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Most annoying thing that's ever happened to me was in an FLGS tournament. I'm playing 2000pts Necrons against what is supposed to be 2000pts SM. I had never read the SM codex, so I said it was ok.
I hit phase out on turn four. So I ask to look at his list. He tells me "I forgot it." I'm immediately suspicious, so I call over a friend of mine who plays SM and knows the codex very well. He takes one look at the table and says "no way in hell that's 2000pts." So the TO and my friend tally up what this guy has out there. They ask him "what's this equipped with?" and he will lie, telling them it doesn't have things that he had used on me, etc. His total is almost 3200pts.

Another time was this kid. Nobody knew this kid, but one day he comes into the store and starts picking things up, asking about them. I'm ok if people touch my models, as long as they ask me first. He grabs one of my monoliths, and is looking at it. I see this from the other side of the store, and begin to walk over to tell him to put it down, and when he sees me, he gets this deer in the headlights look, drops the monolith, and runs screaming from the store. I never found all the pieces. The store owner was cool and gave me a free one though.

I was at a tournament once, and it was going pretty well. I wasn't losing too horribly, which was odd. At one point though, the room quiets down for some reason, (you know, when everybody's conversations lull at the same time?) and then we hear the distinct sound of liquid under pressure hitting plastic. And the smell!! It was awful. Some guy at a painting table pulls a 2 liter bottle from under the table and sets it down. You can guess what was in that bottle...

There was a guy who used to come to the gaming club, nobody really liked him. One day I'm playing my CSM against him, and he loses his command squad to a round of shooting. He swears, but nothing bad. It isn't until I knock out his 10 man terminator squad with my Thousand Sons (an awesome round of shooting for me...) that he stands up, screams "YOU CALL YOURSELF SPESS MEHREENZ!?!?!?" hurls a land raider at a wall, and storms out of the store. We never saw him again, and to this day there is a beautifully painted Ultramarines army sitting in the display case.

There was one time a hobo came into the store, grabbed someone's case, and tried to sell them to somebody in the store. Just a hint, if your trying to sell stolen models, don't sell them to the owner. To this day I have never seen someone get punched that hard.

I was playing a 16,000 pts per side apoc game one time, it was late, about 3am, and these guys came into the store, they were fairly stupid, and obviously drunk wanna be gangster types. "Yo man, wtf is this?" "Ohh, dice? You wanna bet?" "This sh** is tight yo." The other person on my team and I could not stop laughing. They looked at us funny, and walked out of the store.

A guy took a piss In a bottle right there in the store???

He did. IN FRONT OF EVERYONE. And everybody knew what he had tone too. He tries to play it off like he didn't do anything, like it's apple juice or something. Someone call him on it, and he just left.

Damn. You have some pretty bad ones

Vladsimpaler wrote:

Grimtuff wrote:
Or it could be of that legendary child called Jordan, drinker of Enchanted Blue paint...

Ok, now this one I haven't heard. Do tell.

Found the original.

Miraclefish wrote:There was a lad called Jordan who played when I first got into GW about 12 years ago. He was the archetypal Annoying Game Store Child.

He ran around, barely painted his models, picked up and broke other peoples' and kicked off when his Space Wolves didn't win everything.

After a while, when he broke a nice, kind customer's Leman Russ tank by dropping it, the staff told him he was banned from the store for a month and should take the time to think about his behaviour.

Well, Jordan wasn't having this. He ran to the modeling table to enact some sort of bitter revenge. Sadly there was naught to destroy.

But look! Paints! So Jordan reaches for a pot of Ultramarines Blue and flips the cap. Everyone steps back, fearing the pigment will fly. And then...

...he drinks it.

No, I don't know why, either. But he laughs, and runs for the door, through a sea of people frozen into inaction through confusion.

He get to the door and falters, stumbles. "I..... I don't feel well...."

We watch in silence as he staggers a few steps and clutches his stomach. He looks for a bin to throw up in. He finds none. Which leads to one of the most surreal moments of my life.

I watch a young lad sobbing quietly as he throws up blue-tainted vomit and bitter bile time and time again into the slot of an unfortunate Royal Mail postbox.

