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Hecaton wrote:

 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.

Pretty decent acting then hah hah, OK i'll bear that in mind from now on. It did seemed layed on quite heavy

Beardedragon wrote:
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

That's understandable. One of my first models that I ever really took the time to customize and make my own, was a nemesis dread knight. Fully outfitted and worked with a surprising amount of Mili-putty to actually look more enclosed and less like the baby carriers that they were famed for being.

I had a member of our weekly group snap the right arm off, twice. Simply because he didn't know how to properly hand a book across the table. One by lowering it directly onto the swords tip and snapping the arm off at the wrist. The other, is when he dropped a codex in mid toss and it nearly tore the whole of the arm off, along with dislodging him off the base. Which is when I and several other players got verbal about his antics.

My weirdest doesn't come close to any of yours but did for one of the common themes.
There's a teen on the spectrum in this area that I've played with a few times. The weird experience was him recounting turn by turn a game he played against my blood angels. I've never owned any blood angels. I'll never know who he got me mixed up with.

Matt Swain wrote: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.

Gangsta rap orks sound awesome.

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One weird event for me was a 'Necrons vs Imperium' megabattle from back in 3rd(?) edition.

One of the players was an IG player who brought a tank company for his list. He was firing through a gap in the terrain, and racking up a decent kill count when one of the necron players landed a monolith in front of his three main tanks.
The IG player had a few options at this point.

A: Move the tanks to regain line of sight. Splitting up a bit so one monolith didn't block LoS to more than one of them.

B: find a way to kill the monolith.

C: Whine about the situation.

I'm sure all of you can guess that he chose (C), and that led to a wave of necrons crushing our left three turns later.

This happened during the final showdown of a campaign in 8th that was a huge game with 6000 points of DG, WE and Fallen against a combined force of IF, DA and allaitoc eldar. The eldar player was already having a bad day because in his last mission he had world eaters randomly appearing out of the warp right in the middle of his gunline, ending in lots of blood for the blood god.

During turn 3 or 4 of the final game, he had some rangers sitting on top of a ruin. I shot them with something I can't remember and he removed the three rangers standing up, leaving the two kneeling models, so the unit was hidden from sight from the bloat drone right in front of them. Since I couldn't see them, I shot the spitters at a nearby intercessor unit for little effect.

In his turn, he then declares to be shooting at Cypher (his DA teammate's mission objective) somewhere in the middle of the board and asked me whether they had line of sight. I squat down behind them, and tell him no. He is furious, demands to know why. I tell him that they can't even see over the wall they are hiding behind because they are kneeling. Red-headed he tells me I can't be serious, stomps over to his case and replaces the kneeling models with standing ones, asks me to check LoS again. I tell him to do whatever he thinks is right and he takes the shots at Cypher, misses all of them. He uses a command re-roll, hits one and fails to wound.

They closely lost the game, and he kept talking about how they only lost because he missed those shots, while everyone else was laughing about how Kharn had killed more poxwalkers than the enemy, some WE bikers were lost in the warp when they tried to use a portal and a unit of DA helblasters had failed to even scratch a daemon prince of Khorne with their guns, only to charge and clobber him do death in a single round of combat.

I played with a guy at a LGS in a prior edition (which one are now lost to the sands of time but it was pre-8th). Nothing crazy. Just a little pick-up game. He played Space Wolves (not that it really matters). Early on, I noticed he would occasionally, "bump" his character models during a dice roll. He "accidentally" knock them forward a bit. The dice would literally be rolled into the models. He would then pick his dice up and go for some chit-chat about this or that and then move on to something else and never move them back to where they were prior to the dice moving them forward.

The first two times it happened I didn't think anything of it, but then, at one point he bumped two of my CSM models. Wasn't a big deal but I did forget to put them "back". They were just ever so slightly bumped backwards so it's not like it was a huge deal anyway. But then, later in the turn, he tried to claim they were out of coherency.

I'm sure you've figured it out by now but he was absolutely deliberately trying to use the dice to change model positions on the table. Thankfully, in having played since RT, I've had precious few truly "bad" experiences, but that one was definitely odd.

