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Worst:

It happened during the very first LVO in 2014, during the 5th and last round. I discovered two things:
- I'm on table 1.
- My opponent and I were top2 overall at this point.
You know, no pressure...

I was fielding a Flying Circus of Tzeenth (Kairos, LoC and 3 DP) while my opponent - Gareth hunt - had the infamous 9 thudd-guns on a skyshield list.

Bottom of turn 2, both my lord of Change and Kairos could reroll their saves and had a 4+ FNP thanks to a mix of rewards and psychic powers. They're in position to kill the thudd guns next turn while the rest of my army is tying up his big IG blob in close combat. Kairos had 3 wounds left, LoC was brand new and grimoired.

Due to some shooting, my Kairos is grounded despite the use of his reroll. Bad start but nothing dramatic.

Then some thudd guns open fire on him (couldnt target him while he was flying) and do 3 wounds:
- 3 saves... all failed
- 3 reroll... all failed
- 3 FNP(4+)... all failed, he's dead.
That's REALLY unfortunate. Losing 1 FMC is a big hit to my list, specially if it's Kairos, but it happens and I'm used to it. And I still have my grimoired LoC ready to avenge him and destroy my ennemy's firepower.

Knowing that, my opponent shoot with two vendettas on my LoC. He takes 5 wounds:
- 5 saves... all failed
- 5 reroll... all failed
- 5 FNP(4+)... all failed, he's dead.

8x failed saves, 8x failed rerolls, 8x failed FNP. In. A. Row.
First blood, slay the warlord, and basically game over... there goes 1st place of the 1st LVO's general GT:-(


To be honest, I was pretty mad. And with such a crushing defeat, there was no way I could end up 7th or 8th to get into the invitationnal. After cooling down a bit (Vegas baby!) I realized that I actually had a good shot at getting best daemon. Afterall, I was 4-1 with only crushing victories, and no demon player was 5-0.
Ended up 13th overall (pretty good !), but they gave the Best Demon award to the 14th :-(
I only realized the mistake when I was back home, looking at the rankings (we had the same amount of BP, I was only ahead because of the strength of schedule).

Best, purple sun hits the centre of my ironguts death star with three characters in the middle, 9 initiative tests at I2. All passed, and the casting wizard lost the spell and a wound due to a mishap.

Worst was a much needed fire ball attack which could have wiped out a unit of executioners, which would have allowed me
to claw an embarrassing defeat into just getting beaten. Double 1 for number of balls, followed by another double 1 to wound.

Running Cegorach's Revenge (reroll failed invuls of 1)
My 3+ invul solitaire took exactly 3 wounds. I rolled 3 2's

The best in recent times are some rolls in a deathwatch narrative campaign using the rules off miniwargaming's Augustine station game.

I have an iron hands apothecary who, after 5 missions, 1 of which he wasn't involved in, is level 8 with the following rolled upgrades:
+1 toughness, +1 wound, +1 attack, rampage, fear, crusader, 12" aura for narthecium fnp bubble, +1 to fnp bubble, rage for everyone in the bubble, it will not die for everyone in the bubble (if they have it already, they can reroll failures) and hatred: eldar

He looted a tank hunter instant death eviscerator and a warp spider's warp jump generator.

Those random level ups have made him an absolute monster.

Best and worst from the same squad in the same game. 10 man Crimson Fist assault Marines with 2 plasma pistols and a vet sergeant with power sword and melta bombs vs. IG. First turn I jump into terrain and lose 3 guys to double ones and in the shooting phase both plasma pistol guys fry and die. Half the squad dead before my opponent's first turn. Great.

However they're luck immediately went into supreme Emperor divined lottery winning odds overdrive. By turn five they had slaughtered most of his army and took 53 wounds. (Yes I counted) None of them died.

I also had a Platoon Command Squad take out a Bloodthirster in hand to hand.

Also had a Land Raider Crusader full of Paladin's and a Librarian come in from reserve into some ruins. Tank gets immobilized 2 inches from the board edge, can't be placed on the table,squad dies. 1000 or so points gone in 1 dice roll.

Same unit got tank shocked in 5th edition, failed morale, and herded off the board over three turns by an empty Chaos Rhino because back then you couldn't rally with 6" of an enemy even with ATSKNF... I don't play Grey Knights anymore...

