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. :o
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
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.
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!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 15 July 2016, 08:49:35 PM
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
Quote from: jimduncanuk on 15 July 2016, 08:37:37 PM
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
Quote from: Sandinista on 15 July 2016, 08:52:48 PM
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.
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 :)
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
;D
QuoteNever 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 :D
Our club has Just A Few Orcs as a member. :'( :'(
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.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 19 July 2016, 05:19:50 PM
connexion.
As it's you Kitty, I assume that's an acceptable spelling.....
Never seen written it written like that before, though. :-\
Cheers - Phil
There must be a connection...
"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.
As an ex-careers teacher I can assure you that:
a) it was rubbish compared to the Local Authority Careers Service.
b) it pissed-off teachers who were struggling to get kids to spell correctly. Never saw it spelt that way before the right-on man Labour Party stuck their bloody noses in once again.
Not getting into that one, but as someone who worked for Connexions, I can tell you that the compulsory purple and yellow everything made one feel one worked in a bruise.
I think a connexion is one you are not certain about as in,
" I think I have a connexion to Albert Einstein".
It exists, but it's generally regarded as archaic and laughably out-of-date. Since I am too, I frequently use it.
Remember - Shakespeare could not spell.
IanS
Back in the days of the shop Dragon & George in Glasgow, there was a 6'x4' game table in the middle of the shop. Tom stopped it being used for games (it was thereafter just more display space) after the 3rd or 4th time someone leaned on it & discovered it was expanded polystyrene tiles with about a foot overhang off each edge of the supporting table...
Not at a club but still disastrous:
There was my mate's Egyptian airborne force. It wasn't supposed to be airborne, it was an ancient Egyptian chariot army which earned its wings and many broken ankles thanks to an angry wife and a bottle of wine too many.
And my non-wargaming tank modeler mate whose lifetime's work of 400+ lovingly crafted 1/72 scale tanks went out the upstairs window at high velocity one at a time, again at the hands of an alcohol-infused significant other. Not many of the tanks survived. The miracle is that she did.
There's probably a common theme in the above two tales and possibly even a moral. I'm sure this forum's members can advise.
Chris