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**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

I think that sums it up

(your opponent of course, not you)

**mmzero252**

Honestly just all my worst gaming experiences can be summed up by saying "Necrons". The local necron player just loves to bring powerful setups in casual games and it's extremely frustrating. Refusing to play against him just gets me guilt tripped by everyone else at the store even though I've never had an ounce of fun playing against his army. It's not really a fault of his personality or anything, it's just the army forces me to play with units I just don't want to spam on the board.
Plus he lies constantly about how his units aren't that great, yet they never die and most weapons can't hurt the units he brings.

**jreilly89**

Saturmorn Carvilli wrote:
My worst experience is relatively tame compared to most. Our gaming group had one power gamer in it. He was a nice guy outside the game, but he was a constant rules lawyer and habitually stepping over the line with rules shenanigans once the game started. On top of this, he pretty much only played an OP list with just enough variation to keep direct counters from happening. Which no one bother counter lists since the rest of the group didn't go for that kind of thing.

Additionally, after years of playing he hadn't painted a thing. Which helped me to developed my lack of interest in playing opponents with unpainted armies. I am not saying all players with unpainted armies are like that. I am sure most aren't, but my experience has been players that haven't even placed primer (wet season excluded) after a couple months tend to be some of the least fun to play.

It wasn't exactly one game that did this. Although, it did get to the point that I would bring two armies. One to play anyone else and another that would lose quickly to him so I could get on with my day. Again, he wasn't a bad person, which made it difficult to say, "I don't want to play against you" or even bring it up. It was just that once the game started he was very much a WAAC gamer. Which really did not mesh with the rest of group's dynamics.

It got to the point having the having to play him tax to get in a game with the rest of the group was too much for me. So I left the group partly due to that and partly due to I didn't have the free time like I used to.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, I was playing another in the group with what I thought was going to be a relatively weak, fluffy list. However, at every turn, my army was shutting down everything he could do which all my tactics kept working like clockwork. I'll admit I was playing extra hard from the start as I thought I would need to have a good game. After the first turn my opponent had already lost in his mind (and was probably correct in reality).

I could tell he wasn't have any fun. This was tough for me as I was really enjoying my actions working with such precision. However, I couldn't really enjoy it as my opponent was just so deflated. I could tell he felt like anything he did caused him to fall further into my trap to the point of inaction.

So turn two, I went for a risky win condition as I don't think he would have been happy just calling the game there either. I managed to get the right rolls to meet the win conditions save my opponent may have had a unit close enough to contest. We didn't measure as both of us wanted the game to end as quickly as possible at that point.

Of course, next game we played he pretty much tabled me. But that was a lot of fun due to the crazy antics and heroics on both sides of the that game.

There's actually a very similar player at my LGS. Nice enough guy, but once the game starts, he becomes a total WAAC player. I've played him several times, and basically refuse to play him seriously. Biggest thing was once during a tournament (not even a serious one, just a for fun tournament) I reminded him several times about his Feel No Pain rolls. Long story short, he beat me because I forgot I had a Daemon Prince (I landed it on his side of the table behind a tower to get him into range), he didn't remind me, and I lost on objectives. He then said "Well, if it was a friendly game, I would've reminded you, but this is a tournament, so you lose".

**timetowaste85**

Isn't even a hard one to pick.
Playing Warhammer with a casual acquaintence/friend; my daemons vs his space marines. Game is almost done, and my phone starts ringing. It's my mom. Sobbing. She can barely get any words out, except that Trooper, my dog, died. I left everything on the table asked my opponent to pack my stuff and I'd get it some other time. I was 21, and I'd had my dog since I was 8. He wasn't a pet, he was family.
Worst game night ever.
This was over a decade ago now. Still sucks.

**auticus**

I have a few worst experiences that are all about equal. I was present at a tournament that had a table flipped. I was present at a tournament where two guys almost came to blows.

I can relate two others though since I wasn't a part of the games above, just present.

The first was my first ever game of WHFB. 5th edition. My opponent tells me we just want to go over the game and not to use a lot of magic or anything like that. So I bring an undead force without a lot of magic or wizards.

