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So after thinking about how many times I have been incredibly unlucky in 40K, I have decided to make a topic on it. Here are a selection of my unluckiest 40K moments:

Phoenix Lord Asurmen on full wounds, got hit and wounded 5 times by a squad of Tactical Marines Boltguns. I rolled all 1's in the 5 dice on his 2+ armour save
The Avatar of Khaine killed by a Splinter Pistol
Guardians firing a Plasma Eldar Missile Launcher shot, which scattered onto themselves killing them all (5 Guardians)
Failing all 3 of my Pathfinders 2+ Cover Saves from 3 wounds from a Frag Missile Launcher shot
Never hitting with a single shot in 2 turns with my entire 1000 Point Blood Angels army (rolling all 1's and 2's to hit for 2 turns)
Plasma Cannon shot fired at my Pathfinders scattering 8" onto my Falcon's back armour, Immoblising it on the first turn
Scattering Plasma Cannon shot aimed at my Wave Serpent scattering onto the just disembarked Guardians, killing 7 of them including the 2 Heavy Weapon's Crew
3 Penetrating Fire Dragon hits on a Dark Eldar Ravager needing a 2 to Destroy it and a 3 to blow it up (+1 Open Topped, +1 AP1, +1 Tank Hunters) and rolling all 1's when the Kill Point would have put me level and the game would have been a draw
Flechette Dischargers from a Devilfish killing all 3 of my Assault Marines that charged it hoping to destroy with the Sergeants Power Fist
3 Flamer wounds on Astorath the Grim still on 3 wounds. I rolled on all 1's for his 2+ armour save

There are more but I can't think of them right now. I will edit them in when I think of some more that have happened to me. Please post your unluckiest moments in the comments below. Thank you.

Successfully passing BiD on my full plasma CCS (4 plasma guns, 1 plasma pistol) and then rolling 9 1s and 2s to hit.

No problem, I though, I can re-roll those. I got NINE ONES on the re-roll. Every member of the squad died in one turn to THEIR OWN SHOOTING.

I don't know what the probability of something like that happening is but I was not impressed.

L. Wrex

Land Raider rams a Rhino, it explodes and takes out a couple Grey Hunter Bolter Scrubs. I dismbark my 8-man GK squad with twin incinerators, and one shooting phase later that Grey Hunter squad is down to 3 men- a Mark of the Wulfen, Banner, and Meltagun. Then I assault to mop them up.


Justicar misses two attacks and the third fails to wound, the GHs kill 3 GKs, the rest of the GKs proceed to either miss, fail to wound, or my opponent makes his armor save. The next assault phase sees my GKs go down to a 2-man squad, and then it finally ends in the 3rd assault phase with only the Justicar walking out of it, who then gets killed by a flamestorm cannon.

My Stormtrooper Sargeant without Power Weapon took the remaining 2 wounds off a Carnifex in one turn.
My opponents Calgar rolling 6 1's on 7 dice for his armour save.

I once played someone during 4th Edition where snipers always hit on 2+, he fired a squad of 5 Scout Snipers...and rolled 5 1's! It had a 0.000128% chance of happening!!

Valk

After a bunch of bad dice rolls... having a lone Dark Angel Terminator take out what was left of my Nob squad with a sweeping advance!!!
Then finding out later that I had been dooped! Termys can't sweeping advance!

Now I know , but hey at least I still won the game!

Man-o-man is he gonna get it! :

In almost all of my games where I've faced a LR, I easily pen yet always roll 1s or 2s! I think I've immoblized a LR once, and that's it

Devildog melta cannon scattering 9" back onto my tank, then blowing it up taking out 12 guys.

2 Obliterators, 11" away from 3 nasty wolfguard. Rapid fire TL plas guns.

Two 1's and two 2's were rolled....'No problem, theyre twin linked!!! those wolves are gonna die!!!'

Rolled FOUR MORE 1's!! Ok, gets hot, it sucks, but they have 2+ armor saves....

And yep, FOUR MORE 1's.... = Obliterator Seppuku

My opponent at least thought it was funny, and declared his 3 wolfguard were pinned through the next turn from laughing.

one tactical marine with a power fist. no one else was alive.
4 attacks
vs hive tyrant
4 hits
4 wounds
hive tyrant got bitch slapped accross the face.

Ham doctor wrote:one tactical marine with a power fist. no one else was alive.
4 attacks
vs hive tyrant
4 hits
4 wounds
hive tyrant got bitch slapped accross the face.

