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What model is the most catastrophically failing character in your army(ies)?

Mine:
High Elf mage - consistently dies to miscast. Example: last game I played, very first turn, very first roll of the game, rolls snake eyes to cast a spell....and another set of snake eyes for result. T__T.

My friend:
Dwarf Cannon - managed to have 5 consecutive games where it misfired, despite having the rune to re-roll the misfire die.

Good laughs had with these guys, though. And provides fun nicknames (I call my mage Enola Gaye now).

Fantasy:

Bretonnian Lord on Pegasus, every time i seem to take him he dies to something random like a lucky scatter on a stone thrower or a cannon that way overshot etc.

40k

There's a specific Sgt. model with a power fist and a Plasma Pistol that i no longer fire his pistol, simply because every time i do i seem to roll a 1 then another 1. By by 40 points spent on wargear.

Warmachine:
The Behemoth Every time i take the thing it seems to spend most of its time either scrambled on its back, or unable to receive focus.

Every vet sgt with a power weapon. I generally do more wounds with the squad he's attached to.

My Manticore. Rider is all right, he manages to pull his weight, but one more embrassing death for Mr Manticore and he is getting replaced.

Skinks. Gnoblars. High Elves. You name it, and as long as it's weedy, he'll get chinned at the drop of a hat

40k: Karnis the Chaos Dreadnought. Who always seems to be just fine when nothing matters, but as soon as he's in a position to do something game-breaking, just malfunctions and goes insane.

Bob the plasma cannon marine. Always manages to hit... his own squad. Damned scatter dice.

Mekboy wrote:Bob the plasma cannon marine. Always manages to hit... his own squad. Damned scatter dice.

lmao, thats why marines whouldn't where such bright armour

here's one, I roll to scatter and I roll way off target twice with both deathwinds. he fires his plasmacannon at the clustered marines and gets a direct hit, every time, with 3 drop pods of marines....

I'm playing Beasts of Chaos vs. some High Elves.

My opponent's general is a wizard Lord, fully tarted up with all the best in High Elf wear. He's got a mount, max points of items, the works, and he's in a huge spearmen unit with other characters.

Round #1, top of the first, He marches up and gets ready to get casting. First spell, miscast, double 4's. Normally this isn't catastrophic, but I've got Morghor, so all of a sudden, his army is led by a 3-wound Chaos Spawn.

Worse yet, this thing is in combat with his spearmen, and it's a 3 wound t5 Unbreakable menace. Worst of all, on its first round of combat it kills his BSB.

So it's the top of the first, I haven't even had a chance to go, and his General has become a Spawn, eaten his BSB and locked up his unit. I've seen more improbably occurences (Skaven magic killed 40 of his own guys, including 2 ratling guns), but this is the most outlandish and instant I've ever seen.

My great weapon wielding khornate minotaur unit in my Beasts of Chaos army have never won a single combat.
It's like the power fist effect. Sure, statistically you should hit half the time and wound most of the time, but we all know that once the strength of an attack goes past 8 the chance of rolling a 1 triples.

My Shokk Attack Gun.

TWO TIMES he's had a shot at delivering a game-breaking shot.

Two times I rolled snake eyes.

He's had his share of uber-shots too but none were game-changers.

My Tzeentch herald. He keeps rolling the power to gain more Power Dice in addition to rolling the 1 power.

Wolf Lord with Fenrisian Wolves under 4th ed. armour majority rules. Bad, bad idea.

Although before killpoints came into it, if the Wolf Lord died off his horrible 5+ save before the wolves did, the opponent wouldn't get any victory points.

Red_Lives wrote:Fantasy:
Bretonnian Lord on Pegasus, every time i seem to take him he dies to something random

Ditto- though last game I tried using a Damsel for more than magic defense for the first time and she miscast first turn and killed herself.

