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In my first games I was continuously told, that anything that would move over the table edge will fall off and die, escpecialy my tankshocking battleweagon, and hit&running or turboboosting deffkoptas. Of course eldar tanks ware hanging off the edge all the time.
I went and read the whole rulebook and the rule was nowhere to be found, they still insisted on it. GW released the FAQ stating exactly the opposite of this rules two days later.

Ordo Dakka wrote:I experienced the classic "twin linked = twice as many shots" thing.

Twin linked did used to mean two shots.


My friends want to enforce a house rule, which I am not too fond of. We all just recently got back into gaming after a long break and I stripped almost all my models to repaint them. I am also doing the whole magnetize thing as well. So they want to enforce a house rule that painted models have hatred and preferred enemy against non painted models.....I said hell no to that one!

Though my armies are starting to make progress.

Way back in 2nd ed my friend said that if my warp spider exarch was armed with a vortex grenade his warp generator wouldn't work

Still being confusing.

winnertakesall wrote:
When me and my friend were really new, we saw that flamers didn't have to roll for BS,

This is true, flamers don't roll to hit.

winnertakesall wrote: so we looked at scatter for ordance blast weapons, and though that must be true for them too, so ordance weapons scatter,

This is also true, blast and large blast weapons don't roll to hit with BS, only scatter.

winnertakesall wrote:we thought this strange, so we checked it, and when it turned out to be true we thought it was great, another friend came along who was new and played IG, he took loads of grenade launchers and missile launchers, so we thought the rules were the same. Things got messy and we rarely won

Yes, the rules for grenade launchers and missile launchers using Frag do not roll to hit using BS, only scatter.

Argh, this is too difficult to write on using only one hand, never mind!

Guitardian wrote:Versus an really obnoxious noob kid at a GW store a few years ago. He was probably 10 or 12-ish, very braggart-ish, kind of bullying his awestruck buddies, claiming all the rules he knew, making up ones he didn't, etc. Now I know its not nice to pick on kids, but this guy was asking for it.:

kid: "all of my orks are 'ard boyz' because I put the extra armor on them, see it says right here with WYSIWYG. I ALWAYS play with WYSIWYG." (He says this as if proudly proclaiming his dedication to the game or something. It should be noted that his army was about 150 points over cost too - ahh math skills and the modern school system, sigh - of course he doesn't have his codex with him, just some printoffs brought from home)

SO ANYWAYS. My Tau buddy found he was next up againt this ork god of tactics... has an old genetealrer model at the bottom of his case. He quickley spot glues it on top of his hammerhead. Then he takes his laptop over to the store printer for a sec... When he plays this kid in the next game, he has a printout of a Tau Stealerhead special variant that launches captured genestealers from its railgun into cc with the enemy.

Taking the risk of sounding homosexual, I love you man!!!

Screw fire prisms and falcons, I want a stealerserpent!

Guitardian, thats a cool story

Stealerserpent- Pah! I vote looted carnifex FTW!!!

A game between my brother and one of his friends at home.

In one assault phase, my GK grand master mad a sweeping advance through half of their armies killing like 20 or so models and advanced about 18 extra inches in that turn. Till we realized that that you probably only do sweeping advance once per a turn and not till he could advance any more to get into combat.

For about a year in our early days of playing My brother had dark angels and i had a beil tan army.

He always had trouble beating my scorpians

Mostly because of there invulnerable 3+ scorpian armor (duh) ; /

Alright guys, got a couple of new ones after a rather horrible game I had last night.

I played at our FLGS against this guy I had never met before. He was doing all sorts of dodgy stuff. These weren't necessarily made up rules, but cheating.
1. His chaos aspiring champion has WS 5 instead of the rest of the Berserkers WS 4, versus my ork boys WS 4, and he rolls all the dice in one go. He then claims that "all the 4's, 5's and 6's hit, and then the aspiring champions five attacks means that 5 3's hit as well."
I let him go with that one for the first tme, but the next turn told him that he had to roll them separately. With a lot of muttered curses, he accepted that I was telling the truth.
2. He fired a bunch of different special weapons at a squad (couple of heavy bolters, plasma pistols, melta) and repeated the above.
3. He had to leave early, and "called it a draw," even though wqe were playing annihilation, and I had more kill points than him.
4. A lot of times, he rolled dice behind my back for things that he explained afterwards, and always got a peculiarly high number of hits/wounds etc.
5. He claimed Dawn of war deployment was just 12' from each table edge.
All in all, a very disappointing game, against a very obnoxious opponent.

