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This may seem slightly different from the others...

I dropped my buddy's metal flyrant on my vendetta while I was unpacking and admiring his painting/converting.

Let's say there weren't a lot of smiles during that game.

My worst game was about two weeks ago. I was trying out some stuff in the CSM codex I haven't tried yet. I'm still not that familiar with them as a whole and just prefer them as allies really. But I decided to go all chaos while my friend went with DA bike heavy list with the dakka banner.

I don't remember the details, but he brought GK allies just to put a vindicaire assassin in a bastion with the Icarus Lascannon. One shot my heldrake. Then the same turn my Warlord, a MoT sorceror in termie armor with 4 terminators deepstruck and rolled way too high. Scattered off the table and rolled a 1 for mishap. So turn 2, haven't even ended my movement phase really and I lost 400 points of units before they could do anything.

All my other shooting was terrible, while the twinlinked salvo bolters just tore my army apart. By the end of his turn 3 I had lost 80% of my army and I only took down 1 attack bike, so I decided to call it there.

I have to ask though, because he told me I should "tough it out" Should I have kept going? I really don't see any point in playing "watch you win more" when I had literally nothing left to use. I know some people would say that I should never quit because I can always learn something. But I'm not an idiot. I saw my mistakes fairly early and realized that my list building needed a lot of work. I could always play another game and start from there. I don't see how learning to play with 20% of a bad list against a biker swarm will really teach me anything useful.

aside from this, my worst fail in 5th involved the same guy. I was playing against another player, I had Tau and the other player used SW. It was a campaign game and I really needed a good win for the campaign bonuses for the next game. I had 2/3 objectives, each worth additions to my campaign list, and well on my way to getting the third. I had outflanked a unit of kroot behind some SW with Firewarriors on the other end. I was going to shoot them with both units, he could only take out one on his turn, and the other unit would be free to finish them off the next turn.

Then in came my friend. I was fairly new and he managed to convince me how awesome Kroot are in CC and how I should charge. Well I shoot down a few with firewarriors, and declare my charge. As I'm moving in the Kroot, I look up and say "wait. Aren't SW that one army that even other marines don't charge?" He kills off a majority of my kroot before I can even hit back, I do almost no damage back, and then get swept up leaving him free to destroy the FW on his turn. Game ended with my HQ crisis suit and a lone rune priest shooting S7 shots back and forth. With no objectives I went into the next game of the campaign with only a basic army against someone with a much larger force and pretty much had to quit because the only way to unlock FOC slots was to win games so I only had 1 HQ and 2 troops to use.

I did learn one huge lesson though. There are a lot of people who give advice on how to play Tau. Unless that person actually plays Tau, disregard it. 3 attacks on the charge, S5 standard weapons, and tough transports sound awesome to people who don't have them. But when you play Tau you have no problem laughing those off.

Tyranids & Chaos vs. Necrons...My chaos marines managed to kill 3 Necrons in 3 turns. Damn that Doomsday Ark.

Last game i played against my brother it was my tau vs his demons and csm allies the game was capture objectives based i killed his fate-weaver but he ended up using icons to bring in more demons then i could handle and i went from owning more then half the objectives to tabled after fate weaver went down in turn 2 after that my guys just could seem to ever hit any thing! even the marker lights never hit! btw any one know a way to un jinx dice i think the death of faitweaver cursed them .

Hah, funny story I have.

I'm running competitive Daemons against Silver Tide 'Crons.

Turn three I decide to charge into their 24" kill range and try my hand at surviving long enough to strike back. Fateweaver is leading the charge and making the other daemons survivable.

He had the stormlord and a chonotron to re-roll one dice per phase (aka nightfighting).

Fatey's flying to keep him alive. Come the shooting phase, the lightning is shooting down from the sky and he rolls for The Big Ultra Supreme Flying Chicken and gets a 1. He's like, "I don't usually re-roll a lot of things, but i'm going to give it a go." With the re-roll he nets a and what happens? I fail the 3+ to keep him in the air.


So there fateweaver is: on the ground in front of MASSIVE buttloads of S5 and S7 shooting. all because of a friggin re-roll of a lightning strike. He died two or three volleys later. I laughed it off, and ended up tying the game.





It's always moments like this when i remember why i love this game. Anything can happen.

