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I really couldnt care less about rhodesia or what ever i dont even know what it is. It could be the name of a sex club or a slave owning business i wouldnt know.

It also pretty much derails the entire thread

Not exactly weird, but our club event days usually have something random happening:

Big Thing Event - A player brought a list with two models (Khorne Lord of Skulls & Magnus the Red IIRC) yet still managed to get the points wrong...
30k Event (I think it was) - Someone submitted a Word Bearers summoning list, but on the day forgot to bring the daemons...

Beardedragon wrote:
I really couldnt care less about rhodesia or what ever i dont even know what it is. It could be the name of a sex club or a slave owning business i wouldnt know.

Your ignorance is on you.
Now, for better/worse you're a bit less ignorant.

Beardedragon wrote:
It also pretty much derails the entire thread

Not really. Fezzik noted the guys patch as striking him as odd, others needed an explanation as to why (& got it along with some other random info). Fezzik sees strange, but evidently there's some town in Poland where this isn't the case....
At least it didn't devolve into the evils of GW selling us more Marines.

And now back to the topic on hand....
My late friend Dan (R.I.P.) was a good one for the occasional very weird experience.
Dan was, in general, a very good player. But Dan always had to win. Wich led to;

A) very short games if he did poorly right out of the gate. Or if he thought he had. This could be getting the hell blown out of his forces turn 1, just rolling poorly on his own hits/wounds & not blowing his opponents army to hell, or if he was playing a gimmick list & his gimmick was predicted & thwarted. Plenty of games ended after just one turn.

B) Random acts of cheating. Becoming more likely & more audacious the later in the game & the closer the outcome was looking.
A great example of this was the time he wanted to charge a squad of my DA with his Wolf Guard. There was one slight catch. I had a fully functional rhino in-between his WG & their intended victims. There was no way he could get around the rhino & into contact.
This did not deter Dan. In his charge phase he simply picked up my rhino, set it aside, and charged my squad.
This effectively ended the game as I refused to be cheated in this fashion & Dan refused to continue the actions in game-legal ways.
It was not a victory for Dan. In fact, as HE refused to continue the game it was a loss for him via concession.

I'm amused what someone woody ever expect to happen if they just moved a model they found inconvenient.
I can understand cheating in general (cheating is bad mmkay) by that's never going to be allowed.

I once played a guy from my area whom I haven't met before. So we set our points level and stuff online, before meeting to play.
We shared our lists, so you could get some insight in what the other player is going to field.

On gameday, he came with a completely different, taylored list and completely devastated me (or better, my army). Didn't help, that he refused to use a decent amount of terrain.

I haven't played 40k for a while (like two editions) before that game and afterwards I recognised he also changed the rules to his benefit ...

I put my 40k stuff aside for another while and got back into the game when 8th ed started.
To this day, he keeps on bragging how he defeated me and won't admit, that he cheated his way to victory.

Weird thing is, I can't understand, how you get any satisfaction or fun out of such behavior.

Nibbler wrote:
Weird thing is, I can't understand, how you get any satisfaction or fun out of such behavior.

WAAC - They won, that's all that matters.

Nibbler wrote:
And still you keep going on about it?

I once played a guy from my area whom I haven't met before. So we set our points level and stuff online, before meeting to play.
We shared our lists, so you could get some insight in what the other player is going to field.

On gameday, he came with a completely different, taylored list and completely devastated me (or better, my army). Didn't help, that he refused to use a decent amount of terrain.

I haven't played 40k for a while (like two editions) before that game and afterwards I recognised he also changed the rules to his benefit ...

I put my 40k stuff aside for another while and got back into the game when 8th ed started.
To this day, he keeps on bragging how he defeated me and won't admit, that he cheated his way to victory.

Weird thing is, I can't understand, how you get any satisfaction or fun out of such behavior.

i dont know why people do what they do, but he sounds like a terrible person. But why did you decide to accept the battle if you saw his army was different when he showed up? Why not say: hey i can see you have a different army than what you showed me, so this battle is off.

Well i guess i probably would take the battle too, i mean one has showed up, so one would just go home empty handed i guess.

