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First timers with anger issues. They are everywhere.

A kid I played punched my Terminators off the board and smashed them with a rulebook after I explained why my PF ID's his Ethreal. I was kinda tired, and they were AOBR so I said whatever. I the explain to him what happens if an Ethreal dies, he (not joking here) picks up his Ethreal and screams "WHY DO YOU SUCK???". The kid left the store with his tau still set up. We left it like that for a day, and whenever someone would come in, we would yell at the Ethreal. Fun stuff.

Chowderhead wrote:First timers with anger issues. They are everywhere.

A kid I played punched my Terminators off the board and smashed them with a rulebook after I explained why my PF ID's his Ethreal. I was kinda tired, and they were AOBR so I said whatever. I the explain to him what happens if an Ethreal dies, he (not joking here) picks up his Ethreal and screams "WHY DO YOU SUCK???". The kid left the store with his tau still set up. We left it like that for a day, and whenever someone would come in, we would yell at the Ethreal. Fun stuff.

Holy Ragequit Batman...


Anyway, my pet peeves include:

1) calling someone WAAC for using a highly tuned competitive list...no it might not be intuitive in how it works, but welcome to 40k...
2) people swearing and raging about their dice while I'm playing them, I mean cmon...I'm having bad rolls here and there too.
3) the "so what list are you playing?...oh that?...I'll beat that EASY"... just play the game
4) insert any of the egotistical mannerisms I've encountered playing this game

I got one...player's who have ten different kinds of dice, some of them small, large, square and round. I played a guy not too long ago that had one set for LD tests, one for shooting, another for saves, some custom logo'd die that when questioned was told oh i won these in a tourney.

He was a good player but in the back of my mind i couldn't help but wonder if some were loaded.

Deathshead420 wrote:I got one...player's who have ten different kinds of dice, some of them small, large, square and round. I played a guy not too long ago that had one set for LD tests, one for shooting, another for saves, some custom logo'd die that when questioned was told oh i won these in a tourney.

He was a good player but in the back of my mind i couldn't help but wonder if some were loaded.

I do that to a point. not due to cheatign or anything. I tend to use a set of 4 large dice for leadership or anythign using less than 5 dice then my chessex dice for regular gaming. mostly because they are nicer dice the vegas style sharp corners and painted on numbers vs the cheap rounded edge pipped dices

also i use em for when i have say a bunch of shoota shots and 2 rokkits... throw the other dice in to and get those results as different than my yellow chessix... makes thigns go faster

Im not talking about differentiating different shots or wound allocation. Also same guy tried to give me advice at the end of the night by saying that i would get better rolls if i didn't shake my dice just pic them up and fold them over.

My newest pet peeve: HAVING SUCH TINY HANDS! It's so hard to roll all those dice so my FoTM Blood Angels can wreck your silly outdated Tau. Why don't you roll half of my dice, For the Greater Good.



As far as dice goes...I dunno if I can agree. I would probably suggest loaded dice if the results were the same. I run a set of large and small chessex dice, black and red GW dice, and white GW dice. Why? My Death company rolls used to be ridonkulous and I needed them all. Now I use different colors and sizes to simplify complicated rolls. Big ones for power weapons, red ones for WS5 etc. But those choices are arbitrary based on the dice I have out.


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Deathshead420 wrote:Im not talking about differentiating different shots or wound allocation. Also same guy tried to give me advice at the end of the night by saying that i would get better rolls if i didn't shake my dice just pic them up and fold them over.

Oops I missed this.
He sounds like a little bit of a tool. I advise my friends of my opinion that large dice roll higher. And then inform them that in my own real world experiments, that it's total bs.

I did a little digging and found that the large dice with square edges have to banked off of something in Vegas ....maybe there is something to this after all, if i play him again I will say something before we start.

well, I just absolutely despise playing against unpainted armies. The only thing worse than that is playing against an army so horribly painted that the models would have looked better unpainted.

