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Mine, something like 13 wounds, all unsavable when 5 termies and a terminator librarian used their power fists against 5 nobz, a weirdboy, and an ork warboss. Everyone but the warboss was taken out, but the warboss had 2 wounds left.
What about you?

In a single unit from a single shot? 30. Bunched up gaunts wiped out by a well launched Death Strike Missile. It brought a tear to my eye - the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in a game of Nids vs IG.

Probably caused the most with a 15 strong DC + chappy in the old dex charging out of a LR crusader. 5 ws5 st5 attacks each, rerolling to hit and rerolling to wound (old dex). Got something like 60 wounds. Can't remember who it was against.

I've caused 23 unsavable ones with 1 model before (on a 30 ork boy blob). A DC dread with talons got the charge and was prescienced. Rerolling to hit on 3+'s, rerolling to wound on 2+'s, every kill generating another attack, it was glorious! Edit: although I must mention this is when I got back into the game in early 6th and we piled in everyone at the start of each combat rather than at initiative.

My greater Brass scorpion was in CC with a meganob+warboss unit and 2 units of 30 boyz. Fuzzy on the actual wounds, but here is what happened in 1 round.

I attacked the warboss unit with my S10, killing the boss, and his 4 or 5 nobs instantly. Then I got D3+2 (5 for this round) stomps. I stomped a trail from one side of the boys to another, getting 3 overflowing templates worth, then took one stomp that hit nothing, and used the last stomp on a trukk with some rokkit dudes inside.

I rolled a 6. So 3 small blasts worth of boys were removed from play, then the trukk was flipped when it exploded. It landed on a unit of grots manning grotgun thingies.

A great deal of casualties were had by the orks.

A couple weeks ago I had one Lone Wolf tank over 16 saves from one squad of marines. Throughout the turn though, he saved a ridiculous 35 or 40 wounds, including FNP rolls, and only took one wound. He had a storm shield and wolf claw, and amazing rolls. He died in a glorious assault on a command squad. May the All-father grant him peace in Valhalla.

Last tournament I played in saw Straken save 15 out of 16 5++/5+++ wounds from one round of combat. No the most I've ever had but still a lot none the less.

Last time I played 40k, admittedly some months ago now, I had 2 squads of Deathwing take shooting from about 1k points of Tau for 2 turns. Betweenn the 2 squads, they easily took over 50 wounds before going down, possibly closer to 70. They killed nothing, but the firepower they drew from my objective-cappers and Thunderwolf squad undoubtedly won me the game.

Ages ago I had 5 Sanguinary Guard take about 20 Wounds from a Khorne Beserker blob that somehow got the drop on them, and save every single one. In return, they pretty much w KBs.

Waaay back in my second ever game, I had a lone/unupgraded Ork Nob take on 5 CSM with extra CCW for about 4 rounds of combat, tanking hit after hit after hit. 'twas the stuff legends are made of.


And of course it goes both ways. My record for most carnage perpetrated stands at about 500 points in one shot from a 165 point unit, the mighty Manticore. T1 of a 6-player apoc game, and I roll 3 on the number of templates. Direct hit on a Chaos Land Raider, pop it and the explosion kills about 5 Beserkers inside. Second template hits a Rhino, pops it and the explosion kills a few more. Third his scatters... right on to a Tau Hammerhead and squad of Fire Warriors, killing most. Ka-fething-Boom!

A single CSM Melta took 9 wounds from Tau Carbines, Lasguns, Heavy Bolters and Necron Gauss Rifles. He survived everything.

40, fire warrior Unit Buffed from ethereal and fireblade shot my rage blob with priest to pieces

 Matthew wrote:
A single CSM Melta took 9 wounds from Tau Carbines, Lasguns, Heavy Bolters and Necron Gauss Rifles. He survived everything.

Whoa. Must be pretty powerful. Was he wearing power armour? I mean, if he has that many weapons shooting at him, shouldn't that be instant death?

I put about 80 wounds on a guard blob in two turns with heavy flamer retributors. Killed off 80% of the blob, Khan and put Yarrick down for the first time.

 pretre wrote:
I put about 80 wounds on a guard blob in two turns with heavy flamer retributors. Killed off 80% of the blob, Khan and put Yarrick down for the first time.

Whoa...........

4 Heavy Flamers and a Flamer in a drop pod. Packed blob. Failing to shoot them down on turn 1. That was that.

One apocalypse missile launcher shot from reaver Titan to 20 de warriors and duke sliscus did 47 wounds. He failed the very first shadow field save and that was that.

5th Ed. DC charge from a LRC as above. Think it was 40 something wounds plus another 10ish from fists. Amazingly, his arty armor captain tanked 34 2+ saves without a single fail, only to die to fists.

This is more of what I have dealt out though.

