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Since bloodletters can't even get magic items, I believe that he was willingly "cheating", and combined both 40K and fantasy codices to create a suitable army list. Then he added rules from whatever units he liked.

I mean, he had, how many? 80 fantasy bloodletters? They are still models with T3 and a 5++ save.

VinPetrol wrote:Since bloodletters can't even get magic items, I believe that he was willingly "cheating", and combined both 40K and fantasy codices to create a suitable army list. Then he added rules from whatever units he liked.

I mean, he had, how many? 80 fantasy bloodletters? They are still models with T3 and a 5++ save.

As I said, I think he made an honest mistake. He didn't play Fantasy, and mistook the online codex (which may not even have been accurate by anyones standards anyway) for a 40k set up. And he only had one box full, so that's what...20? in 1000pts. He was accidentally equipping them with individual chaos champion magical items and such, granting extra Strength and Toughness. Beleive me, he was mortified when he found out what was going on.

They could have 2 Bane Blades and 12 Heavy supports in a 1750pts game.

On about my third time playing I finally cut loose and tried out some Tau Battlesuits...

What I didn't do was pay for their wargear upgrades...

I read the "Pick two systems" and pretty much stopped there... After I tabled my poor friend in 3 turns we both knew something was wrong. We went back, re-read it, and I promptly lost.

In my first-ever game of 40k, we played that sniper rifles rolling a 6 to hit auto-destroyed tanks...

Bear in mind, we hadn't read the rules...

5 Rangers for 95pts was a very good buy; dead landraider.

one of the early games with my necrons was against another necron player.
it was during an escalation league at our FLGS and he tried to convince me at 1000 points he could take a destroyer lord and it made wraiths troop choices, i looked at him held up my codex and said no. so he brought in 2 squads of warriors and we started playing. he then tried to turbo boost his wraiths and assault. once again i just glared at him, the entire time the store owner who was organizing the event was keeping a very watchful eye on him. so after them getting shot to gak they still had some that were able to assault. he claimed that their 7 attacks on the charge were all power attacks and that they were toughness 6. needless to say the store owner had enough of him and he got blacklisted.
pro-tip for people trying to cheat never do it against someone who knows the codex forward and backwards.

less intense than what people have in this post, but my friend argued that, as long as the sarge was part of a squad, he MUST attack whoever the squad attacks, and cannot allocate his attacks to, say, an independant character in the enemy unit, even if he was in base contact. This conveniently saved his Autarch from a power fist to the face.

shrike wrote:hmm. Explain to the teachers he cheats and doesn't know the rules.
and please work on your spelling.

The teachers know he doesn't know anything, it is just bull because he wastes our lunchtimes.

hmm. Looks like you've drawn the short straw with this guy. The only thing I can think of to do is say that he can only play when he has the codex and BRB- then he can use all the rules he wants IF he shows you the codex entry. If he still refuses, whenever you play him, make up your own rules.

LOL, yeah that making up your own rules thing works both ways. He wants to play ImagiHammer, he can be force fed the same thing.

imagihammer? bring a nice big clawhammer. S-D AP-1 10" blast, auto-hit, no cover.
Or give all your sargeant, captains, ect. vortex grenades that auto-hit and a 12" range as a 10-point upgrade.

grizgrin wrote:Played the Tyranid Kid, this little chunker who used to come up to our FLGS back in 3rd edition. Back when the Nids had that fully customizable codex, think it was 3rd. Anyway, he's stackin models on the table like there is no tomorrow, and when I realize he has more warriors on the table than I have Marines (no vehicles in my list, no termies or scouts). I ask to see his list as something isnt right. Turns out that he "thought" that the dash (-) right before the price of each upgrade option was a minus, so he was subtracting the upgrade costs from the base cost of each model. Most of his models were completely tricked out wiht options and therefore had negative points costs. In a 2000 point battle he prolly had 4-5k worth of bugs.

Not actually a cheating moment (it was just an off-hand remark), but someone said something that just made everybody either facepalm or laugh out loud.

"I don't want to play Tau, I mean there's too much math involved. Look at this. How am I supposed to keep track of 8/12ths of a point?"

I believe he (or someone else) actually wound up making some hugely powerful Tyranids list that was way overcost...because he kept buying all the upgrades as fractions.

A good few years ago, someone tried to claim that Iron Hands squads could all have a dreadnought instead of a sarg/special/heavy choice.........

He came along with all about dozen dreads :/

Not so much a specific example, but I am constantly barraged by the stupidest, most self-serving interpretations of the wound allocation rules imaginable. Trust me, I have the patience of a saint at this point, otherwise I would be on death row.

I made up a rule and still use it

Rule:Can only be used by Orks, Dwarfs, Catachans

Bad language
S AP
X 1 (no save of any kind allowed)
Roll to "hit" useing races BS, if hit roll to see if oponent is "insulted" if oponent is "insulted" you earn 1 Gloat token to "wind them up" at a later time (Orks can re-roll to "hit" dice... as much as they want.. very bad mouthed are Orks)

Formosa wrote:I made up a rule and still use it

Rule:Can only be used by Orks, Dwarfs, Catachans

Bad language
S AP
X 1 (no save of any kind allowed)
Roll to "hit" useing races BS, if hit roll to see if oponent is "insulted" if oponent is "insulted" you earn 1 Gloat token to "wind them up" at a later time (Orks can re-roll to "hit" dice... as much as they want.. very bad mouthed are Orks)

+1 to this now i am gonna have to start an ork army just to use it.