Then his mum came to collect him.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

Jesus, man. My heart goes out to you and your FLGS.

0_0 thats pretty pathetic

Anyway here are some of mine I can't remember them all as I've had lots of problems with depression, anxiety and memory loss but anyway here are ones i do remember

A few years ago I had an Iron Warriors army under the 3rd edition rules (the nice ones lol) and some really lovely models in the box. I took them to my local store at the time and had a few battles. during my 3rd battle of the day a couple of kids had come up and started looking at my models in the box which i wasn't using or which had died. Next thing I know the box was knocked on the floor so i had to pick the models back up and put thme back in the box. Now first off the kid i was playing took the opportunity to move his predator away from my meltagun when it was MY turn (he got kicked out for that the staff saw him) then when i got back home i realised some of my best models were gone. Thats when i realised what happened those kids were nicking my models and one of them knocked the box. I didn't go back into the shop for 3 years after that.

Another case at my club my opponent was using brettonians against my WoC army. I had forgotton my dice so i was borrowing someone elses dice. I couldn't roll more then a 2 for the whole battle literally :-( i looked closer at the dice then apologised to my opponent for quitting the battle, the dice i took were LOADED dice. I quickly pointed it out to the other players and the person i borrowed the dice wasn't seen at the club again. It's not nice to find out someone is cheating badly and that you find out the way i did :-(

There was a case where I had a lost and damned army (best army i had so much fun :-) ) and I played a game against my friends blood angels. I didn't have many anti tank weaponry and he saw that and decided to take a load of rhinos and hide in them, even his Death Company didn't leave thier rhino and my guys were just getting killed with no kills of their own. sadly the game ended turn 3 :-(

My friend (who has suffered a few cases of bad games) was facing a kid we all called CPK. My friend had his Necrons and CPK had SM army using the doctrines in the old codex (so this was a forth edition game). Half way through the battle My friend was being beaten badly by CPK and i noticed something wierd. He had picked Flesh over steel which meant he could only have 0-1 of each heavy support choice and any squad with transports were fast attack. I looked at his army list and realised he had 2 troop choices and 5 fast attack choices. He kicked off a fuss and accused me of lying!! my friend asked to see his army list so i passed it to him and the staff member who came over when he shouted i was lying and they saw what i saw. CPK then said "its ok i'll change it right away to eye to eye" but the staff member said no you lose for cheating.

Another case of CPK was if he lost he became determined to keep facing you until he won a battle. GOD that kind of person annoys me. He cheats, uses beardy army lists and if he loses (all the time near enough) he goes mardy and wants to face you again the next week preventing other people from playing you :-( in a campaign we had he kept trying to beat my Khorne army at the time but kept losing. I got fed up and took his base out knocking him out the contest but he went mardy that the campaign organiser said he could set up on the other side of the map away from me. He then made a bee line to my areas good ****ing christ >:-( after the campaign he played me, cheated, was beaten then he left. I felt so much happier then.

I particulary hate people looking over my shoulder or who crowd while i'm playing. I had massive panic attacks because of people behind me or crowding. I don't do it i always stand at the side of the table so i don't get in the way and can watch whats happening. I've had numerous games where I turn to do something only to bump into someone watching over my shoulder >:-( i would shout at them if it weren't for the fact i don't shout or get angry in public so I have to ask them politely to move. If you see me playing a game and wanna watch please stand to the side not near or behind me thank you

Just remembered another case. I think 2 years ago me and my friend entered the warhammer doubles tournament. We didn't do to well with the first couple of games and, while i didn't care about it since i normally play for fun, my friend became miserable and didn't seem to care what happened. The third game he sort of given up, telling his opponent to kill his stuff sor he can go and then half way through the game he just upped and left to the shop O_0 i was left with his stuff and two opponents who didn't realise what just happened. I apologised to them making up an excuse why he was like this and carried on with the battle. I still don't know why he did that but he did it the following tournament with another friend (i didn't join this time as i couldn't be bothered but i still tagged along for a weekend away lol)

Have had a couple of these.

