HOBBY STORE STORIES - TALES OF UTTER HORROR

[@wulfbak]

A long time ago we were doing a doubles Battlefleet Gothic game. Myself and my friend were both Imperial Navy against a pair of Chaos players. My friend pounds on a Chaos battleship over and over. He is obsessed with destroying it before it can disengage. He gets it down to 1 hull point, then the ship warps out. This is a beautiful metal battleship that the guy painted very well. When we're doing the after-battle chat session, the battleship's owner turns and gets his shirt caught on the model. The model goes crashing to the floor. That battleship got destroyed after all.

[@Cpt_Graftin]

Ouch...

[@D00M3R-SK8]

I heard of someone that got a metal dreadnought threw at their head. it luckily missed and stuck in the drywall of the attic they were playing in. Sure I heard it on Bolter and Chainsword like 15+ years ago. was mental.

[@wulfbak]

@@D00M3R-SK8 yikes!

[@D00M3R-SK8]

@@wulfbak yeah, ha ha. the story goes that the lad who had the dread was doing really well with it, and the other lad got sick of it and threw it at him :D they were a chunky auld unit of metal back in the day. Actually I had a metal chaos one, and I stuck my fingers together with super gluer (putting it together) and had to go to hospital to get them separated. I was about 16 at the time, was horrendous.

[@wulfbak]

@Roc Towerhug At least it was the model's owner that caused the destruction, not any of us! He was very cool about it.

[@caffeineclown4884]

The reiteration thing of “I have WS3 you have WS3 so I need 4s” is something I do for a few reasons. I normally shorten it down as much as possible with a simple “Hitting on 3s” but the last thing I want is someone thinking I’m cheating by picking up 3s and above when they thought I needed 4s. I know I only play with friends these days, but I like to make it very clear. It also helps me follow along and know what stage I’m at.

[@timvalencia6250]

I do the same thing! It also gets ingrained in you by watching battle reports.

[@1987adennis]

Just wanted to say found your videos fairly recently and me and the mrs listen to them at bed time. Always try and guess how you open the video, “hi guys” “evening” etc she won this video lol. Keep up the good work!

[@ian323183]

Coming into a shop and smashing up property belonging to others is a police matter.

[@snarlbuckle]

100%.

[@Direwoof]

Aparently this happened at the jamesworkshop I frequented when I wasnt there someone came in and knocked over a buncha peoples models for fun. 12 year old me woulda beat him to a pulp laws be damned.

[@Bitsandsquits]

Police won’t deal with toy soldiers being broken 😂😂😂

[@Bitsandsquits]

It should be dealt with but unfortunatley our police don’t care

[@tommys_hobbies]

Back in the late 90s I remember watching a game of Fantasy in the Glasgow GW store. One guy playing had a beautiful, fully-painted Skaven army. A kid about 12 years old - wearing a backpack - was walking around the shop, didn't look where he was going and knocked half the Skaven player's army off the table. Keep in mind this was when most models were metal. The poor guy's Doomwheel was smashed to bits.

[@WR288]

The stores in question should've passed the CCTV of the old man/that kid's mother destroying other people's models to the police and charged them with criminal damage.

[@annasstorybox7906]

Yes! As a store owner/manager/responsible employee I would have had the crazy guy/mother stay until police arrived. They both destroyed people's property on purpose and displayed aggressive behavior and were potentially on the verge of harming other people. Also, while I definitely think parents should have control about their childrens discipline in school and lying about grades should have consequences these consequences shouldn't be distraction of hobby items. That mother shows some real lack of parenting skills... Rather than destroying his stuff shie should be sanctioning the hobby time her son gets giving the kid the opportunity to regain hobby time by showing improvement or at least following a learning plan at home for a certain time... I'm also convinced that especially with painting sessions at stores that the kid could even have established a tutor if he had serious problems understanding certain topics as I imagine a number of young adults or students in the hobby could use a little extra money and tutoring for school kids is a great way to do so...

