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Lead-Footed Trukkboy Driver





I guess i will start this one off, since orks are so random in their way, i have really wanted to sit down around a metaphorical fire with fellow forum members to discuss the greatest tales of randomness and glory


Not so long ago, on a table top not so far away, i played in a 3 player free for all style game (as i had a couple of friends over, and we all wanted to play a game). i was in one corner, as orks, another of us playing guard in the mid section of the board (though there was no disadvantage to this) and the last one of us playing the chaos marines from the starter set. We played 500 points each as the chaos player was relatively new to the game and so had limited models. We decided that combats between two players could be shot at by the third player, and that these combats would be fought only in the turns of the players involved to balance it a bit more.

the game was pretty standard for most of the game (standard kill points) as i had 2 squads of boyz and a squad of gretchin with my mega armored warboss (and yes, the gretchin are cannon fodder). i lost most of my first boy squad to a crushing chaos assault and then was foolish to let the other squad poke their heads out of cover and into the firing line of the guard who had no hesitation in wiping half of the squad before the boyz darted back into cover (and didnt do much for the rest of the game). my warboss proceeded to attack and wipe half the chaos ladz with the support of the remaining boyz from the first squad, meanwhile (as i left to get some snacks for a minute) my opponents had made a less than secret pact not to fire upon each other and to double team ME, poor warboss and his gretchin followers! (to be fair, the boyz were getting lucky with their roles and seemed to be a real danger).

i did what every ork would do and told them to BRING IT XD you see, the hellbrute was getting closer and closer to the guard player, who was starting to worry about its melee abilities. Instead however, when it came to his turn, the guard player decided to turn on the pact he had made (much to the amusement of myself), and so he shot every last las pistol, las gun, grenade launcha, las cannon, auto cannon and missile launcher at the hellbrite, throwing dice about the place in a frenzy of shooting attempts! one after another, shot after shot he whiffed and failed either to hit or wound! after recovering from a fit of laughing as the attempts became more and more desperate, but just as unlucky, the hellbrute saw my warboss in the middle of the table and thought it better to try and kill him as this could be the last turn (and he could get a couple of kill points for it), he seemed to be in charge range, and this could be an easy kill for the hell brute, but the charge failed! I had the win at this point, and it was my turn, the game could end! I quickly calculated the chance of my warboss being killed by the hell brute in combat as VERY high, roughly 70% chance of a dead warboss, but before deciding to stay safe and keep the win, in true ork spirit (while still feeling slightly sad for my friends unlucky charge fail) i charged forward! My charge with the warboss was successful. the hell brute attacked first, hitting with three attacks, he wounded twice and so i would need to save 2 5+ saves from my invul! after realizing i would probably fail at least one roll (which would kill the warboss), we did a quick victory point count, and there was only a two point difference between myself and the chaos player, if my warboss dies, then we will draw! SO ..... i rolled them onto the table.... double 5! My warboss had taken a hit to the face that would have crushed a tank, and laughed it off. Then he swung my power klaw and hit with 4 attacks before destroying the hell brute..... the game then ended. the snacks had finished, and the board was cleared.


SO..... care to tell your tale of awesomeness?

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This belongs in 40k General discussion. 40k background is for the actual background fiction. Not gametop fiction

That being said my boyz Nob once killed a DP in a challenge without taking a wound.

 
   
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I hope this thread gets moved to the proper part of the forum but is allowed to continue its existence.

The craziest thing that ever happened to me started when a squad of last edition's melta vets blew up a Necron Overlord's pimpwagon (*cough, cough* catacomb commmand barge). The explosion killed a vet and wounded the overlord with his 2+ armor.

Next came the assault phases. The first time round, they charged in on the angry overlord, who cut down 3 veterans, including 2 meltas, and the boys barely passed their morale check. 6 vets left? No problem! Next time around, the remaining veterans scored 3 hits, then 2 wounds. The fact that my friend rolled double 1's was the funniest thing I had seen up till that point.

That was the Necron's assault phase. Next came my turn. The rest of the game was pretty grim. There were 1 or 2 other squads left with no vehicular support and Necrons everywhere. I began to pull back to my board edge to grab the game's relic that I had already tried to claim. Then, one veteran wheeled around.