Was playing an apocalypse game at GW. Nice big one. Using rex before the GK changeup (nice stats for him). The table had castors on it and the kids tend to lean. I told one kid to stop leaning on the table after the table drifted about 4 inches towards me. Next thing I know is a HUGE smash, rex drops to the floor and smashes. 29 bucks down the drain. The GW employees didn't even care.

Second
first game of 5th edition W40K. Had a guy with a cocklear impant try and change his heavy's weapons in the middle of his turn. I asked for his list, and he refused, saying it wasn't needed. Hmm, turned to the GW employees, who counted up our points for the 1000 point game. He had 1500 points of units on the board. I accused him of cheating and he hasn't gone to the GW since.

Lastly.
We had our 40 000 point apocalypse game, something like 10 super heavies, and a ****load of characters. Someone bought a battle company, to a TIMED game, and couldn't finish all the combats in the formation. My Eversor and Callidus assassins wiped out his assault squad with the Dark Templar Chaplain in a single round. He was LIVID, turns round and stops all my combats with my deathwing. Doesn't even do squat with my missus' space wolves as well. I asked him to come outside to explain why he won't resolve the combats. He refuses and spits in my face. I then call him an i***t, walk out of the store before I hit him, and mop the spittle off my face. The GW staffer walks outside and tells me off for calling him names. I tell him what happened, and guess what. The GW staffer does GAK all, The other player went for a break, and I resolved the combats with another player on his team, removing casualties and carefully putting them in his case with the GW staff's permission. He comes back, gets even more irate and then calls me a cheater. I then tell him to stop being a child, and actually resolve my combats, and my missus's combats or else we'll continue using the other players to resolve it. He turns to the staff, No support there. Turns to his team, none there. Finally he agrees.

The joke ended up on him. Our team won 4 nil. despite being outnumbered, outgunned and with one less asset. Oh, plus our guys never used Rok 'em boys.

A kid spit in your face because he was a ***ing arsehead O_O thats really pathetic, you have a lot more control then me I would have lost it cause thats disgusting >:O at least you got your revenge on that ****head

GentlemanGuy wrote:A kid spit in your face because he was a ***ing arsehead O_O thats really pathetic, you have a lot more control then me I would have lost it cause thats disgusting >:O at least you got your revenge on that ****head

Not just a kid, he was over 18. This guy twists the rules or even takes *fun* events seriously (like bringing a flying mount to a WFB lords clash).

some one over 18!!!! WTF

liars who say that a hive tyrant is strength and toughness 10, and that it gets a 3+ cover save if its foot is behind a rock, and I cant see it with a monolith at the left flank of it because the crystal isnt facing towards it, also how he can fit a hive tyrant, 2 tervigons, 6 warriors a mawloc and roughly 70 gaunts... in 750points... pain in the ass really, specially in a friendly game were its just for fun and suddenly he goes gloating about how his suddenly strength 10 tyrant destroyed the monolith in turn 3.

I just remembered another case at a doubles tournament. Me and my friend were facing 2 little kids and they were annoying the hell out of us, they were cheating left right and center but the TO's never caught on and it's only thanks to the fact me and my friend were so annoyed with them that we forgot about our last turn and the game ended in us winng wierd and frustrating

Oh I have a friend who play's nids and even when playing friendly games he uses WAAC lists and thinks that playing is importent BUT winning is more.

I tell him to bring his salamanders SM to our LGS but he say that he will lose, some time I will say that playing is more importent than winng...some day.

When a guy scouts his Valkkyrie, then in his turn 1, lets out a special weapons team, drops 3 Democharges on my lines, and kills Njal, 10 blood Claws, 5 grey hunters, a razorback and apredator, then says it was just ... lucky .... yes 3 S10 Large Blasts were ..... lucky ....

Doctadeth wrote:

GentlemanGuy wrote:A kid spit in your face because he was a ***ing arsehead O_O thats really pathetic, you have a lot more control then me I would have lost it cause thats disgusting >:O at least you got your revenge on that ****head

Not just a kid, he was over 18. This guy twists the rules or even takes *fun* events seriously (like bringing a flying mount to a WFB lords clash).

You sir must have more self control than Gandhi. I don't think I would have exhibited that level of self control.

