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Jon Garrett wrote:Person: Oh Look, another Grey Knight player whose jumped on the bandwagon.

Me: Find the plastic models.

Person: Huh?

Me: Find the plastic models in my army, please.

Person searches for about five minutes.

Person: Uhh...just the DreadKnight.

Me: That would be because I've got 3500 points of metal and resin Grey Knight stuff I've been playing for five years. The Dread Knight, which you'll note is heavily converted not to look like a baby carrier, new weapons on the dreads and Interceptor Packs for one squad of my Power Armour Grey Knights are the only changes I;ve made.

Person: Uhhh, well...

Me: Now get the hell off my wagon.

I would like to see that conversion. It sounds nice.
But yeah, I hate it when people accuse wh40k veterans of bandwagon jumping. Just disrespectful that is.

I once had a nid player complain that necrons were full of the most cheesiest gak after I killed his harpy with one tachyon arrow hit...3 turns later his hormagants ate every single non vehicle necron on the board.

BROKEN, That is all.

I play ORKs, GK, and SW. With proxed Guard, BA, DE.

Now newly assembled Necrons.

Wow your so good at painting that you painted them the color they were in the box..... ,-,-'

For anyone that's just showing up, here is a tl;dr summary of quite a lot of the thread:

- "Your troop/unit/army is rubbish". Often followed by being beaten by said rubbish troop/unit/army.
- Anything bad that happens to the player is "broken".
- Combination of the above.
- Player gets the play style of a troop/unit/army wrong.
- False assumptions that anyone playing an army shortly after release must be on the bandwagon.
- A n army must be of chapter/regiment/etc X because they're a certain colour.

We certainly don't seem to be developing a huge range of different answers.

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Two slightly different ones of my own, all relating to Inquisitor:
- While gaming with about a dozen people at WHW, a kid comes up and says "Inquisitor, do people still play that?".
- Several players who know I frequently scratch-sculpt entire characters spending sometime trying to work out which model my Inquisitor's legs had come from.

A n army must be of chapter/regiment/etc X because they're a certain colour

Well to be fair, most marines look the same to me anyway (except for the pain scheme)
The only exception I could think of are GK and Space Wolves, because they look so unique. (one has halberds, the other have beards)

*Person while looking at my Word Bearers CSM army. Which is dark crimson and WB icons everywhere.

"So you play world eaters, eh?"

"Woohoo! Khornate marines!"

*facepalm

IronfrontAlex wrote:*Person while looking at my Word Bearers CSM army. Which is dark crimson and WB icons everywhere.

"So you play world eaters, eh?"

"Woohoo! Khornate marines!"

*facepalm

Yeah, I see your point, but I was talking more about home brew armies.

Here is a great one against a lizardmen player at a tournament about 5 months ago.

We were playing open lists so we both looked over each others lists and then he went first moving his Slann in a big block of Sarus towards one of my Gor units

My turn I charge get a buff off and kill alot of sarus and cause that unit to break which I overrun

Him: I didnt know about that banner you had. Next time you should tell people when you are running cheesey magic items

Me: We were playing open list you should of just asked

Him: What ever the Beastmen book is broken anyway

As I proceeded to choke on my drink he gave me a zero out of 5 on sportsmanship. He had quit turn 1

CthuluIsSpy wrote:

IronfrontAlex wrote:*Person while looking at my Word Bearers CSM army. Which is dark crimson and WB icons everywhere.

"So you play world eaters, eh?"

"Woohoo! Khornate marines!"

*facepalm

Yeah, I see your point, but I was talking more about home brew armies.

huh?

IronfrontAlex wrote:

CthuluIsSpy wrote:

IronfrontAlex wrote:*Person while looking at my Word Bearers CSM army. Which is dark crimson and WB icons everywhere.

"So you play world eaters, eh?"

"Woohoo! Khornate marines!"

*facepalm

Yeah, I see your point, but I was talking more about home brew armies.

huh?

Derp sorry, I though that was a response to something I have said
But yeah, how do you miss that? Aren't WB covered in parchment, a darker shade of red and have a demonic face as an icon?

Playing my tanith (filed down shoulder pads, camo cloaks of Green stuff, custom heads and lasguns on a few, ect with heavy conversions) against Eldar at the table :

My turn had just ended and the guy was moving his models when 3 younglings come over:

Me: *turn and nod at them then go back to listening to eldar play*

Guy 1: Are those cadians?

Me: No, They are converted cadians to Tanith

Guy2: but there cadians

Me: I guess if you wanna call them that

Guy3: Well unless they have Gaunt They arent Tanith

Right about that point I pointed to my buddy who was sitting at the table besides us holding my Ibram Gaunt Model up for them to see. They just shut up and left the table then went and bothered him. Granted, Not all my stuff has been converted yet but if somebody tells you there army is X then who are you to question it?

