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My vindicator. I guess all my opponents know about it, and always shoot at it, or stay out of range, or it scatters to far, or something else. But any way it happens, it hasn't done too well in a game yet.

I played a 1500 game against Crowe Purifiers with my Elysians.

Wiped out 2 Razorbacks and 3 Dreadnoughts first turn. They spent a total of 90s on the table.

Funny thing though, I tried to gang rush Crowe with 30 Guardsmen and he kill them all. You'd think they could do something to just ONE model.

My scout snipers always miss. The Scout Sergeant Cyrus conversion I did, which eventually became a Vindicare for my GK either roll 1,2 or hits and rolls 1 to wound with Hellfire or 3 with any other round. He also rolls average 10 on the dice. Do you get the sniper's +3 strength when you use that round?

My Manticore also did nothing on it's only game, except hit my Hellhound. Suffice to say it's not a Hydra.

Ork aircraft. The tail gunner cannot engage a separate target, rendering it useless.

I played against my friends Chaos marines years ago. He deploys a vindicator on one flank. I then proceed to deploy everything bar a landspeeder on the other side. Turn one the landspeeder nips up, multimeltas the vindicator immobilising it, since the vindicator only has a 45 degree firing arc from the weapon it could do nothing else for the rest of the game....best moment of my gaming career, beaten only by scouts with shotguns taking 2 wounds from a keeper of secrets!

My roomate has a deadnaught that in 20 games has never killed anything. He usually gets shaken or wep destroyed and immobilased and left to sit angrily on the table being useless all game

Farseer Zelaine wrote:My roomate has a deadnaught that in 20 games has never killed anything. He usually gets shaken or wep destroyed and immobilased and left to sit angrily on the table being useless all game

lol "deadnought." Clever pun or convenient typo?

Vaercathor wrote:Ork aircraft. The tail gunner cannot engage a separate target, rendering it useless.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume it's something that will change in 6th when we get proper rules for aircraft. The Marauder bomber also has a tail gunner, and I would assume that some other aircraft would get similar guns. Besides, the damn thing's not even out yet.

3 times i have used Bare bones Pred
1: Lost its turret first turn
2:Immobolised.
3:died to a tesla arc to the side armor.

Whenever my Broadside railguns shoot at something with AV11 I always roll a 1 to penetrate. A 5/6 chance to penetrate and I glance.

My tourney ready list is battlewagon rush, however I squeeze a deff dread in there as well because I like the model and I'm proud of the paint job... 'Sgt Bash' has, however never achieved anything of note, usually running across the battlefield to get shot and either asplode or immobilize.

He had only one game of glory, first time I fielded him, when he tied a Daemon Prince up for an entire game as it frustratedly pulled his limbs off and he annoyingly refused to die.

Brother SRM wrote:

Vaercathor wrote:Ork aircraft. The tail gunner cannot engage a separate target, rendering it useless.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume it's something that will change in 6th when we get proper rules for aircraft. The Marauder bomber also has a tail gunner, and I would assume that some other aircraft would get similar guns. Besides, the damn thing's not even out yet.

The Marauder has structure points. Reworking it in 6th edition would make all tanks much more powerful if mounts could engage seperately like a superheavy. While it would make more sense, the points cost would have to go up.

My dual Command Barges have been on a "do nothing" streak lately. It's a bad feeling when 6 Sweep Attacks all fail to hit. And then all miss again the second turn. Oh, except maybe I'll get a 6, put it on a powerfist guy, annnnd...1 to wound. But people will still throw a ridiculous amount of shooting into them anyway, and I can't in good conscience call a rocket-sponge useless.

What's useless are my Eldritch Lances. Even if I've got 8 of them (twin-linked from my Stalker) firing on one AV11 vehicle, it will do nothing. Nothing. Then one Psyfleman or Long Fang squad shoots at my CCB and *boom*, down it goes. I have somehow offended the gods of S8 shooting. But F them, I should just start taking more Scarabs.

For the longest time the trygons I used always blew. Either I missed with every attack or failed to wound or they died when they poped up

My Autocannon Lascannon predator first game against darke eldar . His raider is empty so the squad can objective sit

Opponent goes first declares a ram on my pred 36 inch movement s10 hit. It penetrates and wrecks. My s8 hit negated by a flickerfield.

So close

lord_blackfang wrote:My Slaaneshy friend had "lascannon guy". Lascannon guy was fielded every game since almost the start of 3rd edition to well into 4th. During all this time he got a single kill (my Land Raider, on turn 1, the first time I used it)

The first time I brought Medusas for my IG, I brought 2 of them with Bastion Breacher shells (10/1 Small Blast). I was fighting Tau at 1000 points and he brought 2 Commanders leading 2 Groups of FW and than had DS coming in for this other squads...relying on a positional relay. Turn 1 I rolled off and went first, both Medusa's hit dead on each commander, instagibbing them. Needless to say the rest of the battle went easily from that point onward.

As for my own fail units....hmm....probably the first time I fielded my Black Templars both Power Fists I had managed to never hit a single thing...ever..throughout the whole game. Other things would probably include my Eldar Rangers doing jack anytime I field them.

