Winning streaks, Lady Luck and the Dice Faeries...

Artists impression of a Dice Faery (Annie Rodrigue)

Well I think its fair to say that my unbelievable winning streak continues to astound and confound my opponents and to be brutally honest... me!!! Its nearly been two years now that I've gone in multiple game systems without losing a single game. What's more amazing is the shear amount of those games that have been wins. In all that time only a very few have been draws and even those were really moral victories in 40k and Fantasy. I can count them on one hand as well, its three draws. So how have I achieved such an awesome feat? Skill? Army list spam? Cheating? Luck? Well I think its fair to say I've had a fair degree of luck.

Well it actually started with a loss, a bizarre and totally humiliating loss to be precise with my bloody Dwarfs in Warhammer 7th Edition. What happened I hear you ask? Well I took a dwarf gunline, I mean why wouldn't you? Against a High Elf army, he had Tiranoc Chariots, Silver Helms and various units that were going to try and get over the other side of the board to blat me, my mission was to blat him with my guns and cannons and other toys before he got there. It actually went really well and he ended up with a unit of 12 Sword Masters or thereabouts and a unit of 2 Dragon Princes actually getting to me, meanwhile I'd lost nothing.

Yep the plan was going well. Very well. So how on earth did it all go so hideously wrong I hear you all cry. Well to tell you the truth to this day I don't really know. My opponent was going to extend his hand before the fateful last round, BUT the ribbing of his friends made him play on. We did the Sword Masters versus my Ironbreakers first, he scored a respectable 4 kills and I returned the favour with 0 kills, not to worry though I had more ranks and outnumbered, I still lost by 1 but the general and army standard were nearby. I rolled double 6 for my leadership. We laughed and I picked the dice up for my re-roll... 11. Brilliant my Dwarfs were running oh well, I rolled the dice... I rolled 3, with the -1 that was a mighty 2 inches. You could not make it up. His Sword Masters ran them down.

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