Gutsnagga wrote:
1. His chaos aspiring champion has WS 5 instead of the rest of the Berserkers WS 4, versus my ork boys WS 4, and he rolls all the dice in one go. He then claims that "all the 4's, 5's and 6's hit, and then the aspiring champions five attacks means that 5 3's hit as well."

Joke's on him. All Berserkers are WS 5, not just the Skull Champion.

fox-light713 wrote:A game between my brother and one of his friends at home.

In one assault phase, my GK grand master mad a sweeping advance through half of their armies killing like 20 or so models and advanced about 18 extra inches in that turn. Till we realized that that you probably only do sweeping advance once per a turn and not till he could advance any more to get into combat.

Not only can you only sweeping advance once, but I'm pretty sure your Grand Master was wearing terminator armour, which doesn't allow sweeping advances to start with!

At my FLGS I was subjected too someone who thought Ghaz could take a SAG, his second HQ being a KKF-SAG Mek, also impossible. (He proxied) I quickly showed him the rules and I was fine.

Another funny game was one where someone took 5 Marneus Calgars. Hmmm

InquisitorVaron wrote:Another funny game was one where someone took 5 Marneus Calgars. Hmmm

on the subject of ultras being OP/not following rules...I saw a guy who turns up at the LGS quite oten, and he always bring 2,000pts worth of tyranids. He was playing a 2,000pt game. the opposing team had 15 bikes, every ultra character, 20 terminators and two land raiders, and 2 tactical squads. I pointed this out, hhe showed me his list. He didn't count upgrades or count the characters, and apparently "misread" up to 10 termies with up to 20, for free.

Okay, I have a few from 4 or 5 years ago when I was still playing (I'm planning on returning soon).

Me and my friends + some other casual players were at one of the few FLGSs in our area. The store manager had just started playing 40k and asked if I would play him in a 1500 point game, I had BA he was Ultramarines I believe, So naturally his army consisted of 4 LR, 2 termie squads, 3 dreads, plus a few squads of troops and HQ's he took. so that alone looks way over points. But I still played and beat him fairly easy because he was new, so what does he do?? demand to see my codex, army list, the rule books because I was so obviously cheating.

This one is my all time fav, we were at another FLGS, I was playing DG at the time and was playing friends because the night was dying down. Some guy asks if I would play a 500 point game with him so I say sure but he asks "what army is that dude???" I say DG, he says "so that's Chaos right???", I say yea lol and go back to my game. About 20 mins later when the games over the guy waves me over to a smaller table and busts out a bunch of empty model bases he just bought and a Damon Hunters codex that was borrowed from the store shelf. He then tells me how because I play chaos hes playing daemon hunters, I look at the empty bases lol'd and walked away, he was more confused than I was.

Gutsnagga wrote:
3. He had to leave early, and "called it a draw," even though wqe were playing annihilation, and I had more kill points than him.

I had guy do something a little bit similar to me. Me and my friends went to a new FLGS to play, after 3 hours of nobody but me, my brother and a friend showing up for game night 1 player finally shows up and me and him start playing. It doesn't help that the guy has a major attitude problem and 4 or so turns in he did'mt have very much models left on the table, basically 1.5 squads against most of of army still alive and going for the kill. my friend was the one who drove us there and he was bored as hell so he asked if I was ready to leave. So I say yea lets go when I hear the guy I was playing yell from across the table "YEA THAT MEANS I WIN!!!!!!". I took my next turn, he didn't win : (

Mine was in a game of BFG at my local store using my eldar against some necrons. The guy insisted that his battleship could regenerate at the end of every turn meaning i had to do 12 hits and then him roll under a 3 or less on 12 dice to kill the thing! The rules were swiflty consulted and it turned out 1 hit can be regenerated oops.

I had some great ones today with a WAAC Grey Knights player:
-ALL Grey Knights are I5 (with another +2I for halberds); this actually made a difference because it meant that my Broodlord may not have died if he killed GK first
-The Dreadknight is S14 (they said that S10 is only the cap with shooting: I literally called "BS" on that one, and confirmed it with the GW staff)

that a stompa's belly gun can be fired every turn.
and it can re-roll all the dice to see how big the blast size is.
and that it's S10 AP1.
and it can be fired eveery turn.
that the psyko-dakka blasta could be fired every turn.
that the wrecker ball can be "shot" up to 48", and anything over it takes a "D" hit.

Wow, just realized they pulled another BS rule in the Grey Knights game - Ragnar broke from an assault and they said he ran towards the nearest table edge, thus making him run off the board. However, he is supposed to go towards his own table edge, and therefore would have been fine.

