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I'm sorry, but Joetaco, nice avatar. I thought I was the only one who ever knew about that..

''He's dead, killed by his own poison."

That was a long needed laugh.

EDIT:
Sorry for off topic.

My one true TFG moment was this guy. Approximately 14, overweight, reeked, twitched his fingers as a nervous habit, and played ultramarines. I can't think of someone who more fits the stereotype.

He had a really poor grasp of the rules, and he didn't own his own codex, so lots of things had special abilities that he "suddenly" discovered that his unit had, and in this particular game, his command of both codex and math was so poor, or he cheated so blatantly, that he brought 1,300 points to a 1,000 point game.

But that wasn't all. He rolls a single missile launcher against a chimera in cover and when he blows it up on the glance he spends the next full minute taking a break from the rest of his shooting phase because he needs to tell me that the result is the natural conclusion of ultramarines being AWESOME and guard units being flimsy and crappy. He kills some guardsmen, and has to stop, once again, to give me a lecture about how much the imperial guard sucks compared to space marines.

And yes, he made motor noises with his mouth when he moved his vehicles.

T.F.G.

I make motor noises when I move my vehicles....But, I'm 26 so it's cool :p and sometimes I making explosion noises when stuff blows up too.

I have met a gamer who would mouth the words you were saying when you were talking to him. Wasn't doing it to be an donkey-cave, he was just a bit on the slow side. Okay, a lot on the slow side. I didn't hold it against him, but God I wanted to punch him in the face every time. I mean, I would never do it, he was a nice enough guy, it was just SO annoying.

OOH! And every time I move a shoot with a unit of Necron troops I feel compelled to moan 'Braaaaaains'. Which I guess some people can find a little aggravating.

And as a further note, people can criticize my painting, modeling, and play style all they like. Picking up one of my minis is okay too, although I would rather you asked. However, any man tries to paint my friggin mini? I am going to flip out.

I think (going on the premise that ANY of these stories are true) that ...

... I am NEVER going to play in ANY of your overseas GW stores.

I've made great inroads towards this - I don't even play in my own country's GW stores. Non-store based clubs are where it's at - and the ones held in places with booze available are the best of all.

It keeps the younger ones out of our hair - and the rest of us can get on with the beer & skittles that is 40k.

my pet hate would be who ever it was back in 1994 stole my orlock with an autogun and juve with stub pistol at the Truro warhammer club... holding grudge

we get a lot of chavs who come in pretending to be interested and putting on 'nerd' voices and manerisms.
staff can always sort 'em out though by bringing them in and giving them intro games. its amazing
how quickly they get bored of their charade with their 'friends' standing outside laughing at them

cadian512 wrote:we get a lot of chavs who come in pretending to be interested and putting on 'nerd' voices and manerisms.
staff can always sort 'em out though by bringing them in and giving them intro games. its amazing
how quickly they get bored of their charade with their 'friends' standing outside laughing at them

I generally play warhammer at a mate's house, but I did see something like that in the Birmingham center GW once. Some chavvy lads came in, asked some questions, looked bored, buggered off. I really got the impression they'd walked in to take the piss, but couldn't think of anything funny to say (all their questions were fairly normal things someone would ask, just in an odd tone), or lost their nerve or whatever. Very strange.

God, I hate/love hearing horror stories like these. My Games Workshop outlet is run by dedicated, helpful staff, and the players are for the most part, really cool about the whole thing. If anything, I suspect myself of being one of the closest things we have to "TFG", besides a VERY irregular (I think he visited 2 times in the past month) IG player who loves to cheat every chance he gets. Second game I played was against the fether, and every round he would pull some "special rule" out of his ass, and I'd check the store IG codex, and whaddayaknow. I think the worst part is, I caught him at this gak so many times, and he never stopped. Every turn it was a new thing. And every turn he'd fudge movement, attempt to shoot at units of mine that his models had NO LoS to, and claim the because his guardsman had a foot hidden by a tuft of grass, that they all had 4+ cover saves. Only reason I didn't pack up my mini's and go, was because (a) It was my SECOND game, and the only one not against the staff as a friendly intro, and (b) I knew I'd have to play against TFG someday, so I might as well get used to donkey-caves now, so I appreciate the good players more.

