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Oh, have I got one for this

Fateweaver deepstrikes in, scatters onto terrain, rolls a 1 for dangerous terrain, 1 for his save, 1 for his re-roll, and 10 for leadership.
2 Daemon princes that came down with him both got hit Imotekh's lightning that same turn, both get 6 hits, both die.
773 points gone before anyone's fired a shot.

/thread.

DarkCorsair wrote:Oh, have I got one for this

Fateweaver deepstrikes in, scatters onto terrain, rolls a 1 for dangerous terrain, 1 for his save, 1 for his re-roll, and 10 for leadership.
2 Daemon princes that came down with him both got hit Imotekh's lightning that same turn, both get 6 hits, both die.
773 points gone before anyone's fired a shot.

/thread.

I've read stories of 10-man Paladin squads mishapping off the table. It makes me giggle. I have played against a Daemon player who had almost every unit in his preferred wave mishap and die though, that was unfortunate but hilarious.

hotsauceman1 wrote:

lord_blackfang wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:So, In a game today (C:SM vs. Crons.) I had a whirlwind.
in 5 turns of fighting it did jack. killed one immortal and maybe 3 lych guard.

So about its own points worth of models?

Doesnt matter, Still did jack. those missles need a Higher strengh, or i,m buying a vindicator next time i face crons.
Would have done great if i remembered to make my opponent take a pining test, those lych guard may not have made it. or the immortals

It killed it's own points in models and could have been more useful if you'd remembered all it's rules.

That makes it rubbish?

To me, To win a KP game(which what the game was) it should get double the points. That is just me though. YMMV
But i got another, Two game in a row my DS Dreadnought gets deep into enemy terrain.
1st game, Someone shoots a missile at is rear AV through the drop pod it landed in(i didn't know you can shoot through open topped vehicles) it explodes
2nd: An avatar of war destroys it.
And in the same second game, a melta squad in a drop pod gets off the tables and earns my opponent 2 more KP

Pretty much anything i touch most nights, dice gods hate me seriously last tuesday, my GK vs DE at 1000points, hits 90% of the time (the rest being a psycannon rolling all 1s x3). Wounded maybe 20%. end of the game id killed off maybe 4 models with another 6 to dangerous terrain tests -_-

Abbadon.

Every game has failed at least two daemonic weapon rolls. The last game I used him he lost all four wounds in four consecutive assault phases.

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I have since switched to Kharn because I at least expect him to be a jerk.

I have a new one from yesterday where I was testing a CF list against IG that actually did something by doing nothing...A LRBT was immobilised turn one, turn two a vindicator lost its demolisher cannon so It started driving full speed ahead. It rams the leman Russ, does nothing to it and in return blows up. Then a razorback does the same, does nothing and gets immobilised in return... Great fun.

hotsauceman1 wrote:

lord_blackfang wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:So, In a game today (C:SM vs. Crons.) I had a whirlwind.
in 5 turns of fighting it did jack. killed one immortal and maybe 3 lych guard.

So about its own points worth of models?

Doesnt matter, Still did jack. those missles need a Higher strengh, or i,m buying a vindicator next time i face crons.
Would have done great if i remembered to make my opponent take a pining test, those lych guard may not have made it. or the immortals

So you're saying it did nothing because you forgot to make him take a pinning check, and because of this you're swapping it for a Vindicator, despite it taking about it's own points in Necrons (no easy feat, I may add)? Just play it again, and don't forget to make them take the pinning check. Derp.

In other news, my friend used to run a Bloodthirster in his Chaos Marine army before the Codex nerf. He played 3 games against me with it, and had horrific luck, one time it got killed by Gretchin shooting attacks, one time in a 3 way game by a unit of Gun Drones, and one time by two Stormboyz in close combat. We even nicknamed him Azaroth the Completely Useless.

hotsauceman1 wrote:To me, To win a KP game(which what the game was) it should get double the points. That is just me though. YMMV

If that's your criteria then at least half your army is going perform below-par even when you win....

In fact, all of your army could be below par despite inflicting a crushing defeat.

