In my very first game I was playing this dude who was teaching me. And he "accidentally" forgot to put terrain in the middle of the board. It wasn't malicious though as it gave me a huge advantage. As I had a long range army and he did not. I think he wanted to ensure that I kept playing and wanted me to win my first game.
That was probably the point. It gives you, the newbie, an advantage, while also giving you a lesson you can appreciate later on the importance of terrain. Honestly that's brilliant.
@@budgierigarz my first game was against my uncle where I played his marines and he played his orks, he gave himself like 1 more squad than me bc he didn’t remember pts cost and hadn’t played in years, it was a quick game lol
Guy at my LGS cheated to win at least two tournaments before he was eventually banned, and was apparently known for fudging rolls even before that. He was also, unsurprisingly, a super strict rules lawyer who would argue with you about everything. I think about him whenever my friends and I have an argument about rules, and I’m reminded that this is just a silly game with plastic toys that I painted poorly.
@@Matwhoabsolutely lol That, and looking at a measurement where it's within a 16th one way or the other and deciding the outcome based on rule of cool
I gave someone line of sight to shoot when it was so questionable the other day. It was so close that it wasn’t worth arguing and it made the game much more fun as everyone went home happy
You know what was super nice? When we could see our opponent's basic data sheets (model and weapon stats only) through our own app without having to pay for their codex. Cut out a lot of rules "errors."
me neither. I do have a friend who measures distance for move like he should but then always places the models an extra inch to far forward. He is just sloppy, not doing it to cheat or on purpose to gain anything from it. And yes the dice are most of the time rigged against me too.
Right? My rolls are so bad, my opponent feels bad for me. I try to make up for it by playing really bad lists; my firstborn marines are getting lots of play.
We had a guy during an 8th edition tournament sneak in some dice that had no 1s on them. He got caught on game 4 when his opponent became suspicious and watched his rolls like a hawk watches a field mouse. Opponent noticed and snagged his dice and saw it had two 6s.
I came across a guy years ago that had a really good collection of Dark Eldar. Trouble is he didn't have a codex, or at least never had it with him. First time I played him I got suspicious because his rules seemed to change from turn to turn. I just shrugged it off. Second time his army simply countered whatever my army did. It was so blatant. I called him out and he got embarrassed. I'm not super competitive but cheating is just sad. It's just a miniature game. We play fluffy campaigns mostly so it's the journey rather destination. Thanks AT
At our house, if a die happens to roll out of an opponents sight the standard practice is to either leave it there and let them come around to see the roll, or just lift the die deliberately so the opponent can see you're not moving it. Dropped dice [like from a pile out of your hand] don't count, cocked dice get re-rolled, and dice that roll off the table don't count, *unless* you're feeling lucky then you can call 'Jumanji' before it stops and you keep whatever roll it lands on.
I refused to finish playing my final opponent mid game at my last event. We both agreed I had 8oc on a point in my movement phase, come the end of the turn he points out one of my guys is now 1mm off the objective. Word for word he said” I know we agreed earlier but it’s not my job to make sure your models are placed correctly.”
the most common "cheating" I have run into in our local game store is a couple of people who intentionally withhold information about their armies. For example, I pulled Assasination in one game and asked my opponent which units have a character attached (I'm not familair with all armies) and he informed me "none currently on the map, only one in deep strike" So I tossed the secondary mission and moved on with my turn. Next turn I charge a unit and my opponent informed me they were being buffed by a character and I asked why he didnt disclose that last turn when I had Assassination and he responded that he had FOUR characters on the map last turn and that he misunderstood the question. 🤔It was a straight forward question and he intentionally did not answer honestly.
Two from the Far East: 1) the "Tokyo Roll," aka a dice drop, where the cheater carefully positions his dice bad side up in his palm, gets right over the tray, and quickly flips his hand to get the result he wants. 2) I've also occasionally had to argue "misinterpreted" rules, at which time my opponent suddenly can't understand me because "foreigners can't speak Japanese well." To be fair on this second one, sometime the Japanese and English versions of the same cards/missions vary wildly (some Leviathan missions could not be played due to differences in scoring), and with some games they're working with English books because there is no Japanese version. But it is also sometimes the case that my opponent was a WAAC jerkoff.
Sadly at my locals so many people do " Gotchas" it's not fun... and whenever I'm like " well I didn't know your unit could do that/ that that was your really good melee unit" they often say " well you CAN look up my faction to find out what they can do" I don't have the time or energy to look up every single unit in a faction, learn how that faction plays and every stratagem so I can have fun... that turns it into work
Yup, I feel that. Ran into a community like that once; a bunch of competitive players back in 7th ed who used gotchas as their main mode of winning. Their secondary mode was arguing everything their opponent does just to get their way. What a bunch of douches.
when i used to frequent a hobby shop and play with the group there, probably 1 in 10 were honest players who wanted fair games, everyone else was just there to get a win, no matter the cost, the shop closed down, big cost,
oh, forgot, the guy at the GW store(a red shirt) one town over, he is famed for being a cheat, the podcast CANHAMMER regularly talks about the guy, as he is still going to every tourney in Ontario, he used to have a youtube channel where he would post battle reports,
I used to accidentally play with a weighted die (It was supposed to be a display dice or something idk, whoever made it didn't care about it's weighting just more about the aesthetic), but it was actually skewed to rolling 1 more likely, and I didn't realize this for years
That -1CP Stratagem thing was a source of a lot of confusion in my area. Some interpreted it as a free overwatch or reroll for a second unit. Others said it was -1 to only the 2CP Battle Tactics. It was a mess. 🙈 Other than confusion about rules and terrain, I haven't seen any blatant cheating like mis-measuring or hiding dice rolls. Thankfully.
In their defense, they changed it mid-season and not everyone uses the 40K app or is 100% up to date with changes. That's why I feel very guilty about springing that on most people and I always ask my opponent which variant they want before the match.
For new players - be grateful you’ve never had to deal with scatter and artillery dice. Those things were absolutely rife for cheating - people “nudging” the scatter dice into a more favourable position could be quite common. Also template weapons too… the number of disputes that you’d end up having with the flamer or blast template could be ridiculous especially if your opponent was being a bad sport…
And they would roll scatter near the barrel of their Earthshaker, not the target blast point, then point their hand 30* off in another direction from the die’s arrow to scatter into your terminators.
