Worst conduct experience?

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

What’s the worst conduct you’ve experienced from an opponent?

 

Because the nearest gaming store is like 40minutes away I prefer to play privately.

I invited someone over to my house, where I have a large room dedicated to the hobby.

we took a break from the game, and heading back up the stairs to the game room, and my black lab was excitedly coming with us. I warned him “be careful when she gets excited she might run into your legs by accident” because you know 90lbs hitting your leg on stairs might result in a tumble. His response was “that’s ok, I’ll just step on her” or something along those lines, and proceeded to tell me the story of how his grandmother’s cat stopped running in front of him because he stepped on it.

 

that dude has been blocked and never coming back to my home again.

[Emperor Ming]

I wouldn't invite randomers to game at my house

Ive had two or so bad games at events over the years, where the person is clearly only interested in winning and doesn't give a fig about the lore/hobby/models

But it's not entirely unexpected at events/tournament's

 

 

[Lord_Ikka]

Haven't had too many bad games, but do have some people that I have played who have had bad habits. Examples-

* Bad hygiene. Lots has been said on this topic, nothing more needed.

* Bad proxying. I don't mind if you use count-as or proxy models (I have a bunch of count-as), but they need to be consistent throughout the army. I want to be able to see your army and know that every guy modeled with X gun has a melta, or plasma, or whatever. If you have a bunch of models that are all the same but kitted out different, I'm not happy- I don't need to try to remember every one of your squads' loadouts without some visual distinctions.

* Deliberately mis-interpreting rules. Using rules to apply effects on models that don't have the correct keywords, not using the latest FAQ even though they know it is out, etc... I especially can't stand that on wannabe WAAC guys, who try to play off the opponent not knowing their army's rules.

* Using mis-matched/difficult to read dice. Might just be a personal thing, but I get quite annoyed with some of the novelty dice out there that are so decorated or with such weird color combos that I can't instantly read the roll. That, and having every single die you use be from a different set- really, really annoying when I have to interpret twelve different styles of dice when you roll.

Edited September 16, 2022 by Lord_Ikka

[Urauloth]

Probably the guy who refused to play against Jewish players and liked to scatter change on the floor and say he was "testing" if his opponents were Jewish, since "a Jew would be compelled to pick the shekels up".

Then again I have to count fistfights, model smashing, death threats, book throwing, sexual harassment, gang recruitment and conspiracy to commit terrorism among the awful conduct I've witnessed and experienced around the gaming table over the years. I never play with people I don't know anymore.

[Sugarlessllama]

1 hour ago, Urauloth said:

Probably the guy who refused to play against Jewish players and liked to scatter change on the floor and say he was "testing" if his opponents were Jewish, since "a Jew would be compelled to pick the shekels up".

Yeah, I played against a guy that really spent the game telling me about how white men were the most oppressed people in the world. I laughed because I thought he was trying to be funny... he was not.

Since I didn't really want to get into an argument in the middle of the game store, so I just let him go on his little rant. It was one of the most exhausting games I have ever played.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

1 hour ago, Urauloth said:

Probably the guy who refused to play against Jewish players and liked to scatter change on the floor and say he was "testing" if his opponents were Jewish, since "a Jew would be compelled to pick the shekels up".

Then again I have to count fistfights, model smashing, death threats, book throwing, sexual harassment, gang recruitment and conspiracy to commit terrorism among the awful conduct I've witnessed and experienced around the gaming table over the years. I never play with people I don't know anymore.

Where are you playing at? 

[Grotsmasha]

Me. I was the sore loser.

Having only played with friends in 2nd edition previously (my friends all gave it up) a diffent friend had been pestering for a game for quite a while sometime about 7th Ed. So he was all like bring some models and I'll points match what you bring. We started with a Fantasy game of High Elves vs Orcs (I was Orcs) we both had a comparable knowldge / understanding of the rules, and had a blast, great game, was total annihilation on both sides, 1 model left on the table, my chariot trying to line up a charge on his Mage, he won, but we both enjoyed.
Then we moved onto 40k, he was Guard, I don't even recall what I was, probably Marines of some descript. Following on from the first game I was expecting more of the same. I deployed first, and kinda just plonked my dudes down like I had in 2nd, expecting a friendly.  NOPE. Knowing full well I had no idea of the basics of the rules, and hadn't played in 5 editions, he tabled me 1st or 2nd turn. I was not enjoying the game very much, and he could tell, I was going through the motions of playing, but had lost all interest after I saw his deployment and first round of shooting.
I knew at the time I wasn't "being a good sport" but I felt taken advantage of.
If I couldn't even have a good game with a friend, I sure as hell wasn't going to be playing randoms, and that is the story of my last ever game of 40k.

[Lord_Ikka]

7 minutes ago, Grotsmasha said:

If I couldn't even have a good game with a friend, I sure as hell wasn't going to be playing randoms, and that is the story of my last ever game of 40k.