Ok, Maybe i was wrong.

Playing chess one day. Poor Queen couldnt kill anything without risking death

I am very bad at Chess

kenshin620 wrote:Playing chess one day. Poor Queen couldnt kill anything without risking death

I am very bad at Chess

Remember, in the game of chess you can never let your adversary see your pieces.

Well this didn't happen to me, but it was a member of my team doing a 4500 point six man team game, He took a fully tooled vangaurd vet squad in a drop pod with 2 Hqs, the unit costed close to 1k points, deep strikes off the board and dies. turn 1.

My chaos lord with a daemon weapon... i roll sixes for the number of attacks, and yet he hasn't killed a single model yet. My lord with power weapon has died to 1 plague marine because of lack of hits,

turn 1, a def coppa assaults my wave serpent with howling banshees in it, blow up the wave serpent, kills half the unit and they run off the board.

And last but not least, a 10 man squad of dire avengers assault a godfex from 4ed, and they stick in combat for the entire game. epic god fex fail. 175 points tying up over 300 points the entire game.

I play infinity..so i dont realy have that problem too often iust me using them wrong.

but in 40k deff has to be techmarine

I don't usually experience this kind of problem where it really injures my game. Often I have the opposite exprience where everyone scoffs at my command squad packed with grenade launchers. Right until they ripped the space marines to shreds, because, as it turns out, space marines don't respond well to strength 6 weapons.

I find my biggest "did nothing" usually turns out to be expensive weapons. That shoot only once. Like Lascannon..... I'll experience the same thing with missile launchers.

When I had my Eldar, my Fire Prism couldn't hit the broadside of barndoor, UNLESS the target was WAY on the other side of the board, or near it's max range. But get close especially inside 24" inch range of the model or so, and it would always miss. Even when my Farseer guided the thing it missed.

My Chaos army's Havoc squad and my TL Las, Las sponson Pred are that armies underperformers The 2 ML, 2 LC Havoc squad only hits infantry models...they occassionly hit the vechiles they shoot at but they never kill them. The Pred though never made it's points back in any game and often cost me games because it'd blow up like a dynamite shack, soaked in gasoline...on fire.

Playing kill teams.

I had a unit of 7 guardsmen armed with plasma rifles.

I went first and managed to kill 6 of the 7 with "Gets Hot" before my opponent rolled a single dice.

5 thunder-hammer storm-shield terminators walk into a bar.
HAH, LIKE THEY COULD EVER DO NOTHING.

FacelessMage wrote:Playing kill teams.

I had a unit of 7 guardsmen armed with plasma rifles.

I went first and managed to kill 6 of the 7 with "Gets Hot" before my opponent rolled a single dice.

My favorite is when a squad of plasma guns gets so many overheats that they take 25% casualties, fail morale, and fall back off the table. It's even better when it's in your company command squad.

My Thunderwolf Cavalry consistently underperforms, other SW players might be surprised to hear. Supposedly they're some of the baddest units in the game, but half of mine die to standard fire before reaching their target, the rest die a turn or two later. My terrible dice rolls don't help.

PapaPiggy wrote:Well this didn't happen to me, but it was a member of my team doing a 4500 point six man team game, He took a fully tooled vangaurd vet squad in a drop pod with 2 Hqs, the unit costed close to 1k points, deep strikes off the board and dies. turn 1.

I have seen a bunch of posts similar to this. Don't get froggy with 1k point units! On a standard 6x4 board, there are 8 square feet where you can deepstrike your models that are not within 12" of a board edge. This is a particularly unforgivable offense with Drop pods and spores that negate terrain. Just put the thing somewhere else. It is easy to get single-minded about where you want your models to go. Bend like the reed, and land them somewhere else. Fate will by necessity float your fancy unit right off of the board. /endrant

Brother SRM wrote:

Vaercathor wrote:Ork aircraft. The tail gunner cannot engage a separate target, rendering it useless.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume it's something that will change in 6th when we get proper rules for aircraft. The Marauder bomber also has a tail gunner, and I would assume that some other aircraft would get similar guns. Besides, the damn thing's not even out yet.

