march10k Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 I told myself that I wouldn't play my stormtroopers air cav formation until I had everything painted...but I gave in, even though it meant proxying my avenger as a valkyrie. The dice gods punished me severely! Not one, but two birds were hit by snap-shotting meltaguns, failed their jinks, were penetrated, were immobilized, and crashed, killing everyone on board. One of them was my command squad with four plasma guns. 570 points out of my thousand, gone on two snap shots. The chance of getting 5+ on 2D6 being roughly 5/6, the chances of it happening once are: 1/6*1/2*5/6*1/6*1/3=5/1296....or 0.4% chance to have precisely that outcome. Twice? Square that result (assuming only two shots)! 0.0015% chance. Now, probably six melta shots were taken at various birds throughout the game, but DAMN. Worst luck ever. To be fair, once the shot penetrated and jink failed, it had a 1/3 chance of exploding outright on top of the 1/18 chance of going down to an immobilized result that then generates a crash...but it's not like they were being torrented with S8AP1 shooting, it was very low volume snap shots...#$^%&&!!!! /edit/ Actually, my stormtroopers are cursed. The only other time I fielded them, the command squad passed the leadership test to give itself the twinlinking order and STILL killed three plasma gunners with "gets hot." Granted, that's out of eight shots...but each shot had a 1/36 chance to get hot, and then the gunner had to fail a 4+. Three times out of eight...and did I mention no enemy killed by the other five shots? The surviving gunner did later kill a terminator and went on to survive the game...small comfort! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raukaan Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 I hate/love when this type of stuff happens. Reminds me of a game I had long ago with some Space Wolves. The entire army (1k) was kited out with plasma weapons. turn 1, EVERY SINGLE ONE ROLLED A 1. Every single guy DIED. The guy I was playing paused and said, "that... that shouldn't happen." It was so unlucky that it was hilarious. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3767472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quixus Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Every single plasma wolf also failed his armour save? That really shouldn't happen. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3767478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronotonic Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 I have a buddy who has played KHRONE for years just for the amount of dice he can use in close combat but time after time the dice gods have failed him and he would wiff an entire assault phase only to be killed by my sniper scouts Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3767495 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stercus Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 On the flip side of the coin, I've had a plasma cannon devastator get hot three times on the bounce and survive, then in turn four he got charged by a squad of chaos marines and proceeded to boss three rounds of melee combat, contesting his objective right to the end. Didn't kill anything though. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3767503 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Call me a fool but I once fired my devastators at some Ymgarl genestealers - two of the squad had missile launchers, so naturally I tried to frag the 'stealer to stop them wiping out my devvies. Two shots, both scattered back onto the devvie squad. I got lucky and only two wounds were caused. The dice Gods then decided to toy with me and I failed both saving throws, killing both of the missile launcher toting devastators. Whoops. Incidentally, the squad survived the assault and killed the remaining genestealers, so Larry and Leroy the unlucky devastators died for no reason, essentially. :rolleyes:. On the flipside (and to keep this Guard related), I remember fielding a Tank Company from a while back in an apoc match. Over the course of the game I had the opportunity to tank shock two enemy HQs with weaponless tanks, who foolishly decided to not run out of the way. Let's just say that the dents they made in the tanks' chassis are still there. :lol: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3767517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Never play with unpainted models; a lesson we must all relearn from time to time much to our detriment... :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3767635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kontakt Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 I played with unpainted guard for nearly a year.... Winning was something that I could not do, even when I out strategised my opponent. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3767680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicodemus Doloroso Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Ouch, I feel your pain. I've never fielded Storm Troopers/Scions unpainted and they've never failed me. I was thinking of fielding unpainted and even proxied minis to playtest the list I am considering for next year's Astronomi-con, but your post has reminded me why that's a very bad idea. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3767687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilofix Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Yes - never play with unpainted models Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3767787 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperors Immortals Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 I lost the entire plasma comand scion squad to GetsHot last night, I then exploded my CSM allies and lost by 2 VP. 8 plasma shots in two turns. Worst.....luck...... EVER! =-O Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3767825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicodemus Doloroso Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Now that's the dice gods taking revenge for bringing a Come the Apocalypse alliance of Scions and Chaos! Here's my question, though ... how come this stuff NEVER (and I mean NEVER) happens to power gamers who frequently play with unpainted minis? Or even to those guys who just seem to win tournaments all the time? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3767844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raukaan Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Call me a fool but I once fired my devastators at some Ymgarl genestealers - two of the squad had missile launchers, so naturally I tried to frag the 'stealer to stop them wiping out my devvies. Two shots, both scattered back onto the devvie squad. I got lucky and only two wounds were caused. The dice Gods then decided to toy with me and I failed both saving throws, killing both of the missile launcher toting devastators. Whoops. I hate when my missiles fly back to me NO YOU'RE A MISSILE NOT A DOG Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3767896 Share on other sites More sharing options...
