Best moment ever: Playing apoc game against IG, the opponent had 10 Manticores and 25 Deathstrikes. The rape was so complete, and so total...25 deathstrikes. He didn't even need to aim. I came away from that with a loss and a big, goofy smile.

Well, I battled BA vs. CSM and was on a good way (4th ed).
But then I decided to charge with my DC his Raptors and totally forgot that they have hit and run.
So they ran away and my DC was in range of his whole army. Dead DC. Stupid move.

im2randomghgh wrote:

Grey Templar wrote:

Reisen-tanith wrote:My stupidest tactic... that would be trying to out shoot an imperial guard armourd company with Tactical squads with missals and heavy bolters.
(btw could a Lr demolisher in any possible way have a front AV of 15 in any combination of rules in the old guard codex?)

No, the Rulebook caps armor values at 14.




Space Marines can out shoot guard, especially meched up guard where they have fewer squads.

but you don't do it with Heavy bolters. and you use lascannons instead of Missiles.

No they can't. Guard is the shootiest army, followed very closely by Tau.

Then a huge gap.

Then the others.

Then orks (they aren't known for their accuracy) and tyranids (many units can't shoot)

Im not going to argue that Orks are the best shooters in the game, that would just be silly. But your saying they are 2nd to last in shootyness? Your nuts. Yes, BS2 does hamper them, but they can easily be made into an incredibly shooty army, Id say slightly over middle not on the bottom. But Id agree on the IG, those bastards can outshoot pretty much everyone

KingCracker wrote:

im2randomghgh wrote:

Grey Templar wrote:

Reisen-tanith wrote:My stupidest tactic... that would be trying to out shoot an imperial guard armourd company with Tactical squads with missals and heavy bolters.
(btw could a Lr demolisher in any possible way have a front AV of 15 in any combination of rules in the old guard codex?)

No, the Rulebook caps armor values at 14.




Space Marines can out shoot guard, especially meched up guard where they have fewer squads.

but you don't do it with Heavy bolters. and you use lascannons instead of Missiles.

No they can't. Guard is the shootiest army, followed very closely by Tau.

Then a huge gap.

Then the others.

Then orks (they aren't known for their accuracy) and tyranids (many units can't shoot)

Im not going to argue that Orks are the best shooters in the game, that would just be silly. But your saying they are 2nd to last in shootyness? Your nuts. Yes, BS2 does hamper them, but they can easily be made into an incredibly shooty army, Id say slightly over middle not on the bottom. But Id agree on the IG, those bastards can outshoot pretty much everyone

...until Tau get an update

...unless you're playing Tau using 4ed rules.

And not above middle.

They can outshoot tyranids. Name the other armies you think they can outshoot. Not bagging on the orks, just saying all the other armies have more useful shooting units (i.e. devastators own Flash Gitz)

The reason for that is FlashGits belong in the Elites section, plain and simple. Ive no clue why the hell they are a heavy support, I just cant EVER figure that one out.

Ive heard people say Tau can outshoot Orks. And that I wouldnt disagree with. The only problem is the Tau player in our group is incredibly soft and only plays because her BF plays and when I say she plays, I basically mean he lets her move her minis lol.

But yes, Orks can pump out some incredibly shooty builds. I for one have been doing shooty Orks lately and I love them. Kans vomit rokkits, Lootas vomit bullets like you wouldnt believe, and shoota boyz are great as well. Yes their BS is bad, but their shootas are assault 2 and they have numbers. 60 STR4 shots isnt anything to scoff at, specially when you pair them with all the other shooty aspects in their build. Orks can really do a number with their shooting.

So yea, slightly above the middle



Oh yea, rokkit buggies as well. So shoota boyz en mass in TROOPS, lootas in elites, rokkit buggies in FA and kans (or go kannons if you reALLY want to up your rokkit shooting) in heavy

On Thursday I ran a full 50 man blob into the cone of fire from 2 vendettas, a LRBT, a manticore, death strike, 3 chimeras, and 3 sentinels. Didn't end well...

-cgmckenzie

Worst I have ever done - Deploy a Hammerhead. Mine is cursed and may, if in a good mood, hit one in four shots. A game a while back it missed 3 3+ and 2 2+ shots. And yet I still bring the bugger.

Funniest I have ever seen - I was losing pretty horrifically and decided "what the heck" TAU charge! So I drive up, dump my 6 man fire warrior teams and rapid fire his command squad. He ain't too happy and charge with 4 10 - man squads of Guard. The 6 fire warriors win combat by 2. The Guard run. I chase down and murder one squad.

Haringoth wrote:Worst I have ever done - Deploy a Hammerhead. Mine is cursed and may, if in a good mood, hit one in four shots. A game a while back it missed 3 3+ and 2 2+ shots. And yet I still bring the bugger.

Funniest I have ever seen - I was losing pretty horrifically and decided "what the heck" TAU charge! So I drive up, dump my 6 man fire warrior teams and rapid fire his command squad. He ain't too happy and charge with 4 10 - man squads of Guard. The 6 fire warriors win combat by 2. The Guard run. I chase down and murder one squad.

You think that's the funniest?

4 man squad of fire warriors at my FLGS. Assaulted by a 10 man squad of Incubi. Incubi do no wounds, Fire Warriors hit and wound with every attack, which the Incubi then fail to save. Incubi fail their leadership test, and proceed to get run down by the Fire Warriors (Incubi rolled 1, Fire Warriors rolled 6).
Talk about horrendous bad luck on the part Dark Eldar player, and Epic rolling for the Tau player.

I played a game using the 4th Ed kill team rules, and tryed to win by killing everything...

Suffice to say, it went badly.

Playing SM vs SW, Turn 5 in a 6-Turn game, I had 2 Shooty Terminators (Sergeant with PW and one with AC) fighting 3 Blood Claws (his last models) in a combat, one of which had a PF. If I killed them I won, if I didn't it would be a draw.

My Sergeant with PW killed none. The normal Blood Claws struck back, nothing. My PF clubbed down one
His PF attack caused one wound, I failed the Invulnerable save and had to remove a model. So,

Remove the Sergeant who would be striking simultaneously with the one Blood Claw, and before the PF one could hit me, allowing me to face only a few standard attacks.

Or remove the AC man with a PF who would have to face all of their attacks. Simplke right?

Wrong. I distrusted my sergeant after he fluffed those attacks. In fact he had missed his attacks for every combat and he had failed to land a single hit all game. So...you can guess my choice

The Blood Claw struck first, missed his attacks. I fluffed my PF attacks and was punched to oblivion by the other guy with his PF. Draw :(

Let that be a lesson, try not to be susperstitious

Had one the other day in a game. My brother assaulted his shotgun scouts into a mob a boyz. I dunno what the hell he was thinking

For me... Charging a unit of Wolf Scout Pack to a Devilfish with flechette discharger.

For my usual Tau opponent (and my dear friend)... Charging a full unit of Kroots+Kroot hounds that just walked up from reserve into a unit of Wolf Guard Terminators that got no better things to do then getting shot at by XV88 really far away...

A good amount of my mistakes can be forgiven for most were facing things with special rule I had not seen (ex. Skarbrand's "must charge Skarbrand and get re-rolls)

But the worst was three years ago when I went to an 'ard boyz tourney.

With an Ethereal.

And set him dead center between two full squads of Firewarriors.

