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Vaktathi wrote:Another was against a guy, 40something year old dude, who was a known for showing up at every event and having a rules argument every game (and usually being shown wrong) and acting like someone pissed in his cheerios when he lost. He was playing a CSM army with plague marines and 20 nurgle termi's and outright would not play a Daemonhunters player. Well, this day he'd had multiple rules arguments and accused pretty much every single one of his opponents of cheating, gets to my game, pulls a ton of shady crap like arguing his nurgle terminators were fearless, arguing every single cover save (after asserting in multiple games at a previous event this his gaunts gave his Fex's a cover save), etc. Then goes on to complain about the results and the TO on the forums, at which point I call him out, and a community organizer has to step in and take action and the store bans him from future events.

^That reminds me of an American player we had over here a few years back.

Played one game against him and he kept whining about things, it got a little heated when he kept insisting that my IG heavy weapons teams were wiped out when he killed one of the guys simply because both guys were mounted on the same base....I told him all the other IG players at the club did the same thing and used a marker to denote when one of 'em had been killed. Plus that wasn't what it said in the rulebook.

Needless to say he quickly ran out of opponents and wasn't around for long.

Not so much annoying but 1500pts guard vs 1500pts of friends Tau.

Turn 1 armoured blitzkrieg half tau infantry killed and two out of three railguns destroyed
Turn 2 Broadside hits and destroys a lemman russ
Turn 3 Broadside hits and destroys another Lemman Russ
Turn 4 Broadside hits and destroys my vendetta gunship
Turn 5 That damn single broadside blows up my chimera before the last of army is killed!

warpcrafter wrote: I have a similar experience. I was playing Orks, and the opposing player, every time I was counting out dice for an attack roll or whatever, which is a lot for 30 or so boyz, would blurt out random numbers close to what I was counting up to and throw me off. Finally, I told him that I was just gonna roll all my dice, which was probably more than the actually number needed, but that's what happens when you screw with me. When he complained that I might score more hits than I was actually allowed, I simply told him it was an annoyance tax. It took nearly the whole game before he finally shut up.

Thats the dumbest thing Ive ever read. An annoyance tax...??? srry mate but you just broke the rules and cheated horribly, thats really silly, I play orks to bud, and if someone asks "OOooOooo I'm not sure if you should have that much, just come over why they get so much without saying "no, and now for asking that I GET MORE DICE"....I reckomend you stop wargaming if you have an attitude like that....


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1st turn of pitched battle kill points game. Comabt squad shoots Ghaz with 5 shots, I roll 4 ones and fail all my feel-no pain rolls.

Happy days

The moment i heard about the embargo. My thought went, well there goes my beloved hobby.

ParatrooperSimon wrote:

warpcrafter wrote: I have a similar experience. I was playing Orks, and the opposing player, every time I was counting out dice for an attack roll or whatever, which is a lot for 30 or so boyz, would blurt out random numbers close to what I was counting up to and throw me off. Finally, I told him that I was just gonna roll all my dice, which was probably more than the actually number needed, but that's what happens when you screw with me. When he complained that I might score more hits than I was actually allowed, I simply told him it was an annoyance tax. It took nearly the whole game before he finally shut up.

Thats the dumbest thing Ive ever read. An annoyance tax...??? srry mate but you just broke the rules and cheated horribly, thats really silly, I play orks to bud, and if someone asks "OOooOooo I'm not sure if you should have that much, just come over why they get so much without saying "no, and now for asking that I GET MORE DICE"....I reckomend you stop wargaming if you have an attitude like that....


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1st turn of pitched battle kill points game. Comabt squad shoots Ghaz with 5 shots, I roll 4 ones and fail all my feel-no pain rolls.

Happy days

To be fair the guy seemingly deserved it

ChocolateGork wrote:

ParatrooperSimon wrote:

warpcrafter wrote: I have a similar experience. I was playing Orks, and the opposing player, every time I was counting out dice for an attack roll or whatever, which is a lot for 30 or so boyz, would blurt out random numbers close to what I was counting up to and throw me off. Finally, I told him that I was just gonna roll all my dice, which was probably more than the actually number needed, but that's what happens when you screw with me. When he complained that I might score more hits than I was actually allowed, I simply told him it was an annoyance tax. It took nearly the whole game before he finally shut up.

