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Post by agonzoman00 on Sept 3, 2013 19:56:25 GMT
HH: Waiting 18 mounts for my assault heavy army to get a much needed update in a shooting heavy edition while watching all the shooting armies get that much better.
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Post by t⊗theark on Sept 5, 2013 6:53:48 GMT
When your glue is cold. "No plastic, stick to eachother. Not my bloody thumb, the (please do not swear) other piece of plastic!"
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Post by Overread on Sept 5, 2013 13:47:25 GMT
mould lines... not only is cleaning them an ageless boring drag of time but darn it why must it be that things burr up so darned easily!
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Post by mantisstalker on Sept 8, 2013 8:26:10 GMT
HH: That one guy that goes to my club that doesn't play any form of miniatures game or board game but is a master at it all.
He is really annoying.
Mistreats my zombicide and cards.
Likes to compares EVERYTHING to his own creations/star trek.
Controls everything.
Talks about how things where done in 'his day' even though he's about three years older...
I mean I know I'm socially retared, but this guy. He even touches my head DX DON'T TOUCH MY HEAD! D'X
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Post by WestRider on Sept 8, 2013 17:14:06 GMT
mould lines... not only is cleaning them an ageless boring drag of time but darn it why must it be that things burr up so darned easily! Even more so on second-hand Models. Given what I saw when I stripped the paint off that standard bearer, it had been painted at least twice before. How is it that no one had gotten around to cleaning off the flash and mold lines?  |
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Post by Overread on Sept 10, 2013 13:38:22 GMT
mould lines... not only is cleaning them an ageless boring drag of time but darn it why must it be that things burr up so darned easily! Even more so on second-hand Models. Given what I saw when I stripped the paint off that standard bearer, it had been painted at least twice before. How is it that no one had gotten around to cleaning off the flash and mold lines? Its the price we pay for a self taught hobby - heck when I started I couldn't even see mould lines (I mean I could see them but couldn't see them as something to be "fixed"). Now I see them everywhere!!! Also fresh hate for the fact that whilst Ebay is really good for old GW miniatures its darned not that haven of discounts and cheap that it was so popular for in its early days! Barring a handful of random examples stuff really does not go cheap there unless you're really lucky! It's also addictive...... |
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Post by Xantige on Nov 14, 2013 21:20:18 GMT
Hobby Hatred: This is a big one. A friend, or I should say acquainted of mine started playing Necrons shortly before the release of their new codex, accumulating in little over a year 7000 points of Necrons, much more than the rest of us had for our respective armies. Having purchased, painted and to some degree played with just about every Necron unit available he got bored, chose to sell off his colelction and start an army of Warmachines. Now, I don't have anything against him changing his mind (although one would have expected him to realize he didn't care for the game earlier) and no one is going to force him back into 40K. But up until recently he has been taunting the rest of us about how 40K was a (please do not swear) game with (please do not swear) lore and terrible balance, as opposed to his own Warmachines that is perfect without flaws. I say recently, because apparently he is selling off his Warmachines army as well. TL;DR People who think their choice of tabletop game is superior whatever other people chose. It's like witnessing console fanboys all over again. I may pick the PS4 over the Xbox One, that doesn't mean the latter isen't worth picking up, and if I was offered a Wii U on the street, I sure wouldn't turn it down. (Hope this thread isn't too old to respond too). Oh man, I know a guy worse than that. He's constantly switching which wargame he likes. And whatever it is, it's always the most flawless, perfect wargame EVAR. You can achieve anything and everything in the game, it's perfect, the models are 10x better than GW, etc. But it's not any well-known game he harks on about, it's