Tycho wrote:
I played with a guy at a LGS in a prior edition (which one are now lost to the sands of time but it was pre-8th). Nothing crazy. Just a little pick-up game. He played Space Wolves (not that it really matters). Early on, I noticed he would occasionally, "bump" his character models during a dice roll. He "accidentally" knock them forward a bit. The dice would literally be rolled into the models. He would then pick his dice up and go for some chit-chat about this or that and then move on to something else and never move them back to where they were prior to the dice moving them forward.

The first two times it happened I didn't think anything of it, but then, at one point he bumped two of my CSM models. Wasn't a big deal but I did forget to put them "back". They were just ever so slightly bumped backwards so it's not like it was a huge deal anyway. But then, later in the turn, he tried to claim they were out of coherency.

I'm sure you've figured it out by now but he was absolutely deliberately trying to use the dice to change model positions on the table. Thankfully, in having played since RT, I've had precious few truly "bad" experiences, but that one was definitely odd.

rofl. Some people are just cheaters through and through. Everytime me and my friends accidentially hit our models either through the die, or by accidentially just bumping them, we just put them back. If we move on and a unit has a model thats clearly meant to be in coherency but isnt because of what ever reason that might be, we just move it a little closer and everyones happy. Ive never met anyone who didnt, i mean at least, ive never met anyone that deliberately tried to cheat this way.


Reading all your stories just make me super happy that i dont meet those types of players

Tycho wrote:
The first two times it happened I didn't think anything of it, but then, at one point he bumped two of my CSM models. Wasn't a big deal but I did forget to put them "back". They were just ever so slightly bumped backwards so it's not like it was a huge deal anyway. But then, later in the turn, he tried to claim they were out of coherency.

I had something similar in a local team tourney game - shot the last model of a unit off the board, ref (who happened to be on the same team as the opponent) put the model back on the table and told him to make a FnP save he had forgotten about.
Next turn the same model was killed by the same unit that shot them the turn before. Ref cried foul saying there was no line of sight for the shot - since he'd made sure to put it out of LoS when he replaced it.

He didn't get to ref any more games after that.

Reading all your stories just make me super happy that i dont meet those types of players

Honestly, while it's a funny story, I actually kind of felt bad for the guy. From his behavior around the shop in general that day (the only day I ever saw him) I'd guessed he may have been suffering from a mild form of aspergers.

IDK if that's possible or if you only have the full blown version or whatever (I'm not a ... whatever you would have to be to properly diagnose that...) but the way I recall, it was like everyone else was at a cool house party, and this poor guy showed up late. No one was answering the front door because the party was too loud, so he went round to the back. He was standing at the sliding glass door with everyone motioning for him to come in, but rather than reach down, grab the handle and slide the door open, he just kept bumping face first into the glass. Like he couldn't quite get that entry figured out.

Either way, I felt like his life was probably a lot harder than mine, so I tend to file it under "odd thing at the LGS" rather than "This jerk I played against" ... lol

Loud sounds are bad, hard to concentrate on stuff when there are many sources of it incoming. I get the guy real well. When you play, and there is some people talking nearby and someone suddenly asks you a questions, it is like fog, everything goes wierd and you just want to punch something just to be safe.

IDK if that's possible or if you only have the full blown version or whatever

It is indeed a spectrum. You can have autism so mild it's barely noticeable at all, or so severe it makes operating in the society alone almost impossible.
If I recall correctly, these days "Aspergers" is just deemed mild form of Autism rather than it's own thing.

Karol wrote:
Loud sounds are bad, hard to concentrate on stuff when there are many sources of it incoming. I get the guy real well. When you play, and there is some people talking nearby and someone suddenly asks you a questions, it is like fog, everything goes wierd and you just want to punch something just to be safe.

You would have hated playing one of the stores here then. There was a regular playing craftworld eldar during 5th whose voice had exactly one setting - at the top of his lungs, and it didn't help that his voice was also rather high pitched. You always knew the exact state of his game and every single one of his dice results, despite him being at the exact opposite end of a rather big store and a shelf in between. Even during the battle for Armageddon campaign when there were three apoc games with 20k points each going on in the store, I could hear every single one of his words loud and clear.