The trooper with the army's single remaining antivehicle weapon popped a snapshot at a passing Night Scythe. A lucky hit, a failed evasion, a pen on 1d6 (outside 6"), and an Explodes! result. Lawl.

A turn and a half later I was tabled, but I won 2 huge morale victories in a row.

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The Last Chancer Who Survived




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 Overlord Thraka wrote:
This belongs in 40k General discussion. 40k background is for the actual background fiction. Not gametop fiction

That being said my boyz Nob once killed a DP in a challenge without taking a wound.

My daemon prince actually killed something once in 6th ed. Even moar surprising.
   
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Little Rock, Arkansas

One of my friends wanted to try out a fairly competitive blood angels build, so I saddled him up with a corbulo + hammernators squad in a stormraven. He uses up the corbulo reroll to get them in on turn 2, and drops them into assault turn 3. I, of course, told him to make sure and get Corbulo in base contact so he could tank normal 3+/2+ fnp wounds for the rest of the squad.

Two successful wounds get through, corbulo tanks, rolls two 2's. fnp? Two ones. Literally died to the first two s4 hits to come his way.

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niv-mizzet wrote:
One of my friends wanted to try out a fairly competitive blood angels build, so I saddled him up with a corbulo + hammernators squad in a stormraven. He uses up the corbulo reroll to get them in on turn 2, and drops them into assault turn 3. I, of course, told him to make sure and get Corbulo in base contact so he could tank normal 3+/2+ fnp wounds for the rest of the squad.

Two successful wounds get through, corbulo tanks, rolls two 2's. fnp? Two ones. Literally died to the first two s4 hits to come his way.


Your friend has clearly lost favor with the Dice Gods. May he present a more pleasing offering prior to the next game.

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Western Australia

Several occasions I can recall right now.

1:
Something similar to Kiln's heroic Veterans. Had a single surviving Stormtrooper knock out 2 Destroyers and then a Monolith within a single game.

2:
My brother's Fire Warriors rapid-firing desperately at my Terminators.
20 Pulse Rifle shots.
6 wounds.
5 failed armour saves.
1 instakilled ~220pt unit.

3:
My friend once misteleported his Necron Overlord (as well as an entire squad of 5-6 Immortals to which it was attached) into a building. It was literally the only distance and direction that could have screwed him over, a total Murphy's Law roll.

4:
Not quite as dramatic, but I once instakilled a Farseer/Autarch (forget which) with a Land Speeder's Assault Cannon during the first game turn.

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Chicago, Illinois

Uh the best background story is of the Ork who traveled in time and killed himself so he could get two of his awesome pistol. That's pretty much the end of that.

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Krieg! What a hole...

Its a rather dumb story, eh.

I am fond of my melta guns melting things, personally.

Such as the Stompa, which, back in the old Apoc rules, could get chain reaction'd to death, which, with stupid crazy awesome rolls (and rerolls!) happened, so with two melta gun shots, a Super Heavy was destroyed, and killed the two gunners with an apocalyptic explosion, good times.

Another time when my gunner was on the edge of board, regrouped, and snap fired at the 10W DoM, killing it.

And still melta related, my Hades Drill scattered under a Land Raider, exploded it, killing a few Zerkers in the explosion, and putting a wound or two on the many Carnifexes that were around.

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Lead-Footed Trukkboy Driver





This is a great start to the story times guys im sorry i seem to have posted it in the wrong place i will re post it in the general discussion
   
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Eindhoven, Netherlands

I remember when I was playing with SoB against nids, and his carnifex had to roll respectively 3d6 pick highest and 2d6 pick highest for movement in the movement and shooting phase. He rolled FIVE FETHING ONES. Seriously.

That was the same game I said to him 'On a 2+, he'll lose his last wound meaning you won't have any more models on the table.' At that point, he still had a few units in reserves. But of course, I don't need to tell you what I rolled next

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The Ruins of the Boston Commonwealth

 Tiny_Titan wrote:
This is a great start to the story times guys im sorry i seem to have posted it in the wrong place i will re post it in the general discussion


Don't do that. Just PM and Mod to move this thread

 
   
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Ork Boy Hangin' off a Trukk





England

I only had 6 models left on board, all Tesla immortals. My opponent also had but one unit left, a pack of 12 Bloodletters.
They charged. Then they charred.
6 rolls of 6 resulted in all 12 of them getting crispy, and eking out a draw for me.

