sometimes the game just kicks you in the teeth

[Nicho]

Hey guys thought id share a funny if somewhat disasterous game i had last night with you.

Was playing with my VC against a mates empire.

Turn one my vc lord decides to cast a spell against 1 of the enemy units. I roll the dice and get irresistible force so I roll on miscast table. I roll a 3. The resulting blast kills 15 of the 20 Gg my vamp was with and my vamp makes his ward save.

That wasnt to bad i thought but then i roll for the last bit of the miscast and rolled a 3!! Bye bye bloodsucker lol. So with my general dead i take some crumble tests and carry on.

Still i think to myself its ok i have 2 more necromancers so 1 of them shall take up the matrix of leadership next turn.

So turn 2 rolls round, my terrorghiest flaps up nice and close to the empire general ready to give his ears a bashing, though now only on to wounds after the crumble tests.

Magic phase rolls round and my new necromancer general attempts to cast invocation of nehek to bolster up some of the crumbled units.

I roll my dice and boom another miscast. Oh dear i thought and rolled on the miscast table again.

Guess what i rolled?

Yep another 3. So after the blast killed the necromancer and most of the zombies he was with i moved on to crumble tests.

My terrorghiest basicly showered the empire general in bones as it fell apart before getting to wail at him.

My final necromancer was on a corpse cart and died in tje resulting crumble tests along with most of my army.

I pretty much called the game after that.

Was pretty funny and im sure it would have looked hilarious on the field as my undead blew the crap out of themselves and then fell apart every time they tried to cast some magic.


Anyone else had similarly hilarious kick in the teeth experiences?

[Jind_Singh]

Well played a game with my new empire vs the Dark Elves in 2500pts plus 625pts for Storm of magic...

I had 5 Halberdiers, fleeing, and 3 crossbows, also fleeing, alive from the 2500pts of empire! (50 spearmen, 15 halberds, 17 crossbows, 30 flaggelents, arch lector, bsb, witch hunter, level 4, level 2, 4 warmachines, 2 engineers, cockatrice are ALL DEAD!)

I had a Dark Emissary, with one wound left, and a lamasu - with 3 wounds left...

His army was mostly intact though I gave his units a good beating - last turn he charges the poor Emissary and hits him five times...wounds him four times....

Made all four of my ward saves and held the fulcrum! Meanwhile the Lamasu took a 3D6 fireball and 17 repeater crossbows, oh and life stealer, to survive his fulcrum giving me the win over the Dark Elves!!

Should have seen the other guy - he was a great sport about it but the poor fellow did everything right!

[Skopey]

My Bret lord Charged a Unit Of 20 Khorne Knights in the flank in an attempt to try and hold them up before they could charge a vulnerable unit of Grail knights in the flank while they were engaged with a couple of Trolls, until i could get a unit of KotR to come aid him next turn. In my shooting phase I decided to chuck a stone from my trebuchet at a unit of warriors coming up behind the knights. Unfortunately i managed to scatter the shot the max distance Landing it smack bang on my Grail vow lord tooled up for duels. Obviously he died. Not happy. Oh well At least My grail knights wont let me down even if they will prolly be cut down buy the knights the following turn. Nope. They lose combat against the trolls and flee routing the mentioned unit of KotR and allowing the knights to roll up my entire armiy in subsequent turns. In the end it was a horrible horrible loss i think the onluy thing that actually survived was the trebuchet crew who were the reason it all went wrong in the first place. (though in hindsight charging the unit of knights in the first place wasn't my brightest idea ever either.) Still at least i put an evil grin on my opponents face

[Urgat]

Anyone else had similarly hilarious kick in the teeth experiences?

Plenty My favorite one I've posted a dozen times at least on Warseer already, so I'll make it short: in 5th edition, if your general died, you took a panic test foe every unit in your army. I don't remember exactly how it worked, but I got first turn, my shaman miscast, the miscast killed my general (or made him flee maybe. Hey, that was 15 years ago at least), and pretty much my whole army fled off the table. Floored before my opponent even touched a dice

[jtrowell]

In a recent game using Empire against O&G:

I had my flaggelant unit at full strenght (21 deployed 7x3) charged by 20 big'uns and a boar chariot.
I expected to take sever losses, but with my flaggelant striking first (expect for those damned impact hits), I hoped to win the round anyway, or at worst cripple the big'uns so my other units could give the final strike.

... I roll for the number of S3 auto-hits and get a 4. "Great, good chance of both rerolls to hit and wound on my 21 S5 attacks" was what I was thinking ... until i roll for damage, ang get 1, 1, 1, 1 ...

I then manage to roll lower that average, hitting with only 1/3 of the attacks.

But in the same game, my 10 crossbowmen in a house managed to fire at a giant on my flank. The giant had just killed a small knight unit, taking 3 wounds, by was now almost unoppposed in my right flank (I had just a 15 man swordmen detachment), and I feared what he could do if I didn't kill it fast.
Hoping to get mabe one wound, two if very lucky, to give a fighting chance to my swordmen before they become thunderstomped to death, i roll to hit and got 4 hits, just slightly aboe average. Rolling to wound, I got 1, 5, 5, 6, and the giant fall to his death, vengeance was mine !

