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Saturday, while charging my CSM at a SOB unit my buddy had in cover, I rolled 2 dice:
2, 4
Then, without thinking, I say, "Okay, Rob. I've got 4 inches to assault you with."

...so, a half hour later when we all stop laughing (there were 5 of us), we continued the game.


Eric

lol hilarious
Slanesh would be pleased if you carried out that threat.

Now see, thats the moments that are just too funny to explain to a non gamer. Those things happen often enough, but explaining that to a coworker just doesnt do it...... I always get the weird look from people.


"But its Khorne get it........ Khorne.................................................................................................................................my lunch break is done"

i dont get that one either please explain

It's his lunch break-Khorne (Chaos god) to Corn (Tasty tasty foodstuff.)

There was this really akward moment when we went to the shop for my birthday. We were having a three-way game but because the people kept almost all their tables vacant for any beginners, we had to play on their new £150 Citadel Battleboard thingy (I can't remember it's exact name). Anyway, about halfway through, a member of staff came over and said that we wern't allowed to play on the table because not all our models were painted. Ok, there were a few WIPs but nothing that would put a customer off buying the board. This guy painting next to us protests this, saying that it's the only table that they let us use, and the staff member takes him outside in front of a lot of people, and has a massive go at him, and the guy comes back in quite upset. I said with exams and schoolwork and stuff we don't have time to perfect out painting skills, but he threatens me with being banned if I don't shut up. It takes about 15mins of akward silence before we can continue but this guy seriously needed to grow up.

't was years ago, but it was rather embarrassing... (I think I was 15 or 16)

Having set up a 3.000 point fantasy battle at the packed LGS vs. a classmate. Right into the 2nd turn, at the point of gaining the advantage against a Dogs of War army, I get a call from my mom, who insist I return home immediately because she and my dad had decided to visit my grandma who lives near The Hague and I had to come along. Now, I was not at all against paying my grandma a visit, but well... I'd rather known it like, yesterday! I assumed they made it up after I left. Maybe they got an invitation by phone from grandma? Or they planned it and forgot to tell me. "Yeah sure, go play warhammer at the store dear" ->about an hour and a half later: "hey hon, we're going to grandma"
HeNos: "Oh, nice, Give her my regards"
Mom: "What do you mean? You're coming with us"
HeNos: "...."
Mom: "Isn't that a nice idea? Come home quick so we can leave."
HeNos: "ehm... no?"

I believe they actually rang the store to tell me that as I didn't have a cell-phone at the time. My own version of the "Teenager's Embarrassing Parental interference nightmare" so often portrayed in series and movies (you know, "daahaaad, that's soooo embarrassing"-any random teenage boy/girl character against a parent ignorant of youthfull conventions on style and conduct)

Tried to negotiate a bit... because I found it rather lacking in style of them, not telling me in advance, or ehm, well, letting me finish, or NOT asking me along. I could have fed the cat and cooked my own meal if need be (they taught me that themselves, so they knew I could)... besides, I was (almost?- not too sure about the date here and I shouldn't be) 16! I could legally drink and have sex if I wanted to (yes, at 16 you can in the Netherlands)!

It's not as if I went to the LGS without telling them... they had an entire morning to tell me about this idea.

With a red flushed face I packed my army and went home, promising a rematch the next week...

which I lost

At least I got a nice Indonesian meal for my trouble, but man... the inconvinience! (I sulked the whole drive down south)

I remember a good one that I wish I could have fixed, but things changed and the guy was a fraud..

I didn't start playing D&D until I was 17. Our DM, Ron, pretty much tried his hardest to kill us with his dungeons, I guess in the "sink or swim" approach, or he just liked to kill noobies. He moved to our town after being medically discharged from the Marine Corps. A couple years later, I discover the RT rulebook in our local bookstore and plunk down the exorbitant amount of $32.50 to take it home. I read it from cover to cover, fascinated by the fluff of the Marines. I always tried to play the good guys to rescue maidens and was a goody two shoes in D&D, so I thought the Space Marines were perfect. I was showing my friends the power armor and the studs they have implanted in their backs. Ron was walking by when my friend asked,"Ow! Doesn't it hurt to get those things put in your back?" I said,"They're Marines," and then Ron went on a rant and rave about how "people always think that since they're Marines, they don't feel pain and they deserve to be hurt" and so forth..I didn't get to explain that this was 40,000 years in the future and that was part of their initiation and stuff, besides that it was science fiction.

