Your 40k Low Points

[Grenadier]

This thread is intended for us to talk about low points for us in 40k. What do I mean by low point? Well, it could be anything from a bad moment in battle to a modeling mishaps. We've all had those in abundance I've bet. But the bottom line is the low point sucks. Some of mine:

My very first Landraider. I was so happy to get that bad boy. Been saving up for it for months. And had visions of it rampaging through my enemy's army grinding infantry into a smear beneath its treads. For the 3 nights it took me to work on it I'd cackle with glee as these visions amused me. And so it was with much excitement I placed it on the table in its debut battle. My opponent got the first turn.

And my Landraider was killed before it ever even got to move.:mad: I was crestfallen. Nay, I was devastated. Ruined the whole game for me.

Then there was my cursed lascannon wielding Devastator. Who would miss turn after turn and game after game. The other guys would hit often. But this Marine missed almost every time. And when he did hit it would always end up some lousy crew shaken crap. Clearly this Marine needed to switch career choices. Eventually I just abandoned him on the battlefield. Until one day I read an article about gamer superstitions. So I tried something. I began to paint the muzzles of weapons, or other appropriate pieces red. Hey, if red makes Ork trukks go faster surely it'll make Imperium weapons hit better right? Well, this low point proved to turn out for the best! My superstition worked and this dummy Marine began hitting the target and achieving results!

Then there was the time I discovered a Space Marine bolter glued to my belly several hours after I had stopped working on models. Don't you dare call me Bolterbelly!

Another low point was the when my only batch of models from FW came in. DKOK infantry, a Centaur and a quad launcher. And the heavy stubber in the pack with the Centaur arrived snapped in two! And it's dozer blade looked as if it was disintegrating. But the true low point came when I decided to spray a base coat on my infantry. And the force of the spray blew one off the table where it then broke when it hit the floor!

My opponent has constant low points in every game: he always forgets to deploy something, or move something, or roll a reserve, which almost always causes him to lose.

So how about you guys? What are your low points?

[eldargal]

Getting drunk during an Apocalypse game with a friend, she dared me to lick one of my Cobras D-cannons, I did so causing some of the watching teenage club members to make a mess in their trousers (seriously though, get a grip). Got banned from my own club for a week.

Had a squad of ten Howling Banshees with Farseer locked in combat with twenty grots for four turns.

Mistook superglue for lipstick and glued my lips shut. How my brothers laughed.

Found a Dire Avenger head glued between my breasts while in the bath one evening.

Oh and one from one of my brothers, he just finished painting a Reaver titan when his cat tackle-hugged it off the desk and onto the floor.

[Grenadier]

You've given me a new 40k low point: even D cannons get more action than me! Couldn't resist that one. I won't joke about the Dire Avenger though.

How did you free your lips? I'd imagine that's the worst place to get glue on you. I hope your brother didn't hurt the cat in anger for such an offense.

My cat is well behaved. My table is covered in models and he has never so much as given one an experimental pawing.

Not my low point but my opponents: as he stooped to check line of site he damn near put out his eye on one of those spikes on a Games Workshop building. Those things are very sharp. It got him just below the eye.

[eldargal]

It was very embaressing, I don't usually do things like that and I had forgotten we had an audience for the apocalypse game (we don't let teenage players participate until the little brutes have shown they can pay attention and not break things, so they watch).

One of my brother stopped laughing enough to get some of that stuff that makes glue not work. There is a proper name for it.:rolleyes:

The cat was fine, it ran off and hid somewhere until my brothers twin had finished helping him fix it. The damage wasn't too extensive thankfully, it took about an hour to pin broken bits back together and another hour or so to touch up the paint.

[DrLove42]

I've glued lips and fingers together before. Not at the same time thankfully

I had Yriel locked in combat with 5 terminators for 7 turns before (Apoc).

I wish I had a club that actually did stuff anywhere near me to get into all kinds of misadventures....

Pentrated a Hydra 15 times over the course of a game. Rolled 15 1's.

Then there was this dice roll that was so bad I had to take a picture of it. This was a unit of guardians shooting the last scarab base that was muhcing its way through my lines. So thats 4's to hit, 3's to wound, only needing 2 wounds to kill it. 20 shots. Thats got to be a good chance right?

To hit roll.....
[IMG]http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m252/drlove42/2012-02-05113512.jpg

And by the way..the scarabs lived (i only managed one wound) and proceeded to kill 3 tanks. I hates scarabs

[Grenadier]

Another good reason for me not to drink!

I'm glad the kitty was fine.

[SotonShades]

Leeetttttts see...

I once threw my metal dreadnought across a gaming store. Amazingly it missed everyone and everything, but did manage to break one of the bricks of the pavement outside the front door. I'm not usually one of those gamers who falls foul of bad games, and have no idea what had gotten me so mad in that one, but I think that is a personnal low point let alone for 40k!

At the same gaming store I was once known for having the worst luck imaginable. There was even an informal competition to see who could wipe me out the quickest. The winner managed to table me in his turn one before I even got to move. Even more embaressingly this was a 1500 point game that took just under 15 minutes. Inculding deployment and rolling for missions.

I've lost count of the number of times I have been repairing a model, accidentally ended up supergluing part of my anatomy to it in the process (most commonly my finger, but not exclusively) and in the process of freeing myself accidentally broken another part of the model.

There was the time I was painting some of my guard for a tournament, knocked over my very dirty water pot and completely fried my 17" Laptop. Blue smoke and everything. Fortunately the hard-drive managed to escape undamged, but almost everything else melted.

The most effective my Warlod Titan's TCCW has ever been was when it fell off and smahed one of my opponants' Deamon Prince to smithereens. he had only finished painting it the night before and had been asking around to see if we thought it was worth him entering it into a painting competition the following weekend. We had come to the conclusion that it would have had a decent chance.

I could go on, but I all ready feel I need to go get a cookie to cheer myself up :P

[Grenadier]

I so envy those who own Titans. They're far above my price range.

My greatest low point is simply not having anyone to play the game with. The guy who got me into the game had two others who played. But in about a year they all moved away. So for many years I had nobody to play and nearly abandoned the hobby. Then I convinced a friend to get into it. And he rapidly built a huge Dark Angel's army. In fact, he has entire shelves of kits that aren't even opened of Marines, Orks, and more. Almost like a shop! He then got two of his friends into it. But battles with them were rare. The other guys tended to play him since they were all friends.

He'd call me up and say "we'll have a battle in two weeks." And I'd rush to work on a list the night before. Only to find out for one excuse or another no battle was coming. And so it'd be months before the actual battle happened.

Now he's moved away along with the others. And he'll still call me up and want to have a battle in a couple of weeks. Which never happens. I'm lucky to get 1 or 2 in a year now. And to date he's never allowed us to go to turn 6. Usually wants to bail out at turn 3 or 4.

