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As the subject says what is the stupidest Tactic you have ever used or thing you have done in a game sanario

for me it would be whilst playing in a 2000pt game gainst marines with guard.

i went for vet spam with 3 stormtroopers, harker, bastonne, creed, a sentinal and LR exterminators.

he had Calgar 10 termies anouther 10 termies( i think ) 2 x 5 assult marines, 10 stern gurad and a 10 man devistator (combat squaded) and a drop pod (can you tell whats comming)

he got first turn and dropped the pod down in the middle between my main force and infiltrated units the stern guard popped out and killed a whole unit of strom troopers
i my first trun (so angry about the strom troops) fired everything at the stern-vets and the devestators and FORGOT THE DROP-POD

in his next turn out of some stroke of luck eveything of his came down in the next turn (and didn't scatter due to the drop pod) and then it was all over pretty much

Not my proudest moment

Where were his troops?

If he had nothing else then you were cheated bad.

he was playing BA and used a calgar crossover (i didn't complain because calgar is crap and i has a lot of plasma guns i also thought "more fool him or not playing BA charaters" )

Well, I once played with Eldar against IG... Was running forward with my various units, and my list didn't have any transports... Enough said.

I once advanced on orks while playing marines. Opened fire from mid feild and then got annhilated by the ensuing charge. lesson learned.

Another time in a tourni that i was set to win, i fired everything i had at a unit of ork nob bikers with a pain boy. It did nothing, of course. On my foes turn he multi charged tying me up and then proceeded to advance on me and rip me to shreds. lesson learned.

Footslogged my Dark Eldar Warriors...

Charged a squad of 30 Ork Boyz with Skarbrand...

Charged a Squad of Guardsmen with Horrors of Tzeentch...

Took a Squad of Mandrakes...

Saintspirit wrote:Well, I once played with Eldar against IG... Was running forward with my various units, and my list didn't have any transports... Enough said.

This but the guardians clogged up the tracks enough (full mech IG ) for Yriel to tear through all the Leman Russes and turn it into a draw somehow.

Bloodhorror wrote:...

Took a Squad of Mandrakes...

Lol. I think if you take a squad it an automatic loss.

I took enough wounds to lose a Nid Warrior and forgot which was by the objective. Removing one I lost the game as the unit was now 'out of range' of the marker.

Strategy wise it would be when I used combat tactics on my squad of marines when it was my round of CC. I had forgotten whose turn it was.

I played 40 necron warriors and a lord against orks and just kept moving/running them up the board the whole game trying to get them into close combat. Learned alot of things that game...

kept an entire necron army off the board. 2 monoliths, 30 scarabs and 40 warriors, plus 2 lords. all scarabs scattered 12" off the board, then monoltihs landed on the edge of the board, behind his firing line. completely visible. you can guess the rest

He wasted all his firing at the Monolith and didn't even glance it?

Vet list with no transports, creed, a second CCS, and psykers. Sucked.

My assault marines went into cc with genestealers because i felt lucky...

forgetting that black templar without a chaplain is a bad thing to shoot at when you dont want to be assaulted.

Azure wrote:He wasted all his firing at the Monolith and didn't even glance it?

unfortunately not, he knew how to beat necrons. killed all 40 warriors first turn, took out the two lords next (only one came up, but he died the turn after) then focused fire on the liths

I used to field an imperial fists army that had dev squads with heavy bolters and tac squads. no vehicles at all in my list...

Took ogryns.

'nuff said

tried the GW pre-made list in my book. Me and a friend both thought ours was worse. Proved him wrong Epidemius with one beast of Nurgle what could go right.

Charging a carnifex in to nurglings has to be up there too.

Tank shocking Daemons. I completely forgot they were fearless.

Charged two mobs of 30 boys into purifiers during a Waaaagh. Their screams still haunt me at night

First game I ever played, borrowed some necron models, played against orks. Thought to myself, OMG walking metal t-800s with shiny green guns with blades at the end of them.

Charged a squad of 10 warriors into a mob of 30 orks.

Shot at a Grey Hunter squad that was right beside my Land Raider Redeemer with my Vindicator. Needless to say the shot scattered directly on top of the Redeemer, and got a "Vehicle Explodes" result.

The explosion didn't even kill any Grey Hunters...

Any tactic that relies on me rolling at least average. I really should know better by now.

Moving a battered squad of 6 Necron warriors into accidental range of a battlewagon with a warboss and nobz inside because I was trying to shoot at a smaller Ork Boy squad.
They were slaughtered in an instant, phased out, game lost.

Worst I did... Deep Strike My Blood Angels on the wrong side of the board. Completely forgot it was an objective based game. Some how I managed to get a draw.

Worst I played Back in 3rd, I had a Dark Eldar player Deep Strike his Scourges w/Dark Lances right next to my full Death Company. Since he could not shoot or assault that turn the DC destroyed them.

Leaving my plague marines in terrain while waiting for a daemon player to swoop in and take out our opponent's back line. He never even got there....

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

Giving a battle speech to a platoon of imperial guardsmen, and ordered them to fix bayonets, and charge a squad of genestealers. If they believed in the Emperor, they could do it. I don't think they believed enough.

1. I started necrons
2. I played marneus galgar
3. Really tryed to use honour guard.
4. Played snikrot in commando squad and didnt outflank.