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The most unheroic or just plain funny deaths ever from any wargame from the HQ, leader etc.
All I can think of was getting swamped by horde of gaunts with my Inquiistor in termie armour in the middle. After all 40 some attacks I only had to take 3 saves on my Inquiistor (the retinue had absorbed the rest) 3 2+ from surving, I rolled.. . . . all 1s. . . .
The dice gods be fickle. . . .

it would have to be my daemon prince for me, almost every time i field him against guardsmen he slaughters his way through masses of infantry only to finally be brought low by a laspistol shot, or a few times by the last guardsman left in a combat.

I once had a Nurgle Demon Prince die to an exploding Rhino. Sad day!

Havent played in a while, but ive had a barbed stangler from my fex scatter onto my tyrant, finishing him off.

I was playing one of the new Kill Team games from Battle Missions. I was catachan with harker and marbo in reserve. I came on the board using "look out he's behind you" and killed 9 genestealers with a demolition charge. I thought with my 2+ envenomed blade i could kill the last two. I didn't realize that they strike first. Got slaughtered haha. That the worst i've got so far. don't play much

My old Chaos Liutenant on bike with 2+ armor always ran into trees. Even after skilled rider checks. He also once blew himself up firing his plasma gun, both wounds.

My Vulkan refuses to make a 2+ Armor save. He has died to vehicles exploding, armless Killa Kans and No Retreat! wounds so many times that it's just sad.

Artificer Armor my foot!

A quick clean Caladus Assassin to the throat.

E: Oh no! My first double post!

I once killed a SM Captain with Artificer Armor with the last Blood Claw in the pack. Lone Wolf FTW!

Brother SRM wrote:
In that same game, I had a unit of boyz and a unit of grots assault a squad of Terminators. The grots managed to cause 6 wounds to the Terminators. When my buddy took his saves, he rolled 5 1's. That's the story of 33 points of runty gitz killing 200 points of the Emperor's finest!

That hurts to read.

It just seriously hurts.

Demo game with a GW employee. I was Orks and he was Marines. It was down to my Warboss and 2 nobz vs. the tactical squad. Charged 'em, scored 4 hits with the warboss, and failed to wound even once. Yes, really. My nobz managed to kill 1 marine. The marines roll, score 8 hits, and make 7 wounds. Yes, really.

:(

Ouch!
Speaking of imperial assassins when you pay 120pts for a callidus you kinda expect it to kill someone.
But no ran straight into a war walker and was killed in combat by it

VikingScott wrote:Ouch!
Speaking of imperial assassins when you pay 120pts for a callidus you kinda expect it to kill someone.
But no ran straight into a war walker and was killed in combat by it

?? That's..... just strange. But I have had a Callidus assault three Eldar Rangers in cover (after totally whiffing with the Shredder on them) and die before swinging.

You know what a unheroic death is?

I was playing at a GW against a guy who joined the hobby around the same time as me (which wasn't long ago.) I was playing the store's DA army with company champion, assault squad, tactical squad, terminator squad and a land raider. He was playing black templars with a emperor's champion, two Normal squads, all with chain swords and bolt pistols a couples of bikes and something else ( i forgot)

Anyways i had first turn, got all my units to shot, all of them had guns (bolters, plasma pistols, storm bolters, meltaguns, assault cannons etc.)

Anyways, they all shot............One damaged weapon on a bike and about 3 black templars dead. I even got a wound on my company champion from my plasma pistol -.-

His turn resulted in me getting my whole army dead, and my land raider unable to do anything, i even failed miserably in my counters. bah! >: (

Slaanesh lord eith daemon weapon. Shoots with Plasma Pistol at a squad of Sm's in dangerous terrain, gets hot, wounds him. Charges through dangerous terrain, takes a wound. Rolls for attacks, gets a 1, and dies. Stupid chaos codex.

For a while, my 3rd Ed Chaos Lt on a bike had "dangerous terrain tests" as his most probable cause of death. Even after he got the upgrade in 4th edition, so that he comes automatically with "skilled rider", he was still loosing wounds by the bucket load every time he drove over a ditch or a piece of rubble. Dying due to your own action is pretty much the definition of unheroic.

Strangely, this same model fought an Avatar in 4th edition to a standstill for 5 combat phases while on his last wound, making every 5+(I) save he was called on to make before finally being gibbed on the last turn of the game.

Speaking of Avatars... back in 3rd edition, my Avatar was once killed by shooting from a pack of termigants. I can see the headline now... "God of war dies to pack of vermin... Film at 11!"

my pedro kantor survived an entire ork boys mob (with warboss) only to lose his last remaining wound to... wait for it.

a lucky shot from a gretchin. yeah...

Back in 3rd Ed I had 2 Ork Bikers ready to go and slaughter a lone Imperial priestly chap armed with a paltry laspistol. It was his turn so he fired those 2 BS 3 S3 shots versus my T4, AS 4+, Ward Save 5+ dudes..............yeah, they died.

