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Hi guys

What's the most annoying army you've ever faced??

I will start off with today with my tau I faced a massive conscript army no matter how many I killed it didn't really make a difference and once the leman russes were dead I had to try to cut down these masses of infantry !!

And to make matters worse it was the mission were objectives were worth d3 points and his was worth 3 and the two I got were 2/1 I only won through slay the warlord hahah

some are frustrating and I roll my eyes when I see them, these include the doublefareer, seercoucil on bikes with the baron, 3 dredknight, 3 intercepter shunting army and so forth.
In general though, I dont find them annoying, I see them as challenges or puzzles to unlock.
What I find annoying are players and their actions and attitudes.
For example the one who sees my army is fully painted and flocked both to the point where every last models is at "special character" level. Their own army may be painted to tabletop standards or not fully painted. They assume i am some sort of "painting elitest". If I even mention paint jobs, to even compliment them on a detail they did or mention How I like a different scheme on something (you know gaming small talk to be social and to be nice) they cry "painting elitest", drop the game and pack up shaking my hand with some nonsense about not ruining my fun. This type of behavior and attitude I find annoying. To be honest, I dont care if nothing in your army is painted and you have green toy story army men glued onto bases so long as I know whats what and your willing to remind me if I forget and have to ask you to remind me. I'm just trying to be friendly so the game is not a silent stale affair. if you dont want to talk about the hobby while we are playing,bring up some topic of conversation that interests you.

Abbadon in an LR
Tricked out DP with iron arm, endurance, and Mutation, with -1 armor save and +1t starting stats, black mace, spell familiar, wings, DoTzeech, and probably more (t6-9 2+/5++ reroll ones FnP flyer...)
Helldrake
Defiler
2x5 Chaos Marines

I think that was at 1250? Truly terrifying.

DE in all respects give me the toughest time as a Chaos Player.

The amount of easy streak shots they can pump out just by maxing 1k points in venom spam and raiders is disgusting...

Tyranids.

MC Spam with Doom.

Gives me the hardest games.

2000 Points of all Orks on foot. I took my 20 minute turns and then sat there for an hour while my opponent took their movement phase.

1500 pt Eldar; wraithknight, farseer, and 5 wave serpents. I'm not sure what the troops are but dang dude. I have to choose, let the serpents slowly whittle me down, or pop a few of them and let the knight smash into my line. In that particular game I had some horrible rolling with my two riptides, yielding only 2 wounds in 3 rounds of shooting. But it gave my stealth team a chance to shine, popping the knight in the bottom of 3. This was however my first game with my riptides. In hindsight I should have played them MUCH more aggressively. I will also be using and HBC on one of them in the future.

Let me tell you: plain and simple, three letters, no more, no less, no interpretations, simple as rock, plain as food plate, clear as crystal, short and rude, and it's also a Greek alphabet! I'm talking about no other than infamous, insidious, vile, vicious, heartless, rage-inducing TAU.

Necron army thats always like this: 80+ warriors, 6 destyoyers, 2 monoliths, 1 Ctan, 1 Lord, annihalation barge.

I can kill the vehicles with ease but killing the infantry is rare. Always one left that lets them all stand up again. I have pinned necron warrior squads more than i have destroyed them.

I've yet to face many factions, but for now I think Tyranid MCs are the most annoying, particularly those who can get Regeneration/IWND. Or FMCs...

I was at a GW painting my farsight enclave suits and a guy asked if I wanted to play a game - I was tired of painting so I agreed to a 1k pt match.

All i had on me was 10 XV8s, 2 broadsides, and some fire warriors (I didn't have any of my drones, sniper teams or markerlights). The guy makes a list on the spot for his DE army - 3 massive squads of kabilite warriors with dark lances and 3 ravagers with night shields.

The game basically played out with me always being out of range with little cover in the mid-field. So if I wanted to get within range to hit anything I would need to fully exposed my crisis suits (with no drones to hide behind). I felt as though the game was a complete waste of time and I was only there to roll cover saves during his turn.

Space Wolves with IG and a ADL, Most boring game i ever played.

Screamerstar.

I have Eldar with a Wraitknight and Serpents, so it's not that hard to beat, but it's such a chore. It's like following a recipe.