[@D00M3R-SK8]

I've bought stuff from the case before, but it was during a rotation, and they were being sold off. I bought all of the Necromunda stuff in the case, including all the plastic minis that came with the first edition of the game. I had my copy of Necro stolen (with all of the metal gangs) so I really lucked out that I got these fairly well painted (some of them were painted a lot better, but they cost more) but I told them what had happened to me, and they gave me all of the kind of table top stuff really cheap. They were asking a lot more for the stuff that was painted well, but they only had a few Necromunda models and let me have them a bit cheaper. It helped a lot as I wanted to replace everything that was stolen, so I at least got a few gangs back. I'd traded my 2nd edition 40k with a couple of armies for Necromunda with all of the minis that were available at that point, and the expansion. The guy who I swapped with lived on the complete other side of the city, and he was a cousin of a friend i had local (the friend took me there and I swapped games with him) How the game was stolen was that my friend and another friend asked to borrow the game, and apparently what happened was the cousins mother took the game back, and I never got my stuff back. I don't know for certain if this is what happened, or if the 2nd friend actually nicked it off me. I couldn't do anything about it though, as didn't know where the person lived, and the first friends mother even backed up his story. They were a bit of a scummy family though, so they easily could have been lying to me. I had swapped all my 40k stuff for it as well, so I had nothing left, other than my paints at that point. I quit the hobby for a few years and picked it back up again after I left highschool at 16. I also lost all that stuff (including all my paints, and I had paints from back when we had the tall pots with the ring pulls on them) when broke up with my GF from school. We were together until like 2002 (was about a 7 year relationship) and I had to leave in a hurry as she was mental and was trying to do me in. I left my modelling stuff in her cupboard and never got any of it back. It's still painful to think about as I had a decent chaos army at this point and a lot of older paint. I have no idea what she did with any of it.

[@aedwynn6474]

I miss the "Golden Days" of GW stores so very much. A GW staff member (Bless ya Mal, I hope you're doing well) told me a story of some kids who had come into the store to show off their new models that they had painted quite well. They were showing them to the staff member that had *actually* painted them... He couldn't recall what happened with those kids sadly. I used to frequent the Liverpool UK store when it was on Lord Street - you'd get the local scally's (chavs, rogues, ne'er do-wells) entering the store to steal or otherwise inflict their petty torments relatively often but nothing too major. They got physically hurled out quite often which was entertaining.

[@Daisyandtheo]

I once heard that 1 in 20 people can't think in their own head. They have to verbalize their thoughts out loud in some way. Basically they, think out loud. Ratio may not be accurate but it was something like that. It was surprisingly high.

[@FnRenner]

Long story short? Was once in a GW when a guy got arrested for his reaction to a female gamer being in the store. Was not a good day for anyone involved and I haven't seen her come back since. It prompted the manager to post many different mental health fliers on the little board for the last 4 years.

[@jaytwokay3265]

Love this channel.

[@NPC-kv6ee]

As a stormbird owner, that first story is painful to hear

[@LiliaArmoury]

in australia the thunderhawk costs more then a grand! if i owned an offical one i would be pissed and first be trying to fix it (like happened when a gw staff member knocked my metal terminator captain off the table and broke the sword off. if i can fix it to a near un-noticeable level i will demand that they compensate me for having to repair the damage. but if the model is wrecked they are replacing it full stop because that would be me saving for a year for it. at present if i am to have any forgeworld rules super heavies or vehicles they will be scratch built purely because i do not have money for the offical models and i love scratch building. if someone sent that flying and wrecked it i would insist they replace any damaged offical parts (like weapons) and a sheet of the material i built it from

[@JMACCSArmiesOfMiddleEarth]

6th/7th edd was waaaaay back in the day? Jesus as someone who hasnt played since 4th I really felt my age there lol.

