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Well it might have been OK if I was doing a nurgle conversion but it was a bit out of shape for Black Templars. A few years later I turned it into a burnt out terrain piece.

When the 3rd Ed. 40K rulebook turned all of my Deathwing Terminators with Lightning Claws into Terminators with Powerfists. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

3rd edition.

Finished painting up my 2,000pt Blood Angel army. Put up a shelf, had them all lined up looking nice. Cat jumps on shelf, whole lot hits the floor! Took a whole weekend to find all the pieces.

When the 6th ed changes came out and made assaults from outflank impossible, and nerfed fleet, thus ruining my Space marine Shrike plus Assault Terminators list.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

My most recent one was cracking open the new White Dwarf. I was anticipating the "Warriors of Chaos" update. I open it up, read through it a couple times, then stop by the restroom before I leave. I leave forgetting the White Dwarf, and have to call and have the game store I was at grab it and put it behind the counter for me so that I wouldn't have to waste the gas driving back. Ends up that instead of putting it behind the counter, they put it next to the public computer.
Came back a few days later, there's my White Dwarf, but no Warriors of Chaos update. The worst part is I'm the ONLY WoC player in my area (hardly anyone even cares about fantasy in the first place) so likely it either got discarded or stolen by an absolute jerk. Was not too thrilled.

Just completed a Black Templar terminator marshal. Was turning it in my hands to make sure I didn't miss anything, then promptly dropped it in my paint wet-pallet.

*sigh*

When I read Gav Thorpe's Chaos Space Marine Codex and realised that (in GW's equivalent of a Bobby Ewing moment) the Legions had never existed.

Something died that day...

The 1st time I played Black Templars back in 5th I planned to beat my biggest rival in a 1750 point game. My battle plan hinged on a mob of Crusaders with Grimaldus taking the midfield, a squad of the old gold Sword Brethren Termies with LC's, and an Assault Squad of 10. Grimaldus and his mob ran into a gunline and all died after some outrageously good rolls from my opponent, my Termies deep striked into a ruin and were destroyed, and my Assault Squad failed to deploy until turn 4, when they deepstriked right next to Belial and his Command Squad Deathstar. Thankfully my venerable dreadnought beat up his venerable dreadnought and contested the middle objective on the final turn, forcing a draw.

AP3, the lack of initiative bonus from Furious Charge, Bloodletters in general now...

This is not my NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! moment but I did witness it and nearly cried for the poor guy. I was at my FLGS and a guy that plays there normally came in with his BA army in

one of those clear plastic compartment trays. As soon as the walked through the door the kinda tripped on the door mat and his tray went flying and somehow while in mid air the lid

popped opened. Long story short the entire front of the store was covered in broken BA figs and bits and if memory serves correct he even did the slow motion NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I had just finished building and detailing my first scratchbuilt warhound titan, i had spent probably 20-25 hours setting rivets and doing other tedious detail parts, take him out to my car to take it to a game, go to open the door with one hand while holding the titan with the other, when the leg breaks not even a 1/4" above where i was holding it and the entire titan save the left lower leg falls 4 feet to the ground and explodes in more pieces that it was originally made out of and not a single glue joint had failed...it was so mangled and twisted i ended up just canning it, it hindsight i should have made a nice piece of terrain out of it...

 jordanis wrote:
I had just finished building and detailing my first scratchbuilt warhound titan, i had spent probably 20-25 hours setting rivets and doing other tedious detail parts, take him out to my car to take it to a game, go to open the door with one hand while holding the titan with the other, when the leg breaks not even a 1/4" above where i was holding it and the entire titan save the left lower leg falls 4 feet to the ground and explodes in more pieces that it was originally made out of and not a single glue joint had failed...it was so mangled and twisted i ended up just canning it, it hindsight i should have made a nice piece of terrain out of it...

Shudder.......

When you have several hundred skaven that need painting and basing........ Wouldnt be so sad but theyve been like this for 6-7 years-they where my first army. I have re-started them and am slowly working my way through them

I dropped my newly painted Kreoss in a glass of coke.

 jordanis wrote:
I had just finished building and detailing my first scratchbuilt warhound titan, i had spent probably 20-25 hours setting rivets and doing other tedious detail parts, take him out to my car to take it to a game, go to open the door with one hand while holding the titan with the other, when the leg breaks not even a 1/4" above where i was holding it and the entire titan save the left lower leg falls 4 feet to the ground and explodes in more pieces that it was originally made out of and not a single glue joint had failed...it was so mangled and twisted i ended up just canning it, it hindsight i should have made a nice piece of terrain out of it...

Yeah....I think you win this thread.

Not nearly as epic as that titan story, but I had just finished assembling the my first batch of Tyranid Gargoyles... the original ones.

After cleaning up a game, a friend knocks into their box, and they fall 4 feet to the floor. Every model survived... but not a single flight stand. Store owner let me stay another hour to try to fix it... lost cause entirely.

I haven't used gargoyles to this day... and still eye the plastic ones with some reservations, even if they are my next purchase.

I have 2 that got me pretty good.

The first was that i had all my metal models just sitting in a simple storage container and my friend wasn't looking and ended up tripping on it even though it was nowhere near where we were playing and tossed all my guys around the tile floor and broke 99% of my figures including some ones that you can't get anymore or were painted up with hours of work. ( I don't hang out with this person anymore )

The second was at a WHFB tournament I was using lots of 10man handgunner units in my empire list and fought elves with longbows who got the first turn shot up one unit of handgunners and caused over 80% of my army to flee and failed to rally so fled off the table. So at the start of turn 2 I had a group of basically 8 knights with a general and nothing else

>At my friends house.
>Finishing up a perfectly painted leman russ, the first in my army.
>Add a few finishing touches.
>Friend walks over to check it out.
>Spills chaos black, covering over 50% of the model.
>Moment of silence.

