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"Any item that falls unnoticed onto the floor that is fragile and/or painful to step on will invariably land in a position underfoot where it can cause and/or receive the most damage."

So having just crunched a dreadnought that apparently got knocked off my painting desk, I was hoping to drown my sorrows in other's tales of Lego Law frustration. Do share, while I break out the super glue and pin vice.

EDIT: Damn...wrong forum...

stepped on a wyche once, the metal kind, its basically a ball of spike.

Was not an enjoyable time to say the least. In fact, if i ever needed to save my life from intruders i would imagine that my DE spread across the floor would be a good deterrant

Moving to the right forum--and giving a friendly bump after move.

generalchaos34 wrote:stepped on a wyche once, the metal kind, its basically a ball of spike.

Was not an enjoyable time to say the least. In fact, if i ever needed to save my life from intruders i would imagine that my DE spread across the floor would be a good deterrant

Heh, metal DE...GW's answer to caltrops.

AgeOfEgos wrote:Moving to the right forum--and giving a friendly bump after move.

Much appreciated sir

Stepped on a deffkopta once. Not enjoyable. Ah, well, no matter how bad I mess it up it'll just make it look even orkier.

I chopped the spike off of one of my Ork boyz helmeted heads. It disappeared into the carpet for two weeks... then I found it hidden in my foot

 DakkaHammer wrote:
I chopped the spike off of one of my Ork boyz helmeted heads. It disappeared into the carpet for two weeks... then I found it hidden in my foot

That would take some kind of Tactical Genius....CREEEEEEEEEED!

I know at some point I've dropped some Steel Legion troopers on the floor. Bent some Lasguns outta shape and hurt like hell.

Battle for Skull Pass Night Goblin underfoot. /thread

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Battle for Skull Pass Night Goblin underfoot. /thread

I had to Google that. Pointy little bugger, eh?

 Evil Lamp 6 wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Battle for Skull Pass Night Goblin underfoot. /thread

I had to Google that. Pointy little bugger, eh?

Thank God for cat-like reflexes. My foot started going down and went back up VERY quickly. Otherwise I'd have an addition to my body that really didn't belong.

At least once a meeting, I stab myself with my elf spearmen getting them out of the case.

Of course, I DID replace all the plastic spears with metal (steel ones) with real points, so that was bound to happen.

I've never stepped on a miniature with bare feet though. Plenty of lego, though.

Stepped on quite a few models whilst wearing boots. I never noticed that I stepped on them. Too bad for them. Live and learn, sweep up the bits and move on.

"Hey, I lost my fire warrior anyone se........CRUNCH"
"Nevermind, found it"

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Battle for Skull Pass Night Goblin underfoot. /thread

While quite pointy they pale in comparison to the blood drawing capabilities of the old 4th edition starter box goblin spearmen. Even simply moving that unit was enough to impale a finger if you weren't careful.

 Evil Lamp 6 wrote:
That would take some kind of Tactical Genius....CREEEEEEEEEED!

Freggin Creed. Must've let the spike go into reserve and outflank

Having travelled a fair bit of the world, and stepped on many plugs. I have to say, untill you have stepped (or rolled out of bed and landed hip first on one, literally had to unplug my self) on a UK plug. You do not know the meaning of pain.

Kind of a weird one for me. I had just finished painting my new plastic flying hive tyrant. somehow it fell on the ground, and I stepped on it at just the right angle so only the left leg broke off, at the hip joint, and decided the center of my foot needed yet another awkward puncture-wound scar

Not really on the same level of some of these, but I always dread taking my Kroot out of the case. Between the head spikes and the blades on the rifles I'm assured to get myself a couple of times.

Strange because the spikes are really awkwardly placed for stabbing, but they always seem to be exactly where I try to grab the model and pick it up.

Not a 40k one, but:

Ever lost a D4? Worst thing ever to step on. Especially when somebody has a set of metal dice...

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Battle for Skull Pass Night Goblin underfoot. /thread

One of the old staffers at the local GW wasn't paying much attention about where he was about to lean near the demo table... Entire hand went palm first into the regiment of Skull Pass Night Gobbos!

Then of course there was the former manager who (politely) asked a parent to remove their kid from the store, as Little Timme was highly contagious with pink eye and had been manhandling the 40k demo table...
Then the manager went and put everything back in it's proper place...
And came down with pink eye a couple days latter because he hadn't washed his hands or even sprayed a disinfectant over the demo table.

Our local staffers as times weren't known for their intelligence.

 chromedog wrote:
Stepped on quite a few models whilst wearing boots. I never noticed that I stepped on them. Too bad for them. Live and learn, sweep up the bits and move on.

Yeah, I generally have a pretty light step, but was wearing clunky work boots at the time. I probably would not have thought about it much if it were not for the loud crack it made. It's just that sound that you instantly recognize as hours of work getting kicked in a sensitive spot.

I gave a few of my Necromunda gangers spikes on their shoulders, wrists, or heads using real pins and/or needles, and I've gotten stabbed by them a few times.

My mates Terminator sergeant leapt off the table once and rolled under my foot while I was in mid step. Suicidal terminator sergeants hurt like hell when youre barefoot.

Didn't step on, however:

I picked up one of the old metal deff dreads. For some reason I put the bull horns from some ork kit on the top. Now, when not at work I am either barefoot or where minimalist shoes (vibram 5 fingers). Well, kids running through the house, bump the table, and the deff dread falls, horn into my foot. Painful. Best part, the super glue held. So, there I was, deff dread stuck on the top of my foot.

 generalchaos34 wrote:
stepped on a wyche once, the metal kind, its basically a ball of spike.

Was not an enjoyable time to say the least. In fact, if i ever needed to save my life from intruders i would imagine that my DE spread across the floor would be a good deterrant

caltrops? nope.... DE

I always spike myself getting hormagaunts or my Tyrgon out of their boxes.

I stepped on a d4 I had previously dropped on the floor. Those things always land pointy end up due to their shape. Ouch.

I once saw someone (accidentally) push a rather sizeable tape measure from a table onto a 20 strong unit of old metal Stormvermin that was on the floor below.

Shrapnel everywhere...

Wasn't 40k, but if any of you are warmachine players, you'll feel my pain.

The night before a hardcore tourney (fully painted / assembled / based format), as i'm getting up from the painting table, i bump the mat that i keep my paints, and newly painted models (waiting for them to dry so that i can seal them up).

The tourney was the whole reason i went to this particular con, and spent money on the registration, etc...

... so i bump the table... which has a full unit of Nyss hunters (10), that are all at least 7-8 pieces, except one who's only 5.

All of them tumble to the floor, explode into pieces, and as the floor is made of concrete and the paint on most of them is still tacky, yep, paint finishes marred. I spent the next twenty minutes just finding the damn pieces strewn about the floor.

FREAKING out, because the models are inspected prior to registering for the tourney, i stay up until 4 am getting them back into somewhat presentable shape.

That was friggin' hell. What was worse is, and maybe this is a mental thing, but i NEVER got them painted to a degree that I was as happy with pre-accident (and i worked on them post-tourney as well).

 Eldarain wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Battle for Skull Pass Night Goblin underfoot. /thread

While quite pointy they pale in comparison to the blood drawing capabilities of the old 4th edition starter box goblin spearmen. Even simply moving that unit was enough to impale a finger if you weren't careful.

I know someone who fell on a unit of these. Wasn't pretty.

Knocked my old metal Bjorn the Fell-Handed off the table once and could only watch in what seemed to be painful slow motion as it broke apart.
On another note, I have to re-glue at least one arm or spiky shoulder bits from my metal SM and CSM termies after a game...battle damage.