LFGS Horror Stories 2

>walk into shop
>manager and one other guy
>other guy is very large
>smells bad but he seems okay, keeps to himself
>talk to manager for an hour about HH
>guy starts groaning
>look at him, he says nothing, so we continue
>keeps happening every 5-10 minutes
>eventually manager asks
>are you ok bud?
>yeah im ok
>are you sure we can-
>shits himself
>manager and I try and comfort the guy, he's really embarassed and crying
>we do so from a distance obviously
>he calls someone to pick him up
>manager closes shop for half an hour to clean and calls in someone to replace him for the day
>manager and I go out for a drink after

Told the guy had only been in once before, and we never saw him again.

people miss the point of these threads

it doesnt matter if the stories are true or not, its the fact theyre believable and you're not sure that speaks volumes about what shitholes GW/other stores have become

if the store didnt have a camera (im assuming) you should have all gone private pile on his ass

>#6
I feel like every store has one of these reprobates

i thought most of the colours were just renamed? don't you still get the same paints?

Nah they've replaced pretty much everything

I miss Jade Green so much, I had an entire Jade company, but I gave it up when the paint got squatted.

fuckin spergs man

>hanging out at strip mall LGS
>couple of hyper rugrats pop in
>mom gave them $20 for some peace and quiet
>after touching everything in the store they buy Pokemon boosters
>they get crap pulls, and head out
>mom comes back with kids in tow demanding a refund
>her kids did not get the cards they wanted
>LGS employee tries explaining how the packs are random
>woman doubles down, wants the LGS to give them new packs
>for free
>LGS guy is still trying to politely explain why that's not going to happen
>mom is making all kinds of threats
>going to the better business bureau, the mall, the police, etc.
>Momzilla realizes she's not going to get her way
>exits in a huff loudly proclaiming they will never shop here again
>LGS guy and I give each other the "did that fucking happen look".

this must happen so often

>this must happen so often
I have a few friends who manage LGS, and most of them hate selling pokemon and yugioh cards for this reason.

No shit. Tablet and now phone raised children fed a constant diet of distractions and hand-fed, shade grown gluten and cruelty free ADHD meds are an absolute nightmare that Susan doesn't know how to parent. She's utterly out of touch, angry tipsey 3/5ths of the time and is incapable of understanding a problem that can't be screamed away

>Play Sisters of Battle
>Be owner/operator of vagina
>Fat guys constantly making weird vaguely sexual comments
>Playing against a guy in tournament
>Guy keeps leaning over like he's in pain
>Realize he's rubbing his dick under the gaming table

life is pain

thats the main reason why I wince whenever I see a new girl come into the FLGS

I hate to hear the weird ways the grognards make passes at her

And yet all I hear on this board via /pol/tards is how ‘women’ are ruining the community... just by reading this thread you can already say that there is not much to ruin.

>Be girl
>Play nids
>"W-would you like it if you were a Tervigon"
>"What?"
>"Then you'd be pregnant"

I have noticed a connection between that kind of behavior and the financial health of a LGS.

WOW. Just. Wow.

fucking grognards.

And this is why my wife doesnt wanna come with me to my LGS

>Play a fluffy game with lots of tactical marines
>Tau player brings 3 riptides
>In a 1500pt list
>I refuse to play him and start packing my shit
>He complains to the manager about my "unsportsman like behaviour"
>Manager tells him to leave if he's gonna bitch about not being able to table people
>Starts screeching and threatening to sue and all that good shit
>Manager calls his parents and they come and literally drag him out of the store
>He was 23

Tabletop minis and M:tG players are the worst kind of trash.

>one day he's playing a game
>knocks over his wraithknight
>snaps in two
>interior is very obviously not a GW model
>tell a staff member

Ok, going by the rest of the story, that guy was legit asshole, and after his spergout he definitely had it coming - but still, running to a staff member because the guy was fielding a recast is massively dickbag move as well.

Especilly if the recast was done well enough that it was only noticed after the model was damaged.

DADT, mate.

