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Illinois

Title says it all, but you cannot tell us draws, unless you were unsure whether or not it was a draw.

A year or so ago, I did a 1100pts 5th edition battle of Orks VS Angry Marines (the Angry Marines were using the Blood Angels rules). We played for about an hour, but then my dad stopped us because my mom was likely going to start telling us to clear the table for dinner preparation.

Well, here is the outcome of the game: A 20-man squad of boyz led by a Power Klaw nob were taking out the Bale Guard (Sanguinary Guard), but then the Baal Predator was about to Tank Shock them. We concluded it to be a draw at first, but then, we took a closer look and saw that the Angry Marines could take the victory, but so could the Orks. I took the victory, because we didn't know who it would go to if it wasn't a draw. It was very, very close.

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Game against tyranids with my space wolves that came down to his tyrant vs my rune priest and one lone marine on the other side of the board. Kill it with Murderous Hurricane.
   
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HoundsofDemos wrote:
Game against tyranids with my space wolves that came down to his tyrant vs my rune priest and one lone marine on the other side of the board. Kill it with Murderous Hurricane.


Wow. What's Murderous Hurricane?

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My closest game ever was my Tau Empire versus a friend's Grey Knights.

The game came down to the following situation...

The only models left on the board were a unit of 3 Gun Drones on the Tau Empire side and Draigo at full health (4 wounds) on the Grey Knights side. Draigo was 3 inches away from the Gun Drones and it was his turn.

Goes like this...

1. Draigo declares a charge and rolls the 2D6, getting more than enough to complete the charge.
2. But wait! Overwatch. The Drones get 2 shots each, so a total of 4 shots. I roll 4 6's. Amazing, but they'll never wound...
3. So, at S5 versus T4, I need 4 3+'s. I roll and get all of them. I've managed to allocate 4 wounds to Draigo, but he has a 2+ save. He'll never die.
4. My buddy tosses the 4 dice and gets snake eyes. 4 1's. A full health Draigo dies to Overwatch fire from 3 Gun Drones.

The store literally exploded with noise. It was amazing. I repainted the rim of those three drones silver to commemorate their victory over Draigo. I would have bet thousands that I would have lost that combat.

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 Kriswall wrote:
My closest game ever was my Tau Empire versus a friend's Grey Knights.

The game came down to the following situation...

The only models left on the board were a unit of 3 Gun Drones on the Tau Empire side and Draigo at full health (4 wounds) on the Grey Knights side. Draigo was 3 inches away from the Gun Drones and it was his turn.

Goes like this...

1. Draigo declares a charge and rolls the 2D6, getting more than enough to complete the charge.
2. But wait! Overwatch. The Drones get 2 shots each, so a total of 4 shots. I roll 4 6's. Amazing, but they'll never wound...
3. So, at S5 versus T4, I need 4 3+'s. I roll and get all of them. I've managed to allocate 4 wounds to Draigo, but he has a 2+ save. He'll never die.
4. My buddy tosses the 4 dice and gets snake eyes. 4 1's. A full health Draigo dies to Overwatch fire from 3 Gun Drones.

The store literally exploded with noise. It was amazing. I repainted the rim of those three drones silver to commemorate their victory over Draigo. I would have bet thousands that I would have lost that combat.


Cool story.

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Halandri

Playing bolter spam vs nids.

Heavy casualties on both sides, but the nids had such numbers.

Can't remember what the mission was, but whatever it was I was very nearly tabled but ended up winning the game on VPs.

Thinking about it, though, I am pretty sure almost every chaos space marine victory story ends up with the second clause from that last sentence :p.


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Just remembered another game from years ago against my brother. I was playing chaos space marines (again, I am beginning to wonder how many CSM armies I have collected :S), he had Dark Angels.

Mission was sabotage (attacker has to get a model in contact with the mission objective for a certain amount of time to 'set up the bomb').

Fluff was the Dark Angels were attacking a chaos position in an attempt to capture a member of the Fallen and set up a teleport relay to get him aboard the orbiting Dark Angel ship.

It was a brutal game, and as this was under 3.5th edition the tables were turned.

Heavy fire from the chaos marines punishes the loyalists, leaving a veteran dark angel scout sergeant as the only man on the board. He manages to run into position, his enhanced physique and scout armor eats an entire phase of chaos shooting (including that cool 2nd ed metal heavy bolter marine which i deeply regret selling!), and sets up the bomb teleport relay and escapes back to the ship with prisoner in tow!