I also get annoyed playing with people who are bad at the rules, I can understand if someone is just starting to learn the game, or their army, or even forgets a rule, it happens to all of us, but there times when you've just looked through your codex and rulebook way too many times

look up dice differences. basically statistically a dice with sharp edges and painted on numbers will produce a mroe random roll vs cheap plastic rounded edge dice which will alsway be slightly off balance due to having the shaved edges and bubbles in the plastic... however you are right they can be manipulated esp if rolled one at a timeand palmed. it is almost impossible to do this kind of a tecnique when you have to bank dice this is why dice towers net the most fair results

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/That%27s_How_I_Roll_-_A_Scientific_Analysis_of_Dice

there's a dakkaarticle to get you started, now google it for more results.. i do it do make things mroe statistically far though the guy you play with sounds like he's using throwing tricks... which is cheating

I am highly annoyed when playing against someone who can't speak swedish, nor english, nor german (which one of my friends can), and it takes about 5 minutes to explain each rule. There is one particular guy who comes to our local store sometimes. I'd rather play against a WAAC list than him...

1. People who don't place a die showing the damage result next to/on a damaged vehicle....and then forgetting who was Shaken, who was Immobilized and who had Weapons Destroyed.

2. People who don't put two dice next to a unit requiring a Break Test....and then forgetting to do the test at the end of the phase.

3. People who remove successful rolls first and fast, and leave the failures on the table.

4. I hate all dice that don't have normal and clear pips. The lame dice with lame symbols (sometimes representing "6", sometimes representing "1") or blue dice with blue pips af a slightly different colour. Don't even get me started on the players that mix all of them together and add in dice with numerals.

Something that comes up in these threads, but I haven't run into, is the guy with no list.

I can screw up my points pretty quickly if I don't make a list. That's why I always make one.

Coming to the table without a list can lead to errors. Or worse, list tayloring to beat the army I put on the table.

The idea of not having a list ready before entering the store/home/venue is completely alien to me.

What do these guys do?...Bring their entire army...or just the various special/heavy weapons in order to list tailor (the lowest of low)?

Touch my units, or try to pick them up and place them somewhere to their advantage and make the excuse that they were admiring the paint job.

G00fySmiley wrote:look up dice differences. basically statistically a dice with sharp edges and painted on numbers will produce a mroe random roll vs cheap plastic rounded edge dice which will alsway be slightly off balance due to having the shaved edges and bubbles in the plastic... however you are right they can be manipulated esp if rolled one at a timeand palmed. it is almost impossible to do this kind of a tecnique when you have to bank dice this is why dice towers net the most fair results

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/That%27s_How_I_Roll_-_A_Scientific_Analysis_of_Dice

there's a dakkaarticle to get you started, now google it for more results.. i do it do make things mroe statistically far though the guy you play with sounds like he's using throwing tricks... which is cheating

This is effing awesome. 144,000 independent dice rolls later...

kronk wrote:Something that comes up in these threads, but I haven't run into, is the guy with no list.

I can screw up my points pretty quickly if I don't make a list. That's why I always make one.

Coming to the table without a list can lead to errors. Or worse, list tayloring to beat the army I put on the table.

But are you ok with the guy who has played his list so much he can leave it in the bag?

I have gooten this way with two list, but I will pull out the list if you want to see it.

My pet peeves...

everything after 3rd edition. the players, the rules, the hobby itself.

I've been on the fence for a few years now trying to decide if it's worth getting back into the game. I have a ton of orks still on the sprues but the more i think about it the more i dont feel like the effort will be justified.
I'll have to buy 2 or 3 new codecies before i even get them table ready, I'll have to replace units that will be altered or dropped or reinvented. I think its time to just buy the models i like and paint them. These stories are just reminding me of every game ive played in the past few years.

One kid who nerd rages out if he starts losing and percieves you "cheating". We all dislike playing him.

Anpu42 wrote:

kronk wrote:Something that comes up in these threads, but I haven't run into, is the guy with no list.

I can screw up my points pretty quickly if I don't make a list. That's why I always make one.

Coming to the table without a list can lead to errors. Or worse, list tayloring to beat the army I put on the table.

But are you ok with the guy who has played his list so much he can leave it in the bag?

I have gooten this way with two list, but I will pull out the list if you want to see it.

I'd be OK with that.

A list you run all of the time, fine. One you cobble together on the spot? Nope.

yamgrenade wrote:You had crisis suits beat stealers in CC?

Over the course of a few turns. The Genestealers, after eating a squad of Kroot, were too full to fight the Crisis Suits.

Saintspirit wrote:I am highly annoyed when playing against someone who can't speak swedish, nor english, nor german (which one of my friends can), and it takes about 5 minutes to explain each rule. There is one particular guy who comes to our local store sometimes. I'd rather play against a WAAC list than him...

