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I forget many rules, but I do it so well I dont know which.

The first rule, to have fun and be a good sport.

Night Fighting. I specifically re-read them because of Necrons now.

rolling for leadership after assaults and shooting phases.

As soon as I take 25% casualites on a unit, I put down a pair of dice to remember my leadership checks. My buddies have started doing the same.

We still forget...

Synapse checks. I normally remember at the beginning of the turn, but I forget that they're not fearless during my opponents turn when I get shot.

Having to roll for Red Thirst at the beginning of the game, I forget ALL THE TIME. Not a big problem for my strategy but it's still a rule.

Murrdox wrote:We always forget Night Fighting rules whenever we roll up a Dawn of War game.

Every. Single. Time.

By turn 2 or 3 someone will remember "Oh we didn't roll for Nightfighting on turn 1!"

yes

Another one I keep forgetting especially with Necrons is that Terminators cannot sweep after combat.

Njal's Chooser of the Slain, I always forget that he gets to place it and even then I forget that he also gets D3 S3 I5 attacks!

Always seem to get pitched battle so much I don't even remember the rules for the other two.

rolling for reserves...

Right now, I'm constantly forgetting about all the extra rules that come with the gear on the royal courts. Not things like MSS or warscythes, but things like the assault move reducing stuff, what unit I shot at that is now in difficult terrain for their turn, forgetting I can make a unit take a leadership test instead of firing the flame template staff.

I also forget that some of my wraiths now have guns.

Forget to check for 6's on to-hit rolls with tesla weapons.

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:The rule I see most TFGs forgetting is the Most Important Rule.

I forget this rule all the time, but not because I'm TFG(that would be the Eldar player in our group).

I forget this rule cause the crap rules writing makes me forget that this game was ever fun.

I tend to forget that i bought certain wargear for my guys. i get on to turn five, glance at my list to check something and "well FETH these guys all had cybork!"

Not a rule, but both my friend and I constantly forget what turn it is. We get so stuck in and enthusiastic over destroying each other or taking objectives, we get to the point where we have barely any units and ask 'wait, what turn is it now?'.

Big Mek Dattrukk wrote:I tend to forget that i bought certain wargear for my guys. i get on to turn five, glance at my list to check something and "well FETH these guys all had cybork!"

Yay WYSIWYG! It has another purpose!

For my BA, I never remember to role for red thirst, EVER. My opponents always have to remind me,

Here's a few common rules we forget in our playgroup:

1. Repair rolls for Rhinos. We've had more than one game where an immobilized Rhino just sits there for the entire game.

2. No embarking or disembarking onto a vehicle that plans on moving flat out. Whenever turn 5 rolls around, someone always hops in a transport and moves flat-out to contest.

3. Forgetting to replace exploded vehicles with a small area of difficult terrain. This one is often just to speed up and simplify games.

+1 for red thirst. I've never played a game as or against BA that didn't involve rolling red thirst mid-game. Apparently a poor game mechanic since nobody are able to remember it

I also very often forget the re-roll granted by a wolf-standard. I'll say I'm using my standard and then forget to re-roll regardless

Illumini wrote:+1 for red thirst. I've never played a game as or against BA that didn't involve rolling red thirst mid-game. Apparently a poor game mechanic since nobody are able to remember it

I also very often forget the re-roll granted by a wolf-standard. I'll say I'm using my standard and then forget to re-roll regardless

I like how alot of these are Red-Thirst mechanics.

Be glad it's not like the old 3rd edition mini-dex, where you rolled for each and every single model in a unit to see if they join Death Company.

Orders. Especially since I run without a CCS, so my orders are already with a tiny range.

I always forget hit and run.
My poor seraphims get shreded because of this!

rigeld2 wrote:

Big Mek Dattrukk wrote:I tend to forget that i bought certain wargear for my guys. i get on to turn five, glance at my list to check something and "well FETH these guys all had cybork!"

Yay WYSIWYG! It has another purpose!

doesn't help. I've got nearly everything i use modeled, and still forget that its there. ive had rear armor open on a vehicle 3 turns in a row, forgot i had a 2 kombi rokkits in the unit. one is modeled being thrust up into the air.

I used to be terrible about remembering my ld tests, until I started making a better use of orders.

Besides night fighting in 40k I forget panic in fantasy all the time. There are so many causes of panic and I rarely if ever test for it unless i inflict 25% shooting casualties.

Rear charges, flank charges, friends broken nearby, friends destroyed nearby, general death. Just always forget.

-Loki- wrote:Not a rule, but both my friend and I constantly forget what turn it is. We get so stuck in and enthusiastic over destroying each other or taking objectives, we get to the point where we have barely any units and ask 'wait, what turn is it now?'.

And so next time you get a turn counter out. And then by the end of turn 2 you've gotten so eager again that you forget to update it, leading to exactly the same conversation several turns later with the added bonus of having to try and remember when you did last update it.

Additions:
Like a lot of people; Night Fighting for DoW.
Stormravens don't have Scout as standard (luckily I don't play an army that can use them).
Purifiers are Fearless, so taking out 25% of the squad is never enough (unless I somehow managed to take out all the psycannons, at which point I couldn't care less about the unit).
My Crisis Suit units are not made up of identical models, so I keep rolling saves for the entire unit before realising that I needed to roll them seperately for the basic suits and the team leader.
Which units have successfully rolled to come in from reserve.

I run a lot of Razorbacks, so when I run the Rhino, I never remember Repair.

Faith Points. I always forget to roll to see how many I get that turn, until I get to the point at which I'm actually going to use an Act of Faith - not too often, but I should probably use them more now that I'm playing much smaller games.

Cerebrium wrote:Orders. Especially since I run without a CCS, so my orders are already with a tiny range.

This is me all the time.

In fact I forget a lot of my IG shooting, mostly because I have so much. I now work my way from one side of the board to another, which is sometimes a little awkward, but at least I don't forget to fire the Leman Russ hanging at the back anymore.