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How many times have your carefully laid plans get screwed over on the table because you rolled one or more 1s? What are some of the most common/memorable times?

I can't tell you how many times I ran a 5 man Wolf Scout with a melta, outflanked them in an attempt to take out a nice looking piece of armor, but rolled a one when trying to hit with that meltagun. That happens way too often for me.

A more specific instance happened one Apocalypse game when I ran two squadroned Typhoon speeders. I moved them 12" up into terrain, rolled DT for both but got a 1 resulting in an immobilization (can't recall if I took jink or even if they're allowed). Then, since they were still out of range, I moved the non-immobilized one flat-out out of terrain, rolling another 1 on DT and wrecking it. Same turn.

How about you?

Every time I fire melta-guns at AV:14. 1s to hit, 1s to penetrate. At least it feels that way...

Oh geeze.

I needed a riptide to the other side of the field for line breaker and contest a point.

nova charge went ok but rolled 4 1's on the assault jump ><.

also had an opponent roll 4 ones on his blood lance distance. ouch.

Edit: also speaking of melta and tanks. every time i go to the damage chart with any weapon, always a 1... always.

Not so much a "Rule of 1s" but a similar story if "When you desperately need something to work..."

DH game last night, the party was fighting a bunch of would-be bandits who also happened to be an Orkish Speed Freek Kult. The Boyz are racing around the PCs and their ammo-hauling truck on the highway, the bikes harassing the PCs while their trukks can get into position.

After one rather bad driving roll, the PCs are forced to stop and get out, so the Orks stop and get out, looking to start krumpin'. One of the PCs grabs a grenade and hurls it at a pack of advancing Boyz... and misses. Roll for grenade scatter... oh, that just went into the back of the ammo-laden truck the PCs were riding in.

At least it was just a flash-bang grenade.

Running my spiffy fully loaded Spartan Land Raider for the first time and it gets busted and immobilised by a damn tree.

I have rolled snake eyed for charge distances when all I needed was a three more times than I care to count. Also, the meltaguns on my grey hunters are purely decorative, they love the one.

I played a game the other day where the first four rolls I made were ones. I rolled a one for terrain placement, a one for deployment, and two ones for my first psychic test. And don't get me started on blood bowl, my dice are undeniably cursed with some kind of voodoo magic.

 ghastli wrote:
And don't get me started on blood bowl, my dice are undeniably cursed with some kind of voodoo magic.

Salt your doors and windows or scare up some goofer dust from your local hoodoo man.

 kronk wrote:

 ghastli wrote:
And don't get me started on blood bowl, my dice are undeniably cursed with some kind of voodoo magic.

Salt your doors and windows or scare up some goofer dust from your local hoodoo man.

Sacrifice one of your dice to the dice gods. and make the rest of you dice watch.

we were playing a tourney game that had the option of a reroll during the game. Enemy melta gun hits the front of a hellhound. Double 1s to pen. He rerollls, double 1s to pen AGAIN! woot woot!

Later in that tourney the executioner i was using managed to remove all 3 hull points by sponson overheats. That was a lot of 1s.

The most annoying time was when I was using my bloodthirster's lash of khorne shooting attack. He is BS10 and I rolled a 1 to hit. Initially I thought "no problem, he gets a re-roll needing 2+". I re-roll and get another 1

¨When you roll a 1, You'd better bring Twin linked brah!¨ Vulkan vulkan vulkan

every time I fire a damn plasma gun I kill a power guardsmen it seems like

Fired 9 Dark Lances in a turn - missed with 8 and that one bounced off :(

 Desubot wrote:

 kronk wrote:

 ghastli wrote:
And don't get me started on blood bowl, my dice are undeniably cursed with some kind of voodoo magic.

Salt your doors and windows or scare up some goofer dust from your local hoodoo man.

Sacrifice one of your dice to the dice gods. and make the rest of you dice watch.

