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You ask for awkward moments, you got em.

1.) Playing in a tourney a few years ago. My Empire vs VC. Top of Turn two, Shooting phase. I'm eyeballing targets. I start to say that I'm going to target a necromancer then what do I see but a vampire lord. I roll for bounce and the cannon ball hits him. He rolls for look out sir and fails. Rolls for ward save and fails. I roll for # of wounds and I roll a 5 killing him. He snatches him off of the table. You could cut the tension with a knife. He is just sitting there sulking. He then starts to get his carrying case out and says that the game is basically over and we should just call it. After 10 minutes of back and forth we decide to finish the game (after I offer to restart the game). He didn't move anything, he just took crumble tests. The game last about another 15 minutes. I had to spend the next hour and half walking around. When talking to a mutual friend later he painted an entirely different story.

1.) a. It's interesting how his mind works. He produced some SWAG for a local indy gt and had mispelled writing on two of his products. When questioned on it he wanted to argue on the spelling issue (Dispell scrolls?)

2.) There is a local kid with very poor hygiene and manners. I shook his hand prior to the game (a normal habit of mine to suggest a good game). About 10 minutes in I see him with his hands in his pants. Not in his pocket, but IN HIS UNDERWEAR. I was tempted to cut my hand off (I used to be almost OCD about my hands). I avoid dealing with him at all costs now.

3.) During the 2nd round of our last tournament last month I am playing a new guy(in his 40s) to the area. He goes to look something up and I notice he has the older Empire book. I inform him that he should be using the newest book, but for our game it's fine. He seems ok with it. I inform the Tourney organizer of the situation afterwards. At the award ceremonies he wins the door prize ($50) . It was weird because he has been playing for a while and he didn't know that you need the newest book. ???

4.) Another local I've had the displeasure of dealing has been banned from tournaments. Once after losing a unit of Orks he picks up one of the other guys minis (a no-no to start). Points at it and says what a piece of crap it is. I think he was going to throw it across the store, but was interupted by staff first.

@swordguy: You win, Holy crap that is awful. I'm glad your friends restrained you. Probably wouldn't be able to talk to us now (unless the prison had internet access).

Lol. Just what you'd expect from a Tau player though.

Just the type of arrogant, ignorant thing you'd expect a Space Marine player to say. Amiright?

It was just kinda ridiculous...

Oh you know those Eldar players, they're all douchebags like that! lololol

Hate the player, not the army. Not all Tau players are like that, I've never flipped anyone off or cussed them out during a game for any reason and I don't aim to start. The worst thing I've ever done is get mopey when the dice roll bad, and I mean real bad. I can't roll a four to save my life.



Haven't had many awkward gaming moments myself, not playing 40k anyway. My brother always acts like a tool whenever we play D&D though, always flips out and throws a fit when treasure gets split up and he doesn't get every uber item we found. It got real bad one night, he was practically screaming about this stupid sword, and even wrote it on his character sheet because he simply couldn't accept the fact that I got it, insisting that he had one too and if he didn't get it he'd never play again. Trying to talk sense into him made things worse, too.

He also insisted on playing as a dragon when we first started out, he wouldn't play D&D if he couldn't turn into a gold dragon and pwn everything in the room singlehandedly. Dragons don't fit in dungeons, I ended up finding out the hard way when my paladin got pinned against he wall the first time he tried*.

*The way my dad played it, he was in human form most of the time to fit inside the dungeons. In our very first encounter ever, he says "I turn into a dragon and use my noxious breath!", and then my dad laughs and tells me that I and the two derro dwarves we were fighting get pinned to the walls and I WOULD have been killed by his stupid breath weapon but my dad said "Oh you managed to run out of the room in time", pff.

A year ago I agreed to play one of the youngsters at my LFGS as my regular opponent hadnt turned up. He was a good lad with a solid grasp of the rules and I spent allot of the game being open with him and teaching him a couple of tricks. I also really didn’t take the game all that seriously and just played for fun all round. Anyway the game ended and I totaled up the points. The Kid had beten me. A minor victory but a victory non the less. I just lost a game to a 12 year old.

Don't worry I didnt behave like a brat or anything. It was all my own fault and I took it good humour (whislt kicking myself!)