This "tactic" was also used against a "DERP NEEDZ MOAR RHINOEZIZIZZZZ" Space Marine list.



666'th post

Place an entire army of gaurdsmen in a courner vs. nids. Barbed wire does not stop gargoyals or a tyrant with wings.

Moved a unit of Khorne zerkers out of cover, shot at a unit of guardsmen... and killed them all. Couldnt follow up with an assault, left out in the open - they did not survie the subsequent templates...

Used Kharn and a squad of Bezerkers to try and cut down my enemy.

Kharn rolled so many 1s,and cut his own squad to bits.

Grey Templar wrote:

Reisen-tanith wrote:My stupidest tactic... that would be trying to out shoot an imperial guard armourd company with Tactical squads with missals and heavy bolters.
(btw could a Lr demolisher in any possible way have a front AV of 15 in any combination of rules in the old guard codex?)

No, the Rulebook caps armor values at 14.

Emperor (string of profanities)
I did learn a valuble leson of Move the vindicator up, and Assault marines Will not survive 20 las gun shots also, if they deploy their Tanks in a line on one side of the board, deploy on the other half of your table.

My stupidest tactic ever used... putting a squad of FWs packed tight in an open-topped emplacement directly in the line of sight of a squad of missile-toting devastators. That was not fun at all.
They all died in 2 shooting phases.

6x 5 Man Tac squads w/ Lascannon and Tank hunters.

I thought you couldn't put heavy weapons on 5 man tac squads

L_Dawg wrote:I thought you couldn't put heavy weapons on 5 man tac squads

Not anymore. Can't give em tank-hunters either. He's probably talking about the 4th edition codex.

im2randomghgh wrote:

Grey Templar wrote:

Reisen-tanith wrote:My stupidest tactic... that would be trying to out shoot an imperial guard armourd company with Tactical squads with missals and heavy bolters.
(btw could a Lr demolisher in any possible way have a front AV of 15 in any combination of rules in the old guard codex?)

No, the Rulebook caps armor values at 14.




Space Marines can out shoot guard, especially meched up guard where they have fewer squads.

but you don't do it with Heavy bolters. and you use lascannons instead of Missiles.

No they can't. Guard is the shootiest army, followed very closely by Tau.

Then a huge gap.

Then the others.

Yeah, because Space Wolves aren't shooty at all. /sarcasm

We've discussed this already, I think 2random is a bit off in his assessment

Carnage43 wrote:

L_Dawg wrote:I thought you couldn't put heavy weapons on 5 man tac squads

Not anymore. Can't give em tank-hunters either. He's probably talking about the 4th edition codex.

Oh. I have the displeasure of only coming around in 5th ed. As such, I feel subpar to everybody here.

Rushed a unit of vets up in a chimera and disembarked them to try and hurriedly pop a space wolves rhino. so my ogryns could shoot them and perhaps charge. Apparently the explosion never happened and the ogryns had to shoot the rhino and managed to wreck it. The squad got out and killed my vet squad with a flamer and still shot enough shots at the ogryns to cause a panic check. They failed and ran for 3 turns straight off my board edge. Failing orders twice.

Note:
1. Dont get hasty with guardsmen.
2. Dont ever get out of the steel box. lol

KingCracker wrote:The reason for that is FlashGits belong in the Elites section, plain and simple. Ive no clue why the hell they are a heavy support, I just cant EVER figure that one out.

Ive heard people say Tau can outshoot Orks. And that I wouldnt disagree with. The only problem is the Tau player in our group is incredibly soft and only plays because her BF plays and when I say she plays, I basically mean he lets her move her minis lol.

But yes, Orks can pump out some incredibly shooty builds. I for one have been doing shooty Orks lately and I love them. Kans vomit rokkits, Lootas vomit bullets like you wouldnt believe, and shoota boyz are great as well. Yes their BS is bad, but their shootas are assault 2 and they have numbers. 60 STR4 shots isnt anything to scoff at, specially when you pair them with all the other shooty aspects in their build. Orks can really do a number with their shooting.

So yea, slightly above the middle



Oh yea, rokkit buggies as well. So shoota boyz en mass in TROOPS, lootas in elites, rokkit buggies in FA and kans (or go kannons if you reALLY want to up your rokkit shooting) in heavy

Any army can configure for shooty, and when they do, they can outshoot orks (barring tyrainds).

Name all the armies who's shootiest builds are inferior to orky ones.

Tyranids, MAYBE BA. That's all that comes to mind.

im2randomghgh wrote:

KingCracker wrote:The reason for that is FlashGits belong in the Elites section, plain and simple. Ive no clue why the hell they are a heavy support, I just cant EVER figure that one out.

Ive heard people say Tau can outshoot Orks. And that I wouldnt disagree with. The only problem is the Tau player in our group is incredibly soft and only plays because her BF plays and when I say she plays, I basically mean he lets her move her minis lol.

But yes, Orks can pump out some incredibly shooty builds. I for one have been doing shooty Orks lately and I love them. Kans vomit rokkits, Lootas vomit bullets like you wouldnt believe, and shoota boyz are great as well. Yes their BS is bad, but their shootas are assault 2 and they have numbers. 60 STR4 shots isnt anything to scoff at, specially when you pair them with all the other shooty aspects in their build. Orks can really do a number with their shooting.

So yea, slightly above the middle



Oh yea, rokkit buggies as well. So shoota boyz en mass in TROOPS, lootas in elites, rokkit buggies in FA and kans (or go kannons if you reALLY want to up your rokkit shooting) in heavy

Any army can configure for shooty, and when they do, they can outshoot orks (barring tyrainds).

Name all the armies who's shootiest builds are inferior to orky ones.

Tyranids, MAYBE BA. That's all that comes to mind.

Are Daemons of Chaos shooty at all? Sure, they can spam Soulgrinders but really...

L_Dawg wrote:

im2randomghgh wrote:

KingCracker wrote:The reason for that is FlashGits belong in the Elites section, plain and simple. Ive no clue why the hell they are a heavy support, I just cant EVER figure that one out.

Ive heard people say Tau can outshoot Orks. And that I wouldnt disagree with. The only problem is the Tau player in our group is incredibly soft and only plays because her BF plays and when I say she plays, I basically mean he lets her move her minis lol.

But yes, Orks can pump out some incredibly shooty builds. I for one have been doing shooty Orks lately and I love them. Kans vomit rokkits, Lootas vomit bullets like you wouldnt believe, and shoota boyz are great as well. Yes their BS is bad, but their shootas are assault 2 and they have numbers. 60 STR4 shots isnt anything to scoff at, specially when you pair them with all the other shooty aspects in their build. Orks can really do a number with their shooting.

So yea, slightly above the middle



Oh yea, rokkit buggies as well. So shoota boyz en mass in TROOPS, lootas in elites, rokkit buggies in FA and kans (or go kannons if you reALLY want to up your rokkit shooting) in heavy

Any army can configure for shooty, and when they do, they can outshoot orks (barring tyrainds).

Name all the armies who's shootiest builds are inferior to orky ones.

Tyranids, MAYBE BA. That's all that comes to mind.

Are Daemons of Chaos shooty at all? Sure, they can spam Soulgrinders but really...

Pink Horrors are decent, but i would hardly call Deamons shooty.


Orks can outshoot many armies, including Tau.

