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 A GumyBear wrote:

 tau tse tung wrote:
Its not a player one but its still insulting :

Me and my ex were looking at models and our gw is quote small, it was a crowded and and i say bettween us we got a kid once in a while (we're not madly rich so we would buy a big kit maybe once every few months) anyway, this 9 or 10 year old boy comes though waving 50 pound notes (and i mean a wad of them) and goes" GET OUT OF MY WAY, I WANT TOO BUY MY MODEL"
this boy was on his own...i dont understand how kids do't get robbed...at his age i had my bike stolen by a street game and he was holding at least 500 pounds in his hand.

Jeez where did that kid manage to get 500 pounds?

Also, I'm surprised somebody didn't mug him right then and there when he was flashing his money everywhere like he is a high roller or something

His mother, in my local therea a few kids like that, once i saw a guy (before the codex landed) clear an entire shelf of tau on a late evening. After he had gone the shopkeeper said "that paid for my entire months rent" plus he had made no sales other than a paint i needed. Why these stupid people give these kids money is beyond me. When i started i got 5 pounds a week for pokeylt money, i would buy a space marine bike with it. Slowly i built up a little army, but a few months aho i saw a kid doing the same burst into tears when the racist guy who i mentioned call him "poor" and said his salamander's were a rubbish chapter (i wonder why...) extra irony too since he only plays smerfs!

Im really lucky in this regard, my hobby store in hong kong has a great community and even though some of the other players their dont speak much english we all get along great and have loads of fun. I even dont mid playing the blood angels player because hes so nice, and as an ork player BA normally make me want to curl up into a ball and die

 tau tse tung wrote:

 A GumyBear wrote:

 tau tse tung wrote:
Its not a player one but its still insulting :

Me and my ex were looking at models and our gw is quote small, it was a crowded and and i say bettween us we got a kid once in a while (we're not madly rich so we would buy a big kit maybe once every few months) anyway, this 9 or 10 year old boy comes though waving 50 pound notes (and i mean a wad of them) and goes" GET OUT OF MY WAY, I WANT TOO BUY MY MODEL"
this boy was on his own...i dont understand how kids do't get robbed...at his age i had my bike stolen by a street game and he was holding at least 500 pounds in his hand.

Jeez where did that kid manage to get 500 pounds?

Also, I'm surprised somebody didn't mug him right then and there when he was flashing his money everywhere like he is a high roller or something

His mother, in my local therea a few kids like that, once i saw a guy (before the codex landed) clear an entire shelf of tau on a late evening. After he had gone the shopkeeper said "that paid for my entire months rent" plus he had made no sales other than a paint i needed. Why these stupid people give these kids money is beyond me. When i started i got 5 pounds a week for pokeylt money, i would buy a space marine bike with it. Slowly i built up a little army, but a few months aho i saw a kid doing the same burst into tears when the racist guy who i mentioned call him "poor" and said his salamander's were a rubbish chapter (i wonder why...) extra irony too since he only plays smerfs!

It certainly is a different world today isn't it? While at a mall recently I overheard a conversation between a girl & her brother. Both of who were likely between 10-15. No parents in sight. Boy asked for money, girl replied she only had $2,500 saved up.

???

Who are these kids? Better yet who are their parents? Politicians? Hell, when I was growing up I was lucky to see a dime from my parents. I remember when we had our driveway done with rocks I was told to pick all the discolored rocks out of the lot. Took 4 6-8 hour days as a kid. In return, $1.00. Monthly allowance was $4.00 for taking out trash everyday, doing dishes, mowing lawn, & laundry.

My worst experience has been similar to others that have posted here. We have a player who has absolutely no focus. After each of his turns he leaves the table & wanders around. Recently he left the store for about 30 minutes & came back. While it is very irritating, this individual has a mental disorder so most try to be understanding about it.

I'm not sure you would label this as "immature" exactly, but the guys at my old FLGS did instate some house rules that stated that Reanimation Protocols didn't apply if the model was instant deathed (did I mention that as soon as they implemented that rule, one of them immediately ran an army chock full of strength 8?) and that models inside of a downed Night Scythe took damage as if they were in any other flying transport.

Don't get me started on the constant Matt Ward hate every time my army did anything right.

