I'm going to legit bring a bag of candy next time I fight tyranids. just so when we set up I can set up a 1 foot gummy bear as my knight and other gummy bears for my imperial guard as a joke before switching them out. The look on his face will be priceless
Herman Manly True, but this is to show that some people don't put effort into they proxies, at lease try your best to make a bootleg of the unit on a budget. Just my opinion though.
@Smoth I completely agree. WH40k is a luxus hobby, if you can't afford, look for a cheaper hobby, as simple as that.The only way I accept proxying(is that even a word), when either the fitting model doesn't exist(yet), or the guy has the stuff, but didn'thave the time to build it yet or didn't get it delivered.
I was the "extremely lucky" guy a few days ago. Some dude was insulting mine and my friends paint jobs (we're not great but we do it for fun) and I had some boyz who needed a 12 charge to get to his gun line. (Context, he tried an all havocs list so Melee would fuck him up. He also tried to give his Chaos Lord a Lascannon). Guess who rolled double six's? Guess who's Warboss took down his Dreadnought on the first turn of fighting? Guess who's Nob killed his chaos Lord without taking a wound? Guess who had the most satisfying victory in fucking history? This guy!
aust mcf you model him with a sniper rifle and say "all my friends let me say it's a Lascannon, and this tryanid head I put on his arm, my friends let me run that at as a D-Strength weapon." Despite the fact that this was 8th and D-Strength isn't a thing anymore...
Good for you man! I am baffled that someone would insult another person's paint jobs. What a jerk. I played 40k as a kid with armies of grey plastic and bare metal... lol
Dylan F I actually faced that same guy again a few days ago. His guard vs my Craftworlds and he (continently) forgot his Codex. His whole strategy relied on hiding a Primaris psyker behind some bullgryns. My army was mostly snipers so turn one I fire a ten man squad at him. So he turns one of the Bullgryns and says I can’t draw line of sight. I say yknow what fine, it’s cool. In that same game I had Dire Avengers teleport behind his lines and gut that Psyker, then they manage to fight and BEAT the Bullgryns in Melee (had an Autarch nearby) AND managed to use the snipers to cause 5 mortal wounds to an Imperial Knight in one round of shooting with one unit of snipers. I think my “lucky guy” reputation is gaining more credibility. But seriously never make fun of someone’s paint. It’s not easy, and not everyone gets the hang of it for months or even years. No one started good and unless they ask for criticisms don’t give anything other than compliments
Bleached Raptor I too had luck like that: was facing necrons. They had a monolith a stalker and all that nonsense. I had my guardsman do a suicide charge against it I took no casualties in the charge and my guardsman punched it to death. In that entire game I lost 2 guardsman and 2 terminators. Btw I absolutely dominated
@@Mantoisful This. Do the soldiers resemble Guardsmen? Then they can be guardsmen. Not everyone has that sweet, sweet situation where they can afford food, housing, family, a relationship, and buying absolutely EVERYTHING for their army at an extensive price.
I remember playing with a guy, long time ago. He killed a couple of marines, he leaned over and started to flick them with a finger knocking them over. I looked right at him and said stop, or you're about to get knocked over.
Tabletop games unfortunately attract the socially inept... you can literally smell the fear and wonder when someone's girlfriend turns up, it's almost a religious moment.
My dad had a shop where you could play this and there was a match between 2 guys we knew and that one dude always threw the dice like a baseball (kind of) so that one time he threw them into a melee situation and actually took of a guys torse from the legs with the dice
But it wasn't consistent. The Baby Ruth represented Lascannons in the devastators but a plasma cannon in the tactical squad. I don't mind proxies, within reason, but you gotta keep it consistent!
I wish they'd done the candy bar proxy, and then said "oh yeah candy bars are too expensive so I'm just trying this proxy out" And its a printed picture of each bar :')
Arez I tried to learn this game, but no one was friendly and it just wasn’t fun... so I’m a loser today but at least I will find a fun hobby to indulge in somewhere else
Actually, I used empty coffee cans for drop pods, while the store was out of stock, and I wanted to battle. Nearly the same, which i shared with opponet : real drop pod models and coffee can extra for the 1 fight. The can was actually wider in center round, but smaller than full fin diameter.
yea that's what i do, proxying a couple units, cos a) models are expensive and i as a high school student do not have a job yet, b) Eldar models haven't been updated in 20-odd years so I have no desire to jump up and go buy a bunch of resin or metal models that might be getting updates soon (that's the hope!) and c) I "have" a smaller army to begin with so if i want to play games with my friends I need all of my planned units
And even if he did throw them, he could've thrown them into something that would've made throwing them be like gently poking one, and stomped on clear ground. ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES.
I once saw a guy field an entire army of little 3d printed pony figures he'd glued random weapons too. Everything was painted super well. No one complained after he started proxying them in for deamonets, which composed his entire army.
