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Dice rolling for the sake of dice rolling. Psychic phase, I'm looking at you!

My big one goes back to 5th Edition so I do have Sympathy for 6th Eldar Players.

I have played Space Wolves since 1st edition. In fact I was sort of know as the local Space Wolf Player/Expert for a while.
When the 5th edition came out I made a big deal about getting a few games with the 3rd Edition in before it was going to be retired and got some in.
The 5th Edition book comes out.
I go the the game store about two months later and when the ask what Army I say my Space Wolves.
I then get called a WAAC , band wagon player.

 Anpu42 wrote:
My big one goes back to 5th Edition so I do have Sympathy for 6th Eldar Players.

I have played Space Wolves since 1st edition. In fact I was sort of know as the local Space Wolf Player/Expert for a while.
When the 5th edition came out I made a big deal about getting a few games with the 3rd Edition in before it was going to be retired and got some in.
The 5th Edition book comes out.
I go the the game store about two months later and when the ask what Army I say my Space Wolves.
I then get called a WAAC , band wagon player.

I can't wait for the day I'm called a WAAC playing dark eldar lol

I feel like I break some of these peeves on knowing the finer rules. I played years ago, but have only slowly been able to get back into the game, unfortunately. I've got the basics down, but I'm basically a new player when it comes to the newer rules, and I make sure my opponent knows this. I'm constantly reading ahead during my opponent's turn to try to answer my questions before bringing them up. I'll pretty much always ask about my opponent's special rules though, since I haven't played against Eldar since 2005.

That said, my peeves are:
-More than one unit being unpainted. I hate fielding unpainted units unless I just bought it that week and haven't had time to finish it yet. There are some at my FLGS who show up week in, week out with white and black based armies for months.
-Trash-talking an opponent's list before, during, and after the match, especially after they lost. You think my 30+ cultist squad is a waste of time and money? They tied down Typhus for the whole game, allowing my units to focus elsewhere and seize objectives to win.
-Throwing hissy fits. I'm sorry your Baneblade got destroyed turn 1 before you got to use it, but threatening to quit playing is very poor sportsmanship. No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

Ugh dont, I have an opponent whom trash talks my Guard as they are "useless squishies compared to Marines". He then complains when I use anything that hurts his units, which brings me to my next point:

Whining Space Marine players. Seriously just because the fluff says it you are not the be all and end all of a fight, and yes your Marines will die to cannonfire from my "useless squishies" tanks and no they are not OP.

Sounds like a match made in heaven tbh.

 Zarjaz! wrote:
I recall a few players in my local area would get SERIOUSLY worked up about relatively minor setbacks in games. Their Thousand Sons would fail saves or something and boom, off they'd go, getting aggressive and yelling at their miniatures/the dice/God almighty or whoever else they thought was responsible. Can't say I enjoy that sort of behaviour. Kinda ruins the whole game, really.

Yeah we have one of those, if he misses 3 saves on 5 on a 2+ model he litteraly throw the dices on the street, each week he buy a new pack of dices, and its not just one or 2 dices, its a whole handfull, i've got a whole bunch of free dices now...

Or the guy that though he's played 100 of tourneys, had all the most OP armies in the game( While he is not a WAAC player, but he still have tau's, BA's, GKs, now when i say OP, its each when their was their Golden Age respectevly).

But for some reason won't allow you to use rules the way they are written, because it doesn't make sens.

Like Orbital bombardement that his a Barrage, the other guy wanted to use it while the CM was in the LR.

Of what i understand Barrage weapons doesn't need LoS on the target, and nothing prevents it to be used when you're in a transport, now i might be wrong though, but we all checked the rulebook, and nothing prevented the guy from using it, still he was kinda mad about it, saying that we ruined the game with our meddeling,etc etc, while he is the first one to come up a table where he doesn't play and starts to correct people with attitude when we din't ask him anything...

I thought that infantry can not fire barrage/ordnance after they have moved? Ie if a master of ordnance is in a chimera and it has moved, he loses his orbital bombardment strike.

 Slayer le boucher wrote:

 Zarjaz! wrote:
I recall a few players in my local area would get SERIOUSLY worked up about relatively minor setbacks in games. Their Thousand Sons would fail saves or something and boom, off they'd go, getting aggressive and yelling at their miniatures/the dice/God almighty or whoever else they thought was responsible. Can't say I enjoy that sort of behaviour. Kinda ruins the whole game, really.

