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Those rolls that somehow, everytime they come up, the result is the same, and it's NOT what the odds suggest.

My Mephiston is famous for wounding himself with his plasma pistol LITERALLY every game I've ever played him in, on the first shot.

Lately, with new crons being on the table a lot, I've seen the C'tan tesla thunderbolt be fired about 5 times. It has literally been a tesla hit every single time it comes up. \o.o/

It's like the dice know and have a will of their own!

That happens to me when I'm snapshotting fliers.

My baneblade company's sponson lascannons practically have the skyfire rule.

Whenever I field Space Marine Scouts, there's always one - and always the same one, but that's probably selection bias on my part - who survives everything that's thrown at him. Lucky the Scout once survived an entire Guard shooting phase for two whole turns. Not consecutive ones, admittedly - the first turn and the last, when he was the only model I had left and the Guard had taken heavy casualties.

Any psyker Ive ever used has taken perils for their last wound. Mephiston, vanilla, azreal, tiggy, any of them. Unless i proxy the FW libby, he always seems to survive.
Im also pretty good at killing my own plasma gunners when i shoot them at terminators

Recently, it's been my Daemon Prince of Tzeentch taking his 3+ armor save, with the ability to reroll 1's, and getting....2's. It's infuriating.

The roll for game type, it's a virtual certainty to be Relic. It doesn't even have to be me playing, just requires me to be in the room.

On a broader note, I can't make an armour save worth a damn, but I'll make ~50-60% of the 5++'s you ask me for.

I have, on more than a few occasions. Shot down a flier with the first shot of my Land Raider's Twin Linked Heavy Bolters.


They tend to kill better than the lascannons.

FNP rolls. All of them.
Not 5+ either. My Iron Hands' 6+ FNP.
I think I actually fail 1 in 36. Unless I roll them in bunches, then it's more 2/3 are fine.

People have given me funny looks and tried my dice, thinking they were weighted (understandable, given the large amount of 6s for FNP).
Anyone that uses my dice tend to roll a lot of 1s though

When I infiltrate my MM Helbrute behind an IK, for the perfect shot. It's down to 1 Hull point, just one hit is needed... Oh, I rolled a 1? Okay, next turn then. Oh, another 1. WHY

Krieg quad launchers. They are decent for their points cost, but seem utterly cheesy when i use them. I seem to never miss and get kills each time they fire. Killed Draigo with two of them, in 2 turns, killed about 30 guardsmen with them in another game in one turn, the list could go on.

On the other hand, I ran a guard sergeant with a plasma pistol. Without fail for about 4 games in a row, he killed himself first turn. After that, at least every other time he fired; started taking him simply because he became famous.

Also knew a guy who played mek orks with 5+ cover shield generators. He would pass every single one. Every single time (at least 9/10). It got so ridiculous we had him use different dice, still would pass them, and no-one managed to beat him.

Do to rolls I have, out of the 4 games I have played only played purge the alien... Also, Kharn refuses to die ever I mean even take a wound.

 Matthew wrote:
When I infiltrate my MM Helbrute behind an IK, for the perfect shot. It's down to 1 Hull point, just one hit is needed... Oh, I rolled a 1? Okay, next turn then. Oh, another 1. WHY

How are you Infiltrating your Helbrute? Master of Deception Warlord Trait only allows Infantry units to Infiltrate. Is there another way I'm not thinking of by chance?

I've actually taken my crap rolling in stride and take Blast weapons whenever possible. I'll Deep Strike a unit two inches away from an enemy, throw seven dice at a Warp Charge 2 power, fire Blasts that would hit my units if they scatter 2 inches. I'm a professional at rolling ones. I will admit it makes Rending pretty useless but being able to throw out Ordanance with more accuracy than my Sniper Warlords... I'm just meant to do artillery with these friggin Cheesex dice.

One of my maulerfiends always hits vehicles two times and does nothing then with his last magma cutter hit ALWAYS explodes it. SharkoutofWata he means deep strike; you can't infiltrate things behind things :p

10 Necron Spyders, only one of them matters, since it's part of the Canoptek Swarm formation, rolls 1 EVERY time it spawns scarabs. Kills itself in turn 3. All the other Spyders are untouched.