[Wolfshade]

Initially I thought this would a thread on >1000pt games :rolleyes:

I have several low points.
One isn't so much a low point but a continued unabashed inability to hit anything with krak missiles. I have a tactical marine armed with a missilie launcher, his personal best is missing a monolith 1" away from him. "Lucky" Hank as he became know has a long and inglorious history of missing very large vehicles from very close range, his base is adorned with trophys from such great shots.

Mephiston, casts wings of sanguinius unpon landing on dangerous terrain, fails the test and takes a wound. Fires his plasma pistol which proceeds to get hot and takes a wound. Then casts Sword of Sanguinius and rolls snake eyes and loses another wound. I was not happy.


And of course any time a Terminator fails a 2+ save. Grot shooting is lethal...

[Grenadier]

I hate moments like those! When everything seems like it should go the way you want, but inexplicably it doesn't. Or when my blast markers drift over onto my own men. My HK missiles are low points. They always miss. I don't bother with them anymore now.

A low point for my opponent: in a game using an old "bridge assault" mission my opponent poured so much fire into a Chimera I drove onto the bridge to impede his crossing it and never did anything more than stun the crew and destroy the multilaser. Lascannons and kraks galore failed to immobilize or destroy my Chimera. So it earned the name "Invincible."

One high point for me: successfully killing anything which makes a Death or Glory attempt and fails. Those are always satisfying.

[celestialatc]

My low point: Draigo, on his last wound, killing himself on a Perils of the Wrap trying to cast hammer hands....../cry

[SotonShades]

I so envy those who own Titans. They're far above my price range.

My titan hasn't cost me more than £60 and most of that was paints and glue. Only problem is I designed it to be about 36" tall and during the build it grew to something more like 48"... Another low point of sorts!

[Grenadier]

I have no idea how much that is in U.S. currency. I just know ordering one from Forge World would be extremely expensive for me. The only time I ordered some FW models cost me a bit more than 700 bucks. For a paltry number of Krieg models. For that much I could have bought a very good Marine force or a butt load of Cadians.

I did consider making my own Titan. But my skills are nowhere close to that kind of task.

[SotonShades]

About the same as buying an Ork Stompa or Imperial Guard Baneblade from GW

[Grenadier]

Then perhaps one is not beyond my reach.

Another low point has to with the building side of the hobby:

I'll be sitting there at the table. Piles of bits before me. Tools all over. And I'll set my hobby knife down. Then when I go to use it again it's vanished!

Speaking of vanishing another low point:

I had painted a camoflage scheme so well that after a battle and my army was put away one model was missing. After a lengthy search for it and fears someone had stolen it the model was discovered. It was still sitting on a piece of terrain! Blended in perfectly that I lost it. Heck, I probably lost it during the battle and didn't realize it! Ever since then I paint all my base's rims a color corresponding to their squad.

[Demonus]

LOL licking the Dcannon. Priceless!

A couple low points I recall (though Im sure there are more).

First apoc game ever, 3 friends and I set aside the whole day, set up an 8x6 table and played 8000pts per side. IG + Blood Angels vs Orks and my hodge podge army of GK, Eldar, Space Marines, Space Wolves and Chaos Marines (I felt like being silly)

I bust out the Stormlord super heavy tank, deployed in cover behind 2 land raiders. Lose initiative and get shot with basilisk artillery with the "if you hit all other shots hit" ammo/apoc bonus thingie.

First shot is direct hit, catastrophic result, rerolls. another 6. By the end of his shooting phase, my tank lay wasted in ruins, gaining no cover saves from the barrage weapons. 500pts worth of "never fired a single shot"ness. Ive still yet too use it in a game.


Last tourney I was in, played missile happy BT with my GK. I managed to immobilize a speeder and knock both weapons off. I then managed to pen it four times with my psyrifle dread, since I hadnt killed it yet and wanted that victory point. I rolled two 1s and two 2s....

[Rissan4ever]

I once threw my metal dreadnought across a gaming store. Amazingly it missed everyone and everything, but did manage to break one of the bricks of the pavement outside the front door. I'm not usually one of those gamers who falls foul of bad games, and have no idea what had gotten me so mad in that one, but I think that is a personnal low point let alone for 40k!
When I was 13, I got so upset over a loss, I threw dice at my friend. He ducked just in time to avoid a hail of plastic cubes in his face, and I'm glad he did. If I'd hit him, I would've felt even more stupid. Man, I was a screwed up kid.

Since then, I've mellowed out about the game. I go into a battle hoping and planning to win, but expecting to lose. I think there's some Samurai addage about how if you expect to live through a battle, you will surely die, but if you expect to die, you just might live, or something like that. That attitude has actually helped me. I'm more able to analyze why I lost and make improvements to my list and tactics because I'm not upset by losing anymore, and I've actually started WINNING the occasional game!

[MaltonNecromancer]

Once lost a Marine Dreadnought in assault.

To a single Genestealer. He rolled a 6 for penetration, 6 for Rending, and 6 for damage. The blast didn't even scratch him. *sigh*


Found a Dire Avenger head glued between my breasts while in the bath one evening.

That's nothing.

I once had an ache all day Saturday in my "gentleman's area". Turned out I had a tiny piece of extremely sharp sprue that had somehow become embedded somewhere sprue should never be, and it decided to make sweet love to my most delicate bits.

It was not a pleasant sensation.

Given that I've never done converting in the nude, I still to this day have no idea how it got there. I can only assume I'm so pretty even the plastic wants me.

That's what I tell myself, anyway. :(

[Grenadier]

:D That takes the prize right there let me tell you. The best low point posted yet.

Dreadnoughts always are a low point for me. I love them to death. My favorite model for Marines. But since I lack drop pods for them I never deep strike them. They're always deployed and they move so slow across the battlefield. I rarely ever get them into hand to hand. On rare occasions I manage to assault a stray vehicle. Now my tactic is to use the Hellfire pattern ones with my Templars to act as mobile fire support.

[bloodangel 83]

I have a couple low pts for my BA army. 1st, i just finished painting my Capt Apheal 2nd Comapny. He played well that night taking on a 10 man marine sniper squad killing 4-5 as he charged and shot at them before being killed buy turn 3 (mind you guys no squad with him). The low pt was my lab got a hold of my models the next day and the only model he got a hold of was Capt Apheal-DEATH BY K9 Dexter unit).:mad: 2nd was deep striking my LRC and it lands in a small creek and it touches both side of the terrain, rolled a 1 and killed 450 pts (5 assualt termies 1 th/ss), i was upset that i sent my SR w/ a full sqaud of DC with dreadnought into the oppost line to destroy everyone that my termies would have killed if not for the mishap.

[The Lost Autarch]

I used to play 2nd Edition, and my regular gaming partner played Dark Angels. Specifically, Death Wing. Terminators galore. 3+ saves ON TWO DICE (give the save modifiers of that edition, a lascannon would be saved with a roll of 9+). That was 14 years ago. To this day he taunts me with "Watch me roll a nine".