On the incorrect army list points, I once played a 1k Sons guy and wiped the floor with him which was very unexpected. After the game we checked his army list and it turned out he'd been playing with 400pts less than me! We had a rematch which resulted in a much closer game :D
Had a dude in Sigmar who kept spawning Beastmen off the board as part of their "ambush tactics" or some such. Very standard actual ruleset - outside 9" of enemies but within 6" of edge, etc. etc. However, our table is inset - he'd tuck in an extra ten people sometimes on the flat edge off the actual gameboard. Anytime anybody called him out on it, or hinted at how that's clearly not the intent of what is essentially the tableframe, he'd complain all about how ridiculous we're being. Just wasn't worth it, we lost a couple players because of that.
This is why I hate competitive warhammer. You do your best to play as clean as possible but your opponent goes "yeah this unit moves 12", "this unit can activate this", "Yes my strategem or rule can do this. Trust me I am a pro". You go check this after your defeat and you realize none of this was valid. You call this at the competitors or organizers and they start throwing trash out you because you are "ruining" their community or one victory won't take you anywhere.
@@jacket2848 my best games have been casual with friends. Were we learn about each others faction from gameplay to lore. We remind ourselves from Oath targets, tokens, rules and strategies. If one loses or wins it doesn't matter because we had fun. But boi, competive? Another story of grown manchilds running tantrums because I did a 6.0001" movement and thus I am cheater. But sure, my opponent can surely use a strat on a unit that cannot be used on, sure my opponent can modify his weapon strength to go from 4s staright to 2s. Sure, I can call them for cheating but I get a "No bro, you cheated on doing a 6.000001 movement". I really don't get the tryhard mentality on a toy game...but it is what it is on my city :/
Messing with the CP counter can make a big difference too. "Oh i forget to add my cp at the start of the turn so i have enough to interrupt you" for example
I had a guy not using the Sisters miracle dice rule correctly and was using them more so that he should have. That is instead of one miracle dice per one unit per phase. He was dumping several 4+ miracle dice into the damage of his damage amounts during an event at my LGS. I had trusted him to be playing properly. I noticed that this is seemed insane he was able to constantly almost max out his damage rolls each turn. So I checked the rules and brought it up to him and soon after we ended the game. He dropped out of the event shortly after. Idk if he was cheating per se or was just completely playing it wrong.
I've played a 2k game with a knight player who had a whole 400 point knight in reserves. Even though he had 2k points already on the board from the start of the game. I was new to the game and didn't find out until afterwards when I counted the models he had. Dude was 400 points over in what was meant to be a nice easy intro game.
Back in 7th i ve heard someone that because landraider can transport, he gets them for free in the space marine demi company. Back in 7th you get, if you play the demi company formation, every dedicated transport (e.g. rhinos and razorbacks) was points free.
This is why i physically write everything that happens in my binder it’s gotten silly big but it’s hard to cheat or be accused of it when you have a physical record of everything you have e done
I only play casually, and will cheat constantly in my opponent’s favor just to make the games more interesting. (Oh no I failed the save, while looking at a pass)
Oh wait the biggest cheats are popping stratagems that can only be pop in command phase and popping it in charge phase cause they know all the info they shouldn't know before like charge
9:54 it's worth pointing out that targeting an exposed claw or spike is not only angle shooting, if said claw or spike sticks out over the model's base, it's also illegal and has been since the summer balance dataslate. overhanging bits of a model (vehicles (but not walkers) excluded) don't count towards whether they are within, wholly within, or not within a ruin/terrain. and visbility can't be drawn to or from them when shooting into or out of said terrain. so if your model's base is wholly within the terrain but a claw sticks outside over the base, the enemy has to be able to shoot INTO the terrain and can't draw line of sight to the claw. meaning if rules are 'windows closed' etc, the model straight up can't be targeted or shot
Only major cheating ive seen personally was whem it came to rules amd datasheets. In 9th, it was "oh my unit can actually do xyz even though its not on their rules." This edition its been a little bit of shady dice rolls and flubbying on their datasheets, such as claiming a unit has a 4+ invul save.... when its really a 4+ FNP on mortal wounds.
I always ask to measure to and from the models base and not their cool and scenic models. After all it make it easier to judge line of sight, gives creative freedom for models and the idea that i can shoot from my Spindly bits and wings feels so cheeky and stupid...
Using the basesize as the model was sold with wasnt modeling for advantage. GW ruled that it was ok but it had some unfortunate bugs like 3-line-close-combat back in 9th (or even 8th?). With 10th editions rules they fixed it
Most of my terminators and tactical marines (as well as my sisters) are on 25mm bases because that's what they came with. If GW wants to send me new bases then maybe I'll rebase them. But I play so infrequently and only friendly games so no one cares.
I've seen almost all of these except I don't think I've ever played a game where loaded dice were involved. One interesting wrinkle with the cards is that I've seen some people shuffle discarded cards back into the deck, which AFAIK isn't correct- a discarded or scored objective shouldn't be available to be drawn again. Usually it won't make much difference and I don't think I've ever seen someone doing it draw a card for a second time, but it's something to be aware of.
I went to a beginners tournament where some guy cheated like crazy with nids, he had the codex but I never thought to bring it up cause it was the last game of the day
He also gave himself more movement on basically every one of his bugs and added wounds/sv characteristics Big one was he claimed that if he takes a wound he gets +1 attack on his huge tyrannofex gun
Seeing as how I usually play with a few friends, I sometimes deliberately cheat when my rolls are insanely high and it starts causing issues in me powering through things. Most of my friends don't notice the fact that I sometimes go from 3+ to hits to 4+ to hits for no reason, or that I remind them that they have cover if my weapons ignore cover and so on. Usually because it's not fun to have a game where everything is going against you, including your own dice....
Half my troops these days no longer have proper base sizes, its real fun when I take all my necron warriors and have a third of them with bigger bases because they changed to a bigger base. If we still had template the bigger bases would be nicer, but honestly I could see people complaining because I am able to get more of them within rapid fire because of the smaller base. But at the end of the day, not my fault GW changed it, and I'm not going to take the time to go through every model and make sure it is using the current base size that they are using.
I think I spent maybe 3 months balancing a single type of dice that I create. I do non standard shapes likes kegs or coke bottles, or bolter bullets. So making sure they land on each side equally is time consuming and one hell of a math challenge.
I oftentimes find myself doing the opposite of many of these. I tend to forget rules that advantage me, and my customized Russes are wider than a regular Russ, to where I had to paint markers on them to indicate “true width”.
