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a friend and I were playing a simple 750 point objectives game... I had a squad of hunters ten strong and a squad of Blood Claws 15 strong and an IC...he was playing night lords...we both decided that there would be three objectives for the game and as a joke I used a couple fire hydrants I had from some old train sets...as it goes I was all in on him and getting ready to assault his last squad with the remains of my bloodclaws when he suddenly looks at me and says 'You can't assault through an objective!' I looked at him and told him " look just because it's a fire hydrant it doesn't stop my lads..."

we both fell out laughing...after which he insisted it was a rule and spent the next thirty minutes trying to convince me of it until I brought out the BRB

"Yeah, uh... see those Chaos Marines you just killed, uh... when you kill them their mutations get the better of them or something and they, uh, on a 4+ turn into Chaos Spawn..."
I hate kids.¬¬

especially the ones that hate to lose...

I had a kid at a tourney insist that his eldar shimmering shield gave him a 4+ invuln save.
As I already had the game in the bag, I just went with it and gave him the saves so I did not lose sportsmanship.

Not really cheating, but I was mean

I remember one time last year about 2 months after my friends started playing, thoey both had armies quite small compared to my chaos horde (with 25 chaos termis), so we played a game using ALL of our troops, ignore points ect and just play it for fun. When I started the game I put 3 squads of chaos space marines on the board, and promtly went defensive with them, create a small fortress out of some ruins which I cunningly foritfied with razor wire and sandbags (we have a rule about being able to fortify, each squad carries so much razorwire and sandbags. I held for 2 turns against a large tau and necron attack from 2 confused friends. Next turn I brought in the rest of my army which I had hidden in the other room as reserves. One of my friends claimed he wanted to defect, and said that he could fire on his allies troops, so necrons started to open fire into the back of a tau gunline. In the bloodbath that followed my friends dad says that he remembers he had a few bits of 40k in his loft. He started bringing down boxes of SM, and entered the table to the dismay of his son, and slaughtered all of us with wave after wave of space marine. My friends then claimed they won because more of my men had died than theirs.

winnertakesall wrote:Not really cheating, but I was mean

I remember one time last year about 2 months after my friends started playing, thoey both had armies quite small compared to my chaos horde (with 25 chaos termis), so we played a game using ALL of our troops, ignore points ect and just play it for fun. When I started the game I put 3 squads of chaos space marines on the board, and promtly went defensive with them, create a small fortress out of some ruins which I cunningly foritfied with razor wire and sandbags (we have a rule about being able to fortify, each squad carries so much razorwire and sandbags. I held for 2 turns against a large tau and necron attack from 2 confused friends. Next turn I brought in the rest of my army which I had hidden in the other room as reserves. One of my friends claimed he wanted to defect, and said that he could fire on his allies troops, so necrons started to open fire into the back of a tau gunline. In the bloodbath that followed my friends dad says that he remembers he had a few bits of 40k in his loft. He started bringing down boxes of SM, and entered the table to the dismay of his son, and slaughtered all of us with wave after wave of space marine. My friends then claimed they won because more of my men had died than theirs.

That just sounds hilariously fun.

A friends Warboss was about to assault a squad of guardsmen and I said that he couldn't. My friend asked why. I told him cause he's scared of the commisar thats attached to the squad. he laughed and gave me an extra turn to shoot lasguns at it, they did nothig and were destroyed next turn.

shrike wrote:

winnertakesall wrote:Not really cheating, but I was mean

I remember one time last year about 2 months after my friends started playing, thoey both had armies quite small compared to my chaos horde (with 25 chaos termis), so we played a game using ALL of our troops, ignore points ect and just play it for fun. When I started the game I put 3 squads of chaos space marines on the board, and promtly went defensive with them, create a small fortress out of some ruins which I cunningly foritfied with razor wire and sandbags (we have a rule about being able to fortify, each squad carries so much razorwire and sandbags. I held for 2 turns against a large tau and necron attack from 2 confused friends. Next turn I brought in the rest of my army which I had hidden in the other room as reserves. One of my friends claimed he wanted to defect, and said that he could fire on his allies troops, so necrons started to open fire into the back of a tau gunline. In the bloodbath that followed my friends dad says that he remembers he had a few bits of 40k in his loft. He started bringing down boxes of SM, and entered the table to the dismay of his son, and slaughtered all of us with wave after wave of space marine. My friends then claimed they won because more of my men had died than theirs.

That just sounds hilariously fun.

+1

I will admit, it was awesome and something that any game in my life will probably never come close to

Only one I can think of was one I accidently pulled on aother guy in his first match. I couldn't remember the rules for who can move through levels of ruins and I wanted some ork bikers to attack some marines hiding in a ruin. Despite the rulebook being on hand we had a 5 minute chat before deciding it was ok. Marines went splat

wolfpack wrote:a friend and I were playing a simple 750 point objectives game... I had a squad of hunters ten strong and a squad of Blood Claws 15 strong and an IC...he was playing night lords...we both decided that there would be three objectives for the game and as a joke I used a couple fire hydrants I had from some old train sets...as it goes I was all in on him and getting ready to assault his last squad with the remains of my bloodclaws when he suddenly looks at me and says 'You can't assault through an objective!' I looked at him and told him " look just because it's a fire hydrant it doesn't stop my lads..."

we both fell out laughing...after which he insisted it was a rule and spent the next thirty minutes trying to convince me of it until I brought out the BRB

blood claw 'OMG a fire hydrant, i'm just going to ahem... mark some territory'
grey hunter; 'too late i marked it, mark of the wulfen and all that...'

sorry about that i got carried away...

