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Sometimes dice are worth a picture.

Show me what you've got !

This one for 3 Obliterators taking 7 Wounds - or why 2+ is completely overrated:



And this one, because Snap Fire doesn't matter if you're 1337

Lolz i had exactly the same roll with my deathwing knights. 6 wounds, 5 knights, roll 5 ones. A 235pt unit killed the moment they leave their raider by ork boyz.

Lol, I should have taken a picture of my dice yesterday.

Tau Commander with Iridium, Stim, and Shield.

Failed 3/4 2+ Armor Saves,
Failed 1/1 4+ Invul
Failed 1/1 LoS
Failed 4/4 FNP

Out of every dice I rolled I only made 1 2+ AS. Opponent dealt 6 wounds to my unit, killed my Tanking BuffCommander and a drone.

I had a game where I fired a HBC into a Wraithknight and hit with the majority of shots thanks to re-rolling 1's and BS5. 2 rounds, hit with 22/24 shots and 8/8 SMS shots and rolled 0 6's to wound.
A second game with the re-roll on 1's and BS5 I rolled 1 to hit, re-rolled for a second 1 and got hot, then rolled a 1 for an armor save, followed with yet another 1 for the FNP.

Had a round with a unit of Missile Pod suits firing overwatch and getting 0/12 hits, following turn I fired the entire unit twin-linked at a flyer getting 0 6's out of 24 rolls.

This was during the end of 5th Ed

My opponent had a full squad of assault termies deepstrike in on turn 2.

On my turn, my shoota boyz gave him 10 wounds to save.

After rolling he had one termie for me to assault.

1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2 he rolled the dice all at once. if we had a camera present, there would have been pics.

"THE ONE TIME THE FETHERS SHOW UP BEFORE THE GAMES OVER, THEY FORGET THERE GAKKING ARMOR!!!"

Earlier in the same game, he shot at my truck, and got three pens with AP2 weapons. 1,1,1 at first, he is raging, until he is informed that, due to open topped and the AP2, that is still a wreck. (weapon destroyed, weapon destroyed transmuted to immobilized, weapon destroyed transmuted to immobilized transmuted to wreck.) and i roll on ramshackle-1 three ones on the damage chart turned into a crater full of orks.

Had a game this weekend, used Psychic Shriek on a group of Chaos Bikers, got 3 - 6's, killed everything.

Needless to say, he was pissed

Not really porn-ish but I've had a Corbulo assault Terminator squad make every single save for two rounds of shooting.

Two rounds of two 1250 point armies shooting them. Needless to say, I don't field them much anymore.

This, in a picture, is why you don't buy Chessex dice:



This isn't an action shot, this is how it landed. Three 1's and a die that somehow managed to land on its corner, being cocked on open table.

Absolute rubbish.

Eventually I got some new ones. If you want to see dice as porn, take a look at what I use now. I took a picture of these after I took them out of the package, I was so impressed:



Awwww, yeah.

Anyways, if you want something more like what you posted...

Guard vs. Dark Angels. Sentinel is racing towards some scouts, preparing to eat them in close combat.

The scout lines up his heavy bolter:



And lets fly. Three shots. Three hits. Rolls the die for armor penetration:



And exploded the sentinel in an orgy of violence.

So, out of curiosity, are there any other places to buy more fairly random dice in quantities suitable for playing 40k with? Just curious because I bought a new Chessix dice cube for a tournament last weekend (instead of the ziploc bag full of scavenged board game dice I've been using since time immemorial) and it sure felt like I rolled many many ones...except for deep strike distance, where I rolled nothing less than a 9.

 dementedwombat wrote:
So, out of curiosity, are there any other places to buy more fairly random dice in quantities suitable for playing 40k with?

I use the sharp-edged dice from here:
http://stores.ebay.com/G2-Collectibles-and-Hobbies/16mm-6-sided-dice-/_i.html?_fsub=2275928016&_sid=15728326&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322

(they seem to roll a bit less wonky than rounded-edge dice)

I probably wouldn't let someone use sharp-edge dice tbh, it is just too easy to palm them and they can damage some table surfaces. There's a reason why in casinos it's not a valid roll unless it bounces of the wall of the table.

