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Imagine how awkward it would be to play a game if your were 8 months pregnant. You'd be wrecking the table.

Once, (my first 40K game I think), I was playing my friend, who was utterly convinced that he would win because his army was painted what he thought was the best colour scheme ever (i.e. spraycoat black and silver trims), he would win.

Half an hour later, his Daemon Prince goes down to my Boyz. He starts ranting about how unrealistic the game is. He didn't listen when I reminded him that Space Marines are hardly realistic.

I'm actually 14, and I honestly rarely see this stuff from my friends and-or group (minus those two people)

But honestly, the HE player is getting really annoying as of yet. He's entirely focused on "winning". In fact, I was talking about the humble High Elf Eagle, (he asked me what he should get) and then after being a little jerk-ish he replies

"I don't make alot of money dude, I can only buy those good units"

He also focuses on stats and armor saves. If it has a 3+ save, he loves it. In fact, when he first got started into 40k, he wanted to play Tau. After buying about $50 of stuff, he decided that Space Marines were the way to go (seeing as he could never beat my Orks with Tau, even though I used horrible tactics {stop in front of a unit to shoot pistols, etc.}) Eventually, he cheated and took 1,500 points of SM vs. my Orks. He claimed that it was a massive victory. I pointed out it was 1,500 points later, and he claimed that

"Dude, your armies are totally hard. It's only fair. Besides, Space Marines are the best."

Honestly, after that it's just been getting redundant.

Eventually, I brought out chaos marines to shatter his "spehss marins are bestest" syndrome. Now, I'm not going to lie, these were my friend's old Chaos Marines that weren't the best painted models of the year, but I had re-undercoated them. But after the first turn, my Oblit's had killed off half his army (it was a 500 point game) he remarks

"It was a fun game, and your list is good, but your army looks like crap"

I then point out that they were my friend's models which he gave to me and that I was in the process of working over them, and that my friend was new to painting (at the time) and that he had worked hard on his models.


What a jerk. Honestly.

two_heads_talking wrote:

mattyboy22 wrote:So there was this married girl that hung around our gaming group a while back. Her husband used to play but he started working night on club nights so he stopped coming but she still came by.
Well we all kind of thought that she was cheating on him with this other guy in the club. But it was verified when we were all standing around and she said some random thing and he replied "Only if I say so woman" and smacked her, quite loudly, on the butt. Talk about friggin awkward.

I've also seen a 40 year old man go "WOOO!" extremely loudly and start humping a table well saying "CAN YOU FEEL IT I JUST (EXPLETIVE) YOU UP!!" over and over after he killed a little kids HQ.

well at least he didn't do it to the kid...

I'd have ran up and started humping his kid or his leg and start screaming "IF ITS THAT KIND OF PARTY I'M STICK MY **ck IN THE MASHED POTATOES!" just to show him how obnoxious he was.... and to scar his kid..... and him..... and mashed potatoes!

generalgrog wrote:This one time...... at band camp.


Seriously though, this one time at a RTT, I was playing my Biel Tan Eldar vs a Tau player. This was circa 2002. I had basically lost the game to massive firepower. I finally was able to make it into close combat with the guys general. I think it was my banshees that caused two wounds that required him to take 2 invulnerable saves. He rolls snake eyes and then proceeds to give me the double bird and an F*** you twice. That was pretty awkward, and oh by the way he was probably in his early 40's.

GG

Hmmmm. I never throw any energy related to a game at opponents. If I do something terrible like that Tau player, some freak dice roll, usually I'll just groan, give *the model* the middle finger, and move on with a smile.

Not my opponents fault the dice fell that way, but I can sure blame the model for sucking at life!

That's not even that outrageous though.

25% chance of it happening, right?

