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I think the funniest moment happened when my friend charged my 10 cultists with his 5 Ravenwing Termies (near end of game and cultists were sitting on objective). 5 Hits from overwatch, terminators fail every single armor save. Those cultists really wanted that fething objective.

Another good one i was reminded of recently.

early 6th, I was playing a game against Necrons. his army was mostly on foot, with a ghost ark. i was using trukk boyz and rotate shenanigans (we calculated it out to 1.25 inches gained by rotating my trukks)

Note: I had both red paint and rams on all my trukks

Somehow, one of my trukks made it to turn 3, very close to the 20 warriors +cryptek and lord he kept in his DZ to hold an objective.

i checked the angle, and found i could tank shock this squad without the cryptek or lord getting to Death or Glory. (i had 2 hullpoints left, so the gauss glance was not a concern.)

to maximize the LOS blocking i was going for, i declared a 13 inch tank shock (gotta love red paint) which would put my trukk 3 inches from his board edge, and at an angle to prevent his cryptek, and about half the squad from shooting at my wagon.

he rolls his leadership: 11 fallback distance:3" we spend nearly 20 minutes pouring over the rulebook to figure out what to do because nobody in our group had EVER had this occure.

I double tank shocked his squad. on the second fallback roll,he needed 5 or less to stay on the board. he got a 6.

one, empty truck with no gun (the previous hullpoint loss was from a weapon destroyed result) made 22 necrons run off the table.

5th Edition tournament, playin' da Ladz. Shokk Attack Gun goes awry on the very first shot, detonating and taking with it:

The Mek (of course).
Two Boomgun Looted Wagons.
12 Lootas.

I think it was about a quarter of my points and almost all of my fire support. Needless to say, I lost quite badly. As I recall I failed to see the humor in it at the time...

Alternately, my Grot Mob being charged by a Lictor - and killing it in close combat. That was in 2nd edition. Then in 5th edition the same Grot mob charged three 'Cron Heavy Destroyers sitting on an objective. Killed one, stripped a hit off another, broke the unit and ran it down to claim the objective and win me the game.

I'm modelling 'em up as cybergrots in honor of their dramnatic and rather dubious achievements.

My two teef.

Friend fired a vindicator into me DC to stop them getting to his bikers, scattered onto the bikers and killed two (of three) and then the third failed morale and ran.

Single TL shuriken catapult Dire Avenger Exarch killing a Daemon Prince of Nurgle with Black Mace (after his unit of five kept him at bay for three turns).

My Tactical Squad hit none of it's shots one round of shooting.

Big Mek with Shokk Attakk Gun teleporting into close-combat with an air unit.

Skullcannon scattering it's big template on itself, getting penetrate rolling 5 then rolled 5 again to get weapon destroyed result. It was not so funny for my Daemon opponent, lol.

My friend was playing a game nid's vs chaos. First physic phase of the game his HQ was sucked into the warp.

Back during a flgs apocalypse battle. It was a "narrative" campaign. Imperial armies vs xenos and chaos. I was playing orks at the time. The goal was to get the relic and bring it back to base. But the relic was defended by an avatar of kaine & 3 Eldar titans. My stompa filled with boyz and the boss went through these portals that were part of the game and came out right next to the biggest one... long story short I charged fought in close combat for 3 turns and destroyed it. Survived the explosion but was sadly killed by the other titans. Eldar players correct me but i'm pretty sure that the titan I killed was about 5x as many points as me. Also my gretchin squad snuck in to the battlefield and stole the relic.

3rd edition during a RTT. Opponent playing DE and had a Raider with the ability/gear (I don't remember which) to turn pens into glances after it moved. Raider loaded with a full Archon/Incubi squad with all the bells and whistles, hiding behind a mountain and ready to fly out and chop me into ribbons.

I get first turn (so Raider hasn't moved). First shot of the game was a guess range with a Whirlwind, hit rear armor of the raider. Pen, open-topped destroyed with max roll, Raider and entire squad destroyed. Almost half his army gone with a single Whirlwind shot.

I just had to buy him a beer after that.

In my IG there is a basic infantry man armed with a plasmagun and nicknamed 'Lucky'. Why? Because, with only one or two exceptions, he has blown himself up on his first shot whilst failing to even hurt the enemy. Its become a running joke.

