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dajobe wrote:

msteward wrote:My friend shot me with a plasma cannon. He stattered onto his own predator. It blew up and killed his techmarine.

lol, my brother did a similiar thing where he killed a land speeder and exploded and killed a terminator, but yours is MUCH more points, that would be rough

I've seen a vindicator shell scatter onto my freinds terminators killing (I think) 6.

One 6-man squad of Fire Warriors are ninjas. So far, in 11 rounds of CC they've killed:
-3 Tyranid Warriors
-9 Termagaunts
-6 Hormagaunts
-6 basic Marines
-4 Chaos Marines
-Doom of Malan'tai
-a Daemon Prince of Khorne
And they've only been swept once. Of course, they've been wiped out 3 times.

Reisen-tanith wrote:
3. thinking a dreadnought can defeat 12 honor guard fire warriors and the ethereal, who knew they are strength 5?
(2 and 3 were in the same game)

What help is S5 against AV12? Now if you exposed your dread's rear armor for no good reason that is legitimately stupid.

unless they had EMP grenades they couldn't have damaged the Dred. you must be Str6 to even glance AV12. EMP grenades could do it, but they need 6s to hit and only get one attack each.

Decided to use my TAU against some tyranids!

Already you see that I was an idiot!!

He had Yamegan Genestealers...

I put a hammerhead,3x broadsides in a bastian this is what hapopend:

Broad 1-I wonder wat to obliterate next
Broad 3-BOOM!!!!
Broad 2-I wonder if tere is any Yam...
genes-YAAAAAA! OM NOM NOM!!!

It'd be at toss up between two for me... amazingly both worked, but that was sheer dumb luck.

One would be last game, where I parked a devilfish with fire warriors in the middle of a road just to force the two units of termagants to use the buildings instead, so I could reposition enough to kill them next turn. Completely forgot that what was synapsing them was a zoanthrope...

And a while ago with my guard a unit of Ymgarl genestealers decided to try to bust one of my Leman Russ' in CC. So I shot them off. With the other Leman Russ. Thankfully it only shook the other tank and killed all of the genestealers XD

Beregond wrote:It'd be at toss up between two for me... amazingly both worked, but that was sheer dumb luck.

One would be last game, where I parked a devilfish with fire warriors in the middle of a road just to force the two units of termagants to use the buildings instead, so I could reposition enough to kill them next turn. Completely forgot that what was synapsing them was a zoanthrope...

And a while ago with my guard a unit of Ymgarl genestealers decided to try to bust one of my Leman Russ' in CC. So I shot them off. With the other Leman Russ. Thankfully it only shook the other tank and killed all of the genestealers XD

OMG, that tank one is sweet

dajobe wrote:gotta watch out for those S5 pulse rifles, can do damage on your transports and dreadnoughts...my brother plays tau, so ive learned this the hard way

no no...it has in melee... he drop podded in behind them, disembarked from the rear of the pod then charged next turn after killing one with the multi melta killed another with the dreadnaught cc weapon, then wrecked by the Ethereal.

As IG, I decided the smart thing the do was try to turtle against Tau. They shredded me as if they were cheese graters. Cheese graters with pulse rifles.

Reisen-tanith wrote:

dajobe wrote:gotta watch out for those S5 pulse rifles, can do damage on your transports and dreadnoughts...my brother plays tau, so ive learned this the hard way

no no...it has in melee... he drop podded in behind them, disembarked from the rear of the pod then charged next turn after killing one with the multi melta killed another with the dreadnaught cc weapon, then wrecked by the Ethereal.

Walkers are always hit on the front armor in close combat. The Ethereal's honor blade should have bounced right off with no chance whatsoever of accomplishing anything.

i thought that if the walker is immobilized then it hits back, may be wrong though

First game ever with daemons, deepstruck right in front of my opponent's lines, no cover or anything. Half the army mishapped, the other half was shot down by bolters. I still managed to pull out a draw with my only model left being Skarbrand with 1 wound.

dajobe wrote:i thought that if the walker is immobilized then it hits back, may be wrong though

No, immobilized walkers are still hit on front armor. Immoblizing a walker reduces its attacks by 1 and lets models attacking with grenades roll using the WS chart instead of needing 6s.

i forgot about all the flamethrowers sisters had. They barbequed 7 Deathwing in a single giant fireball of holy promethium.

1. Be an Eldar player.
2.Take a tonne of Guardians.
3. March my force up-field towards an IG gunline.
4. ???????
5. Profit.


... Oh no, wait.

It wasn't immobilized..... son of an ork!