I get there and he and a few other guys are sniggering and laughing. He brought Bretonnia. Loaded to the gills with anti-undead magic items and spells. Weeeeeee. Game took all of two turns.

The other was my last tournament ever. Seventh edition fantasy, I was running chaos warrior infantry heavy army.

My opponent asks me "why are you wasting my time with that lame build, this isn't a campaign or some lame fluff event."

I ended up winning the game. His attitude slid slowly from mocking to infuriated.

In the end he snatched up his models and threw them forcefully in a tupperware container and accused me of cheating since it was impossible that a foot army of chaos warriors could do anything in a tournament and my dice must have been loaded.

(these experiences are why I largely don't play in tournaments and am today very picky about who I play against)

**jreilly89**

I also had a pretty bad one recently. Long story short, it's my one really good friend who went through all the work to set up an Apoc game, even providing us with pizza and drinks, a new guy who's pretty cool, two veterans at my LGS who I'd come to resent, and a 2nd new guy.

Long story short, we get the game rolling finally, and it's divided into two teams: me and the new guys with our Daemons and SM army (mine has little to no shooting) and the two veterans and my friend with their combined Necrons/Sisters/30k Ad Mech cheese.

They spend most of the game blowing the crap out of us, with our only saving grace being that the cooler new guy brought Magnus and a Titan and was able to return some fire.

Highlights of the game include:

-SM player has lots of bad luck, proceeds to whine and throw dice every time something dies.

-We roll on a random Warp Storm table for the event. It says to randomly choose a Psyker and he has to take a Leadership test or die. We give each Psyker a number and roll, and it lands on a random Sorceror. One of the veterans accuses us of picking someone besides Magnus (it wasn't Magnus when we rolled for it), rolls the test, and it wouldn't have even mattered. He spends rest of the game complaining about it.

- Veterans gloat about killing us, despite the fact that we set the table up long ways, so my army had little to no chance of seeing close combat.

-Veterans gloat about winning, despite the fact that the final score is 11-10, with us losing by a move of about 2".

The worst part is I felt awful for my friend, he spent a ton of time organizing it and setting up a really cool Fall of Cadia theme and these guys basically ruined it.

**don_mondo**

First, a little background to put it in context. Back in the day, I was a GW Outrider and used to be the head rules judge/event coordinator at the RTT at the Baltimore Games day for several years in a row. So when playing at the US Grand tournaments, I knew most of the judges and they would often come to my table and ask me questions. Sooo... I'm playing a game against a Necron player and have already had the GT judges stop by at least twice with rules questions. So he KNOWS that I know the judges and they respect my opinion on the rules. Something came up and I told him, "No, it doesn't work that way" and he wants to call over a judge. I just shrug and say OK, go for it and start looking up the rule in the rulebook. I just let him pose his question to the judge who looks at me, I hand the judge the rulebook opened to the pertinent page and point at the rule in question. Don't say a word cause I don't want this kid to claim I influenced the decision. Judge just looks at him and tells him I'm right, he's wrong. Rest of the game goes downhill from there. And even before that, I said something to the kid about his white dice with white pips and that I'm having a hard time telling what he rolled... "Yeah, that's why I use them..." 'But that's OK, I destroyed his punk ass.

Then there was the guy that went to the judge's table after I beat him (another US GT) to complain about me using dice with our club logo on it (Chessex). Reason this is bad? He was a member of the club!

Finally, not bad but my most embarrassing moment. The year Dark Eldar came out, I'm sitting in the bar with a couple of friends at the end of the first day (Yes, another GT) and one of them asks if I had gotten to face Dark Eldar yet. I think about it and answer in the negative. My first round opponent a few seats down splutters and reminds me that HE! played Dark Eldar and just because I basically won the game on the first turn (IG and Seize the Initiative against a bunch of Raiders deployed in the open expecting to go first = turkey shoot) does not mean that I hadn't faced them... I bought the next round as an apology.

