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I need not any excuse. All here know I am the worst of 40k, so I make every loss as enjoyable as I can.

I wouldn't say 'i screwed myself in deployment' is a whiney excuse just a statement of fact. 'You wouldnt get any Comp points in a tourny', 'if this was annilation!', 'You're list is exploiting the rules', 'You got way too lucky', 'You're list is tailored!' are excuses. Admitting tactical failure IMO is not.

The worst I heard was when I wiped and IG player off the table with my chaos
he stood up looked me in the eyes and said "I cannot believe I lost to someone like you."



The other was my friend making 100000 mistakes playing my marine army for the first time. managed to roll a 6 to run and hold an objective ON HIS SIDE he had been RUNNING AWAY from the first 2 turns. it tied the game and said
"I already knew exactly what I was going to do and my plan worked perfectly"

Shenra wrote:
But the one I use:

Damn Mephiston!!!

That's my favorite one to hear

As someone who never played very often, and was more concerned about having a fun and social game, I've lost a lot. Usually my excuses for losing fall under the 'Well x seemed like it was a good idea at the time.'

Granted my main opponent loves his tournament armies and does really well, so I never felt bad getting whooped on, and he was a super cool guy always willing to try to help me improve. I think I may have almost pulled off a draw once with him, but never a win.

There have been times however where you just have to throw your hands in the air and wonder why the Dice Gods have forsaken you, but I consider that just part of the fun in the game. If you can't laugh about it then you are taking this toy soldiers hobby way too seriously.

Mine is "Fething Necrons!" I typically beat them, but when a new unit (to me) is pulled out and has such old rules, I'll admit that I complain vehemently. A Necron exploding and wiping out my entire death company of ten models in one shot? Yea, that cost me the game. Would I have charged him with them, had I known he could do that? No, my librarian was capable of killing him on his own (S10 Force Weapon). I just wanted them closer to the meaty guys on the other side of the C'tan. Yeah, that worked well for me because my friend had never used his C'tan explosion ability before (if there was nobody around it, he just never claimed the ability-which never let me learn it until it was too late). So I guess I whine when my opponents hit me with new rules that I have never seen before (either way outdated or so OTT that I can't believe they could actually be legitimate)

The one I use most against my buddies BT army (with my crons) - "CC rules are crap and completely one sided!"

What my buddy says all the time against me - "Stupid weapons that ignore INV saves, it's an INVULNERABLE save and should never be ignored!"

Oh, and "Damn Monolith!"

My personal favorite:

"Well I should have won...cause......well cause...."-fades off.

Me- uh huh sure buddy.

My personal favorite is "You have cheaty dice!" (This, said by other people after I trounce them)

...while I don't have loaded dice or anything, they do tend to roll high at an above average rate...

My execuse for losing is "my army was not motivated."

Tactical blunders aside, when 12 dark lances all miss their targets, things tend to stop going your way.

"Oh, I guess I forgot how ATSKNF works so I'm going to forget you can't sweep me in CC."

Me. Tonight.

Fail. :/

You know, I have not even immobilized a single tank with my dark lances?

No Wait. I blew up a Baal Predator.

Well i Admit i can be a sore looser, when the time arises, my general end game is a shake of the hand and "good game" But sometimes i go with "fscking marines...so easy to just pick up and win"

To be fair, i generally have a sore attitude but keep it to myself. Sometimes it slips and i try to figure ways to let it go but i always go back and check... i really dont like loosing when im 250 Points under (im playing 1500 like we should they playing 1750 and have 4 heavy slots!)\


though my best excuse is generally "well, Grats you won! Now next time lets see how you do without me helping you 80% of the game"

(i teach alot)

today i got...
"You passed way too many armor saves! I should have won!"

I find i tend to get more displeased with my self then anything.

Especially when I have to make a tactical choice that may or may not doom me.

If I am loosing badly I usually play it out. If I am rolling bad I laugh at it.

"My reserves where having tea and sandwiches for the entire game." Playing against someone who's reserves would not come on together, but piecemeal allowing my guard to pick him apart.

It was my first game.

Or

It was my first game against X

Or

I was busy staring at your mom/GF/sister

poontangler wrote:
Best Excuse I ever heard was: You only won because it was Dawn of War! You never table me like that!

Really? WTF? You set up your own forces, you rolled your own dice, and you made your own mistakes. A good General takes advantage of every possible situation.

