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To get the ball rolling I played a game recently where my 2 x PF hellbrute went one on one with my opponents Libby (warlord) in the last turn of the game. I practically only had to hit the guy once to get slay the warlord and an another kill point and win the game. I rolled 3 1's followed by him melta bombing me. Turning a draw into 1 vp loss.




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You could even say taking the hellbrute in the first place was a fail ^^

A game last weekend was not going well. The dice gods were favoring my opponent. With my sternguard dead, my librarian is making a run for it, to try to keep ahead of an angry Ork mob and prevent them from getting the Slay the Warlord VP.

I've got GoI, so I just teleport away, right? Psychic test comes up 11. Well, at least I didn't perils. We have a laugh over that, it's been that kind of game. So I stagger though some difficult ground, forgo shooting to try to run farther, and end up about 4" from where I started. Conveniently just outside the cover I was hiding in. Needless to say, the following turn was the last one for the poor guy.

I'm rather famous at my LGS for my bad rolls. I almost never hit with Meltaguns, so I'm starting to just run flamers. Though I have failed to wound with them pretty often.

The worst though was terminators getting hit with 6 Str 4 AP 6 wounds. Should be a easy save, I might lose one situation. So I scoop up the dice and utter those fatesealing words, " Just need anything but ones." I precede to roll 6 ones. Epic bad.

Though in another game I needed to make 3 5+ saves and managed to roll all 6's. The joke being I make the almost impossible saves, but with fail on the ones that should be so easy to make.

Sir Blayse wrote:
I'm rather famous at my LGS for my bad rolls.
....
The joke being I make the almost impossible saves, but with fail on the ones that should be so easy to make.

Embrace it.
Go all-out and see how far you can get on the skin of your teeth.

I once had a squad of 7 Eldar Pathfinders lined up to shoot a low-points enemy unit.
They line up the shot, take it, and ALL roll 1s.
What's the odds of 7 1s?
I didn't win that game, but being Eldar, I'm used to it.

I was playing my friends Crimson Fists with my DA a couple of days ago. Big 2500pt game. For 3 turns, a DW Sergeant with PW/SB was in CC with a normal marine sergeant. I needed one hit to kill, and did nothing for 3 turns. He finally kills the marine on turn 5 for a tabling.

That same DW Sergeant has, in a previous game, survived 2 turns of shooting from the allied remnants of a Crimson Fists and Necrons force. They were shooting at just him, his squad was dead. Around 700pts of models shooting at him.

Seems he can take the hits, but not dish them out!

My platoon commander (a lieutenant) brought down my friend's warlord (a Chaos Lord) 2 chosen and then contributed to bringing down a hellbrute with a volley of Krak grenades. He then dies and I lose the game to 3 cultists and one remaining chosen.

A reliable if noisy LRBT shooting at a nearby Trygon (about 8.5" away) to remove its Mass Point (quite some time ago as you can guess), scatter wildly (12 - 3 > 9) and ends up glancing himself, destroying his battle cannon in the process

Back in 5th:

Kharn and 8 berserkers charge Vulkan who is by himself after his termi escort died to lots of plasma.

Kharn kills 5 (!) pals at I6, while Vulkan makes all his saves. Vulkan then pulps the rest of the squad (I5), leaving Kharn alone. Losing combat by a LOT, he has to make a ton of saves to avoid Fearless wounds, and fails 3 of them.

I still managed to pull out a win thanks to some desperate contesting with barely-alive vindicators and a Daemon Prince, but it was a colossal bungle.

Wasn't my fail, but the fail of a guy playing against me using DE, I was using SM

At the start of the game I said that my CC terminators were packed into a LRC with a chaplain.

Bottom of turn two he moves his talos across the board to try to kill one of my units... and he puts it about 4 inches from the LRC... So 7 LC terminators and the chaplain get out, walk over to the talos and proceed to make it a crater thanks to rerolled hits and misses....

Now when it comes to me failing?
The dice gods like to make my deep strikes into dangerous terrain.....a lot..... And ive had a leeman russ hit itself with a bad scatter

I decided it would be a good idea to have a unit of 10 lootas in a ruin next to the ruin holding my Shokk Attack Gun and accompanying grot squad.

It happened, I rolled the double 1 with a radius of 6" and lost all my lootas and my big-mek.... on turn 1. Nothing starts a 1500 point game out right like a ~275ish point handicap.