But I have a bad habit of picking up a model to look at the paint job without asking, and then I remember, get all flustered and apologize profusely.

Flaming_Spider wrote:I was paintinig models in my FLGS once, and this guy who nobody had ever seen before kept coming over and critizizing my paint job and color scheme. Now normally, I love critizism, it helps me improve, but when people meke comments like;
"Your color scheme sucks. They look like gak and shouldn't be here."
And then proceeds to pick up one of my models and paint it, that is something I cannot abide.

You know its times like that when a good old fashioned angry peasant mob replete with torches and pitchforks would really come in handy.

Ah... All the above just reminds why I love internet shopping and will never go in a games shop unless dragged there by the Hounds of Tindalos...

Two years as a GW Manager put me off gaming shops for life. I chucked it in and went back to Uni.

Smelly, annoying, theiving, violent, stupid, arrogant, we saw it all.

And that was just the staff...

We only have one guy who shows up that is a real problem. Plays orks and takes particular liberties during movement/disembarkation that gives him a solid bit of an advantage. Classic stereotype who's pretty unhygenic and just all around one of those guys who puts you off him somehow. Tries to call you out on rules (wrongly) and stuff like that. I'm usually tolerant to it as best I can, even during games that prizes are on the line for. He's not so good and his aforementioned 'liberties' do have the added advantage of speeding up the game a deal, and in an Ork/IG game, every last second gained is like gold, but I do wince every time I see him show up.

Leigen_Zero wrote:Thankfully I have never had such problems as you describe AND my lgs's are ALL GWs! (i live in a gakky part of south wales where there is as much interest in GW as there is in not having 3 children before you are 21, so nearest place is minimum 1/2 hour drive).

Only one similar event I can relate, so i'm the kind of guy who still carries his stuff around in boxes placed inside bigger boxes, and not a scrap of foam to be seen, so usually while the opponent is deploying I am repairing half my army . So anyway, this kid comes up, who also plays orks (we all know him, he was pretty cool) and starts plastic gluing the arms back onto my nobz! normally i would have been pissed, but the kid managed to glue the arms back on in almost the same places (give or take 1/2mm) to the way I had carefully posed them the first time I had stuck them together! so instead all I could replay was, 'cool, thanks, you got the poses right as wel!', i mean he was like 12, but got the arm/gun to line up the way I had (in fact, his gluing still holds strong, and can be seen in my gallery on the nob with squig perch).

Don't know where you guys all go, but my GW is pretty cool.

Yeah, the swansea GW always seems busy when I go there??. Haven't run into anyone there that TFG mentioned already in this thread. I've seen the usual "weekenders" completely disregard and break store rules and ignore staff. Unfortnuatley my work shifts are so random I dont get a chance really to go down and experience these peple I hear so much about. Truly shocking in some cases, if anyone trys to pick my stuff up I'm like, with your eyes not your hands. Unless of course I know them then sure go ahead. But from the games I've been in and seen the Swansea GW lot are pretty good.

PS. swansea isnt to gakky, but totaly agree with the rest of that comment, sorry for off topic.

Big P wrote:Ah... All the above just reminds why I love internet shopping and will never go in a games shop unless dragged there by the Hounds of Tindalos...

Two years as a GW Manager put me off gaming shops for life. I chucked it in and went back to Uni.

Smelly, annoying, theiving, violent, stupid, arrogant, we saw it all.

And that was just the staff...

Nice Lovecraft reference

We have two groups of people in our gaming store, big guys with big and proper armies in the back(the bunker) and only rule-knowing people are welcomed there.

The outside is pretty bad, all the newbies who ignores the rules are there.

We go out to play frequently, but arguements happen.

