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It's not anything specific that comes to mind, just the general cluelessness of some people...

A guy looks at one of my boyz, and says "have you tried using a wash".. (my greenskins skins are basecoated yellow, drybrushed in a lighter yellow, followed by bleached bone highlights, lips painted tentacle pink, before it's given 2 subsequent washes of green wash, with some drops of blue ink in 'em. The clothing is knarloc green, washed with green wash, and a devlan mud wash... Yes, I "might" have tried using washes...)

And when people think my models are stock.. Yes, all orks come with rolled up sleeves, forrage caps on the guys without helmets, and ww2 german helmets on the guys with helmets. The bayonnette fitted shootas and heavy heavy bolters instead of bigshootas are standard too, and all nobs come with officers caps straight from the box...

/Calle

I've gotten so many over the years. Here are some notables.

"Wow! is that your army?"

"Those aren't Blood Angels/Dark Angels/Ultramarines, they aren't painted like in the book."

"Are you playing a Dark Eldar army?"...my Eldar are painted in a dark purple scheme.

"Why are your Orks purple?"....Because I like them that way !

"Running all those jacks is just cheesy."...playing Warmachine

"Your army's not fair!" ...AT-43

...These all string together.

"I've never lost to Orks."
"I haven't lost in around 5+ years."...I hear this a lot.
"I quit! Let's add up victory conditions." Not really about my army, but one of my personal favorites and it still makes me laugh.


Finally something that I said about one of my armies.
When I was relatively new to the game and wasn't hip to the lingo I went out and bought the Craftworld Eldar codex. The shop wench informed me upon purchase, "That codex is sooooo broken!" My reply, totally unaware of what the term broken meant, "Oh well, I'll try to make it work anyway." She just gave me this look like" you!" and I didn't know why.

Someone saw my CSM army once and wanted to know: 'Are those them Ultramarines I heard them talking about?'

"Hey, you can't use those vehicles! They're not GW!" when looking at my Rogue Trader rhinos and Land Raider. To avoid the problem in the future, I just put my old 3rd edition Blood Angel Codex in with the army since it has pictures of both.

Looking at my Blood Angels army, painted in Aurora Chapter colors -


"OOO, Salamanders!"

.... god no.

Platuan4th wrote:

adameast wrote:The Harbinger of Menoth is a troop caster, she's got 10 bloody focus!

Harbinger IS a troop caster. Her high CMD and the vast majority of her spells and abilities affect and support Warriors, not Jacks.

Just having high Focus does NOT make a Caster a Jack Caster.

Tell that to the loser of every single game I had where I ran Harbinger/Devout/Castigator/Avatar/Choir/Vilmon.

There were a lot of losers, no winners. Only game I ever lost was when I ran troops with her.

Your point is her spells, which are just a part of her ability is for troops (mainly the bring back to life one), and no, she cannot channel through jacks, but being able to maintain 3-4 jacks to use their full abilities makes her not only a troop caster but a jack caster, or better still, a well rounded caster, she's also a mean assault caster.

Played against a dual lash whip list with my Abaddon death-star CSM. He told me how awful my army was... After I nearly tabled him he told me how good of a general I was, but man did my army suck.

adameast wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

adameast wrote:The Harbinger of Menoth is a troop caster, she's got 10 bloody focus!

Harbinger IS a troop caster. Her high CMD and the vast majority of her spells and abilities affect and support Warriors, not Jacks.

Just having high Focus does NOT make a Caster a Jack Caster.

Tell that to the loser of every single game I had where I ran Harbinger/Devout/Castigator/Avatar/Choir/Vilmon.

There were a lot of losers, no winners. Only game I ever lost was when I ran troops with her.

Your point is her spells, which are just a part of her ability is for troops (mainly the bring back to life one), and no, she cannot channel through jacks, but being able to maintain 3-4 jacks to use their full abilities makes her not only a troop caster but a jack caster, or better still, a well rounded caster, she's also a mean assault caster.

That using a different force build works for you doesn't change the fact that she's a Troop Caster at heart. It's what she's built to do.

Horst wrote:Looking at my Blood Angels army, painted in Aurora Chapter colors -


"OOO, Salamanders!"

.... god no.

Guilty of this =)

I've had a blood angels player tell me that my tau army was broken because I popped is land raider with a railgun.

Nothing about my army, but I was at a FLGS with my dad, and once we left he said how nice my army looked in comparison to some of the other armies...

I asked "What army didn't look good?"

He said he "saw an ork army fighting the liitle army guys"
(He knew they were human but not space marines, he doesn't know what IG are)

..........The guard player wasn't fighting an ork army, he was fighting Salamanders...............

The last time I went into a GW store, I got called a noob for playing a SM army. I'd known the manager for about 10 years - whichever store he got moved to ended up being my closest for one reason or another (work, gaming club, home).

