I think that I over came the 'temper' thing back when Red Barricades came out and I was looking for opponents (back then you had to write up on a 3x5 card and post your name and number at a local brick and mortar hobby store that you were looking for opponents. So I get this call from this dude and he said that he used to play Squad Leader and wanted to play, and I told him that Squad Leader was outdated and that they had just produced ASL and I told him a bit about it. He said he'd check it out. About a week later I get a call from the same dude and he said he purchased the Rule book, Beyond Valor, Paratrooper, Partisans, Yanks and Red Barricades. He said he had read through Chapters A-D and was ready to play. So being the 'wise one' I suggested something simple from Paratrooper. The phone was silent and he said lets play The Last Bid from Red Barricades. I thought this dude is crazy. So I said Dude that is a massive and complex scenario, maybe we should start with something small. At which point he said something like "Are you a chicken?" I had to laugh and said "Okay Dude your on.". So a week later on a Friday I show up at his house and low and behold he has all his Russians set and pulled all the Germans for me. So while he was eating dinner with his wife and kids, I setup. He kept asking are you done yet? And would laugh and leave the room. Finally we did the first wind check and some time on Sunday his wife kicked me out to go get some sleep and take a shower. Over the next many, many weekends we played RB CG I over about 2-3 times. From all those sessions, we saw it all, and we never lost our tempers, and had many a good laughs. It helped we were both x-Army combat dudes.
My greatest ambush of all time was when I had a HIP Russian 9-2 with 2x 6-2-8 and 2x HMG in the center of a rubbled, gutted and burned out factory location and his half squad scouts walked right by them (he was using search quite a bit), he thought no one would stick a HIP anything in such an obvious place. (I think he may have said idiot).
Well in walks a German 10-2, with 2x 8-3-8, stacked with DC and FT, I was sweating bullets and with my best poker face waited till he was adjacent to them and said STOP! He was like no freaking way dude, and I proceeded to KIA, K, MC them all to death. The Hero of the Soviet Union 9-2 only lived for more minutes (1 full turn) before being zap to death. But to see the look on Mike's face when I sprung that trap was priceless and I'll never forgot it...
He just shrugged his head and we rolled on...