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So, In a game today (C:SM vs. Crons.) I had a whirlwind.
in 5 turns of fighting it did jack. killed one immortal and maybe 3 lych guard.
So what models do you have to have done nothing through the game?
or that had bad luck?

Before I completely understood DS rules I DS'd an assault marine squad behind guard lines hoping to Melta bomb an annoying Leman Russ. Needless to say once I'd been shown the full extent of my error I was horrified. I watched the squad get ripped apart by two guard squads using FRFSRF. Did absolutely nothing. 200 points down the drain

My brother had a unit of 5 triarch praetorians, giving them a trial run over the lychguard he normally runs. 2 died in a manticore blast and didn't get up, 2 killed themselves jumping out of terrain, and 1 died like a b#### to a PCS with flamers. He wasn't impressed.

3 talos come in from webway, do extremely minimal damage. Grey knights flush them out the following turn.

I had a captain that I had just painted the day before get sniped turn one by a Basilisk. My first game with my Space Wolves back in their old codex saw me put out an awesome, fully-kitted out Wolf Guard bodyguard for my Wolf Lord, all in Terminator armor. Orks got turn 1, and their shokk attack gun got boxcars and a direct hit on the unit. Cue all of them except one getting sucked into the warp.

hotsauceman1 wrote:So, In a game today (C:SM vs. Crons.) I had a whirlwind.
in 5 turns of fighting it did jack. killed one immortal and maybe 3 lych guard.

So about its own points worth of models?

Brother SRM wrote:I had a captain that I had just painted the day before get sniped turn one by a Basilisk. My first game with my Space Wolves back in their old codex saw me put out an awesome, fully-kitted out Wolf Guard bodyguard for my Wolf Lord, all in Terminator armor. Orks got turn 1, and their shokk attack gun got boxcars and a direct hit on the unit. Cue all of them except one getting sucked into the warp.

Ditto on the Sniper Basilisk. Had one snipe my chapter master because I forgot to put him in a unit.

My Slaaneshy friend had "lascannon guy". Lascannon guy was fielded every game since almost the start of 3rd edition to well into 4th. During all this time he got a single kill (my Land Raider, on turn 1, the first time I used it)

My mates Hive tyrant. Although it can and does run rampant, we will always remember the time I killed it with 10 Slugga boyz. (Shooting)

Usually for me it's nothing. Except when I used to run a lone kan. Only once did he kill things, and effectively won me the game

lord_blackfang wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:So, In a game today (C:SM vs. Crons.) I had a whirlwind.
in 5 turns of fighting it did jack. killed one immortal and maybe 3 lych guard.

So about its own points worth of models?

Doesnt matter, Still did jack. those missles need a Higher strengh, or i,m buying a vindicator next time i face crons.
Would have done great if i remembered to make my opponent take a pining test, those lych guard may not have made it. or the immortals

The new unit. It's always the new unit.

First game for any new unit I play and they do nothing and die. Curse of the new unit is well known in my circles.

Really? for me its the other way around. My Missle devs did great againts chaos but jack against anything else so far.

lord_blackfang wrote:My Slaaneshy friend had "lascannon guy". Lascannon guy was fielded every game since almost the start of 3rd edition to well into 4th. During all this time he got a single kill (my Land Raider, on turn 1, the first time I used it)

I have the exact same problem. One of my oldest tactical squads, Squad II (yes, I play Ultramarines, and everything is very by-the-book) has a lascannon marine we have named Sparky. If there's ever a crucial shot that needs to be made, like a dreadnought is about to barrel into my lines, you can count on Sparky to miss, every time. It would be one thing if he hit sometimes and didn't penetrate or rolled low for damage, but whenever it's important, there's always a lot of "Come on, Sparky, I really need you to try this time", followed by me rolling a 1 to hit.

As a Blood Angel player I guess it all comes down to the Storm Raven. Shot down in the first turn before getting a chance to even move it.

I played a Necron player at the weekend there. He got first turn. His Annihilation Barge shot and did nothing against my Land Raider. The next turn, with one shot, the very first shot of the turn I took out his Annihilation Barge with a twin-linked Lascannon from a Razorback.

Actually, I think I remember a time when I had an amazing exploding Rhino for rolling a double 1 back when it was the White Dwarf Blood Angels codex.

My first game with my baneblade. Killed one marine due to cover saves. Then the baneblade cannon got ripped off when the other team flank marched behind it turn one. GG

My Furioso Dreadnaught. In the last 6 games I have played with him, he has killed a total of 2 necron warriors. And that only because he shot them. He has been shot down in his stormraven 5/6 times, imob'd 3 time, blown up 2 more and the final one he just didn't make it into the fight. This is all because 7 games ago he took out 28 Ork boys in 1 round of combat.

My librarian in the same(for got about) died in the first turn.
He had a bike and was an epistolary. That vortex of doom could have wrecked some crons.

