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I once Used Vesoids. Vespids.

They suck.

But tactics wise, the stupidest thing I have ever done is once (I was feeling like a douche for this) I was playing a Mech Tau list (more fish than a sushi bar) and completely forgot to disembark my four pimped-out Fire Warrior squad. That's thirty str5 rapid fire guns that didn't join the fight, at all. After packing up my Tau (after losing) I realized that my forty fire Warriors hadn't even stepped on the board.

Running 2 combat-squaded Tactical squad and CC oriented Command squad + Captain across the table... yes I didn't use transports. D'oh...

I guess the other one is my ironclad in a drop-pod. I keep dropping him in without proper support and either he kills alot or gets shot and wrecked, like the time a dev squad with a lascannon blew his face off.

While it wasn't me doing it, I've seen an Ork player drive his KFF battlewagon with 19 shoota boyz closer to 15 BT terminators. The shoota boyz wasted 1 terminator, the remaining 14 promptly proceeded to vaporize the wagon and charged the boyz inside, turning their skulls into trophies.

Kevin949 wrote:

Vaeloris wrote:Shot at a Grey Hunter squad that was right beside my Land Raider Redeemer with my Vindicator. Needless to say the shot scattered directly on top of the Redeemer, and got a "Vehicle Explodes" result.

The explosion didn't even kill any Grey Hunters...

Don't feel too bad, I shot my liths particle whip at some nids...I was a little too close and it deviated back onto the lith, AP1 rolled a 5 on the pen chart. Ya...one of like 3 times a lith of mine has been destroyed.

Glad to see we are all in the same boat. I had a boomgun about to be assaulted by some rather hungry looking genestealers. SO I figured, theyll eat shell before they take this tank! I shook my fist!!!!!!!!!! and it scattered right back onto the tank. It blew itself up......talk about a mis fire


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im2randomghgh wrote:I once Used Vesoids. Vespids.

They suck.

But tactics wise, the stupidest thing I have ever done is once (I was feeling like a douche for this) I was playing a Mech Tau list (more fish than a sushi bar) and completely forgot to disembark my four pimped-out Fire Warrior squad. That's thirty str5 rapid fire guns that didn't join the fight, at all. After packing up my Tau (after losing) I realized that my forty fire Warriors hadn't even stepped on the board.

First time I used deffkoptas, I did the same thing. They sat on the edge of my table (the spot we designated for units in reserve, books tape measures and such) all game. Totally forgot they were even there. Would of been nice, there were a few rhinos running around I could of smoked

KingCracker wrote:

Kevin949 wrote:

Vaeloris wrote:Shot at a Grey Hunter squad that was right beside my Land Raider Redeemer with my Vindicator. Needless to say the shot scattered directly on top of the Redeemer, and got a "Vehicle Explodes" result.

The explosion didn't even kill any Grey Hunters...

Don't feel too bad, I shot my liths particle whip at some nids...I was a little too close and it deviated back onto the lith, AP1 rolled a 5 on the pen chart. Ya...one of like 3 times a lith of mine has been destroyed.

Glad to see we are all in the same boat. I had a boomgun about to be assaulted by some rather hungry looking genestealers. SO I figured, theyll eat shell before they take this tank! I shook my fist!!!!!!!!!! and it scattered right back onto the tank. It blew itself up......talk about a mis fire


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im2randomghgh wrote:I once Used Vesoids. Vespids.

They suck.

But tactics wise, the stupidest thing I have ever done is once (I was feeling like a douche for this) I was playing a Mech Tau list (more fish than a sushi bar) and completely forgot to disembark my four pimped-out Fire Warrior squad. That's thirty str5 rapid fire guns that didn't join the fight, at all. After packing up my Tau (after losing) I realized that my forty fire Warriors hadn't even stepped on the board.

First time I used deffkoptas, I did the same thing. They sat on the edge of my table (the spot we designated for units in reserve, books tape measures and such) all game. Totally forgot they were even there. Would of been nice, there were a few rhinos running around I could of smoked

On the topic of FF, I fired railgun sub-munitions which of course missed and hit my armour-less kroot.

Another one a friend of mine did:

I was BA vs Chaos. We were running a scenario where chaos used the Warp to DS onto the field as reserves. He DS'ed his Thousand Sons in assault range of my DC. I rampaged, wiping out his full squad of 10 marines in one phase with my 5 dc, received no wounds.

A friend of mine charged my fire warriors with his tac squad and...wait for it....kill no models and lost four!

im2randomghgh wrote:A friend of mine charged my fire warriors with his tac squad and...wait for it....kill no models and lost four!

Had a buddy who's Tau scout squad killed a squad of bezerkers, I think it was, in CC.

I saw a squad of fire warriors hold a squad of posessed marines for 2 turns and eventually killed all the maimed. In assault.

Oh, I also remember one time against my friend he drove his rhino up towards me, he moved 12", disembarked, couldn't move or run (for whatever reason), and he put himself right in range and clear line of site of my particle whip (this was his black templar army, I think it was his command squad or something, had his EC in it I believe). They were in a perfect circle almost. Shot, hit, made all my wound rolls, he failed his one invul save and I wiped the whole squad with one shot.

Assault squad hide and seek. It worked. hide them behind cover so they can't see them. Attack kill a squad then retreat.

