Things you woud never hear in a Games Workshop / Warhammer Shop

[Orcs]

Just to start the ball rolling, a couple of obvious ones.

Of course you can use miniatures  from Manufaturer XYZ on our games table!

We think 18 figures in a Unit is about right.

Coar D'arms Paints ae the same as the old Citadel paints.

[O Dinas Powys]

Polyhedral dice?  Of course sir 

[Nosher]

The sound of an air freshner or can of deodrant being used

[Techno]

"Would sir simply like to browse."

Cheers - Phil

[Bodvoc]

"Would sir simply like to browse."

You beat me to it

[NeilCFord]

"Of course I have a girlfriend!"

- Neil.

[petercooman]

Yes, figure XXXX would be a nice proxy for that troop type, at half the price.




Sure you can still play warmaster in the store, even if you use pendraken miniatures!

[Ithoriel]

If we're talking things the staff would say then my recent experience is they don't say much because they're too busy trying to ring something through the till, restock the shelves, keep an eye on the dodgy customer wearing a heavy overcoat when everyone else is dying of heat stroke, pointing kiddies at the new stuff, reassuring granny that little Johnny isn't about to become a practising devil worshipper if he plays a game involving demons, etc., etc. - all simultaneously!

These days if you breeze in with a cheery,"Hi! just looking for some bits and pieces for use with my 1895 Ruritanian Janitors War armies," they tend to back away and leave you to it.

[fsn]

"Well Sun Zsu said it first, but I like von Clausewitz's stance ..."

"Scarlet. Just plain scarlet."

[Last Hussar]

Said it before, say it again - always found the Aylesbury staff very helpful.  Helped me find Tawny Orange for WotR (Roses, not their one)

[FierceKitty]

"Scarlet. Just plain scarlet."

[DanJ]

I don't have a local WG shop but if I found one when I was away I'd always go in and when pounced upon and asked what I played would respond with Warmaster..... Ancients which they'd sort of heard of, then rattle of a couple of other 'Specialist or Historic Games' and go on to other historic rulesets getting more obscure "the Russio Japanese War is very interesting.....", being sure to get in phrases "there's loads of other stuff out there which I prefer".

If I was disturbed looking at paints I always asked for Dark Angels Green which invariably prompted some question about the chapter (or is it verse) and an attempt to sell me the latest releases.  After a couple of minutes I'd explain I didn't own ANY GW figures (not quite true, I've some plastic skeletons) but that Dark Angels Green was perfect for Ottoman/Arab armies.

These days I just feel sorry for the poor bloke trying to cope with a shop on his own, so don't bother teasing him.

A small and guiltily enjoyable pleasure has now left my life. 

[Westmarcher]

"Hey, old guy! What are you doing in here?"

... well, not to your face.

[Bodvoc]

...or "Are you buying for your son", this when accompanied by my two, very obviously female teenage daughters!

[Nosher]

Management have settled on the latest edition of the game and won't relaunch it again this century.