Charged a fully kitted Bretonnian Lord into a basic Goblin unit. A Sneaky Stalker pops out and issues a challenge which I accept thinking I will kill the little bugger. He goes first, he its me, rolls a 6 to wound me and I fail my 6+ ward.... Dead Lord

optimusprime14 wrote:My Furioso Dreadnaught. In the last 6 games I have played with him, he has killed a total of 2 necron warriors. And that only because he shot them. He has been shot down in his stormraven 5/6 times, imob'd 3 time, blown up 2 more and the final one he just didn't make it into the fight. This is all because 7 games ago he took out 28 Ork boys in 1 round of combat.

Blood Talons are brilliant. However it does sound like an incredibly lucky rolling hot streak you had there to kill 28 Ork Boys. Now what you do is completely punish him for aiming all his important firing at your storm raven by taking another unit that's going to smack him right between the eyes.

My buddy brought a tooled out Wood Elf lord on dragon back in 7th against my Chaos Warriors army-I rolled boxcars to wound with an Infernal Gateway after getting irresistible force-he lost his lord in the first turn of the game.

My scourge. Turn 1, they jump into a building. Two die. They panic. They run.

9% of my army gone before my opponents 1st turn.

DarthOvious wrote:

optimusprime14 wrote:My Furioso Dreadnaught. In the last 6 games I have played with him, he has killed a total of 2 necron warriors. And that only because he shot them. He has been shot down in his stormraven 5/6 times, imob'd 3 time, blown up 2 more and the final one he just didn't make it into the fight. This is all because 7 games ago he took out 28 Ork boys in 1 round of combat.

Blood Talons are brilliant. However it does sound like an incredibly lucky rolling hot streak you had there to kill 28 Ork Boys. Now what you do is completely punish him for aiming all his important firing at your storm raven by taking another unit that's going to smack him right between the eyes.

My friend and I couldn't believe it, I successflly rolled 4 to-hits and 4 to-wounds 3 times (12 dead orks), then missed 1 wound, and took out another 6 orks. Then I failed on1 to hit and 1 to would, however the last die just kept going!

That die has been retired now, it sits on a shelf.

A friend who plays necrons has, without fail, lost his doomsday ark in the top of turn one for most of a league, and the rest of the time it's dead by t3. Blown up by a Vindicare twice, shot apart by a Russ squadron once, and railgunned to death. That vindicare, without fail, cannot even get a damage result on a Tau vehicle. Cores through monoliths and russes at will, can't hurt fish.

optimusprime14 wrote:

DarthOvious wrote:

optimusprime14 wrote:My Furioso Dreadnaught. In the last 6 games I have played with him, he has killed a total of 2 necron warriors. And that only because he shot them. He has been shot down in his stormraven 5/6 times, imob'd 3 time, blown up 2 more and the final one he just didn't make it into the fight. This is all because 7 games ago he took out 28 Ork boys in 1 round of combat.

Blood Talons are brilliant. However it does sound like an incredibly lucky rolling hot streak you had there to kill 28 Ork Boys. Now what you do is completely punish him for aiming all his important firing at your storm raven by taking another unit that's going to smack him right between the eyes.

My friend and I couldn't believe it, I successflly rolled 4 to-hits and 4 to-wounds 3 times (12 dead orks), then missed 1 wound, and took out another 6 orks. Then I failed on1 to hit and 1 to would, however the last die just kept going!

That die has been retired now, it sits on a shelf.

Well that's the problem, the die needs to be brought out of retirement and your dread will reek havoc once more!!

Strike Squad 'Snake Eyes.'

It is a 5-man GKSS with Falchions that is the first unit I have ever put together for my GKs. I have used them in every single game I played with my GKs. They ALWAYS deepstrike.

First game everytime I rolled for them to come in they'd get 1 below what they needed (3 instead of 4, 2 instead of 3, 1 instead of 2...). Finally, turn 5 they automatically come in. I deepstrike them. They scatter onto an enemy unit 12" away. I roll my dice for mishap. It literally bounces OVER my Stormraven, off of a Lemon Russ, and lands on a Rhino next to the unit I mishap'd on.

A 1.

Ever since that day they have been given the code-name 'Snake Eyes.' They have always either not come on (Game finishes before they arrive), came on 2nd turn, mishap'd and died, or came on later, shot at a unit of guardsmen not in cover, fail to wound ANYTHING, charge them next turn, and still fail to kill something.

And I still use them every game, for the small hope that they will eventually make their points back.

Every newly painted model for me dies horribly or does nothing the whole game.

In my circle of friends vehicle mounted multi meltas miss enough that it has become a long time running joke.

Just about every unit in my army has underperformed at some time or another, but i can always count on my dark riders to outshine when it comes to underperforming. typically they get one turn to move and take a couple pot shots at something before getting wiped off the table. hell, im not sure ive even ever had a game where they survived til the end...

UsdiThunder wrote:Every newly painted model for me dies horribly or does nothing the whole game.

This is hardly unique, unfortunately! One of the oldest wargaming jokes in the book is that the first game you roll out a newly painted unit for, they'll do absolutely terrible. Unfortunately that bad luck hasn't shaken from my last assault Marines squad. However, I didn't mention that it was my assault Terminators' first game in my battle last week and they absolutely rocked it! I guess the secret is to keep quiet about whether or not it's their first game.

In my latest WHFB game my 50 point great eagle did jack. I could of bought another hail of doom arrow and another glade guard!