**master of ordinance**

timetowaste85 wrote:
Isn't even a hard one to pick.
Playing Warhammer with a casual acquaintence/friend; my daemons vs his space marines. Game is almost done, and my phone starts ringing. It's my mom. Sobbing. She can barely get any words out, except that Trooper, my dog, died. I left everything on the table asked my opponent to pack my stuff and I'd get it some other time. I was 21, and I'd had my dog since I was 8. He wasn't a pet, he was family.
Worst game night ever.
This was over a decade ago now. Still sucks.

gak man, I am sorry to hear that. Are you okay?

**timetowaste85**

Yeah. I'm okay. Like I said, it was over a decade ago. Pain heals over time, in the same manner as losing any family member.
But that definitely went down as worst game ever. The game itself was perfectly fine up til that point.

**AndrewGPaul**

Worst 40k game? The time I went up against Iron Warriors with my Emperor's Children. I was on the wrong end of four chemical mortars, and I think I killed about three of the enemy in the whole game. Lesson learned; my opponent and I like different things from a game of 40k.

Worst time? I don't know; pick a Warmachine tournament. Getting wiped out in two turns was the best part, because then I could read my book with a pint for an hour instead.

**supreme overlord**

about a year ago I was playing at my FLGS and came across a player looking for a pickup game. I agreed to play as I was typically there running a league and was all about recruiting new players. I noticed right off the bat that other players avoided this guy like the plague. Once he pulled out his army I knew why.

He played blood angels allied with grey Knights summoning daemons. If that isnt a complete fluff killing game IDK what is. he forgot however that when summoning deamons they are come the apocolypse with his other armies. Once I started calling that out and making him roll his leadership he started complaining that I was "killing the fun of the game" needless to say after 2hrs of whining I had had enough. I finished up the turn and packed up. That was the last time I played him.

**jreilly89**

I always post this in another thread, but this is probably the worst I've ever had.

Hands down, I've played some rather unsavory guys, but I keep this story around for these threads.

Showed up to play my friend, he canceled, didn't get message til that day, only played for about 3+ months, still new and have 6th edition DA.

Other guy introduces me to TFG, says he's looking for a PUG. Fine, whatever.

TFG sees me set out all my models ahead of time, asks if I have any AA, answer a Quad Gun and Nephilim Jetfighter, TFG then list tailors me (not something I thought people actually did, or to people's faces).

While setting up, TFG brags about having to leave his previous store because he was 'too good' and beat everyone so bad they refused to play him.

TFG then puts out 3 Storm Talons, 2 Storm Ravens, Chapter master with kitted out Sternguard, and 3 Shotgun Scout squads in 3 Land Speeder Storms, all unpainted so he can run different CTs as he pleases.

TFG proceeds to stomp me, whatever, but acts like he won through strategy and skill.

TFG disappears and is never seen until about a year later, 3 weeks ago.

Talk to current friend about TFG, turns out everyone hates him and he's such a douche. Somehow TFG has a wife.....

**master of ordinance**

Hmm, I have a few:

40K; well here I have two.

A year or so ago I went up against Timmy in a 2K game. Me with my Guard, a Thunderer, two Chimera born infantry units and a Macrocannon with two more Infantry units and a CCS and a pair of Stormy units (one 5 man with two volley guns and one 6 man with only one) and an allied unit of 5 Scouts, supported by a 6 man Termy unit with a HF and a chainfist commanded by a Librarian in termy armour.
Timmy (who has whined about tank spam before) rocks up with three Vindicators, 5 level 2 Librarians, a mini smashfether chapter master with a jump pack supported by ten Vanguard, two Predators (one Las, one Dakka), Chronus in a Landraider Terminus Ultra, a 10th Company Task force commanded by Tellion, a Whirlwind and two Rhino mounted Sternguard units.
He got the first turn and planted a ruin infront of my macro cannon bunker with Shifting Worldscape, turned the three Vindicators invisible and things generally went down hill from there. By turn three I had lost my Thunderer, both my Infanry units in the Chimeras and the chimeras, only the Libby remains of the Marines and my Marocannon cannot shoot anything because of the city block that has erupted around it.
I quit turn 4 when all I had left was a single Company Command section within my Macrocannon bunker which was 'OP' because his Chapter Master could not fist it to death. I had killed a couple marines and a single whirlwind .

