wyomingfox wrote:Tell me, do they play ANGRY Marines

Moz wrote:I've heard a lot of physical threats thrown around by socially awkward gamers, but never actually seen it come to blows.
I did encounter a guy who was telling other people at the store that he would 'show (me) what he could do in the parking lot', after he marched his poor tau army *forward* into the maw of my tyranids and quit on turn 2. I imagine that could have been interesting as I've never had a grown man cry on me in a parking lot, but nothing ever happened.
Reminded me a lot of highschool, good times.

BOSS_PIMPALOTZ wrote:I was 23 he was 23 it was a weird old time may I say

His bleatings were seriously getting on my nerves but to be fair he proberly got into the hobby to cover the fact his dad (who was a pretty mind scarred ex soldier) threw himself off a bridge so all in all i pitied him in the end.

But still he got in pretty deep i mean emmersed himself into to the point that it was his life. I remember him living out of his car at one point no job no benefit just him his paints and his case a pretty sad existance and i took the last thing he gave a damn about off of him so all in all yea sad.

BOSS_PIMPALOTZ wrote:
And the other dude who painted his Berserkers with his own blood. No end of wackoness in Bristol UK............

Ratbarf wrote:

And the other dude who painted his Berserkers with his own blood.

You would be surprised how common this is, go take a look at the B&C forums for Khorne and you'll find a bunch of players who do something similar. (Me included, I mix it into the red gore paint.)

generalgrog wrote:This whole concept of painting your models with blood is wierd. But it apparantly is more common than we think, as we had a guy in Florida that painted his Korne army with blood. I think he ended up getting banned, but I could be wrong on that.

Orkeosaurus wrote:This one time, I was playing this guy's biker nobs with my gray knights. Now, my rolls aren't great this game, but I use tactics pretty skillfully, and soon this guy's losing. I'm pretty happy, because this is the last round of the tournament, and I have a good shot at winning overall (my army won best painted three times in a row).

So, it gets down to the last turn, and I'm trying to kill the last nob with my grand master so I can win the game. It comes down to two invulnerable saves for the nob, he rolls... and fails both.

He gets pissed and declares a do over. I say no, of course, because this guy has already made way too many invulnerable saves. Then, I look at one of the dice and notice something; there are no ones. He added pips to make the ones into fives on half of his dice. When I call him on it he gets scared, and tries to punch in the face across the table.

I grab his hand as he tries to hit me, and with a hard grip I snap the bones in it. The guy starts crying and whimpering, so I let him go. Then as I turn around to accept my 75$ store credit, he pulls out a knife with his other hand. I spin around and roundhouse kick the guy in the chest. The knife goes flying into the air and I catch it.

Then I hear someone from the doorway yell "nobody messes with the Wrecking Crew", and I see a bunch of gun carrying WC henchmen in ski masks trying to illegally make their member the winner. Thinking quick, I throw the knife at one of them, and he accidentally shoots the the second guy. The third guy shoots at me, but I jump around so he can't hit me, and I throw my gray knight grandmaster at his head. The nemesis force weapon that had entered his brain killed him instantly.

After that I accepted my award, and used the store credit to buy an Assault on Black Reach set for an orphanage.

Hollismason wrote:Many years ago during a game of second edition 40k two of my friends got in a physical knock down drag out fight over whether a template covered half a model. Including one of my firends monkeyflipping the other and doing a kip up.

It was like watching a reenactment of a Captain Kirk fight from Star Trek.

Trench-Raider wrote:Well, I'm impressed. I honestly expected to see a bunch of examples of the "internet tought guy syndrome" in this thread and a bunch of "ninja/martial artist master wanna be" crap. But there has not been. Color me suprised.

I've been wargaming since the early '80s and I've never seen an actual fist fight over a wargame. I've seen a few shouting matches and some really badly bruised feelings, which is bad enough, but never seen it actually get physical. Oddly enough the worst arguments I ever saw were at ancient tounries with big time prizes. (painted armies, etc) Things can get real touchy when there is that much at stake.

