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Ask a lot of obvious questions. Then, when they answer, disagree with them, no matter how true they were.
"So.... what legion are plague marines from?"
"The death guard, mostly."
"I think you're wrong.... They come from the world eaters. I know that for a fact"

A friend of mine has a marine army half painted as Ultramarines, some as Ravenguard and others as his own chapter. They were once dubbed the Ravensmurfs and the name kinda stuck lol.

Amongst our group we generally know who we are gonna be playing that evening so there is a lot of pre-game banter via text message, usually describing in detail what one commander will do to another.

All good fun and adds to the game later I find.

Argue that 'bolters' and 'boltguns' are different. Works pretty well against sisters players.

I also dub one model in my opponents army my "objective" usually something I don't like or something my opponent took that was silly. Like an ethereal or the like. When I kill it I declare I've won the game no matter what's actually happening on the board.

Friendly ways to insult?

Uuuuuh.....Ughhh.....


Perhaps I shouldn't even of made this post.

Shadowbrand wrote:Friendly ways to insult?

Uuuuuh.....Ughhh.....


Perhaps I shouldn't even of made this post.

Uuuuuh.....Ughhh.....

...Hmm, that's pretty friendly. I'll have to try that. Thanks bro.

Make fun of his army nonstop. if playing Eldar, call em "Grannies, pointy ears, Space Elves" if playing orks just grunt and smack things

"Remove both sides’ casualties with a paintball gun"

Win!

I go with my standards:
If the opponent is claiming rules lawyering / they don't like how a rule is so they think they can change it / house rule == a very dismissive "Sorry I play by the rules"

If my opponent claims I'm over competitive == "Be less bad"

If my opponent claims cheese == "Build a better army" / "Be Less bad"

Not exactly friendly but definitely clean. I'm very competitive & since most the guys I play with aren't I've become kind of snobish but after having lost one game in the better part of 5 months and only 2 close wins (The rest were blowout / tables by turn 3) in the same time frame (Neither were regulars, it was a tournament) I've gotten kind of bored and want a challenge.

I like to find an unpainted or poorly painted model in their army and tell them it is the best looking model they have, or ask them if they let their kids / young siblings help them paint.

If youy want to rag on someones army, thats all well and good, but if you go for the obvious 'oh twilight marines lololol sparkle!' 'which one of your raiders has drizzt on it' or any of the same played out doofus insults, you may as well just quote family gys jokes at them.

Not really my strategy to do something like this, but I like talking strategy during the game - be it your own or your opponents.

If you point out bad moves that look good, and talk about them as if you made a blunder - "Man, your LRBT has total LOS to my Guardians in those trees...Jesus (expletive) Christ, how did I miss that?" - They may begin to consider these moves as a viable option. This is during your opponent's turn, of course.

During your turn, point out what you intend to do - if you're lying or not is irrelevant. Mix in a good amount of lies and truth - telling the truth about clearly obvious moves you're going to do - "(humming) Fire Dragons...da da da...Gonna blow up a Chimera today... da da da...gonna assault some Guardsmen and kill their ass hardcore... da da da!" - will make the opponent start to dismiss your talking as playful banter during your turn, or maybe some way to remember your plan as you go about your turn. You can also tell the truth about completely outlandish moves that you do intend to try. If you decide to try something crazy you can also talk about it non-chalantly or give it a sarcastic spin - if you say it non-chalant, just do it like the rest of your stuff as part of your move (this works best when talking about what it will do next turn). If you go sarcastic, he may dismiss it and get caught off-guard.

I wouldn't make fun of people's army lists or paint jobs, as people really do put heart and soul into those, and you don't want to actually insult someone's hard work.

However, the army they play is fair game, and I would have little trouble making fun of the little Guardsmen as I assault them, or preferably make fun of Ork assault capabilities before I plow my Fortuned Scorpions into his Doomed Boyz.

Note that against highly skilled opponents, or those with exceptionally clear heads, no tactic will work, as they can see through the ploy, stick the plan they had formed already, or simply ignore you and see the best moves.

Henners91 wrote:Don't y'all have playful banter in Germany?

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I've just decided i will take a blood Angel from one of my friends, and cover it in sparkles

If playing these armies

Eldar: OH good! Space Queers...NOAW PRANCE AWAY NOAW PRANCE AWAY ....Than a really gay laugh..WUHEHEAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA...in a high pitched voice. Because Eldar do nothing but prance away, prance away and shoot.

Chaos Marines: awww man...I have to freaken play newbie Marines AGAIN!? I freaken hate this. (Say this while looking at their list)
OH great. Complain about how their list is using nothing but the same cheap tricks that everyone else uses and how a pain in the butt its gonna be playing him is gonna be.

Tau or Necrons - OH good. An easy army to play.

Space Marines: Youre playing Vanilla Marines? Oh good! Canned meat for my "insert army name" to eat!

