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Hm. Worst moments playing an immature player... has to be the idiot a year or two back that kept saying I shouldn't play because it's a man's hobby and he plays it to get away from women.

How dare a WOMAN enjoy 40k! Blah.

Every time a thread like this pops up, it reminds me why I don't go out of my way to find 40k players in my area. I'd rather not go alone to an LGS or other public venue if I even suspected there might be players there like the ones described in this thread.

Much better to go and play with groups of friends than risk some of the shenanigans in these stories, as far as I'm concerned.

Cheating is the lamest thing ever.

 Melissia wrote:
Hm. Worst moments playing an immature player... has to be the idiot a year or two back that kept saying I shouldn't play because it's a man's hobby and he plays it to get away from women.

How dare a WOMAN enjoy 40k! Blah.

Yeah, how dare they, it is not like women like being competitive, thats why there are no female athletes. It is also not women dont like to be creative.

 Melissia wrote:
Hm. Worst moments playing an immature player... has to be the idiot a year or two back that kept saying I shouldn't play because it's a man's hobby and he plays it to get away from women.

How dare a WOMAN enjoy 40k! Blah.

It's funny how alot of players (specially the young) hide in their rulebooks to search stats they know out of head, as soon as my GF pops up to say "hello, i'm back from shopping, now i go to that place"

woman in GW store, must be tainted by chaos!

Just last Saturday, we were doing a doubles tournament with random partners each game. I played Wolves and first game I got paired with a Grey Knights player and we went up against IG and Ravenguard and playing Kill Points. I happened to do really good and we won the game. The IG player put his stuff away, put on his jacket and left the building without saying a word. We all thought he might have rage-quitted.

A few minutes later he came back in pretty cool though. I got paired with him next game and we won that game.

Hmm..

Worste moment for me is pretty timid conpared to the horror stories on this thread.

I was playing my RCDI crons vs a tau player for first place in a tourney amd during my turns my opponent would start chatting me up and distracting me and during his turns he would be completely silent except for declaring what he was doing and would then continue the conversation right after his turn was over, even when I tried continuing the convo he was completely silent or would mumble a quick response. Needless to say it caused a couple of mistakes on my side and most likely cost me the game

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Hm. Worst moments playing an immature player... has to be the idiot a year or two back that kept saying I shouldn't play because it's a man's hobby and he plays it to get away from women.

How dare a WOMAN enjoy 40k! Blah.

Yeah, how dare they, it is not like women like being competitive, thats why there are no female athletes. It is also not women dont like to be creative.

One of the best players we have at our store is a woman, and SHE's the one that organizes the tournaments.

We have a few Immature players at my FLGS. for 40k, one can be winning, but the moment ANYTHING goes wrong he rage quits, with extra rage. like his 10man termie squad arriving, failing to kill more than 3 boyz from a 30 model unit, and then said unit killing 7 of the termies with shooting.

or (5th ed) firing at a trukk with autocannons (or whatever termies have that can rend/is ap2) and getting 3 pens, than rolling 1 1 1 for the results. (still blew the trukk up.

the worst of the immaturity is actually amongst our MTG players. one of whom works in the oilfields, and thus has alot of spending cash, but not much time to spend it (2 weeks on, 2 weeks off schedule) so he netdecks, and plays against the newbie players and lords it over them that he can afford to tailor his deck card by card. come tournament time, if he is around he enters, and typically is in the lower half of the loser bracket.

the rest of the immature MTG players are just kids who don't have a firm grasp on the rules.

 Algorithm wrote:
I have a friend who used to play basic vanilla marines. He's famous for two things: 1) cheating (which we tolerate because he loses anyway) and 2) extremely risking deep strikes. One night he goes for a deep strike in the blank space between three of my CSM squads, using Marneus Calgar and 10 TH/SS termies. As you can imagine, he mishapped when he scattered a single inch.

I hate it when people are doing that, part of me wants to step in and tell them that is a bad idea and suggest a much better thing to do but than the other part of me wants to say nothing because I would hate someone telling me what I should be doing.

 Melissia wrote:
Hm. Worst moments playing an immature player... has to be the idiot a year or two back that kept saying I shouldn't play because it's a man's hobby and he plays it to get away from women.

How dare a WOMAN enjoy 40k! Blah.

Surely you jest?

 Madcat87 wrote:

 Algorithm wrote:
I have a friend who used to play basic vanilla marines. He's famous for two things: 1) cheating (which we tolerate because he loses anyway) and 2) extremely risking deep strikes. One night he goes for a deep strike in the blank space between three of my CSM squads, using Marneus Calgar and 10 TH/SS termies. As you can imagine, he mishapped when he scattered a single inch.

