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 Skriker wrote:

 necrovamp wrote:
Was playing another friend on our group tourney only to have his cat jump up on his half of the table and knock over his army (it went everywhere) rather than carry on he said Sigmar (I was Empire) had smiled on me and conceaded defeat. I bought his drinks that night

That is an awesome way to deal with an annoying occurance.

I apparently seem to play games only safe and stable locations with mostly sane people. The only real story I have is of a total stranger saying to me and my opponent, "You guys don't date much do you?". I looked to my wife who was currently sitting on my left, and then responded, "No I don't. My wife really kind of frowns on me doing any dating." Left the guy flumoxxed apparently that some gamer geek could be married. The younger player I was facing had yet to kiss a girl, honestly, but my commentary saved his dignity as well.

Skriker

He was playing orcs and had a lot of huge banners and goblins up sticks and really cool conversions, so when one fell over the lot went. It was a priceless moment

I notice a lot of players seem to see the opposite sex as an oddity!

 master of ordinance wrote:

 zombie wrote:
Weirdest

Years ago playing AD&D where we got extra xp for staying character. It was storming bad outside. The store had three gaming groups playing that night

ME: I cast a darkness with "Klaatu barada nikto"
As i finished it all the lights went out in the store and out in the streets leaving us in pitch black darkness
GMamn the lights are out well we will have to finish
ME: (joking) No I will not back away from the fight I cast light "Let there be light"
The moment I finished the lights returned. The other 2 gaming groups cheered

I received a high amount of in-character xp that night

I could not have got that timing right even if I could try that again

I think this one wins the thread

Was going to say the same thing!

I had a Tactical Squad Sergeant, absolutely barebones, armed with a bolter and not even the Veteran Sergeant upgrade, shoot a Flying Hive Tyrant out of the sky and wound it twice. A squad of ML Devs then finished it off.

In another game his squad killed a mob of 8 Hormagaunts and a Tervigon in overwatch on two seperate occassions.

I am now modelling a version of that Sergeant as a member of a Deathwatch Kill Team. On a side note I have had some unbelievably bad luck ever since.

Things like:
-Opponent rolling 5 sixes in a row with Imotekh's lightning power
-Losing a Leman Russ to a single Lascannon shot on the front armour from a Combat Squad at a turning point
-Having a AASETH Chapter Master and 7 Sternguard lose combat to two Buzzsaw Dethkoptas by one, and then fail morale on double sixes, and run off the board

And that's just scratching the surface.

I recently has some fun with my old chaos marines. Took Kharn out for a whirl, and he ate up unit after unit. VS Space Wolves btw... near the very end of the game Kharn walks into 6 WG Termies and eats them all with only 1 wound left. I consolidate towards the next meal... and forget ALL about the Sabotaged Objective. Sure I roll a one, so it explodes, Kharn takes one measly str3 hit, it wounds. Roll my big fat armour save and flop down a 2.

Kharn strides across the whole field and wins pretty much single handed, and then gets blown up a IED...

Oh Chaos! facepalm

When playing a game of Necromunda, I put three of my Escher gangers on the roof of a building--only they start the game looking at a heavy bolter, so I decide to evacuate them. There's a part of the shack where they can drop only 1", so I have them go that way, taking a Strength 1 hit.

6 to wound, out of action.

6 to wound, out of action.

6 to wound, downed.

So three models down before my opponent actually did anything, felled by a three-foot drop! Must have been the high heels. Though none of them suffered lasting injuries, and one Survived Against The Odds.

I had a dwarf army chain panic and destroy itself.
A dragon landed on my flank, and the unit next to it failed its terror test, fled through the line of the army, every unit failed its test even with re-rolls from longbeards.
I lost pretty much the entire force in one turn.

I was playing warmachine against my friend one day a couple of summers ago. I was playing my lightning-heavy Nemo list vs. his Kruger the Stormwrath list. In the middle of the game we heard thunder so I checked the weather report quickly to discover we were under a tornado warning and it was headed our way.

Since that day we have never tempted fate by both toying with nature at the same time again. Nemo and Kruger shall never again cross paths.

Had a game this last friday, 5 players at 400 points it was gonna be a fun set up one of the players was playing his first game ever with nids.

