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It seems that every time that I play, Murphy's law kicks in and messes up my game.

Example A: I was having a 2,000 pt battle with my buddies, and one tripped down the porch and snapped his ankle in 3 places.

Example B: 3 weeks later, I was playing at my house with my very, very nice (and delicate) gaming table. 3 minutes after deployment, my cat decides to see what is going on, and flipped over my 2,500 point army and my 200 dollar scratch built table.

Example C: A bird had a "tactical air strike" on my opponent's reserves, wiping out a whole 10 man squad of great painted miniatures.

So, Here's my question: how many of you suffer from this? I play 1/2 of my games outside, the others on my cat-flipped table. Any way I can boost my luck?

Considering this entire game is based around random numbers on dice, then 100% of the time

You have to whisper secret incantations to your dice at night .

Then when you play the dice will love you and always fall in your favour and when an opponent uses them they will curse him with all bad rolls .

No one at my FLGS will use my dice now because of this

I get random acts of toddler all the time. Sometimes they could care less about Daddy's toy soldiers, but sometimes they gotta grab anything they can reach. They've also ran into the table plenty of times, knocking things around.

Oh, and plenty of games called on account of the wives deciding one of us needs to be doing something else right this second.

1-UP wrote: Oh, and plenty of games called on account of the wives deciding one of us needs to be doing something else right this second.

AAH the wife ... the ultimate WMD , how to destroy a game in one sentence !!!!!

The army tryed using " T.H.E. W.I.F.E. " in WWII as a weapon but decided even the germans didn't deserve that level of punishment

Thankfully, I'm 14, But when I get a Girlfriend, I have to explain why there are about 6 tanks and 40 small plastic toy soldiers in my basement. And explain why this is alright. I actually hope I can get one now...

God kept whispering over my shoulder, telling me where to move and what to shoot, I eventually got fed up and told him to sod off and buy his own army if he wanted to play so badly ... *grumbles* pesky Omnipotent beings

HellsGuardian316 wrote:God kept whispering over my shoulder, telling me where to move and what to shoot, I eventually got fed up and told him to sod off and buy his own army if he wanted to play so badly ... *grumbles* pesky Omnipotent beings

Haha what a coincendence! When God's having a game, I'm whispering over his shoulder!

I think all of your problems would have been remedied by things like "dont play on a delicate table", or "don't play outside". I would hate to hear your next story to be "so a random gust of wind destroyed..."

Valkyrie wrote:

HellsGuardian316 wrote:God kept whispering over my shoulder, telling me where to move and what to shoot, I eventually got fed up and told him to sod off and buy his own army if he wanted to play so badly ... *grumbles* pesky Omnipotent beings

Haha what a coincendence! When God's having a game, I'm whispering over his shoulder!

God: Stop telling me what to do!! I'm omnipotent!!
Valkyrie: Pssst! *Whispers* He just wiped out all your Demonette's, didn't see that one coming did you? mmm the irony
God: Shurrrup!
Valkyrie: Pssst! *Whispers* Now if I were you I'd....

darkangels_rule wrote:You have to whisper secret incantations to your dice at night .

Then when you play the dice will love you and always fall in your favour and when an opponent uses them they will curse him with all bad rolls .

No one at my FLGS will use my dice now because of this

LOL, the same thing happens with all of us. We actually TRY to push our dice on eachother

And then apologize profussly later that night.

Jashin always tells me to kill the fat, bloated, abomination of a redshirt in my GW.


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Jashin always tells me to kill the fat, bloated, abomination of a redshirt in my GW.

1-UP wrote:I get random acts of toddler all the time. Sometimes they could care less about Daddy's toy soldiers, but sometimes they gotta grab anything they can reach. They've also ran into the table plenty of times, knocking things around.

Oh, and plenty of games called on account of the wives deciding one of us needs to be doing something else right this second.

thankfully, my wife to be hasn't tried that. But then I do play alot of my games away from the house.

Well...the question is, do you consider these to be Random Acts of God:

1. Having 1 Vet Lascannon kill 2 Land Raiders and immobilise a 3rd

2. Getting a GF who hooked up with you at your FLGS and doesn't mind you playing with Toy Soldiers

Cos I do.

guess wat on a roll of 1 TACTICAL CAT is engaged

darkangels_rule wrote:

1-UP wrote: Oh, and plenty of games called on account of the wives deciding one of us needs to be doing something else right this second.

AAH the wife ... the ultimate WMD , how to destroy a game in one sentence !!!!!

The army tryed using " T.H.E. W.I.F.E. " in WWII as a weapon but decided even the germans didn't deserve that level of punishment

This is why I find it funny that mine got me introduced to the game in the first place.

Normally, it's not a problem, but occasionally the strangest things can happen. A cat was one of them. It leapt on the table and refused to move, and finally went to sleep. Damn thing. I wanted to use it as a large building in the game, but noooo....

PERILS!!!!! why me!!!

i rarely have such occurrences. the only thing that happened, was when an a**hole came in to gw, then putting his beautiful painted army on the table, just to show off. The he wanders around looking at other peoples models, telling us how bad they are, and that we had to come and see at his models over there. we stood there, that a**hole leaning on the table full of master painted models, when the table tipped over, smashing nearly all of his models into destruction.

(I did laugh inside)