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Last game 4 GK Terminators died from Wolf Scouts. One was justicar Thawn who got back up, thus giving me a 3rd troop in a 5 objective sieze ground game! I just switched my white dice for black and made very, single, fething save with him. Logan Grimnar eventually decides to feth his face up. I still struck before him, dropping him to 2W. I died, ressurected, this being the last turn, and ended Grimsy on the charge! And won! Draigo had wiped out one squad of WG on an objective, and I had Thawn on one, and Pallies on another.

Last week i had a rhino parked infront of an objected with one guy behind it, blocking the assault from the 2 nearby units he shot 2 meltaguns from the first unit which he rolled all ones for penetration, and fired his only meltagun with the other unit and rolled ones for penetration again.
Shot a carnifex with my Emperor's champion's bolt pistol killing it, done this three times, seperate games

My dice fails include, never making emperor's champion armour save, missing with powerfists 9/10 times, I rarely roll above 2 for runs with my black templars failing a leadership check with my vermin lord and having him removed from play on the first turn, and my whole skaven army fleeing on the first turn due to leadership fails =[

Ever score a hit with my Obliterators when it mattered.

I can't make 2+ rolls. I probably fail 50% of my 2+ saves, or shooting attacks. I also managed to fail to wreck 2 rhinos in the last game I played with 2 melt guns, meltabombs and Khorne berzerkers on the charge. I ended up losing the game by a single kill point too, so if I had manage to at least wreck even 1 rhino I would have pulled a tie.

I dont really have a good example of my dice faliures (though they have happened.) An opponet of mine had an some kind of staff for the necrons and he had to roll 2d6s for the range. He rolled 2 ones.

Any time I play my Chaos Marines, even if I win, I consistently roll below average-one wound caused to a Berzerker will guarantee him dying. I had a game I failed 90% of my armor saves-I won by throwing so many dice into shooting, assaulting and out-maneuvering, but it was close. I was picking up models (plural) in combat with Tau. Not a proud day...

timetowaste85 wrote:I was picking up models (plural) in combat with Tau. Not a proud day...

Ouch. Just Ouch.

timetowaste85 wrote:Any time I play my Chaos Marines, even if I win, I consistently roll below average-one wound caused to a Berzerker will guarantee him dying. I had a game I failed 90% of my armor saves-I won by throwing so many dice into shooting, assaulting and out-maneuvering, but it was close. I was picking up models (plural) in combat with Tau. Not a proud day...

Hehe. I have played games with my Tau when I get charged and my Tau win combat. Its so funny. I played assault Tau once and only lost by 1 KP against IG. I lost all my markerlight support turn 1 and my Hammerhead only got 1 shot off all game. So I just charged all of his vehicles.

I've had games where all my shooting and wound rolls were 1s and 2s. One game I had something like 50 pulse rifle shots boosted to bs5 via marker lights On a squad of normal CSM. Ended up with about 12 hits and 3 wounds. Wich he of course saved without a sweat. Next turn he obliterated my fire warrior line I succeeded on a single cover save. Lost about 30 of my 40 men. My turn hammerheads attempt submunitions to again take out those CSM, as no armor on field, and I promptly scatter onto my own men with both shots, wiping the rest of the unit. After that i changed dice. Yeesh.

I've fired that fething Deathstrike ONCE... and it was AWESOME! I have brought it to nearly every game since I purchased it. it's been about twenty games since it took out a Monolith and half a unit of Lychguard. It hasn't even fired since.

Yesterday in a KP game my dice fefused me to let me kill a Doomscythe. I had 2 meltas on it, 1 multi. in 5 rounds of trying to get that fether all i got him down to was immobilized with no weapons. I needed that KP.
And damnit
But they pulled off something amazing yesterday. five 4+ inv saves on my captain, he made them all.

I find my dice to be extremely bi-polar. One turn I'm mowing down every thing in range the next turn I cant kill a Gaunt with a full squad of immortals. The other way it goes is I get average rolls vs. every thing but one specific unit against which i can't wound much less hit. It really sucks when they change their mind in the middle of a match(if its for the worst.)

My dice refuse to use the millions of attacks a 30 choppa boy mob get to cause any wounds to a five man terminator squad for three whole turns.... stupid dice

Some times my dice will role 1's for movement rolls and it's like everyone in the vehicle suddenly remembered "Oh we forgot to put gas in the gas tank".

There are a few things that I have to stay away from like the plague, granted I know I don't really, but my rolls NEVER seem to come through for them. There are 3 things:

Any form of Melta, and it's never to hit. To hit I will usually get fine. But to wound, I always roll dual ones.....or a one and a two or something. Basically I never pen gak with them even though they are the defacto "pen anything" gun.

