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My favorite tournament moment was when me and a friend organised our first and only tournament in 4th ed. A notorious local fuckwit was running a 200+ model count tyranid army and he got matched against his younger brother who was running IG Armoured company in the last game. Fuckwit won a couple of games of the tournament simply by being unable to complete all the turns of the game and after the tournament I found he he refused to let people help him with moving his miniatures. So he plays his younger brother and gets loving annihilated by turn 5 and he is just cracking the shits big time, constantly calling us over to verify really basic rules. This guy was the dorm master at a boarding school and thought he was boss man of everything. End of match, tallying up sportsmanship points and Fuckwit gives his own brother a zero for sports. I pulled him aside and asked why and he claimed he cheated and had an illegal, cheesy list. The armoured company list was actually weak as gently caress, legal and got stomped multiple times by other players, it was just a lovely match up for Fuckwit. End of the tourney when announcing best sports we also mentioned who had the lowest sportsmanship scores and of course it was Fuckwit. We wouldn't have have announced the score for lowest, that fact would be in the results and tallies we released after the tournament but gently caress that guy. He then started his own club and the 30 year old would only play with high school kids in his boarding dorms after that. Edit- I just remember that his excuse for not letting people move his models was because he paid to have his army painted and didn't want it damaged. He did indeed pay to have it painted, 50c a model by the kids boarding in his dorm, and they looked like poo poo. Big Willy Style fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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That is a spectacular meltdown. Good work. Sometimes I feel sad for the guys who so clearly have nothing else in their life except for winning at toy soldiers, then I remember they're usually gigantic dickheads and I don't feel so bad any more. e: Not a dickhead but a funny one, this guy I played at an escalation tournament in the final game (2000pts). He was running horde Orks and he'd had a good day in a fairly weak field, and he was clearly a big fish in a small pond at his local club. This guy kept talking up how many Orks he had and how hard they hit in combat and how he had x and y and z and no-one had ever been able to deal with all of it etc. etc. I had an absolutely vicious Guard list which he clearly had never seen anything like with, among other things, shitloads of heavy flamers. I tabled him (or as good as, I think there were like 3 Boyz hiding in cover somewhere) and the poor guy looked distraught. Living Image fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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One time I beat a guy so badly he just left and never came back.
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Jul 31, 2017 14:45
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Corrode posted:That is a spectacular meltdown. Good work. I hope you leaned over the table and whispered to him "Where is your Gork now?" Deptfordx fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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Jul 31, 2017 14:45
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He then subsequently punched him in the face and said he follows Mork.
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Deptfordx posted:I hope you leaned over the table and whispered to him "Where is your Gork now?" I only wish I'd had the presence of mind to do this.
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goose willis posted:Everything I've ever heard about tournaments and the people that participate in them makes me really want to stay the gently caress away from them The one tournament I played in was great. The guys were super nice, but my AdMech force got loving annihilated two games in a row, and once I had to pick up half my army by turn 2 because of 3 conversion beamers just wrecking my poo poo. I'm glad templates are gone. I ended up just conceding the last game. panascope posted:One time I beat a guy so badly he just left and never came back. Oh poo poo, was it me? Deptfordx posted:I hope you leaned over the table and whispered to him "Where is your Gork now?"  Zuul the Cat fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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Jul 31, 2017 15:14
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I used to think 40k in particular had something about it that attracted the worst of the worst gamers. Now I think its just that when you're the biggest game around and the default choice, you will get the worst examples just on average.
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JoshTheStampede posted:I used to think 40k in particular had something about it that attracted the worst of the worst gamers. Now I think its just that when you're the biggest game around and the default choice, you will get the worst examples just on average. Pretty much this. From personal experience though, no game has a greater average of twats than Warmahordes does.
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Jul 31, 2017 15:23
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SteelMentor posted:Pretty much this. This is true. The game intentionally fosters a culture of tournament-level precise dickery that has always pushed me away. I think the presence of that same culture is what has pushed me away from Guildball, even if they players are nicer.
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JoshTheStampede posted:This is true. The game intentionally fosters a culture of tournament-level precise dickery that has always pushed me away. I think the presence of that same culture is what has pushed me away from Guildball, even if they players are nicer. Exactly what's preventing me from getting back into Guildball, the only group that plays it around here is the local Warmahordes scene and I'd rather gnaw my own leg off than spend five minutes willingly with that gang of tryhards, neckbeards and pedos.
