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

When I fist was using THSS terminators, I thought that for some reason that the SS denied you the extra attack for charging... but they still rocked.

There was a phase of me playing Tau where I took all the wargear for my battle-suits for free (Which could actually be permitted by RAW... just obviously isn't RAI.)

I really don't recall my opponents doing anything ridiculous... if they did I was probably too much of a n00b at the time to realize it.

I didn't realize Tactical Marines had Bolt pistols so I thought they had to choose between shooting ans assaulting....

Kids tournament at FLGS, my son's opponent tried to convince him that ork battlewagons could have serch lights as an upgrade (it was DOW deployment). Sorry, wrong codex.

This was ages ago.. 2nd before there was a BA codex but there was a SW one. My buddy decided it was not fair that the SW had their own cool rules just for being grey-blue and dressing in furs, so he made up some for his blood angels. This obviously not intended to be taken seriously but we played with it one night at a beerhammer session in college.

Going with the same idea as orks have, with "red wunz go fasta" sort of thing (which had no game effect either back then) he decided that the blood angels should be allowed to use their red color for a special attack:

THE BLOOD ANGELS LAVA ROLL:
During an assault, if the Blood Angel unit is charging an enemy downhill from their starting position, they drop prone and roll down the hill like logs at their enemies. The crushing weight of the power armor slamming into their foes gives them +1S to their initial charge attack, after which, combat is resolved normally.

priceless.

Gitsplitta wrote:Kids tournament at FLGS, my son's opponent tried to convince him that ork battlewagons could have serch lights as an upgrade (it was DOW deployment). Sorry, wrong codex.

I think that is literally the first time anyone's ever cheated to get a searchlight. For something that you'll only need in one third of the deployments you can possibly get, its a hell of a thing to cheat over.

Brother SRM wrote:

Gitsplitta wrote:Kids tournament at FLGS, my son's opponent tried to convince him that ork battlewagons could have serch lights as an upgrade (it was DOW deployment). Sorry, wrong codex.

I think that is literally the first time anyone's ever cheated to get a searchlight. For something that you'll only need in one third of the deployments you can possibly get, its a hell of a thing to cheat over.

Well, it wasn't the only thing he was cheating over... it was a bad scene, and not one I'm interested in seeing him repeat. When he's ready, he can play in the adult tournaments with me where I know the vast majority of players (if not all, the adults are a great bunch) would not stoop to such behavior.

Miraclefish wrote:

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.'?

Yeah, but he could have headed towards my own table edge so he wouldn't have run off the board.

Any ork trying to get searchlights in a DoW deployment has lost the game right there...

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.

Ha! Thats hilarious, I don't have any chaos, or know much about them, so I just assumed that what he said was right! (besides the hit allocation)

Also, I just remembered another thing that happened in that battle.
He said "my aspiring champion (different one) has a 5+ invulnerable save, so I'm going to allocate those two hits to him."
I was all fine with this, until he failed one of the saves.
He said, "Oh, that means one of them dies," and removed one of the regular chaos space marines.
After a long argument, and more of his mumbled curses, he removed the aspiring champion.
Seriously, you don't need the rules to work that out, you just need common sense, which reminds me...

Just remembered one more, common sense man should understand this too.

He elected to assault my nobz squad, but found he was out of range.

Once he knew this, he claimed that he could then move 6' in any direction instead of towards my nobz.

Cue argument and mumbled curses...

way back in 3rd ed I had some guy try and tell me all khorne berzerkers could take feel no pain (when in reality only champions and commanders could, it was an upgrade you took from the armoury)
I played chaos at that time (Khorne no less) needless to say, I knew better
I am very picky with games (people need to have army lists and roll dice where I can see them)
I've had my chain pulled more then once

One happened recently where a BA player claimed his Stormraven had Hurricane Bolters, TL MMs, Typhoon Launcher, TL AssCannons and TL Lascannons.

The funny thing? I didn't click until he had rolled them all. LYSANDER SURVIVED ALL OF THEM.

Me: Ok, my orks have massacred your necron warriors. Remove them and I'll consolidate.

Him: No, I still have to roll my WBB.

Me: So if I sweep warriors, they all die, but if I kill every one of them with no res orb nearby in a massacre, they can still come back?

Him: Yes.

[One consolidation roll later, it's his turn.]

Ok, that's 18/20 warriors back up using my 3+ we'll be back...

At this point I demanded to see his codex. I can't really blame a necron player from getting the most out of his 3rd edition codex, but cheating is going too far.

Lol all funny as, mine recently would have to be chaos having 3 tries in the 1 turn at changin Thraka into a choas spawn!!!

Hey Big Thrak aint that bad is he? Lmao

TFG at our shop is notorious for dubious rolls and biased interpretations of rules. So whenever I play against him I never use an AB list and instead cook the numbers to illegally augment my army on paper to make up for the points he will statisically feth me out of.

I call it my Neckbeard Rule.

Movac wrote:TFG at our shop is notorious for dubious rolls and biased interpretations of rules. So whenever I play against him I never use an AB list and instead cook the numbers to illegally augment my army on paper to make up for the points he will statisically feth me out of.

I call it my Neckbeard Rule.

thats pretty douchey dude.
just call him on it and/or get someone else in to 'referee' any rules queries.


one of mine i just remembered:
playing for pretty much the first time i assumed any sword that wasnt visibly a chainsword was a power weapon...my scouts kicked that game!
oops

Movac wrote:TFG at our shop is notorious for dubious rolls and biased interpretations of rules. So whenever I play against him I never use an AB list and instead cook the numbers to illegally augment my army on paper to make up for the points he will statisically feth me out of.

I call it my Neckbeard Rule.

Two wrongs don't make a right. Like Revenent said, just call the SoB (not Sister of Battle) out on it, our get a referee. Cheating in response to cheaters is not the way.

I'm a non-confrontational guy in most cases and I'm usually of the I rather play than not play attitude.

Movac wrote:I'm a non-confrontational guy in most cases and I'm usually of the I rather play than not play attitude.

In all fairness so am i.
But, there is a limit and being forced to play around with your list is a step too far

I had a kid insist his space wolves had 5++.

My friend once told me that space marines have a special rule what meant that they all had power weapons and could instantly kill my gaurd with his bolters!! I then refered him to his codex proveing him wrong

Someone I played tried to claim that they could take loads of ML on long fangs cheaply in a SW list, that GH could counterattack, and had 2 attacks anyway, and that JotWW was a real power.


Hang on a minute.....

My first game against Tau, he confused his pulse carbines with fusion blasters, needless to say i lost all my tanks....I didn't call him out on it since i had no idea what the heck any of the Tau weaponry even was