One time I was playing my friends necrons with my deathwing and I had charged his canoptek tomb stalker with my DWK, I used smite mode and needed literally one 2 out of 6 attacks to send it to the grave. It was 't my day that day.

Well, that and the biggest problem with sharp-edged dice: it's not very difficult to ruin their sharp edges. And it's not just them getting slightly rounded by getting thrown at tables, there are lots of ways they can get handled and mishandled.

And the worst part is that they degrade in an uncontrolled way. You don't know which ones will get which corners chipped off or worn away. Having slightly rounded (or very rounded, like backgammon dice) edges pretty much just fizes this problem.

Anyways, my mid-range dice are from a company called Kopchow. They're not super science dice, but they're not chessex absurd, and their price is pretty indicative of this. You spend a lot more than chessex, but not so much that you don't still buy them in packs of 10.

Played a game the other day. I'm playing Tyranids deployed first, Space Marine opponent stole initative. On his first turn his Sniper Scouts shot my Dakkafex and out of 4 wounds managed to roll 4 6's, No more MC for me. :(

well, a couple of days ago i've played against a friends eldar army.

two particulary things stood out...

#1
my blitz bomma bombards a unit of 3 warwalkers and i rolled snake-eyes for the attack... but the burning wreck scatters directly into those same warwalkers and manages to destroy two of em... (that must have been a great sight for the rest of the orks )

and #2
i'd got a warboss on bike running with a big boyz unit, he left them during second turn to charge a unit of avengers while the boymob charged some puny pinky elves which thought they were a CC unit... (utterly destroying them in one turn)

the warbosses issued a challenge to make sure the exarch will die in the first cc-turn. my warbossbiker took a wound and then swung his mighty powerclaw to show those eldar bitches how proper 'eadbashin is done.

he hits four times... well.. and that's the dice roll for wounding:



but the story does not end here...

...making his LD check, he stayed in combat but his "luck" followed him in the next turns...
after managing to NOT kill 5 freaking avengers in two CC-turns... the rest of my orks had enough.
while the boy-mob who was watching its mighty leader fail to do any damage had quiet a good laugh, the nob had seen enough and CHARGED THE WARBOSS...


so i challenged my own warboss and long story short, in the following turn my horde had a new leader....

I once saved six 4+ invulnerable saves on my Emporers champion.. Against Abaddon in a challenge.. Then went on to smack him in the face and kill him.. Greatest day of my life.

I recently built an imperial knight and took it for a game. I faced off against a friend of mine who wanted to see how 2 riptides would fare against my knight.

So I stomp across the board, trying to soften up one of the battlesuits with my cannon. Sadly, all the damage I'm causing is saved. But it seems my luck is turning around! I had lost a few hull points at this point, but the closest battlesuit botches its jetpack move, meaning I'll finally be able to charge it!

So it's my turn now. I fire the battle cannon at the farthest riptide, getting nothing done still and then use the stubbers to make the closer one a valid charge target. I declare a charge, the riptide uses its melta weapons for overwatch... And I'm down to one hull point. But I'm charging! I roll the charge distance and...

Snake. Eyes.

I managed to survive another turn afterwards and got into combat, at which point the riptide that had melted my knight's face off elected to smash and took my last hullpoint. To make matters worse, what do I roll for the scatter on my deathsplosion? Boxcars. Typical!

This story will mess up all of yours and make them seem miserable.

I was doing a doubles tournament, (Quite a big one too) and we get invisibility on my buddies wraithknight. We are like "sweet, nothing can kill it now."

My opponent is like, welp, lets just do psychic shriek, cause why not.

Psychic test: Passed with two dice.

To hit: Rolls a 6.

3d6 Leadership: 665.

AUUUUGHHGHHHG.....

Later in the game he fires mindstrike missiles at my buddies laughing seer squad (In the new edition you can make a squad out of them).

3 shots: All hit.

6 five up invuls: all fail, they are dead.

Later in the game, after firing everything at my storm raven, they got two Hull points on it. Let's fire a krak grenade.

to hit: 6.

to glance: 6.

All that luck in one game.