Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Worst moment ever... First time I played a Dreadknight, going second against SM; I shunt behind enemy lines so I can hop from assault to assault - it just means I have to survive being shot at by a single sternguard squad.

Sternguard squad's hellfire vs my dreadknight, 4 hits, 4 wounds; I roll to save, Four 1s. 200+ points gone, just like that.

Later on in the game, my opponent made up for it when his Orbital bombardment scattered back onto his vindicator, blowing it up. It was a big fail game all around.

First game of 40K

"Those terminator guys have shot me to pieces. But they don't have any swords or anything. They must not be good in melee. If I charge them with both squads of guardsmen, I can take em out. There's only five."

Abyssel wrote:My biggest facepalm. 3 zoanthropes and a full 9man ravener unit deep stikes 12" away from them. zoans go to warp blast a squad of pink horrors. changeling makes me take a LD with LD 10 from the zoans. They failed. 3 direct's 27 hits, and 7 instant deaths later...yeah..i was slightly upset.

Instant death from a S6 (edit: S5!) weapon against T4? Or was that an old codex or something?

Warp Blast: 18" Str 8 ap 3 blast

I charged Two Dreadnoughts with 20 Guardmen because i don't give a feth.

Losing Creed, a lascannon team and a Leman Russ turn one to Imhotep's lightning, then losing half of the rest of my army to it!

Let me take you back to a mysitc time in the 3rd edition of 40k. My drednought was immobilised in turn one by a chaos lascannon so I run my techmarine over to get him walking agine. I spend 3 turns and finaly get him repaired so turn 5 havocs lasblast away agine rolls a six my dred explodes with the force of sun taking my techmarine with him I told my buddie that it reminded me of saving pvt. Ryan when the medic is saving that guy and he get hit in the head.

I like how it seems in a lot of these the whole army in general fails, but there is always either one unit or model that consistently does epic things

Five paladins shoot, then charge, 20 boyz. Less than half the shots hit. They get in, botch hammerhand with an 11, whiff all but two attacks. The boyz swing back, inflict 13 wounds. Being paladins, they are set up for unique wound allocation, so 3 go on 3 and 2 go on 2. All three of the models with 3 wounds assigned roll exactly two 1s. I lose combat, roll 11 for leadership, and a 1 for initiative. he only barely doesn't catch me with a 2, and consolidates back onto an objective. The survivors have an immobilized Trukk about 17.5 inches behind them. They fall back 12. Only blowing up the Trukk with a psycannon stops them from falling off the board the turn after but they're now too far from the game-winning objective.

Abyssel wrote:Warp Blast: 18" Str 8 ap 3 blast

Page 62 of the current codex says Str 5, AP3, 18" small blast...

No ID there

Going death or glory with abaddon against a rhino...
and rolling a 1 on armour penetration :[

JohnnoM wrote:Going death or glory with abaddon against a rhino...
and rolling a 1 on armour penetration :[

Why did you death or glory a rhino with Abaddon? He's fearless and can just step out of the way anyway. That's hilarious either way, but it's not the smartest choice!

So I'm playing WH versus WD BA. I have a dominion squad with MM Immolator drive up behind his Baal Predator. I open up with 4 meltas, the Immolators MM and the Sister Superior"s plasma piston, and every shot misses or fails pen, and the Sister Superior's own pistol ends her. Next turn he opens fire and I loose all 4 sisters, and a random plasma pistol shot from Mephiston destroys the immolator, before he proceeds to charge into and wreck my Platoon Command Squad.

On the bright side, on the next turn my cannoness's plasma pistol blows up the Baal Pred, and on the last turn my Leman Russ takes Meph from unwounded to dead in one salvo. Still lost (since my sisters go wrecked by 6 different assault squads), but at least I did kill the 2 most annoying threats.