One awkward moment was when I had been only playing for about a month and only had about 1000 points of SM. I was at the chicago bunker and had decided to play a game with one of the older guys that was there. He also played his own flavor of SM with traits. My army was essentially plastic, black, and a couple test models that I had painted up. Now this guy knew I was a new player, and usually you try to help a new player out by throwing the first couple games (at least I do). He did no such thing. When the game was over and I was tabled by turn 4, he remarked, "you're not very good at this, and you need to work on your painting." I just stared at him.

Not much later, I found out that this goontard didn't paint a single model he owned, and had the balls to comment on my newbie paint job.

Another awkward moment is when the bunker was running some kind of "break the gate" event for the release of CIties of Death. I was on a table behind the gate and my list had two librarians with Fear the Darkness. This Tau player breaks through and deploys everything essentially on the small table edge since that was the way things were set up, and the rules were that the defenders (me) get to go first. So I walk up with two librarians with terminators, and essentially make him run his entire army off the table. Poor guy didn't play a single turn. I felt kinda like a dick for that one.

Not GW-related, but an "awkward gaming moment" nontheless...

My wife has been gaming (mostly RPGs, and mostly Legend of the Five Rings at that) since 2000. Her very first con was GenCon of 2006. We went with a good chunk of our regular L5R group (5 of us) to play in the Heroes of Rokugan campaign there (similar to Living Greyhawk - a persistent camapign). So, we sit down at the table, where the GM is talking to a couple of his buddies. We sit down and show our tickets. He keeps talking. The start time for the game comes and goes. He keeps talking. We FINALLY get his attention, and he turns around as sees us. He takes our tickets, then looks directly at my wife and says, "I don't normally let girls at my table. If you're going to be here, I don't want your mouth open unless it's sucking my cock."

There was a brief moment of awkwardness, and then Swordguy was being drug bodily away from the table by his gaming companions while attempting to go for said jackass GM's throat - my friends later said they had been moving to restrain me before I had even started moving; they knew exactly what was going to happen. The GM calmly turned and went back to talking with his buddies. And THAT was my wife's very first con experience. It's a miracle I've been able to get her to go back. (Said GM is no longer involved in any way in HoR and is banned from GenCon - it's good to know the GenCon organizers socially...)

When the wife walkes into the store and the "new guy" comes up and asks if she is looking for something for her son... ALWAYS gets the hard stare! Makes me giggle, she has been a gammer for well over 20 years!

"Uncle Russ" always cheats but never prospers by it and anyway most of the time I suspect its less cheating more being Old and forgetting the rules

Swordguy..... I'd have been restraining the wife, she would have fething killed him!

Dude, friends or not I would have ripped his head/throat/heart out/off!!!

Anyway, a slightly awkward situation for me was when I was playing a kid about a month ago. He was a nice enough guy, but he clearly wasn't that well versed in the rules. Tried helping him out throughout the game, giving him tips on what the best targets were for his lascannons (tyrant and fexes, not my gaunts), what not too assault (genestealers) etc etc. Anyways about 10mins before the games over his mum walks in the store and asks how he doing. He tells her "this huge pile of stuff on the side is all dead, and my last few remaining models are about to be slaughtered". Seriously felt awkward when she said hi to the guy that probably just took all her kids interest out of the hobby.

Swordguy wrote: "I don't normally let girls at my table. If you're going to be here, I don't want your mouth open unless it's sucking my cock."

Woah, either he has balls of steel or totally lacks the ability to function in society.

My son (10) but very good at the game, was playing a guy at our local store who i had not met before. This guy is about 21.

This guys starts telling my son that his farseer must take a test as all the banshees 3 inches in front of him died.

My son tries to explain that the farseer is not attached to the squad. But this guy cuts through him and starts demanding that he takes a test. He then starts shouting at him!!

Im painting in the on the next table, I quietly but firmly ask him to stop talking to my son like that. He now starts having a go at me, shouting and waving his army about!

If the manager of the store had not come over at that point the guy would have ending up on the floor.

Know one bullies a kid in front of me - especially not my son!

Later he came over and asked to look at my models before I could reply his hand was in my case. Lets just say he wont be coming in the store again

This hobby does attract a lot of people who struggle to function in normal society!