Thought flamer templates scatter and Gets Hot! worked out as a plasma shot against the wielder. Cue much rumination of "why do people think these are so good?! Wait, Gets Hot! is only an S4 AP- hit? MORE PLASMA"

shrike wrote:that a stompa's belly gun can be fired every turn.
and it can re-roll all the dice to see how big the blast size is.
and that it's S10 AP1.
and it can be fired eveery turn.
that the psyko-dakka blasta could be fired every turn.
that the wrecker ball can be "shot" up to 48", and anything over it takes a "D" hit.

Well, at least the very last part was right

Gutsnagga wrote:
3. He had to leave early, and "called it a draw," even though wqe were playing annihilation, and I had more kill points than him.

That always happens to me when playing 10 and 11 year olds. I have two objectives, they have one. thier army is almost tabled and they ragewuit with "It's a draw", and walking out with thier parents. Or in annihilation, same thing.
I hate it when the kids shout as they are leaving "I win!"
-It's either cowardly because I have no chance to say anything back.
-or cheating because they wait until then to say it, when I don't get to say anything in my defence.
I play for fun, which is why I never play anyone under the age of 13.

shrike wrote:

Gutsnagga wrote:
3. He had to leave early, and "called it a draw," even though wqe were playing annihilation, and I had more kill points than him.

That always happens to me when playing 10 and 11 year olds. I have two objectives, they have one. thier army is almost tabled and they ragewuit with "It's a draw", and walking out with thier parents. Or in annihilation, same thing.
I hate it when the kids shout as they are leaving "I win!"
-It's either cowardly because I have no chance to say anything back.
-or cheating because they wait until then to say it, when I don't get to say anything in my defence.
I play for fun, which is why I never play anyone under the age of 13.

a lot of people have thins sort of thing happening. Im so glad ive never some across it as of yet (touch wood)

I haven't played against any rage-quitters, but I have played against some pretty rediculous rulesets.

One friend of mine, who plays Nids, claimed they could "regenerate" after two turns, and any model I destroyed would appear right back where I killed it. Needless to say, I never won, and when I asked to see where this rule was in his Codex, he refused to show me.

AlmightyWalrus wrote:

fox-light713 wrote:A game between my brother and one of his friends at home.

In one assault phase, my GK grand master mad a sweeping advance through half of their armies killing like 20 or so models and advanced about 18 extra inches in that turn. Till we realized that that you probably only do sweeping advance once per a turn and not till he could advance any more to get into combat.

Not only can you only sweeping advance once, but I'm pretty sure your Grand Master was wearing terminator armour, which doesn't allow sweeping advances to start with!

Up until the new Grey Knights Codex, the Daemonhunters Terminators didn't disallow Sweeping Advance.


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Andilus Greatsword wrote:Wow, just realized they pulled another BS rule in the Grey Knights game - Ragnar broke from an assault and they said he ran towards the nearest table edge, thus making him run off the board. However, he is supposed to go towards his own table edge, and therefore would have been fine.

Doesn't the book say 'run towards their table edge if they can, if not, the nearest edge.'?

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shrike wrote:

That always happens to me when playing 10 and 11 year olds. I have two objectives, they have one. thier army is almost tabled and they ragewuit with "It's a draw", and walking out with their parents. Or in annihilation, same thing.
I hate it when the kids shout as they are leaving "I win!"
-It's either cowardly because I have no chance to say anything back.
-or cheating because they wait until then to say it, when I don't get to say anything in my defence.
I play for fun, which is why I never play anyone under the age of 13.

I just loled so hard when i read this, you got just S***kicked by an 11 year old...nice bro. Just tell his parents that he needs to harden the **** up and deal with losing

DarknessEternal wrote:

Gutsnagga wrote:
1. His chaos aspiring champion has WS 5 instead of the rest of the Berserkers WS 4, versus my ork boys WS 4, and he rolls all the dice in one go. He then claims that "all the 4's, 5's and 6's hit, and then the aspiring champions five attacks means that 5 3's hit as well."

Joke's on him. All Berserkers are WS 5, not just the Skull Champion.

Yeah, but WS 5 on WS 4 still needs 4s+ to hit


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The Bringer wrote:

DarknessEternal wrote:

Gutsnagga wrote:
1. His chaos aspiring champion has WS 5 instead of the rest of the Berserkers WS 4, versus my ork boys WS 4, and he rolls all the dice in one go. He then claims that "all the 4's, 5's and 6's hit, and then the aspiring champions five attacks means that 5 3's hit as well."

Joke's on him. All Berserkers are WS 5, not just the Skull Champion.

Yeah, but WS 5 on WS 4 still needs 4s+ to hit

WS5 against WS4 is a 3+. It is WS4 vs WS5 that is a 4+.

That powerfists only deal one attack, God knows where we got that from. Needless to say No-one ever used terminators.