[Arnizipal]

My final necromancer was on a corpse cart and died in tje resulting crumble tests along with most of my army.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought characters didn't crumble.

[librerian_samae]

Said it before on here few time so will keep it brief,
in 6th edition I was playing my skinks vs vampire counts he had big static infantry blocks I had msu skirmishers.
Got to turn 3 doing my thing of whittling down his units whilst keeping out of front arcs then my opponent moves a Wight king flaming staffs the unit near my general causes a panic test which I fail thereby fleeing running past my general who flees who then causes everyone near to flee, and soon via domino effect my entire army peggs it of the table.

Ah fun times.

[Texhnolyze]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought characters didn't crumble.

Everything except models with the "vampiric" special rule crumbles That includes necromancers and wight kings.
But if they are in a unit, it doesn't matter, you just roll the crumble test for the unit, and remove normal rank and file, unless ofcourse, you want to assign wounds to your character ^^

[Arnizipal]

Everything except models with the "vampiric" special rule crumbles That includes necromancers and wight kings.

That's just silly...

[DruidNei]

Once my shaman was sucked into the warp turn 1 after casting a small magic missile on 2-3 dice. Next game he was sucked into warp turn two after wildforming some troops, also 3 dice. Next game I played, this time with my WE, my lvl 4 was sucked into the warp, same way. Someone or something in the immaterium is collecting all of my casters one by one.

By common sense a powerful and wise lvl 4 caster should at least be able to use a small spell without blowing himself and half of his unit with him. I wonder how they manage to learn their spells without dying in the process?

[Crovax20]

I'm contemplating building a small chaos Rift for my High Liche Priest, with only his hand sticking out of it. My Tomb Kings magic always seems to go irresistable on 2-3 dice and then proceeds to suck my high priest into the warp... even an earthing rod does not seem to stop it!

[madden]

Mine was a unit of dark elf spears with master(mine) getting charged by a lone free company surviver(standard bearer) in the side losing combat by one (failed to wound and so did he but flank charge bonus) failing the test and getting run down. A true WTF moment but very funny.

[Evil Hypnotist]

I had my biggest ever defeat last Sunday 1600 VPs to nil! WoC vs...Bretonnians! That felt like a kick in the teeth!

The moment that summed up my game was when his grail knights charged my trolls led by Throgg, he caused 7 wounds, I only save 1 with regen. Throgg hits back with his breath attack and kills 7 out of 9, the other trolls only manage to kill 1 more. With their charge and standard the knights win by one from the musician, my break test rolls 11, my flee rolls 3....One grail knight rides down the King Of Trolls and 3 of his mates.

When you play a game based on the roll of a dice, sometimes the dice don't play the game.

[Lorcryst]

Every game I played in 7th ed with the 7th ed O&G army book, and because of one thing only : Animosity.

Seriously, back then you had a 1/3 chance of every unit screwing up ... the most memorable fail being ALL my units (11 of them, MSU Night Goblins) squabbling for the three first turns of the game ... I could do nothing ...

[brother_maynard]

2nd turn vs skaven, lost my great bray shaman to a cascade from throwing 2 dice at flock of doom to clear away a rat dart. the explosion kills a truckload of gor and the unit panics. since i lost no dice from the pool, i threw a purple sun at an abomb with my level 2. he casts it successfully and drops it on the unit, killing himself (failed LO,S i believe) and a ton of bestigors.

[Graxy]

I've played O&G for about 5 or so years. At this point, if something goes right somethings wrong

[Sexiest_hero]

That must be a new rule for VC. used to be No Lords or heroes crumbled? Thats a HUGE nerf!

[Nicho]

Not sure, 2 of my heroes got killed by the actual miscast and the other one was on a corpse cart that crumbled so i took it that he died with it. I could be wrong lol

[zak]

I game I played last Wednesday really kicked my opponent in the teeth. He had a unit of 10 outriders and a hellblaster. He rolled well with 14 hits on the hellblaster and an average roll for the outriders. I thought my Ogre bulls were toast, but he then managed to roll an extraordinary amount of 1's and 2's for wounds, which resulted in one dead ogre. The Ogres then proceeded to mash both units in combat. He took it very well considering.

[vinush]

Very early in the current edition of the rules my Purple wizard always miscast and lost all of his spells, but only if I used a specific model... It got so bad that I'm tempted to use him as a free company champion as his brain must be total mush by now. The most spectacular miscast of all was when it was on a boosted purple sun. I was like, ok, miscast, but this spell should do some damage...

Oh it did some damage alright, but I rolled a misfire, and it scattered through my three big units of state troops, killing far too many for me. The miscast then took out what little was left of the unit the wizard was in, the wizard lost a wound then got sucked off by rolling a 1.

THE \/ince