Unit "Personalities"

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**Slarg232**

So I was wondering, does anyone else's units seem to have personalities?

What I mean is, my unit of Possessed CSM always get slaughtered down to one man in every game I play, but he always ends up paying for his entire unite 2x over. Anyone else experiance anything like this?

**children of filth**

well, my daemon prince is an unstoppable engine of destruction... until he enters close combat with a single eldar/guardsman/gaunt, etc that somehow survived his genocide. then he fudges the whole combat and dies. every time.

**Brother SRM**

My Warboss is a kunnin' git who's only ever been killed in about 3 games. Even then, it was usually by Belial, a git who is occasionally a little more kunnin'.

**Mr. Bluesky**

Back when I played SM, I ran 2 units of Terminators. One DS'ed in turn 1 without fail, the other DS'ed in last turn without fail, but never ended the game in reserve.

Friend had a Necron Lord with who loved failing easy saves, but never rolled anything but a 6 on WBB. No joke. I played 10 or so games against that army over the course of a summer, killed him a dozen times, never with a power weapon, and he came back every damn time.

**Captain Shrike**

I run a terminator chaplain with my termie squad, and he always takes 1 wound before anything, and then his re rolls for the squad in close combat ends up killing a whole squad exept for one guy.

**Slarg232**

children of filth wrote:well, my daemon prince is an unstoppable engine of destruction... until he enters close combat with a single eldar/guardsman/gaunt, etc that somehow survived his genocide. then he fudges the whole combat and dies. every time.

I feel your pain, dude. My Daemon prince almost always dies the first turn, so I dont take him anymore.

**Xca|iber**

I'm sure there are some personalities in my army, though I don't seem to notice them until they do *what they do* and then I re-remember that's their style.

**Sacred Chao**

Every single time I try to deep strike my Commander, he ALWAYS ends up right on top of a Transport.

Always....

Clumsy git.

It happened 5 times in a row. I stopped doing it for like...4 games. Then the next game, I say "hey, lets deep strike!" Right on top of a Chimera....

**Arheiner**

My wolf scouts never turn up before turn 4 and screw up whenever they do turn up, regardless of opposition or wargear.

**RaegMachine**

Captain Shrike wrote:I run a terminator chaplain with my termie squad, and he always takes 1 wound before anything, and then his re rolls for the squad in close combat ends up killing a whole squad exept for one guy.

same thing happens to my nob w/ heavy armour, i always roll a 2 on armour save, then after cc 4-5 guys who are still alive shoot him down

**WGXH**

My first marine model with a Missile Launcher is completely reliable.

For doing it utterly wrong.

His shots always scatter and always seem to scatter on allies. He even managed to kill an allied Marneus Calgar in the most crappy luck ever.

The legacy of Klutzy McBadaim rings true to this day.

**children of filth**

Not me, but a friend, has a devestator marine with a lascannon that hits and wounds every time it shoots, if it hits a vehicle it always penentrates and makes the vehicle explode, every single time.

**Mick A**

I have a unit of Wolfguard termies with stormbolter and wolf claw, excellent at shooting but in close combat they hit ok but never wound (even with re-rolls!). I'm sure they think they're playing tag...
Mick

**Frostreaver**

I have a Vindicare Assassin who can't shoot the broadside of a barn from inside the barn, but, has been been known to take out Daemon Princes in close combat

**Skarboy**

My nobz mob leaders are famously incompetent with hitting anything with their powerklaws. Like 1-for-12 in a game is typical. Luckily, my shoota boyz are notoriously way more accurate than any BS2 units should be allowed to be. Routinely over 50% hits. This hasn't wholly contributed to my opinion that shoota boyz are WAAAAAY better than slugga boyz, but it doesn't hurt, either.

**Slarg232**

Another one from me: my bro has a chimera that always blows every dreadnaught it comes across..... with its multilazer

**statu**

My Karandras always feels it necessary to leap off of the 3 storey ruin, off the 4ft high table, and on to the floor.

In game game, my Howling Banshees can never hit the broadside of a bendy bus, in CC or shooting

**Sacred Chao**

My ex-fiance's ML Marine always rolled 6's to hit, and always rolled 6's to penetrate, and then 6 on the damage table.

Every single time.

Exploding Soul Grinders are funny.

**Widdy**

that reminds me of my sm with melta gun, which never hits anything (except for gaunts)

yet he seems to survive every cc that he fights in

**JSK-Fox**

Ahh... My attack bike squad (with only one in it). He's only survived 1 match thus far, well, beyond the first turn. He's died 2 out of three times before the 2nd turn.

**Mr 4 Strings**

The gunner in my Hammerhead is asbolutely the worst shot I've ever seen in a game. Any time he shoots the solid shot he misses. The only time he ever hits he alway rolls low against the vehicle armour. He has never successfully killed a tank. Conversely any time he uses his submunition he doesn't scatter.

**Locclo**

My meltagun Grey Hunters can never hit together. Never. If one hits, the other will miss, guaranteed. I fire four shots, two will hit.

Oh, and I actually have a personality for one of the players at the FLGS. His Zoanthropes are almost guaranteed to never do significant damage to a vehicle. Throughout the course of several games, his Zoas managed to roll a dozen hits (From three models, mind you) almost all of the penetrate, and then the following rolls for vehicle damage:
1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 3. (3 on the last turn, if he's lucky) It seems that his Zoas do a great job of punching through armor...but they can never aim at the direct center of the darn things. He actually has better luck with S8 AP3 missile launchers from the Long Fangs in his Wolves army.

**Tantras**

children of filth wrote:Not me, but a friend, has a devestator marine with a lascannon that hits and wounds every time it shoots, if it hits a vehicle it always penentrates and makes the vehicle explode, every single time.

Does your friend have a 'special' dice to go with his 'special' guy?

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Not so much in 40k, yet, but in WHFB I had a Dark Elf bolt thrower crew with an awesome party trick.

Turn 1: Their bolt thrower gets destroyed by cannon fire.
Turn 2: They get running.
Turn 3: They run some more.
Turn 4: Run run, little men!
Turn 5: They kick the

out of the cannon crew that shot up their toy.

Three times!

**MagickalMemories**

Slarg232 wrote:Another one from me: my bro has a chimera that always blows UP every dreadnaught it comes across..... with its multilazer

Fixed your post

**acastonguay**

My Landspeeders always seem to survive way more shots and CC then it should, but then crashes due to a failed dangerous terrain test.

**Azezel**

Veteran Seraphim Superior Regina is just an insuferable little-miss-perfect. Total show-off.

Her squad are somewhat less than reliable but Regina always seems to get the job done in the flashiest, look-at-me way.

**Ultrafool**

My nob squad with Ghaz always charges and owns any thing in its path, then does nothing for the rest of the game.

**Happygrunt**

I have tank hunting sternguard (why do they always "happen" to sit next to tanks and then kill them in CC!) ,a gunfire magnet landraider (first turn dead) and what seems to be supper scouts (Whats that, I killed your CSM with a sniper? Too bad...)

**Ashtaroth**

well almost every game i've played with my pedro kantor he always gets the last kil of the game, inevitaby against a powerfist-armed sergeant or IC that kills him at the same time.

This one isn't so much about a unit, but my shiny new School-league regional dice seems to roll a suspicious amount of 4's

**Morgrim**

My DL gunners cannot hit anything. Ever.

My archon has an annoying habit of blowing up his shadowfield first turn. There is a reason I don't fiddle with wound allocations (that and I don't really understand the things, I'll go nice and simple 'right, how many models do I remove?' almost every time)