In 5th my regular Tau opponent used to fail constantly. He would regularly have a hammerhead and multiple broadsides, but could never roll higher than a 1 or 2 on the vehicle damage charts. It would have some effect if he wasn't playing me and trying to kill my daemon engines all possessed and automatically ignoring all shaken and stunned results. Multiple games in a row my plague hulk or defiler would walk all the way across the table being hit 2-3 times a turn with railguns and never suffering any ill effects from it. They would then proceed to assault the broadsides and destroy them and then assault the hammerhead and destroy it. Was funny the first and 2nd time and just depressing for him every other time after that. In one game he even ran in behind my defiler with one of his light skimmers with twin linked meltas on it. Rolled a 1 to hit, and then on the reroll rolled another 1 so couldn't even kill it that way. The funny thing is that his fire warriors do far better than his big guns do. He markerlights the heck out of a unit and shoots it to pieces, then moves to the next unit and repeats.

I haven't had a chance to play him since 6th came out, but he will be much happier now that even if he only rolls a 1 or 2 on the vehicle damage chart he will still take away a kill point, so 4 hits and the plague hulk is gone now instead of effectively surviving forever due to poor rolling. Of course I am expecting now that it doesn't matter he will roll better on the vehicle damage chart.

Skriker

TanKoL wrote:
A reliable if noisy LRBT shooting at a nearby Trygon (about 8.5" away) to remove its Mass Point (quite some time ago as you can guess), scatter wildly (12 - 3 > 9) and ends up glancing himself, destroying his battle cannon in the process

Ive done that before


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 HerbaciousT wrote:
I was playing my friends Crimson Fists with my DA a couple of days ago. Big 2500pt game. For 3 turns, a DW Sergeant with PW/SB was in CC with a normal marine sergeant. I needed one hit to kill, and did nothing for 3 turns. He finally kills the marine on turn 5 for a tabling.

That same DW Sergeant has, in a previous game, survived 2 turns of shooting from the allied remnants of a Crimson Fists and Necrons force. They were shooting at just him, his squad was dead. Around 700pts of models shooting at him.

Seems he can take the hits, but not dish them out!

I wish I could roll like that, if a leaf hits my terminators they tend to fall over dead >.>

GK termies shoot 4 wounds against my assault termies:
Wyches cause 4 wounds against my Honor Guard:
My BT Venerable Dread takes a weapon destroyed penetration result. Due to some unknown brainfart I ask him to reroll the result:
My third game of 40k ever in early 6th Edition, and I think I have the situation well in hand by having surrounded the enemy Chaos Lord with my 3 TH+SS termies and 2 LC termies, while his lord only had a single aspiring champion or some such with him after my shooty terminator squad had killed the rest of them, while getting killed in turn by the Lord. But as you might expect, the Lord, with his AP3 Daemon weapon (if I recall correctly) of course proceeded to kill the entire terminator squad, and only the Sergeant died. The Lord did take two wounds, but that was hardly much consolation.

Playing a game of the scouring with a buddy. We use all of my models for both armies because he doesn't have any.

He hits his first 13 of 15 shots fired on his first turn, including lascannon and autocannon shots from a predator. He his 100% of his wounds. I proceed to fail 60% of my 3+ armor saves.

The next turn I use sternguard veterans to blow up a predator with melta bombs. Hits, explodes, roll wounds on all three sternguards in range, fail all three armor saves.

I was furious.

First turn, sending the Drop Pods in, had one Pod with a ten-man Sternguard squad, with ten combi-weps, plus a Power Fist, plus Lysander, all scatter off the table and die. (Over five hundred points lost in a single roll.) I almost wept.

Played an armoured Compay against a screamer/flamer list before I knew what the update had done.

Good news was it was over by turn 2, so I could go play a real game.

My record for failure was vs GK in 5th. I had a normal guard list, plenty of AP2, some artillery, some tanks, fair number of infantry and a vendetta, and my opponent was running a henchmen list, mostly in razorbacks and chimeras, with a single unit of GK Terminators, hardly a cheese list.

I managed to wreck one razorback, and got tabled. My opponent actually facepalmed, while exclaiming "that's not supposed to happen."

I was running LRBTs in a squadron back in 5th. I had to back the squadron up to avoid getting assaulted and the path of one of the russes led into difficult terrain. So I rolled my dangerous terrain test, the normally means immobilized, but in a squadron immobilized is destroyed. So I lost a russs to a tree.

For me people I'm against just never ever seem to fail their 2+ saves.

Oh god this just makes me think of the the last Apoc game I played in.

It was 7500 points a side and I got to bring out my shiny Dominatrix. My friend took a vortex grenade as a strategic asset, because he just thought they were hilarious.

He runs out with some lone guy in the face of the full health-wound regenerating Dominatrix and chucks the nade. It then proceeds to chase the Dominatrix for the next two movement phases, scattering 11" to keep up with her.

Needless to say, she got a single round of shooting off before my 1750 point centerpiece was sucked into a mini black hole. Best part is the vortex grenade vanished after that.

Talk about efficiency haha.

An Ig player I know loves to take leman russes in his list. Went to a local tourney where once where there were custom scenarios back in 5th ed. He has 6 leman russes in 3 squadrons.