Experiment 626 wrote:
GK player: 'So um, I win!'
Me: 'So, are we going to play a *real* game at some point that doesn't involve you hiding behind a dumb gimmick?'
GK player: 'Pfft! You deserve it! Daemons are broken anyways - Flamers are stoopid OP, my guys lose to bloodcrushers, invulns and eternal warrior on an entire army is so OP!!! Your army ruined fantasy so this called karma b !'
Me: 'So, your testicles called, they want to know if you're ever going to grow a penis...' *cue laughter of most of the store*

You should report yourself to the GW horror stories thread.

CthuluIsSpy wrote:

IronfrontAlex wrote:

CthuluIsSpy wrote:

IronfrontAlex wrote:*Person while looking at my Word Bearers CSM army. Which is dark crimson and WB icons everywhere.

"So you play world eaters, eh?"

"Woohoo! Khornate marines!"

*facepalm

Yeah, I see your point, but I was talking more about home brew armies.

huh?

Derp sorry, I though that was a response to something I have said
But yeah, how do you miss that? Aren't WB covered in parchment, a darker shade of red and have a demonic face as an icon?

Yes, and no khornate things, or skulls, or zerkers, bwahaha.

I Got told once by my friend when i played Radical Daemonhunters That the army was overpowered, i didn't even have ANY inducted units.

IronfrontAlex wrote:*Person while looking at my Word Bearers CSM army. Which is dark crimson and WB icons everywhere.

"So you play world eaters, eh?"

"Woohoo! Khornate marines!"

*facepalm

Same problem but with Red Corsairs.

As I was playing a game with my Salamanders.

Guy: Salamanders huh?
Me: Yeah. Been playing them for a while.
Guy: Where's Vulkan at?
Me: I'm not using him. Its a league game and I haven't bought him yet with my points.
Guy: So you just playing Vanilla marines then?
Me:.....*Give him a narrow eyed look*

Another one (has happened on a few occasions):

Random Guy: Oh another Salamanders fanboy. Everyone plays them now. (Or some other accusing bandwagon comment)
Me: *Takes Chaplain Xavier Model out of my case and places it on the table* Who is this?
Random Guy: Oh, ummm...(procceeds to guess and or stumble for another comment)

I was once told that having 120-180 ork boys in a 1500-1750 game is broken and that no army in all of 40k can kill that many models in in 6 turns.

I then passed out and woke up in the hospital, having suffered a heart attack while I was unconscious.

honest I swear it...

Only kids play Ultramarines..

Im 32, I can crack 25 Pull ups and run 3 miles in 20 minutes.. I'll snap your neck like a chicken filthy neck beard!

The quote unquote 'Lore Nerds' of 40k at my LGS argued with a friend of mine for hours saying that the Grey Knights aren't Space Marines and are not part of the Astartes.

They also cried foul at the fact that he wants to buy Grey Knights models, and paint them as Blood Ravens using the GK codex. Obviously its not a perfect science but they absolutely flipped their lid when he told them his plans to have a GK Blood Raven Army, lol.

Cheers.

Person looks at my homebrew and VERY distinctive nurgle army,

"Death guard man, whoohoo!"
"gotta love their noise marines!"

...

Johnny-Crass wrote:I was just at a doubles tournament and some guy was claiming my list was illegal due to having too few units (which was not true). We then got into a debate were I had to pull out the rulebook and show him the passage. It was at this point he said Armybuilder could not be wrong and my book must be a misprint.

I am not a violent person but I could of killed him when he brought the TO over and started up the debate. The TO said that he should read the rulebook and not go by what armybuilder told him. The guy gave me and his partner the finger packed up his models and left.

You have some bad luck with people during tournaments don't you man?

Similar to some others, but the weirdest ones for me...

I paint. A lot. I try very hard to only field painted units. But right after the new o&g dropped, I really wanted to get in a game, mostly to see what I want to run and direct my painting efforts a bit. So I fielded some unpainted stuff for the first time in a very long time. Some d-bag neckbeard, never seen before in the store, hovers over the game, and watches. I struggle a bit with the rules and lose some units, so Neckbeard snidely comments, "that's what you get for not painting!" Seriously? Who the frak do you think you are? Social policemen really need to be part of the social group before passing judgement.

Another guy, a regular, another time... "You should stop painting and actually play some games!" I know him, it was a joke, but when paired with the other comment, I just can't win.

Every time I play my Wolves, some idiot has to walk over and tell me that I can't win with 4 Dreads and no Long Fangs.

I know it's hard to win, and that's why I play the list. Because I don't play to god damn win, you stupid gakkers.

As a girl, my experience the first time I walked into a GW store and was met by the token 'dumb redshirt':
I walk into the store, carrying my army case while wearing my '99 Canadian GT shirt, firguring that'll be enough to stop anyone from thinking I'm some clueless blond.

