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What is the worst gaming advice you have ever been given? Preferably given in person as bad advice online is plentiful, but I'll take bad online advice as well.

Mine was from a GW red shirt. It was early in 5th, I was struggling to beat my friend's necrons with my new SM codex. The red shirt in question was considered by many to be the local SM guru. I asked him for advice, and his simple reply was "just cause more wounds". My friends, my brother, and I all looked at him with near jaw dropped expressions. "Of course, just kill them, how could I have not thought of that. I just need to win!" No advice on what to take, or load out, or how to go about causing more wounds. It was just such a matter-of-fact obvious answer, like I should have known all along. Might as well tell me to just roll better.

That was many years ago, and to this day is a running joke with my friends. No matter what you may be playing, if you are having a bad game, one of us will tell you to cause more wounds. World of tanks? WoW pvp? Battlefield 3? D&D? MtG? Doesn't matter, just cause more wounds!

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That advice is sagely.

Mine would be "Since guard suck at CC you really need roughriders for when they get close".
   
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5th edition, playing with the old daemon's book. (Before the flamer/screamer white dwarf)

I was told "Don't play nurgle, they suck, and you will never win a game.
I'm stubborn, and I liked the nurgle unit's, so I got them.
I won about 95% of my games with pure nurgle daemons.
   
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So I was just starting out my IG and when considering what to buy my buddy looks me straight in the eye and goes "id say as many IG veteran squads with chimeras as you can, a PCS with all plasma and a lot of tanks. Anything else is not really worth it. And Definitely not Marbo, he normally kills himself." And that, kids, is why I do not currently own a Marbo. My dumb believed him.

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 Azreal13 wrote:
Not that it matters because given the amount of interbreeding that went on with that lot I'm pretty sure the Queen is her own Uncle.

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Back in 5th edition "Take Howling Banshees in a Wave Serpent."

"Take Howling Banshees" was bad enough, but why would I waste so many points to make them even worse?

It essentially amounted to "give them an expensive transport that they can't easily assault out of, and has only a single entry point; don't worry that they'll all be grouped outside the back hatch in a nice flamer template/blast marker shape and outside of cover, or that the enemy can easily just walk up to the hatch to stop you getting out at all."

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The worst advice I ever got when it comes to playing THIS game was from a well meaning friend who told me that I should just gt my list off the internet "because they've already tried it all and you'll save money on crap models".

Well, you can imagine how badly that went. Ignoring your own playstyle in deference to someone elses is bad business. You have to find your own way and sometimes it ends up bing the same as other people. But to say that to everyone you come across and to have that as your guiding light? Bad. Jut bad.

That dude stoppd playing 40K after I beat him for the first time. He beat me like 8 times in a row. Finally I changd my list to MY way of playing and it was like magic. He didn't like losing so he quit. It was wierd.

Anyways, there you have it.

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To give ALL of my Firewarrior squads EMP grenades. Tried it once. Biggest waste of over 100 points I've ever made.

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That vanguards were awesome in 5th ed

Pst! I do give my firewarriors EMP grenades, especially in 6th ed.


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¨Killakanz my friend i prommis you they do good BS3!¨
... i just took a group of 3 to show him the oposite of what he said..

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Haha this is a funny and yet interesting thread. I also once took masses of EMP grenades on my Fire Warriors from terrible advice. But also one of mine would probably be when it was suggested that I take as many Blood Claws as possible when I firsr started Space Wolves.... Needless to say, it was terrible except for probably one or two games where it actually worked just by some strange chance.
   
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Mine was "Dont take crisis suits, TAKE MORE FIREWARRIORS AND KROOT.
But then again, this was from a veteran GT player.

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phatonic wrote:
¨Killakanz my friend i prommis you they do good BS3!¨
... i just took a group of 3 to show him the oposite of what he said..


Well, at least in 5th edition, they could easily wreck face.

You can't just take 3, though. You need 6+ with a force field mek.


Course, they're probably really bad now from the 6e changes :(

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'Switch to Marines. You can't win with anything else..'

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The guy who told me " No its not that expensive, Spend $200-300 on an army and you will never have to buy again"

admittedly some people MIGHT be able to do that... but to me it was like adding cocaine into chocolate and feeding it to a chocoholic.


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that was of course back when you could get a 1000-1500 pt army for that

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California

I was told to go talk to the giants in skyrim after I was freed from the starting quest if the game and could roam around on my own. Worst advice but it was amusing
   
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I have lucked out so far I think with advice I've been given. Though I have found the local GW guy to be completely unhelpful when asking questions about which units to use or advice on lists. He just smiles and nods as though I've made a statement rather than having asked a question.

