What is your worst bad habit while playing a Wargame?

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**Reecius**

Mine, hands down, is bitching about my bad luck when the dice turn on me. In a friendly game I laugh it off, but in a game I want to win, I get bitchy.

I swear I develop turrets and start cursing uncontrollably. I know it has to make the game less enjoyable for my opponent. I apologize as I don't want them to think I am mad at them, but I know it makes me look bad.

Example: I was going undefeated in a recent tournament, and ran into an unbelievable string of bad luck. It was a kill point game and after some just god awful rolling for the first four turns, I lost because I took two wounds on my master of the forge and rolled snake eyes on his armor save (he has a 2+ save). There went the game, 3 kill points to 2. I kicked a chair half way across the room! It was embarrassing.

That is the one thing I would change about myself if I had a magic wand.

How about some other Dakkaites?

**Ghidorah**

Correcting other people's grammatical errors.

Example: there's only one 'b' in "habit".

Ghidorah

**Bat Manuel**

I get really mad when my opponents take too long on their turns when they are so freakin' dead on my next turn anyway....it happens a lot.

I usually just walk away during their movement phase unless I'm playing Warmachine and can't

**Reecius**

Oops, hahah, thanks Ghidorah!

**Nydhog**

Mine is one of two things:
I tend to do the Manowar hammer or the metal-fist and go "HAAAAAA" in a very gutteral voice when i get a great move off.

That or I do the "caching" yes-fist-thing and go "SUCKSEX!" in lieu of success.

**BloodofOrks**

Sometime when I'm badly losing I can get mopey. However this is quickly rectified by the fact that I have given my friends permission to beat on me if I act too much like a puss.

I have a friend who throws in the towel whenever he realizes he's going to lose. I have to finish games for him all the time. It's really funny when I finish for him and I win.

**Fifty**

Ghidorah wrote:Correcting other people's grammatical errors.

Example: there's only one 'b' in "habit".

Ghidorah

That is a spelling error, not a grammatical one

**darkkt**

And its 'tourettes' - uncontrollable vocal tic's (shown in the media as uncontrollable swearing), not 'Turrets'. But developing 'turrets' is kinda funny in its own right.

So... apart from an annoying habit of correcting people's posts on forums, I too curse the dice gods, grind my teeth when Eldar fly down my slow chaos flank and chew my army apart, and crawl over websites like this looking for the magic strategy to win more often!

**Ghidorah**

Dammit. I know... I had "spelling errors" first, but it didn't fit his criteria of "while playing games". Who spells during 40k? So I changed it to grammar. I thought the same thing you did, that grammar wasn't correct, so I changed it to 'spelling and grammar'.

Not sure where that went... I know I hit the submit button...

Ahh well. Egg on my face, I suppose. Won't be the last time... lol

So, my big bad habit while gaming is that I screw with opponents too much. I call them on stupid, little annoying things like, "So, your guys get to move 6.25"? or, "Go ahead and put that building anywhere you want." when they bump terrain. I say it kinda nasty and then when they react, I laugh and say I was just kidding. Then I do it again and again. It tends get inside people's heads and throw them off of thier game.

I only do this to people I know, however. I would never do it with a new face in our store or at a tourney, etc.

Ghidorah

**darkkt**

Oh yeah, and the dancing when the dice occasionally fall in my favour - its quite disturbing, lots of hip thrusting, a$$ slapping and numerous shouts of "you like dat? YOU LIKE DAT!??".

(only in company I know of course)...

**Darkreaver55**

I must admit I too use randomness to throw off opponents in friendly games, if I know them well enough. If they're pondering the spiders that must be crawling around in my braincase, they're not pondering the game!

**FoxPhoenix135**

Mine is more traditional. I chew my fingernails.

ewwww...... fingernails.

**Tizz**

Telling my opponent to hurry up, gets people mad at me

**Cheese Elemental**

I have an urge to constantly hitch up my pants whenever I play a wargame. It's probably just nervousness, and it's way better than my old habit; trying to subtly slide my hand into my pants and scratch my balls.

**orkishlyorkish**

My sister has an urge to show everyone our latest conversions at our flgs.

-Orkishly

**FoxPhoenix135**

Hmm.... I also tend to drink sodas a lot. Probably because I am talking and my mouth gets dry. How am I going to declare what I am doing with cottonmouth?

