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Given that you lose one game, do you have the most fun when you:

A: Lose in the first round
B: Lose in the second round
or
C: Lose in the finals?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470669.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470669.page GMT Best time to lose
Largely because you can then relax and enjoy subsequent games, rather than feeling the stress of still trying to remain undefeated. Also, you get to play "easier" games in the later rounds, which means you're more likely to play against armies that aren't the top-tier-of-the-month type. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470685.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470685.page GMT Best time to lose http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470691.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470691.page GMT Best time to lose
Meph]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470731.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470731.page GMT Best time to lose http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470776.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470776.page GMT Best time to lose http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470786.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470786.page GMT Best time to lose
You start out good, and you're all heroic (as winning 40k makes you a hero), then things turn against you, and you lose, and it looks like you're done for, but then you pull it up and win the final game, and you're a hero again.

All good plotlines go like this.
Just look at Star Wars (the real movies, not those new ones).]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470787.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470787.page GMT Best time to lose
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Techboss wrote:If I am going to loose, I prefer it to be the first game. Makes the rest of the tournament much better. I hate loosing second and usually loose the last game to the cheese list with a cheese mission. Nothing like playing take and hold against anti-marine guard.

Is this just joking around? How can a mission be cheese?
IG aren't really the greatest cheese warehouse either.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470948.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470948.page GMT Best time to lose
Orkeosaurus wrote:Is this just joking around? How can a mission be cheese?
IG aren't really the greatest cheese warehouse either.

I'm talking 4th edition, with virtually no terrain. Every guard player in my local group at the time played las plas gun line. I had one mission where there was a defended, guard, and one assaulter, me. Love having to run across open terrain into that crap. Guard player never moved, which is my biggest "you get no sports score issue".]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470982.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470982.page GMT Best time to lose http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470995.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470995.page GMT Best time to lose
Techboss wrote:I'm talking 4th edition, with virtually no terrain. Every guard player in my local group at the time played las plas gun line. I had one mission where there was a defended, guard, and one assaulter, me. Love having to run across open terrain into that crap. Guard player never moved, which is my biggest "you get no sports score issue".


Wow, seriously? What did you want the guard player to do? Try to charge you in assault just to "mix it up"? Do random maneuvering that wouldn't help him? That's like saying that I'm giving you a 0 on sports, because your assault squads tried to assault me.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470997.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/470997.page GMT Best time to lose
ph34r wrote:Wow, seriously? What did you want the guard player to do? Try to charge you in assault just to "mix it up"? Do random maneuvering that wouldn't help him? That's like saying that I'm giving you a 0 on sports, because your assault squads tried to assault me.

I hate playing armies that sit in their deployment zone the whole game. It irks me to no end. Is it fair to some armies, probably not. Either way, I find it extremely annoying for a player to move no more than 1 squad for the entire game. I find it equally annoying when playing such armies, that the player will set up all the terrain they place on the table edges. Again, is this fair to the army, probably not. As I find both of these actions beyond annoying, I refuse to play these armies most of the time. The only exception is some one playing a fluffy army (non-las plas) or some one I like. Basically, if your playing las plas, don't move, set up all the terrain on board edges and aren't friendly, I'll give you low sportsmanship. Fair, probably not, but I sure as hell didn't have fun in the game.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/471015.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/471015.page GMT Best time to lose http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/471116.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/471116.page GMT Best time to lose
Techboss wrote:
Orkeosaurus wrote:Is this just joking around? How can a mission be cheese?
IG aren't really the greatest cheese warehouse either.

I'm talking 4th edition, with virtually no terrain. Every guard player in my local group at the time played las plas gun line. I had one mission where there was a defended, guard, and one assaulter, me. Love having to run across open terrain into that crap. Guard player never moved, which is my biggest "you get no sports score issue".


Techboss wrote:

I hate playing armies that sit in their deployment zone the whole game. It irks me to no end. Is it fair to some armies, probably not. Either way, I find it extremely annoying for a player to move no more than 1 squad for the entire game. I find it equally annoying when playing such armies, that the player will set up all the terrain they place on the table edges. Again, is this fair to the army, probably not. As I find both of these actions beyond annoying, I refuse to play these armies most of the time. The only exception is some one playing a fluffy army (non-las plas) or some one I like. Basically, if your playing las plas, don't move, set up all the terrain on board edges and aren't friendly, I'll give you low sportsmanship. Fair, probably not, but I sure as hell didn't have fun in the game.



You don't sound like a very fun opponent anyway.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/471146.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/471146.page GMT Best time to lose
Techboss
I hate playing armies that sit in their deployment zone the whole game. It irks me to no end. Is it fair to some armies, probably not. Either way, I find it extremely annoying for a player to move no more than 1 squad for the entire game. I find it equally annoying when playing such armies, that the player will set up all the terrain they place on the table edges. Again, is this fair to the army, probably not. As I find both of these actions beyond annoying, I refuse to play these armies most of the time. The only exception is some one playing a fluffy army (non-las plas) or some one I like. Basically, if your playing las plas, don't move, set up all the terrain on board edges and aren't friendly, I'll give you low sportsmanship. Fair, probably not, but I sure as hell didn't have fun in the game./quote wrote:


I know what you mean. I really hate people that play to their armies strength. I think all IG armies should charge full bore into Demon and Ork armies without firing a shot. If their tanks shoot, then I really take them to the cleaners on sports scores to show the rotten bastage a lesson, unless the templates land on IG units of course.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/471173.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/471173.page GMT Best time to lose
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Redbeard wrote:I think A.

Largely because you can then relax and enjoy subsequent games, rather than feeling the stress of still trying to remain undefeated. Also, you get to play "easier" games in the later rounds, which means you're more likely to play against armies that aren't the top-tier-of-the-month type.


Word-for-word what I would have said, too.

In any gaming tournament (not just GW) that I've been in - once you lose the first round, and see some of the scores and realize that you're pretty much out of the running - the situation seems to just kinda relax all on its own.

Most of the players that I know who play ultra-competitively, get more and more tense the further (and higher) they go in a tournament. Building up hopes and expectations and having them dashed in the final round, at least for me, is worse than losing in the first round and not having that build-up.

Then again, I rarely play in tournaments of any kind anymore, either. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/471709.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/224234/471709.page GMT