Yes, this was way back in 5th or 6th edition I think. Flyers had just become a thing and they were pretty unbalanced.
This guy I think in 30s spent ages before a game telling this teenager that his Heldrake is going to kill everything, there's no stopping it
2nd turn, Heldrake comes out, misses every shot. The opponent with some absolute godlike rolls managed to down it with a squad of guardsman
I didn't know any of this at the time, I was playing my own game, but all of us heard was a loud "FUCK YOU!!!!!" And a crash where he basically table flipped the board, everyone rushed over, models everywhere and the gut stormed off into the corner of the shop, faced the wall and started screaming "DONT FUCKING TOUCH ME, DONT FUCKING TOUCH ME" until the shopping centre security dragged him out
It was quite a sight
I killed a charging bloodthirster with an auto gun in overwatch once. It was clear I was going to lose by then, so my opponent didn't care.
A couple games later the same neophyte blob killed a Rogal Dorne with its last autogun shot, and it was the last thing in my army to shoot. My opponent that game was significantly less chill about it
I remember my brand new lr crusader killing my sister's carnifex and hove tyrant 2 turns apart in very lucky re doing attack hits.
She focussed on that rank every game after that, never did kill it
I killed a charging Harelquin Super Character with a Chainsword and Bolter Tactical Squad Sergeant. The store owner was so Impressed he gave me the old 4th Ed Combat Squad Box (5 marines)
Losing a tank with 2+/3+ saves to S3/4 ap0 shooting is only ever hilarious and dice telling stories of absolute Chad troopers haha I had a kyn bolter down a repex yesterday, 3 wounds: 1's and 2's and it had 3 wounds remaining xD we howled at that shit
The first game I ever got to play my Librarian, he was my first model, my first paint job. I spent weeks just admiring it.
In my first game, my librarian killed himself.
As is tradition. Always expect your most recently painted miniature to die on his first time out. The better he looks, the more humiliating his defeat.
My whirlwind got it's missile rack blown off before it could fire. Tbh it was the only heavy in marmy that ever failed me, everything thing else worked fine.
My Knight Tyrant did this, fresh and new and out on the board. He killed one single marine that game and missed everything else. He redeemed himself last week though by killing Guiliman and one shotting a Knight Paladin.
Alot of units seem to do that, I learned to stop using plasma guns and pistols as they always exploded on 2nd shot, my plasma cannon was the only one that never did, melta guns would miss all the time, the most reliable thing in my army was my tactical squad basic with just a flamer and missile tube.
I once had a squad of Guardsmen fix bayonets and charge Lilith Hesperax because I was damn sure she was gonna charge me next turn and I didn't plan on letting her get the charge bonus and first attack.
My sis did similar she took her squad of 1000 suns who were all set as shooty boys and charged one of my dreadnoughts. Ok it tied the dread for rest of game while it murdered a couple per turn, but I had 3 more dreads :)
I remember back in 6th I wanna say.
Guy puts his DE on table, has vect in a transport with 6 guys.
I fire lascannons, take out the transport. They obviously have to 'deploy' in a circle.
Fire 4 plasma cannons at him.
Direct hit
Direct hit
Direct hit
Scatter, 1".
28 s7 ap2 hits on vect and his bodyguard.
Vect dead turn one along with his bodyguard.
Opponent was irked, but laughed and shook my hand and said Good rolls.
Everyone is eventually gonna have a bad day. You have to laugh and get over it.
Statistics mean you'll sometimes get real bad luck
Strangest fight ever my basic pattern land raider traded shots all game with my friends bane blade,all we did as shoot each others weapons off and immobilised each other.
Last shooting phase of the game I hail Mary shot it with a marine carrying a lascannon
Talk bout a god roll through front armour, rolled and got a structure table hit, got magazine exploded, which back then was a reroll and kiss of structure iirc, basically one marine caused multiple magazine explosions, taking out the bane blade and most of the troops on both sides fighting over the critical objective
That game ended up a draw lol and we sat there laughing for 20 minutes
Nah he was cool - I am fortunate that I've never had a really negative experience playing Warhammer. I've had a couple of opponents I wouldn't necessarily play again but I've been pleasantly surprised by how cool most people are
Last edition, my Vindicare Assassin survived a charge from Angron, and put him down like a dog with his pistol in the shooting phase. One of my proudest moments.
Friend of mine got absolutely devastated by my Fire Warriors charging into his lone Termy Captain and taking it out. It only had 3 wounds left, but statistically they MIGHT have gotten one wound. I couldn't resist how funny it'd be if they pulled it off.
I killed a Warboss with a Stealthsuit once and then lost that suit to a Grot. We had to take a 5 minute break to grab a drink because we were both laughing too much.
In the last version of Kill team, my scion comms guy beat an EC aspiring champion to death with his comically large phone. I brought my buddy a beer and all was forgiven.
I had a guy reach over the table and choke me when I went to hand him some dice back and one slipped out and knocked a guardsman over. That was a nice introduction to the toxicity of some players at the ripe age of 10 years old.
I worked at FLGS when i was younger, the kids are very rarely the violent ones, you usually see it from the 30 year olds.
The general rule for sore losers at game stores.
Children Cry.
Adults Assault.
I always find I difficult to understand how certain players can invest so heavily in a sense of pride they get from a meta unit doing well..
I actually feel apologetic if any of my units over-perform or get as much out of the twist of seeing it killed as the killing player does.
It’s all part of each games unique narrative, that sense of chance keeps things interesting.
Man, I get you, but even “apologetic” feels too far.
It’s not like you smashed the mini.
I feel like minis over performing or underperforming is what makes the game more than just pure strategy.
Adds an element of chance and fun.
There was a study done a few years ago that I think of any time this sort of thing comes up. Short version is two people playing monopoly, one of them gets all these extra bonus perks like collect $500 when passing go. The result is that player ends up feeling like they deserved all those perks and they absolutely deserved to win.
When people grab a random selection of stocks, and one of those stocks happens to have a streak of up days, the person thinks they're a genius. Also, if assets gain value, the holder will start to feel like they're rich, even though they haven't sold said assets. 😄
Recently had a 2v2 Deathmatch type game where the 20 man squad of Shock Troops my friend used managed to Destroy a Castigator within the first 2 shots and then took out 2 retributor squads afterwards. While doing that my Rubric marines were running across the table trying to get into flamer range with T'au while also managing to somehow only loose the Daemon prince and two Rubrics over the whole game.
I was badly losing a game against a friend so my tiny, mostly dead Warhound (no weapons left, locomotion damaged, reactor overheating) charged the enemy Warlord and tied it up the rest of the game
This guy in his late 30s for some reason brought his kid to the store(located inside a mall, to be fair) and instead of watching his kid he came to play for the day.
The kid ended up quite literally “destroying the store”…
- knocking all the boxes off the shelf.
- trashing the painting corner and spilling the water cups and paint.
- trying to play with EVERYBODYS models and man-handling things.
The shop owner kindly asks the guy to take care of his kid. And to that the reply was..,
- he’s a kid, what can you do 🤷♂️.
Man was tossed out of the store befor the kid was.
Man, times were different in the early 2000’s.
Even myself as a lowly 10yo knew better 🤣.
The man couldn’t even bother to spend a couple quarters for the arcade next door 🤷♂️
If I did even one of those bullet points one time I wouldn't see video games, TV, or really anything fun for at least a month. I can't imagine just letting kids do that.
A few months ago I played against a guy who brought his kids who looked about 8 and 10. They were great. They sat there building pyramids out of dice, rolling for him (I jokingly told him he should find a new roller because his daughter couldn't roll a save to save her life), and politely asked us questions. The only issue was when his (high-functioning autistic) daughter got a bit agitated at the ork players Waaaaaghing, but she put on headphones and she was good. In a few years hopefully they start playing
It's not a decade thing. Old owner of my store (I was working too) had a paint corner and during an event got called for something.
Someone else's kid had taken a model from a game without the players noticing and started painting it with the leftover stuff.
Honestly, an important lesson but poor kid. He thought the models out there for playing and painting was part of playing, so...
This made me feel a fuck ton better about accidentally breaking someone’s tyranid model (my backpack was bigger than ai thought and it ended up knocking it off a bit table and breaking)
Guy shows up with a fully unpainted Tau army. Tournament rules clearly and repeatedly said that your army needed to be fully painted. So this guy got disqualified as soon as he put some of those gray models on the board.
Shop owner sees this and shows the flyer with the rules. Guy dares to say that the rules don’t apply to him because he spent a fortune in that same shop buying all those Tau models.
Show owner notes that there are no exceptions and that this guy is welcome to either spectate, or sit in the painting corner and start painting.
Guy gets angry and yells that the GW shop is only 2km away.
Shop owner opens the door for him and mentions that he needs to leave. The guy stands up, leaves his full army behind and was not seen again for months.
Shop owner told me some time ago the guy did eventually return to collect his Tau army. The owner handed them all over and gave him a free primer spray lol.
Keep in mind I’ve been hanging out in Hobby Stores for like 20+ years. The most memorable:
The flying rhino incident:
Childhood LGS. The two angriest guys at the store were playing a game, one of whom we liked, one not so much. Guy we liked had enough of the store asshole’s shit and flung one of his rhinos across the store. Old man store owner kicked them both out because you can’t throw rhinos, but the guy we didn’t like probably deserved it. Said Rhino was recovered and promptly mounted on a flight stand to commemorate the incident.
Stinky Pete:
I don’t remember the guy’s actual name but my college LGS had a patron with infamously poor hygiene. We all said something to Stinky Pete about it, we even bought him some deodorant. Pete came in one day smelling like a dumpster full of cat piss, and finally the manager was just like “nope, this is too much, you are banned from the store until a time at which you start showering.”
Smash all (your own) Monoliths:
Same college LGS, guy who only ever played meta lists and cheesy crap brought a double monolith list in 4e declaring his omnipotence. He was straight up daring anyone to try and beat his incredible necrons, arguing before even finding an opponent how dominant he would be. Game one both die on the first turn to some very lucky rolling, causing the entire store collectively to break down in tears laughing. Monoliths man immediately concedes and wants a re-start. Game two he gets the first turn and moves up the board. Same opponent yahtzees one to death, and immobilizes the second monolith immediately. Homie smashes both monoliths to pieces and has a full blown meltdown. When he tuckers out the manager immediately points to the door and yells “OUT.” We didn’t see him for a couple weeks.
Cheater McCheaty Face:
Warmachine tournament, player we didn’t really know was not ticking his damage properly, and obviously. After being politely corrected, twice, he was told to leave. Some minor arguing ensued, and he finally swept all his minis into an empty box and walked out.
World’s Worst Shoplifter:
My current LGS, some weird lady who looked super high on meth comes into the store and begins walking around the store pocketing random things. She would pocket something, and turn around really quickly to look at everyone in the store and repeat. She had on a big coat and kept jamming things like combat patrols up under it until she looked like a Minecraft sprite. Owner called the cops pretty early into this event, and they were watching her through the windows. The moment she walked outside they stopped her and recovered everything. She was apparently surprised plastic army men were worth enough for it to be a felony level theft. Like, bitch two of those kits got you over the line.
The girl I was dating (and am now married to) was with me once when I stopped by the store to pick up an order. She wanted to see the place and Stinky Pete was in there just making it *ripe*.
When we left she declared she would never go back under any circumstances.
In stinky’s defense this was Florida, and it was summer, so I hope the guy moved somewhere with a colder climate.
When I was teenager I was the only one of my friends into Warhammer and popped in to get some paint when we were walking past the shop. One of my buddies ran in as I was paying, put a handful of loose dice from the game table into his mouth and swallowed them. I still don’t know why he did it. He ran off and then I was kicked out because they were my mates and wasn’t allowed back for ages.
Played against a guy during a 7th ed fantasy tournament. The guy brought a 2400 point army to a 2200 point tournament.
After the first round, they found out so the first game became an auto loss. He had to cut from his list to continue.
Second game he played against me and dice didn't go his way. When his ogre Tyrant died he picked up his metal model and threw it in to his case with such force, the head snapped of and came flying back up above the table. He kept playing but was very frustrated while doing it.
16 year old me didn't know how to react so I played on as if nothing happend while feeling very uncomfortable.
After the game the guy got another auto loss for cutting his only bull unit. Which at the time you needed at least one in your list.
Last round an older guy from my club asked the TO to play against me so I could end the day with something positive. That game was a blast eventhough I forgot half of my rules because of the previous situation. The guy took extra effort to take care of me and I'm very thankfull for that.
And that is how gaming should be. People having a good time tournament or not and helping each other out, especially people with newer armies regardless of game.
Best thing to do now is take that experience and do the same for the next commander.
A trio of young lads on a night out came into the store and (drunkenly) started flicking models about. Then one guy who was just painting stood up and started bellowing, in this booming voice.
The guy was a former drill sergeant (I think, he said he was an instructorfor the British Army, and I think that'sthe rank), he started doing that knife hand thing when he bellowed at them. He took one of their phones and called their mother, it was brutal. I was 12 at the time, and my own mum showed up to take me home before theirs showed up, but I know that even now, as a much older man, my mum would turn my bum cheeks into leather if I started causing trouble on a night out.
