Share Your 40k Fails (ie. time you got beaten in incredibly funny ways)

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**sing your life**

Once my deathwing sergeant jumped off a ruined building, failed his DT check and was killed.

**gossipmeng**

Was playing in a 500 pt escalation league with my Tau. Guess what, my first match was against Tau. I roll first turn and deploy within range (pretty much exposed) so that I can pick off as much as possible.

I opted for small FW squads supported by a broadside and crisis team lead by a tricked out commander. My opponent ran fireblade, a bunch of FWs, sniper drone squad and a riptide.

He rolls 6 to steal initiative (oh god) and then proceeds to overcharge riptide and one shot my broadside, whose drone's ran off the board. He then pumps 20 pulserifle and sniper drone shots into one of my 6 man FW squads (they all die).

So on my turn 1 I'm left with my other 6 man FW squad and 3 crisis suits with half their weapons out of range. The game actually dragged on to turn 4 because my crisis commander was pretty much immune to pulserifles, but eventually was taken down.

**Bharring**

My first game against Tau, just starting 40k. Knew they were shooty, and I had an ally (2000 points per side game, so we each had 1000 points).

My Rhino accounted for over half our kills... It killed 6 marines (when it blew up)...

**Icculus**

So I get all setup to take down the new tau army with the riptide and the marker lights. First turn roll "Dont Press Dat" fail! my looted wagon runs out of cover in to the open.

I should have put some units in front of him, and would have had them there by next turn. I just need to get anything but a one.

Then my big mekk and his shokk attack gun is ready to roll on the riptide. rolled double 5s. Zoink! that moved him right in to base contact with the riptide and it says to treat as an assault. So he overwatched the hell out of the big mekk and killed him outright.

Start of his next turn that looted wagon was shattered all over the field.

Needless to say, I lost that battle.

**DeffDred**

The only time I've rage quit (and nearly table flipped) was back in 4th.

My Devastators with 4 heavy bolters were 3 inches away from a unit of stealth suits. Snake eyes. Rage. Half a pack of smokes.

**c0j1r0**

I was play my Nids against a SM player who is using a White Scars bike list.

He claimed he could transport bikes in a landraider. I said, that's not true and he asked where it said he couldn't do that. I hadn't read through the whole 6th ed rulebook yet and so I couldn't find anything saying he couldn't.

So he drove his bikes across the board in landraiders, shot up my Tervigons with meltaguns, the mopped up the defenseless Gaunts.

I haven't played him since.

Also there was this other time there was this time when another friend's Logan Grimnar got killed by my Mystic's Laspistol. That was great.

**Desubot**

5 Man hammernator squad with chap and librarian assault 2 12man fire warrior squad.

he manages to wound me 5 times...

i fail 4 of em and conceded the game

**DeffDred**

c0j1r0 wrote:
I was play my Nids against a SM player who is using a White Scars bike list.

He claimed he could transport bikes in a landraider. I said, that's not true and he asked where it said he couldn't do that. I hadn't read through the whole 6th ed rulebook yet and so I couldn't find anything saying he couldn't.

So he drove his bikes across the board in landraiders, shot up my Tervigons with meltaguns, the mopped up the defenseless Gaunts.

I haven't played him since.

Also there was this other time there was this time when another friend's Logan Grimnar got killed by my Mystic's Laspistol. That was great.

Page 78 of the small BRB. Transport Capacity.

In short... Only infantry and IC may ride in transports (excluding jet and jump infantry). Your friend is a cheater.

**Da Epic Pegasus**

At our local 40k place we had a tournament. It was the final and I wasn't in it but Jason(Necrons) needed to pass a leadership test of 10 to win and he roll a 6 and a 5!!!