Beardedragon wrote:

Nibbler wrote:
And still you keep going on about it?

I once played a guy from my area whom I haven't met before. So we set our points level and stuff online, before meeting to play.
We shared our lists, so you could get some insight in what the other player is going to field.

On gameday, he came with a completely different, taylored list and completely devastated me (or better, my army). Didn't help, that he refused to use a decent amount of terrain.

I haven't played 40k for a while (like two editions) before that game and afterwards I recognised he also changed the rules to his benefit ...

I put my 40k stuff aside for another while and got back into the game when 8th ed started.
To this day, he keeps on bragging how he defeated me and won't admit, that he cheated his way to victory.

Weird thing is, I can't understand, how you get any satisfaction or fun out of such behavior.

i dont know why people do what they do, but he sounds like a terrible person. But why did you decide to accept the battle if you saw his army was different when he showed up? Why not say: hey i can see you have a different army than what you showed me, so this battle is off.

Well i guess i probably would take the battle too, i mean one has showed up, so one would just go home empty handed i guess.

There's no good answer to that question.
Hadn't got a game in a lonhg time, so I took the chance playing someone from my area.
Haven't played the guy again and now, being older and more selfconfident, I would complain openly about his behaviour and decline to play him.

Nibbler wrote:
I once played a guy from my area whom I haven't met before. So we set our points level and stuff online, before meeting to play.
We shared our lists, so you could get some insight in what the other player is going to field.

On gameday, he came with a completely different, taylored list and completely devastated me (or better, my army). Didn't help, that he refused to use a decent amount of terrain.

I haven't played 40k for a while (like two editions) before that game and afterwards I recognised he also changed the rules to his benefit ...

I put my 40k stuff aside for another while and got back into the game when 8th ed started.
To this day, he keeps on bragging how he defeated me and won't admit, that he cheated his way to victory.

Weird thing is, I can't understand, how you get any satisfaction or fun out of such behavior.

What a jerk. I know that, in some places, list tailoring is viewed as okay, but to THAT extent? That's ridiculous.

I rarely play with other people i dont know (ofc my first battle with them i dont know them, but my enemies i play tend to be part of a larger group ive gotten in to), as the place i play at is a boardgame cafe where i know the owner (who also plays warhammer 40k). We're a group of a couple of people so luckily, none of us are among the weirder types of people showing up at this hobby. I actually play 2 places, i just havent been to the other place all that much due to covid rules etc, but i would call over facebook in the facebook group for an opponent, and luckily till this date, i havent been matched with anyone but completely down to earth people. We only list tailor very rarely against one another, and its agreed upon before hand. Because we have one guy who does do tournements and he regularily trashes us with his armies, so he lets us tailor build towards him sometimes. Hes a good guy, and helped teach me a thing or two when i started (ive only been at this hobby for like 8 months).

I thank the emperor for that every day. I mean sure visually there are a lot of quirky people, but luckily where i am, none of them are among the ones you should watch out for. I feel really blessed, having never played any crazy people; I really feared that would happen a lot before i started.


Is it only where i live, that there are viking looking players? Long beards, Vikingish tattoos? Maybe its because i live in Scandinavia, but i thought it was odd how the warhammer universe somehow attracted nerdy vikings. Well maybe not given a lot of them plays space wolves lol.


My weirdest (which is not even a negative weird, just funny i guess) was a guy who played Spaces wolves but was donning the viking style of viking ish tattoos and the beard etc, but he was also a vegan at the same time. It was quite amusing.

Good fella though, i ended up driving him to the bus station after he trashed my ork army. I played Goff Orks (and mainly still do) so we're both CC specialist armies, his just hits harder than mine.

