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hello dont know if anyone has done this before but what exactly made you tick when you were having a game with somone.

i will start off when i was in newcastle GW and i played my TK against Dwarfs as we were having a game we only had half an hour do do a game as the staff needed the board we were on for the storm of magic release.

we were having a game untill 3 other lads came (they were older than us, were nice people but knew the rules well) over our table and even though we were playing right and they knew the rules and were helping us, they were trying to help the Dwarf player (who was a noob at the rules) and that were i felt penilised as the older lads were helping him with tactics (i had a hoard of 40 skellies but he had a cannon nuff'said) he then won the game and the only thing i learned out of this was that warsphinxs take crumble tests (which even if its right to was a bad thing) then for the whole day he was boasting about how he beat such a noob (well at least i know how to reform and what a full comand squad do) and the lines what he said were "I pwned you like a noob" every time he saw me.

needless to say I dont go to GW again and i will stay at games of war as it is just plain better.

so what has made you tick please post here.

cheers for your replies.

happygolucky wrote: "I pwned you like a noob"

Someone seriously said this in real life? Ugh. Anyone who says that without a hint of irony out loud should go to the gallows.

I played against an opponent who, every single time I rolled a die, would say something along the lines of "don't mess up" even after I politely asked him to stop. He then started going on about my Team Jacob Marines (which wasn't funny the first time, less funny the sixteenth) just because I was playing Space Wolves. When you're rolling really poorly and somebody is constantly pestering you like that, it makes for a really awful game.

GT Chicago 2006. Played a game on one of the lava pools style tables. My opponent rolled every dice one-ata-time into different lava pools...the WHOLE GAME!

Fun times....

Ok, I had one that was more grounded in gameplay but here it goes. I'll try to make it at least somewhat intelligible to no WM players.
In a game of warmachine I was playing cygnar(ranged faction) and my warcaster was kraye(terrain mitigation and doubles the speed of one melee model) vs. protectorate(buff heavy faction that's mostly melee) lead by Epic Severius(anti-infantry control-ish caster).
I had set up behind a big forest and planned on making him come close with his troops then trampling his infantry and going straight through to his caster and support models. Little did I know that the forest in question was just deep enough for him to hide inside, keep his two jacks with big guns behind, and use a rarely used spell to see through and blast away with no place for my planned trample to end up. I had to move up my own warcaster way too close for comfort to get any results and by then, I was out-maned. I did at least get one sold shot in on Severius before his jacks took down Kraye.
Long story short I misjudged a forest's depth by about an inch and got: outgunned by some churchies with a ranged faction, outmaneuvered by an old man when my guy had a horse and a jack with double speed, and had the terrain used against me in spite of having every tool to mitigate it.
Yea, that was a bad day for me. I am thankful my opponent was gracious in victory though, I don't think I would have handled such a tactless opponent as happygolucky had well at all.

A rules dispute that isn't solved quickly can really feth up a game for me.

I find nothing settles a drawn out rules dispute like jumping onto the table and stomping their army while screaming "APOCALYPTIC BARRAGE MUTHAFU#$%&!!!!"

The exact moment I realized I just didn't like the Ork army I built. Then immediately realizing I only picked them because they are Cheap.

*sigh* should have built my Tau army when I had the chance

For me is playing a game against space marines withmy necrons and watch the guy actually leave to talk to other people while I was moving my units and shooting...I mean wtf ._.

Well, I consider myself lucky then. The worst I've had was a game where the other guy just surrendered the moment a unit of mine got into combat.

Note: Neither of us had lost anything yet.

MrDwhitey wrote:Well, I consider myself lucky then. The worst I've had was a game where the other guy just surrendered the moment a unit of mine got into combat.

Note: Neither of us had lost anything yet.

Jeez, your army must be terrifying.

2009 'Ard Boyz semifinals in Arlington, Texas.

Round one lasts four hours (yes, four HOURS) because 2 people showed up late and the TO allowed them to start a full 1.5 hours into round one.

Then, with me in first place overall by a wide margin, the TO calls round 3 to cut short with no prior warning at the top of turn four, after I had completed my movement phase.

I have fewer table quarters and no models in the center, so I go from a near auto-win (Lash Chaos vs. footslogging Calgar/Lysander) to a minor loss, costing me the overall tournament win and a chance at Nationals. For a tournament that I had driven 6 hours to be at.

That was the first real wake-up call that I had to the state of competitive play in 40k.

sourclams wrote:That was the first real wake-up call that I had to the state of competitive play in 40k.

