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I had to join simply because of this thread...I've been coming to this site for years, just trolling, looking at models, tactics and armies...

My most annoying moment had to be when the Tau were first released, I was playing my buddy ( whom had gotten a tau army, I was playing Tyranids ) .. a squad of 5 Fire Warriors killed my charging Lictor in CC, not losing a single model.

Or when I took my girlfriend ( whom happens to be really hot ) with me to the local place where they do tournies here...you'd think the Emperor had just walked in the way they were googling at her.. people kept coming up introducting themselves as if she actually cared...telling her what armies they played and why.. of course she had no clue what they were talking about. The local place is full of the 'Walking Stereotype' gamers...all overweight, in their mid 30's and 40's, single, don't shower, socially awkward... it was a very akward experience for us both!

the most annoying thing easily to me is reteaching my girl friend's unit's stats. Every game i play she forgets what her mandrakes stats are, her kabilites roll to hit, it just sucks. No offense amanda.

Dude. Your girlfriend plays with you. STFU with your complaining and repeat the stat-lines 100 times if you have to.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I agree man, it took me ages to convince her to play, plus a box of Wyches XD

kronk wrote:Dude. Your girlfriend plays with you. STFU with your complaining and repeat the stat-lines 100 times if you have to.

It's like he found the holy grail and is complaining that it's got a smudge of dirt on it.

whigwam wrote:

IHateNids wrote:Also, in one of my first games against our thread maker, happygolucky exploded my 'lith with an extreamely lucky twin-linked lascannon in his first turn:
to hit: 1
to hit: 6
to penetrate: 6
damage: 6
range: 6

explosion killed nothing though

My first game where I used a Monolith (back in 2003) went exactly like this. One Predator shot and killed it first turn. I said "Screw it" and didn't use Monoliths again for years.

Wish I could, but it's the only tank i've got

lol i guess you guys are right hahahaha

Most "Annoying" moment of my war gaming life?

Partner getting groped in a now closed down gaming store!

Most "Gratifying" moment of my war gaming life?

My partner knocking the guy who groped her onto the floor!

I was setting up to play a match at the local store and chatting it up with a kid who suddenly drifts off mid sentence, he doesn't look quite right and sweating really heavily and I noticed he's hanging on the edge of the table with a white nuckle death grip. Just as I'm about to ask if he's ok he projectile vomits into my open minis case. Trying to brace himself up he leans on the table and the folding leg buckles and dumps him and all our minis on the floor. I'm like did this seriously just happen?

The kid gets taken to the hospital (we later learn he had food poisoning) the manager and I end up spending an hour washing the armies off in the store sink and he gives me a new case so I have something clean to take my minis home in. I never did get any games in that night and was a pretty horrible event.



The second worst moment was playing a game at my house, my templars vs my friends orks. We're using my dining table so it's slightly smaller than a standard table I go first and roll my landraider forward shooting at his Kan, first shot of the game pops the Kan and it explodes, as he hasn't moved it's in the middle of his army and the blast hits 3 differant units killing about 30 of his boyz, and his only powerclaws. (other than the boss)

It was pure luck, but he completely flips out as he no longer has anything he can damage my two landraiders with and starts throwing his models all over my living room. I ask him wtf are you doing? and he responds by starting to smash the remaining models with his rules book. He starts pounding his metal ork boss so hard it tears through the back cover of his book and totally marrs up the table. All his rage was fortunately only directed at his stuff but needless to say that was the last time he was ever invited over to play.

paulson games wrote:It was pure luck, but he completely flips out as he no longer has anything he can damage my two landraiders with and starts throwing his models all over my living room. I ask him wtf are you doing? and he responds by starting to smash the remaining models with his rules book. He starts pounding his metal ork boss so hard it tears through the back cover of his book and totally marrs up the table. All his rage was fortunately only directed at his stuff but needless to say that was the last time he was ever invited over to play.

I hope that dining table was not an antique, or I'd have been raising hell myself. How does someone act like that as a guest in their friends own home?

