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So I recently did a game vs nids with my Mechdar and he took 2 flyrants 3carnuvexes in pods, doom in pod, and gaunts in pod.

Basically everything of his underperformed expect for the spore pods. Those killed and did more than like anything else lol.

Needless to say he was pretty angry.

But is their any other stories of underperforming.models, where crappy ons do well?

I had my vindicare completely miss 2 turns in a row (2+/4+ to hit) so decided he wasn't meant to shoot this game and charged him at some Grey Hunters. He eventually won combat.

Anytime my Hammerhead fires the Solid railgun shot without having BS6+, It always misses.

Suppose my Grot squad and a loota mob deserves one mention;

One match against a friends blood angel "Dante wing", (an army consisting mostly of Dante, the sanguinor and two-three groups of sanguinary guard , about 1000 points I think).
My opponent was deepstriking the greater part of his army, leaving only the sanguinor and one group of guard on the table. I put most of the horde on the left and middle of the board, with the grots and a small group of lootas on the right flank, far away from anything else.

My opponent sends the sanguinor to take care of them, seeing a rather soft target in the lootas. On the way he looses one wound, (lootas shooting) before he comes barreling down upon the lootas cutting them down to three poor sods that succsesfully run away two inches from the board edge after taking off a wound from him in close combat. On my turn two they rally (double ones), charging into the sanguinor together with the grots (because why not!), along with 10 grots and a runtherd.

Somehow, the lootas manage to punch away another wound from him, loosing one in return, along with a couple of grots. I loose combat, and fail leadership, but the squighound ate a couple more grots so I passed on the re-roll. My opponents third turn, He wiffed all his attacks, and to finaly add insult to injury, it was the grots that finished him off
The rest off his army was getting shot up something fierce from a battlewagons big shootas, the rest being stuck in reserve. He conceeded because of time after that

Another time the grots got to shine was when they were acting as my SAG bodyguard (19 with one runtherd this time). Their job was to stand around, pick eachothers noses and die to bolter/whirlwind fire from my opponent. Throughout the whole game, the SAG killed a single tactical marine, and four boyz (I got strenght nine three times too ). The grots on the other hand, shot dead two terminators and one wound from Chaplain Cassius, and another termi in overwatch. Good show I'd say My opponent was literly scared to charge them

I have an unpainted Plasmagun marine that has died from 'gets hot' in every game I've ever played... the rest of the squad is painted and I truly believe he will continue to die this way until I paint him.

Anyway - not every model is a great matchup for every opponent/opposing-army. His list might crush a marine player, which in my experience is how most people's lists are generally built (to kill marines).

Warrriors, I just cant get them to do ANYTHING!!!!!!!

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So, my longstrike railhead needs to kill an incoming helturkey to table my opponent, my only other survivng unit having missed completely with missile pods, but landed no less than 6 (of ten) BS1 twin-linked markerlights.

Okay, BS9, ignores cover, this shot to win the match...

Snake eyes.

Turkey goes on to vector strike longstrike in the face, killing him.

Sigh.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Warrriors, I just cant get them to do ANYTHING!!!!!!!

Necron, Tyranid, Fire or Kabalite?

I once played a game against a new Tau player when the new codex had just come out.

Every single one of his units failed their Ld checks after taking the 25% casualties from my Ork shooting. Many ran off the board and the rest were swept in combat.

His Riptide kept getting hot. When it was the last unit on the board, I charged it with 3 Meganobz...it killed itself on the overwatch.

I felt so bad after that game. It was the most unlucky rolling that I have ever seen.

Apocalypse last week, Asdrubael Vect proceeds to hit with 1 of his 7 attacks, wound 1, and proceeded to eat the first S6+ hit with a shadow field fail and died like a wimp.

Dark lances have failed to score hits for me, ether on raider or razorwing. Very frustrating

I don't know if this is truly underperforming, but I am convinced that every one of my Long Fangs squads has a 50/50 shot at entering every battle completely drunk. Because in most games I've played, one unit (always the same unit) will be an utter failure on the tabletop. Five shots, hitting on 3s? One hit. Need a two to wound? Roll a one. Need to pass a Leadership check on Ld 10 from a Rune Priest? You better believe that's the one time they'll roll an eleven, in spite of passing every psychic test up until that point.

Good dice and bad dice
oh and the black one's are for leadership tests...