I think that was the first wake-up call that you shouldn't play at that store. Laying the state of competitive play in 40k at the feet of one bad TO in Texas is kind of silly. I'm sure you have other examples, but it just seems like a strange statement.

htj wrote:

MrDwhitey wrote:Well, I consider myself lucky then. The worst I've had was a game where the other guy just surrendered the moment a unit of mine got into combat.

Note: Neither of us had lost anything yet.

Jeez, your army must be terrifying.

I don't think it was that. He was playing Chaos Dwarfs, half gunline half infantry. But every turn (he deployed 12 on) he'd walk 3 inches backwards with all infantry. Eventually I got to him (Graveguard unit) and he just... "I give up".

It was highly annoying walking through a hail of gunfire and bolts and when I finally get to do something "You win".

MrDwhitey wrote:

htj wrote:

MrDwhitey wrote:Well, I consider myself lucky then. The worst I've had was a game where the other guy just surrendered the moment a unit of mine got into combat.

Note: Neither of us had lost anything yet.

Jeez, your army must be terrifying.

I don't think it was that. He was playing Chaos Dwarfs, half gunline half infantry. But every turn (he deployed 12 on) he'd walk 3 inches backwards with all infantry. Eventually I got to him (Graveguard unit) and he just... "I give up".

It was highly annoying walking through a hail of gunfire and bolts and when I finally get to do something "You win".

Ouch. Doesn't sound like a fun guy to play.

pretre wrote:

sourclams wrote:That was the first real wake-up call that I had to the state of competitive play in 40k.

I think that was the first wake-up call that you shouldn't play at that store. Laying the state of competitive play in 40k at the feet of one bad TO in Texas is kind of silly. I'm sure you have other examples, but it just seems like a strange statement.

It was the 'Ard Boyz semifinals. GW itself selects/authorizes the venues. There is very little option 'not to play there' unless you intend to fly to the east coast for the weekend. It is also, by far, the most significant prize support of any GW tournament.

The options within 6 hours of my location were Arlington, Texas or Springfield, Missouri. Ironically, my group decided on Texas due to all the scuttlebutt about TO favoritism and outright cheating that occurred at the Missouri location the year before.

Brother SRM wrote:

happygolucky wrote: "I pwned you like a noob"

Someone seriously said this in real life? Ugh. Anyone who says that without a hint of irony out loud should go to the gallows.

I played against an opponent who, every single time I rolled a die, would say something along the lines of "don't mess up" even after I politely asked him to stop. He then started going on about my Team Jacob Marines (which wasn't funny the first time, less funny the sixteenth) just because I was playing Space Wolves. When you're rolling really poorly and somebody is constantly pestering you like that, it makes for a really awful game.

I have a similar experience. I was playing Orks, and the opposing player, every time I was counting out dice for an attack roll or whatever, which is a lot for 30 or so boyz, would blurt out random numbers close to what I was counting up to and throw me off. Finally, I told him that I was just gonna roll all my dice, which was probably more than the actually number needed, but that's what happens when you screw with me. When he complained that I might score more hits than I was actually allowed, I simply told him it was an annoyance tax. It took nearly the whole game before he finally shut up.

so your pet peeve is bad TOs? Not competitive 40k?

sourclams wrote:It was the 'Ard Boyz semifinals. GW itself selects/authorizes the venues. There is very little option 'not to play there' unless you intend to fly to the east coast for the weekend. It is also, by far, the most significant prize support of any GW tournament.

Did you provide feedback on what occured to GW? GW selects locations based on a number of factors, but I think one of them is that they ask for it and say they have the space, etc. If they don't ever receive feedback to the contrary, they will assume everything is okay. It is not like they have staff to go do secret shopper type stuff at the tourneys.

I'm not defending bad TOs, but I am saying that it is our responsibility to report it if there are shenanigans. It is the same for people that complain about cheating players at Tourneys but still hand out good sports and never tell the TO.

The options within 6 hours of my location were Arlington, Texas or Springfield, Missouri. Ironically, my group decided on Texas due to all the scuttlebutt about TO favoritism and outright cheating that occurred at the Missouri location the year before.

Again, did someone with direct experience report it to GW? If they did, I imagine there would be a different situation.

You can go ahead and call me an apologist or a hopeless optimist, but I imagine GW doesn't want that kind of thing associated with their brand.

I did report it to GW, in a detailed non-rant letter expressing my disappointment with the event.

Arlington got the semifinals again in 2010.

Dreaded 1'sss they follow me... Every where....

sourclams wrote:I did report it to GW, in a detailed non-rant letter expressing my disappointment with the event.

Arlington got the semifinals again in 2010.

Now I'm not up on this stuff, someone else may be able to help me and we might want to break off this conversation, but...

