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I played a small game on saturday. I had a 10 man assault squad, a few basic space marine troops and 2 dreadnoughts.

On about turn 2 I flew my 10 man squad out of some area terrain and had to take a dangerous terrain test.

SEVEN of the 10 failed it and died!

I don't care to remember specific dice rolls. Some you win, some you lose.

One that sticks out in my mind recently was a 5 man terminator squad of mine that was shot at by a tactical squad, phew! good thing he missed with his plasma gun. He did 6 wounds with bolters. im thinking to myself, no worries i got this, if im unlucky i might lose one guy. Nope rolled 5 ones out of 6 dice :(

Best example I can think of wasn't a roll I made but was made by another player I was facing. I inflicted 9 wounds onto his 5-man Long Fangs, he rolled nothing but 1s and 2s for armour saves.

Played my first game of 40k yesterday against my brother in law (been painting for a few months, finally decided to give the game a go). My brother in law killed my dreadnought in 1 turn with an Ork Nob armed with a power klaw. His warboss went first and managed a crew shaken - basically doing nothing against a dready (right?). Then his nob rolled and BOOM - he rolled a penetrating hit, and then rolled a 5.

rolling 5 armor saves for my termies and were all 1s

4 wounds from bolters on Draigo... failed them all

Um... rolling a damage roll of 1 on a dreadnought? - I guess it means it couldn't shoot for a turn. - If in combat doesn't it just temporarily loose one attack?

I had a unit of chosen CSM with 5 plasma guns... first turn I rolled 5 1's but made all my saves....

turn two, 4 of the 5 shots were agin 1's, but this time I failed 2 saves.

My opponent suggested I get some new dice...and I did lol

12 Firewarriors jump out of a devilfish in rapid fire range of an Marine assault squad. I get 24 shots at BS3.... 2 hit. No wounds. Still managed to kill the squad with other units but that was probably the worst 40k dice roll I've ever had.

Oh man , so many over the years .

- Back in 4th was playing against my mates Orks . 6 Eldar Pathfinders ended up facing a Rokkit buggy and 2 Skorcha buggies . Rokkit hits , no worries , I have a 2+ cover save . One pansie sniper shuffles off this mortal coil . Both Skorcha's cover the remaining Pathfinders . Roll to wound needing 2's , only 1 pansie gets capped .

- A seven man Warp Spider squad jumps into some terrain trying to pull off some or other sneaky trick . Roll for dangerous terrain , leaving a very confused and lonely Exarch to jump away to hide next turn .

- My Broadsides love doing my head in . A Hive Tyrant with a single wound goes on a suicide mission . Broadsides take aim , get 3 hits first time . So long sucka , you got no cover save . Roll to wound with triple ones . His turn they got pimpslapped as reward .

I was at NOVA. I had 7 venoms...three talos(es? ii?)...5 dark lances...6 blasters...3 squads of scourges...against 40 GK terminators.

This will be easy, I thought. I can put enough wounds on him to statistically kill all of them, I said.

Between him rolling slightly better than average, and me outright sucking...I killed around 15 of them. The two left in the one ten man squad ATSKNF'd back into the fight to assault through cover and kill my wracks on one of the objectives...because I made him run, and he stopped an INCH away from the table edge...

That was the first of two games where ATSKNF kicked my ass that weekend. All by itself.

Edit: I should clarify that I also failed every single cover or Flickerfield save I attempted that game. It was literally so bad, that when I played another game the next weekend and rolled EXTREMELY poorly (again), I was able to tell my opponent, "well...at least this wasn't the single worst game of dice rolling for me ever..."

I was playing Chaos Marines a few weeks ago with my Tau, and did fairly well except for one specific turn...I had some Chaos Termis running at my objective guarded by a 12-man squad of Firewarriors. Well, I got to Rapid Fire at the Termis, so that was 24 S5 shots into their faces....and only 7 wounded...and they made all their saves except for two.

...I'm pretty sure my FWs were drunk when they were shooting...

I was playing against a necron player. I was trying out a talos. The talos was chilling out in some terrain when i deployed him. The necron player deployed not to far from my talos. He came out and assaulyed the warriors he had on a objective. So I rolled for his attacks yes six attacks. Then i rolled to hit. All hit great then i came to the wounds. All ones for the wounds. After that he took a wound from the warriors. The bright side a syren withstood 4 to 5 turns of the monoliths portal attack even though he squad and lilith were killed by it.

I think I have bipolar dice because I tend to roll gloriously and heinously in equal amounts.

The saddest experience was with my Crimson Fists drop podding a 9 man squad of sternguard and pedro right on top of a Salamander's land raider. Everything was going swimmingly, no scatter, landed right where I wanted. Combat squadded on the way down the ramp, lined up 5 combi melta guns to smoke the land raider with the other five equipped with combi plasma to kill the survivors. I proceeded to roll four 1's and one 2 for the combi meltas.

The combi plasma guys and Pedro, rather than waste their shots on the land raider and since they couldn't assault I ran them into cover that was conveniently nearby. On my opponents turn his deathstar dropped ramp and out came the terminators and thunderhammers with Vulkan in tow on the assault. I also did not land a single hit in melee with 15 attacks. <-- 15 because they were within 12" of Pedro. My opponent did not miss a single attack nor did he fail to wound once. It was a pretty sad mess.

Funny story though I still managed to pull victory from the jaws of defeat because the opposing player thought his devestators were scoring in a sieze ground game. I won because I had a scout squad (my only survivors) camping my objective with Telion. Aside from Telion that squad also did not make a single kill.

I also tend to roll 1 whenever my assault termies need to take an armor save...

