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Hello dakka here is my question. the title may be weirdly worded but that was because i did not have the room to write it out. so any way my question is what is the strangest our funnest thing that has happened to you will playing a game of what ever you where playing that had nothing to do with the game. anything you can think of that would fit the question. so fire away with your stories dakka

Hmm,the tide came in and washed our table away?

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One time I was playing at a local GW and we were inside minding our own business, when these three guys came to the entrance and shouted how we were all fething losers for playing with little dolls.

It was pretty embarrassing, as the store is inside a mall and the heavy foot traffic outside sort of all looked in to see what was going on. It's okay though, the guys were all very obese, and I'm fit and gorgeous.

The one time I gave my opponent First Blood and Slay the Warlord on my first turn, when I was going first.

I was running a Rune Priest as my warlord, and I opened up my turn by casting some powers on my Long Fangs. I cast Prescience, roll the dice...double 6s, Rune Priest takes a wound. It's a bit of bad luck, but hey, that happens. I cast Perfect Timing, roll the dice...double 1s, Rune Priest takes a wound and kills himself.

Outside of the pre-game rolls, I literally rolled four dice in this game and gave my opponent two points because of it. Both me and my opponent were just astonished at how the first rolls of the game went down.

Last summer, I had a squad of 5 Assault Terminators, led by a Chaplain in Terminator armour, assault a squad of Chaos Marines and get wiped out completely before I even rolled a dice.

Then there was the time I had a 5 man squad of Devs (two plas, two las one Sarge) get cornholed off an Obliterator. First shot, turn one.

SAME. EFFING. GAME.

I haven't played since.

 Locclo wrote:
The one time I gave my opponent First Blood and Slay the Warlord on my first turn, when I was going first.

I was running a Rune Priest as my warlord, and I opened up my turn by casting some powers on my Long Fangs. I cast Prescience, roll the dice...double 6s, Rune Priest takes a wound. It's a bit of bad luck, but hey, that happens. I cast Perfect Timing, roll the dice...double 1s, Rune Priest takes a wound and kills himself.

Outside of the pre-game rolls, I literally rolled four dice in this game and gave my opponent two points because of it. Both me and my opponent were just astonished at how the first rolls of the game went down.

That Rune Priest needed to be put out of his misery. Now, a more qualified one can step into his place.

A 500pt game (5th Ed), my Raven Guard vs Tau.

I get first turn, I deploy Sgt Torias Telion and a squad of scout snipers with a missile launcher onto the rooftop of a ruin.

The missile launcher Scout spies the Tau Battlesuit Commander through the window of a ruin. I use Telion to guide the Scout with BS6, and fire a Krak missile. My opponent fails his cover save, and hasn't taken the 2+ Iridium Armour, so the Krak Missile Ap3 bypasses his armour and Insta-kills the Commander.

The very first shot of the game, and I've eliminated my opponent's HQ and most powerful model.

One time at band camp...

We were playing a massive tabletop D and D game that spanned half of the store and into other rooms and I was in for a one shot. I was playing a lone goblin who had a tendency of leading adventureres into a house... that had a pit monster inside it.

People continued to keep rolling in, and the gobbo continued to feed the house for roughly half of the day or so, as he would roll in and take the leftover treasure and equipment from the dead.



The shop will remain unnamed.....

I like how no one actually read the OP. He specifically asked for bizarre occurrences that had nothing to do with the game - but people just opened the thread and fired off with their stories of improbable rolls and bizarre tactical scenarios.

Okay then the weirdest thing that's happened to me...
The flat upstairs had a burst pipe and there was water dripping down the walls at a store I used to go to, half the day went by and people came and went buisness as usual other than the water. Just after getting back from lunch we hear groaning and water starts gushing from the back room, turns out the pipe had caused part of the roof to come down and it was resting on top of a shelf. Sadly the shop closed down a little after that due to the local scene dieng away

Back in the 5th ed...

I saved 9 out of 12 boys against multiple frag missiles (tshirt save only, 3 or 4 shots iirc...), lost the game eventually, but it made my day anyways



Cheers

When I was a teenager I was playing a game with some friends while some other friends just kind of chilled. The house phone gets a call, one of the chilling friends picks it up. Says it's for one of the dudes embroiled in the game. It's a girl he's been seeing.

