The Etiquette of Conceding Games in Warhammer 40K 

I was at a tournament once and by turn 3 my opponent was almost tabled. He looked at me and said "Wanna get lunch"? We shook hands, got some Chinese food, and had a good time until the next round began.

Someone flips a table with my minis on it, the term "close combat phase" will take on a new meaning.

I personally keep a sock filled with d6's by my side at all times incase I'm losing, that way I can start swinging at my opponent but still remain in the spirit of the d6 system.

If you concede without making your opponent feel bad you’re doing it right. One of the funniest games I had was a turn 1 boarding actions concede when a single noise marine did the sickest guitar solo in the world and removed a hive tyrant.

When you see a squad of Gretchen kill angron, you learn that anything can happen when you say "wouldn't it be funny if-"

I mostly play casually and if I'm losing by a mile, I prefer to pull a gambit and go for the moral victories. Anything to make the game more fun.

The worst is when your opponent is winning and they are still complaining about how OP your army is and how weak his is.... 😢

I was once at a tournament and on my first game I was practically tabled halfway through turn two, so me and my opponent just went to the pub for an hour and were just joking over some pints, after at the end of the second day I was paired up again against the same guy for my final game of the day and it was the most fun game of the entire tournament, it became just like a fun game between mates that you rarely get if you’re at a GT (Gus, if you’re out there, you’re a great guy, even if I do hate your overwatching capabilities 😂 )

The last time i went to the FLGS for Friday night Fight. My opponent kept arguing about every move i made, and told me what i could and couldn't do in my turn. You know the person, doesn't measure their movement, insists you moved too far. It was ridiculous and i didn't want to spend my whole night playing against "that guy" so in the middle of my turn 2 shooting phase, he's arguing with me yet again and i just said "okay, you're right. you win." And started packing up. My next opponent was much better and the store manager played Knights against him next game and weirdly he wasn't arguing anymore. 😅

This is the most important video Auspex has ever made, in my opinion. Player behaviour is, by far, the biggest determining factor in how fun a game of 40k is. Some of the best games I've ever played were games in which I got outplayed and/or got bad dice rolls, but had a great time with my opponent because he/she was respectful and good-spirited.

I still remember a game of KillTeam as a new player. I was basically wiped off the table first turning point. I had made an engagement mistake and paid for it. it wasn't even worth playing afterwards, because I was "learning" the rules as I lost. This is something I wouldn't do to another opponent, its pretty easy to say "Hey, you're not going to want to set those models to engage out in the open".

something i do when i concede is explain why : "ok so i have 1 unit left and i dont have a chance to catch up in points GG" only do it as a timesaver, then i get to chat about what i did wrong/how good the matchup was in my opps favour and learn stuff.

So, at my local gamestore, I'm a bit of a joke (at least in my perspective). I rarely win games, and when I do, they are always really close. My favorite part is playing the game. No matter how much our Gt winners Adam or Taylor or really anyone else there stomps me into the dust though, I always have fun, and learn something new. That is all that matters. I had a great game with gk against templars, and got tabled on turn two. I turned to my opponent, laughed, and said, "good game." I was happy because that day, I learned not to sprint at a Helbrecht Sword Brother brick.

I usually concede when I don't see any reasonable way to pull out a win. I'll usually go through options with my opponent and discuss a bit what I could realistically achieve, and if there's even a small chance something impactful will succeed I'll try it and then call it a game if it fails. Usually there's no sense spending another 30-60 minutes playing when the end is already clear.

If you flip the table, it must flip like a caber and end up right ways up at the end.

The only time its ok to flip the table is if a really big spider lands on it

I've watched so many of my friends concede a game that's super winnable just because some of their heavy hitters are dead. It's like the morale phase never left...

👍👍 Like any partnered activity: communicate, keep checking in and use safety tools.

I'll readily admit that I become way too competitive, and if I'm on the way to being tabled turn 3 for the 6th time in a row I can get fed up. It's one of my absolute worst qualities and I'm trying to improve

I fight to the bitter end. Don't care who wins or loses. I'm there to have fun and play the game. If the opponent wants to give up, I try to help them even to find a way if there isn't something he overlooked or so.

The etiquette is quite simple. Once you realize you have lost, and it isn’t a tournament, you outstretch your hand, shake hands, and begin packing up.

