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Taffy17 wrote:
My Longstrike rolls an uncanny amount of 1s to hit.

I was demonstrating my solitaire to a friend and he didn't roll a single 6 once out of 8 dice rolled about a dozen times.

One of my mates scatter dice always rolls scatter, he tested it a load and everytime it scattered, I picked it up, rolled once and got direct hit

He needs that GW book on how to roll Dice.

The twin-linked multi-melta on either of my storm ravens always misses it's first shot of the game.

My striking scorpion exarch is always the last man standing in his unit. Archons, farseers, everyone else dies like a fool if they are in his unit. He once took down a 6 man terminator squad using his protégés as meat shields, never took a hit that fight.

My corsair prince can never hit with his orbital bombardment either. He's bs6, and its a large blast for crying out loud!

I think I've ended with "Night Attacker" as my Warlord Trait in 8 of my last 11 games...

Any unit I have with a lascannon, that isn't firing multiples of them, will almost always roll a "2" to hit.

No, i don't have such things happening, i guess. There are always fun occasions like a bunch of grots with a dead herd passing their mighty ld5 a few turns in a row and blocking off an imperial knight or boyz inflicting 0 wounds with 50+ attacks. But it evens out.

I feel like whenever my Tri-las Predator fires its turret-mounted twin-linked gun and either or both of its sponson guns, the twin linked weapon always hits on its die but the sponsons always miss. Why couldnt the one that can reroll be the one to miss!? Frustrating as hell!

It does't matter where I put them, once every game, at least one of my Dire Avengers die to a friendly template. Every game, without fail, ever since my first match.

my hammernators got to make 5 armor saves.... Guess what i rolled?
5 ones, game before, 4 hammernators died to 2 rapid firing bolters.... That is why i dom't play against that guy anymore (not that he is a douchebag or anything, but i roll disastrously ONLY vs him..) go figure

Always cracks me up when I field a dreadknight it'll soak up all the melta, plasma, lance and lascanon shots my opponent has and I'll pass every 5++. But if he gets four or five five wounds from bolter fire, I'm almost guaranteed to roll four 1's

The ability of my scatter die to scatter when using blast weapons, but whenever I go for the risky deepstrike on a meltacide unit (every game) always bang on, you see that gap 5 raptors can just fit in....done, the board edge behind a tank...done, that mass of orks....You mean this patch of grass right?

 Mozzyfuzzy wrote:
The ability of my scatter die to scatter when using blast weapons, but whenever I go for the risky deepstrike on a meltacide unit (every game) always bang on, you see that gap 5 raptors can just fit in....done, the board edge behind a tank...done, that mass of orks....You mean this patch of grass right?

For every one of you, there are nine other that fail. I'll take those odds.

My Nurgle Prince has rolled Iron Arm 17 games in a row. In all that time, he hasn't been killed once: he systematically loses his last wound against something ridiculous (like 6 guardsmen, 5 fire warriors, or a GK dreadknght that he killed with his HoW attack) by rolling a 1 on his Daemon Weapon.

Yesterday i was playing against grey knights at my flgs - He had a dreadknight on two wounds; i fired the defensive heavy stubber from my imperial avenger strike fighter, got three hits, caused two wounds and he rolled snake eyes and it died.
to a S3 weapon! the entire store was watching that roll.

that defensive heavy stubber just keeps doing damage when all its other armaments dont do jack!

My Crimson Fists have Bolter Drill. At least half of my rerolls after rolling a 1 to hit have been a 2.

It does conjure up some lovely mental imagery of my Marines doing their absolute damnedest to make sure they miss it by that much...

Just played a game my Daemon Prince died to 4 normal armor saves. He was Tzeentch, and I rolled 2's each time...

I rolled 5 1s and a 2 on 6 dice tonight.

I started rolling extra dice because whenever I'd roll a single die I'd almost always fail badly. "Okay, this unit runs. One inch. Now this other unit runs. One inch again. Third unit runs. Two inches this time. Okay, firing the squad's meltagun, and rolled a one. Firing this other squad's meltagun, another one."

I would make them a different color so they were easily distinguishable as "ballast" dice or whatever you wanna call them, so they didn't get confused.