Got a new one ... Friend want me to add 65pts so he could squeeze in some kanz... Friendly game so i said yes and took ...

Inquisitor with power armour and 2x daemon weapons I rolled 9,4 and 6,11. He just would not die I charge a squad of orks kill 3 (I now have 6 wounds) every one in the mob that can targets me and ether fails to wound me, I save it with my armour save or FnP save. Then the nob hits me I loose 2 wounds ... I'm still up by 1 wound. I ended the game with 9 wounds ...

and before any one says I'll try this ... the next game i roll 7,8 and a 7,10 ... this time he just ran straight out of cover and was shot to death.

Raxmei wrote:

dajobe wrote:i thought that if the walker is immobilized then it hits back, may be wrong though

No, immobilized walkers are still hit on front armor. Immoblizing a walker reduces its attacks by 1 and lets models attacking with grenades roll using the WS chart instead of needing 6s.

oh, i guess i was mistaken

two come to mind:

1. charged C'tan with Schaefer and co. Only then did I do the math and realize I couldn't wound the god. Doh!

2. Used all pulse carbines on Tau firewarriors to try and get some cc out of them. Again Doh! Pinning doesn't really work. Got my but kicked by grots

Spent too many points upgrading Tau Crisis suits and Hammerheads. Had no points for anything else. Ork mob outnumbered my tau fifteen to one. The ratio between tau and ork on the board was depressing. I'm sure anyone can do the math there. What made things worse was a truck full of meganobs managed to move flat out through fire from two hammerheads while a team of Ork commandos managed to sneak up behind and lock my commander in combat, followed by pathfinders, followed by splitting open one of my tanks like it was a can of soup. Absolute tactical nightmare.

In a testing match which GW runs, I was foolish enough to footslog my Blood Claws with my Rune Priest in it.

dajobe wrote:

Beregond wrote:It'd be at toss up between two for me... amazingly both worked, but that was sheer dumb luck.

One would be last game, where I parked a devilfish with fire warriors in the middle of a road just to force the two units of termagants to use the buildings instead, so I could reposition enough to kill them next turn. Completely forgot that what was synapsing them was a zoanthrope...

And a while ago with my guard a unit of Ymgarl genestealers decided to try to bust one of my Leman Russ' in CC. So I shot them off. With the other Leman Russ. Thankfully it only shook the other tank and killed all of the genestealers XD

OMG, that tank one is sweet

and likely Illegal,

you can't position any blast templates where they are over friendly models. they can scatter onto your own models by accident though.

knew it was to good to be true...i knew you could scatter onto your own stuff, just thought you might be able to shoot at an enemy unit and disregard the fact that it is by an allied one...guess you cant

Oh it did have to scatter it just scattered onto all of them and the tank, as I'd hoped XD

It was a really big gamble on whether it would scatter the 'right' way or simply miss, and whether it would do lasting damage to my vehicle and of course, whether I would actually kill anything with it.

Just one of those strange moments where the dice work perfectly

I once used Gate of Infinity with a Librarian and a Sternguard unit, into an area that they had exactly enough room to land in. I only scattered two inches, but it was enough to wipe the squad first turn.

Beregond wrote:Just one of those strange moments where the dice work perfectly

I've had 3 of those

1. Seized Intiative with an Alpha Strike list.
2. Rolled Double 1 for my Morale Check for my Squad Hellions that lost combat by 9 >.<
3. Those Hellions Proceded to pass their hit and run, ran off, and then assualt the rear armour of the enemy Leman Russ, stopping a massive amount of damage from coming in

Last FW from a 12 man squad, and it blows the battlecannon off a leman russ on the last turn of the game (it did show its rear armour after all!)

dang, what a studly firewarrior, that guy would get a special achievement marking on his shoulderpad in my army

Well he got a crisis battlesuit, and a silver shoulderpad so i guess that is fair


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On the topic of the most STUPID tactics, BA player DS Dante and a Sang Guard infront of a Vindicator
happy days
<3 Vindicators
In that game, the vindi took about half of his 2k army
Tanking out Terms, DC and the Sang Guard

I got some good Tau related ones. All at the start of 5th gen when I just started Tau and ran Gunline

The ones that worked

Charged Pathfinders into a Dreadnaught, No Pathfinder died, Dread was EMPed to death
Charged a Crisis Suit squad into a squad of Flayed Ones, 2 turns later, the game ends with no Deaths for either side.
Kroot Charging into Farsight+7 other suits (For the Greater Good! The kroot slowed farsight's advance enough for him to die a painful death from 9 TL Railguns [Yay would allocation])