I hate it when people are doing that, part of me wants to step in and tell them that is a bad idea and suggest a much better thing to do but than the other part of me wants to say nothing because I would hate someone telling me what I should be doing.

I used to do this with suicide Flamer squads with my daemons. If it worked, I'd kill hundreds of points of my opponent's good stuff. If it failed, I lost 100 points. It was prior to the update daemons got before this newest codex. Then again, I'm not stupid enough to do it with a 600 pt squad!!

Used to do that with 250 pts worth of guardsmen, now I do it with 150 pts worth.

My local gaming group has its home in a squat. We meet normally after 19 oclock so we thought were somewhat safe.

Couple of weeks ago someone contacted us via our forum and wanted to come around for a game or two looking for a place to celebrate his hobby. He also asked if he could bring his 3 year old daughter with him. Our answer was that our clubs playing room is located in a squat and that its maybe not a good idea to bring a child from that age with him. Its not like we dont want children there but its somewhat dirty (at least the toilets) - its a punk-bar normally afterall.
After telling that to him he proceeded to insult and spam on our forums to tell us we're heartless children-hating people.

That was the most immature moment - other than that i mostly drink the tears of my opponents and they are much much sweeter when they act a little childish. Nevertheless i enjoy playing with everyone inour club luckily.

 curran12 wrote:

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:


I happen to know a total nutjob of a guy who thinks of 40k as some sort of training/analogy for the coming racial holy war, Orks being blacks-muslims, Eldar jews, Tau chinese, Chaos atheists/satanists, marxists and liberals. Of course, in his view of things the Imperium is the great, beleaguered white race and Space Marines, most obviously, our white aryan national-socialist saviors and overlords (He plays blood angels/C:SM, for what matters). Thing is, he knows the game rather well and is mature enough not to cheat. Actually, he's not a bad guy to have a game against, unless anyone touches on his idiocic racial and political fetishes, in which case he goes full ramblomatic. My friends usually do that on purpose

I'll have to ask him what he thinks of Necrons and Tyranids, btw

Dare I ask his thoughts on SoB?

They need to get back in the kitchen and put those flamers to use making him pie.

I will admit, there is a lot of temptation to the image of getting home after a long day of keeping those uppity others down and being greeted with a freshly flamered pie.


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 sing your life wrote:
Once I was playing against this 12 year old at a club and he kept making up rules even though he had the codex.

I played a 42 year old guy like that once. Twas bizarre.

 wallygator wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Hm. Worst moments playing an immature player... has to be the idiot a year or two back that kept saying I shouldn't play because it's a man's hobby and he plays it to get away from women.

How dare a WOMAN enjoy 40k! Blah.

It's funny how alot of players (specially the young) hide in their rulebooks to search stats they know out of head, as soon as my GF pops up to say "hello, i'm back from shopping, now i go to that place"

woman in GW store, must be tainted by chaos!

Haha I hear you on this. My gf came in once and the whole store was like in awe of a female in a gw store.

I didn't think woman play 40k i be in shock if i saw one

I didn't think females were that rare of a sight at 40k events. We have a few women who play at my FLGS, and a few more who bring models in for painting day but don't play the game.

zilka86 wrote:
I didn't think woman play 40k i be in shock if i saw one

With a game played by this many it's rather inevitable that you'll have quite an array of demographics playing it. It's not a game solely enjoyed by male WASPs after all. I mean, I'm male but am a white slavic atheist.

Not everyone is a fa/tg/uy.

Da krimson barun wrote:
Not everyone is a fa/tg/uy.

...but it comes so naturally, its also where I learned everything I know about women to date.

Omfgorzzz wrote:

 wallygator wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Hm. Worst moments playing an immature player... has to be the idiot a year or two back that kept saying I shouldn't play because it's a man's hobby and he plays it to get away from women.

How dare a WOMAN enjoy 40k! Blah.

It's funny how alot of players (specially the young) hide in their rulebooks to search stats they know out of head, as soon as my GF pops up to say "hello, i'm back from shopping, now i go to that place"

woman in GW store, must be tainted by chaos!

Haha I hear you on this. My gf came in once and the whole store was like in awe of a female in a gw store.

Lol. The last time my fiance came to a tournament with me a guy literally attempted a triple take and plowed into a display rack. She found it quite funny. Women in gaming stores are quite a rarity around here. I know I've never had a female opponent.

 Krellnus wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Hm. Worst moments playing an immature player... has to be the idiot a year or two back that kept saying I shouldn't play because it's a man's hobby and he plays it to get away from women.

How dare a WOMAN enjoy 40k! Blah.

Surely you jest?

