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 Lucarikx wrote:
They thought manticore missles had more than one shot each.....Lucarikx

They can, they are Heavy D3...

Edit: I thought I was at the end of the previous page, Looks like I need another beer. nevermind me, nothing to see here.

What if he did, and he became amazing with those units?

Makumba wrote:
I was visting my aunt in London and it was both my very first time in UK and playing outside of Poland . My aunt drove me to Warhammer world and at first it was awesome , all those people playing , so many awesome models and terrain . We don't have as much stuff here to play with . I found an opponent ,he was like two , maybe three times my age. I told him I would like to play and he said ok , asked what I play . I play IG and had my two cases of models with me which was my 1750 army , he asked me If he can see my models and I had no problems with that. What happened after that was the worse game of my life . He took me to a table with no terrain other then some hill .And deployed his army. 3 units of elite hvy bolter devastators , 6x5 man hvy bolter tacticals , 3 whirlwinds and 9 hvy bolter and assault cannon land speeders . The game ended in 2 turn and he of course started . I have never before played against a tailored army , so it was a bit of a shock to me that people do that kind of a stuff . But the worse of it was that marine guy was laughing the whole 20 min of rolling dice and telling his 30 plus year old friends how is owning me and his friend asked me , If I want to play against his eldar . I said ok , the fool that I was back then, and the first thing he put on the same table was 9 scater laser war walkers . Same thing happened again , he gets first turn his army is made out of guardian squads with scater platforms and warwalkers and twin cannon vypers . After that I just packed my things , ignored the third guy asking me If I want to play his chaos and called my aunt to pick me up .
Worse and strangest day of gaming in my life.

This sounds like a game of Battletech I played with these two guys that were much older than me and they treated me like garbage...what a way to show people how great that game was. I know it wasn't 40k, but I've never had an awkward game of 40k....maybe I just don't play enough?

In any case it's players like these that I'd never play with. Where I'm at the atmosphere is very sportsmanlike and anyone berating another player is first warned. If it continues, they are asked to leave the store....at least that's what it was like, haven't been there in a while do to real life considerations (like gas). Suffice to say if they come back, they'll have no luck finding a game as everyone will be privy to their disrespectful antics. New players are usually forwarned of said douchebag and don't play with him either.

I suspect my next tournament games will be awkward.
My dad wants to come by and watch.........
This is going to be scary.

Mine was yesterday at my first tournament. The kid I was up against in the second round was very very quiet until we got going and he started to speak up a little. He wasn't a bad player just nervous I imagine

My most awkward game was many editions ago. My friend scratch built a baneblade from WD plans. He was bad at painting so i painted it (was fun). The first and only game i remember seeing it played was at local hobby store and people loved looking at it. Turn 1 on my turn... i had a assasin in terminator armor thunderhammer and stormshield. I teleport down thunderhammer it rolled crit on tank blew it up one shot reactor.. made my armor save and walked away unscratched... i won but the blow to him was awkward yet funny in a way.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I suspect my next tournament games will be awkward.
My dad wants to come by and watch.........
This is going to be scary.

That's strange... but why exactly will it be awkward?

 Andilus Greatsword wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I suspect my next tournament games will be awkward.
My dad wants to come by and watch.........
This is going to be scary.

That's strange... but why exactly will it be awkward?

Maybe he's one of those, "THATS MY KID!! Look how awesome they are!" kinda dads lol

I had the pleasure of watching an incredably funny (for me) game. It was a fantasy game in my local gamesworkshop between dark elves and lizard men. The thing was that the Lizard man was infact a Lizard-Woman who was constantly flirted with by the dark elf. Even though he was being thrashed by her great play, he still had that puppy-dog look that if she asked to let her win, he would. She said to him to play properly (between the comments of ''my eyes are up here'') because he was so lusty he wasn't playing well.

It got too far when her skinks blow-gunned (a few turns ago he made a Tera-bad joke about 'blow'-guns...) his witch elves to death, to which he replyed ''you've killed my brides of khaine, I'll have to find me a replacement bride''. It was sickening, so i squirted some of my cold water into his lap, his face was ridiculous. He was about to kick of when she started laughting and decided it was best to agree with her, but he was less flirty.