It later turned out he was over 600 points above the agreed points cost.

My other 40K one is not bad because my opponent cheated, but bad because of the power disparity between us I was facing the Viking Pirate and I got hammered. Hell, by turn two I had lost over 80% of my army and it was just not fun. He is a great guy and a good opponent, but Guard are just too weak.

Infinity;
A few weeks ago I had a 300 point game which saw my Lizard with a HGL die on turn one after failing to beat a 4 on a D20 three times in a row (literally a 1, then a 2 and then a 3), most of my units failing to hit anything on the active OR reactive turn, my sniper being a little bitch and fannied about all game until he was killed by a triple crit. In the end I managed to kill one enemy model. I had lost everything bar my Lieut and my Reverend Healer. The dice ruined that game for me.

Mordhiem;
One game against a minmaxed Forest Goblin list resulted in my Undead being nearly retired.

**Don Savik**

jreilly89 wrote:
I always post this in another thread, but this is probably the worst I've ever had.

Hands down, I've played some rather unsavory guys, but I keep this story around for these threads.

Showed up to play my friend, he canceled, didn't get message til that day, only played for about 3+ months, still new and have 6th edition DA.

Other guy introduces me to TFG, says he's looking for a PUG. Fine, whatever.

TFG sees me set out all my models ahead of time, asks if I have any AA, answer a Quad Gun and Nephilim Jetfighter, TFG then list tailors me (not something I thought people actually did, or to people's faces).

While setting up, TFG brags about having to leave his previous store because he was 'too good' and beat everyone so bad they refused to play him.

TFG then puts out 3 Storm Talons, 2 Storm Ravens, Chapter master with kitted out Sternguard, and 3 Shotgun Scout squads in 3 Land Speeder Storms, all unpainted so he can run different CTs as he pleases.

TFG proceeds to stomp me, whatever, but acts like he won through strategy and skill.

TFG disappears and is never seen until about a year later, 3 weeks ago.

Talk to current friend about TFG, turns out everyone hates him and he's such a douche. Somehow TFG has a wife.....

Eh, I'm sure the wife is just as insufferable as he is. I despise 'everymarines' with a burning passion. Pick a chapter and stick with it and paint your goddam models. And I find these guys to pull BS all the time but still whine about how underpowered they are compared to eldar/tau.

Not that I buy into GW's whole 'forge the narrative' nonsense but I think most people prefer a scenic battle then a bunch of unpainted models and number crunching. And adult men whining, that too.

**don_mondo**

Heh, reading through these made me wonder. How many of us are on someone else's worst game list... I'm probably on a couple, given that the GT judges used to razz me about making my opponent's cry (it only happened once!).

**Don Savik**

don_mondo wrote:
Heh, reading through these made me wonder. How many of us are on someone else's worst game list... I'm probably on a couple, given that the GT judges used to razz me about making my opponent's cry (it only happened once!).

You ever beat someone with orks? Clearly I'm fudging my dice rolls and lying about rules. Regardless of the fact that 90% of my attacks did nothing, the 1 wound that gets through throws people into temper tantrums.

**gummyofallbears**

I am definitely on someones worst game list -

Funny story about that.

I went to my FLGS with the intention of playing against a Warcon with ynari. We set up our models, and started playing.

Once my harliequins got into combat and started soulbursting all over the place, he got really salty. Quickly packed up his models at the beginning of turn 4.

What makes it worse is his incessant bragging ('belisarius cawl is a badass and he will destroy your entire army.' ' are you sure your harlies wanna charge my robots? They all have S10 powefists... doesn't look too good for the gay elves')

Terrible opponent. He hasn't even showed up since. Probably his worst game but one of mine too.

**don_mondo**

Don Savik wrote:
don_mondo wrote:
Heh, reading through these made me wonder. How many of us are on someone else's worst game list... I'm probably on a couple, given that the GT judges used to razz me about making my opponent's cry (it only happened once!).