Let it not be forgotten that the hardest game of 40k ever played was between two soldiers in Afghanistan, who proxied entire Eldar and Space Marine armies with rocks and used a T72 dipstick as a ruler
I hate people who challenge you to a "friendly game" then pull out every special rule they can find in their codex, demand to see your codex when you try to use your special rules and continue to pound your army with everything they've got even if they're clearly winning. I call them the "I can so I will" guys.
yeah I felt bad the other day I stomped this one guy with an ultramarine gunline vs his custodes. I kind of just obliterated everything on his side of the board first turn
There's a good chance he won't play with you again, but at least you can admit it and feel remorse I suppose. It's more than I can say for some people who do this.
Goldfish I wasn't even trying to make a super over powered list, I just made a decently competitive one but it ended up being REALLY strong. Like medium tournament level. I had a lascannon vehicle (predator, 3 razorbacks)/hellblaster death star with my gulliman for his buffs and to prevent assaults, a stormtalon roaming around shooting things, aggressors to hold an objective, two librarians, a captain, a primaris ancient and obviously the tactical marines inside the razorbacks. Was going to bring more hellblasters/ devastator marines in lieu of some of the less powerful units like aggressors, but figured that would be kind of gross.
I think the fact that you obviously tried to make it more fair does have value. Don't worry I'm not judging you, the people who annoy me generally have a complete disregard for the way their playstyle makes the opponent feel and that's a bigger problem, it's not necessarily the fact that you beat someone super bad so much as the attitude you have when you do that matters.
TakedaIesyu Or £ Or € Totally agree on that. It depends on your focus onto the the hobby. I personally enjoy both building (modifying a lot) and painting, but also the table Top strategy game itself, therefore I just want to use the minis I built myself (As I can't play that often, games below 2k points are the only option for me anyways).
@@nickkohlmann Had a dude proxy a unit of orks to be Tankbustas versing my knights. He got all the results and data he needed ( Tankbustas do their name justice) and subsequently went to buy them :)
I proxy within reason I.E. using my predator which I built with autocannons and heavy bolters and using it as a las-predator or my land raider redeemer being any other land raider
I knew a guy who was forbidden from playing at my FLGS unless he brought an army list, which got checked by one of the people who ran the store. He was RENOWNED for being "Just a little bit over" on his points value.
yeah one time when I was new to the game I accidentally brought 1.6k points for a 1k point game. I apologized to my opponent later when I realized I messed up
First time I played at a GW store me and my opponent agreed on 1500 points. Then when someone close by asked us how much we were playing with he dropped the ball and said 2k lol. Best part is that he was so damn smug for winning as well.
"What page are the ordinance weapons on again?" "I don't know, I've never really looked it up." "Do you ever come prepared for these games?" LOL LOL LOL!!!
@Jace Baker What if you play with the cool rules that only lasted a short while in 7th edition that came in Gathering Storm 1 Fall of Cadia the Empyric Storm deck. Some of the Cards were if you have models available roll off and whoever wins the roll off gets a unit? I would of hated to encounter the person who if they won they roll of they get to use the unit but if they lost they wouldn't let their opponent use their models for the unit.
Warhammer looks so fun, people play it all the time at my local game shop and I'll definitely be getting in to it at some point. Just can't afford another expensive hobby right now xD
Chester Cheetah I tried to learn and basically got shut down and told it’s not for me. I got mad but that didn’t help, so I guess they were right. Games that aren’t fun just aren’t for me.
warhammer is a fucking scam pure and simple.the game is tedious and shitty, the models are outrageously overpriced. i'm surprised they get any 'new' players at all
i was about to remark about the price of a digital theodolite (the thing at 11:20 ish) but then i realised... this is warhammer, one of the few hobbies that could legitimately overshadow the cost of a £1000+ piece of measuring equipment.
I'm totally guilty of being in the "doesn't know his codex" category for one reason. I can't get stat lines to stick in my head! 3334516 or something for termagaunts or something like that.
I always encounter the guy who is over on points, and has no way to prove he is anywhere near what he says, and the measuring guy. They always measure from the front of a base, or vehicle, and put the rear of the base or vehicle in front of the tape measure. Drive me nuts! After bitching two or three times I just ignore it and do the same thing haha
I've never played Table Top before but this was hilarious. Because I can see people doing this. It's like one of those games that can break friendships if you're too competitive.
I play with a guy that is basically an offender for every one of these. Proxying an entire army at once. Borrowing the templates, rulebooks, usually your scatter dice. Taking 15 minutes to check his codex for stuff. Never gets his scatter right. And blasts you off the table almost every game, rarely using his own miniatures.
This applies to most hobbies in the nerd sector. I run into a lot of these types (modified of course) for my D&D groups. The borrower is huge, although for things like dice and rule books is not much of an issue. But the guy that doesn't know anything when he thinks he knows everything is very common.
One guy I used to play with back in 40k 2nd edition, would move his furthest forward marine 4", then move the guy that was 2" behind him so that he was 2" in front of him, and so on until he had moved the whole squad of 10 marines. His argument was that it's ok as long as the marines stayed within 2" of each other. We also used to play out in the garden during the summer. We played one game out on my patio and I'd killed his Predator. It blew the turret off. When he rolled for the scatter he rolled the dice on one side of him, very carefully measured the distance and direction, then rotated his body so he could measure from the predator turret. I made him re-do his measurement about 3 times because he didn't understand that by rotating his body he's also rotating the scatter direction. If he'd measured it properly his predator turret would have landed right on top of his landspeeder and I think he might have killed himself. I used to let him off of these things because after about the first 3 months of playing I bought a Whirlwind and from that point on I beat him every time we played.
