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It's time for another installment of 40K Confessions! Dust off those skeletons in the closet, make your personal shame public, and let the truth set you free.

*Is there something you've never done that you believe most 40K gamers take for granted?
*Are you TFG on open gaming or club night?
*Do you have any bizarre obssessions about list-building or army comp?
*Are there any rules you consistently forget or just plain don't know?

I'll go first...

I've played IG for almost 15 years, and I've never played a list that included a Basilisk.

I don't actually have enough painted boyz for the larger games that I play. I rely on the fact that they start in reserves or in trukks and that my opponent will kill enough before I have to deploy them that I can just reuse the models that I have. I have only actually run into the problem of running out of models once (it was against blob IG that could not kill me fast enough). I am working on painting the rest though.

I occasionally think I have upgrades on my tanks that I forgot to pay for. I've only done it twice, but both times I thought my Russes had camo netting when they actually didn't. It didn't really affect anything, but I still did it on accident.

I've had to borrow most of the models I use nowadays due to my previous ones being destroyed in an incident. It makes it hard to get a game sometimes, but luckily my group is awesome.

I tend to never quite finish painting an army. The closest I've gotten to finishing one was a large Menoth army where I left one model unpainted, not intentionally, I just never got around to it. I think the army as a whole had something like 50-60 models too.

I haven't played against an Eldar opponent in 8 years. I've never known the pain of Wraithknights, Scatbikes, rending shuricats, or Serpent shields.

I recently got to play formations at my FLGS... I ran the Librarian conclave and murdered a newby blood angels player...

I continually forget about defensive grenades, much to my FWs doom. It's to the point where people who play me a lot often remind me to stop the 3 rounds in "oh... gak" I always have.

Also, ever army list I build will end up with a backstory eventually. Sometimes before they are even finished.

I always forget that the wounds inflicted by the mob rule table are randomly allocated, I just take off the boyz from wherever since they can't be put on characters anyways. Especially when your mob has no weapon upgrades and it has 20+ boyz I'm not rolling every time I fail a morale test.

I forget at least one special rule in my army for every game. Unfortunately, it's never the same one.

I have posted an illegal list in the Army Lists section.

I once forgot the base transport capacity of a Land Raider Proteus.

Until recently, I discovered that I had been playing one of my regular opponents while I was down over 150 points.

I am a scrub lord who play weak codex as an excuse when I lose....

^ I play Chaos, so its actually true! HAR HAR

I specifically bought my Typhon & Kharybdis + Fire Raptor Gunship to piss my best friends off. Because I dislike Fish-Head / Space Elven goodie too-shoes who bring WKs and R-Tides and all their variants to the Table. I also actively run Be'Lakor and my Kytan because people think Invisibility is more broken than army wide Psudo-Rending.

So screw them, they get the, FIST OF KHORNE SHOVED DOWN THEIR THROAT, AND THEY HAD BETTER SLAANESH IT!

 GoliothOnline wrote:
^ I play Chaos, so its actually true! HAR HAR

I specifically bought my Typhon & Kharybdis + Fire Raptor Gunship to piss my best friends off. Because I dislike Fish-Head / Space Elven goodie too-shoes who bring WKs and R-Tides and all their variants to the Table. I also actively run Be'Lakor and my Kytan because people think Invisibility is more broken than army wide Psudo-Rending.

So screw them, they get the, FIST OF KHORNE SHOVED DOWN THEIR THROAT, AND THEY HAD BETTER SLAANESH IT!

Invisible Kytan? that is evil

 GoliothOnline wrote:
^ I play Chaos, so its actually true! HAR HAR

I specifically bought my Typhon & Kharybdis + Fire Raptor Gunship to piss my best friends off. Because I dislike Fish-Head / Space Elven goodie too-shoes who bring WKs and R-Tides and all their variants to the Table. I also actively run Be'Lakor and my Kytan because people think Invisibility is more broken than army wide Psudo-Rending.

So screw them, they get the, FIST OF KHORNE SHOVED DOWN THEIR THROAT, AND THEY HAD BETTER SLAANESH IT!

I'm afraid that, by all objective standards, Invisibility really is more broken than Bladestorm or Gauss. Typhons, Kharibdys, and Fire Raptors, on the other hand are perfectly balanced, and a lot more so than the Riptide and especially the Wraithknight. Bel'akor is only overpowered because Invisibility is overpowered.