Needless to say my local gaming circle soon found out and I've never heard the end of it. No matter how well I do in any future game I will always be the guy who lost to 12 year old.

Oh just remembered what happened a few months ago. In a dnd game, the GM's wife is part of our group.

We are just getting slaughtered. We are down to like 10% health each. The wife starts saying how we better just start working on new characters. The GM asks her if she wants to just quit. She gets quiet. From my personal experience (6+ years of marriage) is that when your wife goes stealth (i.e. silent treatmen) the End is Nigh. She then starts griping. They go back and forth for about 10 minutes.

He finally gets her to settle down and then boom the adversaries are dead. If she would have waited 3 more minutes we would have finished them off and won the day, but no they had to argue in front of all of us.

I dropped shortly after

Swordguy wrote:

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...)

Yay.

Your story made my stomach turn.

I have a good one.

In Japan there aren't a huge range of available players and almost no players who speak Japanese so I tend to play with the same 4 or 5 guys all the time. 1 of these guys is a really good friend of mine and a great guy but he has significant anger control issues.

1 time we're playing a 2 v 1 game with me and a friend running orks and chaos (1500 each) vs his witchunters (3000) in a special scenario I had written which meant we had to use psykers. He was delighted because he finally go to use all his anti-psyker goodness. And because of this he was absolutely destorying us, just blowing massive holes into us constantly. Turn 3 we weren't tabled but we were pretty conclusively not going to win (maybe a draw) and it comes to his assault phase. He forgets to shoot and assault one of my boyz mobz with his serpahim and halfway through the assault phase he notices this. Now I should just have let him charge me but because it was halfway throguh the phase already and because we were being drubbed so badly I said no and he got so angry about this he decided to punch my wall.

He punched a hole in it!

Suddenly he wasn't the angry one anymore, he was terrified and I was incredibly angry. As awkward as it was for us though it was even more awkward for my chaos playing friend who had to stand there and wait to see if we were about to kill each other.

It all worked out okay in the end though, he offered to pay for my wall and we finished the game (he won but we very nearly pulled out a draw).

malfred wrote:

Swordguy wrote:

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...)

Yay.

Your story made my stomach turn.

Mine too, I don't even know you or your wife or the guy but even I wanted to beat the crap out of him reading that. You don't talk crap like that to a guy's wife, especially if the guy is standing right there. Seriously, who the hell did he think he was?

Today i had an awkward moment. well it wasnt really a moment but, kinda the whole battle, it was 1500pts battle against my best mate (tyranids) against me (space marines) as we were setting up in deployment this really smelly (and i mean extremely smelly) and fat kid goes and stands right inbetween us telling my mate what to do, of course most of the time my mate just ignores it but it eventually got really wierd because for 2hours (new to 5edition) into the game the kid was just staring @ my mate.. really smelly... really awkward... eventually he just walked away (thank god). eventually it was a good game with me winning 1-0 objective points... but that kid just freaked me out.. had one of those cannot... look... away... double chins

Sidstyler wrote:

malfred wrote:

Swordguy wrote:

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...)

Yay.

Your story made my stomach turn.

Mine too, I don't even know you or your wife or the guy but even I wanted to beat the crap out of him reading that. You don't talk crap like that to a guy's wife, especially if the guy is standing right there. Seriously, who the hell did he think he was?

Didnt impress me either, people like that are a waste of space in my oinion. no manners.

And i think you could change that to you don't talk to anyone like that, unless they had given you a very good reaon to. and even then its very disrespectful. Hope Karma finds his dues for him.

Duce wrote:

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...)

And i think you could change that to you don't talk to anyone like that, unless they had given you a very good reaon to. and even then its very disrespectful. Hope Karma finds his dues for him.

QFT

I know a lot of people think that as a man you have a responsibility/duty/right to "protect your woman". That's serious bs, and imho sort of comes from the same stupid angle as the guy considering a womans worth was primarily as a sexual object, although not by far as bad. After all, I wouldn't care what the social status or gender of the talked to person was, I wouldn't care who's spouse I might be, I wouldn't care if the talked to person was a friend or a stranger. I'd go hit that idiot hard, and I'd aim for an eye or the nose or somewhere else that made permanent and visual damage. Maybe I'd start with aiming for the groin, partly for the symbolic value and partly to get a clearer shot at the face. I'd even grin happily all the way through the subsequent trial.

generalgrog wrote:

djphranq wrote:

stonefox wrote:Then a girl walked in.