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The only event I've really been involved with was a narrative campaign in 5th ed up at Warhammer World, and I had a blast. Highlight was the last game, which was a 4v4 with 1000 points each. We were the bottom table with one guy on our team having played since 2nd and coming along for a laugh bringing his old Ultramarines. His two 6 man razorback squads with no power weapons took out 10 bloodletters in combat, much to the dismay/amusement of the Daemon player opposite, who clearly couldn't stand for that kind of beating and dropped down his Bloodcrushers to finish off the Tactical Squad. What remained of the Tactical Squad charged and pushed their poo poo in, with only the sergeant left. The Ultramarine player on my team then decided he didn't like being allied with Necrons (our team was 3 marine players and my Necron army) and promptly charged my C'tan in our assault phase. We agreed if he killed my C'tan we'd get the VP but if not, our opponents would. Unsurprisingly he got his rear end kicked but it was a great moment that summed up the whole weekend.
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panascope posted:One time I beat a guy so badly he just left and never came back. I heard it was so badly that he even had to move to a different city.
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In 6th Ed, the TO's wife couldn't believe that the only decent Ork anti-armor (Deathrolla) would just land hits when my Battlewagon charged her panzee floaty-tank.  She spent like 20-30 minutes looking for some obscure ruling on a 4th or 5th ed similar situation to determine whether her tank's save was for the whole shebang or per-hit, and at some point the TO was just like, "We need to move on and you need to stop acting like such a bitch, honey." Warp Spiders ate the thing next turn anyway, and she beat me by a point. I landed best painted for some boyz, lootas, and tanks.
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I once played some git allegedly called Hail Tim and insisted that you say the entire thing in a over-dramatic way when you tried to get his attention. He played a 3 Heldrake list with Cultist spam which looked like he'd painted his army by dumping several pots of enamel on each poor model and was generally just a twat about everything. Twice I had to call over a judge because he spotted someone he knew across the gaming hall and ran off to go glomp them, or to go awkwardly hit on the two girls selling mangy neon-coloured wolf-tails by the vendors corner. All in all a poo poo game, though the look on his face when a plucky little cultist on my side smashed his last Heldrake out of the sky with a Quad-Autocannon was priceless.
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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/07/31/legion-focus-emperors-children So for the emperors children they always strike first in melee, and when charged you alternate between chargers and their stuff like regular melee before getting to everything else.
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Also Possessed get an extra wound, and they have a psychic power which buffs a unit with 5+ FNP. Plus for 2CP one of your units can shoot twice in the shooting phase.
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I picked up a box of scout snipers as an impulse buy at the shop and now I'm kinda tempted to get telion for those mortal wounds on a 5+ for the squad. E: ah wait never mind, mis-read, telions just to hit.
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This EC poo poo looks awesome. Now we just need a noise marine resculpt and I can go all in on them. Always wanted to do a noise marine list.
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The most important release coming in August:
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quote:If you’re wandering where the Death Guard and Thousand Sons are, don’t panic! Both these armies are getting codexes of their own.  GW really is pushing the greed with all these poo poo tons of indexes and codexes. Rather than make the rules cheaper and focus on the models, they are doubling down on charging an arm and a leg to get the full playable rules. Jesus Christ. quote:Emperor's Children specific Slaanesh psyker power: I mean, that's good but like holy poo poo is it boring. Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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Zaphod42 posted:
But you see, the power has a Slaaneshi name instead of just calling it FNP so it's a good mechanic
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Zaphod42 posted:
Hey look, a Zaphod42 post that is just mewling shite about evil GW. Fresh.
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poo poo, how long have people been asking for possessed to get two wounds? Now they might finally be the babby Gal Vorbak they should have been all along. They probably still have random attacks though and that mechanic just sucks.ijyt posted:The most important release coming in August:   Zaphod42 posted:
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how dare he criticise gw edit: its ok because they've done this before too
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Pierzak posted:The shoulderpad color scheme looks Nazi as gently caress, especially with black armor, is it intentional? It's the official assault scheme which I didn't really catch until after... But the sergeant is a black guy, which hopefully stops them from telegraphing that I want to engage in clean wehrmacht fantasies or discuss the "good stuff Hitler did."
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ijyt posted:The most important release coming in August: Good, this is awesome as hell. I just bought a set of 30 human skulls to add to my bases. I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH SKULLS.
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Soulfucker posted:how dare he criticise gw Almost all he ever does here is poo poo his pants and smear it all over his keyboard. It's not that he is criticising GW, it is that he's doing it yet again and his criticism is asinine.
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Lets be fair, the codex thing is kind of annoying. The index pricing had me hoping we'd get away from throwing down 50 dollars each time someone wanted to try a new army. Especially when the Index (the regularly FAQ'd and errata'd Index) having all these data sheets already somewhat devalues the codex and any new releases also come with their sheets. If you were paying $50 for 8th edition rules in totality that'd be one thing, but $50 dollars for what amounts to chapter tactics, stratagems, and psyker powers is a lot iffier. You could put that on an index card, I'm fairly sure.