Fuck this, I want to build an army of duck terminators now. With a bigger duck as Land Raider support and lead by the lost duck primarch "Waddles McQuack". Proxy all the way.
back when I'd play those god damn movement guys seemed to be EVERYWHERE. games ground to screatching halts over minute quibbles. eventually I invented a piece of wood that was exactly 6 inches long to speed things up. geuss what had to be measured before every game an every time it was my turn. just in case my peice of 6 inch piece of almighty plywood magicly grew any since enemy movement
@@dd11111 therese also the "line of sight guy" so we jsut had a house rule that if you wanna place something out of it from a certain squad you both look until its okay and then stay with it so that the next turn without moving he cant say "oh yeah i see that head of yours so im gonna shoot that squad"
The Emperor of Mankind Yea, I've often felt like the out of place geek that goes against every bad stereotype out there. But they exist for a reason, as my own personal experiences can attest. Was a jock in high school and was basically a "closet geek" on the weekends lol. Had plenty of girlfriends or attention from girls, and was definitely "active" if you get my drift. When going to tournaments for MTG or any other games, I often feel like a black sheep for various reasons as I'm also pretty conservative politically and I don't go out of my way to come across as socially awkward. It's hard to be normal and be socially active with hobbies such as this. *sigh*
you sound exactly like me, lol. when a girl asks what my hobbies are, I always have to say something like 'painting' instead of like warhammer lol. I'm in college now and i have made sure my fraternity brothers have no idea about my miniature wargaming hobby- one friend in my dorm knows about it and gives me shit but hasn't told anyone
The page turning was cracking me up! And then the surveying sight part! So F'kn funny! I have played board-games from age 14. Thanks for making me laugh!
This video is incredible. I've never even played a miniature wargame even though I see them all the time, but this was so well written that the context was enough for me to get all the jokes and I enjoyed the whole thing.
I'd instantly forget what these units were supposed to be. If you wanna do that, I recommend making paper cutouts with photos/graphics of appropriate units, and about the same size- that way you show you lack money rather than effort, and nobody's gonna be confused with what you're using. I never played tho, It's just something I thought of as a good solution, since I've seen it done in D&D game I've played.
I can relate to proxy guy because I like the Havocs from CSM but you really only want to run them with Lascannons despite that the box only gives you one of each weapon and I’m not buying that many because GW won’t put enough of the options on the sprue but someone once called me out for not being WYSIWYG anyway…….!!!!!! …….I fine……
Nothing wrong with proxying, as long as your opponent agrees and you can keep track of who is who. Some people don’t quite understand that, or use stuff that is nowhere near scale/size either
xD the proxy guy.. went from "okay, reasonable, you want to try a unit before buying the expensive models" over "what the hell? and are you sure your troops won't get eaten while waiting in reserve?" to "no. just... no." Also bad scatter guy is one of the reasons I really like that templates are a thing of the past.
That bad sport one hurt me on a metaphysical level. Fairly sure my salt during games with iron hands players could spawn a salinated chaos god and a new range of minis.
The terminator Proxy is highly acceptable, for lack of any better words. They are terminators. I mean, I asked the vast majority of regulars at GW Dublin, and my Iron hands honour guard are two converted Morlock Tartaros terminators on 32mm's. I just never bring them AND any other terminator models on the board. Besides, at least the food proxy equipment was kept in continuity xD
I'd be cool with Proxy guy as long as he let me eat the units I killed.
Meep Changeling Same.
Marcus Porter tyranid players am I right fellas?
*seinfiled theme plays*
*Ñøt įf į ęåt įt fįrśt*
I would eat it while he uses the bathroom. Then when he returns I simply say that his army got exterminatussed
what if he play necrons?
Using candy as units, to be fair, makes perfect sense if the other player is tyranids.
BROTHER I AM BEING CONSUMED BY TYRANIDS
Tbh to the Tyranids it's basically the same
i mean all tyranids think is "eat eat eat" and nothing is different, all are snacc
When they die, you can just eat them.
I'm going to legit bring a bag of candy next time I fight tyranids. just so when we set up I can set up a 1 foot gummy bear as my knight and other gummy bears for my imperial guard as a joke before switching them out. The look on his face will be priceless
This Thomas the tank engine is actually an imperitor titan
This baby is actually a trio of Great Unclean Ones
Keishin B237 HAHAHAGAGA
*timas thé tank engine starts playing during the shooting phase*
This gun is actually a gun
*CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDD!!!!*
Proxy guy will always be justified simply because of the ridiculous prices GW slaps on their plastic lmao
Herman Manly True, but this is to show that some people don't put effort into they proxies, at lease try your best to make a bootleg of the unit on a budget. Just my opinion though.
Eh, all my crap is wyswyg, cry me a river proxy guy
@Smoth I completely agree. WH40k is a luxus hobby, if you can't afford, look for a cheaper hobby, as simple as that.The only way I accept proxying(is that even a word), when either the fitting model doesn't exist(yet), or the guy has the stuff, but didn'thave the time to build it yet or didn't get it delivered.
