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 ClockworkZion wrote:

 Zande4 wrote:
I guarantee 90% of people in this thread do the stuff they're complaining about (barring the specific stories and smoking) and just don't realise it.

No, I bathe before going to my FLGS, don't smoke, don't wear body sprays, and don't get loud or angry.

Second that. i also know the basis rules and the stats of most of my opponents' armies (barring the one I rarely play against, like Tau)

I don't like it when opponents keep asking me the same exact questions over and over again. I understand that 40k is a complex and bloated game but it gets a little annoying after awhile.

Teeth. OMFG Brush them. If you have a bad one get a root canal and a crown. I have noticed it with some players and it drives me friggin NUTS. Black teeth are CREEPY.

Congrats you 3 for being in the 10%

I get really, really irritated if someone touches my models without asking.

I hate it when I play people and when the game is over I like to talk over the game. This one guy I played said that "you would've done better if you stopped rolling ones" (which was true on first turn 12 dark lances I rolled 10 1's to hit, 1 1 to penetrate and thought out the game). It annoyed me because that's all he said after I was telling him how I though each thing he fielded did and what I though about the units he experimented with.

 ravengatorfan wrote:
I hate it when I play people and when the game is over I like to talk over the game. This one guy I played said that "you would've done better if you stopped rolling ones" (which was true on first turn 12 dark lances I rolled 10 1's to hit, 1 1 to penetrate and thought out the game). It annoyed me because that's all he said after I was telling him how I though each thing he fielded did and what I though about the units he experimented with.

That is actually VERY considerate. I have to say that I am sure that some people may not like my personality because I will say some things just to get a laugh out of them. For example I was playing a game against a new kid at the shop ( he has actually become one of my favourite players there ) and he had a squad of bikes coming at my Death Company. I told him to " Get Some! " ... he hit them with a rad grenade and then shot them to death with plasma guns. After removing all of my DC due to the shots being AP2 and ID (T3 from Rad Nade) he said " Well? " I replied that my DC went down faster than my sister on her first date, and I aint talkin about Prom night .... the whole club was rolling.

I guess I wanted more than that lol. It was a disappointing game and I didn't need the tactical advice your dice suck. I would've preferred you should've done this better. Positioned yourself better. Idk I just felt like he was being a sore winner (maybe I was disappointed so I took that as that way).

Most of my peeves are embodied by my main opponent.

Ridiculous proxies - He's used Dreadnoughts as vindicators, vindicators as drop pods and most ludicrously those blocks of resin you get from FW minis as a Aegis defence line with a 2p coin as a quad gun.

Mishandling/touching my minis - Typically we play on the floor on a Realm of Battle board, one time he stood on one of my obliterators three times in a game.

Treating their own minis badly - Probably should annoy me, but when the first thing he does upon receiving a Storm Eagle is snap all the large bits in half trying to unwarp them without even trying to heat them then it irritates me.

Last minute lists - It bothers me less if you weren't expecting to play,but this guy will arrange a game with me a full month in advance and I'll have to wait over an hour while he writes his list and a lot of the time ASSEMBLE HIS MODELS BEFORE/AS WE PLAY. It's even more sillier when I realise he has over a hundred assault marines yet is always gluing a more together before the game, just bring the ones you have!

Sore winners/losers - One time, I watched this guy play a doubles game, a monolith scattered it's particle whip shot and wiped out the last of his team mate's units, a squad of tom brethren. Dumbo points at the Templar player and laughs at the top of his lungs for a good thirty seconds, attracting the attention of the entire store. Trashing people behind their back too, trying to make yourself feel better, because sometimes the loss doesn't hurt as much if strangers think your opponent is a douche. And deep striking your Plasma cannon devastators in to your own deployment zone on turn one is not a sound tactical move.

Being deluded on a unit's potential - Assault marines are not a squad of Bloodthirsters, please don't get your knickers in a twist because they're not knocking every unit they touch over in a single phase and Warp Talons are not Chaos' untouched golden unit that when people finally discover will require a reprint of the book to nerf.

