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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.

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Can we stop talking about the cost of MTG and get back on topic please?

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Flames of war?no thanks, that game is too expensive(while buying some warhammer 40k stuff for a new army)

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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?"
   
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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.
   
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 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.
 
   
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 notprop wrote:
OPs who don't want the thread to get locked for being off topic??


There. I fixed it for you.

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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.

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"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.

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 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.
 
   
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Stoupe wrote:

Flames was interesting... "Historicals? Why play that, we already know who won?"


Eurgh. I absolutely hate hearing that.

   
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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.
   
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@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.

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"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.

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@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.
 
   
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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.



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 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.

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 Shadowbrand wrote:
Apparently my Chaos Marines promote Satanism.


Didn't you know? Only satanists play evil factions.
   
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I'm really surprised this is 3 pages.

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Anything anyone has ever stated implying that tabletop wargaming is in any way, shape, or form related to military training

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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.
   
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 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!

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 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.
   
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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.

   
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 pities2004 wrote:
I'm really surprised this is 3 pages.


Why? There are booksfulls upon bookfulls of idiotic waragming-related statements.

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