@@yerushalaimnehereset I'm cool with weapon proxies. Don't blame anyone for not wanting to sit around magnetizing every freakin model.
Weapon proxy is fine. But if you can't afford the model you can't afford to play warhammer.
I was the "extremely lucky" guy a few days ago. Some dude was insulting mine and my friends paint jobs (we're not great but we do it for fun) and I had some boyz who needed a 12 charge to get to his gun line. (Context, he tried an all havocs list so Melee would fuck him up. He also tried to give his Chaos Lord a Lascannon). Guess who rolled double six's? Guess who's Warboss took down his Dreadnought on the first turn of fighting? Guess who's Nob killed his chaos Lord without taking a wound? Guess who had the most satisfying victory in fucking history? This guy!
how do u give a chaos lord a lascannon?
aust mcf you model him with a sniper rifle and say "all my friends let me say it's a Lascannon, and this tryanid head I put on his arm, my friends let me run that at as a D-Strength weapon."
Despite the fact that this was 8th and D-Strength isn't a thing anymore...
Good for you man! I am baffled that someone would insult another person's paint jobs. What a jerk. I played 40k as a kid with armies of grey plastic and bare metal... lol
Dylan F I actually faced that same guy again a few days ago. His guard vs my Craftworlds and he (continently) forgot his Codex. His whole strategy relied on hiding a Primaris psyker behind some bullgryns. My army was mostly snipers so turn one I fire a ten man squad at him. So he turns one of the Bullgryns and says I can’t draw line of sight. I say yknow what fine, it’s cool. In that same game I had Dire Avengers teleport behind his lines and gut that Psyker, then they manage to fight and BEAT the Bullgryns in Melee (had an Autarch nearby) AND managed to use the snipers to cause 5 mortal wounds to an Imperial Knight in one round of shooting with one unit of snipers. I think my “lucky guy” reputation is gaining more credibility.
But seriously never make fun of someone’s paint. It’s not easy, and not everyone gets the hang of it for months or even years. No one started good and unless they ask for criticisms don’t give anything other than compliments
Bleached Raptor I too had luck like that: was facing necrons. They had a monolith a stalker and all that nonsense. I had my guardsman do a suicide charge against it I took no casualties in the charge and my guardsman punched it to death. In that entire game I lost 2 guardsman and 2 terminators.
Btw I absolutely dominated
Pass me that plasma cannon I'm hungry.
DASRH hahaha
Yo dude, I am just gonna get you to shoot my devastators here because I am hungry and I wanna eat them
"can I borrow that plasma cannon" lol
You sound like a genestealer
if you could eat the units you defeated many players would be more okay with this arrangement
“Hey, Wait... where’s my tactical squad?”
**burps**
“No idea.”
“So this skittle here is going to be my mars pattern reaver Titan”
And this kit-Kat bar right here is my Warlord titan.
And this reaver titan is going to be my rhino with no extra weapons.
@@dlgodzilla6359 and my infant child there is my stand in for an Avatar of Khain.
My dad once asked me why I couldn't just pretend to have the models. I told him that I didn't want to be that guy
As long as they look similar they should be fine
@@Mantoisful This. Do the soldiers resemble Guardsmen? Then they can be guardsmen. Not everyone has that sweet, sweet situation where they can afford food, housing, family, a relationship, and buying absolutely EVERYTHING for their army at an extensive price.
Godsdj their is paper craft 40k that’s cool
Lmao
Your Dad was smart.
I remember playing with a guy, long time ago. He killed a couple of marines, he leaned over and started to flick them with a finger knocking them over. I looked right at him and said stop, or you're about to get knocked over.
Tabletop games unfortunately attract the socially inept... you can literally smell the fear and wonder when someone's girlfriend turns up, it's almost a religious moment.
Disembowell I know the feels, if my wife walks in a shop with me they treat her like she’s a fucking alien
@@VexedOcelot Did you mean, *XENO*
@@DisemboweII thats not fear and wonder, thats 4 month BO mixed with lynx africa.
My dad had a shop where you could play this and there was a match between 2 guys we knew and that one dude always threw the dice like a baseball (kind of) so that one time he threw them into a melee situation and actually took of a guys torse from the legs with the dice
At least the candy bars each represented a different unit so,in theory, it's recognizable .
But it wasn't consistent. The Baby Ruth represented Lascannons in the devastators but a plasma cannon in the tactical squad. I don't mind proxies, within reason, but you gotta keep it consistent!
I'd just print out some little chips on cardstock...
Not to mention it would fuck with attacks that hit groups of people.
I wish they'd done the candy bar proxy, and then said "oh yeah candy bars are too expensive so I'm just trying this proxy out" And its a printed picture of each bar :')
Bite sized baby ruths for (reduced point) Lascannons, Full sized(or bitesized) Crunch for a Plasma cannon, It makest sense.
I don't even play the game and I'm getting severe anxiety from watching this.