Charged my destroyer lord into mephiston in hopes of stalling him for another turn to get my troops farther away. Succeeded in only giving him a 5" consolidate closer.

Played a game using the old Phalanx approach, oh what laughs I had with 3rd ed flashbacks.

doubled wrote:Hey guard blobs can win combat quite regularly if tooled up right, commisar some power weapons ect, but Acolyte you was cheated, the rerolls only happen if he charges.

Nooooo Ill remember that one for next time. I didn't realise he only gets the rerolls if he charges

Last night, tried to do a Space Marine Armored Spear. Vindicator at the front, Dreadnoughts at the sides, Rhinos in the center full of tac squads, and Predators bringing up the rear, with a Master of The Forge in the center. Heavy Weapons Teams and Leman Russes slaughtered me.

I had a friend that had a vet demo squad throw a demo charge, which went 6" scattered back 12" over the vets heads, onto the ccs, and killed every single one. Those vets are gunna get it.

Hmm, I'd have to say that I expected 14 lances could kill a single dreadnought without any casulties.

Coteaz + crusader spam against razor spam wolves, not my greatest tactical idea.

Crusadors are statistically worse than every other cc henchman avalible besides daemonhosts, because it's nigh impossible to figure out statistically their damage output. They have the same survivability as acro-flagellants, and 3 crusadors put out 2 less unsaved wounds than 3 acros. They are slightly more survivable than death cult assasins, but the assasins put out 3-4 more wounds than they do.

Ive seen worse. A friend of mine had leman russ squad with 3 russes. Front tank fires battle cannon at close range and it scatters back towards the tank squad. lands in the middle of them and hit all 3 tanks. Immobilies 2 russes and destroys 1. Because they are a squad one of the tanks destroyes it immobilised friend leaving one immobilised tank left.

This has to be the worst shot in Imperial Guard history.

There was the time a squad of slugga boyz outshot a Fire Warrior squad.


the Sluggas decided to fire their sluggas before charging.

one very wierd round of fire later the entire 12 man FW squad was gone and there was one very confused mob of boyz with nothing ta crump.

My Daemon Prince keeps forgeting to cast warp time,he really sucks without it.

My 3rd edition DE List I though would work:
DE Lord on a bike.
Mandrakes.
Deep Striking Scourges w/ Dark Lances.
And 2 20-man footslogger warrior squads.
I feel like slapping myself just repeating it...

I once charged a dreadnought with bloodcrushers. That was some stupid right there.

1. seeing Abadon being eaten by jaws of the world wolf.
2. seeing nightbringer being killed by cadian Snipers.
3. a manticore shoots at a unit of warriors, scatters, hits the monolith deadcenter, destroys the monolith
4. 4 terminators failing 4 armour saves

This new guy with a big army when he was against some orks, concentrated on deffkoptas instead of the main Ork Waaaaaaaaugh!

When he killed them, the orks assaulted.

Ow.

A lot


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Once I saw a C'taan turned into a squig lol

Running my foot-slogging FW list against manticores. Four manticores all fired four missiles in one turn=16 missiles, all got the maximum amount of attacks on the d3 roll=48 blasts=lost in a turn -_-"

AlmightyWalrus wrote:While it wasn't me doing it, I've seen an Ork player drive his KFF battlewagon with 19 shoota boyz closer to 15 BT terminators. The shoota boyz wasted 1 terminator, the remaining 14 promptly proceeded to vaporize the wagon and charged the boyz inside, turning their skulls into trophies.

See, this is a stupid tactic. Most of this thread is just forgetting rules.

DarknessEternal wrote:

AlmightyWalrus wrote:While it wasn't me doing it, I've seen an Ork player drive his KFF battlewagon with 19 shoota boyz closer to 15 BT terminators. The shoota boyz wasted 1 terminator, the remaining 14 promptly proceeded to vaporize the wagon and charged the boyz inside, turning their skulls into trophies.

See, this is a stupid tactic. Most of this thread is just forgetting rules.

What's wrong with this?

jbunny wrote:

DarknessEternal wrote:

AlmightyWalrus wrote:While it wasn't me doing it, I've seen an Ork player drive his KFF battlewagon with 19 shoota boyz closer to 15 BT terminators. The shoota boyz wasted 1 terminator, the remaining 14 promptly proceeded to vaporize the wagon and charged the boyz inside, turning their skulls into trophies.

See, this is a stupid tactic. Most of this thread is just forgetting rules.

What's wrong with this?

I agree what rule was forgotten? The guy just decided that BT termies couldn't destroy his wagon. It is 14 front armour so he wasn't that stupid.

The Acolyte wrote:

jbunny wrote:

DarknessEternal wrote:

AlmightyWalrus wrote:While it wasn't me doing it, I've seen an Ork player drive his KFF battlewagon with 19 shoota boyz closer to 15 BT terminators. The shoota boyz wasted 1 terminator, the remaining 14 promptly proceeded to vaporize the wagon and charged the boyz inside, turning their skulls into trophies.

See, this is a stupid tactic. Most of this thread is just forgetting rules.

What's wrong with this?

I agree what rule was forgotten? The guy just decided that BT termies couldn't destroy his wagon. It is 14 front armour so he wasn't that stupid.

he said the rest of the thread was forgetting rules.


this was genuine poor tactics.