Wargaming pet hates

[fsn]

Things that irk me about the wargaming hobby (s0me of these I may have mentioned before):

   * Things put on the table - especially dice
   * Wargames magazines that only describe battles in specific rules terms
   * Mixed poses pre-1900
   * Commercially available rulesets
   * Bases with logs, walls or other supposedly fixed items
   * New versions and appendices to rulesets
   * Rules that are imposed in the face of common sense
   * Kneeling figures
   * Over abundance of specialist and elite units
   * Commercial rule sets

[Ithoriel]

Things I like about the wargaming hobby (some of these I may have mentioned before):

   * Things put on the table - especially dice, food, markers and measuring tapes
   * Wargames magazines that describe battles in specific rules terms so I can filch relative stats
   * Mixed poses, especially pre-1900
   * Commercially available rule sets, even when I wind up amending them.
   * "Diorama" bases with logs, walls, farm carts and other supposedly fixed items
   * New versions and appendices to rulesets - even when I opt not to get or use them.
   * Playing the rules as written when playing those not my regular opponents.
   * Kneeling figures - though usually only when they're fire-arm equipped troops.
   * An abundance of over-priced (in points and cost terms) specialist and elite units for others to buy and field.
   * Commercial rule sets - a constant source of joy and inspiration.

It would be so boring if we all thought the same, no?

[Westmarcher]

FSN - you're just a fuss pot! 

....... although skirmishers who carry their own tree (or rock or log) around with them, receiving brand new expensive rules with addenda, mags that only describe games in terms of rules that I don't have, over abundance of specialist and elite units, trail spike holders playing hockey, etc. ...... er .... kind of irk me too! 

[Subedai]

Rivet counters who stand at the side of a table and after enquiring about the pedigree of a unit pontificate loudly -usually in a variation of the Arthur Pewty voice- about the uniform being out of date.

Re-basing figures. I've now got to the stage where I write my own or adapt others to my base sizes which are mostly 60 x 40 for anything where close order formations were prevalent.

Wargamers who have all of the Guard troop type in their army but only two units of line. This can also include WW II German Tigers/ Russian IS 2's etc.

People who flaunt the letter of the ruleset in the face of all historical precedent. 

There are probably a sh*tload more but I can't think of any at the mo.

[Leman]

Ithoriel - what a star:



Logs, bushes, rocks, mixed poses, pre-1900 for a commercial rules set = Wargame Heaven!!!!!

[fsn]

Aaaaarrrghh!!!

[toxicpixie]

DP those are truly awful, terrible, figures. I suggest you send them to me post haste so I can, err, lock them safely away and totally not play with them ever, for sure

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

1) People who write negative lists.
or even B ) People who don't get irony
III) people who change counting systems halfway through a list.

[paulr]

 

[Sandinista]

What annoys me is:

Those who want to win at all costs - including friendship
All the uber army players
Rivet/button counters
Rules lawyers (wa**ers)
Those who forget it is a game with toys

Cheers
Ian

[FierceKitty]

I agree with many of the above (esp. junk cluttering the table), and others I'm sure I'd agree with if they overlapped my experience. May I add...
* players who won't learn to pick up my figures carefully;
* having to lock up the cats during a game
* players who invoke a rule I myself wrote but have forgotten, and use it to wipe me out (OK, I don't hate it as such. It's just humiliating and frustrating)
...?

By the way, may none of you, not even ***** and *****, ever come home from Italy to find that the fridge has been accidentally unplugged during the holiday, and not reconnected by the neighbours allegedly supervising the premises.

[Luddite]

Pet hates
Unsportsmanlike conduct
Slow players
Painting horses
Basing figures
Figures lying down
Dice and their foibles
My inability to focus on and complete a project before the next one comes along
Winning games i shouldn't have
Losing games i shouldn't have
Overly complex rules
300 page £50 rulebooks that actually have 20 pages of rules in them
Multi-part figures


Pet likes
Sportsmanlike conduct
Pushing toys about with good friends
Army building
Good solid, single piece metal figures
Admiring an army an opponent has evidently put a lot of time into
The plethora of new 'accessories' that have come onto the market lately
Laser cut scenery

[Techno]

What annoys me is:
Rules lawyers (wa**ers)Cheers Ian

Shouldn't 'warmongers' have more letters blanked out, Ian ? 
Cheers - Phil

[Steve J]

Rules lawyers.
Uber army players.
Drinking cups and food on the table.
Demo tables at show with NO info about the game.

[Leman]

My real pet hate is being down the club and trying my best to set up a good-looking game, when someone comes in with a greasy takeaway and proceeds to eat it off my table. Subtle hints did not work with this problem and finally I had to haver a hissy fit to eradicate it.