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Cptn. Waaagh! wrote:Ya sure...

BOMB SQUAD: You're under arrest for trying to blow up a train.

INNOCENT 40K PLAYER: But...but...

With a tag, they might not NEED to call the bomb squad. That's kind of the POINT of having a tag -- you WANT to be associated with it, in case it's left.

KingCracker wrote:Just so you all know, I punted the cat by his face, across my living room.
God I hate pets

Just so YOU know...

That completely made my day worthwhile

When I stepped on it with my heavy boot.

IvanTih wrote:When I stepped on it with my heavy boot.

You crushed it under your inquisitorial boot? (DoW reference, those who get it get an internet euro)

metallifan wrote:

KingCracker wrote:Just so you all know, I punted the cat by his face, across my living room.
God I hate pets

Just so YOU know...

That completely made my day worthwhile

I aim to please

Norbu the Destroyer wrote:I did not witness it myself but I talked to the guys friend and he says it happened. A friend of mine was at 'Ard Boyz championships this year and he played against a Deamon player. The Deamon player was massacred. This was being held at the Battle Bunker in Chicago.
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I dont know the details of how it happened, but an army was destroyed nonetheless.

The tables at the bunker were brought in from elsewhere. Some had lips, but others just had a surface on top of a frame. If the surface got pushes a little, either forwards or backwards, it would slide off the frame and down. Bad design flaw, a simple middle rail would prevent this. I saw this happen, and was about to post that it was the worst I've seen too. What's worse is that it wasn't the first time it happened there - I had a box of parts on one of those tables a month or so earlier and someone budged it, my parts went all over the floor. Fortunately, I found them all, with the help of some other shocked onlookers.


The worst model breakage I've personally experienced was during the Adepticon Gladiator in '07. First round, I get matched up against Bill Kim, my Orks (3rd ed) versus his Night Lords. My (highly converted) warboss on a bike was on the other side of a forest, near the edge of the table, from his biker unit - almost exactly 18". I wasn't sure if it was in charge range on my turn, so I opted to sit there and allow the forest to block line-of-sight (as it did in those days). His turn, he also isn't sure, and decides not to move his bikers to assault my warboss. (we measured after he made this decision, and found that it would have been in-range for a charge, but by a fraction of a millimeter, so we both missed that charge opportunity). Anyhow, later that turn, he comes around the table to check something out from my side, and as he leans over the table, his name badge, on the neck-strap that they come with, catches my warboss as he's standing back up and sweeps him onto the floor. :(

Ever since, I refuse to wear neck-strap nametags while gaming, and ask my opponents to remove theirs too.

IronChaos wrote:I do not how it happened, but one day I opened my army box and then I saw that one of my non-painted SM motorists had been divided by the middle. Melted by his CSM box-partners? Only the Emperor knows...

My IG army had lain dormant in it's case for about a year, and when I opened it up, I discovered that one of my ratling snipers had had his barrel bent back 180 degrees. The weirdest bit was that the paint was completely undamaged.

As for the detonated army case stories, that's all that they are. None of them really hold up that well to scrutiny. The last time it popped up, it was a guy talking about his mate's DE army, which he left in his seat while he went to get a snack or something, and which was then detonated due to the suspiciously high metal content when it was x-rayed. Of course, for that story to have worked it would've required the teller to sit there and watch while all this was going on and say nothing, and for the owner to have never said, 'hey, wait a second, that's mine!'

