Hey there,

My brother has ran into this twice, once in a more extreme fashion than yours and one significantly less.

here is what happened / how he dealt with it / how it resolved

1 - His main gaming group has one guy that hosts a lot, and buys to paint more than buys to play. Playing was something that started so he could have more reason to paint.

In 8th Warhammer Fantasy it was entirely possible through bad dice rolling to literally lose the game on turn one due to area of effect morale tests and troops running off the board. He had a game like this, where a roll happened early in the game, went extremely poorly for him and he was in a position where he was not going to win.

My brother seeing this, and seeing his opponent getting really mad, stated "Ok we can call the game here as a victory for me, and restart the game if you want?" his opponent said no and said to keep going, just kept getting madder and madder, and at the end threw a few mammoths/thundertusks around. My brother stated to him "This is the first time i've beaten you in 6 times playing, and you have taken that enjoyment from me. You need to reevaluate how you lose if we are to play again." as he left.

This resulted in a followup a week later from the other player apologizing for his actions, an explanation of why he was so stressed out from everything, and the other player taking a break from playing for a bit, although still hosting others to come play in his game room. This was 2 years ago, about 4 months after this event he started playing again and there was never a repeat of the issue.

The second example was myself playing my brother in Fantasy, i've never thrown my pieces around of course...but i gave him a similar feeling of not enjoying winning against me, or seeing me fail any roll. As i wouldn't even play the game right, whenever my troops would fail a morale test i'd just angrily remove them from the board because i hated how stupid the 8th fall back system worked and would rarely ever get my troops to regroup.

This one again was solved by a talk about needing to play for mutual enjoyment, not for myself to win, as there was little incentive to play otherwise.

I'd like to encourage you to talk to him/send him a letter stating you'd like to not play with him until he can learn to laugh at the misfortune of his troops instead of roleplaying hiimself as their leader having a complete meltdown at a dice roll. I mean we all have games where we don't want to play anymore...it's no reason to take it out on our opponents/models.