Thats the dumbest thing Ive ever read. An annoyance tax...??? srry mate but you just broke the rules and cheated horribly, thats really silly, I play orks to bud, and if someone asks "OOooOooo I'm not sure if you should have that much, just come over why they get so much without saying "no, and now for asking that I GET MORE DICE"....I reckomend you stop wargaming if you have an attitude like that....


Automatically Appended Next Post:
1st turn of pitched battle kill points game. Comabt squad shoots Ghaz with 5 shots, I roll 4 ones and fail all my feel-no pain rolls.

Happy days

To be fair the guy seemingly deserved it

That's what I thought too. Plus, if you ask me, an 'annoyance tax' is a pretty clever and economical way of dealing with something like that.

A recent one, just yesterday wasn't really annoying, just dissapointing. I was asked to vs some grey knights ( the lads father also had ig) so i said give me a min, im gunna make room for some medusas! i had two basilisks so i equipped them both with medusa/bastion breacher shells. the game was capture and control and we both had one opposites to each other on the field. He had set up first with 3 land raider two ready to plow into my objective and one next to his. i deployed my things rather mediocerly a had just a medusa and platoon command on my objective, when i should have at least moved my russes over too. But whats was done is done. i tried to set up my medusa in behind the building but forgot to account for his moving so that ended up being wep destroyed, and immobilised i think on first turn. Okay! my bad for being an idiot, i still have one medusa ready topunch through some raider.
1st turn: hits 2d6 +10 on 14....i rolled a 1 and a 2.
2nd turn: hits, i rolled a 1 and 2 again...okay...
3rd turn: scatters 4 inches but -bs3 moves it back on. hit, 3 AGAIN c'mooon
4th turn: hits, Penetrates! wep destryoed moved to immobilised. its something
5th and 6th it went back to its usual.

On the 6th i gained some pride back when draigo was at my arc of tanks ready to kill, and lascannon'd him into the ground. HWS of lascannons, all hit al wound all dmg. two LRBT lascannons 1 hits,wounds dmg's and he was gone!

Overall its was a fun game and was a bit dissapointing to see the 1st proper time ive used the medusas in a game and they did nothing Oh well

When Ghazzy ran off the board on the fist turn...

I have a bad looser story. One of my mates' friends Deep Strikes a Drop Pod full of termies on my squad of Necron Warriors and said they had been squished with no WBB allowed. I belived him.(This happened in one of my very first games, so don't give me greif for not knowing the rules)

The funny thing, though, is that I got my Monolith, and I turned the trick against him in our next game, killing an entire horde of 40 Orks. (I still didn't know the rules) He then quit, leaving my mate with his 750 of tau to deal with 1500 of SM and Necrons together.

What a dick!

IHateNids wrote:I have a bad looser story. One of my mates' friends Deep Strikes a Drop Pod full of termies on my squad of Necron Warriors and said they had been squished with no WBB allowed. I belived him.(This happened in one of my very first games, so don't give me greif for not knowing the rules)

The funny thing, though, is that I got my Monolith, and I turned the trick against him in our next game, killing an entire horde of 40 Orks. (I still didn't know the rules) He then quit, leaving my mate with his 750 of tau to deal with 1500 of SM and Necrons together.

What a dick!

Drop Pods will adjust the minimum amount to avoid landing on things, as long as you purposely didn't try to land on them (which will cause a mishap, not killing the models it lands on). Your friend cheated you badly. Your monolith (under old rules) would move his models out of the way, but wouldn't kill any of them. However, he got what he deserved. He cheated and got it brought back on him. Don't do it to anyone else, but he deserved it.

First off I'de like t say that Malta is HOPELESS for 40k, as the only lgs is full of foul mouthed delinquints, crack addicts and 10 year old children, I havent played a game of 40k since 2 summers ago, simple reason being everyone gets net lists that specialise in staying at the back of the board and bombarding my poor nids ._. Anyways...


For my most annoying experience(s), I was playing a game against a friend of mine at the lgs, when some necron ''expert' comes behind me, ranting how my army composition sucked, (I was still 13 at the time, and only had 1000 points worth of Crons) he pretty much ruined the entire game for us, even though I ended up winning, after that he had the codex in his hands and wanted to talk to me ._.


For seconds, I was painting a DP with my EC paint scheme, when the managers pet came to give me some painting 'tips'...these tips included changing my paint scheme as it wasn't on par with his lame chaos army. I had told him to move away, but he tried to lay a couple of guilt trips on me to convince me that I was going to screw it up...

