Your biggest WTF moment

[Hive Bahamut]

So we all make mistakes gaming, sometimes it works for our benefit other times we hand the enemy a win by doing so. My questions is this, what is your favorite blunder, and what was a really bad idea?

My most recent oopsie came at the expense of a Tervigon. I was playing against Daemons and charged a Bloodthirster with about 20 gants from 2 squads and a Tervigon. Needless to say they all exploded with the decapitated Tervigon corpse nearby. Not sure why I did it, but there you go.

As for favorite blunder,(OK so my opponents,) I was playing against Dark Angels Green wing and my opponent charged into a gant squad with tacticals and a Libby only to find he pile'd into Dooms bubble. Wiped out 6 of the 9 tacticals and the Libby, on my turn. He handed me Warlord on a silver platter.

[beefythepug]

In a recent game, I had my Hive Guard in Cover, 18 gants between them and some Thunderwolf Calvary. It was my first time playing against SW and I thought why not get the gants into combat to tie up the Calvary. So by charging the gants in, I lost them all and then watched my opponent consolidate and charge my hive guard when it became his turn DOH! On that same note, I had never heard of the SW psychic power "Jaws", and yeah it also ate a Tervigon. That was a really W T F moment for me, that psychic power is just... yeah. Anyways lessons learned of how NOT to play against SW.

Blunder I guess, also opponents, the first time I fielded a Trygon just after getting him built, I played my buddies BA. I popped up next to his Sanguinary guard with no idea of what to expect. He decided it was prudent to charge me, the outcome, I ate all of his shiny gold biomass and took 0 wounds . Only took me 1 game, and 1 encounter to see how amazing the Trygon is in melee.

[forteh]

Not really biggest WTF but my prime with dual boneswords is superb at whiffing attacks

The last two times he got in a challenge he either hit with all attacks and failed to wound any (with toxin no less!) or he makes all his attacks and wounds and a handful of invun saves comes out of nowhere!

Seven bog standard hormagaunts killing 4 wolf guard terminators in 2 rounds of assault was shocking, as was three raveners tarpitting 4 hammenators for 4 turns before finally dieing!

[tonyrid]

When the tryanid codex first came out and for my first two games or so I was fogetting to use Dooms ability when it was my opponents shooting phase. Luckly I still won but they were alot closer than they needed to be.

[gigasnail]

my biggest WTF moment was in 5th vs. black templars. the vast bulk of my opponent's marines are just primered black, and my gaming table's surface is black. most of his models were in full-on stealth mode, you literally could not see them if you weren't looking carefully. i sat my flyrant down next to a ruin where i had forgotten his termies had fled after i nommed their land raider earlier in the game. next round 5 hammernators come strolling out and casually punted the flyrant into next week. i still won, but it was most definitely a WTF moment.

[robomummy]

Not a WTF moment for me but for my opponent, back in 4th edition I had a spore mine that killed a land raider and the explosion killed 3 of the terminators inside.

[rpricew]

Two Devilgants over-watching and then killing in CC a Talos Pain Engine in one round of combat, when it charged in.

[Hive Bahamut]

Oh wow, can't believe I forgot about the overwatch kill.. Dreadknight charged into the remaining 4 free gaunts on an objective with 1 wound left. Worst possible dice rolls needed. 6 to hit, 6 to wound and then failing his 2+ save.. ABSOLUTELY awesome, don't know how I forgot about that.. That was one of my iconic games, much like watching my Tau friends lone drone kill Ghazghul in assault. Keep 'em coming guys.

[coredump]

When I first moved to NYC I went to a local game club that had several GT winner members. (mostly Fantasy though)
My first game I misremembered the Lictor rule. the real rule is you got reroll *one* reserve roll; I stated I got to reroll each (every?) reserve roll. He even questioned me, but oh no... I was sure...

When I realized my mistake I ended up apologizing and buying him a beer.


I once had 7 gaunts shoot at 5 terminators, and kill 4.

I recently took 5 wounds on my first-turn-so-not-swooping-yet flyrant. Rolled saves... 4 1's.... And he only got the chance because he stole the initiative.

My past 5 games, my yealers have come in turn 4 four times, and turn 3 the other time. (Stupid lazy sleeping yealers......)

