I dislike rules in general since they usually prohibit me from winning anything!
The rules I really hate are the ones that work with ridiculous scales so that you either have to move one tank up base-to-base with your enemy to be able to hit anything at all, or the other way 'round; you just enter the table and get blown away by something on their end of the table. Okay; reading the rules for a change might solve some of these problems but being as lazy as I am that's probably never going to happen...

Cheers!
Rob

The list is long of things I dont like however...

As far as wars go...almost anything really although I do have a range of 'Yeah, I could get into that a bit (skirmish) / a lot (an army)' and there are periods that I don't really fancy at all. But saying that, I have never had a great interest in the ACW but that doesn't mean I will never get into it.
  For some reason, I'm not overly interested in wargaming current conflicts, could be because it takes the gaming aspect out of the hobby and it becomes a bit too real.
  I enjoy Fantasy and SF but apart from RPG or skirmish wouldn't really do either solo.
  People who pontificate loudly and can be heard three tables away.
  People who have large rucksacks that take up the space of a small family car at shows meaning you can't get close to have a look and when the ba**ards turn around said rucksack has the same hitting power as a blunt instrument.
  Lack of personal hygiene of some people at shows.
  People who only use the rules and have absolutely no background knowledge of the army they are using.
  People who say 'They never wore that'. To which my reply is usually 'Were you there? No? So shut the feck up then.'

Grumpy Old Man?

Who, me? 

MickS

Yep, lack of personal hygiene and the wearing of back packs, repels me from viewing most bring and buy stalls.

Although thanks to the backpack I am not a physical wreck at 61. And yes I do wash/shower every day. Having said that my pack is a 20L and i have seen some folk at shows with what must be 50L packs. Something that still rankles to this day - I was at a show a few years back which was very busy and stood on tip toe to see if I could see my brother in the crows. Immediately some big, artless oik with all the social skills of a warthog bellows at me, "If you would like me to move you only have to ask." Stupid twit! Been waiting years to get that off my chest. A/ feeling much better for that, B/ still not too keen on wargames shows.

Funny that some periods to my mind, lend themselves to different "sizes" of forces.

For example, I couldn't countenance a Zulu War skirmish, but could skirmish the Boer Wars. Napoleonics need to be brigade level at least, and ancients need a critical mass. I'm not a big fan of WWII at anything other than 1:1 scale, but WWI could be big or skirmish.

So, for the "stuff I don't like" it's organisation charts in rule books that give the approved scaling, not the real one. A tank is not a platoon/troop. A battalion is not 4 bases, it's 600 sweaty, scared, overburdened, hungry, confident, cold, tired, smelly men.

   

I hate cold chips........

Dammit woman you'll never get that painting finished if you keep popping in for a chat!

Wood chips, gravel chips, potato crisps Marie ?

IanS

regular potato......very expensive here....Bacon is 12.00 a packet....lol

Yeah but yer fags are cheap

yeah dirt cheap, but bronchial cough medicine (required during Hamatam)  the dusty season is ten quid a bottle....
Its funny here cos a Samsung Galaxy 3 is only 165.00 now
S4 is 300.00
a block of butter is 6.00.....so the key here is to eat local fresh products or grow your own.
I can get a basket of mango`s (carrier bag full) for 1.00
The downside of course .... the roads are mainly dirt, European clothes are scarce....
But its getting much better here...investment is coming from Arabs, Chinese, USA, u.k.
and most visitors to my hotel love..me soldiers.... .......
oh by the way we killed the cobra today.....Yipppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ( new handbag) lol....

A celebrated UN survey once rated Bangkok the most expensive city in the world to live in; the point being that they were pricing articles required to live like an American. If you're willing to go the local route it's a) ridiculously cheap, and b) rather tastier.

Quote from: marie on 09 March 2014, 09:33:38 PM
yeah dirt cheap, but bronchial cough medicine (required during Hamatam)  the dusty season is ten quid a bottle....
Its funny here cos a Samsung Galaxy 3 is only 165.00 now
S4 is 300.00
a block of butter is 6.00.....so the key here is to eat local fresh products or grow your own.
I can get a basket of mango`s (carrier bag full) for 1.00
The downside of course .... the roads are mainly dirt, European clothes are scarce....
But its getting much better here...investment is coming from Arabs, Chinese, USA, u.k.
and most visitors to my hotel love..me soldiers.... .......
oh by the way we killed the cobra today.....Yipppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ( new handbag) lol....

You don't eat cobras, do you? I know the 14th Army ate pythons in Burma. 

Quote from: Hertsblue on 10 March 2014, 08:35:18 AM
I know the 14th Army ate pythons in Burma. 

I suppose eating them still beats being eaten by them?

Cheers,
Rob

Quoteoh by the way we killed the cobra today.....Yipppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ( new handbag) lol....

turning a cobra into a handbag 


..belt or purse maybe, 3 or 4 for a handbag surely.

I am confused as why your going around smashing up beer bottles

I hate Malaria, my second time this year completely wiped me out this time, no painting for a month....
decided, tonight was the night ,so I`m finishing off my 20mm Afghan wars troops and buildings....building my strength to tackle The Mongols......

Thought you'd been quite for a while. Hopefully last time for this year.

Me I hate delivery drivers, due a delivery yesterday, with a 13 hour delivery slot, turned up in the 20 mins I wuz out... AGH !!!!! 

IanS

Isn't that called Sod's Law, Ian ?
Marie....Hope you're feeling better now.
Cheers - Phil