I guess that shows the difference between 3.5th ed and modern chaos marines; it's gone from nearly tabling the enemy and loosing the game on victory conditions to vice versa!

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Orks vs Decurion Necrons. Most of my stuff is dead, have maybe 3 Kanz left. 9 Nobs, Painboy, and Warboss have killed a bunch of Crons, but only the Warboss is left alive in the center near the Relic. Warboss fails his LD, runs, but gets to the Relic on my turn. Holds it until Turn 6, finally dies in CC to some Immortals. If he had lived one more combat, I woulda won the game.

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A 500 point combat patrol in 4th edition. World Eaters VS Tau. The tau obliterated my Berserker squads down to the champion, who then charged the tau gunline, eviscerated the tau, sweeped them to death, then charged another tau gunline. Rinse and repeat until all that was left was a battlesuit (not a Shas'O or Shas'vre, just a normal battlesuit) that the zerk managed to whittle down to 1 wound before it got a lucky punch in and put the zerker down.

I have never had another match that came down that close. Or that hilarious.

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2000pts IG/Inquisition (now on referred to as Gryphonnes) ME
About 70 men (30 of which are veterans, the rest is a platoon with heavy weapons teams(Lascannon, Autocannon and Mortar)
2 Autocannon Sabre Defence batteries
Basilisk, Deathstrike
Land Raider w/ 10 Storm Bolter men (Inquisition)
Void Shield Generator

versus

2000pts Space Marines/Knight/IG (now on referred to as Ryzans)

Imperial Knight (the one with the MeltaCannon)
Stormblade
StormRaven
Chapter Master w/Vangaurd Veterans
Tactical Squad
About 20 Veterans w/Chimera
Sentinel

We were playing escalation, I can't remember what mission but there were three objectives.
My army was completed outmatched and by turn 2 I had lost about half my army at the cost of almost none of his. When the 5th turn came around, I was down to the last squad or two still standing versus around 75% of his army.
I managed to win because I had been focussing on holding the objectives from the start and he had been focussed on killing me.

Key Moments -

Turn 1 the Land Raider exploded with all troops aboard due to the Imperial Knight's Meltacannon (This was 1/4th my points and so put me on the defensive turn 1)
Turn 3 I ram the Imperial Knight with my empty Deathstrike (which hadn't accomplished much when it fired turn 2) in order to slow down the Knight's advance.
Turn 4 My void shield generator finally goes down and the Ryzan victory is basically assured (after that, my army would never be able to hold the territory for long)
Turn 5 I sacrifice the remnants of a veteran squad to prevent the Chapter Master from wiping out my Mortar squad on the objective

End Result was; 1 objective in Ryzan hands, 2 in Gryphonne's.
It was such a close win and shouldn't have been one; a single extra turn would have spelt the end of my army.




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The game i had on saturday vs daemons it litrally came down to my terminator captain and 5 tactical marines vs a KoS
   
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HoundsofDemos wrote:
Game against tyranids with my space wolves that came down to his tyrant vs my rune priest and one lone marine on the other side of the board. Kill it with Murderous Hurricane.


MH only had a range of 18", I think you mean Living Lightning.


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Playing with the stormclaw formation and the game ended with Krom Dragongaze in a challenge against Ahriman who had recently turned into a daemon prince, both on one wound. The only other things on the table were 2 bloodclaws who were also locked in the combat.

Unfortunately the daemon prince won. it was such an epic battle i wrote a little batrep/story about it... http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/611513.page


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I recently had a game that came down to a single harlequin trouper surviving a bale flamer to secure a 1-point victory.

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Between

Closest game that wasn't a draw?

Would be the time I lost my entire army except for one Seraphim with dual inferno pistols back in 4th edition against a Guard parking lot. Managed to win on kill points - He'd gotten five off my army. I got six off his tanks, four of them with this lone Seraphim tanking everything on her 3++.



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 Grimtuff wrote:
HoundsofDemos wrote:
Game against tyranids with my space wolves that came down to his tyrant vs my rune priest and one lone marine on the other side of the board. Kill it with Murderous Hurricane.


MH only had a range of 18", I think you mean Living Lightning.