Ignorant cheese criers - The one Heldrake in my list is not cheesy, if you fire your quad gun at my rhinos or intercept my forgefiend then don't be surprised when you find your men melting. And don't call my Decimator a "cheesy, game breaking apocalypse only unit" in the same breath you put a storm eagle on the board.

Long term gamers with no grasp of the rules - You've been playing 15 years, it's about time you learned the rules without having to check the rulebook a thousand times a turn and it's not 4th edition anymore, stop playing it like it is.

"Great painters" who give harsh advice - Spray painting your army black and slapping 7 coats of skulls white over the shoulders is not the Golden Daemon masterpiece you think it is, so don't be a **** to people who actually try.

People who get mad - I had an experience where this guy realised he couldn't win and demanded we skip the movement phase entirely and just roll dice, even skipping assault moves. No, play properly or waste someone else's time.

Everything else is mentioned! Rant over!

 sierra 1247 wrote:
I agree with the rules lawyer thing, though when I go to my flgs it's usually beginners day and there's a couple of young lads who look to me and my friends for advice and rules queries. They're good kids so we keep an eye on their games a bit cause they have been horrifically cheated in the past. A couple of times one of the other kids, ( there's always that one who's parents buy him every bloody army) has a 1000pts game and somehow manages to fit in 3 land raiders and about 30 marines. Things like that I don't mind helping with, especially if they ask about it. Though I wouldn't butt into other people's games, it just rude.


Then there's another kid who keeps butting into our games and asking, who's winning? During setup. Then the randomly picks up the tape measure I'm literally just about to use, grabs my models without asking. Hell he took a wing off one of my valks once.... little SOB..

I once played against someone who was a newbie and relatively young who thought his tau rail rifles on his infantry were strength 10 ap 1.

For the longest time the main tau player at our store was shocked at how OP stuff like JOWW, heavy incinerators, and drop pods were. He normally ran 2-3 riptides. and a mini farsight bomb.

Certain gamers who only apply the beneficial aspect of particular special rules whilst seemingly forgetting, or not reading the part that can be potentially detrimental.

I'd call it selective reading...

alex87 wrote:
Certain gamers who only apply the beneficial aspect of particular special rules whilst seemingly forgetting, or not reading the part that can be potentially detrimental.

I'd call it selective reading...

... Except it's really just being an ass hat.

Ignore this, misclick

this is in reference to my last LGS-
magic players, more often than not, the magic players who stand there like wallflowers with their arms crossed saying things like:
"this game's too expensive" (usually compared to magic)
"this game takes too much space/too long"
"so, when are you guys going to be done?"
"so how is this different from the game on the PC?"
"you know that magic starts at 4, right? can you just move this into the back?"
"wow, you spent way too much time on painting that, i can tell"

This usually resulted in a lot of animosity between TCG and wargaming players. so when they had friday night magic, a couple of the more strong willed (and less patient) would have "friday night apoc" games starting about 2-3 hours earlier than the magic crowd would show up.

 the shrouded lord wrote:

Meh, I've probably already got lung cancer from second hand smoke. Both my parents have smoked all my life, I actualy wash my clothes the night before going to GW so I don't smell like it.

And they expose their kid to it?
That's quite the dickery.

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:

 the shrouded lord wrote:

Meh, I've probably already got lung cancer from second hand smoke. Both my parents have smoked all my life, I actualy wash my clothes the night before going to GW so I don't smell like it.

And they expose their kid to it?
That's quite the dickery.

I don't live with my dad, but he smokes around a fair bit. My mum actuely goes out side of the house and behind the shed to avoid exposing me and my sisters.
It's probably worth noting that I'm 14, so I believe it would be legal to smoke in a car with me.

When people who have legitimate complaints about aspects of the rules are dismissed as "whining".

 PrinceRaven wrote:
When people who have legitimate complaints about aspects of the rules are dismissed as "whining".

When people have legitimate complaints dont shut up about them for 10+ years. Then expect people and companies to take them seriously.

(not looking to start a fight just humor )

Anybody notice how the kids with parents that buy them a ton of 40k tend to cheat and make up ridiculous rules and so on? All the kids I know like that do. One of them has a ÿou cant touch my codex"policy so the other kids cant check the rules. I sometimes linger there just to stomp on this kids parade (or to put it maturely referee) because the rues get out of control when a 8 year old makes it me up.