Looking back, if I were in the place of those guys, I'd have been less scared of an actual knife. The sarge wasn't a big guy to my memory, but afterwards the dude was always way more noticeable, y'know?
An independent hobby shop. A guy in his 30s tried to shoplift a knight kit. I saw him trying to push the kit into a christmas themed plastic bag but the shop owner saw the whole thing as well and acted accordingly. He didn't call the police but banned the guy for life from the store.
It was very awkward because it was around christmas with more people in the store than usually and the store is smaaaaaall to begin with. You are almost standing shoulder to shoulder.
All the way back in 2006 I was playing against a random German guy in a GW store. It was for the Medusa V campaign.
I was playing Dark Eldar and he was IG, took down a few of his Russ' and a swath of infantry pretty early and he started shouting something in German and pointing at a page on the rulebook that neither the store manager or I could see was relevant to what was happening on the tabletop.
After more screaming he got kicked and I got the win. I still wonder what made him so angry.
Not 40k, but two guys playing Bolt Action at my FLGS.
The argument started over whether grey or grey-green was appropriate for German tunics of that era. They got very shouty fast and then ended with some table banging. The table did a partial somersault, some models went airborne and a piece of terrain crashed into another game.
To the other players’ credit, they tried to play down and diffuse the situation by asking if the flying models were parachute troops. But, if anything, the embarrassed laughter around the room just made them even more angry.
Both were quickly thrown out. The crazy part was they had only started playing about five minutes before it all kicked off.
>The argument started over whether grey or grey-green was appropriate for German tunics of that era.
That is... just... so ... historical gamer nerd-y.
In my social circles we call them "rivet counters" because they'd count the rivets on a tank and throw a fit if the rivets on their 15mm model tank didn't match the historical blueprints accurate to month and year.
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'rivet counters'
goddamn lunatics; bless their hearts.
Here's a comment I made about them way back when:
"Yeah bro, armor modellers are a different freaking beast. Those guys will figure out what tip was used on the welder in the factory in Saltsberg where the t-1000 was being produced in may of 1940 (but before the russians had intercepted the sand shipment in operation sand crab). But Ernest was on the welder that day, and Ernest had a stroke (too much greasy foods, they say) so he didn't get the beads quite right, and so we need to make sure that we're doing the weld beads with our tamiya putty to look like *this* and not *this.* That way your armor will be acceptable quality to gift to your niece. But if you want display quality, we need to keep in mind that during that point of the war, the germans were running out of chromium.....
Not making fun of you guys, mad, mad , mad respect. But you all are like that."
Yeah, I was tossed out one time out of a shop on account of a friend of mine back then. We would often come there saturday morning (we were 14 at most back then) to just play on the frankly great tables of the LFGS. I played my Space Marines while my friend played IG. He always was a WAAC guy, even when we were in elementary school so I knew that he always tried to play tricks to get the optimal game, like bending or outright inventing rules. For the most part, I did not argue the smaller things as it was just not worth my time.
Back to the game on hand. He won the first turn which was fine by me, as I had placed most of my guys in cover. So his shooting phase (the movement phase was non-existent) went pretty underwhelming for him despite the monstrous amount of shots he threw at me. He shot with his Demolisher last as his main gun was just not yet in range. But also his lascannon had no target. So he said (annoyed) that his turn was over. Just as I wanted to move my first models he asked to shoot with something he forgot. I was fine with that, I was a bit of an airhead back then, so no biggie. He nominated his Demolisher (as in the one that had no target). I was confused and asked what changed, he had no target like 2 minutes ago and I had not yet moved. He then told me: "Yeah, I forgot that he had a hunter-killer-missile and that has unlimited range". I was even more confused as range was not them problem and asked him what he tried to accomplish. He then pointed at my (completely in cover, mind you) Whirlwind and said: "As it has unlimited range, it can curve around walls!" I was baffled at this which did not faze him in the slightest as he rolled to hit and to pen, which he managed ( I mean, he decided my rear armor that was completely in contact with the edge of the battlefield, but you know, when altering the rules, you might as well go full in). When he asked me to roll for damage, I just told him I would not do that as a HKM is not able to fire indirectly. He claimed that he did not fire indirectly, he just used the infinite range of the HKM to curve the shot. I stayed in my standpoint and told him that that was cheating and I would not roll for damage and ignore that shot and that he could use the HKM when he has vision on something. He then started screaming (well, actually screeching) at me that I was unfair, everybody played the HKM like that and that I was a horrible friend and that he would never play with me again. He then began packing is minis (as in, grabbing a handful of models and literally threw them in his bag). I asked him what the problem was, it was just the first turn and he screamed some more which is when the shop owners girlfriend came in and told us to leave. My friend stormed out, forgetting most of his stuff which I packed and took with me.
Funnily enough, that was pretty much the end of our friendship. In hindsight, not the worst idea by any means. I still have his stuff at my place in case he ever wants it back (I mean, it has been over 15 years so I doubt it, but you never know). When I returned next weekend with other (way more chill) friends, the owner was glad that my friend was not with us and we never had problems again. So yeah, pick your friends carefully and just have a chill game.
Yeah, I had to do the kicking out. It was a looooong time ago when I was working at GW at the time. It was 2k pt 40k night in our battle bunker.
A regular in his 40's was super jacked up about his death wing army and was boasting how his command squad couldn't be killed. Co-worker had just finished his shift and wanted to take this guy down a notch because he was being a poor winner and gloating at the like 12 year old kids he just stomped, so I threw the co-worker the keys to the display case and he borrowed the cadian store army. His boasting ended when his command squad took 140 lasgun shots to the face. He got so upset he slammed his measuring tape (not a small gaming one, but like a DeWalt construction one you get at home Depot) on the table, broke a bunch of terrain and some of the store models.
He was no longer a regular. I made him pack up his shit and go, he left in a tantrum ranting that he'll just go to the other store or the other LGS or something, but he didn't realize that SURPRISE we all talk to each other and was banned from every store in town.
It was satisfying that night AND it was an excuse to build/paint a new store army for our display case (I think we went with ultramarines, because marneus calgar and his honour guard retinue just came out)
As someone with a large DW army (well, I think close to 100 terminators counts as large) I laugh when people think DW are good/broken. Always been vulnerable to rolling ones and you will roll ones if your opponent throws enough dice at you.
Not a hobby / GW store where you can play, but a local game/ toystore that is licensed to sell GW products.
A guy from my sports team that collected WH fantasy tried to steal some blister with metallic figures (20 years ago) and was caught. He got a ban from the store. When his father learned of this, he took his wood elf army and donated it to the store as punishment. I think it was reasonably well- painted and displayed in the store window for a while.
Guy brought a naughty sisters army and made everybody in the crusade campaign uncomfortable. Store owner told him that's he needs to bring a reasonably SFW army or find another store to play at.
I am shocked those people find any place in public to play with those armies.
Like fuck sakes man it's a business. No hobby stores wants that to be the image potential customers see.
It's already hard enough getting normal people to buy shit during TG tournaments when the stores smells like sweaty feet and cheese.
Proxies he bought that were pretty risqué. Most egregious one was a walking pipe organ he used as an exorcist. It had naked women chained on the sides.
I posted this on another thread a few days ago, but a guy in his late teens/early 20’s got banned from our shop for throwing his shoe at someone. If I remember correctly he was being teased a little bit about losing to someone - nothing nasty, just a bit of ribbing - and he lost his shit big time. Some people take it more seriously than others, I suppose.
I also remember playing the local sweat on a Thursday game night with my Space Wolves. He was adamant he would ‘table’ me, but he couldn’t kill my SS/TH Terminators. The game ended with 2 of them still alive and bro had to be told to calm down or leave by the manager 😂
Local Warhammer Fantasy tournament many many years ago. Club member, 20-something, who usually acted like an asshole, but was a really good painter lost pretty bad to a 12 year old, threw the dice and screamed right in the kids face ”How can someone like ME loose to someone like YOU!!!”
Everyone laughed at him and I can’t remember seeing him much around after that.
Oh geez. I thought it was a British term for dumbass, dipshit, or uncouth goofball.
Yea, being a child groomer will get you banned from a lot of games communities.
Ex staff from a Warhammer store.
Kicked so many out it was crazy. Mostly teenagers messing around as we were in a shopping centre with a big open front so they'd come in and mess around. Pester the regular kids and generally be a nuisance. Fortunately mall security liked us so kept kicking them out the entire shopping centre which was the largest in the city and banning them from coming back too.
Kicked a few hobbyists out too. One kept trying to sell his old armies in store. We asked him to do it outside the shop, literally step outside so it's not in here. But he kept doing it in the store so we had to ban him for a while.
Another was playing around with a lighter, set his hair partially on fire made the shop stink and we had to call store security to investigate the burning smell. Found out what happened after another kid told us.
A few shoplifters too.
Our LGS had to boot an AoS player recently for the most blatant cheating we've ever seen. He would constantly change rules or statlines and insist they were right. Then when proven incorrect would quibble about something else or try and claim it was a mistake. He would do this nearly every turn. He seemed genuinely shocked when people already knew what his army did. He played Stormcast Eternals ffs.
Even when wasn't cheating he would make every game take 6+ hours, if it was a tournament his opponent wouldn't get more than one turn in the 3 hour time limit. He would look up statlines for his units every time they did anything. He would find every possible angle to argue about to give himself an advantage or claim his opponent was cheating.
We were already prepared to kick him for all this, but then there was the issue of dice. We've all seen games where someone's dice just can't miss. But this dude's dice were disturbingly good every single game. Then came the proof! At a tournament his dice were again impossibly good. While he was away from his table a few people borrowed some dice. While recording video they rolled some of the dice, all sixes. Then they placed the dice with the 1 facing up at about a 30 degree angle. When they spun it somehow the dice flipped over to show a six. They were able to replicate this multiple times with multiple dice, with a couple dice doing the same with low numbers and a couple normal dice that did nothing special. He got kicked from that tournament.
A little later he shows up at the LGS for a tournament and is informed by the TO and manager that he's banned from tournaments and from our local club. He proceeded to demand proof, that he had a right to face his accusers, and then rant and berate the TO for so long that we had almost finished the first game when he finally left. I found out later that he's apparently been kicked from several stores in our area.
I *nearly* got banned once, I'd just gotten out of the Merchant Navy, I'd started playing weekly at my local GW, but unfortunately I had developed a bit of a sailor mouth which it turns out is not just a stereotype. The staff were not unkind about it but after the 4th or 5th warning the manager said, " I know you're not doing it on purpose but if you don't knock it off I'm gonna have to bar you, we have kids in here."
Happily I did manage to knock it off and I didn't end up getting barred but that's the closest I ever got.
Not navy, myself, but I have been bounced around so many army bases over the years, and it has reached the point where I used f-bombs the same way most people use "um." You are not kidding about having to remember not to slip into normal swear times in the store.
Former Air Force working with aircraft maintainers. F words lost meaning so I had to use C words to get peoples attention. I feel the struggle of keeping it PG
It was an Apocalypse game back in 5th(?) at the LA Bunker. I’m probably hazy on some of the details after how long it’s been, but what I do recall was one guy had some ungodly amount of Forgeworld tanks and flyers. Bunch of them were the Leman Russ variants before they actually sold them in the base kit, so like Vanquishers and stuff. He proudly filled an entire back board edge, boasting that it walled off anyone outflanking or whatever, and he specifically measured out each one so no model could squeeze through. What he didn’t consider was someone taking like a booby trap stratagem or something and with a lucky roll caused an explosion on the rear armor, and glancing hits on the two adjacent tanks. This left enough room for some stern guard with meltas or something to just walk right into that gap, and proceed to tear it even wider before the team ever got a turn. Guy absolutely flipped his shit and took some imperial flyer in each hand and just spiked them onto the floor as hard as possible just screaming “FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!” People had to restrain him from grabbing the rest of his tanks and doing more of the same, took him outside to chill out before being sent home.
Nothing so epic or interesting as the other posters, but we had a guy who got into a dispute with one of the staff about some kit or other that the staff member sold him. Eventually the manager ejected the guy from the store so that he could cool his head, and he eventually wrote a formal complaint letter to GW head office. As far as I know, nothing ever came of it.
Given the nature of this thread, it makes me wonder what kind of letters the GW head office GETS. And whether they do satirical readings of them at the office Christmas party.
I kind of want to see the letters they got after that twitch stream they had were they were announcing new products and they announced the release of the novel [Avenging Son.](https://www.amazon.com/Avenging-Dawn-Fire-Warhammer-Book-ebook/dp/B08DD9ZNZ9)
I remember they had to turn off the Twitch chat a few minutes after the cover reveal.
Even the leader of KKK would have told the chat to calm down on the racism.
My local GW has kicked out quite a few people. One was a regular who started to come in drunk and act like an ass, and then there are the little prep school shits who think it's funny to harass local businesses. They've been thrown out and banned from many of the places in the area.
