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Hi,
Been playing 40K since the Rogue Trader days, but yesterday I saw the most outragous bad luck in a single units shooting ever. Let me set the scene, a Raven Guard drop pod crashes down in front of my CSM army and disgourges it's cargo of ten Sternguard. With characteristic zeal they rapid fire Vengence rounds at a hapless squad of tactical CSM's, also numbering ten. Clearly the Chaos Gods were looking out for their minions, as my opponent proceeded to roll twenty dice and come up with 10 ones. Bad you might think, but not nearly as bad as proceeding to fail six saves for them in the next roll! All this self inflicted damage, for the grand total of 2 CSMs dead. Anyone seen worse? I'm sure you must have.....

When my Girlfriends 3 exorcists took out 3 land raiders on turn one in a 1500 game.

Game. Set. Match.

Watched 15 sisters fire 30 shots into a 9 man squad of my 1k sons. 15 hit 10 wounded 1 dies.

Can't remembere the details but I had 1 game where a friend of mine couldn't make a 3+ save. All I remember is that at the end of the game all I had lost was about 6 gaunts and a winged tyrant. He had a 5 man devastator squad left.

Once I played a Tzeench Daemon army.

First turn he deepstrikes killing several Guardsmen and immobilizing my walker.

My 2 battlecannons go off! both scatter 10 and a 11 inches off target. FRSRF i kill a few thing's with flash lights. But a Nade launcher scattered from his herald to the feet of a guardsmen killing 3 of them. D:


It was a awkward game. My walker fired its plasma gun killing most of my GK allies. D:

Ouch expensive loss of GKs. On an unrelated note yay 1500.

Marines unleashed a hellstorm of fire unto my 60 conscripts with other support, lost 4 men lol. That was a ungodly amount of 1s

Had a funny incident happen to a friend:
We (actually him and a GW employee) were playing AoBR at GW (the friend doesn't play 40k, but wanted to know what it was like) and was playing the space marines. Suffice to say, the Orks manged to out-shoot the marines and out-assault them, as my friend failed about 85% of his 3+ saves, and his dreadnought got wrecked by a lucky nob (I think, that or the warboss) attack. We all noticed it, and laughed about it, so we tested this: My friend rolled the same D6 a couple times, always getting 3 or less. They then hand the dice to me, and I roll 6, 4, 5. My friend swore the dice were rigged.

my shas'o shooting an airburst frag and plasma rifle on a group of 'ard boys, hitting 11 under the template, all getting there saves, and then my plasma rifle rolled 1's at a freakin' 3 inch range!!!

I have a couple;

Tyranid lictor assaults into a squad of six of my firewarriors, causes one death, then proceeds to take two wounds and roll double ones, dying.

Squad of 5 terminators weathered through my entire army's arsenal; 105 hits from burnas, and everything else in my army...didn't wipe the squad.

Ghazghkull is on the Waaaugh! and comes up against a Tyranid guy who causes double wounds - he's caused 2 wounds, rolls against his 2+ Invul save, and I lose Ghazghkull. I've also had him fail 4/5 2+ Invul saves in a round of combat and die. I've also had Snikrot roll triple for his assault move and fail to move the 2" needed to get into combat.

one game against a player with 5 land raiders. I'm just getting destroyed untill turn 4, not a single wound on enemies. He gets his infantry out to take an objective and my obliterators come in, using their TL flamers. 21 wounds. 1 death after saves. that was my first kill of the match. ends up going to turn 7, while ONE surviving biker with a melta takes out 3 land raiders, one terminator with a lightning claw kills 17 marines and 2 terminators without shooting, and my DP detonates another LR, causing it to explode and kill 2 more terminators and 4 marines. good times.

A guy lost his entire army in the first turn. Damn thunder cannons. And they were nids 2.

A squad of 7 Dire Avengers took down a Daemon Prince once...

In one turn. Eldar shooting:3 wounds...

Eldar Dire Avengers assault: 2 wounds in one CC. 1 of the saves failed...

Add it up and you have one embarrassed chaos player.
(And no, it wasn't me )

I had a 10 man squad of Khorne Berzerkers take a charge at a 5 man devastator squad, missed all the hits and wounds, he ended up killing 2, then I missed a save so loosing three on the charge, that made me sad.

Was using the Nightbringer and decided to throw him at a group of 5 termies. Five combat rounds later no dead termies and I dead Nightie from a powerfist that I didn't make a single 4+invul save on

Nightbringer again lost 4 wounds in one round of shooting to pask in a punisher.

I played a fairly ridiculously one sided game in 3rd edition, Blood Angels vs Orks, 1500 points (IIRC), choppa rule being the order of the day for killing Marines...Blood Angels never failed a single 4+ save the whole game, lost a total of 4 marines to shooting and power klaws, tabled the orks.