About the closest thing I ever saw was at a WW2 reenactment a number of years ago. One of the reenactors was jumpy and paniced when an "enemy" popped up at close range. He squeezed off a round and shot the guy right in the face with a blank round from his Garand at about five feet! For those who don't know, blanks can still be quite dangerous at close range as they still produce pressure and flame. It didn't injure the victim badly although he did get some burns and suffered some "tatooing"...unburnt gunpower lodged under the skin. However after he stopped the screaming and holding his face, the guy who got shot jumped on the shooter and started to beat the hell out of him. We had to pull him off the other guy. Not that I blamed him for the bad reaction to being shot like that, mind you....

Personally, I pride myself with being pretty even tempered. When I recently lost my cool and snapped at an opponent who was being an argumentative jerk it suprised everyone quite a bit down at the local historical club. But I'm just laid back like that. Outside of work, I've been involved in but one actual fight since High School and that was almost 20 years ago..
(Since the CHL law past in my state I'm almost always packing a loaded handgun in any event, and when you armed like that a responsible person must avoid conflicts and keep an even keel at all times.)

TR

BOSS_PIMPALOTZ wrote:I was 23 he was 23 it was a weird old time may I say

His bleatings were seriously getting on my nerves but to be fair he proberly got into the hobby to cover the fact his dad (who was a pretty mind scarred ex soldier) threw himself off a bridge so all in all i pitied him in the end.

But still he got in pretty deep i mean emmersed himself into to the point that it was his life. I remember him living out of his car at one point no job no benefit just him his paints and his case a pretty sad existance and i took the last thing he gave a damn about off of him so all in all yea sad.

namegoeshere wrote:

BOSS_PIMPALOTZ wrote:I was 23 he was 23 it was a weird old time may I say

His bleatings were seriously getting on my nerves but to be fair he proberly got into the hobby to cover the fact his dad (who was a pretty mind scarred ex soldier) threw himself off a bridge so all in all i pitied him in the end.

But still he got in pretty deep i mean emmersed himself into to the point that it was his life. I remember him living out of his car at one point no job no benefit just him his paints and his case a pretty sad existance and i took the last thing he gave a damn about off of him so all in all yea sad.

I wouldn't have dated his girlfriend if I knew he was in that situation. I would have sympathy for him.

Never seen violence over a game - just sarcasm, and such

barlio wrote:I've personally seen one act of violence. Myself and two of my friends were playing a game of M:TG and one of my friends had his girlfriend there. One of my buddies says that his birthday is coming up. My other friend's girlfriend asks him what he wants. In return he says something along the lines that a bj from her would be pretty good. My other friend turns around and punches him in the shoulder. She has a pissed look on her face, and I'm like . The anger over that lasted for about 10 minutes then I think they went and got high because later on everybody was cool.

Orkeosaurus wrote:This one time, I was playing this guy's biker nobs with my gray knights. Now, my rolls aren't great this game, but I use tactics pretty skillfully, and soon this guy's losing. I'm pretty happy, because this is the last round of the tournament, and I have a good shot at winning overall (my army won best painted three times in a row).

So, it gets down to the last turn, and I'm trying to kill the last nob with my grand master so I can win the game. It comes down to two invulnerable saves for the nob, he rolls... and fails both.

He gets pissed and declares a do over. I say no, of course, because this guy has already made way too many invulnerable saves. Then, I look at one of the dice and notice something; there are no ones. He added pips to make the ones into fives on half of his dice. When I call him on it he gets scared, and tries to punch me in the face across the table.

I grab his hand as he tries to hit me, and with a hard grip I snap the bones in it. The guy starts crying and whimpering, so I let him go. Then as I turn around to accept my 75$ store credit, he pulls out a knife with his other hand. I spin around and roundhouse kick the guy in the chest. The knife goes flying into the air and I catch it.

