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Hi Dakka,
I have a little tournament coming up and I'm trying to brush up on my rules. I know that every game, without fail I forget the order of doing things before the game starts. Things like:
1) roll for game type and deployment type
2) roll for sides and objectives
3) do warlord and psychic powers
4) roll for first deployment/first turn
5) finally you roll for night fight and get to deploying

So I thought I'd start a thread here for everyone to share the rules you always forget. After all, it's never bad to check up on rules, and it's handy to know the memory hiccups one is most likely to encounter.

Warlord Traits every time

Objectives. We can say 'we won't forget to roll for the random objectives this time' as we are deploying, but I can guarantee you Turn 3 hits and all of a sudden it's 'oh yeah...oops. Oh well just leave it we'll play on'

Furious Charge. I play Orks, and yet I keep forgetting.

and Warlord traits, but they're lousy anyway, and even if I do remember to roll them, they're either useless or I forget about them twice.

Red thirst. I almost NEVER remember to roll for it :p

I keep forgetting my WAAAAGGHHH rule for my orkses

1. Preferred enemy on my DL
2. Arcing tesla
3. Special character rules (lightning for Imo, giving special rules to my units etc..)

Almost everything related to morale.

- I tend to check morale for a squad inmediately after taking losses, not after the enemy shooting phase.

- I almost always forget to rally.

- I often skip pinning tests after emergency disembarkments and vehicle explosions. Thankfully, my opponents always "kindly" remind me to.

- On the contrary, I always forget that the guns on my dakkajets cause pinning. My foes never remind me of this one, though.

The Warpstorm table.... Unless bringing a certain few units, my chaos daemon army has almost no shooting. So I frequently forget entirely to roll it!

Hammer. Of. Wrath.

For my MCs.

My biggest problem is rules that blur together from previous editions. Normally its "Oh yeah, this works this way", then someone replies with "not since 4th".

I also tend to forget my vehicles have smoke launchers.

Look Out Sir and the related CC rule.

I keep forgetting the rule that Mech Guard is dead in 6th edition.

Throw grenades

 davou wrote:
Throw grenades

And this. had to look it up the other day.


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JWhex wrote:
I keep forgetting the rule that Mech Guard is dead in 6th edition.

1. not a rule
2. it's not dead, just requires more finesse and testicular fortitude to play

Orky WAAAGH, because it's so useless.

Random tables X, Y, and Z. Plus additional random tables A B and C.

Pinning tests when a vehicle explodes.

Night Fight.

 davou wrote:
Throw grenades

I killed a wave serpent (or was it a falcon, the hard to kill one with the 2+ pen-glance save) with a thrown krak grenade to the rear armour. My friend's face was hilarious. I love throwing grenades!

People need to take a pinning test when a vehicle explodes...why was I never informed of this? As a Tau player I feel cheated. I really need to buy the main rulebook and actually read it instead of just "taking my mates word for it".

Night fighting every single game. Unless I'm playind dark eldar then I remember night fighting and forget my combat drugs.

Precision shots/strikes.

I forget. :p

But really, I usually forget to do hammer of wrath, and sometimes blessings at the beginning of a turn.

I ALWAYS forget to roll for Blessings and Maledictions at the beginning of the turn.

 dementedwombat wrote:
People need to take a pinning test when a vehicle explodes...why was I never informed of this

Wait-what?

Synapse actually. It's not that I don't remember the rule, I just tend to forget to check for it when something strays out of the bubble..

Random objectives, precision shots, Chaos boons, start-of-turn psychic powers...

 davou wrote:
Throw grenades

This. Even though all of my troops have frag/krak I always forget to use them.

I always seem to forget that I get +2 to my cover save if I G2G in area terrain.

My guardians still haven't forgiven me!

Iranna.

Night Fighting.

Using my Warlord trait.

Wraithsight in the old Eldar codex.

Go to Ground.

Spiritmark, an ability that the Spiritseer can use.

Precision shots.

Throwing grenades.

Hammer of Wrath.



I could probably go on. There are soooooo many rules that benefit me that I forget.

Deamons causing fear - although in all fairness it seems like 95% of the units in the game are immune to fear anyway...

Rolling my resurrection rolls for my Necrons at the end of the turn… Seriously!

thetallestgiraffe wrote:
Red thirst. I almost NEVER remember to roll for it :p

This, a thousand times. Also, though I never forget it's there, I keep forgetting *exactly* how ATSKNF works - or rather, I keep getting confused by the changing goalposts around morale check criteria and when a unit can/can't regroup.