Me SW
My brother BT
Necrons
Tyranids
and TFG at SW

This guy argued every rule, every call of how much of a cover save people got and literally everything that was said had to be argued. So naturally the other four players just stop gravitating towards him, we are all engaging one another having a good time and just not paying attention to his force tucked into the corner behind a bunker line (he set, we all set terrain spaced and evenly) played on.

Turn 3 it starts to smell awful around the table, the same guy is blowin it up and finger fething his nose out in the open, being gross as hell.
just obnoxious, he is in the corner of the board and we are all at this point just out of range of his las cannons and he starts to bitch and moan, complaining no one is attacking him and why did he bother playing if no one was gonna charge through the barren tile towards his bunkerd SW gun line >.>

Once in Mordheim, a friend hid his Skaven Asassin so well he forgot about it. For three games. We found it while packing up the buildings.

 snurl wrote:
Once in Mordheim, a friend hid his Skaven Asassin so well he forgot about it. For three games. We found it while packing up the buildings.

lol.
"they will never find me here. when they are asleep, i will eat ALL of the plastic cheese.

One day at our GW we had a really funny game, the redshirt decided to do a fantasy warlord battle. So it was the lizards, vs thorgrim hammerphanlanx vs elves.

Thorgrim broke the elves, and proceeded to chase them down. The lizardmen miscast a purple sun of Xerxses, at the maximum power setting with their great old one lord. Lost 3/4 of the unit of temple guard.


The second was a sad one. Apocalypse game. We basically had party poppers going off for every tank going boom. The opposite side had a warhound. It went critical, so the store manager picked up ten party poppers, blew em at once. Cut to the store manager running for the store water source to soothe his burnt hand and the fire alarm going off from the smoke, everyone laughing uproariously.

Pity he had to go the week after.

 snurl wrote:
Once in Mordheim, a friend hid his Skaven Asassin so well he forgot about it. For three games. We found it while packing up the buildings.

This used to happen to my scout snipers. I'd deploy them in a forest and forget about them.

 ds9lord wrote:
Hello dakka here is my question. the title may be weirdly worded but that was because i did not have the room to write it out. so any way my question is what is the strangest our funnest thing that has happened to you will playing a game of what ever you where playing that had nothing to do with the game[u]. anything you can think of that would fit the question. so fire away with your stories dakka

Amazing how many people seemed to have missed this bit....

Actually, I have to be honest.. I have no idea at all what that means

I think the OP wanted to hear stories of wired things that had happened whilst people were playing a game, rather than what had happened during that game.

if you read just the topic title and not the descriptive text, the contents could go either which way.

I have a couple stories for each.

I have a Grey Knight Purgation Squaddie that single handedly killed a... Mawloc? Trygon? I think it was the Trygon. Anyway, it pops up to a squad of 5 Purgation Knights, all armed with Psycannons(Either 4 or 5, can't remember). It shoots, and kills all but one of the Psycannon guys. He passes leadership. My turn comes around, and I figure I have nothing to lose, so I charge with him.

Trygon attacks, hits all of them. Proceeds to roll 1 To Wound with every hit. Knight attacks, hits, and wounds, and Trygon fails his armor save.

This continues on for the rest of the game, eventually the Grey Knight killing the Trygon last round of the game. To this day that Tyranid player refuses to play against my Grey Knights.

Second one was also against the Tyranid player, but I was playing Eldar. This was before the new codex. It was 1500 points.

I ended up tabling him 4th turn, and I had lost only a single model. That was a Warp Spider that killed himself. I caused 100% of the casualties that game. It was glorious.

As for the most ridiculous thing that happened not on the tabletop? I was in a GW in Calgary, browing at various boxes. Waiting for my friend to get back from the washroom. Some guys were having a fantasy game, and the one guy was using one of really nice metal dragon models. I can't remember if it was Galrauk, or the Orc guy, or something completely different.

Anyway, as I'm browsing near the table the guy accidentally elbows the model towards the ground, and I end up diving for it and catching it before it hits the ground. Guy nearly had a heart attack.

He bought my paint that day as thanks. Was only a couple pots, but still.

 PrehistoricUFO wrote:
One time I was playing at a local GW and we were inside minding our own business, when these three guys came to the entrance and shouted how we were all fething losers for playing with little dolls.

It was pretty embarrassing, as the store is inside a mall and the heavy foot traffic outside sort of all looked in to see what was going on. It's okay though, the guys were all very obese, and I'm fit and gorgeous.