Tau, Eldar Combo.

all the worst aspects of both rolled into 1.

prow wave spams. Riptides, you name it. all rolled into 1 like the largest cheese platter you could ever see.

Tau with necron allied detachment. Railguns and mindshackle scarabs, yikes.

Eldar serpent spam hands down

I have to go with someone at my FLGS who, back before the new Daemon codex, would always run 6 units of Tzeentch flamers. Doesn't matter what I ran against them, they'd just cut down everything that came against them with their ridiculous flamers. Guy always got stupidly lucky with his scatter rolls, too, I don't think he ever scattered outside of range (if anything, he landed just close enough to be able to hit 90% of the target squad with all three flamers).

You have no idea how overjoyed I was when I heard that flamers got smacked with a nerf bat, there is no fun to be had when your opponent, on his second turn, drops in a ton of flamers and wipes out most of your army in one big sweeping motion.

(Edit: And yes, I realize the irony of this as I sit here playing with my Tau, but I'll say this much, I generally can't take out 75% of an army on the first turn)

IG tank armies and tervigons.

Serpent spam with my Sisters, just crappy at 1250

Tau army where almost everything was in deepstrike and had lots of marine killing weapons. Had nothing to shoot at, then suddenly I'd lose half my infantry as 5 or so squads of suits DS down and shoot.

3/4th edition Alaitoc Eldar. Autoloss if you're infantry based, if not it's still friggin' Eldar shooting you.

Tervigon spam hands down, in every tournament I participate in so far I always end up fighting one and they are SOOOO boring.

 Tigramans wrote:
Let me tell you: plain and simple, three letters, no more, no less, no interpretations, simple as rock, plain as food plate, clear as crystal, short and rude, and it's also a Greek alphabet! I'm talking about no other than infamous, insidious, vile, vicious, heartless, rage-inducing TAU.

This. Tau just seems to bring out the worst in people (gaming wise). Most of the time when folks get nerd rage, I ask em to chill out, its a game etc. When they rage in a game against Tau, everybody at the LGS gives one another a pass. Most of the bitching about sour games was regarding Tau. The only time in my life I was so flustered that I felt compelled to cheat... it was against sisters. Psyke! It was Tau. I've yet to talkto any other 40k player who enjoys playing against them. I've never met a Tau player who ran something other than a gunline.

BaalSNAFU wrote:

 Tigramans wrote:
Let me tell you: plain and simple, three letters, no more, no less, no interpretations, simple as rock, plain as food plate, clear as crystal, short and rude, and it's also a Greek alphabet! I'm talking about no other than infamous, insidious, vile, vicious, heartless, rage-inducing TAU.

This. Tau just seems to bring out the worst in people (gaming wise). Most of the time when folks get nerd rage, I ask em to chill out, its a game etc. When they rage in a game against Tau, everybody at the LGS gives one another a pass. Most of the bitching about sour games was regarding Tau. The only time in my life I was so flustered that I felt compelled to cheat... it was against sisters. Psyke! It was Tau. I've yet to talkto any other 40k player who enjoys playing against them. I've never met a Tau player who ran something other than a gunline.

To be fair to Tau, all they have is shooting, so of course they are going to use gun lines and crisis suits for maneuver units. And almost every SM and IG unit I run into has an Aegis in the list, its very good for the points so I would expect Tau to have them too. Gaming tables don't have the depth they need to do true fire maneuver with falling back, so people stick their guys in a gun line. Its how to effectively play the units they have.

3 land raiders, 3 he'll drakes, abandon and a ton of cultists.

^^ Autocorrect fail.

Well you know what I meant

Shingen wrote:
3 land raiders, 3 he'll drakes, abandon and a ton of cultists.

to be fair, abandon's probably a better name for him anyway.

He lost 3 wounds to overwatch when he charged my guardian jetbikes in that game which made me chuckle.

The guy who taught me 40k's Blood angels vs my Salamanders.

I think between the two of us we lost 4 guys in the first two turns due to terrible rolls on heavy weapons and amazing saves against small arms fire. Then everything died and we wound up with nothing on the table but a scout vs. Vulkan He'stan for line breaker and a black raged furiouso dread against a three man tac squad who had lost their multi melta the prior turn. Both rape trains had no breaks... draws are fun...?

FM Argos