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Tin_cannon wrote:My BIGGEST 40k Failure....Back when i first started playing, I was young...I had amassed a fairly decent Space marines army...numerous tac marines, land raider, rhinos, two assault squads and a whole unit of termies......The mistake?.....Selling them.

I've made it personal policy to never sell any of my armies - I know I'll miss them before long!

The Metal Tide wrote:I played OLD Crons against guard/marine mix. It was marine troops and guard tanks. You know those ones with plasma cannons. Didnt kill one model of his. Got totally slaughtered. Although he technically could do that since he just took the best of both armies to fight a cron army in a non apocalypse game, the worst mistake i had was to allow him to play that way.

What kind of horrible people do you play against? Nobody needs the extra help to beat the old Necron codex.

Drop Pod lands behind an enemy land raider. MM dreadnought gets out and fires 1 to hit... Opponent somehow manages to not kill it.

It shoots the raider, 1 to hit...
It charges, needs 4s cause the raider moved. Gets 2s and 1s. Gets charged by a combat squad with a fist. 2s and 3s to try and hit... fist bounces off...
Two more turns or so of this then it blows up, as it always blows up.

Would be alright if it were just one game, but this dreadnought could never hit anything, if it did it would fail to wound. Though would have the craziest luck at times and not get scratched by stuff that should have killed it...

It has maybe killed one guardsmen with its explosion that seems to happen around turn 4-5 without fail.

This happened to someone I played against and I felt rediculous for having it happen. I fire 5 bolt pistol shots at an his avatar, guess what happens? 5 hits, 5 wounds, no saves. I couldn't stop laughing as shooting at him in the first place was kind of a joke

Lost 40 Warriors to 3 Terminators...not fun at all

TheAngrySquig wrote:Lost 40 Warriors to 3 Terminators...not fun at all

In the old codex that isn't much of a surprise really! I've charged tactical Marines into Warriors and had plenty of success.

Played a game with my old Necrons, blew up vehicles left and right killing dark eldar. And when my citian finally fell in combat his exploshion wiped out another portion of the DE army.

Saddly the Dark Eldar player was on my team vs SMs ....

Not my fault they stand next to exploding things with no armor saves

Tyrs13 wrote:Played a game with my old Necrons, blew up vehicles left and right killing dark eldar. And when my citian finally fell in combat his exploshion wiped out another portion of the DE army.

Saddly the Dark Eldar player was on my team vs SMs ....

Not my fault they stand next to exploding things with no armor saves

Lol

During the battle for Medusa V campaign, I played a game against my mate who was running GK with IG allies, and I was playing the 3rd edition ork codex. I'd tricked out my orks as much as possible, with multiple rokkits all over the place and every last shennanigan you could pull out of that book.

It was all to no avail. Every rocket I fired pinged off the enemy tanks or missed completely. Every unit that made it into combat fluffed their rolls and got beat down. Meanwhile the heroic IG were gunning down Ork after Ork with their lasguns, and their artillery rained down with supernatural accuracy onto my mobs. It was all over by turn three.

I would have to say some of mine would be when over the course of the game i lost a 8 man strong squad of terminators to exploding rhinos and other small tanks worth less than the terminators that they were blowing up.

Another would have to be when I charged my genestealers into a squad of marines (not blood angles or space puppies) this was a 10x strong unit of genestealers with toxin sacks also. so I was going first, hitting on 3's and rerolling to wound on 4's WITH RENDING............and only killed one. Then the marines wiped me.

I'm sure I've posted this in other threads like this, but it's just that fail...

I was playing some Chaos Marines against Tyranid. I was using Abaddon with four khorne terminators wielding dual lightning claws all in a Land raider, and charged this unit down the left flank, unloading my payload to destroy the Gargoyals in my way. I charge in, Abaddon swings first, I roll a 1 on my attacks, and he whacks himself in the face... Gargoyals attack next at I5... 7 wounds go onto my terminators. I think, alright, this should work out well. WRONG. 5 dice come up as ones... All four terminators drop -.-

Needless to say, Abaddon killed the gargoyals in the following phase, and then get destroyed by swarmlord with some lashwhip guards :(

Played a 500 point game as part of a campaign against an IG player. His entire army was in cover because I was assaulting a fortified position, my only cover was two small lots of tree cover. He had 2 heavy weapons teams and a load of men, I had 20 warriors and a Lord with res orb. He wiped out my ENTIRE army before I could fire a shot.

Very first time I played Dark Eldar, I took an Archon with a djinn blade and shadow field. He strode up to a battle sister and missed with his normal attacks. Then proceeded to roll 2 ones for the djinn blade resulting in two attacks against me. I wound myself, and fail both 2+ invun saves. Battle sister hits, wounds, and murders the last wound on the Archon. I gave his dead corpse a pain token.

