What I learned from my parents is you can't let a kid always win. So in a 1 on 1 game, you let them win the first time, but not the second. If you play with more people, let the best one win. Especially with. More than one kid at the table. A child knows when another kid gets a bonus to win to prevent a tantrum and you might and up with two tantrum throwing kids instead of one.

But I have hopes, on seeing the picture in the article for Imperial Veterans, my two-year-old little girl said: "Beautiful..."

I know the kind but for the life of me I can never figure out just why they're getting off on winning that way. Hell I normally help the younglings even if they're playing the opposing side so they can learn the game(s...not just X-Wing) and have a positive experience which will get them to play again and spread the word.

Sad sobs like mentioned above should just be banned from playing at local stores by the owners.

Same reason why people cheat in online games.

Their fragile egos cannot stand the thought of losing to anyone, and this combined with the fact that they have no faith in their own abilities will make them cheat to win.

Personally, I always play to win. Whether it's a kid or an adult, doesn't matter.

I work with kids, and I play tons of games with kids.

And you know what?

The kids always want to play against me, out of all the staff there.

Because I always play fair, but I play to win. I never "let" them win to be nice. If they win, they earned it.

And that's a badge they love to wear

(and it also teaches the kids who can't stand losing, how to learn from losses and get better instead of just getting upset and throwing a temper tantrum.)

Looking back I think learning to lose (I was a horrible kid when it came to that) was an integral part of growing up for me. It may be hard to do with some kids, but one shouldn't take it away from them. I am happy (now ) that my parents didn't. In that vein I can also say that Monopoly is a great game, nothing else can create as much frustration!

Maybe he learned from watching MWG videos?

Okay but yeah this really doesn't come as a surprised. Many Table top players (and anyone that played any type of game video or otherwise) had to deal with cheaters. Warhammer 40,000 was plagued with all sorts of unsportsmanlike conduct. To be honest I am surprised it took this long to start getting players like that with X-wing being the fastest growing Table Top miniature game that jumped to the most popular table top miniatures game second only to Warhammer 40,000. It was bound to happen that those Gungun trolls found their way hiding into a cockpit (most likely an N-1) some how.

Also unlike 40,000 you don't have to assemble or paint anything, and I'm not calling 40k players more mature than X-wing players (plenty examples of the opposite) but it does require some maturity to invest effort and time into making your own collection rather than just purchasing one. With that barrier to entry out of the way and 40k losing popularity it is all to easy for these type of players to simply just change over into X-wing.

The Big Monkey strikes back !!! New episode with this guy as main character. Yesterday he was playing a Standard casual game, Deci + Phantom. He rolled all blanks firing point blank with Whisper so he went berserker and started gesturing and crying. Quite insane. But while he was moving his arms wildly, like a gorila, he conected his fingers with his Deci, that started to fly and landed on the floor. No damage. And he was playing against his brother !!! Insane.

My tendency to be aggressive and rulesnappy makes me a pain in the ass to deal with in some online games. Having the urge to throatpunch people, as well as social anxiety, makes it a very unwelcoming combo.

I was going to play xwing tonight

then the lego modular bank set arrived about an hour ago... i can't touch it yet or the wife will kill me but as soon as she's home we're reverting to 13 year old mode and building it.

You're just a little kid trapped in a big kid's body, aren't you?

I was going to play xwing tonight

then the lego modular bank set arrived about an hour ago... i can't touch it yet or the wife will kill me but as soon as she's home we're reverting to 13 year old mode and building it.

You're just a little kid trapped in a big kid's body, aren't you?

In my opinion keeping that is a life goal. And I want that LEGO set, too!

Bit late here, just wanted to say how pleasantly surprised I was with the first post of this thread! I saw the title, and expected some kind of 'why are kids always ruining the game' rants, so I was very pleased to see it was the opposite. Hobbies like ours only exist as long as there are new members coming in, so kids like that are really the future of the whole genre; in this video game age, seeing kids take the time and effort to play a game like X-wing or 40k is heartening, and major kudos to you for making sure they didn't have their experience ruined by some idiot and never come back!

I don't mind getting new kids, but I don't like watering things down for them. Watching 40k subsequently get worse partly because GW is so worried about kids' parents not buying their models for them, and Black Library continuously pump teenage bolter porn bums me in a setting that is supposed to be graphic.