I used to play with a guy who made up rules and said they were in rulebooks you didn't have, then he would say you couldn't look at those books because that was cheating. He also said that any model in any squad could target any model in any other squad. He would then target all your flamers because he thought that was a "gay" term.

the worst time i have ever had wargaming (barring everytime i go into GW and suffer the man smell) was when i was playing 40K at a local club and a new chap arrived, he seemed a little odd but as they say "dont judge a book...". however my assumption was very wrong, he was not a "little odd" he was a full blown nutcase! he spent about 1/2 an hour talking to his models and squad devising his plans cackling with delight and declaring he had already won as him and his army were "one". anyways by turn 3 i had just about tabled his chaos marine with full blown IG battle cannon power (i could have played easy but he just me off so i went all out). the most annoying part was when he failed an armour save, took a wound or even rolled less than needed he would shout and scream and go beserk, i dont know why i continued to play but needless to say due to his language and attitude he was banned. i also found out that he is banned from every Gw in the country because he punched the Gw truro manager.

One thing that really ticks me off is when they have a huge army and you begin a game and they ask: what do i do now?

Reading all these has made me relise why I dont really play anymore and stick to just painting :/

Ronin wrote:I hope that dining table was not an antique, or I'd have been raising hell myself. How does someone act like that as a guest in their friends own home?

Not antique, I had the table for about a year so it was pretty new which is what steamed me really bad. Not sack kicking him for his behavoir was a huge effort of self restraint. He is the worst power gamer I know and terribly sore loser. While it was definately one of his biggest jerk moves he's done simular things before which is why people avoid him like the plague (justifiably) I've seen people pack up their stuff and leave when he walks in the door, I used to feel sorry for him but not anymore. I've joined the long list of people that refuse to play him.

Well in apocolypes my Dread managed to reserve into the rear armour of someones land raider.
They saw that and knocked him off the table, he should be thankful he was the stereotypical gamer, I don't want to have my arm submerged in fat and sweat.

When someone flipped a table because i called them out for cheating or just not reading his codex properly. I still can't forget how crazy that was. Then he was promptly kicked out before an actual fight escalated. It's a game! jeeze.

this made me tick, a man (not kid) was playing with my models during a game, we ask him to stop, he carries on playing with our models, we ask again and he still keeps touching and fiddling with our models and i and my opponent had to ask him to leave our board and go do something else, still didn't listen, he finally left when a store worker came over and asked him to move, earlier in the week he was sent out for completly rearranging the starter board.

Playing a 500 pt game when I was 12 at GW.
Played against a nid player who seemed to have a few too many models on the table. I asked to see his army list and everything was on there, so fair enough carried on with the game.
One of the store assistants walks up and has a similar quiry to myself. Looks at his army list and it turned out he has 'cheapened' everything.

He had 800 points worth on the table and compared to my 500 of necrons, this wasn't looking good for me.

So I went away feeling cheated, needless to say I've now read up on point costs.

It's in my sig. That actually happened. Was playing my Black Crusade CSM against my buddy's 'Nids. My unit of Chaos Terminator Champions w/ Mark of Khorne was trying to hack their way through a very annoying tarpit of Termagaunts so they could finally stomp on the even more annoying Doom of Malan'tai Zoanthrope my buddy had just "podded" onto the table the turn before. The Terminators raged through the brood but didn't wipe it out the turn before and had suffered a few losses to an insane amount of saving throws I had to make. However, there were only 5 of them left and once the Terminators broke free they would be in position to blast away at (and with luck assault) the DoM.

So yeah. 9 hits, wounding on a 2 up... nothing.

My friend looked at me and said (as quoted) "Dude, your dice suck."

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

Miraclefish wrote:There was a lad called Jordan who played when I first got into GW about 12 years ago. He was the archetypal Annoying Game Store Child.

He ran around, barely painted his models, picked up and broke other peoples' and kicked off when his Space Wolves didn't win everything.

After a while, when he broke a nice, kind customer's Leman Russ tank by dropping it, the staff told him he was banned from the store for a month and should take the time to think about his behaviour.

Well, Jordan wasn't having this. He ran to the modeling table to enact some sort of bitter revenge. Sadly there was naught to destroy.

But look! Paints! So Jordan reaches for a pot of Ultramarines Blue and flips the cap. Everyone steps back, fearing the pigment will fly. And then...

...he drinks it.

No, I don't know why, either. But he laughs, and runs for the door, through a sea of people frozen into inaction through confusion.

He get to the door and falters, stumbles. "I..... I don't feel well...."

