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For me it's missing 4+ lascannon or missile launcher shots from my crusader gunline in 1 shooting phase. I have no idea how I'd handle playing with BS 3 or lower...

Nothing has ever made me want to smash a die, even when my boys roll 1's and 2's for run movement 9 out of 10 times. Grrrr.....

There's nothing like rolling double ones for every single one of your Sternguard Veterans' combi-meltas after you drop pod them behind your opponent's land raider.

And then failing almost every single one of your saves from the return fire.

Movac wrote:For me it's missing 4+ lascannon or missile launcher shots from my crusader gunline in 1 shooting phase. I have no idea how I'd handle playing with WS 3 or lower...

I believe you mean BS.
I have average rolls with my dice; if they let me down in my time of need I only get slightly angry because after all, it is a game.
This is what my friend is like:

Please do not post images containing cursing. Thanks! ~Manchu

Well I play Orkz so failing shooting isn't to big of a deal, but failing comabt with lots of attacks now that is something else...

Not me so much, but my friend once failed 5 Wailing Doom shots in a row with his Avatar. For the Record the Avatar has BS5.

Last couple of games with my Dark eldar have been pretty awful. Fire a squad with darklight weapons, 1s and 2s. Fire squad with splinter weapons: all hit, all wound. Which is nice when I am firing at infantry, but when facing 8 vechicles... not too helpful. Heck, last night I played against nids, with multiple raveners and warrior squads. All my splinter weapons did really well. Over 5 turs with 10 dark light weapons, I did exactly 2 wound, once which was saved by cover. And that was on a genestealer (was a 10 man DL warrior squad, stealers were too close) rather than a warrior.

The same thing happens when I fire melta guns with SoB and C:SM. Hit with everything other than the melta (or roll ones for the pen/wound rolls). I like to think of it as my own special rule for my armies. It used to be the "melta rule" but now it is my "S8 rule"

notabot187 wrote:Last couple of games with my Dark eldar have been pretty awful. Fire a squad with darklight weapons, 1s and 2s. Fire squad with splinter weapons: all hit, all wound. Which is nice when I am firing at infantry, but when facing 8 vechicles... not too helpful. Heck, last night I played against nids, with multiple raveners and warrior squads. All my splinter weapons did really well. Over 5 turs with 10 dark light weapons, I did exactly 2 wound, once which was saved by cover. And that was on a genestealer (was a 10 man DL warrior squad, stealers were too close) rather than a warrior.

The same thing happens when I fire melta guns with SoB and C:SM. Hit with everything other than the melta (or roll ones for the pen/wound rolls). I like to think of it as my own special rule for my armies. It used to be the "melta rule" but now it is my "S8 rule"

My missiles usually do well where as I can't roll a 3 with a lascannon to save my life. I have actually purposely not paid the extra 5 points to upgrade my Crusader's MLs to Las.

My Melta's always always ALWAYS fail.

....and I run Vulkan.

Nothing I'm, not crazy enough to think inanimate objects have it in for me so deserve punishing.

I rolled seven ones out of nine dice last night. I beat my head into a door to save myself from smashing the dice.

I'm more a toss my dice off the balcony than smash them sort of guy!

I've definitely smashed a few Xbox controllers though!

Whilst RPGing, I used to throw my dice out of the second story window when they were bad. Or put the offending die in the glass fronted fridge, then parade the rest of the dice in front of them. Or put them in a glass of soft drink for all the other dice to see.

I knew one guy would put all his dice around the die that botched, then smashed the badly rolling die with a brick.

Nothing like getting a 1 in the first turn of a game with my Chaos Dreadnought...

I have an entire set of like 40 dice I refuse to use. I've always had below average rolls with them but the clincher was failing to hit w/ over 15 Dark Lances in a game and the two which did hit rolled 1's for Pen/Wound. Yep...I don't use those anymore. (this was before the new DE codex so I was able to field way more DL's)

I very nearly threw out my dice after a game yesterday in which I successfully hit and penetrated a Rhino with 3 meltas from my veteran squad, only to roll 3 1s on the damage chart. I nearly flipped the table.