Arez Its honestly great fun, just find a good group
just dont its way to expensive
Arez I tried to learn this game, but no one was friendly and it just wasn’t fun... so I’m a loser today but at least I will find a fun hobby to indulge in somewhere else
Elliot Stabler all humanity is garbage to you isn’t it? Don’t do this
The guy who doesn't play 40k but watches these videos because they hate themselves.
How to get a cheap guard army
1: Use the internet to see all the guard data sheets
2: Use army figures
3: ???
4: Profit
I would have no problem to play aganist that.
Honestly straight up considered using my old plastic army men from childhood to draft as a quick IG army.
@@romulus2473 me and some friends actually played with the dollar store grey and green packs of army men. That way you could tell them apart,
If you vomit on them they become nurgle cultists
I play army men not warhammer
I love hoe each proxy is worse than the last. :)
That's what we were going for!
Last part was the best because I recognized that Train was from the my little ponys.
I am fine with the proxy, as long as I can eat what I kill!
BlueShark85Xbox
muhahahahah
+BlueShark85Xbox
that made me laugh harder then it should have me being a tyranid player.
Lol my friend and I always use soda cans as drop pods.
If you´re playing orks, its perfectly logical
Cuz there's no way I'm paying 60 bucks for a drop pods 😂 lol.
I paid 😔
Actually, I used empty coffee cans for drop pods, while the store was out of stock, and I wanted to battle. Nearly the same, which i shared with opponet : real drop pod models and coffee can extra for the 1 fight. The can was actually wider in center round, but smaller than full fin diameter.
We improvise stuff, but usually use paint and cheap WWII model components to make it clear what things are.
I don't mind people who proxy, as long as they don't proxy their entire army. maybe one or two units.
yea that's what i do, proxying a couple units, cos a) models are expensive and i as a high school student do not have a job yet, b) Eldar models haven't been updated in 20-odd years so I have no desire to jump up and go buy a bunch of resin or metal models that might be getting updates soon (that's the hope!) and c) I "have" a smaller army to begin with so if i want to play games with my friends I need all of my planned units
The devastator crunch marines
Their cocoa weapons give nightmares to every xenos
Piroclanidis our chapter does not support these units.
...and 2D3 diabetes.
I hurt when he threw the Tyranids.
I didn’t really throw them. It was stratego pieces :D
Oh thank god! My wallet was crying when I thought I saw a piece go bye bye.
And even if he did throw them, he could've thrown them into something that would've made throwing them be like gently poking one, and stomped on clear ground. ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES.
Krylia Viru The threat of it though...
That was a good illusion, tricked me, watching it back i can see you pick them up with your other hand.
Worst i ever encountered is "This pony is Anrakyr the traveler"
I once saw a guy field an entire army of little 3d printed pony figures he'd glued random weapons too. Everything was painted super well. No one complained after he started proxying them in for deamonets, which composed his entire army.
Mine was some dudes daughters barby doll for a monolith
grim gamer worst for mine was when my brother brought gown Emmet's mech from the Lego movie and said it was a ork stompa
I still let him though😀
Meep Changeling that is fucking epic
The Jester - Fool Of Hearts underrated comment
Let it not be forgotten that the hardest game of 40k ever played was between two soldiers in Afghanistan, who proxied entire Eldar and Space Marine armies with rocks and used a T72 dipstick as a ruler
That’s my lgs owner
Is this true ??
@@raven4545 There's a picture of it floating around, yes
@@chrisv9866 wow 😯
Thats commitment.
With the proxy guy the sniffing makes it so much better
I hate people who challenge you to a "friendly game" then pull out every special rule they can find in their codex, demand to see your codex when you try to use your special rules and continue to pound your army with everything they've got even if they're clearly winning. I call them the "I can so I will" guys.
yeah I felt bad the other day I stomped this one guy with an ultramarine gunline vs his custodes. I kind of just obliterated everything on his side of the board first turn
There's a good chance he won't play with you again, but at least you can admit it and feel remorse I suppose. It's more than I can say for some people who do this.
Goldfish I wasn't even trying to make a super over powered list, I just made a decently competitive one but it ended up being REALLY strong. Like medium tournament level. I had a lascannon vehicle (predator, 3 razorbacks)/hellblaster death star with my gulliman for his buffs and to prevent assaults, a stormtalon roaming around shooting things, aggressors to hold an objective, two librarians, a captain, a primaris ancient and obviously the tactical marines inside the razorbacks. Was going to bring more hellblasters/ devastator marines in lieu of some of the less powerful units like aggressors, but figured that would be kind of gross.
Goldfish i let him redo stuff when he messed up though. We both made mistakes and gave each other the benefit of the doubt.
I think the fact that you obviously tried to make it more fair does have value. Don't worry I'm not judging you, the people who annoy me generally have a complete disregard for the way their playstyle makes the opponent feel and that's a bigger problem, it's not necessarily the fact that you beat someone super bad so much as the attitude you have when you do that matters.
I don't mind the proxying if you're trying out a new unit and want to know if you'll like it before you drop $60 on it.