No, I'm not jesting. I ran in to more than one person like this. Not so long ago, someone posted a thread in this very forum that was a rant along these lines.

There is a very noticeable (from my viewpoint as a woman) undercurrent of misogyny in gaming culture; 40k is no exception. Generally most people are nice. But there's still always That One Arsehole in a group.

 Melissia wrote:

 Krellnus wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Hm. Worst moments playing an immature player... has to be the idiot a year or two back that kept saying I shouldn't play because it's a man's hobby and he plays it to get away from women.

How dare a WOMAN enjoy 40k! Blah.

Surely you jest?

No, I'm not jesting. I ran in to more than one person like this. Not so long ago, someone posted a thread in this very forum that was a rant along these lines.

There is a very noticeable (from my viewpoint as a woman) undercurrent of misogyny in gaming culture; 40k is no exception. Generally most people are nice. But there's still always That One Arsehole in a group.

Humanity why? Why?

Many an immature gamer (any age) have never had the company of a woman. Hence they do not understand women. That is why they fear them.......

zilka86 wrote:
I didn't think woman play 40k i be in shock if i saw one

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Half of my Dark Heresy group is female players, very much into the lore and the setting.

One thing I've noticed, though, is that it's much more difficult for a woman to be "out and proud" about her fandoms. Where as we guys can wear the t-shirts, the hoodies, the hats, the backpacks, the whatevers of any given fandom... whether 40K, an anime series, a cartoon, Star Wars, Star Trek, *whatever*... without much of a problem, if a woman wears any of this, if they get into a conversation about the fandom property, they have to be 100% correct on every little tiny detail or they get branded as "not a real fan". Whether that's knowing every secret identity, every costume color and change, and the name of ever minor side-kick of a superhero over the past 75 years (as well as the issue numbers in which those things appear!), or being able to ramble off the model and manufacturer of every starship to ever appear in any Star Wars product ever released, there seems to be a *much* higher level of expectations placed on female fans than ever there are on male fans.

And this does not even get into the reactions that I've seen female fans get at conventions and events. For some reason, a significant portion (not sure if majority or just vocal minority) seem to believe that a female fan who is cosplaying one of the characters exists solely to provide sexual gratification to That Guy. However, if the female cosplayer does not perfectly match the humanly-impossible measurements of a given anime or comic book character, well, that's when the real problems start. Males in a given fandom are almost certainly *not* some utopian ideal of masculine imagery. Put bluntly, a lot of male fans are fat and slovenly, and many have poor hygiene habits. Given that, it is *not* OK for a male fan to tell a woman dressed as some character or another that she's fat, a cow, a whale, or any other derogatory expression, unless you also want to have random strangers coming up to you at the con and telling him he's fat, dressed badly, looks like a fething slob, needed to shower a week ago, needs to take care of that acne problem, shave that sorry-ass excuse for a beard... well, you get my drift.

Sorry to rant, it's just a problem I've had with the nature of fandoms and, specifically, sci-fi fandoms for quite awhile now. The only real exception to this, that I've seen, has been the Star Trek fandom, though that might have the benefit of having been around longer than any of the others.

One guy I played against really annoyed me. The list I was running included a Contemptor-Mortis for AA support and to pop transports. I asked before we began deploying whether he was alright with me using Forge World. He agreed to let me, but as soon as I put the Mortis down he started complaining about how OP the Mortis was, and didn't stop for the entire game. He didn't even have any flyers

 Melissia wrote:

 Krellnus wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Hm. Worst moments playing an immature player... has to be the idiot a year or two back that kept saying I shouldn't play because it's a man's hobby and he plays it to get away from women.

How dare a WOMAN enjoy 40k! Blah.

Surely you jest?

No, I'm not jesting. I ran in to more than one person like this. Not so long ago, someone posted a thread in this very forum that was a rant along these lines.

There is a very noticeable (from my viewpoint as a woman) undercurrent of misogyny in gaming culture; 40k is no exception. Generally most people are nice. But there's still always That One Arsehole in a group.

That person sucks regardless of whether or not you're a woman :p Its just an easy target for donkey-caves to aim at

There was this one guy at the old GW I used to go to when I was younger who refused to play me on the grounds that my SM army had a stupid colour scheme. I kid you not the guy did not like black, brown and yellow. :p The same guy told me using my FW Hydra (I was playing IG by now) was illegal in a GW and he tried to get me banned.

The thing is I was 13, this guy was 27!

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

I would like to highly disagree. I like to think of myself as one of the most noncompetitive gamers I know. My goal every game it to kill at least one model regardless of what that single model is. I have never harmed a model (mine or my opponent) or yelled due to a game. I'm 16 and I fail to see how my age should stop me from being allowed to play.