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I've rolled 4 dice before, which all came out as ones. Does that count?

Once I had an Orc Shaman in a unit of Black Orcs. In 3 consecutive turns, I rolled 3 miscasts (rolling double 6s with 2 dice even) and every time managing to roll on the miscast table a 7 or so which meant a STR 10 hit to all models in base contact. In 3 rounds, I killed 15 of my own Black Orcs!

MrDwhitey wrote:Well, I consider myself lucky then. The worst I've had was a game where the other guy just surrendered the moment a unit of mine got into combat.

Note: Neither of us had lost anything yet.

I've "surrendered" by simply taking a look at an army (I know if I am gonna get royally slaughtered on turn 1 lol) so often I just step out of a game to find a better/more balanced opponent

for me I guess it would be the dropping of the lost and the damned codex, I converted an entire army and its now completely useless

On the Privateer Press forum, I said I wanted to play a Warjack heavy Khador list. Someone told me to go play Hordes because Khador 'Jacks suck.

Worst piece of advice I've ever gotten.

Painting the eyes of space marines... or the eyes of any mini.

So maddening.

I had a somewhat conflicted altercation some time ago at the glendale GW.

I had just got done playing a friendly game with my pal when I saw a young player (Probably 11 or 12) come in with his necrons for a game. I didn't want to undermine whether or not if he was experienced at the game because of his age, but he when I chatted with him he was very mature for his age and knew the rules as well as myself.

So he gets situated to play a match (I didn't want to because I was relaxing) a dark angels player comes in looking for somebody to play so I direct him towards the necron player. Keep in mind the Dark angels player must have been a 20 something.

So about an hour or two after they start playing I had started a small kill team game with another friend and all the sudden I hear shouting and rage.

The dark angel player is completely frustrated and fuming because the necron player is wiping the floor with him, when I went to inspect I saw that the Dark angel player was playing into the oldest tricks in the book, being kited by a lord with a veil of darkness, and being picked off by 2 necron warrior squads that were in ruins overlooking the battlefield.

So the dark angels player starts accusing the necron player of cheating, using too much points and poor sportsmanship. So since the redshirt on duty meeked out at that point I took it upon myself to intervene before the bigger Dark angel player got physical with the necron player.

I looked over lists, calculated points, checked deployment, ranges and rules from the BRB and nothing was amiss. The Dark angel player just thought by screaming and throwing a bitch fit he could intimidate the necron player.

So I set him straight, tell him we don't have to have a problem here it's just a game, a game against an opponent probably half his age I might add and there's no reason to resort to shouting, insults and physicalities.

I showed him that everything the necron player did was in correlation of the rules and not against.

The dark angel player then saw reason and decided to clam up until the game was over then left.

It was extremely annoying for me to not only get involved, but do the redshirt's work and deal with an unruly. I commended the kid for keeping his cool with such a jackass opponent but in the end I'm glad it didn't escalate.

But I swear, situations like this are becoming more and more prevalent and it's sad to see a grown man act like a child to a child.

CPTPromotable wrote:the worst moment in my wargaming came shortly before i stopped 40k, maybe october or november 2009. i was playing with two really good friends and a pickup player at a gamestore in New York, and it was 2 v 2, myself with an in-progress(that never got finished, but no trukks or any transports) some orks and my friend with his ravenwing, and my other friend with 'nilla marines and the other guy with IG.

Basically, the opposing side put a huge three story building in their deployment zone as part of deployment, and put their ENTIRE 2k POINTS in it. this miffed myself and my teammate a little, but whatever.

in the middle of play, the only unit to get close to the building, a unit of ravenwing bikers with a powerfist, started getting shot with a questionable LoS(i, then being the group's rules lawyer, ruled in favor of the opposing team on a technicality, but whatever) and it turned into a literal shitstorm between my two friends as both armies poured fire into this model that was put in to be out of LoS, just that ravenwing player had a different angle than the SM player, and on and on ad nauseum.

they started yelling at each other and i *almost* had to break up a fight between a fencer/MMA enthusiast and an ex-offensive lineman. while taller than most and clocking 200 lbs, i would probably have been knocked out in the ensuing brawl. yeesh, the worst experience was with two good friends instead of a terrible stranger.