Swordguy wrote:Not GW-related, but an "awkward gaming moment" nontheless...

My wife has been gaming (mostly RPGs, and mostly Legend of the Five Rings at that) since 2000. Her very first con was GenCon of 2006. We went with a good chunk of our regular L5R group (5 of us) to play in the Heroes of Rokugan campaign there (similar to Living Greyhawk - a persistent camapign). So, we sit down at the table, where the GM is talking to a couple of his buddies. We sit down and show our tickets. He keeps talking. The start time for the game comes and goes. He keeps talking. We FINALLY get his attention, and he turns around as sees us. He takes our tickets, then looks directly at my wife and says, "I don't normally let girls at my table. If you're going to be here, I don't want your mouth open unless it's sucking my cock."

There was a brief moment of awkwardness, and then Swordguy was being drug bodily away from the table by his gaming companions while attempting to go for said jackass GM's throat - my friends later said they had been moving to restrain me before I had even started moving; they knew exactly what was going to happen. The GM calmly turned and went back to talking with his buddies. And THAT was my wife's very first con experience. It's a miracle I've been able to get her to go back. (Said GM is no longer involved in any way in HoR and is banned from GenCon - it's good to know the GenCon organizers socially...)

I'm surprised your wife didn't put something in his mouth, like her foot. that's not an akward moment, that's borderline harassment. You've got a keeper Swordguy.

I have to say I feel quite lucky. At my flgs the crowd is generally very well behaved and they are all very sporting. There's only 1 guy guy who looks like a sourpuss and ALWAYS refuses to play me even when there is no-one else in the store and he's doing nothing constructive. How odd is that? I just like to think he has heard of my nids reputation and not mine (not that I have one).

He did however help me to sort out our apoc game which no-one attended.

Oh, I have a reply to this, but I'm about to head off to work.

-J.

two_heads_talking wrote:
I'm surprised your wife didn't put something in his mouth, like her foot. that's not an akward moment, that's borderline harassment. You've got a keeper Swordguy.

She was so shocked, she just stood up and left. I almost wish he'd tried to hit her or something - THAT would spark a reflex. We both choreograph fights for stage and screen for a career, and both have a lengthy martial arts background in both Eastern and Western MA, so an attempt to have struck her would have produced a much stronger (and probably more permanent) reaction from her. In short, she would have torn him to shreds...

Too bad. Even thinking back on it, I get all sorts of pissed-off. I would have loved to see a tiny little thing like her (comparatively to Sir Neckbeard the Jackass) leap on him and tear out his throat.

Dexy wrote:

Swordguy wrote: "I don't normally let girls at my table. If you're going to be here, I don't want your mouth open unless it's sucking my cock."

Woah, either he has balls of steel or totally lacks the ability to function in society.

Yeah, that kind of comment, I'm going to go with total lack of ability to function in society.

unclehomefries wrote:I haven't played enough 40k for stuff like this to happen, but at a Magic the Gathering tournament years ago I was about to win at the beginning of my next turn cause my one creature was stronger by two strength than his last one. I would have killed him, but on his turn, right before he gave up some random guy walked by and reminded the other player that he could use X amount of energy to increase his creatures strength by X/X. He had a lot of energy left. He used this and killed me.

Random guy FTW

It was a legitimate win, but I always thought it was an unwritten rule that observers do not provide help to either side in tournament play. Friendly matches, sure, but when there are prizes at stake?!

How dare they.