I think I've taken like 40 wounds total across a shooting phase on a full scout squad with corbulo and Mephy giving them a 4++ via divination at a tourney. They were getting shot by wave serpent spam and a riptide, and only meph and corby survived to the next turn.

 KaptinBadrukk wrote:

 Matthew wrote:
A single CSM Melta took 9 wounds from Tau Carbines, Lasguns, Heavy Bolters and Necron Gauss Rifles. He survived everything.

Whoa. Must be pretty powerful. Was he wearing power armour? I mean, if he has that many weapons shooting at him, shouldn't that be instant death?

Power armour+MoK. He was damn strong that match, died from a Missile.

niv-mizzet wrote:
One apocalypse missile launcher shot from reaver Titan to 20 de warriors and duke sliscus did 47 wounds. He failed the very first shadow field save and that was that.

5th Ed. DC charge from a LRC as above. Think it was 40 something wounds plus another 10ish from fists. Amazingly, his arty armor captain tanked 34 2+ saves without a single fail, only to die to fists.

Wow.

Mortarion took something like 39 LasCannon shots, 24 Plasma Cannon shots, 30 Heavy Bolter Shots, 24 Tau Carbine Shots, 2 Rail Guns, and 2 Kheres AutoCannons in one shooting phase. Walked away with 3 wounds remaining and wiped half of the opponent's deployment zone. BOOM. Primarch.

How is mortarion Going to wipe half of a deployment Zone that can unleash such Firestorm?

My Laevantine (homebrew baneblade variant, no tougher than a normal Baneblade though) once survived an entire 2,000 point Apocalypse Tau army, including something like nine Railheads shooting at it for two turns.

I had a lone Chaos Terminator who took 17 wounds from a Punisher. I saved every single one. HIs amazing to hit and to wound rolls were negated by my amazing saves.

 winterwind85 wrote:
How is mortarion Going to wipe half of a deployment Zone that can unleash such Firestorm?

It wasn't just the deployment zone shooting at him, there were mid-field LasCannons pumping shots into him as well. It also took him two turns, one to take down a full squad of Cataphractii + Forrix (I think that's the IW character) and then another for a squad of Marines. Just before he was pumped full of those shots, he wiped out another Terminator squad.

Last edition 15 bloodletters (when they had 2 attacks each and fc boosted init) charged a black templar squad of 20 with a tec marine in there and missed about 6 attacks and caused 36 or 37 wounds there were no survivers.

opps misread taken was a squad of netties getting hit by drop podded sterngaurd with flamers (salamanders) took 45 or 50 wounds each famer was hitting 4-5 models. Ouch!

Mortarion got 5 attacks, 6 if he charges, so no wiping out fullsquad of marines or cathapractii.
Even the sweep attack cant Hit More than 6-7 models

This is kinda the opposite, but I feel it's a funny story. When I played ultramarines I once took 5 wounds on my 5 terminators, I failed all 5 and my friend shouted Yahtzee! I wasn't even mad.

 winterwind85 wrote:
Mortarion got 5 attacks, 6 if he charges, so no wiping out fullsquad of marines or cathapractii.
Even the sweep attack cant Hit More than 6-7 models

Don't forget the 30k Marines lack ATSKNF, so they can be run down after a failed Ld test.

I think it was one of my last games of 6th edition or perhaps one of the first of 7th. Anyways, a Dark Eldar Venom loaded with trueborn with splinter cannons fired on one of my mobs. My opponent bunched up the dice as both transport and passengers had the same weapons profile. So, he rolled and...

24 shots, 24 hits, 24 wounds.

The store fell silent in awe.

This probably won't sound so impressive to you guys, but it's the biggest kill I've had personally.

I usually play a 'kill squad' of Kharn and 10 Khorne Chosen that can put out hilarious amounts of hurt if they get to charge, although the squad is very squishy and pays more than a premium for their killing power.

I had them assault a big tough mob of 30 boyz, including nob and a Warboss. I assaulted and struck first. Kharn challenged the Warboss and the Aspiring Champion challenged the Nob.

Kharn struck first. 7 Ws7 S7 AP2 attacks that hit on a 2+ (with rerolls because of hatred, he was warlord) meant that he hit and wounded with all 7 attacks, killing the Warboss more than twice over. I could imagine the poor Ork as he was torn into tiny shreds before he could even raise his power klaw in anger.

The nob fared little better - 5 WS4 S5 AP3 (power sword) attacks with rerolls to hit resulted in a very dead nob.

The remaining nine Chosen hacked into the orks, and with their 45 WS4 S5 attacks that re-rolled to hit they wiped out the boyz to an ork.

The sheer glorious carnage brought us both to laughter, and was not lost on Khorne either - Kharn rolled Dark Apotheosis as his reward for killing the Warboss, but as I did not have a Daemon Prince yet at this time he was automatically slain instead, giving my opponent STW and drawing the game!

My engineer watchmaster took 8 instant death wounds with no saves.