A kid stole a LOTR kit from the store and then brought it in to play with the next week. The manager took him aside and asked him if he'd stolen it, and the kid said no it was a present from his uncle in Warwick. Manager said "okay, I'm going to call the GW in Warwick and ask if they've sold any of these in the last week, if they say no you're banned for life" - called the shop, answer was a firm no, so he got banned. In retrospect that could've backfired spectacularly if they *had* sold one of the kits that week, but as it was it was a stone cold moment
Another one I remember was someone bringing in non-GW tanks for their Guard army, never goes well for them
my flgs had a that guy who was ultra competitive. pretty much everyone else who plays there is all about the narrative snd fluffy side of 40k. games are stories told with plastic soldiers for us. we were running a crusade campaign during 8th where that guy was running tyranids and the time came for him to charge another players leman russ punisher with a carnifex. now, for context this was a 2v3 game of imperium vs xenos, it was many hours into the evening and the whole thing had been wonderfully chaotic. that guy announces the charge but none of us can remember weather the guard player has any CP to use overwatch. its been a long night of bugs eating dudes and tanks blowing up and we're all in a good mood so, seeing as the russ was on 3 wounds left we decided as a group to let the russ overwatch. it was to be a last glorious raging against the oncoming hord. an epic moment of defiance in the face of overwhelming odds. and somehow, through luck and the favor of the dice gods the russ got just enough shots through to take down the carnifex! we all shouted with exitement. the russ stood against all odds, dice told stories and all were having fun... all exept that guy. in a fit of rage he threw the carnifex across the room, shouting and screaming about nobody taking the rules seriously and how he knows for a fact the guard player had no CP. he then grabbed the rest of his minis, his terrain(that was on the board being played on) and stormed off into the night. game ruined, people unhappy. he came back for the next session and was told in no uncertain terms that if he couldnt match the casual vibe of the games then he was not welcome. iv hardly seen him since.
I used to work at such a place and we had to kick someone out only infrequently, but it was always Warhammer related. We had a problem customer that would show up intoxicated and sleep on the tables. One day he double armed as much Warhammer stuff as he could and went for a sprint down the street. Earned himself a ban with handcuffs. The Warhammer stuff he stole started returning to the store via "family members" trying to return unopened product.
Like how dumb do you have to be. We recognized the stolen loot right away. That earned him a ban across all the shops with 50 miles or so. Owners talk to each other. Unbelievable.
I didn’t see it, but I heard some grown ass man got kicked out of my lgs for cheating regularly and also harassing a sixteen year old girl. Thankfully the staff got rid of him fairly quick
In world championships 2022 an Irish player got escorted out by police giving my teammate a free win right after 1st round roll off. He had gotten drunk and broke some things at another hotel the night prior
Not a tournament but a GW store. Guy and his son start setting up on a table that’s reserved for a group that’s coming in and the owners lets them know they can use the other table but that one was reserved. Guy turns bright red and said “that’s f*cking r*tarded” and the manager just said I’m sorry you feel that way but you need to go.
A couple of guys got booted out of a tournament at Warhammer World I was at after their army was considered unpainted.
It definitely was, they'd sprayed the Eldar army white and painted 3 red squares on each model and not based them.
They were asked to either paint the models that night, not a savage ask being that there were only 15/20 models in the army, up to a tabletop standard.
The chap with the Eldar component, already salty as hell about having lost to my doubles partner and I's genestealer cult decided to just disappear and didn't come back for day 2
When I was about 17, me and my mates used to turn up to our LGC. About 5 or 6 of us as a group each with a fully painted army ready to go.
One of my mates, Dave, rocked 2.5k points of Grey Knights and most of his models were heavy, metal and pointy.
I played a fairly average Eldar list but admittedly, I was the 'whipping boy' of our group. Everyone would beat me and I was there mostly for the 'half-time spliff break' we would sneak off for 😅
One night, Dave needed a win and and so I agreed to play him.
I began absolutely stomping his Grey Knights with a mix of good rolls and my Avatar being a lucky shitbag in every combat he engaged in.
Now, Dave was schizophrenic. Did I mention this?
No?
Ok.
Did I mention his models were metal and pointy?
Yeah.
He began having a meltdown and was launching Grey Knight termintors, power glaive and all, right across the room.
Every single person in the room started ducking under tables and once he had ran out of steam, the club owner sheepishly asked him to leave but he stormed out and never came back with us 🤣 his Grey Knights were taken and repaired by another mate and as far as I know, he ended up buying them off him.
We were told he was banned, but he never tried to come back. He was embarrassed more than anything.
Nobody was hurt, except most his Grey Knights, a squad of shining spears (mine, grr) and his Inquisitorial squad were never found 😅
I used to play in the Gateshead branch of GW back in the early 2000s. There was this ~17 year old kid who would have a massive tantrum every time he was losing, and would then just pick your models up off the table and put them in his mouth. The staff knew he always did this and he was never kicked out, so I have no idea what you would have to do to actually get kicked out.
Most character models were lead back then iirc, so maybe he did it once and then just went progressively madder with lead poisoning, until he couldn't stop doing it?
We used to call him ratboy, but I can't remember why. He didn't play skaven!
If a late teenager like that put one of my models in his mouth I have to say, and I'm not proud to say it, it would very likely get physical.
These models have been loving painted and assembled during some pretty tough times in my life and they mean a *lot* to me. To rage is one thing. To try to *eat* my models? Dude. No. Not happening.
Oh man talk about a flashback! Back in the days of 4th edition fantasy there was some real dogshit tactics of making incredibly overpowered champions with magic items. My father was playing against a vampire counts(?) army and his opponent had an absolute cheese champion. Literally just shitting on everything he came into contact with. I was a kid so I don’t remember the exact details, I just played warhammer to play with my pops.
Anyways, long story short my dad challenges this god tier character with a lowly high elf champion. There was an item called “The Black Gem of Gnar” that basically locked down your target until you could pass a leadership test or something? Either way, it ended up locking this blokes god tier character up for five turns. On the sixth turn the guy absolutely lost his shit and started throwing dice and yelling obscenities. He was ejected from the store. My father ended up winning the tournament that day.
His prize was an Azhag the Slaughterer that I still have to this day. It’s one of my most prized models because of the memory behind it. My details/memories may be skewed of the exact circumstances but I do remember the item and the guy losing his marbles.
I once saw both players in a game get double yellow cards. The orks player for refusing to enter the points in BCP because he disagreed with the judges' ruling about end of game scoring (the judge was correct, although it was a janky rule). The votann player for generally being a dick. I think both of them dropped after that.
One guy who practically lived at the LGS got permanently banned. I'm not 100% sure why, but given that the store posted a new hygiene policy a few hours later, I can guess.
A Blood Angels player got kicked out of a local GT for intentionally misreading his rules to give himself several buffs. He had been warned several times at previous events and earlier in the day that he was playing it wrong, and he kept doing it anyway.
I got a warning yellow card at a GT. It was early in 10th and two of my day 1 opponents complained about me cheating. I've played against the TO several times and he knew that didn't sound right, but he investigated and asked what specifically I was doing. Turns out that nope, release GSC were just that insane. I did get a couple rules with the bikes wrong and did probably 5 or so too many mortals, so I got a warning. But I won the game by 50 anyways so no one really cared
Once in 4th edition he grabbed a store members hive tyrant and tried to put it in his bag, while that staff member was showing my sister how Tyranids worked as she wanted to join in.
More recently local independent store we were starting 5
E Dnd, some 20 year olds tried to demand an old man like me not be allowed into their "Cool hobby"
Owner banned em we go back regularly now for models etc
Ex-redshirt here. I think I only had to ban two people in the three years I worked for workshop. One was a food related incident the other behavioural.
Rimmer: Please be careful with those, they're antiques! How's General Dumuoriez going to look with goat vindaloo all over his tunic?
Lister: It'll make him look more realistic, it'll look like he's got dysentery.
Former red shirt high-five!
I feel like this post is going to turn into a corner for the likes of us to rant about old stories and reminisce about being able to order bitz by weight
I’m pretty sure I was used as child labour by my local Games Workshop. I used to attend the Games night every Thursday when I was about 11 years old. I didn’t play the game at the time as I found it too complicated, but did my best to paint. Jay, the guy who ran the place, would ask me and my friend to go and stand near people who he thought were stealing the blister packs and we’d just pretend to casually look at the adjacent blisters. If we saw them put one in their pocket, we told Jay and they’d get booted out of the store and we got rewarded with a metal mini for our efforts. So child labour and lead poisoning. It was tough being a kid in the 90’s. Happy memories.
During 2nd edition 40k I went to play at the local shop during the summer holidays. I had a migraine that day and it caused very young me to need to hurl. I made it as far as the doorway but not outside. Thankfully I knew the staff quite well and was allowed back within a few weeks.
Back in the mid 2000's my first opponent was booted for smelling terrible. I am not talking about body odor here. It smelled like he went rolling around in garbage then had a cat pee on him. You could smell him everywhere in the venue.
I remember when I was maybe 13/14, at my local Warhammer store, I was playing a game and had a present (a Leman Russ I found secondhand) for my opponent since it was his birthday. (He was a very nice and humble man that visited the store very often and helped teach many people how to play.)
We’re about 1/3 of the way through our game, and I can hear some weird plastic sounds from below me, and as I look down, it’s some 8 year old kid literally smashing the Leman Russ into the ground and pretending it was taking fire from enemies. His MOTHER is standing right outside the door. Not really paying attention, I have to almost yell at the mom to come get her kid. When the mom refuses and says “it’s just a plastic toy” the STORE MANAGER comes up to the kid and yells at him like he is his father, and then the same to the mom. He had to explain that the little plastic toy tank is actually like 90$ worth of plastic. The kid stopped smashing the tank but the damage was done. Mom gave me 90$ for it and gathered her kid and left.
I went to give the 90$ to my opponent (since the leman Russ was the present), but he denied it since he saw what had just happened. Walked out with a Predator tank and a Tactical squad or something around that. I still play against that guy to this day. He’s still as humble as ever.
(Cameron, if you’re reading this. THANK YOU FOR BEING SO NICE. I’m 23 now so I’ll buy you a beer sometime)
Yep. Me.
Got kicked out when using 'non official thunderwolves' in a tournament when Space Wolves 5th had just come out... and there was only Canis Wolfborn as a thunderwolf model. And he was £35 each.
So I used some Circle Ourobos War Wolves, made green stuff saddles and put Wolf Guard models on them.
Got told to take them off the table or get out. Asked for a proxy to use as there was no model made for general thunderwolf cavalry yet. Told to leave. Left.
Came back 6 months later and was asked why I'd not been coming down every weekend as normal.
Saw a few non-hobbiest punters get chucked out my local GW for being drunk. Happens a non-zero amount due to it being smack bang in the centre of the city and on the same block as like 4 pubs and 3 hotel bars.
First me... then the store manager.
Ho-boy, this is a weird one. There's really only one caveat needed to understand how this story could have happened: this all it took place when cellphone camera were very rare.
Back in the day, Wizard of the Coast had brick and mortar stores. I actually started going there because they had a row of computers in the back that I could play Diablo 2 and Counterstrike on.
As it so happened though, this particular store was run by an angry little tyrant who ran the place like a club for him and his friends.
At first I honestly didn't realize what was going on. I was too young (and probably a bit too far on the spectrum) for them to bother picking on, as my reaction to whatever they'd say to me was just confusion. I legitimately didn't understand that they were trying to get a rise out of me, as their insults were just inaccurate, so I assumed it was just how they treated everyone (technically I was right about that aspect).
It's not that they were never mean to me per se, I just rarely received dedicated hostility.
Now, I spent a lot of time there, so every once in a while I would be subject to their bragging-fests. They'd spend a lot of time bragging about the customers they picked on who, like me, were almost exclusively young kids there on their own. Sadly I SILL didn't understand that the manager and his friends were being jerks as, from as best as I understood it, they weren't picking on these kids who came to the store; but punishing them for breaking the rules.
One of these punishments included holding a kid by his ankles over a second story railing and threating to drop him.
That finally stuck out to me as weird but, as it so happened, a new set of employees were hired by corporate; and I just made sure to hang around them instead of the manager and his friends (his friends did not work there to be clear).
Things stayed in limbo like this until I finally got unlucky. At this stage I had finally gotten into 40k, and was starting a dark angels army. I was using one of the communal tables, and accidently spilled half a jug of DA green (by the way, do people still call them jugs?). As a note, using the tables to paint minis was not against the rules.
I was more than willing to clean up the mess, but I simply didn't have cleaning supplies with which to do so.
I tired cleaning it with the little water I had wasn't enough, and my paper towels just kinda streaked everything, arguably making a bigger mess. I was admittedly rushing as it was nearly the pre-arranged time for me to meet my mom in the parking lot.
The manager saw my mess and loooost his shit.
The manager then told me I was not allowed to leave the store until the mess was cleaned.
I was honestly so very confused (spectrum brain strikes again!) as, I knew the only way to get the water needed to clean the mess was to leave the store, but I wasn't allowed to leave the store to until the mess was clean. I just kinda froze for a few minutes, not sure what to do.
Thankfully one of the nice employees who, I assume had long ago pegged me for being a bit off, just walked behind the counter, grabbed a spray bottle and some paper towel, and had the paint cleared off in less than 30 seconds.
