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for me it was probably a game I played at a games shop just after I got back into the hobby about a year and a half ago


I was playing Blood Angels the opponent Salamanders.


He was using "special" rules he briefly mentioned at the beginning but went into no details about (I not knowing much about them/having just restarted gave him the benefit of the doubt)

It didnt take me long to realise during the game that his rules involving a 6 wound chapter master with eternal warrior and Sergeants with 4+ Invuns (no SS or anything like that) stunk a little bit.

He also continually cheated, by picking up dice which were clearly one's as quickly as possible and claiming them to be higher. Ontop of that he also tried to claim he could shoot through solid walls but I couldnt shoot him back.

At any rate I found the game massively frustrating and annoying but I gritted my teeth to just get through it.

The amusing thing in the end was despite all his cheating he still lost to me.

My most annoying moment is when I was at my LGS and I was pulling out models to play with someone new to the store. In my box I had my GK and my Blood angels, I happened to use my GK that game and the guy kept saying " OH NOES NOT THE GAY KNIGHTS AGAIN!!" when we were in CC. Finished the game and left the table with no real comments.

Later that day I went off to play with a friend since he wanted a small friendly game since he was still learning. I used my BA this time around and the same guy who kept saying "gay knights" walked over and started talking smack about my GK and wouldn't lay off about how uncool the BA are and how he kept saying I should GS nipple tassels on to them. Fed up at that point I told him to shove off and talked to the manager on duty and I haven't seen him since.

I can think of two situations.

1.) Many many years ago, when Dark Eldar were new and had their original crappy Codex, they were my army of choice. I was playing against a kid a bit younger than myself, and he was actually quite a good opponent.

His friends, on the other hand, were aggravating. At the time I wanted to try out some Incubi, so I proxied a squad of Necron Warriors. No one had a problem with this and since they were part of my Archon's retinue, and the only thing in the retinue, there was no confusion as to what they were. Just to be sure, whenever I did anything with them, I'd refer to them as "the Necrincubi". Anyway, this kid's friends were pretty terrible. They kept picking up my minis in the middle of the game, moving them around, etc. After the tenth or so occurrence of my Incubi proxies being moved around while a 10 year old squeals "INFILTRATE, INFLITRATE!" I just apologized to my opponent, packed up, and left. If I were to give them the benefit of the doubt I'd say that my use of proxies somehow made them think it's OK to behave like morons, but the more likely case is that... well, kids are often morons and they would've behaved the same way regardless.

Now, again, on proxies, I'm OK with it if you want to proxy one unit, maybe two, to see how they work in game before you plunk down the cash for them. However, if your entire army is proxies (not conversions, proxies) then you're getting close to

2.) The Net-List Kid. Long story short, he appears to just get uber lists off the net and then proxies literally everything except two squads of Space Marines using the store owners' stuff from the back room, except Drop Pods. He uses Coke cans for Drop Pods. He's also not a very good sport at all and is quite liberal when it comes to measuring movement and ranges. I missed out on like four easy kill points because I kept forgetting that the stupid friggin cans were drop pods and not terrain.


I find myself feverishly hoping I wasn't that bad when I was a kid. guess I just hate kids.

Vladsimpaler wrote:For me? My most annoying moment was when my Leman Russ Executioner (with plasma cannon sponsons no less!) failed to kill a Terminator unit with storm shields. I still hate Mat Ward for thinking of that. Though I shouldn't say think, that gives him too much credit

Wow and I thought that Draigo's Law was starting to die off.

Playing against a guy with my Necrons.

He had brought a list that wasn't really geared well to deal with Crons (Tac marine gubline in rhinos, and three LR crusaders)

He spend his first couple of turns smacktalking about how his bolter fire would just blow me away, and his multimeltas would fry my tank (i brought one lith) into powder. 'Necrons suck bad man.. you f@#$ up just bringing them... etc: as my necrons sloooowly crossed the table.

The guy was really a PITA, and the game was getting less and less fun as he moved onto my ancestry for insult time.

I finally got into shooting range, and he lost, badly, ragequitting over how OP necrons were. Can't say i was sorry to see him leave.


