Are darklight weapons cursed? A strange case indeed...

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**=I= White-Wolf**

Hey dakkarites,
So after becoming quite accomplished with my DE, and reading many battle reports, it seems that many people seem to be cursed with the

when rolling on the damage table with darklight weapons (blasters, blast pistol, dark lance). Isn't it strange that 9 times of 10 lances will glance and roll a one or two on the damage table? Its kind of creepy really... Seriously read other peoples DE battle reports, lances seem to only shaken or stun vehicles! It's crazy! Is there some crazy curse behind firing anti matter weapons? What are your stories dakkarites? The ones were you fire 20 lances at an LR and only manage to stun it... There has to be some kind of curse going on here

**Praxiss**

in a similar vain....my meltas roll 1's to hit the vast majority of the time too.

**Lightcavalier**

2000 pts, 20 Darklances/Blasters, 1st round of shooting nets 4 hits, 2 glances, 1 explodes, 1 shaken.

Go dark lances!

**Brother SRM**

Considering how many times I've been completely eviscerated by Dark Eldar, I wouldn't say darklances are cursed at all! I've found that whenever I roll more than one melta shot at a time I'll almost always roll snake eyes though. Will be shooting one at a time from here on out...

**Crazy_Carnifex**

I find my darklights tend to "clump" results. As in, I'll either roll lots of high results, or lots of 1's. This sucks when fighting grey knights.

**DarthSpader**

I've had games where they explode everything they look at, and other games when they can't even glance, let alone inflict damage. Most recently, I managed to immobilize and knock a gun off a riflemen dread, and shake a rhino oer the course of an entire game. To make matters worse, my ravagers exploded if anything even just looked at them. First hit each one took resulted in a fireball. Managed to force the game to a turn 6 and lost by 1 objective (there were 4, had 1, contested one, other guy had two, but managed to grab the last one on his final turn, then withstand the entire round of shooting and assault, which he won...fricken dice.

**Gorechild**

I beg to differ. In the first shot of the game I nuked a Land Raider

Sure, Darklight weapons aren't as reliable as say a Melta weapon, But thats why it's quite easy to cram 25-30 of them into a 1500 point list

**The Crusader**

This is what I like to call Lascannon Syndrome...

" I hit! I need a 4+ to penetrate... 1."

Meanwhile the Dice God/s:

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Couldn't get the image to work...

**ZebioLizard2**

Need to do it better than.

**The Crusader**

every time I try to add a pic it always comes up with the damned box with the X in it. What am I doing wrong?

**ZebioLizard2**

The Crusader wrote:every time I try to add a pic it always comes up with the damned box with the X in it. What am I doing wrong?

If you use firefox, you should drag the image to a tab, if that works, copy paste the link to it, and than surround it with the image tags.

Like this

**Vendetta 476**

Or just click 'show full image' on the left hand side.

**The Crusader**

No I'm on windows

**DarknessEternal**

Lightcavalier wrote:20 Darklances/Blasters, ... 2 glances, 1 explodes, 1 shaken.

So well within the expected results then?

**Discodontron**

I didnt know that Dark Light weapons could roll higher then 2s on the Damage Chart! I thought that the rule book had a rule against it.

**Akroma06**

ZebioLizard2 wrote:

Need to do it better than.

This actually feels quite right somehow.

Well lets see assuming you want to destroy a vehicle...a 1/3 chance on a pen. Thats 3 penetrating hits, then assuming it is a 12 or higher facing that means you need a 5+ to pen. So 3 shots to pen. We are up to 9 shots now as only 1 of the three that pen will destroy. (Shot A has nothing, nothing and pen so on so forth) Now you need 2/3 shots to hit. So out of three shots 2 hit. So if you have 12 shots, 9 should hit, 3 should pen, and 1 will destroy the enemy vehicle. Then we have the over-abundance of cover with which a 4+ doubles the numbers. 24 shots, 18 hits, 6 pens, 3 not saved on cover, 1 destroyed. So honestly I can see the math. Dark Lances are not as great of a tank buster as people think. Hence the reason for the rule of thumb that you need one shot for every 100 points in the army as a minimum.