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Is it just me or does anyone else have terrible dice rolls when it comes to "Gets Hot!" rolles? I never take plasmas, as it is a disaster. Could anyone help?

Me + Plasma weapon - vehicle = + +

pick up citadels how to roll dice book, might give you a few pointers .

My personal record is a Marine Sargent who has managed to fry himself seven times so far.......out of seven games......with his first shot......

I know one guy in an apocalypse game who bought 4 plasmas in a dev squad, 2 got hot in the first turn, and in the second turn the other two fried themselves.

I've only had pistols get hot on me,

Lost well over half my army in a doubles game in a single shooting phase to "gets hot!" rolls.

I was playing blood angels with a heavy emphasis on plasma spamming honour guard. They come down, they fire all their guns, every single one of them overheats, fails their armour save, and fails their FnP save.

Mephiston then overheats with his plasma pistol and fails his save (and then gets a perils...), just to add insult to injury.

After that horrible event, I was left with nothing more than two 5-man tac squads and Dante, standing all alone where his honour guard retinue once was.

My teammate was not impressed.

I only use my plasma in combination with a sanguinary priest (Fnp bubble).
Works pretty well.

On the other hand I have very bad luck with other things.
I tend to immobilize at least 1-2 vehicles every game.
And in one game Mephiston suffered 3 (three) wounds due to perils of the warp.

My Plasma Guns usually Gets Hot one-in-six-shots....

Which means that when rapid-firing 3 Plasma Guns from a Company Command Squad I expect one of them to overheat.
I don't take that as; "OMG! MY PLASMA GUNS CONSTANTLY OVERHEAT!!!", and I try not to suffer from observer bias.

Only about one in six times...

Steelmage99 wrote:My Plasma Guns usually Gets Hot one-in-six-shots....

Then you're clearly doing it wrong.

Fafnir wrote:Lost well over half my army in a doubles game in a single shooting phase to "gets hot!" rolls.

I was playing blood angels with a heavy emphasis on plasma spamming honour guard. They come down, they fire all their guns, every single one of them overheats, fails their armour save, and fails their FnP save.

Mephiston then overheats with his plasma pistol and fails his save (and then gets a perils...), just to add insult to injury.

After that horrible event, I was left with nothing more than two 5-man tac squads and Dante, standing all alone where his honour guard retinue once was.

My teammate was not impressed.

I think you might be hyperboling a bit...the chances of a single honourguard dying from gets hot is exactly...one in 72.

Jaon wrote:

Fafnir wrote:Lost well over half my army in a doubles game in a single shooting phase to "gets hot!" rolls.

I was playing blood angels with a heavy emphasis on plasma spamming honour guard. They come down, they fire all their guns, every single one of them overheats, fails their armour save, and fails their FnP save.

Mephiston then overheats with his plasma pistol and fails his save (and then gets a perils...), just to add insult to injury.

After that horrible event, I was left with nothing more than two 5-man tac squads and Dante, standing all alone where his honour guard retinue once was.

My teammate was not impressed.

I think you might be hyperboling a bit...the chances of a single honourguard dying from gets hot is exactly...one in 72.

That's what made it so beautiful. I usually have horrendous luck with my plasma weaponry, but that was something special. I was laughing to the point of tears when it happened just because it was so funny.

How do Plasma Cannons Get Hot? Roll of double 6 on scatter? Roll of 1 on wound? Also, I never take plasma outside of vehicles but they WILL backfire on me.

Not plasma, but I once had a 20-man Boyz squad lashed into a river, lost like 8 of them to dangerous terrain rolls, then another 5 getting out.

If the game was called "Warhammer Roll 1's on a d6" I'd win every time.

bmoleski wrote:How do Plasma Cannons Get Hot? Roll of double 6 on scatter? Roll of 1 on wound? Also, I never take plasma outside of vehicles but they WILL backfire on me.

It's in the rulebook.

Jaon wrote:

Fafnir wrote:Lost well over half my army in a doubles game in a single shooting phase to "gets hot!" rolls.