Despite this army having models older than the teenage douche who said this, and the minor detail that I've also been playing the game for longer than he'd been alive (he couldn't even manage a legal army himself).

If someone says something stupid about my army, it's like water off a duck's back - ignored and discounted.

Someone told me that my Ultramarines Command Squad was a waste of points with Sicarius in a razorback (465 points)... It was my first tournament, I came in second, they held their ground. Granted they're not the best unit, but they got the job done.

In the days before the new dex I was asked frequently "Where in the space marine codex is Stern?" and "why do your ultramarines have those weird weapons?"

"Orks just wish they were as big and strong as space marines."

ha

haha

hahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha

"You can't make a competitive army with your orks." Followed by "Tau are still one of the better codexes."

This is coming from a grey knight player playing mega cheese lists.

"Tau are overpowered", he then packed up. Turn 2. Instead of assaulting.

This is kinda understandable (read: not stupid) but common with my Space Wolves:

"Alright, who put their Chaos Space Marines on the table?"

And then I have to say "they're 13th Company Grey Slayers, they got stuck in the warp and had to scavenge Chaos bitz". My black and red paint scheme doesn't help either.

IG player before Apoc battle of Tau & IG vs Nids & Crons "Necrons? Huh, with my baneblade I should probably be able to make you phase out in no time."

My first turn (My Nid ally and I went second), 3 heavy destroyers turned his baneblade into a battlefield nuke that exploded 16 inches. He "phased out" by turn 4.

Orks:


'Deffrollas don't work on vehicles'

'KFF doesn't apply to vehicles'

'Orks don't get an armour save (in reaction to ard boyz)'

'There's no way that many orks is 1500 pts....' (my favourite)

'There's no way you have enough firepower or troops in that case to make my GK sweat..'


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Flickerfields don't do anything, RAW. You don't get your save!

My fav is...

A marine player telling me about my Ork army and how much Ghaz sucks in CC....

I lost atleast 50 IQ points from that one.

Horst wrote:"OOO, Salamanders!"

.... god no.

Be prepared to also have them mistaken for Invaders or Death Knights in the future

My BT's weren't righteous enough... yeah...

"Wow, you are getting your ass kicked!"

Said by observer casually walking by the table half way through turn 1.
The actual outcome of the battle is irrelevant. That statement at that time is stupid.

Teenage Douche:"Wow, you are playing Team Jacob, SW are for Twilight Fans"
Me:"Twilight must be an epic movie, does Jacob get drunk, get Bella drunk and sodomise her?"
Teeage Douche: "Your an idiot, they are stupid werewolves!!! ARGHHH YOU ARE THE BIGGEST IDIOT IN THIS STORE!!!"
Me: "They are Space Vikings with a thing for Wolves. They have nothing to do with the Twilight saga."
Douche: "Ok fine. Let's get this done and my Ultramarine can teabag your puppies once we are done."

End Result: I tabled him.

rockerbikie wrote:Teenage Douche:"Wow, you are playing Team Jacob, SW are for Twilight Fans"
Me:"Twilight must be an epic movie, does Jacob get drunk, get Bella drunk and sodomise her?"
Teeage Douche: "Your an idiot, they are stupid werewolves!!! ARGHHH YOU ARE THE BIGGEST IDIOT IN THIS STORE!!!"
Me: "They are Space Vikings with a thing for Wolves. They have nothing to do with the Twilight saga."
Douche: "Ok fine. Let's get this done and my Ultramarine can teabag your puppies once we are done."

End Result: I tabled him.

Not gonna lie, I lol'd.

I wouldn't have even argued with him, I'd just play, and show him the fething fury of the Space Wolves!

EDIT: And really? Ultramarines? What is he, a stereotypical teenager? hahaha jeezzzzz

One of mine is a guy telling me that my Chaos Marines couldn't wear Tyranid scales and heads, because only Ultramarines can.

rockerbikie wrote:Teenage Douche:"Wow, you are playing Team Jacob, SW are for Twilight Fans"
Me:"Twilight must be an epic movie, does Jacob get drunk, get Bella drunk and sodomise her?"
Teeage Douche: "Your an idiot, they are stupid werewolves!!! ARGHHH YOU ARE THE BIGGEST IDIOT IN THIS STORE!!!"
Me: "They are Space Vikings with a thing for Wolves. They have nothing to do with the Twilight saga."
Douche: "Ok fine. Let's get this done and my Ultramarine can teabag your puppies once we are done."

End Result: I tabled him.

I feel for you fella

I would have just looked at the kid with a confused expression and asked "What the hell is a Twilight...and what does that have to do with this game? ..."

And after his lengthy speil about how it applies in his little acne addled mind, I would say "Hmmm this Twilight seems important to you, you must have seen it many times..oh well shall we play 40k or do you need to find your purse and fetch some sparkly dice"

I really find these kinda kids annoying, but I usually never have to play them, being a large old army guy tends to scare them off

Horst wrote:I'm a pretty archetypical marine player... if its not an Imperial Army, I hate it, and the person playing it.