Red Shirt: "Oh wow! You're a girl!"

Me: "Well spoted captain obvious."

Red Shirt: "So, this stuff is called warhammer, it's about building & painting model soldiers and then playing games. Would you be interested in a free model to paint and a gaming intro?!"

Me: *looks as case in hand* "I'm waiting for a friend so we can play a game."

Red Shirt: "OMG! You know how to play! Where have you been all my life?!"

Me: "Obviously trying to stay as far away as possible..."

My first game with my new Necrons outside of the house:

"Oh...so these are the new 'Sieg Heil'?"

Wasn't familiar with this phrase being used as a noun, but the intent was clear enough...

"Uh oh, here comes Hitler in his flying toilet seat!!"

And just about any time my army would accomplish anything (say, my Warriors kill a single Pink Horror): "Sieg Heil!" along with a tasteful little salute. The rest of the store keeps looking over every time this happens---I am hoping my cringing is visible at a distance. This during a game where my dice were just atrocious. No 6's on my Tesla weapons, not a single RP roll made, my CCBs both blown up by Pink-freaking-Horrors in the first two turns, my Overlord insta-gibbed by a Soulgrinder, a squad and a half of Wraiths chewed up by 5 Bloodcrushers. Hilariously, the guy conceded the game after the Crushers were killed off. Nevermind that we were playing Annihilation and he was actually ahead by 2 KP (I only realized this myself on the ride home)...

Mostly it was just embarrassing. I'm playing an ostensibly "grown" man and I get incessant pouting and Nazi epithets from a sore loser (who was actually an oblivious winner). Never again.


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Experiment 626 wrote:Me: "Obviously trying to stay as far away as possible..."

This is the correct response. Alternatively, hide in your game case until they lose your scent.

whigwam wrote:My first game with my new Necrons outside of the house:

"Oh...so these are the new 'Sieg Heil'?"

Wasn't familiar with this phrase being used as a noun, but the intent was clear enough...

"Uh oh, here comes Hitler in his flying toilet seat!!"

And just about any time my army would accomplish anything (say, my Warriors kill a single Pink Horror): "Sieg Heil!" along with a tasteful little salute. The rest of the store keeps looking over every time this happens---I am hoping my cringing is visible at a distance. This during a game where my dice were just atrocious. No 6's on my Tesla weapons, not a single RP roll made, my CCBs both blown up by Pink-freaking-Horrors in the first two turns, my Overlord insta-gibbed by a Soulgrinder, a squad and a half of Wraiths chewed up by 5 Bloodcrushers. Hilariously, the guy conceded the game after the Crushers were killed off. Nevermind that we were playing Annihilation and he was actually ahead by 2 KP (I only realized this myself on the ride home)...

Mostly it was just embarrassing. I'm playing an ostensibly "grown" man and I get incessant pouting and Nazi epithets from a sore loser (who was actually an oblivious winner). Never again.


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Experiment 626 wrote:Me: "Obviously trying to stay as far away as possible..."

This is the correct response. Alternatively, hide in your game case until they lose your scent.

Wow...that guy was a donkey-cave. I mean really? He Godwinned your army (or in this case, Godwhinned) just because you were playing necrons? That doesn't even make any sense!


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Experiment 626 wrote:As a girl...

Wait...you're a girl?!

CthuluIsSpy wrote:Wow...that guy was a donkey-cave. I mean really? He Godwinned your army (or in this case, Godwhinned) just because you were playing necrons? That doesn't even make any sense!

You're telling me...there wasn't much reason behind it (least of all since I was losing), but I'm assuming he reacted similarly to GK, BA, IG, DE---I'm just glad I wasn't around to see those releases.

dark angels can't beat grey knights.....
3 turns later game over gotta love lascannons

'Your gay emo goth-elves can't touch my manly hunks of AV 13 over here. No way you can take 9 Leman Russes off the table before i pummel your paper airplanes into dust..'

(yes he really did talk like he was 12 years old... 40 ish guy )

One turn of very lucky DL shootery later one russ is left, and it's immobile and turretless..

Guy stomps off, whining about DL cheese meaning his tanks have no chance, while i glance at my AV 10 skiffs that could die to anuthing above a thrown snowball.... and smile...

Ascalam wrote:'Your gay emo goth-elves can't touch my manly hunks of AV 13 over here. No way you can take 9 Leman Russes off the table before i pummel your paper airplanes into dust..'

(yes he really did talk like he was 12 years old... 40 ish guy )

One turn of very lucky DL shootery later one russ is left, and it's immobile and turretless..

Guy stomps off, whining about DL cheese meaning his tanks have no chance, while i glance at my AV 10 skiffs that could die to anuthing above a thrown snowball.... and smile...

What's funny is that he doesn't know his own rules. LRBT are AV14