So I just had a political debate about taxes, national defense and political parties with a friend on AIM. It just hit me that the level of personal offense was nothing compared to a debate over a lizardmen magic item I had with the same person a while ago.

So the question stands, are you a person, or have you seen people, who take rule disputes WAY too seriously? Maybe there was a game with stakes involved and the outcome depended on a technicality. Maybe there is some specific "that guy" at your local store known for treating rule interpretations like shiites vs sunnis. Or just the kind of thing where you only realize afterwards "was that worth arguing about to begin with?".

Post your stories.

Ye one of my regular opponents and I have to have a lengthy discussion
every single game about fast cav. He thinks that they teleport. I always
have to explain that they actually have to move from the point that they
are currently to the piont they are going to be. He just picks up the unit
and places his marauder cav 18" from where they started, ignoring woods,
units, mountains....whatever. Sometimes it gets ugly.

Well, I've been in that situation, both on the giving and on the recieving end (for some reason only in club games with friends, when I go to touraments I always keep it clean and try to be extra polite), afterwards it's not unusual that we laugh about us being all overly excited about these silly things tho.

BTW; When I first read this post I thought that pic was hillarious, so I sent it to some friends over msn, then when I got back here, I thought hey, this is an awesome place to post that pic I saw earlier in! And entered the URL, just to realise this was the place I got it from...

To be honest, I never have intense rule debates in real life, everyone I know face-to-face accepts there are rules holes and comes to an acceptable conclusion...

The real rules debates which come to blows are generally just Keyboard Warriors on forums with nothing better to do with their time

Sometimes it is fun just to argue over the rules. not mid game though.

I knew a guy who was totally convinced that his TK chariots could charge 360 degrees because they are fast cav. Even after showing him the exact wording in the BRB where it explicitly states that they can't do that I still had to call him on it and correct him in most games afterwards :blink:

ya there was a kinda rule/culture dispute in a 40k game were one guy took rule to mean somthing and the other guy, then the one dude sayed somthing to the effect of "your need to relaxe your beeing too stubborn" (he did not use ass or donkey).
the other guy is british and just moved here only acouple of moths ago, and took great offence to what ever word the othe dude sayed. so they agued for acouple of minits than took it out side...to like the side of the building thats hidden. well any way they were there for a while(we actually started to play with out them)
they finaly come back in unscathed, and sayed they just dident understand each other...and that in Britan this one word is considerd a curse word but in the US it's not really a curse word.

I think these rule arguments could be avoded if we could get free rules from games workshop. all the other game companys do it.