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Hey guys. We all know that people like to make their army's different by tweaking the rules a little bit. My question is, what is the most weird/crazy/hilarious rule that you have ever come across?

To start it off, I was in a FLGS in Oadby, England. There was a guy with a SM army there playing a game, as I watched he started replacing marines with small blast templates
When I asked what he was doing, he said his marines had a "curse" and that when they rolled a 1 for shoting a regular bolter, the marine would ignite in a ball of super hot fire! Beat that rule if you can!

(I don't know where this thread belongs, so I just put it into dicussions to see where the conversation took it)

That rule is awesome.

Thats the beat rule ive ever heard. Were his marines slamanders? or Chaos?

My dark eldar archon is not permitted to kill more then 6 models by himself at any one time, if he does he od's on drugs and dies, causing my army to run.

I think they were a custom chapter. I don't know what he called them (I bet it was a cool sounding name!). Lets just hope his chapter master did not ignite when he stepped onto the battlefield!


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Temporis wrote:My dark eldar archon is not permitted to kill more then 6 models by himself at any one time, if he does he od's on drugs and dies, causing my army to run.

Poor guy! I guess you get him to chase after the big bad bosses!

Funny because there was an actual Chapter of marines that does this. Not much is known about them except that they were hunted down by the Inquisition because of it.

Flame Falcons
Only problem is no offical colour scheme or icon.

Google brings some nice looking stuff though.

The strangest rule i ever played with was when my friends and I decided you can assault as far as your gun can shoot.
My lascannon teams owned all on that day.

They must have had pretty tough legs to do that. No scratch that, they would have needed wheels!

Commander Cain wrote:They must have had pretty tough legs to do that. No scratch that, they would have needed wheels!

I also had a sentinel with a hunter-killer missile (unlimited range)

Played a boy once who had his vSM commander have a 2+ ward save that counted as nullifying all shots/attacks equal to or under S4 and AP4 or higher.

That was alright...if he didn't make him cost an extra 200 points and have him half his movement due to the extra heavy Terminator army he was wearing.

So I Dark lance spammed him killed him by the end of my 2nd turn.

Non-tactical dreadnaught armor

Eh? So like a termie, but also like a dred. Or maybe a termie in a dred...

A terminator strapped to the back of a dreadnaught.

Ordo Dakka wrote:A terminator strapped to the back of a dreadnaught.

Appealing, and yet laughably stupid at the same time....What were the rules for this monstrosity?

I do recall someone trying to justify how their landspeeder could carry a dred underneath it. The argument lasted until I told him he could use it if it floated in a bowl of water. Unsurprisingly it sank like a... well, like a dred strapped to a land speeder.

I played a Daemons player who completely either 1) misunderstood or 2) didn't like and decided to create some or 3) is from the future and is playing 12th Edition...

"Right, I've given my Bloodletters Mark of Nurgle...."

"My Plague Marines have got jump packs..."

"My Juggernaught gets S8 on the charge: +1 for being Khorne, +1 for charging, +1 for having two weapons and +1 for Mark of Khorne."

Equally befuddling was the time a Chaos Marine player went...

"Right, my Squad have Frag Grenades..." then reached for the small blast template and a scatter dice. What the actual feth? He had been playing them like 6" range frag missiles. When I asked him politely where he'd pulled that one from he said 'the rulebook..."

Epic.

Never played against this one but my mate has.

Guy says his commander has 2+ save, x amount of wounds, no instant death, crazy attacks. Can't remember exactly was some time ago. However thats not the improtant part. My mate then makes his commander go splat, so the guy says that when his commander dies hes teleported stright to the flagship in orbit is then inplanted into a dreadnaught, instantly comes back down to the battle with that same stats, but at a dreads strength, plus floating square lumps of armour that mean 80% shots dont get thru(so somthing like sixes to hit) then need to get past void sheild type protection, then glance or pen higher than normal dread armour, and even then it was re-roll damage.

