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Lately my peeve has been folk who drag their disinterested other half, dog, child, or cardboard standee along to play as a 4th.
Which inevitibly breaks down by turn three to them just doing it for them whilst the dog licks itself or the kid plays on facebook on their phone, or the girlfriend looks at Supernatural .gifs online. Just bulk your army up to face two people, don't do that gak if they don't want to be there.

 kronk wrote:
3. LOS works both way. If you could see me in your shooting phase, than I certainly can see you in my shooting phase.

See, now we understand how this happened.

 Guardsmen Bob wrote:
You're a wizard Buttery...

You're a buttery wizard.

 kronk wrote:
1. Have a list ready to go. Don't ask me what I'm bringing and then make your list if playing a pick up game.

That's a rule, not a courtesy, at our FLGS.

 Humble Guardsman wrote:

 kronk wrote:
1. Have a list ready to go. Don't ask me what I'm bringing and then make your list if playing a pick up game.

That's a rule, not a courtesy, at our FLGS.

In my defense, if this were the case, I don't always got to my FLGS with a list on hand. I don't always go with the immediate intention of playing, but I'll get 'volunteered' to play a game from time to time. They'd usually have a list handy and i have to make one on the spot.

 Mr Morden wrote:


Poeple having the rules on a tablet/phone that always seems to take longer to find then in a book. But at least its better than no Codex at all.

I have mine on my phone but I have bookmarked all the pages with rules relevant to my army and a few general rules that may come up prior to playing a game. Much easier to find

I do understand your annoyance though, I've had an opponent who didn't bookmark his stuff and spent ages looking through his digital codex

2 things really get to me:
-When someone roll something and he doesn't tell you what. I mean... come on dude, I don't know all of the special rule of every frickin army. Like, when I was an ork, and I roll my Ramshackle for the first time in a game, I always says: Now I roll my ramshackle, which make a pen become a glance on a 6+. Then during the game, I can always say: rolling for ramshackle. Easy, and everybody feel like your not cheating them lol.

-When someone arrive at the game without his army list and/or his codex (I dont mind digital or hardcopy). One of my friend does that. I mean sure he play an army that he just started. But come on dude, either print a pdf or get it on your phone. It's really annoying when he says: "This guy have that rule." me: "Ok, but does it say it that way or that way, because it might affect the outcome of the game." him: "Oh well... I haven't noted the exact wording." and now we are stuck with no way of really knowing so I usually am incline to let it slide lol.

For me it used to be taking liberties with movement and scatter.

Had a brief stage of 'opponent underestimating thier own codex'; but now the one i dislike the most is not telling me what a diceroll is for.

One that I had in a previous game was when my opponent decided to break our gentlemans agreement regarding Lords of War. We had both agreed not to use any in our games as Primarchs are over powered and he hates facing my Super Heavy.

So the game starts and he mentions that there is something scary within his Razorback. I ignore it until turn two when I decide that it is getting too close to my lines so my Tank Destroyer takes a pop at it and blows it open. Out pops the Primarch Vulkan and a 3 man honour guard squad. Naturally I was not impressed.

 master of ordinance wrote:
One that I had in a previous game was when my opponent decided to break our gentlemans agreement regarding Lords of War. We had both agreed not to use any in our games as Primarchs are over powered and he hates facing my Super Heavy.

So the game starts and he mentions that there is something scary within his Razorback. I ignore it until turn two when I decide that it is getting too close to my lines so my Tank Destroyer takes a pop at it and blows it open. Out pops the Primarch Vulkan and a 3 man honour guard squad. Naturally I was not impressed.

Good, because he cheated, Vulcan can't get into a razorback, as he is very bulky, and 3 man honour guard sqaud, don't see that in the Legiones Astartes army list.

 Formosa wrote:

 master of ordinance wrote:
One that I had in a previous game was when my opponent decided to break our gentlemans agreement regarding Lords of War. We had both agreed not to use any in our games as Primarchs are over powered and he hates facing my Super Heavy.

So the game starts and he mentions that there is something scary within his Razorback. I ignore it until turn two when I decide that it is getting too close to my lines so my Tank Destroyer takes a pop at it and blows it open. Out pops the Primarch Vulkan and a 3 man honour guard squad. Naturally I was not impressed.

Good, because he cheated, Vulcan can't get into a razorback, as he is very bulky, and 3 man honour guard sqaud, don't see that in the Legiones Astartes army list.

I thought there was a rule which prevented that, thanks.

