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So long as it's lightheated banter it's all good.

Being a dick is always going to be being a dick and that's when it get's too far.

Ascalam wrote:Hump my leg while muttering 'i'm totally raping you, man! ' when you get a good roll (actually happened) and i'll have you arrested for indecent behaviour (that happened too )

I'm honestly curious as to the story here... that sounds bizarre to the extreme.
Though thinking of the people in my local GW it's not unbelievable...

I had the misfortune of playing a 14 year old lad yesterday. His dad was sitting nearby, and he was talking up a storm. He didn't even know the names of his units, or his stats, and obviously needed some ritalin. He really got on my nerves, but its just one of those things where you need to just grin and bear it I suppose. I mean 1500 points...I lost 3 warriors and a deathmark all said and done so i got the last laugh.

When it starts.

I'm not a fan of smartmouth smacktalk.

If you need to "big" yourself up that much or belittle your opponent or his army to do so, then perhaps you should work on your own esteem issues rather than them.

Like a boss.

Played a 14 year old, the kind with a superiority complex and zero thought for respecting others. It was his space marines vs my guardsmen in a small game. Every time something good would happen, he would mutter swears under his breath. A pair of space marines fail their armor saves, bastard . I get a weapon destroyed on his landraider, which he had named "The Ballsmasher", and, lucky jerk. And it just went on, until he was just insulting me out loud constantly. He would continually use a term that he does not know the meaning of to insult me. So, I interrupted, and told him if he said that word again, I'd punch his teeth out. He then yelled it for everyone there, so I hit him in the stomach to shut him up. Got thrown out, but so very worth it.

I like to do it a bit, but I keep it related to the army rather than the player. Talk about purging xenos scum when my Guard are facing Tau, or krumpin da puny beakies when my Orks fight SM. Insinuate that my opponent's Grey Knights are all worshipping the Chaos gods. Facetiously suggest awful moves (But if your Guardsmen fire their lasguns, they won't be able to charge the Nobz! You sure about that?).

Bludbaff wrote:I like to do it a bit, but I keep it related to the army rather than the player. Talk about purging xenos scum when my Guard are facing Tau, or krumpin da puny beakies when my Orks fight SM. Insinuate that my opponent's Grey Knights are all worshipping the Chaos gods. Facetiously suggest awful moves (But if your Guardsmen fire their lasguns, they won't be able to charge the Nobz! You sure about that?).

Playing as Necrons, I often like to start shrieking modem-noises at my opponents.

Ovion wrote:So long as it's lightheated banter it's all good.

Being a dick is always going to be being a dick and that's when it get's too far.

Ascalam wrote:Hump my leg while muttering 'i'm totally raping you, man! ' when you get a good roll (actually happened) and i'll have you arrested for indecent behaviour (that happened too )

I'm honestly curious as to the story here... that sounds bizarre to the extreme.
Though thinking of the people in my local GW it's not unbelievable...

I have no idea what the guy was on

He started off pretty normal in a skinny, funky gamer way.

He got a really good roll with his Basilisk, wiping out my Ard Boyz unit and my HQ (Zogwort that time, i think..) , after coming around the table to check scatter and resolve the hit.

It's a good job that i had turned to the side to pick up my dice box, because he began to grind on my thigh (it would have been my ass if i hadn't turned) while muttering 'I'm totally raping you, man. Your ass is mine...'

Now to quote the classics (Wash from Firefly I'm a large, semi-muscular man..' . I'm 6' , 240 lbs or so and in decent shape. I'm not likely to ever be used as a recruiting poster for the Blood Angels (i'm not pretty enough at all 9except maybe as a 'before' shot ) and i just don't swing that way.

Needless to say, i took umbrage, hauled him to the door and tossed his ass into the street, hailing a cop that happened to be on hand.

What's worse is that people remember the incident, and remind me of it Any time i'm losing i'm 'taking it like a maaan '

I generally find it goes too far when it stops being funny and just starts being offencive. Or, really, really rude-smack talk is fundiemtaly fun and/or silly.

Also, if you start dueling with swords before that game-you're almost certainly gone too far.

As long as it's directed at the army and not at the person, I'm pretty okay with it. If you get hurt because someone calls Lelith a bitch, get a sense of humour. If someone calls you an donkey-cave for beating them, it's gone too far.

For me, if its funny and not personal its generally ok ...

I don't mind chirping at all. It's all in good fun.

Now if you are a sore loser or winner that's when you cross a line. Rubbing in my face that you won or throwing a hissy fit when you lose is just pathetic. Win with class and lose with class.

skycapt44 wrote:I don't mind chirping at all. It's all in good fun.

Now if you are a sore loser or winner that's when you cross a line. Rubbing in my face that you won or throwing a hissy fit when you lose is just pathetic. Win with class and lose with class.

