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I HATE when a game of 40k turns into a baw session. I will admit I have gotten annoyed over certain games, but have never caused a scene. The chief offenders are my brother and some of my idiot friends, I hate when people get all bent out of shape because of a game, it ruins the enjoyability for both players. I believe all losses should be learning experiences. As you all probably know first hand baw sessions aren't fun at all.

I'm usually not a sore loser (mostly because i win like, 80% of the games I play :-P) but when the die start saying "No" i can be a bit of a whiner. I always feel like a jackass when i end up winning too XD.

One time i think i was justified though. I played a guy (he was guard (Soviet guard too, btw Oshova, you're not the only one)) and i was gonna 1st turn assault him with Shrike + friends (infiltrate).

3 games in a row. he stole the initiative.

i'll say that again for ephasis:

3 GAMES IN A ROW.

he wasn't using loaded dice, he's not the type to cheat in any way. he just keps getting lucky.

And every time that resulted in shrike and firneds eating a battle cannon or two. My mini death star was crunched on the first turn for 3 games. One of these games had my Assault-termy laden LR immobilized after moving one inch too, which left my main death star vulnerable to demolisher cannons.

after the third game i was a little upset (nothing as bad as whats been posted here) and vowed to NEVER EVER go first again. (unless i steal the initiative).

That's developed into my current strategy of reserving most of my army :-P

LunaHound wrote:but it feels like im playing with myself like that -_-

http://instantrimshot.com/

I'm really new to the game, so I haven't played too much. But my friend is probably the OPPOSITE of a sore loser. It's like he enjoys losing more than winning, and he acts it up really big. His acting reminds me a lot of...

(Linky)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f36gPAfgRMU

Some real two fisted gaming tales in this thread!

warboss wrote:

Buttlerthepug wrote:Whats your story of someone whom youve played (or just watched) and has been a sore looser?

Recently, as part of a league game, my opponent was deciding between which of his two armies to bring to the table, and after giving up about turn 3 or 4 he was just a major sore looser and kept saying had he used his other army he would have won.

I just found it funny, since I told him I didnt mind which army he brought and it was his choice >.<
So now Im curious what other stories there are of sore loosers?

i wouldn't say that's a sore loser. whiney, sure... but not a sore loser. as long as the anger/angst is directed to where it should be (the dice, the player's own choices), i have no problem with it. if a player starts resenting me for knowing/following the rules and making good choices in target priority and such, then i'd call them a sore loser.

After readomg everyone elses story, I can help but agree with you now. Although personally, I can understand dice rolling and similar uncontrollable factors, but you can at least finish out the game regardless of how the game is looking.

I used to get real sad and whiney when I started to lose games, after playing against enough people who where the same way I realized the err of my ways.

Now, regardless of how the game is going I do my best to keep a positive mood, and always emphasize how awesome their <insert weapon/spell/ability/unit> is doing

for example, in one game my 6 units of genestealers couldn't seem to roll higher than a 2 on any of their difficult terrain or run rolls, and my buddies terminators ran 6" and got 6" terrain rolls every time, so by the end of the game we had a psuedo-meme goin on about how anything that can move more than 2" is "Faster than a F--king genestealer" the whole store got in on it, and soon enough grots and chimeras were moving "faster then F--king genestealers" on the other side of the room. I got completely mauled in the game because of those dice rolls, but I turned it into a fun joke that everyone enjoyed.

Its the same story when Im beating someone into the ground, I try to find something in their army that I can emphasize as being awesome, like a unit that shoots exceptionally well, or something to that effect.

jbunny wrote:Had a lady get so upset that her orks were dying by the droves, that she started picking up the dead models and slamming them into her box.

Had she ran out of tampons?

Dashofpepper wrote:Sore losers....*phew*

How about beating someone in a tournament, and they register an account on Dakka and elsewhere to scream that you're a cheater, and a whiner, and only won because you screamed to get your way and threw hissyfits and use loaded dice.....*e-drama at its finest*

I only caught the thread where someone was accusing you of quitting during a tourney.

Albatross wrote:

jbunny wrote:Had a lady get so upset that her orks were dying by the droves, that she started picking up the dead models and slamming them into her box.

Had she ran out of tampons?

Ouchies!