I am quite happy to report that I have not glued anything (or lost anything) in any sensitive body parts. Or, you know, licked a D-cannon and caused an "accident" :D

[Sister Rosette Soulknyt]

Low Points: converting a SoB Baneblade and slip with my trusty craft knife and embed it into my finger, then go for help and nearly pass out on the floor...major aversion to real blood, im one of those people who don't like real blood and get all woozy.

Another time, my SoB Dominion squad in Immolator speed upto a Ork Skullhammer with four melta weapons (3rd ed before they nurfed the rules) and found that all of them were 1 inch short. No wonder when they all got blown away by said Skullhammer.

And lastly have some snot nosed #$%@# come over to my game and while im looking away pick up my Penitant Engine and then drop it. Do any of you realise how absurdly hard they are to glue in the first place??? I nearly did my block at the kid, even his father wen't off at me, until i not so politely informed him what a D30 damage dice would do.

But to top it off the low of all low for me as a player, was when i expected a great release for Sisters of Battle, wishing we would get a real codex, new characters, units and plastic. And to find that GW could only manage a WD so called codex that made every SoB feel all fuzzy and warm with love for GW.

[SotonShades]

Given that I've never done converting in the nude, I still to this day have no idea how it got there. I can only assume I'm so pretty even the plastic wants me.

That's what I tell myself, anyway. :(

Never converted in the nude? Then you haven't lived my friend. Also, another possible 40k low point for me...

[lattd]

Once had a game in 3rd edition against eldar with my space wolves were i killed 0 and was wiped out.

[Grenadier]

Hobby knife accidents. All of us gamers must come to terms with these! I've had many. A great number of my models have my blood under their paint. And the pads of my thumbs are crisscrossed with scars. Some of them are wide enough little specks of shavings from mold lines have been known to collect in them. Ever dropped your hobby knife on your bare foot? It's not fun.


Low Points: converting a SoB Baneblade and slip with my trusty craft knife and embed it into my finger, then go for help and nearly pass out on the floor...major aversion to real blood, im one of those people who don't like real blood and get all woozy.

Another time, my SoB Dominion squad in Immolator speed upto a Ork Skullhammer with four melta weapons (3rd ed before they nurfed the rules) and found that all of them were 1 inch short. No wonder when they all got blown away by said Skullhammer.

And lastly have some snot nosed #$%@# come over to my game and while im looking away pick up my Penitant Engine and then drop it. Do any of you realise how absurdly hard they are to glue in the first place??? I nearly did my block at the kid, even his father wen't off at me, until i not so politely informed him what a D30 damage dice would do.

But to top it off the low of all low for me as a player, was when i expected a great release for Sisters of Battle, wishing we would get a real codex, new characters, units and plastic. And to find that GW could only manage a WD so called codex that made every SoB feel all fuzzy and warm with love for GW.

[flatdice]

Once played a kill points games vs orcs killed over 90 of the suckers i got crushed, ended with zero kill points for me and like 9 for my friend.

The other was a more recent game i had a dark eldar army all loaded up against a shooty space wold army with 4 librarians with living lighting, two dreadnaughts with 2 autocannons, long fangs, leman russ and a squad of terminators. I had first turn and he seized initiative.

I took a break to get food and ate food as i watched my entire army vapourize in turn 1.

Another was the same DE army vs grey knights- he had 20 marines and two thunderhawk gunships
by the end i had 3 models on the board and i only got one penertration hit on a gunship from 5 lances and 4 blasters.

[Lord Azaghul]

I'd say reading the latest threads that was supposed to be on 'GW prices' was a pretty low point for 40k, and these boards, and the mods.

[warpcrafter]

Third edition. I didn't play a single game until fourth edition came out, and even then it took awhile to grow on me.

5th edition Grey Knights. If you play them, you're a jerk.

People constantly telling me bikers are so great. I've played Eldar, Chaos Space Marines, Dark Eldar and Orks, and I've fielded bikers in every one of those armies on multiple occasions, and every time, they've totally sucked. Dead by turn three, never getting half their points back.

Also, people always telling me that Orks are a top tier army. I've use the same lists and tactics that are supposed to make Orks unstoppable, and they're crap! Crap!

If the Space Wolves let me down, I'm done with this hobby.

[Grenadier]

Go with the Imperial Guard. They have never let me down.

[Mr.Pickelz]

For me, the lowest is selling off my Space wolf army to cover some bills. They were my first Marine army, and i loved em even when I lost, I always did something funny or badass with my wolf lord, like taking down a daemon prince or something. I even made a SW BFG fleet to match my 40k army, as well as a backstory :( :(

[ElectricPaladin]

I'm kind of in the midst of my lowest point right now. I taught a friend to play, and now he beats me all the time. All. The. Freaking. Time. I suppose it doesn't help that he plays Imperial Guard. That, and I think he's just naturally talented. My Blood Angels can't put a scratch on him. I can't wait for a new edition, or codex, or an update for my other army (Tau).

[Plowboy22]

My low point was walking into my FLGS and saying "what's this game called Warhammer?"

[Levitas]

I'd say reading the latest threads that was supposed to be on 'GW prices' was a pretty low point for 40k, and these boards, and the mods.

Ay, I second that. People take toy soldiers way too serious.

I'd say selling armies is always a low point. It seems like a good idea at the time but often come to regret it. I wish I still had my original armies from the Rogue Trader days, and my beloved Averland Knights Blood Bowl team. I sold out, Very sad.

[Grenadier]

Try new tactics? I don't know the composition of your army. But I play Guard and Black Templars. And have good experience fighting Space Marines with my Guard army. And I know what my Guard fears and what their weaknesses are.

For example, the Imperial Guard has a whole lot of guns and a numerical advantage over Marine armies. They're good for games of attrition and this is a weakness of the Marines against them. So you need to find ways to even this out.

Also, the Guard has a much longer reach than Marines. The Marines simply can't match the range of many of the Guard's weapons. When my opponent bring his Dark Angels against my Guard he's always under my guns from deployment onwards. But he makes the mistake of deploying much of his army on the table before the game begins.

So try some new tactics. I don't know what all the Blood Angels have access to. But being Marines they have skills the Guard wishes it did. For example, my army is slow and ponderous. It lacks any serious fast movers, hand to hand capability, and of course the Guard doesn't have the most desirable armor save.

Maybe focus more on other means to put troops into the battle without having to deploy them before the game. Reserves and lots of them. Deep strikers as well. My Guardsmen hate one thing above all others: Space Marine deep strikers. Anytime any of them appear I'll pour fire onto them to the exclusion of all else and pray I kill them all quickly. Because if they get into hand to hand with my infantry those lads are done for. And if he drops in shooty Terminators that's even worse. They're harder to kill. And they pack a lot of shootiness. He's dropped them in amongst my lines and popped tanks with assault cannons and cyclone missile launchers. He's mauled infantry squads with all their firepower.