I had an accidental cheating issue in one of my first games ever when I was still learning, myself being the culprit… it was in the crusade campaign a couple of buddies of mine were playing through (so it mattered a bit more to the overall campaign). it was on me for not referencing the core book and going off what I thought was my good memory. It was with the overwatch stratagem, forgetting the 6 to hit is ‘unmodified.’ So yeah my overwatching forgefiend with warpsmith was unintentionally getting the +1 to hit on overwatches which I learned after the fact was not correct. Buddy I was playing against didn’t realize the mistake but I did let him know after the game, when I realized, of my mistake and owned up to it since it significantly affected the outcome. We agreed to calling it a null match. I reference the rules a lot more to make sure that doesn’t happen again 😅
The old metal biovore models that are basically an ork with a cannon out of his back really have me feeling like I need to get another new one, so I can have all three be the same size. I wish I could share images on here, because it's actually silly how small he is compared to the spider tank sculpt they sell now
Who else remembers that story of a White Scars player who always deployed their entire force in reserve? And the counter that prevented then from deploying anything at all thus resulting in a loss.
I’ve seen people desperately asking to change their secondaries as well. It’s painful when the game is so close and you can see your oooo se t is purely Looking at scoreboard seeing how they can cherry pick secondaries to enable them to beat you rather than just playing the game
Any competitive event should not allow outside dice to be used as there is zero dice security at them and I guarantee none of the event organizers have dice weight measurement tools like those we use on the Craps table to verify casino dice. Because there is money involved in these tournaments it is akin to the casino world; they should provide each player with a sealed dice set at the start of the tournament and signed in/out for multi day tournaments. I went to a gt and 3 out of 5 games, my opponents dice rolls were 80% being 5+.
Not seen cheating. Seen a lot of misplays. Heck I've misplayed. It does bother me though when I'm playing someone, and I discover someone else has convinced them a play against them was legit, they try same play vs me, I question it, we look it up, and bingo they were being blagged. I think, as long as your polite, its okay to question and be questioned about rules. Everyone just wants clarity.
Generous movement is something i always call out. I have a friend whos constantly measuring at an angle which in turn gives him an extra 1/2" or more depending on the length of the movement. Remember a²+b²=c²
One I see a lot is rules that half damage and FNP rolls. I’ve seen people half the saving rolls and then double half the FNP rolls. So if your opponent fails 4 dice and 2 D each they remove 2 and then remove 1 dice for FNP as well
People proxying special weapons that suddenly morph into different special weapons depending upon what kind of model is in range. Apparently plasmas have a melta mode when a tank moves in close. 😮
While not cheating per se, I find it incredibly irritating when your opponent interjects themselves into your turn while you are deliberating. For example, “Do you want to use [Strategem]?” or just interrupting your train of thought.
"Oops! 10th edition has been out forever, and this is a tournament so i should be up on the rules, but im gonna play it 9th edition Orks and play dumb when called out." Blatant cheating absolutely happens.
Fortunately, I've only come up against one major cheater, but it was a doozy. So we are playing in this casual league and I'm running my Kroot army (back in 9th before we had real rules). He was running Sisters and we got to chatting before the game. He started by bragging about how he'd downed this meta Dreadknight army with all his miracle meltas in the previous game. I told him that he'd probably have an issue with my army as I was all Kroot and didn't have anything big. He said "oh I know, I caught one of your previous games" then proceeded to pull out a list without a single melta and leaded to the brim with flamers. During the game, he tried to full shoot his rapid fire weapons at max distance, insisting it was a special sisters rule. When I demanded to see the rule, he caved and didn't even pretend to look, just got a "oh, I guess I must have misremembered." He tried to Deep Strike turn 1, and was constantly rolling dice whenever I turned away for a moment. Despite all that I was keeping the game very close and on turn 3, I was taking a bunch of Ld checks for decimated units. We were short on time, so I was rolling them fast when as soon as a dice left my hand I realized it was for a key unit and said "shit, I CP pass that one" after a few more seconds the dice stopped rolling across the table and came up a fail, which he then proceeded to insist was that actual result. This is a very debatable issue I should have been allowed to do that or not, but I'd had enough of his BS at this point and just called a judge to resolve it. Since it was a casual event, the judge sided with me, and the guy threw a temper tantrum that would have put my 6 year old to shame. Not wanting to deal with it, the judge relented and said "the official stance in the GW rulebook is to roll of when something can't be determined, so we're going to do that.) He immediately agreed, I also did begrudgingly since the judge had already sided with me. I won the die roll and the guy flipped his shit again, yelling at the judge and me saying we were poisoning the hobby and all kinds of crazy stuff before scooping up his models because he "refused to play with someone like me". The guy was subsequently banned from the store. I returned home to a bunch of angry FB DM's (as that's how we organized the games) and immediately blocked him. There are just some people in the world that I think I'll never be able to understand.
The one time I remember someone cheating me badly in a game was when a dice rolled over close to where he had his codex open, landed on a six, and he slid his codex over the dice and then contested that it counted because it "rolled under his book and might have been moved when he lifted his codex." Never played with that guy again.
This hobby is about creativity. As I see it we are telling a story. It shouldn’t be about the players, it should be about creating a narrative of an event. “I kill your model” is way more lame than “Character X has slain Character Z”. We don’t really exist in the world, we are the hidden hands of fate. This view and good sportsmanship helps remove EGO and ego is a source of so many of the worlds problems. Let’s create amazing stories together not fight each other.
I was accused of cheating for not fully understanding the rules. And yet he never told me not to pick up my entire squad of stormboyz from 1 railgun shot...
This. I don't play 10th but in 9th I played Harlequins (both before and after their totally broken codex). They have a lot of special rules and stratagems that are hard gotchas if your opponent doesn't know about them. I would always try to explain what my army could do, and more than half the time people would stop me and tell me they didn't care. A sizeable number of those same people would then complain when they found out my entire army could advance, fall back and charge, or ignore terrain when moving, or when I tried to use any of the weird movement strats.
Had a guy back in 5th edition that said a couldn't see his marine as in real life the model would be squatting down for cover. Shook my head and said okay and let it slide, really couldn't believe he said that. I used the same argument against him in the next turn and had a smile while I did it. Won the game so could be a lesson there.
The only one I've ran into was my first time against Chaos Knights. I didn't know the army and he gave himself a 5+ invuln on shooting and melee. I didn't learn they lose it in melee until quite a bit later. To be honest, I kind of think the knights need it for both, but this was one of my first RTT's and that's just not how the army works. Then, not cheating, but first time I played Votann he did not explain his rules - there was a bunch of gotcha's from that. Then he was also very quick to put the time back on me, and never once take back for himself... it's 'okay' and now I'm way better equipped for competitive play, but it was definitely a feels bad at the time.
I love having autism and remembering all the numbers. We've been recently playing 1500 pt 3 player games and I've remembered almost every datasheet stats by now when we play
The flaw in the game design that weighted dice exploits...is higher rolls being more favored in most aspects (phases) of gameplay. If GW reworked the dice rolling system so that defensive rolls were more favorable rolling lower [3-] and offensive rolls were more favorable rolling higher [4+], then a fair opponent should have no problem using the same dice set for both offensive and defensive rolls.
