Worst things about playing your army.

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**Mythra**

Losing all my Mycetic Spores.

**Pouncey**

Adepta Sororitas: Having my army's only long-range anti-tank weapon be limited to a 45 degree cone straight up without house rules. For three consecutive editions and two consecutive Codices. -_-

**Gangrel767**

Been playing Eldar since 1994... but everytime I play at a LGS, I get accused of being a power gamer.

**curran12**

One for Sisters:

"Oh, are those Space Marines?" >_>

**Gavik Dross**

Eldar: The sadness I get for loving wave serpents and general mechdar but getting grief every time I put even 2 serpents down.

**TheCustomLime**

curran12 wrote:
One for Sisters:

"Oh, are those Space Marines?" >_>

Well, they have power armor, boltguns and Rhino chassis vehicles. It's an easy mistake to make for a newbie on first glance.

**Sasori**

The worst part is making a lot of RP rolls, and seeing your opponent get frustrated.

I've had 7 out of 9 stand up before, and watching all of that damage that did nothing can upset a lot of people.

**Kangodo**

cammy wrote:
the bloodpack of bloody bloodness?

The sanguine bloodpacks of divine bloody bloodness!
And we get Rages in every possible colour.

**jasper76**

Sasori wrote:
The worst part is making a lot of RP rolls, and seeing your opponent get frustrated.

I've had 7 out of 9 stand up before, and watching all of that damage that did nothing can upset a lot of people.

Yup, I sometimes even feel guilty about it seeing the look of dissappointment and frustration wash over my opponents face.

**Valhalla130**

Ignatius wrote:
Mordian Iron Guard: they are all metal

Valhallan Imperial Guard here, with a squad of Mordians, a squad of Praetorians, and a squad of Steel Legion. And working on buying a squad of Squats. Same problem, but I always feel like I'm holding something with a metal fig, and constantly drop the plastic figs because they feel too light, and I grip them much less tightly so I don't break them. Not that I'm ham-fisted bearing down on the metal models, just a lighter grip on the plastic for some strange reason. I don't even notice it until I drop it.

My beef though, is the painting. I just finished a squad of men, in my new, updated scheme, with better painting skills behind it, after a long hiatus (10 years) and now I need to do the other 50 models to get my army to a playable state. Not counting the tanks I want to airbrush. (Note to self: buy airbrush someday.)

**Swastakowey**

jasper76 wrote:
Sasori wrote:
The worst part is making a lot of RP rolls, and seeing your opponent get frustrated.

I've had 7 out of 9 stand up before, and watching all of that damage that did nothing can upset a lot of people.

Yup, I sometimes even feel guilty about it seeing the look of dissappointment and frustration wash over my opponents face.

Yep. In my latest battle report I killed necron units of 20 down to one or 3 models at least 3 times, and the consistently got half or more back. A squad of 20 got reduced to 3 models, only 6 failed their reanimation. Really tough when you have no big guns and so on. But then I realized if he didnt get those animation rolls I would have killed him off pretty quick so its not too bad I guess. Just a pain

**PastelAvenger**

Blood Angles

Red is a nightmare to paint!

**A Town Called Malus**

PastelAvenger wrote:
Blood Angles

Red is a nightmare to paint!

Reflex, straight, obtuse, right or acute?

**PastelAvenger**

A Town Called Malus wrote:
PastelAvenger wrote:
Blood Angles

Red is a nightmare to paint!

Reflex, straight, obtuse, right or acute?

Sorry matey completely lost me here

**Pouncey**

PastelAvenger wrote:
A Town Called Malus wrote:
PastelAvenger wrote:
Blood Angles

Red is a nightmare to paint!

Reflex, straight, obtuse, right or acute?

Sorry matey completely lost me here

Read your original post again, more carefully this time. : D

**Las**

Guard: having the wrong army name printed on my dex
Marines: losing termies to peanuts.

**A Town Called Malus**

Las wrote:
Guard: having the wrong army name printed on my dex
Marines: losing termies to peanuts.

I now have an image in my head of space marines with nut allergies going into anaphylactic shock as people throw peanuts at them

**Envihon**

Las wrote:
Guard: having the wrong army name printed on my dex
Marines: losing termies to peanuts.

Do I wish Terminators would get better or cheaper. I play GK but I feel your pain and Terminators are part of my favorite unit list.

**Las**

T5 would be a dream.

**Truth118**

Sasori wrote:
The worst part is making a lot of RP rolls, and seeing your opponent get frustrated.

I've had 7 out of 9 stand up before, and watching all of that damage that did nothing can upset a lot of people.

That's probably my favorite part about Necrons.

Getting swept in melee or failing a Ld test at the worst moment might be my least favorite part.

**Jimsolo**

Pouncey wrote:
Jimsolo wrote:
Dark Eldar. Worst thing about playing them? Injuring myself on my own freaking guys! Seriously, I've spilled more blood since I picked this army up in November of last year than in the previous ten years of 40k combined!

Do you at least use the blood to make realistic blood effects on the army's blades?

Under normal circumstances I use it to ferry oxygen around my body.

**Las**

One more for marines.

That the twos rolled to hit by my devs never end up being made by the signum boosted roll.

**stompygitz**

My big one is my orks. The reason? A massive amount of bodies and vehicles to paint. And since they are bad moons, painting yellow is more of a pain.

**Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl**

Sisters: heavy and the paint goes of so easily! It is a nightmare.

**cardboardcrackhead**

I hate how immobile my CSM feel on the board. I never feel like I can effectively and consistently engage units in my opponent's backfield, especially in the late game.

**gmaleron**

Elysian Drop Troops:

-Transporting x12 Fliers around can be a pain sometimes

Farsight Enclaves:

-Showing up and people giving me the evil eye for bringing a pure Crisis Suit list, people need to stop complaining and actually learn to fight it.

**Happyjew**

Worst thing about playing my army...

Nids - I can no longer drop a 90 point model behind enemy lines who then promptly takes out half the opposing army. By himself.

I miss the Doom...

Eldar - lack of Assault vehicles. Though I guess if I want to invest in some DEldar allies to give my girls a way to assault from a vehicle I could...

**A Town Called Malus**

gmaleron wrote:
Elysian Drop Troops:

-Transporting x12 Fliers around can be a pain sometimes

Farsight Enclaves:

-Showing up and people giving me the evil eye for bringing a pure Crisis Suit list, people need to stop complaining and actually learn to fight it.

People don't like pure Crisis? It's not that strong. In fact it's pretty squishy as no shots against Crisis teams are really wasted.

Anti-Tank shots ID them so the shot is still worthwhile (as opposed to having lots of lascannons and coming up against Green Tide, for example) and if you shoot them with anti-infantry weapons they die just as easily as an equivalent amount of space marines.

Basically it all comes down to moving effectively to limit the positions that the suits can jump back to safely. Anti-guerrilla tactics, surround them to remove their ability to evade your fire via terrain or by outranging you, then annihilate them.

**urbanevil**

Space Wolves - My ML Long Fang aka fail mcgee aka C.S.B. he has fired 100s upon 100s of missles in his epic hunt, and maybe killed a guardsmen or 2 total. Also plopping down my ADL and praying for the best when i see flyers.

Dark Angels - Painting cloak upon cloak to look good, only to have them called sissys lmao.

GK - shading silver, and figuring out how im gonna pack my new Stormraven lol.

**Envihon**

urbanevil wrote:

GK - shading silver, and figuring out how im gonna pack my new Stormraven lol.

That is why I say screw it and don't even try. I just wash them to get shadow effects and leave it be but that is when my patience is running thin.