In the many happy years I have spent wargaming, I have noticed a trend for particular models to survive countless battles and score immense victories despite all logic (and physics) suggesting otherwise.

For example, whenever I make an Ork army (or indeed a WHFB Orc & Goblin Horde) I always name the characters the same for continuity (and to spare my poor frazzled brain the harsh task of remembering new names). Now in amongst the Greenskins I always name an important character Fagburn (for 40K he's my Big Mek, in WHFB he's my Night Gobbo Shaman) cause it was a joke some of my friends had about stubbing the poor guy out.

However, Fagburn is INVINCIBLE! Seriously, he always seems to survive battles in the most ludicrous ways, always triumphs despite the odds and will either be entirely fine at the end of the battle, or scarpered off the table to fight another day.

My 40K Fagburn's Shokk Attack gun always breaks and launches the poor guy across the table, usually into combat with a horde of hungry genestealers, but he'll somehow survive. His Battl;ewagon will erupt in flames and the git will always crawl out ahead of everyone in, and his latest feat of WTF? was during a game of Apocalypse, where a Reaver went up in falmes, showering everything around it with flaming debris, killing everything around it...minus ol' Fagburn who stood around looking utterly perplexed.

And WHFB is no different. My Fanatics are always more than likely to reverse right back into Fagburn and their parent unit, tearing through the daft Gobbos who unleashed him. They all died, excluding ol' Fagburn, who we decided to give a Ld test for fun, cause how could he possibly decide to handg about? Not only did he pass with flying colours, but he succesfully escaped the Fanatics and suirvived the whole damn game.

Does anyone else have these strange, seemingly invincible models? Any tales of sheer WTFness about nature-defying acts of survival?

When I played chaos, my Lord was named Aydious the Damned. Ive used that name in video games an WoW for the evilist of evils! And he was nearly indestructible. Once, he took a battle cannon to the chest. And shrugged it off, only to rip the tank apart piece by piece.
There was a devastator squad in a bunker, 2 turns he went to the bunker taking hit after hit. NOTHING! Only to get to the bunker, blow it apart, and then kill the squad inside. Hell once, he beat a demon prince of Khorne in CC.
He was a TRUE Chaos Lord in every aspect of the word

I've got a nameless sargeant model who has still not died yet.

Keeps on falling back off the table, but hes not died!

Hey that counts man! THAT COUNTS!!!!!!!!!!

My hive tyrant had the greatest game in the beginning of the summer. Killed a squad of 20 necron warriors and a lord. Then Lived through the shooting phase taking only one wound. Then killed three heavy destroyers. Lived through another shooting phase and finished up he killed the Deciever where he died

Every time I toy around with Colonel Straken, he ends up demolishing something he shouldn't have. ie Land Raiders, a full team of Space Marines.. among my small circle of friends, it's now decided should Straken get the charge, you simply remove that unit.

I have a Deffkopta (only one out of the whole squad is lucky) that took somewhere between 8 and 10 barbed strangler hits in a single game from two carnifexes. The carnifexes failed to kill the one deffkopta all game despite the fact that any one of the hits could have instakilled it.

It's always the most unassuming of Greenskins that survive these things. Why can't our Warbosses/Gargants/Dreads be that lucky

My 3rd ED Guard JO w/ Honorifica and a PF killed Sicarius and his command squad in close combat. When I paired him with 3rd ED Yarrick, they both took out Kharne, a squad of Beserkers, and a squad of Tzeentch Termies in the same game. In another they ate Lucius and his squad. He did surprisingly well in close combat. I haven't had too much close combat with him this codex so far, though.
I don't have too many awesome survival stories, especially since there is 4+ cover everywhere. However, I tend to make quite a few 5+ saves. Once I made all 5 out of 5 I had to roll.

Buddy of mine (sn: Manstein on here) had a laspistol & Chainsword wielding Cadian Officer smoke a carnifex and a demonprince (I think).


The most amazing thing I have is a force of:
5 Blasters
14 Dark lances

That fail to even put scratches on space marine vehicles.

WGXH wrote:Every time I toy around with Colonel Straken, he ends up demolishing something he shouldn't have. ie Land Raiders, a full team of Space Marines.. among my small circle of friends, it's now decided should Straken get the charge, you simply remove that unit.

Ditto - the dude is a beast.

I can't believe nobody brought up the Marbo....

Mekboss Kogtoof. He once had his trukk wrecked and the rest of his squad killed by an executioner tank. He goes on to kill a command squad holding the opponents objective, then blow up a valkerie. He turned a draw into a win. Next game he ran over a wraithlord. With a trukk. He then survived its destruction at the hands of a unit of fire dragons and beat them to death.

madmen wrote:

WGXH wrote:Every time I toy around with Colonel Straken, he ends up demolishing something he shouldn't have. ie Land Raiders, a full team of Space Marines.. among my small circle of friends, it's now decided should Straken get the charge, you simply remove that unit.

Ditto - the dude is a beast.

