Army Superstitions

[Psychichobo]

Ok, I know I've been starting a lot of random threads lately, so sorry for the hassle...

Anyways, I've just been wondering if there's any particular traits, superstitions or weird feats that your armies exhibit every now and then?

I'll give the examples at my club:

Me: The Hive Tyrant that spectacularly fails to hit in CC, the Genestealers that rarely rend, the Archon that often drugs herself to death, and the Master Shaper that always get battered to death in CC.

Marines: The terminators that will fail their armour saves when only receiving a few hits, the Assault marines that beat up genestealers, and the player's uncanny ability to roll sixes when deciding deployment, table edge and dice offs.

Witch Hunter: Sgt. Afro, the Inquisitorial Stormtrooper who has so far killed in close combat a hive tyrant, an archon, and a chaos lord. The chaos lord also once shot at him and melted himself to death with plasma, and once I focused my tyrant on him, killed him, then kept failing saves for the next load of shooting until dead. Cursed me! He's modelled with an afro and boombox, btw, if you were wondering about the name.

Chaos: The dreadnought that always goes beserk at the start of battle and wounds an ally, even when I allied with him once (poor fex). Also the defilers that have never in their life seen turn 3.

Those are the superstitions and oddities surrounding the armies at my club. Is there anything like this at your club, or for your armies?

[thepuritan]

after losing an entire 5-man squad to a single Frag Missle, my buddy's Terminators lose multiple men whenever they're hit by a blast or template weapon.

[lazarus]

My friend and my brother have seen some seriously unlucky rolls. My friend borrowed my grey knight terminators, and rolled 3 1s for their armour saves against bolter fire from a single tactical squad. (I also cursed my friends luck when he was about to mash my trygon with a load of powerclaws and got 8 1s and 2 2s. )

Similarly my brother rolled 4 1s on the armour saves for his terminators when I used...get this...Eldritch storm on them (a rather desperate farseer manouveur). So I do have a habit of cursing people with bad rolls of 1s at hilarious moments. Particularly with terminators.

[Enigma]

Whenever my stealers charge my friends smurf's razorback they blow it up and all die. All of them. Always. And it hurts. And then of course the power armour seems to be a horrible prototype which doesn't work. Lots of 2s and 1s on his saves.

[genestealer1414]

ok... we always play where if any of the dice hit something or one of us werent ready or something, than you have to roll dice again( mainly for leadership/morale/panic tests). lets say someone rolls a 1 and a 2 for a panic test.now lets say that no one on the other team was in the room when he rolled . he re rolls it and the dice that he has a one on is a one again. the other dice is still a 2. no matter how much you shake the dice or roll them harder or softer , its always the same when you re roll.

[rebmonk]

Ill turn this into a positive note. I have a squad of 10 genestealers that hate.....hate khorne. I cant wait to test them out on the new daemons. Since then their bases have been painted red so they never get seperated, and have had khorne trophies added to their bases and arms.

Why are they so blessed? The first time this squad charged (scything talons = 40 attacks) a khorne unit, they rolled 18 6's, and decimated them. Whenever they get into combat with a khorne squad they have yet to roll under 10 6's, usually 13-18. And im talking bloodletters, beserkers, a khorne daemon prince, anything that has a mark of khorne.

Oh, a khorne chaos lord tried to charge them once.....he ended up rolling 2 1's for his daemon weapon and failed both saves. Ya, those genestealers, theyre my khorne hunters.

[daisukearamecha]

I've got inverse armor save syndrome while playing anything other than Nids. I've tried Necrons, Space Marines, Chaos, Witch Hunters, all sorts of 3+ saves that never fail to fail. I'll regularly roll more than 2/3 failures regardless of what's shooting at them. Meanwhile, anything with a 5+ or 6+ save will always pass 9/10 or more, assuming they get the saves (usually in CC). It's uncanny, but after a while I stopped putting any armor upgrades on my fexes and tyrants, because that seems to ensure their deaths.

Also, plasma is cursed. I've used it on a number of occasions, and EVERY SINGLE TIME it's rolled a 1 and died. No matter what was firing it. Even the Chaos Dreadnaught! It missed FOUR times in a row and then was shot to pieces by Orks! Freaking Ork infantry shot it up! Bleah, I never field Dreadnaughts any more.

I'm really not kidding about the plasma, btw. Literally, over 34 times in the course of my Warhammer 40k days it's exploded and killed something. Not one plasma shot has ever made it past the barrel of it's owner.

[kilzoth]

We have all kinds of hillarious units at our game club:

Tyranids: Sparklegaunt: The leader of the Gant Pride parade, my fiance took some of my nids and colored them all different colors of the rainbow and colored them in sparkles because she thought they would look cuter. Ever since that day Sparklegaunt, the brightest of the models has NEVER been removed from any game. The first game he played every gant on the board died to shooting before my first turn, and he managed to kill 3- 5 man tactical squads on his own.

Orcs: Big Mek: Every single game the orcs use the big mek with the Shokk attack gun, and every single game he kills himself first turn.

Theres lots of others as well that I will post later

[WestRider]

I make more Ld rolls and Armour saves with my Skaven than with my Dwarves in Fantasy.

My Orks regularly hit with a higher percentage of their shots than my Marine Devastators do.

9 times out of 10, if someone says "Boom!" while someone's rolling a plasma weapon, it will overheat.

I don't use Rending Claws much anymore, because I've only ever gotten perhaps a total of a dozen Rends in my 40K career, despite playing Slaanesh Chaos and 4 Assault Cannon in my Crimson Thunder Marine army on top of the Raveners and Warriors in my Nids.

[zzapper]

My buddy rolls nuthin but 1's when he shoots. Always fails anything important...except his Last Man Standing tests for his sargent...

[Enigma]

7 of my hormagaunts seem to do more damage to marines then 7 of my genestealers.

My friend never gets any saves failed from the explosion of his razorbacks or anything.

And every time my broodlord duels a dreadnought in close combat, no matter how one sided it is, the lord always wins. Always.

[romorini]

I've had a carni drooped first turn by five rattling snipers. I rolled four ones and a two. I've been gunning for them ever since.

[The Custodian]

My friend tends to roll allot of 5's and 6's when it comes to anything at all... It really is a pain...

[ryshi]

wellllll the ones that seem to affect me are the fact that my sniperfex's and zoans can't hit the bread side of a bard even with a BS of 4.
If the fex DOES manage to hit, the will always roll a 6 on the armor table and destroy's vehicles.
If the Zoan does hit, he won't roll higher than a 2 for the wound/armor pen roll.

One of my stealers that is the only one I have painted with red eyes instead of yellow ones seems to make it to CC 90% of the time and pwn face when he does(ended up taking out a defiler and a land raider in a game by himself).

If I have anything in my list that deepstrikes I will not remember until turn 3, at which point it will hit me like a truck.

Green dice are for armor saves, Black dice are for rolls to hit, red dice are for rolls to wound on non-MC creatures, remain black for MC's. My two big numbered dice are strictly for scattering purposes.

Any game where my devil-flyrant isn't present inspires my army to roll horribly in all categories, but what can I say, he's a good leader.

[Folken]

My FlyRant will always, ALWAYS, make his inv. saves against lasscannons. Failing that my oppent will usally roll a 1 for the wound roll

3 Stealers + 10 marines9 one with power weapon)= 3 trun combat with the 'stealers winning. it.
Hehehehe...gotta love these kind of stories.