[@crakataka3250]

You shouldn't make fun of people saying what they're doing out loud...that's just ridiculous. Your follower is in the wrong on that one

[@danbrown4420]

I don't understand the complaint re: the opponent narrating their moves/rolls to ensure you know they're not trying to play sneaky and that you're both in agreement that they're getting things correct. Communication and agreement is a key part of ttg's imo.

[@TheStoicArmyPainter]

Love these horror stories, makes me feel better i've had some "that guy" experiences recently and i feel better about myself just leaving the community entirely he is a part of.

[@mig1739]

I have a story like that, when I was younger I was very good friends with the boys down the street we will call them Kevin and Kevin Jr. we played toy soldiers, hunted rabbits and brought them to this Amish family that would butcher up the rabbits and pay us in cool little trinkets like rabbits feet, hats gloves ect. Made out of the rabbit. We were in a military family my father played Warhammer and was big into it and so were me and my brother. We were currently living off base in Omaha, a little context Kevin's family was some extremely religious version of Christianity I don't know what it was, my family was Catholic we went to church every Sunday, I went to boys church school but these people made us look like heretics. Long story short one day I brought some space Marines and chaos Marines my dad had given me before he left on his deployment over to Kevin's house (this was the first time ever being in his actual house)well we went into the house and were playing about with them and the mother came in and said we shouldn't be playing with those, they were false idols. Well me being me not fully understanding why she was so upset at something that was so normal in my house kept playing. Here's the nightmare. Then Kevin's sister kept coming in the room and walking through the room where the models were destroying them with their shoes on. I was enraged I was maybe about 7 or 8, the first time it happened I told the sister off then the other younger sisters kept coming in and doing the same thing purposefully stepping on our models and after the second time I knew they were doing it on purpose. I began to gather all the broken little models up at this point Kevin is shouting at his sisters and they tell us "mom told us to". I look over and she's standing in the door way smiling and she tells me she thinks it's time I go home. Well I went running home very upset told my mother what had happened (my father was currently deployed overseas in Afghanistan). My mother rang her up and I had never heard such expletives in my life, she grilled that women, me and Kevin's still hung out and ran around and played in the woods and outside together after that, but that was the last time I ever went to Kevin's house until we had to move again.

[@TheDerwish]

my biggest horror are the flimsy chairs and tables that are used for paintstations.

[@BUNKER6]

Lol that Robin Williams story was told to me at Glendale CA store. The only difference was he came into the Glendale store instead. He seems to have really gotten about back in the day....

[@josephskiles]

Seems to be a pretty common urban legend, I heard it happened in Chicago. It's probably almost as common as small games store owners I have heard over the years talking about how they knew Gygax and had written for dragon magazine. If 1/4 of the guys I have heard that from actually had done it each issue would have rivaled an encyclopedia Britannica in size.

[@cinocefalo284]

4:32 The end of the history would be epic if says " P.S. The old man was me" huehuehuehue

[@dazordragon9273]

I used to play at Hemel :)

[@imthelizardking]

this has got to be a culture or national difference. My local GW store resembles more of a pottery painting store than a gaming store because it's constantly filled with people painting. Meanwhile, a game or two is usually going on. No one wants to go into an empty game store; at least in the US. Maybe it's different across the pond.

[@MrBizteck]

Listening to these brings back my TT PSD. One of me first ever TT games was in a club with my primed black Chaos army I litterly was in the hobby about a month at this stage vs a beautifully colorful Lizardman army he had a really big model. Some lizard riding a triceratops thing and as I leaned over to puck up a dice I knocked it over and broke the rider off. I felt so terrible he kept assuring me it was ok but I felt so bad I litterly forfited the game and the only reason I came back was because my neighbour practically dragged me now 8+ years later I still go to that club regularly. Saying that Ive a load of real horror stories of lost armies ... smashed tables and other stuff. Just the never involved me directly so that first night is the one that scarred me !