I have. I put one in the microwave and set up the others around it, like some kind of bizarre ritual (some guy at my FLGS told me to, though I haven't seen him lately). I made them watch as it melted. All I have to show for it is one dice is missing from my cube, they still roll an annoying amount of 1s

Was my Brother inlaws last turn of the game, I had a squad of 5 terminators contesting the last objective and in sheer desperation he fired some shuriken pistol shots into them form some banshees.

6 hit, 5 wound.......I roll 5 ones I just laughed my head off

Another one I remember happening:

Rapid firing a plasma gun with Prescience active on the squad, got an overheat and a miss on a 2. Re-rolled, got two overheats. Your Divination just made my gun get hotter, Mr. Silverwolf.

I had 3 guardsmen squads all failing leadership test, they all had to fall back into dangerous terrain...there goes like my entire change of winning gone

Not rolling a one, ,but my opponent rolling a 6 for seizing.

That happened against me in 3 straight games in my groups last campaign.

ARG!!!

Running my new punisher tank. I see a group of tac marines in range with a plasmagun and heavy bolter, in my first ever shooting turn with the punisher, I miss with half and the rest turned into non wounds, most were ones.

Mr. Morden:

Fired 9 Dark Lances in a turn - missed with 8 and that one bounced off :(

I know that feeling. I have had that happen an unusual amount as of late. Really frustrating that.

The worst one I ever rolled was after my Archon killed a Trygon Prime in single combat with a Huskblade (bringing him to S6 for later combats). He then turned out to be within six inches of a Mycetic Spore. It hit him once, wounded once, and I rolled a one for my Shadow Field save (instant death).

On Saturday, get my five combi melta WG squad behind an Annihilation Barge on turn 1. It's open topped, I'm an inch away, I normally run four melta guns and never whiff, today I have five...first blood is all but guranteed. Four 1s and a 2. Facepalm

My Exorcist tanks are a bit hit-or-miss with the Heavy d6 Exorcist Launchers. If I roll only one shot then I usually also roll a one to hit, or at least a one to penetrate. Ones come in groups.

I could have killed Typhus with 2 lascannon, but I rolled a 1 To Hit and a 1 To Wound. Typhus proceeded to rip my Guardsmen a new one while I stood by and wept tears of sorrow.

Every time I roll hammer of wrath in game for my exalted seeker chariot... always 2 1's are rolled (+2 other rolls that are ok, usually 3's and 4's)

Whenever I roll when I'm not in a game.. not a 1 to be found... :\


Rolling to wound in combat with my daemonettes vs Araknyr the raveller (or however that's spelt), lot's of 1's and a single 6... this is from rolling 20+ dice, by the way...

Yeah, I have a well-documented bad luck streak. My roll-lots-of-1's as of late has manifested itself in me failing 2/3ds of my dangerous terrain tests with vehicles in the last couple of game.

But, then... welcome to 40k. Don't play dice games if you don't like dice.

Rolling first double 1s on my Hive tyrant, followed by a double 6s next round.... 2/4 wounds gone to the warp...

And a friend of mine in Warhammer fantasy: 7 + 9 1s in 2 combats....

Nightwolf829 wrote:
Mr. Morden:

Fired 9 Dark Lances in a turn - missed with 8 and that one bounced off :(

I know that feeling. I have had that happen an unusual amount as of late. Really frustrating that.

The worst one I ever rolled was after my Archon killed a Trygon Prime in single combat with a Huskblade (bringing him to S6 for later combats). He then turned out to be within six inches of a Mycetic Spore. It hit him once, wounded once, and I rolled a one for my Shadow Field save (instant death).

Also had a Apoclaypse style game with Vect - Battlecannon scattered onto him, rolled a 1 for Shadowfield and lost him to isntant death :(

The Deathwing Knights were about to roll in on a charge of 5 inches....the guardsmen were armed with shotguns. They managed to get 5 wounds on TERMIES!!!!! I'm like ok brah, I get this. I roll one 2 and four 1's Happens to me all the time!