The smell and condition of my LGS is enough to drive my GF away.

>#4
/r9k/ is real

...

"DIRTY RAT" user, stealth edition?

I am not willing to admit that i cantt deny that you might be wrong by implying that i am the person you are talking about.

But seriously, no im not that guy. For one, i have nothing against calling staff when you have a legit complaint against other player being a dick. I just don't count non-obvious recast among reasons to do so.

come on guys, post more stories like that. i am at work and i need a good laugh.

How about some crooked LGS stories?
>LGS is heavily in debt
>vendors demanding past due payments
>probably behind on rent and utilities too
>overnight the entire stock and furnishings disappear
>at the same time a new LGS opens down the street
>new store is being run by a relative of the old LGS owner

And a very similar one
>LGS is heavily in debt
>around twenty grand
>vendors demanding past due payments
>behind on the rent
>landlord owns a pizza shop next door
>sees a lot of business due to LGS customers
>LGS now half a year behind on rent
>landlord is bringing the hammer down
>overnight the contents of the LGS vanish and a new store opens the next town over
Their original location wasn't too bad. The new store was bigger, but felt more like a flea market instead of a game store.

>Walking down the street
>Have to take a shit real bad
>Nobody will let me use their bathroom without buying something first
>Go into GW store
>Bathroom is locked
>Take a shit in the corner
>Nobody notices the smell because the store is already filled with body odor

I have a story from slightly after the LotR games launch.
>10yo me hanging at local GW because it's like a free daycare, right?
>mid-afternoon, store isn't crowded but hardly empty either
>disheveled guy come in, looks for the manager
>manager hurry to the guy because thirty-something hobos kinda stand out among the children
>Dude: "I want to know if you have books on language, lore and stuff"
>Manager: "Sure, what are looking for?"
>Dude: "Well, I was freeloading in a park and I suddenly started singing in a language I don't know. So you guys know about elves and fairies and shit so I wondered if you could help me guess what tongue that was."
>Manager looks around him with pure discomfort on his face and says his assistant "That one is for you"
>Assistant decides to roll with the joke and delve into Tolkien lore with the stoner
>Convinces him that he was speaking Quenya and probably has high-elven ancestry
>Hobo goes out of the store happy about his newfound bloodline while the assistant and the manager look at each other wondering what the fuck just happened
In retrospective, that GW shop was the most normal FLGS I went to but that was a magical moment.

>playing 4k point game of Warhammer
>we both pop out for 5mins to get some lunch
>while we're gone the unwashed mass that is Magic players arrive
>come back to an empty table because the Magic players have power dumped all our figures into some spare boxes so they can use our table
>there's a few broken and chipped models

Was quite salty due to only a verbal warning being given to them. However in all 4 lgs I've been a part of, there's a huge angry divide between magic and tabletop wargame players, solely because of this arrogant WE FUCKEN OWN THIS attitude from the Magic crowd.

Anyone else got this?

To elaborate on the "most normal FLGS" bit, it was just a shop where a staff of three tried to somehow make money when 80% of their costumer base treated their store like a daycare.

Unlike other stores I went to, it wasn't a den of unwashed neckbeards, it didn't condone sealclubbing assholes in hope that they drive noobs to buy the meta crap, it didn't force Ork player to run in the streets screaming WAAAAAGH when they won a game and it wasn't managed by homeless people who slept in their shop.

>local geedubs gets new manager
>wants to seem cool
>wants to seem like he knows GW history
>always talking about rogue trader
>always admiring old models
>this fuckwit brings in his "squat army"
>it's cool bro, they'll just count as space marines
>they're mantic forge guard
>they're obviously mantic forge guard
>they are plastic rip off squats from fake gw
>manager says how cool they are
>isn't great that our hobby has so much history
>everyone looking at each other
>nobody says anything
>mfw

You DO NOT EVER leave your models unattended for any period of time in a public store. You or your opponent should always stay at the table if you need to take a bathroom break or go get something to eat.

That said, yes, what they did was shitty.