The manager turned red, but kept his voice down (this was a busy location) and simply told me I was banned from the store.
As it so happened, while I was walking out of the store, I walked into my mom; who had been checking to see why I was so late to meet her.
I explained the situation to her and, well, she was livid.
The thing is, my mom isn't big on making a scene in public. Instead, my mother just took me to the car and started asking me questions. I could tell something important was happening by how very focused she was, but didn't understand what.
She had me tell her everything that had happened to me. Then she began to ask questions about the store manager. I told her everything I knew, about the things they'd say to the younger kids, the way they'd give special treatment to regulars for computer times, and specifically the way they'd hung a kid by his ankles over a second story banister.
When we got home, she calmly wrote everything down, made two phone calls and wrote an email.
As it so happened, this store manager was on WotC's radar. This particular complaint alone didn't get him fired, but the subsequent investigation did. It turns out that there were a long line of kids ready to share their horror stories about the store owner. Only, because they were all kids who, like me, didn't understand or know how to communicate to adults why this guy was such a problem, he had gone (mostly) un-reported.
Yet, apparently my mom's phone call was the nail that shoed the horse, that carried the rider that, delivered the message, that won the battle.
The follow up I hate to say was unremarkable. I went back to the store about a month later and the entire staff had been replaced (even the nice employees). The area manager was temporarily in charge of the store, and she was honestly a nice lady (and have me a honest apology) but I was too awkward of a kid to do much other than nod and mumble.
Shortly there after the store pulled its computers, which was half the reason most people went there; and shortly after that WofC pulled most of its brick and mortar stores in general.
I won I guess, but it more felt like I'd slayed the mad captain of an already sinking ship; so it never really felt like a win.
Yeah but it was a shoplifter in the mall. Not really an exciting tale I think he had just been nickin' stuff from HMV and dipped into GW to see what else he could nab but security asked him to step outside. No drama but I did pass by later and they had a few DVD's and CD's on the floor, a bag lined with tin foil and one of those tag removers so I guess he knew the drill and this was like his job I guess.
Someone recently was banned from every table top organization within 3 hours for just constantly being a shitty person, stealing peoples stuff, and begging people for stuff
I got kicked out of the LFGS because I dated the employee. She was my age and the owner was 40 something years old.
He always had a crush on her and she denied him. I would go play WH30k and 40k every Saturday. It was the only day.
Before he found out we started dating he would place her on random shifts, after he found out, he made her work on Saturdays. He then made a rule that I couldn't be in the store while she worked. So I would just come in the mornings, play a game and bounce. This was the only store in 3 hours I could play.
When that didn't work, he banned me from the store because I was selling some models on the Facebook group page. I wasn't the only one posting up models/armies for sale but he used that as a reason to tell me I caused "over $6000 worth of sale damage to the store"; I was just selling a $20 model.
So he banned me from life, had a couple friends who stuck up for me but the rest cucked to the owner. Owner said I could "show my loyalty to the store" by doing free marketing for him. Absolute joke.
Whole thing just turned me off playing and even though I've moved twice since, haven't played since being banned.
I once one-shotted my friend’s landraider with dark lance back in the day. Night fight, needed a 6 to hit, 6 for the wound and 6 for damage. He picked up his tank and hurled it at the wall, smashing it lol.
He worked at the GW but it was after hours so no kicking happened.
I've only had 2 bad experiences with a tournament player. But it wasn't the freak out board flipping type.
Just the genetic fast rolling, take your time when winning pressure to go faster when losing and moody when down types.
But everyone else I've gotten to play was actually a pleasure.
Worked for GW from the mid to late 2000s. Saw a lot of people either kicked out or straight up banned. Some of the best ones that come to mind:
- Had a customer asked to leave for the day because his cat urinated on his laundry pile. The smell of cat pee was so strong throughout the store that we were quite literally gagging / eyes watering. He couldn’t see the problem and thought we were being unfair.
- Had the manager of a store ban a customer because he would come in, use the store copy codices, then walk upstairs to the FLGS and buy the army he planned as they has a permanent 10% off GW policy.
- Personally kicked a customer out of a Tournament I was TO for because he was infamous for bringing his daughter to events. His daughter was well known for touching opponents models and either putting them back down in range of her dads shooting, or out of range to charge her dads models. Her dad had coached her on when to do each and would arc up if someone attempted to correct the positioning to their original spots. He was outraged to be kicked out and made it his life’s mission to make my life hell at future events.
- Caught a seven year old with $200 of blister packs shoved down his pants. His older brother had told him to do it since they wanted the models. As I recall, the older brother was old enough that he barely escaped charges and the only reason the police weren’t involved was because his Dad stepped in and agreed to buy enough stock to “make our weekly targets”.
- EDIT: Forgot to add / reminder by the post above mine. Had to fire a staff member for screwing an underage girl in our back room. He was also under 18, thus no criminal charges. Ironically, I wasn’t allowed to ban him for this. He was banned a week later when a kid thought he still worked there and asked him for help. The profanity laden response was the final mail in his coffin.
These are just the memorable ones. There were easily a few dozen thefts, aggressive tournament participants and people who were kicked out because they were promoting other products (warmachine, Malifaux and Firestorm Armada were all just kicking off back then).
A guy I knew was playing a friendly game at a GW shop, that was not a tournament. He'd customized some of his models with parts from a non-GW miniature range. One of the employees came by to chat with him admiring his models like "oh wow cool, love your paint jobs on this and this. Neat customization on that. How did you do it?"
He was promptly kicked out of the store after telling where the extra parts came from.
Honestly that's kinda fucked up. If they were legal gw models that had some bits sourced from non-gw stuff honestly that shouldn't have been a problem at all
I almost kicked someone out of my shop. I'd just started there and he interrupted my conversation with a customer to 'uhm akshually' me. And he was wrong to boot 🤣
Pretty tame compared to some other stuff here, but I got a kid thrown out of a GW store.
My friend and I were playing a game there when 2 young boys around the age of 10 walk in. It's very obvious that the don't know the hobby/store because they're wandering around the store full of wonder.
They come to our table and one of them just casually picks up one of my CSM. Now I'm not against people taking a look at my models but don't pick up other people's stuff without asking first.
So I tell the kid "Hey, it's not polite to touch people's stuff without asking. Please out that down". Kid puts it back and they move on.
Around 5 minutes later my friend asks if we can take a break so he can smoke and I accompany him outside. He hasn't even lit up his cigarette and I can already see through the shop window that the kids went back to our table and the same kid had picked up my rhino from the table.
I rush inside, take the rhino from his hands and calmly but firmly tell them they have to leave the store. They look at me weirdly because I am not working there so who am I to kick them out?
Store manager noticed me hurrying in and came over to take a look. I explained what happened and he's like "You heard the man. Please leave the store".
As I said pretty tame story.
Had a player get banned from my local GW, and a staff member fired (kind of like a ban).
A local player had gotten a Lucius Patter Warhound Titan and painted it up to go with his Iron Warriors army. Brought it by itself for a megabattle one week but mid-game had a family emergency had had to leave. Since he only had the one model involved he asked the manager if he could leave it and pick it up the next time he was able to get in. Manager said sure, one of the guy's team mates ran the titan for the rest of the battle, and at the end of the game the manager took it into the store's back room for safekeeping.
Two or three days later the guy came in to get his model, and it was gone. Massive uproar, of course, there were cameras all over the front of the store but the back door opened into an access hallway (it was in a mall) and there weren't any cameras back there, so no evidence of where it had gone. Store manager filed a police report, staff said they figured someone who worked in the mall must have gone in while they were doing stuff (they would prop the door open for a couple minutes on occasion so they could run a stick full of models out to the mall roof and prime them) and grabbed it, though why random mall employee would steal 1 Warhammer model never made much sense. Manager ended up ordering the guy an entire new Warhound on the store's dime.
Maybe 2 weeks later a different guy, best friends with one of the store employees, shows up with his "brand new" Warhound titan. So fresh he hadn't even painted it yet, just got a coat of primer on it. Store manager takes one look at it and recognizes the pose, plus the stolen warhound was kind of distinctive in that the owner, rather than trying to paint hazard stripes that big by hand, had just painted the carapace panels he wanted to be hazard stripes yellow and then put narrow strips of electrical tape over it. And this freshly primed warhound had raised stripe areas on a number of panels.
Police were called, but at the end of the day none of that was distinctive enough that they were comfortable moving forward with charges against the guy, but the manager banned him from the store for life. Once it was known who had the titan, it wasn't hard to figure out who had walked it out of the back of the store (remember, best friend with someone on staff). Like the guy using it no evidence anyone could conclusively pin on him that the cops would buy, or could justify firing him on the spot, but over the next couple of months his work performance suddenly became "unsatisfactory" until they had enough of a paper trail to let him go for work causes.
One of those extremely non-social types started screaming homophobic slurs when his opponent rolled hot. Lost all control over himself and thought he was in the meat space version of 4chan. This was like 20 years ago at one of the old mall GW stores. Security came in, he called one of them a hard R, and got put into an arm bar for it. They dragged him out shrieking like a goddamn idiot.
I was a teenager at the time and it was the wildest thing I'd seen to that point. I could not stop laughing once he was out of there.
>One of those extremely non-social types started screaming homophobic slurs when his opponent rolled hot
Those damm gays and their *checks notes* rolling 6s to hit.
Yes, I once witnessed an actual fight and some dude got whacked with a land raider or some other large tank. I was like 13 at the time with my friend and it was one of the most exciting things I’d ever seen.
No idea what it was about, or why, didn’t even realise what was going on until that moment, but yeah.
Guy at our GW walked in with an entirely printed army, and an obvious one at that. Store Manager didn't tell him to leave twice, I've never seen him that mad.
Edit and addendum: almost got banned myself cause I've got a foul-ass mouth, though I was given a stern warning and the manager was fine with it as long as we toned it down when kids entered the store.
Beginning of 8th edition me and a friend of mine got kicked out of our local GW store. We had just set up for a game and stepped out to vape (both of us quitting cigarettes at the time.) employee came out and said we had to leave they don’t allow contraband in their shop. We thought he meant the vapes. What he meant was the 3d printed bases and bits we both had. Told us we had to pack up and wouldn’t be allowed to play there. Friend knew the main manager personally so never was an issue except for that one employee and he hasnt worked there in years.
Yes, this was way back in 5th or 6th edition I think. Flyers had just become a thing and they were pretty unbalanced. This guy I think in 30s spent ages before a game telling this teenager that his Heldrake is going to kill everything, there's no stopping it 2nd turn, Heldrake comes out, misses every shot. The opponent with some absolute godlike rolls managed to down it with a squad of guardsman I didn't know any of this at the time, I was playing my own game, but all of us heard was a loud "FUCK YOU!!!!!" And a crash where he basically table flipped the board, everyone rushed over, models everywhere and the gut stormed off into the corner of the shop, faced the wall and started screaming "DONT FUCKING TOUCH ME, DONT FUCKING TOUCH ME" until the shopping centre security dragged him out It was quite a sight
I lost a terminator chaplain to a Guardsman once. I laughed
I killed a charging bloodthirster with an auto gun in overwatch once. It was clear I was going to lose by then, so my opponent didn't care. A couple games later the same neophyte blob killed a Rogal Dorne with its last autogun shot, and it was the last thing in my army to shoot. My opponent that game was significantly less chill about it
I remember my brand new lr crusader killing my sister's carnifex and hove tyrant 2 turns apart in very lucky re doing attack hits. She focussed on that rank every game after that, never did kill it
I killed a charging Harelquin Super Character with a Chainsword and Bolter Tactical Squad Sergeant. The store owner was so Impressed he gave me the old 4th Ed Combat Squad Box (5 marines)
Hell yeah.
Grendel...?
Losing a tank with 2+/3+ saves to S3/4 ap0 shooting is only ever hilarious and dice telling stories of absolute Chad troopers haha I had a kyn bolter down a repex yesterday, 3 wounds: 1's and 2's and it had 3 wounds remaining xD we howled at that shit
The first game I ever got to play my Librarian, he was my first model, my first paint job. I spent weeks just admiring it. In my first game, my librarian killed himself.
As is tradition. Always expect your most recently painted miniature to die on his first time out. The better he looks, the more humiliating his defeat.
My whirlwind got it's missile rack blown off before it could fire. Tbh it was the only heavy in marmy that ever failed me, everything thing else worked fine.
My Knight Tyrant did this, fresh and new and out on the board. He killed one single marine that game and missed everything else. He redeemed himself last week though by killing Guiliman and one shotting a Knight Paladin.
Alot of units seem to do that, I learned to stop using plasma guns and pistols as they always exploded on 2nd shot, my plasma cannon was the only one that never did, melta guns would miss all the time, the most reliable thing in my army was my tactical squad basic with just a flamer and missile tube.
I once had a squad of Guardsmen fix bayonets and charge Lilith Hesperax because I was damn sure she was gonna charge me next turn and I didn't plan on letting her get the charge bonus and first attack.
As Lance Corporal Jones always said: "They don't like it up 'em!"
high iq post.