Honestly, I've used this one alot(not the tabling part, the DoW part). Not everyone has transports or long ranged weapons to offset walking onto the freaking board edge. I'm still trying to find a way to run my 'Nids effectively in DoW.

I love people telling me that they could have beaten me if they knew I was going to use 'Nids beforehand. Really? You need to tailor to beat me?

Best excuse I ever gave for losing back in the day
"Man, my list sucks ass, of course you won"

That's what i expected playing lists of "whatever is in the ork codex" mixed with "so what do i have assembled so far?"

Best I've ever heard:
It's still only turn 4! (It was turn 7)

The one use the most:
Damn space mutts! they're too OP!

I've heard - I picked the wrong loadout for my devs (SM player tabled by my Mech IG. He'd taken HB's).

Your damn deathwing nerfed my troops - Raven-death army with the deepstrike on 1st turn.

Oh god, that vindicator ruined my orks - Ork mob.

Ezekiel is so OPed - I killed Gazzy with Ezekiel, even giving him the benefit of the doubt in regards to rules, shortly he shouted that I cheat at my GW, even when his gaming table was less than 3 foot across.

"If only I had hadn't rolled a [insert unfavourable number here] to hit/wound/on the damage table/leadership."
Really this is never an actual excuse for losing, but a remark in good taste on either how close the game was or how Lady Luck favoured your opponent at that critical moment.

There is one excuse for losing that stands out in my mind though. I had IG Vets (Vostroyans) locked in combat with 2 other squads of IG Vets (Tallarn). Granted I had carapace armour, but I had been shot up before they got the charge and still managed to win after several turns of the Tallarn simply failing to do any damage.
When I aked my friend why the Tallarn where doing so badly he moaned "It's becuase they're ARABS!" Granted it was racist but the whole room (which had gathered to watch) was shaking with laughter.

As for my excuse, failing to do anything with lascannons against Speed Freek Trukks.

I recently won a tournament where the guy I played at table 1 ranted and raved about how my dice actually defeated him, as he had an optimized list from the internet and I had a "soft list." He must have forgotten about when my Sternguard with 6 combi-meltas failed to do anything but shake two Valkyries. Oh well.

Let that be a lesson to you internet theoryhammer enthusiasts.

"Tyranids are so overpowered. I hate my ultramarines, they're so weak it's ridiculous."

Or something like that.

My excuse is "...I should have played better " or "Meh, good game mate..."
I've have "dam that Russ, i would have nailed you if you didn't take that."

My excuse for winning, once, was that I got incredibly lucky. My Grey Knight squad was 10 inches away from a Fire Warrior squad about to rapid fire, who were holding an objective. I said something like, 'I'll roll for shrouding, but it's fairly pointless'. I got a nine. We laughed a lot, then my turn I moved up, shot the fire warriors to pieces and charged the remainider. Needless to say, the objective was mine...

I also had a kid once tell me he shouldn't have lost because none of his Tyranids counted as kill points, what with the Without Number he had on them all. In a 300 point game.

My favorite excuse I give is: "The Departmento Munitorum issued my Guardsmen blanks today," given the sheer number of games I have poured lasgun fire into a single squad of Marines and barely killed any of them. By poured I mean something like 60 some odd shots.

For a long time my excuse was the melta rule.

My version of the melta rule.

Melta: If you try to use this weapon, you are guaranteed to roll at least one 1. One to hit, one to wound, double ones to pen, or a 1 on the result chart.

exception: If you do destroy the vehicle, it will explode and you will roll ones for your armor saves from the explosion.

I used to have the worst luck with melta. I even brought 15 melta guns to a game with sisters. Got to fire each of them at least twice. Killed 1 rhino, 1 CSM, and a single obliterator.

These days it seems like my curse has been lifted. But I still roll too many ones for rhinos trying to cross terrain. (I roll to repair too often, so it sort of balances...)

"Thats what you get for giving sound tactical advise to your opponents" Me, after losing to my little brother for the first time.
in all previous games, he would constantly be moving his IG/Marine mix towards my Orks, and i would manuever to get the assault. i told him to hang back at max range, and shoot me with everything until i got to close only moving his assault specialists toward me and suddenly i stopped winning.

"Ehh...I was tired."

I mean seriously? You just recited your armies rules and made a list, and your blaming dice rolls on tiredness?