I would say in your description of the game, your "friend" was the jerk. I've done plenty of demo games with friends, which is basically what that was, and while they don't usually win, that isn't the point of the game. When you play with someone who has little/no knowledge of the rules (or in your case extremely outdated knowledge), you don't play to win against them. You need to go into teaching mode, to instruct and support the new gamer- otherwise you'll wind up having exactly what happened to you Grot, someone gets table, has a bad experience/taste of the game, and never plays again. That's not the way to do things, and is indicitive of someone who doesn't want to eventually get another gaming partner out of the experience, but just a cheap win.

[Dagoth Ur]

A player once pulled out some ketamine at the table and when questioned upon it, responded with "It's just a bit of ket. You want some?"

The interaction itself wasn't even that poor. He was as polite about it as you can be and made no noises to the contrary when asked to put the stuff away. It was genuinely bizarre.

 

In terms of genuinely poor interaction; I once saw a player get trashed with a folding chair at a private event. Never found out why. There was just a flash of off-white and that sound of hard plastic hitting a cranium that ought to be familiar to anyone who watched WWE.

Edited September 16, 2022 by Dagoth Ur

[Special Officer Doofy]

I often do Ketamine when I play Warhammer 40k but I'm nice enough to offer some to my opponents. When asked to put it away I make no noises about it though.

There was another time at a private event someone was running their mouth and I took care of them with a folding chair WWE style.

 

Haha I kid. But some of you play in some rough areas, jeez! My worst experience is just template arguing with rando's, nothing too personal. Luckily templates went away and most of the guys in my group (myself included) have our own gaming tables at our houses now so no more rando's.

[Firedrake Cordova]

Wow ... @Inquisitor_Lensoven, @Urauloth, @Sugarlessllama, and @Dagoth Ur, you have my sympathies - those are some pretty appalling interactions you were subjected to 

9 hours ago, Lord_Ikka said:

* Using mis-matched/difficult to read dice. Might just be a personal thing, but I get quite annoyed with some of the novelty dice ... I can't instantly read the roll.

The struggle is real with this one - I like pretty dice, but so many of them are just problematic to "read" quickly. 

[Wulf Vengis]

Wow, my worst rando experience is probably WAAC rules lawyers types, but you guys, you win this one.

I will add however if I'm playing against the douchey rules lawyer* or the WAAC player I'll tend to be just as disrespectful back at them. Moving things and declaring shots and charges without measuring or with quick measuring* scooping dice without first reading them and generally letting them argue with themselves. If they want to play that way than I'll let them do all the number crunching and heavy lifting for me.

 

* Some rules lawyers are only trying to ensure that all players are aware of the rules and don't use that knowledge for personal gain.

[BLACK BLΠFLY]

I recently had an experience the opponent didn’t want to wait for me to look up the FAQ for an important rule. He was very rude and insisted he was right even though I knew he was wrong having read the FAQ. It’s like he was trying to intimidate me into accepting his interpretation. It was right at the start of the second turn so I just packed up my stuff and left to go hang out with some friends instead of wasting anymore time with that douche.

[Valkyrion]

It's not like taking drugs or being hit over the head, but at least those two examples are one and done. It's far worse playing with someone who doesn't really do anything terrible, but does everything terribly.  I used to know a guy who would roll any 2D6 roll one at a time, to see if he needed to roll the second dice or not. He'd also alternate picking up successes and failures for hit and wound rolls, and most inanely of all, once brought two sets of near identical dice with him to a game with skulls in place of 1's on one set and skulls in place of 6's on the other. He didn't mix and match them or anything, but he'd use one set in turn two if he felt the first set were letting him down.  He was a cracking chap, really funny and likeable, supported Burnley, listened to Slayer, loved 40k, but utterly awful to play against.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

Also my gf used to play with an ex of hers, but she’s…way too competitive and aggressive when she plays according to her stories.

she always beat him and when she killed a model she’d flick it over.

….we don’t play together lol

[Guest]

Back in my less tolerant days I played a CSM player 33 going on 10 who was just so obnoxious.

He spent most of his time with the puerile Ultramarines insults, for almost 60 minutes he just would not shut up, I invited this :cuss: into my house, fed him beforehand.
By the end I told him just to pack his crap up and leave.

At first I thought I might have overreacted but it turned out he did it again to another of my friends.

He also had such a childish name for his Warband too which I will not be repeating.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

5 minutes ago, Brother Captain Arkley said:

Back in my less tolerant days I played a CSM player 33 going on 10 who was just so obnoxious.

He spent most of his time with the puerile Ultramarines insults, for almost 60 minutes he just would not shut up, I invited this into my house, fed him beforehand.
By the end I told him just to pack his crap up and leave.

At first I thought I might have overreacted but it turned out he did it again to another of my friends.

He also had such a childish name for his Warband too which I will not be repeating.

oh man i wanna hear this warband name! you can't end the story on a cliff hanger like that!

[BLACK BLΠFLY]

Don’t do it !!

[Valkia the Bloody]

As I am a female player, who has been in the game for more than 20 years, I could write a book about it.

Name a gamer cliche you can think of, and I am sure I have experienced it.