Try outflanking with bike squads. Be sure to give someone a melta so he can burn a tank. Being outflanked by the right units can be tough for the Guard to deal with. My opponent likes to harass my flanks with his bikes and then bring in assault marines who'll then exploit the chaos. Ideally you want to disrupt the Guard with whatever you can do and then tie them up in hand to hand combat. Assault marines also terrorize my tanks. The Marines have lots of ways to get around a battlefield quickly. Use this to your advantage. Don't be afraid to sacrifice your Landspeeder for the sake of killing tanks. With my Guard every tank killed sharply diminishes my firepower.

Also, try scout snipers in cover. To pick off heavy weapons teams. This will be an attrition thing for you. But in my experience my Guard has had trouble aplenty with scouts in cover. And remember to pin the infantry as much as possible! Snipers and Whirlwinds.

I don't know how your opponent plays his Guard army. Or what you have in yours. But I know with my Guard my army is slow, and regardless if I'm on the defense or offense I tend to always dig in. So anything my enemy does to disrupt me effectively weakens me in either role. On offense I charge with my tanks. And follow up with infantry. But if he starts killing my tanks my offense slows to a crawl. On the defense I do better since I can shoot more. But he can disrupt me through pinning, outflanking, and sniping me. So maybe you should try alternate means to get units on table, swiftly disrupt him by those means, and engage him in assault. Against the Guard you'll always take horrendous losses but you can beat them.

Devastators are easily dealt with by the Guard. So avoid using static units I'd suggest. My Guard also find Razorbacks to be troublesome. Sure, they're easy to kill. But they pack the heat Rhino's don't. Many of my tanks have perished to the twin linked lascannons of the Razorbacks.
I'm kind of in the midst of my lowest point right now. I taught a friend to play, and now he beats me all the time. All. The. Freaking. Time. I suppose it doesn't help that he plays Imperial Guard. That, and I think he's just naturally talented. My Blood Angels can't put a scratch on him. I can't wait for a new edition, or codex, or an update for my other army (Tau).

[Wolfshade]

My low point was walking into my FLGS and saying "what's this game called Warhammer?"

Its only really a low point if you like spending beer tokens on things other than plastic figures and getting scornful looks by your non-cool wargaming friends

[Night System]

My lowest point was meeting my future wife in a GW store hahaha...

Nah seriously :)

My Low Point: Super gluing my eyelid to my eyeball.

[SotonShades]

My Low Point: Super gluing my eyelid to my eyeball.

Wha... ou... why.. ho... eh? I think we have found a winner/loser!?!

[DrLove42]

I second Mister Shades here....thats just....wow.

How much did that have to hurt?

[Wolfshade]

I think we need a discription of how this actually transpired

[Brakkart]

I think we need a discription of how this actually transpired

Seconded. You can't just say that and not tell us how you did it... Even though I wince just thinking about how much that would have to hurt to undo.

[Grenadier]

This is what safety glasses are for!

[The Madman]

3rd edition, first doubles battle

A friend and myself (Thousand Sons and Tyranids respectively) against another friend and local member of the club (Black Templars and Imperial Guard).

It was a 4X4 board (the only one available at the time) so it weren’t ideal for a 1500pts per army game. Then the deployment rules stated (the WD carnage rules) that armies deploy in a “12 by 12 inch zone” in each corner. My nids were filled the whole thing and when the guard player got first turn he proceeded to blow away my army with his basilisks.

Tried to pry a predator turret off the rhino chassis and ended up driving the exacto knife into my finger, was never one for safety.

Was paint stripping model and accidentally dropped it back into the Nitromors paint stripper splashing my face and eyes, and it began to burn straight away. Good thing I was at a sink.

Wasted model conversions without any useable bits salvaged;

- A rhino and chimera when trying to make a half-track.

- A dreadnought that I tried to convert into a pre-heresy one (before the contemptor release).

- Two stegosauruses trying to convert a pair of Tervigons.

My greatest low though is in fantasy where I have not won a single game with my Hordes (now Warriors) of chaos. No matter what I will fail every leadership based test there is in the game. I even suffered a turn 1 loss.

It was against a friend (Skaven 6th edition book) in a 2500pts battle both armies lined up on either side of a 4x6 battlfield. My friend gets to go first and moves forward and then casts Warp Lightning on 9+ dealing 12 wounds to my non-armored marauders, they take a panic test – failed. The other marauders and the chaos warriors take a test – also failed. And each one after another a unit flees the board due to units fleeing from other units. Haven’t played with them since.

[Night System]

Wha... ou... why.. ho... eh? I think we have found a winner/loser!?!

Haha, definitely loser.

I was super glueing some stuff together on the kitchen table (no idea what it was... lost in time etc) as I leaned back to yawn, I also rubbed my eyes since it was late at night, as you do.

I didn't realize I still had a bit of super glue on my hand as I rubbed my hand and tada - my eye glued shut.

I have never moved as fast as that day when I ran to the bathroom.
I splashed water on my eye before realizing that actually speeds up the setting process. But luckily there must be some chemical in eye fluid/tears that dissolves the super glue? They prized apart after 30 seconds of panicking.

Didn't bother seeking medical attention.
Still have 20:20 vision to this day.

...

I wouldn't try it again though :p

[bloodangel 83]

OUCH, that sounded like it hurt, glad no serious damage done there. BA83

[Grenadier]

I'm loathe to share my lowest of the low points in my 40k experience.

Early on into the hobby I had tried to teach my cretin step-brother how to play. We had a few games for some months. My step-brother is the stereotypical redneck. So 40k was more than way over his head. And like many a redneck he had a disgusting habit. He loves to dip. And he'd always put a mammoth "chaw" of it in his maw. This of course left tobacco residue on his fingers which in turn would be left on his models. And throughout the battle he'd spit the juice into an empty pop can. Unfortunately his chosen can was the same brand I drink: Coke.

One night during a battle I grabbed for my Coke and took a swig. To my horror it was not my Coke. It was his tobacco spit!:mad::mad::mad::mad:

I instantly reacted and spewed this foulness across the table. It rained down like some foul plague on his models. I was so enraged by this that it led to a fight. I had the same righteous fury a Space Marine would have. Otherwise my butt would have been kicked. For I'm a man of slight stature. And he is over 6 foot tall and had easily 100 pounds over me. But being fueled by divine rage ensured that even little ol' me stomped a mud hole in him and walked it dry.

And after that a new rule was implemented: no beverages, bottles, cans, of any kind were ever allowed on the table during battle again.

[Wolfshade]

Ewwww.

That is wrong

[Grenadier]

Man it was the single most horrifying moment of my entire life. To get a mouthful of someone's tabacco juice infused saliva. I felt traumatized, violated, and disgusted all at once. And when hit with such powerful negative sensations all at once leads to unbridled rage. Why, in my mind that horror was enough to justify his execution.

[Deadlift]

Wanting to play Orks and realising just how many models I would have to paint :eek:

[Grenadier]

I sure have a soft spot for the Orks. I only ever got to battle them one time. But they were fun to kill. And the only thing keeping me from doing an Ork army is the sheer numbers of them I'd need. But it's my opinion that no other army has as much color and character as the Orks. They just ooze attitude. Even their vehicles. Which normally any vehicle is rather characterless in my opinion. Even in the Space Marine video game the Orks were dripping in that personality unique to them. I loved the warboss in that game.