But the most hilarious moment was a game against DE when i only rolled 1s and 2s...
My army (vanilla marines) consists of 3 tactical squads with MLs, 2 typhoon speeders, 2 Rifleman Dreads and 2 AC/LCs Predators.
In a turn of all these shooting, i managed to shake a Ravager..

Last year at Adepticon. Had my Iron Clad in the middle of the board in a small patch of woods. Two turns in a row had had a chance to make an assault that would have altered the outcome of the game. All he needs to do is roll a single "2" on one of three dice (having the "move through cover" rule) and his assaults strike home.

He rolls 3 ones... two turns in a row. If you heard someone scream out "There is no Emperor!" during game 2... that would have been me.

I have one epic example of utter dice failure on my part.

I was playing Chaos Space Marines, and had Abaddon with four Khorne Marked terminators with dual lightning claws charge into a unit of 20 gargoyles.

Abaddon swings first, rolls a one for his Daemon weapon and whacks himself in the face...
If I recall correctly, his gargoyles went next, dealt 7 wounds to my terminators, I roll 7 saves, I get 5x 1's. My terminators are wiped out.
Abaddon losses combat by 4, fails two of his saves, and is left with one wound...

Fallowing combat, Abaddon rolls a 6 for his number of attacks (Getting 10 attacks) killing 7 of them, he fails to wound, losing another 5 to fearless.

Final round of combat, I forget what I rolled for his attacks, but Abaddon only manages to kill 2 of the little buggers, and proceeds to fail one armor save and dies.

Most epic squad ever ;_;

I havent ever had horrific dice, but I played my mate with my airborne ig army against his crimson fists. managed to shake 1 rhino with 3 vendettas (he didnt even have cover....). then his MLs and a lone melta managed to wreck .one, stunned one and immobilized the other. TF cannon wipes a meltavet unit who also had a demo charge. 'dammit' you think? AHAA! marbo arrives, democharges the two squads with MLs and they flee off the board (5 man tac combat squad and 9 man dev squad). harker arrives too and messes up a sternguard unit with 2 LC (only ld check he passes all game), pedro and his unit fail every coversave and die to my excecutioner, techmarine(next turn) fails to save the one wound marbo does to him in cc, he fails a pinning test and every coversave bar 1 with his final squad on the board, and the next turn marbo pitches in to kill off the sternguard. poor guy, near every save and ld check. credit to him, he took it like a champ

Tervigon spawning turn one - 1,1,2 - 4 gants and no more spawning for the remainder of the game.

'Ard boyz Semi's, round one, DE vs DE... middle of the game, both sides went for 3 turns without destroying a single vehicle.

7 Eldar Pathfinders, all shooting at a squad.
Every one of them rolled a 1 to hit!
That's 7 1s, out of 7.

Other than that, I can only seem to roll well when rolling for armour saves.
It makes for a long game.

Recent tourney, Game 2: objectives. All game, nothing at all hit. 0killpoints but still won the game without killing a thing.

Chaos Lord, fighting a squad of Guardsmen. Rolls a 1 for the daemon weapon, takes a wound. Takes four wounds from the guardsmen and rolls 1,1,1,2 for the saves.

Well i have plenty of stories, all end badly for me besides one. One of the last tournaments i was in i went up against a guard player. We got Dawn of War, so when he moved up his squad of tanks (for the life of me i can't remember what ones) he tried to move through some trees and claim a cover save. He rolled double ones for the terrain tests, blowing up both tanks turn one first move of the game. My only real moment i can remember was turbo boosting a wave serpent onto of a wreck monolith and rolling a one wrecking it on top of it, then doing that same thing twice more. So in the end i had three wave serpents down, on top of my opponents monolith. Best and worst rolling i have ever done.

I pretty much only play against my friend's Tau, and my big anti-tank unit, the Leman Russ Vanquisher with Pask, seems to NEVER hit anything even with it's BS4. However this seems to be mainly balanced out by the fact that his Broadsides with twin-linked railguns are also total failures at hitting!

yesterday My 2 remaining DC w/ Pws had 8 attacks against Gaunts: 1 Hit 0 wounds, Lost one in retaliation and to have a Furisio cover for their fail

It didn't happen to me, but my friend who plays Eldar.

One of the last games we played last year, he had many of those "I need anything but a 1" kind of situations and invariably, he'd roll a 1. After this happens several times, he picks the dice up and rolls it again out of frustration, just to see what "else" he could have rolled. It was a 1. He picks it up again and rolls. It was a 1. No joke, he rolled 1 on the same die almost a dozen times before rolling a 2. I was rolling.

In a 500 point game, my dreadnought was in position to make a game-changing kill. The target: my opponent's Defiler. Somehow, the multimelta failed to penetrate, despite being at half range. "Crap", I think to myself, "I need to tie up that Defiler or it'll massacre my troops next turn!" Since my Dreadnought was out of charging range, in charges my Wolf Lord with meltabombs, Eternal Warrior and a Belt of Russ. One round of combat and three failed 4++ saves later, my Wolf Lord has gone in person to make his final AAR to the Emperor, and the Defiler promptly blasted my objective squatters to pieces in the next shooting phase.

The two survivors from the devastated squad made their morale check, only to get Tank Shocked by a Rhino. No worries, the meltagunner is still on his feet, and he's feeling lucky! His meltagun fired its deadly microwave blows off the storm bolter...and promptly gets crushed to death by the Rhino's treads. This time the last survivor fails his morale check, and the game ended with me holding zero objectives.

Three crisis suits jump in and flame a large amount of orks. 27 hits needing 4s to kill. I get 4 wounds.

Saeryn v. Venethrax. I pop feat and put two scytheans and an Angeline into him. Two full rounds of wailing on home result in a total of five damage. I lose when he eats all three beasts after that.

I lost 500 points out of 1500 due to deepstriking mishaps once.