TakedaIesyu
Or £
Or €
Totally agree on that. It depends on your focus onto the the hobby. I personally enjoy both building (modifying a lot) and painting, but also the table Top strategy game itself, therefore I just want to use the minis I built myself (As I can't play that often, games below 2k points are the only option for me anyways).
@@nickkohlmann Had a dude proxy a unit of orks to be Tankbustas versing my knights. He got all the results and data he needed ( Tankbustas do their name justice) and subsequently went to buy them :)
I proxy within reason I.E. using my predator which I built with autocannons and heavy bolters and using it as a las-predator or my land raider redeemer being any other land raider
I knew a guy who was forbidden from playing at my FLGS unless he brought an army list, which got checked by one of the people who ran the store. He was RENOWNED for being "Just a little bit over" on his points value.
"Friendly Local Game Store!~"
yeah one time when I was new to the game I accidentally brought 1.6k points for a 1k point game. I apologized to my opponent later when I realized I messed up
First time I played at a GW store me and my opponent agreed on 1500 points. Then when someone close by asked us how much we were playing with he dropped the ball and said 2k lol. Best part is that he was so damn smug for winning as well.
"What page are the ordinance weapons on again?" "I don't know, I've never really looked it up." "Do you ever come prepared for these games?"
LOL LOL LOL!!!
The proxy section is hilarious :P
sciencemile the cookies are just my snack lol
I'm going to proxy myself as an Imperator Titan 😎
It started off relatively reasonable but by the end I was laughing so hard.
yeah after the terminators I died XD
I played this one guy who threatened to quit the game every time the battle went in my favour XD
Squad morale broken ! Requesting more Commissars for emergency summary execution!
Sheepy Toons all you guys sound like whiny toy babies.
There are people like that in every game. I play mtg and there’s a guy that did that when I 2-0’d him at FNM
Twilight Gardens presentations wtf are you talking about? Why are you here then? Lmao
Jake Jutras thanks for assuring no one finds out why you geeks play this game- friendliness could’ve gone a long way. Bye.
I return to this gem every couple of years, it truly is a masterpiece...
Me too!
Fuck buying all this shit. I'm playing as a crunch bar from now on.
I'd hate to play with a borrower, simply because I'm too nice of a person to say no.
Alex Hackett they will make you not so nice!
ralf137 what's wrong with someone borrowing your tape. Sometimes you forget stuff.
Jace Baker agreed on that point.
It's annoying when you're always the guy who brought everything. And they kick your ass with your stuff.
@Jace Baker What if you play with the cool rules that only lasted a short while in 7th edition that came in Gathering Storm 1 Fall of Cadia the Empyric Storm deck. Some of the Cards were if you have models available roll off and whoever wins the roll off gets a unit? I would of hated to encounter the person who if they won they roll of they get to use the unit but if they lost they wouldn't let their opponent use their models for the unit.
I dont even play w40k and I lost it at the proxy guy
he's playing tyrannids before 8TH edition HE CAN'T BE THAT GUY
Warhammer looks so fun, people play it all the time at my local game shop and I'll definitely be getting in to it at some point. Just can't afford another expensive hobby right now xD
You should its quite fun.
Jace Baker recasters? Srsly? That's your advice for new players?
Chester Cheetah I tried to learn and basically got shut down and told it’s not for me. I got mad but that didn’t help, so I guess they were right. Games that aren’t fun just aren’t for me.
warhammer is a fucking scam pure and simple.the game is tedious and shitty, the models are outrageously overpriced. i'm surprised they get any 'new' players at all
I just someone in my town knew what warhammer is
i was about to remark about the price of a digital theodolite (the thing at 11:20 ish) but then i realised... this is warhammer, one of the few hobbies that could legitimately overshadow the cost of a £1000+ piece of measuring equipment.
I'm totally guilty of being in the "doesn't know his codex" category for one reason. I can't get stat lines to stick in my head! 3334516 or something for termagaunts or something like that.
+Bret Marron There's a difference between knowing the rules in your codex and memorizing every stat line. That's a lot of numbers so don't feel bad!!!
Weapon Skill:
Lelith Hesperax: 9
Chapter Master: 6
Termagant: 3334516
I have never played a single game of warhammer but this was really entertaining
I love how you don't even need to know the rules to find the "proxy" skit hilarious
Ok, gut reaction to the proxy part "what is wrong with proxiing, i do this too?", then i saw the candy bars :D well done sir
I always encounter the guy who is over on points, and has no way to prove he is anywhere near what he says, and the measuring guy. They always measure from the front of a base, or vehicle, and put the rear of the base or vehicle in front of the tape measure. Drive me nuts! After bitching two or three times I just ignore it and do the same thing haha
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!
Yep, if everyone is cheating then is anyone cheating?
“I won fair and square”
“You cheated!”
“So did you, I just cheated better”
Sergeant Ducky is to never be made fun of. He's got Thomas the Demon Engine his side.
"...You can't take my car--uhhh, good luck...I guess..."
lol
I've never played Table Top before but this was hilarious. Because I can see people doing this. It's like one of those games that can break friendships if you're too competitive.
I play with a guy that is basically an offender for every one of these.
Proxying an entire army at once.
Borrowing the templates, rulebooks, usually your scatter dice.
