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Little kids who ask silly questions and follow you around. Really annoys me at times, the sheer OTT of some of them is unbelievable.

 Azza007 wrote:
Little kids who ask silly questions and follow you around. Really annoys me at times, the sheer OTT of some of them is unbelievable.

FTW, I hate the teenagers who are obviously intelligent but lack social skills (they need a father figure to put them inline and teach them what is acceptable and how to behave in public). I was in my FLGS, and was looking at an Old MOTF Boxed set for my Iron hands, this small, rotund and hygienically challenged boy proceeded to barrack me in his lispy and spittle laiden cadence about how crap Techmarines are. I'm a pretty laid back (middle-aged) guy, but I actually snapped at this kid, told him to STFU and leave me alone, I've been playing this crap since 2nd Edition and remember buying Rogue trader. His response was pretty funny "What is Rogue Trader?".

We have a ban at our local club of under 18's, because we Cuss alot and we drink alot of Alcohol. Their is a policy of "vetting" to ensure that the really socially challenged are not permitted to enter, we still have 1 or 2 strange members but on the whole most of us are pretty well balanced and do it for the social circle of a group of like minded individuals who enjoy it as hobby, but do not take it excess or obsess about it.

For me it's people who don't paint their miniatures. Or when you do see someone with a nicely painted army, they admit that someone painted it for them.


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 Silverthorne wrote:
The worst thing has to be the sudden influx of lingerie models with every new codex. I don't think I can stand many more of them crashing our game nights after their shoots. All the giggling and pouting and bouncing... It's getting to be too much.

Where do you game?

The worst things?

Minor: HW's odd manner about itself, CIA doesn't take some things as seriously.

Major: the wailing and crying about how the game sucks. Don't know about you, but if something sucks, I get rid of it.

I'm not going to whine and say price, so here it is.

Little Kids. I understand that the target audience is young kids, but there has to be some sort of compromise. My local GW, especially on the Sunday when it would be the under-16 nights, I was one of the older lot and i was playing with my friend. It was Eldar and BA (me) vs Vanilla and Vanilla, yup you guessed it. I think it was the 2nd turn, and my friend fired a couple of shots at this kids captain (12-13 y/o). I can't remember the weapon my friend fired but it was double the toughness of his captain, he rolled a save, he failed, we told him the captain was instant killed, and he reluctantly took it off the table. But the worst part of all he was crying, I mean come on, it was only AoBR captain, nothing special.

Some of the kids were alright, the rest were very annoying, buy hey ho, we have all been there.

 kanekaneo wrote:
But the worst part of all he was crying, I mean come on, it was only AoBR captain, nothing special.

Do you cry if special Characters are killed in battle? If so Kudos for the emotional connection to a fantasy world.

 mwnciboo wrote:

 kanekaneo wrote:
But the worst part of all he was crying, I mean come on, it was only AoBR captain, nothing special.

Do you cry if special Characters are killed in battle? If so Kudos for the emotional connection to a fantasy world.

If Dante and Mephiston die, I submit to the Black Rage and destroy my opponents army with my bare hands. But on a serious note, an AoBR captain, meh, they are very common and i enjoy killing them, whilst also never using them. No doubt we'll see a bunch of kids with their Dark Angel Comapny Master, or Chaos Lord, and they'll cry when Mephiston rips them from the inside out

The worst thing about the hobby?

Not enough chicks.

If you want to pick up chicks 40k is not the place.

Also IMHO I don't think it's entirely healthy to have both partners in a relationship into 40k, it borders onto Obsessive, I should imagine the round Dinner Table Discussions are pretty poor. "I see that GW have released a new model" "Indeed" etc.

I like having things my Wife doesn't get or enjoy, it gives me freedom, independence and a wider social circle just for me to enjoy. I don't like Jimmy Choo's or Christian Le bouttons, which my wife does and vice versa with 40k. I think a healthy relationship needs some degree of seperation.

 mwnciboo wrote:

 kanekaneo wrote:
But the worst part of all he was crying, I mean come on, it was only AoBR captain, nothing special.

Do you cry if special Characters are killed in battle? If so Kudos for the emotional connection to a fantasy world.

Was going to say, I would love to get that much into a game!

Mentioning significant others is another point. PDAs can be really annoying as well as bringing your little one with you and they keep crying.

If there were chicks Your wife probably would not let You out for a game unattended Like W: "where were You? "
You "oh, I was at the local gaming group and there was that blonde chick and we played 40K'"
W: "and why are You late for dinner?"
You: "well You know, we had a couple of games and it is 3-4 hours as usual, time passes when You do play 40K...."
W: "oh really? and who won?"

She was on top throughout... What are you shouting for dear?

 MisterMoon wrote:
For me it's people who don't paint their miniatures. Or when you do see someone with a nicely painted army, they admit that someone painted it for them.

What's wrong with that? At least it's painted, isn't that what all you guys want?

I just...what is this horsegak, seriously? Isn't that pretty much the general attitude in every one of those threads? "I'm sick of grey plastic, I want to play painted armies! I don't care if they're Golden Demon quality or the bare minimum of effort or whatever, I just want them painted!" So...someone with more money than time commissions someone to paint their army, giving you exactly what you wanted, and it's still not good enough?

If you had the choice of playing against an unpainted army or a commission painted army, which one would you pick and why?

I'd be hungry if it weren't for the people who want to have their armies painted by me...

 Sidstyler wrote:
If you had the choice of playing against an unpainted army or a commission painted army, which one would you pick and why?