Meh, you get the point -.-

timetowaste85 wrote:

IHateNids wrote:I have a bad looser story. One of my mates' friends Deep Strikes a Drop Pod full of termies on my squad of Necron Warriors and said they had been squished with no WBB allowed. I belived him.(This happened in one of my very first games, so don't give me greif for not knowing the rules)

The funny thing, though, is that I got my Monolith, and I turned the trick against him in our next game, killing an entire horde of 40 Orks. (I still didn't know the rules) He then quit, leaving my mate with his 750 of tau to deal with 1500 of SM and Necrons together.

What a dick!

Drop Pods will adjust the minimum amount to avoid landing on things, as long as you purposely didn't try to land on them (which will cause a mishap, not killing the models it lands on). Your friend cheated you badly. Your monolith (under old rules) would move his models out of the way, but wouldn't kill any of them. However, he got what he deserved. He cheated and got it brought back on him. Don't do it to anyone else, but he deserved it.

I know the rules now, the example was last year.

Also, in one of my first games against our thread maker, happygolucky exploded my 'lith with an extreamely lucky twin-linked lascannon in his first turn:
to hit: 1
to hit: 6
to penetrate: 6
damage: 6
range: 6

explosion killed nothing though

IHateNids wrote:Also, in one of my first games against our thread maker, happygolucky exploded my 'lith with an extreamely lucky twin-linked lascannon in his first turn:
to hit: 1
to hit: 6
to penetrate: 6
damage: 6
range: 6

explosion killed nothing though

My first game where I used a Monolith (back in 2003) went exactly like this. One Predator shot and killed it first turn. I said "Screw it" and didn't use Monoliths again for years.

stormwell wrote:Played one game against him and he kept whining about things, it got a little heated when he kept insisting that my IG heavy weapons teams were wiped out when he killed one of the guys simply because both guys were mounted on the same base....I told him all the other IG players at the club did the same thing and used a marker to denote when one of 'em had been killed. Plus that wasn't what it said in the rulebook.

The irony is that the new codex treats them as multi-wound models now - so you have to remove whole models where possible and S6+ weapons will instant kill whole weapons teams. So if it was post-new IG codex then he was perfectly right and the marking 3 wounds before you remove a weapons team base is wrong.

When i 1st started off at 40k ( about 2 years ago) I had a chaos army and really didnt know the rules so i asked this guy if he could do a run thro with me and help me out. The guy said Sure and then took out a compatition level list and with Forge world models. The dude then spent the whole game kicking the living gak out of me and not teaching me any thing. He would then stop during the game and ramble about lore and stuff and being new i had NO idea what he was talking about. It went on for 2 hours and i killed maybe 6 our so of his models while he completely took out my army. Now every time i see him at the club i have to force my self to not feed him a ravid knee to the face.

IHateNids wrote:

timetowaste85 wrote:

IHateNids wrote:I have a bad looser story. One of my mates' friends Deep Strikes a Drop Pod full of termies on my squad of Necron Warriors and said they had been squished with no WBB allowed. I belived him.(This happened in one of my very first games, so don't give me greif for not knowing the rules)

The funny thing, though, is that I got my Monolith, and I turned the trick against him in our next game, killing an entire horde of 40 Orks. (I still didn't know the rules) He then quit, leaving my mate with his 750 of tau to deal with 1500 of SM and Necrons together.

What a dick!

Drop Pods will adjust the minimum amount to avoid landing on things, as long as you purposely didn't try to land on them (which will cause a mishap, not killing the models it lands on). Your friend cheated you badly. Your monolith (under old rules) would move his models out of the way, but wouldn't kill any of them. However, he got what he deserved. He cheated and got it brought back on him. Don't do it to anyone else, but he deserved it.

I know the rules now, the example was last year.

Also, in one of my first games against our thread maker, happygolucky exploded my 'lith with an extreamely lucky twin-linked lascannon in his first turn:
to hit: 1
to hit: 6
to penetrate: 6
damage: 6
range: 6

explosion killed nothing though

Those are good times...

Frogboy14 wrote:When i 1st started off at 40k ( about 2 years ago) I had a chaos army and really didnt know the rules so i asked this guy if he could do a run thro with me and help me out. The guy said Sure and then took out a compatition level list and with Forge world models. The dude then spent the whole game kicking the living gak out of me and not teaching me any thing. He would then stop during the game and ramble about lore and stuff and being new i had NO idea what he was talking about. It went on for 2 hours and i killed maybe 6 our so of his models while he completely took out my army. Now every time i see him at the club i have to force my self to not feed him a ravid knee to the face.