Maybe a mention for removing units actually in cover first if you’re using the cover save? I definitely miss this in my own play sometimes as a new player.
Hey could someone help me out with line of sight rules? Do vehicles obstruct line of sight for units behind them? Logically it makes sense but I’ve heard tournaments say that units are invisible for line of sight purposes, and don’t obstruct it.
we have a guy at our lgs that try's to double consolidate, cheese movement disembarking and go 30pt over max for that one enhancement he needs. kinda frustrating but hes just a kid and we are trying to teach him better it is just a game
I had a game once where the opponent set up the deployment zone markers, and I trusted that they were the proper distance away. We were supposed to be 24" apart, and his t.wolf cavalry had to go at least 5" around a building before moving towards me. Somehow he got a successful charge with an advance roll of a 4, and I had deployed 3" back from the line (mathematically impossible for him to get a first turn charge). It was only then that I noticed he had put us closer than 24". At that point, I just went "meh". Too late now to change it, just gonna have to play a better game to make up for my stupidity in trust.
My personal peeve - the faction dice sets GW sell. They seem to replace 1s and 6s with stupid symbols, and it isnt always clear which is which. When I glance at my opponents rolls, I want to be able to inderstand what they have rolled quickly. Every time someone pulls out a set I want to ask them not to use them, but it just feels really petty.
Small reminder that GW dice (and most "rounded" dice) are inaccurate! Technically speaking you "cheat" if you use GW dice for low rolls and infill dice for high rolls. It's like 1-2% difference iirc This is because enough is shaved off 3-5 dice to make extra dice to sell, compared to making fair dice.
Question for anyone who wants to answer but if I have a ork war boss in a squad of nobz, would the war boss get effected by his ability might is right and get +1 to hit in melee since he’s technically apart of the unit of Nobz since he joined?
yes, because it says "Each time a model in that unit makes a melee attack" and the Warboss is a model in that unit when attached as a leader. The warboss will also benefit from the Nobz "Da Boss' Ladz" ability if someone were to try and attack him with Precision.
my vulkan hestan looked so stupid on his 25mm base i upgraded to a 32mm before playing my first game just because it looked cool. i just never argue with people if it might be in range, if it seems close it is not. if people rly dont want it i have a little tyranid critter with me to replace him with for the game.
with the new movement rule you can gain extra movement with some units when you pivot, other units lose movement. tbh it is just way worse then the old movement rules.
The problem with differen units base demontion comes to real thing when you're using something that is in the codex but doesn't have a model to represent it (talking about you jump pack chaplain). You need to proxy it in a way or another, and here comes the tricky part because the "official" model is having 32mm base as far as i know, and every charakter nowadays comes with 40mm i belive. I know it's not cheating and in any way wouldn't pick up on anyone due to this but I know a guy who allways has problems with such details.
If you’re not actually playing in the tournament, but acting as a TO or judge.., or even just hanging about watching games, it’s going to be the rare tournament where you won’t encounter at least one or two egregious cheats. So yeah, it’s just one or two people out of 20-30+ players. And sure, only a few players are going to be actually playing against the cheat. But, that said, I can honestly say that I’ve never attended a tournament where there wasn’t at least one problem player.
Not that anyone i know would cheat but in my group we keep rukes like only dice rolls in the tray count. The dice tray is always central and in full view. Just keeps everyone honest.
Table set up and terrain is the biggest for me like no I will not play against your gun line army with open bottom runis and that if you park your model here you can see the entire board kinda thing against my melee focused army
I played my first tournament this year and couldnt believe how important the gane is to people. I played one game and he added a half inch to every move. In all my games of 1 of 5 was cool and level-headed. All.other s were galong point's atvthe end of the gane to ladder climb. I found it distasteful thay grown men nerd so much from a game of toy soldiers. Enjoy it for what is guys. Have fun. Put me so much off meta gaming i started mynown club with home brew rules to give everyone a fair game and create a better culture.
Barely a day goes by without watching a playing related 40k video and thinking "man, am I glad that I don't play competitively" You run into the worst kinds of opponents pretty much exclusively at those "Just play casual" - Sun Tzu probably :D
He doesn't sleep. He's not human. It's the only explanation for how often these videos get out.
He’s a great favourite.
efficient video production technique and automated, scheduled posting
@@hahaureadmynameY'would think, but some things he uploads are like, just minutes behind official GW public updates
@ they're not mutually exclusive
If it were anyone else, I'd say he's an AI.
As a Tyranid player, sometimes I'll eat an opponents model when he isn't looking and refuse to acknowledge anything was there.
In my very first game I was playing this dude who was teaching me. And he "accidentally" forgot to put terrain in the middle of the board. It wasn't malicious though as it gave me a huge advantage. As I had a long range army and he did not.
I think he wanted to ensure that I kept playing and wanted me to win my first game.
"First taste of plastic crack victory is free. You pay for the next." 😂
That was probably the point. It gives you, the newbie, an advantage, while also giving you a lesson you can appreciate later on the importance of terrain. Honestly that's brilliant.
As a Game Store employee, i can say intentionaly losing games without make it obvious is a useful and subtile art ;-)
@@budgierigarz my first game was against my uncle where I played his marines and he played his orks, he gave himself like 1 more squad than me bc he didn’t remember pts cost and hadn’t played in years, it was a quick game lol
@@enricocarlini5363It really is.
Guy at my LGS cheated to win at least two tournaments before he was eventually banned, and was apparently known for fudging rolls even before that. He was also, unsurprisingly, a super strict rules lawyer who would argue with you about everything.
I think about him whenever my friends and I have an argument about rules, and I’m reminded that this is just a silly game with plastic toys that I painted poorly.
The most fun I have playing this game is with friends who don't see the nuances of every single rule. 'Sounds fair' has been our beerhammer trope.
@@Matwhoabsolutely lol
That, and looking at a measurement where it's within a 16th one way or the other and deciding the outcome based on rule of cool
I gave someone line of sight to shoot when it was so questionable the other day. It was so close that it wasn’t worth arguing and it made the game much more fun as everyone went home happy
Not true
I think you did a good paint job
@@Matwho "oh, it is supposed to work that way..."
"your way was cooler"
It's a game, if something rad happens, it's way more fun to throw dice for it
You know what was super nice? When we could see our opponent's basic data sheets (model and weapon stats only) through our own app without having to pay for their codex. Cut out a lot of rules "errors."
Wahapedia, my friend.
I've never had to deal with cheating, my own terrible dice rolls always ensure the enemy will be victorious every time.
me neither. I do have a friend who measures distance for move like he should but then always places the models an extra inch to far forward. He is just sloppy, not doing it to cheat or on purpose to gain anything from it. And yes the dice are most of the time rigged against me too.