Just finished a local tournement where during the 2nd match I was called to the TO table to discuss my list. He built my sister/GK 1750 list in his army builder and came to 2300 points and was about to disqualify me for having too many points. Taking the news I grabbed my codex and built my list point for point with him. Not liking that I challenged him he built my list again through army builder and came up with 1900. Explaining again that can't be he decided that I was playing an illegal list using justicars without paying for points. So told me I needed to drop the personal teleported on my dreadknight and not use justicars... Went back to my table and explained to my opponent that apparently I can't make a list and showed him my list. He scoffed and didn't see a problem and went to talk to the TO and explained justicars are stock with the group. That you don't pay extra unless you upgrade to justicars thrawn. The TO then put me negative points for poor sportsmanship. We were both thrown by the decision. This took up an hour and ten minutes of our 2 hour match. We only finished turn to 3. 10 minutes before finishing he came back and said he was wrong and my points were correct. Damage was done. I was disheartened and lost 13 vp to 1 since we didn't get past turn 3. Still lost the sportsman points. I was as nice as I could through being called a cheat and a liar. Placed dead last overall over it. Really don't like army builder right now. I ran terminater group of 5 for 210pt , dreadknight for 260 and a 10 man GK strike squad for 290. Sorry for the wall of text but I consider the day as a fail.

The last 4 games with my orks, the SAG rolled double 1's on turn one.

I lost mephiston to bolter fire..........5 shots= all a big

A 110 wound drive by bbq doing no damage

and a full ten man assualt squad dying to cultists.

My Daemon Prince loves to smack himself in the face with his Daemon Weapon at the most inopportune moment. He typically goes from full Wounds to Dead in one turn.

Last game three Terminators killed him because he rolled a 1 on his Daemon Weapon. Seriously considering taking the Murder Sword instead.

Since posting every single one would be insane, I'll post two great ones - one of mine, one of a fellow.

Mine: Game is Chaos Marines vs. my Space Wolves/Blood Angels. First turn of the game, I cast some blessings on my Death Company to make them a bit nastier. Prescience gets cast (I know, dumb to do it on turn 1, but hey, you never know...) aaaaaaand double 6s. Well, that's fine, it's the one power I didn't really need anyway. Let me just throw down Forewarning, give them a bit more protection, aaaaaaaaand double 6s again. Yep, first turn of the game, my Librarian blows his own brains out. Which I'm pretty sure technically gave my opponent First Blood despite the fact that I had the first turn.

Fellow Gamer's: I swear, dice tend to hate this guy, but he plows through anyway. His game was Orks (him) vs. Tyranids. Now, all I saw of this was a big, nasty assault going on, I believe with a Tervigon (those are the gaunt-spawners, right?), a Hive Tyrant, and a Tyrannofex vs. a mess of Nob Bikers, including Wazdakka and a Biker Boss. Wazdakka rolls his attacks - and wow, every one hit! All he needs are 2s to wound now, because he's got a nasty S10 klaw. And cue the 5 1s. Not a single wound.

From what I recall, that assault ended in a massive failure on both sides, because despite a ton of high strength, AP2 attacks getting tossed out, both sides passed every save they were called to make. 3 monsters and a mess of bikes, no wounds.

Wasn't mine,but an opponent from many years ago, Eldar war walker with 2 scatter lasers, before the days of twin linked( yes i've been playing for that long) so 12 shots needing 3's to hit, me thought good bye storm trooper squad, unfortunatly the guy rolled all 1's , we both laughed a lot, he even took a photo of it, as he knew no one would believe it

 Griddlelol wrote:
This may seem slightly different from the others...

I dropped my buddy's metal flyrant on my vendetta while I was unpacking and admiring his painting/converting.

Let's say there weren't a lot of smiles during that game.

Pahaha. Must have felt bad.

These stories are making my day at work go a lot easier.

5 ed.
I am playing Ba vs De. My ASM whit a priest lost combat against Wyches. I fell my moral and proceed to run in to terrain where i lose 5 guy's and a priest.