I don't understand what peoples problems are!! Warhammer is a fantastic game. It takes a lot of skill to paint well and learn to play properly. People are just idiots and have nothing better to do with their time than make fun....

At the Bowie bunker in MD I rolled 9 sixes in a row, not in one roll either, it was magical. Good shooting phase.

 -Loki- wrote:

 snurl wrote:
Once in Mordheim, a friend hid his Skaven Asassin so well he forgot about it. For three games. We found it while packing up the buildings.

This used to happen to my scout snipers. I'd deploy them in a forest and forget about them.

I have gone through whole games with both myself and my opponent forgetting about hidden units.

Many moons ago my younger brother and I were fighting it out on the bedroom floor, my marines taking on his Eldar, about 2 turns in, no real objectives etc, we used to just play cleanse normally.

His Farseer cast one of his pyschic powers (fleet of foot as I remember) and just as he cast it the family dog burst in and sent the figures everwhere as he trundled about looking for something to sniff or chew on.

The closest I will ever come to seeing my entire army destroyed by a gargantuan squig.

 necrovamp wrote:

 ds9lord wrote:
Hello dakka here is my question. the title may be weirdly worded but that was because i did not have the room to write it out. so any way my question is what is the strangest our funnest thing that has happened to you will playing a game of what ever you where playing that had nothing to do with the game[u]. anything you can think of that would fit the question. so fire away with your stories dakka

Amazing how many people seemed to have missed this bit....

Or didn't care, and just wanted to post a funny story. Drift happens, there's no need to play thread cop because people aren't being funny in the proscribed way.

This is a club legend- i didn't attend at the time.

It was the usual Friday night fun and games and guess what happened...

a lady turned up and asked if somebody has booked a stripper! that brought the house down. A few would have liked to partake i'm sure...

I went to play VTES [its a card game, maybe the best one ever] out of my town with people I do not normally play at for a regional tournament, the prize is invite to national tournament for top 3 players, a year ago.

First round I get seated at position 5, another player with a similar deck is at position 3. I do not know this, neither does he. I have 4 different vampires in my uncontrolled region, I bring one out face up. Turns out the guy at position 3 was hoping to win the whole tournament, he won last year, and his crypt had 4 copies of the same vampire which I just played. He pulls his copy out on his turn and decides to contest with me and gives me dirty looks. If you contest something you both lose access to it, and give up a life a turn to continue contesting. Needless to say he lost the first round to another player at our table along with me because we both refused to give up contesting and bled our life out. He left the tournament after round 1 due to this.

My tire somehow was slashed, had a piece of rebar stuck into it, and had 8 nails in it when I returned to my car after round 2 to get a snack.

I went inside to ask about the guy who left, no one would give me his details as I was an outsider in their gaming group, and no one would let me borrow a tire jack. I walked 5 miles to get a tire jack from an auto shop came back and fixed my tire then left, never went back to that game store.


My favorite story is a DnD game story. We had a DM who was running 2 gaming groups on different nights. What he didn't tell them was they were both existing in the same world, so the actions of 1 would effect the world of the other and vice versa. One of the groups was talking to a friend in the other group and figured this out, and said nothing at first. They then told the rest of their group.

The one group that know created a fake dungeon, and seeded it with very weak undead and monsters they trapped and left in there, then put a severed human head decorated with gems and fake magic enchantments at the end of the dungeon in a trapped buried chest. They then went and spread rumor through various villages that the great and Powerful Vecna's head was rumored to have been lost nearby. For people who do not know there was an artifact in DnD called "vecna's hand" if you had a severed hand, however it may have happend, you could attach this artifact to your severed hand and it would work as a new hand and grant you powers. Needless to say the other group eventually heard of the artefact, the DM tried very hard to keep a straight face.

The other group easily overtook the dungeon, and then fought after the head. Two of the members basically killed another member, then they drew straws as to who got to cut off who's head to put the head of vecna on. After the first person was decapitated and the head did nothing, they thought maybe it only worked on wizards, so the wizard was decapitated, then the DM laughed and that gaming group was very upset.

During my Star Wars CCG days in Houston, a local radio station would broadcast live on Saturday nights at different local businesses. It was usually a car dealership or restaurant or something.

The game store I played at invited them to show up, and they did. Only, he never told us players and we had a tournament that day.

This was around 1999 or 2000, before I ever had a cell phone for picture taking. There were 2 or 3 "booth babes" that came along with them to hand out fliers and hats and gak. Damn they were hot. Also, they were loud and I blamed all of my losses on them.