The only store I went to that supported both games had enough space to make a wargame side and a cardgame side. MtG players and 40K players would be quite hostile to each other, but you better not be wandering on one side of the store when you played the other game.

The MtG crowd was plenty shitty on its own, a bunch of cheaters, thieves and scammers. But it was still better than playing at school and risking getting your shit punched out of you because stealing from nerds is funny.

>this fuckwit brings in his "squat army"
>it's cool bro, they'll just count as space marines
>they're mantic forge guard
>they're obviously mantic forge guard
>they are plastic rip off squats from fake gw

Yes, there's a sperg faggot prominent in this story... but its neither the player nor the manager.

As much as it pains me not to call bullshit (as there is a muhsoggyknee false claims shit going on) I've actually seen this type of thing. The absolutely worst attempts at picking up girls and creeping I've ever seen has been in game stores. Few Examples I've seen:

>Fat pony tailed manager pouncing on girls as soon as they enter the store. Within two questions asking "have you got boyfriends?" and I kid you not "I've always wanted to meet a girlfriend or just maybe fuckbuddies through my mutual interests (laughs), just joking". I almost cringed out of my skin.

>Playing a rare sisters of battle army played by an even rarer female player. The paint job is fucking sweet, ask to her other stuff if she's got it, she produces some fucking beautiful High Elves and Dark Eldar. Spend the time chatting minis, the thought of flirting or hitting on her didn't even cross my mind, too busy autistically grilling her on painting and conversion techniques. She's not bothered and happy to discuss hobby. After a while leave as a friend I was waiting for turns up so we game. Get approached by regular Grognard who bullies people at the painting table (despite never painting anything). "What were you talking to her about? You know it's not good to hit on people at the LFGS?" Ummmm...not really hitting on her. "You know she's taken don't you?" Ummm....didn't come up in conversation. "Yeah, I called dibs when she got in here so I'd appreciate you backing off her". See her at another gaming store, says she no longer goes to the other because of Grognard trying to hit on her and starting arguments with people around her.

Personally don't know whats sadder about the second story, the sexually frustrated grognard or the fact that when meeting the rare gaming female I'm more interested in staring down her minis and paintjobs than her shirt.

you must have missed the point while gobbling all those dicks

>Was quite salty due to only a verbal warning being given to them. However in all 4 lgs I've been a part of, there's a huge angry divide between magic and tabletop wargame players, solely because of this arrogant WE FUCKEN OWN THIS attitude from the Magic crowd.
>Anyone else got this?
I had the opposite experience. The GW gamers were arrogant and downright nasty to magic players. When I started playing an indie wargame with the manager the GW crowd copped the same attitude. Saying I should play a "real wargame".

I'd say the grognard. If you're comfortably chatting with a unicorn (Female gamer) without sperging out you might have some sort of connection, even if it's just a friendship.

Given the state of the MtG the last month I don't think the 40K crew are the ones with issues.

>Given the state of the MtG the last month I don't think the 40K crew are the ones with issues.
My experience with GW players in that area was almost a decade ago.

Schools had me out of the loop for a while. Spill the deets

You probably had the misfortune of encountering fantasy grogs when they weren't an endangered species

The state of mind of the average 40k has changed quite a lot from GW's "golden age" to now. A decade ago, 40k was king, playing fantasy was tolerated and everything else was the mark of the most subhuman trash. Now, it is accepted that there's games besides 40k and most of the gatekeeping assholes went to Warmahordes.

RIP warmahordes by the by

I might have sucked three cocks today, got my dick sucked at gloryhole. I fucked a little boy in the ass and then in turn got buttfucked by a burly biker named Steve. Then i got in thereesome with two traps.

And then i saw your post and i was really suprised about how massive faggot you are.

Only one of those things is gay user.

And one gets you sent to prison.

youtube.com/watch?v=n1mSjJ1vU0M

go to bed alessio

Yeah, fucking traps, i know.

Worst part of being a woman in this hobby is the one or two people who make it uncomfortable.