Right? My rolls are so bad, my opponent feels bad for me.
I try to make up for it by playing really bad lists; my firstborn marines are getting lots of play.
We had a guy during an 8th edition tournament sneak in some dice that had no 1s on them. He got caught on game 4 when his opponent became suspicious and watched his rolls like a hawk watches a field mouse. Opponent noticed and snagged his dice and saw it had two 6s.
I had a friend so that in d&d, had a d6 with only 5s and he used it for 2 sessions before the dm noticed
@@alexthefirefoxIn warhammer, it is bad. In d&d, it is good (until the dm decides to do it also).
Is shadow boxing your opponent count as cheating?
Shadow boxing?
The nails they bite.
No, doing push ups to assert dominance isn't either.
Go nuts, I have no shooting units
What about using a piece of real skull as tactical rock? No comment of wether it’s mines or not.
i've seen that gladiator movement of 10" & more at least 5 times by now, I'm glad the auspex cinematic universe has reoccurring characters.
Haha, I do quite like that one to illustrate the point when it comes up :D
@@auspextacticsIf it is perfect, why change it?
I came across a guy years ago that had a really good collection of Dark Eldar. Trouble is he didn't have a codex, or at least never had it with him.
First time I played him I got suspicious because his rules seemed to change from turn to turn. I just shrugged it off.
Second time his army simply countered whatever my army did. It was so blatant. I called him out and he got embarrassed.
I'm not super competitive but cheating is just sad. It's just a miniature game.
We play fluffy campaigns mostly so it's the journey rather destination.
Thanks AT
*Nine* examples of *cheating* ?
The Architect of Fate is involved
The changer of ways after he does, in fact, change the ways
At our house, if a die happens to roll out of an opponents sight the standard practice is to either leave it there and let them come around to see the roll, or just lift the die deliberately so the opponent can see you're not moving it. Dropped dice [like from a pile out of your hand] don't count, cocked dice get re-rolled, and dice that roll off the table don't count, *unless* you're feeling lucky then you can call 'Jumanji' before it stops and you keep whatever roll it lands on.
Those are some fun house rules
I like that jumanji rule.
I refused to finish playing my final opponent mid game at my last event. We both agreed I had 8oc on a point in my movement phase, come the end of the turn he points out one of my guys is now 1mm off the objective. Word for word he said” I know we agreed earlier but it’s not my job to make sure your models are placed correctly.”
1mm😂 I'm glad we use inches here😂 got some room to work with😅
the most common "cheating" I have run into in our local game store is a couple of people who intentionally withhold information about their armies. For example, I pulled Assasination in one game and asked my opponent which units have a character attached (I'm not familair with all armies) and he informed me "none currently on the map, only one in deep strike" So I tossed the secondary mission and moved on with my turn. Next turn I charge a unit and my opponent informed me they were being buffed by a character and I asked why he didnt disclose that last turn when I had Assassination and he responded that he had FOUR characters on the map last turn and that he misunderstood the question. 🤔It was a straight forward question and he intentionally did not answer honestly.
A great reason to pick up your models, and tell the guy to have a lot of fun with future opponents
Two from the Far East: 1) the "Tokyo Roll," aka a dice drop, where the cheater carefully positions his dice bad side up in his palm, gets right over the tray, and quickly flips his hand to get the result he wants. 2) I've also occasionally had to argue "misinterpreted" rules, at which time my opponent suddenly can't understand me because "foreigners can't speak Japanese well." To be fair on this second one, sometime the Japanese and English versions of the same cards/missions vary wildly (some Leviathan missions could not be played due to differences in scoring), and with some games they're working with English books because there is no Japanese version. But it is also sometimes the case that my opponent was a WAAC jerkoff.
Sadly at my locals so many people do " Gotchas" it's not fun... and whenever I'm like " well I didn't know your unit could do that/ that that was your really good melee unit" they often say " well you CAN look up my faction to find out what they can do" I don't have the time or energy to look up every single unit in a faction, learn how that faction plays and every stratagem so I can have fun... that turns it into work
Yup, I feel that. Ran into a community like that once; a bunch of competitive players back in 7th ed who used gotchas as their main mode of winning. Their secondary mode was arguing everything their opponent does just to get their way. What a bunch of douches.
when i used to frequent a hobby shop and play with the group there, probably 1 in 10 were honest players who wanted fair games, everyone else was just there to get a win, no matter the cost, the shop closed down, big cost,
oh, forgot, the guy at the GW store(a red shirt) one town over, he is famed for being a cheat, the podcast CANHAMMER regularly talks about the guy, as he is still going to every tourney in Ontario, he used to have a youtube channel where he would post battle reports,
I used to accidentally play with a weighted die (It was supposed to be a display dice or something idk, whoever made it didn't care about it's weighting just more about the aesthetic), but it was actually skewed to rolling 1 more likely, and I didn't realize this for years
That -1CP Stratagem thing was a source of a lot of confusion in my area. Some interpreted it as a free overwatch or reroll for a second unit. Others said it was -1 to only the 2CP Battle Tactics. It was a mess. 🙈
Other than confusion about rules and terrain, I haven't seen any blatant cheating like mis-measuring or hiding dice rolls. Thankfully.
In their defense, they changed it mid-season and not everyone uses the 40K app or is 100% up to date with changes. That's why I feel very guilty about springing that on most people and I always ask my opponent which variant they want before the match.
@@darkknight8702 They didn't even change it on the datasheets for like 4 months
For new players - be grateful you’ve never had to deal with scatter and artillery dice. Those things were absolutely rife for cheating - people “nudging” the scatter dice into a more favourable position could be quite common. Also template weapons too… the number of disputes that you’d end up having with the flamer or blast template could be ridiculous especially if your opponent was being a bad sport…
And they would roll scatter near the barrel of their Earthshaker, not the target blast point, then point their hand 30* off in another direction from the die’s arrow to scatter into your terminators.
Yeah, those are some things I do not miss. The nostalgia.
Other people cheat to WIN against friends? I cheat against friends so I LOSE, that way he takes his trash list to the tournament. We are not the same
What are friends for?
On the incorrect army list points, I once played a 1k Sons guy and wiped the floor with him which was very unexpected. After the game we checked his army list and it turned out he'd been playing with 400pts less than me! We had a rematch which resulted in a much closer game :D
Had a dude in Sigmar who kept spawning Beastmen off the board as part of their "ambush tactics" or some such. Very standard actual ruleset - outside 9" of enemies but within 6" of edge, etc. etc. However, our table is inset - he'd tuck in an extra ten people sometimes on the flat edge off the actual gameboard. Anytime anybody called him out on it, or hinted at how that's clearly not the intent of what is essentially the tableframe, he'd complain all about how ridiculous we're being. Just wasn't worth it, we lost a couple players because of that.
