The House Of Pain

[PoorOldSpike]

Sorry no screenshots were taken, but when I joined my first club (Rugged Defense) as a green raw recruit in 2003 I issued a challenge to about 10 of their guys including their ladder leader himself (better not name him).
He said he'd play an Attack game but only if I (as defender) bought a realistic" force.
I asked what he meant by "realistic", and he reeled off a list of tanks that he said I couldn't buy. So I said "Tell you what, I won't buy any tanks at all, how does that sound?"
He agreed and we began the game, but I quickly wiped out all his tanks with my gun line and he went bananas, yelling "You took too many guns! In real-life they were only issued x number of guns per company! I'm going to tell the club boss about you and put the game on hold til I decide whether to carry on!"
So I said- "Look Jack, you never told me how many guns I could buy, so that's your problem not mine!"
In the end he calmed down and said I could report the win, but I never bothered.
Anyway 3 months later I'd overtaken him and was at the top of the ladder myself ..
Valuable lesson there, namely buy whatever you like in QB's unless your oppo says not to..;)