Sorry, I guess I'm still bitter lol

Managed to do sth. similar myself. But it was a Casual Game. A friend of mine played with his Empire against a Chaos-army. In turn 1 he rolled a missfire with his hellblaster volleygun so that it wasn´t able to shoot on turn 2. I then walked out to buy some food. When I came back after a while, he was just shooting with his hellblaster volleygun, getting around 17 hits on a huge warrior-regiment. I innocently asked if it was turn 3 yet. There was a small pause followed by a lout cry of all witnesses and looks that indicated murder...
But hey, it was just a fun-game and it wouldn´t have been fair, he had forgotten about it.

bigfood wrote:

unclehomefries wrote:I haven't played enough 40k for stuff like this to happen, but at a Magic the Gathering tournament years ago I was about to win at the beginning of my next turn cause my one creature was stronger by two strength than his last one. I would have killed him, but on his turn, right before he gave up some random guy walked by and reminded the other player that he could use X amount of energy to increase his creatures strength by X/X. He had a lot of energy left. He used this and killed me.

Random guy FTW

It was a legitimate win, but I always thought it was an unwritten rule that observers do not provide help to either side in tournament play. Friendly matches, sure, but when there are prizes at stake?!

How dare they.

Sorry, I guess I'm still bitter lol

Managed to do sth. similar myself. But it was a Casual Game. A friend of mine played with his Empire against a Chaos-army. In turn 1 he rolled a missfire with his hellblaster volleygun so that it wasn´t able to shoot on turn 2. I then walked out to buy some food. When I came back after a while, he was just shooting with his hellblaster volleygun, getting around 17 hits on a huge warrior-regiment. I innocently asked if it was turn 3 yet. There was a small pause followed by a lout cry of all witnesses and looks that indicated murder...
But hey, it was just a fun-game and it wouldn´t have been fair, he had forgotten about it.

If he'd really forgotten about it, he wouldn't have tossed about "looks that indicated murder" he'd have said "hey thanks man," and continued gaming.

There is a beardy guy who is always in Warhammer World who appears to enjoy handing youngesters their asses at Pokemon or something, he is just generally creepy... when ever we are there with the kids I tend to keep a close eye on the youngest....

He has never done anything I am aware of, he just creaps me and the wife out..... really awkward....

Swordguy, The wife has done full contact sword tournament in the UK, little lass, but Viking to the core... she would have ripped him a new one, either physically or verbally... ah... I so love that woman ... Don't it makke you feel GOOD!

they let people play Pokemon in Warhammer World? hmmm. that's odd all by itself.

2 awkward gaming moments for me.

1) Frankly this is rather embarasing. I finally find a FLGS to play at where I go to college; so I go to play a game with a guy my friend introduced me to. Turn 1 rolls around I do my movement phase and then say its his turn to move...wow, the puzzled look on his face was priceless (as was mine apparently). Turns out I had missread the whole "turn" idea. After explaining to me how the "turn" actually worked, we had an enjoyable 2 games, got licked. Even today I still have never came close to beating him.... Just a bit of explination, where i live there is no FLGS so until I started college I was restricted to playing with my gaming group in my basement, with high amounts of proxies and only us for inturpreting rules...man I'm glad I found that FLGS, since then our games have been much improved since.

2) This one deals with points. We decided a 4 man every man for himself game at 500 points would be fun. We decided on small points because we didn't want to do a 2v2, half my army was recetnly based so I wasn't messing with them and one of them had to go to work before a big game would be done. My friend proxies a chaos list (due to funds all he had was the dex), and gets whiped by eldar in 1 turn. Meanwhile my grot army (always wanted to try it) was kicking around DH. After the eldar player left, I redid his list (as the CSM player runs eldar as his main). Found my other friend ran 800 points on him. After that we decided that there would be no more "let me pull this list from memory" and non premade lists allowed. Bring your armies, bring your lists either printed out or lug your computer - otherwise just sit there and paint.

As to the whole kids "question", at my FLGS I don't wind up playing against them because thursday night is a school night and so none of them show up. However on the occasional saturday when I do play, I take those games with a grain of salt.

Dexy wrote:

Swordguy wrote: "I don't normally let girls at my table. If you're going to be here, I don't want your mouth open unless it's sucking my cock."

Woah, either he has balls of steel or totally lacks the ability to function in society.

Nah, he was just begging for the group to curb-stomp his ass into the ground.

If it were me and my buds, we would have dragged him into the bathroom and beat the living gak out of him.