 Blackhair Duckshape wrote:
I'm not sure you would label this as "immature" exactly, but the guys at my old FLGS did instate some house rules that stated that Reanimation Protocols didn't apply if the model was instant deathed (did I mention that as soon as they implemented that rule, one of them immediately ran an army chock full of strength 8?) and that models inside of a downed Night Scythe took damage as if they were in any other flying transport.

Don't get me started on the constant Matt Ward hate every time my army did anything right.

If that's the case ypu shoild have just housruped the RP to be like the old 3rd ed RP

I had a friend playing epic old school edition against a new guy playing all space marines. In epic you really couldn't play a pure space marine army and be super effective. My friend was beating the living tar out of this guy and yelling as he rolled some bad dice rolls. Looking from the outside the guy was getting demolished and being really nice about it while the other guy was complaining and throwing dice around the room.

We never saw that guy again. Our friend ran him off. I miss the old version of epic.

I have run into my fair share of the types mentioned, but one that gets under my skin is what I call the easy button power gamer. He is only happy if he can roll up and delete your units. He won't really shoot or attack anything unless he can ignore armor. In even match ups I can usually out play this guy because his only tactic is kill. If I start to beat him in a game he starts to throw a tantrum and complain that its because my list and units are broken and not my generalship, but he is a wise tactician for bringing an OP Net List .

 tau tse tung wrote:
*update* The guy (who is a father may i add) befriended many of the 14 to 16 year olds (that age) and one of them was a boy who would openly make racial remarks. Now on dakka i have posted my chinese themed army and got good feedback, even from formor US army vets. But this kid never let go my army was a "Dirty red" army and make horrible racist jokes like "his guard cant see" etc and would even make them with this old bloke.

I happen to know a total nutjob of a guy who thinks of 40k as some sort of training/analogy for the coming racial holy war, Orks being blacks-muslims, Eldar jews, Tau chinese, Chaos atheists/satanists, marxists and liberals. Of course, in his view of things the Imperium is the great, beleaguered white race and Space Marines, most obviously, our white aryan national-socialist saviors and overlords (He plays blood angels/C:SM, for what matters). Thing is, he knows the game rather well and is mature enough not to cheat. Actually, he's not a bad guy to have a game against, unless anyone touches on his idiocic racial and political fetishes, in which case he goes full ramblomatic. My friends usually do that on purpose

I'll have to ask him what he thinks of Necrons and Tyranids, btw

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:


I happen to know a total nutjob of a guy who thinks of 40k as some sort of training/analogy for the coming racial holy war, Orks being blacks-muslims, Eldar jews, Tau chinese, Chaos atheists/satanists, marxists and liberals. Of course, in his view of things the Imperium is the great, beleaguered white race and Space Marines, most obviously, our white aryan national-socialist saviors and overlords (He plays blood angels/C:SM, for what matters). Thing is, he knows the game rather well and is mature enough not to cheat. Actually, he's not a bad guy to have a game against, unless anyone touches on his idiocic racial and political fetishes, in which case he goes full ramblomatic. My friends usually do that on purpose

I'll have to ask him what he thinks of Necrons and Tyranids, btw

Dare I ask his thoughts on SoB?

 curran12 wrote:

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:


I happen to know a total nutjob of a guy who thinks of 40k as some sort of training/analogy for the coming racial holy war, Orks being blacks-muslims, Eldar jews, Tau chinese, Chaos atheists/satanists, marxists and liberals. Of course, in his view of things the Imperium is the great, beleaguered white race and Space Marines, most obviously, our white aryan national-socialist saviors and overlords (He plays blood angels/C:SM, for what matters). Thing is, he knows the game rather well and is mature enough not to cheat. Actually, he's not a bad guy to have a game against, unless anyone touches on his idiocic racial and political fetishes, in which case he goes full ramblomatic. My friends usually do that on purpose

I'll have to ask him what he thinks of Necrons and Tyranids, btw

Dare I ask his thoughts on SoB?

Good, obedient Christian conservative women relegated to the metaphorical kitchen by not getting plastic models and only having a White Dwarf army list?

But, oh no! Feminist scum from the Black Library are trying to give them a more equal place in the game!

