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Let him howl at the moon Grabthar. Nobody's listening.

Howlingmoon wrote:
And that "Rule #1" is selectively applied at best and just generally a not particularly funny joke.

If so, why not establish your very own fair and justly run forum? You could enforce fair treatment for all there!

or would you just like a big, snuggly hug?

We have/had a couple locally, but we've not really seen much of them recently. Thank God. Father and Son double act. Both horrendous rules lawyers, fond of the fastgrab dice technique, extremely footloose and fancy free with rule interpretations as long as it benefitted them, and incredibly poor sports overall. Especially when you gave them a judicious thrashing. Worst thing was the state of their armies. Son played Bretonnians, and had a real mish-mash of almost entirely broken models (Knights missing helms, lances, no horse heads etc) with no undercoat on them. Dad wasn't much better. Yet both felt the need to comment and critique on the condition of other peoples armies.

Though they did have a couple of redeeming features. Watching a game between the two of them would provide hours of entertainment as they argue back and forth about a rule, despite both being wrong, then the accusations of cheating would begin, before one of them stomped off in a sulk. And the best bit? When you beat the Son (which was pretty much every game, unless he could find a NooB to chump bash) there was a fair chance he'd faint, or at least fall to the floor claiming a migraine.

Goons the pair of them!

I think this thread has proven that the TFG label can be applied to individuals on both sids of the tourney/casual debate...

Congrats to all.

TFG stands for THAT FANTASTIC GUY.

This is all a terrible mistake.

malf is my THAT FETHING GUY.

(just kidding)

jeez, guys.

Although he isn't TFG to me, I have a gaming friend who might be TFG to people who don't know him or meet him for the first time. He is really loud. Really, really loud. He knows all the rules, has all the books, has like every army for WFB, etc. He has this magical ability to role 6s when he needs them and 1s when he needs him.

I think if you pout after losing a game and act like a child who has just been scolded for p!ssing on the toilet seat, you are TFG.

chaplaingrabthar wrote:

Oh, for feth's sake...

Shouldn't that be "by Grabthar's hammer" ?

I consider myself blessed that I have only ever played a TFG once in 22 years.

There are two obnoxious players I know (who may be good players, but when they act like tools, they are perceived as such by all around them) who thankfully I won't have to play against at the next tourney as they are going to the competition (a rival tourney).

chromedog wrote:

chaplaingrabthar wrote:

Oh, for feth's sake...

Shouldn't that be "by Grabthar's hammer" ?

Heh, love that movie, pulled it out and watched it just last week.

Never give up, Never surrender!

barlio wrote:Local: Created a 2" mini spacer so that he will be minimally affected by templates (and to measure hth). I would be ok with this except that it doubles the amount of time it takes him to do anything. He also threatened to not play a game with me because we only had 4'x6' tables and he likes to play on 4'x8' tables.

Dude I'm right here and that hurts . I do know who you are talking about though. The mini spacer gave it away. Has he gotten you in the eye with his laser pointer yet?

My TFG story is about a judge at a tournament. I told the story before in a different thread but it fits here more so I guess you could call me TFG too :3. He interrupted my game without being asked to tell me that the mulit melta on my land raider crusader wasn't twin linked because of Vulkan. I said it is and had to wait for him and the other judge to squabble over who was right and the entire time my game is held up with the tournament timer ticking. After I was told I was right by a different judge I got to continue my game. He came over in my next game to tell my opponent "Don't forget you can fire both weapons on those" and pointed to the skimmers that had just moved at cruising speed. The thing that still gets me is that he is still allowed to judge tournaments and still makes those same calls. K. Done ranting on that for now :3.