This can be awkward, annoying, or awesome depending on the situation.

Or scary... if she's a 300 pound goth girl.

GG

our local store has one of those . she likes to dress up like wario. yes wario with bright yellow and purple.

Was at a heroclix tournament one time. The guy I was playing was about my age. We showed up at a lot of the same events and never got along. In fact "hate" would be a pretty accurate description of our feelings toward each other. Anyway, we're playing along and all of a sudden he stops, grabs a judge and says that he did something differently two turns ago and that we needed to go back. He eventually convinced the judge to let him go back TWO TURNS, change one of his moves and subsequently it won him the game. That's one of the few times where I wanted to walk across the table and beat the ever living crap out of someone in my FLGS.

Another time I was playing an IG guy. I was wearing a long sleeved shirt and was picking up some dead burna boys that were in combat with a sentinel. My shirt caught the gun of the sentinel and it ended up hitting the floor. It was well painted, too :(.

Well where do I start so many awkward gaming moments....

Ah yes

1,500pts of Crimson Ravens (My own DIY chapter) Vs Eldar I was being whooped but i was enjoying the game.good times good laughs or so you would think eh?? this 12 year old gakbag saunters over now in our store he was known for his whinging (he wrote a female store staff member a love letter she was 23 hes 12 you can gather the outcome) and proceeds to go...

"Hey Jay blast his crappy Razorback with your Brightlances"
"WOOOOOO you been owned noob (Noob Ive been playing since I was 14 years old Im now 27)
"Man you really dont know the point of the mission do you??"
"My fallen would have owned you"
"My Tau would have owned you"
"My DA would have owned you"

I politely kept stum but how I wanted to grab him pick him up by the scruff of his neck and sling him out on his ass!

1,500pts of Crimson Ravens Vs Tyranids 1,500pts or so the player thought

Yes another kid and yes no reading of the rules I set up my Marines pleasantly waiting for turn 1 we kick of he picks up a termagaunt moves it 12 inches WHAT THE FETH! surely 6 inches he saids "Shut it" I go WHAAAAAAT!.

Now being a regular a staff member walks over a enquires whats going on I point out the rules boob and the other player goes ballistic to which he gets banned.

Now was that worth the effort of getting yourself banned too many young players are too obsesssed with winning nowadays.

I point out the rules boob

Where, WHERE!?

Nurgleboy77 wrote:

I point out the rules boob

Where, WHERE!?

Ha yea sorry bout that I meant rules mistake was trying to track 3-5 convos at once I tend to type fast and dont really think about what I write so i attached boob to mistake and wrote boob ooops

My top two most awkward moments:-

1. I was participating in a LOTR tournament over at Warhammer World in Nottingham, and having a good time. I'd narrowly won my first two games, and the opponent had been a real sportsman. 10 minute break, and then everyone heads off to the next round. I arrive at my table to find a 12 year old waiting for me. One that could barely see over the table. I'm not the kind to look down on an opponent though, just because he's a kid, so we get started. Now this was before Legions for middle earth came out, so armies tended to be a huge mishmash of anything and everything. He plonked a custom made ent down on the table. I enquired as to the rules for it, as I'd never seen any for ents before. He promptly informed me that they were in White Dwarf. I asked to see the edition in question, or a photocopy, so I could quickly scan the rules and familiarise myself with them. Kid then told me he didn't have to show me the rules. After I simply said that I wasn't just going to take his word for it that his ent was toughness 10 with 8 wounds, and rerolls, and call a judge over, he grudgingly says that his older brother has the rules. 'Is your older brother here?' I ask, still keeping polite. Turns out his older brother is here, but he has no idea where he is. For the sake of getting a game, I pretty much agree his Ent is superman and can do whatever he wants. Next turn in, I fire a siege bow at the ent. apparantly though, according to him, I'm not allowed to do that, because the arrow part of the model isn't pointing straight at the ent(it's pointing about 45 degrees to the left). He then throws a tantrum after the judge says I can still fire it. I then walk away, after the kid throws aforementioned ent model at me.