 Wilytank wrote:

 curran12 wrote:

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:


I happen to know a total nutjob of a guy who thinks of 40k as some sort of training/analogy for the coming racial holy war, Orks being blacks-muslims, Eldar jews, Tau chinese, Chaos atheists/satanists, marxists and liberals. Of course, in his view of things the Imperium is the great, beleaguered white race and Space Marines, most obviously, our white aryan national-socialist saviors and overlords (He plays blood angels/C:SM, for what matters). Thing is, he knows the game rather well and is mature enough not to cheat. Actually, he's not a bad guy to have a game against, unless anyone touches on his idiocic racial and political fetishes, in which case he goes full ramblomatic. My friends usually do that on purpose

I'll have to ask him what he thinks of Necrons and Tyranids, btw

Dare I ask his thoughts on SoB?

Good, obedient Christian conservative women relegated to the metaphorical kitchen by not getting plastic models and only having a White Dwarf army list?

But, oh no! Feminist scum from the Black Library are trying to give them a more equal place in the game!

Black Library Feminists? With writing such as this?

Had a moment last tournament that I am not to proud about, however I will admit I kept it under wraps pretty well. Basicall I got TRASHED this tournament, first game against Necrons was against a newer Necron player and he accidently slow played me with the game ending on turn 3. I was not mad at that point since he was a new player, however the next game and third is what really did it for me. I played a Ravenwing Bike army and for the life of me my Plasma guns not once, not twice but 6 times rolled snake eyes ! That and he was making his jink saves left and right did not help the issue. Visually I appeared a little annoyed and maybe a little frustrated but kept it cool. The third game...lets just say Drop Pod Army + Amazing rolling by his entire army (Sternguard, Dev Centurions) = army except reserves wiped out turn one. I will admit I was pretty annoyed, however wished him a good game and packed up my stuff. Afterwards I made sure to find him and apologize if I seemed to angry, he said he understood the frustration so no harm no foul, however I threw those dice out!

The worst I ever played against was a ex-Marine who would bring in his wife along to watch his games. Now before we knew all the facts, his wife had a weird habit of staring at other players in the store for reasons we did not know. Turns out he was abusing and hitting his wife at home and it was her way of asking for help. After one game where my Steel Legion (at the time) defeated his Cadians in a well and hard fought game. After brushing off my handshake and angrily saying how Mech IG was cheese and I was a stupid army bastard he packed up and left for the parking lot, his wife in tow. While watching out the window we saw his wife try to calm him down, where he promptly dropped his stuff, turned around and slapped her as hard as he could across her face. In 10 seconds I was out the door slamming my hand into his throat and smashing his ribs and before I knew it my buddies were dragging me off of him. Needless to say, his wife divorced him and he was not seen around the store for a few years. Recently he has come back for tournaments only but so far he has made sure to not catch my eye.

If we're all familiar with kids who go to games workshop with dreadknight spam, i mentioned how the dreadknights look odd, as they nearly represent a baby carrier. And my face was dearly complimented, as my face apparently looks like a baby carrier.

Probably the most irritating thing for me are damn kids who "misinterpret" the rules. -.- Bloody GK powergamers. One last thing. DAMN YOUTHS AND THEIR HELDRAKES


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Mind you i seem pretty lucky, my GM community are pretty awesome aside from a pair of asshat kids, there are even females at my store :O

Probably not the sort of 'worst moment' the thread is referring to, but about a month ago I was giving a demo game to this 10 year old at the club. While I was doing so, a guy who had brought O&G for me to buy went and sold them to someone else. I was... not impressed to say the least, especially since teaching this kid wasn't my responsibility - someone else said he'd do it but never bothered so the kid was just sitting there for like an hour and I took pity on him.

 Dakkamite wrote:
Probably not the sort of 'worst moment' the thread is referring to, but about a month ago I was giving a demo game to this 10 year old at the club. While I was doing so, a guy who had brought O&G for me to buy went and sold them to someone else. I was... not impressed to say the least, especially since teaching this kid wasn't my responsibility - someone else said he'd do it but never bothered so the kid was just sitting there for like an hour and I took pity on him.

Still that was a good part on you. I know the feeling when i was a kid looking at all these cool models and no one paying me any attention.

To the guy that beat up the other guy for hitting his wife, thank you for doing that.