This is what I'd consider to be the worst experience ever. Bad enough when you have to deal with players you don't know or don't know well, but when you need to be a mediator between 2 of your friends? No one wins in this case...

Having my cat pee in my opened carrying case. I could not get that mad at the cat. She's 21 years old and did not have the heart to get angry at her when she gave me that mournful meow.

Guess she did not like my Chaos army

Assaulting with Nightbringer, missing range by 3 mm.

Then being shot up by an entire 2000 Pt mechdar army (he still had one wound left afterwards - epic ! ) before being put down in CC by a Warlock and some amazingly cruddy save rolling..

Ascalam wrote:Assaulting with Nightbringer, missing range by 3 mm.

Then being shot up by an entire 2000 Pt mechdar army (he still had one wound left afterwards - epic ! ) before being put down in CC by a Warlock and some amazingly cruddy save rolling..

That made me do this:

having my opponent, a 200 pound man, have a seizure and demolish the table on which we were playing, as well as harming several of my pain in the ass to put together metal undead creatures.

resipsa wrote:having my opponent, a 200 pound man, have a seizure and demolish the table on which we were playing, as well as harming several of my pain in the ass to put together metal undead creatures.

Dude, I'd be more worried about the guy rather than the table and minis. Did you call an ambulance?

Doctadeth wrote:

resipsa wrote:having my opponent, a 200 pound man, have a seizure and demolish the table on which we were playing, as well as harming several of my pain in the ass to put together metal undead creatures.

Dude, I'd be more worried about the guy rather than the table and minis. Did you call an ambulance?

+1 i'd be concerned for the poor guy, you can worry about your minis after he's ok(or not )

Played a guy in a Tourney recently - He had the IG 'Leafblower list" - whatever the hell that is...

Anyhow - I am fielding 60 Basic Marines, no vehicles, 6 LC, 6 Melta guns, and 1 Chapter master, BP and Chainsword. Plus 20 Scouts that had Sniper Rifles and 1 ML per 10 man squad(The seargents each had a Melta Grenade)

His Tactic - Bring EVERYTHING on from reserve. So - after seeing some army reports on Dakka(Thanks) - I infiltrate my 20 scouts in a long-ass line along his deployment side. This guy had just pwned his 2 previous opponents - was used to winning I would say - WAS NOT HAPPY when I deployed my infils and left like a 12" gap for him to bring his Tank list on(In the middle of the table - about 24" away from 60 Marines in a block with 6 LC's and Meltas on the run over). I offered him the 'death or glory' deployment option - quite wisely he did not take it.

So, his furst turn - all the Tanks manage to sqeeeeeze through the gap I left - and all travelled 12"(or more) - he then proceeded to shoot EVERY weapon on his vehicles at my Scouts, and whittled them down a Tad. So the game goes along, with those stupid bloody IG tanks that kill basically everything with that OP'd Poison turret crapnola. Constantly throughout the game - essentially " I can shoot the crap outta you and because of this that and the other - you get no cover saves, I do, blah blah blah ad nauseum. NOTHING more friustrating than being shot the crap out of by someone who cant be shot back at.... (apparently :rolls eyes: ) . Turn 6 - I have 3 of the Table quarters, and have smashed most of the Tanks. He then grabs one of the tanks - moves it 12" across the board and states "Damn - I wish I didn't have to move 12" to contest that Table quarter! Now I cant shoot that Scout Squad and claim it totally!"

I replied "It was OK to shoot the crap out of them when you deployed 12" onto the table? Has there been an FAQ since Turn 1 I haven't read - or was it a bs call from Turn 1 ??" The look on his face was priceless - and the TO was standing there when it was said - we were the last game playing.."Oh......so what do you want to do?"

"Keep playing" I said.

He is a good guy - but wants to win at all costs - and cites rules whern they suit - and neglects to mention rules that do not work in his favour.

I smashed his 'Leaf Blower' List and wion the Tourney. Still HATED the game against him though.....

having an entire squad of enemy necrons get up after
blasting them with a stormlord is somewhat annoying!
*eyes twitch*

MikZor wrote:

Doctadeth wrote:

resipsa wrote:having my opponent, a 200 pound man, have a seizure and demolish the table on which we were playing, as well as harming several of my pain in the ass to put together metal undead creatures.

Dude, I'd be more worried about the guy rather than the table and minis. Did you call an ambulance?