Rune priest wasn't with the lone grey hunter. I split them off to try to get the hunters to an objective while using my runepriest to blast at the Hive Tyrant. Goal was to force him to choose between my troops getting to an objective behind a building or risk the RP from killing the Tyrant. The game was a bloody battle with me killing most of his army then the Tyrant coming in from reserves and killing almost all of mine. Ran the RP as close as I could hoping to either shoot it to death or get lucky with Force.
   
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What's left of Cadia

My closest game was in a recent tourney at my FLGS. The premise of the mission was to "claim" ruins. To claim a ruin you just had to have the unit be present in the ruin during one of your phases. Each ruin was worth 3 VP's, and we were capped out at 12 VP's maximum for the primary mission (which was to capture the ruins). So I get set against an Ork player with my UM, and very quickly we're both able to capture 4 ruins, maxing out our points for the primary. So then it devolved into who could get all of the secondaries (first blood, linebreaker, slay the warlord etc). After the dust had settled I had narrowly defeated him by one point. (we both got linebreaker and slay the warlord, but I got first blood off of a trukk). The points ended up being 15-14 in my favor.

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Belgium

Somewhere in 6th Ed after Tau 6th came out, had a game with my World Eaters Vs Tau.

Had Kharn+CHosen in LR, 1 AxeJuggerLord with 5 bikes, 1Zerker squad in Rhino, 1 CSM squad in Rhino, 1 Mauler, 1 Heldrake and 1 Defiler.

Tau was something like 1 buffmander with Crisis, 1 ethereal with Firewarriors, 1 firewarrior unit, 2 or 3 Pathfinders, 1 Riptide and 2 units of Broadsides with Missilesfest and somewhere ther was either a hammerhead or a skyray i think.

Was playing the Relic scenario.

Long story short, those missilespods Broadsides did a number wit their volume of fire, at the end there is only one Broadside unit and 1 Pathfinder unit, wth a half Firewarrior unit and the Skyray.

Whil i'm left with a Rhino, and immobilized Mauler( after he killed the Riptide), 3 CSM there and 1 lone Zerker Champ who got the +1W and reroll saves Boons, the Champ is on the Relic in a big and LoS blocking terrain.

WAs the Tau last turn, he tried to out manoeuvre my Champ around the terrain got a clear shot at it, only 3 Firewarriors see him, still shoot 6 times at it, champs surive unscatthed.

Then he use the Skyray with the smart missile systeme, not needing LoS, he takes a real beating with those missiles, nce the the smoke a rubble settled, you culd see the battered form of a Zerker Champ on the ruins of the terrain holding the relic and shouting a mighty battle cry for all to hear!!!

He survived the turn and won me the game!

   
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At my desk

Actually, quite recently a friend and I decided to do away with all these objectives and just obliterate each other for fun. And I won.

I wiped out his last Chaos Terminator and Plague Marines with a single War-Walker (With only one hullpoint left) and three Dire Avengers. Which is not a lot from a full 1850 point army.

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2000pts Free Peoples (Edlynd Fusiliers) - 2000pts Kharadron Overlords (Barak Zilfin) - 500pts Ironweld Arsenal (Edlynd Ironwork Federation) - 1000pts Duardin (Grongrok Powderheads)

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I think the last game I had that I can remember being super close was renegades VS sisters of battle. In fact, both the last times I fought against sisters were close games.

The first time, his high chair warlord dude kept lobbing orbital strikes at my zombies while they were in combat, killing them instantly. His flamers were jacking up my hordes, but I my numbers were just too great.

The next game was much closer. He had heavier firepower, and was able to cripple most of my artillery, I also had no zombies. Celestine and her unit came down and obliterated a unit of 20 with flamethrowers, however. I shot them with a blast, and all but celestine died.

Near the end it was pretty much celestine, a unit of 15 infantry (who celestine would wipe the floor with), a 3 man command squad, a unit of rapier lasers, some vets in the sister back field who were duking it with a few sisters. The rapiers blasted celestine in the face, but she got up and assaulted them. She only killed 2, so my command squad charged in, did a wound, celestine did hit and run, then charged my big blob, took a lasgun shot in overwatch, killed a handful, then took too many rusty knives to the face and stayed down. The end result was decided by celestine giving me the warlord kill, it also gave me a tactical objective, securing the victory.

   
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Orks vs Dark Angels

I had played this DA player twice before, (one loss, one draw). By this point I had learned to basically never waste any firepower on his landspeeders.