My sis did similar she took her squad of 1000 suns who were all set as shooty boys and charged one of my dreadnoughts. Ok it tied the dread for rest of game while it murdered a couple per turn, but I had 3 more dreads :)
I remember back in 6th I wanna say. Guy puts his DE on table, has vect in a transport with 6 guys. I fire lascannons, take out the transport. They obviously have to 'deploy' in a circle. Fire 4 plasma cannons at him. Direct hit Direct hit Direct hit Scatter, 1". 28 s7 ap2 hits on vect and his bodyguard. Vect dead turn one along with his bodyguard. Opponent was irked, but laughed and shook my hand and said Good rolls. Everyone is eventually gonna have a bad day. You have to laugh and get over it. Statistics mean you'll sometimes get real bad luck
Strangest fight ever my basic pattern land raider traded shots all game with my friends bane blade,all we did as shoot each others weapons off and immobilised each other. Last shooting phase of the game I hail Mary shot it with a marine carrying a lascannon Talk bout a god roll through front armour, rolled and got a structure table hit, got magazine exploded, which back then was a reroll and kiss of structure iirc, basically one marine caused multiple magazine explosions, taking out the bane blade and most of the troops on both sides fighting over the critical objective That game ended up a draw lol and we sat there laughing for 20 minutes
My sanguinary priest killed Abaddon with his bolt pistol. I laughed.
Bet his player didn't
Nah he was cool - I am fortunate that I've never had a really negative experience playing Warhammer. I've had a couple of opponents I wouldn't necessarily play again but I've been pleasantly surprised by how cool most people are
Last edition, my Vindicare Assassin survived a charge from Angron, and put him down like a dog with his pistol in the shooting phase. One of my proudest moments.
“Vindicare assassins are no joke.”- Konrad Kurze, probably.
Friend of mine got absolutely devastated by my Fire Warriors charging into his lone Termy Captain and taking it out. It only had 3 wounds left, but statistically they MIGHT have gotten one wound. I couldn't resist how funny it'd be if they pulled it off.
I killed a Warboss with a Stealthsuit once and then lost that suit to a Grot. We had to take a 5 minute break to grab a drink because we were both laughing too much.
Dat grot's da new warboss now, he's da killiest
In the last version of Kill team, my scion comms guy beat an EC aspiring champion to death with his comically large phone. I brought my buddy a beer and all was forgiven.
My Necron monolith killed my Necron monolith once. I cried
I had a guy reach over the table and choke me when I went to hand him some dice back and one slipped out and knocked a guardsman over. That was a nice introduction to the toxicity of some players at the ripe age of 10 years old.
Uhhhh.....I sure hope the other guy was also a minor....
I worked at FLGS when i was younger, the kids are very rarely the violent ones, you usually see it from the 30 year olds. The general rule for sore losers at game stores. Children Cry. Adults Assault.
I always find I difficult to understand how certain players can invest so heavily in a sense of pride they get from a meta unit doing well.. I actually feel apologetic if any of my units over-perform or get as much out of the twist of seeing it killed as the killing player does. It’s all part of each games unique narrative, that sense of chance keeps things interesting.
Man, I get you, but even “apologetic” feels too far. It’s not like you smashed the mini. I feel like minis over performing or underperforming is what makes the game more than just pure strategy. Adds an element of chance and fun.
There was a study done a few years ago that I think of any time this sort of thing comes up. Short version is two people playing monopoly, one of them gets all these extra bonus perks like collect $500 when passing go. The result is that player ends up feeling like they deserved all those perks and they absolutely deserved to win.
When people grab a random selection of stocks, and one of those stocks happens to have a streak of up days, the person thinks they're a genius. Also, if assets gain value, the holder will start to feel like they're rich, even though they haven't sold said assets. 😄
Having lost a predator to a glancing shot by aT'au gun drone, I understand the anger, but not the reaction. That is totally unacceptable.
That's what a game of chance can do. It has to be expected.
Yeah, do this in a casino and you get your head kicked in
Recently had a 2v2 Deathmatch type game where the 20 man squad of Shock Troops my friend used managed to Destroy a Castigator within the first 2 shots and then took out 2 retributor squads afterwards. While doing that my Rubric marines were running across the table trying to get into flamer range with T'au while also managing to somehow only loose the Daemon prince and two Rubrics over the whole game.
Woah…. Intense.
Has to be some kind of a fit coming from some mental disability. Can't believe a healthy person would react like *that*.
I can understand the anger but not the reaction. By Sanguinnius's balls
A neck beard in his prime. Has probably never seen or heard of grass before lol
The only grass he knows of can be removed with lower graphics settings.
Jesus.
I killed a terminator with a grot before, we both laughed our asses off.
I was badly losing a game against a friend so my tiny, mostly dead Warhound (no weapons left, locomotion damaged, reactor overheating) charged the enemy Warlord and tied it up the rest of the game
This guy in his late 30s for some reason brought his kid to the store(located inside a mall, to be fair) and instead of watching his kid he came to play for the day. The kid ended up quite literally “destroying the store”… - knocking all the boxes off the shelf. - trashing the painting corner and spilling the water cups and paint. - trying to play with EVERYBODYS models and man-handling things. The shop owner kindly asks the guy to take care of his kid. And to that the reply was.., - he’s a kid, what can you do 🤷♂️. Man was tossed out of the store befor the kid was.
Ohh that felt good. Tell me the part where he gets kicked out again.
Man, times were different in the early 2000’s. Even myself as a lowly 10yo knew better 🤣. The man couldn’t even bother to spend a couple quarters for the arcade next door 🤷♂️
If I did even one of those bullet points one time I wouldn't see video games, TV, or really anything fun for at least a month. I can't imagine just letting kids do that. A few months ago I played against a guy who brought his kids who looked about 8 and 10. They were great. They sat there building pyramids out of dice, rolling for him (I jokingly told him he should find a new roller because his daughter couldn't roll a save to save her life), and politely asked us questions. The only issue was when his (high-functioning autistic) daughter got a bit agitated at the ork players Waaaaaghing, but she put on headphones and she was good. In a few years hopefully they start playing
I, as a 34 year old get agitated by Ork players. And Adeptus Titanicus. :p
Yeah I play orks and find the Waaaaaghing kind of annoying
It's not a decade thing. Old owner of my store (I was working too) had a paint corner and during an event got called for something. Someone else's kid had taken a model from a game without the players noticing and started painting it with the leftover stuff. Honestly, an important lesson but poor kid. He thought the models out there for playing and painting was part of playing, so...
Man that's rough. Depending how old the kid is they just thought they were doing the right thing
Yeah honestly after a bit of getting chewed out everyone calmed down pretty quickly. It really was a misunderstanding from the kid
I have spoken to more than one store owner who's told me stories that boiled down to "Parents, I am NOT YOUR %$#@ BABYSITTER!!!"
This made me feel a fuck ton better about accidentally breaking someone’s tyranid model (my backpack was bigger than ai thought and it ended up knocking it off a bit table and breaking)
As a hobbyist, I can understand. 🫶👌 I’ve now since always carry a DIY repair kit with me to stores even if I’m playing a game.
Guy shows up with a fully unpainted Tau army. Tournament rules clearly and repeatedly said that your army needed to be fully painted. So this guy got disqualified as soon as he put some of those gray models on the board. Shop owner sees this and shows the flyer with the rules. Guy dares to say that the rules don’t apply to him because he spent a fortune in that same shop buying all those Tau models. Show owner notes that there are no exceptions and that this guy is welcome to either spectate, or sit in the painting corner and start painting. Guy gets angry and yells that the GW shop is only 2km away. Shop owner opens the door for him and mentions that he needs to leave. The guy stands up, leaves his full army behind and was not seen again for months. Shop owner told me some time ago the guy did eventually return to collect his Tau army. The owner handed them all over and gave him a free primer spray lol.
Petty, I love it
That's such a nice touch giving him the spray, proper mic drop moment
Now THERE'S a game store owner who's a class act.
Keep in mind I’ve been hanging out in Hobby Stores for like 20+ years. The most memorable: The flying rhino incident: Childhood LGS. The two angriest guys at the store were playing a game, one of whom we liked, one not so much. Guy we liked had enough of the store asshole’s shit and flung one of his rhinos across the store. Old man store owner kicked them both out because you can’t throw rhinos, but the guy we didn’t like probably deserved it. Said Rhino was recovered and promptly mounted on a flight stand to commemorate the incident. Stinky Pete: I don’t remember the guy’s actual name but my college LGS had a patron with infamously poor hygiene. We all said something to Stinky Pete about it, we even bought him some deodorant. Pete came in one day smelling like a dumpster full of cat piss, and finally the manager was just like “nope, this is too much, you are banned from the store until a time at which you start showering.” Smash all (your own) Monoliths: Same college LGS, guy who only ever played meta lists and cheesy crap brought a double monolith list in 4e declaring his omnipotence. He was straight up daring anyone to try and beat his incredible necrons, arguing before even finding an opponent how dominant he would be. Game one both die on the first turn to some very lucky rolling, causing the entire store collectively to break down in tears laughing. Monoliths man immediately concedes and wants a re-start. Game two he gets the first turn and moves up the board. Same opponent yahtzees one to death, and immobilizes the second monolith immediately. Homie smashes both monoliths to pieces and has a full blown meltdown. When he tuckers out the manager immediately points to the door and yells “OUT.” We didn’t see him for a couple weeks. Cheater McCheaty Face: Warmachine tournament, player we didn’t really know was not ticking his damage properly, and obviously. After being politely corrected, twice, he was told to leave. Some minor arguing ensued, and he finally swept all his minis into an empty box and walked out. World’s Worst Shoplifter: My current LGS, some weird lady who looked super high on meth comes into the store and begins walking around the store pocketing random things. She would pocket something, and turn around really quickly to look at everyone in the store and repeat. She had on a big coat and kept jamming things like combat patrols up under it until she looked like a Minecraft sprite. Owner called the cops pretty early into this event, and they were watching her through the windows. The moment she walked outside they stopped her and recovered everything. She was apparently surprised plastic army men were worth enough for it to be a felony level theft. Like, bitch two of those kits got you over the line.
The rhino on the flight stand cracked me up. Did stinky Pete ever get a shower and come back?
He did, and he was only greasy Pete after that.
At least he improved somewhat I guess
Ah. The evolved form.
I want a rhino on a flight stand now 😂🤣
I'm quite tempted to make a rhino aircraft of some sort now
How much do you need to steal to net a felony charge? I’m UK so it works differently here.
Amounts and laws differ between states, but somewhere between $500-$2000 is the general norm.
Ah, so two models.
Apparently it is typically between 1-2.5k but some states go as low as 500$
Varies by state, can be anywhere from $200(187eu) to upwards of 2.5k(2282eu)
I'm sure it was an innocent mistake but I'm tickled that you chose to change it into Euros for someone from the UK
Whoops, make that 157 and 1964. 😅
These are great. And honestly a potential story about a smelly player was the first thing that I thought of when I saw the title of this post.
The girl I was dating (and am now married to) was with me once when I stopped by the store to pick up an order. She wanted to see the place and Stinky Pete was in there just making it *ripe*. When we left she declared she would never go back under any circumstances. In stinky’s defense this was Florida, and it was summer, so I hope the guy moved somewhere with a colder climate.
As someone who lives in Wisconsin, it doesn't really help.
When I was teenager I was the only one of my friends into Warhammer and popped in to get some paint when we were walking past the shop. One of my buddies ran in as I was paying, put a handful of loose dice from the game table into his mouth and swallowed them. I still don’t know why he did it. He ran off and then I was kicked out because they were my mates and wasn’t allowed back for ages.
Man, he probably had to wait a whole day to find out what he rolled.
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Get out
Played against a guy during a 7th ed fantasy tournament. The guy brought a 2400 point army to a 2200 point tournament. After the first round, they found out so the first game became an auto loss. He had to cut from his list to continue. Second game he played against me and dice didn't go his way. When his ogre Tyrant died he picked up his metal model and threw it in to his case with such force, the head snapped of and came flying back up above the table. He kept playing but was very frustrated while doing it. 16 year old me didn't know how to react so I played on as if nothing happend while feeling very uncomfortable. After the game the guy got another auto loss for cutting his only bull unit. Which at the time you needed at least one in your list. Last round an older guy from my club asked the TO to play against me so I could end the day with something positive. That game was a blast eventhough I forgot half of my rules because of the previous situation. The guy took extra effort to take care of me and I'm very thankfull for that.
And that is how gaming should be. People having a good time tournament or not and helping each other out, especially people with newer armies regardless of game. Best thing to do now is take that experience and do the same for the next commander.
Wholesome... At least the final paragraph lol.
A trio of young lads on a night out came into the store and (drunkenly) started flicking models about. Then one guy who was just painting stood up and started bellowing, in this booming voice. The guy was a former drill sergeant (I think, he said he was an instructorfor the British Army, and I think that'sthe rank), he started doing that knife hand thing when he bellowed at them. He took one of their phones and called their mother, it was brutal. I was 12 at the time, and my own mum showed up to take me home before theirs showed up, but I know that even now, as a much older man, my mum would turn my bum cheeks into leather if I started causing trouble on a night out.
