Author |
Message |
 |
|
 |
Advert
|
Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you:
- No adverts like this in the forums anymore.
- Times and dates in your local timezone.
- Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance.
- Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely.
- Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net.
If you are already a member then feel free to login now. |
|
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/12 14:21:30
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Worthiest of Warlock Engineers
|
Stupidest thing? MTG and TT gamers argueing over prices. I have an SM army that cost me nothing-i was given it. Likewise my Vampire deck cost me a bit but still not hundreds. Its a hobby and prices vary over playing styles. Live with it.
As for anything else?
At Hobbycraft looking for FOW. Ask a member of staff and she says: Oh we dont stock GW any more, only Warhammer. My mind staggered at the ignorance of the statement.
|
Free from GW's tyranny and the hobby is looking better for it
DR:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Pww205++D++A+++/sWD146R++T(T)D+
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/12 14:35:21
Subject: Re:Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Brigadier General
The new Sick Man of Europe
|
Can we stop talking about the cost of MTG and get back on topic please?
|
DC:90+S+G++MB++I--Pww211+D++A++/fWD390R++T(F)DM+
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/12 15:37:43
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Wrathful Warlord Titan Commander
|
Bossy OPs?
|
How do you promote your Hobby? - Legoburner "I run some crappy wargaming website " |
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/12 15:52:49
Subject: Re:Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Incubus
|
Flames of war?no thanks, that game is too expensive(while buying some warhammer 40k stuff for a new army)
|
Quote from chromedog
and 40k was like McDonalds - you could get it anywhere - it wouldn't necessarily satisfy, but it was probably better than nothing.
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/12 16:06:47
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Nimble Pistolier
Shangri-La
|
About a wargame?
The stupidest things I've heard are more within rule arguement... Some of the things said are just bizzare. I think the latest one was "That section says Division, but clearly here we are multiplying, so it doesn't apply."
Flames was interesting... "Historicals? Why play that, we already know who won?"
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/12 17:04:13
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Battlefield Tourist
MN (Currently in WY)
|
"You are doing it wrong."
|
Support Blood and Spectacles Publishing:
https://www.patreon.com/Bloodandspectaclespublishing |
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/12 17:49:22
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Battleship Captain
|
this thread isnt funny but it sure is stupid. Dumbest thing I have heard about wargaming:
"How do the little men move, mommy, where is the controller?"
It was a 13 year old in the game store. Parents thought it was a video game store. We all cringed.
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/12 18:02:00
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Civil War Re-enactor
|
cormadepanda wrote:this thread isnt funny but it sure is stupid. Dumbest thing I have heard about wargaming:
"How do the little men move, mommy, where is the controller?"
It was a 13 year old in the game store. Parents thought it was a video game store. We all cringed.
There are no controllers in wargaming. Only Dorito fingers.
Oh, and Zuul.
|
Shotgun wrote:I don't think I will ever understand the mentality of people that feel the need to record and post their butthurt on the interwebs. |
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/12 21:42:40
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Brigadier General
The new Sick Man of Europe
|
notprop wrote: OPs who don't want the thread to get locked for being off topic?? 
There. I fixed it for you.
|
DC:90+S+G++MB++I--Pww211+D++A++/fWD390R++T(F)DM+
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/12 21:59:24
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Powerful Orc Big'Un
Somewhere in the steamy jungles of the south...
|
This guy > http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/961325/painting-and-assembling-is-not-a-natural-part-of-m/page/1
Essentially, his entire argument boils down to: the hobby side of wargaming should not exist, and that anyone that enjoys the hobby aspect of wargaming is angry and antisocial and lives in a dark and dirty basement. Also, since the X-Wing miniatures game requires none of these, it's the bestest thing in the world and obviously better than all those "hobby" games out there.
~Tim?
|
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/13 16:49:58
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Heroic Senior Officer
|
"Competitive Players don't play to have fun."
That single quote is the funniest thing I've ever heard. Some of the most enjoyable games I played in or watched involved Competitive players going all out. You find fun in painting or narrative gaming, they find fun in finding the perfect army or taking on a challenging opponent. I've seen guys running the space wolf razorback spam vs leafblower back in 5th and both guys having a blast and laughing. To them its just an aspect of the game. After all, who doesn't like to make their own list and see it win?
"I don't play to win, I play to tell a story"
Stupidest one I've heard. You are playing a story, I would hope your commander is trying to win. Even orks go into battle with a goal in mind, even if its just to get a good scrap in.
