I just learned that my 'buddy' that has been playing casual games and practicing for tournaments with me for 2 months had only ONE Direct Hit in his damage deck and replaced the missing ones with other "mild" Crits from his second core set d-deck.

I know this is a very isolated incident that very few players of table top games experience. I know sometimes friends cheat against friends- I used to try and cheat with video games back in the 1980's ...but never like this.

After approx. 19 games we played- I only won 3 times. He only drew 2 DH's the whole span of games(while I drew the usual "way too many"). I even jokingly asked if he had any direct hits at all... we would laugh. ha-ha!

Well I finally called him on it and grabbed his deck, started counting without looking at the face side- he was cool about that. Then I flipped em over and looked for a direct hit and couldn't find one at first. He then grabs the deck and pulls one out saying "See!, I can't believe you would stoop to counting my deck." as he makes a sad face. I felt kinda guilty but still asked "can you just show me the rest of the direct hits and I'll buy you beer [legal in my state]." He slumped his shoulders and grabbed his Plano box, opened it and pulled out several direct hits stashed under some foam bits. I really felt heartbroken. I thought we were both gonna start crying (TOTAL dorks).

So I packed my gear and left. I decided last night to always count my opponents cards face up and present my deck as well, ONLY AT TOURNAMENTS. (I'll never ask a friend to show their deck now- not to ruin the chance to get in some regular games. I think the dude that cheated me is a one of kind a-hole.)

But anyway, I figured that I just might be a better player than I have led myself to believe BUT I just may be a horrible player, only winning 10% of my games... and I have fun.

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In my opinion to share damage cards and dices is a very healthy measure to prevent cheating. Sonr people say "nobody touch my fices" but the most gallant players I used to play with shared components. My dices or yours...

Many years ago I found one ASL player who purchased loaded d6 dices in tbe pre internet era. No X wing player with suspicious dices in my crosshairs but...beware

Weird behaviour from a friend. When I play with my friends we just share one damage deck.

Since this was the OT I thought this was going to read like a penthouse forums letter.

Weird behaviour from a friend. When I play with my friends we just share one damage deck.

Same here. We don't share dice, but spend an equal amount of time swearing at our personal set, so it's pretty obvious no one's are loaded