In my very first live game, 1000 points I think it was.

We got Annihilation and Dawn of War.

I went second, so got to measure it out, and put a lone Autarch with warp generator exactly 18" away from a platoon of 20 or so guardsmen behind a hill.

I then rolled and seized ini then I jumped the Autarch all by his lil lonesome at the Guardsmen, shot one, then assaulted them.

I was super lucky, because as his squad piled in, they got too far away from the Kommisar, I killed a few in the assault, they did no wounds to me, they lost morale, I won the ini roll, and my lone Autarch killed every last one of them as they ran.

After the enthusiasm wore off, and many games later, I figured out how stupid a tactic it was to rush an Autarch into a huge horde of enemy all by himself.

I think the worst tactic over all for any army period or mission is,
Playing without reading the codex, army book, or even the rule book in general, (I played 5 matches with the slayers profile in skull pass and allways wondered why he couldn't kill anything)
(this might go in the WHFB version, but it applies to both)

Run forwards, open fire, hope I roll a 5+, a pray that is dies.

This works more often that you'd expect.

Stupidest tactic? Easy... Grey Knights, 3xTechmarine with Orbital Relay, Karamazov, Grand Master with Orbital Relay.

5 orbital relays per turn, at a total cost of 845ish.

When it works, it's AMAZING, and you get to laugh in your opponents face as they scratch their head... when it doesn't work, you get tabled. Definitely the stupidest tactic I've ever used...

Unless you count the time that I played Tau and put an ethereal in my army, seriously what the hell are those guys for?

Trying to pincer the opponent had Khorne Beserkers flanking left and 15 normal CSM flanking right with the rest heading straight up the middle, they moved constantly away from the beserkers who got a total of 3 kills in a match that was fail, and the CSM got squished aswell
yeah that was my first game with CSMs

Grey Templar wrote:

L_Dawg wrote:

im2randomghgh wrote:

KingCracker wrote:The reason for that is FlashGits belong in the Elites section, plain and simple. Ive no clue why the hell they are a heavy support, I just cant EVER figure that one out.

Ive heard people say Tau can outshoot Orks. And that I wouldnt disagree with. The only problem is the Tau player in our group is incredibly soft and only plays because her BF plays and when I say she plays, I basically mean he lets her move her minis lol.

But yes, Orks can pump out some incredibly shooty builds. I for one have been doing shooty Orks lately and I love them. Kans vomit rokkits, Lootas vomit bullets like you wouldnt believe, and shoota boyz are great as well. Yes their BS is bad, but their shootas are assault 2 and they have numbers. 60 STR4 shots isnt anything to scoff at, specially when you pair them with all the other shooty aspects in their build. Orks can really do a number with their shooting.

So yea, slightly above the middle



Oh yea, rokkit buggies as well. So shoota boyz en mass in TROOPS, lootas in elites, rokkit buggies in FA and kans (or go kannons if you reALLY want to up your rokkit shooting) in heavy

Any army can configure for shooty, and when they do, they can outshoot orks (barring tyrainds).

Name all the armies who's shootiest builds are inferior to orky ones.

Tyranids, MAYBE BA. That's all that comes to mind.

Are Daemons of Chaos shooty at all? Sure, they can spam Soulgrinders but really...

Pink Horrors are decent, but i would hardly call Deamons shooty.


Orks can outshoot many armies, including Tau.

Not unless you spam kroot.

and flamers shoot...flames. Flames=pwn orks.

And no, they can't outshoot Tau. IG can outshoot Tau (most of the time, because they aren't quite as mobile but have feth huge firepower) SW can outshoot Tau (Long Fang spam) and an especially well configured DE army can outshoot Tau. I have never been outshot by anyone else while using Tau, and have never seen it happen. And If you bring in The Tau forgeworld XV9, they can reliably outshoot DE and SW. IG still have them trumped in shooting though.


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junk wrote:Stupidest tactic? Easy... Grey Knights, 3xTechmarine with Orbital Relay, Karamazov, Grand Master with Orbital Relay.

5 orbital relays per turn, at a total cost of 845ish.

When it works, it's AMAZING, and you get to laugh in your opponents face as they scratch their head... when it doesn't work, you get tabled. Definitely the stupidest tactic I've ever used...

Unless you count the time that I played Tau and put an ethereal in my army, seriously what the hell are those guys for?

They're for the honour guard of BS4 Tau FW. It still isn't worth it though...ESPECIALLY AUN'VA

worst tactic I used was advancing towards o duel dreadkights list (Never ever ever again), ah well. At the same tounament I played against Daemons (I was using a mech gunline list) and he deployed evrything at the otherside, he seemed afraid of 5 scouts holed out in a building and Ku'gath killed himself in the end i won 7-0 on killpoints and i didn't lose a single model

Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:worst tactic I used was advancing towards o duel dreadkights list (Never ever ever again), ah well. At the same tounament I played against Daemons (I was using a mech gunline list) and he deployed evrything at the otherside, he seemed afraid of 5 scouts holed out in a building and Ku'gath killed himself in the end i won 7-0 on killpoints and i didn't lose a single model

...kewl

im2randomghgh:
Not unless you spam kroot.

and flamers shoot...flames. Flames=pwn orks.

And no, they can't outshoot Tau. IG can outshoot Tau (most of the time, because they aren't quite as mobile but have feth huge firepower) SW can outshoot Tau (Long Fang spam) and an especially well configured DE army can outshoot Tau. I have never been outshot by anyone else while using Tau, and have never seen it happen. And If you bring in The Tau forgeworld XV9, they can reliably outshoot DE and SW. IG still have them trumped in shooting though.

You forget, if tau get within flamer range...they are usually alreadly dead

I love my lil' blue boys, but they are definitly outclassed by orks when it comes to volume of fire and sheer killiness. You can have 45 lootas, 180 shoota boys, battlewagons can dump out some killiness, and tthats not even including the HQ and Fast attack sections

Sure, the tau are great in alot of ways, but remember...



It is sad, but true. With that disadvantage we can't make up for the volume of fire that the orks have, we have the best guns in the game, but we can't hit with them half of the time. Tau will be in the top 2 shooty armies if they get BS 4, as of right now, they are above average, maybe their best builds are 4-5 in shootiness

mythological wrote:

im2randomghgh:
Not unless you spam kroot.

and flamers shoot...flames. Flames=pwn orks.

And no, they can't outshoot Tau. IG can outshoot Tau (most of the time, because they aren't quite as mobile but have feth huge firepower) SW can outshoot Tau (Long Fang spam) and an especially well configured DE army can outshoot Tau. I have never been outshot by anyone else while using Tau, and have never seen it happen. And If you bring in The Tau forgeworld XV9, they can reliably outshoot DE and SW. IG still have them trumped in shooting though.

You forget, if tau get within flamer range...they are usually alreadly dead

I love my lil' blue boys, but they are definitly outclassed by orks when it comes to volume of fire and sheer killiness. You can have 45 lootas, 180 shoota boys, battlewagons can dump out some killiness, and tthats not even including the HQ and Fast attack sections

Sure, the tau are great in alot of ways, but remember...

Spoiler:

They are only 1 BS skill higher than orks...

It is sad, but true. With that disadvantage we can't make up for the volume of fire that the orks have, we have the best guns in the game, but we can't hit with them half of the time. Tau will be in the top 2 shooty armies if they get BS 4, as of right now, they are above average, maybe their best builds are 4-5 in shootiness

...that's assuming your Tau tactics is: stand there and hope you win.