Worst Roll:
Using the riptide wing with triple burst cannons, was short on points so no Stims.. one guy lets his minigun rip and i roll 5 ones.... Okay no problem I have 2+ armor.. nope. 4 1's again. My riptide basically killed himself in 1 shot, he spent the rest of the game hiding on an objective not shooting at all .

Another, not worse than that but still really funny.. Fighting vs some Mad Max themed Orks and the dude tank shocked my riptide with a wagon.. for some reason i forgot about death or glory and took the LD test.. failed it and my riptide jumped off the board

Best roll:
First time ever vsing an Imperial Knight.. using the firebase support cadre before they changed it. a group of broadsides opens up on him, 12 hits, 8 6's for glances.. he fails 5 and blows up himself and about half his army.

Worst: Hormagaunt charge with a total of 72 attacks over 3 rounds against a squad of 10 Necron warriors. They killed one ... no wait, he stood back up...

Best: Carnifex charged a Dark Eldar skiff. Single blow caused it to explode, killing the bodyguards and general on board and wiping out the adjacent scourge squad. Carnifex didn't even get a scratch.

Worst? Probably a tie between two ridiculous events, honestly. One time at a tournament, one of my Tzeentch DPs was charged by 4 (yes, all of 4) plaguebearers. Whatever, I thought, I can take them. I whiff and only kill one. They attack back, actually inflict 4 wounds. I fail three saves, even with my re-rolling 1's, BOOM, dead DP after Ld check. I mean I laughed alongside my opponent, but really? The second event was when my Tau commander tried to tank 5 wounds from Necron Destroyers with his iridium armour and proceeded to roll four 1's resulting in both STW for my opponent and my marker drones becoming significantly less effective...Eugh.

Best roll had to be the time I had a lascannon HWT snap-fire a lascannon during nightfight at a rhino loaded with plasma chosen. I rolled a 6 to hit, 6 to pen, Rhino failed it's save, then I rolled a 6 for damage, blowing it up and taking three chosen with it. That had to be the dumbest luck I have ever had.

Best Roll: I have 4 die for Deny the Witch and my opponent cast an ability that would have won them the game. It went off on 4 die. I successfully denied it by rolling 4x 5's and went on to win the game.

Worst Roll: I hit 12 Ork Boyz with a Vindicator shot. Roll 7x 1's and the others that wounded were all saved by Cover Save throws.

Best - saving 4 RP rolls on my Cryptek (last wound) in a kill team game, so all 5+ saved!

Worst - Drago failing to hit, wound or make any saves in one round of combat. Net result - one dead LOW.

Best series of rolls would of been a lone Fire Warrior with EMP grenades.
-3 to leadership at the end of combat, rolled a 3
Knight rolled his attacks and only made 1 hit
rolled a 1 on the D table
Fire Warrior rolled a 5 to hit with the EMP grenade
rolled a 6 to pen it (salt the wound)
Knight goes nuclear and the blast scatters into some ruins.
Wounds the FW but made the cover save.
Rolled a 6 to consolidate (back before the FAQ change to consolidation against walkers) into the 2nd story of the nearby ruins.

Later 4 scions attempted to avenge the Knight by firing 4 hot shot lasguns at my Fire Warrior but I made all my cover saves and the game ended. The Fire Warrior was one of 4 models of my army to survive the battle.

Worst Roll
Probably a snap shooting Hammerhead tank with a railgun rolling a 6 to hit my Warboss in Mega Armor (leading a unit of boyz)
rolled a 1 for LoS,
failed my 3+ cover save (citing fighting warlord trait)
failed the 3+ reroll on the cover save from Da Lucky Stikk
Went splat from instant death.

6 For overwatch with friendly longshot in railhead
6 For Wounding (not really nessesary)
against a lone beater necron lord thing
he rolls 1 for invul
he rolls 1 for eternal warrior

I laughed.

Worst was 10 man terminator
whittled to 6 against tau
charged fire warriors
rolled 4 ones to save against tiny fists..
then proceeded to not kill anything

FML

made 12 2+ cover saves against chaos terminators with a single Eldar Pathfinder (back in 5th)

Best roll was my enemy's. Fighting Death Guard as Word Bearers. Lorgar Transfigured casts Precognition on himself for 4 successes. The DG try to deny with their four dice and get four sixes.

Worst? Three skimmers in a squad awkwardly seated in terrain. Triple ones on dangerous terrain check.