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I think it would be interesting to see what everyones worst luck in a game is. i have heard of some one who tried to deepstrike a 10-man squad of chaos terminators
but lost them. in one game i played, my friend landed a devilfish troop carrier in the middle of the board but he forgot i had a dreadnought with a multimelta right near

So, what is your worst luck?

I al most always lose my shadowfields in the first round of combat - always :(

Had a game where I was playing as Blood Angels. The majority of my army involved plasma. The majority of my army blew themselves up in the first turn they arrived on the board.

went two whole turns of failing every single WBB roll necessary, including the Monolith reroll.

Had my librarian HQ in terminator armour and a sanguinary priest nearby survive 2 rounds of shooting from 3 ork big shootas, only to fail his pyschic test, perils of the warp, and then trip ones for saves. This was in a game where your ONLY goal was to make sure your HQ survived. Lost turn 2.

I ahve cursed meltas, I roll an unbelievably high numbers of ones to would and penetrate with them.

Old Khorne Daemon prince with the axe of "im ignoring all saves" - A7 on charge, needing 3s to hit, 2s to cause ID on everything and everybody (yay for S8 back then)

7 1's.

Lost me that game....

I knocked a beer all over my Genestealers once? Does that count as bad luck.

I mean, the Genestealers were okay, but the beer was never the same again...

Sigh...

1500 pts. Eldar vs DE. I got tabled in 2 turns. And this was 2e DE

EmilCrane wrote:I ahve cursed meltas, I roll an unbelievably high numbers of ones to would and penetrate with them.

I have issues with this as well, so much so in fact that I now refer to any melta weapon in my army as a 'magic marker'. Most people I play against think I'm off my rocker but strangely enough it works, if I don't say, "marine x is firing his melta" I don't miss.

Every game haive ever played were my space marines used plasma weapons, everytime i have ever attacked i have rolled a one and killed that unit, every single time. over at least a dozen games. i still try however and next game i am going with an assault squad with plasma rifle to prove that i aint scared of no plasma ( my assault marine however is incredibly terrified) how about that for terrible luck

Fighting against Eldar, they have some fancy forcefield thingy on Wave Serpents that reduces anythign higher than S8 to S8 when firing on the Serpent.

I hit a lot....my dice just suddenly decided that they wanted to be Gaussian distribution dice. I lost count of the sheer number of '3s' I rolled.

I had a unit of 5 Sternguard attempt to rapid fire Vengance rounds into some Thousand Sons.. managed to roll 7 "1"s on the To Hit roll, and 5 on the Armor Save check..

Ouch.

ChrisWWII wrote:Fighting against Eldar, they have some fancy forcefield thingy on Wave Serpents that reduces anythign higher than S8 to S8 when firing on the Serpent.

I hit a lot....my dice just suddenly decided that they wanted to be Gaussian distribution dice. I lost count of the sheer number of '3s' I rolled.

Isnt that something war walkers have? but their hover vehicles dont? or at least it didnt in 3rd edition. Because i played a guy who claimed he had upgraded his falcons with that but when i asked to see it in his codex eldar he couldnt find it

The worst luck i had in a game was when an ork mekboy dropped a template on a unit of khorne berserkers, it covered all of them ( i failed my 4+ saves to see if the ones on the edge were under the template) and he got 2+ and killed all 8 of them.

I am also in the rolling 3 1s for melta veteran squads shooting camp. I just seem to do a lot better with plasma.

Chaos - it is only on Wave Serpents now. War Walkers had an energy field that conferred an invulnerable save in their 3rd ed codex, from memory.

nosferatu1001 wrote:Chaos - it is only on Wave Serpents now. War Walkers had an energy field that conferred an invulnerable save in their 3rd ed codex, from memory.

im sure war walkers had something like "attacks greater than s8 count as 8" because they only had 10 armor on front. but when he started using this on armour 12 falcons with the upgrade where he got to roll 2 dice on damage and choose the result he wanted it made it real tough for my CSM.

I roled six ones when passing my armor save, I then roled six more ones next turn. I bought new dice after that.

Friend playing Space Wolves. Pops the GH Banner of "reroll all 1s"

Failed 8 armour saves in total from bezerker attacks. Doesnt roll a single 1....

ChaosGalvatron wrote:
im sure war walkers had something like "attacks greater than s8 count as 8" because they only had 10 armor on front. but when he started using this on armour 12 falcons with the upgrade where he got to roll 2 dice on damage and choose the result he wanted it made it real tough for my CSM.

He was cheating then, because Falcons could never get the energy field. War Walkers did have that energy field, but they lost it in the 4th Ed codex when they stopped being open topped. Now only Wave Serpents can get the Energy Field, but they cannot get the Holo Field too (that would just be too good). The holo field also doesn't let him pick a result, you roll 2 dice per roll of on the damage chart and take the lowest.