The Tau's asset is mobility. Fly your crisis suits in close, pump out 1 LBT, 2 templates, 3 str 5 shots, five str3 ~rending shots, and a str6 ap2 rapid fire shots, then fly behind cover. That's just my HQ.

And when you get XV9s, you win at shooting. Period.

im2randomghgh wrote:

mythological wrote:

im2randomghgh:
Not unless you spam kroot.

and flamers shoot...flames. Flames=pwn orks.

And no, they can't outshoot Tau. IG can outshoot Tau (most of the time, because they aren't quite as mobile but have feth huge firepower) SW can outshoot Tau (Long Fang spam) and an especially well configured DE army can outshoot Tau. I have never been outshot by anyone else while using Tau, and have never seen it happen. And If you bring in The Tau forgeworld XV9, they can reliably outshoot DE and SW. IG still have them trumped in shooting though.

You forget, if tau get within flamer range...they are usually alreadly dead

I love my lil' blue boys, but they are definitly outclassed by orks when it comes to volume of fire and sheer killiness. You can have 45 lootas, 180 shoota boys, battlewagons can dump out some killiness, and tthats not even including the HQ and Fast attack sections

Sure, the tau are great in alot of ways, but remember...

Spoiler:

They are only 1 BS skill higher than orks...

It is sad, but true. With that disadvantage we can't make up for the volume of fire that the orks have, we have the best guns in the game, but we can't hit with them half of the time. Tau will be in the top 2 shooty armies if they get BS 4, as of right now, they are above average, maybe their best builds are 4-5 in shootiness

...that's assuming your Tau tactics is: stand there and hope you win.

The Tau's asset is mobility. Fly your crisis suits in close, pump out 1 LBT, 2 templates, 3 str 5 shots, five str3 ~rending shots, and a str6 ap2 rapid fire shots, then fly behind cover. That's just my HQ.

And when you get XV9s, you win at shooting. Period.

The funny thing is....you won't get there, unless you are playing a game with 75% terrain (50% of which is BLOS) they are going to get their shots off, all...lets see...up to 135 shots, and thats just the lootas.

The thing is that yeah, Tau do have nice mobility, but if that ork gets first turn, a good amount of that mobility becomes...not so mobile...and sure, our suits are fine and all, but those shots from your HQ will get through the KFF for what? around 8 orks, big whoop. That cover you just hid being just got raked by 44 shots, by that unit alone...

You have to realize that I play Tau too (and do well with them), but I would not like playing a completly shooty ork army, and you are overestimating the tau by throwing out numbers and stats.

But enough of this, we are derailing the thread and I've enjoyed reading it so far. you can throw your response back at me but the fact remains, Tau are by no means a top tier shooty army (again, higher than average)

Dont let 2random get to you, hes a Tau fanboy like no other.

1. Sat a shooty dreadknight in cover (yes you read that correctly) and let salamander TH/SS termies assault it out of a LR. (I killed two...)

2. Assault through terrain with a DK. (Wait what? They don't have frag granades?)

3. DSed a paladin squad w/ grand master behind 2 filled rhinos and a vindicator (ended in rapid fire range). Filled rhinos had melta, combi-melta, and multi melta. Any guess on which army that was? (See #1 if you can't figure it out).

4. Took a single vibro cannon.

5. Took multiple vibro cannons. (never scored a single hit)

6. 3 full squads of land speeders vs orks with tons of dakka. (but they all have flamers!!!! was my thought) Strangly enough I still won this game. See bellow how.

Played against:
Allowed my 3 combi-flamers and libby with flamer power get in range of his slightly beat up mob (was down to 19 models). Exactly 19 wounds later...

KingCracker wrote:Dont let 2random get to you, hes a Tau fanboy like no other.

Says the guy whos avatar is a picture of himself modded to be more orky -_-"


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Anyways, the stupidest tactics i've ever used was probably probably kroot spam. I gave them krootox, not realizing that it made them lose their infiltration!

Modded? Who said anything about modded? Thats a real picture of me my friend. You can ask LegoBurner, he met me once.

I have 2

C:CSM
3 5man 4 autocannon havocs
3 Dreadnoughts
aaannnndddd

Chaos Spawn.

Yeah, that ended well.

Tyranids:

Unit of raveners 9 strong DS'd beside a unit of Zoanthropes

Zoans shot at Pink Horrors, changeling made me challenge

Failed LD

Zoans blast templated 9 raveners with 3 hits, doing 27 wounds.

Was not my proudest moment.

mythological wrote:
Sure, the tau are great in alot of ways, but remember...

They are only 1 BS skill higher than orks...

It is sad, but true. With that disadvantage we can't make up for the volume of fire that the orks have, we have the best guns in the game, but we can't hit with them half of the time. Tau will be in the top 2 shooty armies if they get BS 4, as of right now, they are above average, maybe their best builds are 4-5 in shootiness

But OMG Marker Lights!!!!! Suddenly you have a squad of Firewarriors rapid-firing and hitting on 2's with S5 weapons!!

Murrdox wrote:

mythological wrote:
Sure, the tau are great in alot of ways, but remember...

They are only 1 BS skill higher than orks...

It is sad, but true. With that disadvantage we can't make up for the volume of fire that the orks have, we have the best guns in the game, but we can't hit with them half of the time. Tau will be in the top 2 shooty armies if they get BS 4, as of right now, they are above average, maybe their best builds are 4-5 in shootiness

But OMG Marker Lights!!!!! Suddenly you have a squad of Firewarriors rapid-firing and hitting on 2's with S5 weapons!!

EXACTLY!!! SOME1 GETS IT!!!


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KingCracker wrote:Modded? Who said anything about modded? Thats a real picture of me my friend. You can ask LegoBurner, he met me once.

In that case, I want a hat JUST LIKE HIS.

this weekend i knew i was getting charged anyway but 19 gretchin 1 ruth and a bik mek w/ SAG all shot at and charged a 7 man space wolves tac squad (one with makr of the wolfan or however its called that he gets stupid amount of attacks). they were slaughtered but they survived the one round of combat for a warboss w/ 19 slugga boys and a nob w/ pk to get in there to not be counter charged... they served thier purpose as they would have died in the charge anyway and extra attacks helped thin em out

@Im2randomghgh
The sad truth is, Tau are the shooty army that isn't shooty. They're easily outshot by IG, SW and DE. Certain builds of orks can, quite easily, outshoot Tau. Low ballistic skill all round+all special weapons mounted on overcosted units that run away after 1 casualty+only 2 LBT that either requires you to sacrifice a railgun shot (the only thing Tau have going for them) or can only be taken once+low numbers=poor shooting.


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Oh, and stupidest tactic I've ever used: Played Auri'Va and fethloads of fire warriors. Against Space Wolves. For laughs.
So, I was using 1000pt list, 200 pts of it was just a huge handicap, with about 50 fire warriors and 4 suits.
Turn 1-Auri'Va dies. 2 of the 5 FW squads run off the table, 1 squad of suits follows. Suit commander eliminated, FW squad eliminated.
Fire back. Kill 1 long fang.
Turn 2-remaining FWs blown to pieces. Game over.

