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With everyone stuck on min/maxing these days I thought it might be fun to start a "bad list" topic. So here is the gist; make a terrible terrible list and see if other people can top your bad list.
For Example
500 points, IG
CCS 80
PF,Vox, melta bombs
vet sqd1 80
Shotguns, vox, mortar
vet sqd1 80
Shotguns, vox, mortar
vet sqd1 80
Shotguns, vox, mortar
LR punisher 180
props if you actually play a bad list! 2 internet cookies if you actually WIN with a bad list. Have fun and be bad!
3k+ IG
Chimeras > rhinos (course then again piling a regular squad out of a chimera usually creates a scene similar to Omaha beach during D-Day)
3x Vibro-Cannon Support Weapon - 150pts 3x Vibro-Cannon Support Weapon - 150pts 5x Dark Reapers w/ Exarch + Shuriken Cannon - 187pts
Total - 2248pts
Automatically Appended Next Post: Or:
Tau - Any points
HQ:
Aun'Va
<insert whatever the hell you want here>
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
Myself and my gaming buddies use to do a varient game of 40k, where your opponent designed your army, based on minitures available and not being able to repeat a unit more than 2 times.
So obviously each person tried to design the worst legal army possible, it actually made for some really fun games, made you have to make the best with what you had.
I recommend it to any group of good sports...can be alot of fun.
i love it! that would be a fun thing to try. i can see it now legions of conscripts and blank infantry squads with no heavy or special weapons i shudder to think of it
3k+ IG
Chimeras > rhinos (course then again piling a regular squad out of a chimera usually creates a scene similar to Omaha beach during D-Day)
Veteran Sergeant wrote:In the grim darkness of the far future, the guy with a rifle is the weakest man on the battlefield, left to quake in terror, hoping the two or three shots he gets do the job before somebody runs screaming across the battlefield to hit him with an energized stick.
As a addendum to my earlier post for anyone interested in trying the opponent designed army.
The guidelines were as follows:
1 : must use players available minis (painted or unpainted )
2 : no army entry repeats (no more than 2 units from any codex entry )
3: 30 min time limit to design opponents army.
4: all points must be spent, any unspent points can be used by owning player to add to or change units chosen.
5: all codex entry limitations must be obeyed .
We had some pretty great games this way, and had some surprising units do some pretty heroic things.
Its amazing how much fun you can have when you don't fixate on winning.
I played against a guy in a tournament whose 2000 point army was a handful of 5 man scout squads with sniper rifles, a devastator squad with an awful mix of heavy weapons, Sicarius (whose whole appeal is buffing a tactical squad) and a 10 man squad of Vanguard veterans with lightning claws in a rhino. Supporting this was a 10 man unit of Legion of the Damned. Sicarius walked behind the rhino. It was the worst army list I've ever played against. Turn 1 I blew up his rhino and gibbed the vets and Sicarius with two battlecannons.
So obviously each person tried to design the worst legal army possible, it actually made for some really fun games, made you have to make the best with what you had.
I recommend it to any group of good sports...can be alot of fun.
Thats absolutely brilliant
Dman137 wrote:
goobs is all you guys will ever be
By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.
For whatever reason a friend fielded the following army of old necrons in a 3vs2 game, him being part of the 3 man team and thus dooming them to lose.
Necron Lord with Rez orb + X
Necron Lord with Teleport Thingy +X
3x 20 Warrior
Tomb spider
First turn he teleports the one lord to meet our refused flank. Mishaps, ends up in reserve, never coming back.
Turn two, my thrakka charges his first unit of warriors, they lose combat by 7, get sweeped.
His turn two, the tomb spider and another unit of warriors+lord shoot thrakka and charge him. They lose combat by 5, tomb spider gets killed by fearless wounds. Thrakka sweeps again.
Turn three, Thrakka charges the last unit of warriors, they lose combat by 6, get sweeped. The remaining necron lord phases out.
7 Ork facts people always get wrong: Ragnar did not win against Thrakka, but suffered two crushing defeats within a few days of each other. A lasgun is powerful enough to sever an ork's appendage or head in a single, well aimed shot. Orks meks have a better understanding of electrics and mechanics than most Tech Priests. Orks actually do not think that purple makes them harder to see. The joke was made canon by Alex Stewart's Caphias Cain books. Gharkull Blackfang did not even come close to killing the emperor. Orks can be corrupted by chaos, but few of them have any interest in what chaos offers. Orks do not have the power of believe.
Brother SRM wrote:I played against a guy in a tournament whose 2000 point army was a handful of 5 man scout squads with sniper rifles, a devastator squad with an awful mix of heavy weapons, Sicarius (whose whole appeal is buffing a tactical squad) and a 10 man squad of Vanguard veterans with lightning claws in a rhino. Supporting this was a 10 man unit of Legion of the Damned. Sicarius walked behind the rhino. It was the worst army list I've ever played against. Turn 1 I blew up his rhino and gibbed the vets and Sicarius with two battlecannons.
Sicarius: Are you sure this is safe?
Veteran: Of course... Could I have your entire selection of wargear and your title when you die?
Sicarius: Fine, I won't be dying for some time though.
Guardsman: OPEN FIRE AT THE CHAPPY WHOSE WALKING!
BlapBlapBlap: bringing idiocy and mischief where it should never set foot since 2011.
BlapBlapBlap wrote:What sort of idiot quotes themselves in their sigs? Who could possibly be that arrogant?
Andilus Greatsword wrote:
That's a perfectly reasonable 500pt Necron list...
Any list where over half its points are in expensive HQ units and unit upgrades is a bad list. For the price of the Crypteks he could have a load more warriors.
BlapBlapBlap wrote:
Sicarius: Are you sure this is safe?
Veteran: Of course... Could I have your entire selection of wargear and your title when you die?
Sicarius: Fine, I won't be dying for some time though.
Guardsman: OPEN FIRE AT THE CHAPPY WHOSE WALKING!
This is basically what happened, but there were no veterans left to take his title after turn 2
Andilus Greatsword wrote:
That's a perfectly reasonable 500pt Necron list...
Any list where over half its points are in expensive HQ units and unit upgrades is a bad list. For the price of the Crypteks he could have a load more warriors.
It's certainly not a good or optimized list, but for 500pts it's not awful. And again, you could conceivably win with that list against another mediocre casual list.
Guaranteed to lose 2/3 games (unless they table you... and you should be embarrassed), and won't do too well in KP games either.
Edit: I've actually played this (without the toxin sacs on the MCs, and with the other two powers on the HT) because I wanted to give my brother a chance to win the KP game we played. I beat his (old) necrons handily.
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My beautiful wife wrote:Trucks = Carnifex snack, Tanks = meals.
3k+ IG
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2,000 points 
265 point detachment
Iron Hands: 1,850 
3000pts - Hell Guard
2000pts - The Scholars