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I've seen a 2 laindraiders, first turned, melta'd, filled with GK. In the two explosions, all the GK died...

Sanguinor.

Jeee-sus!

4Chan might go on endlessly about Marneus 'Mary Sue' Calgar, but at least when he defeated an Avatar it was by pure luck. The Sanguinor is a flying Deus Ex Machina.

The rules. Specifically the current "design philosophy" ( if you can call it that ). "Clear rules? Who needs them? Just make something up with your opponent and have fun!" Newsflash: this is the year 2010 and that S#€t just does not cut it.

On a smaller scale:
- Thunder Wolf Cavalry ( )
- Deep Striking Land Raiders ( )

Flying. Psychic. Dreadnought.


I shall take my leave. *Explodes into cloud of smoke and sound of door opening and closing*

Apocalypse Game: My Army with a Baneblade at its center is basically our entire right flank.

Turn 1a: It shoots, kills a bunch of orks, damages a Battlewagon....woop de doo....

Turn 1b: Some strategic asset (Hammerdown? Hammertime? I don't fething know) comes down and hits my Baneblade. Baneblade rolls apocalyptic explosion.

Apocalyptic explosion kills everything I have.

At least your game was short!

In game? I was playing against SM who couldn't roll cover saves to save his life. No lie, he rolled 75% 1's and 2's for every save he rolled. Super nice guy, just really unlucky.

I've also had a friend's assualt squad take out my Griffon with melta bombs, only to have the exploding Griffon wipe out the squad. TAKE THAT MISTER SPACE MARINE.

Worst fail ever for me was having a Sister of Battle squad, in a crater, get assaulted by 5 ogryns and a Lord commissar. A few sisters die, but the flamers and sergeant survive (good since opponent is playing mostly hordes). On my turn I have an immobilized Immolator a few inches away carrying my canonness and, tooled up for melee, celestian retinue come out. They make it to within 2 inches of the ogryns, I rolll for difficult terrain in my assault phase and get snake eyes...

Canoness + retinue were shot to pieces in my opponents phase, the sister squad died to the Lord Commissar and his ogryns, that entire flank crumpled and it ended up costing me the game.

Thank you snake eyes.

Thunderwolf Cavalry.

Blood Angels Captains.

Seaward wrote:Thunderwolf Cavalry.

Blood Angels Captains.

Why?

Hmm biggest fails?
I watched a friend of mine play an eldar player in an apocolypse battle, the eldar play had his ENTIRE infantry force (jetbikes included) in or near a single building then his titan has an apocalyptic explosion destroying the bulding and killing his entire infantry force in and around that building

I saw the same eldar player fill up his troop choice with only eldar snipers upgraded to path finders thinking that was going to beat mech guard

I played my little brothers guard (when tyranids were in 4th edition codex and guard had their 5th edition) a lone guardsmen sargent with a powerfist killed 8 genestealers that charged him, he then went on to kill a tooledup carnifex that also charged him and it had it's full wounds when it charged that really ruined my day

I played a friend of mine against his space marines, he had marneus calgar with tooled up honorgaurd and his upgraded armor after a previous fight he had one wound left but his honorgaurd were untouched he shoots his whirlwind at my dark eldar archon (this is before DE got updated) it scatters back hits marneus and his honorgaurd killing them all gotta say I was lovin' it!

My vanguard squad assualted a 15 guardsmen. They lost 10 guardsmen. Next turn I lose every single vanguard veteran. from the 5 remaining guardsmen. Next turn my captain gets into combat with them, he dies. Next turn my dreadnought breaks open a leman russ. The guardsmen had a grenade launcher and saw my back armor and my dreadnought died.

Biggest fail for me? The Eldar fluff.

"The Eldar are a dwindling race, and all life is precious... NOW BEHOLD WHILE WE GIVE OUR MILITIA 12" RANGE GUNS! We could have given them Lasblasters but the Swooping Hawks needed them for a light show."

Oh yeah, and a while ago I was annoyed that Harlequins where better close combat guys than trained Aspect warriors, but people pointed out how awesome Harlequins are fluff wise....

And then Incubi appeared.

Shadow - guard sarges cant get powerfist, from memory. They could in 4th, possibly....

zonino wrote:Biggest fail for me? The Eldar fluff.