Go against him again when your at his level, atleast if you beat him you could feel a little pride, but beating him silly works too.

My worst gaming experience
Not really a gaming experience but one time I brought the new DE codex to school, you know the one with half naked Lilith in it. So my friend opens up my back pack and digs it out. We were on the bus and she was across from me when I hear laughing. She had flipped open to the Lilith page, and then saw Urien. Ughhhh she was like "Dylan! What the eff is this!!! LOLOLOLOLOL" I also had these punks see me flipping through it during class and they were like "loooser! what a nerd!" So I quickly come back with "Yeah, well atleast my IQ is a larger number then my age!" Ohh the look on their faces.

Let's see...

Take a power gamer.
Take a list designed to be win at all costs.
Watch him proxy models with dice.

Facepalm.

To make matters worse at one point he asked people to stop rolling his Genestealers.

This was a good while back.

DarkStarSabre wrote:Let's see...

Take a power gamer.
Take a list designed to be win at all costs.
Watch him proxy models with dice.

Facepalm.

To make matters worse at one point he asked people to stop rolling his Genestealers.

This was a good while back.

That's actually kinda hilarious.

Yarrick The Necron wrote:A recent one, just yesterday wasn't really annoying, just dissapointing. I was asked to vs some grey knights ( the lads father also had ig) so i said give me a min, im gunna make room for some medusas! i had two basilisks so i equipped them both with medusa/bastion breacher shells. the game was capture and control and we both had one opposites to each other on the field. He had set up first with 3 land raider two ready to plow into my objective and one next to his. i deployed my things rather mediocerly a had just a medusa and platoon command on my objective, when i should have at least moved my russes over too. But whats was done is done. i tried to set up my medusa in behind the building but forgot to account for his moving so that ended up being wep destroyed, and immobilised i think on first turn. Okay! my bad for being an idiot, i still have one medusa ready topunch through some raider.
1st turn: hits 2d6 +10 on 14....i rolled a 1 and a 2.
2nd turn: hits, i rolled a 1 and 2 again...okay...
3rd turn: scatters 4 inches but -bs3 moves it back on. hit, 3 AGAIN c'mooon
4th turn: hits, Penetrates! wep destryoed moved to immobilised. its something
5th and 6th it went back to its usual.

On the 6th i gained some pride back when draigo was at my arc of tanks ready to kill, and lascannon'd him into the ground. HWS of lascannons, all hit al wound all dmg. two LRBT lascannons 1 hits,wounds dmg's and he was gone!

Overall its was a fun game and was a bit dissapointing to see the 1st proper time ive used the medusas in a game and they did nothing Oh well

Thats weird me and my son played a fun game against an imperial guard player with two medusas. He had terrible luck all game, left Draigo facing the tail end of his shooting turn. Just two LRBTs and a HWS to shoot I went to get a couple of mars bars, came back to a smoking hole where Draigo used to be.

ps I put your real dice back in your box at the end of the game

Having my entire Marine force ripped apart by gun line Tau in my first game .

Dais wrote:Ok, I had one that was more grounded in gameplay but here it goes. I'll try to make it at least somewhat intelligible to no WM players.
In a game of warmachine I was playing cygnar(ranged faction) and my warcaster was kraye(terrain mitigation and doubles the speed of one melee model) vs. protectorate(buff heavy faction that's mostly melee) lead by Epic Severius(anti-infantry control-ish caster).
I had set up behind a big forest and planned on making him come close with his troops then trampling his infantry and going straight through to his caster and support models. Little did I know that the forest in question was just deep enough for him to hide inside, keep his two jacks with big guns behind, and use a rarely used spell to see through and blast away with no place for my planned trample to end up. I had to move up my own warcaster way too close for comfort to get any results and by then, I was out-maned. I did at least get one sold shot in on Severius before his jacks took down Kraye.
Long story short I misjudged a forest's depth by about an inch and got: outgunned by some churchies with a ranged faction, outmaneuvered by an old man when my guy had a horse and a jack with double speed, and had the terrain used against me in spite of having every tool to mitigate it.
Yea, that was a bad day for me. I am thankful my opponent was gracious in victory though, I don't think I would have handled such a tactless opponent as happygolucky had well at all.