[@josephskiles]

Along as they aren't just flat out ego masturbation bullshit I wouldn't mind to hear some Gdubs urban legends, would make great Halloween content anyway for strange stuff

[@northernexile]

Isn't ego masturbation at GW the norm rather than a horror story?

[@josephskiles]

@@northernexile you worked for them not me bud so I reckon you know better than any of us. It kind of amazes me being an American and hearing about the type of prestige working for it seems to bring with it from hearing your and others stories in your country. Maybe it's because I live in basically the land of the Hicks but it doesn't carry near the weight here ( although I wouldn't be surprised if their hiring practices are similar). This has me curious now as to how big a deal it is to work for Gdubs in other countries, or even other states here in the US.

[@USALibertarian]

"I have good news and bad news. The good news is Johnny is not in a cult. The bad news it is 40K!!!"

[@xJAWAx]

When I was in middle school or early highschool I was at the local game store with a friend. He came up to me telling me to hide this chaos blister pack. I was very confused and then the shop owner came over saying he was caught stealing and was banned for life and even took a mugshot of him. I was horrified because stealing from the hobby store never occurred to me as something you would do.

[@LiliaArmoury]

as for on table horribleness back in late fifth ed a guard player and i agreed to team up in a 1500 points a side game against three players who's armies consisted of demons of tzench and grey knights and we foolishly agree to let armies share special rules. which resulted in basically un killable enemies with rerollable 2++ invon saves,. needless to say my team mate's guard and my space marines got completely tabled by i think turn 3 and until i forgot about this game i despised the idea of facing chaos demons again then in late seventh ed i would make the mistake of playing multiple games against a tourniment player who is both a waaac player and has no concept of what a friendly game is (and given my experience of his idea of a pilot games for 9th ed that almost made me quit 40k in 2020 he hasn't changed) by contrast i play for fun rather than for the sake of winning alone - game 1: world eaters blender fest (2016) (the best game we had so I was running my early conversion built sisters of battle force with a knight paladin on the day the imperial agents codex dropped in it against his world eaters led by both kharn and a chaos lord on bike backed up by a renegade knight with avenger gatling cannon (maybe 2 i don't remember exactly) so this game is one where i would have loved to have known that he could have moved over 30 inches with a blob of berserkers and kharn thanks to the bike lord before deployment, because he proceeds to dart across the entire board, his berserkers wipe out the sisters infront of the knight paladin and kharn coup de graces the knight only for the noble to detonate the reactor as the knight falls and evaporates kharn, the bike lord and most of the berserkers. my forces down the other end of the board including a cannoness in a kitbashed immolator would last another turn or two due to the chaos knight blasting the flank apart. the game ended with my crusaders sacrificing themselves only for the cannoness to then die after them because str 6 instant deaths sisters and i was 1 crusader short of blocking all the damage in all that game wasn't all that bad apart from the turn one hijinks that i should have been warned of - game 2: invisible chaos demon princes (2017) castalans of the imperium (me) vs chaos demons do you like having to pass leadership tests to even target your opponent's miniatures because I sure as heck don't after my first time encountering it! so my army was a mixed force of imperial guard, sisters and a knight (my poor paladin deserves a win one of these days) vs chaos demons force consisting of hounds of chaos units as troops and i think 3 greater demons of chaos who got 2+ reroll invon saves and the same leadership tests to target them bs as the chaff units my infantry get destroyed by basicly untargetable hounds because my rolling was bad and then my knight after failing to do anything at range attempts to charge and fight against the demons in melee only to not be able to inflict damage due to bad rolling rolling and it gets the snot kicked out of if by multiple greater daemons for the trouble (you could actually find a video of this game up on my channel up until the end of 2019 when i panic reacted to coppa and deleted what content i couldn't download to edit and reupload with content warnings because i misunderstood things and a month's notice while you are preparing to move house isn't enough time to truly understand how laws apply to you ) - game 3 and 4: 8th ed had just dropped a month prior and due to budget issues (and then getting scammed on ebay) i hadn't transitioned over so. we agree to have a 7th ed game and then he agrees to show me the new edition. and what manner of friendly game worthy stuff does he bring well four renegade knights and some fallen. to fight my underpowered imperial guard (i lacked anti tank stuff other then scratch built tanks due to budget limitations) so yeah that game doesn't last very long but really that was on me for not having had wall to wall infantry squads with scratch built lascannon carriages and kitbashed meltaguns and the fact i had taken leman russ tanks as for the 8th ed game we played with dark imperium stuff and yeah i was utterly tabled early on - my 6th game against the guy was my second game of 9th where he had come round for the game (as where i had been living at that point was next suburb over) and in a beginner game where we have like 1000 points each he sees that i have my celestine with my sisters and he decides to bring in the one man deathstar that is modern Abaddon. honestly after that game against him i feel that no space marines or chaos space marines should have extra wounds because they are already hard to kill! but yeah basicly no matter what i could throw at abaddon nothing could kill him, not every gun in my army, not celestine who then gets 7 wound bitchslapped off the battlefield, not arco flagrant, not mortifiers and certainly not the poor 5 model sister of battle squad yeah my second game of 9th ed basically left me considering quitting and after all the recent increases in lethality i am left not really feeling excited about playing the game as someone who loves running tanks. also in the 2020 sisters codex the exorcist isn't a indirect fire tank like the whirlwind despite it's lore so yeah the 140 aud model basically at best got to see one turn before dying because it had to go into the open to shoot - I have had fun games of warhammer but sadly not against that one opponent who i really shouldn't play again unless i suddenly become really good at competitive warhammer and my army is on top tier at the time we go to play