The only good info I got from him was an explanation of Dreadnought variants when I was juuuuuust starting out.

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"Haywire grenades are useless" is probably my favorite. The individual hasnt lived it down. Lol

 
   
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My friend gave himself bad advice. He got kroot and refused to use markerlights and got owned most times he played. So I decide to test my brand new space wolves on him and he decided no kroot and give everyone markerlights. I was barely 72 inches away from him on the board and I got raped in 3 turns. I had some bad roles (lost an entire terminator squad in one turn) and only killed one squad with some lucky shots. He fixed his own problem and I need to fix my army list.
   
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"Put troops in those AV 11 buildings right there! ... No, don't worry about his Krak missiles, they're only 12" range!" I facepalm to this day.

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From a redshirt. "Take a warbuggy for a cult of speed list, It'll look great in your army too!"

And from a friend. "BA? take a captain, he's got great options" Ya won't regret it.

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 wowsmash wrote:
I was told to go talk to the giants in skyrim after I was freed from the starting quest if the game and could roam around on my own. Worst advice but it was amusing


Not 40k but arguably the funniest thing ive heard in a long time! My Gf and i both got a totally great laugh at this

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 dreamakuma wrote:
From a redshirt. "Take a warbuggy for a cult of speed list, It'll look great in your army too!"

And from a friend. "BA? take a captain, he's got great options" Ya won't regret it.


Wait...a plain Captain?

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 Jancoran wrote:
 dreamakuma wrote:
From a redshirt. "Take a warbuggy for a cult of speed list, It'll look great in your army too!"

And from a friend. "BA? take a captain, he's got great options" Ya won't regret it.


Wait...a plain Captain?


Pretty much. I didn't listen(much) thankfully

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 Avatar 720 wrote:
Back in 5th edition "Take Howling Banshees in a Wave Serpent."

"Take Howling Banshees" was bad enough, but why would I waste so many points to make them even worse?

It essentially amounted to "give them an expensive transport that they can't easily assault out of, and has only a single entry point; don't worry that they'll all be grouped outside the back hatch in a nice flamer template/blast marker shape and outside of cover, or that the enemy can easily just walk up to the hatch to stop you getting out at all."


- I used to take howling banshees in a serpent back in 5th and they did OK. However, the assaulting rules in 6th have totally killed them off. In my games of 6th ed with my Eldar (admittedly only 3 games so far) the Banshees have not come out of the figure case and aren't going to until they can assault from their transport on the same turn.

It is Harlequins all the way for me right now!

As for my own worst piece of advice received, I went into my local GW a couple of years ago looking to start a Dark Elf army. Instead of showing me the Dark Elf minis in there, the manager of the store suggested I buy the Island of Blood box (High Elves vs Skaven) so that I could start a High Elf army once I had finished the Dark Elf one (which hadn't even been started yet!).

Either that or it was the guy I heard of that said all orks should stand base to base all the time!

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I don't know about advise received, but some advice I gave seems to have ruined someone. haha This guys 3rd or 4th game, we were playing on a 4x4 and he had trouble placing a Monolith, I told him to just Deepstrike it. It never showed up to the game and now he thinks DSing anything is the worst idea ever.

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Wasnt really "bad advice" but what happened was hilarious anyway.

My friend was using my orks and chose to not shoot his SAG since the only things in sight/range were either right next to his own troops or just random junk to draw fire. My other friend egged him on to fire it anyway, so he did - snake-eyes, rolled a 6 on the range, So everything in a 6inch radius evaporated lol.

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 Vineheart01 wrote:
Wasnt really "bad advice" but what happened was hilarious anyway.

My friend was using my orks and chose to not shoot his SAG since the only things in sight/range were either right next to his own troops or just random junk to draw fire. My other friend egged him on to fire it anyway, so he did - snake-eyes, rolled a 6 on the range, So everything in a 6inch radius evaporated lol.


Bah, bad advice. That's just orky advice!
   
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I play SW have done since 96, recently though i've had to move away from using blood claws even though my armies always been ragnars great company.

So my friend says "you should use just blood claws as your ragnars company"

So knowing full well it wont work i do a full BC army 3 squads in rhino's, skyclaws and swift claws all over the place, they get shot to bits as soon as they leave the rhino, fail to kill everything they charge and get wiped out.

Needless to say no one wonders why i take grey hunters anymore in my group.
   
 
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