This guy also puts match sticks around the terrian, and if you slightly move the sticks (by mistake) he'll stop the game and place it back exactly where it was, like it makes any difference. Even if it was terrian thats not being used by models, also this is movemnt by mere millimeters. He's also a "beat the noob at all costs" type of player.

My stares at him an goes, "ermm, yeah I dont think so somehow". If my memory is correct I belive my mates next turn he fires everthing at it and destroys him. That might just be my mind wanting it to die, it was some time ago.

I did lol in disbelief when I heard that.

The fiend uses this totally wack psychic power called Mind War
Oh wait

"My genestealers have S6 power weapons and reroll hits and wounds because they are a higher initiative"

"Umm... what?"

An Ork warboss picking up and throwing Orks, Gretchin and anything else close to hand at the enemy for no real reason than to amuse the player

Thats just a day in a life of an ork warboss!

Storm Lord wrote:An Ork warboss picking up and throwing Orks, Gretchin and anything else close to hand at the enemy for no real reason than to amuse the player

I'd actually love to see the rules for that...

Storm Lord wrote:An Ork warboss picking up and throwing Orks, Gretchin and anything else close to hand at the enemy for no real reason than to amuse the player

Oh that reminds me of another one:

"My Grotzookas shoot 2 units of grots at your unit each, as many as can fit on a blast template and they count as charging"

ChrisWWII wrote:

Storm Lord wrote:An Ork warboss picking up and throwing Orks, Gretchin and anything else close to hand at the enemy for no real reason than to amuse the player

I'd actually love to see the rules for that...

If memory serves correctly it worked something along the lines of:

Movement phase:
Pick a model within 6 inches of the Warboss that isn't mounted on a bigger base than the warboss itself
Choose the direction you wish to throw the model. Then roll between 2-5 D6 add the dice rols together and throw the model that many inches. (Done so the model could be thrown towards units near or far with 'reasonable accuracy' as far as Orks go)
Roll 1D6 after the model lands:
1: The model doesn't survive its flight
2-5: The model does survive its flight, may not shoot or assault this turn
6: The model somehow arrives safely and may assault and/or shoot this turn

On the off chance it actually reached the unit and would land in it the model is instead placed in base to base contact and counts as having assaulted-which means the unit can't be shot at due to it now being in assault

If it hits a building, well, its left a splat mark on the wall...

Or something along those lines. My memory forgets exactly how it was done

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Warphead_Malf%2C_Proffet_of_the_Grots

Any tank that had ANYTHING that looked remotely like a weapon could make one S10 AP1 Attack on a 4+ at anything in CC.

I could place down terrain whenever i felt like it.

All Buildings were toughness 8!

all Tanks and Walkers were Nuclear Powered doing a D6" S10 AP1 Explosion. If A Model Survived, it added +4 attacks, Made it Toughness 10, but gave it only 1 wound! and if it Died. it did D3" S10 AP1 Explosion.... We figured we had to make it make a LITTLE bit of sense ;-)

How about "Mephiston doesnt have to be in close commbat to hit you with his force weapon, because its like a psychic lightsaber"

I kinda wanted to punch the guy because he constantly claims to have played since 2nd edition

There's this one guy, that insists that GW FAQs are not rules, but the house rules that GW uses and he recommends that you use his own home brew FAQs instead as house rules, then he just repeats this over and over as if it was a mantra he lived by.

@ Daggermaw - this guy wasn't called Gwar by any chance was he?


EDIT - it was funny the fist time, no need for the double post!

We are working for rules for the Megarmor warboss on a warbike. Not sure it's great custom rules, but it so far is amusing the piss out of me. He rolls 2d6 every time he moves, and if he rolls a 1, he moves the total shown on the dice instead of 12", and can't run that turn (he fell off!). If he rolls snake eyes, the bike explodes in a S5 AP- Large Blast (it broke). He also can't turbo boost.