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 Easy E wrote:
I hate shaking hands, even for work situations.

I substitute with a nod, "Thank you", and a genuine compliment about something to do with their army/list/gameplay etc.

if - if - its for ocd-type reasons, avoiding such things makes the mental illness stronger.

Lanrak wrote:

All the other war games I have played, have much better defined rules, balanced for random pick up games and tournaments.So this sort of shinanigans is minimized.

Sounds unlikely... its not a wargame, but Yu-Gi-Oh had cards reprinted to be very literal and an encyclopedia-sized FAQ and people still tried to abuse the rules in every way.

Tyranno wrote:

Lanrak wrote:

All the other war games I have played, have much better defined rules, balanced for random pick up games and tournaments.So this sort of shinanigans is minimized.

Sounds unlikely... its not a wargame, but Yu-Gi-Oh had cards reprinted to be very literal and an encyclopedia-sized FAQ and people still tried to abuse the rules in every way.

Yu-Gi-Oh is a glorified ban-list simulator.