As it was the three man honour guard died to the Tank Destroyer and Vulcan was the only models left standing at the end of the game and even then he was on two wounds.

 kronk wrote:

 greyknight12 wrote:

5. Shaking my hand before a game. For some reason, it really bothers me...maybe it's hygiene issues, or that it implies that we are about to participate in some highly competitive bloodsport where the result depends on something other than rolling dice.

Not shaking hands would bother me. If you have a hygiene phobia or something, that's fine. Just tell me. But shaking hands is just friendly manners. Before the game, shake hands and say good luck. After the game, shake hands and say good game.

And mean it.

Yeah, shaking hands before a game is something I see in a lot of games less competitive than 40k. Shaking hands is just a way to indicate that you are both gentlemen who are about to engage in an activity together.

 Polonius wrote:

 kronk wrote:

 greyknight12 wrote:

5. Shaking my hand before a game. For some reason, it really bothers me...maybe it's hygiene issues, or that it implies that we are about to participate in some highly competitive bloodsport where the result depends on something other than rolling dice.

Not shaking hands would bother me. If you have a hygiene phobia or something, that's fine. Just tell me. But shaking hands is just friendly manners. Before the game, shake hands and say good luck. After the game, shake hands and say good game.

And mean it.

Yeah, shaking hands before a game is something I see in a lot of games less competitive than 40k. Shaking hands is just a way to indicate that you are both gentlemen who are about to engage in an activity together.

Engage in the activity together Whatever floats your boat, I wont judge...

"Roll for surprise" indeed...

Not declaring dice rolls.

Not picking up "misses", but rather "successes".

Not playing with enough terrain.

I always pick up successes when I roll (it's so much easier to gather up your hits and roll them all to see if you wound) and it did not really strike me that you'd pick up failures too just to decieve your opponent.

I like to think that we are above that.

 Formosa wrote:

 master of ordinance wrote:
One that I had in a previous game was when my opponent decided to break our gentlemans agreement regarding Lords of War. We had both agreed not to use any in our games as Primarchs are over powered and he hates facing my Super Heavy.

So the game starts and he mentions that there is something scary within his Razorback. I ignore it until turn two when I decide that it is getting too close to my lines so my Tank Destroyer takes a pop at it and blows it open. Out pops the Primarch Vulkan and a 3 man honour guard squad. Naturally I was not impressed.

Good, because he cheated, Vulcan can't get into a razorback, as he is very bulky, and 3 man honour guard sqaud, don't see that in the Legiones Astartes army list.

I think he meant legion command squad. They have a min squad size of 3.

 Ashiraya wrote:
I always pick up successes when I roll (it's so much easier to gather up your hits and roll them all to see if you wound) and it did not really strike me that you'd pick up failures too just to decieve your opponent.

I combine both... Pick up the failures and put them aside, leaving the successes on the table so that my opponent can see them, and then pick those up for the next roll. Keeps it all transparent.

 Ashiraya wrote:
I always pick up successes when I roll (it's so much easier to gather up your hits and roll them all to see if you wound) and it did not really strike me that you'd pick up failures too just to decieve your opponent.

I like to think that we are above that.

 Formosa wrote:

 master of ordinance wrote:
One that I had in a previous game was when my opponent decided to break our gentlemans agreement regarding Lords of War. We had both agreed not to use any in our games as Primarchs are over powered and he hates facing my Super Heavy.

So the game starts and he mentions that there is something scary within his Razorback. I ignore it until turn two when I decide that it is getting too close to my lines so my Tank Destroyer takes a pop at it and blows it open. Out pops the Primarch Vulkan and a 3 man honour guard squad. Naturally I was not impressed.

Good, because he cheated, Vulcan can't get into a razorback, as he is very bulky, and 3 man honour guard sqaud, don't see that in the Legiones Astartes army list.

I think he meant legion command squad. They have a min squad size of 3.

Nope, was most definetly Honour Guard. Only Vulkan wasnt from the current SM codex.

Is he aware that Vulkan is not in the dex?

Sounds like it wasn't an issue since you roflstomped him anyway, but eh.

 Ashiraya wrote:
Is he aware that Vulkan is not in the dex?

Sounds like it wasn't an issue since you roflstomped him anyway, but eh.

Aye, but Imperial Armour is legal in standard 40K. In all honest things where pretty much hit and miss with Vulkan. I dealt with him by ignoring him and moving everything else away until the other threats where dealt with at which point most of my army shot him several times.

Imperial Armour is legal. W30k stuff isn't really, though. It's compatible, but not designed to be a part of regular 40k.