My weirdest games involved the same people and apoc 7th edition. The store I frequented often in my old house had a lot of regulars around 12-15 of us (large group for a small town) but every month the store would hold a tournament and an apoc game. This was back in 7th where you could cheese pretty well and these certain people took advantage of it grossly sometimes. The first game consisted of xenos vs imperium I took my DA around 3K of Deathwing was put into the imperial team. Since we had so many xenos players I was paired with this father and sons team the sons had to have been in there early 30s and the dad in his 60s which was fine I didn’t mind they seemed like nice enough people. After the teams were set up we proceeded to unpack our armies and set up as I look at my army and the opponents I remember thinking how awesome this would look once everything was set up. Until I looked at my team memebers and saw only 3 models a scratch built stick figure titan, a grip of 30 very oddly scratch built librarians on bikes and a single Guard tank with 20-25 SM LV2 librarians inside. Everyone was kind of annoyed at the list they brought but couldn’t say much about it. Most of the game was than just waiting for them to cast Vortex 20-30 times and see half the enemy army disappear almost instantly. It was still a fun day but they mainly spent all the time argueing with each other and bringing super OP killing units that had way to much survivability. It could have gone a lot smoother. The second time was when they came to an escalation tournament everyone had started buying new armies I myself started a chaos space marine force I was running as black legion. I got pitted against the dad in a 500 point game and since war hound titans were less than that guess what I faced? Needless to say he won that round and a few more since everyone had a new army and not a lot of punch firepower at 500 points. The store a manger was already annoyed at them for other times they would pull the stunt since when you won you got store credit but he didn’t wanna lose the business they had brought him over the years which I can respect.


The final weirdest game I remember was getting a Necron player running a 4+ get back up detachment dechurian if I remember the name back in 7th. I had finished a fully painted 2000 point ravenwing army with the new rules that honestly made them pretty OP I can’t deny that but I had never run it before this day. With all my bells and whistles I had a apothecary who could ignore wounds on a 6+ for my HQ and the whole army had a 3-4+ jink depending on the unit. I don’t know what was going on that day but I never missed a junk or a 6+ apothecary save on my command squad. It got so bad that the Necron player yelled out “I WISH I HAD A BROKEN ARMY THIS IS BS!!!!” Which everyone responded with a resounding “YOU DO!!!” I felt bad cause it was the persons first game which I had known I was trying to help them play and even correcting certain things they had missed I.e. weapon profiles being stronger than they had thought the HQ lord they were running having more attacks and wounds but the way the game went I tabled them by turn 3. Mainly due to me never missing a save and them always missing a save. After the game we became friends and other times we played went normally but seeing the anger in a necron players eyes did kind of have a sweet bitterness to it.

I have two semi weird/cool things from a Gamesday way back twenty years ago. They were in back to back games too. (they really aren't at the top of this list of things though...)

Simple story; a marine player who had a name on the base of every model (I've seen this multiple times). This guy went a step further. Each time he lost a model, he would replace the model with a duplicate with the same paint scheme, markings, etc, but dead. Which was actually cool. he had converted a dead marine for each one in his army. And they were well done.
He would then describe and write down on a notepad the way each marine died. Inventing the specific injury and all. I was playing SoB's and he lost a lot of marines to Repentia's (I don't even remember the edition, but Repentia's on the charge were good.) So there were a lot of missing limbs on that list...
He might have been writing fan fiction from his games or something.
It didn't interfere with the game. He didn't take time out to do this, but did it in the lulls while I counted dice or whatever, and I would play that guy any day of the week and twice on Sunday, because he had a great sense of humor and was really just there to have fun! (something I fail at more often than I wish.)

The best thing for me was this was back when you got scored on sportsmanship. This guy won and everyone cheered. (Rating your opponent on sportsmanship always seemed like a decent idea but in reality I saw more tournaments decided by a poor loser taking revenge this way than not).


In contrast, the second weird thing was next game:
It was against a chaos daemon player who had 15 total models because 5 were princes or equivalents. I tied that game, but spent the whole time wishing I could go play the marine player again. Guy was a good player, but no conversation. It felt more like my chess club days. Which isn't a knock on any of that, just a massive contrast in ways to play 40k. Anyway, what I found weird was between moving each model, rolling each set of dice, removing a model, basically anything, his girlfriend said "good job, honey" and made him turn and kiss her. It was almost like a war between the game and her getting equal time.
I know...but it wasn't the insecurity or the kissing or anything I found weird...it was doing it every single time. She must have made this guy pause the game and kiss her fifty plus times in a 2 hour game. Even he seemed tired of it by the end.

