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What was your dumb mistake in using a new model, the most memorable.

First time I used my stompa, it got stuck in combat with a necron lord on a chariot till turn 5. All the boyz around it got blasted and thanks to mob rule fled like cowards. So not only did I forget its secondary d weapon stomp attacks that might have got me out turn 2, but I forgot that all the boys are fearless around it. Roughly half my armies points went into this thing, and I dident even use it right. What hurt more was in the first turn the only thing it managed to kill was a single wraith, because of 3+ invuns. Oh also second shot with the supa gattla I rolled double 2s. Not a single shot hit from that at all.

Forgetting Vector Strike with my flying daemons, and forgetting that Smash not grants all attacks AP 2.

The first time I used my buggies I forgot that their weapons were TL.

They shot two turns, did absolutely nothing,and they got destroyed. And I was thinking to myself, Man, these things are terrible.

Then I realized they are TL later that day. How foolish of me.

The first time I tried out my homebrew Tomb Guardian with its proper model, I deployed it too far forward and it got glassed by one of those cheating DEldar guns on turn one before it even got to move.

Walking my entire termies force into a looted wagon I did not realise had a massive demolisher cannon.

Bye bye some 25% of force :-(

I was using a pre heresy world eaters list against a turtle list with loads of psykers. Had a storm eagle, didn't put Kharn in it, and he ended up getting wiped out before he was in charge range...

How's this one? Against my Necrons, someone put a Spartan Assault Tank right at the front of their deployment zone, directly opposite a scarab farm...

Forgetting rapid fire on Firewarrior Pulse Rifles......

Didn't realise that the double-barrelled turbo-laser destructors on my titan could fire twice, despite being, you know, double-barrelled /facepalm

I thiought thrust move (on crisis suits and stealths) was a d6 instead of 2d6.

I spent years thinking Plasma was AP3. Made a Guard army that is 99% plasma guns and only recently ish did I learn that Plasma was AP2.

After nearly a decade in the hobby...

So many terminators lived because of that.

Walking toward an enemy squad with Grey Hunters and after taking some losses deciding a better idea would be to walk back the same way I came before reversing the decision and going forwards again.

 Swastakowey wrote:
I spent years thinking Plasma was AP3. Made a Guard army that is 99% plasma guns and only recently ish did I learn that Plasma was AP2.

After nearly a decade in the hobby...

So many terminators lived because of that.

That sounds like 10 years of less than honorable opponents to me.

 Eldarain wrote:

 Swastakowey wrote:
I spent years thinking Plasma was AP3. Made a Guard army that is 99% plasma guns and only recently ish did I learn that Plasma was AP2.

After nearly a decade in the hobby...

So many terminators lived because of that.

That sounds like 10 years of less than honorable opponents to me.

My main opponent (the dice odyssey guy) also thought the same.

We learned at the same time haha. Im sure the other people I have played over the years may have kept the rule from me, but at the end of the day... I probably should have checked...

Using a bombing run in the shooting phase so my guns could never see the unit I was shooting at

Deepstriking Abby in his first game inside a full unit of termies, in front of a looted wagon of burna boyz.

That was in 2010. His reputation never recovered.

Casualty rate: 100%.

First time fielding Eldar at 500pts I charged in as if I were playing my old Tyranids, Falcon got destroyed Turn 2 by a pair of Plasma Guns and lucky dice, the Dire Avengers inside were wiped out Turn 3 after they couldn't hide in a bush properly and all in all, half my Army was gone because I didn't play to the superior range of the Falcon weapons... Now I have Rangers and things are looking up as I wise up and move into 750pts.

Still managed a win thanks to a Wave Serpent though and minimal enemy anti armor.

Not new models but new rules blunder. I was using GH right after 7th came out and I was still taking leadership tests for my counter attacks. I lost 2 very close league games where I failed all my counter attacks due to this. Then I read that I didn't need to take a Ld test. I didn't lose another league game. Also, my first game with the new SW codex, I forgot about the FNP bubble Ulrik provides. Luckily I only lost a couple GH out of that squad the whole game. The biggest new model mistake ever is buying an expensive vehicle, not using magnets for the weapons, and then realizing your current weapon loadout isn't working. I hate ripping models apart.

Running large Chaos Marine lists (north of 2000 pts usually) where all the infantry are marked by Slaanesh and equipped with Icons of Excess, yet rolling no Feel No Pain saves for the game...