[quote=Flaming_SpiderI was at a tournament once, and it was going pretty well. I wasn't losing too horribly, which was odd. At one point though, the room quiets down for some reason, (you know, when everybody's conversations lull at the same time?) and then we hear the distinct sound of liquid under pressure hitting plastic. And the smell!! It was awful. Some guy at a painting table pulls a 2 liter bottle from under the table and sets it down. You can guess what was in that bottle...

I cannot believe an 18 year old spit in your face, Doctadeth.

my most annoyed is when my opponent opens up on turn one after stealing the initiative, on a table with 3 whole terrain pieces on it, shoots 3 missle launchers, 4 plasma cannons, and destroys 3 rhinos, 2 razorbacks, and one dakka predator. all of which are wrecks.

i then go on to play the rest of the game and loose. (not a big deal, he got 6 kill points off of me in turn 1 and it ended up ending the game at 8-6 his favor. not bad if i do say so myself!) my opponent then states that "i made some serious tactical errors in the game and he clearly out played me." i dont have a problem loosing, i do have a proglem loosing to someone that cant recognize the difference between luck and skill.

i am also severly annoyed by other games that say things like "WH40K IS THE MOAST STRATEGICLLY GME SRLSE EVAR" and then proceede to tell me why i could have won or lost with but a single die roll, and i was just lucky and they weren't.

those same people also see me playing a game of war in the east or of Russian campaign, and tell me that WH40K requires more intelligence to play it since it has a bigger rule book.....

nothing to you 40k players out there, i am one of them, but if any one thinks that 40k is the end all be all strategy game out there, well, we all have another thing coming.

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Wow, these are some doozies. I gotta say the cheating stories always surprise me. I have been lucky enough to have almost never had anyone cheat (or at least I didn’t realize it) in about 18 years of gaming.

A few stories I can think of.
A couple years ago I was running a game at a historical convention. The ruleset I had written was intended to be easy to learn and fast paced since most games at the conventions I go to have to be taught (just about every game uses a different rule set). I made the point that in this game a tank was a tank. I know one side had models that looked like t-34s and the other side pz IV Fs, but for this game they were just tanks. After a player received a result he was unhappy with he griped for the remainder of the game about how what had happened was so unrealistic and that a t34 could never have done that against an experienced panzer crew blah blah blah and so on. Exactly the type of thing I had hoped to avoid with my lengthy pre game explanation of games vs simulations and how this was a game.

A similar event, though this one was a bit funnier, was when I was 14. By then I had 5 years of gaming under my belt and actually knew what I was doing, but most of the 40 years olds a played expected a dumb kid. I was playing a civil war game (actually another young gamer on my side, we both wanted rebs) against two older gentleman playing a game of Fire and Fury which I was pretty familiar with back then. We were handling them rather tidily and one of them began to nitpick every little thing. Every good roll we made was somehow cocked, we didn’t have line of sight because a piece of gravel was in the way and so on. He argued rather voluminously that the rules were unrealistic until the GM called it a draw. He told is after the guy left that we had actually won. More funny than annoying when I look back on that one.

Last one makes me seem like a d-bag but I am admittedly quite arrogant. My painting is not golden daemon worthy but there are a lot of painter worse than me. I had brought an army to a new game store and was proudly showing them off, my head swelling to epic proportions. One guy made it clear he was un-impressed, stating “yeah, that’s almost as good as some of mine.” My delicate ego shattered, I went look at this guys stuff. His paint jobs were fair, but (and here is where I sound most like an arrogant d-bag) they were clearly inferior to my figures. Luckily for him a weathered this slight of my honor stoically. Had I been a Space Marine I most likely would have removed his head and placed in on a stake outside the shop with a sign that read “This be the fate of all heretics who mock my Glorious Paintjobs, beloved by all.”

Setting up my Savage Orcs for a game against High Elves (7th Edition)

Warboss on Wyvern is deployed behind a wood, ready for a potential first turn strike against the enemy Level 4, hiding in a tiddly unit of Phoenix Guard. Rest of the army goes on the same flank, ready to smash up the enemy.

