After playing a lot of Runewars I have noticed some behaviors amongst tabletop gamers. Are you guilty of these? I know I am...

Unfortunately both myself (perhaps even in particular) and one of my friends in the gaming group sometimes goes to the OP accusation when loosing big in a game we are unfamiliar with, although we deep down know that it is both childish and inprobable.

Last time it happened was when he played a weird Uthuk list and I bulldozed it with the Gencon -17 Daqan list (but with 3 Crossbowmen with Rank and Steel upgrades instead of Golems). He was very upset with how weak Uthuk was. But I was happy to show him the "Uthuk is dominating our local meta" thread from this forum

I know my group gets a kick out of the fourth one. Runewars is a great game for it.

We try to call out our opponent's dials over the course of the game, trying to see who can get closer to 100% accuracy. There's nothing better than the look of consternation on your opponent's face as you call out their jank trickery that they banked their entire turn on.

Haha yah Runewars is great for the perfect predictions. My main opponent likes to play with my head by telling me what he could do, and what he will do if I react to a multitude of his plans. It's a brain burner.

Oh man! There's a local who definitely does the mumble thing. Your demonstration made me laugh out loud because it's sooo accurate!

I've definitely pulled the two-timing trick, and I always feel guilty after I do it. The worst has been in X-wing, when a player says, "You could spend your evade token to dodge the whole attack," and when the other player does so, the first player says, "Okay, I use Gunner to fire again." Ugh!

12 hours ago, Parakitor said:

Oh man! There's a local who definitely does the mumble thing. Your demonstration made me laugh out loud because it's sooo accurate!

I've definitely pulled the two-timing trick, and I always feel guilty after I do it. The worst has been in X-wing, when a player says, "You could spend your evade token to dodge the whole attack," and when the other player does so, the first player says, "Okay, I use Gunner to fire again." Ugh!

I would be so mad if someone did that to me. Honestly, I'd resign the moment that happened. If they care that much about winning they can play alone.

14 hours ago, Parakitor said:

Oh man! There's a local who definitely does the mumble thing. Your demonstration made me laugh out loud because it's sooo accurate!

I've definitely pulled the two-timing trick, and I always feel guilty after I do it. The worst has been in X-wing, when a player says, "You could spend your evade token to dodge the whole attack," and when the other player does so, the first player says, "Okay, I use Gunner to fire again." Ugh!

That is a classic example with the gunner!! It gets real quiet and awkward at the table when that happens haha!

2 hours ago, Hepitude said:

I would be so mad if someone did that to me. Honestly, I'd resign the moment that happened. If they care that much about winning they can play alone.

Yah It's a little ruthless. Unfortunately, you can't always pick who you play with. I'd rather play a Cheesy game that no game at all.

The other good thing about Gunner is that you only make that mistake once.

1 hour ago, Parakitor said:

The other good thing about Gunner is that you only make that mistake once.

That’s how we describe the Leonx bounce (move+shift to disengage early and dodge melee) It’s a great trick that works for exactly one turn per game. But it somehow works every game.

4 hours ago, Church14 said:

That’s how we describe the Leonx bounce (move+shift to disengage early and dodge melee) It’s a great trick that works for exactly one turn per game. But it somehow works every game.

Yep. It's that trick that makes me want to bring Captivating Hexer, but because the Leonx roll two blue dice, they can pretty reliably take out that figure so that it doesn't matter. Sigh.

23 hours ago, playnwin said:

I know my group gets a kick out of the fourth one. Runewars is a great game for it.

We try to call out our opponent's dials over the course of the game, trying to see who can get closer to 100% accuracy. There's nothing better than the look of consternation on your opponent's face as you call out their jank trickery that they banked their entire turn on.

Note to self: Stop looking consternated.

What you call jank trickery I call tactical cunning, sir