You ever beat someone with orks? Clearly I'm fudging my dice rolls and lying about rules. Regardless of the fact that 90% of my attacks did nothing, the 1 wound that gets through throws people into temper tantrums.

Yep, used to have a Speed Freaks army way back in the day. And before anyone asks, at one point or another I have probably played some army from nearly every faction, whether it was my Khorne Berzerkers the first time we had cult lists, or Craftworld Eldar, or Nids, or the original Genestealer Cult, or Dark Eldar, or Necrons, or...And of course marines, several times (Once being an all-Scout list where the only 3+ armor was on the Chaplain/Iron Father leading them). I think the only faction that I never really built an army for is Tau.

**jreilly89**

don_mondo wrote:
Heh, reading through these made me wonder. How many of us are on someone else's worst game list... I'm probably on a couple, given that the GT judges used to razz me about making my opponent's cry (it only happened once!).

There was one game I beat my opponent awfully. My Daemons versus his Necrons. I could not stop rolling 5s and 6s, and he could not roll anything other than 1s and 2s. I felt pretty bad for beating him so handily. Luckily, he's a good friend, so he's had more than his fair share of wins against me

**master of ordinance**

don_mondo wrote:
Heh, reading through these made me wonder. How many of us are on someone else's worst game list... I'm probably on a couple, given that the GT judges used to razz me about making my opponent's cry (it only happened once!).

Just ask Timmy - the amount of time all his cheating, 'forgetting' the rules and bringing extra models/units has still resulted in me handing his arse to him is hilarious. Not to mention his rages and tantrums over 'OP' units such as Lemanr Russ tanks (Guard can bring too many), Stormswords (S10 AP1 Ignores Cover is too much) and Macro Cannon Bunkers (He couldnt run head long at it/win a slugging match so it was OP), not to mention his hatred of Xenos Inquisitors and Sisters of Silence....
Yeah, I am his TFG.

**OgreChubbs**

It is not playing but was..... The horror the horror

Turn 1 we move turn 2 his wife hits the garage the table leg buckles.

Sooo many models......so much slow motion as you see the leg buckle all the little models screaming as they smash the cement floor. Zacharius has a tilt ever since...... So many crooked banner poles.

**Bookwrack**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
He is aware that of all the dakka a Monolith laughs at, Railguns (now of course Heavy Railguns) really weren't counted amongst them?

Reminds me of a 5th edition game I had where my opponent charged his IG command squad into my carnifex, and get increasingly shirty about how it was such broken bs that he could only wound on 6s, AND his guys didn't get armor saves, AND were insta-killed in return.

**Ruin**

don_mondo wrote:
Heh, reading through these made me wonder. How many of us are on someone else's worst game list... I'm probably on a couple, given that the GT judges used to razz me about making my opponent's cry (it only happened once!).

A friend of mine (inadvertently) certainly was. So, it's the EoT campaign from 2003 or so and the local GW is having a big mega battle and my friend is using the Ulthwe Strike Force. At some point in the game this over-enthusiastic kid wants to charge into said friend's Seer Council with a CSM Dread. Yes, we all know where this is going (for those unaware, back in the day Witchblades tripled the user's strength vs. vehicles) yet this kid was obviously not experienced enough to know this and my friend was insisting he not charge the unit.

The inevitable happens and the waterworks begin followed by said kid running out of the store and my friend looking at me dumbfounded. I do wonder if this kid ever stayed in the hobby (all of us went off to Uni later that year so never really went back to that store) and this is his own personal story of a TFG.

**inflatablefriend**

Way back when...

Playing a game against a friend of a friend way back when.

I had a mixed bag of eldar, the harlequins box with a handful of guardians, a couple of gun emplacements and a dreadnought. Probably won't stand up to much but should be fun enough.

I set up, then he sets up; genestealers. So many genestealers, begged borrowed and stolen from every person he knew who had Spacehulk.

His first turn, he charges. 12" of angry stealer movement. Cue huge argument about charging rules. He maintains he does have something to charge; my eldar, and that failing to make his charge doesn't count because stealers are immune to psychology.

