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Played a kid once (maybe 13 or 14) who had been invited by a friend to play in our gaming group, when he lost he threw a tantrum right before he threw his tape measure which broke a number of my models. I walked away and he wisely was not there when I got back nor did he ever come play with us again.

Worst ever that I have seen or heard, this did not happen to me. It was during a tournament and there was one odd dude who was an obvious power gamer out to win at all costs, but obviously sucked at 40k. After round one of the game he was hitching and moaining the whole game because he was getting his ass handed to him and at the end of the game he was tabledwith his opponent taking virtually no losses. Now this was a painted only tournament. He goes down to reach into his bag and comes up with 2 cans of aerosol PAINT THINNER. Covered the table and the dudes army ruining all the paint on the table and his entire army. Thankfully when the police showed up the entire shop 100 people were there or so, no one saw how he got the gak beat out of him. He was promptly bannedand never seen around there again.

 namiel wrote:
Worst ever that I have seen or heard, this did not happen to me. It was during a tournament and there was one odd dude who was an obvious power gamer out to win at all costs, but obviously sucked at 40k. After round one of the game he was hitching and moaining the whole game because he was getting his ass handed to him and at the end of the game he was tabledwith his opponent taking virtually no losses. Now this was a painted only tournament. He goes down to reach into his bag and comes up with 2 cans of aerosol PAINT THINNER. Covered the table and the dudes army ruining all the paint on the table and his entire army. Thankfully when the police showed up the entire shop 100 people were there or so, no one saw how he got the gak beat out of him. He was promptly bannedand never seen around there again.

That's /b/ levels of awful right there. Who brings paint thinner to a "painted models only" tournament anyways? I mean who plans this as their back up plan for if they lose!?

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 namiel wrote:
Worst ever that I have seen or heard, this did not happen to me. It was during a tournament and there was one odd dude who was an obvious power gamer out to win at all costs, but obviously sucked at 40k. After round one of the game he was hitching and moaining the whole game because he was getting his ass handed to him and at the end of the game he was tabledwith his opponent taking virtually no losses. Now this was a painted only tournament. He goes down to reach into his bag and comes up with 2 cans of aerosol PAINT THINNER. Covered the table and the dudes army ruining all the paint on the table and his entire army. Thankfully when the police showed up the entire shop 100 people were there or so, no one saw how he got the gak beat out of him. He was promptly bannedand never seen around there again.

That's /b/ levels of awful right there. Who brings paint thinner to a "painted models only" tournament anyways? I mean who plans this as their back up plan for if they lose!?

Exactly. The dude who got "thinned" had 3 or 4 friends with him that day all playing in the tourney. They beat the feth out of him right in front of the shop while every watched and saw nothing.

I think i would attack the guy too be fair.Water caste closed its doors when they sent paint thinner.

For me, it is not so much one single moment, but one player who just makes games uncomfortable and unpleasant for everyone.

Outside of the game, the guy is pretty funny and laid back. He's great to hang out with. But once he begins a game, the instant he loses a unit, or fails a test, or has a less then average dice roll, he begins throwing his own models hard into his case and just complaining the whole time.

The whole beating the guy up thing is a bit...too far, really. It's a silly way to handle a problem like that.

Verses wrote:
The whole beating the guy up thing is a bit...too far, really. It's a silly way to handle a problem like that.

Very very true. It was juvenile. He was asked to pay the guy who's army he ruined for what he did. Obviously that didn't happen. They were all high school kids so juvenile is how it would be expected to be handled

Good thing my group us 18+ and we have some hard rules that you to go by to stay in the club . i have played kids once and never will again i think this game should be 18and up

I was playing in what was described as a friendly beginner league just because I was invited to play, maybe teach some people how to play. I end up getting paired with a tau player who turns out to be a powergamer and since I play GK, I was already at a disadvantage. A due to a poor deployment on my part and his getting first turn, he deepstrikes in some stealth suits with fusion blasters and precedes to blow away 3/4 of my army on turn 1. So I was losing right out of the gate, I am a pretty okay tactical though, so I do with what I had. Every single time I did something clever we would swear and kick the wall, despite basically crushing me the entire game. He won of course. But that didn't stop me from taking pride in the fact that my Rhino had killed his Crisis Commander with the Iridium Gauntlet Warlord when he attempted a Death or Glory.

zilka86 wrote:
Good thing my group us 18+ and we have some hard rules that you to go by to stay in the club . i have played kids once and never will again i think this game should be 18and up

Bit of a harsh generalisation. Most of the younger players I've gone up against are very mature, the stories presented here only represent a small majority.

 Valkyrie wrote:

zilka86 wrote:
Good thing my group us 18+ and we have some hard rules that you to go by to stay in the club . i have played kids once and never will again i think this game should be 18and up

Bit of a harsh generalisation. Most of the younger players I've gone up against are very mature, the stories presented here only represent a small majority.