[doom-kitten]

Hum so many of these but first I'll share on that didn't happened to me, a guy was playing his Eldar against orcs and rolled so bad he took his scatter die and tossed it against the table, it bounced and deflected off the back wall, followed by a table, however it bounced off the table at the right angle to take out the ceiling light bulb and the whole fixture cracked, and fell on his head. I'd have to sat showing up to a tournament without my army, I had everything else but the models themselves, I was auto-disqualified and my partner never forgave me. It was disappointing cause I literally lived 10 minutes from the store and the tourny wasn't set to start for an hour they where just signing people in and setting up armies for voting.

[Gut40k]

Not getting enough games in with my primary opponent (son) who has moved on to girls, work, and college (in that order).

[khsrio621]

My friend has been playing for about 8 years. He doesn't know how to play noncompetitively. Basically on myself and my friend who are new to the hobby, he doesn't know how to show mercy. This is frustrating.

[Milez]

My lowest point was watching Kharn died in a death and glory to a rhino.......

[Deadestdai]

Encountering 2nd Ed and onwards and being saddened at the dumbing down of the 40K rules set.

Still yet to play a game of 40K since 2nd Ed.

[Spydr]

In all honesty should be a low point, but I just find it highly amusing. My Black Legion against my buddy's Black Templars, around the end of 3rd edition (Black codex for Chaos, still in Armageddon for Black Templars). "Low point" comes when I kill 1100pts. of my own army in a single turn.

Have a Chaos Lord in Termie Armor and Mass Mutation attached to a 9 man Terminator squad, who proceeds to successfully cast Mass Mutation and roll a 1. Alright, not good but shouldn't be too bad. Then proceed to roll nine out of ten 1's for the squad to see who becomes a chaos spawn and dies, including the Chaos Lord. Well that sucked, but I still have 2 dreads, a bike squad and 2 foot squads (bet you can see where this is going). Both dreads Fire Frenzy, one putting 2 plasma cannons into my bike squad, killing all but 2 who then proceed to run away and the other decimating one of the foot squads.

At that point, I was an easy mop up for the horde of very angry Marines. I would of been upset but honestly it ended up being so crazy that we both couldn't help but laugh, and while he doesn't play anymore and I've long moved on to other armies we both can still sit there and have a chuckle about it.

[Grenadier]

Not so much a low point in a game but rather when building vehicles:

Assembling a tank only to discover I've put the tracks on backwards. Even worse when its a land raider and part of the hull covers the treads.

[ragnarcissist]

having my house burn up and destroying my huge catachan army and sweet jungle terrain (that codex was a blast!) and my growing DE kabal, which put me out of the hobby for 4 years till my friends convinced me to get back in... picked up a SW battle force off ebay an been playing them for about 8 years now... man, just writing that makes me want to start a new army!!

oh and i played a game against nids last weekend and didnt nullify a single psychic power with two rune priests... seriously bad dice rolling, i ultimately lost the game by a wide margin

[Grenadier]

Damn that sucks man. A house fire is a fear of mine and not just because of my models. And it doesn't help that I live in an apartment with neighbors. On one side I have a drug dealer. On the other side I have drug addicts. And such people in their drug addled state could easily do something stupid. It'd be one thing if the fire broke out in my place. But if it did in another apartment and burned up mine I'd be furious.

[TheWildRider]

Watching my Big Mek catapult himself into assault with Abaddon and a Squad of Chaos Termies. I do like the Shokk Attack gun, but it's moments like that which make me think I could spend the points better.

Or when I used to play Tau, on turn 1, having an incredibly lucky Basalisk shell scatter from my Crisis Suits and onto my Ethereal, blowing him into teeny tiny pieces. (Never play a fluffy Tau Army)

Although this could be a crowning moment of awesome for my opponent, watching a squad of Stormtroopers survive for three turns in combat against a 20 man mob of Boyz, killing 16 of them, including the Nob, was pretty hard to watch, especially as them getting tarpitted by a 10 man unit deprived me of a valuable unit :L

[docbungle]

My lowest point and probably most 'how did that happen' moment was a tooled up Archon dying to a squad of Fire Warriors in combat and I charged!!!!

[Far Seer]

10 gaunts charge into my squad of 5 terminators.

I laugh as I began to roll my saves which becomes a ::eek: as I realise all of them are dead.

[joppo]

My friend charging his Doom of Malantai into my IG blob (50+ strong, commisar with power weapon, all Sgts with power weapons) and them proceeding to lose combat over and over for 4 turns before they went and lost combat for the last time and got run down....great job guys

[Charybdis]

Charged a unit of three ork warbikers with a 6-man unit of genestealers with toxin sacs. Four assault phases later, no casualties on either side.

Sometimes I hate dice.

[Wolfshade]

Fearless troops taking casualties when beaten in combat, but stubborn troops passing their leadership test and not taking any...

[Bat Manuel]

Playing a whole game where I literally did not roll higher than a 3.

[Vashtek]

Fail 1

Back in 2nd edition, my newly painted chaplain in terminator armour got run over by a rhino. This involved:

Him failing his initiative test on 1d6 (so rolling a 6)

Rhino wounding him on a 3 or 4+ on 1d6 (I forget which)

Failing an armour save of 4+ or 5+ on 2d6 (terminator armour was a 3+ save on 2 dice in those days, but most weapons modified your save)

Failing his rosarius save on a 4+ on 1d6 (I'm not sure if was his rosarius or some sort of other field - my mind may be clouded here)

Him rolling a d3 for wounds and getting a 3.

I was an unhappy bunny. My mind still boggles at how this happened.

Fail 2 (though this is Warhammer Fantasy)

I was playing Warhammer Siege in a Mighty Empires campaign and I had chaos dwarves. I had assembled a perfect (so I thought) castle smashing force consisting of 2 earthshaker cannons and three deathrockets, together with some elite infantry. In my first firing phase, everything misfired. Yes, everything. But it doesn't end there. 4 of the five machines blew up, and the remaining cannon missed its next turn firing. That misfire dice was never seen again...

The castle never did fall, though in the same campaign I managed to kill a chaos lord in the first shot of the game with a (working) death rocket. Look out sir... oops...

Still in that campaign, my general was engaged in the final battle to storm the Chaos's capital city walls. The battle was won for the chaos dwarfs, but a few troops remained for the chaos, including his tzeentch sorceror. With the sorceror's last gasp before he was cut up he managed to turn my genera (i.e. the guy in charge of all of my armies in the campaign) to chaos spawn. My general had survived something like 5 battles (and the whole campaign) up until that point...

[pathwinder14]

Hmmm...
3rd ed Fantasy Battles - I once buried my chaos sorcerer into a foam hill with my palm because my opponent used the staff of Nurgle on my General then bolt of change on my sorcerer. I lost both in the same turn.