2. I played a guy with narcolepsy. He fell asleep three times during the game. I kind of reached over and poked him each time, but damn, that was awkward. Lovely guy though.

If it counts nurgleboy, once during a tournament, I fired a flamer at some 'nids, and started singing, 'Burn Baby Burn', and dancing slightly. I then realised approximately 30 other people in the room had stopped to look at me. Didn't feel too awkward though, as one of my friends on the other side of the room joined in, with the result being much mirth for all.

Having a Rules Boob around to consult during games might making things go much smoother.

But seriously, the 1% of gamers that really are seriously misogynistic or just afraid of women need to be made aware that they are the reason the hobby has so many bad stereotypes and need to get over themselves. I have near-crippling shyness problems at times but I can get through them with help from friends and a lot of effort.

Balance, I know and hear your pain.

Shear Will Power is the only thing which kept me going when younger, but confidecne grew and now I perform infront of crowds in their hundreds and am married with kids..... Shyness can be overcome....

I regularly play a 9 year old at Warhammer 40k (A family friend) and hes a brilliant sportsman

so I pose the question why is it one side you can have excellent sportsmen of all ages and then on the other you have these idiots who cant and wont accept losing at a game which in essentiality involves pushing little Toy Soldiers around if I did i.e throw a tantrum at losing Id feel pretty fething stupid.

I guess wargaming is like any other type of game(including sports). You get "those" people that just do not know how to interact with others appropriately when things go wrong. I have often wondered if the computer gaming aspect has anything to do with it. You know a lot of us play computer games online as well as tabletop, and I know the behavior skills of people on the online games can be attrocious. So I wonder if these people only interaction is with online oppponents and they don't know how to interact with real live people.


GG

Ketara wrote:My top two most awkward moments:-

1. I was participating in a LOTR tournament over at Warhammer World in Nottingham, and having a good time. I'd narrowly won my first two games, and the opponent had been a real sportsman. 10 minute break, and then everyone heads off to the next round. I arrive at my table to find a 12 year old waiting for me. One that could barely see over the table. I'm not the kind to look down on an opponent though, just because he's a kid, so we get started. Now this was before Legions for middle earth came out, so armies tended to be a huge mishmash of anything and everything. He plonked a custom made ent down on the table. I enquired as to the rules for it, as I'd never seen any for ents before. He promptly informed me that they were in White Dwarf. I asked to see the edition in question, or a photocopy, so I could quickly scan the rules and familiarise myself with them. Kid then told me he didn't have to show me the rules. After I simply said that I wasn't just going to take his word for it that his ent was toughness 10 with 8 wounds, and rerolls, and call a judge over, he grudgingly says that his older brother has the rules. 'Is your older brother here?' I ask, still keeping polite. Turns out his older brother is here, but he has no idea where he is. For the sake of getting a game, I pretty much agree his Ent is superman and can do whatever he wants. Next turn in, I fire a siege bow at the ent. apparantly though, according to him, I'm not allowed to do that, because the arrow part of the model isn't pointing straight at the ent(it's pointing about 45 degrees to the left). He then throws a tantrum after the judge says I can still fire it. I then walk away, after the kid throws aforementioned ent model at me.

2. I played a guy with narcolepsy. He fell asleep three times during the game. I kind of reached over and poked him each time, but damn, that was awkward. Lovely guy though.

If it counts nurgleboy, once during a tournament, I fired a flamer at some 'nids, and started singing, 'Burn Baby Burn', and dancing slightly. I then realised approximately 30 other people in the room had stopped to look at me. Didn't feel too awkward though, as one of my friends on the other side of the room joined in, with the result being much mirth for all.

this made my midnight. thanks.

my sister played warhammer and every time she went to play the store the manager assummed she was my girlfriend.................

Nurgleboy77 wrote:Hmm... played plenty of "kids" (Big and little) and have enjoyed some and hated some.

My most akward gaming moment was at the Chicago GT in 2005. It was my first big tourney and I had fun (whilst getting it handed to me for 2 days!).

At one point I was playing a guy and had to take an "All on his own" check. Now, at my FLGS we have a running gag that we sing a bit of "All By Myself" when rolling for this. It's just kinda habit....halfway through my solo I realize I'm in a room of 200 or so gamers I don't know, singing forlorn 80s love songs to my opponent (loudly!)!