Did you send your complaint to US trade sales (I think they're called that)? If I remember correctly, they're the ones who run 'AB (Someone more familiar with GW would know this, like mikhaila or Mannahnin, etc.) I'd complain again each year. It's not much, but it is something. Also, any others who were there should send it in. Having worked in corporations for quite a while... one complaint is a crazy person; many complaints is a problem.

Oh and a Brother that says lets play a game, so I get the table out set out the board get the armies ready get every thing out just to be told oh sorry this TV show is very interesting could we play another game tomorrow.

I don't have any problems with Warmachine, or it's players. It's not my kinda game, but that's just me.

EXCEPT when our FLGS is hosting a Warhammer night... and the majority of the tables have Warmachine being played on them!

Warmachine night is tomorrow night, guys! We don't show up to play Warhammer on Warmachine night; please render us the same courtesy!

What made me tick enough to actually think about quiting ALL hobby games? I havent been to my lgs in 7 months or so but even then I was planning on doing a starwars themed 40k army. I had everyone built and 3 squads painted went up yesterday and everyone said they wouldn't play vs my converstions. so half a year of work half my bitz box and who know how much the models themselves added up to play a game to go to the store to have no one willing to play me.

jariksolo wrote:What made me tick enough to actually think about quiting ALL hobby games? I havent been to my lgs in 7 months or so but even then I was planning on doing a starwars themed 40k army. I had everyone built and 3 squads painted went up yesterday and everyone said they wouldn't play vs my converstions. so half a year of work half my bitz box and who know how much the models themselves added up to play a game to go to the store to have no one willing to play me.

Sounds like it is time to find a new LGS.

I came in second at a local tournament because one of the rounds had an objective that used 2d+scatter to move every turn. It keept moving into my opponents deployment zone, jumping from unit to unit every turn, while he gained cumilative points for turns controling the objective.

Mohoc wrote:I came in second at a local tournament because one of the rounds had an objective that used 2d+scatter to move every turn. It keept moving into my opponents deployment zone, jumping from unit to unit every turn, while he gained cumilative points for turns controling the objective.

Agh, horribly conceived missions deserve a special place in hell. For the love of god, at least playtest it or think about it for 20 seconds before the tournament.

Random scattering objectives, random USRs for random units, unit does nothing if it rolls a 1 each turn, etc. so on. These are great for fun missions but not for tournaments.

Proxy man. "No, I told you, this AOBR dread is actually an ironclad, so it's armor is actually 13, not 12, and your guy you just assaulted with has no chance of hurting it, and is now stuck in combat with it". If you're going to do something like that, at least work a little plasticard magic, or even just a sign made of masking tape that says "ironclad", so I don't have to remember your 6 proxies and lose a chaplain to one of them.

micahaphone wrote:Proxy man. "No, I told you, this AOBR dread is actually an ironclad, so it's armor is actually 13, not 12, and your guy you just assaulted with has no chance of hurting it, and is now stuck in combat with it". If you're going to do something like that, at least work a little plasticard magic, or even just a sign made of masking tape that says "ironclad", so I don't have to remember your 6 proxies and lose a chaplain to one of them.

This is why when I proxy stuff, I let my opponents know what is going to happen if they attack. Not letting you know that you were going to attack an Ironclad is a pretty dick move. E

Even when I proxy stuff, I still continuously remind people of what the units are.

For me? My most annoying moment was when my Leman Russ Executioner (with plasma cannon sponsons no less!) failed to kill a Terminator unit with storm shields. I still hate Mat Ward for thinking of that. Though I shouldn't say think, that gives him too much credit

Vladsimpaler wrote:

micahaphone wrote:Proxy man. "No, I told you, this AOBR dread is actually an ironclad, so it's armor is actually 13, not 12, and your guy you just assaulted with has no chance of hurting it, and is now stuck in combat with it". If you're going to do something like that, at least work a little plasticard magic, or even just a sign made of masking tape that says "ironclad", so I don't have to remember your 6 proxies and lose a chaplain to one of them.

This is why when I proxy stuff, I let my opponents know what is going to happen if they attack. Not letting you know that you were going to attack an Ironclad is a pretty dick move. E

Even when I proxy stuff, I still continuously remind people of what the units are.

For me? My most annoying moment was when my Leman Russ Executioner (with plasma cannon sponsons no less!) failed to kill a Terminator unit with storm shields. I still hate Mat Ward for thinking of that. Though I shouldn't say think, that gives him too much credit

I'm completely fine with proxying, but when it's done en masse like that, without any effort to help out your opponent, and he actually was indignant that I couldn't remember what was really what, that's what got to me. If you wanted your librarian to be a termie librarian, fine. If you want your dread to be ironclad, fine. Rhino a razorback, okay. But being angry that I can't remember all your proxies? Not okay.