GAME DUDE (dice in hand): Tell her to call back, I'm busy

PHONE DUDE (after some speaking): She really insists that you take this

GAME DUDE: Damn it all, I'm busy! Tell her to leave a message.

Phone dude talks a bit, hangs up, walks over and says "you're going to be a father, congratulations"

The weirdest thing to happen to me is that while hanging around my local GW (it was in a mall), a random stranger comes in to the store and asks me the asian guy to fix his router.

He only asked me not anyone else in the store to fix his router.

At the time I knew nothing about computer hardware.

 MRPYM wrote:
The weirdest thing to happen to me is that while hanging around my local GW (it was in a mall), a random stranger comes in to the store and asks me the asian guy to fix his router.

He only asked me not anyone else in the store to fix his router.

At the time I knew nothing about computer hardware.

Excuse me, but as an Asian, you have an inherent knowledge of computer software and electronic hardware. You must also be playing a Tau army, collect Farsight enclaves in particular and paint them all in Samurai schemes and have more swords than usual. Also, you use Drones as hats on your models. :teef:

I was playing a game and a cop walks in to let us know a car is going to get a parking ticket. He leaves and my opponent looks up and says," Ah it's only $25, let's keep playing"

A few weeks go by and he gets another, turns out when you get 6 consecutive tickets they just tow you.

Back in 4th Edition I was playing an Apocalypse game with 7 other players (4v4) and I took Flank March as my strategic asset for my CSM army;

I came in on the Tau player's flank and used a ten man squad of Beserkers to assault through 4 different squads of Fire Warriors without taking a single casualty in one assault phase.

I've never rolled better in my entire tabletop gaming career. I walked away from that game feeling like a true Chaos Warlord.

(massacre moves ftw)

ghostcat_inc wrote:
Back in 4th Edition I was playing an Apocalypse game with 7 other players (4v4) and I took Flank March as my strategic asset for my CSM army;

I came in on the Tau player's flank and used a ten man squad of Beserkers to assault through 4 different squads of Fire Warriors without taking a single casualty in one assault phase.

I've never rolled better in my entire tabletop gaming career. I walked away from that game feeling like a true Chaos Warlord.

(massacre moves ftw)

Well what do you expect? They where Tau-space hippies.

Once, at my local GW we where having a massive apoc game, and I deployed my 1.5K guard across from what was literally a company and a half of DE. 4 turns later, and my position is overrun by their survivors..... 1 Terminator and 9 marines from varying squads.
My puny infantry task force had held off a company of DE and nearly finished them all.

Had a Magic player come up once and start tearing out my pluckfoam from a troop transport tray.

 Jimsolo wrote:
Had a Magic player come up once and start tearing out my pluckfoam from a troop transport tray.

Whoa, why did he do that?

A friend of mine's girlfriend decided she wanted to learn to play WHFB.
I was to be her first opponent, she would be aided by her boyfriend. Their new Empire vs my TK.
Sounded good, but....
When we could pry her off of her phone long enough, she proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that she had not read a word of either the rulebook or her army book, although she claimed to. But I was patient and the beer was free so....
Finally at the top of turn four, she dropped her phone, looked at me and said: "Hurry up and kill me, I wanna go out"

6th ed fantasy, my Snotling Pump Wagon charges Malekith. Does two wounds to the dragon on impact hits. Malekith and the dragon he's on fluff their attacks. Runs away, Pump Wagon runs him down. I laughed. A lot.

thedavo wrote:
6th ed fantasy, my Snotling Pump Wagon charges Malekith. Does two wounds to the dragon on impact hits. Malekith and the dragon he's on fluff their attacks. Runs away, Pump Wagon runs him down. I laughed. A lot.

Free Exalt for that

Colpicklejar wrote:
When I was a teenager I was playing a game with some friends while some other friends just kind of chilled. The house phone gets a call, one of the chilling friends picks it up. Says it's for one of the dudes embroiled in the game. It's a girl he's been seeing.

