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Hey guys, went to a tournament on the weekend and my guard usually does quite good against all armies. But when I went to the tournament, everything missed, scattered, or I just forgot about that unit completely. Has this ever happened to you were you just have absolutely no luck what so ever during a battle, or 5 like me.

Oh yeah, I was at a tournament. My Nobz were fighting a big squad of incubi of all things. I'd lost a few wounds and we were down to my power klaw attacks, all 11 of them either missed or failed to wound. Lost combat, roll my Leadership, failed, rolled for bosspole, wounded a nob, failed his save and FNP, then roll for LD again, fail again and then proceed to run 12" off the board.

This ended up costing me the game as I lost 2 KP.

This is about the only time though as I will admit that my dice are normally pretty good.

That is very unlucky indeed.

My game yesterday was pretty much Lady Luck going rampage. Three battlewagons were immobilized due to three eldar rocket launchers, then four attempts to repair a battlewagon failed, my opponent's Eldrad saved 10 wounds allocated to him at once without taking a single one, a kopta was tankshocked and jumped 17" off the board, Thrakka lost three Wounds to a total of three hits during his Waagh! and three grabbin klaws failed to keep a single serpent in place.

On the other hand, a single deff kopta exploded six war walkers and a serpent though without taking a single wound. Sadly he then took a fire prism to the knee. Thanks to that kopta I at least got a draw out of the game.

I've fielded the Doomsday ark in about 4 games, and it has yet to land a single shot ... let alone kill a damn thing.

Str 9 ap 1 means squat when you cant hit anything.

ninja13 wrote:Hey guys, went to a tournament on the weekend and my guard usually does quite good against all armies. But when I went to the tournament, everything missed, scattered, or I just forgot about that unit completely. Has this ever happened to you were you just have absolutely no luck what so ever during a battle, or 5 like me.

I charged a group of 8 Sisters of Battle with 5 assault terminator.

The sisters didn't have anything other than bolters.

At the end of 3 assault phases, my last assault terminator was fleeing in terror from the 7 sisters of battle chanting at him.

This is, of course, after his seraphim passed 6 of 7 6+ invulnerable saves when being hit by plasma cannons.

ninja13 wrote:Hey guys, went to a tournament on the weekend and my guard usually does quite good against all armies. But when I went to the tournament, everything missed, scattered, or I just forgot about that unit completely. Has this ever happened to you were you just have absolutely no luck what so ever during a battle, or 5 like me.

Yep. Been a while since it happened in 40k, but recently had a series of Flames of War games where I couldn't miss, but at the same time I couldn't destroy any enemy tanks either no result or bailed them out. Grrrrrrrrrrr! Should have stomped the opponents I was facing, but ended up losing each time due to the dice. It happens though. The week before those issues I had a single HMG platoon wipe out a good 60% of my opponent's army since I just happened to set them up in the right place and he tried to force a flank push right into the guns.

I will agree that nothing sucks worse when you keep forgetting to use units on the table, though. Especially those uber special units you infiltrated somewhere cool and then keep forgetting and forgetting and forgetting and...

My most recent 40k game was my nurgle CSMs vs. my friend's Tau. My nurgle plague hulk (basically a nurgle daemon infested defiler) found itself facing a tau tank with a railcannon and multiple broadsides with railcannon as well. It took the hulk 4 turns to get to where these models were positioned on my friends side of the table getting fired at every time and hit *every* time by the tank and the twinlinked cannon on the broadsides. My opponent never rolled more than a 1 after penetrating for any of the hits. Since it was daemon possessed the hulk just ignored that result and kept on coming. Ended up destroying the tank and the broadsides. Should have been killed on turn one. My opponent was *not* happy about that at all...

Skriker

10 man Pallies with all the essentials. Halberds, 2 hammers, banner, apothecary (with warding stave no less), psycannons, psybolt, all master crafted, rerolling ones to wound from GS. Led by Draigo.

All Str 5 Stormbolters fire. At Vect. On his own, after the party bus DAIS of Destruction was pistol whipped by a Dreadknight last turn, and the Wyches were splatted all over his Greatsword, though Vect charged and killed him.
Missed them all. 4 Psycannons, 4 hits from Master Crafting, 1 wound from GS rerolls of 1. Saved on shadowfield.

Draigo fires, rolls snake eyes. Takes his 6+ reroll for BS 6, rolls 5s.

Assault, whiffed them, even with rerolls and everything. Vect is meanwhile decapitating 2 Pallies, even with my Warding Stave Apothecary dead. Everyhting whiffs. squad fail morale needing 5, and are caught in a sweep, causing 4 more 2+ saves, killing 2 previously wounded Pallies with Daemon Hammers and a Psycannon, and wounding 2 others. Same thing again, left with just Draigo, 2 Psycannons, 4 halberds and Banner.

His turn everythibng whiffs.

Vect kills the banner, a Psycannon guy and a pally on my turn. Whiff, whiff, whiff. Fall back 2". Vect chucks his Orbs and leaves Draigo on 3 wounds. Charges, kills him, me whiffing the SS.

That has got to be the most antclimactic thing I have ever heard in my entire life.

You should have just as many amazing games as craptastic games. The issue is that usually it lines up in phases, and those distinct phases really matter. So in other words, decent rolling during your T1, first player DoW shooting phase means getting a 6 on your run move...big deal. A craptastic shooting phase or assault phase on T3 is a game changer.