Admittedly, this streak seems to have broken in the past couple of weeks.

However, with my newest army, I have never been able to kill a single thing with a power fist, thunder hammer or melta gun (unless I fire guard levels of them at once).

My newest army? Blood Angels. This sort of luck is not a good combination for winning games.

On the other hand, I have learned to love my Land Raider's Assault Cannons...

Fortunately, this streak seemed to break on Monday night, when I managed to smash apart a necron army with both my fists and meltas... +2 to damage rolls does help a fair bit.

when playing my eldar vs orks...

5 banshees charge in at 10 gretching... they killed a single grot then were massicered by the little gits... as a primary ork player i was so proud of the little guys and wish my warboss could recruit them

Brother SRM wrote:

UsdiThunder wrote:Every newly painted model for me dies horribly or does nothing the whole game.

This is hardly unique, unfortunately! One of the oldest wargaming jokes in the book is that the first game you roll out a newly painted unit for, they'll do absolutely terrible.

That's usually because someone is so proud when they put a newly painted unit on the table, everyone tries their hardest to kill it first out of spite.

-Loki- wrote:
That's usually because someone is so proud when they put a newly painted unit on the table, everyone tries their hardest to kill it first out of spite.

Guilty as charged....

I have 20 Maurauders with hand weapon & shields in my WOC whose sole purpose is to protect my Sorcerer. They themselves are yet to survive a game in any capacity. Runner up would be my similarly armed Warrior unit who have a habit of failing their first leadership based test EVERY. SINGLE. GAME!

I had a unit of Genestealers get tarpitted by 2 grots who rolled Snake eyes on leadership after me charging them. The 'Stealers then proceeded to horribly fail all their attacks against the hero grots who asked their biker friends politely to help them against my 'stealers who only managed to break out of the 1st turn assault by turn 5, with 2 models left.

I have weird luck with my converted Leman Russ Executioner. Played against Tyranids, SM's, and even Orks, and smoked everything with it. It's easily my MVP most games and even though it costs me 300 points (It always has a Knight Commander in it), I average a 450-600 point kill streak with it's plasma goodness. (though my tank doesn't shoot plasma, it ionizes the surface of it's target, causing it to become plasma... wrap your head around that notion and then you'll figure out what the weapons actually are ) That said.. I have also been very disappointed by it being torn apart by Eldar fire prisms, lanced by zonathropes, and even destroyed by friendly ordinance fire. It's a magnet for enemy hatred and it often leads to a "well.. this is gonna suck" moment after it gets destroyed on the first or second turn.

And if it's not that, it's gotta be missile launchers. I seriously think even SM's under my contorl can't even hit the damn ground with them.

Missle launchers and SM dont mix. I stopped using them.
I go for big booms now with vindicators(witch still do nothing)

2 games in a row Abaddon kill himself by rolling a one on his daemon weapon and failing the invulnerable. He took no wounds from anything else the entire game but himself lol.

When I played Tau, i would generally run a hammerhead in my army. Every game it would throw pie plates around killing things, but if I ever used the solid shot to target a vehicle or a lone hero or something you rolled a 1 to hit every time. And in the rare chance I actually hit it fail to penetrate or wound the target.

IXLoiero95XI wrote:2 games in a row Abaddon kill himself by rolling a one on his daemon weapon and failing the invulnerable. He took no wounds from anything else the entire game but himself lol.

I laughed. Hard. Maybe that's why his 13 crusades have, so far, always failed.

DemetriDominov wrote:

IXLoiero95XI wrote:2 games in a row Abaddon kill himself by rolling a one on his daemon weapon and failing the invulnerable. He took no wounds from anything else the entire game but himself lol.

I laughed. Hard. Maybe that's why his 13 crusades have, so far, always failed.

I didn't find it funny at the time, but when i look back on it its pretty hilarious.

IXLoiero95XI wrote:

DemetriDominov wrote:

IXLoiero95XI wrote:2 games in a row Abaddon kill himself by rolling a one on his daemon weapon and failing the invulnerable. He took no wounds from anything else the entire game but himself lol.

I laughed. Hard. Maybe that's why his 13 crusades have, so far, always failed.

I didn't find it funny at the time, but when i look back on it its pretty hilarious.

Yeah well losing an HQ to something like that in a game would royally suck if it's yours.

IXLoiero95XI wrote:2 games in a row Abaddon kill himself by rolling a one on his daemon weapon and failing the invulnerable. He took no wounds from anything else the entire game but himself lol.

When I played Tau, i would generally run a hammerhead in my army. Every game it would throw pie plates around killing things, but if I ever used the solid shot to target a vehicle or a lone hero or something you rolled a 1 to hit every time. And in the rare chance I actually hit it fail to penetrate or wound the target.

I once saw a game with Abaddon joined up with Kharn the Betrayer. Abaddon hurt himself with his Daemon weapon and then Kharn ended up up killing him. Lol. Totally epic.

One of my ambitions is to have a commissar shoot a Space Marine captain (preferably Gulliman) who uses combat tactics in an Apocalypse game