunately he shot the Alpha-Maulerfiend - so 2 Attacks on the charge for the other 2 Maulerfiends who made their saves and now were really, really angry.

In turn 2, i killed his Stormsurge and 2 Riptides and he threw the game - but he also threw a miniture of mine. You were able to see, that he was used to winning & losing against a sub-par army that wasn't about winning tournaments made him really really pissed. No Epic handshake, no eye contact, no banter - he was mad af. And somehow he decied to blame me & insult me, push my miniatures around a pointing out how badly they're painted. Now, i don't say i'm good at painting - but they're good enough to sit on display in my FLGS. And my newly painted & converted burning brand lord is actually my best painted model - so he decided to break the code of honor & conduct and break my model. Now, i'm normally i nice guy - i work in as a psychiatric / mental health nurse. But when you destroy my property i can be everything but nice - but thankfully one employee defused this highly explosive situation by throwing this guy out. It was probably the last time i played in the GW-Store - at least for a while. And definetely against Tau - never ever again.

Your comment about being a decent painter made me want to check your gallery, and I just wanted to say that there are some smashing paintjobs and conversions in there

**General Annoyance**

Dakka Wolf wrote:
I understand the word, I don't understand what it has to do with bad gaming experiences.

That's why I'm asking for a reference rather than a definition.

Let's just say that, sometimes, playing a full game with someone who hasn't cleaned themselves can become a bit unbearable. I've had a couple of these, and I don't even feel like disclosing how much it sucks having to breathe it in and act like nothing's wrong.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Yup. There's nothing worse than a curious pong in an enclosed space you're committed to spending the next couple of hours in.

**Dakka Wolf**

General Annoyance wrote:
Dakka Wolf wrote:
I understand the word, I don't understand what it has to do with bad gaming experiences.

That's why I'm asking for a reference rather than a definition.

Let's just say that, sometimes, playing a full game with someone who hasn't cleaned themselves can become a bit unbearable. I've had a couple of these, and I don't even feel like disclosing how much it sucks having to breathe it in and act like nothing's wrong.

Ahh, Nerdstink.

Forgot about that possibility, thanks.
Still, that's some serious funk if it affects dice-rolls as well.

**mrhappyface**

We had a guy with nerdstink in our group, luckily though we were distracted by the fact he would always eat cheesy wotsits and then use OUR dice with his cheesy fingers. I felt sorry for one of the guys we played with who couldn't say no; he ended up with a cheesy coating on all of his books and models.

**Dakka Wolf**

mrhappyface wrote:
We had a guy with nerdstink in our group, luckily though we were distracted by the fact he would always eat cheesy wotsits and then use OUR dice with his cheesy fingers. I felt sorry for one of the guys we played with who couldn't say no; he ended up with a cheesy coating on all of his books and models.

Considering how often my Wolves and Nids are on loan I wonder how lucky I am they're not orange.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

I've never approved of non-staff eating in-store.

Staff kind of need to - a half hour lunch break is no time, and you never know when you need a snack to perk you up.

But even then, have a care what you're eating. Nothing that'll stink the store out, nothing that leaves under residue on your mitts (sandwiches and regular crisps are dandy. Wotsits...not so much)

**Bookwrack**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Yup. There's nothing worse than a curious pong in an enclosed space you're committed to spending the next couple of hours in.

Or 12 hours on an international flight. That was fething miserable.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Eurgh!

Had to have a word with my flatmate about his socks....at one point they'd stunk out everywhere but my room.

Then he left one in the front room...

**General Annoyance**

Dakka Wolf wrote:
Ahh, Nerdstink.
Forgot about that possibility, thanks.
Still, that's some serious funk if it affects dice-rolls as well.

Believe me, fresh air is a pure luxury after such encounters

Perhaps my nose is just a little too sensitive though. If I care enough about the people I'm around, I'll often apply more deo than usual, and pad my jacket with lavender oil

**Dakka Wolf**

General Annoyance wrote:
Dakka Wolf wrote:
Ahh, Nerdstink.
Forgot about that possibility, thanks.
Still, that's some serious funk if it affects dice-rolls as well.

Believe me, fresh air is a pure luxury after such encounters

Perhaps my nose is just a little too sensitive though. If I care enough about the people I'm around, I'll often apply more deo than usual, and pad my jacket with lavender oil

Or your FLGS doesn't have particularly great ventilation, considering how bad nerds and geeks can smell it's suprising how many gameshops are located in basements and effectively greenhouses. I've got three gameshops within a half hour of my place, my favorite is top floor, has a bigger building on it's Western side, double level opening windows on all four sides and heavy duty extraction fans. The owner has no idea what the building originally was but doubts he could custom build a better gameshop.

Personally, I despise lavender oil, makes me think of hospitals and highschool toilets but I apply deoderant pretty liberally as well.

**Slipspace**

For me it was, unfortunately, my first ever game of AoS. Me and a regular opponent were cautiously optimistic about the new system and put together an army each from our existing collections the week after the rules came out.

What followed was a mismatched game devoid of any feeling of tactical manoeuvre and bogged down by constant references to unit rules. It was so bad we tried one more game before basically giving up on it altogether. I'm told it's a lot better now but it's amazing how one bad experience can turn you away from a game forever.

That's the issue I have with the comments about WM/H being a game were you need to expect to get crushed at first. Why? Annihilating newbies isn't difficult for experienced players in any game so why is WM/H different? All it says to me is that it may not be worth my time trying to learn a game that nobody seems to want to teach me. If your first impression of a game is terrible - for whatever reason - it makes it that much less likely you'll come back to try again.