I sometimes skew my rules to be slightly worse or deliberately skip over my special rules if Im playing against new players. LET THEM HAVE FUN!!
This is why I hate competitive warhammer. You do your best to play as clean as possible but your opponent goes "yeah this unit moves 12", "this unit can activate this", "Yes my strategem or rule can do this. Trust me I am a pro". You go check this after your defeat and you realize none of this was valid. You call this at the competitors or organizers and they start throwing trash out you because you are "ruining" their community or one victory won't take you anywhere.
Literally never had any of this happen, and I've played thousands of competitive games. Had maybe 4 bad opponents.
@@jacket2848 my best games have been casual with friends. Were we learn about each others faction from gameplay to lore. We remind ourselves from Oath targets, tokens, rules and strategies. If one loses or wins it doesn't matter because we had fun.
But boi, competive? Another story of grown manchilds running tantrums because I did a 6.0001" movement and thus I am cheater. But sure, my opponent can surely use a strat on a unit that cannot be used on, sure my opponent can modify his weapon strength to go from 4s staright to 2s. Sure, I can call them for cheating but I get a "No bro, you cheated on doing a 6.000001 movement". I really don't get the tryhard mentality on a toy game...but it is what it is on my city :/
Messing with the CP counter can make a big difference too. "Oh i forget to add my cp at the start of the turn so i have enough to interrupt you" for example
I had a guy not using the Sisters miracle dice rule correctly and was using them more so that he should have. That is instead of one miracle dice per one unit per phase. He was dumping several 4+ miracle dice into the damage of his damage amounts during an event at my LGS. I had trusted him to be playing properly.
I noticed that this is seemed insane he was able to constantly almost max out his damage rolls each turn. So I checked the rules and brought it up to him and soon after we ended the game. He dropped out of the event shortly after. Idk if he was cheating per se or was just completely playing it wrong.
I've played a 2k game with a knight player who had a whole 400 point knight in reserves. Even though he had 2k points already on the board from the start of the game. I was new to the game and didn't find out until afterwards when I counted the models he had.
Dude was 400 points over in what was meant to be a nice easy intro game.
Back in 7th i ve heard someone that because landraider can transport, he gets them for free in the space marine demi company.
Back in 7th you get, if you play the demi company formation, every dedicated transport (e.g. rhinos and razorbacks) was points free.
"Does that land raider have the dedicated transport keyword? No? Then stfu cheater. You know what youre doing"
This is why i physically write everything that happens in my binder it’s gotten silly big but it’s hard to cheat or be accused of it when you have a physical record of everything you have e done
I only play casually, and will cheat constantly in my opponent’s favor just to make the games more interesting. (Oh no I failed the save, while looking at a pass)
Oh wait the biggest cheats are popping stratagems that can only be pop in command phase and popping it in charge phase cause they know all the info they shouldn't know before like charge
9:54 it's worth pointing out that targeting an exposed claw or spike is not only angle shooting, if said claw or spike sticks out over the model's base, it's also illegal and has been since the summer balance dataslate.
overhanging bits of a model (vehicles (but not walkers) excluded) don't count towards whether they are within, wholly within, or not within a ruin/terrain. and visbility can't be drawn to or from them when shooting into or out of said terrain.
so if your model's base is wholly within the terrain but a claw sticks outside over the base, the enemy has to be able to shoot INTO the terrain and can't draw line of sight to the claw.
meaning if rules are 'windows closed' etc, the model straight up can't be targeted or shot
Only major cheating ive seen personally was whem it came to rules amd datasheets. In 9th, it was "oh my unit can actually do xyz even though its not on their rules."
This edition its been a little bit of shady dice rolls and flubbying on their datasheets, such as claiming a unit has a 4+ invul save.... when its really a 4+ FNP on mortal wounds.
I always ask to measure to and from the models base and not their cool and scenic models. After all it make it easier to judge line of sight, gives creative freedom for models and the idea that i can shoot from my Spindly bits and wings feels so cheeky and stupid...
Finally! Some tactics from Auspex
Using the basesize as the model was sold with wasnt modeling for advantage. GW ruled that it was ok but it had some unfortunate bugs like 3-line-close-combat back in 9th (or even 8th?). With 10th editions rules they fixed it
Most of my terminators and tactical marines (as well as my sisters) are on 25mm bases because that's what they came with. If GW wants to send me new bases then maybe I'll rebase them. But I play so infrequently and only friendly games so no one cares.
I've seen almost all of these except I don't think I've ever played a game where loaded dice were involved. One interesting wrinkle with the cards is that I've seen some people shuffle discarded cards back into the deck, which AFAIK isn't correct- a discarded or scored objective shouldn't be available to be drawn again. Usually it won't make much difference and I don't think I've ever seen someone doing it draw a card for a second time, but it's something to be aware of.
I went to a beginners tournament where some guy cheated like crazy with nids, he had the codex but I never thought to bring it up cause it was the last game of the day
He used Strats that didn’t exist, got rules wrong/added rules to models etc
@@Wesinatah Examples of fake strats?
@@LordCrate-du8zmhe claimed he was running crusher stampede
Used a Strat to bring back d3+3 genestealers, used a Strat to give himself devwounds
He also gave himself more movement on basically every one of his bugs and added wounds/sv characteristics
Big one was he claimed that if he takes a wound he gets +1 attack on his huge tyrannofex gun
@@Wesinatah Lmao that's hilarious
Seeing as how I usually play with a few friends, I sometimes deliberately cheat when my rolls are insanely high and it starts causing issues in me powering through things.
Most of my friends don't notice the fact that I sometimes go from 3+ to hits to 4+ to hits for no reason, or that I remind them that they have cover if my weapons ignore cover and so on.
Usually because it's not fun to have a game where everything is going against you, including your own dice....
You should run d&d.
Half my troops these days no longer have proper base sizes, its real fun when I take all my necron warriors and have a third of them with bigger bases because they changed to a bigger base. If we still had template the bigger bases would be nicer, but honestly I could see people complaining because I am able to get more of them within rapid fire because of the smaller base. But at the end of the day, not my fault GW changed it, and I'm not going to take the time to go through every model and make sure it is using the current base size that they are using.
I think I spent maybe 3 months balancing a single type of dice that I create. I do non standard shapes likes kegs or coke bottles, or bolter bullets. So making sure they land on each side equally is time consuming and one hell of a math challenge.