Real jerk.

jariksolo wrote:What made me tick enough to actually think about quiting ALL hobby games? I havent been to my lgs in 7 months or so but even then I was planning on doing a starwars themed 40k army. I had everyone built and 3 squads painted went up yesterday and everyone said they wouldn't play vs my converstions. so half a year of work half my bitz box and who know how much the models themselves added up to play a game to go to the store to have no one willing to play me.

I'd say firs toff that I'd be willing to play pretty much anything. I would want to know abotu the army though. things like

is this an established codex or is this a custom codex

if establish and modeled appropriatly or at least explained how things like chainswords are lightsabers and powerfists are double sabers or somethign then no problem , lets throw some dice

if custom I'd want to see that everythign is organised well with stats and descriptions for all gear. if no playtesting has been done I'd offer my thoughts on changing any points values up or down. either way I'd still play just be wary as most "personal" dexes are generally extremelt overpowered like hmmm how about a WS 10 BS 10 toughness 10 str 10 5 wound initiative 10 with 10 attacks 10 leadership and a 2++ troop with a standard power weapon that strikes on nitiative and a assault 3 twin linked plasma gun for 10 points pe rmodel oh and they have jump packs ...

Where's that guy who had someone eat one of his models? He always wins these threads.

Howard A Treesong wrote:Where's that guy who had someone eat one of his models? He always wins these threads.

You mean the guy who killed this TS CSM players "unbeaten" army via a DS mishap or his Termi deathstar unit and his Libby killing the Sorcerer Lord, when the guy offers to refight said combat the guy goes and clips off the Libby's Force Weapon and eats it, loudly proclaiming: "He can't use it now can he?!?". Then something about him nearly stabbing the guy with the aforementioned clippers.

Or it could be of that legendary child called Jordan, drinker of Enchanted Blue paint...

Grimtuff wrote:
Or it could be of that legendary child called Jordan, drinker of Enchanted Blue paint...

Ok, now this one I haven't heard. Do tell.

I was playing in a GW tourny a while back, and my opponnent came in dressed in some type of cosplay uniform. pirate vampire victorian hodge podge I dunno. he stunk to high heaven, and the whole game was just miserable.

aside from the above, ALL of his dice were craps dice. he played Eldar, so a fair amount of dice used. enough that it became annoying to slop them all over the terrain.

every time he failed a roll or lost a unit, he would LITERALLY stomp his feel and cry about it. seriously. its like he was 10. (but he was actually 26, I had to ask)

when he finally DID lose the game, he contested EVERYTHING after the game and just whined forever. horrible game, just horrible. it took every ounce of energy I had not to lace into the guy.

biggest reason not to lace into him? his girlfriend was at the table. dressed in a similar fashion with them bewbies staring at me the whole game . no bra, LOW (and I mean low) cut top in a near corset. and they were NICE. she was smokin hot too, though she had to be troubled in the head to be dating him. DAMN she was hot. painfully hot. made the whole game worth it.

so really, thats my worst AND my best game I suppose..... until I can convince my wife to play strip warhammer (she's a nid player)

I have two, both from the some LGS.

1] After getting back into the game after years of not playing, me and another started to show up on there open gaming night. For two solid months we were there every Saturday with our armies. Because we were not part of the normal players no one would play us. With 3 open tables I approached a player about a small game. He said he was waiting for another player and decided that he would rather not unless the game lasted to long, when I asked him at 2:00 pm when the other player was going to be there he said after 6:00 when he got off work.

2] The other: I decided I needed to work on a Teleporting army, so I bring out 2 Terminator Squads and some Tactical Squads [3 I think]. I finally [after 2 weeks] find an Eldar player. I tell him I would like to Practice with my Terminators I have not played under the current rules. He wind the imitative and has his Eldar Psyker use some powers that Ignore my Cover Saves and hits me buckets Lances wiping out my Tactical by the top of Turn 2. I then asked if we can restart so this time I had a chance to practice, and he goes “No I never Practice, you should play better!” and pack up.

For me, it was the second or third time I'd played 40K in years (And before that I'd only played 3rd ed...). My omnomnom melee-only adrenal gland & toxin-sac Nid warriors in the 1500 pt game saw the SM player's dreadnought.