march10k Posted August 6, 2014 Author Share Posted August 6, 2014 Yeah, I've had the opposite happen, too...but not in a very long time. In 4th edition, I had a plasma cannon venerable dreadnought shoot down railheads on consecutive turns. 3 to hit, 6 to glance, 6 to kill, so 2/3*1/6*1/6=1/54....then square it if you want it to happen on consecutive shots, for about a 1 in 3k chance. Okay, but what happened last night is 5/1296 to happen ONCE....square that, that's an order of magnitude less likely than my all-time-mvp vennie's feat! /edit/ And for the record, I was playing with painted models and only one proxy (the avenger subbing for a valk)...but my teammate wasn't, his crap was...crap, with tons of proxies, to boot. And both opponents had 100% unpainted models. So out of the four of us, the least offensive player gets shafted by the dice! Oh, and speaking of which, since I don't use wyverns, I wasn't the best coach to my youngblood teammate. He ran three wyverns...and only dropped two blasts per truck per turn...HALF of what he should have been firing...against the plague marines, no big deal, but against the eldar? There should have been none left! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3767903 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronotonic Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 see I have never really had that problem of loosing with the pre-primer legion like you guys I usually roll enough dice to cause the damage I need to do before I roll more dice for the close combat damage to make my kills...haha now that most of my stuff is getting painted *thanks a lot ELT 3* I might start loosing haha Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3767910 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FashaTheDog Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 At least you weren't as bad as I was at a tournament a couple of weeks ago. It is far enough to the store, about a hour, and I get there only to learn I missed the part about no Unbound Armies and only had brought Bloodthirsters with me (long story short, I could have brought either what I did or my Guard which is a lot of cases, unpacking, and repacking, thanks to my other stuff being buried). No problem there, though, the guys were great an loaned me five Screamers and 26 Plaguebearers so I could run my two large Thirsters as is and the other five Rogue Trader ones as Daemon Princes of Khorne, which gave me 1,850 points. Something right there should have told me that day was only going to get worse, but I was just too happy to play three games and have a day off of home duties to notice the warning signs. So we get going and I my first game starts quite well with insanely great luck sparing me all but a few wounds scattered across the monstrous creatures. I then saw my luck turn about completely and most of my army was shot off the table or assaulted to death. To top off the game, I then tabled myself on the second Storm Abates result of that game. I figured after that first insane turn's rolls, I actually had average luck that game, just unfortunately distributed. Second game looked great with the Dark Eldar going first and rushing me to open up with everything. In return I destroyed all the Dark Eldar Raiders on my first turn and was in easy assault range of the remaining army, save that which was in reserve. That came in and suddenly everything changed again. I started losing models to enemy fire and a third tournament snakes eyes on the Warp Storm table sapping me of more wounds and units. The following turn, my army decided that no xenos were going to table a daemon army, so for the fourth time, I rolled 'snake eyes' and like the last game, I lost all my remaining models to it before my Screamers ever came in. That game barely lasted an hour. My third game started off great with my army shredding the Chaos Marines, Cultists, and some pesky Helbrute with an invulnerable save like it was a game of Dynasty Warriors, leaving a handful of Marines, a Rhino, and Landraider (who was near a Bloodthirster with armorbane). I figured that by now I had burned away all the bad mojo and was owed this spectacular win; I mean at this point I was guaranteed an overwhelming victory unless I was tabled. Then Storm Abates result number five of the tournament and the first one of that game came right on schedule. I lost all but one Daemon Prince and both Plague Bearer units, one of which was reduced to three models. Went from being in position to tabling my foe that turn to being threatened with being tabed myself as more Plaguebearers fell and the last Daemon Prince