3rd ed Fantasy battles: Arnizipal's black horror wiped out my chaos army in 2 turns. ( I stupidly set up "on the line".)

I once backed over my case of paints with my car....fortunately I didn't break any paint pots.

2nd ed 40K: Confused primer for clear coat when I went to seal my Kharn the Betrayer. 6 hours of work down the drain.

3rd ed 40K: Primered a unit of Guardians back in the day when plastic guardians just came out. It was humid. Primer got all powdery. Tossed the models in the trash. This was before I knew about Simple Green.

5th ed 40k: As I was clear coating my Devastators I dropped them on my back step. Models broke. Missile launchers and marine parts scattered all over the grass. It took me 30 minutes to find them all.

5th ed 40k: Clear coating my Death Co. and their Dread on a hot and humid day. Coat was a little foggy. Freaked out untilI was able to use GW Gloss Varnish to fix it and re-coat.

[VTSvsAlucard]

My greatest low point is simply not having anyone to play the game with.

This. My low point was forcing my little sister to play a 400 point game with me because I hadn't played for a year and a half after moving across the country.

Since then I still haven't played, but I occupy my hobby needs by painting and building campaign ideas I may or may not ever play.

Ahh well...

[Mr_Circle]

My low point is a little different, Back in 1991 I had the opportunity to buy a full Squat Army cheap, and decided against it. I have been banging my head against a wall ever since.

[Grenadier]

I just discovered a low point. It seems all of my Black Templar infantry are without arms. Months ago for a battle I decided to swap some stuff around and make new kinds of units and reorganize my army. But apparently I forgot to go back and replace what I took from the infantry. And now with a possible battle coming this weekend I've got even more work to do to get ready. Repair all my Templars, do lists for them and my Guard, and if there's time left convert some old Chaos termies into Templar termies.

[Alex4AJM3]

not priming my lizardmen before painting them. I was only 12, but they are still more grey than blue...

[Duskstorm]

Playing at a tournament where everytime I even looked in the direction of my codex or rulebook my opponent was calling the referee over, 99% of the time the referee and myself stood looking at him waiting to see why he was stopping the game, only to have him make up some crap that made no sense or had nothing to do with the game or the tournament.

[Valkerie]

Old Dark Eldar Codex. First time I had Vect and his Dais of Destruction. I'd spent several hours painting it up. I put it on the board and it scared my opponent so much that he shot it with a lascannon first thing. Penetrated the armor field, and destroyed the vehicle. For the rest of the game, it sat there in the middle of the board without doing anything but blocking line of sight.:( I still managed to pull out a draw, but what a disappointment.

[greendestiny]

several years ago we were playing a small tournament called Blood River Brawl in Frisco Texas and we didn't have real tables so we were using sheets of plywood on top of saw horses. As the drinks flowed and the day wore on our friend who we called "Boan" (he is huge tall and wide) leaned down to rest on the edge of his table. The entire thing flipped and about 100 models went flying! There was much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Now we always "Boan Proof" our tables before we play.

[Etriagn]

- My first three games with my Space Wolves, my Venerable Dreadnaught got shot and destroyed in turn 1
- My Space Wolves against Grey Kngihts (it was in 4th Edition), one unit of Grey Hunters with an attached Rune Priest was stuck in difficult terrain for 4 turns because of double 1s
- Chaos General got killed by Tau Firewarriors (after his Demon Weapon bit him)

[Shotgun Justice]

Only 3 weeks ago missing with 2 Manticores for 3 turns until they each had their missile racks blown off, psyker battle choir melting their own brains on perils of the warp, chimeras throwing their tracks coming on for dawn of war and then their contents running off the board next turn.
That was a disappointing game, especially since I'd been asked to provide a challenge for my opponents new list.

Not low points but in 2nd ed the fear of seeing the virus bomb strategy card appear or rolling scatter for a vortex grenade and see it head for your land raider, again. Always more fun to roll the scatter before the artillery dice, just for the moment of tension

[Dag]

I don't remember if it was 2nd or 3rd edition... but charged a 4 man squad of terminators at a rhino, mostly to get extra movement.....it blew up.... and somehow took the squad with it... back in the days where terminator saves were on 2d6.

[Inquiring M1nd]

Wow, after reading some of these, my gaming life has been pretty darn good. Let's see how I do in the big categories:

Personal Damage: Sliced a centimeter and a half line in my index finger trying to build wings for my Hive Tyrant. It was a bit of a mess, but superglue solved that problem pretty well.

Property Damage: My roommate and I put down masking tape to mark out a game board on our carpet, left it there, and ruined the carpet. Lost the deposit

Model Damage: Broke my LED-enabled Fire Prism while wrapping it in bubble wrap. In its first showing. (I count this one as my lowest)

Game Performance: My Barbed-Strangler Warriors. I swear, they have no will to live. Even when I allocate away from them they turn that 50% chance to save into a 5%.

[Arch_Bishop]

Whenever I finish painting a model / unit, it will immediately die in the early phases of the game without affecting anything, usually in a very unceremonious fashion.

For example, my newly finished Land Raider being immobilized on the first turn, out of LoS or range of anything.

Or Bloodletters wildly scattering on their deep strike, only to be destroyed (you get use to this with Daemons though).

Also, I use to regularly play against a roommate of mine who didn't have much in the way of models, so there was A LOT of proxying. This annoyed me no end, as I'd always forget which unit was which, leading to many easy kills for him (eventually every unit had to be labelled to avoid confusion).

As time passed, he started to enjoy using stupid models to proxy, just to annoy me, as there is nothing worse than your lovely converted and painted model being killed by a kids toy or such. Some favorites were pokemon toys as Wraith Guard, and a toy gingerbread man from Shrek (which he got from work) as an Avatar. So not only has my leader been killed, but he has been killed by the gingerbread man.... Sigh.

I ended up buying him an Avatar... But of course, on the first game, he still pulled out the gingerbread man! What a guy.

[Grenadier]

I just experienced my most common 40k low point:

Lack of 40k.

Where I live there isn't anyone else into the game. My only opponent, who once lived 5 minutes away, now lives out of state. And despite at one time being geographically close games were very rare occurrences. At best 2 to 3 a year. And even then the battles never would be completed. Often ending in turn 3 or 4. But never seeing turn 6. A battle between us is something planned beginning with a phone call. The call will come and the battle supposedly will be in a couple of weeks. Then the weeks turn into months. And, as usual, they never happen.

Usually the night before or the morning of I'll get the phone call with whatever excuse for why the battle won't happen. And many times I won't even get notice and just left hanging in the wind.

And every damned time one of these mythical battles is planned I'll spend the entire night before getting ready. Or sometimes a couple of days. Tweaking models, painstakingly drawing up an army list, and just making other preparations. So many times I've pulled my armies off the shelf and cluttered up my table only to put them back.

ALL FOR NOTHING!

Having such a lack of battles and so many false hopes gets a bit depressing. What's the point in finishing painting up models never to be used? Or even buying more units and keeping up with updates? NONE!