Then I hear someone from the doorway yell "nobody messes with the Wrecking Crew", and I see a bunch of gun carrying WC henchmen in ski masks trying to illegally make their member the winner. Thinking quick, I throw the knife at one of them, and he accidentally shoots the the second guy. The third guy shoots at me, but I jump around so he can't hit me, and I throw my gray knight grandmaster at his head. The nemesis force weapon that had entered his brain killed him instantly.

After that I accepted my award, and used the store credit to buy an Assault on Black Reach set for an orphanage.

Orkeosaurus wrote:This one time, I was playing this guy's biker nobs with my gray knights. Now, my rolls aren't great this game, but I use tactics pretty skillfully, and soon this guy's losing. I'm pretty happy, because this is the last round of the tournament, and I have a good shot at winning overall (my army won best painted three times in a row). [b] "my coment: believeable"

So, it gets down to the last turn, and I'm trying to kill the last nob with my grand master so I can win the game. It comes down to two invulnerable saves for the nob, he rolls... and fails both. "my coment:believeable"

He gets pissed and declares a do over. I say no, of course, because this guy has already made way too many invulnerable saves. Then, I look at one of the dice and notice something; there are no ones. He added pips to make the ones into fives on half of his dice. When I call him on it he gets scared, and tries to punch me in the face across the table. "my coment:beleiveable"

I grab his hand as he tries to hit me, and with a hard grip I snap the bones in it. The guy starts crying and whimpering, so I let him go. Then as I turn around to accept my 75$ store credit, he pulls out a knife with his other hand. I spin around and roundhouse kick the guy in the chest. The knife goes flying into the air and I catch it. "my coment:no longer believe the last paragraph and how did you know he pulled a knife out behinf you"

Then I hear someone from the doorway yell "nobody messes with the Wrecking Crew", and I see a bunch of gun carrying WC henchmen in ski masks trying to illegally make their member the winner. Thinking quick, I throw the knife at one of them, and he accidentally shoots the the second guy. The third guy shoots at me, but I jump around so he can't hit me, and I throw my gray knight grandmaster at his head. The nemesis force weapon that had entered his brain killed him instantly. "my coment:im now roleing on the floor laughing at this since its just what so many "internet tough guys" say"


After that I accepted my award, and used the store credit to buy an Assault on Black Reach set for an orphanage."my coment:who buys a assault on black reach for a orpanage when you can give them funding?"

tahthing wrote:yer after paragraph 4 it decends into bull gak.

Orkeosaurus wrote:This one time, I was playing this guy's biker nobs with my gray knights. Now, my rolls aren't great this game, but I use tactics pretty skillfully, and soon this guy's losing. I'm pretty happy, because this is the last round of the tournament, and I have a good shot at winning overall (my army won best painted three times in a row).

So, it gets down to the last turn, and I'm trying to kill the last nob with my grand master so I can win the game. It comes down to two invulnerable saves for the nob, he rolls... and fails both.

He gets pissed and declares a do over. I say no, of course, because this guy has already made way too many invulnerable saves. Then, I look at one of the dice and notice something; there are no ones. He added pips to make the ones into fives on half of his dice. When I call him on it he gets scared, and tries to punch me in the face across the table.

I grab his hand as he tries to hit me, and with a hard grip I snap the bones in it. The guy starts crying and whimpering, so I let him go. Then as I turn around to accept my 75$ store credit, he pulls out a knife with his other hand. I spin around and roundhouse kick the guy in the chest. The knife goes flying into the air and I catch it.

Then I hear someone from the doorway yell "nobody messes with the Wrecking Crew", and I see a bunch of gun carrying WC henchmen in ski masks trying to illegally make their member the winner. Thinking quick, I throw the knife at one of them, and he accidentally shoots the the second guy. The third guy shoots at me, but I jump around so he can't hit me, and I throw my gray knight grandmaster at his head. The nemesis force weapon that had entered his brain killed him instantly.

After that I accepted my award, and used the store credit to buy an Assault on Black Reach set for an orphanage.