Back on topic: I can't count the number of massive fails I've had, and always with bad dice at crucial moments. Some examples from a game last night:

Wanted to Make my Farseer run into terrain so he could see Belial and Mind War him. I rolled 3 ones, then when I decided to fleet him for a better view next turn, another 1.
Same farseer at the end of the game managed to reverse that with a massive burst of speed, assaulted a dreadnaught that was going to kill my last troops choice in an objective based game, hit said dreadnaught with 3 attacks...

I rolled a 1 and 2 2's on the pen roll, and the Dread pulped my last Guardian Jetbikes.

THIS GAME.

over 1500 points of imperial guardsmen, every unit of which was armed with at least two weapons which contained the word "melta", along with 3 eviscerators, and 2 pieces of multi-shot S10 ordnance, attack a single land raider for 4 turns.

It comes out almost without a scratch.

My opponent wins the game because of this.

Every single game that isn't against Kan spam, Nids, or more Kan Spam. Most of the time the dice deviate for less than expected. But the worst would have to be when I was against my friend's Ork Biker mob which always forced me to roll tremendously high. As expected, I do little to nothing with crap rolls against the disgusting mob of frothing cheese.

Turned up for a tournament...forgot my dice....very red face.
Then realised I had put my tape measure in the dice bag.
I was a 100miles from my house. Not sure if it was bad luck or stupidity....

In a tournament

game 1
6 firedragons jump out to melta a land raider - all miss

game 3 5 firedragons go to melta some space wolves, roll 5 2's

Abbadon, 6 termis and 3 oblits didnt deepstrike on the board, my defiler never hit its cannon, khorne berserkers failed to hit, plague marines failed all there FNP rule, all in the same turn and worst of all no blood for the blood god

*Points at sig*

*grumbles about Guardsmen's rubbish BS*

L. Wrex

Back in the Rogue Trader days, before we had any real army lists, I built a tricked-out Eldar force like no other. Everyone had a Conversion Field and targeters on their shuriken catapults. I was playing an Imperial Army force (Imperial "Guard" wasn't quite here yet.) I needed 2's to hit, 3's to wound, and 4's to save. Starting on the second turn (when the shooting began) it seeemd like everything I rolled was a "1." So we started keeping track, and I managed to roll another 73 1's in a row. During the course of that terrible streak of bad luck, I must have switched out my dice a half dozen times. I hit nothing and failed every armor save! Killer Army Of Doom vaporized in two turns!

I had a battle where it was neck and neck the whole game, it came down to a sternguard sergeant versus 2 genestealers. He killed one with his powersword, the other genestealer rended him and killed him the next turn. The genestealer was the last model on the board.

So today I lost my first game of 40k on the table top with my C:SM army since July. I play basically at least once every other week, and I finally lost today.

I've had dice run cold and still pulled through, but today they just took a stand and said "No."

His army: BA dread list with 2x autocannon dreads, 2x furioso dreads, a death company dread and 2 normal dreads with assault cannon and dccw. Oh yeah, and mephiston in there too. only troops were a small death company squad, and the death co dread. Either way he was going to be playing to table me. I wasn't too afraid from the start, but I figured his list would be tough.

I ran my standard 1500 point list you can find the link to in my sig below.

He made me go first, so that his dreads could drop in beside me (death company and a furioso). DoW deployment. We both walk everything on turn 1. Maybe I should have reserved everything to make his pods drop, I dunno.

In any case, I zoom up. His turn he walks on and pods 2 dreads, which wreck a razorback and shake a speeder.

My turn, I shoot my whole army at his 2 dreads that pod near me (3 missiles, 2 assault cannons, 2 multimeltas in melta range, an autocannon and 2 lascannons) and fail to do any damage. With the nightfight over, basically all my vehicles disappear. By turn 7 I have only the LR left that is cruising around failing to do any damage turn after turn with its multimelta and assault cannon.

In assault, my terminators fail 3/4 3++ saves and I proceed to knock off a dread lightning claw thingy. I spend the next 4 rounds of combat not getting a single hit.

The dice said "No."

My mate paul spent months saving for his Thunderwolf Calvalry, he bought them and spent months painting them. They were wonderful and the whole club was hawking around the board as he took on the club treasurer in a grudge match for the 1st ever time with Thunderwolf Calvalry.

The 1k Sons were doing well, so he brought on his reserves (including the TW Cavalry). He moved them forward, and is moment of inattention went to grab his mug of coffee and suffered a complete motor-neuron, hand eye co-ordination meh.(some blame a Haywire grenade thrown somewhere at the back of the room). 3 of the beautiful models went tumbling, and smash into the deck.

You, know its bad when there is a collective intake of breath and then no one says a word for 2 mins....
Then the club chairman said "There not that tough are they!".

My god, I thought I would Sh*t a kidney i was laughing that hard.