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Ok, this thread is to share some stupid blunders you, or another person, has made. This can be while gaming, collecting or modelling.

Share.

forgetting to disenbark my marines from a razorback for 2 turns. D'oh!!

Managing to click end turn on Blood Bowl online while trying to use a Wardancer to blitz the Ball carrier with 2d when it was going to score a TD next turn.

Glueing two Marines together.


Don't ask.

Putting a gun backwards in the hands of a CSM. I am leaving him like that saying he spent too much time in the warp.

Leaving my Mega Armored Warboss onboard his Battlewagon (while the 9 MegaNobz formerly with him charged another target) in order to attack a Penitent Engine using a Boarding Plank...

The Raging, Moving & Running Pentitent Engine moved over 12" meaning I couldn't attack with my Warboss, and the MegaNobz ended up losing combat and the six survivors ran away without the Bosspole re-roll.

The Warboss later died in combat with the two Penitent Engines.

Charging my Chaos Sorcerer onto a Leman Russ Demolisher out in the middle of the board before realising that he wasn't actually carrying anything that could hurt it...


Modeling-wise, spending about 4 hours painting a banner for my Space Marine Chapter Master, and then accidentally slicing halfway through it with a scalpel... :(

Everytime I impulse buy, promise myself never to do it again then start a new army the next week.

going to ground with a unit of plasma vets in an effort to to survive the firepower of the Chaos Terminator unit and forcing the Terms to have to charge in an kill the rest of the unit in Hth.

then realizing that the damn Terminators had just deepstruck in that turn and couldn't assault.

I would have been able to shoot back 4 plasma shots and a few extra lasguns in return....

Moving my bikes forwards 5" off the line first turn, then not firing my dakkaguns at the stealers, sine I know that with a 24" no man's land I'm out of range. Then having the stealers move, run 5", then assault into my guys with a cool two inches to spare.

I then measured the table 40" across . D'oh!

Making my original Death Guard list with 2 each of Defilers and Vidnicators before remember that isn't legal...

My first game against the new nids at 1500 points. I was playing my 1850 list without thinking about it >.<; There were 20 something too many plaguebearers that kinda sorta won me the game. I felt bad and told the guy the next week once I realized.

First sprue of chaos marines - didn't notice the arms came in matching sets. Oopsie.

In an all night build and paint fest, my brother couldn't get the glue to come out of the tube. What do you do then, you ask? Well you squeeze REALLY hard,of course! Glue shot out all over him, the model, the table, and he didn't find out till ten minutes later...all over his shoe and the floor. He glued his foot to the floor, and when he pulled it up, he tore a huge jagged chunk of linoleum.
In another glue related silliness....One time he accidentally glued his hand to the model, a bunch of tissues that he used to try and clean himself with, and, ultimately, the table.

The worst I've done is have glue on my hands when I sprayed the zip kicker. Chemical reactions cause heat! Heat burns skin! Less than fun.

Oh, and I glue my brothers models together now. It's for the best.

In a risky gambit I jumpacked my 5-man BA assualt squad at a SW vindicator. I was just out of charge range so I didn't get a chance to charge with my melta-bombs. As I braced myself for the inevitable gakstorm headed my way I declared them going to ground as he fired. He missed, badly, and blew up about half a Blood Claws pack of his own.

Sighing with relief I went to move them into charge range. Then I remembered that they had gone to ground. D'oh!

using a 300 pooint vv in a 1000 point army. doh.

Constantly forgetting my Eldar's abilities...

And also attacking a BT dread with a squad of banshees. "What are you doing?" "... I don't know..." (In a tournament no less.)

I forgot a unit of Chaos Marines were in a rhino I parked on an objective to keep enemy models away.

Turn five, it was pointed out I still had troops in it - and I was scoring the victory point I needed to win.

Whoops!

The latest one while playing Blood Bowl: giving the bowl to a skaven blitzer after the kick-off went out of the pitch, being blitzed on the elves following turn and losing the ball... I should have given it to the thrower lol

Finsh gluing my Big Mek Shokk Attak Gun, which you know is a bitch to hold all the bits together with only two hands! IF you are a mutant warp spawned tentacled 5 armed freak no worries! only to stick the scoopy bit of it to my finger, shake gentley to release, drop the rest of and watch in slow motion as it falls to the floor and shatters and bends! nooooo!

Excitedly opening a box from mail order; my first Exorcist tank. Realizing it had no instructions and was so warped i was expecting Tzeentch to reach out and blow a raspberry in my face at any second. 2 weeks it took me to put the damned thing together. Two Weeks!

Bought another last month

Ok, here's mine, the point of the thread, i was doing a big spray-session spraying lots of my models. Included were two war walkers. After i'd finished spraying i realised that the cockpit screen were glued on and i'd sprayed over them. I got around it by painting it like they have in futuristic films in spaceships, if you get what i mean.