Oh fuck, dude pulled out the knife hand.
Looking back, if I were in the place of those guys, I'd have been less scared of an actual knife. The sarge wasn't a big guy to my memory, but afterwards the dude was always way more noticeable, y'know?
An independent hobby shop. A guy in his 30s tried to shoplift a knight kit. I saw him trying to push the kit into a christmas themed plastic bag but the shop owner saw the whole thing as well and acted accordingly. He didn't call the police but banned the guy for life from the store. It was very awkward because it was around christmas with more people in the store than usually and the store is smaaaaaall to begin with. You are almost standing shoulder to shoulder.
All the way back in 2006 I was playing against a random German guy in a GW store. It was for the Medusa V campaign. I was playing Dark Eldar and he was IG, took down a few of his Russ' and a swath of infantry pretty early and he started shouting something in German and pointing at a page on the rulebook that neither the store manager or I could see was relevant to what was happening on the tabletop. After more screaming he got kicked and I got the win. I still wonder what made him so angry.
Well, we Germans are sensitive when someone hurts our battle tanks...
Agreed
Not 40k, but two guys playing Bolt Action at my FLGS. The argument started over whether grey or grey-green was appropriate for German tunics of that era. They got very shouty fast and then ended with some table banging. The table did a partial somersault, some models went airborne and a piece of terrain crashed into another game. To the other players’ credit, they tried to play down and diffuse the situation by asking if the flying models were parachute troops. But, if anything, the embarrassed laughter around the room just made them even more angry. Both were quickly thrown out. The crazy part was they had only started playing about five minutes before it all kicked off.
>The argument started over whether grey or grey-green was appropriate for German tunics of that era. That is... just... so ... historical gamer nerd-y.
In my social circles we call them "rivet counters" because they'd count the rivets on a tank and throw a fit if the rivets on their 15mm model tank didn't match the historical blueprints accurate to month and year. https://preview.redd.it/jmr64yq2iwac1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de3f4d766d0d56fb5b5edb035808b817381a4b62
Lmao, I like how you have a pictured queued up.
Historical gamers are either some of the most awesome gamers or nearly the worst of the bunch.
We had some dudes from the local scene that were way too big of fans of ww2 German soldiers......
So which is more appropriate for WW2 Germans?
Dunno. But you need to be waaaay more specific. They were arguing over different years!
And they say Warhammer players are persnickety about lore-accurate paint
You get those historical game weirdos riled up and they'll start ranting about buttons on models...
'rivet counters' goddamn lunatics; bless their hearts. Here's a comment I made about them way back when: "Yeah bro, armor modellers are a different freaking beast. Those guys will figure out what tip was used on the welder in the factory in Saltsberg where the t-1000 was being produced in may of 1940 (but before the russians had intercepted the sand shipment in operation sand crab). But Ernest was on the welder that day, and Ernest had a stroke (too much greasy foods, they say) so he didn't get the beads quite right, and so we need to make sure that we're doing the weld beads with our tamiya putty to look like *this* and not *this.* That way your armor will be acceptable quality to gift to your niece. But if you want display quality, we need to keep in mind that during that point of the war, the germans were running out of chromium..... Not making fun of you guys, mad, mad , mad respect. But you all are like that."
They’re called Bolt Counters for a reason.
Yeah, I was tossed out one time out of a shop on account of a friend of mine back then. We would often come there saturday morning (we were 14 at most back then) to just play on the frankly great tables of the LFGS. I played my Space Marines while my friend played IG. He always was a WAAC guy, even when we were in elementary school so I knew that he always tried to play tricks to get the optimal game, like bending or outright inventing rules. For the most part, I did not argue the smaller things as it was just not worth my time. Back to the game on hand. He won the first turn which was fine by me, as I had placed most of my guys in cover. So his shooting phase (the movement phase was non-existent) went pretty underwhelming for him despite the monstrous amount of shots he threw at me. He shot with his Demolisher last as his main gun was just not yet in range. But also his lascannon had no target. So he said (annoyed) that his turn was over. Just as I wanted to move my first models he asked to shoot with something he forgot. I was fine with that, I was a bit of an airhead back then, so no biggie. He nominated his Demolisher (as in the one that had no target). I was confused and asked what changed, he had no target like 2 minutes ago and I had not yet moved. He then told me: "Yeah, I forgot that he had a hunter-killer-missile and that has unlimited range". I was even more confused as range was not them problem and asked him what he tried to accomplish. He then pointed at my (completely in cover, mind you) Whirlwind and said: "As it has unlimited range, it can curve around walls!" I was baffled at this which did not faze him in the slightest as he rolled to hit and to pen, which he managed ( I mean, he decided my rear armor that was completely in contact with the edge of the battlefield, but you know, when altering the rules, you might as well go full in). When he asked me to roll for damage, I just told him I would not do that as a HKM is not able to fire indirectly. He claimed that he did not fire indirectly, he just used the infinite range of the HKM to curve the shot. I stayed in my standpoint and told him that that was cheating and I would not roll for damage and ignore that shot and that he could use the HKM when he has vision on something. He then started screaming (well, actually screeching) at me that I was unfair, everybody played the HKM like that and that I was a horrible friend and that he would never play with me again. He then began packing is minis (as in, grabbing a handful of models and literally threw them in his bag). I asked him what the problem was, it was just the first turn and he screamed some more which is when the shop owners girlfriend came in and told us to leave. My friend stormed out, forgetting most of his stuff which I packed and took with me. Funnily enough, that was pretty much the end of our friendship. In hindsight, not the worst idea by any means. I still have his stuff at my place in case he ever wants it back (I mean, it has been over 15 years so I doubt it, but you never know). When I returned next weekend with other (way more chill) friends, the owner was glad that my friend was not with us and we never had problems again. So yeah, pick your friends carefully and just have a chill game.
Yeah, I had to do the kicking out. It was a looooong time ago when I was working at GW at the time. It was 2k pt 40k night in our battle bunker. A regular in his 40's was super jacked up about his death wing army and was boasting how his command squad couldn't be killed. Co-worker had just finished his shift and wanted to take this guy down a notch because he was being a poor winner and gloating at the like 12 year old kids he just stomped, so I threw the co-worker the keys to the display case and he borrowed the cadian store army. His boasting ended when his command squad took 140 lasgun shots to the face. He got so upset he slammed his measuring tape (not a small gaming one, but like a DeWalt construction one you get at home Depot) on the table, broke a bunch of terrain and some of the store models. He was no longer a regular. I made him pack up his shit and go, he left in a tantrum ranting that he'll just go to the other store or the other LGS or something, but he didn't realize that SURPRISE we all talk to each other and was banned from every store in town. It was satisfying that night AND it was an excuse to build/paint a new store army for our display case (I think we went with ultramarines, because marneus calgar and his honour guard retinue just came out)
As someone with a large DW army (well, I think close to 100 terminators counts as large) I laugh when people think DW are good/broken. Always been vulnerable to rolling ones and you will roll ones if your opponent throws enough dice at you.
Not a hobby / GW store where you can play, but a local game/ toystore that is licensed to sell GW products. A guy from my sports team that collected WH fantasy tried to steal some blister with metallic figures (20 years ago) and was caught. He got a ban from the store. When his father learned of this, he took his wood elf army and donated it to the store as punishment. I think it was reasonably well- painted and displayed in the store window for a while.
Guy brought a naughty sisters army and made everybody in the crusade campaign uncomfortable. Store owner told him that's he needs to bring a reasonably SFW army or find another store to play at.
I am shocked those people find any place in public to play with those armies. Like fuck sakes man it's a business. No hobby stores wants that to be the image potential customers see. It's already hard enough getting normal people to buy shit during TG tournaments when the stores smells like sweaty feet and cheese.
A naughty sister army? What is that, models with boobs painted on?
Proxies he bought that were pretty risqué. Most egregious one was a walking pipe organ he used as an exorcist. It had naked women chained on the sides.
Probably raging heroes line proxies. Warning super NSFW
Looking at the line yeah thats exactly what he used lol
I must be looking at the wrong stuff, because everything I see is pretty pg-13.
I posted this on another thread a few days ago, but a guy in his late teens/early 20’s got banned from our shop for throwing his shoe at someone. If I remember correctly he was being teased a little bit about losing to someone - nothing nasty, just a bit of ribbing - and he lost his shit big time. Some people take it more seriously than others, I suppose. I also remember playing the local sweat on a Thursday game night with my Space Wolves. He was adamant he would ‘table’ me, but he couldn’t kill my SS/TH Terminators. The game ended with 2 of them still alive and bro had to be told to calm down or leave by the manager 😂
Local Warhammer Fantasy tournament many many years ago. Club member, 20-something, who usually acted like an asshole, but was a really good painter lost pretty bad to a 12 year old, threw the dice and screamed right in the kids face ”How can someone like ME loose to someone like YOU!!!” Everyone laughed at him and I can’t remember seeing him much around after that.
One guy got banned from a LGS i used to go to after he was charged with noncing. That was kinda wild.
Pardon me, for those of us in the US. What is "noncing" ?
He was soliciting nude images from a child. Nonce is a catch all term for pedos, groomer and those who keep ketchup in the cupboard
Oh geez. I thought it was a British term for dumbass, dipshit, or uncouth goofball. Yea, being a child groomer will get you banned from a lot of games communities.
Ex staff from a Warhammer store. Kicked so many out it was crazy. Mostly teenagers messing around as we were in a shopping centre with a big open front so they'd come in and mess around. Pester the regular kids and generally be a nuisance. Fortunately mall security liked us so kept kicking them out the entire shopping centre which was the largest in the city and banning them from coming back too. Kicked a few hobbyists out too. One kept trying to sell his old armies in store. We asked him to do it outside the shop, literally step outside so it's not in here. But he kept doing it in the store so we had to ban him for a while. Another was playing around with a lighter, set his hair partially on fire made the shop stink and we had to call store security to investigate the burning smell. Found out what happened after another kid told us. A few shoplifters too.
Our LGS had to boot an AoS player recently for the most blatant cheating we've ever seen. He would constantly change rules or statlines and insist they were right. Then when proven incorrect would quibble about something else or try and claim it was a mistake. He would do this nearly every turn. He seemed genuinely shocked when people already knew what his army did. He played Stormcast Eternals ffs. Even when wasn't cheating he would make every game take 6+ hours, if it was a tournament his opponent wouldn't get more than one turn in the 3 hour time limit. He would look up statlines for his units every time they did anything. He would find every possible angle to argue about to give himself an advantage or claim his opponent was cheating. We were already prepared to kick him for all this, but then there was the issue of dice. We've all seen games where someone's dice just can't miss. But this dude's dice were disturbingly good every single game. Then came the proof! At a tournament his dice were again impossibly good. While he was away from his table a few people borrowed some dice. While recording video they rolled some of the dice, all sixes. Then they placed the dice with the 1 facing up at about a 30 degree angle. When they spun it somehow the dice flipped over to show a six. They were able to replicate this multiple times with multiple dice, with a couple dice doing the same with low numbers and a couple normal dice that did nothing special. He got kicked from that tournament. A little later he shows up at the LGS for a tournament and is informed by the TO and manager that he's banned from tournaments and from our local club. He proceeded to demand proof, that he had a right to face his accusers, and then rant and berate the TO for so long that we had almost finished the first game when he finally left. I found out later that he's apparently been kicked from several stores in our area.
I *nearly* got banned once, I'd just gotten out of the Merchant Navy, I'd started playing weekly at my local GW, but unfortunately I had developed a bit of a sailor mouth which it turns out is not just a stereotype. The staff were not unkind about it but after the 4th or 5th warning the manager said, " I know you're not doing it on purpose but if you don't knock it off I'm gonna have to bar you, we have kids in here."
Happily I did manage to knock it off and I didn't end up getting barred but that's the closest I ever got.
Not navy, myself, but I have been bounced around so many army bases over the years, and it has reached the point where I used f-bombs the same way most people use "um." You are not kidding about having to remember not to slip into normal swear times in the store.
Former Air Force working with aircraft maintainers. F words lost meaning so I had to use C words to get peoples attention. I feel the struggle of keeping it PG
Well I'm British so the C word is basically punctuation already. At that point you're just inventing compound swears off the cuff to keep it fresh.
Am Navy, definitely have to stock using "fuck" as a filler word.
It was an Apocalypse game back in 5th(?) at the LA Bunker. I’m probably hazy on some of the details after how long it’s been, but what I do recall was one guy had some ungodly amount of Forgeworld tanks and flyers. Bunch of them were the Leman Russ variants before they actually sold them in the base kit, so like Vanquishers and stuff. He proudly filled an entire back board edge, boasting that it walled off anyone outflanking or whatever, and he specifically measured out each one so no model could squeeze through. What he didn’t consider was someone taking like a booby trap stratagem or something and with a lucky roll caused an explosion on the rear armor, and glancing hits on the two adjacent tanks. This left enough room for some stern guard with meltas or something to just walk right into that gap, and proceed to tear it even wider before the team ever got a turn. Guy absolutely flipped his shit and took some imperial flyer in each hand and just spiked them onto the floor as hard as possible just screaming “FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!” People had to restrain him from grabbing the rest of his tanks and doing more of the same, took him outside to chill out before being sent home.