I have a Chaos Lieutenant on bike that has splatted himself across more trees than I can count. And that was with skilled rider. He has never once died to enemy fire. Its either been trees or gets hot from plasma (sporting 2+ armor) that takes his last wound.

My Heldrake was snapshot killed twice.
First time was a Lascannon & the second was a squad of bolters on the rear armor.

My chaos sorcerer (ml 3, spell familiar) have never succeded with a power that need two charges to manifest. I have failed with 6 dice + reroll more than once.

It's well known that I pass half of my 2+ rolls and half of my 6+ rolls.

I'm going to be that guy and state...

Selective memory
Confirmation bias
Small sample sizes

Crisis reserve rolls: every game I've played Tau with at least 1 Crisis team in reserve one team never makes it on the table before turn 4.

Riptide nova charges: somehowbI manage to fail them about 50-60% of the time.

My buddy's landraider seemed to get stuck in area terrain every time. ha-ha!

I'm pretty good with the old Scatter Dice, be it for Drop Pod landings or artillery fire for guard. Always seems like a hit.

On the other hand it feels like the statline for my Power Armoured models should probably read 5+.

My Exorcists shooting will either be impressive with a high number of shots, high number of hits and a high number of wounds/pens/glances (depending on target) OR it'll get a low number of shots, miss, or hit and then do nothing.

There are occasions where things swing a little differently now and then (like rolling 1 shot, hitting and wounding with it) but more often than not I sit on the extremes with it working or not.

So much so that after 4 games locally I have a reputation for either doing well or doing badly with no middle ground.

My Manticores are notorious for rolling direct hits. I'm talking direct hits with all D3 blasts. It's gotten to the point that I've come to rely on it and I not sure what I'm gonna do when the luck pendulum starts to swing the other way.

My Vindicare can't hit the broadside of a barn and it he does he fails to pen/wound. I think he's only glanced a monolith in all the games I've used him.

With Marines, I have awful luck with plasma gets hot rolls. Like, it is extremely common for me to kill myself on the first shot of the game with gets hot rolls (far more than the 5% odds of dying would make you think...). This doesn't really apply with my Guard though, the averages seem to be more consistent there (and I'm running far more plasma weapons as well). This crazy bad luck has made me completely disregard all plasma weapons until 6th ed started.

Also, I hate the psychic phase and it hates me back. I have no luck with it whatsoever. I'll throw 5 or 6 dice at a WC2 power that I really need to go off, and still fail it every time. The only power I can get with any consistency is Scrier's freaking Gaze.

xFinality wrote:I'm going to be that guy and state...

Selective memory
Confirmation bias
Small sample sizes

killjoy. :p

adamsouza wrote:10 Necron Spyders, only one of them matters, since it's part of the Canoptek Swarm formation, rolls 1 EVERY time it spawns scarabs. Kills itself in turn 3. All the other Spyders are untouched.

D'ya ever consider, y'know, not spawning when you only have 1 wound left?

Back in 2nd edition, my friend always ran Captain Invictus and from the second game onwards he always teleport misshaped off the table or into some nasty terrain and died.
He eventually threw him up his garden in a fit of rage and never used him again.

Can't manage to hit with neither with Warp Lance nor with Spirit Leech, even with permanent Preferred Enemy from Swarmlord.

My Longstrike rolls an uncanny amount of 1s to hit.

I was demonstrating my solitaire to a friend and he didn't roll a single 6 once out of 8 dice rolled about a dozen times.

One of my mates scatter dice always rolls scatter, he tested it a load and everytime it scattered, I picked it up, rolled once and got direct hit

I once had an AM sergeant, who was the last remaining member of his squad take on a space marine tac squad that had been reduced to 7 men in close combat. He killed every single one of them and survived to tell the tale. He was then promptly promoted to a Platoon commander and has been enjoying life ever since.