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Post by t⊗theark on May 13, 2013 6:05:47 GMT
1- Ball joints on your Dark Eldar skimmer. I mean just why GW? What is the point? For positioning I pressume, I've seen some very clever things done with the opportunity given by those posable connections.
I hate slightly warped stuff, stuff to insignificant to send back but with leave.... THAT GAP! The models designed for wobbliness. You know the ones. The zoanthropes, the C'tans, that new tau commander. I mean I play Imperial guard primarily so it never occoured as a problem (even the oval base keeps my flyers consistantly upright) but I took up tyranids - the first time I fielded hormagaunts  Cutting my fingers with an exacto knife. Probably 6th edition's fleshbane rule incarnate. I hate glueing different materials togther. Resin to resin, plastic to plastic, pewter to pewter - this workds, it binds, these marriages last into a ripe old faithful age. Assembling some of my armoured sentinels though, they just will not stick! You're holding these two pieces of overpriced material together for half a minutes and you take your hand off an nothing! Ah! Gluing things to bases. Fairdinkum, just stay there! People who are WYSIWYG Anarcho-communistic nationalist Nazi Fascist Satanists. (please do not swear) you, GW did not make the kit to host both wings and two weapon options unless you're including scything hooves of hard-to-walk-on. Yes, the warlord of my imperial guard, the primaris psyker, is a sorcerer of nurgle. Let it go, if you didn't notice that the iconography on the rest of my army aren't exactly completely faithful to the ecclesiachal religion to it makes sense. Trying to glue the arm that is supporting the firearm to line up. Not a nightmare but certainly tedious and annoying. Unreachable bits of sprue and flash. "Why didn't you clean this part of your Leman Russ/chimera/valkyrie better?" You buy the kit, you clip it out. Ask me then. I have a Macharius Heavy Tank done up is slaaneshi iconography, it's my crown jewel and if I weren't infertile I'd love it more than my future children. Forgeworld, why do your parts come with BRICKS of resin attached? I mean imagine that there was flash on your next hiveguard the physical size of a small brick. But with tougher resin. And it's riveted on. After being finished than realising you've glued two of your fingers together. That cramp you get in your model holding hand when painting. That cramp you get in your painting hand when painting. When you've accidentally applied just a tiny bit too much plastic glue to a join or something, it leakes over and ruins some detail. Overly detailed models. A bought (for a (please do not swear) steal) the chosen, the helbrute and the lord out of the Dark Vengence kit because I'm looking to run some allies with my guard. How? HOW? I don't have the muscle control for this, I have commissars with less detail, did you imprint a fractal onto the mold? That's near impossible, someone else can do that for me. I once had a seizure while gluing chains and skulls and grimdarkness to my tank. I was shirtless at the time because Australia + summer = 40*C. Waking up hypoxic is already confusing as hell, waking up hypoxic with a manticore glued directly to your chest is fairdinkum scaryconfusing to the nth degree. How bloodletter heads go together, anyone as perplexed as I was? Instructions that fold out to turn out being the area of a tennis court. The person who thought that this was a good idea will be beaten mercilessly with spaghetti. |
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Post by swarmy on May 13, 2013 15:55:32 GMT
I hate how metal models always seem to chip on the most painstakingly blended sections forcing me to mix paint to color match.
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Post by Yuno on May 13, 2013 17:21:36 GMT
Well I've been out of it for awhile...buuuut
1. The way a room full of gamers smells at a tourney. (Seriously, there needs to be an enforced shower, body spray, and deodorant rule for those events.)
2. The impossible hive tyrant model and how no matter what you do to it, it always breaks upon transportation or looking at it the wrong way. (WHO THE (please do not swear) THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO MAKE IT METAL?)
3. The amount of glue on your cuticles after a gluing session.
4. Arguing about synapse range with people. (Seriously, are we really going to quibble about a quarter of a centimeter. Why are we wasting this time?)
5. Listening to babies cry about the Doom of Malantai's abilities when the codex first hit.
6. Listening to people call all codexi over-powered.
7. Trying to spot the difference between enchanted blue and ultramarine blue.
8. cutting myself with a razor blade while trying to clean metal models.
9. Having to set up and move large quantities of gaunts and hormagaunts because that was one of the viable lists back when I played.