I feel I must also admit that my group of four who all went wore "PENAL BATTALION 451" t-shirts we had printed up, with an invented list of heresy crimes and the years given. I think mine included procreating without permission and reading Robert Heinlein (if you see the reference you rule). Most of the sentences ranged in the centuries. So maybe we were the weird ones...

I know that I've got more than a few of these kinds of stories. I don't know what it is, but I kind of attract players like that for some reason.

-I've had one player flip the table on me out of frustration. This was probably one of my earliest games and I know that part of it was due to me not knowing exactly "all of the rules" to the game, but this was during the bridge between 3rd & 4th edition. So no one know really knew what to do about most of the changes as they were being rolled out. Either way, it was a bit too much for someone to damage about half my army in the process. I say half, because pewter was surprisingly resilient at that time.
All in all, it was just his luck. The dice were not in his favor and I think I've never seen anyone roll that bad again in my life. He must have rolled at least 92% 1s for almost twelve separate rolls that were all back to back.

-I got to witness a near thirty year old man sprawl on the floor and have a tantrum.
That one was over a rules dispute that he unsurprisingly lost. It wasn't a game that involved me, though it did involve him and a fresh player to the hobby. Someone who he must have thought that he could steamroll by waving a few of the rules at the time. I merely asked his opponent, a young boy about the age of 15 or slightly older. Just what exactly he knew that the Jump-pack Chaos Lord currently tearing through his front line was loaded down with. He replied with a small list of probably 7 items from the war gear list, because he was smart enough to at least take notes. I didn't even get the chance to inform the boy about exactly how many items of war gear a character are allowed to be equipped with, before the man-child across the table began to hyperventilate and turn several shades of red before it hit the fan.

It degraded to such a horrible scene and I feel utterly terrible for helping to cause it, because not only did he collapse to the floor and start to throw a tantrum after the rule was explained. But his mother actually came in and started to attempt to comfort him. Apparently, she drove him to the event and was waiting for him to get done with his last match.

Nibbler wrote:
I once played a guy from my area whom I haven't met before. So we set our points level and stuff online, before meeting to play.
We shared our lists, so you could get some insight in what the other player is going to field.

On gameday, he came with a completely different, taylored list and completely devastated me (or better, my army). Didn't help, that he refused to use a decent amount of terrain.

I haven't played 40k for a while (like two editions) before that game and afterwards I recognised he also changed the rules to his benefit ...

I put my 40k stuff aside for another while and got back into the game when 8th ed started.
To this day, he keeps on bragging how he defeated me and won't admit, that he cheated his way to victory.

Weird thing is, I can't understand, how you get any satisfaction or fun out of such behavior.

We had a regular at our store who did that.

Would arrange a game, then, after learning your army, would go to the bathroom and tailor his list to beat yours. The first time it happened to me, I lucked out to have heard of it before hand, and swapped my army, using eldar instead of IG. When he came back, and he started complaining about the swap, the red shirt told him to either set up and start, or that the spot at the table would go to someone else.

He stopped playing the regulars after that when they all started swapping armies (or lying to him before the game), and stopped playing at all when he'd try it on new players and kids, only to find out a regular had lent the kid a tournament level army while he was in the bathroom.

That's pathetic....an adult needing Mommy to make their cheating @ a game of toy soldiers better is quite possibly the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

And the sad part is that it is totally believable, the sheer childishness I've personally see grown humans engage in painful.

I've seen a table flip in a game of chess @ a club tourney in middle school with the associated tantrum(where it is not out of the realm of possibility) but blatant cheating/preying on the newbie knowledge while an "adult", now that takes the "Imma gonna be a baby" championship.

 Mmmpi wrote:

He stopped playing the regulars after that when they all started swapping armies (or lying to him before the game), and stopped playing at all when he'd try it on new players and kids, only to find out a regular had lent the kid a tournament level army while he was in the bathroom.