Dont you just LOVE when you unload on a MEQ and they take like 1 or 2 casualties

Mine was definitely charging a group of genestealers with sanguinary guard. I had gotten mad that I moved my assault marines up too far so they were charged and promptly destroyed. I figured the 2+ save from the artificer armor would keep enough around to tear up the 8-ish stealers. 5 rending wounds later I was out a whole lot of points and not very happy

My most stupid move was using Assualt marines to hold a position... while standing still...

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One of my Biggest Lols of all was deep striking terminators and Vanguad Veterans on the same area and both landing off the Board!

Lols

But OMG Marker Lights!!!!! Suddenly you have a squad of Firewarriors rapid-firing and hitting on 2's with S5 weapons!!

True, markerlights are fine, but against an opponent with half a brain, your only going to be getting that bonus for around 3 turns, AND, unless you invest an unholy number in pathfinders, you can only light up around 2 targets a turn

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and wait...you use Firewarriors as your example? why are they out of their tranpsort? bad, tau player, bad

I used tyranids to fight a tau army. I used 1/3 of my army just to take out a squad of stealth suits......then I remembered that my other half of my army was in reserves and basically I was shoot and tankshocked.

P.S putting a trygon prime in front of a tau hammerhead is not the best idea to try.

G00fySmiley wrote:first time playing tyranids once i had battlewagons... i rammed with my deffrollainto a trygon when it deep striked. did not end well for me or the 20 boys inside. lost 14 boys and the rest fo the boys and nob failed thier leadership even with bp

learned my lesson about trying to deff roll monstrous creatues

You charged into a Trygon?!

Scarabs turbo boost and surround a rhino full of plague marines. I shoot it causing it to explode. The guys cannot get out and DIE!

The club then banned scarabs from turbo boosting...

Phototoxin wrote:Scarabs turbo boost and surround a rhino full of plague marines. I shoot it causing it to explode. The guys cannot get out and DIE!

The club then banned scarabs from turbo boosting...

That wasn't a stupid tactic. However, the club was quite unfair, IMO. The necrons need all tricks they can get, don't they?

Saintspirit wrote:

Phototoxin wrote:Scarabs turbo boost and surround a rhino full of plague marines. I shoot it causing it to explode. The guys cannot get out and DIE!

The club then banned scarabs from turbo boosting...

That wasn't a stupid tactic. However, the club was quite unfair, IMO. The necrons need all tricks they can get, don't they?

As far as I know, if you'd wrecked the vehicle that would be the result (entirely fair, and a result that rewards risky and well-coordinated tactics IMO. It's not as if physically surrounding enemy models is easy or risk-free) but since it exploded, he can simply place the passengers in the resulting crater.

Worse moment was in a 1000 point battle I was playing necrons against marines, I didn't bring a lot of units, maybe around 25 altogether. Turn 1 he drops an orbital bombardment onto my warriors killing most of them,, then uses assault troops to lock up my destroyers killing them . I phased out before I had a chance.

trying to kill a broodlord with 5 SM scouts with sniperrifles isn't a great idea.. espescialy when he has a unit of 10 Ymgarl (orso) genestealers around him.. why did i do that anyway??

Joske De Veteraan wrote:trying to kill a broodlord with 5 SM scouts with sniperrifles isn't a great idea.. espescialy when he has a unit of 10 Ymgarl (orso) genestealers around him.. why did i do that anyway??

I didn't think Ymgarl genestealers could take broodlords

flank marching my revenant titan behind a reaver...failed to do much of anything also forgot the reaver could turn around. yup. i ended up modelling a eldar titan head for his reavers base as a kudos.

I used to always drive my trukks 18" before I found out all the passengers die instead of disembarking if it's destroyed, but because I had never really lost many trukks early in the game (mostly due to obscene luck), I kept doing it and still sometimes try for some reason, even though I have suffered the consequences many times now. I also love to shoot ork sluggas before a charge, because I find it hilarious when they kill anything with slugga shots, but sometimes it works too well and the target unit will fall back, especially if they are SM, and so I can't assault.

CODY! wrote:I used to always drive my trukks 18" before I found out all the passengers die instead of disembarking if it's destroyed

This is wrong. You only lose them if you destroy it during your turn. Not your opponent's. So just don't ram anyone and blow up your truck.
Skimmers have it worse in that if they land in terrain they can get destroyed that way too.

BRB FAQ
Q: If a transport vehicle is destroyed in the same turn as it moved flat out what happens to any embarked models? (p70)
A: They are removed as casualties.

BRB, P9
"whenever a rule uses the word 'turn', both in the rule book and in the Codexes, it means 'player turn', otherwise it will clearly state 'game turn'."

I took 2 squads of Sang. Guard, Dante and Mephiston in a 1000 point game, against a mob of Orks. Did not end well...

It was quite funny though.

Ran a 20 man mob of zerkers was lashed then doom sirened.

needless to say i never ran a 20 man squad ever again...

I once moved a vindicator 12" into the open battle field and did not use smoke launchers and didn't hide behind cover. It got wrecked next turn. I rolled for the 4+ to see what would have happened and I rolled a 5. Sigh....

LEEEROYYYYYY... JENNNKINNNNNNNNSSS!

Hurray....a WoW reference.

My most moronic tactic has always been to not attack the unit closest to me, but to try to attack a model 18 inches away.

That was before I ran my wyches with a haemonculi...

KingCracker wrote:
Hurray....a WoW reference.

It is more than a wow reference. It is almost a cultural thing.

If you go on youtube, you'll find Halo, CoD and a $#1T l0@d of other games (probably wargames too) with LJ references.

ramming a landspeeder into a landraider CUZ I GOTZ MY WEAPONS BLOWED UP'ED...sad part is at 12 inches id thougt it would work total r'tard manuver

let me guess, the hit on your speeder rolled a 6?

oh no landraider fine landspeeder..obliterf%^*ked

yeah, thats what i meant


your landspeeder couldn't hurt the landraider unless it moved 24"(and then is glancing on 6s)

your landspeeder couldn't hurt the landraider unless it moved 24"(and then is glancing on 6s)

Except speeders aren't tanks, and hence can't ram.

I once completely ruined my guardian placement. They were both positioned in such a way so a nearby squad of bezerkers in a land raider could assault both without going through cover. Yea need to work on my range guessing.

Also, I stayed put against a BA jumpy army in a multi-objective game instead of advancing on him. We basically didn't move for 3 turns, and then he jumped out and took 2 objectives on the last turn.

oh i thougt you meany i pulled it off sory, Yeah I was still trying to get the hang of that rule ive only ever done like three times but by the time i did it, it was too late

I sent in all my units straight towards my enemy. I got gunned down first turn (Leroy Jenkins)

Apparently you weren't playing as Orks then. That's about the best tactic for them.

Destroyed my own monolith by a full 12 inch scatter back to me <_<

deciding that single combat between black ork warboss on a Wyvern and an elf prince on a dragon was a sensible idea

^^^Wrong game system, but hey.

I remember one game in my early ork days, I was playtesting shooty orks, as my friend had reccomended it. I ended up playing it wrong, and ending up in a full-on fire fight against tau in cover. I was in the open. I was also too stubborn to believe that MOAR DAKKA would not work and hiding in cover would be better...