[@lexiwilson9501]

Hey, I'm 50! Stop making me feel old!

[@LiliaArmoury]

two main horror stories i know are: first story (less dramatic and is more me not taking an opportunity presented the time i should have asked for a replacement. so when i was relatively new to the hobby i scored a second hand collection of warhammer miniatures that i think consisted of part of third ed space marine battle force box which included the old metal terminator captain. while working on the models at my nearest gw store one of the staffers accidently knocks the model off the hobby table and knocks the arm off it. he immediately offers to replace the model and i politely decline and superglue the arm back on without noticing that the sword got bent in the process. in hindsight i should have accepted the offer as it would have meant having another hq model the second (and far more dramatic) so I was talking with the staff member at a goth and alternative clothing store (that no longer exists) who shared the story of how he got banned from a gw store apparently there was a rather bad sport at that store who after he lost a game (i think the person i was talking to) proceeded to pick up one of his expensive inquisitor game minis from the store's hobby table and smashed it onto the floor which resulted in the goth guy throwing a punch at the guy and subsequently getting banned mind you i heard the story around 10 years ago so i am not entirely sure how much i remember clearly

[@fitisdead8029]

Some guy in sydney left his case full of drukhari on the bus, it was lost forever. I think it was 8th 2000 points worth.

[@chrisdrazan7918]

Where do you get your photos for the thumbnails?

[@rustedcog2347]

The kids grandfather omg jst no. However I do think that kid will come back. That kind of parenting leads to rebellion as soon as that kid has some money of his own he will be straight down to his local hobby store.

[@JC.Denton.]

Is it possible that this is a reupload because I remember you reading some of these stories in the past, mainly the Robin Williams, the theft and the police one.

[@northernexile]

Robin Williams is a well known anecdote so I've probs mentioned it before, still if someone wants to send me a story I'm not going to say no to reading it :) The theft story is new, the old one was when the manager caught a kid walking down the street and asked him if he nicked it jokingly and the kid said yes - did you mean that one? The police one I'm pretty sure I've not read yet :)

[@JC.Denton.]