Yeah we have one of those, if he misses 3 saves on 5 on a 2+ model he litteraly throw the dices on the street, each week he buy a new pack of dices, and its not just one or 2 dices, its a whole handfull, i've got a whole bunch of free dices now...

Or the guy that though he's played 100 of tourneys, had all the most OP armies in the game( While he is not a WAAC player, but he still have tau's, BA's, GKs, now when i say OP, its each when their was their Golden Age respectevly).

But for some reason won't allow you to use rules the way they are written, because it doesn't make sens.

Like Orbital bombardement that his a Barrage, the other guy wanted to use it while the CM was in the LR.

Of what i understand Barrage weapons doesn't need LoS on the target, and nothing prevents it to be used when you're in a transport, now i might be wrong though, but we all checked the rulebook, and nothing prevented the guy from using it, still he was kinda mad about it, saying that we ruined the game with our meddeling,etc etc, while he is the first one to come up a table where he doesn't play and starts to correct people with attitude when we din't ask him anything...

He still needs to be in range with the Orbital Bombardment... and since you can't draw range from the Land Raider because it has no firing points, he can't fire it... Otherwise he would be able to fire it from off the board as well.

 Ashiraya wrote:
Sounds like a match made in heaven tbh.

Heh heh, I have a few tricks up my sleeve. There is life in this old dog yet

Zagaboff wrote:

 Anpu42 wrote:
My big one goes back to 5th Edition so I do have Sympathy for 6th Eldar Players.

I have played Space Wolves since 1st edition. In fact I was sort of know as the local Space Wolf Player/Expert for a while.
When the 5th edition came out I made a big deal about getting a few games with the 3rd Edition in before it was going to be retired and got some in.
The 5th Edition book comes out.
I go the the game store about two months later and when the ask what Army I say my Space Wolves.
I then get called a WAAC , band wagon player.

I can't wait for the day I'm called a WAAC playing dark eldar lol

As a Daemon player, 5th edition was absolute hell. We had a codex who's anti-tank was basically limited to a BS4 at best single shot 'gun', (Bolt of Tzeentch from Horrors or Heralds), or else punching things... At the height of the 'Tankhammer 40k' edition!
Now, parking lot armies were pretty easy to deal with thankfully, as we had access to plenty of S5 attacks and/or Rending for tearing apart most rear AV values.

But then of course, Grey Knights showed up and pretty much invalidated our entire army, to the point it would become 100% impossible to even deploy more than a single unit on the table!
The only things we got were comments ranging from, "suck it up loser, it's the rules, " or else "who cares, your army isn't real/sucks anyways so deal with it/buy a real army dumb***" and of course the ever infamous, "LOL! Ln2P noob!"

Then finally, came the glorious day when we finally got our shiny new 6th edition codex! As the rumors first started to circulate, Grey Knight players especially became even more arrogant and d-baggy, gloating about how games against Daemons were even more of an auto-win due to all the on-the-surface randomness that was being introduced, as well as a number of rules/pts changes.

So I proceeded down to my local game store to test out my reinvigorated Tzeentchian legions, and the Grey Knight players were rather eager to prove just how huge a pile of garbage the new daemon had become...
3 turns later the first GK player was standing around in shock, still trying to figure out why his army had been turned inside out by my supposedly "lolsRandomSucks!" minions.

And finally, I heard it a few hours later... Grey Knight players screaming, "OMG! Daemons are so OP & Brokenzzzz 40K!!11!1!!!!!1!"

People that judge me based on the army I play, yes my necrons have a strong codex, and yes there are ways to play them that are OP.
But I don't play like that, I find that no one has fun when going up against the cheesed out decurion, myself included.

So it really annoys me when people see necrons and immediately accuse me of being TFG or a WAAC player.

farshot9 wrote:
People that judge me based on the army I play, yes my necrons have a strong codex, and yes there are ways to play them that are OP.
But I don't play like that, I find that no one has fun when going up against the cheesed out decurion, myself included.

So it really annoys me when people see necrons and immediately accuse me of being TFG or a WAAC player.

I tend to end up with the opposite issue.
They see me pull out my Creed/Kell Rough Riders List or my Loganwing [15 Models at 2,000 points] and win then say I must be playing against 'Scrub' or horrible Players.
It is funny though watching my Loganwing crush their Army, have not lost with it and I still don't know why?

I have to agree with those who say lack of terrain. I love terrain, in fact my favorite sort of board is a city-board. I want to play in the burned out ruins of cites, or in a deadly jungle, filled with carnivorous plants, not on a flat open plain.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I have to agree with those who say lack of terrain. I love terrain, in fact my favorite sort of board is a city-board. I want to play in the burned out ruins of cites, or in a deadly jungle, filled with carnivorous plants, not on a flat open plain.

