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As in title.

This was a story my mate told me. It happened at our local gaming club (yes, i am a member), maybe several years back, there was this new fella who apparently joined us, he was quite knowledgeable, but our club spends more time talking than playing so its basically a rowdy convo, ie the veterans chatting shop and dick measuring, anyway, this new fella had a pretty good knowledge of the 30k setting, and then one of our guys made a joke about the scouring and this new guy queried him, so the convo naturally leds towards the immediate aftermath of the SOT (scouring, malcador vapourised, emperor placed on the throne, codex astartes argument, blah blah blah).

New guy lost it, said we were spoiling the story and making gak up blah blah blah how could we know who would win blah blah

anyway, allegedly, the new guy only played 30k and read most of the 30k books and had no clue about 40k. I think i remember seeing several similar crashouts on reddit with similar themes over the last few years in any case, so not entirely unprecedented.

So what other crashouts have you guys seen?

I see a kid throw a dreadnaught through a wall at the mall once. At a GW store, wanted something big and his Mum said no, and some other guys dreadnaught ended up suffering for it. Luckily no one on the other side got hit.

There was also a marriage proposal at a tournament, which was particularly poor timeing. As the girlfriend didn’t particularly like 40K and had been suffering in the heat to be there, definitely wasn’t the time for such things. It went downhill fast and she drove off leaving him stranded, she never come back and he never spoke of her ever again at the shop. So I’m thinking possibly that was the end of the relationship.

I'm not sure if this counts, but it was really gakky for everyone involved...

There was a lady who used to come into our shop and play a Daemons of Chaos army list for Warhammer Fantasy. She had lots of naked Daemonettes in her army (Strange what you remember?)

Her husband was drinking a soda from one of those Super Big Gulp cups from 7-11 and generally hanging out.

What I didn't realize was, that his cup was empty and he was taking blister packs of Battletech miniatures and putting them in the cup and making runs to his car and dumping them off.

Our store manager caught him outside and called the police. He opted to make a break for it and leave.

Yes. He left his wife behind and unaware of what was going on.

She didn't find out until the final round when the cops came to talk to her and she found out that her husband had been arrested for shoplifting and various other fun things.

The police did offer to drive her home.

She separated from him and sold her army. She told us that she never knew if he stole units from shops and gave them to her as gifts.

I can't remember what she played next. But he was banned from the store and we never saw him again.

 Apple fox wrote:
I see a kid throw a dreadnaught through a wall at the mall once. At a GW store, wanted something big and his Mum said no, and some other guys dreadnaught ended up suffering for it. Luckily no one on the other side got hit.

There was also a marriage proposal at a tournament, which was particularly poor timeing. As the girlfriend didn’t particularly like 40K and had been suffering in the heat to be there, definitely wasn’t the time for such things. It went downhill fast and she drove off leaving him stranded, she never come back and he never spoke of her ever again at the shop. So I’m thinking possibly that was the end of the relationship.

I swear i heard the dreadnought story before. Is it a well-known incident? I think i heard someone on reddit mention it

the-gentleman-ranker wrote:

 Apple fox wrote:
I see a kid throw a dreadnaught through a wall at the mall once. At a GW store, wanted something big and his Mum said no, and some other guys dreadnaught ended up suffering for it. Luckily no one on the other side got hit.

There was also a marriage proposal at a tournament, which was particularly poor timeing. As the girlfriend didn’t particularly like 40K and had been suffering in the heat to be there, definitely wasn’t the time for such things. It went downhill fast and she drove off leaving him stranded, she never come back and he never spoke of her ever again at the shop. So I’m thinking possibly that was the end of the relationship.

I swear i heard the dreadnought story before. Is it a well-known incident? I think i heard someone on reddit mention it

I have mentioned it on dakka before. But big metal miniature, I imagine there are more than a few that have been thrown.

I once had an adult try to get into an argument with me (a child at the time) about Romulan Warbirds.

It was one of the GW store's summer days where we yoofs would go in to do painting and building over the summer holidays, so it was a chunk of our usual group, plus some randos, including a couple of adults.

The conversation turns to favourite starship types, one of the other yoofs brings up the D'deridex as their favourite, and as a proud Klingon, I naturally have them the light-hearted ribbing deserved for Romulan sympathisers.

This adult then goes on a loud rant about how that's not the name, and I know nothing about the Warbird, it's the best starship because it could fight the Enterprise, blah blah blah. We all just sit there, kinda stunned, before one of the store guys comes over and has a quiet chat with the guy, who promptly packs up and leaves.

A wife of a regular coming in, seeing him talk to one of the clerks who runs a paint studio. Assume that he is clearly cheating and not asking about prices of comissions. Procede to fight the clerk in middle of the store. Thankfuly with most players here being neither kids, teens or young adults both women got separated with minimal damage to the store and each other.

From what I have been told, the dude got divorced some time after, we also never seen him back at the store ever again. Which was a bummer, because the dude had a ton of stories about his time in border patrol.

Clerk moved to Lodz and works for a paint studio there. No idea what happened to the wife.

I've got a couple, but they're nowhere near as extreme as some of the ones posted above. (Also not sure if they are too connected to the actual game to be considered NON-Gaming, but I've written it all already, so here it is.)

For Warhammer, when I was just getting into the hobby, this would have been back in third edition, (I was around 11 at this time) my friend and I are playing at our local GW store. I'd moved my 5 man Terminator squad into a key position and, I don't remember what he hit me with to try to dislodge them, but I remember having to make 7 5+ invulnerable saves.

I tossed the dice and passed them all. He got so mad he took his red measure stick (the old ones GW used to include in boxes) and smacked me across the hand with it. One of the employees saw and told him to pack up his models and leave the store. I tried to step in saying I wasn't hurt and that we mess around like that every now and again, and that I wasn't upset, but they had a zero tolerance policy so our game was cut short and we had to go home.

I have another from a Magic Tournament, but this will require a little more context.

This was at the New Phyrexia pre-release tournament and I was playing in the semi finals with an acquaintance of mine. I was running Blue/Green/White beatdown and while I hadn't drawn any of my white lands in the first game, I still managed to barely squeak out a win. We go into round two after some side boarding and he drops a Norn's Annex on turn 3, paying 4 life to get it out early. (It's a card that TLDR stops non-white creatures from attacking.) I then proceed to draw and play every powerful white creature in my deck while not getting any of my green or blue ones.

The guy shot up from his chair, ripped his Norn's Annex in half, threw it at me, and stormed out of the store.

I do have to include that I think he was just having a really rough time around then, as I had known him for years before and about a year after, and he was usually a pretty chill dude. Haven't seen him in a while, hope he's doing okay.

Not exactly a crash out but very amusing is when playing MTG Commander, one of my opponent's really don't like the newer art of magic cards and claimed that they really enjoy 80s Magic and believe it was the best of times. Keep in mind that Magic the Gathering came out in 1993 and was very much 90s/2000s fantasy. It was actually pretty innovative for the time.

Now whenever someone renascence with something with a date even more far back than it actually is, I refer to it as 80s Magic.

I actually do the opposite, where things I call "early 90's" actually came out in the 87-89 range. Just an oddity in how cultural trends don't line up with how we like to put things in easily labeled boxes.