@@northernexile Yeah, I wasn't sure if I remembered you reading them or having read it myself in some reddit thread, but they sounded familiar lol

[@josephskiles]

@@JC.Denton. I'm positive others have done similar videos

[@sleeplessknight99]

@@northernexile Unless he made that offer in multiple stores, I'm pretty sure the Robin Williams story was in Vancouver and not Toronto because this story was originally told to me by the former Vancouver cell manager at the time and had happened at the Gastown GW store (back when there was a store there) back in the 90's. Also, back then it actually would have been possible to sell a store army out of the case. Up until around 2008 stores used to run auctions to sell off stuff from the bitz box, damaged product, old terrain, and even old store armies to make room for new stuff. It was quite a popular event but one that GW no longer does. There used to be an "auction" code in the til where we could make up a price for a non-inventory item, usually the price that the bidding war on an item ended at.

[@D00M3R-SK8]

BTW mate, you know when you said there was a "rotund" guy that was a suck up etc at managers meetings you went to, was he from County Durham by any chance? (probably sounded a bit like a Geordie) Just the timeline I think matches up with someone I know working there, and your description sounds like it might be him. He is still very pally with higher up's at the company (even though he's left now) and he's actually who was my source on leaks (how I found out about the world eaters, emps children and lion and russ minis being ready years ago) If it is him, he's not actually a bad lad. He was probably just playing the game to get ahead or something. Granted I don't know him incredibly well. He's really good at painting Great Unclean Ones though, he's got about about 7 of them now. You might have seen some of his work, as he gets featured by GW quite frequently. TBH it might not be him though, as I'm sure he was employed at Notts to do painting. It just sounds like it might be him, as he's a chunky boy, ha ha.

[@northernexile]

Nope! Down south :) If you're on the Discord message me and I'll tell you

[@D00M3R-SK8]

@@northernexile Ah cool. I think I might have joined. I will need to check. Is the link in the description or something? I'm glad it's not him TBH, as he's a good guy.

[@KnightsofTitan]

What wild video

[@user-te5nh3li3f]

9:00 that wouldnt happen now, knwowing GW they would charge double the price

[@NornQueenKya]

For your part 2 I'll just give you the login to my DMs on reddit/twitter

[@NornQueenKya]

... and FB...

[@mattcarper9853]

Oh God.....

[@NornQueenKya]

@@mattcarper9853 Its actually calmed down a lot. In 2020 my name was in every weird FB hate group for posting. Not so much anymore.

[@northernexile]

I don't need to read love letters from your simps. The Norn-Cult is already growing too quickly.

[@NornQueenKya]

@@northernexile ... So dont put it all in a Zip and throw it in your discord? Well pfft you could have saved me like 40 min if I saw this earlier XD

[@Thelordofalldarkness]

awesome as always :)

[@FnRenner]

9:45 I enjoy those players. Cheer, moan! It's a GAME we are playing! Have fun. If you need to say everything out loud every time then do it. I'd rather you do what you can to not get confused, after all 40k is NOT an easy game to pick up for most people.

[@Enigmatus23]

That Robin Williams one is so bloody generic I’ve heard it a thousand times 🤣

[@Enigmatus23]

And the metal dreadnought again heard that a thousand times 🤣 still funny tho

[@wraithface4410]

Lord of the rings video?

[@thug4lyfe]

wow....what in the Amitabha Buddha....

[@davedogge2280]

For the first story was the 'casualty table' that the guy sat on and launched a Thunderhawk and tanks into the air was the table surface secured to the legs of the table and his weight just made the surface lift up or was it his fat arse that just pushed the models off the table ? anyone know ? Sitting on tables, even leaning is not really good manners in a public scenario.

[@theredangel8]

Jeez. They're lucky the people they did that shit to were calmer, some of the people I know would have snapped and knocked their fucking blocks off. You don't touch people's shit man 🥲

[@USALibertarian]

The old man did that kid a huge favor!!! J/k of course...maybe...

[@eaw40k11]

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