A few weeks ago, playing my famous CSM Death Guard army.
I am famous for my good rolls at my FLGS. HOWEVER there was this one necron Player, he played the typical all-Croissant army ( Here in Basel we call Croissants "gipfeli" so he's the Gipfeli-man).
No one likes that guy, so my friends poke me up to nuke him.
I was afraid of the gipfelis as I had only one flier, the Dragon.
However I was able to get all the gipfelis down and shred most of his Units, I had even three CSM squad leaders ascend to daemonhood! But then......the doomark (?) took a shot and killed 2 DP's and my army leader+terminator Bodyguards. I think that there was something fishy about that doomark, but still I have won. Nevertheless I am afraid of those arks now....

Playing a 1500pt game back in 5th. My opponent was playing orks and i was CSM. He was running this massive group of Nob Bikers in the middle of the table. Turn one, my defiler shoots at them, hits them all, wounds them all, they all fail their armour/invunerable/cover save. Every single ork was dead by one pie plate. Nearly half his army gone in turn 1, Khorne was pleased that day.

Playing a 3 way 15 player game (crusade of fire)

Typhus deep strikes onto a landing pad upon which are 3 broadsides, unit of dark reapers, eldar snipers and eldrad. Uses plague nova primais power thingy and nukes a couple of reapers and snipers. Eldrad tries to mind war him and doom him. Manages to abhor the witch TWICE. Then the railguns fire, wounded once passes FNP.
Eldrad charges, typhus rips him a new one with a 6 on dœmon weapon roll.
Rolls for dark gift
Get a double '1' = 11
I think that's spawndom.
Spawn charges the broadsides and dies unspectacularly =(

What should have happened is that he stayed as Typhus, recast nova spell, charged broadsides and ripped them to pieces.

Oh well it was my derptasticfail and was funny. We made jokes about how nurgle secretly fancied eldrad and stuff. And we won the mission hands down.

2nd Ed. Enemy Chaos Lord tears the turret off my LRBT, we roll to see where the turret lands, it lands on top of the Lord, killing him.

edit: Double 1 on gift table is 'unworthy offering' not spawndom. Spawn is 21-22 on D66.
edit2: Sorry re-read your post, ignore my first edit.

Right at the begining of my 40k life I faced an ork player with (no suprise) Ghazghull. he shook of a lot of my leman russ fire, but he only had one wound left. a veteran sergeant proceeded to run up to him and fired his laspistol...

Thats why I never play Ghazghull in my ork army.

a word of advice to all new players: never get cocky. this has happened on two occasions: when my friend (who wawn't new to the game) said he would own me with his tervigon, but rolled double 1's, and when a kid with 3000 points faced me in apocolypse with a smirk on his face and was beaten by 1250 points of freebooters. Yes, i'm a pirate.

If anyone has some good terminator fails then let me know so that i can convince my friend not to use them in every game he plays. ta!

Typing a 750 word paragraph on here and having my laptop shut down just as Im about to click post basically I rolled 9 '1's and then two consecutive double ones

General Annoyance wrote:
If anyone has some good terminator fails then let me know so that i can convince my friend not to use them in every game he plays. ta!

Aside from the specific fails I already posted, I'll let you know if I ever get a game that isn't a terminator fail

I know the feeling of making impossible saves but failing the easy ones.

You shoot 5 bolter shots at my terminators...well crap they died

You assault my tactical terminators with your flyrant with boneswords/CC bells and whistles...nope all 5+ and I punch you to death.

Favorite fail I've witnessed, will post my own later:

Newer player has a whirlwind that can either shoot at an ironclad with rear armor (that's really close) or the squad of tau firewarriors far away. We all tell him to shoot at the firewarriors, but he ignores us and shoots at the ironclad. It scatters and hits the whirlwind, not killing it, but we had a great laugh

General Annoyance wrote:

a word of advice to all new players: never get cocky.

I always try to be cool, but I did get a little cocky in a game yesterday. The mission was ambush, and I was the attacker. MY Warlord trait gave me Furious Charge in my opponent's deployment zone, which was a 12" strip up the middle of the table. I got a little overexcited about S8 Dlord and S7 wraiths, only to lose 5 of 6 of my wraiths to silly things over the course of the game: vehicle explosions, failed saves in cc with basic marines, etc.

Oh boy, another one I thought of:

So I ALWAYS lose whenever I'm teaching someone to play their first game, and no I don't try to lose.