I dont know if its been mentioned but the people who pick up their hit dice really quickly after rolling, they annoy me too (unless its an exciting part, we all do it sometimes).

 Ailaros wrote:
You know what really bugs me? When my opponent, before they show up at the FLGS smears themselves in peanut butter and then makes blood sacrifices to Ashterai by slitting the throat of three male chickens and then smears the spatter pattern into the peanut butter to engrave sacred symbols into their chest and upper arms.

I have a peanut allergy. It's really inconsiderate.

Yeah, that bugs me too.

Also, totally sigging this.

1. People that openly claim there going to win at the start or mid game, i ALWAYS try make the other player feel better if i can see them losing. For example if i see that look when i take out their best unit i would go "don't worry" or "oh wow, i did't expect that, what are the chances?" etc. Also when by turn 3 they have decimated you (half the time players who act like this are power gamers) they say "you can throw in the towel" NO you always finish a game, even if your stern, you finish, i just hate that smug attitude to gaming.

2. BO yeah...wash...please.

People who try to argue line of sight when I used a god damn laser pointer to determine it.

Unless there's some kind of gravitational anomaly gremlin running around wargaming tables there is no arguing with a properly placed laser pointer for TLOS determining.

If there is and you have proof of it, take that stuff to the guys at the Hadron collider, your destiny lies far beyond playing with plastic toys.

 Kain wrote:
People who try to argue line of sight when I used a god damn laser pointer to determine it.

Unless there's some kind of gravitational anomaly gremlin running around wargaming tables there is no arguing with a properly placed laser pointer for TLOS determining.

If there is and you have proof of it, take that stuff to the guys at the Hadron collider, your destiny lies far beyond playing with plastic toys.

As someone who was vilified for trying to use a laser pointer this was a joy to read.

We got lasers for this purpose from the $2 store (like the cheapest store in the country) and they where all wonky lasers. None of them were straight. It caused a lot of confusion for a few minutes.

 Swastakowey wrote:
We got lasers for this purpose from the $2 store (like the cheapest store in the country) and they where all wonky lasers. None of them were straight. It caused a lot of confusion for a few minutes.

Uhhh....

 the shrouded lord wrote:

 Swastakowey wrote:
We got lasers for this purpose from the $2 store (like the cheapest store in the country) and they where all wonky lasers. None of them were straight. It caused a lot of confusion for a few minutes.

Uhhh....

As in they werent straight, yes it makes us sound slowed but no one clicked for a while. Add it to my peeve list. When lasers arent sited properly.

 Swastakowey wrote:

 the shrouded lord wrote:

 Swastakowey wrote:
We got lasers for this purpose from the $2 store (like the cheapest store in the country) and they where all wonky lasers. None of them were straight. It caused a lot of confusion for a few minutes.

Uhhh....

As in they werent straight, yes it makes us sound slowed but no one clicked for a while. Add it to my peeve list. When lasers arent sited properly.

That makes more sense.

People who don't put any effort into painting their army. I can deal with poorly painted armies, but I can't stand playing against someone who's simply primed their models and maybe coloured in a few details.

When people mistake my natural musk and coffee tinted teeth for poor hygiene.

When a kangaroo finds its way into the store and overturns the table I'm playing on.

 Blackhair Duckshape wrote:

When a kangaroo finds its way into the store and overturns the table I'm playing on.

I'm sure this happens so often. Where I live it's drop bears.

Seriously, B.O. When you have to travel an hour and end up having to deal with that..... No.

Rules lawyers and hoverers. I'm sure you can find something better to do. Please butt out.

But, we are all only human, and I for one intend to enjoy my time.

My biggest issue is generally with the people who don't play but wanna check it out. I'm of the mind that the more people who are interested, the more people I have to play. That said however, I've had a number of adults walk up and just grab a model off the table and look at it. I've had parents grab my stuff before a game and open my boxes, and I've had kids shake boxes with models in them. This is usually after I explain how much time we all put Ito building/painting our models.