Tycho wrote:
I played with a guy at a LGS in a prior edition (which one are now lost to the sands of time but it was pre-8th). Nothing crazy. Just a little pick-up game. He played Space Wolves (not that it really matters). Early on, I noticed he would occasionally, "bump" his character models during a dice roll. He "accidentally" knock them forward a bit. The dice would literally be rolled into the models. He would then pick his dice up and go for some chit-chat about this or that and then move on to something else and never move them back to where they were prior to the dice moving them forward.

The first two times it happened I didn't think anything of it, but then, at one point he bumped two of my CSM models. Wasn't a big deal but I did forget to put them "back". They were just ever so slightly bumped backwards so it's not like it was a huge deal anyway. But then, later in the turn, he tried to claim they were out of coherency.

I'm sure you've figured it out by now but he was absolutely deliberately trying to use the dice to change model positions on the table. Thankfully, in having played since RT, I've had precious few truly "bad" experiences, but that one was definitely odd.

Remember reading a post during the days of Portent (IIRC) of a guy playing this older guy. Older guy shoots with a Havok squad or something that is on a hill but it is out of range. Next turn they magically are, despite having not moved. Turns out they guy, whether consciously or not had pushed the hill forward with his gut and not noticed that the hill had moved.

I had a game during a tournament back in 6th edition in which I felt so bad for a player I ended up throwing my game tactically so that he wouldn't be the last place person.

The guy in question was very odd. He had a slaanesh tattoo, was a military fellow, and had a sizable chaos army. His list was....well bad. He had sonic marines inside of land raider, he had a khyton (a pseudo knight) with no support in an edition of anti knight fire. Every move was the worst move you could make in a tactical sense. I was playing Skittari and was doing rather poorly (combination of their lackluster rules at the time, my own dice rolls, and being paired against the 3 Hornet spam eldar lists previously). I felt so bad for this guy that I ended up making purposeful tactical blunders and cheating my dice rolls (id roll a six and say it was a 1) just so this guy didn't have the worst tournament record ever. Like I had bad luck but this guy was just terrible.

 Jidmah wrote:


You would have hated playing one of the stores here then. There was a regular playing craftworld eldar during 5th whose voice had exactly one setting - at the top of his lungs, and it didn't help that his voice was also rather high pitched. You always knew the exact state of his game and every single one of his dice results, despite him being at the exact opposite end of a rather big store and a shelf in between. Even during the battle for Armageddon campaign when there were three apoc games with 20k points each going on in the store, I could hear every single one of his words loud and clear.

Scary. Although I do have to say that sound adjustment was something I had to learn, and I mostly deal with it by not talking. I learned that if I am in a place where there is a ton of sound and they mix in to one, it isn't not that bad, as long as no one asks me stuff directly, because then I try to out shout the whole room. That is why I like the stores here. Oddly enough durning sports events or training I can shut out all sound no problem.

I wonder how many w40k players are there who are autistic. There have to be some, because it is too big of a hobby for it to be non. Would be interesting to know how they deal with certain stuff.

 Mmmpi wrote:

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One weird event for me was a 'Necrons vs Imperium' megabattle from back in 3rd(?) edition.

One of the players was an IG player who brought a tank company for his list. He was firing through a gap in the terrain, and racking up a decent kill count when one of the necron players landed a monolith in front of his three main tanks.
The IG player had a few options at this point.

A: Move the tanks to regain line of sight. Splitting up a bit so one monolith didn't block LoS to more than one of them.

B: find a way to kill the monolith.

C: Whine about the situation.

I'm sure all of you can guess that he chose (C), and that led to a wave of necrons crushing our left three turns later.

TBH that sounds like just a urine poor player, not really anything 'weird'.

 generalchaos34 wrote:
I had a game during a tournament back in 6th edition in which I felt so bad for a player I ended up throwing my game tactically so that he wouldn't be the last place person.

The guy in question was very odd. He had a slaanesh tattoo, was a military fellow, and had a sizable chaos army. His list was....well bad. He had sonic marines inside of land raider, he had a khyton (a pseudo knight) with no support in an edition of anti knight fire. Every move was the worst move you could make in a tactical sense. I was playing Skittari and was doing rather poorly (combination of their lackluster rules at the time, my own dice rolls, and being paired against the 3 Hornet spam eldar lists previously). I felt so bad for this guy that I ended up making purposeful tactical blunders and cheating my dice rolls (id roll a six and say it was a 1) just so this guy didn't have the worst tournament record ever. Like I had bad luck but this guy was just terrible.