I am a newish player my ultramarines Vs Khorn, at the start of turn 4 I was losing by a wide margin but was happy as I had just killed Angron. Only for him to immediately respawn and kill off Calgar in a charge. Our game had gone on for 4H at this point with the other friends matches having finished 30min ago and very waiting patiently for us to finish. In the end I drove the other player home and hopefully made a friend so ultimate win for my ultramarines and me.

Late 3rd edition our group ran a campaign. How you did week to week effected your standings. Very first week I was playing a guy that usually did really well. My footslogging Necron vs his shooty Tau. We roll for mission, and it required my footsloggers to bunch up in a column and cross half the table (the long ways, so 3-4 feet) in 6 turns. Not easy for foot-slogging necrons. He got victory points for keeping me away from the table edge and for everything he killed. I got victory points for making it off the board. He also got first turn. I was prepared to be slaughtered. First turn: He rolls bad, really, really bad. 5 Railguns and all he managed to do was shake/stun a Monolith, which ignores those results. My first turn I roll HOT. I kill his crisis commander, his hammerhead, a devilfish, and all but one Broadside. Even with this luck he was still likely to win. I notice him packing up his stuff, then the swearing begins. He stormed out and didn't return for the entire 6-week campaign. I drove 90 minutes for about 15 minutes of gaming.

I remember a tournament some years ago, where you could score points by escorting an informant to the other boardside. The informant had the profile of an imperial Guardsman. I faced Tau with a fairly strong list and with a riptide. After turn 2 it was clear that i can't win and so i charged the riptide with my informant and the rest of the game was just 2 rounds of close combat between a riptide and a "imperial guardsman". One of my most fun games, he won, we shook hands and the day was saved. 😂

Putting your hand out and shaking hands in a dead lost position is the standard resignation in chess. Seems a polite enough way in warhammer.

If playing against a friend, it's fun to run an extra turn and just throw everything at their unit or character that's been causing you trouble. On the other hand, if you're paired against "that guy" at a pickup games night, the correct approach is to set up your models, begin the game, then immediately concede, pack your models away, and go to the pub instead. That way you at least get the satisfaction of knowing you've wasted his time, and that he isn't going to discourage a newbie.

I'm sensing a big divide between the hyper competitive crowd and lore/narrative one, and it seems like it's growing by the day. So we *almost* have two different games of 40k now. Communication, tolerance and understanding seems like the way forward. A good dose of maturity goes a long way too.

While flipping a table is the most childish and inappropriate thing to do, there is something fascinating about basically ending a part of your life with one move. Nobody in the shop/club will ever play with you, you just destroyed your army and the other guy will probably kick your teeth in for destroying his. Of course, I understand this basically never happens, but still- what an experience that must be

My friend dragged out his concession once when he had 2 models left. A Chaplain and a Vibdicare assassin. I forget exactly what I had left, but I think it was an Edadicator squad, 2 Heavy Incercesor squads, a sternguard squad and Marneus/Victrix. And I was leading heavily in points. He kept going even knowing I had a strict time limit for other plans...

The first few times for me and my brother it was "oh god, why did we agree to 2k ponts? I'm loosing really badly, wanna just call it and go home? Mom said dinner's ready."

Yep, I've done conceded many times and quite a few first turn loses (last time I did I lost 80 models turn 1!) . If I cannot provide a fun and engaging game then I don't think it's worth the time and it's in everyone's best interest to leave the table. In a tournament setting we'll go through the motions and talk it through so the points gained are fair to everyone else at the event.

Standard Imperial protocol dictates that if you appear to be losing any engagement, throw your body at the nearest opponent in an attempt to overwhelm them. You may die by friendly fire, but that is a sacrifice our glorious God Emperor is willing to make.

The record I have comes from a game in Age of Sigmar. My opponent got to choose who went first, made me go first. The first movement I did was move a unit of Tzeentch Enlightened to my opponents right flank and he said "well I lost". He basically conceded as he started removing models once I targeted them, even before I rolled any dice. Was frustrating because I drove all the way down there for the game to be lost in the movement phase at the top of round 1. Looking back, it is pretty funny to tell the story. EDIT; to add, my army is one that this opponent also plays. So they knew my army better than I did.