This isn't really the worst break i've ever seen, in my models or anyone elses. This is more or less a story of karma. If you think way way back to Third Ed. They had a christmas box set with the rules, the black templars and dark eldar. GW stuck into this box a special edition space marine captain figure. Well needless to say over the years, my gaming group at the local shop, pretty much everyone had one of these figs. I never got one. I worked at this shop when I was in high school, when i was in college and even a little bit before i got married. Meanwhile its been like ten years later.... i was helping out at the shop, moving boxes around etc etc. I discovered a box with a bunch of old mini's in it, in various stages of completion/paint job. I also found still in its plastic... a special edition space marine captain!!
Boy did I ever want that figure!! I of course showed it to the shop owner who was like I sell it to you for like 10 bucks. I was like oh c'mon! And I eventually talked him into just giving me the figure. I was so excited!! I finally got that old school marine captain!!! I of course had to run home and glue him together as fast as I could.
I got him all glued together and i just had him sitting on my kitchen table... then my daughter started walking. he met the hard wood floor (mind you the condo we lived in at the time was ALL hard wood floor), he was not painted, so it wasn't really that big of a deal.
After the re-gluing, i primed him to prep him for paint. My brother in law came over and picked him up, and broke the banner pole.....
Once again I did some more re-gluing. Then about a week later My brother in law was over again.... and dropped him on the floor ((mind you each time he picked him up he asked if her could and i said yes)) the gun broke, the banner broke.
this time glue and green stuff.
finally i brought him down to the shop to play a game, just to give him a test drive. he broke in my GW case, the ONLY time i have ever had a fig break in a GW case. I had to pin his gun hand back on.
Recently (the other day) I had him out again... doing some more painting, and sure enough, my now two year old, picks him up and breaks off the servo skull i had on added to his base. My wife in an effort to conceal this.... glued it back on backwards.....
To this day the shop owner says I conned him outta that mini... i think he was right.

A few years ago when I had my Space Marine army I had pu them all in a nice case going to the store.
I put it down to go to the bathroom just in time to get it run over by my ride.
I now I play Orks only one tank survived

Worst ever?

Not really a break but a veritable miniature holocaust. About 12 years ago, the store in which I gamed had only one long-term parking lot, which was across a 4-lane main road. Luckily, you have a light, so you can cross. So everyone used to park in the lot across the street to get to the store.

One Winter day, one of the regulars was carrying his IG army across the road. It was several tanks, lots of infantry...basically a ton of stuff even for 2nd edition. He hit a patch of ice crossing the street. He was carrying all of his stuff in a 40k cardboard boxed set that was open, basically a giant tray. If any of you had 2nd edition, you'll remember the big old box that it came in.

Anyway, he trips on the snow that was shoveled up to the sidewalk, and catapults his minis cross both lanes of traffic. He got up and the light changed, and people that were waiting at the light in the close lane seemed to have stopped, but about a third of his models ended up on the far side right in oncoming traffic, and became little Imperial Pancakes, smashed into the snow with bits littering the sludgy, dark snow on the sidewalk.


Worst break ever.

NuggzTheNinja wrote:Worst ever?

Not really a break but a veritable miniature holocaust. About 12 years ago, the store in which I gamed had only one long-term parking lot, which was across a 4-lane main road. Luckily, you have a light, so you can cross. So everyone used to park in the lot across the street to get to the store.

One Winter day, one of the regulars was carrying his IG army across the road. It was several tanks, lots of infantry...basically a ton of stuff even for 2nd edition. He hit a patch of ice crossing the street. He was carrying all of his stuff in a 40k cardboard boxed set that was open, basically a giant tray. If any of you had 2nd edition, you'll remember the big old box that it came in.

Anyway, he trips on the snow that was shoveled up to the sidewalk, and catapults his minis cross both lanes of traffic. He got up and the light changed, and people that were waiting at the light in the close lane seemed to have stopped, but about a third of his models ended up on the far side right in oncoming traffic, and became little Imperial Pancakes, smashed into the snow with bits littering the sludgy, dark snow on the sidewalk.


Worst break ever.

For the rest of us: this is a very, very good reason to buy a nice, sturdy case...and learn to keep your grip on your models when you hit a patch of ice, rather than catapult them into traffic.

Helping a friend to deploy like a 60 pound box of his dad's figures and terrain so it can all be primed. Were carrying the box -barerly- and were almost there smiling at our own strength when the bottom of the box falls away and were left with over $2000 of stuff and a very angry man...... I learned 3 new words that day!

I watched a all metal space marine techpriest jus fall of the table and smash all over the floor. A pretty sad sight but luckily it wasnt mine so may the emporer save my soul.