That sounds like an immensely satisfying way to punish such poor behavior. I wish I could see the look on the offender's face when this kept happening.

Hiseadmose wrote:

 Mmmpi wrote:

He stopped playing the regulars after that when they all started swapping armies (or lying to him before the game), and stopped playing at all when he'd try it on new players and kids, only to find out a regular had lent the kid a tournament level army while he was in the bathroom.

That sounds like an immensely satisfying way to punish such poor behavior. I wish I could see the look on the offender's face when this kept happening.

Red, and frustrated.

He left saying he had joined the marines, but we found out later that he shipped out a full year after he stopped playing at our store.

5th Ed GT, one of the early ones run by FLG. I am playing mech dark eldar. I get paired up against Grey Knights. My opponent's list is Kaldor Draigo as the only units that start on the board, and are supposed to speed up the arrival of his Paladins that make up the rest of his army.

Turn one, I focus fire all of the skimmers in my army into his two characters, and fry them. Turn two, I spend flying in circles around the LOS blocking terrain in the center of the table to keep the cover save for going fast.

Turn 3 one unit of Paladins arrives, his full strength unit, and he chooses to have them walk on from his table edge. He walks on six inches, and frys a ravager.

Now, both of my raiders have shock prows on them, which let them tank shock. One of them is blocking LOS to a chunk of my skimmers, so I decide to tank shock to both get my skimmer out of the way, and move his terminators further away from cover.

He proceeds to fail his leadership test by one point. Then, he rolls the fall back distance, and we both realize a full half of his army has fled the battlefield.

We both just stared at the dice in silence for a moment, before I asked my opponent if he wanted one of the beers from my cooler. He accepted, stating, "that way, I can least I can say I got a beer out of the match when my friends ask how many points I got."

edwardmyst wrote:
I have two semi weird/cool things from a Gamesday way back twenty years ago. They were in back to back games too. (they really aren't at the top of this list of things though...)

Simple story; a marine player who had a name on the base of every model (I've seen this multiple times). This guy went a step further. Each time he lost a model, he would replace the model with a duplicate with the same paint scheme, markings, etc, but dead. Which was actually cool. he had converted a dead marine for each one in his army. And they were well done.
He would then describe and write down on a notepad the way each marine died. Inventing the specific injury and all. I was playing SoB's and he lost a lot of marines to Repentia's (I don't even remember the edition, but Repentia's on the charge were good.) So there were a lot of missing limbs on that list...
He might have been writing fan fiction from his games or something.
It didn't interfere with the game. He didn't take time out to do this, but did it in the lulls while I counted dice or whatever, and I would play that guy any day of the week and twice on Sunday, because he had a great sense of humor and was really just there to have fun! (something I fail at more often than I wish.)

The best thing for me was this was back when you got scored on sportsmanship. This guy won and everyone cheered. (Rating your opponent on sportsmanship always seemed like a decent idea but in reality I saw more tournaments decided by a poor loser taking revenge this way than not).

This is the single greatest story of 40k ever.

 Oborosen wrote:
I know that I've got more than a few of these kinds of stories. I don't know what it is, but I kind of attract players like that for some reason.

-I've had one player flip the table on me out of frustration. This was probably one of my earliest games and I know that part of it was due to me not know exactly "all of the rules" of the rules to the game, but this was during the bridge between 3rd & 4th edition. So no one know really knew what to do about most of the changes as they were being rolled out. Either way, it was a bitt too much for someone to damage about half my army in the process. I say half, because pewter was surprisingly resilient at that time.
All in all, it was just his luck. The dice were not in his favor and I think I've never seen anyone roll that bad again in my life. He must have rolled at least 92% 1s for almost twelve separate rolls that were all back to back.