That's how they get ya, the pity victory.

Jokes aside, I've done it too, in 40k and AoS. Intentionally forgetting a rule or two in my lists combo, toning down the actual stats of my units offensive power, after I've noticed that I've pulled really really far ahead in a casual match, and want to keep playing and enjoying the game with my opponent. I've been doing it more and more, since 8.5 and 9e Space Marines came out...

I've heard of people seeing a guy playing well but rolling so unbelievably terribly they lost to him deliberately because they didn't want a win handed to them by almost impossibly bad die rolls.

 generalchaos34 wrote:
I had a game during a tournament back in 6th edition in which I felt so bad for a player I ended up throwing my game tactically so that he wouldn't be the last place person.

The guy in question was very odd. He had a slaanesh tattoo, was a military fellow, and had a sizable chaos army. His list was....well bad. He had sonic marines inside of land raider, he had a khyton (a pseudo knight) with no support in an edition of anti knight fire. Every move was the worst move you could make in a tactical sense. I was playing Skittari and was doing rather poorly (combination of their lackluster rules at the time, my own dice rolls, and being paired against the 3 Hornet spam eldar lists previously). I felt so bad for this guy that I ended up making purposeful tactical blunders and cheating my dice rolls (id roll a six and say it was a 1) just so this guy didn't have the worst tournament record ever. Like I had bad luck but this guy was just terrible.

Funnily enough, I've played in a tournament where last place got a prize (technically everybody got a prize, but last place got to pick from the pool either first, or after top 3), so throwing a game if you had an already bad record was favored. We didn't know this so the one game we won actually harmed our reward (it was a team tournament). Had we had known, we would have thrown.

@Karol
I experience issues much like you do, where if there's a lot of noise it all blends together and I find it stressful. Becomes very difficult to think or articulate thoughts. Never felt like punching anybody though and I've never been officially diagnosed with autism. I deal with it by mostly playing at home with friends (I built a gaming table which sadly takes up most of the room in my small apartment, which would be fine if I had used it in the last year!)
If I'm playing at a particularly active game store it's a lot of apologizing while I take way too long to think, or I'll stop thinking and just make the first move I can come up with even if it's a bad tactical move.

 Thadin wrote:

 generalchaos34 wrote:
I had a game during a tournament back in 6th edition in which I felt so bad for a player I ended up throwing my game tactically so that he wouldn't be the last place person.

The guy in question was very odd. He had a slaanesh tattoo, was a military fellow, and had a sizable chaos army. His list was....well bad. He had sonic marines inside of land raider, he had a khyton (a pseudo knight) with no support in an edition of anti knight fire. Every move was the worst move you could make in a tactical sense. I was playing Skittari and was doing rather poorly (combination of their lackluster rules at the time, my own dice rolls, and being paired against the 3 Hornet spam eldar lists previously). I felt so bad for this guy that I ended up making purposeful tactical blunders and cheating my dice rolls (id roll a six and say it was a 1) just so this guy didn't have the worst tournament record ever. Like I had bad luck but this guy was just terrible.

That's how they get ya, the pity victory.

Jokes aside, I've done it too, in 40k and AoS. Intentionally forgetting a rule or two in my lists combo, toning down the actual stats of my units offensive power, after I've noticed that I've pulled really really far ahead in a casual match, and want to keep playing and enjoying the game with my opponent. I've been doing it more and more, since 8.5 and 9e Space Marines came out...

Lol, if he was acting he deserved an oscar! Sadly this was just some poor jarhead that really loved chaos marines and lacked any great spark of intelligence (or boundaries, he was REALLY into slaanesh and it was an almost exclusively male crowd). Ive found myself doing this as well with brand new players and kids as well. No reason to scare them off! At least not yet. I find that a game that can be equally enjoyed by all is far better than any victory.

 generalchaos34 wrote:

 Thadin wrote:

 generalchaos34 wrote:
I had a game during a tournament back in 6th edition in which I felt so bad for a player I ended up throwing my game tactically so that he wouldn't be the last place person.