+1 i'd be concerned for the poor guy, you can worry about your minis after he's ok(or not )

That has happened to me too, i didn't fall over the models though, but down on the floor

The most annoying thing I have experienced was playing agame against some exchange student who didn't speak swedish and hardly could speak english. He also had a german codex, however he could hardly speak german either. he was nearly impossible to play against (if I recall correctly, he wanted to use a single sniper scout as a unit). he also behaved seriously childish, more like if he was playing with dolls rather than playing a game.

The day GW decided that due to 'internet freeloaders', Maelstrom Games - a place that has more gaming tables than any GW I've ever seen - would be disallowed from selling me their products.

Was at my LGS, playing a game with My Templars against my friends CSM. While were playing, a kid comes up and starts talking with us, which we don't really mind, the three of us talking about tactics and what not(nothing with our game) and the game ends, i win, and we continue to talk, i bring up that i play Guard and was looking to sell a tank or two.

He just starts $hiting all over the guard and what they do.

"GUARD CAN HAS 9 TANKS IN A 1500 POINT GAME"

"STRAKEN IS OP AND OILY GAYWAD"

"MECH VETS ARE FAGS WITH 3 MELTA GUNS"

Then i ask him what he plays. He answers back with Space Wolves. I was about to lose it, not only did he say SW, his most used unit were long fangs, with ML's. Then when i retort, he just goes on -

Him: "Oh but once you get into close combat they suck"

Me: "And 5+ save, T 3 Guardsmen don't?"

Him: "Your just buttangry" These were literally the words he used.

After asking him if he thought he was a troll, and then himself calling my guardsmen things like gay.

Then he left and i was severely annoyed.

resipsa wrote:having my opponent, a 200 pound man, have a seizure and demolish the table on which we were playing, as well as harming several of my pain in the ass to put together metal undead creatures.

Goddamnit! Stop dying on my stuff!

Ladies and Gents,

Despite my annoyance at having to reglue stuff, I did help get him up and into EMT hands, I'm not that evil, what do you people take me for, a health insurance worker at the hospital in NY? SHEESH!

I suppose my second most annoying experience was funnier: , the Kid I'm playing has his army with him, pulled the whole thing out of ziplocks and lunch tupperware, once he gets his two green tides down and ready to play (I was going first in the apoc game because I was trying a logan wing terminator heavy SW list, with a lot of vehicles) his mom runs into the store screaming like a banshee and proceeds to beat/swat him out of the store, into her car, and away... leaving the orks right there.

(He had somewhere in the vicinity of 150 ork boys)

The store manager was cool enough to play his side for the game, then we packed his crap and left it in the back room, which he apparently NEVER came back for.

resipsa wrote:I suppose my second most annoying experience was funnier: circa 2002, the Kid I'm playing has his army with him, pulled the whole thing out of ziplocks and lunch tupperware, once he gets his two green tides down and ready to play (I was going first in the apoc game because I was trying a logan wing terminator heavy SW list, with a lot of vehicles) his mom runs into the store screaming like a banshee and proceeds to beat/swat him out of the store, into her car, and away... leaving the orks right there.

The store manager was cool enough to play his side for the game, then we packed his crap and left it in the back room, which he apparently NEVER came back for.

...What kind of mother would do that...
Was she one of those extremists who believe Warhammer is treading the path to damnation?

Hmmmm

I suppose mine is the moment I realised my 2000pts+ Space Marine army is effectively useless to play with because it lacks any coherency... and requires in excess of £100 worth of models to buff it to a reasonable standard of play. I'm still "young" and out of work so there's no way in hell I'm buying more stuff.

Norn King wrote:having an entire squad of enemy necrons get up after
blasting them with a stormlord is somewhat annoying!
*eyes twitch*

Was he within 6" of another necron warrior, because if not he was cheating.

Juvieus Kaine wrote:Hmmmm

I suppose mine is the moment I realised my 2000pts+ Space Marine army is effectively useless to play with because it lacks any coherency... and requires in excess of £100 worth of models to buff it to a reasonable standard of play. I'm still "young" and out of work so there's no way in hell I'm buying more stuff.

I hate that. As a new player you buy loads of stuff and then realise none of its any good in a tournament without Such an Such.


