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msteward wrote:My friend shot me with a plasma cannon. He stattered onto his own predator. It blew up and killed his techmarine.

lol, my brother did a similiar thing where he killed a land speeder and exploded and killed a terminator, but yours is MUCH more points, that would be rough

I got tank shocked by an Ork trukk. My last obliterator DoG'd and missed...Dead Obliterator. Next turn, my Terminators explode the trukk, It ramschackles into the terminators, wounding three. Two 1's, two dead terminators.

*Facepalm*

i had about 5 tukk convoys in an apoc game. i used them to block the enemy's view of my grots. Some IG player launched some deathstrike missles into the trukks all of them blew up with my grots crowded in. 5 out of 300 grots made it out. wtf.

I watched a SM rhino tank shock a demon prince, the prince DoG and you guessed it, failed horribly. Dunno how much that deamon prince was, but I doubt it was the 40ish points that rhino was

that rhino pilot was a boss, he was all like"lets crank this S%$T up to 11!"

dajobe wrote:

Spellbound wrote:First time using a Callidus assassin, back in the day.

second turn: *rolls die* A 4! She comes in!

*places her next to some devastators* She has a cool flamer!

*shoot flamer, kill 3* Sweet! Now I'm gonna charge, she's got a weapon that ignores invul saves!

*charges, kills three more, unit passes morale, locked in combat* Sweet!


.....Holy crap I just skipped my whole second turn....


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Also Callidus assassin shenanigans: Charged a wraithlord, thinking her cool sword would do the trick. Cool sword is S4 though....

lol, that was really funny, i have done things like accidentally skipping shooting phase by assaulting or forgeting to assault and getting butt pwned because of, but skipping an entire turn is classic. TOP NOTCH STORY!

As I a primarily Warmahordes player, I can say that it's easy to tell which players have just come into the game from 40k. They're the ones whose entire army does a full advance, then facepalm.

Well this seems to have turned into funny situations more than stupid tactics, but whatever works.
Me as IG vs Daemons. My demolisher with plasma sponsons only just got into range, and started unloading on the way too close gribblies. Plasma cannon scatters back, right onto my vendetta. Coincidentally, I killed more points of my own army than the enemy did there.

Second one was a big multiplayer game, Me with orks and and allied Orks against Necrons and Salamanders. It's late in the game, everything's stuck in, and the nightbringer the Necron player brought is murdering things left and right. I believe it had lost one wound, and my opponent was still quite cocky with it. It wandered into tankshock range for a Deathrolla. Splat

10 man bike squad and 20 ork boys charge lilith and 3 witches who had a pain token, 3 turns later lillith is the only one left she then took a deff gun to the face.

dajobe wrote:that rhino pilot was a boss, he was all like"lets crank this S%$T up to 11!"

I bet thats what he said too. I know the SM player certainly had the attitude afterwards. Literally pointed that dead prince down and kept yelling "IN YOUR FACE!!!!!!!!!!" and a couple middle fingers, you get the idea.



Also these are silly situations, the demon prince player gambled a taking out an easy target, which in effect is a stupid tactic. Why risk losing something like the DP, when you could just let it go by and either ignore it, or smash the hell out if it next turn?

One that was VERY recent. I was playing DW, my buddy was all drop pod SW, and my other buddy was Chaos. We were fighting Eldar and the new Grey Knights... well as you can imagine, those ddep strikes didn't work out too well. We lost two whole squads of grey hunters to drop pod mishaps and a squad of termies was killed before it even moved. I never killed a single model and lost half my army by turn two. It was shameful.

I was playing as Orks and had 10 burna boyz in a trukk. Drove it past some infiltrated scouts on my first turn. 54 flamer wounds later the scouts were literally nothing. *begins playing Kansas's Dust in the Wind*

Playing a demo game of Planet Strike at my local GW store. I was Deathwing / Ravenwing, and my buddy was Space Wolves. We were against Tau and Black Templar. We got 13 (yes that's right) orbital strikes before the game started. We asked the store manager if he had 13 craters we could use... his face was priceless.

Later in the above mentioned planet strike game Ragnar and a company of three surviving terminators got shot by 5 sword brethren. 3 wounds, three 1's. All termies died. *facepalm*. Next turn, Ragnar charges the sword brethren and kills them ALL. REVENGE!!!!!

Playing an Apoc game as Orks I charged my deff dread, trukk full of burnaz and my Warboss across no man's land. Only the warboss and two burnaz make it to the other side with a total of 0 kills. Then the Warboss TORE DOWN a BUILDING full of Tau warriors, who were flamed by the burnaz... smells like victory.

