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First of I'd like to ask that we keep this classy and not creepy gents.

I was able to convence my wife to play a game with me. Now being my wife she knows me, more importantly she knows how to distract me. Wearing a low cut shirt and leaning over the table, breathing extra deep to make certain things more obvious, and theirs a certain purfume she has that I can't ever remember the name too. Hard to explain it. It's a lighter smell that seems to hang in the air even after she leaves.

As soon as we started my first thought was "o so this is how it's going to be". Even knowing what she was up to I still could help it. Needless to say I lost lol. What can I say I love my wife.

Here's we're you all come in, I don't attend tourneys and have been to very few large gaming events. So I was wondering:

1. Do some of you ladies play similar tricks on us weaker willed men or is everyone so focused on the win that their oblivious?
2. And for the guys do you use other means of distraction to gain a similar advantage?

What are your feelings to said tactics? This isn't about cheating for advantage just simple distraction. Just fun discussion.

I often wear a low cut top it drives opponents wild, I think its my hairy chest!

Seriously though the Mrs doing that to you would be funny (not that she would ever stoop to playing a wargame), her doing it to someone else might be cause for complaint.

Playing about is one thing but distracting opponents even in a friendly with a mate; that's a no no.

You have your turn, they have theirs. Simple.

Intentionally interrupting their turn is bad form at best and sorry to disagree but it is cheating (in the loosest sense) at worst.

It's only one more step to "DAMN!" theres a big black spider on your Codex!" [pushes unit closer by an inch]

I was playing a guy in my flgs a while back, he had a cute girlfriend, every so often I'd glance up or whatever, in that same moment he'd manipulate his dice roles.

You'd think we were playing for cash or something.

Damn eejit.

That's interesting, I didn't occur to me that it would be considered cheating. It's not something she does to anyone else but me. Enjoyed the spider comment. Blew my coffee all over my keyboard.

I am having visions of playing a game of 40k and the sence from king pin happens, the lady getting the beer out of the fridge then the dude doing it!

Now that would be funny and a distraction

 wowsmash wrote:
What are your feelings to said tactics?

I'd have to ask how dumb you are if that was actually effective? Is having the mental capacity to appreciate something nice looking on one hand, while still keeping track of what was going on in the game with the other some sort of rare skill set?

And otherwise, no

Yeah, don't get me wrong, that's the sort of distraction I would be all for. It would distract every player therefore evening the field.

COMING SOON - notprop's BAR, where wargaming meets Hooters!

I actually think the wargaming may be superfluous.

Throw a smoke grenade and take your opponents model off the table, now that's what I can a distraction~

 Portugal Jones wrote:

 wowsmash wrote:
What are your feelings to said tactics?

I'd have to ask how dumb you are if that was actually effective? Is having the mental capacity to appreciate something nice looking on one hand, while still keeping track of what was going on in the game with the other some sort of rare skill set?

And otherwise, no

Allow me to retort with another question, Why so serious?

on a slightly less boob-focused note, yes I do this, and it works.I distract my opponent by putting lots of emphasis on particular units that are less valuable than ones I seem to ignore. I distract them by appearing to pay close attention to one of their units when my real target is a completely different one, I distract them by smiling and frowning as if some hidden scheme was going to plan or falling apart. Your opponent is a human being, and therefore susceptible to human failings.

But no, I've never gotten my boobs out

 wowsmash wrote:
First of I'd like to ask that we keep this classy and not creepy gents.

I was able to convence my wife to play a game with me. Now being my wife she knows me, more importantly she knows how to distract me. Wearing a low cut shirt and leaning over the table, breathing extra deep to make certain things more obvious, and theirs a certain purfume she has that I can't ever remember the name too. Hard to explain it. It's a lighter smell that seems to hang in the air even after she leaves.

As soon as we started my first thought was "o so this is how it's going to be". Even knowing what she was up to I still could help it. Needless to say I lost lol. What can I say I love my wife.