1 Reason: Play a meta list vs a fun list ends up in no fun anymore

Honestly doing a valiant last stand for the funnies is a really fun time for everyone involved. Played Combat Patrol against space wolves (i played necrons) and i cornered his last intercession squad in a ruined building, second floor. His leader and my overlord had an honor duel while his lieutenant was swarmed to death by scarabs. Afterwards we gushed about each others paint jobs and exchanged contact info lol

I once conceded turn 1 in a tourny because the votann player had shot 70% of my list off the board before my first turn. My units were behind cover but he made liberal use of barely visible bits, capes, swords ect. He was the one who set up the board including a tower that made all that possible. I dont know if he set himself up for success that way, but even considering g secondaries, I don't feel bad.

I’ve only played once and called it by the end of turn 2. My friend had a tank and high toughness troops and I didn’t have the power to punch through. I learned a good lesson and am excited to play again.

I've actually had someone concede to me mid-turn 2 on the third round of a three round tournament (me playing a super shooty CSM list and him an Ork list). He helped me understand by explaining it wasn't me it was just that I had destroyed almost 500 points of his army in one turn and that all he had left were boyz of various stripes were all that he left against my everything and that he didn't expect to run into a tryhard army in the third round while not on the top tables and that he could, paraphrasing, have a better use of his time getting "comfortable" with his wife.. It really threw me off cuz the two of us were bantering back and forth the entire time and having a fun time, or so I thought.

Great video. Me and my friend actually conceded once at a big tournament. We had lost pretty much our entire army turn 3 and there was plenty of time until the final game so we ended up just chatting and having a good time with our opponents for like an hour. You can always have a good time even when losing badly.

At the start of 10th I ran my newly thrown together Imperial Knight List against his high anti-tank Drukhari. We were on TTS and made the mistake of selecting the map first, so we got a map that was going to work well on pretty much every deployment type save Dawn of War (long ways). We got Dawn of War. After the Knights got turn 1, blew away everything from his army that was on the board turn 1, then blew away the reserves that came in turn 2. We were happy to call it at that point. Sometimes everything just kinda goes wrong.

One of the last times my opponent conceeded we talked out the remaining turns, drawing the secondary cards and deciding if they were achievable.

I played in a tournament last weekend and in my second game I was denied any primary points. By turn 3 I knew I couldn't make up the points but we played it out anyway and had fun chatting. The post-game was especially insightful as we discussed his successful strategies and I reflected on how I might improve in the future. It's all psychological. If you show up and get an attitude when things don't go your way in a dice game, that's rude. Try to enjoy the moment because there's a lot to love about this hobby. If winning is all that matters to you, maybe try something else that doesn't involve dragging others down with you when to do inevitably lose.

Sometimes - especially in small games - I find that games can swing one-sidedly very fast with little to no crucial tactical decisions left to make. I fully admit, this can sour the taste of the rest of it - but I’m usually fine with that if my opponent is a good sport. If my opponent is prone to gloating, however, I find there is a hard line where it stops being enjoyable and starts being tedious. Best to play big games where things are a little more up in the air. For me, it’s when the immersion breaks that I truly begin to lose interest. I like the idea of taking command of a disadvantaged force suffering early setbacks and pulling a victory from total defeat, or giving everything I have for one last stand, but when that fades away and I just see an opponent who isn’t bothered by immersion and will break it whenever they like, that’s when the game really loses its allure.

I have conceded after playing Orks the first time and in Round 1, I Overwatched a Trukk, regrettably at the end of his move, and killed it. He rolled Deadly Demise, it popped, he spent a CP on Careen!, and rammed it directly into my main cluster of a defensive position, taking out a dreadnought, Iron Father, and the turret that killed it. A third of my force gone before the end of the first movement phase, followed by losing another third by the end of Turn 2, I just politely packed up and walked off after declaring him winner.

I was playing casually at local game store, this guy brought a full meta Tsons list agaisnt my wacky admech list. By turn 2 he had killed about 3 quarters of my army with no remorse, no "aww man I'm so sorry, i feel bad" By the start of my turn 2 i looked him dead in the eye's and just said "I'm not having fun mate" and started to pack up my models He was kinda confused he said "what don you mean you're not having fun?" I'm using my very few limited days off on a weekend to play little toy soldiers at a casual store. So yeah, i would like to have fun and this game isnt enjoyable. He was super kind and realized what happened,

I'm gonna post again, because I have a bit to say. When you concede, if you are just absolutely losing, a great way of stating it is asking, "should we just call it, or would you like to play on for a turn or two?" I find that when you throw the decision into your opponent's hands, they are generally a lot nicer.

