Nothing personal, just business

bubbs, on 27 September 2010 - 04:55 PM, said: I had an instance which was like your story, only the other way around. I remember the guy's name but I won't leave it out, we'll just call him FatBastard for the purpose of this story.
Fat Bastard was on my team in a VK45 and got himself killed in Karelia by standing out in the open far in front of his team. We were hiding from arty in the rocks on the northwest approach and taking potshots at a couple of mediums who were spotting for their arty. I judged that we were outgunning them and could grind them down in a minute or two so that we safely move on to enemy base and arty, subsequently winning. I assumed the rest of my team made the same call because no one was making any drastic maneuvers, except this guy.
Now normally this is all fine, but after dying FatBastard went berserk on the chat and blamed everyone for his misfortune, accusing the entire team of being "n00bs". I give him a hard time for being a sore loser and a bad tactician, but I said nothing that was uncalled for. We won despite losing our biggest tank.
Next game is Himmelsdorf and guess who ends up on the enemy team? I notice FatBastard instantly not because I was looking for his name, but because it's the first thing I see him writing in the chat when I enter. "Bubbs you are sooo dead" "I'm gonna kill you personally" etc. This is despite I only made myself known to him last game because I told him he was out of line, not because I actually got him killed.
The result of this entire ordeal was, of course, him rushing forward just to reach me and my teammate who also happened to be in FatBastards team in the previous game. He did manage to bring along another VK45 and an IS3, but because they were cut off and outnumbered by base defenders they were promptly defeated which probably led to his team losing seeing as how three of their heaviest tanks died prematurely. I did damage him, although I didn't get the kill. Can't say I didn't enjoy it
FatBastard is probably and fortunately more of an exception than a rule, but his case goes to show you shouldn't invest too much expectations and bad feelings into this game!