She then gave me her GamerTag (Yes, GamerGirls are real!!!) and now she's my.....best Call of Duty zombies friend

 Andilus Greatsword wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I suspect my next tournament games will be awkward.
My dad wants to come by and watch.........
This is going to be scary.

That's strange... but why exactly will it be awkward?

Because, what other warhammer players have their dads(me age 20) come watch?

I've had some pretty awkward moments in my short time as a 40k player, but today's game was one of the worst ever. We had an odd number of people show up for today's 1500 point battle mission, so I ended up playing Necrons and IG against a DE player and a DA player. Both agreed that I had a pretty good list, and because of the mission type, neither expected to survive much beyond turn 2. They couldn't have been more wrong. I rolled nothing but 1's and 2's, except when I needed to make a leadership test, for which I rolled double 6's. Twice. My Primaris Psyker killed himself via perils of the warp, my DLord was killed in CC by a normal marine, and my 6 wraiths got picked off 1-2 at a time in CC. My Overlord's CCB got blown up on turn 2, my Ghost Ark on turn 1, and even my wall of AV14 Russes didn't slow the opponent down. The awkward part was my opponents shaking their heads, saying they shouldn't have been alive. The DA player said it would be a hollow victory because it was clear that the dice gods were against me today. I didn't want to be TFG and give up in the middle of a game because of my bad rolls, but there comes a point where it gets pretty ridiculous.

 ALEXisAWESOME wrote:
I had the pleasure of watching an incredably funny (for me) game. It was a fantasy game in my local gamesworkshop between dark elves and lizard men. The thing was that the Lizard man was infact a Lizard-Woman who was constantly flirted with by the dark elf. Even though he was being thrashed by her great play, he still had that puppy-dog look that if she asked to let her win, he would. She said to him to play properly (between the comments of ''my eyes are up here'') because he was so lusty he wasn't playing well.

It got too far when her skinks blow-gunned (a few turns ago he made a Tera-bad joke about 'blow'-guns...) his witch elves to death, to which he replyed ''you've killed my brides of khaine, I'll have to find me a replacement bride''. It was sickening, so i squirted some of my cold water into his lap, his face was ridiculous. He was about to kick of when she started laughting and decided it was best to agree with her, but he was less flirty.

She then gave me her GamerTag (Yes, GamerGirls are real!!!) and now she's my.....best Call of Duty zombies friend

If you'd have been a stranger spraying me with cold water we'd have had a problem, regardless of your sex.

That awkward moment when everyone in the store hears you laugh and say "I can't believe I killed 68 marines in three turns... Good game"

It was hard to find another pickup game that day.

 jose kantor wrote:
That awkward moment when everyone in the store hears you laugh and say "I can't believe I killed 68 marines in three turns... Good game"

It was hard to find another pickup game that day.

Was it followed by "those three Helldrakes were really worth the cash I splurged on them!" ?

There is a poor Tau player in my store who can't get games with anyone because the first thing he does every game is take a Imperial Bastion from the scenery box and plonk his Broadsides in it in a far corner of his side of the map... and doesn't pay the point for it in his army list.

Asmodai Asmodean wrote:

 jose kantor wrote:
That awkward moment when everyone in the store hears you laugh and say "I can't believe I killed 68 marines in three turns... Good game"

It was hard to find another pickup game that day.

Was it followed by "those three Helldrakes were really worth the cash I splurged on them!" ?

There is a poor Tau player in my store who can't get games with anyone because the first thing he does every game is take a Imperial Bastion from the scenery box and plonk his Broadsides in it in a far corner of his side of the map... and doesn't pay the point for it in his army list.

Has anyone called him on it?

Matney X wrote:

Asmodai Asmodean wrote:

 jose kantor wrote:
That awkward moment when everyone in the store hears you laugh and say "I can't believe I killed 68 marines in three turns... Good game"

It was hard to find another pickup game that day.