At the start, his squad of scary, jinking bikers demolished a squad of shootas I tossed at them, which then when onto wreck the grots manning my artillery. Thankfully my warboss and his boyz were able to get rid of the biker squad before they could get to my lootas. From there, my MANz and the lone boss nob from the dead shoota squad took out the rest of the Land Speeders. My bikers, meanwhile, harassed some of his backfield support units, but never managing to actually wipe any of them. I start feeling the hurt when his Dark Talon flyer manages to hide in some ruins so my lootas can't get to him, and he starts dismantling a smaller squad of shootas and my bikers.

Eventually, the only units left ony my side are my warboss and a handfull of his boyz, one biker, about five lootas, and one lone meganob. He has his Dark Talon at full HP, two scouts, a squad of three tacticals locked in combat with my meganob, and a heavy support squad at the back. I only managed to win the game because my lone biker managed to turbo-boost back so I could score hold the line, and my lone meganob managed to get linebreaker at the end of the game. I was shocked that I won.

Hell of a fight, though.

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I... actually don't know. Help?

1000, DA vs SW.

I had a force consisting of mostly infantry, TWC and an Imperial Knight. He had a bunch of tanks, Deathwing Knights, and a bunch of tanks again plus an Imperial Knight.

I outflanked my Long Fangs and brought down his Leman Russ and Knight. My Land Speeder cut down a few tacticals, and my infantry murdered at least 20 Marines. But his Deathwing knights slaughtered literally everything but my Knight, which promptly committed suicide.

To Valhall! ~2800 points

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Played a ~3660 point 2 table game with a friend last Saturday

It was a slugfest with stuff blowing up from turn 1. The intense part was where he counter deployed an outflanking Baneblade and Malcador (with assistance from an immobilized Russ) against a corner full of crisis suits being lead by a buffmander and a regular missile/melta commander. The last one standing was the missile/melta suit but Creed and his command squad finally got out of their Command Bunker/ Rustic Cottage and did the honors of shoot the thing to death.

The game ended with Shadowsun and a reduced suit squad sitting in a bunker on my opponents side of the field, a Riptide dueling a Commissar Lord (they were fighting for 2 turns strait), Creed and Company standing behind a wrecked Baneblade, and two squads of lightly singed and grenade'd fire warriors sitting far away from anything interesting happening.

He won 22 to 21.

It was the biggest point 1v1 game I've played and it was really fun

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 Kriswall wrote:
My closest game ever was my Tau Empire versus a friend's Grey Knights.

The game came down to the following situation...

The only models left on the board were a unit of 3 Gun Drones on the Tau Empire side and Draigo at full health (4 wounds) on the Grey Knights side. Draigo was 3 inches away from the Gun Drones and it was his turn.

Goes like this...

1. Draigo declares a charge and rolls the 2D6, getting more than enough to complete the charge.
2. But wait! Overwatch. The Drones get 2 shots each, so a total of 4 shots. I roll 4 6's. Amazing, but they'll never wound...
3. So, at S5 versus T4, I need 4 3+'s. I roll and get all of them. I've managed to allocate 4 wounds to Draigo, but he has a 2+ save. He'll never die.
4. My buddy tosses the 4 dice and gets snake eyes. 4 1's. A full health Draigo dies to Overwatch fire from 3 Gun Drones.

The store literally exploded with noise. It was amazing. I repainted the rim of those three drones silver to commemorate their victory over Draigo. I would have bet thousands that I would have lost that combat.


Isn't Draigo T5?

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Back in 4th edition (or possibly 5th, I can't remember) I let a friend borrow my Necrons. He ended up playing another Necron army in a 2000 point match.

These were both horde-warrior armies. It ended up with one group of warriors trying to shove another group of warriors off an objective. During the assault they realized that they had both dropped below 25%, and had phased-out simultaneously. They thought it was a draw, until I pointed out that you determine phase-out numbers at the beginning of your turn, and my friend's opponent technically won.

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5th Edition, fighting Space Wolves with my Templars. Only the Emperor's Champion relationer against a Long Fang squad and a full squad of Grey Hunters when turn 4 was done. Over the next three rounds the Champion won combat against both squads and saw their failed morale tests run them off the board. Won with one model left on the table.