10. Those retarded red measuring sticks you get from GW for measuring. (Seriously, they have extra length on them!)
11. The masculine inability to lose to a short 16 year old female with pig-tails. (Okay, maybe it was cruel to wear pig-tails but still....)
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Post by indecission on May 13, 2013 19:24:25 GMT
Well I've been out of it for awhile...buuuut 1. The way a room full of gamers smells at a tourney. (Seriously, there needs to be an enforced shower, body spray, and deodorant rule for those events.) 10. Those retarded red measuring sticks you get from GW for measuring. (Seriously, they have extra length on them!) Gonna +1 these two, and there's a large number of other ones posted I agree with as well in this thread. These days i just use the red sticks to mark deployment zones. For my part I'm going to throw in: -Gap-filling. Green stuff just doesn't come easy to me, I've read and watched many a tutorial on the subject, I've tried the liquid, I just can't get it to behave how I want it to for the life of me! -Magnetizing. It saves money in army options sure. But ugh, the headaches. Flipping magnets, flying magnets, magnets that want to stick everywhere but where you want them whether by their nature alone or with the aid of super glue. -Pinning. You know what, I'm just going to up and admit to hating prepping minis in general. I wish I could just paint n' play! -Plastic Cement Spider Webs- Seriously, any tips for this? -People who don't understand what a "Casual, Fun" battle means. I'm just as competitive as the next gamer, but sometimes you just want to PTFG (play the flippin game) without excessive trash talk, quarter-inch quibbling, or 'stick' waggling. -Varnishing. The fog! It creeps up like a shadow at times. -Excessive GW Bashing. We know a lot of their actions don't make a lick of sense, and sometimes seem outright self-destructive. Some of us still don't want to hear why these are valid reasons we should stop enjoying a game we like. I don't want to be convinced why my opinion is "wrong", and I like some of those other games very much. It doesn't have to be mutually exclusive. And yes, some grumbling needs to be done but I don't believe it has to always become a speech or a call to arms against the game. The sooner you stop complaining, the sooner I can finish my 40k game, after which I'd be happy to play Malifaux or Warmachine with you. -Motivation. This is the biggest one for me. Getting past the idea/planning phase. If I could get better at this, I'm convinced I could overcome all my other pet peeves that aren't directly related to other people's behavior. |
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Post by Overread on May 13, 2013 21:49:40 GMT
-Gap-filling. Green stuff just doesn't come easy to me, I've read and watched many a tutorial on the subject, I've tried the liquid, I just can't get it to behave how I want it to for the life of me! Have you heard of "colourshapers" (sometimes also called clay shapers). They are wonder for working with greenstuff! A Size 0 black set or just a cone shaped one is ideal for helping work greenstuff into a smooth surface without having to file or fiddle with things. I'll second this at least for the online world. It's like EA bashing (For the computer games) in that many people have gotten to a point where they've not paid attention to GW/EA for so long that they are just left in auto-bash-mode. They also tend to drift any topic they can into random bashing without even pause for thought that some of it (just some) is the result of them having played the same game for 20 odd years and they just naturally got bored. Like the next gamer I'll admit that GW has some problems- but some of those listed problems drive me mad when people keep repeating them (eg saying GW is more expensive than other games when - model for model its pretty even the difference is GW lets you play with LOTS more than other games  ) |
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Post by Psychichobo on May 13, 2013 22:30:24 GMT
Here's my major one: People getting seriously aggressive over opinions. I swear I've had genuine abuse sometimes for saying stuff. I've nearly had my head bitten off by complete strangers for not agreeing with them, mostly about silly things like not agreeing that a five terv list is overpowered, or that Skaven is only played by powergamers or something.
It's normally online tbh, but I have had it once IRL. Was very surreal.
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Post by Yuno on May 13, 2013 23:02:46 GMT
^ I'll second this one. I once had the audacity to say that leafblower I.G. wasn't overpowered and that Nidzilla wasn't as broken as people say. Needless to say, I learned to keep those opinions to myself.
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Post by t⊗theark on May 13, 2013 23:11:18 GMT
^ Ooh, ooh, related.
Believe it or not. Did you know now all imperial guard players are power gamers? Neither do a lot of people who game on this campus. Like 42% of them will hear "I've been working on nids but I mostly play guard" hear "I like a bit of xenos but WIN AT ALL COSTS!". No, people back in the blue mountains area beat this list quite a bit of the time. But becaus you're dumb or your dice are dumb doesn't mean I'm a power gamer. Up yours.