Ashtaroth wrote:my pedro kantor survived an entire ork boys mob (with warboss) only to lose his last remaining wound to... wait for it.

a lucky shot from a gretchin. yeah...

i heard from this guy that he played orks against a a SM army...... And manage to kill a terminator, with a grecthin,in CLOSE COMBAT. From then on this guy had putted a terminator head on that grot's base.

Grots win.

Well, back in 3rd Edition I had a Chaplin on a jump pack. He had single-handly destroyed 1000 points of Orks including a warboss but only had one wound left. It was second to the last turn and a group of grots was within range to be assaulted but jumping out of terrain I took dangerous terrain test. Of course I rolled a big fat 1 and he died. What was worse was that his points put the orks up by 1 point for the win.

I sware that he could survive las cannon blasts to the face, power fists blow to the nutz but a damn twig will always kill him.

Not my most unheroic death, but the most unheroic death I caused

Allow me to tell you all the tale of Super-Gaunt (Old nid dex). Running quickly with his brood they are caught in the fire of some dark reapers. His brood is mowed down to the last and low he is outside synapse range! But fear not for he passes both his morale check & instinctive behavior check. Turning his murderous rage into a tool, he notices the farseer charging right for him at the last minute . . .

Savage combat ensues The farseers strikes out with his spear, but Super-Gaunt dodges easily & retaliates with a viscious bite, finding a weakspot in his armor super-gaunt again wounds the farseer. The farseer, inspired by the presence of the avatar dueling a lictor stays to smite Super-gaunt. Again the farseer strikes out & hits Super-Gaunt with an attack, but it barely scratches his side & Super-Gaunts toughness allows him to continue. With adrenaline pumping super-gaunt lashes out with a claw & what luck he has as the farseer falls, chocking on his own blood.

Super-Gaunts victory would not last however, the avatar, though wounded by the lictor, has triumphed and is headed straight for the zoanthropes. Still angered by the death of his brood Super-gaunt steadies his fleshborer & hits home directly into the avatar causing it to shriek in pain. As the avatar turns around it swipes at Super-Gaunt who has leapt into the air straight toward the avatar.
The avatars attacks miss but Super-Gaunt would not be so forgiving. He lands on the avatars face with teeth & claws of fury, felling the foul being in one swoop. Disheartened by this the dark reapers are unaware of the genestealers charging down their flank . . .

tl;dr I had a Termagaunt brood get shoot down to 1 model, pass its Ld test, get assaulted by a farseer, kill it, Pass an IB test, Shoot & wound an avatar, then assault & kill it.

When I have the time I am painting him in a super-man costume so I can tell this story every time someone says "WFT?"

When i was playing a friend one of my combat squads tried to climb through dangerous terrain to win the game, i ended up rolling 5 1's for there dangerous terrain checks.

My most unheroic death is my belial.

Against Wraith guard army.
He came very slowly.
1st turn to 3rd turn my deathwing are doing good. but need one more objective for win.
If he arrive on unguarded objective,I'll be win.
4th turn. He and his squad arrive automatically.
Then deep strike....FAIL. ALL DEAD. DAMN!

I had a single gretchin model back in 2nd kill 3 Khorn Berzerkers in HtH, he oly had help with the last one and he suvived the battle.

Ultra mortalitas wrote:

Ashtaroth wrote:my pedro kantor survived an entire ork boys mob (with warboss) only to lose his last remaining wound to... wait for it.

a lucky shot from a gretchin. yeah...

i heard from this guy that he played orks against a a SM army...... And manage to kill a terminator, with a grecthin,in CLOSE COMBAT. From then on this guy had putted a terminator head on that grot's base.

Grots win.

Read my post just a few up from yours - just one dead Terminator is nothing!

Back in 4th a friend put mephiston in a Landradier. The next turn his oppopnent shot the landradier with a Vindicator, and rolled a 6 on the Ordinance Damage chart. one shot killed about 700 points. It was funny to see happen.

Not a HQ kill, a 3rd ed stormtrooper Sargent that belonged to my friend. Punches a hive tyrant over and then flees from a hormagaunt and gets SA'd. Come to think of it, his stormie sarges had a very low life expectancy as there was also Sargent Norman Cheesepuff, the guy who kills a large squad of combat troops and dies to his PP

Wow thats a big fail.
Kills a hive tyrant gets time to think "thats something to tell the kids..." and is run down by a hormagaunt.

Brother SRM wrote:

Ultra mortalitas wrote:

Ashtaroth wrote:my pedro kantor survived an entire ork boys mob (with warboss) only to lose his last remaining wound to... wait for it.

a lucky shot from a gretchin. yeah...

i heard from this guy that he played orks against a a SM army...... And manage to kill a terminator, with a grecthin,in CLOSE COMBAT. From then on this guy had putted a terminator head on that grot's base.

Grots win.

Read my post just a few up from yours - just one dead Terminator is nothing!

Ive already read that, why did you think i said grots win?

I would seriously nerd rage if my even a single terminator would die from a grot in close combat.

But hey. happens.