Oh God Yes!
I have a lot of terrain, but I have a disability that sort of makes it hard to set up the table in advance so I usually just ask the other guy to set it up. I half the time get a 'Deer In The Headlight Look' or four pieces later get "I'm Done".

I always found it hilarious when people complain about using Terrain, while also complaining about the Range of Tau Weapons.
Terrain, particularly Line of Sight blocking Terrain, is one of the hard counters to long-ranged weapons!

Its why barrage weapons are a thing, thank the Emperor for that.

 Bobthehero wrote:
Its why barrage weapons are a thing, thank the Emperor for that.

As my SM loving friends have found to their own shock

Indeed, but the vast majority of Tau weapons lack this Rule.

It is a really funny thing to observe:

Many players will complain about being gunned down but at the very same time they will also complain about using terrain.

I can never understand them :/

Hence ''thank the Emperor''

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I have to agree with those who say lack of terrain. I love terrain, in fact my favorite sort of board is a city-board. I want to play in the burned out ruins of cites, or in a deadly jungle, filled with carnivorous plants, not on a flat open plain.

Exalted for truth. I like how the 6th edition book recommended setting up terrain: divide the table into six areas. each one of those areas get D3 terrain features, subject to adjustment and agreement by the players. I insist on at least having plentiful terrain on the board, and at least one large piece that blocks line-of-sight.

 TheNewBlood wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I have to agree with those who say lack of terrain. I love terrain, in fact my favorite sort of board is a city-board. I want to play in the burned out ruins of cites, or in a deadly jungle, filled with carnivorous plants, not on a flat open plain.

Exalted for truth. I like how the 6th edition book recommended setting up terrain: divide the table into six areas. each one of those areas get D3 terrain features, subject to adjustment and agreement by the players. I insist on at least having plentiful terrain on the board, and at least one large piece that blocks line-of-sight.

I will +1 this

When I'm just trying to play a game against a couple twin sister supermodels in lingerie and they keep giggling and jumping around and trying to rub up on me and haul me back to their sex dungeon.

Girls please. Let's focus on the game.

You guys know what I'm talking about.

 Silverthorne wrote:
When I'm just trying to play a game against a couple twin sister supermodels in lingerie and they keep giggling and jumping around and trying to rub up on me and haul me back to their sex dungeon.

Girls please. Let's focus on the game.

You guys know what I'm talking about.

This has only happened to Kronk. Reported.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I have to agree with those who say lack of terrain. I love terrain, in fact my favorite sort of board is a city-board. I want to play in the burned out ruins of cites, or in a deadly jungle, filled with carnivorous plants, not on a flat open plain.

I think I've already mentioned it, but I absolutely love packed boards. Open boards aren't fun to play on.

When my opponent has been playing Tau, gets called a WAAC by just about everyone in the shop, then I go and fkin destroy him with the XIIIth Legion.

Then he yells that Marneus Calgar is OP and that my model was illegal because it's the £11 one in Artificier Armour

which means he TECHNCALLY CANT TAKE GAUNTLETS OF ULTRAMAR. The same guy uses 4th Ed. XV8 team and I be like:

Zagaboff wrote:

 Anpu42 wrote:
My big one goes back to 5th Edition so I do have Sympathy for 6th Eldar Players.

I have played Space Wolves since 1st edition. In fact I was sort of know as the local Space Wolf Player/Expert for a while.
When the 5th edition came out I made a big deal about getting a few games with the 3rd Edition in before it was going to be retired and got some in.
The 5th Edition book comes out.
I go the the game store about two months later and when the ask what Army I say my Space Wolves.
I then get called a WAAC , band wagon player.

I can't wait for the day I'm called a WAAC playing dark eldar lol

Back when GK Drago lists were the top cheese, I got the best complement from our local TFG WAAC. Due to poor choices on his part, and good rolls on mine. I Tabled his cheese with SoB! He then complained to anyone who was in ear shot that Sisters ARE OP!!!

People taking huge models as over half their army
e.g when I once played against a Knight in a 600pts Schools League game

The new vindicator formation that allows you to shoot one super-massive blast S10 AP1 that ignores cover per turn..

Oh wait.. no. Taking Three Vindicator Formations that shoot the super massive blast S10 AP1 that ignores cover..

against my Tyranids :|