Game club disaster

[Sandinista]

Last week at our club in Whangarei one guy on another table knocked his box of figures off the table, and boy did they scatter - some made it to about 30 feet away. 
Needless to say the room fell deathly silent as we all felt his pain. Fortunately he said there was not too much damage done, being mainly plastic. Was good to see hardly anyone move so as not to tread on anything whilst the figures were being hunted and collected.

Anyone else have horror stories?

Cheers
Ian

[jimduncanuk]

I know a guy who lived in a big city not too far from where I live who had his car (carefully) broken into. He had a large army in the boot. He might not have noticed that they were gone except that he found a couple of his figures lying in the gutter.

I was gutted too as I had spent 6 months painting them for him.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

The poor bloke who sat on DanJ's 28mm landscherneckts, with sharpened pikes!
Luckily, one of the club members ran the doctor's surgery, downstairs!

[Sandinista]

The poor bloke who sat on DanJ's 28mm landscherneckts, with sharpened pikes!
Luckily, one of the club members ran the doctor's surgery, downstairs!

Never mind the pikes what did Dan do to him?

Cheers
Ian

[Sandinista]

I know a guy who lived in a big city not too far from where I live who had his car (carefully) broken into. He had a large army in the boot. He might not have noticed that they were gone except that he found a couple of his figures lying in the gutter.

I was gutted too as I had spent 6 months painting them for him.

Did they catch the thief?

Cheers
Ian

[jimduncanuk]

Did they catch the thief?

Not that I recall clearly, it was a long time ago. I heard a rumour that some of the figures appeared in a Bring&Buy sale a few years later.

[Ithoriel]

Club member knocked a full pint over my copy of the Civilisation board game. We dried it off but it was never really the same.

Bought a "nearly brand new, only played it once and didn't like it" copy from the Bring & Buy at the club's Claymore Show the next year for a fiver.

Popped home during the lunch break and brought the old beer stained one in to the same Bring & Buy and sold it for a tenner.

Not an unmitigated disaster

[Shedman]

Many years ago I played SPI's War Between The States board game - this was a monster ACW game with 3 maps of the eastern USA played in weekly turns with Brigade size units

We had been playing it for 3 months and had just got to late 1863 and it was getting tense

He phoned me up to say his hamster had escaped and eaten most of the Army of the Potomac

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

 

[DanJ]

Never mind the pikes what did Dan do to him

Nothing, you might not like my figures, you might not appreciate my painting but by God Sir, you'll respect the pikes!

Mishandle my figures any they bite back; driving a couple of pins under a finger nail is a sure remedy for cack handed players who can't be bothered to pick up figures carefully and with respect 

[Last Hussar]

Our club has Just A Few Orcs as a member. 

[FierceKitty]

I knew a fellow who was driving with his 15mm troops in flattish boxes stowed at floor level. Somehow, one slid forward underneath the brake pedal just before he had to make an emergency stop, knowing what he was doing as his foot came down.
He's been in and out of mental hospitals ever since. I'm not sure if there's a connexion.

[Techno]

connexion.

As it's you Kitty, I assume that's an acceptable spelling.....
Never seen written it written like that before, though. 

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

There must be a connection...

[fsn]

"Connexions" was the last Labour gvts replacement for the careers service.

They were prepared for the flak. Apparently "connexion" was used by Bill Shakespeare, so that makes everything OK. Don't know where though.