Wargaming pet hates

[DanJ]

But 1 km is 39 370.0787 inches, that's an easy calculation

I hadn't realised it was that simple  , I withdraw all objections to inches and will go away and stick all my 15/38" figures onto 1&11/19" by 15/19"  bases.

[Westmarcher]

Pet Hates
1. 28mm scale hobbyist rules writers who have no conception of smaller scales and think it is OK to scale down by changing measurements from inches to centimetres (e.g., 2 inch range becomes 2 cm - my eyesight can't cope!  )
2. Cleaning out the fish tank.

[fsn]

Since this is a list of wargaming pet hates, I can only assume Westmarcher, that you have a fully functional undersea play environment. Hunt for the Red October at Westmarcher's anyone?

[DanJ]

28mm scale hobbyist rules writers who have no conception of smaller scales and think it is OK to scale down by changing measurements from inches to centimetres (e.g., 2 inch range becomes 2 cm - my eyesight can't cope!  )

That's because inches are anacronistic, lack flexibility, are impossible to relate to any ground scale and all recent rule sets are written by or on behalf of 28mm figure manufacturers to sell their figures.

[Westmarcher]

Since this is a list of wargaming pet hates, I can only assume Westmarcher, that you have a fully functional undersea play environment. Hunt for the Red October at Westmarcher's anyone?

I wish! 

[Fenton]

I dont like dice towers or dice being rolled in dice cups..Too noisy and irritating

[Ithoriel]

I dont like dice towers or dice being rolled in dice cups..Too noisy and irritating

I've just discovered the joys of dice drums .... you'd really hate those :-)

[Fenton]

Is that like the toy you used to be able to get where you bounced the marbles across 3 drums?

[Ithoriel]

Is that like the toy you used to be able to get where you bounced the marbles across 3 drums?

Circle of wood maybe 50mm high and 75-100mm across with a "drum-skin" base.

Drop the dice in. Pick up. Cover the top with a hand. Shake vigorously. Place back on table. Dice rolling without the risk they'll vanish under the table.

Drum skin means you can hear that the dice are being rolled and not just "shoogled" to leave all those face-up sixes in place

[Subedai]

Circle of wood maybe 50mm high and 75-100mm across with a "drum-skin" base.

Drop the dice in. Pick up. Cover the top with a hand. Shake vigorously. Place back on table. Dice rolling without the risk they'll vanish under the table.

Drum skin means you can hear that the dice are being rolled and not just "shoogled" to leave all those face-up sixes in place

Shoogled?? When was that word invented?

[Fenton]

30th December at approx 12.51pm by the looks of it

[Ithoriel]

Shoogle is a perfectly good Scots word.

As in "Your coat is on a shoogly peg, sonny!" - a phrase one might use in relation to people about to fall in disfavour.

Possibly for querying perfectly good words

[DanJ]

Shooglenifty been playing acid croft music since about 1990

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNWMwmwmz3U

[Orcs]

All the uber army players.   
Unsportsmanlike conduct
Painting horses unless they are armoured!
Wargames magazings that are really manufacturer catalogues.
Dice cups/towers
People who dont throw dice properly
Rivet or button  counters
People who paint an entire army in a week to a standard way above mine - There seem to be lots of them on this forum
The apostrophe.




Likes

Basing - its easy and feels really satisfying as you finish the figure/unit.  I think I am alone in this?
Army organising and working out what to buy - perhaps thats why I have a lead mountain.
TEASING FSN

[Orcs]

Oh Nosher, absolutely agree about the poor personal hygiene at show . One year at Reading I could smell on chap from two tables away!!!

It's even worse when your helping on a stand and the said person wants to chat to you for ages. Your torn between the potential sale and wanting to be able to breath.

Nosher - should you not add Redheads to your list or is "Hate" and inadequate word?

[Orcs]

People who put on lots of posts instead of one in order to get promoted - can't think of anyone specific at the moment 

[Orcs]

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.

Thats  real bummer FK. 

[fsn]

People who put on lots of posts instead of one in order to get promoted - can't think of anyone specific at the moment 

Quite agree.

[fsn]

Disgusting innit?

[fsn]

How many posts to be a Maj Gen?