"What’s the most annoying thing about losing?" Topic

When the very nice person who won explains to you what you did wrong.
OK. Rub it in.

Having to pack up the stuff that beat you….

Simply losing.

…the losing part…

What John OFM said. Then they tell about what books to read,to help you understand,when really it came down to lucky die roll..me no I;m not bitter..LOL.

When the guy who won was the same guy who complained about
how bad he was doing through the first half of the game.

Losing!

Having to put out good money buying all new dice.

I'll take losing, if I could set the games/my armies/scenarios up.
Losing means I had a game with friends…usually.
Sometimes, when I sit at a table and the scenario is obviously lopsided- it can be annoying.
Playing someone I dislike is annoying- win or lose.

I lose 19 games out of 20. The group I play with is extremely intelligent & they don't make many mistakes. So I lose, clean up & come back next time. As the loses pile up eventually there is a win. Never a gimme, I earned it. Best kind of win.

"I hate it when a plan doesn't come together…" – Hannibal

Damon.

Not learning from it.

Having to count the silverware!

Loaning my opponent the dice he used to whip me.

The little victory dance my opponent does when he wins. Since I play solo, this is very disconcerting and a little embarrassing.

Truth be told as I recall some of my most enjoyable games I remember the back and forth of the games or the banter among friends but for the life of me, I cannot recall whether I won or lost in many cases.

The reality of most games is that we are playing with toy soldiers or ships. The game is the thing of and by itself and the winning or losing a relatively unimportant secondary item and generally little remembered.

Short of making a mistake in choice of gaming companions, the outcome is secondary to the process.

Not learning from the experience (same as winning)

When you have done nothing wrong and the dice make winning impossible!

When I can't figure out where I lost it. Hard to learn from those.

Thinking during the whole game that you will win as your army is better but when points are counted you have lost

Making a huge blunder at the beginning of the game due to misunderstanding the rules, scenario, or bad luck; followed by slowly stumbling towards the inevitable.

Also, being beat by someone who complained all game about the unfairness of the rules, scenario or their luck.

Mike

If I had a good time, it doesn't matter to me if I lost.

Well, the gloating on the other side can be a little hard to taked

When the guy who won was the same guy who complained about how bad he was doing through the first half of the game.

This. Plus.

When you thought you might not win, the concerns you were raising about iniquities in the game were important. After you win, those things are not only no longer important enough to invest effort to correct, but they obviously couldn't have affected your opponent.

Losing to a jerk

Losing to the same army every time because I won't financially invest at the same level.

Losing when you finally build your cheapo army in the right mixture and play the scenario literally perfectly so you slaughter the invincible army just for the opponent to rage quit and then come back and have a BS interpretation of a rule that allows one soldier to hurdle a nine man squad behind sandbags.

When it comes about because of some stupid thing somebody else in the game (but allegedly on your side) does but which effects your troops dramatically. Either misreading deployment, or orders, or giving the wrong unit numbers in Carnage and Glory, or anything like that.

Nothing. I'm just glad to have a game.

Not winning…

Having to repair and re-paint the losing army after I've clobbered it with a ball peen hammer.

LT

In my old gaming group, the loser had to pay for dinner. Guess who often had that privilege? Then I learned how to concentrate my artillery fire. ;-)

For me it's a toss up between being driven before the enemy and the lamentations of the women folk.

Sign for the win!!

What is this "losing" thing that you are discussing?

It gets really boring

Losing to an arch rival due to his never-ending ridiculously good dice rolls!