But....you sang it with Pride.......

That's almost as bad as doing a 13th Warrior chant in front of an entire hall of gamers......

Nurgleboy77 wrote:Singing is nothing, this is waht my group, the Blade and Bolter Boys (est. 1995), does before every big tourney:

BLADENBOLTER BOYZ CHANT


I'm the loud one in the red/black. Yes we're the coolest, I know...

Witness my most embarrassing gaming moment......

I'm the fat guy looking all embarrassed......

generalgrog wrote:I guess wargaming is like any other type of game(including sports). You get "those" people that just do not know how to interact with others appropriately when things go wrong. I have often wondered if the computer gaming aspect has anything to do with it. You know a lot of us play computer games online as well as tabletop, and I know the behavior skills of people on the online games can be attrocious. So I wonder if these people only interaction is with online oppponents and they don't know how to interact with real live people.

Definitely. Every hobby, especially, the niche ones, has that 1% that makes everyone look bad. Sports have the 'super fans' who get trashed at the game and/or dress up and mostly annoy other patrons. For children's sports, we have the stereotypical superfan parents who assault the coach to get their kid more play time. I'm guessing stamp collectors have someoen that embarrases them. No idea what, though.

I'm the fat guy looking all embarrassed......

LoL, you and Norgoth look like twins, Aldonis! lol

Aldonis wrote:

Nurgleboy77 wrote:Singing is nothing, this is waht my group, the Blade and Bolter Boys (est. 1995), does before every big tourney:

BLADENBOLTER BOYZ CHANT


I'm the loud one in the red/black. Yes we're the coolest, I know...

Witness my most embarrassing gaming moment......

I'm the fat guy looking all embarrassed......

Hmmmm id also be embarassed I hate the random WAAAAAAAAGH's during Apocolypse games at my local store hence why I never play at GW anymore

My brother, the bastard. As always, he really knows how to mess things up.

I was asked to host a three player game for his birthday involving about a hundred zombies and three Mordheim characters tasked with fighting their way through the undead and towards the evil necromancer. My brother and his friend would do the main fighting bit while my character would hang back so I could fully focus on moving the zombies. However, somewhere along the line my brother wanted to kill my character and did so. I told him that was against the spirit of the game and scenario but he would have nothing of it, instead he went along with it.

Damn prick. He always wants to break the rules one way or the other for his own amusement. The scenario wasn't completed, instead he strayed away from the set objectives and just started bashing zombies for no real reason until his friend died due to a lumbering undead golem. He then declared himself winner. Sooo, another narrative campaign fething ruined by him. Suddenly, the idea of running a Dark Heresy campaign seems less welcoming.

My gaming group had it's first Apoc game recently and 2vs3 and while there were some bumps in the coordinating everything started off fine. Untill the 3rd player showed up, without his list or his codex. This game was organized more than a MONTH in advance.

Trying to speed the game up we started to resolve shooting based on which opponent army we were shooting at instead of having each person on a team of 3 go one at a time. while my other teamate and i are resolving shooting, our 3rd teammate (player from first line) is making shooting noises for a good 5-10 min.

The local gaming group I play at is run at an elementary school. The person who organizes it gets to use the room for free as a fund raising event, and is able to keep it cheap. So, unsuprisingly, it's attracted the attention of some of his students. One of his students (who has now moved on to middle school), was a good player, able to come up with good strategy, and was a good sportsman. A joy to play against. One of the others though doesn't seem to be taking the game quite as serious, doesn't even really seem to want to read his own codex. I don't mind helping him out when it's a friendly game, but I feel a bit awkward when he signs up for one of the local tournaments, and I find myself facing him in round 1. I don't want to stomp all over the kid, and cause him to dislike the hobby and such, but I'm not going to take it easy on him in a tournament.

Otherwise, at a team tournament, I and my teammate were playing Necrons, against a combined tau and SM group. It became obvious in round 2 that we were going to win, and in round 3 that it would be a complete route. The awkward thing was that our opponents realized it too, and instead of either conceding, or trying to rise to the challenge, they just went through the motions of playing, but their attitude had changed to one of defeat and passive hostility.