[Danno]

A unit of five Necron Destroyers take five wounds, I rolled five ones for their armor saves, only unit of Destroyers I had on the board.

Whirlwind survived a carnifex attack so I decide to shoot a unit of gaunts roughly 12" away. Rolled max scatter back onto the whirlwind, rolled max penetration and a six for the result. I imagine the carnifex was laughing heartily at that. (This one was a few codexes ago.)

Recently completed Landraider first time out shoots at a Leman Russ and misses then gets blown up by an IG missile team.

Current low point is not being interested in the game at all for the past few months, new Necron codex sparked some interest then this was countered by cost of mini's/time to get them table-ready and lack of people to play against.

[Krayd]

I jumped a lone space marine scout (with a shotgun) with 5 mandrakes. He killed them all, and continued to skulk around, avoiding getting killed by various potshots from other units, for the entire game.

[Grenadier]

I call that a "most valuable model." Often in a game I'll have a model truly stand out. Sometimes its a character. Other times its not. And its mostly luck that made it stand out. In one game I had my commander on a bike take out an entire command squad of Dark Angels plus some fancy character they get. He then went on to wipe out the remainder of a tactical squad that had been shot up. And after all that he was working on killing another tactical squad. But the game ended early so who knows. This miracle was a combination of the wargear given to the character and lucky dice for me. Not so lucky dice for my opponent.

[Joshh]

Where to start? The fact that I spent almost $80 on a single squad of guardsmen from Forge World? Or maybe in actual games that I've played.

I've had one turn where I literally missed with ever single shot that I fired. That's fire from a Russ, a Valkyrie, 2 Veteran Weapon Teams, and 2 Sentinels. My guardsmen weren't even in range.

Maybe the game where I was tabled by the end of turn 4, and the only casualties I inflicted the entire game GOT BACK UP. My friend literally made every single armour save or Regen Protocols roll on his Immortals, and the only permanent things that entire game were 2 sounds on a Wraith. I almost wanted to quit 40k for a while after that game.

I've had games where I roll so poorly for reserves the game is over before they come in. I've had games where I've never rolled a hit on the scatter die. I've had games where every single move into terrain for vehicles rolls a 1 for the dangerous terrain test.

I've had a Veteran squad with an attached Lord Commissar throw a demo charge, scatter back into the unit, kill a couple guys, they fail their morale test and Sgt. Bastonne gets executed by the L.C., then the L.C. fails her leadership and the whole damn squad runs right off the board.

[TheCoolGuy12]

I lost a healthy mega armored warboss to a single guardsmen. When I pulled the boss off the table it slipped from my hand and my custom built boss broke in to several pieces.

My SAG mek rolled double 1s in either the first or second turn in 6 of the first 8 games I used him. One of those games was a team game where I not only took my own mek and lootas out of the game but my teams basilisk and devastator squad too.

[Houghten]

I tend to find "massively unlucky dice" moments to be hilarious, rather than low points. Like the time I finally rolled a double-6 for my Shokk Attack Gun, only to scatter onto my other Big Mek; or the time my Warboss and Captain Stern slugged it out for an entire game without either ever successfully wounding the other; or the time when the boyz driving my Looted Wagon hit the wrong button, sending it 12" straight into the back of a Trukk, destroying the boomgun and sending the trukk kareening backwards-and-sideways into the Lootas, who passed their morale check and then all got killed by the explosion. I'm still not sure who was laughing harder when the dust settled, my opponent or myself.

Now the actual low point would have to be when I superglued my hand to my desk. I didn't have any solvent (still don't, actually... I never learn) so the only thing to do was pull away and leave a layer of skin stuck to it...

No, wait, I tell a lie, that's hilarious in hindsight. No, the low point was when I found out the Inquisition were moving to Grey Knights only. My poor Witch Hunters...

[scadugenga]

My 40k low point?

The release of third edition.

Though it's been getting better since then.

[Blaznak]

Dunno if its my lowest moment but close. I was one move away from tournament winning. I shot the Shokk Attack gun and it scattered over some enemies. Good, right? But wait! I had an ammo runt and wanted that commander dead! So re-roll city and it scatters completely off target.

We tally points. If I had killed even a couple lads in that first unit, I would have gotten full points and a win and probably the tourney. Instead we had a draw and I got zippo! Wooo! Orky thinking gets me every time...

[Gorechilde]

I a game the other day, I had a unit of nine Thousand Son shot by Bolt pistols from an Assault Squad. Ten shots, 8 wounds....I needed threes to save. Rolled 7 1's and 2's. Those dice now litter the yard!

Had a buddy during an Apoc game, deep strike his Necron Lord on Destroyer Body with a unit of six heavy destroyers. The next turn throws a Vortex Grenade and it scatters back onto them and wipes the unit out, Lord included. That was funny stuff since he was on the other team!

[benzo12]

Had a group of 5 assault marines make a tactical retreat... right off of the edge of the board. They were prior to that doing quite well, I just wanted to get the extra shooting phase the turn after.

[St.Germaine]

I think the lowest point for me in 40K was when my local store closed several years ago. It was the only place I had to play and I went for a couple of years getting my 40K fix online and through WD. I was so depressed 40K-wise that I didn't even do much painting. Another store where I can play has since become available that I can play at so I'm a happy boy again.

In game, my dice rolling has always been legendary in both the old store and the new store, and I don't mean in a good way. Recently I hit a new low. I had a full Assault Terminator squad that scored only two wounds on the charge (he made the invulnerable saves) and then failed the base saves (2+) on the return attacks for all but one of the termies.

This last week I had a sternguard squad that took three turns of shooting to kill a squad of scouts, due to pathetically poor rolling on my part and somewhat better than average saves by my opponent. This incident has prompted me to actually execute several dice with the other dice witnessing. The dice corpses will be put on a plinth and kept on display for the other dice when I roll. Perhaps this will counter the unwelcome manipulation of my dice by that vindictive bi-otch Karma Murphy. :rolleyes: I really don't know what I did to earn her wrath.

[Uncle Nutsy]

back when i was playing tau (vs nids, crons, daemons), there was one box of gw dice I had that rolled ones, twos and threes for my to-hits and ones and twos for my saves so much I could SWEAR they were either possessed or weighted. One day, I had about enough of the consistent botch that I picked up the entire lot of GW dice, stepped outside.. and THREW them toward the ocean.

[Hive Mind]

Getting back into the game and then going 0-9-1 in my first ten games was pretty demoralising. Even the draw was only because of some insane luck on my part.

[Garamond]

my landraider was the first thing that was shot at and destroyed on the first turn.

[juliusb]

1. Belial's command squad takes 6 wounds from Dire Avengers shooting... 6 1s rolled; dead squad.

2. My winged Daemon Prince with his whole set of wounds is flying towards a group of 7 Rangers in cover on the flank, I hide behind cover so they can't shoot me but I leave my side exposed to 6 Guardians (without weapon platform). I figure I might take a wound from their shooting but I'll still get to wipe out the rangers in the next turn... 6 Hits... 5 Wounds... 5 failed 3+ armor saves... *As a side note, this DP has a severed Avatar head on it's base and Eldar always seem to roll well against him...