Formosa wrote:I made up a rule and still use it

Rule:Can only be used by Orks, Dwarfs, Catachans

Bad language
S AP
X 1 (no save of any kind allowed)
Roll to "hit" useing races BS, if hit roll to see if oponent is "insulted" if oponent is "insulted" you earn 1 Gloat token to "wind them up" at a later time (Orks can re-roll to "hit" dice... as much as they want.. very bad mouthed are Orks)

Cant Valhallans use them too? I'd imagine Chenkov would scream russian profanity through his bulldog orders XD

Fully painted armies get +1 to steal intiative is my house rule (and no my army is not fully painted atm)

BS2...

I play a DC BA army and seeing as its really low point with no upgrades, (just started it) I have to throw in a lot of power weapons to make up and play games.We played a 3v3 store event thing and This Ultramarine player was talking smack. One of my best friends plays Black Templers and was on my team. So my Death Company was tearing through unit after unit of this kids ultramarines, and the Black Templers were ripping through him as well. He got annoyed at all our special rules and stated that his Ultra marines moved 7" at all times just because they were ULTRA!

gman1401 wrote:BS2...

Hahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!! More like a gun that has counterattack!!!

shrike wrote:I had a noob explain to me how his carnifex with about 6 arms and 12 guns on is strength 20 toughness 10 and intiative 10, with 10 attacks and 20 wounds witha 2+ invul and costs 200pts.
he also explained that his eldar tank with trygon arms stuck to it can fire 2 S10 AP1 5" blast shots, AV 14/14/14 and a flyer.
I also had a guy who had a tank upgrade (like chronus) with a plasma pistol, PF, makes his tank BS5, all tanks in the army become venerable, and costed 70 points.
i refused to play both of them.

Oh gad. That's like putting Demolishers on fire warriors.

There are these two brothers, one of which has autism. I was playing the one with autism one time, so naturally I lied to him and told him all my splinter weapons wound on 3+, that my wyches have a 5+/3++ save, raiders are AV12, and a bunch of other stuff. He still beat me.

pulpnonfiction wrote:There are these two brothers, one of which has autism. I was playing the one with autism one time, so naturally I lied to him and told him all my splinter weapons wound on 3+, that my wyches have a 5+/3++ save, raiders are AV12, and a bunch of other stuff. He still beat me.

Obvious troll is obvious.

My friend said that the small cannon that come with Eldar guardsmen had strength 9 and ap 1

MechaEmperor7000 wrote:

Formosa wrote:I made up a rule and still use it

Rule:Can only be used by Orks, Dwarfs, Catachans

Bad language
S AP
X 1 (no save of any kind allowed)
Roll to "hit" useing races BS, if hit roll to see if oponent is "insulted" if oponent is "insulted" you earn 1 Gloat token to "wind them up" at a later time (Orks can re-roll to "hit" dice... as much as they want.. very bad mouthed are Orks)

Cant Valhallans use them too? I'd imagine Chenkov would scream russian profanity through his bulldog orders XD

Hell yes they can

That BS2 video gets me every time. That .50 must be some kind of daemon weapon or something.

Sorry I've been offline for so long. Anyway,

shrike wrote:hmm. Looks like you've drawn the short straw with this guy. The only thing I can think of to do is say that he can only play when he has the codex and BRB- then he can use all the rules he wants IF he shows you the codex entry. If he still refuses, whenever you play him, make up your own rules.

Great idea. However, it's not going to happen, for a while, at least. The only reason why he has 40K in the first place is because a teacher took pity on him and gave him his son's old Tau army, an admirable thing to do. He promptly traded them for a crappily painted, 3rd Ed. bunch of black templars.

I think I'll combat his "All marines within 12" of my Terminator Sargeant/Captain become fearless", "I can self destruct my marines for a Str8 AP1 large blast" and his " This space marine with a cloak, a bolt pistol and a chainsword which is about get owned is instantly a grey knight with 3 attacks and glorious charge(WTH??) (Proceeds to move several of my ork nobz backwards about 3-4 inches and knocks them down)" with my specially trained orks who all gained preferred enemy (black templars) and my warbosses 2+ Invulnerable save.

Gutsnagga wrote:Sorry I've been offline for so long. Anyway,

shrike wrote:hmm. Looks like you've drawn the short straw with this guy. The only thing I can think of to do is say that he can only play when he has the codex and BRB- then he can use all the rules he wants IF he shows you the codex entry. If he still refuses, whenever you play him, make up your own rules.

Great idea. However, it's not going to happen, for a while, at least. The only reason why he has 40K in the first place is because a teacher took pity on him and gave him his son's old Tau army, an admirable thing to do. He promptly traded them for a crappily painted, 3rd Ed. bunch of black templars.

I think I'll combat his "All marines within 12" of my Terminator Sargeant/Captain become fearless", "I can self destruct my marines for a Str8 AP1 large blast" and his " This space marine with a cloak, a bolt pistol and a chainsword which is about get owned is instantly a grey knight with 3 attacks and glorious charge(WTH??) (Proceeds to move several of my ork nobz backwards about 3-4 inches and knocks them down)" with my specially trained orks who all gained preferred enemy (black templars) and my warbosses 2+ Invulnerable save.

yep. No BT guys are allowed within 12" of your warboss or they automatically take D3 wounds per model, no armour saves allowed, your warboss'es trukk is fuelled on waagh! and can move 24" and assault, and I seem to remember that any friendly model within 6" of a boss pole/waagh banner get a 4+ invulnerable save.

Wasn't their something about a force field that disallowed assaults against the carrier?