Another common one i find is forgetting to use your DE eternal hatred. I was playing a game against a guy in which my BG chargeed his orcs, i did badly and onyl hit with one of 11 attacks, and lost the combat. I fled and was run down. After my opponent said "Ahh that's a shame, 200 odd points down the drain. Shame you didnt have a bit of a boost in that combat, i think being able to re-roll missed hits would be useful. Shame you didnt have a special rule that allowed you to..." At this point i slapped my head. But, being a sport, my opponent let me take the whole combat again (nice guy) and it ended in a draw.

I remember once, I was gluing marines together and had the general mess of sprues laying about. I needed some food, went inside and forgot all about them. The problem with this was the next day I went back into my garage to find that I had left the super glue open, and it somehow was running out of the tube and onto the table I was working on. So then I had the fun job of figuring out how to get the sprues full of marines off the table without ruining anything.

During games though, shoot man I forget things all the damn time lol. Pretty much after the heated games is when I realized I had forgotten something that could of turned the tide of war for me.

One time I was putting some static grass on my Orks. I was holding one and I blew on it to blow any excess grass off. Unfortunately, I forgot to close the container, and a cloud of static grass erupted over my desk. That stuff gets EVERYWHERE.

Another time I accidentally broke one of my friend's battlesuits, right at those tiny, wussy ankles. In a rush to fix it without him finding out, I grabbed a bottle of glue. I squeezed it too hard, and the bottle exploded, covering my hands and wrists. I absentmindedly wiped my hands off on my jeans, which ended up with huge scales of glued superglue on what used to be a decent pair of pants. However, he never found out that I accidentally broke his battlesuit...

I forgot my Defiler has a battlecannon on it for three turns...

Brother SRM wrote:One time I was putting some static grass on my Orks. I was holding one and I blew on it to blow any excess grass off. Unfortunately, I forgot to close the container, and a cloud of static grass erupted over my desk. That stuff gets EVERYWHERE.

I have done a similar thing but with sand, i was basing some eldar with them and i accidentaly knocked off the tub. Unofortunately the lid was off, and about half the tub was spread all over the floor, it took me ages to salvage even a fraction of what i'd lost and a lot of it had disappeared or was to tricky to get out. A few weeks ago i lifted out an old book that was under the desk and out of it came loads of sand! You're right, it does get everywhere.

just the other day used a list with 5 terminators in a landraider, and typhus footslogging behind. if that isnt dumb enough the reason i did it was because the other 5 terminators are slaanesh terminators and i guess i just assumed they really, really didnt belong together. so im in the game and realize my idiocy and when the landraider got wrecked the termies popped out and moved together with typhus. problem is i forgot to declare that he was joining the unit and even though i tried to make my opponent understand it was obvious what i meant to do (because we had discussed the fact that WHY IS TYPHUS FOOTSLOGGING ALONE!!?1?!) he refused to allow typhus in the unit and proceeded to assault my 5 LC termies with his 5 furious charging templar LC termies. the following turn has yet to be played as typhus now stands only with his familiar to keep him company :(

i also just realized now that i forgot to include any melta bombs in the list too



another time i was putting my open-topped box of ALL my infintry miniatures (thrown in a heap, about 2000pts worth of csm's + terminators) up in the top of a closet, something slipped and down came the box. i found a marine hiding in a jacket a week later. i punished the deserter by means of death or glory in the next game he was in. he died.

Charging 50 guardsmen into a green tide numbering 100. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

(TBH, it was a close run thing. Only about 20 or so boyz walked out of it)

keeperofsecrets wrote:just the other day used a list with 5 terminators in a landraider, and typhus footslogging behind. if that isnt dumb enough the reason i did it was because the other 5 terminators are slaanesh terminators and i guess i just assumed they really, really didnt belong together. so im in the game and realize my idiocy and when the landraider got wrecked the termies popped out and moved together with typhus. problem is i forgot to declare that he was joining the unit and even though i tried to make my opponent understand it was obvious what i meant to do (because we had discussed the fact that WHY IS TYPHUS FOOTSLOGGING ALONE!!?1?!) he refused to allow typhus in the unit and proceeded to assault my 5 LC termies with his 5 furious charging templar LC termies. the following turn has yet to be played as typhus now stands only with his familiar to keep him company :(

I dont have the CSM dex on me, so unless Typhus has some special rule where he can only join units for specific reasons, he would of automatically joined the group if he was within coherency.


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Emperors Faithful wrote:Charging 50 guardsmen into a green tide numbering 100. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

(TBH, it was a close run thing. Only about 20 or so boyz walked out of it)

That takes balls lol. Just wanted to acknowledge that

Brother SRM wrote:Another time I accidentally broke one of my friend's battlesuits, right at those tiny, wussy ankles. In a rush to fix it without him finding out, I grabbed a bottle of glue. I squeezed it too hard, and the bottle exploded, covering my hands and wrists. I absentmindedly wiped my hands off on my jeans, which ended up with huge scales of glued superglue on what used to be a decent pair of pants. However, he never found out that I accidentally broke his battlesuit...

I can do you one "better". Once, while trying to open up a stuck glue bottle, I dumped half the bottle on my hands (Still not sure how). Forgetting I was dealing with superglue, I jumped up, and ran to wash them off before it set. It was about when the glue started to heat up that I realized what an idiot I was. I was picking bits of glue (and skin) off for a week afterwards.