I oftentimes find myself doing the opposite of many of these. I tend to forget rules that advantage me, and my customized Russes are wider than a regular Russ, to where I had to paint markers on them to indicate “true width”.
Measuring from the front and moving to the back was basically standard practice even in WD battle reports during like 3rd and 4th editions...
I had an accidental cheating issue in one of my first games ever when I was still learning, myself being the culprit… it was in the crusade campaign a couple of buddies of mine were playing through (so it mattered a bit more to the overall campaign). it was on me for not referencing the core book and going off what I thought was my good memory. It was with the overwatch stratagem, forgetting the 6 to hit is ‘unmodified.’ So yeah my overwatching forgefiend with warpsmith was unintentionally getting the +1 to hit on overwatches which I learned after the fact was not correct. Buddy I was playing against didn’t realize the mistake but I did let him know after the game, when I realized, of my mistake and owned up to it since it significantly affected the outcome. We agreed to calling it a null match. I reference the rules a lot more to make sure that doesn’t happen again 😅
The old metal biovore models that are basically an ork with a cannon out of his back really have me feeling like I need to get another new one, so I can have all three be the same size. I wish I could share images on here, because it's actually silly how small he is compared to the spider tank sculpt they sell now
Who else remembers that story of a White Scars player who always deployed their entire force in reserve?
And the counter that prevented then from deploying anything at all thus resulting in a loss.
I’ve seen people desperately asking to change their secondaries as well. It’s painful when the game is so close and you can see your oooo se t is purely
Looking at scoreboard seeing how they can cherry pick secondaries to enable them to beat you rather than just playing the game
Any competitive event should not allow outside dice to be used as there is zero dice security at them and I guarantee none of the event organizers have dice weight measurement tools like those we use on the Craps table to verify casino dice.
Because there is money involved in these tournaments it is akin to the casino world; they should provide each player with a sealed dice set at the start of the tournament and signed in/out for multi day tournaments.
I went to a gt and 3 out of 5 games, my opponents dice rolls were 80% being 5+.
Not seen cheating. Seen a lot of misplays. Heck I've misplayed. It does bother me though when I'm playing someone, and I discover someone else has convinced them a play against them was legit, they try same play vs me, I question it, we look it up, and bingo they were being blagged. I think, as long as your polite, its okay to question and be questioned about rules. Everyone just wants clarity.
Generous movement is something i always call out. I have a friend whos constantly measuring at an angle which in turn gives him an extra 1/2" or more depending on the length of the movement. Remember a²+b²=c²
I laughed so hard seeing a massive Ultramarines captain's base. I never even thought about that 'strategy.' That's gotta be the funniest way to cheat.
One I see a lot is rules that half damage and FNP rolls. I’ve seen people half the saving rolls and then double half the FNP rolls. So if your opponent fails 4 dice and 2 D each they remove 2 and then remove 1 dice for FNP as well
People proxying special weapons that suddenly morph into different special weapons depending upon what kind of model is in range. Apparently plasmas have a melta mode when a tank moves in close. 😮
While not cheating per se, I find it incredibly irritating when your opponent interjects themselves into your turn while you are deliberating. For example, “Do you want to use [Strategem]?” or just interrupting your train of thought.
"Oops! 10th edition has been out forever, and this is a tournament so i should be up on the rules, but im gonna play it 9th edition Orks and play dumb when called out."
Blatant cheating absolutely happens.
Fortunately, I've only come up against one major cheater, but it was a doozy. So we are playing in this casual league and I'm running my Kroot army (back in 9th before we had real rules). He was running Sisters and we got to chatting before the game. He started by bragging about how he'd downed this meta Dreadknight army with all his miracle meltas in the previous game. I told him that he'd probably have an issue with my army as I was all Kroot and didn't have anything big. He said "oh I know, I caught one of your previous games" then proceeded to pull out a list without a single melta and leaded to the brim with flamers. During the game, he tried to full shoot his rapid fire weapons at max distance, insisting it was a special sisters rule. When I demanded to see the rule, he caved and didn't even pretend to look, just got a "oh, I guess I must have misremembered." He tried to Deep Strike turn 1, and was constantly rolling dice whenever I turned away for a moment.
Despite all that I was keeping the game very close and on turn 3, I was taking a bunch of Ld checks for decimated units. We were short on time, so I was rolling them fast when as soon as a dice left my hand I realized it was for a key unit and said "shit, I CP pass that one" after a few more seconds the dice stopped rolling across the table and came up a fail, which he then proceeded to insist was that actual result. This is a very debatable issue I should have been allowed to do that or not, but I'd had enough of his BS at this point and just called a judge to resolve it. Since it was a casual event, the judge sided with me, and the guy threw a temper tantrum that would have put my 6 year old to shame. Not wanting to deal with it, the judge relented and said "the official stance in the GW rulebook is to roll of when something can't be determined, so we're going to do that.) He immediately agreed, I also did begrudgingly since the judge had already sided with me. I won the die roll and the guy flipped his shit again, yelling at the judge and me saying we were poisoning the hobby and all kinds of crazy stuff before scooping up his models because he "refused to play with someone like me". The guy was subsequently banned from the store. I returned home to a bunch of angry FB DM's (as that's how we organized the games) and immediately blocked him.
There are just some people in the world that I think I'll never be able to understand.
The one time I remember someone cheating me badly in a game was when a dice rolled over close to where he had his codex open, landed on a six, and he slid his codex over the dice and then contested that it counted because it "rolled under his book and might have been moved when he lifted his codex."
Never played with that guy again.
This hobby is about creativity. As I see it we are telling a story. It shouldn’t be about the players, it should be about creating a narrative of an event. “I kill your model” is way more lame than “Character X has slain Character Z”. We don’t really exist in the world, we are the hidden hands of fate. This view and good sportsmanship helps remove EGO and ego is a source of so many of the worlds problems. Let’s create amazing stories together not fight each other.
I was accused of cheating for not fully understanding the rules. And yet he never told me not to pick up my entire squad of stormboyz from 1 railgun shot...
is it cheating if i move my army of 321 imperial guard infantry models with a little wooden plotting rod like they used in WW2 RAF command map rooms?
8:18 that's easily the most common cheat I found. What it's just an extra 150points. Man 5 points over can break an army
You would be surprised by how dismissive people are when you offer to go over your army list.
This. I don't play 10th but in 9th I played Harlequins (both before and after their totally broken codex). They have a lot of special rules and stratagems that are hard gotchas if your opponent doesn't know about them. I would always try to explain what my army could do, and more than half the time people would stop me and tell me they didn't care. A sizeable number of those same people would then complain when they found out my entire army could advance, fall back and charge, or ignore terrain when moving, or when I tried to use any of the weird movement strats.
