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“Shooting attacks are resolved simultaneously. You cannot lash a unit into a bunch and then shoot at them.”

Well you can't do that from the same unit. Were they thinking the entire phase was simultaneous?

Yes they were from DP's.

A WH Fantasy Battle - My Silver Helms (Elf cavalry) can jump over your bases of Snotlings when charging because they are so short...


He then proceeded to jump over the snotlings, run smack into a unit of Orcs and miss all attacks then get wiped out by the Orc's attacks.

In my club, this one kid places his rhino end to end with a Land Raider and moves it around like that for the whole game.

calgar 2.5 wrote:In my club, this one kid places his rhino end to end with a Land Raider and moves it around like that for the whole game.

Why?

Vache Glace wrote:

“Shooting attacks are resolved simultaneously. You cannot lash a unit into a bunch and then shoot at them.”

Well you can't do that from the same unit. Were they thinking the entire phase was simultaneous?

Yes they were from DP's.

Well, the daemon prince can lash someitng into a nice cluster, and then have a nother unit drop a battlecannon shell on it or something. That's legal.

As to the Land Raider + Rhino thing...whit it seems weird, it's not a fake rule persay..

When fifth edition first came out, my buddy somehow "misinterpreted" the shooting rules that you had to declare what EVERYONE was shooting at before you started rolling. "this unit shoots at THIS unit, this unit shoots at THAT unit", etc. and you couldnt change targets after the dice started rolling. What's worse is he played orks, he had so many things on the table you couldnt keep track. We eventually got a bundle of dowels and would lay them out across the table to keep track of everything. Till oneday somebody said this is ridiculous and picked up the rule book...

Lizar7 wrote:

calgar 2.5 wrote:In my club, this one kid places his rhino end to end with a Land Raider and moves it around like that for the whole game.

Why?

With the correct manoeuvring he can, quite legally, claim a 3+ cover save on the Rhino because firing models are unable to draw LOS to the facing they are in(as it is hidden behind the Land Raider).

I remember 2 years ago when I collected before I got seriously into Warhammer 40k, I played a game of a very small Eldar force against an even smaller chaos force. I would just say that you had to roll 2+ only to save like a guardian. Lol.

I have 2 rules both made by the same person, one is a joke, the other was actually serious.

The first is the I Win rule, very straight forward, if you have a unit with this rule you win instantly, no exceptions.

The other didn't have a name, and wasn't as ridiculous, but still it was to much.

This rule belonged to a space marine character so ridiculous he made Marnius Calgar look like a guardsmen, his rule meant that he could challenge the enemy commander to a duel, which was the

enemies HQ choice (chosen by the opponent). If the commander accepted the challenge then they would immediately move into base contact with each other, regardless of where they are,

they then enter combat (They both count as chargeing). If he wins, then every unit in the opponents force must make a leadership test, if the opponent wins then his force has to take a

leadership test. If they opponent refuses to fight, then his entire army must take a leadership test.

Monoliths can teleport, summon warrior units AND fire all weapons in a single turn.

I just took this as a bit OP until I asked to see the codex. This was quickly shot down.

The house rule at the club I used to play was simply Tau always lose regardless of the outcome of the game. Really sucked for Tau players during our little tournaments.

Commisar Wolfie wrote:The house rule at the club I used to play was simply Tau always lose regardless of the outcome of the game. Really sucked for Tau players during our little tournaments.

What?!?!

When i first started playing my friend would roll all his reserve rolls at once and then he got to pick which came on rather than doing them individually

My first ever game was 3rd. Ed. CSM Vs. SM, and my opponent's advisor (he was supposedly a veteran player, but some years before that, with 2nd. Ed. rules...) had a biker chaplain charge my chaos dreadnought...
The thing is he had us understand pistols counted as CCWs (which they actually did and do), BUT in terms of using their profile to boost CC attacks, so his chaplain had 5 S7 attacks and crippled my dreadnought easily and unscathed, thanks to his I=5.
The next thing he was planning doing was sweeping advance then engage (legal back at 3rd. Ed., or was it?) my terminator squad and ignore armor saves, not because of his crozius, but again his 5 S7 I5 attacks provided by his plasma pistol...
Lucky me I shot him down thanks to a bad sweeping advance roll (3D6" w/bike?).

The strength of the CC weapon used to be used from 1st Ed to at least 2nd Ed [and maybe even 3rd?].

I missed 4th Ed so don't know.

Could have been an easy mistake?

miles wrote:I remember 2 years ago when I collected before I got seriously into Warhammer 40k, I played a game of a very small Eldar force against an even smaller chaos force. I would just say that you had to roll 2+ only to save like a guardian. Lol.

First of all, your a for doing that.
Secondly, this is a website, not your mobile phone. Please don't talk like it is.

There was a Marine player that attempted to claim that because his Marines were male they were BS5 while because my Sisters were female they were BS2.

