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chuxfm wrote:

 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?

5th ediition

I remember a game back in 4th with my nids and my hive tyrant was smashing through a guard infantry line and I got held and up and eventually killed by a damnable sergeant with a powerweapon. Somehow I kept missing and he kept wounding. Lead me to lost the game.

 captain collius wrote:

chuxfm wrote:

 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?

5th ediition

ahhh. I stopped playing after 3rd and started agian with 6th .

 Savageconvoy wrote:
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 nd 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.

I am at a loss as to exactly what was so bad about your list? Bad die rolling on your side compared to good die rolling on the opponent side doesn't mean your list is bad. Deep striking and rolling crazy and losing the unit off the table isn't the sign of a bad list and having your flyer shot down by an assassin in a bastion who was added in an allied contigent specifically for that purpose also isn't the sign of a bad list either. What was so bad about your list that made it horrible? If the only hitters you had in the army were the heldrake and terminators, but the rest was made up only of cultists I could see it being a problem, but blaming the list for what appears to be a bunch of poor rolling is kind of silly.

On your other story, always stick to your own plan for how to use *your* army. I don't care how awesome or perfect someone else thinks a unit is for a specific job their advice does not impact my plans at all. One thing to offer advice to a total noob who *asks* for it, but keep your comments to yourself when you come over to watch my game. Your plan and the logic behind it was good. Next time most definitely trust yourself!

Skriker


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 conker249 wrote:
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.

So because you defended your proper point expenditures instead of allowing yourself to be disqualified off the bat you got docked points for sportsmanship? What a bunch of crap. I wouldn't waste time playing tournies in that store anymore unless someone else runs them. He even built your list twice in army builder and came off with two different totals? Yeah good evidence of cheating there...

Skriker


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

As soon as you get cocky is when the dice fail you. My fav cocky gamer dice failure is from D&D a LONG time ago...A creature related to a water elemental burst out of a fountain to attack the party and the GM laughed maniacally that "I only need 4s to hit you!" He then proceeded to roll nothing higher than a 3 for the entire combat ending in nasty creature stomped completely and party completely untouched.

I always forget at some critical point in a game too and say something that then turns my dice against me. Always a "DOH!" moment...

Skriker

Funniest failure was deep striking 400 points of terminators off the side of the table and straight into the warp in a 1000 pt game. Still managed to pull out a victory. We were both baffled.

I got cocky in a game and tried to death rolla Mephiston (5th), sigh he only had 1 wound left too. BW blew up and kill all my boyz inside with the explosion, not one save =(

It was my first time playing my new GK army. I was playing against a good friend at the time and I just could not kill his Rhino. So finally I chose to charge his rhino with my termies. I cast hammerhand and I rolled a 12. As to my understanding at the time I thought all of them died.

The other time I was playing my necrons vs Tau and when my night scythe came on the board I dropped off my units. When it was the Tau players turn he shot at the night scythe and it crashed and killed all but the lord and 1 warrior.

Both times had me on the ground laughing.

 reiner wrote:
Funniest failure was deep striking 400 points of terminators off the side of the table and straight into the warp in a 1000 pt game. Still managed to pull out a victory. We were both baffled.

Ha. Scotty was drunk that day.

Had a vet squad come on from reserves, shoot their plasma, then blow up and flee. I've had that happen a few times actually.

In my last game, 10 out of 14 casualties my plasma suffered were from Gets Hot. Plasma just hates me.

Fully kitted out Deamon Prince in 4th Ed versus Brother Captain Stern...
6A 5 hits (even with 1/2 WS)
Wounding on 2s, 5 wounds

fail one save just one and he would have been toast... nope... all saved....

But my worst ever...
Catachan throws demo charge, scatters back kills half the squad and a chimera to boot. Squad breaks in the enemy assault phase, and leads a squad of Khorne Zerkers straight into my command squad in the sweeping advance move. Lose following combat... Commissar kills commander...

And all this could have been avoided if ol' Jones had of thrown the charge and not the pin...

General Annoyance wrote:
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!

Here's a Terminator fail for you: Tournament under 4th edition rules Dark Angels v. Orks (third ed. Codex). Some of you may see where this is going. Dude was running Deathwing, he deep-strikes right near 30 boys with slugga/choppa. Back then choppas reduced all armor saves to 4+. Ork player charges Termies, a hail of 90 choppa attacks descends upon the Deathwing. No more Deathwing.

xraytango wrote:

General Annoyance wrote:
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!

Here's a Terminator fail for you: Tournament under 4th edition rules Dark Angels v. Orks (third ed. Codex). Some of you may see where this is going. Dude was running Deathwing, he deep-strikes right near 30 boys with slugga/choppa. Back then choppas reduced all armor saves to 4+. Ork player charges Termies, a hail of 90 choppa attacks descends upon the Deathwing. No more Deathwing.

I was about to charge about 20 grots with a 5 termie squad. Lose two termies to overwatch, end up losing last 3 to the combat after 3 turns, to GROTS!!!

I was playing csm in 5th ed against a speed freekz army.
I deep struck a ten-man terminator squad with abbaddon right next to three of his transports. Little did I know that Tzeentch had other ideas...
Inside each transport was a mob of burnaz, they all disembarked and fired on me.
I rolled a grand total of 16 's.

This happened to my friend against me.


