Wargaming pet hates

[Nosher]

Pet hates

1. Poor personal hygeine at the table/convention/show
2. No shows close to home
3. Club nights being Friday nights (generally working most fridays)
4. No club gaming days over the weekend (miss them)
5. 2D Terrain tiles
6. Bad Losers
7. Bad Winners
8. Proxy armies - Space Marines as WW2 Commando's
9. No pics of ranges - like to see what I am buying before plunging
10. Lists of pet hates....

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Number 10 is very true Nosher!

[DanJ]

If we're re-visting the pet hate theme I agree with FSN's list to a greater or ;lesser extent but my pet hatred has got to be

INCHES  

We describe figures in millimetres and bases in terms of millimetres so why do so many (virtually all) rulesets persist in using bloody inches to measure distances on the table top?

Inches are anacronistic, lack flexibility and are impossible to relate to any ground scale, why can't rule writers who seem able to think up a a plethora of cunning rule mechanisms with every new set see beyond the inch and embrace the mighty metric system??

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

But 1 km is 39 370.0787 inches, that's an easy calculation...

[Steve J]

Oh Nosher, absolutely agree about the poor personal hygiene at show . One year at Reading I could smell on chap from two tables away!!!

DanJ, I love inches for wargaming, but then I've used them in my work all of my life .

[DanJ]

But 1 km is 39 370.0787 inches, that's an easy calculation

I hadn't realised it was that simple  , I withdraw all objections to inches and will go away and stick all my 15/38" figures onto 1&11/19" by 15/19"  bases.

[Westmarcher]

Pet Hates
1. 28mm scale hobbyist rules writers who have no conception of smaller scales and think it is OK to scale down by changing measurements from inches to centimetres (e.g., 2 inch range becomes 2 cm - my eyesight can't cope!  )
2. Cleaning out the fish tank.

[fsn]

Since this is a list of wargaming pet hates, I can only assume Westmarcher, that you have a fully functional undersea play environment. Hunt for the Red October at Westmarcher's anyone?

[DanJ]

28mm scale hobbyist rules writers who have no conception of smaller scales and think it is OK to scale down by changing measurements from inches to centimetres (e.g., 2 inch range becomes 2 cm - my eyesight can't cope!  )

That's because inches are anacronistic, lack flexibility, are impossible to relate to any ground scale and all recent rule sets are written by or on behalf of 28mm figure manufacturers to sell their figures.

[Westmarcher]

Since this is a list of wargaming pet hates, I can only assume Westmarcher, that you have a fully functional undersea play environment. Hunt for the Red October at Westmarcher's anyone?

I wish! 

[Fenton]

I dont like dice towers or dice being rolled in dice cups..Too noisy and irritating

[Ithoriel]

I dont like dice towers or dice being rolled in dice cups..Too noisy and irritating

I've just discovered the joys of dice drums .... you'd really hate those :-)

[Fenton]

Is that like the toy you used to be able to get where you bounced the marbles across 3 drums?

[Ithoriel]

Is that like the toy you used to be able to get where you bounced the marbles across 3 drums?

Circle of wood maybe 50mm high and 75-100mm across with a "drum-skin" base.

Drop the dice in. Pick up. Cover the top with a hand. Shake vigorously. Place back on table. Dice rolling without the risk they'll vanish under the table.

Drum skin means you can hear that the dice are being rolled and not just "shoogled" to leave all those face-up sixes in place

[Subedai]

Circle of wood maybe 50mm high and 75-100mm across with a "drum-skin" base.

Drop the dice in. Pick up. Cover the top with a hand. Shake vigorously. Place back on table. Dice rolling without the risk they'll vanish under the table.

Drum skin means you can hear that the dice are being rolled and not just "shoogled" to leave all those face-up sixes in place

Shoogled?? When was that word invented?