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Just curious i know of a few that i've seen that make me wonder a bit, besides out right cheating.

one of our guys seems to either fart or belch at the end of his turns, sooo bizarre.

 thekingofkings wrote:
one of our guys seems to either fart or belch at the end of his turns, sooo bizarre.

Haha wow that is strange

Mostly the cheating. Nudging a model here and there, picking up a model to move without measuring then putting it back an inch or so off when called to measure, etc. Even a player who conveniently 'forgets' or 'doesn't know' faq rulings or exact stats for their army, yet their version is somehow always beneficial to them.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Mostly the cheating. Nudging a model here and there, picking up a model to move without measuring then putting it back an inch or so off when called to measure, etc. Even a player who conveniently 'forgets' or 'doesn't know' faq rulings or exact stats for their army, yet their version is somehow always beneficial to them.

I hear you there ive had the same facing this one person played them two times and they only played straight when a third person happened to be watching. Always forgot there rules nit picked all my rules but played fast and loose with there own questionable dice rolls etc.

I frequently play against people that nudge models around. I'm probably paranoid, but I often wonder how much of that is intentional. Other things include stacking bases on top of each other to get MORE models into close combat and my personal least favorite...moving terrain features/my models so they can fit a base in a certain place to fight in melee.

 mmzero252 wrote:
. Other things include stacking bases on top of each other to get MORE models into close combat

Well that's actually "by the book" rule and without house ruling to rather common measure from base would be only way some models even legally COULD attack each other in close combat.

Yep stacking bases on top of each other is legit per the AOS core rules. Its one of several core failings of the AOS core rules as well... IMO.

Stretchy tape has been a thing since the 90s. And probably before. Stretchy tape is basically measuring from the front of your model, and moving it to the end of the tape but placing the model so that the measure is at the back of the model... thus getting a model's base extra in movement.

Nudging is a staple of course. As is picking up and setting it back down... an inch or two further along.

To get around a lot of that **** I began starting turns by measuring my guys with the other guys and letting them know how far away they were before any movement could happen. That way if they suddenly got into charge range when they shouldn't have been able to, I had a hard number that would stop that. It works. Mostly. Some will still argue.

I've had the loaded dice played against me. Those are hard to prove though. One of the guys won a set on ebay that were clearly labeled loaded dice and he got busted that way since his ebay history was available for all to see.

I had a player during a large scale end of campaign battle (6 players, 1500 each) offer to move my models for me during the charge phase to save me walking around the table. The unit started 4 inches from their target unit, managed a 7 inch charge with 3 inch range weapons. When it came time to swing he said only three could reach their target. I disputed this saying the charge was more than enough for the full unit of 10 to reach when it came their turn to activate, he responded that he did the charge as he saw fit (my bad for trusting sportsmanship).

Same player earlier in the game completed a charge through a gap his base could not physically fit and when pressed to show how the model made it nudged an allied model a good 4 inches out of the way to demonstrate he'd had a "clear path"

Our AoS community is actually pretty good. We do have one guy who likes use fast dice, though (picking up the "successes" before you have a chance to verify the result). Most of the sketchy players at my FLGS have stuck with 40k.

I've never experience much of these, at least, not that i've been aware of. I have had the experience of someone lying to me about the rules for their guys once. It was a somewhat minor thing, if i remember right it was claiming that the shields allowed them to ignore mortal wounds, but i still felt annoyed when i found out that they had lied.

I played against someone who was really into making sound effects for his guys when they died. sometimes that sort of thing bothers me but in this case he was having enough fun that it worked for me.

Luckily we dont have too much in the way of cheating. occasional miss steps and time machine take backs a plenty but its pretty casual

occasional miss steps and time machine take backs.

I have this great habit of forgetting the hero phase. Pretty much the most important phase in my army and I cannot remember it to save my life.

tneva82 wrote:

 mmzero252 wrote:
. Other things include stacking bases on top of each other to get MORE models into close combat

Well that's actually "by the book" rule and without house ruling to rather common measure from base would be only way some models even legally COULD attack each other in close combat.

Since a lot of us want to actually play with reasonable rules, we go base to base. It just makes the most sense. Otherwise riders couldn't hit anything and many things couldn't ever target flying critters.

pm713 wrote:
I have this great habit of forgetting the hero phase. Pretty much the most important phase in my army and I cannot remember it to save my life.

Oh, this. I do this far, far too often.

I've had some nice people give me gentle reminders, like "You... you know you just skipped about half of your own turn, right?"

 amazingturtles wrote:

pm713 wrote:
I have this great habit of forgetting the hero phase. Pretty much the most important phase in my army and I cannot remember it to save my life.

Oh, this. I do this far, far too often.

I've had some nice people give me gentle reminders, like "You... you know you just skipped about half of your own turn, right?"

I usually get to go back and do it the first time I do it. After that I just count things that die from the mistake.