Here are some examples:

Taught one friend to play Eldar, I was playing my Orks and we were playing kill points.
-Lots and lots of mutual destruction later, I'm winning by a single kill point and it's just my Shokk Attack Gun (about 3 feet away) vs his Avatar.
-I go "why the heck not" and shoot it, then proceed to roll Zoink! and my last guy gets roflstomped by the Avatar in close combat.

Taught another friend to play oldcrons, I was playing Tau and there were two objectives.
-I can't for the life of me kill off the squad of warriors on her objective, so I am content with contesting it.
-Meanwhile, I leave it to my tank to kill off the other squad of her warriors (it was an ionhead, perfect for the job.) Killing the squad down to a single warrior and her lord.
-She proceeds to get a lucky glance and immobilize my tank that I thought was within contesting distance of the objective. On her turn she moves and just barely gets within 3" of the objective, and when I pull out the tape measure to make sure I was contesting I ended up being 1/16" of an inch too far away

I've lost to the three other people I've taught to play, but those aren't as memorable haha.

 rabid1903 wrote:
So I ALWAYS lose whenever I'm teaching someone to play their first game, and no I don't try to lose.

Ditto

My lone Belial engaged in combat with a Lone Marine with two wounds on his character and he got snapshotted and then killed in the first round of combat.
Worst game was when I played a guy who had three land raiders full of Khorne Beserkers and Kharn, with those damned flyers that look like dragons, against my whole foot force of Dark Angels. I scored three hits on the Land Raiders for my whole force gone off the board by fourth turn -.-

 Spyral wrote:
Playing a 3 way 15 player game (crusade of fire)

Typhus deep strikes onto a landing pad upon which are 3 broadsides, unit of dark reapers, eldar snipers and eldrad. Uses plague nova primais power thingy and nukes a couple of reapers and snipers. Eldrad tries to mind war him and doom him. Manages to abhor the witch TWICE. Then the railguns fire, wounded once passes FNP.
Eldrad charges, typhus rips him a new one with a 6 on dœmon weapon roll.
Rolls for dark gift
Get a double '1' = 11
I think that's spawndom.
Spawn charges the broadsides and dies unspectacularly =(

What should have happened is that he stayed as Typhus, recast nova spell, charged broadsides and ripped them to pieces.

Oh well it was my derptasticfail and was funny. We made jokes about how nurgle secretly fancied eldrad and stuff. And we won the mission hands down.

Typhus shouldn't have gotten FNP: Double T does not allow it.

Moved my land speeder typhoon across the board to take some shots at a whirlwind (which I killed) but wasn't paying attention to one of my other opponants broadside. For whatever reason he moved closer to it and blew it up, rolled for the explosion....killed the broadside as well xD

Redline01 wrote:
Moved my land speeder typhoon across the board to take some shots at a whirlwind (which I killed) but wasn't paying attention to one of my other opponants broadside. For whatever reason he moved closer to it and blew it up, rolled for the explosion....killed the broadside as well xD

That post reminded me that the only thing my Tau can kill reliably are Monoliths.

I guess the only thing they can hit is the broad side of a barn

The only two things my Tau hated were Necrons and my dice haha!

In 5ed, I played Iron Warriors. My chaos dread (plasma cannon/missil launcher) became crazed and shot my 10 chosens with mark of nurgle and 5 plasma gun killing half of the squad and 4 plasma guns.

in 6ed. Typhus and his terminator deep striked and the scatter dice placed him in perfect range of my vindicator. On shot and typhus and friends blow up in smoke.

Yriel charges a unit of 10 Demon Horrors at full wounds. Dies in the fist fight.

Or the terrible scenario i got in a tourney. Dawn of war style deployment where you could deploy everything up to half way line, Spearhead. My opponent just deployed along the middle line, leaving me only a small triangle in my corner to deploy in. My opponent was GK. He then proceeded to move up a few inches and unload every psycannon plus Angry Chair's Orbital strike on my bunched up units, killing almost 800 points in one round of shooting. Reserving would not have helped as he would have had all his psycannons in range of whatever i would bring on and Coteaz in a purifier squad.

 zephoid wrote:
Or the terrible scenario i got in a tourney. Dawn of war style deployment where you could deploy everything up to half way line, Spearhead. My opponent just deployed along the middle line, leaving me only a small triangle in my corner to deploy in.

Thats sounds like a badly designed scenario.... fail tourney?