The only time i have not been so gracious in conceding is a group of friends wanted some fun casual games nothing OP to play 10th for the first time and my first opponent put two wraith knights on the board. there may have been harsh language and a storm off from me and 3 other players.

Ideally people should be playing for fun, but for competitive players, fun is winning, thus the frustration. I'd say to those players a perspective shift is needed. The goal shouldn't be to win the game you're in right now, the goal should be to win the largest number of games possible over the time in the hobby. And that means losing and learning, which you can do by experimenting in a game you're losing. You almost always can take a lesson away from a game.

One very important thing about the etiquette from my personal experience: The "losing" player is the one talking about conceding, not the player with the advantage! As mentioned in the video, the game advantage swings with the player activation. Gaining an advantage in my turn and hold on to it in my opponents turn. I had some experience with some disrespectful opponents by now. Imagine a sucessful shooting phase from my opponent, taking out some of my units (in many cases basic screen and chaff units while other units are still in strategic reserves) and then going into the "there is nothing for you to do anymore, we should talk this one out" thing to score a clean 100 and don't waste any time on this match. Get your basic empathy together and just play the game! There is nothing worse than a opponent that just wants to win with a high score and don't give a damn about the people enjoying the game and learning. Keep that in mind if the competitive mindset is overshadowing basic social skills again.

This is a really interesting think piece. I hope to see more like it, good video as always

A lot of times it’s how you put it. “Fuck it I give up” is a lot different from, “hey, I don’t really see a way for me to win this can we maybe play to the end of this battle round and matherhammer this out?”

I played against a guy at my local shop and we never played so I was happy to play them, once he found out he was playing me he decided to change his list...needless to say I was playing Knights and he was playing Space Marines so you can guess what changes he made. By turn two he was spending more and more time on his phone and then asked me if I wanted to concede since we both knew how the game was going to play out, but he was happy to continue to play out if I wanted to. I could tell he was not into the game and decided to go ahead and concede, no point to continue playing a friendly game if one of the players is just not into it.

You flip a table? I flip you quite hard, there is no excuse in damaging and destroying some ones minis.

I hope Auspex had fun making the thumbnail/opening slide for this video with the table being flipped.

Gambits have done a lot to help me see more turn 5 games

In one of my very first games i remember the Games Workshop manager surrendering for me, my chaos terminators just couldn't make a dent in Dante and he was rolling very hot, one of the games i remember the best though, plenty of cinematic moments and the guy was a legend

Saw a dude calmly semi pack away his army after losing at an event, however before losing he threw his dice across the store as hard as he could hitting players and product and breaking some things. He then proceeded to power slam his entire army into the parking lot, ran it over with his car several times and never came back

Recently there have been a lot of units I've been trying out and so playing on just gives me that time. In my last close game we had a lot of units in close combat and we talked it through. The main reason it was very late and I had to drive. Still that was new for me too.

In any wargame I find myself getting stomped in, I will often go for "alternate win conditions". I'll try and kill specific miniatures regardless of whether it means anything game wise. Might be a big monster or it might be something I failed to kill earlier and now its death is my focus.

This is my favorite auspex thumbnail now

I actually like losing (i only play casual) Becuase i know i make good strategic decisions so I hope that if Im losing my opponent is having a great game I remind my opponents of their abilities in key moments Only once in the recent 5 games ive played did we discuss conceding the final two turns (me losing) and talking out the turns for points (playing crusade mode) My opponent had to head home unexpectedly early, family call

Playing Tyranids vs Space Marines, first 40k match ever when 10th edition first came out. His Gladiator/Gladius(?) tanks completely wiped my big monsters by turn two, leaving me with no AP on the field to take out his tanks. He also had killed my leader. I conceded then

In warhammer, if someone flips the table, you are allowed to steal their car, to make up for the financial loss.