I've seen mature young'ins, and immature adults. Who is more mature - the 16 year old who loses half his army due to a single bad roll laughs and keeps playing or the 40 year old who loses a single Scout Marine and promptly rage quits and throws a tantrum?

I've got two.

The example that sticks out in my mind the most was Ard Boyz Finals 2011, the last game of the last Ard Boyz. I was playing against an accomplished tournament player with my DriagoWing. He played IG, first words out of his mouth were when I asked him what army he played "IG, I designed this list to kill Driagowing". My first impression, he was an ass. Then he griped about deployment zone, I had a single 12x4x1" wall in my entire zone, he had 4 times that. Either way, I deployed my entire army minus reserves behind the wall and out of site, poked their heads out, destroyed his major threats, and totally used cover and wound allocation rules to their full advantage which of course got me accused of cheating.

It was a KP Game and half way through the game I had already secured a Massacre, killed all of his threats and he was rage quitting. Accused me of using loaded dice, and a bunch of other unsportsmanlike behavior.

The next day day I found him complaining and bashing me on Dakka, created my account and made my first post here supplying picture evidence to make him look like a lieing ass.

The Massacre catapulted me to 3rd. It was a true massacre, he had the army to beat me but got out deployed, out played, and he cracked. After, I had been approached by four or five people that had encountered him on the tournament scene before who were coming up to me to thank me be fore beating him so badly and telling me their horror stories of playing against the guy. They hoped it would humble the guy. To his credit, he seems to have matured since.

It sticks out as the worst opponent I had played.


I did have another one at a local tournament two weeks back. A total pot head came without an army list, and took so long to play the game and showed so little understanding of the game that they called 20minutes left and we were on his turn, top of turn 3. He wanted to end the game after 3 turns, I refused and got forced through two more turns by getting the judges to let us play 5 and literally playing Tau Army in under 5 minutes Turn. The guy also had units I didn't even know existed being pulled out of the box as outflanking scouts, etc.

He then accused me of cheating because if his Land Speeder couldn't contest my objective my Riptide shouldn't be able to contest his. I think his words were, "Cheating Bastard." Most frustrating game by far.

Worst I've ever seen:
One of the local TFG's who had just gone out and bought a boatload of the new Grey Knights when their codex dropped last edition. He noticed the little 12 year old looking for a game, promptly agreed to play him... then found out Little Timmy played Daemons.
So TFG proceeded to put down a Quake-Shunt list with which to troll the poor kid.

Unfortunately, the GK's went first and very quickly covered pretty much the entire in Warp Quake bubble. When the Daemons tried to come down, TFG used his RAW "logic" in order to juggle the auto-misshaping Daemons between quake bubbles in order to either auto-destroy the units or kick them back into reserves.

The poor kid never even got to put a single one of his models on the table, meanwhile the GK player is going on about how cleaver he is with his "tactics" are and how Daemons are the absolute suck and Timmy should go buy a real army...
I have to give the kid super props though, you could see the tears starting to well-up in his eyes, but he managed to hold it in and didn't give the arse the satisfaction of seeing him cry.

Experiment 626 wrote:
Worst I've ever seen:
One of the local TFG's who had just gone out and bought a boatload of the new Grey Knights when their codex dropped last edition. He noticed the little 12 year old looking for a game, promptly agreed to play him... then found out Little Timmy played Daemons.
So TFG proceeded to put down a Quake-Shunt list with which to troll the poor kid.

Unfortunately, the GK's went first and very quickly covered pretty much the entire in Warp Quake bubble. When the Daemons tried to come down, TFG used his RAW "logic" in order to juggle the auto-misshaping Daemons between quake bubbles in order to either auto-destroy the units or kick them back into reserves.

The poor kid never even got to put a single one of his models on the table, meanwhile the GK player is going on about how cleaver he is with his "tactics" are and how Daemons are the absolute suck and Timmy should go buy a real army...
I have to give the kid super props though, you could see the tears starting to well-up in his eyes, but he managed to hold it in and didn't give the arse the satisfaction of seeing him cry.

Ok, that is just cold. Wow....

Luckily I've never had a bad experience, and I pray that I never give one either. The moment you forget that warhammer is just a game where you move bits of plastic around and roll dice is the day you take the game too seriously.

welshhoppo wrote:
Luckily I've never had a bad experience, and I pray that I never give one either. The moment you forget that warhammer is just a game where you move bits of plastic around and roll dice is the day you take the game too seriously.

^^^ This. I've lost every single match I've played so far. I usually lose to the same guy and his deamons. Last week even lost a 2v2 match. I got into 40k because I like the challenge of painting and I had just read the first Soul Drinkers omnibus. Looking forward to my move to South Carolina, as there are more shops then where I am in Florida. I'm looking to expand my losing record to new states!!