I put this on the table when I'm going to play a game, last week I was the the local club and one of the others players seen this and ask what is was...

I told him..It's to remind them to behave, the under performing ones end up melted.

He handed me his card (clinical psychologist) and recommend i come see him for a talk latter in the week...

The amount of times that my PM fail their FNP rolls when their plasma guns overheat drives me insane.

At a 40k doubles tourney a month or so back I had a unit of three Dethrain XV8s shooting at a defiler on turn 1. They got BS4 and Ingores Cover.

12 Shots
*rolls dice*
2 hit

Naturally they continued to be quite useless for the next couple of turns (still won that game though)...

Assault termi invulnerable saves... enough said.

 BladeTX wrote:
Assault termi invulnerable saves... enough said.

Oh god this, so much this. My DW Termies can pass all the FNP and 5++s in the world, but a single 3++? NEVER THEY SAY!

 Krellnus wrote:

 BladeTX wrote:
Assault termi invulnerable saves... enough said.

Oh god this, so much this. My DW Termies can pass all the FNP and 5++s in the world, but a single 3++? NEVER THEY SAY!

Yeah, shoot all the small suns you want at me. It's fine. Ask my termi sarge to put the shield in front of his face to block one melts blast? Nope!

 Ironklawmadgutsmek wrote:
Good dice and bad dice
oh and the black one's are for leadership tests...

I put this on the table when I'm going to play a game, last week I was the the local club and one of the others players seen this and ask what is was...

I told him..It's to remind them to behave, the under performing ones end up melted.

He handed me his card (clinical psychologist) and recommend i come see him for a talk latter in the week...

Omg that us one of the coolest/funniest ideas I have ever seen!!! I totally want too do that...if your rolling is anything like mine your gonna have to buy dice often..:-)

All my nids apart from my trygon.

Saves on my assault termis lately...The last instance was the MC hitting 5/6 wounds, and me rolling 2/5 1s, and 1/5 2s. They like to die. >.<

I had a streak of like three games where I had a single Riptide and Ion Cannon Hammerhead in my lists. Every single time I'd boost them to BS6 and would roll 10+ on scatter every single shot, scattering away from anything useful.

Since then I stopped running solo units and run everything in pairs. I don't know why, but when there are two around it's like they are trying to impress and out do each other.

Not a specific unit, but deepstriking. Every time I deep strike, I roll one and they never come in until the battle's almost over. Never when I need/want them to. So I've stopped deepstriking completely. Never again.

game just played yesterday.. Sanguinary Guard V's spacewolfs take one normal 2+ save from shooting( 3 thunderwolfs one bolt pistol and 2 storm sheilds), One dead , he's charges in 3 thunderwolfs and 5 fenrisian wolfs. no luck from overwatch, . oh you have Hammer of wraith on thunderwolfs.. 3 hits 1 wound, one dead. Oh your Fenrisian Wolf are Int 5 because of Canis Wolfborn , ok 3 more wounds... 2 more dead... oh I'm so lucky ... looks like more dice for the melting pot.

I had a hellhound tank that would always roll 1's for dangerous terrain tests, no matter what I drove it over. Aegis wall, little bit of rubble, forest, river.

So I put a dozer blade on it from a Chimera Kit, That lets you re-roll the test.

First game I used it after that, I drove it into an Oasis in the middle of a desert, the only bit of area terrain on the map.

Rolled a 1, of course. But wait, I have a re-roll, Rolled another 1 .

Some Krieg tank crew are still there, wearing nothing but board shorts and their gas masks.

 Gandohar wrote:
The amount of times that my PM fail their FNP rolls when their plasma guns overheat drives me insane.

iv got some BA that with 2 PC in a squad and prescience AND FNP still manage to die to the overheats its tedious lol... so many failed rolls... and its bound to happen haha

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Warrriors, I just cant get them to do ANYTHING!!!!!!!

Which kind of Warriors? Necrons, DE, Tau...

Tactical squad's. I just can't play vanilla marines because no matter how hard I try, or what I try, I can't get them to do more than kill one model a turn, max.

 wuestenfux wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Warrriors, I just cant get them to do ANYTHING!!!!!!!

Which kind of Warriors? Necrons, DE, Tau...

You forgot Tyranid, Though why anyone would expect them to perform is beyond me.