Scarey Nerd wrote:Played a 500 point game as part of a campaign against an IG player. His entire army was in cover because I was assaulting a fortified position, my only cover was two small lots of tree cover. He had 2 heavy weapons teams and a load of men, I had 20 warriors and a Lord with res orb. He wiped out my ENTIRE army before I could fire a shot.

That sounds like it was just a bad setup, rather than anything to do with you.

Brother SRM wrote:

Scarey Nerd wrote:Played a 500 point game as part of a campaign against an IG player. His entire army was in cover because I was assaulting a fortified position, my only cover was two small lots of tree cover. He had 2 heavy weapons teams and a load of men, I had 20 warriors and a Lord with res orb. He wiped out my ENTIRE army before I could fire a shot.

That sounds like it was just a bad setup, rather than anything to do with you.

True, but it was still a momentous failure Rubbed in by the fact that he actually took two wounds, but they were just get's hot! wounds from plasma weapons.

If i can rem the correct numbers. 12 lass cannons, 9 thunder hammer attacks, 3 dreadnought CC attacks, and 2-3 multi meltas later INTO A STORMRAVEN!!! in contests my objective and i never killed it.

this same game first turn a bike squad AND assault squad fail their LD tests AND they run off the board i started them a full 12 inches up the deployment too.


on another note rapid fire sternguard 9 total shots ( one was out of rapid fire range) I roll <--6 ones a 2, 3, 6.



but for me to cheer things up. on a good note I had a librarian kill a Daemonprince in a 1v1. prince misses a lot of attacks and does 1 wound. Librarian on his suicide charge gets 4 attacks. I get three 6s and two 5s so they all hit. on my wounding I get four 5s and he fails all his saves and librarian wins =)

Fateweaver jumps into terrain with entire army withing 6 inches. roll a 1, roll my 3++, roll a 2, reroll. roll a 1. Roll my leadership, 10....off the board..
Most painful moment ever.

not mine, but still worth mentioning. a guy i played recently assaulted my unit of immortals with his genestealers. didn't kill one. immortals killed 2. next turn the same except a lord comes and mops up the genestealers.

My Zoanthrope was charged by a Commisar and 1 Guardsmen carrying a flagpole. The Commisar failed to do anything, but the Guardsmen killed the Zoanthrope. On the Following turn, my Carnifex at 1 wound charged the pair, Again Commisar acomplished notihng with his power sword. Mr Flagpole on the other hand stuck the flag right through my carni's Brains.

After that game I went through my Spare bits and gave my opponent one of my spare carnifex heads so he could decorate that Guardsmen.

So I was playing my Space Wolves in a 1000 point 2v1 game to teach my friend's brother to play (my Wolves with my friend's roomate's Marines used by aforementioned newbie vs. my friend's roomate's Orks) and I took a Long Fang squad with a Lascannon, Multi-Melta and Heavy Bolter with my Rune Priest attached.

First turn of shooting, I roll for Living Lightning and get 1 shot. The Lascannon and the Heavy Bolter miss completely while the single Living Lightning shot fails to wound. My opponent's Boyz then shoot at the Long Fangs... and eliminate the Multi-Melta and Squad Leader.

Second turn, I shoot with my Long Fangs again, get four shots with Living Lightning, three hit, a hit with the Lascannon and a hit with the Heavy Bolter. All three Living Lightning shots and the Heavy Bolter shot miss. The Lascannon wounds.

Third turn, I shoot with a squad of Grey Hunters into a squad of Boyz.... who take 1 wound from 7 shots. Then I shoot his Nobz with another Grey Hunter squad... and get 1 wound. The Long Fangs don't do any better. I assault with the Grey Hunters that shot at the Nobz, knowing that they're going to die anyway, might as well try to do some damage before they go. Since they're in cover, I roll to assault... and roll a 1. The other Grey Hunter squad assaults the Boyz they shot at and take severe damage (partly due to the fact that the Wolf Guard's power weapon didn't do much), but take them out with a sweeping advance. My opponent's turn sees the end of the Grey Hunters fighting the Nobz.

By the end of turn 5, the Nobz assaulted the rest of the Long Fangs, wiping them out, the last of my Grey Hunters were wiped out by a squad of Boyz and I was out of the game.

night spinner template scattered onto my seer council and last scoring unit of 10 dire avengers.Eldrad and 5 warlocks and
8 avengers went poof and I lost the tournament from these free kill points

My opponents deffdread did the following against my marines
turn 1: survived being shot at with las cannon (front armor)
turn 2: survived being shot at with las cannon (rear armor) and melta gun (2D6 pen range and rear armor) and 6 krak grenades
turn 3: survived 3 krak grenades
turn 4: survived 16 power fist attacks
turn 5: survived 12 power fist attacks
by this point it had no DCCW left and i FINALLY managed to put it down turn 6

I swear the amount of 1's and 2's i rolled could have sunk a ship

Playing test games as Dark Eldar (I was considering them vs. Orks, and eventually chose Orks).

