Poor form

[Sean Clark]

Our hobby is wonderful and I have made many good friends as a result of it.

But I have experienced one or two occasions that have been disappointing.

1. I took Battles in the Age of War to the Stoke club. 2 nicely painted armies, scenery, rules and dice. My opponent had some terrible luck in the first couple of turns and decided  he needed to be elsewhere and walked off leaving me twiddling my thumbs.

2. Similarly, I took a 6mm ACW game to the same club. We were playing 2nd Manassas, using Altar of Freedom. 6 players in all. All seemed to enjoy it other than one player, in the role of Robert E Lee. After a short-time he did nothing but moan and grumble about the rules, his luck and that the Confederates simply couldn't win the scenario as written. I took it rather badly and promptly sold all of figures and have never played a game withe chap since.

3. A funnier incident was at the Weekender which I've mentioned before. It was a Western game that was going badly for my partner and I. So bad, my partner got up and left the game. Fortunately  Martin sat down with me. We still lost, but enjoyed the game immensely 

Without naming names, what bad experiences have you had?

This ought to cheer us up on a Wednesday  morning 😀

[JonT]

I have no problem with losing a game, as long as I (and everyone else involved) enjoyed playing it - having said that, my biggest bugbear is not a Bad Loser, but what I'd call a "Bad Winner" - we all know them, the kind that "does their victory dance in your face", either metaphorically or (very occasionally) even literally!

I don't play with these people again, if I can help it. Be gracious in victory, shake hands with a very English "Thanks old chap, a well-fought game and a close run thing!" or similar...   

Jon.

[Leman (Andy)]

We used to do that at the end of games in my old club back in the UK, but even so I did experience people storming out of games because they were losing, or they just didn't like the rules. TBH I'm not especially competitive - much of which seems to be macho BS, but enjoy all the other aspects of the hobby - the history, the research, the planning and painting, and the sheer spectacle of the two armies manoeuvring across a reasonably scenic battlefield. There are unfortunately a few in the hobby for whom winning is the whole, maybe even the only, point, and they can't even be bothered to find out about the history of a war or campaign, or even the typical composition of a relevant army or it's tactical style of fighting. I try to avoid these people like the plague.

[Smiley Miley 66]

I removed this Miles as it is too specific. Sorry.
If you are specific there will be reply.
Be annoyed with the chap but maybe let it lie?

martin

[Sean Clark]

That seems a double whammy on you Miles. I think that was the year I had to leave a bit early and missed all of the fun 😆