Taking 15 minutes to check his codex for stuff.
Never gets his scatter right.
And blasts you off the table almost every game, rarely using his own miniatures.
dávid Juricsky :D
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This applies to most hobbies in the nerd sector. I run into a lot of these types (modified of course) for my D&D groups. The borrower is huge, although for things like dice and rule books is not much of an issue. But the guy that doesn't know anything when he thinks he knows everything is very common.
The Bad Sport gets 100 times worse when he’s a Dark Eldar Player and you’re a Tyranid player
Jesus how can anyone be salty fighting bids they are so fun
One guy I used to play with back in 40k 2nd edition, would move his furthest forward marine 4", then move the guy that was 2" behind him so that he was 2" in front of him, and so on until he had moved the whole squad of 10 marines. His argument was that it's ok as long as the marines stayed within 2" of each other.
We also used to play out in the garden during the summer. We played one game out on my patio and I'd killed his Predator. It blew the turret off. When he rolled for the scatter he rolled the dice on one side of him, very carefully measured the distance and direction, then rotated his body so he could measure from the predator turret. I made him re-do his measurement about 3 times because he didn't understand that by rotating his body he's also rotating the scatter direction. If he'd measured it properly his predator turret would have landed right on top of his landspeeder and I think he might have killed himself.
I used to let him off of these things because after about the first 3 months of playing I bought a Whirlwind and from that point on I beat him every time we played.
Yo
+1 for stinky the termigaunt!
Fuck this, I want to build an army of duck terminators now. With a bigger duck as Land Raider support and lead by the lost duck primarch "Waddles McQuack". Proxy all the way.
Keine Angabe and the best part is they will be pre-painted!
This stuff was hysterical - well done guys! Instant classic.
Glad you enjoyed it!
back when I'd play those god damn movement guys seemed to be EVERYWHERE. games ground to screatching halts over minute quibbles. eventually I invented a piece of wood that was exactly 6 inches long to speed things up. geuss what had to be measured before every game an every time it was my turn. just in case my peice of 6 inch piece of almighty plywood magicly grew any since enemy movement
That actually a pretty great fix!
(I dunno if you “Invented” a stick though.)
@@dd11111 therese also the "line of sight guy" so we jsut had a house rule that if you wanna place something out of it from a certain squad you both look until its okay and then stay with it so that the next turn without moving he cant say "oh yeah i see that head of yours so im gonna shoot that squad"
Those guys are fucking idiots
That proxy army description was really funny, wow, I enjoyed that; A well executed joke!
"I've always wanted to take landspeeders" had me rolling on the ground. Ha ha ha
Rip template weapons
you're lucky, in MtG you get to deal with the bad hygiene guys that touch your cards with their greasy hands.
Yeah, buying sleeves for playing outside of my regular group may be the best decision I made playing magic
I used to play MtG and I'm a fit young man so it was a little strange going up against these fucking monstrosities
The Emperor of Mankind
Yea, I've often felt like the out of place geek that goes against every bad stereotype out there. But they exist for a reason, as my own personal experiences can attest. Was a jock in high school and was basically a "closet geek" on the weekends lol. Had plenty of girlfriends or attention from girls, and was definitely "active" if you get my drift. When going to tournaments for MTG or any other games, I often feel like a black sheep for various reasons as I'm also pretty conservative politically and I don't go out of my way to come across as socially awkward. It's hard to be normal and be socially active with hobbies such as this. *sigh*
you sound exactly like me, lol. when a girl asks what my hobbies are, I always have to say something like 'painting' instead of like warhammer lol. I'm in college now and i have made sure my fraternity brothers have no idea about my miniature wargaming hobby- one friend in my dorm knows about it and gives me shit but hasn't told anyone
Game Talker
Humble-brag much?
I've been coming back to this video for years now. Timeless gem. I don't even play 40k, I play WW2 minis, and it still holds true.
Glad you're enjoying it still!
hahaha. so true. its like collecting pokemons - had encountered all of those types
Dimasik 420 nice reference!
Nearly 10 years later and I still love this video. I just love the nostalgia of it all. I sincerely hope you guys are doing well!
Glad you are still enjoying it! All is well!
That dude who says are you kidding me is good at being pissed and then too soft when matt steals all his stuff.
I love this style of comedy. Fuck punchlines just get a premise and run it into the ground for three minutes. Honestly this is pure art
The page turning was cracking me up!
And then the surveying sight part! So F'kn funny! I have played board-games from age 14.
Thanks for making me laugh!
It's 2023 and these are all still spot on!!!!! 😂😂😂
Glad you’re still enjoying it!
Except they removed some of the mechanics
The borrower bugs me the most
"You can't borrow my car"
borrowing dice is ok if u got an insanely large roll like orks in melee or guardsmen with first rank second rank
halogod786 yeah who wants to share their toys-
i mean me and my friends only ever had one set of dice and a tape measure between us when we played as kids
This is legit the most humble and awesomely accurate miniature wargaming video I've ever seen.
😂😂 thanks!
those toy trains xD
l33790053 I literally lol'd as the proxies beacame more and more stupid as each new "unit" was shown.