I'm lucky compared to some of these horror stories. Although I no longer play my games at the GW stores due to travel time, I didn't really have a good first impression at my local store

My gripe was that everyone at the store ate food during their games which most of the time was ok as it was packaged stuff, except for one guy who insisted on playing his games with me and everyone whilst eating pizza with his hands and basically got pizza all over the dice we were using. GW Staff never battered an eye lid and as I was new to the whole thing I just went with it and kept my mouth shut.

Though I made sure I kept a few dice away from his grubby mits during my game with him

on my first warhammer game (i started resently) my opponent pulled alsorts of special rules even though i said that since it was my first game could we leave them out.

No one would say that unless they are daemonically possessed. The good news is exorcists have seen a recent boom in business.

G

JohnHwangDD wrote:

Dexy wrote:

Swordguy wrote: "I don't normally let girls at my table. If you're going to be here, I don't want your mouth open unless it's sucking my cock."

Woah, either he has balls of steel or totally lacks the ability to function in society.

Nah, he was just begging for the group to curb-stomp his ass into the ground.

If it were me and my buds, we would have dragged him into the bathroom and beat the living gak out of him.

Well considering who I would have been around and I'm a very passive person (religiously I am passive) until someone gives me a reason to be agressive. And according to how my religion functions, that would have been a guaranteed jumping across the table and pummeling him until he bled. Plus he would have offended about 4 very violent-when-needs-to-be guys who have all done some sort of bouncer work, two of which (myself included) would have had significant others there..... His arse would have been grass.

When I read swordguys post, I was very disturbed. I was just wondering if you reported the GM to the cons management? He should have been fired on the spot.

GG

generalgrog wrote:When I read swordguys post, I was very disturbed. I was just wondering if you reported the GM to the cons management? He should have been fired on the spot.

GG

swordguy wrote:
(Said GM is no longer involved in any way in HoR and is banned from GenCon - it's good to know the GenCon organizers socially...)

Nurgleboy77 wrote:

Darkreaver55 wrote:Nurgleboy77, if we two were ever to play, the amount of random sillyness would probably force nearby people to roll invulnerable saves or take wounds as their brains melt. And it would be awesome.

Seconded! If yer ever in the Nashville, TN area or I'm ever going up north to Edinboro, PA (wherever that may be...lol) We should definitely get a game in!

Seriously though, this one time at a RTT, I was playing my Biel Tan Eldar vs a Tau player. This was circa 2002. I had basically lost the game to massive firepower. I finally was able to make it into close combat with the guys general. I think it was my banshees that caused two wounds that required him to take 2 invulnerable saves. He rolls snake eyes and then proceeds to give me the double bird and an F*** you twice. That was pretty awkward, and oh by the way he was probably in his early 40's.

Hmm... what a Douche! I'd call a judge and get him expelled or something. Only thing worse than playing a Jackass is getting beaten by a Jackass that sulks when the smallest thing goes awry!

Agreed, but remember, this is probably a fully pumped Shas'O we're talking about here. Fishheads are very attached to their Shas'os. Of course, that is still ridiculous behavior from an adult. Lol. Just what you'd expect from a Tau player though.

I've had a couple awkward moments in gaming... Though I can't remember very many right now.

There was one time, I was playing a match in VASSAL, and the guy I'm playing against is telling me how radically awesome his one hero is. I think it was Eldrad Ulthran or something. Maybe. Anyway, he proceeds to sit this Hero on an objective with a unit of Guardians for the majority of the game. It does absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing. Just sits there, holding the objective. On the second to last turn, I drop an Orbital Bombardment on them, and then charge with a unit of Scouts. I am the first to admit that Scouts are absolutely worthless more anything more than Meatshielding, but unbelievable they manage to kill the Guardians (there were only three left after the OB), and then Eldrad. The guy goes absolutely nuts. He's cussing me out over a hero that he didn't even use at all!

It was just kinda ridiculous...