WHF had the fucking worst trash.
My lgs had the misfortune of being the stomping ground of a rather popular WHF youtube channel back in 7e and he was absolutely the worst person I've ever met in the gaming community.
Let's review his asshattery.
>Would single out weak players to demolish them with overpowered army to pad his battle reports. Often singling out this one chick with woodies to crush with his VC.
>Complained loudly once 8e hit and the days of Herohammer were over. Telling new players how much everything about 8e sucked.
>Once got beaten so badly by a guy playing Ogres with a Hell Heart that he sperged out like the fat manchild he was, destroying a few of his models and throwing his dice across the shop.
I'm happy the faggot quit, went to WMH for as long as it took for him to realize he was shit at it and dropped out of gaming entirely. Been years since I've seen him.

Okay I've got to know which YouTuber so I can scan a couple of his vids and laugh.

Maybe, I could have sworn most of them were 40k players.
This sounds about right.

Incidentally, this is what I was playing with the LGS owner. We got a few more players and did a four way battle between Treasure Hunters, Nazi Archeologists, Mummies, and the Sons of Horus.

>play orks
>played orks since was a bab
>inherited older brothers orks
>have a mix of older and newer models
>one staff member constantly telling me I can't use my old models
>Eventually I call the store to see if he's working so I know whether to bother going in that day or not

I can't remember his name, but he played VC pretty much exclusively, mostly with a Lahmian Lord with the Stupid hat.
Many of his early reports had him playing vs a pretty cute WE player and a TK player. Both who he beat regularly.
He was heavy and had a pretty bad receding hairline.
He stopped doing rhe YouTube thing shortly after he realized how bad he was at 8e.

A unicorn?

What happened?

Slang term for people who are so rare that they may as well not exist. Almost like actual unicorns.

It's just plain not selling anymore.

Hit the nail on the head. When I was in the Army, we used it as a term for the mythical "attractive female soldier".

I like it.
That said, the teegee hobbies could use more women. Even the obese pierced ones with awful dyed hair are welcome at this point.

Everywhere i've played magic players and wargame players were always the same people, me included

it was pretty comfy heading to the LGS after college classes on a friday and playing some kill squad before FNM and facing the same people

Funny I should be in the Army, too, and know the term.

I worked with a few unicorns in all my years of service. Every single one of them were invariably married already, or outranked me by far and thus not interested in dating.

Why didn't you call the store and get then to tell him to fuck right the fuck off?

The playerbase was largely made of whiny manchildren who had left 40k because it wasn't hardass enough for their tastes. Not exactly the most loyal crowd. So when the third edition of Warmahordes was released and was considered shit, it all collapsed.

Which is too bad, because in terms of pure gameplay it was way more fun than 40k.

What killed it was massive amount of dicks in playerbase and cheese in the rules. Page 5 might have been intended as lolmaymay goodnatured fun, but it devolved into justification for shitty sport and a magnet for sperglords.

In the end, with the amount of bullshit going on only way to have any fun while playing with random guys was to play starter vs starter quickies.

Other than that, competitive metagame was massive dickfest fueled by questionable design decisions, and each complaint was pagefived.

A fun, reasonably cheap, fast paced skirmish with giant robots beating the oily tar out of each other turned into bloated slow slugfest with multiple infantryblobs and collosals and other bullshit, while the part that was supposed to be the core game - "robts beating shit out of each other" was pretty much forgotten.

In the end only dicks remained, because no normal people were caring to play it.

>Page 5

What was that?

"play like you've got a pair"

Oh Jesus, if that's literally what they printed then I'd take one look and put that book right back on the shelf - and leave it there.

I like how they try to insinuate what essentially amounts to playing with toy soldiers to in any way be reflective on one's masculinity.

The quote on page 5 of the rulebook: "Play like you've got a pair."
It was probably meant as "Be aggressive and decisive in gameplay". It was largely understood as "Be as WAAC as possible" and anything complaint about balance got dismissed as coming from pussies who don't have a pair.

...

Page five is literally:

>WARMACHINE is the GAME for HARD MEN. You have to play LIKE YOU GOT A PAIR. A pair of MASSIVE BRASS BALLS that is!