Game 1: Vect and his pimp-squad of Incubi prepares to charge a squad. One lascannon shot hits, wounds the squad. Vect takes it on his 2+ Invul save, the first save the unit has had to take all game.


Game 2: Vect against Orks. Orks Deffrolla his vehicle, then do the same to his squad, scoring one wound. Vect takes it on his 2+ invul save, against, the first he's had to take the entire game.


Game 3: Vect against Missile-spammy Space Wolves. Long Fangs fire single-shot kraks at the squad (they had gotten really well spread out), and land one wound. Can you guess what might have happened?


And so end the adventures of Vect...

Having no idea how to play against Tau I attempted to charge with most of what I had and got blasted all to hell. The assault marines failed horrendously, double six for leadership, triple six for running away and they were off the board within a rounds. Dice were on fire for that moment and that moment only, the rest of the game I got next to nothing but ones and twos I only managed to kill a single kroot with a bolt round that entire game while he shredded my army from under me.

When I rolled a WBB roll for my Necron Lord (3rd edition) and he dies... Every time... I spend 200pts on him and he's worse at getting back up than a normal warrior...
Doesn't look much better in the new codex either

A more catastrophic moment is when I charged a Tomb Stalker at a guard infantry squad, and they survived for three turns! Wasted so much valuable time, never doing it again.

I've got a couple. First, doubles tourney, playing gunline IG against a mix of Orks and DE. First two turns to shoot as much as we can before they get up close. Miss every single shot for two whole turns, including 3 lascannons, a Russ and two Basilisks... They charge in and destroy EVERYTHING. Great...our saving grace was our Storm Trooper's refusal to die (taking down an Archon, 8 Orks and 4 Incubi in the process). Still lost.

Using friend's Ultramarines against my IG army controlled by him. 5 Termies with Captain move in front of a squad of 10 Guardsmen with no heavy weapons and one flamer. I shoot, miss spectacularly, killing no one and then realize I am a gnat's wing out of assault range. Oh well, their squad is isolated and on the other side of a hill from the army. What can they honestly do to 6 Terminators? A lot apparently. They move up to within assault range (my friend laughed because he felt like being cocky, we were both certain they were doomed anyway) and fired at the Termies. Flamer goes first, covers 3 Termies, wounds two and... Ok, that's annoying, only lasguns to go though. 8 lasguns on rapid fire facing three Termies and a terminator armoured Captain. 16 shots, 11 hits, 8 wounds!? Still... I cannot remember how or why (or the rules edition) but I allocated 3 wounds to the Captain as I thought he was likely to survive. For him? Ok, 5 more saves for 3 Termies. Three more 1s. Lovely. Still, even a wounded Captain against 10 lowly Guard, my luck should change surely? My friend points out that the Sarge, with his laspistol, is yet to shoot.

One hit.

One wound.

Guess my save role? 65pts kill over 300pts of Termies.

I'll tell you my friend's fail. On the first turn of the game, his Razorwing got blown up by my MM Land Speeders.

Locclo wrote:
And so end the adventures of Vect...

I'm pretty sure a higher power didn't want you to play Dark Eldar.

2nd round of ard boys, Tyranids vs Grey Knights.

On the second turn, he moves 3 dreadknights into range for me to charge if I can roll better than a 3 for my fleet roll on one unit of hormaguants, a 4 on another, and no need for fleet with a third unit.

I start my turn, and my Ygmarl show up in the terrain that was right behind them. Swarmlord is within range to grant the Ygmarl Furious Charge. Grant them +1 Strength with their ability. I do a multiple unit charge, hitting all three with 75 hormagaunts with toxin sacs, and str 6 ygmarls. He manages to kill 14 hormagaunts. I swing. Ygmarls only inflict one non rending wound which he saves. Out of all the hormagaunts, I only hit 12 times, and fail to wound. Well over 200 attacks that needed 4's to hit and 4's to wound, and I fail to wound with any of them.

Since the swarmlord was in range, I then took an additional 14 saves per squad, rolling below odds on saves, and lost well over 1/2 my model count in that round and the following round of combat. Needless to say, the rest of the game went downhill from there.

Everyone that saw that mess was shocked...

This is so embarrassing I can't believe I'm posting it publically. In the last game I played, it was capture the flag. I sent most of my force with all speed to try and run through the CSMs to get to my objective, instead of staying at range and protecting my flag with my nice, distant, shooting army and just using my deepstriking Kasrkins in their nice safe Valkyrie to drop in and take the enemy flag.

It was ugly.

I've never seen so many dead Guardsmen in one giant pile.

Let us never speak of this again.

My biggest facepalm. 3 zoanthropes and a full 9man ravener unit deep stikes 12" away from them. zoans go to warp blast a squad of pink horrors. changeling makes me take a LD with LD 10 from the zoans. They failed. 3 direct's 27 hits, and 7 instant deaths later...yeah..i was slightly upset.