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I think my most embarrassing moment has got to be when I was 13 or 14. I was playing in my second ever apocalypse game and the club we were at brought some huge points, like 13-14k per side. Me, being the angsty teen I was, brought I my Ipod so I could listen to cool epic music while playing this amazing game. Well unfortunately, Ipods have headphone cords, and while I was walking around to move my units, the cord grabbed ahold of our presidents beautiful, custom made Vect (Vecht? DEldar Dude) with his own Raider unit and knocked it right off the table, which promptly broke into many pieces. I was so embarrassed I never said it was me, just pretended like it'd fallen. Man I look back and cringe at that one. I also have never listened to music while playing 40k again!

 SplinteredShield wrote:
I think my most embarrassing moment has got to be when I was 13 or 14. I was playing in my second ever apocalypse game and the club we were at brought some huge points, like 13-14k per side. Me, being the angsty teen I was, brought I my Ipod so I could listen to cool epic music while playing this amazing game. Well unfortunately, Ipods have headphone cords, and while I was walking around to move my units, the cord grabbed ahold of our presidents beautiful, custom made Vect (Vecht? DEldar Dude) with his own Raider unit and knocked it right off the table, which promptly broke into many pieces. I was so embarrassed I never said it was me, just pretended like it'd fallen. Man I look back and cringe at that one. I also have never listened to music while playing 40k again!

This made me cringe into the floor. How did you ever work up the nerve to come back?

To be honest, I didn't recover that well! I think it was mostly because that was the only place I knew the play 40k that I came back at all. Though thinking back, I think that was right around the time our group had a huge power struggle and a lot of people left, including that guy. That made it a lot easier to come back for sure. But yeah, I wish I could slap my young self for not being careful with someone's models like that.

We were placing objectives and I heard that we were playing "Hammer and Anvil" when in actuality, we were playing "Dawn of War." Let's just say 5 out of 6 objectives were within 6" or in the enemy's deployment zone.

 Tactical_Spam wrote:
We were placing objectives and I heard that we were playing "Hammer and Anvil" when in actuality, we were playing "Dawn of War." Let's just say 5 out of 6 objectives were within 6" or in the enemy's deployment zone.

You we're just playing Skyhammer and deep striking everything so playing super aggressive right??...right?... oh dear.

 SplinteredShield wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:
We were placing objectives and I heard that we were playing "Hammer and Anvil" when in actuality, we were playing "Dawn of War." Let's just say 5 out of 6 objectives were within 6" or in the enemy's deployment zone.

You we're just playing Skyhammer and deep striking everything so playing super aggressive right??...right?... oh dear.

I have integrity, so I don't run Skyhammer. I ran a mech list... My enemy? Well, let's just say 5 Maulerfiends with ObSec can contest objectives pretty well.

How do you give Maulerfiends ObSec?

 Verviedi wrote:
How do you give Maulerfiends ObSec?

Part of the new Chaos formations or something. I didn't complain because I brought grav.

Waaaghpower wrote:
When I was first learning to play, (5th edition) I misunderstood the rules in the Ork Codex when it came to buying equipment - I thought that you could buy items from the Wargear section (Don't remember which one) as many times as you wanted - Which led to my getting the brilliant idea of buying ten Attack Squigs for my Warboss. (I mean, 15 S10 AP2 attacks is great, right?)

I am now imagining an Ork Warboss holding a huge amount of leashes to ten gigantic murdersquigs in his powerklaw and leading them into battle like a pack of dogs, and now I'm disappointed this isn't an actual thing.

Every time I attempt to roll a 2+ terminator save. :(

Also any moment I try to make a nova charge roll. If its something I need I fail until I'm down to like 1 or 2 wounds

Played my Sisters like I play shooter games.

Got tabled by turn 4.

"Charge heedlessly toward the enemy, guns blazing" does not translate well to a turn-based strategy game when you're facing Ork Boyz within charge range.