always some extremely indie game, usually at 15mm scale (because its way better than 28mm and the models are waaaaaaay better than anything ever made ever) made by one guy. But it changes every few months. And when it switches, the old game becomes like all other games, imperfect, flawed, and the maker is a jerk. He also slams Warmachines, Hordes and GW. GW is literally a vile evil corporation that abuses it's workers, doesn't pay them and also hates their fans and abuses them too. Anyone who plays 40k is a mindless spineless loser, except me because I'm a girl and he wants in my pants. Oh but worst of all, he always talks about the wargame he's making and how awesome it is, how it'll be the perfectedededest wargame evar. How you can do this and that, and how you can basically do ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING IN IT and it'll please EVERYONE IN DA WORLD. But every time I see him there's basically no progress and what he does have is always changing to be little more than a rip off of whatever he's fangasming over. Even more so on second-hand Models. Given what I saw when I stripped the paint off that standard bearer, it had been painted at least twice before. How is it that no one had gotten around to cleaning off the flash and mold lines? This relates to my latest HH: Secondhand models. I know everyone loves buying secondhand off of ebay, but I really don't unless it's unassembled or assembled with obvious love and care. Recently I was fixing up some beat up Tau and some abused assault marines and really old chaos marines with possible illegal weapon load outs that I can't fix (no extra bits). There were some tactical marines glued to look like they were lying down dead (but just looked silly) and they had GLOBS of paint on them, some of it I think might be testors enamel because it's very shiny and won't come off... or maybe it's glue, I'm not sure. |
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Post by Inquisitor Stingray on Nov 15, 2013 1:22:33 GMT
Xantige, I remember reading a thread you created about that guy and I couldn't stop thinking how he sounded a lot like the one I'm dealing with. I guess there's a serpent in every Paradise or however that saying goes, heh. I haven't seen this guy in a while, but last time I heard from it, I was selling his 5000-some points of Necrons because "Warhammer was too expansive and too dumb." Mind you, we never play never games much bigger than 2000 pts, so there is no reason why I would make such a big investment in the first place. I swear, less than three months after starting the hobby he purchased the Forgeworld Pylon hoping it'd give him an edge in games, even though its an Apocalypse unit (and we rarely if ever place Apocalypse). I don't get these people.
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Post by Overread on Nov 15, 2013 17:24:38 GMT
Reminds me of a very rich man I once heard of. He said that when there is no barrier toward owning something the desire to owning it both before and the desire to use it after can diminish. Part of the enjoyment in things is saving up - waiting and wanting to own it whilst not being able to and then if you do get it you cherish it all the more.
Those people who can afford to start armies and make them huge in a very short space of time might be feeling that effect, the money isn't a barrier so they get whatever they want, but because its such a short term want the longevity of it is significantly shorter. I also suspect that with something like Warhammer getting 5K of models in a veyr short space of time can (for some) drive them mad with the workload into preparing them for the table top - many a gamer has given up and moved to smaller scale games where they don't have to spend weeks getting the army ready.
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Post by Inquisitor Stingray on Nov 16, 2013 2:34:20 GMT
Wise words, indeed. I think than 'syndrome' certainly applies here. Being Necrons and therefore relatively easy to paint, he actually managed to get things done in a overwhelming short amount of time. But I guess he burned himself out doing it and unfortunately ended up being rather unpleasent and overly aggressive about his decision to sell off his army. He moved on to WarmaHordes which, according to him anyway, was superior to Warhammer in just about every conceivable way. Wouldn't be surprised if he'd moved on to another game already.