Darth Bob wrote:Game-breaking turn during a tournament. Typhus had to make a dangerous terrain test with one wound left. He failed it and died, losing me the game.

In one of my last games, we had 2 clutch moments. A furioso dread (with talons) wiped my lootas then charged my kannons and were locked. megaboss finally gets free and charges into dread... Rolls 4 1's and a 2 to hit... Dread kills last 2 grots in kannon crew, and boss fails morale by rolling a 9. (needed a 7 as lost combat by 2 cuz stupid grots died in another squad)... and I had broken my megaboss off from a lone boyz nob with PK who was killing a drop pod... so when he failed, had no one to bosspole.... Dread sweeps megaboss and owns my deployment.

Then in same game my 3 nob bikers and biker boss multi charge a lone marine, a CCS, a missle-less manticore.... Closest to closest gets 1 bike into CCS... then my choice for rest.. 1 PK goes to manticore.. the painboy to the marine... and the boss.. COULD have gone to the marine and not taken a terrain test... but chose to go thru terrain to get to the manticore to put his PK swings there (DUMBBBB ) and died to terrain.... Failing 4+/FNP.

Game was KP is why I was multicharging... Game ended 18-15 or something ike that... Had I not killed my own warlord... Would of been 16-15 >.< Then the megaboss.. 2 compounding facepalm moments. catastrophic! thats the way ya roll sometimes tho


heck in a separate game I managed to kill my biker boss punching a stormraven out of existence. >.<

ExNoctemNacimur wrote:This thread is making me wonder why people get cats.

I'm starting to think there is some truth in the theories that the parasites have real tangible effects on human behavior....

When I entered my room one day and my valkyrie was shattered into 6 pieces on my table. The flight stand it was on had also broken in half, and the top notch had also shattered off of it. Damn thing had some sort of supernova while I was asleep or something.

Spraying an aerosol oven cleaner onto a FW Winged Tyrant and watch it start melting.


Trying to clean the oven cleaner off with my bare hands and watch my hands start melting...

maskedman504 wrote:
Spraying an aerosol oven cleaner onto a FW Winged Tyrant and watch it start melting.


Trying to clean the oven cleaner off with my bare hands and watch my hands start melting...

Allow me this moment of roiling on the floor laughing myself silly Why on earth did you use a aerosol oven cleaner on a model in the first place?

that is quite the moment. Tyrant is now a oven.

Mine is actually not from 40K, but from when I played Heroclix some years back. I was running a big swarm of HYDRA agents and characters (robots, Red Skull, etc.) against an X-Men team.

I'm not normally superstitious about dice, but I have to blame gremlins or something for that game. I don't think I rolled over 7 on two dice for the entire game. My, um, "moment" came when all I had to do to land an attack was to NOT critical fail on 2d6...

...and you know what that means. SNAKE EYES.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

The Blood Angels codex...

The Grey Knights codex...

The Necron codex...

The actual games rules (6th edition)... NOOOOOOOOOO!


Find the link between all these and win a cookie.

 oni wrote:
The Blood Angels codex...

The Grey Knights codex...

The Necron codex...

The actual games rules (6th edition)... NOOOOOOOOOO!


Find the link between all these and win a cookie.

Mat Ward.

I'd like a chocolate chip please.

And my NOOOOOOOOO moment was a couple of years ago. It was winter, and I was outside trying to varnish my models (I was young and foolish) and I tried to open the door with my models on a piece of cardboard, and the door slammed into my arm, and my models went everywhere and smashed into a million pieces, and not only that got on my moms hardwood floor. Needless to say, she wasn't too happy.

I was walking out the door with my all Minotaur fantasy army heading for a tournament, now mind you this was when minotaurs only came in metal and were what $16 a piece....anyway as I am walking out the house my case (forget the brand, but it was suitcase style with a shoulder strap) has one of the O-rings literally rip off from all the metal weight in that army. Down it went. I cuss profanely and loudly for several secs....then a ray of hope hits, maybe its not that bad. Head inside, open the case and yup it really is that bad. Every model had at least one thing fall off, some imploded completely. Needless to say I did not go to the tourny and my entire remaining Sat afternoon was spent re-glueing everything together.

Yet another cat story...

I glued a unit of orcs together on my work desk and left for one reason or another. When I came back my long hair cat was laying comfortable in the middle of them toasty under the lamp. When I tried to scoot him off, he took 3-4 with him, they had become glued to his fur. I ended up chasing the cat around the house trying to get the guys off. The cat was freaking out too cause something was stuck to its fur.

Two models were totally lost, I never found them. One ork had a perfect giant tuff of hair right in the middle of his head. So, I painted around it and left the orc with his big doo.

Spilling 3/4ths of my very last bottle of the wonder that is Devlan Mud, whose like we shall never see again on this Earth, because I burned myself drinking tea while I painted.

Which made me stumble even more to try and save the spilling wash and pouring more boiling tea on myself:

NoooowheaoOOOOOUGH!!!

Also, first time reading the Daemon Prince and Tzeentch power list in the new CSM book.

To be honest, I've not noticed much difference between Agrax Earthshade and Devlan Mud yet...