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Once, IIRC, one of the FLGS workers brought a Land Raider to a FB tourney and left it on the side of the table, while making cryptic referernces to the power of the laser cannon in FB.
I don't get it.

ward save?

against a lascannon?

good luck.

the best way to annoy someone, is when they start being annoying, ignore them. just calmly start picking up your army and put it back in it's case.. When the annoying douchebag questions you, just stare at him and say nothing. finally, after all is done, ask loudly to anyone in the store if someone else wants a game against you..

The annoyance should only ever occur once, if it continues, due to lack of maturity, get the rest of the players to help you physically toss the annoyance out on his arse.. !!

It works everytime. No one like an annoyance.

Well, you could just lurk around the table, pointing out cunningly set up traps and charges, when you aren't playing.

Nothing infuriates me more than uninvited backseat Generals. You want to take me on, ask me. Don't use a proxy gamer. If you happen to see my opponent about to blunder into a trap, keep schtum. He'll learn nowt if you point it out, and I'm most likely taking a risk setting it.

Grrrrr!

Oh, and Warseer has a particularly excellent article on the 'Psychology of 40k' apparently about how to gain the psychological advantage against your opponent, or at the very least, 'How to make sure your opponent never, EVER plays you again on account of your inability to grasp the concept of a game not in fact being a life or death exercise with the loser being thrown to Lions'

MagickalMemories wrote:Roll your dice...

One.
At.
A.
Time.

This really does work because I have a friend who does it and it drives me crazy. Though in his defense, sometimes when it's a lot of dice, he rolls 2 at a time.

If you really want to annoy someone bring a horde army to a tournament that you have never played before, don't be sure of any of the rules, and roll the dice a few at a time while miscounting how many you are rolling so that you have to reroll a test several times. (even if you have played the army incompetence can be simulated) I have seen this strategy work to perfection, 45 min per his turn in a 2 1/2 hour tournament. The guy he was playing went nuts!!!

- Constantly refer to your great unclean one as "Jo Mamma"

Play a horde army.
Bring ONE d6. Refuse to buy or borrow more... But bring 8 scatter dice because you "like variety."
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Tell your opponent, during deployment, that you always give zeroes on all "soft scores" to show your disdain for the system and that it's "nothing personal."
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Ask your opponent if he minds if you use loaded dice. Tell him you thought it would be okay, because your mom always lets you use them against her.
When he says, "no," cry and suck your thumb. Refuse to stop (or to wipe your nose) until he says you can use them.
Then tell him you don't want to, anymore.
Then win without cheating.

Eric

Kymera wrote:Though in his defense, sometimes when it's a lot of dice, he rolls 2 at a time.

oh thats pleasant...
its like instead an icepick driven into your skull, its only a swiss army knife...


"Stick their magnetized models to the bottom of metal shelfs when they're not looking."
literally lol'd at that one...

anyway...
mad doc grotsnik, any chance of getting a link to the article you mentioned?
cant find it on warseer...

Best one I saw was at a tourney were my buddy's opponent was using the "hot GF" to distract trick. The funny thing is, my buddy is openly gay. So to see thr frustration on his opponents face and his GFs was priceless

Bring a BB gun and start shooting your opponents army like a mini shooting gallery while making sure you make the sound effects "Pew pew" every time you shoot.

krusty wrote:

Kymera wrote:Though in his defense, sometimes when it's a lot of dice, he rolls 2 at a time.

oh thats pleasant...
its like instead an icepick driven into your skull, its only a swiss army knife...


"Stick their magnetized models to the bottom of metal shelfs when they're not looking."
literally lol'd at that one...

anyway...
mad doc grotsnik, any chance of getting a link to the article you mentioned?
cant find it on warseer...

Sadly not. I was banished from Warseer after being found in posession of a sense of humour. It was shocking stuff though, and I penned an Article for Firebase as a rebuttal to it.

The guy reccomended not talking to your opponent, at all, except to say 'your turn' when you had finished. Apparently it puts them on edge, and you can take advantage. And don't forget such tactical finesse as only going for his best painted units. Because that'll make all the difference.....

keep sniffing, blowing your nose and muttering in all of your oppents phases

At "half time" insist on making a squad subsitution to bring in your defensive linemen.