Eh, I had a semi-moment back in a tournament a few months ago. I was tied for first going into the last round (the person I was tied with was a friend and fellow co-host on our podcast). I had a feeling I was going to need a tabling in order to pull out the victory.

I was playing Sisters and got them reduced to the last couple of guys in the last unit. The player was having them go to ground behind an Aegis Defense Line and he'd been declaring it every round. On the last round, he didn't declare it, rolled a 2 and a 3, resulting in the death of his last two guys. I cheered and he then said, "No, they went to ground".

I didn't scream and shout but I was pissed off. I knew what his intent was, but he didn't call it. It's a tournament...there are reasonable expectations that I explained, coldly, to him. In the end, I got too frustrated, said "eff it", and let him keep the two guys alive.

There was a sizable difference between the first and second place price and I just knew that his insistence would cost me.

Normally, I'm pretty objective when it comes to tournament play. I let people go back and move units that they forgot, shoot with units they forgot to, even if their turn ended, and generally treat them as friendly games.

I was quite dismayed to realize just how much of a douche I was...it's not the type of player I am. I know, I know...it's a tournament, but it was a smaller tournament at our FLGS.

I went and found the dude. He was actually upset that he'd upset me. I apologized and told him that I shouldn't have been such an ass and that it was a well played game.

As it turned out, I won the tournament anyway. Fortunately, that guy is now a regular part of our gaming group and we've moved past it.

I ended up with a couple boxes of Raptors and some paint for that win...I still need to assemble 5 of those guys.

Congrats on being mature enough to recognize your failings and own up to them kcwm! Also kudos are due to you for playing Sisters!

Oh Zagman, I read your first posts you mentioned. Shut that guy up pretty quick lol

Luckily i don't have too many immature people around. but the worst, which isn't really that bad, was when i played this chaos guy who is known for throwing dice and getting mad when he starts losing, and one day he brings out a mauler fiend. i promptly blow it up and he proceeds to smash it as bits and pieces fall off.

I freak out then he promptly puts it back together. he had magnetized EVERYTHING. pretty sneaky.

Tzeentch player who started calling me "Dice toucher" and mumbled and complained all F'ing game because I rolled one of his (probably loaded, for who the hell else makes a big deal out of it the REST of the GAME) die for Night Fight or something and i never heard the end of it. Decided I'd table him just out of spite. He really was unpleasant. I even offered to end the game if it was that upsetting to him.

Really weird dude.

 gossipmeng wrote:
Oh Zagman, I read your first posts you mentioned. Shut that guy up pretty quick lol

Lol, apparently you can view my entire post history. Pretty cool.

But, TBH the guy seems to be much better now a days and has grown. After the 1.5 year hiatus I took I hope to run into him again, he is a damn tough tournament player.

 dementedwombat wrote:
The thing that really annoys me though is when people just keep bragging about how awesome their army is. There's one Tau player and one Tyranid player who are kind of the "power gamer" types, and they will literally just walk up to you and start taking about how awesome their flying hive tyrant/riptides are and how much stuff they killed with them last game.

This iratates me so much, I may make some minor comment about how much I love X unit then they'll step up and say "Oh yeah well x unit from my codex will beat the snot out of it". What is funny is when two of these people meet and they spend half an hour one upping eachother.

 Ascalam wrote:
I had a kid (about 15) do the following a few years back:

1/: complain to the store owner that i wasn't using GW models (I was running old-school DE, this was before the update) and should be banned.

It is a FLGS not a GW store, so this didn't fly.
I can understand that he didn't recognize them, as they last had an update before he was potty trained (at the time) and weren't stocked anywhere.

2/: Argue that my codex was a fake, as it was so old-looking and none of the pics inside 'looked like 40k' - (see above) - i patiently explained that DE were still an army, and this was the most current codex available.

3/: Pitch an absolute wobbler when my Dark Lances ignored his AV 14 (I guess he never played vs CWE either?) claiming i was cheating.

4/: Ragequit when his 5 man assault marine squad got owned HARD by my Archon before they even got to swing (if i'm remembering right).

Quote 'They are marines! Read the *bleep* books, Play DOW. Marines are better than everyone at everything, so they can't lose. No way even one marine would lose to one guy.'

Embarrassing to be around, worse to play. Spent the rest of the day quoting passages from BL and the 5th ed rulebook that made his UM look good and shooting me dirty looks. He also had a bad habit of calling everything he disliked 'gay' and dropping f-bombs every third word, which got old fast...

Thankfully that was the last time i saw him.