Had a guy back in 5th edition that said a couldn't see his marine as in real life the model would be squatting down for cover. Shook my head and said okay and let it slide, really couldn't believe he said that. I used the same argument against him in the next turn and had a smile while I did it. Won the game so could be a lesson there.
It's "do not attribute to malice what is SUFFICIENTLY explained by stupidity" not "easily explained", that is how plausible deniability is used.
The only one I've ran into was my first time against Chaos Knights. I didn't know the army and he gave himself a 5+ invuln on shooting and melee. I didn't learn they lose it in melee until quite a bit later. To be honest, I kind of think the knights need it for both, but this was one of my first RTT's and that's just not how the army works. Then, not cheating, but first time I played Votann he did not explain his rules - there was a bunch of gotcha's from that. Then he was also very quick to put the time back on me, and never once take back for himself... it's 'okay' and now I'm way better equipped for competitive play, but it was definitely a feels bad at the time.
I love having autism and remembering all the numbers. We've been recently playing 1500 pt 3 player games and I've remembered almost every datasheet stats by now when we play
Please talk a little slower I'm trying to take notes.
The flaw in the game design that weighted dice exploits...is higher rolls being more favored in most aspects (phases) of gameplay. If GW reworked the dice rolling system so that defensive rolls were more favorable rolling lower [3-] and offensive rolls were more favorable rolling higher [4+], then a fair opponent should have no problem using the same dice set for both offensive and defensive rolls.
The mad lads at it again with a banger vid
Maybe a mention for removing units actually in cover first if you’re using the cover save? I definitely miss this in my own play sometimes as a new player.
Hey Auspex can I get some loaded channel dice made? Like a lot of them, just in case I might need to flush some down the toilet.
Remembering a lot rules is difficult, so that does not help.
Hey could someone help me out with line of sight rules? Do vehicles obstruct line of sight for units behind them? Logically it makes sense but I’ve heard tournaments say that units are invisible for line of sight purposes, and don’t obstruct it.
we have a guy at our lgs that try's to double consolidate, cheese movement disembarking and go 30pt over max for that one enhancement he needs. kinda frustrating but hes just a kid and we are trying to teach him better it is just a game
I had a game once where the opponent set up the deployment zone markers, and I trusted that they were the proper distance away.
We were supposed to be 24" apart, and his t.wolf cavalry had to go at least 5" around a building before moving towards me. Somehow he got a successful charge with an advance roll of a 4, and I had deployed 3" back from the line (mathematically impossible for him to get a first turn charge). It was only then that I noticed he had put us closer than 24".
At that point, I just went "meh". Too late now to change it, just gonna have to play a better game to make up for my stupidity in trust.
Haha NOPE
Im immediately pointing it out, pushing his deployment zone back X inches
And telling him to move his models back X inches too
what did the ork do?
My personal peeve - the faction dice sets GW sell. They seem to replace 1s and 6s with stupid symbols, and it isnt always clear which is which. When I glance at my opponents rolls, I want to be able to inderstand what they have rolled quickly. Every time someone pulls out a set I want to ask them not to use them, but it just feels really petty.
19:27 Along the lines of sloppily proxied models. Unpainted minis can be hard to differentiate
Small reminder that GW dice (and most "rounded" dice) are inaccurate!
Technically speaking you "cheat" if you use GW dice for low rolls and infill dice for high rolls. It's like 1-2% difference iirc
This is because enough is shaved off 3-5 dice to make extra dice to sell, compared to making fair dice.
Question for anyone who wants to answer but if I have a ork war boss in a squad of nobz, would the war boss get effected by his ability might is right and get +1 to hit in melee since he’s technically apart of the unit of Nobz since he joined?
yes, because it says "Each time a model in that unit makes a melee attack" and the Warboss is a model in that unit when attached as a leader. The warboss will also benefit from the Nobz "Da Boss' Ladz" ability if someone were to try and attack him with Precision.
12:33 LOL that Photoshop is hilarious
my vulkan hestan looked so stupid on his 25mm base i upgraded to a 32mm before playing my first game just because it looked cool. i just never argue with people if it might be in range, if it seems close it is not. if people rly dont want it i have a little tyranid critter with me to replace him with for the game.
with the new movement rule you can gain extra movement with some units when you pivot, other units lose movement.
tbh it is just way worse then the old movement rules.
tournaments should charge and supply dice. It's a win win.
He forgot number 10, hitting the opponent over their with a lead pipe
oof these tactics seem a bit unorthodox but that wont stop me!
The problem with differen units base demontion comes to real thing when you're using something that is in the codex but doesn't have a model to represent it (talking about you jump pack chaplain). You need to proxy it in a way or another, and here comes the tricky part because the "official" model is having 32mm base as far as i know, and every charakter nowadays comes with 40mm i belive. I know it's not cheating and in any way wouldn't pick up on anyone due to this but I know a guy who allways has problems with such details.
9th / 10th editions are full of salty sweaty players
If you’re not actually playing in the tournament, but acting as a TO or judge.., or even just hanging about watching games, it’s going to be the rare tournament where you won’t encounter at least one or two egregious cheats. So yeah, it’s just one or two people out of 20-30+ players. And sure, only a few players are going to be actually playing against the cheat. But, that said, I can honestly say that I’ve never attended a tournament where there wasn’t at least one problem player.
Not that anyone i know would cheat but in my group we keep rukes like only dice rolls in the tray count. The dice tray is always central and in full view. Just keeps everyone honest.
If something seems to broken it probably doesn't work the way you think
Weighted dice is not cheating when your own luck cancels it out, I could use weighted dice and still roll snake eyes…
You call it cheating, I call it Tzeentchian trickery. We are not the same
Gw should bring back free rules but they won’t:( this can let us check the rules of the opponent
Table set up and terrain is the biggest for me like no I will not play against your gun line army with open bottom runis and that if you park your model here you can see the entire board kinda thing against my melee focused army
I played my first tournament this year and couldnt believe how important the gane is to people. I played one game and he added a half inch to every move. In all my games of 1 of 5 was cool and level-headed. All.other s were galong point's atvthe end of the gane to ladder climb. I found it distasteful thay grown men nerd so much from a game of toy soldiers. Enjoy it for what is guys. Have fun. Put me so much off meta gaming i started mynown club with home brew rules to give everyone a fair game and create a better culture.
I know a guy who doesnt use a dice tray! You can hardly see his dice rolls!
But he is cute
I play slow but not as a tactic, it's because I'm indecisive and suck at the game
Barely a day goes by without watching a playing related 40k video and thinking "man, am I glad that I don't play competitively"
You run into the worst kinds of opponents pretty much exclusively at those
"Just play casual"
- Sun Tzu probably :D