Here's we're you all come in, I don't attend tourneys and have been to very few large gaming events. So I was wondering:

1. Do some of you ladies play similar tricks on us weaker willed men or is everyone so focused on the win that their oblivious?
2. And for the guys do you use other means of distraction to gain a similar advantage?

What are your feelings to said tactics? This isn't about cheating for advantage just simple distraction. Just fun discussion.

Pics or it didn't happen

Mmm that's a good example of distraction. I wasn't asking if you as you put it take your boobs out. The topic was mainly ment as a light hearted topic and not ment to be creepy. I also didn't mean for it to sound like I was looking for was to cheat. My appology's if anyone took this offensively.

 Bat Manuel wrote:

 wowsmash wrote:
First of I'd like to ask that we keep this classy and not creepy gents.

Pics or it didn't happen

It's in the first sentence man!

Does anyone else get the impression this is thread is mostly an excuse for a 'I've got a hot wife' boast?

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
Does anyone else get the impression this is thread is mostly an excuse for a 'I've got a hot wife' boast?

Yes.

I'm sorry this isn't what I Meant. I'm rather sorry I opened the thread. If its not to much trouble can I get a lock or better yet a delete please. Again appoligize for any misunderstanding.

On the upside, even if this does get locked, you have a wife that's interested in the hobby and shares it with you.

Well done, sir!

I've used distractions from time to time, not to cheat, just to mess with my opponent's heads.

The best one I ever did was telling my opponent (who I've been friends with for 10 years) that my wife was pregnant... during the middle of his magic phase.

Totally threw him off, classic.

He still beat me though, but his magic phase was a mess.

I like to let my thong ride up a bit, wink at the opponent and... oh wait, I gotta keep this classy.

If I come across a really good opponent and he or she has me on the defensive, as a last ditch effort I do one of two things...

Either I yell 'DUCK' and toss something really heavy at the opponent and grab for one of his IC's. Then play innocent.

OR...

I start crying like a baby and claim the stress of the game has caused me emotional flashbacks from the Gulf War... This has mixed results as I usually just get awkward stares.

We crack jokes, works especially well when dealing with an opponent who takes the game really serious and forgets that hey, it's just a game, not serious business.

I like to ice up my nipples before a game, you know. Nothing too overt. Maybe put on some eyeshadow, a bit of rouge.

I usually offer my opponent a beer or 8. Sometimes it doesn't go so well.

I just start rambling about the weather while stripping. I can't tell you how many concedes I've gotten from that.

@ the OP: Pics, or it didn't happen.

 Brother SRM wrote:

 Bat Manuel wrote:

 wowsmash wrote:
First of I'd like to ask that we keep this classy and not creepy gents.

Pics or it didn't happen

It's in the first sentence man!

Nothing about this thread was classy.

Someone showng her tits during a wargame doesnt really set the bar very high...

She never showed them. I never stated that. I said she wore a low cut shirt. This whole thread got blown out of proportion. I will not post pics of my wife on the internet so you can stop asking.

Tease...

 wowsmash wrote:
She never showed them. I never stated that. I said she wore a low cut shirt. This whole thread got blown out of proportion. I will not post pics of my wife on the internet so you can stop asking.

Alas my friend, you made the classic mistake; you assumed Dakka has an average emotional age higher then "shut-in".

In real games, of course, what you describe happens all the time. Incessant small talk, provocative dress (where applicable), surly manners, misdirection and bluff and all manners of such things are common, and. But as 40k is meant to be played with a beer in one hand, a pretzel in the other, and dice rolled by slamming your head into the table, it (as this thread well shows) tends to affect the players...

I've flirted with nerd girls for advantage in games. There's a story involving a convention, a Yu-Gi-Oh! tourney and a Dark Magician cosplayer that isn't Dakka suitable at all. It's no more cheating to me than using mind games to crush their will to win, which is fairly common on the card playing side.

Cann the mann!

Where you been hiding?