Was it followed by "those three Helldrakes were really worth the cash I splurged on them!" ?

There is a poor Tau player in my store who can't get games with anyone because the first thing he does every game is take a Imperial Bastion from the scenery box and plonk his Broadsides in it in a far corner of his side of the map... and doesn't pay the point for it in his army list.

Has anyone called him on it?

For what, it is a piece or terrain and can be used without paying the points to make it "yours"

However there are consequences to this. It becomes dilapidated, full rules are on Page 96

This weekend I had a Tzeentch Lord with the Scroll of Magnus, Teminator Armor + Sigil as my warlord.. so 2+/3++ Rolling around in hilarity against my friends Orks by the time he had managed to get to me, my Lord managed a disgusting GoM roll of Multiple Boons to grant himself FnP + Cosmic Fate and Bloated...

then on the very last turn (game went on to turn 6) I decided to gaks and giggles to try and roll for 1 more boon before I tabled him, and turned my unstoppable, unkillable Lord, into a chaos spawn.... :(

These are starting to sound like unfortunate game luck, not awkward in the slightest

It's awkward when your friends are upset because they havent gotten a single kill point, and you manage to kill your own model, who just so happens to be the most powerful model on the board... lol

I got some weird looks from my friends after that....=/

My most awkward game was me with my Eldar with someone else with Grey Knights against Chaos Deamons and CSM. The guy with the Chaos Demons was on the Opposed side to me and just ignored my eldar and went straight to the GK togeather with the CSM of yet another player. But most of the time the whole battle was out of my line of sight, so I had no kills nor deaths. The GK player killed both their armies with a single dead GK. I facepalmed pretty hard as the GK player didn't even need me as a backup.

Sounds like alot of these people need a dice poll. after horrible rolling and finding random dice in the store you take the dice and glue them to the pole. dice for the dice god!

 DeathReaper wrote:

Matney X wrote:

Asmodai Asmodean wrote:

 jose kantor wrote:
That awkward moment when everyone in the store hears you laugh and say "I can't believe I killed 68 marines in three turns... Good game"

It was hard to find another pickup game that day.

Was it followed by "those three Helldrakes were really worth the cash I splurged on them!" ?

There is a poor Tau player in my store who can't get games with anyone because the first thing he does every game is take a Imperial Bastion from the scenery box and plonk his Broadsides in it in a far corner of his side of the map... and doesn't pay the point for it in his army list.

Has anyone called him on it?

For what, it is a piece or terrain and can be used without paying the points to make it "yours"

However there are consequences to this. It becomes dilapidated, full rules are on Page 96

For abusing a loophole and being unsportsmanlike. Is it legal? Yeah. Is it fun when the first thing you throw down is obviously intended to give you an edge, and you do it over and over and over? No, not really.

Matney X wrote:

 DeathReaper wrote:

For what, it is a piece or terrain and can be used without paying the points to make it "yours"

However there are consequences to this. It becomes dilapidated, full rules are on Page 96

For abusing a loophole and being unsportsmanlike. Is it legal? Yeah. Is it fun when the first thing you throw down is obviously intended to give you an edge, and you do it over and over and over? No, not really.

You realize that an AV 12 building is really easy to kill right?

Get a Glance, or a Pen with a result of Partial Collapse, Structural Collapse, Catastrophic Breach, Total Collapse, or Detonation! result and the guys inside take hits at Str 6 or wounds of some sort.

It is not tough to do.

On the case with the bastion, for fortifications you actually have to pay the points for it, if you dont: YOU ARE CHEATING!

just sayin`

DeathReaper wrote:

Matney X wrote:

 DeathReaper wrote:

For what, it is a piece or terrain and can be used without paying the points to make it "yours"

However there are consequences to this. It becomes dilapidated, full rules are on Page 96

For abusing a loophole and being unsportsmanlike. Is it legal? Yeah. Is it fun when the first thing you throw down is obviously intended to give you an edge, and you do it over and over and over? No, not really.

You realize that an AV 12 building is really easy to kill right?