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Soulfucker posted:how dare he criticise gw lol thanks dude Lovely Joe Stalin posted:Almost all he ever does here is poo poo his pants and smear it all over his keyboard. It's not that he is criticising GW, it is that he's doing it yet again and his criticism is asinine. Dude can you loving relax? Look at my post history that isn't even half of what I post about ITT. Calm your poo poo. The Bee posted:Lets be fair, the codex thing is kind of annoying. The index pricing had me hoping we'd get away from throwing down 50 dollars each time someone wanted to try a new army. Especially when the Index (the regularly FAQ'd and errata'd Index) having all these data sheets already somewhat devalues the codex and any new releases also come with their sheets. If you were paying $50 for 8th edition rules in totality that'd be one thing, but $50 dollars for what amounts to chapter tactics, stratagems, and psyker powers is a lot iffier. You could put that on an index card, I'm fairly sure. They should be moving towards free rules and having more of it online so they can update things faster for balance, and get new players into the game. Having to buy multiple books creates a huge barrier to entry into the hobby that I know intimidates lots of people who might otherwise pick up a unit and start painting. And having to buy a new codex every year or few months to stay competitive is frustrating. Not to mention this all exacerbates the problem where your opponent has lots of abilities you've never heard of unless you're willing to buy every codex they release, which is prohibitively expensive. Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:Almost all he ever does here is poo poo his pants and smear it all over his keyboard. It's not that he is criticising GW, it is that he's doing it yet again and his criticism is asinine. But you see, everyone should get more stuff, and also it should cost less, and anything else is GW GREED
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I simultaneously like GW and think they're retarded and bad. Am I allowed to post?
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Hixson posted:I simultaneously like GW and think they're retarded and bad. Am I allowed to post? Apparently not  post anyways gently caress them 
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Safety Factor posted:poo poo, how long have people been asking for possessed to get two wounds? Now they might finally be the babby Gal Vorbak they should have been all along. They probably still have random attacks though and that mechanic just sucks. I've a 10 man squad of Possessed that I've literally never used. 2 wounds would be tempting but random attacks is still a deal breaker for me. I really hate that whole mechanic, Obliterators now having stupid random gun stats equally pisses me off.
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Corrode posted:But you see, everyone should get more stuff, and also it should cost less, and anything else is GW GREED I mean, kind of? GW tends to say they're doing something to lower costs, and then keep costs the same or even raise them. Finecast? Prices stayed even. Plastic? Prices stayed even. Monopose hero units with less options? $35 for a single Captain. I think it's important rule writers are paid for their rules and model makers are paid for their models, but GW has always been the most expensive end of the hobby and they don't always seem too eager to change that fact. I'm hoping their new focus on online errata and quick rule updates is going to help with that on the rule end of things, at least. I'm not thrilled about $50 codices instead of say, $25 ones, but if those codices stay relevant for all of 8th and are screened for typos and balance alike GW is already miles ahead of where they were in the past.
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The Bee posted:I mean, kind of? GW tends to say they're doing something to lower costs, and then keep costs the same or even raise them. Finecast? Prices stayed even. Plastic? Prices stayed even. Monopose hero units with less options? $35 for a single Captain. I think it's important rule writers are paid for their rules and model makers are paid for their models, but GW has always been the most expensive end of the hobby and they don't always seem too eager to change that fact. Do they actually say they are doing things to lower costs, or do we as players just assume thats the explanation?
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Hixson posted:I simultaneously like GW and think they're bad same The Bee posted:I mean, kind of? GW tends to say they're doing something to lower costs, and then keep costs the same or even raise them. Finecast? Prices stayed even. Plastic? Prices stayed even. Monopose hero units with less options? $35 for a single Captain. I think it's important rule writers are paid for their rules and model makers are paid for their models, but GW has always been the most expensive end of the hobby and they don't always seem too eager to change that fact. As long as they're hardcover I get why they're $50. I'd rather have softcover $25 books, though. I love the rapid FAQs, errata, and updates though. Those skulls are loving rad and I'm going to buy at least one box of them. Artum posted:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/07/31/legion-focus-emperors-children All of this looks real good to me. Also today on Atia's Blog, someone posted a bunch of info on the other legion rules pulled from the upcoming White Dwarf: - Night Lords: -1 to Ld for each NL unit with 6" (supposedly stacks) - Iron Warriors: Some bonus vs. units in cover, bonus while being shot in cover - Word Bearers: Re-roll Morale tests - Black Legion: +1 Ld, bonus for Advancing and shooting - World Eaters: Auto pass morale checks while in melee - Alpha Legion: Infiltrate/deep strike units more than 12" away from enemy units And apparently the NL strategem gives shooting attacks against them -1 to hit
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Serotonin posted:Lower their costs not ours Exactly. No company lowers costs so that they can lower prices, unless there's significant competition which means they need to lower prices to survive. Whenever GW talks about lowering their costs, it's in investor reports, and the intended audience for those is shareholders looking to see their wealth is being maximised, not gamers.
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