GAME DUDE (dice in hand): Tell her to call back, I'm busy

PHONE DUDE (after some speaking): She really insists that you take this

GAME DUDE: Damn it all, I'm busy! Tell her to leave a message.

Phone dude talks a bit, hangs up, walks over and says "you're going to be a father, congratulations"

Ouch! Well...but...then again...no, no...that was ridiculous regardless.


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This isn't exactly on point, but is amusing and game related.

I run a miniatures campaign at my house every 6 weeks or so. We play all day and drink pretty steadily. There's a standard rule that taking a shot gets you a reroll.

So I usually run 4 scenarios on a storyline. After 4 game days I'm talking to my wife about the game. I wrote the rules, so naturally I am concerned with how it's working out. I say to her:

"You know, the first scenario always goes really well. But every time I think back on the fourth scenario it just didn't go the way I was expecting. I don't get it."

She says to me:

"You know you are drinking all day. By the time you run the 4th scenario you're sloshed. Do you think that might have something to do with it?"

Forrest for the trees....

By far and away the most bizzare thing I've ever had happen during a 40k tournament many years ago. It was at a gaming club in the city. A female friend of mine came down into the club and excitedly came over to say hi. She then told me she'd just gotten herself pierced... down below... and asked if I wanted to see. I said sure- I was working as a bouncer at the time and she was a stripper I escorted when she went to private shows so I imagined I'd see it sooner or later- but no. She hopped up on the neighbouring table, lifted her skirt and showed myself and my opponent. Completely threw me and my opponent. She asked what I thought, smiled and wandered off to see other friends at the club.

The most insane thing to ever happen was the time I beat a 2000 point Eldar army with nothing but a Callidus Assassin, but that’s something that can’t ever be repeated.

But the one that sticks in my mind the most was a game where I had stacked the deck so firmly in my favour that losing was a near-impossibility, and yet my dice abandoned me and I was crushed. It was 3rd Ed, specifically the mission where you could only deploy one Troops choice (plus anything with scouts). I was facing Tau, so they had a single unit of Firewarriors + Devilfish as well as 2 units of Pathfinders in Devilfish. I was playing Guard, and chose Mechanised Guard, so I had a full 55-man platoon, 6 Chimeras and a gaggle of Sentinels on the table for turn one.

I conceded by turn 3, as by that stage I had missed almost every shot I fired, had scattered my Demolisher’s shot back onto itself (causing it to die), had lost half my Chimeras, and my Callidus had failed a sighting test to Stealth Suits. She was using a template weapon and failed to see them. That was a bad day for the Guard…

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
my Callidus had failed a sighting test to Stealth Suits. She was using a template weapon and failed to see them. That was a bad day for the Guard…

Should have gone to Specsavers.

I've seen a guy chuck his painted models across the room.

I've seen a guy get beat and start crying.

And then one time, a guy's tires got slashed.

A game I played many moons ago was with a friend ,40k mini's, and burritos.With brazen confidence he stood and proclaimed that he could break wind in the most melodic fashion.He left a brown runway in his BVD's that is still talked about by old timers.Every telling of this legend starts out "I remember back in 95".

Both of these happened at the same store (a Hobbytown USA that offers gaming space and GW models):

-An 8 year-old girl walks up, in the middle of a game I was in, picks up my night scythe without saying a word, and proceeds to drop it on the floor and run away. Both cannons broke off.

-Playing a doubles game with myself and a friend on one side, and a store employee and another guy (we'll call him guy #2 for now) on the other. Guy #2 moves his dreadnought in the wrong direction, and the store employee flips out, packs up all of his minis, and leaves. Pretty sure he was on the clock.

Those are only two of the stories from that store, I have many others. Such as a guy in his mid-30's who honestly believed/ believes he is a vampire and threw temper tantrums like a toddler, and another guy in his mid-30's who was a habitual liar and claimed to be a deity in his family's religion.

I used to play at a bookstore where our gaming tables were 3/8" plywood on top of tables.

In a game with a rather large fellow, he leaned on the table to reach for a vehicle to move it, and the entire table flipped up. I caught my end but he fell on the floor and both our armies + terrain slide off the table, and on top of him laying on the ground.

Not fun.