I was playing blood angels with a heavy emphasis on plasma spamming honour guard. They come down, they fire all their guns, every single one of them overheats, fails their armour save, and fails their FnP save.

Mephiston then overheats with his plasma pistol and fails his save (and then gets a perils...), just to add insult to injury.

After that horrible event, I was left with nothing more than two 5-man tac squads and Dante, standing all alone where his honour guard retinue once was.

My teammate was not impressed.

I think you might be hyperboling a bit...the chances of a single honourguard dying from gets hot is exactly...one in 72.

It might be uncommon, even rare, but I've seen stranger things happen in games involving dice.

Case in point, playing a D&D 3rd Ed game... the party is five player-characters, fighting... some guy, I forget, kind of a badass, whatever... we have the guy down on the ground at 1hp, every PC mini in base-to-base combat on the battle map. Any one of the PCs could kill this guy with a single hit.

All 5 players roll their d20 attack rolls... and all 5 of them, one right after the other, roll 1s. Bad guy, on his initiative, defensively casts Teleport and lives to fight another day.

Jaon wrote:

Fafnir wrote:Lost well over half my army in a doubles game in a single shooting phase to "gets hot!" rolls.

I was playing blood angels with a heavy emphasis on plasma spamming honour guard. They come down, they fire all their guns, every single one of them overheats, fails their armour save, and fails their FnP save.

Mephiston then overheats with his plasma pistol and fails his save (and then gets a perils...), just to add insult to injury.

After that horrible event, I was left with nothing more than two 5-man tac squads and Dante, standing all alone where his honour guard retinue once was.

My teammate was not impressed.

I think you might be hyperboling a bit...the chances of a single honourguard dying from gets hot is exactly...one in 72.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/436462.page#4031552
The chances of that happening are... amazingly high. And yet, it did.

When I fist started using plasma stormies I had like 6 games in a row where every time they deepstruck in, they fired 4 plasma shots, hit with 3, and had one burn which the firer failed his 4+ save against. Every time.

When I first started using veterans back in the day one of the first plasma salvoes they fired was against some marines in cover (the old 5+ cover, mind you). 6 shots yielded 4 hits and 2 overheats. The four hits caused 3 wounds, and he passed all his cover saves. I failed both of my burn saves.

Plasma is still worth taking, though, even when you're unlucky.

Maybe it's lack of volume, but the only plasma weapons in my Dark Angels army are two plasma cannons in Tactical squads, and I don't think I've ever had either fail a Gets Hot! roll.

I think this was back in 3rd Ed but my friend used to regularly lose a very expensive Chaos Champion or some such thing to his own plasma pistol.

I have never had a plasma weapon overheat on me.

The joy of playing Tau.

bmoleski wrote:How do Plasma Cannons Get Hot? Roll of double 6 on scatter? Roll of 1 on wound? Also, I never take plasma outside of vehicles but they WILL backfire on me.

You roll before firing, on a 1 it GETS HOT!

I've never had a model die to plasma however, I always seem to never get a 1, or roll all the saves (which is rare to begin with)

For some reason, my Plague Marines tend to overheat their plasma rifles. Most of the time they don't die, but they do too.

I enjoy taking 5 plasma weapon suicide chosen squads. Infiltrate them up to the front and just let them fire away. Over the course of an entire game I normally only lose 1 to my own plasma weaponry. They normally die from being assaulted.

Jefffar wrote:I have never had a plasma weapon overheat on me.

The joy of playing Tau.

BURN THE HERECTIC AND HIS SAFE WEAPONS!

In my past 3 games with CSM i have lost a total of 4 plague marines from gets hot rolls and i only ever take 1 squad

Just thursday I had a plasma ccs overheat and die. Well except the commander. Who then promptly ordered his chimera to charge forward so he could hit stuff with his pimp cane.

I've had a squad of vets kill enough of themselves with overheat to deny a charge once =)

other than that, my "best" has been 5 overheats in a single game and wiped out nearly 3 squads of special weapons

On both of my last two games, in the first turn that they got to fire, one of my plague marines died to a plasmagun getting hot. That's like a 3% chance.

I never field Plasmas, unless on vehicles or in dev squads.