Ive only been in the hobby for a year and thankfully there has been no bad apples. I mostly refuse games against more competitive players but even if i did play them, they would be more than helpful in correcting my mistakes or give tips on how i can beat them in the middle of the game. Now the ugly times are when we play into the evening. With no flgs We play at a local sports bar in the afternoon. When games go long and the evening crowd comes in, we get drunks from the bar coming over to the activity/dinner hall and you can just imagine all sorts of characters talking smack or trying to be funny. It was just really annoying.

djz05 wrote:

To the guy that beat up the other guy for hitting his wife, thank you for doing that.

Not a problem and anytime, I was a bouncer for 8 years at local clubs and concerts and being in the Army, I just felt I had to defend her honor. No respect for cowards or scumbags, only thing I miss about being a bouncer is taking out the trash like that

Yeah, kudos man :3

Once I was playing against this 12 year old at a club and he kept making up rules even though he had the codex.

One of my best friends is a fine player, but mostly focuses on modeling, painting, and fluff. While this is not a problem in and of itself, he will go so far as to decide that certain weapons don't fit the ethos of his army (e.g. - his army is Vietnam-era marine themed, and his devs only use MLs and HBs). Again, still fine. But, he will sometimes apply his aesthetics to other people's armies, meaning that he will quietly judge others for use of, say, grav guns and melta weapons. Furthermore, when his self-imposed restrictions cause him to go on losing streaks, he can get very despondent. I've seen him destroy his own models and ragequit games on multiple occasions.

That being said, my tendency to list-tailor and field unpainted models drove him to stop playing me temporarily. While I don't consider myself a WAAC player, I certainly play to win, and I really enjoy competitive play. I can gloat a bit when curb-stomping someone, and when I try to bite it down, sometimes I'll just smile a big sh*t-eating grin as I roll back-to-back 6s against that LR. If I was super into painting and spent a lot of time on it, I'd be pissed off as well if someone subbed out their painted Killa Kans for unpainted... whatever... just because it was better for that game. And I'd be doubly pissed if that lump of plastic took out a lovingly-painted model.

I think that it's okay that we have differences; our friendship survived, and we influenced each other positively - he became more seriously competitive, and I field entirely painted armies whenever possible. But some of those "differences" between players are probably legitimate faults preventing us from being perfect players. I wonder how many of us posting here have given someone the worst game of 40k they have ever played? Or at least somehow pushed a decent guy or gal to act like a complete monster over a toy soldier game?

tl;dr: A lot of us are good people who occasionally do outrageous things. I've seen great friends act like total jerks, and I'm sure my behavior has contributed to others' outbursts sometimes. Crappy behavior usually stems from a lack of self-awareness. How self aware are you?

I have found that kids and powergamers tend to bend the rules, throwing more dice than they should, fitting more units into their army than the points limit allows (not expecting people to check), blatantly making up rules or changing definitions, basically trying to win at all costs by pulling rules and models out their ass.

This is mostly either the really young kids or the "that guy" of the store who finds the need to cheat at a friendly game.

 gmaleron wrote:
While watching out the window we saw his wife try to calm him down, where he promptly dropped his stuff, turned around and slapped her as hard as he could across her face. In 10 seconds I was out the door slamming my hand into his throat and smashing his ribs and before I knew it my buddies were dragging me off of him. Needless to say, his wife divorced him and he was not seen around the store for a few years. Recently he has come back for tournaments only but so far he has made sure to not catch my eye.

Bully to you for sticking up for a woman you didn't really know. Guys that like that make me want to puke. Super tough guy has to beat on his wife or kids to feel manly.

Skriker

I had a guy in 5ed pull out a pistol and shot aopponents 2 landraiders because for 5 truns the just would not die

zilka86 wrote:
I had a guy in 5ed pull out a pistol and shot aopponents 2 landraiders because for 5 truns the just would not die

Now I question the safety of being in your gaming group... I hope that individual was charged/arrested? If you get that angry over a game of toy soldiers that you use a lethal weapon against the toy soldiers, I would not feel safe if he was allowed to stick around...

Yay Canadian gun laws!

As I play only my one opponent, I can't really add anything to the discussion, but that's absurd.

zilka86 wrote:
Good thing my group us 18+ and we have some hard rules that you to go by to stay in the club . i have played kids once and never will again i think this game should be 18and up

So how about them nebulous number of armies there?