A game myself and my friend where playing recently: 2nd turn, my IG vs his SM's. My lascannon AT section fires on his Landraider. Two miss, one scores a 5. Laughing and saying it will do nothing I role for penetration. A 6. I role for damage. A 6. Role for blast. A 6. His Landraider and half the squad inside it vanish in a fireball.

The same game: His Vanguard Veterans deepstrike in and assault a standard IG squad in some woods. The Sargent challenges mine and I accept. He has a double handed weapon so my Sargent strikes first. I hit once, wound him and he fails his save. The squad is subsequently wiped out but that was an epic battle.

An older game, same opponent: My CC is reduced to one wound after a long battle. Having just finished assisting in the clearing out of a Scout squad hiding in some ruins he assaults my opponents custom primarch. He amazingly whiffs his attacks and I choose to do my CC's attacks first (the Standard bearer and Medic where also still alive) I hit and wound him. He has already taken damage (2 demolition charges and a melta gun reduced him to two wounds) He needs a 2+. he roles 2 1's. But wait! He had cast that psychic power that lets him reroll. He rolls again and gets a.... 1 and a 1.
Now that was epic enough but my CC then proceeded to lead his last two surviving squad mates against a Vindicator, assaulting and destroying it. Sadly the standard bearer was lost in the blast though. A 6 man squad of Sternguard then blasted them, murdering the Medic. Enraged my commander charged them, vaporising one with his Plasma Pistol and engaging them in hand to hand. Remember, he had but one wound left. Only one attack hurts him and that is saved. He then proceeds to butcher the squad.
The game ended with Lukas Caine, my CC, standing over the bloody corpses of the enemy, roaring his defiance to the uncaring universe.

I was playing CSM against a horde of Orks, for most of the game I had a single squad Terminator squad running around with a Sorcerer who was kitted out with the black mace.
For the entire game my sorcerer was putting a brutal smackdown on anything that came close, he got a whole bunch of roles on the Boon table around 12 or so throughout the game, no less than three of which
gave an extra D3 roles. He became unbelievably beefed up, but in the end he was killed by a swarm of gretchin. The mental picture of this unbelievable scion of Chaos going down under a wave of shrieking green
toddlers still gets me to this day.

This past Tuesday I was planing a game, Necrons VS GK/SM. My CCB was at 1 hullpoint, his grand master was at 1 hullpoint. Grand master with shield eternal and power fist, CCB with phase shifter and warscythe. I charged, flubbed all hammer of wrath and all attacks. He blew up the CCB and died to the explosion.

Tanksgiving day 08 a Vindicator tried to ram my monolith, failed then fired point-black at me. The blast scattered back onto him, blowing himself up, the explosion was strong enough to then blow-up my monolith.

One kid I introduced to 40k was having trouble with his grey knights especially against blood angels (the ward dex for both at the time). H felt that it was impossible for him to win with his Crowe Purifier army. I watched a game between him and the local BA player and lo and behold, he was swept. I asked him if I could have a try and he said sure. So the BA player and I went head to head in the single most bloody battle I've played.

The dice weren't entirely in my favor - I hadn't performed the appropriate rituals to the dice gods - and at turn 5, all that was left on the board was Castellan Crowe locked in a duel against the Sanguinor. We were both down to a single wound at this point, but I felt confident that Crowe would hold out. So we do our rolls and Crowe whiffs his attacks failing to wound. The Sanguinor is able to deal two wounds and I fail one. The BA player had a smug look on his face as he began declaring his victory. I asked him to hold off because I wasn't done. He had a look of utter confusion on his face and then I told him that Crowe had a chance to take his opponent down with him in close combat. I was certain though it didn't matter considering how I had just rolled a ridiculous amount of ones - assumed the dice gods were punishing for playing an army that wasn't my own - and in that moment of surrender, I guess the gods smiled upon me. Crowe took down the Sanguinor.

So there we were gawking at a now empty table when the store owner walks up and asks if we're starting a game. We shake our heads and tell him we just finished. He asks us who won and I just point to the grey knight codex which is open to Crowe's entry, tapping his special rules. The store owner looks at it, and then it dawns upon him what just happened and he practically screams, "No fething way!"

That was the first and only time I had witnessed such a complete and utter case of mutually assured destruction.