**ImotekhTheStormlord**

OnlyWar wrote:
i will start of.

when i was playing a imperial guard army (a gunline army to be exact, i was playing against orks, and i was trying to kill of a unit of gretchin, and despite shooting at it with a deathstrike missile louncher, a basalisk, a demolisher cannon and a manticore, the grots managed to reach my troops without suffering a single wound, when they finaly reached my gunline, wich was guarded with allied death company space marines led by mephiston and with gabriel seth taging along, the gretching assualted the death company, wiped out the entire squad and only taking one casuaty in the proccess, and then proceed to kill gabriel seth during overwatch the very next turn, at this point i am get lucky and a baneblade enters the battlefield from reserves, the runtherd leading the grots shoots the baneblade and gets a weapon immobilized roll, and when i finally killed a few more grots, the grots made a morale check, passed it, and blew up my HQ's chimera, and thus with just one squad of grots, getting kill the warlord, linebreaker and first blood. seriosly, after that game began regarding gretchin as worthy of at least an at least a place in the elite slot.

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Anyone else have any epic fails to share?

Well that is a load of bullgak. It is impossible for a runtherd to blow a chimera only a glance at best, let alone WD a baneblade with no chance of glancing. Statistically none of the other stuff could ever conceivably happen.

**FreddieTau6**

Mine was recently when I brought the avatar out for his first time with the new codex! Eager to try him and see how he'd do, I took on my store managers blood angels!

The avatar striding forward backed up by a Farseer and 10 wraith guard, being fortuned and feeling invincible!

When all of a sudden a blood angel rhino comes tank shocking straight towards him! The Avatar decided he will death or glory this foolish Monkai and leave him a smouldering corpse for his comrades to find after the battle!

He raises his wailing doom and points it at the speeding rhino and engulfs it in flame and molten lava...
As the flames dissipate... The rhino driver after kaking his armour has some how survived! Seizing his opportunity hits the throttle and proceeds to run over my avatar!

I had to roll a Double one for the armour penetration didn't I...

**OnlyWar**

Played imperial guard... deathstrike scatttred my command squad on turn 2. Fail.

**That-Black-Templar-Guy**

Well this wasn't my personal game, but at a tournament I was at Kharn the Betrayer got killed by a single ork gretchen. That guy was almost crying because of how upset he was, and it was pretty embarrassing to just see.

**ninjafiredragon**

greg0985 wrote:
GamesDay Chicago, '05 or '06. I'm with my buddy at one of the tables, using the provided armies. Dark Eldar and Chaos Marines. He's played DE for a while, and I'd just gotten the 3.5 Chaos dex, so were both feeling good. Then some kid, couldn't be older then 9 or 10 comes up with his buddy, and the guy running the table says they can join us, one kid on each team.

Grudgingly my friend and I accept. My freind gives his erstwhile partner command of half the warriors, half the wyches, and a talos, keeping the ravager to himself. I figure that my partner would have to be pretty dense to mess up if I gave him controll of the 2 squads of 4 heavy bolter Havocs, so I let him controll my fire base, explaining that he just needs to sit back and shoot, while I used the Chaos Lord and his bodyguard with a bit more finesse.

I shoulda done it the other way.

Turn 1, DE run straight at us. No cover in sight. I figure that 8 heavy bolsters will make short work of them. Instead, kid moves Havocs forward...

Turn 2 and DE end their phase so close I can smell them. They WILL charge on turn 3. Hoping kid will see the this (and saying it rather loudly), kid decides to once more move foreward, so he can charge.

Both havoc squads charge wyche squads...and both are wiped from existence in a matter of moments. Kid looks to his friend and complains that he cheated, and both walk away, leaving me angrier then the most miffed Angry Marine, and my buddy with what I can only describe as a trollfaced O-face.

With the loss of all my firepower, and one flank seriously compromised, the rest of the Chaos Marines are tabled in the next turn.

To this day he will occasionally remind me of that fateful game.

**Zappit**

This is from a few editions ago. Thousand point game on a pool table. I'm playing Marines. He's playing Eldar. He goes first, and blows up my Predator, my Dreadnought, and my Rhino. The squad inside took heavy casualties, and the survivors fell back off the table. It was basically over before my first movement phase.

**Largeblastmarker**

chaos cultist champ kills terminator sgt in cc.