Me: "What's the armor on that?"
Him: "12 Front, 12 sides, 10 Rear."
Me: "Cool, so I have a chance to glance on the charge."
Him: *silence*

I charge, and then he explains to me with a broad smile that I can't hit the rear armor of a walker (Unlike every other damn vehicle in 40K. Really, GW?), and I now can't disengage from combat or peg it with my warriors in other squads with venom cannons. The 700ish pt 9-strong squad with lashwhips and boneswords died a slow, painful death, and I forfeited the next turn (It was a KP mission)

Rolling 3 1's on two consecutive turns trying to charge my Iron Clad out of a small patch of woods into the enemy. A "2" an any of the 6 dice (over 2 turns) would have resulted in the charge hitting home and would probably have changed the outcome of the game in my favor.

When I was about nine, or so I desided to play a game of 40K with my Brother to show it to a friend. My bro was being a gakky opponent, making up rules and creating ridiculous conditions. After twenty miniutes of him being super annoying I chucked a sharpened, metal, dagger shaped letter opener at him (I know, it was dumb). Because I have terrible coordination it hit my friend in the leg and stuck there. Later that day I was trying to get the letter opener down from a shelf and It cut my face .
My mum banned me from 40K for a month.

When somebody kills one of your models, then THROWS it at you to remove it from play. Damn near drove my whippy-stick up his nose.

At my LGS, me and some friends go to play (we haven't made terrain or a board yet) Whenever we play, the owner and employees are play Magic: the Gathering on a table next to us and being pretentious d-bags when we play. For example, He says, "I'll shoot your stealth-suits with the missle launcher." I say, "They have stealth suits, you can't hit them over 3'' away."

Next to me, the owner of the store yells, "WOAH MAN! BREAK IT UP YOU TWO!" His dumbass employees laugh, and we have to ignore him.

I was playing some guy's Witch Hunters, and my shining spears were about to charge at his sisters repentia.

I said: I might as well shoot them - it won't make any difference [ie it won't put me out of charge range if causalties are removed]
He said: yeah, sure

Then I shot them, wounded 1 model, he announced that repentia had a special rule causing them to charge forward when shot, and if they contacted an enemy unit they counted as charging. So my shining spears got slaughtered. The pissy thing about this is I said very clearly at the start of the game "I've never played against Witch Hunters before". The d-bag was also really cagey, no army list, and toward the end of the game he seemed to have every relevant upgrade on his models.

I just have to say that your name made me Laugh at loud.

Whenever I see cut'n'paste Tau advice that are just an abrupt "drop FW's, MOAR Kroot, MOAR overcosted crisis suits, MOAR Markerlights and MOAR useless transports"

I mean I like looking for advice when I'm bored on the internet and someone else is asking for it, but the amount of replies that are just that and nothing else really peeves me.

I am very lucky that you Tau playing folks on Dakka don't do this

Oh but they do.

yamgrenade wrote:Oh but they do.

Citation?

To use Tau effectively, drop FW's, MOAR Kroot, MOAR overcosted crisis suits, MOAR Markerlights and MOAR useless transports. Everything else is utter crap.

You can go ahead and cite me on that

I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:I was playing some guy's Witch Hunters, and my shining spears were about to charge at his sisters repentia.

I said: I might as well shoot them - it won't make any difference [ie it won't put me out of charge range if causalties are removed]
He said: yeah, sure

Then I shot them, wounded 1 model, he announced that repentia had a special rule causing them to charge forward when shot, and if they contacted an enemy unit they counted as charging. So my shining spears got slaughtered. The pissy thing about this is I said very clearly at the start of the game "I've never played against Witch Hunters before". The d-bag was also really cagey, no army list, and toward the end of the game he seemed to have every relevant upgrade on his models.

I guess you were really peeved when you found out that they have no such rule, huh?

darkPrince010 wrote:To use Tau effectively, drop FW's, MOAR Kroot, MOAR overcosted crisis suits, MOAR Markerlights and MOAR useless transports. Everything else is utter crap.

