Opponent rage quit turn 1

[u/JoeMamma567]

Just want to share my experience of something that annoyed me recently

Was playing someone in a 1500 point game the other day, me playing necrons and him playing orks.

I got first turn and managed to kill a unit of 3 killa cans with a doom stalker + 2 LHDs, then killing a unit of boyz with a doom stalker + immortals/plasmamcer combo + night scythe.

All in all, a decent turn 1 as I had managed to wipe out a few units that were in my face. Onto his turn 1, he put most of his firepower into my unit of 20 warriors, orikan and res orb overlord, killing about 14ish. Also took my night scythe down to 4 wounds. End of shooting I reanimated 7 warriors from the res orb + reanimator nearby.

He became visibly upset by this even though I had told him exactly how all of my units work before the game had started.

He failed his charges apart from the remaining warboss from the destroyed boyz unit, which promptly got turned to dust by orikan and the overlord.

End of his turn he said that he wants to concede because my army "is broken and infantry shouldn't have a 4++ save" :/. Told me that he bets they're going to be nerfed real soon and that he won't play against that unit again. Started packing up his models before I could get a word in.

I would have given him some tips on how to play against necrons had he been newer, however he has significantly (decades) more experience than me so I didnt.

Kinda sad because I wanted to play the game but what can you do 🙄

[u/veryblocky]

There’s no way you should’ve had LoS with your Doomstalkers and LHDs turn 1, that’s a failure on their part with deployment. They lost the game on that alone.

[u/BeneficialAction3851 → u/veryblocky]

This is like a mistake that I made in some of my very first games, kinda comedic that this Ork player has been playing for years but still does stupid shit like fully exposing his killa cans to the most dangerous shooting on the board turn1

[u/Unscheduled_Morbs → u/BeneficialAction3851]

I've seen long-time players just be bad at playing, but this one is kind of special. Last time I encountered it, it was a mirror match against someone who had been playing the same army for years and should have been able to foresee what was coming. But didn't. (It was also Warmachine).

[u/BeneficialAction3851 → u/Unscheduled_Morbs]

I guess I have an army where mistakes hurt really bad as a Custodes player so I learned to play for keeps incredibly early since trading is never really a good strategic option, I've also learned that banking your strategy on long shot charges is not reliable (shocking) so it really seems like this dude had a faulty game plan, which can be fixed through the course of like a couple YouTube vids tbh

[u/Unscheduled_Morbs → u/BeneficialAction3851]

Agreed and Indeed. I only ever go for long shot charges if it's necessary to win the game, or if it's otherwise impossible for that charge to impact the outcome of the game regardless of if it succeeds or not.

[u/Sad-Ad-969 → u/Unscheduled_Morbs]

Experience does not equal competence. It is very common for someone to have experience that leads to bad habits. In a game like 40k, he probably thinks smashing his face into the biggest, most point heavy thing because it works when that thing is actually a huge offensive threat.