So far so good. Even better, I win the first turn. I call the Waaagh! Wyvern goes 6" forwards, right up to the near edge of the wood. Rest of the army pelts it forward. Then it's time to declare charges. 'Wyvern is going to charge the Phoenix Guard' I say 'but you don't have LoS' says my opponent. 'Large Targets can see and be seen over intervening terrain, and as a flier, can also charge over, it's in the book' says I, knowing that this is a sneaky tactic, and many gamers weren't aware it was possible. 'Yes, I know' continues my opponent. 'But we play by tournament rules here, and all terrain is infinitely high' So I reply 'well, you know, it would have been nice to explain the house rules to me before we set up, seeing as it would have changed my tactics and setup quite a lot'. Opponent? 'Well, you don't have to game here you know'.

Suffice to say, this pretty much cost me the game, as the Wyvern had to wait a turn to do anything, and in the intervening time got shot to bits by Bolt Throwers. Rest of the army did alright, but couldn't get to the Lvl 4, who magiced my arse into the ground. And all because a house rule was kept schtum....

Prick.

Wow. Some of these stories sound pretty damn bad (likely an understatement), particularly the one about a fellow peeing in a bottle or Doctadeth being spat on by an adult.

My first one is, admittedly, my own fault. I was playing with my Guard against a pretty good CSM player. He didn't know very much about IG rules, so I
went over most of the rules. Unfortunately, I accidentally misrepresented my Lord Commissar's leadership radius, which led to most of my units not fleeing when they should have, which
allowed me to hold onto all the objectives and win the game. Didn't notice until it was too late to apologize, felt crummy and annoyed with myself for a while afterward.

Worst one that I wasn't responsible for was playing SM against CSM and using a dreadnaught with multi-melta when, suddenly, someone from the bathroom yells "MULTI-MELTAS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY", so we both look at the door as a guy leaves, still smelling of "business" , and approaches us and begins to (quite angrily) explain how multi-meltas work, moving our models and generally being a nuisance while getting spittle all over us and our models. We just sort of move on with how we were doing it after he left and found out later, after checking, that we were doing it the right way all along.

Okay, I can't top having people pee in bottles at the tables or spitting, but my FLGS has had a couple of "those guys" before. Plenty of stories on them, but for a personal story...

It was my second game of 40k. I had the Assault on Black Reach marines and another 5-man squad and I was going to play against someone who was equally new and had a squad of scouts. I figure we're both still fresh to the game and we have just a tad over 500 points, so it'd be a good learning experience for both of us.
Before anyone gets any ideas, this guy turns out to be one of the nicest guys at the shop and while I rarely get to play with him any more, it's always a pleasure when I do.

One of the store regulars comes up to us and asks if we want to pool together and play with him. Since we each have about 500 points, he'd make a 1000 point list for his Eldar and we'd be good to go. Sounds good, right? His list involves a lot of jetbikes and a grav tank and all our units are on foot. Already, this is looking bad for us. The actual events of the battle are a bit fuzzy to me now, but he started throwing out arbitrary rules like we couldn't take armor saves (or even invul saves) because the strength of the weapon was too high, or he automatically wounded our units when he hit for similar reasons. He pre-measured, and he picked which models froum our groups he wounded. Talking to people later, it sounds like he was using some combination of 4th edition and whatever benefitted him at the moment. He tried some of those rules on people in other games, and they called him on them. He made them point it out in the rule book where it said what he could and couldn't do.
Turns out he was even LESS familiar with the rules than the two guys that just started... and because he spoke as if he knew the rules, we just took it.

Now, to add insult to injury (almost literally), he taunted us. The entire blipping game. As he was systematically picking off our heavy weapons (remember, he got to decide that the heavy weapons died first), he kept making comments that we'd never catch him because he was so fast. Every move, every turn. It was the worst game I played and it made me almost quit then and there.

I did end up watching him play in games months later and I got to observe all the things that mark a bad player. Loud, obnoxious, always questioning when someone goes for an unconventional (but legal) rule, trying to cheat and getting offended when people call him when he tries to cheat. He takes half-hour smoke breaks during his turn and is known for stopping in the middle of his turn to talk about paint schemes with people that not only weren't playing with him, weren't even talking to him.

Some day, I want to go against him again and grind him into the dust. Or have fun with the game and taunt the smelly hippy right back. One of those two.