You can go ahead and cite me on that

Dere ya go

jariksolo wrote:What made me tick enough to actually think about quiting ALL hobby games? I havent been to my lgs in 7 months or so but even then I was planning on doing a starwars themed 40k army. I had everyone built and 3 squads painted went up yesterday and everyone said they wouldn't play vs my converstions. so half a year of work half my bitz box and who know how much the models themselves added up to play a game to go to the store to have no one willing to play me.

What a bunch of jerks! If I saw that army on the field, I'd be fighting to play against you! (Well, if I actually played 40K I would.... )

It was when GW axed genestealer cultists and I found myself with a virtually useless collection of modles that I had spent hundered of dollars and hundreds of hours amassing, converting and painting.

I Didn't think I could be annoyed any more then that. Fast forward to when my custom LATD army was similarly $hit-canned.

On the plus side GW has conditioned me to avoid all specialty/gimmick armies and models, thus saving me tons of time and money. No hard feelings i guess...

I went to a doubles tournament up in Manchester.
I overheard a scary blood angels list, so I decided to go over and get an idea of what I could face possibly later in the rounder. It turned out the guy was running blood angels/eldar. No problem there, strong combo, a little annoying. But, the most annoying thing was, the guy running angels was running mephiston with a retinue of bodyguards, like he was an independent character.
So in the first turn these guys tabled some kids by running mephiston with 5 man honour guard. To this, my teammate and I, went to them, telling them that the unit he was running was completely illegal and garbage. The guy argued and kept trying to say that he honour guard can be attached to a HQ choice. As we all know, this is a load of crap. The TO overheard us, sided with us, the guy had to separate the units/take the honour guard out. Everyone was happy we called out the cheese, we won best sportsmanship.
So stupid that the guy tried to pull mephiston in a honour guard at a tourney...

the worst moment in my wargaming came shortly before i stopped 40k, maybe october or november 2009. i was playing with two really good friends and a pickup player at a gamestore in New York, and it was 2 v 2, myself with an in-progress(that never got finished, but no trukks or any transports) some orks and my friend with his ravenwing, and my other friend with 'nilla marines and the other guy with IG.

Basically, the opposing side put a huge three story building in their deployment zone as part of deployment, and put their ENTIRE 2k POINTS in it. this miffed myself and my teammate a little, but whatever.

in the middle of play, the only unit to get close to the building, a unit of ravenwing bikers with a powerfist, started getting shot with a questionable LoS(i, then being the group's rules lawyer, ruled in favor of the opposing team on a technicality, but whatever) and it turned into a literal shitstorm between my two friends as both armies poured fire into this model that was put in to be out of LoS, just that ravenwing player had a different angle than the SM player, and on and on ad nauseum.

they started yelling at each other and i *almost* had to break up a fight between a fencer/MMA enthusiast and an ex-offensive lineman. while taller than most and clocking 200 lbs, i would probably have been knocked out in the ensuing brawl. yeesh, the worst experience was with two good friends instead of a terrible stranger.

Too many to tell them all. One that sticks out is 2009 Ard Boyz Regional s in Omaha. After fielding a vehicle heavy army, and after deployment, I go to move over some terrain "making a DT test". My opponent who was a local, claimed that I was trying to move over impassible terrain. After telling him we never mentioned it as impassible, he claimed "That is the way this store plays it." The TO backed him up, and told me too bad you should of asked first.
Later in the tournament my friend was playing another local Necron player. The Necron deployed and declared all other units are entering from the board edge. When his Monolith was ready to enter play, he went to Deep Strike. My buddy said "You did not declare it was deepstriking." The Necron player said it's a monolith you should just expect it to Deep Strike. The TO backed him up.

Out of 20 people the 3 locals finished 1,2,3. Big surprise there.

Wow some of these stories contain terrible cases of D-baggery

Mine isn't that bad but it was a team tourney with eldar(me) and necrons vs marines and demons.
So first turn soul gringder gets dropped near the crons, in our turn the lord charges it (had warscythe), the demon player checks his codex for the I value, he says 4,found out a few days after they're I 3.
Anyways lord gets killed, soul grinder explodes. Next turn lord gets back up with full wounds and wrecks a dread
Went well overall.

This guy games alot, but cheats terribly, and nudges his models forward as he measures, it's awful to watch let alone play against