Cadichan Support wrote: YOUR PICTURE HERE!

Might want to remove that picture quick friend. You get banned for stuff like that.

When I mass fail my armor AND FNP saves.

When my genestealers lose combat to Tau firewarriors.

Rolling straight 1's on my Powerfist as it was stuck in battle with a Defiler. The whole game it never hit the thing except for when he charged in. Also seeing my meltaguns miss everytime against rear armor.

I'd save those dice for scatter and orders.

Out of rolling ten armor saves for my termies..... Seven ones......... My opponent about cried out of happiness

An entire round of shooting... not 1 hit. or rather, wound. I hit with lascannon, pg, HB, Assault cannon, Vindicator... and I didn't score a single wound. against necrons... and then I charged in. i think I gave out 1 wound. worst. turn. ever.
Dice were glared at and put away. my other dice liked me better. next round he got screwed, 5 out of 7 armor saves came up 1's. The other 2 was a 2 and a 3 he still decimated me though.

I think "smashing a die" makes a good 40k sexual euphemism.

I actually held a public exicution with my dice. After a rather pitiful performance i had gathered my collection and rolled them all once. Then i gathered all the 1s and rolled them all again. The Die that came up on a 1 the 2nd time where melted in front of their kin. Yes, this did improve my dice's "moral" and i tend to get a 'higher average' (still the occational 1 or two here and there) then i got before i held the exicution.

Also, when rolling Dice next to my commisar lord i rarely ever get anything less than a 3. My guess is that the dice gods fear summary exicutions.

Ma55ter_fett wrote:I think "smashing a die" makes a good 40k sexual euphemism.

Hey baby, that was a great game. What do say about bringing your eldar back to my place and smashing some dice together?


nope
no
sorry
not ever going to work

Two instances of dice smashing. One was me, the other a friend.

My friend's Dark eldar wyches, kitted out with all kinds of crazy evil and ridiculous amounts of power attacks, could not kill one little tactical marine for three turns. What did kill him finally? A pistol shot after they retreated, regrouped then shot. DIESEL NEVER DIES!

For me, it would be when I use a Leman Russ Punisher cannon against a squad of veteran guardsmen. With Pask in the tank as well. 20 dice rolled. 10 hits. No wounds..... against Guardsmen. I had never seen so many ones at once in my life.

Those dice were taken home and tossed out the window.

My current set of dice seem to be blessed. When I'm rolling them there's a disproportianate number of 5s and 6s. When my enemy rolls them there is a disproportianate number of 1s and 2s.

However my favourite dice story has to be my game against Mech Dar. He has an upgrade to his Wave Serpents that made everything above S8 count as S8, so I needed 4s or higher to pen or glance. All game, lascannons and missile launchers would shoot, hit...roll a 3 for armor pen. I brought down a couple, but that was only thanks to autocannonss. In the end, I realized I may have been rolling the same evil red dice for all my 3s. In a fit of fury, I threw the dice out the 3rd story window of the student union. The Wargaming Society is still looking for that dice, in hopes of finding out what it rolled on its last roll ever.

Although, I am much more of a 'put an unused Commissar model next to my pile of dice' when they start misbehaving.

I wanna smash my die, When I have A total of 10 Dark lances against 1 stormraven and not a single 1 hits....

Why did I shoot 10 lances at it? Still dont know

Smash a die, no, toss them, yes.
Once, I bought a brand new cube of d6s, then test rolled them. 12 out of 16 dice were 1s. Picked them up & rolled again. 14 out of 16 were 1s. I demanded my money back.
When that did'nt work, I donated them to another player. I have no idea how they worked for him.
I usually find that if I think "Leadership Test" when I'm rolling them, I get a lot of 4+s. And if I think "Roll To Hit" I get many 1s & 2s. So I just have to have the right "frame of mind" when I'm rolling.

The only way to handle poor rolling dice is with summary executions. Continued administration of executions is recommended for repeat offenders.

And by summary executions, I mean melting via acetylene torch. I make sure all the rest of the dice are watching, too.

Argh! All those poor dice! I love my dice almost as much as my minis, even when they fail me. I could never bring them harm.