Someone asked me how he was going to transport his army to the store the other day (it was an eldar army)... I brought him a garbage can and told him that was where his army belonged.

See, guys...this is how you troll.

Unless you're actually being serious, then I kinda hope you die in a fire*, but otherwise brilliant.

*Since I know someone's finger is going to be hovering over the "ban" button for that, no, I don't actually want anyone to die in a fire.

Tlo1048 wrote:

rockerbikie wrote:Teenage Douche:"Wow, you are playing Team Jacob, SW are for Twilight Fans"
Me:"Twilight must be an epic movie, does Jacob get drunk, get Bella drunk and sodomise her?"
Teeage Douche: "Your an idiot, they are stupid werewolves!!! ARGHHH YOU ARE THE BIGGEST IDIOT IN THIS STORE!!!"
Me: "They are Space Vikings with a thing for Wolves. They have nothing to do with the Twilight saga."
Douche: "Ok fine. Let's get this done and my Ultramarine can teabag your puppies once we are done."

End Result: I tabled him.

Not gonna lie, I lol'd.

I wouldn't have even argued with him, I'd just play, and show him the fething fury of the Space Wolves!

EDIT: And really? Ultramarines? What is he, a stereotypical teenager? hahaha jeezzzzz

One of mine is a guy telling me that my Chaos Marines couldn't wear Tyranid scales and heads, because only Ultramarines can.

He's just some 14 year old who will drop out in the next year possibly. My GW Store is filled with Ultramarine lovers and alot of Salamanders from the kid population. Once, the painting table was filled, I was painting my Wood Elves and he demanded I moved for him because Fantasy is apparently inferior to 40k in his opinion.


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Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:

rockerbikie wrote:Teenage Douche:"Wow, you are playing Team Jacob, SW are for Twilight Fans"
Me:"Twilight must be an epic movie, does Jacob get drunk, get Bella drunk and sodomise her?"
Teeage Douche: "Your an idiot, they are stupid werewolves!!! ARGHHH YOU ARE THE BIGGEST IDIOT IN THIS STORE!!!"
Me: "They are Space Vikings with a thing for Wolves. They have nothing to do with the Twilight saga."
Douche: "Ok fine. Let's get this done and my Ultramarine can teabag your puppies once we are done."

End Result: I tabled him.

I feel for you fella

I would have just looked at the kid with a confused expression and asked "What the hell is a Twilight...and what does that have to do with this game? ..."

And after his lengthy speil about how it applies in his little acne addled mind, I would say "Hmmm this Twilight seems important to you, you must have seen it many times..oh well shall we play 40k or do you need to find your purse and fetch some sparkly dice"

I really find these kinda kids annoying, but I usually never have to play them, being a large old army guy tends to scare them off

Being 18 years old metalhead, I'm not really intimidating. The GW Manager is like "Oh come, don't be mean. You do want games don't you?" By the way nice joke . My friend plays Blood Angels and he has the same problem as me.
I could even glaze some Dice for that teen and give it for him as a present.

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Horst wrote:

Tlo1048 wrote:

rockerbikie wrote:Teenage Douche:"Wow, you are playing Team Jacob, SW are for Twilight Fans"
Me:"Twilight must be an epic movie, does Jacob get drunk, get Bella drunk and sodomise her?"
Teeage Douche: "Your an idiot, they are stupid werewolves!!! ARGHHH YOU ARE THE BIGGEST IDIOT IN THIS STORE!!!"
Me: "They are Space Vikings with a thing for Wolves. They have nothing to do with the Twilight saga."
Douche: "Ok fine. Let's get this done and my Ultramarine can teabag your puppies once we are done."

End Result: I tabled him.

Not gonna lie, I lol'd.

I wouldn't have even argued with him, I'd just play, and show him the fething fury of the Space Wolves!

EDIT: And really? Ultramarines? What is he, a stereotypical teenager? hahaha jeezzzzz

One of mine is a guy telling me that my Chaos Marines couldn't wear Tyranid scales and heads, because only Ultramarines can.

yea, SW have a thing for wolves.

Being sodomized by them, that is.

SW are bestiality loving sickos.


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I'm a pretty archetypical marine player... if its not an Imperial Army, I hate it, and the person playing it.

Someone asked me how he was going to transport his army to the store the other day (it was an eldar army)... I brought him a garbage can and told him that was where his army belonged.

All Xenos must die.

Woah! That is a little offensive to SW players. Just letting you know.

Okay, I'm starting to get curious now, why the negativity towards Salamanders? Hurst seemed to imply he wasn't a fan and then your comment said they were "for the kids". I demand explanation!

Salamanders are probably my favorite chapter, and I absolutely hate Marines so that's saying something. It's because they're black, isn't it?