We actually have a pretty good group down where I play at my FLGS... bar a couple of exceptions.

One of them is about 50-ish, overbearingly loud, and has a beard so thick it actually impairs his speech. I may just be annoyed by little things like that, like hearing how I managed to fail my "invunn" or "wadd" save - but there's something else that just really puts me off him. He won't play armies that aren't painted fully. No undercoats, no bare bases, three colours minimum. I mean, I can understand that he took the time to paint his army, but when it's a 15-man Space Wolves 1500 point army against a 1500 pt swarm tyranid army, it gets on my nerves.

The other is really just an obnoxious, overweight rules lawyer that will actually go so far as to completely stop the flow of the game and get out a rule book just to clear up THE WORDING of an irrelevant sentence.

Everyone else is pretty cool - drinks and jokes all around as we sit around some tables and roll some dice.

*makes note of all the things not to do in GW*

I'm new and don't wanna piss anyone off

Though I will have to check out the Swansea GW as I go to Uni there

The biggest douchelord I've ever seen at a 40k event was at the (Ard Boyz Semifinals. I didn't have to play him, but I was near enough to him to hear the shenanigans. I hear three people groan when he walked in, so that didn't seem like a good sign.

I've already wrote a lot of the stories about donkey-caves I've met, but honestly, I hate the people more than ANYONE that play eldar, and act as if they're "elite" because of it. I just can't stand that, especially when they try to explain how technologically more advanced the eldar are than every race combined in the world of WHFB.

Needless to say, I'm looking into if I can bring a openly displayed handgun into a GW shop to ward off some of the pussies with loud mouths

Unfortunately, DMX, this time it IS the size of the gun that matters.

What kinda eldar player pisses you off?I don't want to be one of them

People make fun of me for my eldar cuz they are gay,or they say it is.

don't listen to him Wings - eldar are not gay - they are bi/metro-sexual.

Had an experiance like whats in this thread a little while ago actually. Me and a buddy were playing a game of 40k in the back room. Horrible luck my friend. Kp mission and he got one point on my eldar army whilest I got like 7 I think.

Anyways this guy walks into the back. Looking at him I figured he lived on the street but knowing the area where I live he could have being a tree planter. Which is basically the same thing anyways.

So as my friends moving what he has left he asks what we are playing. Well 40k I say. A table top wargame kinda thing.

So then he asks me what difficulty it is. Kinda confused me there. Kinda chuckled inside. Pointed to my friend and said him.

Kinda didnt know what to say really. Then as my friend moves his dreddy he tells him he should have moved it across the table then shambles off. Kinda boggled my mind there and I just watched him after he walked off.

Counted my models after he did to as I was sure he would have taken something XD.

we get a lot of chavs who come in pretending to be interested and putting on 'nerd' voices and manerisms.
staff can always sort 'em out though by bringing them in and giving them intro games. its amazing
how quickly they get bored of their charade with their 'friends' standing outside laughing at them

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I feel like every time I step into my FLGS that they all think I am one of those, as I look completely different ( one man there said ''I bet you play dark eldar!''(in a non-negative way,). If that means anything to you. But anyways, they realize I'm not one of those idiots trying to be cool or something, when I sit beside the owner and talk to him about the anticipation of the new skaven, and building my dark eldar army.

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Yes okay, I am a noob at quoting.

We have a guy here at our local FLGS that's one of "those people." He mostly exhibits it as relentless cheating during competitive events. Rolling dice then quickly snatching them up declaring that they "all hit" or "all wounded." fielding not quite legal army lists by just going over points just enough to squeeze in that extra little something, knowing that nothing short of a complete audit of his army list will catch it. Movement, LoS, and other such shenanigans... He will literally try anything, and in his mind it's his opponents fault if they don't call him on it. To boot he plays EVERYTHING, enters every tournament and league his schedule allows, and he spends an AMAZING amount of money in the shop so the proprieters are a bit hesitant to bring things up with him when he's complained about, which I can appreciate in our current economic situation. Beacuse of him, though, I and a few others have stopped playing in any tournaments at the shop and will only show up for open gaming nights between friends.