The guy in question was very odd. He had a slaanesh tattoo, was a military fellow, and had a sizable chaos army. His list was....well bad. He had sonic marines inside of land raider, he had a khyton (a pseudo knight) with no support in an edition of anti knight fire. Every move was the worst move you could make in a tactical sense. I was playing Skittari and was doing rather poorly (combination of their lackluster rules at the time, my own dice rolls, and being paired against the 3 Hornet spam eldar lists previously). I felt so bad for this guy that I ended up making purposeful tactical blunders and cheating my dice rolls (id roll a six and say it was a 1) just so this guy didn't have the worst tournament record ever. Like I had bad luck but this guy was just terrible.

That's how they get ya, the pity victory.

Jokes aside, I've done it too, in 40k and AoS. Intentionally forgetting a rule or two in my lists combo, toning down the actual stats of my units offensive power, after I've noticed that I've pulled really really far ahead in a casual match, and want to keep playing and enjoying the game with my opponent. I've been doing it more and more, since 8.5 and 9e Space Marines came out...

Lol, if he was acting he deserved an oscar! Sadly this was just some poor jarhead that really loved chaos marines and lacked any great spark of intelligence (or boundaries, he was REALLY into slaanesh and it was an almost exclusively male crowd). Ive found myself doing this as well with brand new players and kids as well. No reason to scare them off! At least not yet. I find that a game that can be equally enjoyed by all is far better than any victory.

Well, I kinda have to play advocatus diaboli here, not necessarily defending this guy but at least explaining why he might not have been a total dick.

First off you say slaanesh and everyone thinks wild pansexual orgies and worse. Let's remember slaanesh also represents the desire to be perfect. Physically, mentally, artistically, etc. All chaos gods have a positive aspect that helps lure people into their bad sides.

As for the sexual thing, two of histories greatest military minds were not hetero sexual. Alexander the great is widely accepted as preferring men, but had children with women as an expected act, and Julius Cesar was known as being bisexual.

As to real military guys playing 40k i've seen it happen and they sometimes try to use real world military acumen in the game. They generally get their asses hammered at first and either get that it's a game and not a military training exercise or ragequit in contempt.

Slaanesh isn't an army i'd lean towards but generally i don't begrudge people their army choices.

 Matt Swain wrote:

 generalchaos34 wrote:

 Thadin wrote:

 generalchaos34 wrote:
I had a game during a tournament back in 6th edition in which I felt so bad for a player I ended up throwing my game tactically so that he wouldn't be the last place person.

The guy in question was very odd. He had a slaanesh tattoo, was a military fellow, and had a sizable chaos army. His list was....well bad. He had sonic marines inside of land raider, he had a khyton (a pseudo knight) with no support in an edition of anti knight fire. Every move was the worst move you could make in a tactical sense. I was playing Skittari and was doing rather poorly (combination of their lackluster rules at the time, my own dice rolls, and being paired against the 3 Hornet spam eldar lists previously). I felt so bad for this guy that I ended up making purposeful tactical blunders and cheating my dice rolls (id roll a six and say it was a 1) just so this guy didn't have the worst tournament record ever. Like I had bad luck but this guy was just terrible.

That's how they get ya, the pity victory.

Jokes aside, I've done it too, in 40k and AoS. Intentionally forgetting a rule or two in my lists combo, toning down the actual stats of my units offensive power, after I've noticed that I've pulled really really far ahead in a casual match, and want to keep playing and enjoying the game with my opponent. I've been doing it more and more, since 8.5 and 9e Space Marines came out...

Lol, if he was acting he deserved an oscar! Sadly this was just some poor jarhead that really loved chaos marines and lacked any great spark of intelligence (or boundaries, he was REALLY into slaanesh and it was an almost exclusively male crowd). Ive found myself doing this as well with brand new players and kids as well. No reason to scare them off! At least not yet. I find that a game that can be equally enjoyed by all is far better than any victory.

Well, I kinda have to play advocatus diaboli here, not necessarily defending this guy but at least explaining why he might not have been a total dick.

