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So I just played an 1850pt match against my Necron buddy and he brought a Tesseract Vault and 8 Doom Scythes. It was the most bizarre game I've ever played. I was using a DA Lion's Blade Stike Force with 0 flyers or sky fire. We were playing a maelstrom mission so I spent my turns just turning in as many cards as possible while killing his vault. It blew up at the beginning turn 3 (though I stripped 6hps on turn 1). In the end, I won 17-2 (he got first blood and slay the warlord) but I only had 5 models left on the table and luckily the game didn't go past turn 5.

So what match ups have you guys had that made you say "Seriously?!"

God that sounds incredibly boring...

1000 point game I brought my orks and one guy at my club jokingly went to play 3 imperial knights. I just outright refused and being the gentleman he is he brought a much more fun list and we had a great game.

 Elbows wrote:
God that sounds incredibly boring...

At least the necron turn would've been quick.

 Tibs Ironblood wrote:
1000 point game I brought my orks and one guy at my club jokingly went to play 3 imperial knights. I just outright refused and being the gentleman he is he brought a much more fun list and we had a great game.

The cheapest 3 Imperial Knights can be is 1110 points.

 DarknessEternal wrote:

 Tibs Ironblood wrote:
1000 point game I brought my orks and one guy at my club jokingly went to play 3 imperial knights. I just outright refused and being the gentleman he is he brought a much more fun list and we had a great game.

The cheapest 3 Imperial Knights can be is 1110 points.

not true, he could be running 3 Gallants and squeeze in just under 1000 points.

Slightly off-topic as it's not 40K, BUT:
Arranged for my first game of AoS with someone who was going to teach me the basics. I told him I didn't have that much models, only about 50 pink horrors and 3 daemon princes from my 40K Daemon army.

Guy comes in and dumps 40+ bloodletters, 60 Zombies, a bunch of Plaguebearers 2 Daemon princes, a handful of Nurgle Drones, 20+ skeletons, Skarbrand, Archaon (on his dragon thing) and Nagash on the table.

At first I was like "ok" because he said sudden death would balance it out. After the first turn, when he summoned more models than I had brought to the table, it was VERY clear that it didn't balance out anything. He even had the gall to ask me whether I thought AoS was a fun game after the battle ended on turn 3.

Have yet to play my second game of AoS and I've got a feeling it's not going to take place before points get added back into the game.


Second one was arranging a casual game with someone who showed up with tripple Riptide, 3 units of broadsides and 3 units of pathfinders. His explenation when I told him he had a really fethed up sense of the word casual, and I quote: "But this is casual, I didn't even use any formations."

There are better places to rage on AoS ; )

DaPino wrote:
Arranged for my first game of AoS with someone who was going to teach me the basics. I told him I didn't have that much models, only about 50 pink horrors and 3 daemon princes from my 40K Daemon army.

Guy comes in and dumps 40+ bloodletters, 60 Zombies, a bunch of Plaguebearers 2 Daemon princes, a handful of Nurgle Drones, 20+ skeletons, Skarbrand, Archaon (on his dragon thing) and Nagash on the table.

At first I was like "ok" because he said sudden death would balance it out. After the first turn, when he summoned more models than I had brought to the table, it was VERY clear that it didn't balance out anything. He even had the gall to ask me whether I thought AoS was a fun game after the battle ended on turn 3.

Have yet to play my second game of AoS and I've got a feeling it's not going to take place before points get added back into the game.

Until they get points, both players need to be on board about what a fair game is going to be. Sounds like a TFG there. I just tried my first AoS game, and was also out matched on the table, but we both thought it looked fair when setting up. When I checked against some 3rd party point system, it was more like 500 vs. 650 points. He was a cool guy, and we still enjoyed ourselves, even as the chaos warriors were being drowned in skeletons.

To be honest, I can’t really think of any times I was just aghast at what was placed down across from me. But I’ve been blessed with a decent string of casual FLGSs, and people who keep the fluff and fun in mind when putting an army together.