 Vash108 wrote:

 Ginjitzu wrote:

 Vash108 wrote:
Embarrassing/TFG moment.

First game. I picked up Grey Knights as a first army around the end of 5th Ed. I wanted the army since it was a low model count and cheaper buy in/easier to paint.

I was set up to play a Space Wolf player who was supposed to teach me the ropes.

He tabled me by turn 3. I barely had a grasp of what was going on. He allowed me to make so many mistakes. Then shouted out "YES I BEAT GREY KNIGHTS!"

Was kind of an embarrassing loss as a first time player. Almost turned me off the game right there.

Oh Dear!

I have arranged to have a guy show me the ropes in my first ever game of 40k this Sunday, and he says he's bringing Space Wolves! I sure hope he's nicer than your guy.

The only think I can say is the army will probably be different since Space Wolves have been given more toys since then. Hopefully he won't bring Thunderwolf Cav or those Wulfen things.

I just had the game yesterday and I can say with some relief, that it was nothing like your experience. Though he did encourage me to make lots of mistakes as a means of learning, in truth, he didn't really allow me to, as he actually played entirely to my advantage, running what he assures me were some pretty mediocre units (he did not bring Thunderwolves or Wulfen!) directly at my BS2 Overwatch Dark Angels. Though I honestly wouldn't mind if he'd trounced me, so long as I'd learned something, in the end, he conceded defeat by the end of turn 4 with only a handful of Space Wolves left. I had sustained very little casualties.

Afterwards, he showed me some of his more powerful units and how they worked, explaining their weaknesses as well as their strengths. All in all, it was a pretty enjoyable first game & I'm definitely looking forward to the next; he's going to introduce objectives.

To return to the topic at hand: my "Most Embarrassing 40k moment?" so far has been, being a 30 year old man, walking into a store and asking a bunch of strangers to show me how to play with my plastic toy space soldiers... And I'm really glad I did!

 Ginjitzu wrote:

 Vash108 wrote:

 Ginjitzu wrote:

 Vash108 wrote:
Embarrassing/TFG moment.

First game. I picked up Grey Knights as a first army around the end of 5th Ed. I wanted the army since it was a low model count and cheaper buy in/easier to paint.

I was set up to play a Space Wolf player who was supposed to teach me the ropes.

He tabled me by turn 3. I barely had a grasp of what was going on. He allowed me to make so many mistakes. Then shouted out "YES I BEAT GREY KNIGHTS!"

Was kind of an embarrassing loss as a first time player. Almost turned me off the game right there.

Oh Dear!

I have arranged to have a guy show me the ropes in my first ever game of 40k this Sunday, and he says he's bringing Space Wolves! I sure hope he's nicer than your guy.

The only think I can say is the army will probably be different since Space Wolves have been given more toys since then. Hopefully he won't bring Thunderwolf Cav or those Wulfen things.

I just had the game yesterday and I can say with some relief, that it was nothing like your experience. Though he did encourage me to make lots of mistakes as a means of learning, in truth, he didn't really allow me to, as he actually played entirely to my advantage, running what he assures me were some pretty mediocre units (he did not bring Thunderwolves or Wulfen!) directly at my BS2 Overwatch Dark Angels. Though I honestly wouldn't mind if he'd trounced me, so long as I'd learned something, in the end, he conceded defeat by the end of turn 4 with only a handful of Space Wolves left. I had sustained very little casualties.

Afterwards, he showed me some of his more powerful units and how they worked, explaining their weaknesses as well as their strengths. All in all, it was a pretty enjoyable first game & I'm definitely looking forward to the next; he's going to introduce objectives.

To return to the topic at hand: my "Most Embarrassing 40k moment?" so far has been, being a 30 year old man, walking into a store and asking a bunch of strangers to show me how to play with my plastic toy space soldiers... And I'm really glad I did!

Really glad to hear it! I had a similar experience the first time I talked to a guy. Trying to get into a wargaming group can be kind of daunting, but the first couple guys I played practice games with were super nice.