Get a Glance, or a Pen with a result of Partial Collapse, Structural Collapse, Catastrophic Breach, Total Collapse, or Detonation! result and the guys inside take hits at Str 6 or wounds of some sort.

It is not tough to do.

No, it's not tough to do, but if the Bastion is part of the player's game plan, he needs to be paying points for it.

Arguing that it's really easy to do doesn't bypass the idea that he's being a jerk. Punching him in the face is easy to do, too, but I'm sure there would be repercussions from that.

Would you be arguing on his side if he always dropped a huge LoS blocking piece of terrain in front of your quad gun? It's technically legal, but it's a jerk move.

Dracoknight wrote:On the case with the bastion, for fortifications you actually have to pay the points for it, if you dont: YOU ARE CHEATING!

just sayin`

That's what I'm saying.

If he's dropping it VERY FIRST, it sounds like it's going down before any other terrain, during Fortification deployment.

Sound like a jerk move to me but remeber we can place those as terrain as well without paying points for them. They just count as a ruined or abandoned fortification. So the weapons systems don't work and the armor value is less.

 DeathReaper wrote:
For what, it is a piece or terrain and can be used without paying the points to make it "yours"

However there are consequences to this. It becomes dilapidated, full rules are on Page 96

The rule you are refering to is for using terrain that is already on the table. If it is deployed during his deployment it is not just standard table terrain and needs to be paid for as normal. Of course he *can* do what he does and then have no one play him and the problem will either correct itself or he'll never play in the store again. He might have felt he deserved a free bastion because his codex is so old, but just because he belives it doesn't make it so.

Skriker

I think the situation here is:

1. Players are using the competitive terrain placement rules.
2. Tau player places a dilapidated bastion on his side as his first terrain placement.

I see no problem with this. Let's see how those broadsides like the ceiling falling on them, because dilapidated bastions ain't exactly all that sturdy. If he's trying to argue that he gets to use the profile in the fortifications section (AV 14 instead of 12, emplaced HBs) then he's just plain incorrect, but the above scenario is perfectly legitimate (and if it's that much of an annoyance to the regulars, yet another argument in favor of doing cinematic terrain placement).

 DeathReaper wrote:
You realize that an AV 12 building is really easy to kill right?

Get a Glance, or a Pen with a result of Partial Collapse, Structural Collapse, Catastrophic Breach, Total Collapse, or Detonation! result and the guys inside take hits at Str 6 or wounds of some sort.

It is not tough to do.

Only problem is you can't actually shoot at the building unless there's someone inside it; you can only target the models on top. So essentially he is just getting a great firing position, and a regular 4+ cover save from the battlements.

Man, my most awkward game haunts me to this day...

So, me and a group at the University of Nottingham decided to head down to Warhammer World for some pickup games, and it turned out that it would be just me and another guy (Space Wolf player, for future reference). On our way, we bump in to this girl who's also heading to Warhammer World, after not playing since something like 3rd Edition.

At this point, I'd like to stress that the girl looked fairly androgynous (and I think you may be able to see where this is going...), but it was definitely clear that she was a girl. Her hair wasn't particularly long, clothing could have belonged to a man or a woman, and the voice was in that awkward area where it could be a high male or a low female.

Some time around turn 3 SpaceWolf yells over to me, asking how the game is going. Due to my deployment, uncompetitive list and poor tactical decisions I'm able to reply that "this guy is beating me pretty bad!".

There's an awkward silence and they both look at me oddly, with the girl saying "You do know I'm a girl, right?" and, I kid you not, GRABBING HER BREAST to make it obvious. I'm not entirely sure I'm remembering correctly when my mind adds the words "Did you notice these?", but there you go. By this point, I realise that my gender-neutral use of "guy" was probably a bad idea in the scenario, and explain that I'd just wasn't used to playing a female gamer and said it out of habit... The game continued and she showed a remarkable mastery of the 5th edition Tyranid codex and wipes me by turn 4/5.

I cringe about it to this day, and Space Wolf has brought it up before, to my eternal shame... >.>