[commissar camenzuli]

my low points??? getting awrsome vendetta killed easily along with straken. and whrn i have only 1 basuc guardsmen left the git nmever dies even if i try to kill him!!!

[Ziac45]

My lowest point had to be with the old Tyranid codex but in 5th edition. A devllfish tanks hocked my carnifex, I decided I am strength 8 or 9 (I Forget) I will death or glory. Penetrated, Rolled a 1 full wounds carnifex just insta killed.

[Osiris]

Had a game recently with my Dark Eldar where I managed to miss with every single anti-tank shot in one turn (13 Dark lances, 6 Blasters, 2 Heat Lances). I was playing against IG...

My terminators are notorious for refusing to pass one type of save each game. They either pass 3+ to the exclusion of all else, or they roll a 2 on every. Single. Stormshield. Save. Stop it jerks, just turn the damn things on already!

[commissar camenzuli]

i deep striked 3 units of stormtroopers onto the same squad abd they all died

[Mud Duck]

lowest: lost close to 2000pts of IG before the first turn. Dang 2ed virus bombs. Was a Multiplayer pre-apoc apoc game. Had like half a command squad, 5 or 6 las guys, and one rough rider....

highest: Sister Repentia squad destroying an Ork Gargant.

[Ceramic Teapot]

My lowest point was when a squad of 5 space marine scouts shot my carnifex first turn. 4 hit and all wounded. I then proceeded to fail all my saves. The worst thing was that he was my 1st painted model and all I got to do with him was put him on the field and then remove him.

[Grenadier]

I had a pretty low one once when my friend's kid stole one of my scouts and a daemonette. At the same time he destroyed a bunker I had painstakingly worked on for three days. Sculpting nearly 200 sandbags and making a bunker out of foamcore. Of course the sneaky little ******* did all of this when nobody was looking. I was always trying to keep him away from my models.

[Cavematt]

My tyrant fired his HVC at a farseer, a small squad of warlocks , and a couple spare guardians. My blast hit 7 bases because he was bunched behind terrain. Supposed to roll 2+ to wound, all would've instant killed, and threw a handful seven 1s. Then his shooting kills both 'fexes I have on the board. Right when the game starts I kinda wanted to walk away.

[dewisant]

I'm not sure what my worst 40k moment is but I sure know what my friends is...

We play most weekend and he had never beaten my SW with his CM. One day he decided to try out Abadon.
Having never seen what a Abadon could do I can say I pretty much got my arse handed to me by Abodon who single handedly ripped though my army.
The only thing I had left on the board was a Wolf Guard in power armour, the soul survivor of a Grey Hunter pack and a Drop Pod.
All he had left was weakened Abadon (1 wound remaining). Regardless, he was winning, well ahead on KP's, it was his turn 5 and he wanted pay back!

He decide that my lone wolf guard was out of assault range this turn, so he would assault the Drop Pod. Auto hitting a DP wan't too much of a task for a WS7 Abadon. He raised the deamon sword Drach'nyen above his head and......... (Now, for those that don't know, when wheedling a deamon wpn you roll a D6 and the resulting number is the amount of extra attacks you gain. However, if you roll a 1, you take a wound with no save.).........rolled a 1. :D

Remember, annihilation is always a victory condition! :cool:

[DaveLL]

Pretty much any time I use my Lord of Change is a low point. Don't get me wrong; he tends to soak up a large amount of fire, and occasionally even kills something. But I tend to put him on the table one turn and have him gone by the next.

[Phototoxin]

10 wyches assaulting and killing 5 tac marines and 4/5 sternguard. The 1 sternguard then didn't die for THREE TURNS!

[Grenadier]

The first time I encountered Abaddon I had an inkling of how powerful he was. It was in an three way battle against Chaos, Dark Angels, and my Imperial Guard armored compnay. The Chaos player, one of those who loves to be over powered put Abaddon on the table leading a squad of Chaos Terminators.

He brazenly walked Abaddon right across the center of the battlefield with his Termies in tow. And my tanks fired everything they had into this nasty mob. Turn after turn. Of course he begins pulling casualties out of the Termies first. So it's taking me time to whittle down this group. Turn after turn I'm firing everything on my tanks at him. While the rest of my units are contending with Dark Dummies and other Chaos guys. Each turn had at least 6 tanks hammering this bunch. By later turns they were in range of all my weapons on my tanks so I poured even more heat on them.

Finally in turn 5 there's no more Terminators left and wounds finally begin getting put on Abaddon. He had been heading diagonally towards one of my tanks on my left. Not sure what he had intended to do with him. Assault the tank perhaps. I didn't have any infantry there and there wasn't any objective on this flank. At long last I scored the killing blow and away went Abaddon.

So, in summation, for 5 turns Abaddon and a full retinue of Terminators got hammered by at least 6 tanks, sometimes more, sometimes contributing shots by other units in range or otherwise unoccupied. We're talking everything from battlecannons, lascannons, heavy bolters and pintle stubbers. And never where they in cover! Right in the open! Man! All that to kill him!?!

OF course I realized early on my firepower may be better spent dishing out more damage to the other two player's armies. But I was bound and determined to take out Abaddon.


I'm not sure what my worst 40k moment is but I sure know what my friends is...

We play most weekend and he had never beaten my SW with his CM. One day he decided to try out Abadon.
Having never seen what a Abadon could do I can say I pretty much got my arse handed to me by Abodon who single handedly ripped though my army.
The only thing I had left on the board was a Wolf Guard in power armour, the soul survivor of a Grey Hunter pack and a Drop Pod.
All he had left was weakened Abadon (1 wound remaining). Regardless, he was winning, well ahead on KP's, it was his turn 5 and he wanted pay back!

He decide that my lone wolf guard was out of assault range this turn, so he would assault the Drop Pod. Auto hitting a DP wan't too much of a task for a WS7 Abadon. He raised the deamon sword Drach'nyen above his head and......... (Now, for those that don't know, when wheedling a deamon wpn you roll a D6 and the resulting number is the amount of extra attacks you gain. However, if you roll a 1, you take a wound with no save.).........rolled a 1. :D

Remember, annihilation is always a victory condition! :cool:

[Kaika87]

I had one game with my Dark Angels where my dice mutinied. I wasn't just rolling failed saves, I was failing practically everything I needed to. I would fail 5/6 wound-allocated 2+ saves, and then imediately afterward fail JotWW tests.

[Death 0F Angels]

Playing warmachine and realizing i would never completly enjoy another game of 40k again. Almost brings a tear to my eye.....and thats not sarcasm.

[Headrush]

Getting no sleep the night before a game, and forgetting to put out a Land Raider in my list :( I barely lost, and would have probably taken the game if I had thought of it.

[troglodytesrus]

don't know actually, I am an optimist, I tend to forget the bad stuff that has happened to me in 40k games :P