Any form of Plasma Gun, I will roll atleast 1/2 of them as Get's Hot. No lie, 2 different games my Plasma Guns did not make it past Turn 2 by just freaking killing myself. I will occasionally use a Melta Gun, I never use Plasma Guns anymore. It gets tiresome....

IG Power Weapons in a Blob. Whether it be on a Commissar or a Sergeant, I will do nothing with them. At all. However, the Guardsmen will wreck face...my rolling always seems to do well with them.

Looking at my 3 issues, maybe the Dice Gods are telling me to ditch my IG army!

I did have one game where my captain on bike consistently killed one model a turn for two rounds, then failed to do anything, then killed three models with one stroke. I suppose it averages out, but from my perspective he was consistently inept at the job he was supposed to be doing.

He did keep making his 3+ saves though, even as his command squad dropped around him. Finally a bike squad charged in and helped him finish off the rest of the squad.

I can't really fault him though. He and the squad had taken the charge from a unit of assault terminators (shooting had reduced them to two models) and a full tactical squad. They did what they're expected to do, go toe to toe with the hardest enemy unit and hold them up long enough for the rest of the army to win the game.

My dice hates sweeping advances, I2 Necrons really need anything but 1's and 2's, I got a 5 once and didn't get swept. That was a good day.

I saw some bizzarely anomolous dice rolls in my last game. Like, rolling 5 1's on 5 dice, then next rolling the same and seeing 5 6's.

That said, my dice have always stopped my Space Marine scout snipers from doing anything. In their first game they managed to hold up a whole flank by pinning a huge Kroot squad. After that, they proceeded to, in I'd guess about 100 games, not kill a thing.

I rolled 9 1's in a row.


It is basically legendary in my gaming group.

Im of the, dice over their life tend to roll average, mindset. To me its really irrelevant.

But I have had some terrible dice rolls (always seem to revolve around less dice= worse results)

Fateweaver failing over 50% of the wounds delt to him... there were only 20 wounds... on a rerollable 3+....I failed 10 of them on the initial 3+, then when I went to roll for rerolls, i had 6 dice of 10 seperated, rolled 1 failed, rerolled, failed, rolled 2, failed it, failed the reroll, rolled 3 and failed, rerolled failed.... not.. even.. kidding.

Didnt even get to get to the other 4... 6 dice, 3 failed 3+ re-rolling saves ( I DID however pass my 2 leadership tests. >.&gt

My KFF big mek has yet to kill a single model. He has managed to fail to do so by both shooting and assault, even when he was facing nothing but two plain dire avengers.
I have fielded him in almost every game I ever played.

not ever Getting 2's or more for my archons shadow field

v_v they never want to come to bed with me

My 5 man nilla assault squad failed to kill 1 tau fire warrior until my squad commander was left.

Commander in termy armor refused to kill 1 scarab base and then was killed by it

While we all know that dice should be statistically equal in their performance there are a few individuals at my FLGS who I honestly believe either have (poorly) loaded dice or just terrible luck.

One poor guy in particular consistently loses games due to bad rolling. He plays vanilla Marines and for whatever reason, his troops can't seem to hit the broad side of a barn (at least for MEQ) or even properly survive a lasgun fusillade. He's pretty famous for it and everyone loves playing him (for obvious reasons).

I even went so far as to keep track of a few of his games one night and he averaged a 50/50 on his 3+ saves and actually worse than 50/50 on shooting at BS4. Now I'm sure there's a little conformation bias in there somewhere, but it was quite uncanny how statistically innaccurate his rolls were.

Nicest guy and most gracious player too, which makes it quite a shame.

DoW

Sleepysloth wrote:My dice love to make my Guardsmen's 5+ save, but simply cannot make a 5++ Daemon save.

It's a shame because everything and its mother penetrates flak armor, I rarely get to make those seemingly blessed rolls.

Laughing my brains out man, thats fantastic looooool, i know the feeling, it's really funny how the game feels to play that way. my heart goes out to your daemon rolls lol, but i wanna play against your godly IG saves it would be an awesome laugh.

I'll include 2 of mine, why not?

1st time using Medusa with bastion breakers shells: 3 turns of hitting strength 10 2d6 against armour 14; rolling a 1 and 2 every time.....

2nd is in a tourney.

2nd game, objective: king of the hill. Whole game my dice decided not to hit a single thing. I'm not talking about to hit to wound armour saves, im talking about: to hit, failed again....
I went on to win the match with a grand total of 0 kill points. Reverse tabling FTW!

Vindicare assassin that cannot hit anything. It's like he's not got any ammo or something. He'll roll a 1 to hit, then a 2 or 3 on the re roll. If he miraculously hits, the hellfire shot will roll a 1. Turbo penetrator is far better at wounding though.

Scout snipers. Never hit, never wounded... I think snipers just don't like me.

Mine seem to have developed a disliking for Eldrich Lances. It has been a while since they hit anything never mind kill something.