I can think of a lot more times I had that feeling in my CCG days. “Oh, you are playing one of those decks.” But purchasing and assembling minis to get them on the table is a much higher bar then just slapping a dirty deck together.

Only time I've ever really raised an eyebrow was at a tiny local tournament. We needed one more person for the shop owner to actually declare the tournament on, so one guy handed his son a blood angles army. I think he said it was a list he was going to play, but he'd decided to run his Grey knights instead.

I drew the son as my first opponent, and set up my tau force of all suits. He deploys I think three units of jump pack guys, and that's it. I know one was death company, one was an HQ and bodyguard, and two were troop choices...pretty sure all were five men except for the HQ unit...

I explained what I had...couple plasma and a lot of missiles. He explains what he has, all bolt pistols and melta guns...not a single thing with range more than 12...

TheSnowmanInHell wrote:
Only time I've ever really raised an eyebrow was at a tiny local tournament. We needed one more person for the shop owner to actually declare the tournament on, so one guy handed his son a blood angles army. I think he said it was a list he was going to play, but he'd decided to run his Grey knights instead.

I drew the son as my first opponent, and set up my tau force of all suits. He deploys I think three units of jump pack guys, and that's it. I know one was death company, one was an HQ and bodyguard, and two were troop choices...pretty sure all were five men except for the HQ unit...

I explained what I had...couple plasma and a lot of missiles. He explains what he has, all bolt pistols and melta guns...not a single thing with range more than 12...

Aww the poor kid, what can you even do in a situation like that besides deliberatly playing terrible

DaPino wrote:
Slightly off-topic as it's not 40K, BUT:
Arranged for my first game of AoS with someone who was going to teach me the basics. I told him I didn't have that much models, only about 50 pink horrors and 3 daemon princes from my 40K Daemon army.

Guy comes in and dumps 40+ bloodletters, 60 Zombies, a bunch of Plaguebearers 2 Daemon princes, a handful of Nurgle Drones, 20+ skeletons, Skarbrand, Archaon (on his dragon thing) and Nagash on the table.

At first I was like "ok" because he said sudden death would balance it out. After the first turn, when he summoned more models than I had brought to the table, it was VERY clear that it didn't balance out anything. He even had the gall to ask me whether I thought AoS was a fun game after the battle ended on turn 3.

Have yet to play my second game of AoS and I've got a feeling it's not going to take place before points get added back into the game.

Second one was arranging a casual game with someone who showed up with tripple Riptide, 3 units of broadsides and 3 units of pathfinders. His explenation when I told him he had a really fethed up sense of the word casual, and I quote: "But this is casual, I didn't even use any formations."

That's notso much aos as someone doing aos wrong. Deliberately, seemingly as this guy just seemed to want to claim a scalp rather than play a game. Aos can work, but it requires a degree of co-operation, a mutual understanding of what both players are aiming for and want, as well as good judgment and a bit of emotional maturity. This guy brought none of that to the table. points won't save aos (or any game for that matter) from people like this.

750 3 vs 3 (750 each).

Chaos with 2 deamon princes and a handful of marines + Rhino and a squad of cultists, Space Wolves with 2 drop pods with 5 each and thunderwolf calvary with supped up wolf lord, finnaly the one that made it the "Seriously?" part, Tau with just a Storm Surge, 2 squads of infantry (pathfinders I think, but I can't recall) stuck inside that Defense platform thing of theirs with the railgun attached.

My team had my IG Tanks + Skitarii (armored battle group + Skitarii), Dark Angels with Termi's, scouts, and a few other things, and finally IG with plenty of troops, Sentinels, Taurox and a Chimera.

THe fact that for a 750 point list the Tau just shoe horned a Storm Surge in was really annoying. Thankfully it didn't manage to do much, He wasted his D strike missles, 1 on a Sentinal of all things, and the last 3 missed one of my tanks having him completely run out of them.

We managed to win the match by wiping out the Space wolves completely, vaporizing one of the deamon princes (the other only lives due to 2+ 2+ cover save), and tearing apart the Tau infantry. The Storm Surge was ignored due to its sheer amount of HP and saves.