In my first game with my Imperial Knight, I shot a couple Marines dead and then charged an Ironclad Dreadnought, who promptly wiped the floor with the Knight. I remember being very tired and out of it, which is probably a large part of why I made an otherwise sort of obvious mistake.

First time I used St Celestine I forgot that she has Fearless. She lost a combat, failed leadership and ran off the board.

Also, Never using Heavy flamers because of how useless a Heavy template weapon is on my SoB.

I did that one, Madcat. ^^; Heavy Flamers are Heavy, right?

... no, no, they're not.

SM Scout Bikers only have a 4+ armor save - I had for some reason assumed that SM Bikes conferred a 3+ save (sort of like Eldar Jetbikes). I had bought them under that impression (to use as cheap mobile scoring units), and even played a couple games that way, accidentally giving myself an advantage.

Back when you could outflank an entire platoon with Al'Rahem I was completely unaware that you could combine infantry squads...outflanked into a group of marines that promptly murdered them.

Also, figuring that my Leman Russ battle tank wasn't going to deviate into the large squad of guys running after a land speeder, I opted to fire at the speeder, hoping for a swift victory. It deviated back on to the squad, something like 15 casualties.

+1 for forgetting to roll FNP on a large pile of Noise Marines w/Icon.

Definitely made a mistake spending ~450pts on a unit of Chaos Terminators & Chaos Lord in a 1500pt game. Then Deep Striking them, getting a mishap, and for all intents and purposes teleporting into the bottom of a nearby ocean.

While the model wasn't exactly "new", it had never seen combat due to it being
1. based on a FW unit (a Malcador Infernus)
2. Apoc's are rare and one hasn't occurred recently.

Anyways. I decided I would use one of them (I have 2) for a 1500 point match against Orks. my opponent taloired his list to beat me through and through (he had faced me before several times and deeply feared my tanks, and I allowed him.)

The Ork player had planned to rush trukks full of tankbustas and some bikers with a claw at me to get my tanks with a huge mass of Lootas in the rear and a Weirdboy trying to summon demons (I thought it strange Orks can do that, but it was a non-factor in the end).

As his trukks and bikers advanced I moved up the Infernus waited for them (and my turn). Unfortunatly the Lootas unloaded into the Infernus and glanced it to death. personally I didn't think it would happen and it came down to luck. I thought the front armor 13 would hold against the barrage. But I still managed to obliderate the ork rush and beat down the Lootas and the bloodletters the Weirdboy summoned (which I still think is just weird that they can do that.... I mean seriously! Orks summoning Demons of Khorne? or demons in general!) It came out to a tie in kill points.

Still was disappointed my Infernus didn't get to kill a ton of orks with its huge flamer template of DOOM. Oh well... I have an Apoc on the 31st so hopefully Ill get to cook (or freeze, the other is a Cryo Tank!) a ton of things.

Modeling wise? Spending $30 on a brand new box of DA Company Veterans before realizing how worthless they are. They now exist as special Sergeants or Special weapons guys.

Tactics wise? DSing my Deathwing termies with 2 TH/SS and 3 Lightning claws. I did not realize you could not charge after deepstriking.

Fail rate: 100%

 Slaanesh-Devotee wrote:
Running large Chaos Marine lists (north of 2000 pts usually) where all the infantry are marked by Slaanesh and equipped with Icons of Excess, yet rolling no Feel No Pain saves for the game...

*looks at Icon*
"What am I paying you for?"

Generally chapter tactics:
Never used a single Ultramarine CT.
Paint stripping the Ultramarines for a custom chapter with Iron Hands CT.
Forgetting FNP for Iron Hands CT.
Forgetting IWND for Iron Hands CT.
(It's gotten a bit better since I have to apply the CT the whole time instead of activating it for one round).

In 6th: forgetting Precision Shots on characters.

Not sure this really counts. But I started playing 6th edition after a 20 yearish hiatus after 3rd edition came out and I just hated it. So, one of my first games was against a 5th edition Grey Knights army with my new 5th edition Tyranid codex. Long story short I charged a Dreadknight with a brood of 3 carnifexes and watch it kill all 3 in one turn, they didn't even get to make an attack roll, just hammer of wrath, which did nothing. Damned force weapon with rerolling everything.