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MarsNZ wrote:
Back seat gamers, the ones who watch and commentate and yet have nothing to do with the game itself. They'll second guess both players, offer insight into their opinion of everything, get involved in rules queries. I'm sure we've all encountered at least one like this.

Also the scatter dice thing. As close to the point of impact as possible, it's amazing how this doesn't occur to so many people.

Both of these. I dislike the back seat gamers that will ask you questions that they already know the answers to just to see if you know it. These are the people I usually give the wrong answer to like "my Dreadnaught has 14 front armour" just to watch them skip away like the gossip princess they are...

 Rotary wrote:
I have one opponent who always rolls the dice in a dice box at about chest level. He makes noises and faces as he rolls and then tells you how many hits he got. I Know longer tolerate that sort of thing, dice should be rolled in the open, with out any fast hands.

It's funny you should say that, because I insist on the complete opposite -that dice are rolled in a tray or box!!! A big tray or box and In full sight of course. The reason I do this -I spend an age making and painting scenery and don't want paint or adhesive stuff like static grass being knocked off, or my scenery otherwise being degraded. The same goes for metal models and any that are otherwise not 100% durable. Perhaps that's anal of me, but what can I say, I didn't spend 10-15 hours making something only for couple of thousand D6's @ high velicity to batter it. It was either that or use foam dice!

Just kidding about the foam dice.

hmmm. I guess we have people that start rolling away without saying what they are rolling, from which unit, and at whom.

That and no one seems to properly line up their scatter arrows.

pm713 wrote:
People who go on about how they play the best armies that will own you or how they "once killed 7 terminators at once". It's very annoying to me.

People who abuse the beginners system at my store. It just ruins the fun of the game and makes it unpleasant for everyone.

Worst of all is people who don't take part in games and people who complain that nothing happened to them when they were hiding in the corner of the board the entire game.

Back in the day in other mini games i've played, we had issues with cheese blasters(you know guys that just play whats 100% good and meta) grinding green horn players to dust and eventually discouraging them from the game...well we answered and began giving those cheese players the same treatment they gave to the newbs( we were rules whores, played straight tournement level builds and destroyed the cheese)...needless to say one by one those players decided "oh this game isen;t fun anymore so i'm selling"

Well, there are always things that annoy, especially when you're OCD, but that's a topic for another thread. What annoys me on the table? List tailoring, I've always hated that. Seems like something you should really only do for a tourney or the like. Another thing that I hate is cheaters, in all their forms. I hate the dice fudgers, the LOS benders, the terrain nudgers, the rules laywers, the greedy movers, and pretty much any other type of cheater. I mean hell! It's a game played with plastic dollies with names like Severin or Angron.

But there is one thing about playing 40k that annoys me the most, far worse than any of the above and that is... Tau players! No offense guys, I'm sure you're alright people, but damn do I hate playing against your fish faced minis! Every time I see them lining up in a deployment zone I think to myself "Here we go again!" and I get mentally prepared for a bare butt spanking. And not the good kind that you hope your babysitter will give you.

I hate Tow. I like to give any Tau player I face a small tip (A converted Guardian, maybe some Objectives) if he leaves his deployment zone during a game.

To add another; players that don't see 'fluff', only 'crunch' or numbers in their games. You either won or lost, no story, no narrative, just stats and statistics that happen to be shaped like plastic men.

As an example, my FLGS had a zombie event for halloween whereby you had to have a troop and HQ of 250pts in 40k survive as long as you can against endless waves of undead.

I only managed to kill 28 (The winner got over 100 with kroots, nobody knows how), but I managed to last the longest (Seven turns over the five the guy playing as zombies predicted, and a full turn longer than the guy who won) which I was relatively proud of even though I scored the least (28).

I liked to think my Wolf Lord, who was the last model left surrounded by dozens of crowds of undead, wielding the Black Death, Helm of Durast and Rune Armour, had gone down swinging. Taking as many as he could before finally having so many zombies stuck on his axe he got overwhelmed.

I voiced this to some buds there nearby who at least admitted I had lasted a very long time. But one guy commented saying "A shame it's about kill points and not running around".

I hadn't budged once from where I started (You could deploy anywhere, but the zombies would spawn from all four sides, so everyone took the middle). This was over a FB comment though, so it may have been a misunderstanding as text chat can do, but it still irked me that some people don't feel like anything short of a flat out win is worth mentioning. Or they don't see any point to narrative or in my case grinning as I imagine my SW army fighting bitterly to the end.

 krodarklorr wrote:
Most annoying thing to me, honestly, is not knowing rules, or thinking you know them, but you're wrong. Like, back in 6th edition, I was watching my friend play a League game. He was Orks, fighting against Eldar. The girl who was playing Eldar had the tip of her Wraithknight and Wraithlord's base touching a ruin, and said that she had a 4+ cover save. And, she wanted to argue to the bitter end that she was right.

Or like when Dave from Miniwargaming rolls for Dangerous Terrain for Bel'akor...like, really?

Solution: Tell her that she should check up the rules afterwards, and just give her the cover save The ratio of guys to girls playing wargames is like... 50:1? So what the heck

Besides, anyone who does that kind of thing, I just turn it around and do the same thing to them See my Riptide? The little pebble is cover, bwahahaha!


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Ranor wrote:
To add another; players that don't see 'fluff', only 'crunch' or numbers in their games. You either won or lost, no story, no narrative, just stats and statistics that happen to be shaped like plastic men.

When I first played, I was highly competitive and very guilty of this. It was no different than MtG... I *WANTED* to win, so it didn't really matter what I did to win, and it didn't matter how cheesy the army was or how little fun it was for the other guy on the table.

Many years later, I could really care less if I win anymore, as long as I get to field a cool army that's awesomely painted with units that fits with the fluff and my theme.

I guess I'm just saying I've been on both sides of that, and I get it, both ways. However, I'm quite certain that you get a lot more fun out of the game (long term) if you encourage new players by making it fun, rather than facerolling them, and you get a lot more respect being an interesting and colorful player, than one that spams wave serpents.

Whoever said that is a dick regardless sheesh why talk down someone else's fun just because you are bitter seriously if that was someone at my flags I'd accidently knock his nicest kill-point-scorer off the table good and hard, give him something to be bitter about. Yeah I'm petty but I'm not bitter to other people without reason

P.S? I wouldn't actually do that because I prefer to confront people being douchebags, but I'd definitely respond to that comment because that's just tears, don't let it become an accepted attitude that he can get away with and I wouldn't like someone talking to me like that in general, hence why people don't.


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My post in response to Rancor btw


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You don't get cover if your base is slightly on top of a ruin base? Thought you did