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I was reminiscing with my friend over some weird 5th edition games we used to play at this one game store, and I thought this would be a fun thing for us to talk about here.


This store ran oddball tourneys for 40k all the time, a city fight tourney a Special Character only game with varied objectives, etc.

But the strangest one was a 1750 pt. Tourney that was to feature "warp storms." That's all we were told.

It was to be a single elimination tourney, which was kinda brutal, but we thought we were ready.

NOPE... Not ready.

We were told to put our lists on the table, and the guy running things says that "due to warp storms one of your units is lost in the warp!"

So he goes through our force orgs and rolls 2d6, the first unit that he rolls doubles for is removed from our lists and we cannot use them in any of the games.

To say that people were less than thrilled was an understatement. My buddy Ernie lost his giant 40(?) man conscript blob from his IG army, I lost a Leman Russ Vanguisher, which ws my Command Tank and my primary tank killer... and so on.

It was difficult trying to figure out how to play with a missing unit... and the games had other Warp based things like objectives where you rolled 2d6 and the scatter die to see where they went at the start of every turn, to objectives that could dissappear permanently off the table for some reason or another.

The second battle required you to deep strike your entire army. Cause everyone wants to play against a deep striking armored company.

At the end of the tourney the tourney director comes out and says, "Now for the main event! Where did your missing units go when they were lost in the warp? They went here!"

The second part of the tourney was a giant multi-player mass battle where they used all the wacky rules .

After all w a s said and done, they gave out prizes for the guy who won the first tourney the guy who won the melee, and finally because I ts the warp, rolled a dice for everyone else and they won a copy of Battlefleet Gothic, which is how I got into that game.

How about you guys ever played in a really odd game?

I think the strangest game I ever played was one I was challenged to back in the closing days of 3e by an Eldar player.
He was an average player, a good modeler/painter, & a nice guy to play with.

This player asked me if I still had my Baneblades. (at the time I owned 3 - two Armorcast & 1 FW).
My answer, "Yes, why?"
Turns out he wanted to pit all of his Eldar against my Baneblade Co.
Ok, I can do that. I mean, as a Guard player you hardly ever hear a request like that....
So we set a day. As it turned out to be a day when I'd be coming straight from work we agreed that since he'd almost certainly get to the shop 1st he'd set up the table. All I asked was that he remember to leave me enough room to deploy/move/etc. "Sure, no problem" Of course I'd never really doubted that - no one at the shop was in the habit of screwing each other over when setting up a table.

What I found terrain wise was akin to the pics you see of WWI no-mans land. Craters, some random "bare" trees, & debris. Here & there a few of the low wall sections the shop had. Not a bad looking table, but essentially an open field as there wasn't anything that'd constitute LoS blocking or any real degree of cover.
so I asked if he was sure this was the terrain he wanted. He insisted it was.

He then deployed all of his forces seemingly randomly & proceeded to charge roughly 3k worth of mostly foot Eldar straight across NML into the teeth of my 3 Blades.
There was no attempt at any kind of maneuver strategy, ganging up on 1 Blade, hitting from my flanks, etc. Just a Banzai charge of space elves.
I tabled him in fairly short order while only taking minor damage.
He seemed to be enjoying the game (as much as you could call it that) and he was perfectly happy with the outcome. ???

And then he never played 40k again.
Not a tourney, not in our weekly 40k nights, not a pick up game, nor in any of the shops campaigns or leagues.
The most he'd do 40k wise is join in discussions.
When pressed on why he wouldn't play anymore? His reply was that all his Eldar died assaulting the Baneblades.

Evidently he'd decided to quit 40k & wanted all of his models to have died in battle.
So he chose death by Baneblade.