Naw, I was playin da oomies. (My friend's old Space Wolves )

timetowaste85 wrote:

Joske De Veteraan wrote:trying to kill a broodlord with 5 SM scouts with sniperrifles isn't a great idea.. espescialy when he has a unit of 10 Ymgarl (orso) genestealers around him.. why did i do that anyway??

I didn't think Ymgarl genestealers could take broodlords

Damn cheater i found it already suspicious..

Tank Shocking a Broodlord (previous edition Tyranids) with two Rhinos and a Predator. That were then eaten in quick succession.

im2randomghgh wrote:

KingCracker wrote:
Hurray....a WoW reference.

It is more than a wow reference. It is almost a cultural thing.

If you go on youtube, you'll find Halo, CoD and a $#1T l0@d of other games (probably wargames too) with LJ references.

Which originated on WoW

500 point, 3-way game.

Veil of Darkness my squad away from approaching Space Wolves, thinking I was being super tactical. Land in Assault range of a 30 strong squad of Ork Boyz.

I lost.

1.5k - Ulthwe
Farseer
Singing spear
RoW
Spirit Stones
Fortune
Guide

Farseer
Singing spear
Spirit Stones
Guide
Doom

Guardian Defenders(10) x6
Brightlance
Warlock
Conceal

3x Nightspinners

Have no idea what i was thinking with this list, at least it was fluffy
Fluff didn't win me any games tho

Charging rough riders into the doom of malan'tai. Infact, charging rough riders into anything with a decent invulnerable save is a pretty bad idea. At least they managed to kill some storm shield terminators, they did nothing at all against the doom.

Plasma cannoning a unit within 6'' of the firing unit. The blast scattered backwards and wiped the devastator squad out to a man.

Also, charging 4e carnifexes. Nom.

Deployed my tau in a tight defensive formation... against shrike. We should have just called the game right there instead of playing it out.

Walked my infantry-heavy (mostly power-armoured) army towards a baneblade...

That's... Smart... 'Cause Leroy Jenkins is smarter

Grixis wrote:500 point, 3-way game.

Veil of Darkness my squad away from approaching Space Wolves, thinking I was being super tactical. Land in Assault range of a 30 strong squad of Ork Boyz.

I lost.

I did something similar once. I veiled Immortals/Lord away from some a SM command squad, totally forgetting there was assault terminators in a LR right next to where I put them

Same outcome

played a tau player. who didn't know his rules. and he was changing his army list DURING the game.
Marched towards him.

Melee oriented Tau army.

No.

I took farsight, R'myr and a SHTLOD of bubblewrap (kroot) with krootoxes=no stealth.

fail.

Hard.

In my first game against chaos I charged my entire army of marines straight at him, not knowing what obliterators or berserkers of khorne were...

Ouch. Thats why you ask "hey what do those guys do" first

A unit of 5 man long fangs armed with heavy bolters in a razorback flat out up the board then jumping out to go nuts.....didn't work well :-)

That's probably what I would do in real life Hip-fire that bi*ch into the crowd and hope for the best Or snipe.. :/

in my last game of 1500 pts I managed to only take 1 synapse creature. The parasite or mortrex. One S8 wound later my army was flailing about like a bunch of six year olds at a birthday party.

Playing one of the SM battle missions where your opponent is in the middle and you surrond them, against another SM force. First mistake was actually splitting my forces so that I had units on all sides, as he just ended up killing one flank at a time.

Second mistake was having Vulkan, a Librarian, and a combat squad of tac marines alone on one side, figuring they could kill most anything that showed up (was still a fairly new player at this point). His turn one, drop pods an Ironclad Dreadnought right next to the rhino, blows it up, and I roll boxcars for pinning. Next turn it assualts, and after four assualt phases of laughing at my guys not being able to hurt it, finally finishes off the unit.

charging a lash sorcerer and my last remaining thousand sons into a large squad of about 30-40 guardsmen with commisar. then forgetting that had warp time and so fluffed all attacks then died to fearless saves :(

Gandair wrote:in my last game of 1500 pts I managed to only take 1 synapse creature. The parasite or mortrex. One S8 wound later my army was flailing about like a bunch of six year olds at a birthday party.

Im not going to lie, that is hilarious

KingCracker wrote:

Gandair wrote:in my last game of 1500 pts I managed to only take 1 synapse creature. The parasite or mortrex. One S8 wound later my army was flailing about like a bunch of six year olds at a birthday party.

Im not going to lie, that is hilarious

+1 for hilarity kudos to you sir

i once charged the nightbringer with my farseer....
It only had two wounds left and he actually killed it

Another shining moment for me was charging a greater daemon of nurgle with a squad of guardians....
Had one wound but still the warlock killed it

Witchblades seem to make up for my terrible ideas

Gandair wrote:in my last game of 1500 pts I managed to only take 1 synapse creature. The parasite or mortrex. One S8 wound later my army was flailing about like a bunch of six year olds at a birthday party.

You sir, are a master of simile.

I had a friend ram his weapon-less Fire Prism into my Dreadnought. I DoG and whiff. He immobilises me, the return hit vs. the Fire Prism explodes it, leaving a very suprised Dreadnought.

Camping an iron warriors basilisk battery with attendant shadowsword on the back edge of the table. In apocalypse. Where chainfist terminators can flank march AND assault on the same turn :(

Using an IG army, I replicated the flying V from the Mighty Ducks. Chimeras and LR's shielding a whole mess of Rough Riders and sentinels.
The sad thing is, it worked.....

derfelcadarn wrote:Using an IG army, I replicated the flying V from the Mighty Ducks. Chimeras and LR's shielding a whole mess of Rough Riders and sentinels.
The sad thing is, it worked.....

Quack...Quack...Quack QUACK QUACK QQQUUUUUUAAAAAAACCCCCKKKKK

Vanguard Veterans. That's really all I need to say about that.

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Took 10 chaos spawn in a 1000 pt army Im surprised I won a game ! and lost about :3

I kitted an IG veteran squad out with Harker, Autocannon and three snipers and had them sit next to each other in a ruined building, because I really thought they could take out anything with that kind of firepower (it was one of my first games).
Sadly I played against vanilla marines, and the player just happened to have an assault squad with 2 flamers... I think I was tabled by turn 3 without the opponent taking any casualties and that was only because he almost also was a total newbie.

actually i have topped my self (and this one is 40K)

charging my opponents carnifex with yarrick and hoping for the best

Fairfeldia wrote:charging my opponents carnifex with yarrick and hoping for the best

If your going to lose...

Lose in style!

dajobe wrote:

derfelcadarn wrote:Using an IG army, I replicated the flying V from the Mighty Ducks. Chimeras and LR's shielding a whole mess of Rough Riders and sentinels.
The sad thing is, it worked.....

Quack...Quack...Quack QUACK QUACK QQQUUUUUUAAAAAAACCCCCKKKKK

If someone i played did that i think i would concede the game then and there because i would be laughing to hard to play.

Charging Abbadon with a naked DH inquisitor (before new codex,) and a mystic and having Abbadon roll a 1 on his attacks and impaling himself, (he only had 1 wound left.)

Deciding it would be a good idea to try and rush an eldar player who took 3 units of dark reapers with maugen'ra with a single infantry platoon

I'm sure there are more.

AlmightyWalrus wrote:I had a friend ram his weapon-less Fire Prism into my Dreadnought. I DoG and whiff. He immobilises me, the return hit vs. the Fire Prism explodes it, leaving a very suprised Dreadnought.