Just imagine the depression I went through when my only surviving units were a unit of 5 Interceptors and my partner's 15 man Death Company, 5 man Jump Packer Assault Squad, combat squad in a rhino in a 3 objective seize ground mission.

Against a full 1500pts DE army containing venoms, raiders, bl;asterborn, Kabilites galore, AND a 1500pts Ultrasmurf army. Fair enough they were down a vindicator, a Vendread, the Party Bus and 9 wyches, but we were down 10 Pallies, Draigo and a Dreadknight.

I've been on a three month losing streak at my game club, wherein I've only won one game and it was against someone just as new as I was. The lists haven't been cutthroat, mine haven't been especially bad, but I've been whiffing every imaginable roll with whatever army I use. I've been there, and it happens. You've just got to learn to take it in stride.

One game I had 3 manticores, in total got about 7 pie plates out of them...
They all missed.
All of them.

This wasn't mine, but my opponents.

When you lose 2 squads of TH/SS Terminators to Boltguns, including one getting shot in the Face by a Bolt Pistol in assault.

My last 3 games or so, I've lost horribly. I play Tyranids, and my opponent is usually rolling a Battle Sisters list.

I cannot penetrate vehicles, at all, ever. Regardless of what I bring, whether anti-tank or MC's, or rending claws, nothing can so much as glance. It's bizarre, especially since I'm generally in CC almost immediately...

SBG wrote:My last 3 games or so, I've lost horribly. I play Tyranids, and my opponent is usually rolling a Battle Sisters list.

I cannot penetrate vehicles, at all, ever. Regardless of what I bring, whether anti-tank or MC's, or rending claws, nothing can so much as glance. It's bizarre, especially since I'm generally in CC almost immediately...

Not sure which is worse: Your problem or being able to penetrate almost every time, but never rolling anything other than a Shaken or Stunned result.

Skriker

No vehicle has an AV larger than 10 rear. Try Carnifexes with Claws for specifically vehicles.

Edit-No SoB vehicles.

Deadshot, I'm guessing there aren't that many Land Raiders in your local metagame.

Deadshot wrote:No vehicle has an AV larger than 10 rear. Try Carnifexes with Claws for specifically vehicles.

Landraiders, Stormravens, Lemun Russ Demolishers, Necron vehicles.

All have higher then 10 on the rear. 14 for Landraiders, 12 for Stormravens, 11 for Demolishers and necrons.

Um... He was talking about SoB... No Land Raiders there.

Anyway, I think that my wiffiest moment was rolling 5 ones for my Deathwing Terminator Command Squad.

I've a special knack for rolling bad games. Like, entirely bad games. I kept a notation for a game with my 'nids on what I did that I rolled high on versus what I rolled low on, and well, it wasn't pretty. It seems like one in about every 5-6 games though, all the stars align and then I'm supernaturally hot with the dice. It's odd.

I had a 5 man dev squad with 4 ML that didnt hit anything the whole game. Finally, on turn 6 there was one ML left and it failed to hit. In my rage, that model hit the wall at mach speed.
Another time I scattered a Vindi shot directly over the hull of my land raider. It exploded, killed 4 of the 7 terminators inside, and pinned the rest. It was a glorious failure!

If I call missile launchers missile launchers, they never hit. If I call them rocket launchers, they do. Problem is they still never do jack against most vehicles.

My last game on the weekend, no reserves rule, my opponent drops two of those damn dreadnaught pods on me and smashs apart half my army before I can manuever to get a shot. The real clincher though was forgetting to roll for Marbo for four turns. When he finally came on in the last turn, he missed with his demo charge and then got squished by a landraider!

Skriker wrote:

SBG wrote:My last 3 games or so, I've lost horribly. I play Tyranids, and my opponent is usually rolling a Battle Sisters list.

I cannot penetrate vehicles, at all, ever. Regardless of what I bring, whether anti-tank or MC's, or rending claws, nothing can so much as glance. It's bizarre, especially since I'm generally in CC almost immediately...

Not sure which is worse: Your problem or being able to penetrate almost every time, but never rolling anything other than a Shaken or Stunned result.

Skriker

that may be worse. The frustration!

I learned to ask my opponent to roll his 6++ save before I tried rolling for penetration, as it would frustrate me that much more if it was an 'explodes!' and he'd save it.

happens to me all the time, I have the worst luck when playing as SM's. A vast majority of my rolls to hit and save are 1's and my scatters are always 5's and 6's...

All my buds I play with name their bad rolls after me... its that bad.

SBG wrote:

Skriker wrote:

SBG wrote:My last 3 games or so, I've lost horribly. I play Tyranids, and my opponent is usually rolling a Battle Sisters list.

I cannot penetrate vehicles, at all, ever. Regardless of what I bring, whether anti-tank or MC's, or rending claws, nothing can so much as glance. It's bizarre, especially since I'm generally in CC almost immediately...

Not sure which is worse: Your problem or being able to penetrate almost every time, but never rolling anything other than a Shaken or Stunned result.

Skriker

that may be worse. The frustration!

I learned to ask my opponent to roll his 6++ save before I tried rolling for penetration, as it would frustrate me that much more if it was an 'explodes!' and he'd save it.

Which is what you are supposed to do.

You roll to penetrate and then roll saves for any glances, then for any pens. Then you roll the damage results for each as normal.

My example is actually a friend whiffing when against me. For the entire game any of his SM units with a melta weapon either couldn't hit or pen. Even when in Melta range he would miss or roll snake eyes on armor pen (that one was against the side of a rhino)