Now that in itself wasn't that funny but the BA player to this day gets ticked and claims that I stole his win from him. I just think he's upset that that was the only time he ever came close to beating me in all the times we've played. And i take a certain amount of smug satisfaction from knowing that.

I had a looted wagon with kill kannon 2 weeks ago.
It fired.. it scattered.. it hit himself... penetrated... stunned itself >.<

Vulkan killing a warhound with his hammer after surviving being shot at by it.

During a game of 3rd or 4th, I was playing Tau vs Necrons. My opponent got cocky and moved his lord out well in front of his squad to shoot his staff of light at a crisis suit.

He then realized he was standing out front of 4 Broadsides who were very angry.

Said lord becomes scrap, puts himself back together, and runs back to hide amongst the other Necrons for the rest of the game.

I was in a game with 3 imperial knight titans and when 2 were fighting each other one exploded right onto the one it was in close combat with, killing it and causing it to explode, that exploded onto the 3rd Causing that one to explode killing a solid chunk of my 100 ork boy mob

Lone survivor Chosen Marine with plasma gun getting charged by a Commander. Up till this point this 1 guy made all his armor and cover saves as everyone else died.

The commander charges him and the Chosen Fire over watch and had snake eyes and so gun gets hot. He fails his save and dies b4 commander gets to hit him.

Chosen chose to die by plasma instead of melee a Commander.

Two Tau Pathfinders kicking the head in of the RavenWing (or something) was quite funny

CSM v SM, first turn of the game both BeLakor and Tiggy get sucked into the warp trying to cast their first spell.

mine was 2nd edition (I think) when you could have assasin in terminator armor with thunderhammer and stormshield. My friend had just scratch built a baneblade (from the old WD) and before he could use i i deep striked on top of the baneblade and hit it with the thunderhammer and rolled pen and 6 and "BOOM".... i then made my saves and walked away untouched.... first and last time he fileded the baneblade... and was one of the few times we were playing at FLAGs instead of at home so lots of witnesses. I feel bad a little for it but the guy liked to play unpainted black primer guard which i couldnt tell what they had and do gunline thing all the time along with cheating off and on and won most games blah blah blah so in a way Karma .

The lone Pathfinder that managed to roundhouse the head off of my Daemon Prince.

Twas a sad day for the Dark Gods... and for me

The most hilarious part of that, is that pathfinders are even worse a CC than FWs, having a 5+ instead of 4+.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
The most hilarious part of that, is that pathfinders are even worse a CC than FWs, having a 5+ instead of 4+.

Yup, much hilarity ensued afterwards

I had a game going my way, his psyker had killed himself casting basic buffs, his vindicator scattered onto its self. All I had to do was kill an unupgraded tactical squad with the relic.

Several turns later, he tables me with all of my orks having ran away or run down because of combat or shooting causalties.

He lost one marine in that squad, because of dangerous terrain.

This is not exactly an in game event but years ago My brother and I were having a 40k game out in the garage. We had been there about 5 minutes when he commented "It stinks in here". Every 10-15 minutes for about 3 hrs it was "It really stinks" "don't you smell that?" "it smells like cat piss". I on the other hand could smell nothing. It turns out it was cat piss and it was coming from his hat.

Not my game, but one I was watching, Imperial Guard vs. Space Wolves. Guard player pops Marbo into play in a ruin behind a squad of Long Fangs who are hiding behind a low wall, and tosses his demo charge hoping to get them all with a nice big blast that gets around their cover save. The charge scatters back onto Marbo, who promptly kills himself by failing his own cover save.

Edit; Oh, and I almost forgot this story of total crap luck: In a game of my Wolves vs. Chaos Space Marines, I was going first. I rolled for the power that gives the unit a 4+ invulnerable save, double 6s, Rune Priest takes a wound. I roll for Prescience, double 1s, Rune Priest kills himself. We then had to look up the rules to see whether or not I could give my opponent both Slay the Warlord and First Blood by offing my own commander on my first turn.

Exterminatus during turn 3 of an Apocalypse battle, the one in which every model takes a S10 AP2 hit. Took out 95% of what was left on the board.

I play space marines, and my friend plays GK, one time he tried to charge his libby into a unit of scouts camping on an objective, and they managed to shoot him down in overwatch.