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Simple question: Do you have a model that continously fails and what does it do/not do?
For me it would have to be my BT plasma gunner. Every game I play (with one exception) he has rolled one to hit,failed his save and killed himself in the gets hot.
But what about you?

This should be a fun thread!

I have not played them yet..... My Eldar Guardians will be under this mantle.

My Guardians. They are supposed to hold an objective, but they constantly run off the board.

My Ork Lootas. I can't seem to make them shoot enough dakka or hit for that sakes. They have so far never killed anyone in a game.

And i still take them with me? Why i don't know...

Damn you dice god!!!

Though my own units don't really have too many problems (although my KFF Mek has his moments) my friend has a Tau Hammerhead that rolls an inordinate amount of ones for hits or wounds.

This has gotten to the point I've ignored it several times because I know it's not going to hit a damn thing.

It's not a model, but the one thing that always fails me is the roll on the vehicle damage table. Every time I always easily penetrate a LRBT with my Lascannon predator I roll a 1 for crew shaken. Then the broken tank gets to fish itself out of the bin.

My tyranid hormagaunts. Last time I played them my 20 strong squad got beaten in close combat then ran down by a 10 man guardsmen squad (I had the charge too). Nice goin guys

Well, It would have to be my leman russ demolisher. The reason why is every game it either get's destroyed firt or second turn when it's outta range. Or it just get shaken and stunned results the whole game so it can't do anything, ever! Even when I finally get one shot off, it scattered back onto itself and exploded and killed 5 guys next to it. It;s fething awful!

Ah! This one is easy for me - any unit I 'soup up' and actually spend points on for upgrades will fail miserably at whatever I get it to do.

Lascannons hate me.

Anything with reanimation protocol.

Chaos Spawn.

Yeaaah.

My 2 Daemon princes for my daemons have had a pretty bad run of combats, usually failing to hit with more than 1 attack.

Zoanthropes. I have had one game where they successfully killed a tank or two, but in every other game I have fielded them (around 6-8 games...) they have either failed psychic tests, missed entirely, or simply been shot and failed their 3++. There was one time that they killed an entire space marine. That was great.

I now use them only for synapse in very small games, because I know that they can't do anything else.

A toss up between my Storm Troopers and HWTs. Doesn't matter what I do with the HWTs, I never kill a thing. The STs always make an awesomely dynamic entry and get butchered by some unit that is like 20pts.

My Biker Warboss, after he was finally finished being painted, did nothing but fail for a long while.

First game after being painted, he rides over a ravine to get to the enemy army. Fails his dangerous terrain test, takes a wound. Enemy turn, he gets shot by a storm bolter, takes a wound. My turn again, he assaults an enemy rhino (after his deffkopta escort failed to even touch it with their TL rokkits), blows it up, and dies in the explosion.

In another game, he rockets across the map into the enemy Space Marine lines, only to lose combat and die to a 5-man unit of tac marines.

Finally, in a game against the Tau, he makes it into combat with a unit of Firewarriors and their Devilfish. He makes one (autohit) attack against the Devilfish, and the rest against the Firewarriors. He misses the Devilfish, and whiffs all but one hit agains the fire warriors. The single hit fails to wound, and then the fire warriors inflict one wound on him. He fails his leadership test, runs, and then gets SWEPT BY FIREWARRIORS.

Thankfully though, he's been slowly making a bit of a comback, having almost solo'd half of a combined Tyranid/Ork force in a 2000 pts doubles game, and killing over 400 points worth of Death Cult Assassins and Grey Knights in his most recent forray. Hopefully his success is not fleeting.

My Railguns. I won't say my Broadsides as a whole, because they seem to be ninjas in combat...

My rune priest. Usually perils himself to death in two turns. Trying to exorcise the model now.

Probably my Wolf Guard Squad.

I kit them out with PWs, PFs, WCs, and THs. And all they do is take wounds for Arjac Rockfist. They have never made it out of a combat, and their Land Raider has never survived a game.

So far, I have played 6 games with my Shokk Attack Gun. In 4 of them, he has blown himself and his squad up in 3 turns or less, in 1 of them he shot himself into CC with pink horrors on turn 2, and in 1 he did what he was gakking supposed to.

Definitely my Defiler. This bad ass machine looks scary but he consistently dies very early and can't seem to kill worth a damn.

My Ork Trukk gets blown up every damn 3rd turn.

thenoobbomb wrote:My Ork Trukk gets blown up every damn 3rd turn.

I'm surprised it lasts that long! They're pretty easy to wreck.

My consistently under performing units would have to be my three Vindicators in my Iron Warriors army. Turn 1 sees one get wrecked, turn 2 sees one get immobilized, and by turn 3 they've either all been wrecked, all lost their guns, or all immobilized facing the wrong direction or something. When they actually fire, they almost always miss, fail to wound, or in some cases land on my own guys. Anything that hits their armor rolls straight sixes with startling regularity, and even against armies with limited long range firepower, every shot hits and penetrates on these things. They're like a magnet for bad luck.

SBG wrote:Zoanthropes. I have had one game where they successfully killed a tank or two, but in every other game I have fielded them (around 6-8 games...) they have either failed psychic tests, missed entirely, or simply been shot and failed their 3++. There was one time that they killed an entire space marine. That was great.

I now use them only for synapse in very small games, because I know that they can't do anything else.

Same for me. If they weren't the only unit I had with a 3++ save then I wouldn't bother with them. Last game, threw 2 11s for psychic tests, and a couple of 1s on the pen role for the lance attack. In 4 turns they lived 3 of them immobilised one predator - for 180 points. I get more use out of the mycetic spore.

Zzap guns. When they hit it is always a crappy S, and when they are a decent S they usually miss.
These are the artillary varients I'm talking about, Btw.

Well my brother can't hit with lances, his BL's never hit

And my problem model is always my combat monster or deathstar, hitting is also a problem here.....

Abaddon always seems to hit himself in the face much more often than he should for me.

My mate has a dreadnought with TL-Lascannons that has become so infamous for missing shots or failing to wound that he has earnt the name Juan, thanks to the epic number of 1's he roll's

A specific one of my Aspiring Sorcerers for my Thousand Sons used to fail so regularly that he earned the nickname "Kenny". He'd either blow his own head off with Perils of the Warp, fail to hit or wound anything, or explode into a Greater Daemon which would then completely fail to do anything as well.

He's been getting better lately though! I suspect he's been earning experience and levelling up behind my back or something.

My eldar guardians. They seem to run off the board every time when shot at, even with that embolden warlock over there...

My bigmek. Yesterday he killed his first model ever. Except for my original AOBR orks, he is the oldest model I own.