How did a Tac marine with a P-fist get 4 attacks?

Bloodthirster charges an assault squad............. and promptly loses combat by 3

Mistress of minis wrote:

Ham doctor wrote:one tactical marine with a power fist. no one else was alive.
4 attacks
vs hive tyrant
4 hits
4 wounds
hive tyrant got bitch slapped accross the face.

How did a Tac marine with a P-fist get 4 attacks?

Sargent with 2 cc weapons on a charge?

Every game I play with my Necrons is one unlucky moment after another. Dice gods haet Necrons

Those CC weps would have to be fists, or you dont gain a bonus since fists are a special type of CCW. (P42 of the RB)


After reading all this, im wondering how people can possibly roll 8-12 1's in a row.

Not a "table top" unlucky moment,but I'd have to say my personal "unlucky moment" was losing 3 armies (DE,Orks & Death Guard) + the beginings of a 4th (SM) in Huricane Katrina...major suckage.

Ghazghkull Thraka assaults on the Waaaugh! (with his 2+ invulnerable save), gets wounded nine times, and rolls six 1s. He goes down without a swing.

Mega Nobz vs. Predator. Nine penetrating hits.







Eight ones and a two. The Nobz got charged by LC termies the round after.

My Eldar Avatar is on a bad luck streak since he Wrecked LR and killed 2 TACs by himself. Can't do squad and usually saves one in a million.

Is bad luck when your opponent has Uber good luck?
Because I had a whole 1500 army shooting at SW pup with 2+/3++ and doing only 2 wounds :(
He was doomed and it something near 2 DA bladestorming, 3WW with scatters, 4 wave serpents, 2 prisms and 6 man unit of Fire Dragons.
It was DoW and his HQ was poorly placed (away from troops and closing in towards my board) and I thought: wow, an easy catch.. Yeah right.. :/

when i first got back into 40k i went to my GW store, the guy was only too anxious to show my how the new rules were better than the 2nd edition, a squad of about 10 ork boys shot at my 5 terminators killing every one of them. The guy was like, err thats does not usually happen, its ment to be rigged so the spacemarine side almost always wins.

Not dice related- and didnt happen to me- but I saw a guy at a tourney knock his open case of pro-painted Eldar off the game table with his man-boobs.

Turns out man boobs are a wounds on a 1+, variable size template that dont even allow cover saves to models embarked in a transport case.

They were really pro painted too....by a multiple GD winner. They guy of course blamed the case for being defective....

Macok wrote:Is bad luck when your opponent has Uber good luck?

YES!!!

I was playing in a game against Guard once with my Space Wolves, and two of my Long Fangs shot at a Leam Russ with their Lascannons, and exploded it. this then resulted in a 6'' hole being created, as a good 30 or so Guardsmen died in the explosion

for some reason when i play this one guy he always rolls very badly(30 splinter rifle wounds on space marines and he wiffs them all) yet we always seem to have a draw or a loss in his favor.

i call it pity and punishment for him playing DE.



i once rolled 4 1s in a row for a guys 2+ armor.

Mistress of minis wrote:Not dice related- and didnt happen to me- but I saw a guy at a tourney knock his open case of pro-painted Eldar off the game table with his man-boobs.

Turns out man boobs are a wounds on a 1+, variable size template that dont even allow cover saves to models embarked in a transport case.

They were really pro painted too....by a multiple GD winner. They guy of course blamed the case for being defective....

lol that's life telling the guy it may be time to lay off the cake, delicious though it may be

The cake is a lie and so is the case.

My worst luck has always been difficult terrain tests. Once took 3 turns to tromp through a 4" wide DT patch. Maximum move I rolled was a 2.

I had a squadron of three Lrusses. Middle one blows up. The two on the end close ranks for coherency and each roll a 1 for DT test. Immobilized in squadrons = wrecked. We wrecked both remaining russes instead of leaving one as a immobilized single unit. O well. Sucky, but I still won the game.

and you followed the rules perfectly.

squadron rules should be immobilized vehicles become a seperate unit.

Grey Templar wrote:and you followed the rules perfectly.

squadron rules should be immobilized vehicles become a seperate unit.

Well, one of the russes should have been left on the table and treated as a single immobilized unit. The last vehicle becomes a single unit in a squadron. Or maybe we did it right because it was simultaneous?