Wings of Purity wrote:...and literally pick up other people's model and start painting and say"I can help you out" and then mess up by pouring paint all over the table and the poor model.

That guy would soon discover exactly what it feels like to pass a metal miniature through your colon. Because I would make anyone who picked up one of my models and just started painting it without my permission eat that model.

So far I have yet to meet any really obnoxious people at my local store. They are a cool bunch of folks, much better than some of the absolute freaks I met when I used to do role-playing more than war-gaming.

EDIT: Wait, there is this one guy who I played one of my first games of WHFB against. The 8th Ed. book wasn't out but I had preordered it, and didn't have 7th, so I had no idea how the game was played really. Only had the DoC Army Book. And I told him that up front, and he was like "Oh, don't worry, I'll teach you how to play."

Totally creamed my army. 1000 points of Daemons vs his 1000 points of WoC and he annihilated my entire army and I killed maybe 200 points of his army. I thought my army must suck. Then I played another game against a girl who actually knew the rules, and found out exactly how epically this guy had been cheating -- claiming my wizard could only cast one of his four spells per magic phase, rolling 1 dice when moving a unit of 12 across dangerous terrain, doing impact hits against me when I charged him, just crazy, crazy cheating. Pissed me off because once I got the book I realized I had to unlearn all this nonsense he had made up to win.

In my area, I used to have a GW two miles from my house and it was in a mall. The mall was right next to my high school and it was a nice mall but it had some ghetto kids but they usually avoid my GW. But I have had one moment, we game, where we had an onlooker who would mess with my crons (when I used them) and put them on top of each other and say, "Look at those necrons they are in such a funny position AHAHAHAHAHAlLOLOLOL111!!!11111oneone." SO yeah, he was the eleven year old that really didn't play but had his parents buy him a lot of stuff. I think the unsupervised gaming store kids. I used to be on, but I at least sat down and painting or played a match with my friend. But avast, that store moved to a different mall which is about an hour away so I got to the next closest on which is in a strip mall. FAR Superior as we don't have the random mall goers looking for video games and parents don't drop off their kids as they go shopping.

When I workded retail for WotC, people thought I wanted to hear stories about their D&D character or play by play games of Magic.

As soon as I heard "oh, so my character . . . ." or "I was playing Magic once and . . . .. ."; I'd nod and my eyes would glaze over as they chatted away and I went to my happy place.

The horror... the horror... I've had some pretty fantasticly terrible experiences in games stores. The worst is going into a new store and facing the scowling line of nerds who have the "You are not one of us" look on their faces.
Stereotypes exist for a reason. A lot of guys get into this because they are social outcasts, and often, this too is for a reason. Lack of social skills is a vicious cycle. You lack social skills because you don't have any friends, and you don't have friends because you lack social skillls.
At my old FLGS, they sold every type of game imaginable, from CCGs to RPGs to Miniature Wargames, and had one of the worst gamer populations I've ever seen. At the one I'm currently at, they are solely miniature gaming, and I think that helps. Sure, we still have rules-nazi's and teenagers who annoy you while you're playing ("Hey dude, why doesn't your bloodthirster just eat his general?"), but they institute a policy of "If you're under 13 you must be accompanied by an adult" and "No CCG's".
My pet peeve while playing is when a miniature falls over and the other guy says "Oh, he's dead! If it falls over it's dead! Hahaha!" If I had a nickle for every time I've heard that....

I tend to avoid gaming stores and just play in my group's houses. The only one I do visit on occasion is pretty relaxed and the people are "normal," though it doesn't sell a lot of Warhammer .

eledamris wrote:My pet peeve while playing is when a miniature falls over and the other guy says "Oh, he's dead! If it falls over it's dead! Hahaha!" If I had a nickle for every time I've heard that....

Well that would make horde armies easy to fight.