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Is that a really annoying new rule or just a stupid moron who is mixing warhammer with chess? That'd never fly in my dojo.

I have had two other distinct experience in my FLGS:

1. the Magic player who insists that Warhammer is a waste of money, then backs down when asked about the lifespan and playability of Magic itself. me-"you mean there are more than 30 sets of MTG, but only 8 are legal? so how many cards do you own that are not legal?" him-"ummm... lots..." me-"funny, because most 40k stuff is usable from '87 on up..."

2. the kids who shop at other stores, especially online, then bring in their haul into our FLGS. It is especially hard as our FLGS was robbed two months ago, so the owner is struggling to make ends meet. So in order to drum up business, he offers a 20% discount for GW products on prepaid orders. one kid said in front of the owner that he was going to another store (30 miles away) to purchase a certain book... so, when our FLGS closes, where does he think he's going to play?

Its probably worth saying, that if your reading this and are thinking to yourself:
"I've never met any of these crazy types of people at my FLGS"
Then YOUR the crazy one.

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:1. the Magic player who insists that Warhammer is a waste of money, then backs down when asked about the lifespan and playability of Magic itself. me-"you mean there are more than 30 sets of MTG, but only 8 are legal? so how many cards do you own that are not legal?" him-"ummm... lots..." me-"funny, because most 40k stuff is usable from '87 on up..."

Must defend my other hobby there for a bit. That just goes for 1 out of 4 formats competitive tournaments are held in (and it's 7 legal sets ). Another has the past 16 sets legal, the third allows for all cards ever printed bar the really overpowered mistakes and the last one allows all cards including the really overpowered mistakes. And that's without all the countless casual variants thrown in.
So in Magic you can just pick what you want, a diverse and everchanging metagame or to be able to play with all your cards.

Though I must say that magic-guy wasn't really informed either. It's hard to do well in tournament magic of any format these days without resorting to $50,- or $60,- cards, of which you need 4 obviously. Wargaming's cheaper to me (doesn't count for all you ForgeWorld resin-addicts out there)

EvilTim wrote:Its probably worth saying, that if your reading this and are thinking to yourself:
"I've never met any of these crazy types of people at my FLGS"
Then YOUR the crazy one.

that or you are really new at this ,like i am

Cheers for that Retrias

I commonly yell "I lost the game!" hoping to get an agrivated response from one of the fellow gamers, only to get a few perplexed stares. Other than that I use random lines when some people are gaming such as "Yyyyyyyesssss, now smear it with JELLY!"