And I'm sure there are many more.

-WAAGH!

one that was used against me last night, cities of death against chaos, he's driving down a street in his vindicator mincing my white shield, he takes a wrong turn and drives into a street tht is too narrow, he can't turn and can't reverse becasue his obliterators are following, i roll a 6 on my death strike next turn....

Charged Marbo with a summoned greater deamon while Marbo was in cover. No grenades, SGD went down to I1, Marbo got a little bit lucky with the to hit rolls, 2+ to wound all wounded, deamon failed 4 of it's invo saves....

Tried to take on a warboss and 6 ork nobs with a five man hellion unit.

They all died. DIED.

The Dark Eldar were made the sock puppets of the green horde that day.

I once saw a demon prince(1 wound left) charge a lone guardsman that was the last in his squad and on the table, the demon prince rolled straight 1's on his attacks, the guardsman then proceded to stick his little bayonet into the DP belly and kill it. The entire store was laughing for like 10 minutes - the chaos player. Unfortunately, after that the guardsman got shot up by 5 obliterators...poor soldier...

Nothing settles a terrible dice roll fail like overkill

Fought an eldar player, was a friendly game. We had someone neutral set up the game and designate terrain. We had agreed to run full foot slogging armies.

He built a forest....it was so dense we could barely touch the models, complete with running rivers, everywhere, which was dangerous terrain.

2000p of CSM and 2000p of Eldar....drowned to death before we even touched each other.

Could only afford a termagant.

i was forced to use a railguun on a ratling and he passed his cover save. I lost due to a fething ratling.

I opted to use burst cannons over plasma rifles on feel no pain guard. I swear it made sense.

Vespid vs ogryns

3 hellhounds vs storm sheild termies

1000 pts of outflanking kroot.

I used the demons in the CSM codex once. Learned that lesson fast. Also Demon Princes without wings. Everyone loves a footslogging large target.

Also... lashed a nightbringer CLOSER to me. Usually I would kill it... but once I didn't. That game ended quickly.

CarrionBerserk wrote:Also... lashed a nightbringer CLOSER to me. Usually I would kill it... but once I didn't. That game ended quickly.

Now THAT is spectacular!

Sabet wrote:

CarrionBerserk wrote:Also... lashed a nightbringer CLOSER to me. Usually I would kill it... but once I didn't. That game ended quickly.

Now THAT is spectacular!

I only failed to drop that model in one round of shooting ever... As far as I was concerned, it was the standard shock and awe tactic that made necron players go bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Well, it was bound to fail some time.

Worst tactic ever ?

playing with dice rolling.

pretty sure this is not a tactic but it was funny, once my brother had 4 firewarriors left in a squad and just shot once at my termies, all 4 hit, all 4 wounded, and i got 4 1's on saves...it was horrible

dajobe wrote:pretty sure this is not a tactic but it was funny, once my brother had 4 firewarriors left in a squad and just shot once at my termies, all 4 hit, all 4 wounded, and i got 4 1's on saves...it was horrible

Is it still a stupid tactic if it goes well?

sure, the mighty duck guy had a funny tactic, i view this thread as more of a funny stories thread

3 bad tactics on my end
1. Forgetting Marbo has a demo charge (I could have killed a captain and a combat squad in 1 turn)
2. thinking 3 marines can out fight 8 fire warriors
3. thinking a dreadnought can defeat 12 honor guard fire warriors and the ethereal, who knew they are strength 5?
(2 and 3 were in the same game)

gotta watch out for those S5 pulse rifles, can do damage on your transports and dreadnoughts...my brother plays tau, so ive learned this the hard way

Stupidest tactic I ever used? Charged an Avatar of Khaine with a Guard Platoon Command Squad, sans Lieutenant. They only went and bloody killed it, with one Guardsman left. He was later obliterated by massed Eldar firepower, but he died a hero.

that reminds me of the time that a guardsman killed a demon prince alone in close combat, it was epic, the demon prince only had 1 wound left...but still, it was hilarious, he was then gunned down by a terminator squad...

Playing a necron player i decided to charge his nightbringer with my 20 some odd squad of boys not realizing they cant wound him. about two turns later there's no more orks around him.


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Also, during an apocalypse game (no relevance) i decide to charge into combat with a dreadnaught with a nob and two boys left in a squad thinking all the attacks go to his rear armor. didnt end well for the boys.