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Post by indecission on May 13, 2013 23:22:26 GMT
Have you heard of "colourshapers" (sometimes also called clay shapers). They are wonder for working with greenstuff! A Size 0 black set or just a cone shaped one is ideal for helping work greenstuff into a smooth surface without having to file or fiddle with things. You know I saw those once and I forgot all about them, I am adding those to my shopping list right now, thank you! |
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Post by Overread on May 13, 2013 23:59:53 GMT
Here's my major one: People getting seriously aggressive over opinions. It's normally online tbh, but I have had it once IRL. Was very surreal. I've luckily never had it in real life, debates and disagreements yes, but never full blown actually angry insults and the like. Online it can sometimes happen, but its important to remember that online many people lack the written skill to express themselves well - half the time they will take how they speak and write it out; which without voice inflection and body language can make some people sound more offensive than they actually mean Others just like to use it as a good catch all way to try and end things with a win. Have you heard of "colourshapers" (sometimes also called clay shapers). They are wonder for working with greenstuff! A Size 0 black set or just a cone shaped one is ideal for helping work greenstuff into a smooth surface without having to file or fiddle with things. You know I saw those once and I forgot all about them, I am adding those to my shopping list right now, thank you! I love my colourshapers and they are well worth the cost! A set of 5 shaped heads isn't too much in cost - esp considering that they'll last for ages. They come in 3 hardness (white - grey - black" and the darker the shade the harder the nib. The softer nibs are good for going over an area after a harder tone so that you can smooth and smooth the area over until its near perfect flat (this oft negates needing to go over the area and file/sand the dry greenstuff to get a smooth blend - or at least significantly reduces this step) |
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Post by GestationPool on May 14, 2013 0:21:08 GMT
11. The masculine inability to lose to a short 16 year old female with pig-tails. (Okay, maybe it was cruel to wear pig-tails but still....) The fact that no many times I go to my local hobby store, and even if I went when people were actively playing, I'll never get to see this phenomena in action.  Some people just seem to beg to get taken down a notch... -GP |
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Post by Yuno on May 14, 2013 3:35:45 GMT
^It only gets better if you know I'm 4'11 and at the time I was a late bloomer so I looked like a twelve year old girl. I also was wearing a sundress and I often refered to my Nidz by pet names. (All the people that didn't know me or know I was fairly good at 40k that came to that tourney were pissed when I took third.) One opponent even refered to me as sweetie and asked which guy was my daddy so he could play him. He wasn't happy at all when I rolled for turns and told him I was.
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Post by mantisstalker on May 14, 2013 5:15:47 GMT
The only hobby store I go to is underground (literally) so that doesn't help the smell. But the biggest problem is the fact that water has dripped down and started to rot the carpet <_<. I should really stop going there but I can't be bothered with GW and the other one is really expensive.
Anyway my friend found the sword arm for a beautifully painted archon I got off him. Problem is its in a crack between a wall and the floor thats full of red backs. Also GW why you no give me more hydra gauntlets! I'm one set off finishing up my wychs DX
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Post by barbedsparky on May 14, 2013 13:10:33 GMT
...One opponent even refered to me as sweetie and asked which guy was my daddy so he could play him. He wasn't happy at all when I rolled for turns and told him I was. Gold. (Also a certain Windowlicker track comes to mind...) |
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Post by Psychichobo on May 14, 2013 23:20:03 GMT
I think the biggest grievance of all... cheaters.
Fantasy match, one guy in combat with Saurus buffed his Empire Spearmen with some Light spell that gave them WS10, and put the battle magic card near them to remember.
In the second round of combat, I saw the guys rolling (wasn't paying attention to what was on the actual dice), and noticed the Lizardman player was flicking his eyes between the dice and the battle magic card. I just assumed he was double-checking the buff to make sure he knew what it did.
After they'd removed models, I remarked on the Empire player's bad luck at losing so many men despite the buff. He then slapped his hand to his head and said 'Oh man, I completely forgot about that! Oh well, too late now!'. Lizardman player had 'neglected' to remind him.
So, yeah. I dunno about you guys, but in that instance I call that cheating. Empire guy went on to lose horribly too. Not something you can really call the other player out on either (both were strangers to me).
It's low, and not very common thankfully, but I have noticed that neglecting to remind your opponents of any present buffs or effects seems to be a rather prominent 'tactic' for some people...
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