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Ran at a Dreadknight with my Rune Priest. Miraculously survived his attacks. I had melta bombs but I decided to use his force weapon instead. Hit, rolled one successful wound on a 6. He gets 2+ armor, but fails that. Force Weapon goes off, Dreadknight's gone.

Go to hell, mathhammer.

 gardeth wrote:

SHOULD be 1/6 but generally speaking if the first time the baron gets hit is just for 1 wound, he seems to fail it half the time....

Can testify to that. A friend of mine had this insane archon with a 2+ poison weapon that caused instant death (don't ask me...I don't know how he did it either). He tried charging into overwatch, took a couple wounds, rolled his shadow field...first roll was a 1. He died to overwatch.

Happens too many times to count.

Hammerheads always miss against armor 10-11 and always roll a 1 on armor 12+

and on the magical case that i do hit and pen. its a 1 on the damage chart.

thank god for that long strike tank hunter reroll.

 dementedwombat wrote:

 gardeth wrote:

SHOULD be 1/6 but generally speaking if the first time the baron gets hit is just for 1 wound, he seems to fail it half the time....

Can testify to that. A friend of mine had this insane archon with a 2+ poison weapon that caused instant death (don't ask me...I don't know how he did it either). He tried charging into overwatch, took a couple wounds, rolled his shadow field...first roll was a 1. He died to overwatch.

Misreading rules, most likely, he probably thought he could combine venom blade with a huskblade. Far as I know, DE doesn't have any CCW that's 2+ poisoned AND also instant death, we do have a 3+ poisoned ID weapon, but that's on a special character.

And @gardeth... Aye... Though for me, that's more than 50/50 to be honest, I'm so bad at dice rolling(is that even possible?) that it's the now running joke in my group... I find that it's usually that one wound you thought "Ah, why bother putting it on a razorwing flock or khymerae, my 2++ can handle th- clearly not!".

Shot a plasma cannon at the enemy HQ's unit. It scatters back to my allied IG attachment and slams into my LRBT rear armor. Penetrates, explodes, kills the CCS Commander (who was on his last wound) and I gave myself Slay the Warlord.

Necron Overlord with Sempiternal Weave failing 5/9 2+ saves from bolters, then getting back up with 3 wounds (phylactery) and killing them all, and then getting back up three more times after subsequent deaths.

The one roll that I'll always remember is way back from 2nd edition.

My Impy Guard gunline vs. my best friend's BA terminator army.
The entire game every shot I fired was either missing or bouncing of that darned 3+ on 2D6 save.
Finally one of my lascannons hits his Chaplain causing 2D6 wounds.
I roll to wound and the dice came up ..... you guessed it, snake eyes.

My entire army was wiped out without causing a single casualty in return.
Fun times!

Not me this time, but I habe a friend who got 6 hits amongst three sets of ripper tentacles... and rolled 6 1s to wound. Needing 2s, no less.

 Icculus wrote:
Rolled a one with my warphead, used my reroll, got another one. It was my first roll of the game...I knew it was going to be a good one. Killed 4 of my boyz.

This has happened to me as well

I've had a stroke of amazing luck with my Death Cult Assassin (only one left in the squad).
Charged a deathstar (BA of some description, can't remember what).
6 saves to make on a 5++ from overwatch.
6 6s. Virtually impossible but I managed it
The lone DCA then proceeded to kill the whole unit, winning an objective and the game.
His name is now Neo.

Also had a barrage snipe from my IG (heavy mortars I think, not sure), score 3 ID hits on an ethereal, he'd have no save. Trip ones on the to-wound roll. WTH?

4 Sniper Scouts charging 10 Ork Boyz + Nob through a building, missing once(!) and wounding all of em. Killed 7 and ran the rest down.

Funny thing was that I could only see the Boyz through a half inch wide/tall window

Good times.

Lucarikx

Yesterday 4 wounds left on my avatar. 15 shoota boys assaulted him nob with pk declined challenge. Killed 3 orks. The rest put 4 wounds on him and I failed all of my 3+ armour saves.

Daemon weapon roll on a prince assaulting a termi unit that took him to WS 1 call that a dead prince...

Shot 2 melta guns at a Furioso Dread and both hit! Rolled for armor pen and both are snake eyes...... He proceeded to slaughter my entire grey hunter squad right afterwords...

I had a trukk that had smashed itself into a building near and objective to hide from the other guys big guns.

I forgot to move it turn 4. I forgot to move it turn 5. And then goddamnit on turn six it gets double ones for its difficult terrain check and can't get close enough.

I always make my 5+ heldrake invuls... Lol

Dalymiddleboro wrote:
I always make my 5+ heldrake invuls... Lol

That reminds me.... you can make 5x 3+ saves... but when you god darnd get 5x 2+ saves... you fail 1-3..... WHY DICE GODS!

My buddy needed to strip one hull point, had 3 hits, and needed 2's to glance. Triple 1's.

One of the strangest and funniest ones I ran into a while ago was with my Rune Priest. Game starts, my first turn, I've got Prescience and Perfect Timing with a squad of Heavy Bolter Long Fangs aimed a big ol' squad of Orks with a KFF. This should be good!

First psychic test, Prescience, double 1s. Well, no big deal, at least the power still goes off.

Second psychic test, Perfect Timing, double 6s.

My opponent pulled First Blood and Slay the Warlord without rolling a single die.

Rolled around 14 dice and got 8 ones. My stormbolters have failed me that day.