In any case, I've generally been lucky to avoid anything more than somebody sweeping his hands over my models to knock them down and scatter them jokingly after losing and giving me the "what now?" gesture, nothing was damaged and it was generally in good fun. Now some people would have been upset by that but I'm not really going to lose my temper over a game.


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zilka86 wrote:
I had a guy in 5ed pull out a pistol and shot aopponents 2 landraiders because for 5 truns the just would not die

...I'm gonna have to go and call bs.


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 Agent_Tremolo wrote:

 tau tse tung wrote:
*update* The guy (who is a father may i add) befriended many of the 14 to 16 year olds (that age) and one of them was a boy who would openly make racial remarks. Now on dakka i have posted my chinese themed army and got good feedback, even from formor US army vets. But this kid never let go my army was a "Dirty red" army and make horrible racist jokes like "his guard cant see" etc and would even make them with this old bloke.

I happen to know a total nutjob of a guy who thinks of 40k as some sort of training/analogy for the coming racial holy war, Orks being blacks-muslims, Eldar jews, Tau chinese, Chaos atheists/satanists, marxists and liberals. Of course, in his view of things the Imperium is the great, beleaguered white race and Space Marines, most obviously, our white aryan national-socialist saviors and overlords (He plays blood angels/C:SM, for what matters). Thing is, he knows the game rather well and is mature enough not to cheat. Actually, he's not a bad guy to have a game against, unless anyone touches on his idiocic racial and political fetishes, in which case he goes full ramblomatic. My friends usually do that on purpose

I'll have to ask him what he thinks of Necrons and Tyranids, btw

So what are Necrons and Tyranids?

zilka86 wrote:
I had a guy in 5ed pull out a pistol and shot aopponents 2 landraiders because for 5 truns the just would not die

Wow. I once saw a guy call in a napalm strike on some fire warriors for 'hold objectv fr holl gem'

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Congrats on being mature enough to recognize your failings and own up to them kcwm! Also kudos are due to you for playing Sisters!

My opponent was playing them. I'm a CSM player.

Interestingly enough, if I had to start a new army, it'd either be Eldar (from pre 6th edition fascination) or SoB.

 kcwm wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Congrats on being mature enough to recognize your failings and own up to them kcwm! Also kudos are due to you for playing Sisters!

My opponent was playing them. I'm a CSM player.

Interestingly enough, if I had to start a new army, it'd either be Eldar (from pre 6th edition fascination) or SoB.

Fair enough, I misunderstood your initial post. Sisters are reasonably fun, but I wouldn't recommend them due to cost right now.

it was on a tournament, i played against a kid and his mother was sitting behind him. He throwed his scatterdice for templates on the other side of the table than the targets are, and is then trying to "but the template actually hits 8 of your boyz while in reality it was just near the squad. After a discussion I said, ok, you can have'm, a bit disgusted.
2 weeks later, i found out in our local store that he was telling everyone i cheated on him and i'm the worst player and so on.

kids..

I am a new gamer and have never played a game in my life, so I hope you dont think it presumptuous of me to post here.

having read most of the posts here I am astonished and horrified that some of this actually happens and can only appreciate then patience thatsome people are forced to show because of the iinconsiderate actions of others.

I am sure that in the future I kay curse my luck as the die roll against me, afterall die are fickle masters, but may I never display any of the behaviour mentioned here.

Oh man, I've got one.

I have a friend who used to play basic vanilla marines. He's famous for two things: 1) cheating (which we tolerate because he loses anyway) and 2) extremely risking deep strikes. One night he goes for a deep strike in the blank space between three of my CSM squads, using Marneus Calgar and 10 TH/SS termies. As you can imagine, he mishapped when he scattered a single inch.

The real fun though came moments later. He began arguing with me that he hadn't mishapped because one of his terminators was only slightly touching one of my models. When I told him that that meant a deep strike mishap, he then began to argue that the models weren't touching at all (which was ludicrous, since you could just look and see them were, zero room for interpretation). Are you ready for the zinger?

Here it comes.

I called another buddy over to make the obvious call that the models were touching. The cheater then pretended to "accidentally knock over all his terminators, in addition to the squad he had scattered into, and then say "ooh sorry whoops, I guess we should just roll off for it?" It didn't even look natural. I still look back on that and laugh.