Still a Storm Surge for 750 point match.. That's like shoving a Baneblade into the same thing (granted, I'm well aware a Storm Surge and Baneblade are totally different and their effectiveness is different.)

Yea, I was getting back into 40K in the beginning of 6th edition. I'd played a few games here or there of 4th and 5th but nothing really since 3rd.

This was my second game and I brought out my Dark Eldar army from 5th. He told me he was playing Chaos Marines so ok good, at least I have a fighting chance.

I went out and got a coffee and then when I got back he had an entire Leman Russ Steel Legion put down. Needless to say I could not even crack a single tank even with 24 Dark Lances, and my poison weapons and close combat were useless against his whole army.

Very stupid and frustrating, on top of lying which was giant waist of my fething time.

 Engine of War wrote:
750 3 vs 3 (750 each).

Chaos with 2 deamon princes and a handful of marines + Rhino and a squad of cultists, Space Wolves with 2 drop pods with 5 each and thunderwolf calvary with supped up wolf lord, finnaly the one that made it the "Seriously?" part, Tau with just a Storm Surge, 2 squads of infantry (pathfinders I think, but I can't recall) stuck inside that Defense platform thing of theirs with the railgun attached.

My team had my IG Tanks + Skitarii (armored battle group + Skitarii), Dark Angels with Termi's, scouts, and a few other things, and finally IG with plenty of troops, Sentinels, Taurox and a Chimera.

THe fact that for a 750 point list the Tau just shoe horned a Storm Surge in was really annoying. Thankfully it didn't manage to do much, He wasted his D strike missles, 1 on a Sentinal of all things, and the last 3 missed one of my tanks having him completely run out of them.

We managed to win the match by wiping out the Space wolves completely, vaporizing one of the deamon princes (the other only lives due to 2+ 2+ cover save), and tearing apart the Tau infantry. The Storm Surge was ignored due to its sheer amount of HP and saves.

Still a Storm Surge for 750 point match.. That's like shoving a Baneblade into the same thing (granted, I'm well aware a Storm Surge and Baneblade are totally different and their effectiveness is different.)

It's funny to me because my friend and I wanted to find a way to stick an Imperial knight into a 500 point army. We went back and froth trying to figure out which armies it was even possible in. Turns out Orks would currently be the easiest since they can grab packs of gretchen.
It was all just for the ridiculousness of it, we don't plan to actually run something this stupid.

 Engine of War wrote:
750 3 vs 3 (750 each).

Chaos with 2 deamon princes and a handful of marines + Rhino and a squad of cultists, Space Wolves with 2 drop pods with 5 each and thunderwolf calvary with supped up wolf lord, finnaly the one that made it the "Seriously?" part, Tau with just a Storm Surge, 2 squads of infantry (pathfinders I think, but I can't recall) stuck inside that Defense platform thing of theirs with the railgun attached.

My team had my IG Tanks + Skitarii (armored battle group + Skitarii), Dark Angels with Termi's, scouts, and a few other things, and finally IG with plenty of troops, Sentinels, Taurox and a Chimera.

THe fact that for a 750 point list the Tau just shoe horned a Storm Surge in was really annoying. Thankfully it didn't manage to do much, He wasted his D strike missles, 1 on a Sentinal of all things, and the last 3 missed one of my tanks having him completely run out of them.

We managed to win the match by wiping out the Space wolves completely, vaporizing one of the deamon princes (the other only lives due to 2+ 2+ cover save), and tearing apart the Tau infantry. The Storm Surge was ignored due to its sheer amount of HP and saves.

Still a Storm Surge for 750 point match.. That's like shoving a Baneblade into the same thing (granted, I'm well aware a Storm Surge and Baneblade are totally different and their effectiveness is different.)

Your math is incorrect, it was one Storm Surge in a 2250 point game.

