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Hi guys,

Thought we could get a little story thread going.

Tell us about your three best/worst/weirdest opponents.

The Good - The opponent that handed your ass to you on a silver platter and there was nothing you could do about it.

The Bad - Not counting new players, who have you or do you play that is just useless, they never seem to do any good and you sometimes wonder why they bother to play at all.

The Ugly - That player who for whatever reason just ruined a game, did something horrificly stupid, just a complete ass, made you laugh till you wet yourself.


Mine goes little something like this

The Good - My friend Lindon, avid warhammer player. He has never been much of a 40k player and I have never been much of a warhammer fan. He started a Thoushand Sons army 2/3 editions ago. He had a squad (never sure if these rules were correct) which were all sorcerers basically. I think they all had doombolt or something like that, basically it was like a group of 10 men all with lascannons. His army seemed so small compared to my marines. First turn he completely obliterated all my terminators. To say I was a little shocked would be an understatement. Safe to say, I lost!

The Bad - A friend who moved away, Lloyd, bless him, we used to call him Goddo Baggins because he literally looked like a hobbit, not insulting, he just did, unavoidable fact. I have never known a man so useless at wargames/ccg's in my life. I remember him making a magic deck with only 1 mana in it because all the things in it were only 1 to cast. Also he bought a pre made World Championship deck with different back to the cards, he played with it a bunch of times and kept saying it was useless. He never could understand what we meant when we said "it won the world championship!! It can not be useless". He had a great necromunda gang with some awesome conversions, the one that always sticks in my mind was the affectionatly named "tyrant head". A plastci goliath ganger with a old style tyrant head glued to the top, looked hilarious!

Fogrot to Write my Ugly

The Ugly - Got to be my best friend Summers, bless him, I love the man but when he plays he drinks. He likes cider, cider does not like him. The mroe he drinks he just questions everything thats happening and he is a really bad loser. Playing him without a drink is a pleasure and a know I will have a huge laugh, with a drink you never know what your going to get.

The Ugly - Some kid that we called Fat Jake. He cheated, lied, smelled bad, and blamed his farts on other people, and was just generally a douche. Eventually he left because nobody liked him or wanted to play him.

I assume there were not enough reasons to complain about Finecast/Games Workshop or give someone a patronising comment for this to get no more than 1 reply

People are slow, bored, or too busy ranting at GW's plans again
I suppose I can give it a go.

The Good: My good friend Lacey is a Deathwing player. Has been for some 7/8 years now. And he always wins. It's getting rather close now but so far every battle he's been involved in (in our gaming group at least) he comes out top. Scary.

The Bad: I guess this will be that little kid I met in my local GW one day. I spied his Necrons and thought I'd lend a word in of my opinion. The kid is like 12 and instantly went into full annoyance mode, with swearing. No parents. And he even said he was deliberately being annoying because it's fun... Troll. I could tell nobody else liked him since once the store owner closed for lunch the other people walked off and the kid followed them like a lost hound.

The Ugly: I think this one goes to my mate Matt. Good guy, decent player. But his prediction skills make us laugh, especially for his Wraithlord that now gathers dust on his shelf. One time he made a prediction the Wraithlord wound fail to wound with a Brightlance on a humble Tactical Marine of mine. 2's to wound. He rolls a 1. Hilarity There was a Nightfight game as well. He kept saying the Wraithlord wouldn't do much that game. And lo and behold, it failed it's funny test 3 turns consecatively without moving an inch Poor thing got a Powerfist to the face when it finally hit combat.

Good: there are a couple of guys who win alot, not really interesting...

Bad/Ugly: Dave. He is a whole picnic short of a picnic. he has never, ever won a game at the club and plays BA (not a bad army). He deep strikes everything because "its cool" or "cinematically pleasing" to do so and this once included deep striking his storm raven into his own deployment zone in turn one when he was going first! it scatterd off the board and got destroyed. being that the thing was, cargo included, almost 700 points of the 1000 point battle the guy he was playing just said "i'm not wasting my time playing this, start again and don't do that". I don't even know if your allowed to do that first turn never mind why anyone would! completely mental.

The Good - IG player, local, very good friend of mine. I'm getting my Daemons ready for 'Ard Boys... he takes his 'Ard Boys list against mine... I was tabled top of turn 3. I should have deepstruck more aggressively... but.. The average die roll coming out of his hand was a 5.5, and I was failing 3+ saves like crazy. Fateweaver went down turn 1. It was... a thrashing.

The Bad - Another IG player, ummm... he's the Dane Cook "Karen" of the group... anyway.. he is abysmally bad. He runs some kind of... Yarrick in a power blob.. list.. thing. It's.. bad. I tabled him with my Tau, in 3 turns. The line is "Oh, you're playing (his name)... better bring a mop!"

The Ugly - I didn't actually play in this game, but one guy I know, was pointing at this other guy (both of which are great guys, and totally honest) "You're a F CHEATER! YOU F CHEATER!" .... yeaaaah... we don't talk to that guy anymore.

Cottonjaw wrote:Dane Cook "Karen"

I am going to apply British ignorance to this. Who is this?

Thanks for getting into the spirit of things people

lukewild1982 wrote:

Cottonjaw wrote:Dane Cook "Karen"

I am going to apply British ignorance to this. Who is this?

Thanks for getting into the spirit of things people

Pretty sure Karen in the Dane Cook skits is somebody that everyone hates. Karen and Brian are both hated people in his skits. And my name is Brian. Hooray, I'm hated by Dane Cook!!

thank you


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Good: Once played a guy who hadn't had a game in a while. We were the only guys in the FLGS at the time, so we took most of the terrain and made a city-board. It was a fantastic game - Marine vs. Marine, ironically enough. My Rhinos and Predator advanced through the streets, until the guy was able to hit the predator with a MM landspeeder, and my Marines had to abandon their Rhinos and advance through the buildings while taking fire. Meanwhile, my fast attack units skirmished with his fast attack units, while my Ironclad Dreadnought went toe-to-toe with his Venerable.

Bad: Not so much 'bad' as 'meh' - my friend, who I mainly play. Never paints his armies, everything is 'counts as'. I try to get him to play things other than 40k, but then he goes and buys a thid army when his first two are incomplete. And they're Guard and Orks.

The Ugly- there's a guy who constantly gets the rules wrong, but he acts like he knows them and will get in huge arguments with people in games he's not even playing. One time he claimed his blood angels didn't have to fall back 3d6 because they can choose to walk away like infantry. Being new at the time, I believed him, and he was a conveint less than 1 inch away from the table, and because they were marines they auto-rallied next turn and claimed an objective for a draw.
Another time I played an ork player that wasn't even him, and he got in a huge argument with me after the Avatar beat my opponents deffcoptas. He said that they could elect to use there hit and run after they fail leadership, because that's the only way it would make sense.

The Good - Anybody who plays me.

The Bad - Um nobody apart from myself haha.

The Ugly - Um.... hmm, tough one... all the guys iv played with are pretty decent guys so kinda stuck here haha.


Overall, I suck at 40k, pretty much because im still gettin used to it, of the 15 or so matches iv played iv lost all but one win with my Chaos Marines and lost all with my Tau. Why do I play again??

The Good: My good friend Jamie who always knows how to establish his dominance early on in every game played

The Bad: Having to put up with this guy at this GW store i used to go to who couldn't stop the endless flow of racial hatred....tons of fun playing with him, especially when he called a WAAAGH! because you could hear it all the way on the otherside of the mall.

The Ugly- Getting tabled by a 1st time player using eldar in turn 5