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This is a thread for people's stories on when games went completely wrong - not because of a bad list, but because you rolled exceptionally poorly the whole game, or your opponent rolled exceptionally well the whole game. Let's hear 'em!

The one that I had a few days ago was when I went up against Imperial Guard with my Tau. I tried on numerous occasions to wipe out his tanks, but failed almost every time. Fusion Blasters on my Stealths rolled double 1s to pen, Railguns frequently rolled 1s and 2s to break through AV 12, and even weight of firing (With Strength 5) on AV10 failed to do any damage. Then to top it off, I fired into a group of guardsmen in cover, gave 'em 8 wounds, and they passed 7 of them. Argh!

I was playing against my buddy in a Store tournament and he was doing decent, his Nurgle marines were surviging. . .barely. . .to my Tyranids. Well he Deep Strikes his 5 man Nurgleator (Nurgle Terminators it is just my nick name for them) squad and proced to shoot at some warriors with a Prime at the lead. he failed EVERY single hit/ wound against them.

Next it is my turn and I have 2 squads of 5 Warriors with Deathspitters and one Prime each with Deathspitters and Lash Whip and boneswrod. I procede to shoot right into the Nurgleators and I wounded with like 6 of the Deathspitter shots, he fails 3 out of 6 2+ saves!!!! I was jumping for joy (I am a Terminator hater. . . ) Next I do it again with the other 5 man squad, the one he shot and missed at. And they finish off the last 2 marines! I was going ballistic!!!

During that same turn one of my Mycetic Spores (remember this they have a BS of 2) procedes to whip at some of his Nurgleines and actually hits 5 times!!!! out of 6! I was amazed!!!!!

This is not about the gods hating me,but quite the opposite.
Playing planet strike 'Planetfall'.I'm Imperial guard,my two friends are SM (White scars on bikes and Pre-traitor Astral Claws in Rhinos,Landraiders etc[must get my mate to post pics of them on here]).Any way its pretty bloody (3000 pts each). I have 2 bastions remaining, one of which has 'Imposing edifices'. White Scars chapter master on bike has to take moral test to assualt (And he's armed up to the eyaballs)and......DOUBLE SIX!

And then I rolled to see how many more turns and I roll a one. Game over, I win. A Phyrric victory, but a victory non the less.

Reminds me of one of the first games I played. It was my orkz vs. my friends marines. I was rolling hot, almost everything I rolled was 4 or better, except when I had to roll leadership, in which case I would roll ones or twos. And my friend was having terrible luck; when he would roll his saves at least half of his dice we ones or twos.

Well in my 1st ever game (using his CSM models), I was playing against my bro who had a monolith and my only anti-tank was a doom bolt, lascannon and a dreadnought's CCW.

I get the 1st turn and my dread fire-frenzy's with his Plasma cannon, killing the then 1-wound sorcerer and the CSM with a Lascannon, completely ruining my anti-tank capabilities (which were poor as it was). These problems were made worse when the dread was later immobilised - about 3 inches away from the monolith IIRC and had it's plasma cannon destroyed.

Oh, and my points heavy Plague Marines lost in a prolonged assault to scarab swarms and my thousand sons were beaten in assault by destroyers...

Pretty much all due to my bad dice... Happy Days!

As Necrons I failed 10 out of 10 Armour saves and lost 500 points woeth of guys in one shooting phase.

Game was 1750

Ah, I've got two stories.

The first was my 1000 pt IG with 2 chimeras and SoB in an immolator against Orks with a battle wagon, 2 trucks and a KFF. Of course the KFF stops half my shots and on wounding my heavy weapons don't even glance. But when he rolled his cannon and lobbas hoo boy. Hits and then pens and then 6's, turn after turn each vehicle explodes. But I guess the dice gods took pity on me as each and every crew were unharmed and unpinned. It's like the vehicle just peeled off them in a ball of fire. Thankfully my friend was too excited when he assualted and forgot to vehicle fire so the game was close when I lost.


2nd story, same friend but different armies. This time I went 1000 pt all mech IG and he went WH. His DemonHost is coming up on my vets and 'splodes them out of the chimera first chance he gets and half die. No problem the vets pass morale and they have 3 plasmas. They promptly unload 6 shots point blank. 6,5,5,1,1,1. The DemonHost dies and so do the 3 vets. The remaining hwt and Sarge pass morale and the Sarge yells "Stop exploding you cowards!"

The last game I played, my SM v my buddies Eldar. I drop podded a Dreadnought right behind his fire prisms, and my dread had a MM. Of course, I don't roll higher than a 3 for anything. One of his HQ's assaulted me, and opened me up like a can.

In that same game, I had a 5 man squad of termies DS right by the drop pod. Thunder Hammers & Lightning Shields. I ripped through an entire squad of his in one turn, but then the tables turned. Cain, I believe it was, had a 4+ inv. Of course, he made every single one. I put maybe 1 wound on him, after 3 rounds of hitting him non stop...Oh how the tables can turn.

My last 12 gretchin opened up on a unit of 5 SMs behind an aegis def line (4+ save).
6 hit, 3 wounded (do not ask how!).
My mate took his saves, faile 3: dead, rolled his LD test, failed and promptly ran off the board.

And who said those grots were uselss.

Had a 1k game against a marine player. He couldn't roll above a 2 pretty much all of the game. In the end I think I had lost 4 gaunts and a wound on my tyrant, while he had lost a 10 man tac squad, 5 scouts, a landspeeder, a drop pod, 8 sternguard and a librarian.

