What always works against you, but never for you?

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

For me any time a flamer overwatches me it’s devastating. If it’s one little flamer, or a dozen, or a heavy flamer, or a pair of inferno cannons.

 

i overwatch with flamers? Nothing.

 

and I’ve learned spending a CP to reroll a 1 always results in a 1.

[firestorm40k]

6 hours ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

I’ve learned spending a CP to reroll a 1 always results in a 1.

This is almost like it's a universal scientific law - happens to me, and I see it happen all the time to everyone at my gaming group 

 

I've been on the receiving end of several first turn scouting charges, and 'rapid ingress' type charges from Deep Strike. Can I ever pull off those type of manoeuvres? 

 

No. No, I can't 

 

My dice rolls, and/or my opponent's use of their army's abilities and/or strats usually thwarts any hope I have of achieving those sort of dramatic first turn strikes or counter-strikes 

Edited July 13 by firestorm40k

[MARK0SIAN]

In Horus Heresy I’ve been on the receiving end of some devastating shooting attacks from Moritats but my own has killed a grand total of 3 marines across all my games and managed to kill himself at least once. 

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

5 hours ago, firestorm40k said:

This is almost like it's a universal scientific law - happens to me, and I see it happen all the time to everyone at my gaming group 

 

I've been on the receiving end of several first turn scouting charges, and 'rapid ingress' type charges from Deep Strike. Can I ever pull off those type of manoeuvres? 

 

No. No, I can't 

 

My dice rolls, and/or my opponent's use of their army's abilities and/or strats usually thwarts any hope I have of achieving those sort of dramatic first turn strikes or counter-strikes 

I have seen plenty of my own opponents successfully CP reroll a 1 lol

[Brother Anderson]

Overcharging plasma always feels like a great idea at the time 

[Dark Shepherd]

Command re rolls

[Kenzaburo]

Dice in general. I am ridiculously bad rolling dice. Many of my opponents have commented on it over the years that dice really ruined my game. And yes, I have tried tons of different dice. And it happens across different systems and in board games too. Honestly, I screw up statistics, I tell ya. :)

[Wormwoods]

The tabletop wargame 'Warhammer 40,000' which you may have heard of! 

 

I am currently on a 6-game losing streak in my Crusade. So it goes.

[Lord_Valorion]

Six games? Cute. I lost every game since march 2024. In every system. Played like 25 since then. Fun!

[Lord_Ikka]

Statistical averages work against me. I can sometimes make up my incredibly bad dice rolling with experience and pretty decent tactics, but any real tournament I've been in has seen my average rolling be considerably bad- I might get two out of twenty 5+ invuln save rolls for my Knights. 

[CL_Mission]

On 7/13/2025 at 2:52 AM, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

and I’ve learned spending a CP to reroll a 1 always results in a 1.

This exact thing with my Lokhust Heavy Destroyer. Every time I roll a one to hit with the Gauss Destructor a command re-roll will inevitably result in another 1 an if it's not the hit roll it's the wound roll (at east that's free).

Conversely the command re-roll always comes up trumps when re-rolling the number a hits for my Doom Stalker, 5s and 6s all the way.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

3 hours ago, CL_Mission said:

This exact thing with my Lokhust Heavy Destroyer. Every time I roll a one to hit with the Gauss Destructor a command re-roll will inevitably result in another 1 an if it's not the hit roll it's the wound roll (at east that's free).

Conversely the command re-roll always comes up trumps when re-rolling the number a hits for my Doom Stalker, 5s and 6s all the way.

Free rerolls on a 1 I can often convert, just the command rerolls for me lol

[Tawnis]

Vindicare Assassin.

 

I've seen them do great work on the tabletop, but I've named mine Church (Red vs Blue reference) because he can't hit the broad side of a freaking barn. After he missed all 6 of his shots in the first game I ran him in, I started tracking how well he did. Over 5 games, counting re-rolls, he's made 32 shots and rolled TWENTY-FIVE 1's. I ran the math on that, the odds of rolling that many 1's is 3.3e-14, or 0.000000000000033%

[Brother Tyler]

7 hours ago, Tawnis said:

Vindicare Assassin.

 

I've seen them do great work on the tabletop, but I've named mine Church (Red vs Blue reference) because he can't hit the broad side of a freaking barn. After he missed all 6 of his shots in the first game I ran him in, I started tracking how well he did. Over 5 games, counting re-rolls, he's made 32 shots and rolled TWENTY-FIVE 1's. I ran the math on that, the odds of rolling that many 1's is 3.3e-14, or 0.000000000000033%

 

You should have named him Snake Eyes.

[Captain Idaho]

2+ armour saves.

 

I mean, I can hit something 10 times and it'll make every 2+ it needs to make, yet I'll fail 3 out of 7 of my own 2+ saves.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

1 hour ago, Captain Idaho said:

2+ armour saves.

 

I mean, I can hit something 10 times and it'll make every 2+ it needs to make, yet I'll fail 3 out of 7 of my own 2+ saves.

I know the feels. 
2+ anything for me is always disappointing.

[Valkyrion]

The chances of rolling a 1 during any point of a hit, wound or damage roll when firing a single melta gun or multimelta is greater than 100%. 

[Brother Anderson]

On 7/19/2025 at 1:10 PM, Valkyrion said:

The chances of rolling a 1 during any point of a hit, wound or damage roll when firing a single melta gun or multimelta is greater than 100%. 

 

Oh 100%, as a guard player a leman russ vanquisher is more of a deterrent than any sort of threat for this reason!

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

3 hours ago, Brother Anderson said:

 

Oh 100%, as a guard player a leman russ vanquisher is more of a deterrent than any sort of threat for this reason!

My vanquisher has always done good work for me at least. Guess the emperor has blessed me in that singular regard

[Tawnis]

22 hours ago, Brother Anderson said:

 

Oh 100%, as a guard player a leman russ vanquisher is more of a deterrent than any sort of threat for this reason!

My Vanquisher manages to hit and wound just fine, but will, nearly without fail, bounce off on any kind of invul save it's up against.