I don't play against him anymore.

Wow. I realize that is incredibly sexist but it is still kinda funny.

Space Marine players at my store claim they can get a 3+ save by buying and Item and be able to take it no matter what....oh wait nevermind its actually legal

Kurce wrote:

There was a Marine player that attempted to claim that because his Marines were male they were BS5 while because my Sisters were female they were BS2.

I don't play against him anymore.

Wow. I realize that is incredibly sexist but it is still kinda funny.

It's even more sad when you consider that women tend to be better shots than men.

Gutsnagga wrote:

miles wrote:I remember 2 years ago when I collected before I got seriously into Warhammer 40k, I played a game of a very small Eldar force against an even smaller chaos force. I would just say that you had to roll 2+ only to save like a guardian. Lol.

First of all, your a for doing that.
Secondly, this is a website, not your mobile phone. Please don't talk like it is.

^ this.

Not really a fake rule, but this kid (BA) tried to DS a LR ( i think). He mishapped, and I dropped the LR in the far corner. He somehow, in 2 turns, gets within gun range. I ask to measure, and (he moved "12" each turn apparently) and he was 28" away from where I put the LR. This was after it took out a Hammerhead :p

I had a kid who couldn't be bothered to move his orks (about 80), so he moved one forward, and moved the rest of the squad in behind it. I had no problem with this, until 20 of them got in single file to get through a narrow alley between buildings (about an inch between each ork), and proceeded to move every ork in a bunch at the other side. They ended up being all in assault range of my tactical squad, despite the furthest ork starting the turn about 2 feet away. I pointed it out to him, so he then proceeded to move them in single file, but in B2B with each other. I let it slide, my tac marines survived, the squad managing to pummel enough orks to stop most of the inbound attacks, and because only 3 or so cold get me, I took no wounds and sweeped 'em. I had to go in about 10 min, so I couldn't be bothered to stand there arguing with him. I later saw him doing the same to a noob on his first game. I had a go at him, it turns out the guy had also been saying all his boyz were 'ard boys (one squad per army, 4+ armour) and his boyz had shootas and choppas. The cheater ragequit because the noob proceeded to destroy half his army with some flukey rolls.

I played on game where my stealth suits suits could only e seen/shot at 12 or less inches, my friends trusted me but I realized it seemed really OP and I checked the rules. I felt dumb :(

A long time ago I had someone tell me that when he shot my Devilfish down that because it moved the turn before, the crashing skimmer would land into a nearby fire warrior unit, then bounce into another friendly unit, killing them all.

i made a total nood mistake when reading the scouts 'move through cover' rule when i first started out. pretty much skimmed it so in one of my first ever games i promptly rolled 3 6's and moved 18" through a forest to wipe out his crisis team that was hammering me.
needless to say when i was perusing my codex a week or so later and realised my mistake, i made a full apology and offered a re-match with the BRB on hand. He accepted and seemed quite genial about the whole thing, even going so far as to apologise for a mistake he made in his list (having an extra 200 odd points than i did lol).
never did get another game from him though....

When third came out my friend wanted to play my 3rd edition DE with his eldar so he made up rules based on what he "thought" the 3rd edition Eldar book would be like. His Jain Zar and Solitare killed my entire army in three turns.

When the Eldar codex came out, he stopped playing them...

Later, he came up with the same "probable" rules for Tyranids and narrowly defeated me after I flew away from his multiple T8-9 MCs and tried picking off the gaunts. Luckily it was close as he didn't give his force all winged Carnifexs.

Once I accidentally fired both weapons on a Falcon after it moved 12" (first time with Eldar) and didn't notice until I was rolling for damage (three glances). I realized my mistake and apologized, and removed the dice for the scatter laser from the board (two of the glances). My opponent immediately declared me to be a 'raging cheater' and that I 'would have taken the better of the two weapons'. He proceeded to ragequit and storm off.

Worst Rule Used Against Me - Blood Angels rhinos have fireports. Then the opponent showed me the codex... blah...

Seriously, I got into a (brief) argument with a guy over this. I apologized profusely afterward, but I curse GW for writing something stupid to the point I thought that my opponent was making up his own rules!

Alphapod wrote:Blood Angels rhinos have fireports.

Just like every other Rhino that has existed since fire points were included. Nothing stupid about shooting out of one.

DarknessEternal wrote:

Alphapod wrote:Blood Angels rhinos have fireports.

Just like every other Rhino that has existed since fire points were included. Nothing stupid about shooting out of one.

I'm guessing the problem is the BA player drove them 12" and fired out of them. It seems to be a common misconception that being a fast vehicle somehow has an effect on passengers firing from the firepoints.

lol i was bored so i said to mai friend who had roughly 2000 pts wile i only had 1450 that both my etherals could fly and call in orbital bombarbment every 2 turns he still won though