-I got to witness a near thirty year old man sprawl on the floor and have a tantrum.
That one was over a rules dispute that he unsurprisingly lost. It wasn't a game that involved me, though it did involve him and a fresh player to the hobby. Someone who he must have thought that he could steamroll by waving a few of the rules at the time. I merely asked his opponent, a young boy about the age of 15 or slightly older. Just what exactly he knew that the Jump-pack Chaos Lord currently tearing through his front line was loaded down with. He replied with a small list of probably 7 items from the war gear list, because he was smart enough to at least take notes. I didn't even get the chance to inform the boy about exactly how many items of war gear a character are allowed to be equipped with, before the man-child across the table began to hyperventilate and turn several shades of red before it hit the fan.

It degraded to such a horrible scene and I feel utterly terrible for helping to cause it, because not only did he collapse to the floor and start to throw a tantrum after the rule was explained. But his mother actually came it and started to attempt to comfort him. Apparently, she drove him to the event and was waiting for him to get done with his last match.

did you get any monetary compensation for him damaging half your army? I would have been furious

Nibbler wrote:

Beardedragon wrote:

Nibbler wrote:
And still you keep going on about it?

I once played a guy from my area whom I haven't met before. So we set our points level and stuff online, before meeting to play.
We shared our lists, so you could get some insight in what the other player is going to field.

On gameday, he came with a completely different, taylored list and completely devastated me (or better, my army). Didn't help, that he refused to use a decent amount of terrain.

I haven't played 40k for a while (like two editions) before that game and afterwards I recognised he also changed the rules to his benefit ...

I put my 40k stuff aside for another while and got back into the game when 8th ed started.
To this day, he keeps on bragging how he defeated me and won't admit, that he cheated his way to victory.

Weird thing is, I can't understand, how you get any satisfaction or fun out of such behavior.

i dont know why people do what they do, but he sounds like a terrible person. But why did you decide to accept the battle if you saw his army was different when he showed up? Why not say: hey i can see you have a different army than what you showed me, so this battle is off.

Well i guess i probably would take the battle too, i mean one has showed up, so one would just go home empty handed i guess.

There's no good answer to that question.
Hadn't got a game in a lonhg time, so I took the chance playing someone from my area.
Haven't played the guy again and now, being older and more selfconfident, I would complain openly about his behaviour and decline to play him.

I'm going to say something people probably won't agree with but, good on you for playing the game anyways. The guy lied and cheated but you still played the game, a task you wanted to do, win or lose. You did well and sure got smashed and got cheated but you still played your game and upheld yourself with honor. I'd never play with that person again and be sure to say how bad he cheated and how underhanded he was to change his list up like that. Some people have no honor however and don't need to feel good about what they do.

I would have confronted him about the deceit he tried to pull but you did the honorable thing all the same and did it without complaint. I'd say you had some self confidence to handle it as you did. If he still brags about it, he has some problems so that win must have meant a lot to him which is pretty sad so maybe you did a good thing to give him that to hang on to.

All in all, it was just one game and a small price to pay to show your character and have him reveal his own or lack there of.

edwardmyst wrote:
I have two semi weird/cool things from a Gamesday way back twenty years ago. They were in back to back games too. (they really aren't at the top of this list of things though...)

Simple story; a marine player who had a name on the base of every model (I've seen this multiple times). This guy went a step further. Each time he lost a model, he would replace the model with a duplicate with the same paint scheme, markings, etc, but dead. Which was actually cool. he had converted a dead marine for each one in his army. And they were well done.
He would then describe and write down on a notepad the way each marine died. Inventing the specific injury and all. I was playing SoB's and he lost a lot of marines to Repentia's (I don't even remember the edition, but Repentia's on the charge were good.) So there were a lot of missing limbs on that list...
He might have been writing fan fiction from his games or something.
It didn't interfere with the game. He didn't take time out to do this, but did it in the lulls while I counted dice or whatever, and I would play that guy any day of the week and twice on Sunday, because he had a great sense of humor and was really just there to have fun! (something I fail at more often than I wish.)

The best thing for me was this was back when you got scored on sportsmanship. This guy won and everyone cheered. (Rating your opponent on sportsmanship always seemed like a decent idea but in reality I saw more tournaments decided by a poor loser taking revenge this way than not).

This could be a small world, wasn't this guy on this very site was it?