Even if you're just goofing around, you still have some sort of goal in mind, even if its just "screw the mission, I'm killing his commander in the silliest way possible." I took a pure infantry guard list to a local tourney once. Over a 150 guardsmen. Penal legion, stormtroopers, SITNW conscripts, the whole 9 yards. I knew it wasn't competitive in the slightest, and was doomed to lose. I played my hardest anyway, every single game, pushed every advantage I could, and loved it. Lost every game
Playing without even attempting to win makes no sense. I assume many of these people MEANT to say, "I play a more relaxed game, but still try to win." Afterall, that's the point of a wargame, you're matching wits against someone to see who is the superior commander. Some may prefer tournament play, mathammering, and list building, others set up a story to give their battle meaning, but no matter what, we're trying to win in some way.
|
'I've played Guard for years, and the best piece of advice is to always utilize the Guard's best special rule: "we roll more dice than you" ' - stormleader
"Sector Imperialis: 25mm and 40mm Round Bases (40+20) 26€ (Including 32 skulls for basing) " GW design philosophy in a nutshell |
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/13 17:02:07
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Civil War Re-enactor
|
MrMoustaffa wrote:"Competitive Players don't play to have fun."
That single quote is the funniest thing I've ever heard. Some of the most enjoyable games I played in or watched involved Competitive players going all out. You find fun in painting or narrative gaming, they find fun in finding the perfect army or taking on a challenging opponent. I've seen guys running the space wolf razorback spam vs leafblower back in 5th and both guys having a blast and laughing. To them its just an aspect of the game. After all, who doesn't like to make their own list and see it win?
"I don't play to win, I play to tell a story"
Stupidest one I've heard. You are playing a story, I would hope your commander is trying to win. Even orks go into battle with a goal in mind, even if its just to get a good scrap in.
Even if you're just goofing around, you still have some sort of goal in mind, even if its just "screw the mission, I'm killing his commander in the silliest way possible." I took a pure infantry guard list to a local tourney once. Over a 150 guardsmen. Penal legion, stormtroopers, SITNW conscripts, the whole 9 yards. I knew it wasn't competitive in the slightest, and was doomed to lose. I played my hardest anyway, every single game, pushed every advantage I could, and loved it. Lost every game
Playing without even attempting to win makes no sense. I assume many of these people MEANT to say, "I play a more relaxed game, but still try to win." Afterall, that's the point of a wargame, you're matching wits against someone to see who is the superior commander. Some may prefer tournament play, mathammering, and list building, others set up a story to give their battle meaning, but no matter what, we're trying to win in some way.
Unless they want to recreate a battle from a Codex or BL novel.
|
Shotgun wrote:I don't think I will ever understand the mentality of people that feel the need to record and post their butthurt on the interwebs. |
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/13 18:18:24
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Longtime Dakkanaut
Maryland
|
Stoupe wrote:
Flames was interesting... "Historicals? Why play that, we already know who won?"
Eurgh. I absolutely hate hearing that.
|
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/13 19:07:35
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Fixture of Dakka
|
A college kid walked into my FLGS with his girl friend and started talking crap to her about grown men playing with toys and how they don't have lives, etc., etc. before he really took a good look at who was in the store playing those games.
About half the players there were less than three months back from Iraq or Afghanastan and before he walked in were happily engaged in a tournament.
Once he actually realized at what he had walked into the middle of and the quality of the men he was trying to insult he quickly shut up and dragged his girlfriend from the store, never to be seen again.
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/13 23:10:30
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Heroic Senior Officer
|
@fishy bob
If you're recreating a battle from a book and intentionally losing to be correct, go ahead, I just find that as incredibly bizarre. I don't care if my force "actually" got killed to a man, I'm still going to try and win, as a what if kind of thing. Going by this logic historical games would be almost unplayable.
When I say "win" that does not equal "WAAC". When I say win, the mere act of putting your models on the table means you're trying to win on some level. Otherwise you may as well not even bother with rolling dice and just make explosion noises.
Do you not get what I'm saying? Would you honestly enjoy a game if you knew your opponent was just fething about and not trying at all? Or even worse, intentionally losing.
|
'I've played Guard for years, and the best piece of advice is to always utilize the Guard's best special rule: "we roll more dice than you" ' - stormleader
"Sector Imperialis: 25mm and 40mm Round Bases (40+20) 26€ (Including 32 skulls for basing) " GW design philosophy in a nutshell |
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/13 23:51:10
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Smokin' Skorcha Driver
|
"Isn't that based off the X-Box game?"
"why not just play Starcraft/Warcraft?"
"When's the last time any of you got laid?"
for that last one, several of the groups wives were present. they all answered, nearly in unison: Last Night.
|
"Friglatt Tinks e's da 'unce and futor git, but i knows better. i put dat part in when i fixed im up after dat first scrap wid does scrawn pointy ears and does pinkies." Dok chopanblok to Big Mek Dattrukk.