1) Release books much slower than any other company.

2) Refuse to attempt "balance" in your books.

3) Release FAQ's for your books that are a joke and actually make things worse.

4) Release books with rules that have clearly never been tested by anyone not playing space marines, like kill points.

5) Ignore certain armies for over a decade. Pretend that it's cus the sales for those armies are bad instead of sales being bad because there is no support.

6) Be as obscure as possible about upcoming products! Make the internet rumor mill handle everything so that people will have plenty of misinformation when they go to spend money. Remember, informed customers are only good if your product is well made!

This is how GW does it! They are the MASTERS of annoying customers... i mean uh.. players.

Miggidy Mack wrote:1) Release books much slower than any other company.

2) Refuse to attempt "balance" in your books.

3) Release FAQ's for your books that are a joke and actually make things worse.

4) Release books with rules that have clearly never been tested by anyone not playing space marines, like kill points.

5) Ignore certain armies for over a decade. Pretend that it's cus the sales for those armies are bad instead of sales being bad because there is no support.

6) Be as obscure as possible about upcoming products! Make the internet rumor mill handle everything so that people will have plenty of misinformation when they go to spend money. Remember, informed customers are only good if your product is well made!

This is how GW does it! They are the MASTERS of annoying customers... i mean uh.. players.

Make whiny posts on the internet.

Constantly call your opponents army "monster dolls".

setup the game, deploy as normal and then breakout your pen and paper and build your armylist for 15-20 min but have the worse handwriting possible. Bonus points if done in crayon.

Ask to borrow my scatter dice, I really hate that.

Sadly not. I was banished from Warseer after being found in posession of a sense of humour. It was shocking stuff though, and I penned an Article for Firebase as a rebuttal to it.

The guy reccomended not talking to your opponent, at all, except to say 'your turn' when you had finished. Apparently it puts them on edge, and you can take advantage. And don't forget such tactical finesse as only going for his best painted units. Because that'll make all the difference.....

was that recently by the way?
i think i remember seeing your handle on there, although i guess it could have been someone else
and what exactly happened?


that actually sounds like a really good (albeit a bit cruel) tactic...
isolation can really feth people up, especially when expecting to have a fun friendly game...
same for the second one... nothing like seeing someones face when that newly purchased
model they think they painted amazingly (and they will be sure to tell you so during deployment) gets popped...

Give thoughtful, well thought-out, and honest opinions to my opponents. Almost every time they assume I am lying because I am on the other side of the table and do something stupid just because it is not what I recommended.

Maybe it's just me.

During a game in a FLGS league against an opponent I didn't care for, every time I had a model take a wound from shooting I yelled "MEDIC". I also mixed it up w/the occasional "MAN DOWN". When failing a moral check I'd use the Monty Python "RUN AWAY RUN AWAY". He never played me again outside of when he had to for the league.

Just thought of this... bring a heap of snap-together minis and move their arms up and down when they shoot, making 'pew pew!' noises.

When performing a tank shock move squash your opponents minis with your tank.

When ramming with skinmmers throw them at your opponents vehicle.

Over the course of the game gradually drop your trousers and pants revealing your 'greater demon of slaanesh'.

One time when playing orks my opponent released bomb squigs at my land raider. To represent this he actually THREW his bomb squigs AT my land raider.

It was fine afterwards. I guess orks really are bad at damaging tanks.

"Add a spring-loading system to your Basilisk. Bring lots of ball bearings. "

Done

if you really REALLY dont like the guy you could dump on the table and leave....


id be pretty annoyed


the guy chucking the bomb squigs sounds amazing, but not for your lovely painted land raider...

Bring lots of small bags of chips (crisps for you folk on the other side). Eat most of a bag till you get down to the dust at the bottom. Once there, sprinkel it all over the game table (mostly on your opponent's side) and say its snowing alien snow. Repeate for as many bags as you have. Bonus ponits for each bag of cheetoes.

chew a whole packet of chewing gum with your mouth open

Say "Anything but a 1" when your opponent rolls.

Platuan4th wrote:"Anything but a 1"

my most hated wargaming phrase...