Had a guy in a league I was in where he was so entirely focused on making sure you were following the rules and sequencing that he would break the rules with his own army and then he would get upset if he got called out. Second guy was alot of fun to play against but the last time I played him he slaughtered my army whilst complaining that his 2 new custodes tanks weren't killing my guys enough then he complained that he was playing warhammer all day and was tired so I conceded (obviously giving him the win) he then made a shitty comment on discord on me being too impatient to finish a full game. ( I closed down the hobby store multiple times) people just suck sometimes. I'm trying to get back into it but for now I'm just focusing on painting

Wait thumbnail is an option ...... COOL! :D

I conceded one game sofar, in a hobbyshop league, i asked the enemy about his army, he told me his units and guns, after 2 turns he asked me if i want to shoot a weapon i forgot on a target (not uncommon in the shop) and than he went oh btw this units leader has an enhancement that his unit can teleport away when being shot (gray knights)

People often forget about Gambits. If you’re outgunned massively, scatter your units to the board edges giving them whatever protection you can and you might actually win

Going to a tournament in march will keep this in mind

I usually play against a relatively stacked tau army and never finished 5 turns. I've lost every game against them usually getting shot off the board by the end of turn 3 but we discuss every game at the end and it's definitely making me a better player and understand just how important cover can be. The last game we played I used world eaters but didn't ask to change up the terrain which gave him 3 firing lanes straight into my deployment zone game it was over by the end of turn 2 by turn 4 he was over 40 points ahead with most of his army left. I see it as I only get better by losing and working out where things went well and where I made errors.

I will ask an opponent if they mind if i conceed If they dont mind. I do If they mind i make them pay for the objectives with every life i can take from that point on "Its not about points anymore"

I had one of my friends go with me to a warhammer event and he brought his warlord titan. At the end of a match, his opponent lost, and my friend went to shake his hand. His opponent wasn't too happy for the loss and shoved his titan 3 feet back, cracking it in half. After he realized what he had done, He bolted out the place, leaving behind his army of Astra militarum.

I've only ever conceded 3 times so far First time was against a friend I was losing real bad since he had Angeron and most of my army was dead and there was no way for me to catch up points wise so after I killed his Angeron once in turn 3 I asked him if we could stop there and grab lunch instead second time was a REALLY REALLY fun game against another Ork player but due to time constraints we had to reduce it to a four turn game then add up points third time we usually play really casually and for fun and a new player showed up to the store and wanted to play against me so I said yes and he had a really Elite meta army whilst we all just usually play what's fun and he was really annoyed at me when I said I had only brought 1000s points anyway with orks declaring the WAAAGH is super important especially with how it works atm ( please buff it or change when it can be declared) and I never really got a chance to use it or a bunch of other stuff when I wanted to because he kept like rushing like " ok I've finished moving now it's my shooting phase" " oh I was going to fire overwatch there" " you can't it's the shooting phase now" or " no you can't declare the waagh command phase is over" and the worst one " oh that's your movement phase over unit cohesion is bad so those ones are destroyed" around mid second round most of my units were already destroyed and I told him " hey man I'm gonna just call this here I'm not having a fun time" and he got real annoyed and blamed it on me only having 1000pts he was running Drukari

My normal method of concession is "I don't have the material left to win or score meaningful secondaries", then talk through the rest of the game, including likely outcomes of units on the board. Doesn't help when almost 800 points of your army gets deleted before you get to play (deployed far too aggressively against Tau) and your dice decide to abandon you on your turns, along with getting a grand total of 2 secondary points due to terrible draws.

General rule like with all things is just don’t be a jerk about it and definitely don’t make it your opponent’s issue/fault unless they’re actually egregious about something (like cheating, genuinely being unsportsmanlike, making the game legitimately unpleasant purposely).

Way back in the Armageddon worldwide campaign. Me and a mate played a 3500pt game, me as Orks, him as an Imperial force (his Guard and Dark Angels, plus my Guard to bulk it out). Complete with Ghazgkul and Yarrik both deployed front and centre. Pre-game, my Fighta Bommaz give me a preliminary bombardment type rule. Chance of random hits on every enemy unit, plus a chance of hitting my own units. The only units hit were Ghaz and Yarrik, both died before the game started 😂 I then got first turn, got some lucky rolls, but the game certainly wasn't decided, he still had most of his force. But he sulked, barely interacted, rolled dice when asked. I offered to reset and restart, he wasn't interested. I conceded end of turn two just to end it, was understanding and polite but inside was super pissed.