The only reason I haven't played 40k in a while is because most everyone at my FLGS plays WAAC, and I'd much rather have an army that fits a fun theme.


We also have a guy at the shop who we joke about eating his Eldar, but I've never heard of anyone actually eating a model before. o_O;

I guess I have two
1. I'm playing in the school leuge, my 26 peasant bowmen cause 7 wounds, (lucky rolls), the opponent (WoC guy) claims his sorcerer has no armor, I won due to that (only unit I killed), made me fell gakky when I found out. The thing is I questioned him on it and he was certain it had no armor.

2. I'm playing a 1000 point WHFB game (8th), I bring 250 points of lord made to own in challenges, I charge a lord of chaos, lose epically, and lose the game, find out after he used about 400 points on that model. and since the limit is 25% (250 points for our game), that is very illegal

I once saw a 35ish year old guy air hump a table and yell "OH YEAH CAN YOU FEEL IT?! CAN YOU FEEL IT?!" over and over after he killed a young kids decked out Ork Warboss in hth with a small squad of Marines. He kept going even when the kid started crying.

Another guy forced his 9 year old daughter into a tournament and after she lost, berated her for 45 minutes.

resipsa wrote:Ladies and Gents,

Despite my annoyance at having to reglue stuff, I did help get him up and into EMT hands, I'm not that evil, what do you people take me for, a health insurance worker at the hospital in NY? SHEESH!

I suppose my second most annoying experience was funnier: , the Kid I'm playing has his army with him, pulled the whole thing out of ziplocks and lunch tupperware, once he gets his two green tides down and ready to play (I was going first in the apoc game because I was trying a logan wing terminator heavy SW list, with a lot of vehicles) his mom runs into the store screaming like a banshee and proceeds to beat/swat him out of the store, into her car, and away... leaving the orks right there.

(He had somewhere in the vicinity of 150 ork boys)

The store manager was cool enough to play his side for the game, then we packed his crap and left it in the back room, which he apparently NEVER came back for.

Wow didn't anyone tell her she can't assault after she deepstrikes in?
Just as well I guess you probably would have had to death or glory to stop her

Horribly, I think the most annoying thing that has happened very recently in my wargaming career was done by myself.
I have only started playing in tournaments over the last year, despite collecting, and playing W40k for upwards of 13 years, and after some very hard results I had decided to take increasingly harder lists to my games. I try to make them as themed as possible and not go ridiculously cheesy as I know that they are just no fun to play against.

My latest list that I was trying out at our local gaming club, to which I am a committee member of, is a deathwing list that consists of 3 units of deathwing terminators, all travelling around in land raiders with a chaplain and belial. It is harsh in some ways but can be taken out fairly easily as there are only 17 infantry and 3 tanks in my army. My friend was playing a guard army. Being a soldier himself he tries to replicate his training with a very balanced list that can take on almost anything but in doing so he lacks the punch that most players have in that they are built to do something very well but struggle in other areas.

Our game was a kill points mission using pitched battle. He deployed first, and so I positioned myself in such a way as to avoid his heavy weapons that could destroy my tanks. In a 7 turn game, his lascannon team, demolisher, master of ordnance could do nothing. He only got one kill point by deepstriking stormtroopers with 2 melta guns right next to one landraider, as I systematically destroyed his other anti tank weapons.

He finished the game admirably and despite saying how bad the game was he did not complain to me about it. I felt like such an a**hole playing against him like that though. I knew my list was very strong and had few things to worry about in his army and yet i felt so bad about it during and afterwards that I bought him a few drinks the next time we went out.

Well, this has just really p***ed me off, school club today, training for the school league, all goes well with the orks I used, alot of rules were learned, when a bunch of "Chavs" (if your british XD) come into the club, they ask what were doing and start to secretly taunt and mock us, which I can get over, when suddenly one of them picks up the monolith i was painting and "accidentally" lobs it at the wall, couldn't find even half the pieces, and now I wasted £41, so yeah, my day absolutely f***ing ruined.

Im british, i know what a chav is, and if given the choice, i'd run a Crusade, and cleanse all the scum off the planet, my heart goes out to your Monolith :(