Crazy Jay wrote:
So I just played an 1850pt match against my Necron buddy and he brought a Tesseract Vault and 8 Doom Scythes. It was the most bizarre game I've ever played. I was using a DA Lion's Blade Stike Force with 0 flyers or sky fire. We were playing a maelstrom mission so I spent my turns just turning in as many cards as possible while killing his vault. It blew up at the beginning turn 3 (though I stripped 6hps on turn 1). In the end, I won 17-2 (he got first blood and slay the warlord) but I only had 5 models left on the table and luckily the game didn't go past turn 5.

So what match ups have you guys had that made you say "Seriously?!"

stuff like this is why I cant stand 7E and why my gaming group has largely died out, I watched a Tournament at Guardian in Portland for a bit where it loomed like one army was literally just like 7 or 8 Riptides and really confirmed by decision not to attend the event. This sort of thing really just kills my desire to play.

 DarknessEternal wrote:

 Engine of War wrote:
750 3 vs 3 (750 each).

Chaos with 2 deamon princes and a handful of marines + Rhino and a squad of cultists, Space Wolves with 2 drop pods with 5 each and thunderwolf calvary with supped up wolf lord, finnaly the one that made it the "Seriously?" part, Tau with just a Storm Surge, 2 squads of infantry (pathfinders I think, but I can't recall) stuck inside that Defense platform thing of theirs with the railgun attached.

My team had my IG Tanks + Skitarii (armored battle group + Skitarii), Dark Angels with Termi's, scouts, and a few other things, and finally IG with plenty of troops, Sentinels, Taurox and a Chimera.

THe fact that for a 750 point list the Tau just shoe horned a Storm Surge in was really annoying. Thankfully it didn't manage to do much, He wasted his D strike missles, 1 on a Sentinal of all things, and the last 3 missed one of my tanks having him completely run out of them.

We managed to win the match by wiping out the Space wolves completely, vaporizing one of the deamon princes (the other only lives due to 2+ 2+ cover save), and tearing apart the Tau infantry. The Storm Surge was ignored due to its sheer amount of HP and saves.

Still a Storm Surge for 750 point match.. That's like shoving a Baneblade into the same thing (granted, I'm well aware a Storm Surge and Baneblade are totally different and their effectiveness is different.)

Your math is incorrect, it was one Storm Surge in a 2250 point game.

Yeah, a Stormsurge at that level isn't that bad. If it had been three Stormsurges, I'd understand, but just one? If you co-ordinanted with your teammates, you could have designated a guy each as anti-tank, anti-infantry, scoring, etc etc

A not so much "seriously dude moment" but a "seriously, TO, what are you doing" moment.

It is back in 5th edition, the realm of vehicles, elite GK armies, and the time of the yiffening (aka half the lists were space wolves) I, as a joke, decoded to bring a purely infantry IG army, respawning conscripts, stormtroopers, Harker with a squad of vets, a power blob al'raheem platoon, even a penal squad. I brought pretty much one of everything. If I remember right I had almost 200 infantry. Everyone else was running small transport and elite army lists, and since Im pretty fast with hordes (or so I thought), everyone assumed it would be fine. Most people had brought things to hard counter marines and vehicles, so I stood a good chance to catch people flat footed if I was lucky on pulling opponents.

We didnt count on the Nid player seeing my army before the tourney started and deciding that he was going to one up me by bringing as many gaunts and gaunt spawners (tervigons I think) as he could.

And NONE of us expected that he and I would face each other in the first round.


Deployment took half an hour.


I wish we couldve finished that game, it was gloriously stupid. Ive never seen so much ridiculous moments in a 3 turn game. At the end of turn 3 we had both lost over a hundred models and there was a massive free for all in the center as anything with a beating heart and two brain cells to rub together was jumping in.

I'll never forget what the nid player said to me as the the TO announced the start of the 2 hour round.

"If we make it to turn 4 it'll be a fething miracle."

If I remember right he barely won for some reason. I ended up Clobbering my second opponent and drew the 3rd, but Im still wondering what the heck that TO was thinking pairing us off in the first round

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
but Im still wondering what the heck that TO was thinking pairing us off in the first round

I would rather hope some sort of randomisation was used? Manually pairing people has to be seriously iffy as a TO from a fairness perspective (I used a computer program, but on occasion where it was unavailable have used names-from-a-hat or pure dice randomisation).

