Food for thought

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After reading Social Contracts and Needs In Wargaming Between Strangers - How to Behave at a Tournament, and Other Thoughts, I realise that much of my frustration playing 40K games is because of just this issue - I'm not especially good at the game but I like to focus on it and direct at least 90% of my attention on it. When I play opponents who just seem to regard the game as a peripheral sideline to a series of conversations and meanderings around the room, it annoys me beyond measure but yet I will persist with the game. Clearly I need to be more clear about what I'm expecting and, if my opponent doesn't want the roughly same thing then I need to not play that game.

Don't get me wrong - the "peripheral sideline to a series of conversations and meanderings around the room" approach is a perfectly valid approach but it just isn't mine!