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Does anyone use the ol red measuring stick?

The only use for the red plastic measuring stick is whipping cheaters right on their fat cheating fingers when they try to move models too far.

Yeah. We just call it the whippy stick and hit cheaters with them.

This threads going to be awesome

It make a damn good wupping stick for cheaters, though I haven't tried it get so I'm not entirely sure.

 Badablack wrote:
The only use for the red plastic measuring stick is whipping cheaters right on their fat cheating fingers when they try to move models too far.

You actually do this?

I do but am gradually moving towards measuring tapes because it's hard to see the markings sometimes under dim light.

Whippy sticks have one use: DISCIPLINING CHEATERS.

I have done in the past.

Good idea to make sure your opponent is also using one, to keep things even though, as the measurements on them aren't actually full inches.

 insaniak wrote:
I have done in the past.

Good idea to make sure your opponent is also using one, to keep things even though, as the measurements on them aren't actually full inches.

What what? Good thing I bring two to every game (love me my whippy sticks - and players who "volunteer" to be whipping posts) but is it the case that they are not even measurements?

I find two of them parallel on my side of the table during set=up are great for drawing the line across the end of my DZ

Don't tell me I may have been shaving off a few millimitres !

Yup. Either whoever designed them thought that 25mm-ish was close enough to an inch that nobody would care, or the plastic they use for them shrinks a little when it sets.

Of course, I haven't checked in a few years... it's possible that they noticed and corrected this at some point.

TY for the heads up, did not think to check. Typical GW cutting corners in their ever-present quest for our dollars

The whippy sticks are too short for me. I prefer a tape measure so I don't have to Sesame-Street measure when I want to turbo-boost my jet bikes.

I use mine. The cats think they are great fun.

On the table, however, I use a tape measure (or 4).

They're great for marking out the edge of the deployment zones, especially during the awkward diagonal deployment type.

They are handy for impromptu bouts of fencing, great way to solve rules disagreements.

All great ideas for the sticks guys!

 Happyjew wrote:
I use mine. The cats think they are great fun.

This. My cat claimed a whippy stick and a half when he was a kitty. Still has them.

I have had some success using them to get models out from under the fridge.

For getting to that itch just down your back that your hands can't seem to reach.....

 milkboy wrote:
For getting to that itch just down your back that your hands can't seem to reach.....

I've found them too flexible for that purpose myself.

A better solution is to grasp a cat by its tail and hold it upside down behind your head.

It's nice to keep a red measury stick handy when you're playing, and go ahead and snap it if you get frustrated or need to get attention. It's totally worthless anyway, and will create some interesting looks on your opponents faces when you snap it in half.

I don't think anybody actually uses those things for measuring.

I used to use them to mix paint. Now that i don't paint anymore I use them to mix drinks.

 Badablack wrote:
The only use for the red plastic measuring stick is whipping cheaters right on their fat cheating fingers when they try to move models too far.

Not just cheaters.

Also small untrained children who think they can pick up other people's models without first asking permission AND HAVING IT GRANTED.

"NO!" accompanied by the thwack of the red stick has disciplined many an uncultured oik offspring around these parts. If you do it right it doesn't even leave a mark.
(It's preferable to shooting them, no? We aren't allowed to have handguns here anyway. )

 Wandre wrote:
I used to use them to mix paint. Now that i don't paint anymore I use them to mix drinks.

Idea stolen!

Ivanzypher wrote:
They are handy for impromptu bouts of fencing, great way to solve rules disagreements.

This really is the most productive thing I've ever done with them. Come to think of it, there might not even have been a rules dispute, we just wanted something to do with the sticks.

As Jervis Johnson once said, a gamer's tapemeasure is like a cowboy's pearl-handled Colt revolver; it'll stand by you, be there when you need it, and never let you down. And when it comes down to it, you can kill the other guy before he kills you.... ok, I may have overdone the metaphor a little

I thought that is what the BRB was for. To hit the cheaters over the head with, since the BRB is so big and thick.

Red whippy sticks are definitely for whipping cheaters.
And a pewter deff dread is placed in a knee high sock to make a Deff Sock, because munchkins get deffsocked.

jayjester wrote:

And a pewter deff dread is placed in a knee high sock to make a Deff Sock, because munchkins get deffsocked.

Wouldn't it be better to not tell the cheater of their activities and instead put the dread on top of a door for when they leave?

The first 'inch' on every single one of mine is shorter than all the others!