I don't believe Dreadnoughts can Death or Glory, or that any vehicle can... If you could, and you failed it, you would automatically die...

Dreadnoughts can death and glory. They are walkers after all.

I don't believe Dreadnoughts can Death or Glory, or that any vehicle can... If you could, and you failed it, you would automatically die...

There are in fact seldom-used rules for walkers performing death or glory. It's in the section on walkers under "Ramming a Walker." Failed death or glory just results in the ram being resolved against rear armor.

First time using chaos termies, send them in to take down deff dread blocking objective, "Lightning claws do what?"

Had an epic battle with Khorne lord and Tau Leadersuit, then lord decided to smack himself in the head with his sword till he died.

Footslogged against Mech-Guard with CSM

Charged a full unit of Ork Boyz with a Nurgle Prince

Last game I charged a Trygon Prime with a Deff Dread.

First time using a Callidus assassin, back in the day.

second turn: *rolls die* A 4! She comes in!

*places her next to some devastators* She has a cool flamer!

*shoot flamer, kill 3* Sweet! Now I'm gonna charge, she's got a weapon that ignores invul saves!

*charges, kills three more, unit passes morale, locked in combat* Sweet!


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Also Callidus assassin shenanigans: Charged a wraithlord, thinking her cool sword would do the trick. Cool sword is S4 though....

Spellbound wrote:First time using a Callidus assassin, back in the day.

second turn: *rolls die* A 4! She comes in!

*places her next to some devastators* She has a cool flamer!

*shoot flamer, kill 3* Sweet! Now I'm gonna charge, she's got a weapon that ignores invul saves!

*charges, kills three more, unit passes morale, locked in combat* Sweet!


.....Holy crap I just skipped my whole second turn....


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Also Callidus assassin shenanigans: Charged a wraithlord, thinking her cool sword would do the trick. Cool sword is S4 though....

You need to stop fielding Callidus assassins. They're like your kryptonite.

Spellbound wrote:

.....Holy crap I just skipped my whole second turn....

lmao.

That is priceless. I'm usually the guy who puts marbo, a callidus or wolf scouts down and then takes my entire turn without using them. Yours is soooo much better though.

Prepped an entire list full of melta guns and other anti-armor units. my IG opponent pulled out 13 lascannons and no vehicles.

Even with a 200 point advantage we fought to a draw.

Spellbound wrote:First time using a Callidus assassin, back in the day.

second turn: *rolls die* A 4! She comes in!

*places her next to some devastators* She has a cool flamer!

*shoot flamer, kill 3* Sweet! Now I'm gonna charge, she's got a weapon that ignores invul saves!

*charges, kills three more, unit passes morale, locked in combat* Sweet!


.....Holy crap I just skipped my whole second turn....


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Also Callidus assassin shenanigans: Charged a wraithlord, thinking her cool sword would do the trick. Cool sword is S4 though....

lol, that was really funny, i have done things like accidentally skipping shooting phase by assaulting or forgeting to assault and getting butt pwned because of, but skipping an entire turn is classic. TOP NOTCH STORY!

I didnt do it, so it shouldnt be on here, but my friend is probably one of the worst WH40K tactician ever!
He plays eldar and we were having a medium sized game (around 1750 pts each) I will list his misteakes (lol)
1.) Trying to kill my land raider with shuriken pistols
2.) Being an eldar player
3.) Using Dark reapers as assault units
4.) Trying to kill my terminators in assault with a farseer (all 20 of them)
5.) Putting gaurdians into his wave serpent instead of Fire dragons or banshees
6.) Getting his fire prism next to my vidicator and trying to kill Cpt. Shrike (in cover) with the beam.

I find it seriously funny how he still doesnt know why he is losing against me!

ChronoBasha@gmail.com wrote:I didnt do it, so it shouldnt be on here, but my friend is probably one of the worst WH40K tactician ever!
He plays eldar and we were having a medium sized game (around 1750 pts each) I will list his misteakes (lol)

I find it seriously funny how he still doesnt know why he is losing against me!

How about helping him improve his game, rather than tearing him down somewhat anonymously on an internet forum?

What's worse... Worst WH40k tactician or Worst RL Friend?

pretre wrote:

ChronoBasha@gmail.com wrote:I didnt do it, so it shouldnt be on here, but my friend is probably one of the worst WH40K tactician ever!
He plays eldar and we were having a medium sized game (around 1750 pts each) I will list his misteakes (lol)

I find it seriously funny how he still doesnt know why he is losing against me!

How about helping him improve his game, rather than tearing him down somewhat anonymously on an internet forum?

What's worse... Worst WH40k tactician or Worst RL Friend?

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!

I'm sure he told him as each thing happened.

I remember someone charging my predator tank with incubi waaaaaaaay waaaaaaay back in early 3rd edition. "What's their strength?" "Four, but they have POWER WEAPONS" ".....ok, so?" "So...wait, lemme check...."

Apparently power weapons were canned death and destruction back in 2nd edition? He was surprised it didn't do anything special versus vehicles. His charge did nothing.

Spellbound wrote:I'm sure he told him as each thing happened.

I find it seriously funny how he still doesnt know why he is losing against me!

Yeah, he's withholding.

I remember someone charging my predator tank with incubi waaaaaaaay waaaaaaay back in early 3rd edition. "What's their strength?" "Four, but they have POWER WEAPONS" ".....ok, so?" "So...wait, lemme check...."

Apparently power weapons were canned death and destruction back in 2nd edition? He was surprised it didn't do anything special versus vehicles. His charge did nothing.

Nice. I give wicked takebacks in our garage games. (And in tournament games, much to my detriment sometimes.) Quite a bit of 'You know that's a really bad idea, right?'

Spellbound wrote:I'm sure he told him as each thing happened.

I remember someone charging my predator tank with incubi waaaaaaaay waaaaaaay back in early 3rd edition. "What's their strength?" "Four, but they have POWER WEAPONS" ".....ok, so?" "So...wait, lemme check...."

Apparently power weapons were canned death and destruction back in 2nd edition? He was surprised it didn't do anything special versus vehicles. His charge did nothing.

this is what happens when the rules get completely overhauled.


Power Weapons were canned death in 2nd.

a pair of LCs DOUBLED your attacks, not simply +1.

i deep striked every thing in my Blood Angels army in a 1000pts. army except for 5-man scout squad and honour guard squad... both killed in first turn

I exploded my own killa kan with a grotzooka.....

My friend shot me with a plasma cannon. He stattered onto his own predator. It blew up and killed his techmarine.

msteward wrote:My friend shot me with a plasma cannon. He stattered onto his own predator. It blew up and killed his techmarine.

lol, my brother did a similiar thing where he killed a land speeder and exploded and killed a terminator, but yours is MUCH more points, that would be rough

I got tank shocked by an Ork trukk. My last obliterator DoG'd and missed...Dead Obliterator. Next turn, my Terminators explode the trukk, It ramschackles into the terminators, wounding three. Two 1's, two dead terminators.

*Facepalm*

i had about 5 tukk convoys in an apoc game. i used them to block the enemy's view of my grots. Some IG player launched some deathstrike missles into the trukks all of them blew up with my grots crowded in. 5 out of 300 grots made it out. wtf.