A few weeks ago, I rolled a handful of dice (the regular 12mm chessex kind) and one of em finished it's roll standing upright on its corner.

It wasn't sticky, or in a hole on the table, or anything. It was legitimately balanced on the corner.

Occasionally I regret not having one of those new-fangled phones that do non-phone things, like taking pictures. This was one of those times.

Have you seen the film 'Inception' Darkness Eternal?

Greatest moment for me is having a squad of guardsmen chase terminators off the board with a single grenade launcher. In three turns this lone squad chased the terminators over 36 inches.

Not really sure how he failed that many saves honestly or moral checks.

I received an army of IG tanks that were primed OVER primer(s). I had one Russ vomit the rainbow of colors as I was scrubbing it clean. Brown->Green->White->Black->White AGAIN

Needless to say the entire army is much cleaner now and I managed to fix ALL of my chewed up tanks thanks to the utterly destroyed and half eaten basilisk I had in my closet.

blaktoof wrote:
My tire somehow was slashed, had a piece of rebar stuck into it, and had 8 nails in it when I returned to my car after round 2 to get a snack.

The other group easily overtook the dungeon, and then fought after the head. Two of the members basically killed another member, then they drew straws as to who got to cut off who's head to put the head of vecna on. After the first person was decapitated and the head did nothing, they thought maybe it only worked on wizards, so the wizard was decapitated, then the DM laughed and that gaming group was very upset.

That first story sucks. Sore loser and everyone let him get away with it. I wouldn't have gone back there either.

That second story is the bomb. Players killing players to decapitate themselves to be able to use the artifact. Laughing so hard at the scene of once allies attempting to kill each other so that they could kill themselves to take advantage of this "amazing" artifact. Hahahahaha. That is just awesomesauce!

Skriker

blaktoof wrote:
My favorite story is a DnD game story. We had a DM who was running 2 gaming groups on different nights. What he didn't tell them was they were both existing in the same world, so the actions of 1 would effect the world of the other and vice versa. One of the groups was talking to a friend in the other group and figured this out, and said nothing at first. They then told the rest of their group.

The one group that know created a fake dungeon, and seeded it with very weak undead and monsters they trapped and left in there, then put a severed human head decorated with gems and fake magic enchantments at the end of the dungeon in a trapped buried chest. They then went and spread rumor through various villages that the great and Powerful Vecna's head was rumored to have been lost nearby. For people who do not know there was an artifact in DnD called "vecna's hand" if you had a severed hand, however it may have happend, you could attach this artifact to your severed hand and it would work as a new hand and grant you powers. Needless to say the other group eventually heard of the artefact, the DM tried very hard to keep a straight face.

The other group easily overtook the dungeon, and then fought after the head. Two of the members basically killed another member, then they drew straws as to who got to cut off who's head to put the head of vecna on. After the first person was decapitated and the head did nothing, they thought maybe it only worked on wizards, so the wizard was decapitated, then the DM laughed and that gaming group was very upset.

Did they heroically fight a gazebo, too?

 Balance wrote:

blaktoof wrote:
My favorite story is a DnD game story. We had a DM who was running 2 gaming groups on different nights. What he didn't tell them was they were both existing in the same world, so the actions of 1 would effect the world of the other and vice versa. One of the groups was talking to a friend in the other group and figured this out, and said nothing at first. They then told the rest of their group.

The one group that know created a fake dungeon, and seeded it with very weak undead and monsters they trapped and left in there, then put a severed human head decorated with gems and fake magic enchantments at the end of the dungeon in a trapped buried chest. They then went and spread rumor through various villages that the great and Powerful Vecna's head was rumored to have been lost nearby. For people who do not know there was an artifact in DnD called "vecna's hand" if you had a severed hand, however it may have happend, you could attach this artifact to your severed hand and it would work as a new hand and grant you powers. Needless to say the other group eventually heard of the artefact, the DM tried very hard to keep a straight face.

The other group easily overtook the dungeon, and then fought after the head. Two of the members basically killed another member, then they drew straws as to who got to cut off who's head to put the head of vecna on. After the first person was decapitated and the head did nothing, they thought maybe it only worked on wizards, so the wizard was decapitated, then the DM laughed and that gaming group was very upset.

Did they heroically fight a gazebo, too?

Heard that last story before, the originals told it better.