Racerguy180 wrote:
That's pathetic....an adult needing Mommy to make their cheating @ a game of toy soldiers better is quite possibly the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

This hobby, unsurprisingly, draws in a lot of neurodivergent people. I'm going to assume this was one such example, given the sheer severity of reaction.

My weirdest thing ever was when a random hobo burst into the store and started shaking my hand, telling me...i think about jesus or something like that, I was like 16 at the time and taken completely by surprise so i wasn't exactly paying attention. He left right after finishing his monologue...

Less weird and more cringe was the one time (not long after tau were released) some dude at a gamestore tried to commie-shame me for playing them. Looking back, he gave of a distinct vibe of a white-power loser, but again, 15yo me was just confused by it all.

 Grimtuff wrote:

edwardmyst wrote:
I have two semi weird/cool things from a Gamesday way back twenty years ago. They were in back to back games too. (they really aren't at the top of this list of things though...)

Simple story; a marine player who had a name on the base of every model (I've seen this multiple times). This guy went a step further. Each time he lost a model, he would replace the model with a duplicate with the same paint scheme, markings, etc, but dead. Which was actually cool. he had converted a dead marine for each one in his army. And they were well done.
He would then describe and write down on a notepad the way each marine died. Inventing the specific injury and all. I was playing SoB's and he lost a lot of marines to Repentia's (I don't even remember the edition, but Repentia's on the charge were good.) So there were a lot of missing limbs on that list...
He might have been writing fan fiction from his games or something.
It didn't interfere with the game. He didn't take time out to do this, but did it in the lulls while I counted dice or whatever, and I would play that guy any day of the week and twice on Sunday, because he had a great sense of humor and was really just there to have fun! (something I fail at more often than I wish.)

The best thing for me was this was back when you got scored on sportsmanship. This guy won and everyone cheered. (Rating your opponent on sportsmanship always seemed like a decent idea but in reality I saw more tournaments decided by a poor loser taking revenge this way than not).

This could be a small world, wasn't this guy on this very site was it?

My situation happened long before 2011 when that was posted, so I don't think so, but that stuff is also awesome and the same type of thing. Could be the same person. If it is I hope you read my post, you were awesome. If it isn't, still KUDOS for doing the dead marines, you riock as well!

So on the topic of grown adults having extremely embarrassing melt downs, I was recently at a small non-GW event for wargaming, and a individual who was around 30is years old, (Older than 20s, younger than 50) was attending with his newly constructed and painted Russ list. This was obviously a list the person had spent a lot of time painting, as each tank had a personally painted hull name, like "Lulu bell". Long story short this guy also had clear instability issues, with emotions and communication. I do not want to label or use terms I am not equipped to use, like the R word, but this guy was extremely well liked by the local community and was obviously a talented modeler and painter.

He lost one round near the end of the event, that went very badly for him with rolls, opponent's list seemed taylormade for anti-tank, etc. So around turn 4 he just starts picking up his models and breaking them. We all kind of stopped playing, and watched, shocked, horrified, sad.

His opponent just kept playing. After we were watching this for about 5 tanks, the store owner came over and started trying to calm him down, whispering to him, and just telling everyone to stop staring and keep playing. He destroyed half his list in his emotional state, and it was a real travesty.
His caretaker (?) came in and began helping him put his stuff away, and he just lost it.

He started to just shriek and sob, which coming from a grown man sounded really awful. It was clear this guy was struggling with something really difficult and it was really sad, given his talent.

Everyone who knew him (Seemed like half the store) felt so bad after the event that they bought out the store's inventory of Guard tanks, and left them at the store for him, which he came by to pick up the next day I heard.

Turns out he is a regular at the store and it was his only real hobby was creating really beautiful models, but had a real hard time playing the game.

I feel like we judge people who have emotional outbursts, but we have no idea what people are dealing with, or how strong they are just to be able to be there. I am glad I saw this, because it really restored my faith in the hobby, and the area, in helping a man with those sort of issues still be part of the hobby.

Anyway, sorry to waste your time, happy ending I guess?