I watched a SM rhino tank shock a demon prince, the prince DoG and you guessed it, failed horribly. Dunno how much that deamon prince was, but I doubt it was the 40ish points that rhino was

that rhino pilot was a boss, he was all like"lets crank this S%$T up to 11!"

dajobe wrote:

Spellbound wrote:First time using a Callidus assassin, back in the day.

second turn: *rolls die* A 4! She comes in!

*places her next to some devastators* She has a cool flamer!

*shoot flamer, kill 3* Sweet! Now I'm gonna charge, she's got a weapon that ignores invul saves!

*charges, kills three more, unit passes morale, locked in combat* Sweet!


.....Holy crap I just skipped my whole second turn....


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Also Callidus assassin shenanigans: Charged a wraithlord, thinking her cool sword would do the trick. Cool sword is S4 though....

lol, that was really funny, i have done things like accidentally skipping shooting phase by assaulting or forgeting to assault and getting butt pwned because of, but skipping an entire turn is classic. TOP NOTCH STORY!

As I a primarily Warmahordes player, I can say that it's easy to tell which players have just come into the game from 40k. They're the ones whose entire army does a full advance, then facepalm.

Well this seems to have turned into funny situations more than stupid tactics, but whatever works.
Me as IG vs Daemons. My demolisher with plasma sponsons only just got into range, and started unloading on the way too close gribblies. Plasma cannon scatters back, right onto my vendetta. Coincidentally, I killed more points of my own army than the enemy did there.

Second one was a big multiplayer game, Me with orks and and allied Orks against Necrons and Salamanders. It's late in the game, everything's stuck in, and the nightbringer the Necron player brought is murdering things left and right. I believe it had lost one wound, and my opponent was still quite cocky with it. It wandered into tankshock range for a Deathrolla. Splat

10 man bike squad and 20 ork boys charge lilith and 3 witches who had a pain token, 3 turns later lillith is the only one left she then took a deff gun to the face.

dajobe wrote:that rhino pilot was a boss, he was all like"lets crank this S%$T up to 11!"

I bet thats what he said too. I know the SM player certainly had the attitude afterwards. Literally pointed that dead prince down and kept yelling "IN YOUR FACE!!!!!!!!!!" and a couple middle fingers, you get the idea.



Also these are silly situations, the demon prince player gambled a taking out an easy target, which in effect is a stupid tactic. Why risk losing something like the DP, when you could just let it go by and either ignore it, or smash the hell out if it next turn?

One that was VERY recent. I was playing DW, my buddy was all drop pod SW, and my other buddy was Chaos. We were fighting Eldar and the new Grey Knights... well as you can imagine, those ddep strikes didn't work out too well. We lost two whole squads of grey hunters to drop pod mishaps and a squad of termies was killed before it even moved. I never killed a single model and lost half my army by turn two. It was shameful.

I was playing as Orks and had 10 burna boyz in a trukk. Drove it past some infiltrated scouts on my first turn. 54 flamer wounds later the scouts were literally nothing. *begins playing Kansas's Dust in the Wind*

Playing a demo game of Planet Strike at my local GW store. I was Deathwing / Ravenwing, and my buddy was Space Wolves. We were against Tau and Black Templar. We got 13 (yes that's right) orbital strikes before the game started. We asked the store manager if he had 13 craters we could use... his face was priceless.

Later in the above mentioned planet strike game Ragnar and a company of three surviving terminators got shot by 5 sword brethren. 3 wounds, three 1's. All termies died. *facepalm*. Next turn, Ragnar charges the sword brethren and kills them ALL. REVENGE!!!!!

Playing an Apoc game as Orks I charged my deff dread, trukk full of burnaz and my Warboss across no man's land. Only the warboss and two burnaz make it to the other side with a total of 0 kills. Then the Warboss TORE DOWN a BUILDING full of Tau warriors, who were flamed by the burnaz... smells like victory.

And I'm sure there are many more.

-WAAGH!

one that was used against me last night, cities of death against chaos, he's driving down a street in his vindicator mincing my white shield, he takes a wrong turn and drives into a street tht is too narrow, he can't turn and can't reverse becasue his obliterators are following, i roll a 6 on my death strike next turn....

Charged Marbo with a summoned greater deamon while Marbo was in cover. No grenades, SGD went down to I1, Marbo got a little bit lucky with the to hit rolls, 2+ to wound all wounded, deamon failed 4 of it's invo saves....

Tried to take on a warboss and 6 ork nobs with a five man hellion unit.

They all died. DIED.

The Dark Eldar were made the sock puppets of the green horde that day.

I once saw a demon prince(1 wound left) charge a lone guardsman that was the last in his squad and on the table, the demon prince rolled straight 1's on his attacks, the guardsman then proceded to stick his little bayonet into the DP belly and kill it. The entire store was laughing for like 10 minutes - the chaos player. Unfortunately, after that the guardsman got shot up by 5 obliterators...poor soldier...

Nothing settles a terrible dice roll fail like overkill

Fought an eldar player, was a friendly game. We had someone neutral set up the game and designate terrain. We had agreed to run full foot slogging armies.

He built a forest....it was so dense we could barely touch the models, complete with running rivers, everywhere, which was dangerous terrain.

2000p of CSM and 2000p of Eldar....drowned to death before we even touched each other.

Could only afford a termagant.

i was forced to use a railguun on a ratling and he passed his cover save. I lost due to a fething ratling.

I opted to use burst cannons over plasma rifles on feel no pain guard. I swear it made sense.

Vespid vs ogryns

3 hellhounds vs storm sheild termies

1000 pts of outflanking kroot.

I used the demons in the CSM codex once. Learned that lesson fast. Also Demon Princes without wings. Everyone loves a footslogging large target.

Also... lashed a nightbringer CLOSER to me. Usually I would kill it... but once I didn't. That game ended quickly.

CarrionBerserk wrote:Also... lashed a nightbringer CLOSER to me. Usually I would kill it... but once I didn't. That game ended quickly.

Now THAT is spectacular!

Sabet wrote:

CarrionBerserk wrote:Also... lashed a nightbringer CLOSER to me. Usually I would kill it... but once I didn't. That game ended quickly.

Now THAT is spectacular!

I only failed to drop that model in one round of shooting ever... As far as I was concerned, it was the standard shock and awe tactic that made necron players go bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Well, it was bound to fail some time.

Worst tactic ever ?

playing with dice rolling.

pretty sure this is not a tactic but it was funny, once my brother had 4 firewarriors left in a squad and just shot once at my termies, all 4 hit, all 4 wounded, and i got 4 1's on saves...it was horrible

dajobe wrote:pretty sure this is not a tactic but it was funny, once my brother had 4 firewarriors left in a squad and just shot once at my termies, all 4 hit, all 4 wounded, and i got 4 1's on saves...it was horrible

Is it still a stupid tactic if it goes well?

sure, the mighty duck guy had a funny tactic, i view this thread as more of a funny stories thread

3 bad tactics on my end
1. Forgetting Marbo has a demo charge (I could have killed a captain and a combat squad in 1 turn)
2. thinking 3 marines can out fight 8 fire warriors
3. thinking a dreadnought can defeat 12 honor guard fire warriors and the ethereal, who knew they are strength 5?
(2 and 3 were in the same game)

gotta watch out for those S5 pulse rifles, can do damage on your transports and dreadnoughts...my brother plays tau, so ive learned this the hard way