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I have recently switched back and forth between my chaos army and DOA army. The horrible rolling Ive had lately with DOA made me whip out the old chaos marines, although Im not giving up on my bloods yet. My luck with them is ridiculous, my luck with blood has been nulled.

Chaos casual game: I was stomping on a player, dice rolling all armor saves cover saves invulnerable and fnp. I only failed 12 saves in 6 rounds(saved to FNP ) The thing that scared me most was I rerolled my diced throwing them to other side of the table just to see if I could fail and give my opponent a chance to tie I rolled 2 invulnerable saves with my obliterators, deciding to instant death them if they failed( i felt guilty for rolling so weell the whole game). A 5 and 6 come up. I was like: ok Ill reroll just to leave 1 left in the squad. Double sixes. I grab one 6 and decide ok Ill let you kill this guy: roll it across the board, hits a building and 6 again.

I lost an obliterator squad to double 1s, my chosen rhino blew up and they were running with 2 left, both DPs were wiped (I reduced the initiative of my slaanesh prince so he could simul strike with his rune priest and charge me with the squad. Everything else was still on the table (about 800/1500) and I had both objectives.

Blood Angels: I roll more misses with master crafted weapons than anyone I know, cant wound more than 4 T4 with 3 flamers, fail 3/4 2+ saves...you get the picture. I love my DOA army but the bad luck with them really makes me balk everytime I want to bring them out to play. The best thing Ive done so far is have dante hit and run 16" before him and the last squad member is wiped.

Pendulum swings both ways, dude.

I roll like absolute arse with my templars, my armour saves looks like 2,1,1,2,3,1,2, always. I whiff all my attacks and generally just look bad.

On the flip side my IG generally roll like fiends. I kill vehicles with HK missiles, Pask makes on average 3-4 AV 12-14 kills a game in a vanquisher. My shooting is glorious.

However, no matter what, I always roll ones with meltas.

EmilCrane wrote:I roll like absolute arse with my templars, my armour saves looks like 2,1,1,2,3,1,2, always. I whiff all my attacks and generally just look bad.

On the flip side my IG generally roll like fiends. I kill vehicles with HK missiles, Pask makes on average 3-4 AV 12-14 kills a game in a vanquisher. My shooting is glorious.

However, no matter what, I always roll ones with meltas.

I'm in the same boat as you. I play Templars in 40k and High Elves in fantasy, both armies have re-rolls in CC 8well, High elves have it 90% of the time anyway) and everytime I try another army I roll like crap. I usually flub my first roll and then roll great on my re-roll... Oh, and the "Curse of the Single Melta" is present here too...

AlmightyWalrus wrote:
I'm in the same boat as you. I play Templars in 40k and High Elves in fantasy, both armies have re-rolls in CC 8well, High elves have it 90% of the time anyway) and everytime I try another army I roll like crap. I usually flub my first roll and then roll great on my re-roll... Oh, and the "Curse of the Single Melta" is present here too...

yeah, thank the emperor for Accept Any Challenge, No Matter the Odds

I am pretty abysmal at rolling for shooting, hence all of the armies I play are close combat.

You must appease the dice gods.

I seem to be more specific to unit types rather then actual armies.

Saves -

Imperial Guard - 5+ I can save 6 of 12 saves
Tau - 4+ save I lose 1 guy usually
Terminators - 2+ save I lose 2 to 3 per round of firing and on a regular basis have had 2 shot weapons kill one per turn (x5 Termies, I rolled 4 1s on saves and the last ran away)

Templates - Large templates, not small - I roll 10 or higher 60 to 75% of the time with scatter.
Demolisher or any one shot template = I have killed more with storm bolters and stubbers then any of my Demolisher cannons and I almost NEVER put one in any of my builds.
Executioner - Pure Awesome - out of 5 templates I get 3 Hits almost everytime, (opponents comment on this everytime).

So it seems the lower the save the faster I die - (yes I realize there are some common factors to all of this, but no one has or will ever be able to explain away my Demolisher Cannon curse)..........