The special scenario was the entire board is difficult terrain.

Everything had to walk on the board from your table edge turn one.

He lost half his tanks just by moving them onto the board

 rabid1903 wrote:
Oh god this just makes me think of the the last Apoc game I played in.

It was 7500 points a side and I got to bring out my shiny Dominatrix. My friend took a vortex grenade as a strategic asset, because he just thought they were hilarious.

He runs out with some lone guy in the face of the full health-wound regenerating Dominatrix and chucks the nade. It then proceeds to chase the Dominatrix for the next two movement phases, scattering 11" to keep up with her.

Needless to say, she got a single round of shooting off before my 1750 point centerpiece was sucked into a mini black hole. Best part is the vortex grenade vanished after that.

Talk about efficiency haha.

I think you've told this story before and it makes me sad every time I see it.

My most epic fail was a 2k game. I forgot to run my 7 termies and Libby when they deep struck. 27 wounds from a thunderfire later I lost 6 with my Libby and the last guy running off the table.

Full platoon of my assualt marines attack 6 fire warriors. My fire warriors win. On the other hand, his 2 terminators weathered 3 turns of tau shooting. Epic tau shooting fail.

Heres a good one

5 ravenwing knights with plasma talons, get into rapid fire range. So 10 plasma shots, I roll 4 1's.

I forgot they are twin-linked, and fail 3 armour saves for gets hot, cost me the game.

Now I always remember them as twin-linked haha

I had two fireprisms killed by the same Land Raider on the first turn, Snapfired lascannons both hit, both penned, both failed jink saves, both exploded....

..and they were the only thing that could damage the LR, endgame I still had two WS, 5 scouts, 15 Dire Avengers, Eldrad and two Warwalkers left, he had JUST the LR, doing donuts on The Relic!

My last but one game, I got eldrad gibbed. He was stood in the wrong place in my wraithguard squad and ended up taking a railgun to the face turn 1. Didn't even have chance to cast fortune lol...

5th Ed stories

1) Ironclad with gubbinz drops in behind a Dev squad hiding behind some cover. Dev squad's 2 Lascannon buddies turn around and Freem him through the faceplate. Not the wisest move... but I can top it with:

2) Playing against a mechy Eldar list with my mismatch Marines and it wasn't going well. Turn 4 comes and I grab my reserves. Drop my Ironclad and 5 termies next to his only Fire Prism. The Fire Prism then proceeds to move 24" towards a ruin while the rest of his army blow up said Dread, the Pod and 4 Termies. I R Smart... not. It only got funny when the last Termi with a HF/CF decided to run after a squad of Dire Avengers and a Falcon. He withstood all the firepower thrown his way and reached the Falcon for a back-door slice-up. And of course I roll 2's at best on the damage chart every turn I got a hit off. This was including his funny stones that meant I had to re-roll and take the worst result which was always a 2, which he negated to a 1. Frothing madness...

And lastly
3) Stuck in with the Marines vs pre-6th DA. Captain gets into combat with remnants of some elite unit (Veterans I think). Rolls for hit and wounding and does nothing substantial. The DA fella rolls and wounds 3 times, all negating armour. So, 3++ and 3 wounds. Aaaaand two 1's and a 2 was my result. It's like that Captain's shield was made of cardboard and tinfoil

I had a TH biker marshal and buddies, charge into a 5 man scout squad, kill one with HoW and the bikers kill another, my marshal had 4 attacks, hit with 3 and got 3 ones on the wound roll, at least i know now he'll never do that again

Played DE versus GK in a relic game.

There were 2 bastions on the field (not paid for terrain - so no guns) next to the relic plus lots of trees, hills, etc. Neat setup.

GK goes first. Teleports a squad next to the relic. My turn I push 3 raiders full of warriors near him, unleash with everything, nothing wounds. That would be over 60 poison shots and 3 DL against a 5 man strike squad.

He then moves the relic into a bastion and kills all my raiders.

At this point I have nothing that could possibly penetrate the bastions armor except for a razorwing that is still in reserve.

We take pot shots at each other until the bottom of turn 4 when my razorwing comes in. It shoots at the bastion, utterly failing to do anything. Top of turn 5 his storm raven turns and blows it out of the sky. We call the game at that point.

My wife and I played our first game together. I was plain Codex Marine, she was sisters. 500pt game with 5th edition.

I had my librarian go up the left with 5 tacs behind terrain for cover and a rhino with a larger squad go up the center. My wife flew Saint Celestine over the terrain and did her flamer ability on the librarian and his squad, 3 dead. She charged and killed the rest along with the librarian. Next turn I dropped most of her 1st Sisters unit only to be charged from the back and cleared by Saint Celestine on her next turn.

That was the worst game ever

I was completely destroyed by a Grey Knights and only took out a single model myself. I think I almost cried that day.