In one of my early games I rolled about 20-30 1's in the first turn of the game, both shooting, running, and saving. It was awful.

On the flip side, my BT chaplain once destroyed an entire squad of banshees by himself. His whole squad was dead, so he charged into combat on his own, scored 2 wounds and they scored none, then my friend failed his morale check, and rolled a 1 for his initiative test. I rolled a 3, sweeping the entire squad off the table. It was great, and now the story
is one of our small club's in-jokes.

I have this near notorious bad luck of rolling ones for lootas when I roll for how much they shot. weirdest thing is that I barely ever get 2, 3, or 4s on the same roll.

I hate terrible rolling, either when its mine or my opponents. I mean everyone rolls bad every once in a while, but the game is just no fun when someone cant get decent rolls off and you are stomping them for it.

Another one happened to me during a Tau vs. Space Wolf game, 1500 points. Tau player was running the Farsight Bomb (Commander Farsight and 7 Shas'vre Crisis Bodyguards) and the Wolf player had Njal with a squad of 10 Terminator Wolf Guard sitting with him. The Tau first turn resulted in the Bomb moving up 6 inches, unloading 8 plasma rifle shots...and promptly killing 8 Terminators. The squad failed Leadership and ran off the board edge, resulting in about half of the Wolf player's points being lost in one barrage of fire.

The second game, the exact opposite happened - Wolves ran up, used Jaws of the World Wolf on the squad (Killing Farsight, incidentally) and unleashed storm bolter fire into the mob of Crisis Suits and Shield Drones. About a dozen failed saves later, the entire Bomb ran straight backwards off the board edge. Oh, and throughout that entire match, the Long Fang squad of 3 Krak grenades failed to do anything to the Tau player's Hammerhead. It was fairly ridiculous.

I believe JotWW doesn't affect jump infantry. My tau opponent pointed it out to me.

I had what was left of a trukk boy strike team, sitting really close to a rhino and the SM squad that was inside said rhino. My boyz mauled some SM in me turn, and are now in the open, and hurtin.
So SM shooting phase, SM player shoots a plasma cannon at my squad, it deviates, and lands right on the back of the rhino. IMMOBILIZED! So SM squad near rhino shoots, pretty much everyone misses, the few that dont, cant wound. a scout squad in some ruins w/sniper rifles, roll a bunch of ones, same thing whatever hits fails to wound. Utterly frustrated, he decides to charge the 3 boyz left. He does, misses all but 3 hits. Rolls 3 wounds. And wouldnt ya know I fail my saves lol

As Tau, set up in a corner in spearhead versus swarm nids with multiple tervigons. Ion head, railguns, and full deathrain squad failed to kill ONE tervigon which had no cover saves at its disposal. Needless to say, this piss poor rolling first turn just opened the floodgates to huge swarms of FNP/FC gaunts keeping me penned up while drop pod zoeys closed off another flank. Managed to kill her turn three Trygon in one shooting phase... but only by shooting 3 ion shots, 9 burst cannons, 14 pulse rifles, 3 rail guns, and 6 missile pods into it (it would receive no cover saves from any of the AP1,3 weapons).

To the game that got away...

One of my veteran squads with three plasma guns rapid fired a Nurgle DP.

Ended up with 5 lasgun wounds and 1 plasma gun wound.

Guy rolls his armor saves.

Fails three.

Guy rolls his FNP.

Fails three again.

Guy rolls his invuln.

Fails.

He was furious, as it was only a 500 point game. I lol'd.

game 3 conquest nw 2010
5 armour saves on my oblits


yahtzee

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Lukus83 wrote:I believe JotWW doesn't affect jump infantry. My tau opponent pointed it out to me.

Huh. So it doesn't. I thought it was just anything that wasn't a Vehicle. Guess I've been doing that wrong for a while.

best situation, gods smiling on me:

1st turn, 3 land raiders on the field. enemy has A TOTAL OF 12 las cannon dev squads, 2 LR basics, and 6/6 melta/melta marine squads (10,k game)

he fires all three las squads at me... misses all of them.

fires all 6 TL lascannons hits once and TL once.
Fails his pen

Meltas fire as combat squads, All Multis miss and 3 meltaguns hit.

two failed their fire and the last one gave a stun to one of my basic LR.

Next turn, one lascannon kills each of his LR then my the other LR and the firsts remaining guns obliterate two Dev squads.

THAT WAS THE DICE GODS DIVINITY.

I win the vast majority of my games, except against my house mate...the Dice Gods love him like a favored child. I have the opposite problem, but know my army well enough to make up for it...most of the time.

Like the time a Grey Knight Terminator Squad of ten unleashes there Storm Bolters and Psycannons at a nearby Marine squad. Two wounds, both saved? Fine, next turn I'll shoot again then charge...

No, because he's going to rapid fire into them. 18 Bolter rounds and a Krak missle. 15 wounds. 11 ones when I roll there save...

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

That's annoyingly typical of when we play.

Every single time i play against my friends, i have THE worst rolls in history... EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!!!!!!! Yet, when i play with my friend, i roll like a legend.

Message to the dice gods: WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?

Been a while since I remembered this so I don't remember the details, just the basics. (My squad of Kroot vs. Orks) Rolling 11 dice in an assault phase and seven of those rolls ended up ones. Then with the ones that actually hit, the four dice, rolling all ones. It's like my Kroot got up to the Orks decided to challenge them to a dance-off.