Sheesh these are some real horror stories. Ive only had very little experience with friggin sissy babies. The first group I was part of (I was like 16/17) there was this one guy that did just that stuff. He would cheat like holy hell, and then cry bitch and moan when he lost. He would set up the table totally in his favor (he played IG) and would hide basilisks behind buildings, and direct fire them at units and the like. Make up rules like "oh uh...well these guys here have *insert random made up thing* and so they get to uh....re roll their saves!
He reminds me of a rat......with a human body. Guy was a total asshat. Infact one game where he pulled all the stops out, I ALMOST beat his ass. If the game had gone another turn I would have won the game, and thats AFTER he did all the previous and then some.

BUT Im picky about my group now, so anyone pulls that gak and Ill lay into um. Im here to have fun and enjoy making bullet sounds and laughing at making my 6+ saves, not to have people throw things and complain because the dice arnt with them today. It happens to everyone, grow the feth up

2 stories.

First is one shamefully about myself back in 2000 when I was only 18, I was a bit if a different person then. I once spent ages building and painting an eldar army, just to be completly tabled by my best friends's space wolves, it was a massacare, every dice roll went against me. I sulked a bit, and I still feel bad about it today. Damn old rules space wolves with like 4 power fists per squad.


My other story is at Perth Conflict 2005(or was it 2006?) (which I won).
I was fielding a Chaos Undivided Army, in 4th ed codex just after it came out, painted to be Alpha Legion.
The army's tactic was it had a squad of chosen in a rhino with a daemon banner. for newer polayers this let me choose when to summon 1 squad of daemons it was attached too into play at the start of any turn I want. The daemons would not scatter, and could assault. the daemons I had in reserve were daemonetts (who were badass).

Anyway, 2nd game, I did a denied flank with my predator anhillator sitting on the far flank, and all my other minis on the opposite flanks. The rhink charges foward, disgourges the chosen. I clearly point to the model and say it has a daemon banner, would you like me to explain how it works?
'no, Im not an idiot.'
'Ok, sure.'

Anyway, next turn I summon the 15 odd daemonetts right into the middle of his all foot marine army and charge, killing 10 marines before they can fight back and then consolidating into his next tactical squad. Meanwhile My predator has been shot by 3 lascannons and a plasma cannon every turn, but he has failed to roll about a 2 for armor pen, and in return the predator as vaped both this dudes dreadnaughts.
Now first he tries and cheats, by saying that he can use a consolidation move to consildate out of combat with my damonetts, which i point out he cant, and he gets upset.
So I crush him utterly, and go on to my next game.
Now he shows up to my next opponent and starts going like,
'This guys army has a secret trick, you absolutely have to destroy the rhino! Shoot it with everything first turn, don't let it get near you!'
What a dick, he basically tried to reveal my secret strategy to my enemy. this army relies heavily on people underestimating the chosen squad in the rhino, once people know the tactic it is very easy to shut down by killing the rhino then the chosen, meaning the daemonetts cant be summoned.
Anyway, the guy doesnt follow this dudes advice and I crush him hardcore. He takes it well, great guy.
Last game this dude shows up AGAIN and starts the same speach to my next opponent

'this guys secret plan is..'
and to the last dudes credit he is like
'Look, I dont want to know. Go away and dont ruin this game for me. half the fun is reacting to my opponents plan on the fly or trying to figure it out myself.'

so the kid sulks off. Me and the last dude (a tau player back in the days when tau were the bees knees) have an awesome game, tho I massacare him off the table. the irony is he sees my plan and kills the rhino early, but my predator and oblits carry the day for me anyway.

So yeah, what a sore loser, following me around all day trying to make me lose all my following games!
But I still got best overall, so whatever

lokilokust wrote:I remember one time a little over a decade ago, there was this regular who played space marines (blood angels, i think) and pretty much lost every game he ever played. He was young (fourteen) and had absolutely no grasp of tactics and strategy but he always had fun and never complained. eventually, he played against this other fellow (who was almost twice his age) and he finally won against this other creep's nazi painted imperial guard army.
Well, after the nazi creep lost, he flipped out, threatened the kid, threw the kid's rhino against the wall (smashing it and getting himself banned from the store for good) and proceded to go outside, scream racial slurs at the now terrified fourteen year old, and generally cause a ruckus before the cops showed up.
Later in the week he went to the kid's house, destroyed his bicycle and tried to beat up the poor kid until the cops came, again, and arrested him.
I have yet to see a bigger sore loser than that.