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happygolucky wrote:

Norn King wrote:having an entire squad of enemy necrons get up after
blasting them with a stormlord is somewhat annoying!
*eyes twitch*

Was he within 6" of another necron warrior, because if not he was cheating.

Or a lord

ChocolateGork wrote:

Juvieus Kaine wrote:Hmmmm

I suppose mine is the moment I realised my 2000pts+ Space Marine army is effectively useless to play with because it lacks any coherency... and requires in excess of £100 worth of models to buff it to a reasonable standard of play. I'm still "young" and out of work so there's no way in hell I'm buying more stuff.

I hate that. As a new player you buy loads of stuff and then realise none of its any good in a tournament without Such an Such.


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happygolucky wrote:

Norn King wrote:having an entire squad of enemy necrons get up after
blasting them with a stormlord is somewhat annoying!
*eyes twitch*

Was he within 6" of another necron warrior, because if not he was cheating.

Or a lord

with an orb? I remembering someont telling me that if the WHOLE unit is destroyed in a turn then if another necron of the same type isn't within 6" of the unit then the unit is destroyed Orb or no orb.
?

Lords don't count as a 'model of the same type' for WBB. You need another unit nearby, or a spyder nearby and another unit on the field.

Lords can self repair themselves without another lord nearby, but regular Crons need moral support

Playing orkz, i got a 1500 points army, and come this guy with his 1850 points IG, he ask me for a 1850 games, and i gladly accept, adding some more or less usefull 350 points on the army.

I got 3 BW full of boyz, 1 Big Mek w/ KFF, 1 Warboss and Nobs in bikes, some storm boyz.
He got 2 Valks w/ vets, some troops in chimeras, 1 Leman Russ w/ plasma, 4 of that missile launchers IG have, and some other things.

I deployed bad, he get the first turn, killed the nobs with lots of AP2 fire, advanced w/ valks, deployed with demolitions vets at my BWs (all lined up, to use the "fortress formation").

3 BWs exloded at first turn, almost 40 boyz killed by explosions, half the storm boyz killed by the explosion too, Nob squad DEAD. The storm-boyz fleed (3-4 inch from the table end). He loose 2 vets to the explosion.

After that, i always shiver wen i see IG on the other side...

I played at a local event and I rolled nothing but 1s the first turn. It was so bad the guy I went against me felt bad and said I could do it over and I rolled more 1s. Later in the game he asked if I had weighted dice to lose and I laughed and we switched dice. I kept rolling bad with his dice. In the end I shod have won based on my list against his but bad rolls are bad rolls. I was so annoyed and wanted to leave not cause I am a bad sport but that serious put a cloud over my head.

Well this has not much to do about gaming, but what the hell:

One time, when I was in my LGS, I decided with my friend to play some warmachine. He played Skorne and I Cryx. When we had set up some random kids just pop-off from nowhere and start to touch, move and break our miniatures when we were not looking (All my miniatures were metal, and so very fragile). My Cryx Nightmares (an warjack) hand snipped off, and so did my friends Titan Gladiators horn (the kid who broke it seemed like he was trying to steal it, covering the whole miniature with his hands), We tried to talk some sense to them, but they didn't seem to notice us, continuing their rampage. It took about 5 minutes to drive them off (seemed like foreigners, since they never said anything or looked in to the eyes). In the end, the game went well.

The other time (god I hate this) was, when I was (again) playing warmachine with my friends. In the middle of the game some random kid pops up (we have these kids a lot in our LGS, stealing and messing stuff up), who had bought an metal LotR Sauron model. He started yelling at us on how Sauron had to take a s*** (Im not kidding) and how he would own our miniatures. He also started to move our miniatures around the table, in the middle of the game. Thank god that we managed to drive him off. (those douchbags or "Jonnes" as said in finnish, are an real nuisance).

There has also been some stealing happening in our LGS, one of my friends even loosing 60€ because his Magic the Gathering deck was stolen in bare day-light.

Spent almost 2 hours setting up a table + 8000 points for a 4-player game (pre-Apoc, house rules)...only to have one player remember they had plans, didn't have time to pack up their stuff, couldn't play the following night, and "oh, could we just leave the models out and play in a few days instead..?" Note: at that time, I lived in a cramped apartment and my gaming table was anything but "out of the way".