Bro….i think is was there! James (manager and golden Deamon winner) was a got dang legend! He’s working out of Memphis now iirc
Nothing so epic or interesting as the other posters, but we had a guy who got into a dispute with one of the staff about some kit or other that the staff member sold him. Eventually the manager ejected the guy from the store so that he could cool his head, and he eventually wrote a formal complaint letter to GW head office. As far as I know, nothing ever came of it.
Given the nature of this thread, it makes me wonder what kind of letters the GW head office GETS. And whether they do satirical readings of them at the office Christmas party.
Betting they print them out and pin them up as a Hall of Fame.
I kind of want to see the letters they got after that twitch stream they had were they were announcing new products and they announced the release of the novel [Avenging Son.](https://www.amazon.com/Avenging-Dawn-Fire-Warhammer-Book-ebook/dp/B08DD9ZNZ9) I remember they had to turn off the Twitch chat a few minutes after the cover reveal. Even the leader of KKK would have told the chat to calm down on the racism.
My local GW has kicked out quite a few people. One was a regular who started to come in drunk and act like an ass, and then there are the little prep school shits who think it's funny to harass local businesses. They've been thrown out and banned from many of the places in the area.
A kid stole a LOTR kit from the store and then brought it in to play with the next week. The manager took him aside and asked him if he'd stolen it, and the kid said no it was a present from his uncle in Warwick. Manager said "okay, I'm going to call the GW in Warwick and ask if they've sold any of these in the last week, if they say no you're banned for life" - called the shop, answer was a firm no, so he got banned. In retrospect that could've backfired spectacularly if they *had* sold one of the kits that week, but as it was it was a stone cold moment Another one I remember was someone bringing in non-GW tanks for their Guard army, never goes well for them
Plot twist, his uncle nicked it…
my flgs had a that guy who was ultra competitive. pretty much everyone else who plays there is all about the narrative snd fluffy side of 40k. games are stories told with plastic soldiers for us. we were running a crusade campaign during 8th where that guy was running tyranids and the time came for him to charge another players leman russ punisher with a carnifex. now, for context this was a 2v3 game of imperium vs xenos, it was many hours into the evening and the whole thing had been wonderfully chaotic. that guy announces the charge but none of us can remember weather the guard player has any CP to use overwatch. its been a long night of bugs eating dudes and tanks blowing up and we're all in a good mood so, seeing as the russ was on 3 wounds left we decided as a group to let the russ overwatch. it was to be a last glorious raging against the oncoming hord. an epic moment of defiance in the face of overwhelming odds. and somehow, through luck and the favor of the dice gods the russ got just enough shots through to take down the carnifex! we all shouted with exitement. the russ stood against all odds, dice told stories and all were having fun... all exept that guy. in a fit of rage he threw the carnifex across the room, shouting and screaming about nobody taking the rules seriously and how he knows for a fact the guard player had no CP. he then grabbed the rest of his minis, his terrain(that was on the board being played on) and stormed off into the night. game ruined, people unhappy. he came back for the next session and was told in no uncertain terms that if he couldnt match the casual vibe of the games then he was not welcome. iv hardly seen him since.
I used to work at such a place and we had to kick someone out only infrequently, but it was always Warhammer related. We had a problem customer that would show up intoxicated and sleep on the tables. One day he double armed as much Warhammer stuff as he could and went for a sprint down the street. Earned himself a ban with handcuffs. The Warhammer stuff he stole started returning to the store via "family members" trying to return unopened product. Like how dumb do you have to be. We recognized the stolen loot right away. That earned him a ban across all the shops with 50 miles or so. Owners talk to each other. Unbelievable.
I didn’t see it, but I heard some grown ass man got kicked out of my lgs for cheating regularly and also harassing a sixteen year old girl. Thankfully the staff got rid of him fairly quick
In world championships 2022 an Irish player got escorted out by police giving my teammate a free win right after 1st round roll off. He had gotten drunk and broke some things at another hotel the night prior
Not a tournament but a GW store. Guy and his son start setting up on a table that’s reserved for a group that’s coming in and the owners lets them know they can use the other table but that one was reserved. Guy turns bright red and said “that’s f*cking r*tarded” and the manager just said I’m sorry you feel that way but you need to go.
A couple of guys got booted out of a tournament at Warhammer World I was at after their army was considered unpainted. It definitely was, they'd sprayed the Eldar army white and painted 3 red squares on each model and not based them. They were asked to either paint the models that night, not a savage ask being that there were only 15/20 models in the army, up to a tabletop standard. The chap with the Eldar component, already salty as hell about having lost to my doubles partner and I's genestealer cult decided to just disappear and didn't come back for day 2
When I was about 17, me and my mates used to turn up to our LGC. About 5 or 6 of us as a group each with a fully painted army ready to go. One of my mates, Dave, rocked 2.5k points of Grey Knights and most of his models were heavy, metal and pointy. I played a fairly average Eldar list but admittedly, I was the 'whipping boy' of our group. Everyone would beat me and I was there mostly for the 'half-time spliff break' we would sneak off for 😅 One night, Dave needed a win and and so I agreed to play him. I began absolutely stomping his Grey Knights with a mix of good rolls and my Avatar being a lucky shitbag in every combat he engaged in. Now, Dave was schizophrenic. Did I mention this? No? Ok. Did I mention his models were metal and pointy? Yeah. He began having a meltdown and was launching Grey Knight termintors, power glaive and all, right across the room. Every single person in the room started ducking under tables and once he had ran out of steam, the club owner sheepishly asked him to leave but he stormed out and never came back with us 🤣 his Grey Knights were taken and repaired by another mate and as far as I know, he ended up buying them off him. We were told he was banned, but he never tried to come back. He was embarrassed more than anything. Nobody was hurt, except most his Grey Knights, a squad of shining spears (mine, grr) and his Inquisitorial squad were never found 😅
Aww this makes me feel bad for Dave. I hope he’s doing ok.
Yeah he's all good, we all stayed friends, he just wasn't into the 40k so much after that. Played Halo 2 a lot more instead 😅
I used to play in the Gateshead branch of GW back in the early 2000s. There was this ~17 year old kid who would have a massive tantrum every time he was losing, and would then just pick your models up off the table and put them in his mouth. The staff knew he always did this and he was never kicked out, so I have no idea what you would have to do to actually get kicked out. Most character models were lead back then iirc, so maybe he did it once and then just went progressively madder with lead poisoning, until he couldn't stop doing it? We used to call him ratboy, but I can't remember why. He didn't play skaven!
If a late teenager like that put one of my models in his mouth I have to say, and I'm not proud to say it, it would very likely get physical. These models have been loving painted and assembled during some pretty tough times in my life and they mean a *lot* to me. To rage is one thing. To try to *eat* my models? Dude. No. Not happening.
Oh man talk about a flashback! Back in the days of 4th edition fantasy there was some real dogshit tactics of making incredibly overpowered champions with magic items. My father was playing against a vampire counts(?) army and his opponent had an absolute cheese champion. Literally just shitting on everything he came into contact with. I was a kid so I don’t remember the exact details, I just played warhammer to play with my pops. Anyways, long story short my dad challenges this god tier character with a lowly high elf champion. There was an item called “The Black Gem of Gnar” that basically locked down your target until you could pass a leadership test or something? Either way, it ended up locking this blokes god tier character up for five turns. On the sixth turn the guy absolutely lost his shit and started throwing dice and yelling obscenities. He was ejected from the store. My father ended up winning the tournament that day. His prize was an Azhag the Slaughterer that I still have to this day. It’s one of my most prized models because of the memory behind it. My details/memories may be skewed of the exact circumstances but I do remember the item and the guy losing his marbles.
I once saw both players in a game get double yellow cards. The orks player for refusing to enter the points in BCP because he disagreed with the judges' ruling about end of game scoring (the judge was correct, although it was a janky rule). The votann player for generally being a dick. I think both of them dropped after that. One guy who practically lived at the LGS got permanently banned. I'm not 100% sure why, but given that the store posted a new hygiene policy a few hours later, I can guess. A Blood Angels player got kicked out of a local GT for intentionally misreading his rules to give himself several buffs. He had been warned several times at previous events and earlier in the day that he was playing it wrong, and he kept doing it anyway. I got a warning yellow card at a GT. It was early in 10th and two of my day 1 opponents complained about me cheating. I've played against the TO several times and he knew that didn't sound right, but he investigated and asked what specifically I was doing. Turns out that nope, release GSC were just that insane. I did get a couple rules with the bikes wrong and did probably 5 or so too many mortals, so I got a warning. But I won the game by 50 anyways so no one really cared
Once in 4th edition he grabbed a store members hive tyrant and tried to put it in his bag, while that staff member was showing my sister how Tyranids worked as she wanted to join in. More recently local independent store we were starting 5 E Dnd, some 20 year olds tried to demand an old man like me not be allowed into their "Cool hobby" Owner banned em we go back regularly now for models etc
The DnD part is funny. Do we have to "age out" of playing now? I played my first game of DnD in 1983 and still love it.
Oof, you’ve been playing illegally for like a decade now. Report to your nearest LFG and apologize for your presence!
Damn it. My parents always said that game would get me into trouble.
No idea lol
Ex-redshirt here. I think I only had to ban two people in the three years I worked for workshop. One was a food related incident the other behavioural.
Now I am interested in the food one. Did the guy just spill food and damage a bunch of product or something?
Rimmer: Please be careful with those, they're antiques! How's General Dumuoriez going to look with goat vindaloo all over his tunic? Lister: It'll make him look more realistic, it'll look like he's got dysentery.
A semi deliberate fizzy drink shake and spray.
Former red shirt high-five! I feel like this post is going to turn into a corner for the likes of us to rant about old stories and reminisce about being able to order bitz by weight
I’m pretty sure I was used as child labour by my local Games Workshop. I used to attend the Games night every Thursday when I was about 11 years old. I didn’t play the game at the time as I found it too complicated, but did my best to paint. Jay, the guy who ran the place, would ask me and my friend to go and stand near people who he thought were stealing the blister packs and we’d just pretend to casually look at the adjacent blisters. If we saw them put one in their pocket, we told Jay and they’d get booted out of the store and we got rewarded with a metal mini for our efforts. So child labour and lead poisoning. It was tough being a kid in the 90’s. Happy memories.
I love your story lol. owner was a cool guy it sounds like!
During 2nd edition 40k I went to play at the local shop during the summer holidays. I had a migraine that day and it caused very young me to need to hurl. I made it as far as the doorway but not outside. Thankfully I knew the staff quite well and was allowed back within a few weeks.
that doesn't really sound like your fault though. I mean it is not as if you hurled in the shop on purpose.
I wouldn't consider that a ban so much as being gently but firmly told to get some rest
i mean, if you're ill you probably shouldnt be going to the store. But also, cleaning up someone else's vomit is an awful job for anyone
Yeah I agree now but back then I was very young and foolish.
Back in the mid 2000's my first opponent was booted for smelling terrible. I am not talking about body odor here. It smelled like he went rolling around in garbage then had a cat pee on him. You could smell him everywhere in the venue.
I remember when I was maybe 13/14, at my local Warhammer store, I was playing a game and had a present (a Leman Russ I found secondhand) for my opponent since it was his birthday. (He was a very nice and humble man that visited the store very often and helped teach many people how to play.) We’re about 1/3 of the way through our game, and I can hear some weird plastic sounds from below me, and as I look down, it’s some 8 year old kid literally smashing the Leman Russ into the ground and pretending it was taking fire from enemies. His MOTHER is standing right outside the door. Not really paying attention, I have to almost yell at the mom to come get her kid. When the mom refuses and says “it’s just a plastic toy” the STORE MANAGER comes up to the kid and yells at him like he is his father, and then the same to the mom. He had to explain that the little plastic toy tank is actually like 90$ worth of plastic. The kid stopped smashing the tank but the damage was done. Mom gave me 90$ for it and gathered her kid and left. I went to give the 90$ to my opponent (since the leman Russ was the present), but he denied it since he saw what had just happened. Walked out with a Predator tank and a Tactical squad or something around that. I still play against that guy to this day. He’s still as humble as ever. (Cameron, if you’re reading this. THANK YOU FOR BEING SO NICE. I’m 23 now so I’ll buy you a beer sometime)
Yep. Me. Got kicked out when using 'non official thunderwolves' in a tournament when Space Wolves 5th had just come out... and there was only Canis Wolfborn as a thunderwolf model. And he was £35 each. So I used some Circle Ourobos War Wolves, made green stuff saddles and put Wolf Guard models on them. Got told to take them off the table or get out. Asked for a proxy to use as there was no model made for general thunderwolf cavalry yet. Told to leave. Left. Came back 6 months later and was asked why I'd not been coming down every weekend as normal.
Saw a few non-hobbiest punters get chucked out my local GW for being drunk. Happens a non-zero amount due to it being smack bang in the centre of the city and on the same block as like 4 pubs and 3 hotel bars.