bit the dust. At that time the TO came over and said this was the last turn, finish it up and tally up the results. We finished the turn in under two minutes with one unit of Plaguebearers wiped out, leaving only the three strong Plaguebearer squad that was hiding out of LoS and too far out of position for my foe to deal with alive. Game ends and I won on both tactical objectives and kill points (all the missions used one Eternal War and one Maelstrom of War mission). Because I was suddenly granted a vision of the future which was not to be, I did a "what if" of the turn we narrowly avoided. Can you guess what happened? Yep, I rolled on the Warp Storm table as I went first and had no safe place to move just to see and sure enough 'snake eyes' came up again followed promptly with a roll of double sixes yet again. I thanked the TO for calling time two minutes earlier and saving me from tabling myself three games in a row. Had there not been loads of witnesses, including himself, he wouldn't have believed anyone could roll that badly. I called it par for course. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3767968 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scatmandoo Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 I had a plasma sponson kitted executioner, and a plasma sentinel. The executioner failed all overheats and lost its 3 hull points, and the sentinel lost one hull point too. This was the first turn and they hadn't even had any enemy fire to deal with! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3768695 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andhil Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 I have had similar experiences, but my most memorable tales of unlucky roles are some of the following (most from previous editions, notably 5th): SM: -My BT Plasma Cannoneer fired at a bunch of Orks, and he scattered back and killed himself, a Plasma Gunner and 2 Bolter toting marines. -Templar Marshal with 6 attacks vs. Hive Tyrant. I rolled six 1's to Hit. For my IG we come to the tale of an Armoured Sentinel with a Plasma Cannon which has been nicknamed "Traitero'" by my group. He earned this name due to 2 separate occasions: 1) He fired a shot an an enemy Rhino, only to scatter horribly, and blow up my own Bane Wolf. 2)In the following game he led a flanking maneuver, providing cover for a group of Veterans. Bad idea. The second he fired his Plasma Cannon, he again scattered, and managed to not only miss the enemy, but have his shot end up BEHIND him, killing off most of my Veterans. Since then, he's been perfuming poorly the entire time, nothing too dramatic has happened, but I'm not willing to take that chance anymore. No Sentinels for me, Heavy Armour all the way! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3769697 Share on other sites More sharing options...
librisrouge Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 I've learned that I should never paint my minis. I only have this kind of luck with painted pieces. The few I have... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3769710 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scatmandoo Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 My worst luck was back in 5th and with Sternguard, podded in with 10 men, all of them rapid fired vengeance rounds against chaos marines, 8xdied to getting hot and i only killed 1 choas marine, failed my morale check due to losses and ran off the board. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3769878 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyderPirate Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Since then, he's been perfuming poorly the entire time Yeah, he stinks! (sorry, couldn't resist ) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3769892 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperors Immortals Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Well, if were talking worst luck ever it would have to be my Chaos Lord killing himself with his Daemon blade on the same turn Khârn took out 5 of his beserkers. It cost me that combat round, my line broke and I was completely run down. By Orks. Orks, for god sake. But this was in 2nd/3rd and im sure it couldn't happen these days...... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3771329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 That's not bad luck - that's the Emperor's justice :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/294704-worst-luck-ever/#findComment-3771357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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