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Author:  Dave [ Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:31 pm ]
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I had a game yesterday with coach's Black Legion against my 'nids (sorry no BatRep Jaldon, I was pressed for time and my camera's batteries and the backups I brought were dead  :glare:).

I engaged a unit of 5 Raptors with 8 Hormagaunts, 8 Termagants and 3 Warriors. He must have had some support from the warp because when I rolled my hits for the 8 Hormagaunts in close combat I rolled eight 1s.

EIGHT 1s!!!

That's a 1 out of 1,679,616 chance (roughly 0.0000006%) and it lost me the game as the Raptors were able to March to my blitz.

So, anyone else have a similar horror story?
Author:  Dwarf Supreme [ Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:04 pm ]
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Quote: (Dave @ 11 Aug. 2008, 12:31 )

I had a game yesterday with coach's Black Legion against my 'nids

Yesterday? How come I wasn't notified you two were meeting for a game?  :evil:  :vD
Author:  Dave [ Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:07 pm ]
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I mentioned last it last weekend (two weekends ago) and you said you wouldn't be able to meet two in a row.

No worries though, I'll be in again this weekend. ;)
Author:  Dwarf Supreme [ Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:15 pm ]
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Oh right, I did say that. Actually the main reason I couldn't make it yesterday was that I went to see Jethro Tull at Mohegan.

Back on topic, as soon as Moscovian sees this thread, he can tell you about how he rolled something like 15 consecutive 1's when rolling for activations during our 51k game in Albany two years ago.
Author:  wargame_insomniac [ Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:05 pm ]
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Ouch- the first you can shrug off with Supreme Commander but after that....

Will stop you retaining!!

Cheers

James
Author:  Evil and Chaos [ Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:37 pm ]
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I went to see Jethro Tull...

Cool ; Did he stand on one leg much?  :))
Author:  nealhunt [ Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:39 pm ]
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Quote: (Dave @ 11 Aug. 2008, 17:31 )

EIGHT 1s!!!

That's a 1 out of 1,679,616 chance (roughly 0.0000006%) and it lost me the game as the Raptors were able to March to my blitz.

So, anyone else have a similar horror story?

I do.  I was playing Speed Freeks and an Ork Fortress Rok against an assault by AMTL and Catachans.  There was quite a bit of terrain (jungle), so I took a Fortress Mob so it could maneuver through terrain that AVs couldn't.  One of the Warlord titans was down to 1DC remaining, but it had Marshalled, so it had about 5 void shields.  I had a Fortress Mob in assault range, which could CC, bypass the shield and almost certainly kill it.  The titan was in jungle and the Forts had to make dangerous terrain checks.  The exact chain of events is a little fuzzy at this point, but it went something like this:

The first Fort had taken 2 points of damage already, failed it's terrain check and died.  The second Fort had taken 1 point of damage, failed it's terrain check, took a critical hit and died.  However, before the second for died, it rolled into the third Fort, causing a hit which it failed to save and which then became a critical.  The fourth fort, which was broken by that point due to BMs already on the formation, failed a terrain check on the Withdrawal move.

We thought it was very appropriate, old-school Ork that the entire formation self destructed.  Once we got done laughing about it, we played a little longer but the Orks were toast at that point.

I haven't actually taken a Fortress Mob in any game since that...  :))
Author:  Dave [ Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:39 pm ]
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Sounds like the Orks were having a grand ol' time careening through the trees and high speeds. Awesomely horrific.
Author:  Dwarf Supreme [ Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:08 pm ]
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Quote: (Evil and Chaos @ 11 Aug. 2008, 17:37 )

I went to see Jethro Tull...


Cool ; Did he stand on one leg much?  :))
He sure did!  :cool:  Ian Anderson was his usual theatrical self. Most of the songs they played were from the first three albums (pre-Aqualung). They also had a string quartet play for at least a half dozen songs. It was an all-girl quartet, none of whom were probably older than about 25.

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I like your horror story, Neal. What a bizarre turn of events.
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