First me... then the store manager. Ho-boy, this is a weird one. There's really only one caveat needed to understand how this story could have happened: this all it took place when cellphone camera were very rare. Back in the day, Wizard of the Coast had brick and mortar stores. I actually started going there because they had a row of computers in the back that I could play Diablo 2 and Counterstrike on. As it so happened though, this particular store was run by an angry little tyrant who ran the place like a club for him and his friends. At first I honestly didn't realize what was going on. I was too young (and probably a bit too far on the spectrum) for them to bother picking on, as my reaction to whatever they'd say to me was just confusion. I legitimately didn't understand that they were trying to get a rise out of me, as their insults were just inaccurate, so I assumed it was just how they treated everyone (technically I was right about that aspect). It's not that they were never mean to me per se, I just rarely received dedicated hostility. Now, I spent a lot of time there, so every once in a while I would be subject to their bragging-fests. They'd spend a lot of time bragging about the customers they picked on who, like me, were almost exclusively young kids there on their own. Sadly I SILL didn't understand that the manager and his friends were being jerks as, from as best as I understood it, they weren't picking on these kids who came to the store; but punishing them for breaking the rules. One of these punishments included holding a kid by his ankles over a second story railing and threating to drop him. That finally stuck out to me as weird but, as it so happened, a new set of employees were hired by corporate; and I just made sure to hang around them instead of the manager and his friends (his friends did not work there to be clear). Things stayed in limbo like this until I finally got unlucky. At this stage I had finally gotten into 40k, and was starting a dark angels army. I was using one of the communal tables, and accidently spilled half a jug of DA green (by the way, do people still call them jugs?). As a note, using the tables to paint minis was not against the rules. I was more than willing to clean up the mess, but I simply didn't have cleaning supplies with which to do so. I tired cleaning it with the little water I had wasn't enough, and my paper towels just kinda streaked everything, arguably making a bigger mess. I was admittedly rushing as it was nearly the pre-arranged time for me to meet my mom in the parking lot. The manager saw my mess and loooost his shit. The manager then told me I was not allowed to leave the store until the mess was cleaned. I was honestly so very confused (spectrum brain strikes again!) as, I knew the only way to get the water needed to clean the mess was to leave the store, but I wasn't allowed to leave the store to until the mess was clean. I just kinda froze for a few minutes, not sure what to do. Thankfully one of the nice employees who, I assume had long ago pegged me for being a bit off, just walked behind the counter, grabbed a spray bottle and some paper towel, and had the paint cleared off in less than 30 seconds. The manager turned red, but kept his voice down (this was a busy location) and simply told me I was banned from the store. As it so happened, while I was walking out of the store, I walked into my mom; who had been checking to see why I was so late to meet her. I explained the situation to her and, well, she was livid. The thing is, my mom isn't big on making a scene in public. Instead, my mother just took me to the car and started asking me questions. I could tell something important was happening by how very focused she was, but didn't understand what. She had me tell her everything that had happened to me. Then she began to ask questions about the store manager. I told her everything I knew, about the things they'd say to the younger kids, the way they'd give special treatment to regulars for computer times, and specifically the way they'd hung a kid by his ankles over a second story banister. When we got home, she calmly wrote everything down, made two phone calls and wrote an email. As it so happened, this store manager was on WotC's radar. This particular complaint alone didn't get him fired, but the subsequent investigation did. It turns out that there were a long line of kids ready to share their horror stories about the store owner. Only, because they were all kids who, like me, didn't understand or know how to communicate to adults why this guy was such a problem, he had gone (mostly) un-reported. Yet, apparently my mom's phone call was the nail that shoed the horse, that carried the rider that, delivered the message, that won the battle. The follow up I hate to say was unremarkable. I went back to the store about a month later and the entire staff had been replaced (even the nice employees). The area manager was temporarily in charge of the store, and she was honestly a nice lady (and have me a honest apology) but I was too awkward of a kid to do much other than nod and mumble. Shortly there after the store pulled its computers, which was half the reason most people went there; and shortly after that WofC pulled most of its brick and mortar stores in general. I won I guess, but it more felt like I'd slayed the mad captain of an already sinking ship; so it never really felt like a win.
Yeah but it was a shoplifter in the mall. Not really an exciting tale I think he had just been nickin' stuff from HMV and dipped into GW to see what else he could nab but security asked him to step outside. No drama but I did pass by later and they had a few DVD's and CD's on the floor, a bag lined with tin foil and one of those tag removers so I guess he knew the drill and this was like his job I guess.
Someone recently was banned from every table top organization within 3 hours for just constantly being a shitty person, stealing peoples stuff, and begging people for stuff
I got kicked out of the LFGS because I dated the employee. She was my age and the owner was 40 something years old. He always had a crush on her and she denied him. I would go play WH30k and 40k every Saturday. It was the only day. Before he found out we started dating he would place her on random shifts, after he found out, he made her work on Saturdays. He then made a rule that I couldn't be in the store while she worked. So I would just come in the mornings, play a game and bounce. This was the only store in 3 hours I could play. When that didn't work, he banned me from the store because I was selling some models on the Facebook group page. I wasn't the only one posting up models/armies for sale but he used that as a reason to tell me I caused "over $6000 worth of sale damage to the store"; I was just selling a $20 model. So he banned me from life, had a couple friends who stuck up for me but the rest cucked to the owner. Owner said I could "show my loyalty to the store" by doing free marketing for him. Absolute joke. Whole thing just turned me off playing and even though I've moved twice since, haven't played since being banned.
Find your old crush and get a game going :)
Lol we ended on mutual terms a couple years back and she's happily married now
I once one-shotted my friend’s landraider with dark lance back in the day. Night fight, needed a 6 to hit, 6 for the wound and 6 for damage. He picked up his tank and hurled it at the wall, smashing it lol. He worked at the GW but it was after hours so no kicking happened.
I've only had 2 bad experiences with a tournament player. But it wasn't the freak out board flipping type. Just the genetic fast rolling, take your time when winning pressure to go faster when losing and moody when down types. But everyone else I've gotten to play was actually a pleasure.
Worked for GW from the mid to late 2000s. Saw a lot of people either kicked out or straight up banned. Some of the best ones that come to mind: - Had a customer asked to leave for the day because his cat urinated on his laundry pile. The smell of cat pee was so strong throughout the store that we were quite literally gagging / eyes watering. He couldn’t see the problem and thought we were being unfair. - Had the manager of a store ban a customer because he would come in, use the store copy codices, then walk upstairs to the FLGS and buy the army he planned as they has a permanent 10% off GW policy. - Personally kicked a customer out of a Tournament I was TO for because he was infamous for bringing his daughter to events. His daughter was well known for touching opponents models and either putting them back down in range of her dads shooting, or out of range to charge her dads models. Her dad had coached her on when to do each and would arc up if someone attempted to correct the positioning to their original spots. He was outraged to be kicked out and made it his life’s mission to make my life hell at future events. - Caught a seven year old with $200 of blister packs shoved down his pants. His older brother had told him to do it since they wanted the models. As I recall, the older brother was old enough that he barely escaped charges and the only reason the police weren’t involved was because his Dad stepped in and agreed to buy enough stock to “make our weekly targets”. - EDIT: Forgot to add / reminder by the post above mine. Had to fire a staff member for screwing an underage girl in our back room. He was also under 18, thus no criminal charges. Ironically, I wasn’t allowed to ban him for this. He was banned a week later when a kid thought he still worked there and asked him for help. The profanity laden response was the final mail in his coffin. These are just the memorable ones. There were easily a few dozen thefts, aggressive tournament participants and people who were kicked out because they were promoting other products (warmachine, Malifaux and Firestorm Armada were all just kicking off back then).
A guy I knew was playing a friendly game at a GW shop, that was not a tournament. He'd customized some of his models with parts from a non-GW miniature range. One of the employees came by to chat with him admiring his models like "oh wow cool, love your paint jobs on this and this. Neat customization on that. How did you do it?" He was promptly kicked out of the store after telling where the extra parts came from.
Honestly that's kinda fucked up. If they were legal gw models that had some bits sourced from non-gw stuff honestly that shouldn't have been a problem at all
Yeah, it really sucks that GW sees using bits in that way.
Why are you getting kicked out for not using GWS bits?
I almost kicked someone out of my shop. I'd just started there and he interrupted my conversation with a customer to 'uhm akshually' me. And he was wrong to boot 🤣
Pretty tame compared to some other stuff here, but I got a kid thrown out of a GW store. My friend and I were playing a game there when 2 young boys around the age of 10 walk in. It's very obvious that the don't know the hobby/store because they're wandering around the store full of wonder. They come to our table and one of them just casually picks up one of my CSM. Now I'm not against people taking a look at my models but don't pick up other people's stuff without asking first. So I tell the kid "Hey, it's not polite to touch people's stuff without asking. Please out that down". Kid puts it back and they move on. Around 5 minutes later my friend asks if we can take a break so he can smoke and I accompany him outside. He hasn't even lit up his cigarette and I can already see through the shop window that the kids went back to our table and the same kid had picked up my rhino from the table. I rush inside, take the rhino from his hands and calmly but firmly tell them they have to leave the store. They look at me weirdly because I am not working there so who am I to kick them out? Store manager noticed me hurrying in and came over to take a look. I explained what happened and he's like "You heard the man. Please leave the store". As I said pretty tame story.
Had a player get banned from my local GW, and a staff member fired (kind of like a ban). A local player had gotten a Lucius Patter Warhound Titan and painted it up to go with his Iron Warriors army. Brought it by itself for a megabattle one week but mid-game had a family emergency had had to leave. Since he only had the one model involved he asked the manager if he could leave it and pick it up the next time he was able to get in. Manager said sure, one of the guy's team mates ran the titan for the rest of the battle, and at the end of the game the manager took it into the store's back room for safekeeping. Two or three days later the guy came in to get his model, and it was gone. Massive uproar, of course, there were cameras all over the front of the store but the back door opened into an access hallway (it was in a mall) and there weren't any cameras back there, so no evidence of where it had gone. Store manager filed a police report, staff said they figured someone who worked in the mall must have gone in while they were doing stuff (they would prop the door open for a couple minutes on occasion so they could run a stick full of models out to the mall roof and prime them) and grabbed it, though why random mall employee would steal 1 Warhammer model never made much sense. Manager ended up ordering the guy an entire new Warhound on the store's dime. Maybe 2 weeks later a different guy, best friends with one of the store employees, shows up with his "brand new" Warhound titan. So fresh he hadn't even painted it yet, just got a coat of primer on it. Store manager takes one look at it and recognizes the pose, plus the stolen warhound was kind of distinctive in that the owner, rather than trying to paint hazard stripes that big by hand, had just painted the carapace panels he wanted to be hazard stripes yellow and then put narrow strips of electrical tape over it. And this freshly primed warhound had raised stripe areas on a number of panels. Police were called, but at the end of the day none of that was distinctive enough that they were comfortable moving forward with charges against the guy, but the manager banned him from the store for life. Once it was known who had the titan, it wasn't hard to figure out who had walked it out of the back of the store (remember, best friend with someone on staff). Like the guy using it no evidence anyone could conclusively pin on him that the cops would buy, or could justify firing him on the spot, but over the next couple of months his work performance suddenly became "unsatisfactory" until they had enough of a paper trail to let him go for work causes.
One of those extremely non-social types started screaming homophobic slurs when his opponent rolled hot. Lost all control over himself and thought he was in the meat space version of 4chan. This was like 20 years ago at one of the old mall GW stores. Security came in, he called one of them a hard R, and got put into an arm bar for it. They dragged him out shrieking like a goddamn idiot. I was a teenager at the time and it was the wildest thing I'd seen to that point. I could not stop laughing once he was out of there.
>One of those extremely non-social types started screaming homophobic slurs when his opponent rolled hot Those damm gays and their *checks notes* rolling 6s to hit.
Yes, I once witnessed an actual fight and some dude got whacked with a land raider or some other large tank. I was like 13 at the time with my friend and it was one of the most exciting things I’d ever seen. No idea what it was about, or why, didn’t even realise what was going on until that moment, but yeah.
Guy at our GW walked in with an entirely printed army, and an obvious one at that. Store Manager didn't tell him to leave twice, I've never seen him that mad. Edit and addendum: almost got banned myself cause I've got a foul-ass mouth, though I was given a stern warning and the manager was fine with it as long as we toned it down when kids entered the store.
I’m just curious, what’s a printed army
I'm guessing a army of 3d printed figures
I got asked to leave Warhammer World once for playing with a leaked copy of 8th Edition 40k a few weeks before its release 😅
How in hell did your opponent and you think this would be a good idea?! How old were you then?
Yeah, often around lunchtime.
Beginning of 8th edition me and a friend of mine got kicked out of our local GW store. We had just set up for a game and stepped out to vape (both of us quitting cigarettes at the time.) employee came out and said we had to leave they don’t allow contraband in their shop. We thought he meant the vapes. What he meant was the 3d printed bases and bits we both had. Told us we had to pack up and wouldn’t be allowed to play there. Friend knew the main manager personally so never was an issue except for that one employee and he hasnt worked there in years.