>NO WHINING ALLOWED!

>YOU DO EVERYTHING TO WIN, AND EXPECT YOUR OPPONENT TO DO THE SAME!

>THIS IS NOT A GAME FOR LIMP WRISTED FAGGOTS!

>IF YOU LOSE ITS ALL YOUR FAULT, TAKE IT LIKE A MAN WITH PAIR OF BALLS AND GIT GUD SKRUB!

>NO COMPALINING!

If it sounds incredibly cheesy, thats becasue it is. But, in the beginning, when it was just few factions, few units and everything was mostly balanced, the game was actually pretty damn fun. But then it turned into bloated hulk.

Still, if you ever have a chance try a smallscale caster + warjacks only game using 1st ed rules. Its still fun as fuck.

Thanks for posting that. Now that I've read it in it's full context, I'd still turn down a game like that. No matter how well-intentioned it was meant to be, the tone in which it is written just begs to attract the worst kinds of players.

Wanna know something ironic? I used to be into boxing. Not watching, participating. If I ever felt the need to thump my chest and feel like an animal, I'd go involve myself in an activity that involved actually punching faces (and being punched) instead of pushing toy soldiers across the table and rolling dice as if it somehow made me a tough guy.

>Ok, going by the rest of the story, that guy was legit asshole, and after his spergout he definitely had it coming - but still, running to a staff member because the guy was fielding a recast is massively dickbag move as well.
>Especilly if the recast was done well enough that it was only noticed after the model was damaged.
>DADT, mate.

I'm going to have to second this notion. I can't imagine a store like that throwing people out in the first place for using non company plastics, let alone spying on people's work to make sure its "legit." There's so many third party places that will lease out tables to people with nary a glance over your shoulder to what you are doing, which also sell game workshop products!

If you ever felt the need to thump your chest and feel like an animal, you shouldnt have done boxing in the first place.

What makes you say that?

>Never been in Games Workshop store. Feels good man.

belive it or not, this 2nd ed was actually toned down version

Anyway, one reson for warmachhine succes is timing - it was relased at the time of 40k going form 4th to 5th edition. At that time competitive 40k was unplayable messy slog. Compared to that, a quick, well degsined and balanced skirmish wargame that was actually FUN to play was extremely atteractive alternative. It was main factor why lots of local people in my are changed sides in first place. And not the powergamers - just normal guys that had enough of GW bullshit attitude.

In the end its almost poetic that warmachine had become what it hated in first place. A bloated unbalanced slog filled with cheese.

>“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

>>treats it like a nursery school
Oh boy, we have those mother too at my local GW, dropping like 4 kids who run around scream and yell. They dont show up anymore, i guess because the menager got fed up of that shit and told them that its a store and not a damn baby parking. I will sound quite an asshole for hating those kids being kids, but still, they should go to the park if they want to run, scream and play.

>worst thing to happen in GW store was a guy slipped and knocked two boxes off the shelf

Feesgoodmn

>it doesnt matter if the stories are true or not, its the fact theyre believable and you're not sure that speaks volumes about what shitholes GW/other stores have become

It sounds like an extremely caustic environment.

Thanks to this thread, I'll never consider going to a GW shop in my life.

Best FLGS is actual independendent FLGS dedicated to wargaming, not directly owned by GW, and offering multiple systems.

As long as they can keep the cardgamers away, most of them are awesome.

>Independent fgls owner is a first grade jew trying to aggressvely push purchases onto store visitors

I buy everything online now and I have a private local to play stuff with my friends. Fuck the ttg and tcg communities. I hope GW and Wizards die soon.

This.

My FLGS manages to cater to all tastes by having dedicated nights for each system. GW gets some favouritism with the Friday night slot, but a surprising number of people show up to play X-Wing in the middle of the week.

>faggots dont buy things, forcing owner to get desperate
The absolute state of you

> open bb league
> Fist week, saturday, store is packed of bb players
>Several fights break out during the journey due to ragers
> League fets canceled