Had a similar situation with an Annihilation Barge, a Stormraven was wrecking gak up and then 4 6s happened.
To be fair, I barely managed to glance it to death, but still.

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Thus ending the true and grandest conflict of 40k.

The contest of thievery between the Blood Ravens and Trazyn.
 
   
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On a boat, Trying not to die.

Let me tell you about the time my friend Igloo ran a fully kitted-out Sternguard Veteran Squad. Ten men, all freshly made from conversion bitz and the good gubbinz.

Squad of Grey Hunters doubletaps with bolters.

15 hits. 12 rolls of 1 for an armor save.


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During a 1000p game,i deep striked a LRC with Terminators inside,they landed ontop of a bush and i rolled a 1 on the mishap table.

My Land Raider and Terminators were killed by landing on a bush,getting rid of half my army in one shot,needless to say,i didn't win that game

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 casvalremdeikun wrote:
 grendel083 wrote:
I don't think they'll FAQ a White Dwarf...
Perhaps not, but since GW seems to subsist off sadness and pain, I can't rule it out.


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Texas

1 Chainfist Termi took out a CSM rhino, two of the big things with guns for mouths or whatever, and a defiler.


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Oh, and that was my lasst model on the field the whole time.

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Bearing Words in Rugby

3 Deathwing Knights bested Abbaddon on combat without taking a casualty.

Muh Black Templars
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 BrotherOfBone wrote:
3 Deathwing Knights bested Abbaddon on combat without taking a casualty.


It isn't that hard to take down a guy in close combat when he doesn't have any arms.

Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
Orks always ride in single file to hide their strength and numbers.
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Lit By the Flames of Prospero





Bearing Words in Rugby

 Happyjew wrote:
 BrotherOfBone wrote:
3 Deathwing Knights bested Abbaddon on combat without taking a casualty.


It isn't that hard to take down a guy in close combat when he doesn't have any arms.

The amount of attacks the guy can deal in combat, he should at least have three

Muh Black Templars
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Cheltenham

Blood Angels had decended onto the small world of Tarvak VII, where a Tau force had slowly been gathering strength for several weeks as the expansion of space was to begin again. With only a small strike force, the Blood Angels struck with malice, lead by Dante himself, the golden warrior cut through much of the Tau defence with little resistance losing his Sanguinary guard (?) to a final gunline, leaving Dante alone. Filled with the fury due to the loss of his brothers, Dante charged the enemy commander and the last Crisis Suit protecting him smashed the xenos commander aside. Turning, Dante got a robotic fit to the face, rolled a unfortunate amount of 1s and fell to a single Crisis Suit in CC... Take that Dante!!!

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The Last Chancer Who Survived




United Kingdom

 Price wrote:
Blood Angels had decended onto the small world of Tarvak VII, where a Tau force had slowly been gathering strength for several weeks as the expansion of space was to begin again. With only a small strike force, the Blood Angels struck with malice, lead by Dante himself, the golden warrior cut through much of the Tau defence with little resistance losing his Sanguinary guard (?) to a final gunline, leaving Dante alone. Filled with the fury due to the loss of his brothers, Dante charged the enemy commander and the last Crisis Suit protecting him smashed the xenos commander aside. Turning, Dante got a robotic fit to the face, rolled a unfortunate amount of 1s and fell to a single Crisis Suit in CC... Take that Dante!!!

As much as I hate Tau, I'm on board for all IOM bashing moments, so:

HA! Take that you shiny golden t**d!
   
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I play CC tau.... It actually works the way I do it... it doesnt win games, but it does get really entertaining to see someones look of pride when I charge something, then their look of disgust as I tear them to shreds with a crisis commander lol...

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Tough Tyrant Guard





Auckland, NZ

My personal favourite was quite a long time ago. Back in 4th edition when Broodlords were an HQ choice.

Had a three man Free for all game with my Tyranids vs Brothers Tau vs Brother in laws Eldar.

