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Post by Havock on Dec 6, 2017 22:19:28 GMT
Actually it was a sound decision: If I didn't get the stubborn gift I would have most likely been broken; he needed ranks.
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Post by welshhoppo on Dec 6, 2017 22:42:49 GMT
Any Skaven who accepts a challenge is not a sound decision. I don't care what anyone says!
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unded
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Post by unded on Dec 6, 2017 23:12:03 GMT
You remind me: WHF tourney game going badly: bunch of chosen getting rekt by OP Skaven shooting and magic after a unit of warriors decided to leg it. So my exalted BSB with 3++ yaddda and the remaining chosen slam into a blob of plague monks. I challenge, my opponent accepts (prevents the unit getting rekt). I proceed to horribly kill the Skaven hero in the challenge and... Become stubborn. The lone exalted proceeds to murder his way through a 1000 points of bullshit by the grace of the dice gods. Painful for my opponent; to him it was defeat snatched from the jaws of victory He should have known not to take the challenge. Its not the skaven way  Let the underlings die die. Absolutely. My favourite item was from the previous edition, where you had a shield (forgot the name) that dropped one attack from an opponent, or two if you gave up all your attacks. That was exactly the skaven way - hide behind a big shiled and cower until the bad man stops hitting you. I had a Skaven warlord hold up freaking Archaon for three turns like that while reinforcements made their way in to deal with him. Shield of cowardice? Something like that. -und_ed *edit* found it. It's the "cautious shield" - have you ever heard of anything more appropriate? |
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Post by HubertJFarnsworth on Dec 8, 2017 14:18:31 GMT
Had a pretty bad run off Company of Iron last night that qualifies. House guard Halberdiers and Stormfalls vs Immortals with a Guardian. Things were going okay until he played a card that gave the Immortals an extra attack, we learned that Vengeance triggers off of injured, and he started rolling 6s on all of his injury rolls.
Putting two consecutive Halbs in to one Immortal who rolls six twice to survive it, then uses a shake card to stand, make his own Vengeance attack, and make two more attacks during his actual action is pretty depressing. Having it happen twice in a round was worse. All my guys rolling 1s for injury sealed it.
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Deller
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Post by Deller on Dec 9, 2017 4:56:11 GMT
Opponent didn’t think he had a chance, so he was going for a Hail Mary Assassination run. I had no idea what his plan was, and was trying to figure out how he was trying to kill me. Everything looked like it was going fine until he realized that in order to put Ol’ Rowdy on my caster it would need to eat a free Strike from a Warwitch Siren. Turns out your charge fails when you get Shadow Bound half way through.
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Hashmal
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Post by Hashmal on Dec 12, 2017 17:54:32 GMT
Too many to count. The most recent one would be Sevy2 missing two Ashes to Ashes out of Blessing of Vengeance against Banes (so needing a 3+ to hit) across two turns, which would have made the difference in that game. Most other rolls in that game went pear-shaped for me (a boosted Hex Blast into Skarre1 did no damage after Focus - yep, rolled a 5 on 3d6) but it was overall a ton of fun and I hung in there until the end, even making a surge that he had to answer with an assassination. Plus, Sevy2 melee'd a Wraith Engine, full to dead.
The worst one I remember, however, was back in Mk. II. I got Thyra on a completely defenseless Nemo1, who was camping nothing with no defensive tech around. She had Carnage up (back when it costed 3) and had needed the Feat to shift non-linearly to reach him (so no charge). She also had full focus support (Wracks and Heirophant) to allow Carnage to be cast cheaper. This amounts to 7 total attacks at MAT 10, P+S 11 Weaponmaster against DEF 14 ARM 15, 14 wounds.
I did 5 damage and left him on 9. My odds of doing that bad were akin to winning the lottery.
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Choco
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Post by Choco on Dec 12, 2017 21:35:47 GMT
I have done it to a couple people.
MKI, eVlad, killing eCaine bottom of turn 1 with Widowmakers.
MKIII, Using Constance's feat top of 2 to jam my opponent, cause him to walk backwards and not make a single attack, causing me to win on scenario easily.
Watching my opponent squirm on multiple occasions while watch them figure out how to get rid of Daughters of the Flame that are in the middle of his army and all under Ashlynn's feat (Llaelese Resistance).
I had one where I went for the spell assassination run on Haley2 with Fiona, only to leave her on 3 health then get scared of the cloud in front of her that I might have been able to get a solo into to cast Telgesh Mark on to finish her off the next turn... I died to a Hurricane.
I have also walked my opponent through killing my caster in tournaments before.
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Choco
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Post by Choco on Dec 12, 2017 21:40:10 GMT
Oh, and one more.
MKI, eButcher. Rolled a 4 for his focus. Cast Unnatural Disaster. Killed 10 Long Gunners, 10 Sword Knights, most of a unit of Stormblades, My full unit of Nyss Hunters, killed numerous Risen (back when you could place them immediately while the spell was resolving), did 11 damage to Haley2 and had lost my entire unit of Croe's the turn before through lots of shenanigans. I have a Manhunter ready to eat her after he ran to get closer, and when all that was dead and the spell was over, I forgot to pop my feat. Would have gotten more than enough to kill Haley with that Manhunter (not all of it, but enough).
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Let the underlings die die.
