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| The Omnissiah    Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK
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   |  40K Mistakes Just for comical effect, i wanted to open a post for people to share their laughable mistakes. If you have any Battle Blunders, or Modeling Mistakes, Post them here!
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| The Ruler of Earth  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Good old England!
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|  I've had too many battle blunders to post. Seriously, forgetting to move, forgetting to shoot, amongst others. One of my most stupid moments was when I charged a squad of scouts with 6 Tau, (the scouts were already in combat with about another 6). They all died. And the 6 tau were holding an objective until they charged. I would have one, but about 5 scouts killed about 12 Tau, even after being shot at. Oh the shame. (I was playing someone who power games alot though, so I don't count many games against him as proper battles)
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| Conscript | my biggest blunder: in 2nd edition, tyranids had a lot of special rules. certain weapons affected them differently. one such rule read something like this: Tyranids are immune to the following weapons: needle sniper rifles/pistols i read this to be immune to needle sniper rifles, and pistols. for about two years my tyranids were immune to all pistols!  I was 8 |
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| Filthy, Dirty Radical     Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: lost in a blizzard, somewhere near toronto!
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| hmmmm, my biggest blunder?! easy! that would be picking up the dice!  cheers!
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| Trooper Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Downey, CA
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|  Funny you should mention bonehead maneuvers and mistakes. Last night I lost all three of my Exorcists in an RTT when I forgot to move them allowing assaults by remnant eldar squads (none of whom counted as scoring units) to wipeout three of mine. If you move yu can still shoot, but they get half as many hits. Duhhh!!!! What can I say, I had been up for 24 hours and had worked the previous night on graveyard shifts.  |
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| For some reason I thought my Assault-cannon dreadnought could out-shoot a Railgun-toting hammerhead. I blame nerd fumes.
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| Rending hast betrayeth us.
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| Master Procrastinator    Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: As a figment of my own deranged imagination, i don't actually exist anywhere. Or London, UK.
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Blog Entries: 1 | in 1 memorable chaos vs blood angle game i fired a plasma pistol at a land raider thinking i need a 6 to penetrate. in a remarkable turn of good luck i got the 6! then i grab a dice for armour pen (different dice so as not to jinx it!). holy crap another 6!! i just blew up a landraider in 1 shot!!! 2 weeks later the penny drops as me and the other guy were having a beer and talking about the game. |
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| Conscript | this isnt mine, and isnt really a blunder bit it fits in here a unit of 8 berzerkers charge a remnant unit if guardsmen in cover.the guardsmen strike first with 7 attacks. 6 berzerkers die. berzerkers strike back - 1 guardsman dies! haha would khorne have been pleased by the guardmens bloodshed or sadened by the berzerkers' lack thereof? i guess well never know |
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| Filthy, Dirty Radical Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: lost in a blizzard, somewhere near toronto!
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| at the 2003 toronto grand tournament, the 1st game's mission used the sustained assault rules for all your army's Troops choices. for some unknown reason, 2 world eaters players were pitted against eachother... it took about half an hour to calculate just how many victory pts each player earn within 6 turns of unimaginable bloodshed!!! (roughly 5000 or so victory pts all told - it came to be know as the 'ultiment khornage!') cheers!
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| This one doesn't belong to me, but a pal of mine at a our LGS had some sort of mental lapse and tried to run over a Havoc squad composed of 4 meltaguns with his Predator. Strangely, the tank was only immobilized and lost it's turret gun.
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| Filthy, Dirty Radical Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: lost in a blizzard, somewhere near toronto!
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| basically the game went; player A assaults and wipes out 3 of player B's units. Player A's units all make a sweeping advance into nearby enemy units... (player B's turn!) 3 new units come back onto the table. daemon's are summoned and Player B's entire army assaults Player A's entire army - lots of death and destruction both ways! most of Player B's army makes a sweeping advance... (player A's turn again) most of Player A's army is recycled back onto the table and assaults most of Player B's army... continues like this for 6 turns of blood-filled madness!!! cheers!
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All that matters was that it flowed."
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| Actually, blood from sickness indicates some very super Nurgley goodness in the immediate vicinity. I want daemons to cavort in my exposed organs.
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| The Ruler of Earth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Good old England!
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| You chaos loving fiends! Back to the warp I say! Back!
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| But we don't get no love there! Seriously though, whoever designs Nurgle models is a sick man.
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| The Grammar Cop   Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: the TC personal =][= estate on Encaladus
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Blog Entries: 4 | haha. quite. my favorite 40k mistake: realizing that getting 600+ pts worth of deathwatch onto the table through DEEP STRIKE instaed of PODDING is BAD.
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Blog Entries: 4 | Spending an entire afternoon watching my Iron Warriors continualy just fail to penetrate/glance the armour on numerous Imperial Guard tanks,after promising all manner of inventive punishments upon return to the Eye Of Terror I realised I had spent a considerable amount of points making all my squads (that I could) into Tank Hunters-off to the pain demons with me! |
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| I assaulted (with Furious Charge, mind you) a unit of 8 or 9 Tau Fire Warriors with 6 Blood Angels Tactical Marines, and they ended up breaking and running a turn later. BREAKING AND RUNNING. I don't know if I was stupid, or just extremely unlucky.
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| firing my entire surviving guard forces at the same bloody devilfish for two whole turns and rolling about 9, 1's between both the penetrating and glancing hits tables... i ended up losing by only 29pts too... i need to stop thinking that i'm any good at this game because the dice *always* abandon me  cheers!
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| I charged the Nightbringer with a squad of stormtroopers once, forgetting that they couldn't do anything to him, and that he could just throw my guys out of cc.....and they had plasma guns
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