Sorry this is late, why didnt you use mage sight? it ignores forests and cloud affect, herp derp

Kid in a shop plays in a week long Kill Team competition. He can't paint and cheats constantly. So here I am, fighting this kid when suddenly "You can't have that speciality, you didn't claim it!" It's the middle of the assault phase, and nearly 20 DA vets (I think it's over 500 points too) are piling onto my Deathwing termies. This kid, having made zero efforts to claim his own upgrades, is claiming that Belial can't have Eternal Warrior, which I chose as a speciality. I have played him all this time, and he has been popping things up like scouts on his models, and as soon as I say he has eternal warrior he goes into a hissy fit. Other items include telling horrible Tyranid gribblies to "Go after his Ravenwing, the Deathwing will have to scatter if you do. This kid made me turn my back on DA. Why would I want to be associated with him.

When your opponent proxies his army with the correct base sized pieces of card or paper...


I will admit, i have used this to test things such as the terrorghiest or a unit of some sort, but when the entire army is made of paper... that's just lazy ffs.

I also hate it when your opponent HAS to contest everything "Thats not in range, is it?" or "Thats not a rule, is it?"

When I'm using a new codex, such as necrons, it's understandable, but when the codex has existed for 5 years and your opponent has been playing for three it get annoying.

Forgot something...
Same kid on release of new Cdx:'crons and he was playing DA again. I think it stands that it's really annoying when you have any unit that you move towards (in this case Servitors) and your opponent springs it on you that most of them are toting heavy bolters. No arms on the models though. How should I know if they have a HB arm when they have basically have had the bodies put into the slat base and nothing else?

Most annoying moment? Try every time someone asks what army you collect or when you place it on the table, only to have your oppenant take a look at your Ultramarines (which mind you have taken 6 years to collect and paint and the only army I have collected -.- ) and then mock your army by calling them "UltraSmurfs".
That gak is not funny anymore, it was a good joke to start with but seriously? Not every time, please.

Also when these said people mock your collection only for you to see that they arent even playing with a finished army themselves... only some objects of plastic that have had some paint thrown over the top of over glued pieces... Im never picky with the battles I fight, but I atleast enjoy fighting an opponent who put some time and effort into their army like I did.

A Fist Fight I Wanted!


When these "gangster" kids walked into the store and started harassing this 13 year old kid I was teaching how to play his first game of 40k.
I was about 16-17 at the time they ranged from 17-19. I asked them to stop and to leave us alone and didn't get a reply. one of the "thugs" thought it would be funny to pick up a terrain piece and hit the kid on top of the head with it. at that point I was about to go into berzerker mode.

I told him in my words "HEY! don't you even dare try that again! step away from the table and get out!" I am pretty sure he felt confident being in his group of about 4 "thugs". he replied with a smart ass remark "or what?! it's a free country I can do what ever I want. what are you going to do about it?"

So I stepped out from my table side and walked up to all of them and said "You think I am intimidated by you and your friends?!!!. I'll fight all of you!!! you want to act tough act tough to ME! not this kid! and if you think it's so much of a free country that you can do whatever you want go ahead try it again and let's see what happens, because I'll be damned if I stand back and let you hit this kid again"

so he stood there as if he wasn't sure what to do and you could tell he was trying look tough in front of his failure group. then gave a remark like "pshh this clown ain't worth it" and walked out of the store.

While I respect everyone around me I truly fear NO man in this entire world. When they disrespect me and others around me I will fight!
I'll fist fight a man holding a double barrel shotgun to my face!!! If a man tried robbing me of two pennies with a knife BY GOD HE BETTER KILL ME!!! BECAUSE HE AIN'T GETTING NOTHING FROM ME!!!!! now in shotgun instance i'll prob die in like a seconds but I'll get a swing or 2 before that happens hahaha

it made me angry that entire day and thus I didn't enjoy the game afterwards.

I don't have a big problem with proxies, but it can get irritating when you play entire armies of them over

and over...

and over...

AND OVER...

I remember when I was in middle school....

I was playing doubles against deamons and DA and my ally (a grey knight nooblet) comes up with the great idea of deep striking his paladins.... leaving my 1000 pts of BT to face both of their forces combined. He then decided to deep strike one unit right in front of an angry skulltaker and 20 bloodletters and the other next door to impassable terrain.