Nibbler wrote:
I once played a guy from my area whom I haven't met before. So we set our points level and stuff online, before meeting to play.
We shared our lists, so you could get some insight in what the other player is going to field.

On gameday, he came with a completely different, taylored list and completely devastated me (or better, my army). Didn't help, that he refused to use a decent amount of terrain.

I haven't played 40k for a while (like two editions) before that game and afterwards I recognised he also changed the rules to his benefit ...

I put my 40k stuff aside for another while and got back into the game when 8th ed started.
To this day, he keeps on bragging how he defeated me and won't admit, that he cheated his way to victory.

Weird thing is, I can't understand, how you get any satisfaction or fun out of such behavior.

Yeah, I know some stores around here were this kind of behavior used to be quite common, especially list tailoring after one had seen the opponent's list was rampant. Eventually this lead to me avoiding games at stores outside of narrative events.

Beardedragon wrote:
did you get any monetary compensation for him damaging half your army? I would have been furious

The shop owner helped to reimburse me and I believe he was permanently banned from playing there. Though that shop's been gone for nearly twenty years now and I've never seen him since.

The man who threw the tantrum however.. I saw him more than a few other times.

 LunarSol wrote:
I had an opponent sit me down and read me through the Blood Angel codex to try to explain to me that there isn't a Blood Angel captain with a Jump Pack to insist that Blood Angel captains CANNOT have a Jump Pack. I wasn't even the one playing Blood Angels; my DW captain just happened to have a BA shoulder pad.

To be fair, this is very in tune with the modern GW "no model - no rules" philosophy.


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Apple fox wrote:
One of the weirdest return encounters I am still confused by, is how much hate my eldar get from players I have never met before that seems to be entirely connected to being a girl.
From people that have never seen my army before, and seem keen for me to join but make playing with them entirely unwelcome feeling.

Eh, judging from some of the other posts I've seen the hate against Eldar hits male players too. Like the hate against Tau.


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 addnid wrote:


Karol man, some of your posts fill me with sadness. You may be bad at social interactions, but you honestly seem (to me anyway) like a nice person, so let me say this: hang in there bro ! Things will get better.
I kind of agree with you about not "too" saying much, it is good advice in many situations actually, though indeed as it was said, one does need to stick a neck out there sometimes to improve social skills. It may be more about self confidence than getting better through trial and error though

Karol is play acting. He acts out too many of the tropes that people use for anti-Polish racism to be genuine.

There was a guy in my area years ago who had an ork army with a unique trait. All of them had gold teeth. Grots had one, boys has 2, nobs could have gold tusks or more gold teeth, and the warboss had all gold teeth.

When asked he usually said it was a James Bond thing, like all the movies with "gold" in them, and he names his boss something goldteef, da boss wit da golden blasta.

Privately if he knew you he'd admit he was kind of slamming on the whole gangsta rappa thing where they had their teeth plated in gold. He said he thought it was the kind of thing an ork would do but didn't want anyone calling him racist for it. It was kind of weird he thought that many, if any, 40k players would have had a problem with it.

 Oborosen wrote:

Beardedragon wrote:
did you get any monetary compensation for him damaging half your army? I would have been furious

The shop owner helped to reimburse me and I believe he was permanently banned from player there. Though that shops been gone for nearly twenty years now and I've never seen him since.

The man who threw the tantrum however.. I saw him more than a few other times.

Im glad you got reimbursed. Shouldnt have been the shop owner tho, but the guy destroying your items. All that time we spend (at least many people) painting our minies and then they just get wrecked by someone else.. Im not even sure i would react.

A playing buddy of mine accidentially knocked over my 3D printed Ork Chinork warkopta 2 times in a row so first my rotors got bend, then broken off. And they were long so i was unable to put them back on. He apoligized and its cool but inside it made me angry (knock it over once by accident, fair enough, knock it over twice in 5 min? Would you mind actually be careful?!). So i cant even imagine what i would do if someone intentionally destroyed my miniatures, because i spend quite a bit painting them.

My miniatures have affectionate value for me, they cant be reimbursed. Also since i play orks i have a lot i need to paint, so if half my army broke i would never be able to recover