POLL: Most Hated Mechanism in a Miniatures Game

2638 votes were cast by total voters.

Tartyy writes:

Any " tournament " driven mechanism……….they're all naf !

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VOTING RESULTS
Answer	Votes	%	Chart
buckets of dice	62	2%
I go/you go	99	4%
charts leading to more charts	275	10%
saving throws	71	3%
activation throws	37	1%
D6	9	0%
casualty roster	45	2%
critical hit determination that leads to non-critical results	99	4%
premeasurement	56	2%
no premeasurement allowed	54	2%
National Characteristics that boil down to +2 for Being French	90	3%
vehicle hit/damage resolution method requiring a transparent overlay and a different template for each vehicle type	83	3%
Anything that makes a 5 second Real Life 'simulation' take more than 5 minutes to resolve	150	6%
D4	18	1%
Over-rated Germans in WWII games	88	3%
complex charts	94	4%
massive amounts of chits/markers	125	5%
over-powered super units	120	5%
flowcharts	35	1%
different types of dice in the same game	20	1%
Rules that have an effect over multiple turns, but don't include a way of tracking the effect	52	2%
the death roll in Field of Glory	6	0%
overly convoluted opportunity fire mechanisms	29	1%
Special rules in army lists books or supplements that show that the writers didn't think the whole system through	135	5%
card activation	29	1%
Mid-turn power allocation	6	0%
too many exceptions to some overly complicated rule	159	6%
too little movement per turn	31	1%
movement chits	9	0%
pre-written orders for movement in a land game	79	3%
must shoot at the closest target	49	2%
command proximity rules	7	0%
dice re-rolls	14	1%
column shifts	8	0%
latest edition rules supercede previous edition rules	116	4%
cheesy army lists	109	4%
too much randomness	32	1%
using strange dice instead of the D6	14	1%
overly powerful characters	102	4%
order chits	22	1%

POLL IS CLOSED

POLL DESCRIPTION
John the OFM wonders... What is the most hated mechanism in a miniatures game? Please remember that "unpainted miniatures" is not a mechanism, loathsome practice as it may be. That belongs in another poll.