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Charges 30 orks in a 10 man Death company with Lemartes in it. Dc didn't even take a single wound, and made the sqaud running after the assault, Lesson Learned.

Forgot to spread my orks vs a whirlwind, a thunderfire cannon and one chapter master with orbital strike, lesson learned.

Miscacullated my Waagh range vs 30 vanilla marine tac sqaud, no kff, no cover, lesson learned.

Asssualted an empty immobilized rhino thinking I'm just gonna wreck it for the kill points. I got an explose result with 6 inches, killed 15 orks, I had lost half the squad, folowed by double fail leadership. they ran off the board.

Not use hit and run on my deff koptas.

Assault 16 boyz in 10 bloodclaws with wolf lord, lesson learned

There is more, I just can't recall them all, lol

winnertakesall wrote:Giving a battle speech to a platoon of imperial guardsmen, and ordered them to fix bayonets, and charge a squad of genestealers. If they believed in the Emperor, they could do it. I don't think they believed enough.

lol as is often the case with the guard

winnertakesall wrote:Giving a battle speech to a platoon of imperial guardsmen, and ordered them to fix bayonets, and charge a squad of genestealers. If they believed in the Emperor, they could do it. I don't think they believed enough.

You sir, deserve a medal.

One time i used stormboys haha enough said!!

30 'ard boyz duell in the middle of the board. What a giant roadblock of 60 orks barely hurting each other.

lord_blackfang wrote:Any tactic that relies on me rolling at least average. I really should know better by now.

^ this.
And I once played fireknifes whitout multi-tracker.
And 4 FW squads on foot
And played DA whitout deathwing or ravenwing
Squad of 10 daemonettes
And....
And....

-unforgiven-

First time I ever played eldar with my DA I was soundly destroyed because I hadn't be taught the magic rule yet.
SHOOT THE STABBY ONES. STAB THE SHOOTY ONES.
My playing has improved greatly since then.

lord_blackfang wrote:Any tactic that relies on me rolling at least average. I really should know better by now.

Too
Friggin'
True.

I was playing a Kill team game and there was the Dark Angels Tower thing and there were Guard Stormtroopers On the platform, And for some reason I though Id go straight up on the platform into a hail of fire with my assault marines rather than jump over and go round to take my objective.

In Guards 4th ed codex (When normal guard were still dreadful in CC) I thought it would be a good idea to send 150 men forward and charge about 80 necrons. I was hoping to scare him off with sheer numbers to force his force back a few paces but instead the necrons charged. It was all down hill from there. Was a sight to see though

JamesMclaren123 wrote:he was playing BA and used a calgar crossover (i didn't complain because calgar is crap and i has a lot of plasma guns i also thought "more fool him or not playing BA charaters" )

I must admit, thats the first time Ive EVER heard him described like that.


My bit of brilliance, I wanted to run a crap ton of dreds/kans and elites. So I did. 9 kans, 2 dreds, bigmeks buggies......problem was I totally forgot about bringing something to hold objectives. I lost

While playing as my Tau, I ran two super units of kroot (20 carnivores, 12 hounds, a shaper, and three krootox

Insane amount of points for tarpit.

Two of them

So expensive, I had almost no suits.

716 points of awful.

While running it I realized: oh, I only have my HQ unit of suit, a FW squad, a $h1T l0@d of kroot and two hazard suits

I got smacked.

My suits were out of commission before I got to fire twice, and my kroot got steam-rolled by sanguinary guard.

Also, I once ran Aun'va.

KingCracker wrote:My bit of brilliance, I wanted to run a crap ton of dreds/kans and elites. So I did. 9 kans, 2 dreds, bigmeks buggies......problem was I totally forgot about bringing something to hold objectives. I lost

But Big Meks allow one Dred to become a troops choice.


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im2randomghgh wrote:While playing as my Tau, I ran two super units of kroot (20 carnivores, 12 hounds, a shaper, and three krootox

Insane amount of points for tarpit.

Two of them

So expensive, I had almost no suits.

716 points of awful.

While running it I realized: oh, I only have my HQ unit of suit, a FW squad, a $h1T l0@d of kroot and two hazard suits

I got smacked.

My suits were out of commission before I got to fire twice, and my kroot got steam-rolled by sanguinary guard.

Also, I once ran Aun'va.

This color scheme annoys me.

it does?

What about this color scheme?



Anyways, LDawg, I once thought as you do, but alas, Deffdreds, being Vehicles, cannot under any circumstances score on objectives, despite being troops. That's actually the same initial army setup I had. I'm rather lucky I fell in love with Meganobz and Megawarbosses too.

Speaking of which, my worst tactical mistake was charging a group of 3 or 4 Meganobz into a Space Marine (don't remember which chapter) squad that included 2 Powerweapons. "Your initiative is what?"

im2randomghgh wrote: it does?

Yeah. It's harder to read.

I assaulted a redeemer with guardsmen power blob, then I realised that I had no melta-bombs....can you say Barbeque

my mate once left Thraka and 5 mega nobs within charging distance of my nightbringer. end of the combat no mega nobs left and a few wounds left on nightbringer. end of the combat a few turns later my nightbringer blew up and wounded Thraka who had one wound left. If my mate didn't get a 5+ he was dead. Unfortunatly he got a six and went on to rape up a 14 man warrior squad.

my biggest mistake was running the nightbringer for 3 turns out in the open at 2 predators with lascannons all over them. nightbringer had one wound left when he got their but due to some bad opponent rolling and some luck on my part I destroyed the 2 tanks and when on to win the game.

