Why are War Game players so fucking boring...

>Some of it might be just how they are in public.

Absolutely this, plus once you get familiar with the rules all that stuff goes on in your head. To onlookers, yeah it's super boring. "These little plastic men are now over here, I roll these dice, now those little plastic men there are gone". When you actually know what's going on then you're seeing the effects of a flamethrower or a giant curtain of automatic fire tearing apart an infantry squad.

tl;dr learn the rules of the game really well then watch them again, it gets a lot more interesting.

They're probably there every week or so, and they've gotten familiar with the terrain and each others' model collections.

They'll get pretty enthusiastic when someone shows up with a new, cool looking model they just painted. And nothing gets an emotional response out of them like the clatter from someone's model collection getting knocked on the concrete floor(80+ people wincing in unison)

Here you just saw them when they're intensely thinking about how to win rather than how cool it is.

So you went to GW and you're complaining that the people there were enjoying their game quietly instead of screeching like autists? I'd have thought that would be a good thing.

>Because people are doing what they are there to do, Win At All Costs.
FTFY
Mmmm, yes: instead of enjoying the game, they enjoy the MECHANICS of the game, or at least think they do. In fact, they are just busying themselves to prevent boredom. OP is correct: most gamers are boring af. The good ones are few and faaaaar between.
>WAAC
Shit, fair point.

I make sure to shit talk and stomp around like a mad man when I play. Makes me feel more in tune with my army.

theres a difference between "i send my men out to battle you, with my specific leader, who is very angry about the last skirmish and has a cool giant robot to show for it"
and
"i send my men out, i roll the dice, 3 die, the end"

Yeah, other takes three times as long to say while containing not that much more meaningful info.

I honestly don't even understand what kind of shitposting you are attempting here.

Wow, did you think up that retort all by yourself, kiddo?

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you should get some new images, your autistic respond to every post style is too recognizable

You're clinically autistic if you think the first way is even close to how real people express themselves.

>anime
You lose

Can complaining about anime on Veeky Forums count as shitposting?

No, just using it for arguments tends to devolved the argument into yelling at each other for no real reason.

But I'm not arguing anything. I don't even understand the post. Why David Mitchell?
Why calling someone a kiddo?

I don't understand. How were they supposed to act like? They're playing a boardgame with fancy looking models, there's not much space for goofy theatricals there.

It's more like 40K is a boring as fuck game. Look at historicals (No, not Bolt Action) if you want people focused on the narrative aspect. It is all people trying to immerse themselves in the scenario and think like the commanders of the time. 40K is there for fat kids to argue about rules and spend money.

Probably either silly frolicking or Sheldon from Big Bang Theory, so he could laugh at the silly nerds.

>40K is there for fat kids to argue about rules and spend money.
This, friends, this.

I'm not sure I understand what you were expecting.
Did you want them to jump up and down and yell every time something happened like a couple of irritating little children?
You were in a public place, and you're complaining that the wargamers were acting like civilized people playing a game? What even is your question?

op sure rustled some jimmies itt.

Wargaming might be more exciting to play if there were paid certified gamemasters at a given professional shop presiding over user games, like dealers at a casino. That way, you cut out a lot of the arbitrary processes like explaining and arguing over rules and get right into the dice rolling.

Of course, that would require money. Even if you had made-in-Japan robot maid android gamemasters sitting in stores all day, that would cost hella money.

kinda sounds like the first time when I had played
problem was, that I didn't know the rules yet

....and other wargames aren't?

Why are you even here?
Not just ITT, but on this board? Try to be happier about things, user. That kind of cynical attitude can't be helping your real life any.

A neutral and informed arbitrator? What's wrong with you? This is about bullying your opponents and feeling good about it.
Who ever said that??

>implying war games aren't just an excuse to have pretty painted armies

trust me it fucking sucks when 40k players get "in character" and shout WAAAAAGH and FOR DUR EMPRAH etc

There are a variety of contributing factors.
Firstly, in competive play you just don't see much banter and such, it's about winning.
Secondly, to enjoy any wargame you need to know the rules and fluff. If you know what's going on, then you can enjoy it a lot more.

>they're making more of an effort to enable other ways of playing with the new edition

It seems to be some kind of 'open play' shit where you just plonk down whatever and thrash it out. Seems fairly pointless to me. At least some kind of narrative game makes sense, but a "lol whatevs xDDDD" game just seems retarded.

>has no argument
>"wh-why can't u just be happy?"

Fucking kill yourself x10000.

>Fun is a buzzword: The Post.

>what are tau 7th edition tau players?
T. tau player from 4th edition

>but the players acted like it was all nothing and played with no enthusiasm, they just layed out the stats and acted like they were plying a board game.
Kinda like my players in my current shadowrun game.

let's see YOU do it every fucking week and still find a reason to overreact to something you've probably seen a dozen times by now

>he's never had a fucking massive apoc battle where it lasts for 14 hours and victory is decided on the very final turn
>this victory ties into a greater narrative scale, where the winner merely sieged control of a pump station to supply workers of a far more important strategic asset with the only source of clean drinking water on the planet, save having it brought in from out of the system
Whats it like being a pleb

They're just concentrating, user.

>>he's never had a fucking massive apoc battle where it lasts for 14 hours and victory is decided on the very final turn
Those are the best games, even when you lose. Just played a narrative game of 8th, the one where it's either table the defender or lose.
Lost because one conscript survived hiding in a ruin.
Still, very fun.

Having interviewed for a job with GW, I can tell you that yelling and narrating the action is definitely how they want you to play.

You sound like a fucking child