First two turns virtually my whole army was vaporised off the table, Hive tyrant with guard, carnifex, troops, you name it, it got annihilated off the board. My Broodlord and his genestealer buddies had done a glory charge across the board while the army disappeared behind them, genestealers were gone, I had the broodlord left and the Tau and Eldar started hitting each other thinking I had been "neutered"...

The broodlord smashed into the the enemy lines and ended up taking out more points worth of units than anything else on the table, he demolished fire warrior teams, tore eldar rangers to pieces, rended tanks open, and generally was the most lucky, dominant, last model stand I have ever seen or been involved with. Kept me in the game almost to the end

Needless to say, to this day my brother and brother in law both fear broodlords, and they are high on the priority list in case lightning does indeed strike the same place twice

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Frenzied Berserker Terminator





Canada

I've had some memorable moments with Marines and Chaos Marines.

One game Marines v Wolves Bjorn came stomping up to my lines and proceeded to gobble up my Honour Guard, of which I only had 3 at the time, the next turn he throws my Pred in the air and it seems like he's gonna destroy the helpless Tactical Squad a few inches away, but lucky Squad Sarge gets off a combi-melta shot and Bjorn fails his invul. I get a 5 for results and he rerolls it for a 6! Kerpow!

Its always fun when I bring my tiny Khorne Warband out for a roll, they either die like dogs or they power fist everything in sight.

I've also had some very hard fought victories over the Tau recently that were also sweet. But let's face it, anyone should be happy with a win against the Tau! I also have some very crushing defeats to make up for too...



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Teaching my GF to play.

I went and bought a box or Ork Boyz and some Grey Hunters to mix with my leftover Chaos Marines (this was after a 7 year hiatus so my once grand army was bitz and randoms) so I spend all day turning my Grey Hunters into a Chaps Space Wolf squad, conversion work, green stuff, the works. I finish and them let my GF put together her Orcs, she opts for a mix of dakka and shoota led by a Nob with powerklaw.

So they dry and I decide to give her a test game, we roll a little table up and deploy our two squads. After two rounds of shooting all she has left is 2 choppa boys and her nob versus my entire squad of Chaos Marines and Aspiring Champ with poweraxe. She charges, I "forget" to overwatch figuring I don't want to kill her off too early. First round of combat her two boys kill 5 of my CM, and the Nob splats another. My guys all
apparently decided to attack the air and fail to hit, next round she murders all but my leader (we were ignorant of challenge rules at the time). Another round of combat another round of swinging at air for my champ.

Finally another round and my guy once again fails to hit and she splats him.

Needless to say I was "blessed" with a new Chaos Spawn model after that battle

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I loved it when my Chapter master on a bike ate through several units

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The time a single Eldar War Walker, beat a bloodthirster up.

Admittedly, the Thirster was already down to two wounds left. Combat lasted 5(!) rounds, with the Thirster repeatedly whiffing, or the Walker making his 5++ save against anything caused. It suffered a single glance. Best part was it getting out of combat, then getting destroyed by a bunch of rapid-fire bolters. Good times.

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Khan chopped the heads off of Karanak and two other Juggernauts in three successive challenges in a multi-player game. I kept yelling "KHAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!!" MUAHAHAHAHAHAA

Oh and I forgot that in one game versus a Necron player, the only model I lost was my Skyray. Wanna know how it died? It was out of range turn one, so I turbo-boosted it into terrain, and it wrecked....

...

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My Scout Sergeant won a challenge against my friend's Terminator Sergeant. Very satisfying and hilarious.

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USA - New York

I think the greatest tho that ever happened to me in my 40k career was in a game with my Orks vs Blood Angels. I was running a squad of nob bikers with a warboss with powerfist and a painboy. I don't remember much of the rest of my list but I know that by the time my bikers made it into my opponents deployment we had both lost a lot of units.

The blood angels had a storm raven that had dropped to hover in hopes of killing my nobs. All that was left was my warboss with one wound and my painboy with one wound after his shooting.

The war boss moves and makes an 11 inch charge on the stormraven.

Hits 3 times, 2 pens.

Explosion.

I imagine it in my head that my warboss pulled off a shoryuken like ken from street fighter while jumping off his bike while the painboy cheered him on.

I'm pretty sure I lost the game but I still cout the game as a win for the orks awesomeness.

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