**driverbob25**

I sometimes get mopey when im in a losing streak, but the dice hardly ever favour me, my brother says the only reason i roll 1's is because there arent any 0's on the dice?

Other than that im a sod for hoarding dice? ill gather up handfulls of them as the game goes on and cant stand to see random dice laid about the table, i find it untidy lol?

**cortez**

I get mad at people when they put their drinks on the gaming table.

**Duce**

I'm too nice when playing in the sense i'm happy to let opponents have the is it or is it mm out of range calls as in range or lettin gthem take coversaves if the cover seems slightly lower han required for one.

Basically giving them the benefit of the doubt.

**Deff Dread red Edition**

I often also get bad dice rolls and then end up shouting,"Why?" into the air for several minutes.I also kiss the dice,it is to ensure that the dice gods give me a lucky roll.

Yet my friend takes the cake,he is a bad winner.when he gets a good dice roll or wins a game he genrally will talk abouy it for an afternoon,or get up in his opponents face do a rather strange victory dance or even slap his opponents,

**willydstyle**

I'll call both my opponent's and my miniatures "jerks" or "a$$holes" during the game. A few times I've seen shocked expressions on my opponent's face... but I think they get that I'm just joking around after a little bit... hopefully.

**Ghidorah**

Another... quirk... of mine is when I'm going to take a picture of a game-in-progress. I tell everyone to move any dice, tape measures, pencils, etc. out of the way. People have complained about it a time or two.

Would you find that irksome?

Ghidorah

**BrookM**

I tend to forget rules a lot and then panic when I can't find them in their relevant book.

**Jon Garrett**

I get irritated when I constantly role badly. Usually I can get around this with decent tactics and such and therefore manage a fun, competative game, but against better opponent I tend to get slaughtered. When you start loosing Assault Terminator Squads to Tau Gun Drones and Guard Conscripts something is wrong.

One guy I play knows my luck with the dice is so bad he'll send his worst units to pin down my best ones, safe in the knowledge that if I'm lucky it'll still take three turns to kill them all off. I'm not joking.

**Jimi Nemesis**

I curse a fair bit. I seem to be the only person who can lose Plague Maines to Str 3 anything...

Victory dances, Moshing and singing are not uncommon, and randomly quoting songs when I can use the lyrics in a sentance all make an appearence in my repotoir (spelling?)

Nothing is like yelling "LOOK AT THE SHELL THAT IS YOU! EMPTY, FRAGILE, WEAK. SOON THE BATTLE IS OVER, LOST TO APATHY!" and getting wierd glances from people in the shop. *sigh* I love Dark Tranquillity...

**BOSS_PIMPALOTZ**

HMMM to make rules explainations really loudly pissed off my wife yesterday.

she was like "Babe can you settle down please" and then a gesture to lower the volume.

I was like

"ITS REALLY IMPORTANT IM TELLING HIM HOW TO FLEET OF FOOT!"

Hmmm slowed I know.

**Sidstyler**

Well, every time I make even the slightest bit of progress on painting my brother jumps up and says "Oh, I'll get my camera!", like painting a god-damned basecoat is so fascinating it has to be immortalized on film.

Other than that, pretty much everything I do is a bad gaming habit. I get pissy when I lose or roll bad, I tell my opponent to hurry up, I sometimes forget an entire phase of the game...

**J'santai Khan**

I've been known to trash talk an opponent into doing something I want him to ('oh come on, you don't really want to run your chaos termies up and kill my scouts with them, do you?' when my Vindicator will lined up to take a shot on them as soon as they can see the scouts). I've also been known to look 'pissy' when my dice aren't cooperating (being 6'2", 270 and heavily tattooed, I've been told it's a little unnerving).

**Leigen_Zero**

Reecius wrote:
I swear I develop turrets and start cursing uncontrollably.

Is this some sort of wierd obliterator virus or something? (ideas come to mind for an Emporers Children oblit conv involving speakers and an iPod loaded with expletives)

My worst habit is that I tend to forget special rules that models have lol
*while looking for the zzap gun table in the ork 'dex just after it came out and rules still unfamiliar*
me: hey, didn't know slugga boyz had furious charge! the assault I made 2 turns would have gone a lot better!
friend: too late now...
me: aww....

In said assault my sluggas got pwned by a guard command squad..

**Fresh**

I don't know about other people i play with but i get extremely hot (body temperature) and can get quite frustrating i.e. randomly leaving the store in the middle of the game to get some fresh air.