In all seriousness, I actually had some nice personal chats about my experiences with Jervis Johnson (nice guy!).

Anyways, I am not going to spoil the mood, because I have always been a good sport about it and preferred to just ignore some reactions and comments. Some things are just not worth bothering about.

So I am going to share an actually kind of sweet story, and maybe the weirdest gaming story I have ever experienced in my more than 20 years.

After my gaming circle got to know me, they actually welcomed and accepted me (I am still friends with some after all these years!) and even after I tried to pull some legs by painting my brand new Blood Angels army PINK and called them the "Pink Angels", we all had a big laugh. I mainly played the whole "Pink Angels" thing straight and even won "best painted" at a tournament! (it was not a "Hello Kitty" army, but a straight Blood Angels army, just that every marine, including Sangiunary Guard, was painted a bada$$ shade of pink).

Anyways, I rocked up to a tournament with my Pink Angels and all went well, and then after a couple of games, my next opponent I got assigned.... was a huge bearded biker metal  guy playing Crimson Fists. He was sporting a black eye from a bar fight he had the night before. I was like "okay.....". So we played, and I do not know, maybe the guy was hungover or something, but his play was appalling. I was beating this guy, and I was not even trying. Next thing I knew, he started crying. Because he was losing against the girl.

I was shocked and did not know what to do with myself. Never had happened to me before and not since! And I just could not fathom this guy, twice the size of myself, crying! So I told him to calm down first, tried to do some small talk by chatting about his army and paint job and the nice presentation board he made for it. So we finally reached a spot where we were comfortable with each other.

I still won the game very easily (it was a tournament, after all!) but at least, no more tears and drama.

And afterwards, we even headed out for a friendly beer.

He was actually a very nice guy. And that bar fight apparently was just a bit of misunderstanding.

 

[BLACK BLΠFLY]

Great story !!!

[Slave to Darkness]

22 hours ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

and proceeded to tell me the story of how his grandmother’s cat stopped running in front of him because he stepped on it.

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Id have dreadsocked him, I like cats.

 

I did have someone clean the crap out from under their nails with the sword tip of one of MY minis, he got catapulted straight through the door of my flat followed by his army case. Guy smelled like a sewer as well, took me all day to get his stench out of the living room. 

[Slave to Darkness]

3 hours ago, Brother Captain Arkley said:

Back in my less tolerant days I played a CSM player 33 going on 10 who was just so obnoxious.

He spent most of his time with the puerile Ultramarines insults, for almost 60 minutes he just would not shut up, I invited this into my house, fed him beforehand.
By the end I told him just to pack his crap up and leave.

At first I thought I might have overreacted but it turned out he did it again to another of my friends.

He also had such a childish name for his Warband too which I will not be repeating.

Damn I like to poke fun at Ultramarine players, but its always been light hearted, mostly when we have inter faction painting comps here like the ETL. Being a Word Bearer player a bit of banter against my sworn enemy now and again is fun, and (nobody repeat this) some of the best painted armies I have ever seen have been Ultramarnes, just look at Apologists Praetors of Calth, they are straight up beautiful!! Wouldnt purposefully take the piss outta someone though over their army,  and to do it in someones home, thats just damn rude. You did the right thing there even if your armour is the wrong colour... Its supposed to be red with spikes dammit!!! 

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

13 minutes ago, Slave to Darkness said:

Id have dreadsocked him, I like cats.

 

I did have someone clean the crap out from under their nails with the sword tip of one of MY minis, he got catapulted straight through the door of my flat followed by his army case. Guy smelled like a sewer as well, took me all day to get his stench out of the living room. 

He’s so lucky my gf wasn’t home to hear that.

1. She loves our pets unconditionally, and I’ve seen her square up with a German Shepard armed with nothing but cold coffee to protect that dog.

2. She’s a Buddhist but doesn’t consider animal abusers living creatures.

 

I can’t imagine the entitlement some people have. Like why did he even have his hands on your model in the first place?

[Iron Father Ferrum]

Back in the day, when I played Flames of War, I had an opponent who would flick the turret off of every one of my tanks that he killed "because they're dead."  I politely asked him to stop, and he laughed it off.  Then the next turn when he did it again, I literally grabbed his wrist and threatened to break his fingers if he touched my models again.  This was in my Army days and I was quite strong, and I apparently had a strong enough vice grip on his arm that he believed me.

 

Other than that, there's just the usual array of cheaters and basement trolls who desperately needed a bath.

[Captain Idaho]

OK I got a bad one...

I was at a 4th edition 40K Throne of Skulls (maybe 5th... I'm getting advanced in years) and my first opponent had about 40 different types of dice of all colours, styles and sizes. For his Vindicare Assassin he had a white die that was mysteriously lucky and then turn 3 I noticed it moved erratically and I said "what's the deal with that die"? To which he picked up the multitudes of dice that he left scattered on the table and I never saw that again.

Since I was young back then I let it slide but as a 38 year old I'd sure as hell wouldn't now!

And the worst part of it? He got a job later that year in the Warhammer World store and even made it into a pic on the GW Jobs website!