Literally didn't make it to my turn round 1 last night, both land raiders got bodied, vulkan had 1 wound left, and all my mobility was gone. I conceded, shook hands, and went home. The second I fight someone who flips a table or throws one of my models they are getting these hands for 0cp 😂

Definity going to show this to my sons. They're going to need this video as they start playing in other locations than my house. Thank you for all the work you do!

This happened to me yesterday, was playing at my local store and at the end of round 3 my opponent had nothing left except a trygon on one wound, I still had 5 units able to move around. He was 8 points ahead on score but had no way to stop me overtaking, and he wasn't placed to score anything at all at the start of his next turn. We both had fun though, talked over how things might have gone differently if I'd had first turn and had to approach him, etc. Was a good experience

My favorite games are the ones I thought I lost. If you know you will lose, you adopt a "fuckit, we ball" mentality, and then get a Hail Mary win. Moral of the example, play all 5 out. You may learn something or get stupid lucky

I was playing in a tournament as necron's vs space marines. On turn one I took out 850 points of his army in all his anti -tank stuff. All his troops were foot slogging it after that. He wanted to concede but the TO said it would hurt both of us because points weren't going to be counted. Just end the game right there. So the game would have ended. 0 to 0 but with my win. Had to talk it out with them that we should at least count out points or something because it wasn't going to be fair. Ended up having him stay and play three rounds and then talking out the last two game ending 100 to 18 in points .

Me being new to playing I think Ill just be happy to have a good looking army because at the end of the day, I spend way much more time modeling, painting and displaying my minis than playing with them

I hear about good etiquette in warhammer all the time, but I never see it practiced in my area. My opponents fall into two categories, the first is the pedantic beatstick, he knows all the rules, has played since first edition and will tell me that he’s going to table me by turn three, then does it. The other category I see is the troll. They stay on their phone until you need some sort of interaction and then they start off by yelling, slamming a fist into the table and telling you you’re a piece of shit for playing your chosen faction. They tell you to hurry constantly. They refuse to let you see their die rolls by scooping up the dice as fast as possible then when you get tired of playing them, they act like they’re smarter than you because you gave up.

My habit is, if I'm at a place where a loss is inevitable, I'll table talk out the probable outcomes (i.e. "so in the next round my X would probably go here and I would expect you to send Y to do Z."), hold out my hand, and congratulate them on a game well-played.

It takes some serious patience to play a game through when on a massive losing streak or the dice just don't like you that day. Sometimes, conceding is the wiser thing to do, absent of any pride or vanity. Why torture yourself if all the odds have been removed in your favor. In my younger days, I would be laughing, and being dumb about it. Now, I have witnessed, felt, and understood how badly one can be plagued with badluck. After all, it is a dice game at the end of the day. But here is one funny conceding story I had with a friend. We made "meme lists" in the newly released 9th edition. I played as Necrons, the list being called "return of the King." 3 blocks of 10 lychguard, 2 with shields and 1 with warscythes (experimenting), the Silent King, and a 2 man squad of H Lokhusts. And he fielded spam infantry with Ad mech, any of the Ad mech nerfs. but had allied Scions It was pretty one sided but wanted to see it through cause, meme lists. At one point, he deployed 3 of his support weapons with plasma against an isolated Lychguard with shields block. Hot shot and plasma being dumped into the lychguard, I was certained he could hurt them badly. Though, T5 surprisingly can mitigate a lot of wounds. Using all 3 support squads, I literally managed to Reanimate 4 times in a row (the 4th being an ad mech squad firing into them as well from afar) The reaction literally went: 1st time: "Nice" 2nd time: "Wooo, wow." 3rd time: "Bra...." 4th: "Alright im done." as he got up to go use his bathroom. I swear my chest hurt so badly as I did my hardest to hold back my laughing. Cause his reaction was SO appropiate

For me, I’d normally only concede if my opponent is clearly winning by a lot but they’re still taking ages deciding on how to maximise their damage when clearly they’re ahead on table and points and it makes no difference - I’m fine letting them play out if they’re quick enough about it, but if they’re going to take forever on decisions that won’t change the outcome, that’s dull to watch

That thumbnail is legendary

I typically ask to conseed by saying something like "I dont think i can do much more here" it leads to talking it through. I also play mostly crusade so balance can be wonkey to begin with.