Ugh, I hate how all the teenagers do this... It took me 3 months to get to the point where I was accepted at my FLGS/club, the last teen who showed up did that kind of thing. It does sort of bother me though how people always start with a negative view on kids/teens playing 40k.

Its not a player one but its still insulting :

Me and my ex were looking at models and our gw is quote small, it was a crowded and and i say bettween us we got a kid once in a while (we're not madly rich so we would buy a big kit maybe once every few months) anyway, this 9 or 10 year old boy comes though waving 50 pound notes (and i mean a wad of them) and goes" GET OUT OF MY WAY, I WANT TOO BUY MY MODEL"
this boy was on his own...i dont understand how kids do't get robbed...at his age i had my bike stolen by a street game and he was holding at least 500 pounds in his hand.

 tau tse tung wrote:
Its not a player one but its still insulting :

Me and my ex were looking at models and our gw is quote small, it was a crowded and and i say bettween us we got a kid once in a while (we're not madly rich so we would buy a big kit maybe once every few months) anyway, this 9 or 10 year old boy comes though waving 50 pound notes (and i mean a wad of them) and goes" GET OUT OF MY WAY, I WANT TOO BUY MY MODEL"
this boy was on his own...i dont understand how kids do't get robbed...at his age i had my bike stolen by a street game and he was holding at least 500 pounds in his hand.

Jeez where did that kid manage to get 500 pounds?

Also, I'm surprised somebody didn't mug him right then and there when he was flashing his money everywhere like he is a high roller or something

 Zagman wrote:
I've got two.

The example that sticks out in my mind the most was Ard Boyz Finals 2011, the last game of the last Ard Boyz. I was playing against an accomplished tournament player with my DriagoWing. He played IG, first words out of his mouth were when I asked him what army he played "IG, I designed this list to kill Driagowing". My first impression, he was an ass. Then he griped about deployment zone, I had a single 12x4x1" wall in my entire zone, he had 4 times that. Either way, I deployed my entire army minus reserves behind the wall and out of site, poked their heads out, destroyed his major threats, and totally used cover and wound allocation rules to their full advantage which of course got me accused of cheating.

It was a KP Game and half way through the game I had already secured a Massacre, killed all of his threats and he was rage quitting. Accused me of using loaded dice, and a bunch of other unsportsmanlike behavior.

The next day day I found him complaining and bashing me on Dakka, created my account and made my first post here supplying picture evidence to make him look like a lieing ass.

The Massacre catapulted me to 3rd. It was a true massacre, he had the army to beat me but got out deployed, out played, and he cracked. After, I had been approached by four or five people that had encountered him on the tournament scene before who were coming up to me to thank me be fore beating him so badly and telling me their horror stories of playing against the guy. They hoped it would humble the guy. To his credit, he seems to have matured since.

It sticks out as the worst opponent I had played.


I did have another one at a local tournament two weeks back. A total pot head came without an army list, and took so long to play the game and showed so little understanding of the game that they called 20minutes left and we were on his turn, top of turn 3. He wanted to end the game after 3 turns, I refused and got forced through two more turns by getting the judges to let us play 5 and literally playing Tau Army in under 5 minutes Turn. The guy also had units I didn't even know existed being pulled out of the box as outflanking scouts, etc.

He then accused me of cheating because if his Land Speeder couldn't contest my objective my Riptide shouldn't be able to contest his. I think his words were, "Cheating Bastard." Most frustrating game by far.

haha, I just went and read that first post. So great... In eve online, we drink those tears to stay young/

I only play friends and family. I like to watch people i don't know play however i'm new to the hobby and don't feel im ready to face another. Nor am i interested at this point. Though even with friends those odd moments similar to these do come up.

Experiment 626 wrote:
Worst I've ever seen:
One of the local TFG's who had just gone out and bought a boatload of the new Grey Knights when their codex dropped last edition. He noticed the little 12 year old looking for a game, promptly agreed to play him... then found out Little Timmy played Daemons.
So TFG proceeded to put down a Quake-Shunt list with which to troll the poor kid.

Unfortunately, the GK's went first and very quickly covered pretty much the entire in Warp Quake bubble. When the Daemons tried to come down, TFG used his RAW "logic" in order to juggle the auto-misshaping Daemons between quake bubbles in order to either auto-destroy the units or kick them back into reserves.

The poor kid never even got to put a single one of his models on the table, meanwhile the GK player is going on about how cleaver he is with his "tactics" are and how Daemons are the absolute suck and Timmy should go buy a real army...
I have to give the kid super props though, you could see the tears starting to well-up in his eyes, but he managed to hold it in and didn't give the arse the satisfaction of seeing him cry.

This has happened to me twice with my older Daemons armies, at the hands of two separate GK players. To my credit, I didn't cry either time. To the credit of GK #2, he at least bought me a beer afterwards