Khorne berzerker skull champion w/ power fist. I truly despise him, but he's the only berzerker I got with a power fist. I've threatened to pull it off and put it on another model after every game he's in. He has 4 attacks on the charge and hits most things on 3's. S9 on the charge. He should be awesome. Can't hit a thing. I consistently roll 1's and 2's for every roll to hit. Once charged a dreadnought, figuring I'd kill it in the first round of assault. He never hit it. For three turns. The other guys with crack grenades were doing all the damage. Never did kill the darn thing.

My Dark Angels Company Captian. I have played this one guys nidz like four times, every time my captain dies to rippers with spinefists....

My Dark Eldar Archon. I told him to lay off the drugs but more deaths have been to overdose of combat drugs than anything else.

I got the Amy Winehouse of 40k for a HQ.

thehod wrote:My Dark Eldar Archon. I told him to lay off the drugs but more deaths have been to overdose of combat drugs than anything else.

I got the Amy Winehouse of 40k for a HQ.

That has got to be the funniest thing I have read here in a while.

Warlock Engineer Neblek blows himself up every single game I field him in.

4th Ed. Terminator command squad with attached terminator captain

Squad takes 2 wounds from a fair amount of lasgun fire. Rolls snake eyes for the saves. 2 termi's die. Roll for morale, boxcars (2 6's), roll for fall back, boxcars again and off the off the table.

200+ points of termi's plus 150+ points of commander gone at the bottom of turn 1.

I died a little inside and didn't field the termi's for 6 months as a punishment

Frostreaver wrote:4th Ed. Terminator command squad with attached terminator captain

Squad takes 2 wounds from a fair amount of lasgun fire. Rolls snake eyes for the saves. 2 termi's die. Roll for morale, boxcars (2 6's), roll for fall back, boxcars again and off the off the table.

200+ points of termi's plus 150+ points of commander gone at the bottom of turn 1.

I died a little inside and didn't field the termi's for 6 months as a punishment

Back when I played tyranids the same lictor was killed by the same five man pathfinder team in every game he ever played them in. It was a lot of games.

My Dragon Mage, how he manages to get killed everytime buy a lucky couple of shots from goblin bow fire astounds me, still its such a nice model in he goes everytime, hes only had one good game against vampire counts were he killed 1 unit of black knights and a unit of dire wolves, i dont think he even made his points back...*sigh*

The Lascannon trooper in my First Ultramarine Tactical Squad... This guys manages, very constantly, to hit once, and only once, during any given game.

Necron Pariahs. I've used them twice ever. They've been killed in a speed that would appear impossible to most observers.

Plasma. I have never, ever played a game of 40k with plasma-armed troops where at least one hasn't killed himself.

(note to self - stop picking plasma weapons as a unit upgrade...)

My shooty fex tends to kill any and all gaunts around him thanks to scatter, has even killed himself on 2 occasions.

tyrant guard has to be the best, a unit of 3 have lasted plenty of games, and tend to kill most things in thier way (most noted being 2 GUO at the same time)

Old Zog hates me, all i want is an extra WaaGh or two, but no, every time he just blows his own head off...

Even with the WarpHead he has managed to not only kill him self but any unit of boys I put him in gets to share his fate

My Empire knights, so slow I only arely get the charge and even more rarely hit with their lances. The horses however do more damage they do.

Sometimes I wish I could just buy a unit of warhorses and a charactrers for decent leadership. They will do far better than my knights.

Any model in my army with T5 or greater getting hit with the bolt of change (demon psychic ability to spawn your dude?). If a grot gets hit with, I usually make their T test, but in the last 3 games vs demons my WB on bike and or other bikers have all failed their Toughness tests... (I can roll ones forever when it doesn't matter, but when I need anything less then 6?...)

my friends whirlwind has had the worst luck ive ever seen. out of dozens of games it has only succeeded in killing his own marines. back in the day where you had to guess the range for barrage weapons he was always spot on, right in the middle of what he wanted to kill, but scatter dice hate him, always taking those missile off over to his own nearby squad. when guessing went out the window the scatter dice remained the same, only ever killing his own marines. eventually he became tired of it and got himself a nice nid army instead.