I give this one piece of advice, wait for a round to be over not just a person's turn. Unless one player is on a time table but I feel that should be talked about at the start of the game. But ultimately waiting for the end of round is not only a polite way, but you never know what could happen at the end of the turn. They be looking to go after an objective that you holding, and miss the charge roll, or roll the impossible number and you have unit ready to use overwatch. That would be my one tip for conceding and this applies for any game, not just warhammer so keep that in mind. At the end of the day you never know what the person is going through and this could be there only opportunity, first one or last opportunity to get out and enjoy a game.

I only play casually with friends but we concede all the time when things get too out of hand. We always require that concedes happen at the end of the 3rd battle round at the earliest and then just talk things out to determine what units might suffer from that choice. We play crusade so unit kills and experience matter, as do potential out of action tests. We do so when there really isn't any hope of winning the scenario and the draw of keeping units alive feels more important and tactical in nature. It's a wargame after all and retreat is valid strategy.

That model at 0:38 is gonna get a new version, as hinted by the December 14th Advent Engine.

I've conceded two games, one was me saying I've lost and not wanting to continue because the game shop was closing for lunch and I didn't really want to wait around to lose, he was playing Aeldari, we were playing length-wise at opposite ends, the field was pretty open, and by the time I had gotten close, he had taken out about 600 points of minis with all his rerolls and fate dice. We had fun but I was like You've clearly won I have two characters, some jackals and five berserkers and you lost one figure. The other was against black templars and he told me I'd lost because I over committed and I agreed. I have played to the closing of the stores, but I don't count those as conceding since victory wasn't decided.

My local league tie breaks by tracking points difference. So people often want to play 5 turns, even if a game is decided turn 1. This means if you concede, rather than pass 5 turns, you score lower overall

Had a mirror match against another guard player and he conceded his turn 1 after he found out that you can't use the reinforcement stratagem in your command phase on a unit that was destroyed 15 minutes ago. Dude nearly cried

One of the last few games I played was against someone who was not only more than a bit handsy with my minis, but also somewhat like what was described in here. One game between some real bad moves on my part AND the dice gods making a spectacle of my truly atrocious rolls, by mid turn 2 or 3 ( don't recall) I said " yeah there is no point in continuing I give up". To which they said in actual seriousness, "yeah but there is still more of your models I could take off." To this I was... dumbstruck. They had put together a force built from three different armies that on its own would have been a serious challenge, but with my comical luck and opening moves could do essentially nothing to them. And they were put out because I was not interested in doing another hour+ game time to let them table me.

The T'au picture beside the "opposing list isn't very engaging" had me bursting xD

Been on both ends of this. I am still newish to tabletop 40k but I don't plan on switching from the army I picked. Every loss has taught me things I could have done better, units that should have been played differently, strategem timing, troop placement for alpha striking and screening, target priority and so on. It is just a game though, and if the person across the table from you is not into it anymore then just respect that and talk things over.

I reckon, if youre more than 20 or so points in the lead, its fair to at least ask if you want to end early. in 9th, most of the time if i got stomped, i just said on the turn i knew i'd lost i cant be bothered to go on. but, some games ive lost and it's been mega fun just to see what happens

Back in Summer it was me and some random person I didn't know vs A die hard sweat and his girlfriend. Me as Mechanicus, my teammate as Salamanders Successor. The guy as Salamanders, his girlfriend as Tyranids. It ended up being my partner wasn't sure of the core rules, and using my dice, my Tape measure, and my units being Frontline. The other guy was, in all honesty, just piloting two armies while his GF sat there bored. I was mulched, three hours later it's just ending turn 2. I packed up and left at 10pm, I felt bad since the allied SM wasn't a jerk or anything, just unprepared. Idk why it's a big deal to concede though

I don't play competitive, but I did play quite a bit of crusade in 9e. If a battle was clearly lost, my friend and I would usually concede to get in an extra game of 40k or kill team (if time was running out). Why waste our limited time on an already decided game? The narrative effects of these conceded games would usually be that the losing army was routed or simply withdrew (depending on how clear it was)

I had a game with a friend where I got first turn, and killed two tanks that had no right to actually die, and then they went, and did a total of 6 damage to my army in their entire turn... my next turn id bring in my strongest units from deep strike and all my units out of transports. id say it was a case of very bad luck and we called it there.