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Time for a bit of fun and a non-argumental thread!

As the title says, what has been your favourite special rule ever commited to print? It can be from absolutely any game, GW or not, including free games given away in Magazines or downloaded.

Mine comes from 'Bar Room Brawl' a game given away in White Dwarf during Gorkamorkas all too short tenure.

It's one of the random Special Abilities your Boy could use in the ensuing scrap, and is simply called.....(fanfare please)

'Weep like a weedy Grot'.

Your Boy dropped to the floor and turned on the waterworks, and could avoid being duffed up for a turn. Absolutely genius in my opinion, from the name to the application!

So your turn. And of course, do mention why you like it so much!

The Custard Pie Special Play card in Blood Bowl - hilariously inappropriate when used by an Dark Elf team.

Summary Execution. I still laugh everytime I kill one of my own guys. You pesky Sgts, when are you going to learn?

"Stunt-doubles" from the Movie Marines rules.

Why? Because if the Movie Marines weren't OTT enough, you can also make some sorry joe take your bullets for you.

I have so many, but my favorite one for teams of sheer stupidity was a card on the Dragonball Z card game which I believe was called "The Talking Ends Here." So imagine you're about to beat me, I'm down to 7 cards in my deck, and you can deal enough damage from 1 attack to kill me. I play that 1 card and suddenly I can't lose the game til the end of the next turn. I draw my cards, play Dragon balls to draw more cards and win because my last 7 cards were always Dragon Balls and I wish you dead. EVERY GAME. It was banned shortly after being produced

Rending.

Like GW price increases, they give it out when they don't know what to do.

There are tons of good ones in Warmachine and Hordes.

I think my favorite ones have to be Liquid Courage and Party Foul. Borka's Keg Carrier grants
Liquid Courage to a nearby unit. They can't be knocked down, when they reach the enemy that
turn the enemy gets to swing first, but in exchange the Liquid Couraged unit hits like a ton of bricks.

When someone kills the Keg Carrier, Party Foul comes into play. With Party Foul, all the
warriors can run and swing at the enemy since they're so darn pissed (probably in both
the British and American sense of the word)

Hunt the Fallen was tons of fun. Gave you something to strive for each game besides winning.

But the Ork ramshackle rules are a personal current fav.

Marbo's "He's right behind you" rule. Damn fun rule especially since Marbo is more or less a battle cannon that shoots point blank when he shows up.

The Space Wolf scouts Behind enemy lines, freaks my mate out all the time.

WHFB giant special attacks

Sprint in Mordhiem. My vampire running 18" a turn is funny. Especially in the campain he became frenzied and a sword master. Basically, he got 7 str 5 attacks on the charge, re-rolling missed.

40k: Deep Strike. Just for the name DEEEEEEP STRIKE!

Warmachine: Soul Cages. Ensuring those living mercenaries perform one final task for their masters.

My favorite name? "Immune to Natural Law" from the C'tan.

Favorite rule for effect? Combat Tactics

Best combination of name and effect? The old Alaitoc Pathfinders in Codex: Craftworld Eldar called "World Weary."

I like Mob Rule, because it's a pun.

I also like By the Authority of the Immortal Emperor of Mankind, because it's way longer than a rule's name should be.

Feel no Pain is another cool sounding one.

Cane wrote:Marbo's "He's right behind you" rule. Damn fun rule especially since Marbo is more or less a battle cannon that shoots point blank when he shows up.

QFT. The only thing that comes close to it is Zogwort's Curse cause nothing says Power like turning one of your opponents characters into a squig XD

Not so much a rule, but fun nonetheless.

In the old Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness book, like 20 years ago, you could roll for the chaos attributes for your champions. One summer we were doing a Warbands Campaign and I was stoked. I chose Khorne as the band's patron hoping to kick some serious backside. However, for my Champion of Khorne I rolled 'Tiny Head' (-1 int) , 'Bird feet' (+1 attack) and 'Fear of Blood' (-1 Ld ) . The most useless Khorne Champion ever. EVER! I took this as a sign not to do a Khornate Warband and switched to Nurgle.

I like "Litanies of Hate" because it just sounds so angry. They changed it to "Liturgies of Battle" or something far less angry sounding. I will forever call it Litanies of Hate.

JD21290 wrote:WHFB giant special attacks

This. I will never get over the time when my Giant ate Karl Franz and then stuffed five Knights into his pants.

The "dude" movie marine special rules, he always gets the girl.

IG orders. yes! also Lumbering Behemoth.

So many choices. One of my favourites would be the wargear item that Flash Gitz have called 'Gitfindas'. I read the name and cracked up laughing. It sounds like some kind of wacky crime-fighting tool.

The rules for the Shokk Attack Gun are pretty funny during a game, like when the Big Mek accidentally fires himself at the enemy. Never again will I fire it at a Dreadnought.

5th ed. counter attack rules when Space marines still had a 4th ed codex.

I miss my tactical squads that got three attacks when charged >_<

The old 2nd ed Ork Mad Boyz rules. All of them. Especially the names... 'Oi, dats my bolter', 'Fraternizashun wiv da enemee' (probably my favorite of the lot. the Boyz march toward the nearest enemy unit, refraining from shooting and shouting about how it was all a mistake, we can all be friends. The enemy unit is not allowed to shoot at the boys that turn).

Ahh, reading them now makes me laugh.

The Squig Hound rule for Grots. Nom nom nom.

Nork the Ogryns special rule wich allows him to kill the commissar who just killed the leader. I just picture it going down like this
Commissar: Bloody coward die in the name of the Emperor *blam* and now for the rest of you i must say... wait what are you doing Ogryn? Wait NOOOOOO!!!!!

The Hallucinogen Grenade rules from the 2nd ed Wargear book.

My favorite rule name is also from 2nd Edition

"Jones is acting strangely..." from the Codex Tyranids of that era. Now do any of you vets remember what it did? :-)

chaplaingrabthar wrote:The Hallucinogen Grenade rules from the 2nd ed Wargear book.

My favorite rule name is also from 2nd Edition

"Jones is acting strangely..." from the Codex Tyranids of that era. Now do any of you vets remember what it did? :-)

Yes, it made a bit of a mess of Jones and Jones's mates didn't come off too well either.

Aun'va in Tau codex...

"Supremely Inspiring Presence"

It's like the writer just stopped trying...

Rattling Gun mixed with Life is Cheap , its so crazyyyyy :3