Though I played a game today for the first time in a year or two and it seemed the opposite was happening. I made 3 of 8 6++ Shield of Faith saves against a Shokk Attack Gun while rolling them one at a time for some reason. Then later I took like 10 3+ armor saves from a disturbingly accurate grotzooka, rolled them all at once and failed 7 of them.

My opponent had amazing luck when rolling for difficult terrain and running with her Orks. I think she rolled below a 4 once, maybe twice in the entire game. And there were a LOT of sixes rolled by her, starting with Seize the Initiative and continuing throughout the game. Definitely not a matter of rigged dice, since we both use the same dice. Grotzooka got two direct hits on a clump of my infantry. Shokk Attack Gun's first shot was great, rolled a 6,4, didn't scatter.

Also, purple is one of my most-liked colors, so naturally when I saw a box of purple Chessex dice at one of the local wargaming stores I just HAD to buy them. And they consistently failed me.

Welp, I've come to believe that the dice gods require a blood sacrifice to earn their favor, ever since that run of Molten Core where I said to myself, "Alright, I'm going to kill everything in here up to the boss that drops my loot (because normally I can slip past lots of the lesser bad guys). If the loot drops, I'll slaughter the entire rest of this raid." And my loot dropped. And I killed EVERYTHING. So maybe spending the intervening years slaughtering thousands of computer-generated pixels in various video games has earned me some favor. Or maybe Random Number Generation just provides random chance.

I am the same with plasma. Every game. almost to the point that I won't take them anymore haha.
though my feels no pain 5+ rolls I roll rediculous amounts of. It is so funny. Most of my guys must be just ankles and feet after the amount of damage they have taken, yet they just keep getting FNP!!!

I have the same thing going on too, every time I have "the shot" to make where I need one last wound and I use a rocketlauncher or something I always hit, but roll a 1.

Not particularly my own rolls

but i have the uncanny ability to call rolls that my friend will roll when i play him

I usually call 1s

Boxcars on Veil of Tears.

I rolled a 10 the other day, and just about shat myself. The shooter was within 20" anyways, but omg it wasn't boxcars.

 Desubot wrote:
Not particularly my own rolls

but i have the uncanny ability to call rolls that my friend will roll when i play him

I usually call 1s

"Don't roll a 1" followed by them rolling a 1 on an important roll has gotten me quite a few dirty looks.

no matter how good we get at probability and odds, dice are, after all, random.

 Brennonjw wrote:
no matter how good we get at probability and odds, dice are, after all, random.

Plus there's the effect of material defects, vibrations of the table, bouncing off uneven playing surfaces, and, ofcourse, not offering enough sacrifices to the Dice Gods

 jreilly89 wrote:

 Brennonjw wrote:
no matter how good we get at probability and odds, dice are, after all, random.

Plus there's the effect of material defects, vibrations of the table, bouncing off uneven playing surfaces, and, ofcourse, not offering enough sacrifices to the Dice Gods

Do you know how much sacrifices cost these days? I'm lucky to even afford one a month, much less the mandatory once per game turn.

I've got a new one to add.

Played a game against Necrons this week, my new Solitaire charged some immortals, he had 18 shots on overwatch and rolled 9 6s!!!!!! with those 9, 6 wounded and the Solitaire died on turn 2

In Space Hulk, the Suicide Mission map, we've had a number of games where Brother Goriel (the model holding the Genestealer skull & spine) has singlehandedly cleared the left corridor against a full conga line, both winning melee combat and then proceeding to overwatch the crap out of the rest of the Stealers. It's totally fluffy (Goriel is made out to be one of / the biggest psycho on the Blood Angels squad) and totally awesome / ridiculous.

my sacrifice to the dice gods went all wrong last night. my first game with space wolves, (won 4vp to 1vp ) I rolled 4 1s in a row to figure out my spells, but to counter it out, I had my thunder wolf cav. charged by his c'tan + 2 cryptec formation, round 1 of combat I hit and wounded every time, and stopped all of his attacks

My Daemon Princes Black Mace ends up getting the best of him around 70% of the time. Almost lost to a 5man tactical last game...