First off you say slaanesh and everyone thinks wild pansexual orgies and worse. Let's remember slaanesh also represents the desire to be perfect. Physically, mentally, artistically, etc. All chaos gods have a positive aspect that helps lure people into their bad sides.

As for the sexual thing, two of histories greatest military minds were not hetero sexual. Alexander the great is widely accepted as preferring men, but had children with women as an expected act, and Julius Cesar was known as being bisexual.

As to real military guys playing 40k i've seen it happen and they sometimes try to use real world military acumen in the game. They generally get their asses hammered at first and either get that it's a game and not a military training exercise or ragequit in contempt.

Slaanesh isn't an army i'd lean towards but generally i don't begrudge people their army choices.

I'm not dunking on perceived sexualities, im a lesbian myself. This guy took the sex, drugs, and rock and roll part of Slaanesh very seriously and would constantly talk about creepy stuff like noise marines murder raping things and would often go into graphic details of his sex life ( I was hoping to avoid having to type that so I left it out of my original story). I'm not against the army, I just noticed that some people run with the themes WAY too hard and try to build a lifestyle on it, instead of you know.....enjoying the game.

 Oborosen wrote:
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.

Thankfully I've never seen an actual table flip or even a loud ragequit. If someone flipped a table with my army on it, I'd probably wind up in jail over what happened next. It's a fething game. There's no excuse for destroying someone's property over that.

For me it was entering a tournament for the first time at my FLGS and every single opponent being really nice, helpful and polite. It was awesome, even if I finished 3-4.

You have won the internet, have an exalt.....truly the weirdest experience of them all!

This. For me it was checking out my first Start Collecting and having a tournament-level player ask to be my first game(!), run a terrible list to let my first game be a win(!!), and offer a regular biweekly game (!!!). Over a year later, we play at least once every two weeks, and now I even beat him sometimes.

 Matt Swain wrote:

 Mmmpi wrote:

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One weird event for me was a 'Necrons vs Imperium' megabattle from back in 3rd(?) edition.

One of the players was an IG player who brought a tank company for his list. He was firing through a gap in the terrain, and racking up a decent kill count when one of the necron players landed a monolith in front of his three main tanks.
The IG player had a few options at this point.

A: Move the tanks to regain line of sight. Splitting up a bit so one monolith didn't block LoS to more than one of them.

B: find a way to kill the monolith.

C: Whine about the situation.

I'm sure all of you can guess that he chose (C), and that led to a wave of necrons crushing our left three turns later.

TBH that sounds like just a urine poor player, not really anything 'weird'.

Honestly I'd normally agree with you, and I've felt the same of a few stories here as well.

I guess it was out of character enough for this guy to stand out.

Racerguy180 wrote:
You have won the internet, have an exalt.....truly the weirdest experience of them all!

SirGunslinger wrote:
This. For me it was checking out my first Start Collecting and having a tournament-level player ask to be my first game(!), run a terrible list to let my first game be a win(!!), and offer a regular biweekly game (!!!). Over a year later, we play at least once every two weeks, and now I even beat him sometimes.

Racerguy, thanks! I was surprised because (based on what I had read) I was expecting a fair bit of WAAC. SirGunslinger, glad to see I am not alone in finding some genuine, helpful people in the hobby

The weirdest tabletop experience I have had was a 3rd or 4th edition tournament (can't recall...) early 2000s.

I was playing dark eldar, It was game 2 or 3 and I was playing against a very shooty ork list. A lot of the orks and vehicles had grey uniforms. Later I noticed a lot of the grey uniforms had iron cross symbols. A few turns in some orks disembark from some halftrakk/trukks and they have swastikas and I realize I am playing against a bunch of nazi modeled orks.

It was a little weird at the time.

My second weirdest experience involved the short few years I was part of the video game industry working for a small company called Ripcord games. Our production team went to Games Workshop to discuss work on a gorkamorka video game (it was partially created but never released), when they came back they returned with a large amount of unreleased 3rd edition dark eldar plastic models from the boxed set that GW had let them have and just gave them to me unexpectedly. It was one of the most generous gaming moments I had ever had. This was a positive weird experience.