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Post by Xantige on Nov 17, 2013 22:13:34 GMT
Xantige, I remember reading a thread you created about that guy and I couldn't stop thinking how he sounded a lot like the one I'm dealing with. I guess there's a serpent in every Paradise or however that saying goes, heh. I haven't seen this guy in a while, but last time I heard from it, I was selling his 5000-some points of Necrons because "Warhammer was too expansive and too dumb." Mind you, we never play never games much bigger than 2000 pts, so there is no reason why I would make such a big investment in the first place. I swear, less than three months after starting the hobby he purchased the Forgeworld Pylon hoping it'd give him an edge in games, even though its an Apocalypse unit (and we rarely if ever place Apocalypse). I don't get these people. Yeah, it's the same guy from last time. Last I heard he switched what day he goes at the club because he's into some sort of historical-fantasy game where two armies from any point in history fight. Last I heard about his game, he was thinking of adding in cardboard cut out models that could be used because he was going for a game that basically did away with anything remotely WYSIWYG because this new game he plays can work at a variety of scales, so the players use the same models, but sometimes a single guy on horseback is just one guy on a horse, and othertimes it represents a whole unit of them. Haven't seen him in a bit either, partially because it's been months since I've been at the club. Can't complain  . Reminds me of a very rich man I once heard of. He said that when there is no barrier toward owning something the desire to owning it both before and the desire to use it after can diminish. Part of the enjoyment in things is saving up - waiting and wanting to own it whilst not being able to and then if you do get it you cherish it all the more. Those people who can afford to start armies and make them huge in a very short space of time might be feeling that effect, the money isn't a barrier so they get whatever they want, but because its such a short term want the longevity of it is significantly shorter. I also suspect that with something like Warhammer getting 5K of models in a veyr short space of time can (for some) drive them mad with the workload into preparing them for the table top - many a gamer has given up and moved to smaller scale games where they don't have to spend weeks getting the army ready. I whole heartedly agree on all fronts. Frankly I can't blame people for being turned off painting, it is daunting when you see how much you have to do, and a lot of armies require the same paint scheme. It can get tiring real quick to have to paint the same model 100 times over. But the way GW markets its games, and the way some 40k players are, I can see why people dive in too hard and quick and then lose interest. The veteran players will line up when a new codex is released and buy 1000-2000 points of models on the spot and have it all assembled in a week or two. The GW staff are always pushing you to buy and to buy a lot at a time. Plus the game isn't designed well for playing with just a battleforce, people keep saying you only get a true feel for 40k at the 1500+ level. |
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Post by Overread on Nov 18, 2013 10:42:44 GMT
Well GW staff have a job to do That said I do envy those who find the time and dedication to get whole armies done in such a short space of time. GW is special in the market as its one of the fewer games that wants and often needs larger point battles to really work. That said I find that you can run fun games at low point levels if you team up and have half a dozen people playing around a table (esp in fantasy with that new expansion). |
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Post by Inquisitor Stingray on Nov 18, 2013 19:21:23 GMT
So here's a hobby (and rather overprivileged) hatred for you; knowing that new Tyranids are imminent, excited by this, yet kind of stressed out by the fact that I still have a horde of grey models to face.
I really have a severe lack of experience when it comes to competitive gaming, only playing casually with friends, but games really can be unbalanced at low point levels. We can stuff a huge amount of cheese at 1000 pts compared to what some other armies can. That said, I'd much rather play 1000 or even 500 pts battles if it means playing more frequently and getting more people involved. Unfortunately it's not quite like M:tG where one deck is all you need, but most Battleforces provide the basics anyway. By the way, it seems Battleforces are being replaced by Strike Forces? Whatever those are.
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Post by gman25639 on Nov 19, 2013 6:41:45 GMT
I have a few:
When your favorite model gets damaged.
Painting a couple dozen gaunts.
Have to play against the same 2 people most of the time, although one is my brother and the other a good friend, it gets a little dull battling space marines over and over again.
Ran out of macharius solar orange so now I have to find a match in the new paints as it is my tyranids' main color.
Indecision on which of all the cool models out there to buy.
Lugging my army to school on tuesdays so I can take it to gaming club afterwards, as this is currently my only way of getting regular games in.
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Post by jesses on Dec 7, 2013 5:07:25 GMT
Casts reanimate on old dead thread.
My BIGGEST Hobby Hatred: People who think that competitive and casual are mutually exclusive. This is a war game, I play it to kill things, use tactics to the best of my ability and generally work my hardest to win. That being said, I will also; make fun small talk, share my Timbits if I brought some (there is a Tim Hortons beside my FLGS, other Canadians will get it), remind you of rules you forgot, let you take back poor moves, or fire a unit in the assault phase if you forgot, give you honest helpful advice, etc etc.
Honestly, I want to out-think, and out-play my opponent. That's the challenge. I'm not interested in winning because they made a stupid mistake, or forgot some rules. I'm certainly not interested in winning if it means they won't play me again.
Some of the people in my army take winning to an absurd level, they don't talk during a game (other than to announce what they're doing, which doesn't count as talking), they try and argue every detail, quibble over every inch, and rules lawyer to get an advantage. Hate those people.
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