We watch in silence as he staggers a few steps and clutches his stomach. He looks for a bin to throw up in. He finds none. Which leads to one of the most surreal moments of my life.

I watch a young lad sobbing quietly as he throws up blue-tainted vomit and bitter bile time and time again into the slot of an unfortunate Royal Mail postbox.

Then his mum came to collect him.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

Clauss wrote: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...

This formation is actually allowed. In the BA Army List it states you can take 1 unit of Honour Guard per HQ choice. Seeing as Mephiston is a HQ I see no problem with this.

BlapBlapBlap wrote:

Clauss wrote: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...

This formation is actually allowed. In the BA Army List it states you can take 1 unit of Honour Guard per HQ choice. Seeing as Mephiston is a HQ I see no problem with this.

I don't think the problem was him taking Honour Guard but the fact that he attactched them to Mephiston.

The local tournament gaming scene.

As a disclaimer I will say -most- of my dislike for tournaments/competitive war gaming was based around this group of people. Never before have I seen people so blatantly disrespectful, socially inept, elitist.

I could go on, but I can't too much booze in my system to be negative!

I've only played five games and only once had a problem. I play Eldar and the guy I was facing had Necrons, it was turn five and I was to go first but I got a call from the girlfriend saying I'm outside, hurry up. I realised I only had one squad of 10 guardians and a squad of Banshees left and he still had about 20 destroyers and heavy destroyers left, so I conceded.

He got in a mood with me and tried to keep me playing by rolling for me. I tried to shake his hand again but he refused, I think he was just trying to humiliate me infront of the people watching -shrugs-.

While not the most annoying moment of my wargaming life, last week proved to be incredibly annoying... My FLGS started a new escalation league and I was paired up with one of those guys who is only 1/2 paying attention to the game. I was playing mech'ed necrons while he was playing a Tau broadside list.

While I'm perfectly happy to walk a new player through the rules, this gentleman has been playing long enough for me not to baby him. So rather than putz around I speed through my turns pretty quickly (4 models on the board doesn't take long). My opponent was largely unconcerned with watching what was happening during my turns but somewhere around the bottom of turn 2 he announces that I've been cheating. I ask how, and he responds that I've been counting select failures as success on key roles. Now I use opaque white dice with black dots, so maybe just maybe he saw wrong... I offer to even re-roll the mediocre average results as this "key role" couldn't of mattered less.

Anyway he proceeds to call me out on cheating twice during the game because he couldn't be bothered to keep up, and I was easy going enough to let him play with an illegal list and allowed him to take back a game losing movement decision.

I could of punched the guy in the face by the end of it...

How was the list illegal?

Playing against people who goes out of their way to annoy me during a game, had this experience today. Damned person almost made me snap, thankfully I managed to keep calm and game on, oh and having to lisen to his hining after my Beastmen slaugtherd his WoC was sad

Well, there is a guy at a WHFB tournament I tend to go to. He is so incredibly WAAC it's just ridicoulus (using the Stubborn banner thing for Daemons of Chaos in 7th edition for instance). He also always try to bend the rules to his favour, a pure rule nazi.

My friend has made him his personal rival, and for some reason, he keeps getting matched up against him, even though opponents are randomized.

There was a kid (well, 17 year old) at my FLGS who soured the Tau for me. My second game he told me that Pulse Rifles rapid-fired at 20', were Strength 7, and AP3. Now, I was playing with the old Guard 'dex, and was brand-new to 5th, so I had no idea what I was doing, and as it was my second game ever, I just took him at his word.

When I wisened up and talked to him about it, he told me "I'm a purple belt in Tiger Shouman's (sp) and I'll kick your butt if you say that again".

I'm a 10-year Dan member in Tang Soo Do, so I found this hilarious. I told him so and he shut up really quickly. He was also the type who cried if he lost, and started blatantly cheating when he was losing. All of his dice had extra dots painted on the 3's and 2's (turning them into 5's and 4's respectively).

It was somewhat gratifying to watch him in an Apoc game, some time later, after he smugly dropped two Eldar Titans on the board. A buddy of mine deep-struck a full pair of Vanguard Veteran squads with Meltabombs in (didn't scatter thanks to a few well-placed Teleport Homers), and Heroic Intervention'd their way into the Titans, killing them both in a single assault.