I feel bad for that poor kid.
I hope he didn't quit because of that anus.

I feel so lucky to not have anybody like this in my local GWS.

Holy crap I missed the nazi flip out post lol. Seriously if someone tried that crap on my son, Id beat the ever living tar out of the guy. He wouldnt even want to tempt fate walking on my property. God some of these people need a real life

Hmm nazi guys and 40k should not mix.

anyways, has anyone ever been in a game, and your opponent has trouble paying attention and is walking away/having side conversations constantly. I was playing somebody at my FLGs a few weeks ago, at first we were both really into the game but due to some very unlucky dice rolls on his part the game turned drastically in my favor, after that he began to basically ignore our game, turning to talk to other people while I was doing my dice rolls. One turn my predator lascannoned his dread, penned it and exploded it, only to find that my opponent has left the table to talk to someone else, I go and tell hm his dread just exploded and he was giving me looks like I was cheating. It was all good in the end because I tabled this kid, but his conduct was just so rude.

I've an important confession to make: I'm sometimes a sore loser.

Generally it happens only when I've been drinking heavily (something I've stopped since. Alcohol and 40k don't mix), or when I play a specific guy in our local group. Our standing arrangement is that we play friendly lists unless otherwise specified. The other day I played a DH game against some 1k sons, so we don't usually do hard lists unless we're prepping for something new. This guy, to give you an example of his standard operating procedure, is the kind of guy who, when I told him I wanted to playtest some changes I was making for my DH army, brought Leafblower against me, and then got pissy when I asked him why he would do that. In retaliation, I made him play out the entire game, down to killing my last guy. He's a good guy, and we've been friends for a long time, but for some reason, he just has a knack for bringing out the worst in me over a game. The other thing that sets me off is bad dice rolling. I'm the guy who managed to not cause a single wound with shotgun/meltavets on firewarriors outside of cover.

Either way I don't usually get angry and start breaking things (except the drunk time, and that was always my own), though I have thrown a die or two, but that's been the running group gag since we started playing D&D years ago. We had a guy who did the "smash the die with a hammer" thing. It just helps mitigate the frustration. Ultimately, the way I look at it is whatever I do to my own property is my own problem afterward, but you don't touch other people's stuff. The stories of people who smash other people's mini's is just mind blowing to me. Honestly, I couldn't even begin to fathom how to respond to that. No internet tough-guy here. I can safely say I'd be paralyzed with misanthropy.

daedalus wrote:I've an important confession to make: I'm sometimes a sore loser.

Generally it happens only when I've been drinking heavily (something I've stopped since. Alcohol and 40k don't mix), or when I play a specific guy in our local group. Our standing arrangement is that we play friendly lists unless otherwise specified. The other day I played a DH game against some 1k sons, so we don't usually do hard lists unless we're prepping for something new. This guy, to give you an example of his standard operating procedure, is the kind of guy who, when I told him I wanted to playtest some changes I was making for my DH army, brought Leafblower against me, and then got pissy when I asked him why he would do that. In retaliation, I made him play out the entire game, down to killing my last guy. He's a good guy, and we've been friends for a long time, but for some reason, he just has a knack for bringing out the worst in me over a game.

Wow... the way you describe it sounds just like me and someone else , in reverse role.

I cant speak for your friend , but i do exact samething you mentioned.

Basically i dont really like playing against TFG or Ppl that acts negatively in a game.
So sometimes i would bring an army specially made to obliterate the TFG's (for example i would ignore the mission and
go directly wipe out every single miniature he has )

So... maybe he is giving you some hint :x to not be so mean lol

@Luna:

Yeah, maybe so. The other guys we play with complain about similar things from him though, so I assumed it wasn't just me. Admittedly, I am kind of a jerk, but for what it's worth, I typically do far better in sportsmanship than he does at tournaments. I think he might just not be able to get his head out of tournament mode, and I just need to stop bringing a knife to the gun fight and demanding he does the same.

daedalus wrote:I've an important confession to make: I'm sometimes a sore loser.