"The Eldar are a dwindling race, and all life is precious... NOW BEHOLD WHILE WE GIVE OUR MILITIA 12" RANGE GUNS! We could have given them Lasblasters but the Swooping Hawks needed them for a light show."

Oh yeah, and a while ago I was annoyed that Harlequins where better close combat guys than trained Aspect warriors, but people pointed out how awesome Harlequins are fluff wise....

And then Incubi appeared.

Your Avatar is brilliant

nosferatu1001 wrote:Shadow - guard sarges cant get powerfist, from memory. They could in 4th, possibly....

Sorry I forgot to mention it was a vet squad, and sarge can take powerfist for 15pts my bad still though it was a horrible experience

Biggest fail I saw was an apoc tank army. Against an apoc Khorn army with a gak ton of MCs (so ang'grath, angron, bloodthristers.) Khorn players use blind barrage and manages to DS just behind it so his opponent couldn't see him. Needless to say it was a shotr apoc game.

A unit of Veteran IG numbering 6 are assaulted by Kharn. Kharn attacks and kills one IG. The IG attacks and kills Kharn. It was hilarious.

The stormraven model. I dislike it.

I'll place a fail vote on GW's prices seriously 62.00 USD + tax for necron monolith or SM landraider!? 50.00 USD + tax for 5 plastic SM termies!? I'm not sure what is being damaged more here our dignity or our wallets

ShadowZetki wrote:I'll place a fail vote on GW's prices seriously 62.00 USD + tax for necron monolith or SM landraider!? 50.00 USD + tax for 5 plastic SM termies!? I'm not sure what is being damaged more here our dignity or our wallets

Having read some 40k blogs and listened to a few podcasts, I would say that the wallet is the only one of those things that the 40k community at large has left.

Other than Table Top War, of course. I love that blog.

^Yeah and like 50 bucks for a ravager, thats about 10 bucks for each gunner since that the only real difference from the raider.

But truley the biggest 40k failure->Metal models

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exact same time post!!!

Yeah prices are just insane, I think I can safely say that we barely keep our dignity over our wallets because honestly who is actually smiling for real when they buy that 50$+ model that they can rarely afford? It hurts inside man That truely is a fail hell I'm not even sure you can call that metal it looks more like tin or somethin like that

asimo77 wrote:exact same time post!!!

Legendary!

So how about that eldar battleforce now that is terrible, wohoo a walker and a transport... where the hell did the infantry go? I mean dude you dont even get as many as you would if you bought the normal boxes for the infantry.. 90USD+Tax+Complete lack of models=FAIL (or some serious trolling)

Throwing out my first Ork army after deciding I was getting too old to play with toys.

Guess I'll never grow up

White Dwarf


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VikingScott wrote:The stormraven model. I dislike it.

Like

lost 5 wound on my mawloc for 14 kroot and i was the one who charged (all in one round of combat)

Had a game a few nights ago where a Daemon Prince and a Carnifex spent 3 full turns in combat without injuring each other once.

Finally a squad of bloodcrushers had to come in and show the DP how it's done.



Different game, had a squad of 7 fire dragons spend 2.5 turns exchanging fire with a pack of 5 ML longfangs at point-blank range. Total number of deaths before the game ended? 4.

Had a kos all biker Ork army. My sm opponent was set across a swampland that we had declared dangerous terrain. No sweat, I think. I took my tooled up Nob biker squad (full 10 with banner and dok) along with my warboss and jet across the swamp. Nine ones. That's right. Nine.

Needless to say the charge wasn't as spectacular as it might have been.

I tried out the Tau for one game, it was 1,000 pts and I was fighting my best friend's Tau. I had 48 firewarriors, a hammerhead, a few stealth suits and my Crisis commander. He had lots more suits, two hammerheads and some firewarriors and kroot. Turn one, he goes first. Two submunition blasts later and I'm down almost half of my firewarriors. Through the rest of his shooting I end up on my first turn with one stealth suit, 14 fire warriors and a one-wound left commander. I never played them again.

On a positive note, I had a Hive Tyrant assault my IG gunline, decimating three squads before it ran into my lascannon teams. In close combat, he managed to whiff every attack and we killed him in cc. Glory to the Guard!