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My first game with my mates Tau list that he made me against an AM veteran. He brought armoured company I had CAD with one riptide two skyrays and fire warriors crisis suits and broadsides.

He went first and got first blood from Wyvern spam. I had a truly horrendous shooting phase (couldn't kill anything) so resorted to playing to objectives. I managed to keep it going to turn five while losing pretty nuch all my army and would have won with on sec troops on the objectives. Turn 6 comes and I lose the opportunity to win. Can still draw if it ends. Turn 7 comes and I'm shot off the objective and my opponent secures victory.

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 Kriswall wrote:
My closest game ever was my Tau Empire versus a friend's Grey Knights.

The game came down to the following situation...

The only models left on the board were a unit of 3 Gun Drones on the Tau Empire side and Draigo at full health (4 wounds) on the Grey Knights side. Draigo was 3 inches away from the Gun Drones and it was his turn.

Goes like this...

1. Draigo declares a charge and rolls the 2D6, getting more than enough to complete the charge.
2. But wait! Overwatch. The Drones get 2 shots each, so a total of 4 shots. I roll 4 6's. Amazing, but they'll never wound...
3. So, at S5 versus T4, I need 4 3+'s. I roll and get all of them. I've managed to allocate 4 wounds to Draigo, but he has a 2+ save. He'll never die.
4. My buddy tosses the 4 dice and gets snake eyes. 4 1's. A full health Draigo dies to Overwatch fire from 3 Gun Drones.

The store literally exploded with noise. It was amazing. I repainted the rim of those three drones silver to commemorate their victory over Draigo. I would have bet thousands that I would have lost that combat.


Ward must have being crying a new ocean that day

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It was 6th edition, using my 5th edition Necron book. I was playing my Dark Eldar friend. It came down to turn 5, I mentioned that if his 2 units that were on objectives were to fail their morale check and run, and his jetbikes failed their morale and ran, he would lose 2 objectives and Linebreaker, and I would then, in turn, have more points and win. We both had very few units left on the board. I had an A-barge or two, an immobilized Doomsday Ark, and a whittled down blob of warriors in cover (out of 2000 points of the old codex). He had jetbikes, and a bunch of ground troops that had their transport destroyed.

So, after my shooting phase, all three units failed their leadership tests and ran back, and he rolled a 1 for the game to continue. Thus, a Necron victory.



A more recent game would be a 4000 point 2v1. Necrons vs. Sisters/Admech. It was 7th edition, with my 7th edition codex. They wanted it casual, so I ran a bunch of vehicles and an Annihilation Nexus to lower my power level. They had Saint Celestine and a few sisters left, I had an Immobilized A-barge, a non-immobilized A-barge, an Obelisk with about 2 hullpoints left, and not a single infantry model left. I won simply because I spread my vehicles with turbo boost and took some objectives.

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2000pts a side, 2v2 Harlies (me) + CWE vs Nids/Nids.

City fight, where each team gets a board corner (so can deploy within 24").

Nids win the rolloff and make us deploy first (so they get to choose matchups.

We're almost exclusively short range (only thing more than 24" was the one Serpent carrying his Scytheguard), and I'm mostly CC, so we deploy first.

The first thing to go wrong is the venothropee. Thanks to Scout (from his Warlord trait), his Scytheguard all get in range of it. As he's lighting it up, I found out they agreed to use the 6E rules for their guns (better way to play, but I wish I had known). The veno survives. We put every shot in range of it into that thing, and it bounces off his 2+.

The rest of our shooting tries to cut back some of his Gaunt squads, as they couldn't reach the veno, but we kill something like 2 of them thanks to their 2+.

The second thing to go wrong is I forgot I can't embark and disembark (from a building) in the same game turn. So half my list is CC units sitting exposed in a building for T1, while everything is in charge range. Much of it within 2" of said building.

Then, the my third squad fails a 6" charge to tie up a Gaunt squad that can charge anything....

Not a great start. But a good time.

It becomes a heck of a slogfest for the next several turns. (You gotta love a Solitaire that blicks a HT from full with an ID. Even more so one that does it two of my turns in a row!).

It gets to the bottom of 6th, and everything is dead, except for a blind Crone with 1 HP left on the ground, and a single Warp Spider. We are up by 1, even with us both getting LB.

My ally takes his one Warp Spider, and resides to run away to ensure victory.

Snakeeyes on the Flickerjump.

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