*Rhinos
This video is incredible. I've never even played a miniature wargame even though I see them all the time, but this was so well written that the context was enough for me to get all the jokes and I enjoyed the whole thing.
I use gummy bears , I find chocolate melts in the heat of battle .
Excellent tactical decision!
legit laughed the whole way through.
The N4SA Joah Same here.
laughed my ass off at the proxy guy
I was waiting for a flower pot, paperclips and a couple playing cards or teaspoons as troops
The candy and ducks thing is honestly fine and can even be pretty funny for playing with friends.
I'd instantly forget what these units were supposed to be.
If you wanna do that, I recommend making paper cutouts with photos/graphics of appropriate units, and about the same size- that way you show you lack money rather than effort, and nobody's gonna be confused with what you're using.
I never played tho, It's just something I thought of as a good solution, since I've seen it done in D&D game I've played.
Extremely lucky guy is my buddy. It's actually really funny to play stalker him
I mean, I would love to see a full proxy battle on both sides, it would so funny out of context
Especially trying to keep track of what everything is 😂
@@TheVanillakoolaid "wait is this egg is a tervigon ? "
@@pixel_mode 😂😂
We just share tape measures and stuff in our games
I don't know how Proxy Guy managed to get through his part without cracking up !
daughteroftiaran we made it all the way to the my little pony train and you may notice the cut in the video where we did exactly that!
I love how your tyranids look they are so cool :O
I can relate to proxy guy because I like the Havocs from CSM but you really only want to run them with Lascannons despite that the box only gives you one of each weapon and I’m not buying that many because GW won’t put enough of the options on the sprue but someone once called me out for not being WYSIWYG anyway…….!!!!!!
…….I fine……
Nothing wrong with proxying, as long as your opponent agrees and you can keep track of who is who. Some people don’t quite understand that, or use stuff that is nowhere near scale/size either
The proxy killed me with all the camdy
LOL the candy and staplers had me rolling. Well done gents.
Than you! Glad you enjoyed it!
These scribbles on a plate made me laugh
Andrew Mihailow and they're still better than some people's actual army lists!
Andrew Mihailow It's so funny that I will do that. Not sure if the guy will the funny.
One of them was "Apple!"
I love how the proxies start off pretty reasonable and gets more and more ridiculous
xD the proxy guy.. went from "okay, reasonable, you want to try a unit before buying the expensive models" over "what the hell? and are you sure your troops won't get eaten while waiting in reserve?" to "no. just... no."
Also bad scatter guy is one of the reasons I really like that templates are a thing of the past.
Not in 30k my man! Still infuriating lol
I was already belly laughing at the kroot proxy... let alone the chocolate ☠
Imagine trying to film it, we lost it multiple times 😂
@@TheVanillakoolaid I can only imagine 🤣
2 words. "Rage quit"
Should have been in the bad sport, perhaps in a sequel...
I've never played or even seen this game and it came up in my recommended. Still pretty funny!
If i kill your candy men do i get to eat them? If so, I'll allow it.
who else sees the Tank move by itself at 0:28 secs. its a very subtle movement but its there and no one touched it. ghost???
I love how outrageous proxies got.
Brilliant video 😂, I was laughing out loud at the Razorback moving
It's funny because it's true!
So who else watched this just to make sure they wen't that guy? Good news i'm not that guy AND RIP scatter guy
That bad sport one hurt me on a metaphysical level.
Fairly sure my salt during games with iron hands players could spawn a salinated chaos god and a new range of minis.
So good when he pans across and the fella is using chocolate bars as proxies
I like how the cases got incresingly more ridiculous.
😅
I dont think i would engage the stratego-tactical squad in melee. you never know
The fact you guys have a total station for the movement is just amazing.
The terminator Proxy is highly acceptable, for lack of any better words.
They are terminators.
I mean, I asked the vast majority of regulars at GW Dublin, and my Iron hands honour guard are two converted Morlock Tartaros terminators on 32mm's. I just never bring them AND any other terminator models on the board.
Besides, at least the food proxy equipment was kept in continuity xD
Honestly, the first 2 proxies are very legitimate and if youre not running into a turnament no one will have an issue with them.
This was the first piece of Warhammer 40k media I ever watched, and now I am multiple armies and thousands of dollars deep into it. Hell of a drug
It sure is! Glad to have been a part of that journey for you!
Every...fucking....game....
Proxy bit was so funny. Good one. :D
Glad you enjoyed it! We cracked up several times making it!
@@TheVanillakoolaid Video was great. Great job.
I’m that guy who will miss the table when rolling dice.
I love the paint scheme you went with on that baby Ruth plasma gunner, the metallic paints are on point 👌
Last borower that tryed to take my codex went home with a left eye painted ultra marines blue
LanceTheAutobot Ultramarines might actually be cobalt blue.
I feel like this fits into
r/iamverybadass
Killer Bean yeah exactly
The Ultramarines were always a sore topic.
Jesus. This poor guy.. I don't like mlp... but really? All this hate just cuz he has a pony profile picture. Fucking disgusting how humans turned out.
"proxy guy" is legitimate comedy, the staplers killed me, best of the skits for sure good work!