Years back I played a guy who gave all his chaos space marines the following: power fists, Frost Axes, that sword the Avatar of Khaine carries (I forget the name), Necron Staffs of Light, and about 6 or 7 other ccw options.

I asked him what the hell he thought he was doing, and he points to the unit entry in the codex where it says that all members of a Chaos Space Marine squad get close combat weapons.

Then he tries to convince me that since it didn't specify which ones they get, or that they needed to be from the Chaos Space marine list, or that he needed to pay any points for them, he was totally within his rights to just give every model any cc weapon he wanted, from any list, for free. And he was serious about it. That's the scary part.

After trying to defend this "ruling" to the 10-12 other guys in the store that night, and being told over and over that he was being patently ridiculous, this guy packed up his models in a huff and "retired" from the game of 40K.

He was not missed.

Did he actually model the wailing doom (Avatar sword) on a Choas marine?

Nope. Go figure that this guy was not exactly the consummate hobbyist....

If I ever meet him I'd declare my foot to be that of Gorks and I get to drop it on his models whenever my Weirdboy casts that spell XD

My friends flamer was just out of range of my sternguard, so we decided that he could use his 'holy duct tape' to hold the trigger down and throw it at them. The squad looses the special weapon and we placed a marker D6 inches in front of his guys and rolled a scatter dice for direction it was facing when it landed. It killed 3 out of my 5 man squad.

jonolikespie wrote:My friends flamer was just out of range of my sternguard, so we decided that he could use his 'holy duct tape' to hold the trigger down and throw it at them. The squad looses the special weapon and we placed a marker D6 inches in front of his guys and rolled a scatter dice for direction it was facing when it landed. It killed 3 out of my 5 man squad.

Holy duct tape... that sounds more an IG method..."quick! My leman russ cannon's been blown off!"
"well, we don't have the money for repairs...wait...duct tape!"

And HATES wrinklely old people sex.

Except with Betty White.

Bea Arthur

gman1401 wrote:BS2...

LMFAO...ok back on topic

Emperors Faithful wrote:

I mean back on topic...yeah ummm what were we talkin about guys?

I remember a guy at our gaming club who was fairly new, and said he had played loads of times before (he hadnt really, he just wanted to look pro) When I played him he claimed that AP6 was the best, all saves are invulrable, his cover save was 2, his tank was in cover so therefore got a 2+ save (about 1cm2 was behind a wall) and that he could take as many heavy supports, FA as he wanted. He then admitted he didnt know how to play, and after that, all was well!

Met a guy for a Nid on Nid match, we set the bar at 2000 points and he asked me if he could bring any unit, i told him as long as its in an official 5th edition book, that i didnt mind.

We roll and get pitched battle with 5 objectives

i have a reserve heavy list (lotsa gene stealers, a Trygon Prime, and the Parasite in a pod) versus a Gaunt-horde list, with a few ve, which look unusually small for the point size we where playing. He told me that he had an expensive unit in reserve.

due to hive commander, i had everything out on turn 2, and held half the points, turn 3 rolls around and he gets a six on his reserve roll, and then grins like a mad-man

he then then reminds me, that i said verbatim "Any official book in 5th edition".


I ended the game staring at a well-painted Bio-Titan

Back when we started playing my friend used every Nid creature on a base larger than 25mm as a synaps creature. None of the rest of us played Nids so we never bothered to check.

My buddy moved his BT Vindicator 12 inchs after i shook it last turn, then shot his cannon i was going to complain but the new BT FAQ says its ok! Doh! (extra armour + potms = oh noes!)

i versed a space marine player who said that his thunder fire cannon can also fire

hellfire shells

he also said that if your models were hit by an weapone which ignored their armour save they lose their armour forever

at a gw store we had stratigems and one was the observation post

it gives you +1 to reserve (I think) and if a model moves within 6 inches it was removed for the game

we thought that the model was removed from the game not the obseravation post

Da Sneaky One wrote:and one was the observation post

it gives you +1 to reserve (I think) and if a model moves within 6 inches it was removed for the game

we thought that the model was removed from the game not the obseravation post

electrified fence spanning 6" around it...lol...

MechaEmperor7000 wrote:If I ever meet him I'd declare my foot to be that of Gorks and I get to drop it on his models whenever my Weirdboy casts that spell XD

I think my foot would be too overpowered as it is very large.

I was losing really bad to a Tyranid player and when I had only scouts left I flipped my predator back over and put the lascannon turret back on.

Nid player: ...Wait what just happened?
Me: My predator has a phoenix down in it's wargear.
Nid player: Hahahaha.