"i'll jaws you"(rolls 4+2)"Ok deny the witch"(2)"so thats Abbadon your Prince and 2 chaos marines""yep" ok please do your 4 tests(Rolls 4 6's)"Dude what just happened"

First, and only time to date I have fielding Abaddon, I rolled a 1 for his Demon Weapon as I moved into assault. This was in an apocalypse game in 5th edition, and I have since blamed the removal of his topknot for the failed attempt.

I am just now getting over it and thinking of fielding him again.

I recal a 5th ed game where we rolled dawn of war deployment.
My opponent was playing orky powerklaw spam with wagons etc.
I was playing chaos.
He deployed his forces in the middle of the field, right on where the objective had been placed.
He got the first turn, assaulted me, and tabled me in 1 turn.

Chimera gets shot by a hellbrute, blows up. 10 wounds, 3 saved. I elected to save the plasma's inside them and they pass their morale. In his assault he decides to assault the 3 remaining guardsmen. I roll for overwatch, 5 overheats.
Atleast the hellbrute didn't get any closer :(

 Blaggard wrote:
Chimera gets shot by a hellbrute, blows up. 10 wounds, 3 saved. I elected to save the plasma's inside them and they pass their morale. In his assault he decides to assault the 3 remaining guardsmen. I roll for overwatch, 7 overheats.
Atleast the hellbrute didn't get any closer :(

Ouch, looks like Nuffle the dice god wasn't on your side that day

Had to edit it, 3 plasma's do not result in 7 overheats lol.
The turn before his though they managed to bag Abadon so it was all good.

Chaos Space marines are in assault with a Hell brute (my ally, it is a 2vs1).

Marbo charges into the melee, sure to clean house.
He goes first with 5 attacks.
4 hits, I simply need to roll 2+ to Wound
Ends up rolling 4 1s.

I then make an initiative test for the hit and run to recharge next round.
I roll a 6.

Worst Marbo Ever.

Driving 40 miles for a game and forgetting my grav tanks.

Better than the time I left my eldar army case outside my house on a bin though...

My most memerable fail was I was trying out a foot slogging DE list using my Dark elf models as I didnt want to commit to the army unless I liked it. I played against a good friend of mine who was running mech orks. My Dark lances failed to do ANYTHING at all then in combat my Archon and Incubi fail to kill any orks in return they get faced stomped

PredaKhaine wrote:
Driving 40 miles for a game and forgetting my grav tanks.

Better than the time I left my eldar army case outside my house on a bin though...

Did your Eldar get stolen?

TAGK and Grand Master both kitted out for CC stuck in a Land Raider Crusader because it ran into a tree first turn.

This happened to me last week:

7 Nurgle Termies charging a squad of 24 cultits... 6 died from 6 overwatch hits, the Champion makes it and dies to the Cultist champion.

Friday again Necron, my hellbrute took two get hot in a row. 4 Necrons Canoptek Wraith charge my CSM unit, they fail the charge and they are less than 12 inch. 20 shoots, 1 hit. The odds roles again me that game, never saw so much one...

I've had 3 shokk attack gun explosions (Double 1's) and two fired meks (Double 5's) in the last three games that I've played. Cost me the game twice.

I run two shokk attacks.

That is statisticaly very unlikely.

Buddy of mine was running FNP Hammernators right when the BA dex first came out. He's always been big into Elite armies...so anyway, double Land Raiders and a Storm Raven, that kind of thing.


Playing against my Guard, 2 objectives on the table...we'd always had close games but we'd tied the majority of them. He'd never beaten me. This time, he rams a Land Raider straight for the objective and melta guns are bouncing off this thing like no tomorrow. The Hammernators hop out and beat the crap out of a couple of my vehicles. Nuts...

I've got 8 enemy Hammernators with FNP sitting on an objective. They shrug off all of the fire that I can put onto them. Finally the only thing left is the Hydras. 3 Hydras in the backfield light them up. 8 wounds. 8 failed saves. 8 failed FNPs. Priest is the only one left alive. We look at each other like wtf did that REALLY just happen?

Some great stories in this thread.

This was not my fail, it was my friend's, but is also one of my greatest moments as a Tau player. I was playing Tau against my friend playing Dark Eldar. One of my Fire Warrior squads is getting cut up, starts to back off to put some distance between themselves and the enemy, only the Sgt and 3 warriors left, when they get charged by a unit of Dark Eldar Reavers. A few rounds and some amazing dice rolling later, one single Reaver is running back across the battlefield, my lone Fire Warrior Sgt remaining and standing tall.

My Dark Eldar friend is still disgusted at that units rolling from that day.

The most embarrassing fail was having my hive tyrant get his butt kicked by a group of veterans that weren't armed with plasma or melta or melta bombs.

It was a squad of vets with 3 flamers and Yarrick. I shoot at them with my hive tyrant that has an armored shell (2+ armor save) and 2 twin-linked devourers. I kill 4 guys including all the flamers. I charge, the vets overwatch. 2 hits, 2 wounds, 2 failed armor saves, that's 2 6's, 2 6's, and 2 1's. I lost half my wounds just from overwatch.

Then some poor roles means I was stuck in combat for a while and when I got out I had 1 wound left. Then Yarrick stands back up and shoots my hive Tyrant in the butt and kills him. I was a sad panda.