I HAVE to ask. If you are playing in Sweden, and your opponent doesn't speak Swedish, English, or German...what does he speak. I'll skip ahead if he speaks French just assume that you won the game by forfeit.

AustonT wrote:I HAVE to ask. If you are playing in Sweden, and your opponent doesn't speak Swedish, English, or German...what does he speak. I'll skip ahead if he speaks French just assume that you won the game by forfeit.

http://media.photobucket.com/image/FULL%20OF%20WIN/bluecynder/full_of_win_2001.jpg

Sore losers and bad winners are my pet peeves.

Learn how to lose with grace - and apply the same to winning.

Players who don't know their armies. Sure, the noobs get some slack here, but if you've been playing with them for a year, you should know your basic stuff.

E.G. SM are 4s for WS, BS, S and T with a 3+ save.
This profile hasn't changed much in the last 10 years.

Dual Face wrote:well, I just absolutely despise playing against unpainted armies. The only thing worse than that is playing against an army so horribly painted that the models would have looked better unpainted.

I also get annoyed playing with people who are bad at the rules, I can understand if someone is just starting to learn the game, or their army, or even forgets a rule, it happens to all of us, but there times when you've just looked through your codex and rulebook way too many times

I know how you feel about the unpainted army thing. I don't really care that much but it kind of gets to me. The group I play with now is pretty new to warhammer, most of them are friends. They are more focused on playing and don't paint, or slop paint. I've always been more geared to the painting then playing so I guess that's why I wished the other army looked good. Im no pro painter but everything I have on the table is painted clean and looks the way I want it. Like a coloring book, staying in the lines and not running paint over other things.

I love painting and one of the ultramarine players is paying me to paint his army. So it's a win win for me.

After reading all 3 pages I cant belive this one hasent been said
The guy that upon entering the gaming area picks the side he likes best and sets his army down on it. Then "doesnt want to move all his army" when you want to roll for it. Makes you to be the a hole.
2: Anniahlation only players. Some times objectives are fun too.

1. The great unwashed.

2. Those players who spend more on 40k than they do on their kids. You know who you are...

Mal the Wolf wrote:After reading all 3 pages I cant belive this one hasent been said
The guy that upon entering the gaming area picks the side he likes best and sets his army down on it. Then "doesnt want to move all his army" when you want to roll for it. Makes you to be the a hole.
2: Anniahlation only players. Some times objectives are fun too.

I'm a good enough sport and I let things slide a lot. In pick up games against friends BOTH of us will often say "you wanna roll for sides" "no". But if I don't know you and we play a scheduled, league, or tourney game and I win sides. I may pick the side the described douchewagon is on just to BE the donkey-cave. They are plastic and metal toys we both intend to push around a sheet of plywood. Pick up your gak and hope 6ed doesn't go back to alternating places by FoC. I seem to remember it being bad form to lay down your army until it was time to place.

Blacksails wrote:

AustonT wrote:My pet peeve. Personal Hygene. Wash before you come out into public to play games in an enclosed space.

This, holy sweet mother of all that is awesome and fluffy, this. I can deal with bad players who whine, cheat, and are generally obnoxious because I call things as I see them and don't give a about hurting my opponent's feelings if they're detracting from a positive game experience.

But a smelly player...Emperor protect them from my deodorant infused wrath. Gamers that have poor hygiene are an embarassment to the whole gaming community and only serve to perpetuate a stereotype most of us work very hard to dispel, only to have it ruined by some shmuck who can't figure out a shower handle or a stick of deodorant.

I only wish game stores would remove smelly/filthy/unkempt individuals. That'd give them a wake up call.

*sigh*

well, to be fair there are many lvls of hygiene. Some people are naturally smelly or just sweat more then others. On the other hand its usually easy to tell if someone has never seen a shower....

The dude who needs to make like 10 saves and rolls each one individually...

Other than that, arrogant players.

Super fluffy palyers that wanna tell you all about there custom SM chapter or cry if you put a decent list down in front of them.

Players that blame bad luck for losing or refuse to accept that they got krumped because they cant play and not bad luck.

Nerds that wont stand up for themselves and get steamrolled by cheaters.

Players who want to proxy everything.

Younger players full stop (its good to see young bloods in the hobby just please dont ask me for a game.

Players who cant spend a night reading the fething rulebook and expect you to teach them to play (burn in hell you useless bastards)