Ron was in the Marines for nearly 8 years, he had experienced a lot of really shoddy treatment at military hospitals in and out of service and had been discharged for losing his eyesight to a disease. They rejected him for military disability pay because it was a pre-existing condition that would have happened if he was in the military or not..so he was a tad bitter and could be sensitive. But it was hard to feel sorry for him when he killed our characters with glee from simple things like failing a Dex check after falling through a rotten plank. He ended up leaving his wife and two kids high and dry, stole our gaming club's coffers and the safe at his work when he took off. He had tried to steal the treasury from our volunteer fire department, but he came back a year later and nearly took off with some fire equipment from another department in his fireman's dress blues.

TFG...

Yet another awkward moment.

Went over to my FLGS 2 days ago, just to realize that they had no available tables ('Ard Boyz Tourney). However, the manager offered to get an old 4x4 so that we could play outside.

So imagine a bunch of 40k gamers gaming right outside the store, playing a 4 man battle with a bunch of horribly to decent painted armies.

Boy was I embarrassed every time a person walked past us...

Most likely the most awkward moment I've had was when I had, somehow, tank shocked a group of genestelers, my opponent then said that I couldn't because they were "fearless." I asked to look at his codex and this conversation insued:

Me:"Can I see your codex? I want to make sure for you."

"Sorry I left it at home, I coppied my army list and stats on a piece of paper."

I look at the piece of paper, then ask another Nid player to see their codex, I then move to the Genestealers and find they were infact NOT fearless, they just had group telepathy. I then made him roll a LD test, he fails and I run over a genestealer, then rapidfire lasguns at them, killing them off.

Ahh cheating, when people get caught, I love the excuses.

I'm heading over to my FLGS this Saturday and Sunday, so we'll see what happens.

Cambak wrote:Most likely the most awkward moment I've had was when I had, somehow, tank shocked a group of genestelers, my opponent then said that I couldn't because they were "fearless." I asked to look at his codex and this conversation insued:

Me:"Can I see your codex? I want to make sure for you."

"Sorry I left it at home, I coppied my army list and stats on a piece of paper."

I look at the piece of paper, then ask another Nid player to see their codex, I then move to the Genestealers and find they were infact NOT fearless, they just had group telepathy. I then made him roll a LD test, he fails and I run over a genestealer, then rapidfire lasguns at them, killing them off.

How did you run over a genestealer after he FAILED his Ld test? He would have fallen back. Only when attempting Death or Glory can you run over one of them, and that would require a passed Ld test.

Can i see your rulebook?

I was tired when I wrote up the post and couldn't remember if it was when he failed or passed, I was pretty sure he passed, cant remember anymore.

Cryonicleech wrote:Perhaps the lamest excuse in Wargaming history.

Even worse than blaming dice.

Hey, when you roll 1's on the same twin linked meltagun (yes both the initial and reroll were 1's 4 times in a row), 2 turns in a row. I think you can blame the dice.

Dear lord that tournament was god awful. I bought a new set of dice that day. Failed 3 2-up armor saves on a termie squad and then failed Vulkans leardership test, after the LR blew up on turn one. They then proceeded to walk right off the board the next turn.

There are times when dice can be blamed, but excessive dice blaming is a no no.


Jeez though, must have been something else to have failed all those rolls.

Cryonicleech wrote:There are times when dice can be blamed, but excessive dice blaming is a no no.


Jeez though, must have been something else to have failed all those rolls.

All 3 of my opponents were amazed at how bad my dice rolls were going. Not to mention my LR getting blown up pretty much on the first turn of each game. It was very much a day of pure bad luck for me.

But I came back and raped in a smaller tourney we held on labor day.

How did the LR blow up?

Lucky Lascannon shot or something?

Cryonicleech wrote:How did the LR blow up?

Lucky Lascannon shot or something?

Game 1: first fire prism shot
Game 2: first shot from a drop pod dreadnoughts MM (this i can understand, though he won the initiative, so it never even moved, followed by 5 bolter shots, that killed 3 guys, and then a failed morale test making them walk right off the board.
Game 3: lasted to turn 2, but got popped by Nightbringer's ranged shot. At least here Vulkan and his crew actually did something, they went on to slaughter 17 necron warriors in 1 turn.