You Have Failed Me.../Tabletop Games

Examples of You Have Failed Me... in Tabletop Games include:

• Common in Warhammer 40,000 (naturally) among Chaos warlords, Ork bosses, Dark Eldar archons, and Imperial commanders alike. Some specific examples:
  • Imperial Guardsmen units with an attached Commissar need not fear Morale checks - or rather they do, a lot. If the squad fails such a test, the Commissar will execute the squad leader for incompetence and immediately rally the unit. Thanks to this motivation, any squad leader with a Commissar breathing down his neck will actually receive a bonus to Leadership.
    • Other units react differently to Commissars, however. Special character Nork Deddog, the thick but doggedly-loyal Ogryn bodyguard, will retaliate if a Commissar executes the officer he's protecting. Meanwhile the Catachan Jungle Fighters, being a bunch of headstrong commando types, dislike Commissars to the extent that before a battle you have to check to see if the political officers have suffered an "accident" - the "Oops, Sorry Sir!" rule.
    • In Only War, it's noted that Commissars generally are respected as well as feared - they already have some practice and determination, and can lead by example, which makes them impressive for recruits. Still, units recruited from the people used to look after themselves don't get along with the outsiders who tell them how to do their job (those from Death Worlds don't trust non-deathworlders in general to do things right and are not good at formalities, those from Frontier World plainly distrust authorities until proven good, but the result is the same), so the Commissars' methods become a matter of foresight or natural selection.
  • Abaddon the Despoiler, Warmaster of Chaos, has such an insanely violent temper that his underlings would rather commit suicide than deliver him bad news.
    • If he's fielded in the Battlefleet Gothic, his flagship will open fire on one of your vessels if it fails a (re-rolled) command test in his presence... and if he's out of firing range, Abaddon will abandon that ship, preventing it from being able to use his rerolls for command tests for the rest of the game.
• Exalted: The Neverborn have this reputation with regards to their lieutenants, the Deathlords. Failure is not tolerated. The First and Forsaken Lion screwed up the whole Great Contagion thing—which, by that point, had wiped out ninety percent of all life in Creation—and was painfully welded into his armor. Princess Magnificent with Lips of Black Coral lost hold of her territory to three upstart gods telling a story, and was almost thrown headfirst into Oblivion.
• Shadowrun 3E supplement Corporate Download. Runners who work for for the Mega Corp Saeder-Krupp are killed if they fail their assignments.
  • It gets better in Fourth Edition. Saeder-Krupp is run by the Great Dragon Lofywr. It's heavily implied that Shadowrunners who fail the company get eaten.

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