Generally it happens only when I've been drinking heavily (something I've stopped since. Alcohol and 40k don't mix), or when I play a specific guy in our local group. Our standing arrangement is that we play friendly lists unless otherwise specified. The other day I played a DH game against some 1k sons, so we don't usually do hard lists unless we're prepping for something new. This guy, to give you an example of his standard operating procedure, is the kind of guy who, when I told him I wanted to playtest some changes I was making for my DH army, brought Leafblower against me, and then got pissy when I asked him why he would do that. In retaliation, I made him play out the entire game, down to killing my last guy. He's a good guy, and we've been friends for a long time, but for some reason, he just has a knack for bringing out the worst in me over a game. The other thing that sets me off is bad dice rolling. I'm the guy who managed to not cause a single wound with shotgun/meltavets on firewarriors outside of cover.

I had the same thing when I wanted to test my new Terminator Force and Deep Striking back in 3rd. He uplled somthiong with his Eldar Force and Clearded the Board before the Top of Turn 2. After the Game he eaid, "I never Practice, you shoulod just get better."
I alsmost Lost It, If we had not been at the LFGS I might have.

The sick thing about it was that he doesn't play IG. I do normally. His normal armies are Eldar and Tau. He just made the list to wash over me with every AP2 weapon he could find.

I played a massive four-player game that was set up to follow a script. It was three eldar armies, Uthwe, Biel Tan, and Dark eldar verse imperial guard and chaos with tyranids joining in to make a real brawl out of the whole thing. The battle was set at 6500 points and took place in 3rd edition so it was way before Apocalypse came out.

Of the players I had the three eldar forces at least model wise. The other player fielded both the chaos and imperial guard as both armies were his. The two other players were going to show up two hours after we started playing. One was a tyranid player and the other was his younger brother who was new to the game, did not possess an army, and was interested in trying out eldar. Base on this I came up with the idea of creating 1200-point Biel tan force for the younger brother to play. And the older could play tyranids that would enter the game via the old CA tyranid deepstrike force, he would be a free agent attacking whomever he wanted. We reasoned that the biel-tan force and the tyranids would enter the game on the third turn reasoning that’s the point the game would have reached when the two brothers arrived. The chaos player had a baneblade, it used pre-apocalypse rules that I think were even tougher than their modern set.

Well the chaos player was just horrible. Because of his excruciating slow deployment and turn taking we were still on turn 1 when the two brothers arrived. Bare in mind that I was playing 5300 points verse 6500 as the biel-tan forces that would be controlled by the younger brother would be the other 1200 points missing from my force. I suggested that the brothers enter then game on the 2nd turn so they do not have to wait through a whole another turn. The chaos player angrier shouted this idea down, as he felt strongly against me receiving the biel tan forces that would put us one a equal footing in terms of points. I had the foresight to create a mini-game with the last chancers hunting the red terror for the brothers to play –reasoning that they might have to wait a little for us if their arrived mid-turn. So we catered to the chaos player and the brothers played my mini-game three or four times and watched us play waiting for the third turn.

During the game I flew an empty raider in front of two basilisks and blocked their line of sight for direct targeting. The raider was soon destroyed and I placed a destroyed marker on top of it. The chaos player then goes about taking his turn, but starts to direct fire his basilisks. I stop him and inform him that my burning wreckage of my raider would block line of sight. He than argues that because the vehicle is destroyed he can see through it. He is very insistent on this concept. Unable to find in the rulebook were it says that you couldn’t shoot through destroyed vehicles – I had to dash up to my WD collection to pick up one with a battle report in which one player used his destroyed vehicles to block line of sight. Only then did the chaos player concede his argument. He indirect fired his tanks, and I kept silent on how in 3rd you were not allowed to fire indirectly after other units fired regularly.

I managed to assault his baneblade, which was a monster throughout the game, with my scorpions, the exarch was armed with a powerfist and at the time he hit with a strength of 9. When rolling for hits I mentioned that I auto-hit because the tank didn’t move during the chaos player’s last turn. At this the chaos player insisted that the tank did in fact move and swore on the lives of his parents. Now I was pretty sure that the tank didn’t move, but I was not sure enough to swear on my parents lives sure, so I counted the tank as moving when rolling for hits. My scorps bombed the assault and the tank slaughtered them next turn – the tank only had one structure point left at the time of the assault.