[Hive Bahamut]

Well my Tervigon needs some TLC, not anything game wise though. I accidentally dropped it last night when I was painting and instead of letting it hit the floor I figured I could kick catch it (looks great when you pull it off.). Needless to say that's a pretty good way to explode your Tervigon..

Love all the Terminator killing. They really are my least favorite unit in 40k. Puny men who are stronger than almost all the MC in the game, and 2/3 saves just because they are poster boys. Not to mention the bargain price at 40 each and the fact their clumsy, blocky transport breaks even more rules, gives Imperial tanks the middle finger, and packs a ton of firepower for an oh so expensive unit. Oh no 250 points.. Talk to a Tyranid player, most of our MC get right around there and can't do anything similar except Smash it and get chewed up by the contents. Oh but the "Emperor Protects." Yes I'm bitter, I hate crutch units..

Also on a side note my last game got my opponent angry because of how "cheesy" the Doom is. I had a huge crutch army and just mashed it in his face. He plays very castle up and shoot style and never takes more than the minimum troops required. (I also tell him every game that troops are important in 6 and that I'm going to wipe his troops by turn 3.) Needless to say he got pretty upset when he had to uncastle and shuffle around. I told him I wouldn't take that codex entry if he dropped his entire Mozza Knight army, and stopped castling up like a coward and come fight. Of course he didn't understand how Marines are cheesy in some entries.

WAAC players make the funniest losers.

[WestRider]

coredump: I think I got some of the same lazy Yealers. Need to model little coffee cups in their claws or something.

I haven't made any particularly standout errors lately, it's mostly been generalized, across-the-board low level screwups. But the last game I won was almost entirely due to an error on my Opponent's part: I was using my Guard, playing against Tau. Relic, basically no Terrain in midfield, perfect shooting gallery setup for both of us to clear off anything trying to grab the Relic. He got First Blood, we both had our Warlords well hidden, no way either of us was going to keep anything alive across the board long enough for Linebreaker. I'd been creeping my fire support platoon forward to get more lasguns in range of his Fire Warriors while he blew away the Allied Grey Hunters I was actually sending to the Objective.

And then he tried to get clever, and dropped some Stealth Suits behind that Platoon to try to take out their Lascannon teams. But they didn't have much room to jump away afterward, and I was able to push one Guardsman up to grab the Relic, while the rest of the Platoon strung out so the back guys were in easy Charge Range of the Stealth Suits. Spent the whole rest of the Game with the Relic locked in that combat, where he couldn't shoot at the Unit holding it, and ended up winning 3-1.

[coredump]

Wow... brilliant move. I don't know if I would have considered doing that. (But I will keep it in mind now...)

[WestRider]

It was one of the better moves I've pulled in my 40K career, I must say. My opponent obviously didn't consider that possibility at all

[Hive Bahamut]

That just reinforces my defence that shooty armies have it better than melee ones this edition. Shooty can melee, but melee can't shoot. Love the Guard, they are probably the only Imperial race that I care for. Simply because that's US throwing on a shirt that says "FLAK ARMOUR," grabbing a flashlight and being expected to bring pain to the xenos.

5's to hit and 6's to wound is better than "shooting phase, must run and stand idly." This is why even back in 5th I started fielding almost 100% shooty Nids. There is no place for CC unless you have wings, or another hearty delivery system (cough cough Land Failure,) or are one of the two CRAZY open topped armies. Think about that one guy in your army that goes without a helmet, that's how I see those transports. Badass. Don't even get me started about that Storm Raven.. More broken rules anyone? (think about normal restrictions on squads allowed.)

Awesome stories guys, glad to hear more.

[walleftwswe]

One of my biggest WTF moments was in 5th when i just started playing nids. I was fighting Black Templars and got stuck in CC with Helbrecht, he held up my Hive Tyrant, a tervigon and some 20 gaunts for at least 3 rounds, that was the hottest rolling i have ever seen.

A big win moment was when i charged a group of 6 raverners against a IG gunline, 4 of my models didn't make it, but 2 of them slammed right into Yarrick, fortunatly killing him too. They then survived a whole round of shooting in the open, just to next round charge a maxed group of Conscripts (50 men or so) and slaughtering them with a sweep. Don't undersetimate the serpents!!