Jack

I once charged a unit of 32 Hormagaunts into two units of Tac Marines, and killed precisely 0.

96 attacks, zero kills. Probably close to the same odds as drawing a royal flush.

this one time I saw a guy get his army obliterated by 2-liter soda bottle demon prince, and a demon prince can of corn, it was kind funny

I had a raptor squad loaded with plasma weapons, 3 rifles and a pistol. An eldar troop carrier is hiding behind cover. Ah ha. I leap over cover and open up. ALL the plasma weapoms rolled ones and all managed to kill off their owners.

Another game was whfb orks vs chaos. Chaos killed 2 spider riders and some squig hoppers from my army. My own shaman rolled snake eyes killed about a 3rd of my army.

Faield DT tests with two battlewagons, and then failed the rerolls.

I tank shocked Dante and a full assault marine squad on the top of turn 2 in a game. The Blood Angel player rolled and then roll a high fall back to flee off the table.

Worst moment in 40k? the first 40k mini i ever bought its been down hill from there.
not joking aside.
shooting at 1 necron squad for 4 turns and having every model get up at least twice. (by 6th turn the necron player still had the squad.)

I once took out an entire 5 man close combat squad on one turn with a fusillade of normal bolter fire from about two Tac Squads... pretty bad luck on his part?

Mine is nowhere near as bad as some of those. I tried to deep-strike my Terminators, scattered into an entire platoon of guardsmen, mishap table rolled a two, 200 points of my army gone. Did exactly the same thing next game.

I have two, one during a tourny and one during friendly game, neither army was mine.

First is a Friend playing SM, with a vet squad armed to the teeth led by shrike, assualts a group of Dark Eldar, whom has Lil in it, (actually it was two squads of wychs one led by lil) anyhow. He survives, takes one wound, looses just one of the 10+ Vets, then gets his attack backs, out of the 30 or so odd power weapon attacks, he dosn't land -one- hit, and looses his Init save, causeing him to be forced to take another armour save, looses one of his Thunderhammer/SS Vets, and then gets wiped out next turn.


The second is a friend is notorous for rolling nothing but at the shop. This particular battle had everyone feeling horrible. all he had to do to win the game, was to blow up the Bastion that was the "Objective" of the match, he runs up there, and gets 4 Powerfist attacks, and 8 Melta bomb attacks....... which he rolls 's for -everything- (which is his normal luck it seems)

In one of my first games, on turn 3, I had 1 tac marine with a missile launcher left on the board, everything else was gone. He survived till the end of turn 6 against everything 750 pts of guard could throw at him.

Worst luck I've ever seen was when I charged my opponent's Wave Serpent carrying a Seer Council, Yriel, and Eldrad with Calgar. Calgar manages to blow it up, causing a decent number of wounds. Both embolden warlocks fail their saves and fortune rerolls, and he rolls boxcars for the pinning test, leaving his uber unit pinned for the next turn.

A friend of mine went to the 'Ard Boyz Semi-Finals and wound up fighting and getting totaly destroyed by Orks, all three games.

Rolled my battlewagon full of Nobz over a hill, rolled a 1. reinforced ram! rolled a 1. Opponent tells me something along the lines of "You know the odds of that happening is like 3720 to 1 right?"

I was playing a fun game using a warphead. Roll the 'ere we go' and mishap, go back into reserves...ok. Turn I come back down, I roll for a new power, get warpath (+1 attack, which is useless as I just deepstruck and can't assault)...then I remember "Wait a sec, he's a warphead! I can reroll that!" so I roll again and get WAAAAAGH....which is still pointless.

I have another one..

I was playing an IG player with my Orks. Snikrot came onto the table behind his leman russ squadron, and they moved up into the forest to get away from Snikrot - he rolled into the forest and all three tanks immobilized themselves with the roll of a - since they were in a squadron, he wiped out his own squadron.

Also, my Tau playing against a necron player - I spent my entire army shooting at a squad of necron warriors, and dropped every last one of them. The following turn, every single one of them got back up. Not one failed.

I've got two. First time, the battle was an Apoc game of Space Wolves vs. Nids. Nid player outflanked a squad of Genestealers with a Broodlord next to the SW player's Shadowsword (I think that's the name of the Baneblade variant, not sure). Thinking the Nid player had to get really lucky to take out the armor, the SW player chose to ignore them when they came on. Next turn, the Stealers charged the tank and rolled at least a dozen rends against it. The tank got wrecked. (Luckily though, the player picked Replacements as an asset, and got it back two turns later)

The second one was in a game I didn't personally see, only heard about from a friend. Apparently, my friend playing IG fired upon a bunch of terminators with some AP 2 weaponry, forcing 13 invul saves. 12 5+ saves later, the remaining terminators charged. Crazy bad luck for the IG player there.