merkthejerk

One of my opponents this tournament very nearly killed the fun for me. Before we started the match, he complained at length about his previous matches and how they were overpowered for a fun tournament. He complained that my army was going to kick his ass and how this match wasn't going to be fun for him. When a friend came by to say hello, he said OFCC wasn't fun anymore, because people bring competitive lists and then openly looked at my army, then me. He complained about how his army was really bad. He complained about my army's special abilities. Not good-natured complaining. Bitter, whiny complaining. I should say that I would go on to have a 0-0-5 record, and most of my team did almost as badly. We had maybe 2 wins total, and 3 draws? I tried to listen, because hey, going up against 4 Knights or whatever is no fun. I sympathized with him, because I played a pretty terrible army during 7th and continuously losing sucks. But I don't go to OFCC to babysit other players, or calm their hurt feelings. But for the sake of easing tensions I held back on using some stratagems or using my units efficiently because it would've meant him losing a few models. But the last straw was when I used my Warlord's ability. He threw a temper tantrum. Said he wouldn't have deployed where he had if he knew about it. It was my job to tell him let him know the intricacies of my army. I pretty much gave up at that point. I didn't use the ability, sat down and played out the rest of my turn as quickly as possible. I knew that if I started winning the game, he would get even saltier. He would have been salty about losing models, or losing an objective, about bad dice rolls, about everything and everyone. To keep the peace, I would've had to swallow my own comments to keep it from becoming an argument. I wasn't going to lecture the dude. I wasn't going to throw my own temper tantrum. The only thing that would have made him happy would be to win. So I let him win. I pretended to be sick, left during my second turn and didn't return. I don't think he completely bought it, because he grilled my Captain about why I left. He said I was going to sweep him, when that clearly wasn't the case. So in conclusion, being salty sucks the fun out of the tournament for everyone. I would rather have faced off against a chatty player with 4 Knights and all their shenanigans than play against someone who's upset for not winning at a tournament not setup to reward winning. Maybe next year, bring a joke list? Or stay home? Or go to BAO? Smoke a joint? It's legal in Washington. Anything, really. That's it.

Oh, you can bring both? That would be cool.

I already reserved a table for both noon and 6pm. Um, we might not get the last one though. They usually require 48 hours notice. If anything changes, I'll let you know. Well, if you don't care about paint jobs, nor will I. Hah hah.

Oh, and I'll be bringing Tyranids.

Militarum Tempestus sounds fun.My Google fu tells me they're like the Guard? I've never played them, nor Battle Sister before. 2000 is great. I'll call and set up both tables, one for noon and the other for... 6? I'll hold them under 'Richard'. I don't know how long you plan to be at the doctor's.

Hiya. I'm down to play tomorrow. My schedule is pretty open, so I'm down any ol' time. And since you're interested in two, I might be able to do both if no one else is interested.