It's also from a separate army list so you can't just take Vulkan as your HQ in a Space Marine detachment.

I have a few pet peeves, as I'm sure everyone does.

First and foremost, I really hate "gimmicks", units and armies really built around abusing mechanics and rules interactions in ways they really weren't intended. 2+ rerollable saves, wound allocation games, armies built around spamming a single powerful weapon/ability as much as possible, etc.

A close second is armies that are built very contrary to the background. This can range from relatively mild things like Knights festooned in SM Chapter specific colors and heraldry and treated like just another Chapter vehicle, to majorly irritating things like or Skitarii being shoved en-masse into drop pods alongside a token Blood Angel force, or Knights and Dark Eldar running around together.

People who roll without declaring... Are you rerolling your save or doing a fnp? etc.

That's it really, oooh and bad proxies, that they cant back up with fluff or just don't look like the model!

Sometimes I fear I'm TFG.
I keep it calm and fun whenever I'm playing with strangers/tourney, but whenever I'm playing with my friend, passions run high.
Mostly cause he plays eldar, so every strike against him is like a victory for all 40K.
I celebrate a little bit, and by that I mean I shout with zealous fervor whenever a wraithknight dies, and proceed to talk mad poop.
So I guess I'm my own pet peeve.

I'm also annoyed when models break.
Feth that crap.
And yes as soon as its your movement phase I'm going to fix my model I don't care what you're doing I couldn't stop you anyways even if I wanted to so stop saying I don't care about the game daniel

I hate overly converted models. Like a guy who built one riptide with 2 ion accelerators and the other with 2 shields.

The one thing I absolutely hate the most when out at the local hobby shop for a day of fun gaming? The giant turd master who drops an entire mud family in the toilet and doesn't flush, but then loads in the tp to ensure that gak isn't ever going to be flushable without causing a large biohazard.

skint86 wrote:
I hate overly converted models. Like a guy who built one riptide with 2 ion accelerators and the other with 2 shields.

I hate none converted models, and i convert the gak out of my models, one of my maulers is a converted Dread Abysal, my Soul crusher/Defiler is a heavely converted Riptide and my Land Raider has a huge Icon of Khorne on it and a Skull face for ramp, i simply cannot understand people who doesn't convert, even a bit, their models,each to his own i guess...

 Guardsmen Bob wrote:


When other people give my opponent tips, and suggestions on how to beat me. Even with 2 years of play under my belt, I'm still the newest (and most forgetful) player there.

Yeah, well i don't mind people helping if one of the two players has a rule not right, what i don't like is that they start to tell the guy how to play, since like you put it, its just you and him, not a 1 Vs 2.

 luky7dayz wrote:
When people go "Why don't you buy some of these?" God dangit stop telling me to buy damn riptides, I refuse to own one.

When people tell me Tau are a gunline army. I don't even play gunline style!

When people think Tau are cheese. I am using only crisis suits, broadsides, and drones. Its fluffy, not cheese!

When people call Tau a "anime fan communist army", please, just let me enjoy my army, I don't go out of my way to insult your army!

Personnaly i don't have a problem with Taus and Riptides, i don't like when they systemacly take 3 of them, but the Riptide is a nice model.

And saying Tau's are a Super sentai Communist samurai faction is not an insult, its a stereotype, just like saying that SW/CSM are Space barbarians, and BA's are Space Vampires and Eldars Space Elves, its not an insult, and i don't take offence on it, its just a sterotype and a shortcut, even if it is indeed a lazy shortcut.

Experiment 626 wrote:
The one thing I absolutely hate the most when out at the local hobby shop for a day of fun gaming? The giant turd master who drops an entire mud family in the toilet and doesn't flush, but then loads in the tp to ensure that gak isn't ever going to be flushable without causing a large biohazard.

Sounds like you've come down with a nasty case of nurgle!

I can't stand

-rolling a ton of dice 1 at a time

-taking liberties with movement and scatter

-slow players

When people come up with stupid houserules, or when people don't know the rules.

I have read my rulebook cover to cover twice, sure there are still things I don't have memorized, and I still make mistakes, but usually, thats the actually rules of a certain character or unit, I always mess up the assassin rules.

HOWEVER, if you don't know that you use majority toughness in units to shooting and cc attacks, and we have 10 minute rules debate (yes, this has happened... twice), I will be peaved.

or if you houserule something like the above, I will also be peaved.

Crazy Jay wrote:
I can't stand

-rolling a ton of dice 1 at a time

Yeah, that sucks. Unfortunately, the current system requires it under certain situations, which is irritating.