Well my backup arrives with the kid, who has the lion share of all my aspect warriors. He has shining spears, spiders, banshees, fire dragons and some other stuff. A falcon with a squad of fire dragons closes on the baneblade and finishes off the tank. The young player is thrilled at being the able to make such a large contribution to the game. So here comes the chaos player to rain on his parade. He goes on this whinny rant accusing me of rigging the game by making the biel-tan force with the sole purpose of destroying his super tank in mind. He starts on about how could he have possibly win the game if the there was a falcon with fire dragons arriving on the third turn. His tank definitely earned back its points in destruction of my forces and the tyranids, but he would not let go, he was apparently the victim of some form of villainous conspiracy to cheat him by killing his supposedly invincible baneblane.

Well the game ended with the tyranid player getting completely destroyed, he really had a misfortunate number of deep strike rolls combined with the chaos player placing his pie plates with perfect precision. The baneblade took out two squads of 16 genestealers in one shooting phase – a template over each on the turn they arrived and out of 32 hits not a single one to wound was rolled. When this happened the chaos players was practically dancing with joy and openly mocked the tyranid player while heaping praise on his tank. The eldar were victorious in the end. The chaos player whined throughout the game whenever something didn’t go his way and threaten to pack up and leave several times. It was only when we called him on it and told him to go if he wanted and we would just play a regular game between us, did he stop the threatening nonsense. Anyway it is always amazing how a whiny player can ensure no one else can derive any enjoyment from a game. For a while after that I avoid playing large games as this one left me with a bitter taste.

@Grunt13: Didn't you know that Baneblades are invincible? And they should be able to kill 6500 points by themself =p

But seriously, that's just ridiculous, but I kind of expect that. I know several people where if you kill certain models they lose all enthusiasm for the game. Generally go for the big or awesome looking things =p

Oshova

I'm only a sore loser when I go against one of my friends. I'm not sure why either, whenever I play against him I feel like I am playing differently. Of course we are like best friends so maybe it's just my competitive side. But I've played other 40k games where I was getting my ass whupped and I didn't care.

Oh well.

Plus he always fething steals the initiative. It's really annoying.

My brother, hands down. He can't stand losing and always blames me for making up rules or misinterpreting them.

Iv'e always had good games, the only time when someone got annoyed with me was when my carnifex entered play behind his basilisk, and blew it up with a rear shot.

He threw said basilisk at me, i still have the scar where the spiky mudguards cut me.

-I played in a hardboys a few years back, and my opponent took for ever. We got through turn 2 just 5 inutes before time because he was so slow in deployment and play. I kinda went off on him. I mean, turn 2 in 2.5 hours?! Bad form on my part.

-I played some tourney years ago (during the bad old days of 3d6 sweeping advance for jump troops) where the board was cut into quarters, with a warp in the center. I had a huge death company, and somehow managed to sweep into my opponents (who were all crowded up close to the warp) and destroy large sections of their armies, each in their section of the turn (4 players per table). We all agreed that it was legal and followed the rules, but there were some butthurt bubbas by the end of it. It WAS pretty broken, in retrospect; I gutted 4 forces (they were like 500-750 points apiece each player? something like that?) in a single game turn.

I beat this guy's DH with my leafblower IG and he raged and he said "POMPOUS LITTLE CHEATER ILL KILL YOU" and I was like "Do it fgt."

Nofasse 'Eadhunta wrote:I beat this guy's DH with my leafblower IG and he raged and he said "POMPOUS LITTLE CHEATER ILL KILL YOU" and I was like "Do it fgt."

Cool story bro.

Wings of Purity wrote:Wow, guys, wow! Those are very scary experiences!

I guess I've been a loser before when I lost with my necrons:

My ork buddy phased me out and asked me if I could've done better with my eldar and i was like "oh totally" the whole way.Tomorrow I will have to prove it


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Wish me luck

I once had a guy I beat build a 1:1 scale Warhound titan and then set it on fire out of spite while screaming racial profanities in an Abe Lincoln costume...

Not really, I just love how these types of threads get more and more far fetched as they go along, and so I just wanted to do my part...

Worst sore loser.

I was playing a friend of mine. He had a tank that was just throwing plasma templates. On the second turn, I shot his front armor with a railhead. Three 6's., with the last one cocked. We did the balance thing, and it didn't fall. He complained for a while, but won anyway. Otherwise my gaming group is pretty good.

Nofasse 'Eadhunta wrote:I beat this guy's DH with my leafblower IG and he raged and he said "POMPOUS LITTLE CHEATER ILL KILL YOU" and I was like "Do it fgt."

Mhm....