Speaking personally I don't care who painted the army, so long as the person who owns it is not taking credit for work that is not their own. I'd rather see commission painted armies than primer or unpainted.

Loki wrote:

And that still comes down to don't tell them. If they ask, they're scratch built with GW products and green stuff. If he happens to find something similar on the web, hey, what a coincidence. I

It is not a question of not telling. It is a the active action that this GW manager is doing in my region. He is actively looking at games going on to see if the player is using GW product. And if he feels that it is not a scratch build then the models in question are not played in the store.

 MisterMoon wrote:
Or when you do see someone with a nicely painted army, they admit that someone painted it for them.

Does your nose ever block your view as you look down it at us?

The only time I don't like comission paint work is when the person paying for it can't assess quality and hires someone terrible and then brags about how good their army looks. We're all too polite to be honest and just say things like "We're glad you're happy with it."

The worst thing? Prices and the fact that GW never seem to encourage innovative and creative model building and scenery building. For example they never show scratch built terrain, or tables in blogs and White-dwarf. It's always you must use the ready-made GW table with GW scenery. Also they don't really do conversion guides any more or a bitz service... I'd actually say they have neutered the creative aspects of the GW hobby a bit.


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 Adam LongWalker wrote:

I openly use the Pig Iron heads in my GW. I still have to buy the guardsmen to use them, I just want my guard to look different. The heads are unlike anything they make, so I don't see the problem.

Again this line of posting has been talked before. It really depends at this moment on the GW manager at the GW store that is within your region.

I know that one GW manager in my area that would not allow those models in his store because it uses 3rd party product. I know this because I have been asked first hand about my scratch built models if I used other than GW parts.

Sooner or later as stated previously I believe that all of the GW stores will start cracking down on 3rd party product on people's models and not allow them in their stores.

But why would they need to? For example say if I bought a box of Cadians and some Pig-Iron heads, GW are not any worse off, I would still have to buy the Cadians box to use the Pig Iron heads, so in theory not impacting GW sales at all.

 MetalOxide wrote:
...so in theory not impacting GW sales at all.

ANY hobby purchase like; buying Pig Iron heads for example, that is not made by and primarily sold by Games Workshop is considered by GW to be a lost sale. To them you hobby money should all be spent on GW product.

Mat Ward.

Plumbumbarum wrote:
Mat Ward.

Wait is this really 5 pages without a matt ward hate? :O we at a record here?

 doc1234 wrote:

Plumbumbarum wrote:
Mat Ward.

Wait is this really 5 pages without a matt ward hate? :O we at a record here?

I thought page 2 or 3 had some hate.

 Wardragoon wrote:

 doc1234 wrote:

Plumbumbarum wrote:
Mat Ward.

Wait is this really 5 pages without a matt ward hate? :O we at a record here?

I thought page 2 or 3 had some hate.

A quick CTRL+F of his name detects none

I would say that the constant complaining about G.W has gotten quite old. But for their part, G.W isn't doing much to help that.

 frozenwastes wrote:
The only time I don't like comission paint work is when the person paying for it can't assess quality and hires someone terrible and then brags about how good their army looks. We're all too polite to be honest and just say things like "We're glad you're happy with it."

There's a term for this, but it should also be said that if you spent a noticeable sum of money on something you're going to like it because not liking it means you did something stupid. Very common with cars and such. Some people get this, others (like me) tend to get the opposite where I over-think even trivial purchasing decisions.

 Consul Scipio wrote:

 MetalOxide wrote:
...so in theory not impacting GW sales at all.

ANY hobby purchase like; buying Pig Iron heads for example, that is not made by and primarily sold by Games Workshop is considered by GW to be a lost sale. To them you hobby money should all be spent on GW product.

I don't know about the upstairs guys but the one time I tried to play my IG with pig iron heads I was told by the guys in there I couldn't because it is a GW store, they let you play games in there to show of their models, that way when someone walking past sticks their head in and goes "oooh, I like that where can I buy one?" they are directed to a shelf, not someone else's website. As annoying as that is (well not so much for me since I ran tank heavy IG and just proxied 20 marines instead of IG vets) it makes sense and you kinda cant blame them for that.

 jonolikespie wrote:

 Consul Scipio wrote:

 MetalOxide wrote:
...so in theory not impacting GW sales at all.

ANY hobby purchase like; buying Pig Iron heads for example, that is not made by and primarily sold by Games Workshop is considered by GW to be a lost sale. To them you hobby money should all be spent on GW product.

I don't know about the upstairs guys but the one time I tried to play my IG with pig iron heads I was told by the guys in there I couldn't because it is a GW store, they let you play games in there to show of their models, that way when someone walking past sticks their head in and goes "oooh, I like that where can I buy one?" they are directed to a shelf, not someone else's website. As annoying as that is (well not so much for me since I ran tank heavy IG and just proxied 20 marines instead of IG vets) it makes sense and you kinda cant blame them for that.

Then you just say "Ummm, they're not pig iron heads. I sculpted them myself". What do you think they're gonna do, scratch the paint off the heads to make sure it's green stuff under there?

I've already said this here, but why should ANYONE think that asking GW if one can use non GW parts on a model is going to end the way you want it to? Operate a "don't ask, don't tell" policy with stuff like this and no-one will be the wiser.

Like asking a cop if you can speed. "um officer I just bought this new furarri and I really want to see what's it handles like at 100+ miles an hour, is that ok?"