Victories against: 2 2 1 1 1 2 3 1 2
Died havin fun wid: 3 2 1 4 2 2 2 5 1
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/14 05:41:49
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Civil War Re-enactor
|
@MrMoustaffa, I'm not playing like that, and I never said I would enjoy a game like that (I wouldn't). And my post was not an attack against you, or the way you play your game. But it's not unheard of, someone recreating an "existing" battle, with the intention of getting the same outcome. And if that's how they have a good time, then who's to say that's wrong.
|
Shotgun wrote:I don't think I will ever understand the mentality of people that feel the need to record and post their butthurt on the interwebs. |
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/15 01:18:34
Subject: Re:Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Fixture of Dakka
|
Cheesy or Beardy as terms to talk about overpowered units, armies, etc. I've never really cared for that cutesy crap when talking about inherently flawed issues in games.
|
At Games Workshop, we believe that how you behave does matter. We believe this so strongly that we have written it down in the Games Workshop Book. There is a section in the book where we talk about the values we expect all staff to demonstrate in their working lives. These values are Lawyers, Guns and Money. |
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/15 18:11:00
Subject: Re:Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Brigadier General
The new Sick Man of Europe
|
Grot 6 wrote:Cheesy or Beardy as terms to talk about overpowered units, armies, etc. I've never really cared for that cutesy crap when talking about inherently flawed issues in games.
Disagree. I really like those names.
|
DC:90+S+G++MB++I--Pww211+D++A++/fWD390R++T(F)DM+
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/15 18:20:54
Subject: Re:Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Excellent Exalted Champion of Chaos
Grim Forgotten Nihilist Forest.
|
Apparently my Chaos Marines promote Satanism.
|
I've sold so many armies. :(
Aeldari 3kpts
Slaves to Darkness.3k
Word Bearers 2500k
Daemons of Chaos
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/15 18:29:05
Subject: Re:Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Nimble Pistolier
Shangri-La
|
Didn't you know? Only satanists play evil factions.
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/15 18:39:47
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Stubborn Hammerer
|
I'm really surprised this is 3 pages.
|
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/15 18:42:25
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Shadowy Grot Kommittee Memba
The Great State of New Jersey
|
Anything anyone has ever stated implying that tabletop wargaming is in any way, shape, or form related to military training
|
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/15 18:47:06
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Rogue Daemonhunter fueled by Chaos
|
Big Mek Dattrukk wrote:"When's the last time any of you got laid?"
for that last one, several of the groups wives were present. they all answered, nearly in unison: Last Night.
I think that's a big difference between being a kid (or overgrown adolescent) and being an adult.
Young Polonius thought sex was only available to good looking, in shape popular guys that tricked one of the few women willing to have sex into it. Adult Polonius knows that the world is full of women that are ready to go and are happy if you have teeth, a car, a job, and a place.
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/15 18:52:59
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Old Sourpuss
|
Polonius wrote:Big Mek Dattrukk wrote:"When's the last time any of you got laid?"
for that last one, several of the groups wives were present. they all answered, nearly in unison: Last Night.
I think that's a big difference between being a kid (or overgrown adolescent) and being an adult.
Young Polonius thought sex was only available to good looking, in shape popular guys that tricked one of the few women willing to have sex into it. Adult Polonius knows that the world is full of women that are ready to go and are happy if you have teeth, a car, a job, and a place.
That explains my issues! I don't have a place... or teeth... Dagnabit!
|
DR:80+S++G+M+B+I+Pwmhd11#++D++A++++/sWD-R++++T(S)DM+

Ask me about Brushfire or Endless: Fantasy Tactics |
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/15 19:05:37
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Growlin' Guntrukk Driver with Killacannon
|
Teeth are overrated mine rest in a jar most of the time
|
'\ ' ~9000pts
' ' ~1500
" " ~3000
" " ~2500
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/15 19:12:44
Subject: Re:Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Veteran Inquisitorial Tyranid Xenokiller
|
sing your life wrote: Grot 6 wrote:Cheesy or Beardy as terms to talk about overpowered units, armies, etc. I've never really cared for that cutesy crap when talking about inherently flawed issues in games.
Disagree. I really like those names.
I usually ask the others if they would like me to bring a bottle of wine/beer for the cheese they got.
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/15 19:14:44
Subject: Re:Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Longtime Dakkanaut
|
Inquisitor Jex wrote: sing your life wrote: Grot 6 wrote:Cheesy or Beardy as terms to talk about overpowered units, armies, etc. I've never really cared for that cutesy crap when talking about inherently flawed issues in games.
Disagree. I really like those names.
I usually ask the others if they would like me to bring a bottle of wine/beer for the cheese they got.
I prefer port and a few grapes with my Cheese.
|
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/15 19:22:20
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Brigadier General
The new Sick Man of Europe
|
Why? There are booksfulls upon bookfulls of idiotic waragming-related statements.
|
DC:90+S+G++MB++I--Pww211+D++A++/fWD390R++T(F)DM+
|
|
 |
 |
![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/07/15 19:22:22
Subject: Stupidest thing you've ever heard about a wargame
|
 |
Old Sourpuss
|
I prefer roasted loyalists with my Heldrake cheese
|
DR:80+S++G+M+B+I+Pwmhd11#++D++A++++/sWD-R++++T(S)DM+

Ask me about Brushfire or Endless: Fantasy Tactics |
|
 |
 |
|