As long as I have fun winning or losing doesn't matter to me. It did bug me recently in an EW flames of war historical refight that my Commonwealth force breaking out of Tobruk had Matilda II tanks on the table and my opponents only had 1 gun on the table that could take them out from the front. The matildas just rolled over the enemy infantry trying to keep me bottled up. It was definitely historically accurate, but just left a bad taste in my mouth because I know how annoying I find it playing against units that I can't do a single thing about. :\

Skriker

I don't mind it as long as its done in a friendly way. At the army or me, but then I really only played my friend so far. I will say my rolling is legendarily bad though. My friend let me try his space marines for a game and I rolled nothing but 1 and 2 with the terminators the whole game. Said he should take me to tournaments just to be his leadership roll thrower. I suspect I could even roll 1 and 2 with loaded dice lol.

In my first year of school at grammar school I was banned from the school gaming club cause I had strangled somebody unconcious. He had said my Hive Tyrant's paint was offensively aweful and, JUST LIKE MUM, it looked like gak.



And no I am not BS you. I learn armlocks and strangles on Thursdays at judo.

This happens a lot at one of the stores where I play. I do something, most likely move somewhere with a unit and shoot something, or move and then run, and the dice totally abandon me. I'm talking nothing but 1's. Then the dill weed in charge of the opposing army starts rattling off what he thought I should have done and how it totally would have worked. We both know that what I just attempted would have worked wonders and killed a lot of dudes or otherwise aided my cause, but he just has to sound like he's smarter than me regardless of the reality of the situation. And it's not just one or two times during a game, it's EVERY GODDAMN TIME I MAKE A MOVE THAT DOESN'T TOTALLY WRECK A LARGE PART OF HIS ARMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jerks like this usually play TH/SS deathwing or say they only have 1,250 points and throw in two land raiders or some other WAAC move like that. That whole hand of god thing is starting to feel pretty appealing right about now...

I'm pretty much invincible when it comes to trash talk about the game. No matter the insult or lofty trash-talk (I'll kill your whole army with this) I'll just go ork and say "No you can't. Because we're the orks. Hurr hurr." Of course, if it gets personal (which it shouldn't) then all the typical social rules apply.

warpcrafter wrote:This happens a lot at one of the stores where I play. I do something, most likely move somewhere with a unit and shoot something, or move and then run, and the dice totally abandon me. I'm talking nothing but 1's. Then the dill weed in charge of the opposing army starts rattling off what he thought I should have done and how it totally would have worked. We both know that what I just attempted would have worked wonders and killed a lot of dudes or otherwise aided my cause, but he just has to sound like he's smarter than me regardless of the reality of the situation. And it's not just one or two times during a game, it's EVERY GODDAMN TIME I MAKE A MOVE THAT DOESN'T TOTALLY WRECK A LARGE PART OF HIS ARMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jerks like this usually play TH/SS deathwing or say they only have 1,250 points and throw in two land raiders or some other WAAC move like that. That whole hand of god thing is starting to feel pretty appealing right about now...

Love people who seem to think that the probabilities of dice rolling don't apply to them and take that "If I had done that it would have worked" mentality. You could have done whatever you want buit if you roll exactly the same you would have failed too. We have all seen, though, the totally insane totally improbable things that happen on the table. Had a SM captain that I called Captain Awesome because not matter what charged him he *never* lost in melee. Just never happened. Even assaulted by a full squad of sister's repentia and he still wiped them out solo and he wasn't kitted out to insanity either. He had a stormbolter and a single lightning claw as his main armament. Then on the other side we have my friend who successfully caused no less than 4 lasguns to explode due to failed ammo checks in a single necromunda game once. That requires rolling a lot of 1s in a row a lot of times. My fav, though, was in Space Marine 2.0 when our massive 6000 point chaos horde on the first turned fired off all 4 units of 3 cannon of khorne each with the end result of all but 2 of the 12 cannon misfiring and blowing themselves up. By the end of the sequence all of us were rolling on the floor laughing and couldn't believe it had just happened.

Skriker

I enjoy the friendly, good natured banter quite a bit. I do object however when comments turn insulting or downright harrasing in nature.
It's one thing to quip about how you're going to wreck face and destroy your opponent's prized model/unit, but there's nothing worse than having to put up with an opponent who's just being sullen and talking because they're losing.

The only time I get quiet and less than outgoing when playing is when I'm having to play against some WAAC's tool who's doing everything possible to ensure I don't enjoy the game we're trying to play. I get that bad match-ups happen, (hell I still play my daemons despite the obnoxious amount of GK's about), but I hate when your opponent starts throwing it in your face how badly they're curbstomping you, especially when there's very little you can try and do in return.

Typically when I lose with my Tzeentch Daemons and my opponent tries to rub it in, I'll just grin and say, "Dude, you totally didn't whoop my at all, everything simply went according to plan!