I call foul, so he hands off the rulebook to his mate who, giggling, confirms the rules are as my opponent says. I ask to check (seeing as we only had one rule book between us) and get told no, don't be such a poor sport.

The inevitable happens and with their magical 12" standard move the genestealer horde arrives with little to no shooting to thin them out and wipes out everything in no time.

Left a bitter taste, not because I was beaten (I'm terrible at wargames and get beaten almost every time. I play for a laugh, not because I aim to win) but because it was just such cheesy cheating crud.

**Vulcan**

Yikes!

I've had some games I've just plain lost, due to bad choices or bad rolling, but my players are all good guys. I've experienced nothing THAT bad, thus far.

I suppose my worst was playing one of them for the first time. I outmaneuvered him and defeated his force in detail, and he got salty about it. Afterwards, we talked for a bit, discussed the game, and I explained what I did, what he did, and where and how he handed me opportunities to exploit.

We did this after every game, and now he's a much better player - not just tactically, but he handles losing a lot better as well.

**Don Savik**

Vulcan wrote:
Yikes!

I've had some games I've just plain lost, due to bad choices or bad rolling, but my players are all good guys. I've experienced nothing THAT bad, thus far.

I suppose my worst was playing one of them for the first time. I outmaneuvered him and defeated his force in detail, and he got salty about it. Afterwards, we talked for a bit, discussed the game, and I explained what I did, what he did, and where and how he handed me opportunities to exploit.

We did this after every game, and now he's a much better player - not just tactically, but he handles losing a lot better as well.

Yea when you don't have a good teacher I find its very easy to get frustrated playing tabletop games. My friend (chaos) fought me once (space wolves) and my lascannon razorback exploded his land raider turn 1 (2 sixes in a row) with abaddon and terminators inside of it. I had to talk him down from leaving for the next 20 minutes. I had to tell him that while we both agree that vehicle rules suck massive -expletives- right now, you should position your land raider behind units or at least behind cover. Or have multiple threats that make targeting one not a big deal. Plus, lucky dice rolls are no fault of either player, and you should just learn to play what the dice gods throw at you. Playing out a game where your unit has to footslog helps your tactical thinking immensely.

I find playing a weak army like orks helps, because bad things happen so often and I'm used to it that its very very enjoyable when good dice rolls occur and I kill things.

*off topic side rant sorry*

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Another bad experience?

8th Ed Warhammer. My Ogres (I think this was just before our hardback landed? I'm not 100%, but I don't recall having anything but Ogres and Ironguts on the field?) against a self-proclaimed 'top tier optimised' Vampire Counts army. With the usual tricks.

In short? I flattened him. He wasn't used to big blocks of Ogres sticking the boot in, and when a unit of 18 Ironguts all get to attack (I buffed them. I buffed them good), there's really not much left of most enemy units.

His deathstar? Buttered up the board in double quick time, Banner of Drakenhoff or no (hurrah for cheap Banners that grant the unit Flaming Attacks).

Now, being an experienced tournament attendee, did he take his defeat like a champ, acknowledging that just maybe, the new Edition had some new tricks and challenges for him to master?

Nope.

Instead, he and his little Droogs decided player skill had nothing to do with it - instead, I'd merely 'diced him'. Which is downright rude.

**IllumiNini**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Now, being an experienced tournament attendee, did he take his defeat like a champ, acknowledging that just maybe, the new Edition had some new tricks and challenges for him to master?

Nope.

Instead, he and his little Droogs decided player skill had nothing to do with it - instead, I'd merely 'diced him'. Which is downright rude.

And this is why I like playing at my FLGS - Everyone knows each other and thus knows that we aren't screwing with each other or simply relying on the favour of the Dice Gods to win. From all the horror stories I've heard on threads like this as well as from mates, I'm glad I don't play tournaments haha

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

This was in my local GW store - against kids I showed the ropes!

**timetowaste85**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
This was in my local GW store - against kids I showed the ropes!

Clearly you should have goaded him further, and told him that next time you're looking for a challenge, you'll attempt to wrangle his mum in the sheets.