 Quanar wrote:

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
but Im still wondering what the heck that TO was thinking pairing us off in the first round

I would rather hope some sort of randomisation was used? Manually pairing people has to be seriously iffy as a TO from a fairness perspective (I used a computer program, but on occasion where it was unavailable have used names-from-a-hat or pure dice randomisation).

He probably waa, I was just kind of surprised he didnt second guess that is all.

Then again the whole point of a tourney is random pairings, so I cant really complain, just found it funny is all

Most frustrating "what the heck" moment for me was when I was in a 2 vs 1 game (two 500 teams of chaos marines, both led by sorcerors, one with a bunch of cultists (me) and one with an army of just terminators (my ally) against a 1000 point army of tau led by farsighted and feature two squads of broadsides, a riptide, and a ghost keel). at the start of turn 2, my ally had to leave the store because of some family thing. Perfectly reasonably he packed up his models and had to go. The problem was when my oppent refused to remove any of his models from the field and when pressured, he let me add +100 points to my army. Guess how well it went for my cultists....

On the "oh that's hilarious) side of things I once saw a game played by the priest army I've ever seen. His army was a boy and trukk spam. And his conversions where GLORIOUS. He had two excellent Lego trunks that I only recognized by the tires, some giant spiders from AOS being ridden by orks. one normal trukk. And finally the thing that no own knew what it was. It was a looted necron chariot in the back, part of a tau flier in the front, and the inside was hollowed out and had a ramshackle cockpit with a full crew modeled on and mounted on what looked like wheels and axels from a normal car. It was wonderful.

I have an all assassin army, I think it's less "wtf" and more "why?!"

but I stand by my idea lol

In my very first game after 6 years out, I had a Hammerhead and some Fire Warriors go up against an Imperial Knight.

Fun times.

Back in the beggining of 6th edition, I once played a 1250 pt game with Typhus, 3 heldrakes, and 117 zombies. It was so stupid that I vowed to never do it again.

Reavas wrote:
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Aww the poor kid, what can you even do in a situation like that besides deliberatly playing terrible

Yep, that's exactly what I did. Only shot with one weapon per suit and generally "forgot" to do jet pack moves. Was honestly a little miffed at his dad, as he handed him the list and the minis and that was pretty much that...didn't explain anything about it or how to play, and wouldn't answer any questions during the game.

Back a few years i went against a nid player with my dark eldar (cabal heavy).at the start i tryed to change my opponant as i could see what would happen but he insisted so i set up 2k of raiders full of troops he then sets up 2 units of stealers (right in the back corners) thats it everything else was in spore pods(old versions) i again tryed to tell him not to do it but he said he always played that way and never lost....... so t2 income the spods into open areas left by me...... i lost i raider and 3 troopers he was tabled. Not seen him scince as he stuffed his nids into a box and left without a word.

This is not so much a" what the" army more a what the tactics.

I remember this one Space Marine player who believed all flamer weapons functioned like Ork Burnaz and tried to use them as power weapons in the melee phase back in third edition.

In my defence, I hadn't actually read the main rulebook at any point and was learning the game purely from playing against other people, and had recently faced my first Ork player.

To be honest I think I've been kinda lucky in that regard... at worst I've player 3 Imperial Knights at 1250 points and won - it was a really fun game just because of a never say die attitude from my opponent.

That said...with the New Death from the Skies book I'm considering an 8 flyer list competitive list...

A few months back I played a guy I rarely know.
Points were 1k both... Figured that at that point level you could/would have a nice, relaxed game without that many broken stuff.
At that time, I didn't have anything besides my DA, which was known and the LBSF was new, so I simply HAD to play that... with a Vindicare.

So I setup my demi comp, with 2 Rhinos, a Pod, a Int Chap with Jump Packs... and my opponent basically went with Be'Lakor, a Heldrake and 3 Oblits and some other fodder.
A Heldrake. Be'Lakor. At 1k points. Against basic marines.
I was close to refusing to play. Game ended turn 2 with be being tabled.
Last time I played that dude, too.