Trying to Deepstrike right on the corner or the board and hope it doesn't scatter... Sad thing is, I still do this from time to time.

Getting my hydra into a range duel with a Broadside team. Sad thing is, it took the Broadsides 2 turns to finally pop the hydra.

im2randomghgh wrote: it does?

Yep. I had to highlight it to see it.

That's smart, why didn't I think of highlighting it?


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swiftdraw wrote:Trying to Deepstrike right on the corner or the board and hope it doesn't scatter... Sad thing is, I still do this from time to time.

Getting my hydra into a range duel with a Broadside team. Sad thing is, it took the Broadsides 2 turns to finally pop the hydra.

You could easily deep strike in the corner.....with a drop pod that is .

L_Dawg wrote:

KingCracker wrote:My bit of brilliance, I wanted to run a crap ton of dreds/kans and elites. So I did. 9 kans, 2 dreds, bigmeks buggies......problem was I totally forgot about bringing something to hold objectives. I lost

But Big Meks allow one Dred to become a troops choice.


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im2randomghgh wrote:While playing as my Tau, I ran two super units of kroot (20 carnivores, 12 hounds, a shaper, and three krootox

Insane amount of points for tarpit.

Two of them

So expensive, I had almost no suits.

716 points of awful.

While running it I realized: oh, I only have my HQ unit of suit, a FW squad, a $h1T l0@d of kroot and two hazard suits

I got smacked.

My suits were out of commission before I got to fire twice, and my kroot got steam-rolled by sanguinary guard.

Also, I once ran Aun'va.

This color scheme annoys me.

Yes thats true, but walkers/vehicles cannot claim objectives. Best I could of done was contest an objective. But thats hard to do when the enemy is just sitting there shooting the hell out of your advance

L_Dawg wrote:

winnertakesall wrote:Giving a battle speech to a platoon of imperial guardsmen, and ordered them to fix bayonets, and charge a squad of genestealers. If they believed in the Emperor, they could do it. I don't think they believed enough.

You sir, deserve a medal.

I did the exact same thing. Lemartes and (i think 5) death company within about 9 inches of a sqaud of 20 guardsmen (2 combined squads). Instead of shooting i though 'ill charge and get the bonus attack so they don't, they will obviously assault me anyway next turn'. Literally the second i did it it occured to me the guardsmen are initiative 3. Death company and lemartes strike first and do the rerolls to hit/wound stuff. Next second ive lost 11 guardsman and the rest retreat and are destroyed outright. I caused 3 wounds which were all saved/feel no pain passed.

I guess if guard were designed to win in assaults they wouldn't be imperial guard would they, thats all the fun!

Hey guard blobs can win combat quite regularly if tooled up right, commisar some power weapons ect, but Acolyte you was cheated, the rerolls only happen if he charges.

5 Terminators with joined libirain disembarked from LRC, decided to use vortex on 1 necron warrior just to rub salt in the wound of annihlating his 20 man squad in 1 turn of shooting, perils of warp now only have 1 terminator left.
Just a very expensive back fire.

2v2 500 pt game. BA ( me) and elder vs IG and orks. Thought I'd be clever and DS just around a corner, so I could assault his orks with my DC and Reclusiarch. Then the guard enlightened me to the fact that I was in direct LoS to his leman Russ battle-cannon...direct hit, lost 3 of my 5 DC. Very heavy points loss there. Lesson learned.

My poor die rolls are stuff of legend. Tactics where I roll dice end badly for all involved (for multi-player matches I am forbidden to roll any team-crucial rolls in my FLGS)

L_Dawg wrote:

im2randomghgh wrote: it does?

Yeah. It's harder to read.

Sorry *troll face*


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Elector wrote:2v2 500 pt game. BA ( me) and elder vs IG and orks. Thought I'd be clever and DS just around a corner, so I could assault his orks with my DC and Reclusiarch. Then the guard enlightened me to the fact that I was in direct LoS to his leman Russ battle-cannon...direct hit, lost 3 of my 5 DC. Very heavy points loss there. Lesson learned.

My poor die rolls are stuff of legend. Tactics where I roll dice end badly for all involved (for multi-player matches I am forbidden to roll any team-crucial rolls in my FLGS)

Same here. A month or so back, I had a full-size FW squad within rapidfire range of a tac squad. 24 shots...and three hits! I had 11 rolls of 1. The hits were all saved -_-"

I seem to have issue rolling save, bit Emperor help me if I want to do anything else.

Repeatedly forgetting that the Avatar of Khaine is a Monstrous Creature and thus ignores armour saves.

Vaeloris wrote:Shot at a Grey Hunter squad that was right beside my Land Raider Redeemer with my Vindicator. Needless to say the shot scattered directly on top of the Redeemer, and got a "Vehicle Explodes" result.

The explosion didn't even kill any Grey Hunters...

Don't feel too bad, I shot my liths particle whip at some nids...I was a little too close and it deviated back onto the lith, AP1 rolled a 5 on the pen chart. Ya...one of like 3 times a lith of mine has been destroyed.