EmilCrane wrote:I also dub one model in my opponents army my "objective" usually something I don't like or something my opponent took that was silly. Like an ethereal or the like. When I kill it I declare I've won the game no matter what's actually happening on the board.

This.

Also helps if you pull out some old 2nd ed secret objective cards, and then ask what your opponents secret mission was.

TheRedArmy wrote:Not really my strategy to do something like this, but I like talking strategy during the game - be it your own or your opponents.

If you point out bad moves that look good, and talk about them as if you made a blunder - "Man, your LRBT has total LOS to my Guardians in those trees...Jesus (expletive) Christ, how did I miss that?" - They may begin to consider these moves as a viable option. This is during your opponent's turn, of course.

During your turn, point out what you intend to do - if you're lying or not is irrelevant. Mix in a good amount of lies and truth - telling the truth about clearly obvious moves you're going to do - "(humming) Fire Dragons...da da da...Gonna blow up a Chimera today... da da da...gonna assault some Guardsmen and kill their ass hardcore... da da da!" - will make the opponent start to dismiss your talking as playful banter during your turn, or maybe some way to remember your plan as you go about your turn. You can also tell the truth about completely outlandish moves that you do intend to try. If you decide to try something crazy you can also talk about it non-chalantly or give it a sarcastic spin - if you say it non-chalant, just do it like the rest of your stuff as part of your move (this works best when talking about what it will do next turn). If you go sarcastic, he may dismiss it and get caught off-guard.

I wouldn't make fun of people's army lists or paint jobs, as people really do put heart and soul into those, and you don't want to actually insult someone's hard work.

my friends and I do this all the time when we play, it kinda works the opposite now since we expect each other to do it. Its a fun little psychology game that runs parrell to the actual battlefield game!

I keep shouting "SHOW ME POTATO SALAD!" when I do giant bucket dice rolls.

Oddly enough it works.

Fake cough when they make a dice roll
usually messes up thier roll

Laugh when they choose to do something, like if thier 10 banshees assault 3 grots and a runtherd. Then just say, just loud enough so (s)he can hear "heh heh heh", "You'll be sorry" or "shouldn't of done that.". This confuses him/her and puts him/her on guard for an attack which isn't coming. If they say they have an army with an old codex (like tau or eldar), snigger.

Vanilla marine codex: Oh hey! my four year old brother plays with those guys, but he can't play anything else, I wonder why?

Play with multiple coloured dice and roll them aggresively into your opponents units.

When you've knocked down enough of your opponents models and they ask you (rather angrily) why your doing that, claim his men are simply tasting the rainbow.

I annoyed the feth out of my mate acouple of weeks ago

What I do is intimidate my friend. By pulling out my best list to date. And then he says."Opps."
As I pull out my razorback and heavy tank spam list XD. But he knows that It has a few ups and downs. Like one game it was completely destroyed by a Vortex Missile, from a warlord titan :(.

Or I start joking around, and all other types of things. When I face my ultramarines. I call him 'Papa Smurf', then with my guard friend, 'Cannon Fodder' the nid player, 'Aliens Rawr.' Etc. etc. etc.

The following arn't really insulting, rather demoralising.

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Randomly giving bad advice.
Randomly giving good advice.

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Paying more attention to the game behind you.

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Before playing the game (haha, "the game", in case anyone plays) look over their list, look over yours, look back to theirs, laugh a little, then let your girlfriend play for you with her pink army.

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When challenging someone you know, but havn't played yet: "Hi, fancy a game? I havn't beaten you yet!"
In responce to the above: "Yea, Good luck with that by the way"

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If your pretty sure your going to win, start playing silly. (kind of insulting, but can greatly lift the mood if the opponent isn't taking the hammering well)
Such as, turbo boosting 6 fast skimmers to tank shock one unit, repeatedly. Even if it is fearless.
or...
Charging a non-combat unit, into a combat unit.
Win that combat.

I tend to apologize when I wreck my friends' units. I do mean it too, but it also makes me sound like a douche.

So basically this thread is about being prick...

Nurglitch wrote:So basically this thread is about being prick...

Well... theres that... then is friendly competative banter among friends.
Saying/doing anything to anyone you don't know that well might end up with you getting a slap in the mouth.
Against some good friends however, it can simply add to the fun, especially if you've played with same group for a while and have a few beers in you.

I make fun of myself as much as they make fun of me. Since I run Guard, I'll make quips like "well, hopefully I hit something this time." or "that guy is going on the firing squad later." Likewise, my friends say things like "thank god for Guard BS." Its a lot of fun. Its about having fun and trying to not be a dick.

I place a small coffin on the table. When they ask what it is for, I reply "Your dignity".

I give all my opponents a box of kleenex before the match, and just say that they are going to need it.

Well, I'm a fan of "Yo Primarch" jokes when playing against different Space Marine armies. I made a thread about it a while back. My favorite was "Yo Primarch so fat, he gets Preferred Enemy against hamburgers!"

"Yo moma so Tau, she got beatin' in a fist fight by a dead,limbless sloth!"