Like someone above mentioned, I tend to forget at least one special rule in my army almost every game (recently I forgot my Ravenwing's Hit & Run-terrible, right? )

In my most recent game, I think I completely forgot to deploy my Assault Squad. I was going to deep strike them, and I ended up forgetting to roll for them.

I don't think its necessarily my fault, but I always feel bad about it. I used to play against my girlfriend at the time, and she used a bunch of Plague Marines. I would always forget they have defensive grenades, as well as were able to throw them as blind grenades. Since I play Necrons, it would be a big deal against me. I always remember days later like "Oh crap, she had defensive grenades". I know I had told her this a few times, but if she forgets, and it's not my army and I forget, then it's not my fault, right? I still always felt bad.

I always forget what my warlord trait is, especially if it's something that could of come in handy during my game. I realy should start writing it down...

I feel very uncomfortable writing a list for which the models could not be laid out symmetrically.

They don't have to be deployed like that, but the possibility should be there.

I haven't played a non maelstrom game outside of some events since 7 came out. I love it! I have 2 packs of the regular cards for it, and a deck of the DA one, so I have one for my opponent if need be. We just discard and redraw once you couldn't accomplish(kill a flier when we have none or cast a power as necrons ect).

I have (politely of course) declined pick up games because my opponent didn't want to play maelstrom.

I've only let my wife beat me once in a game of 40k....
She is currently undefeated vs me.

I absolutely hate Tau, more than Eldar. There's specific Tau players at my LGS I refuse to play.

Also, it's most likely my store, but I've never lost to an IG player. Whenever I've played them, it's been a curb stomp, to the point I feel bad.

I played about 20 games thinking that pathfinders had infiltrate.

Felt like a bit of a prick when I figured out it was just scout.

I'm obsessed with Tactical Squads. 5 Man Plas squads EVERYWHERE.


Oh, and I've never ever faced Tau, Eldar or Necrons.

I secretly enjoy that most new people I play never played against Sisters before. And usually don't know what they should be scared of.

I claim to be a Chaos player but most of my games in 7th have been using my eldar.

Outside of my very first army, I haven't painted anything. I pay a friend who paints all of my models for me, and to an excellent standard (our local stores use him to paint display models).

With eldar I am nearly undefeated, pretty much for every edition since 3rd. The same is not true with most of my other armies (CSM I was doing amazing with until 6th dropped, necrons I am really bad with. Same with nids).

 Grimskul wrote:
I always forget that the wounds inflicted by the mob rule table are randomly allocated, I just take off the boyz from wherever since they can't be put on characters anyways. Especially when your mob has no weapon upgrades and it has 20+ boyz I'm not rolling every time I fail a morale test.

Pretty sure that is how pretty much everyone does it if all the non-characters are the same. It is so much simpler.

I have never played list that I didn't make at least 10 variations of before deciding on that one.

I won't assemble my own land speeders, I pay other people

I consistently forget that my daemons have Fear. I also forget whenever I upgrade a Bloodletter to a Bloodreaper. Both of those things could have made a difference on multiple occasions.

I mostly know what I know of armies I don't own by playing them regularly. I skim codices online, but it never really sticks.

My first game with Nids I thought regular devourers were S5 and didn't realize until yesterday that I had them confused with Deathspitters. This was last week.

I like to find loopholes in rules/wargear
Not to make the unit super OP but to make the unit NOT rubbish

I often forget wargear I've bought on my guys, and certain rules that could help. I almost always totally forget warlord trait. I play so many armies its hard to keep track of it all, and the main partner I had in Italy for over a year was like a walking BRB/codex for everyone so I didn't memorize as much as I should have.

jreilly89 wrote:I absolutely hate Tau, more than Eldar. There's specific Tau players at my LGS I refuse to play.

Also, it's most likely my store, but I've never lost to an IG player. Whenever I've played them, it's been a curb stomp, to the point I feel bad.

Triple Riptide Spam got you down?

DevonMrtnz wrote:I secretly enjoy that most new people I play never played against Sisters before. And usually don't know what they should be scared of.

So much this. In my experience, everyone underestimates Sisters of Battle. They may only have a couple solid lists. but those lists are really good in the right hands.