The Marauders a superheavy so all of its guns can shoot at different targets unless I'm remembering wrong.

In WHFB I've had my OnG Giant easily killed by a cannon shot more times than I could count (last army book, when he couldn't get a ward save). I have also had my general die on turn 1 by some basic spell my opponent hurled at him and I rolled a bunch of 1s for his saves.
In 40k, my opponent once had his entire army do nothing. Granted, it was Tau against my Necrons. At the end of turn 4 there was not a single Tau model left on the field and I had only lost 3 or 4 Warriors and 3 Scarab Swarms.

The Aspiring Sorcerer for one of my Thousand Sons squads would consistently fail to do anything. He'd either miss all his shooting attacks, or hit but fail to wound, or blow his own brains out with perils of the warp. :| Or he'd explode into a greater daemon... which would then also proceed to do nothing. We started calling him Kenny. "Stop killing yourself Kenny, you bastard!"

Then I was looking up Egyptian names for my Thousand Sons, checked the K section on a whim... and found Khentimentiu, which means "mystical god of the dead's destiny". It conveniently shortens to Khenti.

Also, my Chaos Lord, despite his ballistic skill of 5, always rolls a 1 to hit whenever I use the single melta shot from his combimelta. ALWAYS. He's not allowed a combimelta any more. :|

Then there's my poor Chaos Dreadnought. First game, he got multimelta'd into oblivion by Obliterators first turn, before he could do anything. Another game, he went shooty crazy four turns out of five. Didn't do anything to me 'cause I'd taken precautions against it, he was mostly just pissing into the wind with his flamer, but it meant he was way back on the board. Then, sixth turn, he rolled melee crazy! Charged madly up the field towards the Tau Commander... then rolled a one for his run and ended up less than an inch out of assault range. :| Gorramit.

Oh, and the poor daemon prince, who got stuck in close combat with a squad of plague marines. Was down to one wound, only one or two plague marines left! Got four hits, needed 3s to wound 'cause of the plague marines' T5...

... rolled four 2s.

Then I proceeded to forget that the wall behind me was cement, not plasterboard, and faceplanted into it. GG, self.

And to add more injury to insult and injury, said daemon prince then got powerfisted into oblivion.

/sigh

Flipside, there was the time an entire GK Terminator squad and their attached Librarian failed their leadership test from Land Raider tankshock, and were then chased off the board entirely by a SnP Thousand Sons squad.

That's just painful with the Daemon prince.

I've had a Baneblade do almost nothing in any of it's games. One game it took the better part of 1000 points of Tau off the board in one turn (Only 2 stealthsuits and one firewarrior were left, the firewarrior mopped up in assault by allied Marines and the stealths taken by a Techmarine in cc.) Every other game it's done nothing, part from being a massive fire magnet.

I had a Lord of Change get curbstomped turn 1 of a Planetstrike game by an 80 point Penal Legion Squad. The next turn my Keeper of Secrets died, partially due to THE SAME SQUAD. The rest of that game was sooo downhill...

Every railgun in my Tau army. I dont know if I'm cursed by the dice gods or something, but whenver i roll for either my hammerhead or my broadsides. its always, ALWAYS snake eyes. I dont think I've ever scored a hit with them.

Ironclad Dreadnought in a Drop Pod. Incredibly underwhelming and a huge point sink. If 6th edition changes the deep strike rules so that a unit can assault, this unit may become worth while.

Eldar vs Space Wolves, I'm the SW.

Rune Priest pops out of cover to use living lightning, gets perils.

Next turn, one shot from a ranger out of a squad of five hits and wounds, I roll a one on my 2+.

Proceeded to roll ones for the majority of that game.

Aprion wrote:Every railgun in my Tau army. I dont know if I'm cursed by the dice gods or something, but whenver i roll for either my hammerhead or my broadsides. its always, ALWAYS snake eyes. I dont think I've ever scored a hit with them.

Hmm it seems that every Tau player has terrible luck with Railguns.

I hit most of the time but then proceed to roll a 1 for penetration.