Says the guy with Straken as his Avatar . But i concur. I have had similar results with Straken. So far he has faced and killed Plague Marines, An Eldar Autarch, two Carnifexes, a Hive Tyrant and some miscellaneous lesser foes . I DID NOT want most of these "duels" but some strange twist of fate always causes him to face my opponents biggest monsters. Go figure. But the men and women of my Regiment worship him! He truly personifies the idea of leading by example

I have a firewarrior shas'ui team leader painted black with a yellow helmet and yellow highlights, with a big "B" painted on his base, lovingly named "Bumblebee" by my wife.

He and the 5 man squad he's attached to have a thing for being assaulted by lictors who pop up out of nowhere. His current record: 3 wins, 0 losses.

This is needing 5+ to hit and 6+ to wound (if I remember correctly) against a lictor with....I don't remember their armor save. Some combination of magic makes me pass armor saves and get hits while the lictor fails armor saves.

I also have a pink nob (thus far unnamed) who won me a minor victory in a test 'Ard Boyz game against mechanized IG by surviving about 1,500 points worth of firepower directed at him (4+ cover save) to deny my opponent a last turn killpoint. Between my opponent rolling 1s, 2s, and 3s to miss, and failing to wound, and my cover saves, he lived through the entire thing. All the big stuff was directed at him too, which saved my opponent killing one of my trukks for the KP.

I too had a Chaos Lord, with Mark of Nurgle, Daemon Weapon and a jump pack. His name was Cannerus the Unbearable (big shocker). He's survived being stuck in with a full squad of Ork Boyz and half another, each with Nobz, over 4 turns. He only killed about 7 of them because he kept horribly whiffing, but the game ended with this sea of green surrounding one little point of green. One time he killed the Night bringer too, though it was entirely the opponent's fault.

I have a sternguard sergeant that has killed oh, I don't know, perhaps 5,000 pts worth of tanks, ICs, MCs, etc in the last year...last game I played his squad got harassed by a large squad of boyz (20 i think) and a power klaw weilding nob. he was alone, the rest of his squad had died previously, and i'm in assault. I save all the boyz attacks, and the nob hits all four times but rolls four ones to wound. WIN!
Of course, he died next turn but by then my entire army had surrounded the squad and shot it down with fresh steaming overkill.

One more from me, not as impressive but I think it counts. Maybe more of a WTF moment:

Ghaz and his boyz hit the ground running. My buddy proceeds to pull up next to them with a trukk full of burna Boyz. Next thing I know I'm up to fifty something hits, then he rolls for wounds: 25 not that awesome considering the VoF, granted I was still weary. I then move on to save everything on a 5+ Cybork and a 4+ FNP.

After much anguish he proceeds to waste three nobs with a big shoota and a boyz mob down to roughly 5 guys.

the Avatar will not die. He is awesome.

My emporer's champion destroyed a 20 man boys squad then went on to destroy a battlewagon not bad for 90 pts! He has also defeated a cc carni in cc by himself and a broodlord has even felt his wrath and was defeated in cc!

Brother-Sergeant Harklem, leader of the 4th Tactical Squad, 2nd Company, Ultramarines. Known as 'The Iron One' and wileder of the Power Sword 'Berzerker's Bane'. Plasma Cannon, Lascannon and Multi-Melta. After that I decided to see how many Berzerkers he could kill. He defeated 20 of them in single combat (killed one after the other, including the Champion).

And this is back in 2nd Ed, so beating that many Berzerkers is a big deal.

Easily my best example of a guy who would not die.


[EDIT]: No wait, two others.

Playing a 4-player Carnage game. I'm playing Marines, my opponents are Dark Angels, Eldar and Tau. I decide to ignore the mission objective, make a non-aggression pact with the Dark Angel player, and swear to kill as many Tau as I possibly can. Of the 2500 points they had on the table by the time the game ends they have 5 models standing. But how did the killing spree start? With my Emperor's Champion. He and his unit races into combat with the Tau front line (Kroot). I challenge the Shaper, kill him with my Black Sword, and the Kroot run. As my last act of the game several turns later, my Emperor's Champion finally manages to catch up with the final Kroot (that was still running), taking him down. Meanwhile the rest of my army has demolisher the Tau. I was very happy with that Emperor's Champion - he started the fight, and he finished it.

And the other one was just a "You've got to be fething kidding me!!!" moment. It was a 2000+ point game using the Ulthwe Strike Force (a variant Eldar list in a time before Jervis declared that all armies should be generic). I was playing Guard, and as part of my army I had taken a Callidus Assassin. Now I'd used the Callidus before, and she was a useful tool to have to scare opponents and generally keep people on edge. But this Callidus must've been blessed with the Emperor.

To make a long story short my Guard army didn't do any of the fighting that day. I think I maybe damaged a War Walker with some Autocannon fire and lost about half a squad to return fire but that's all my Guard did that day. They never got a chance to fight because the Callidus did it for them, holding off and containing the entire Eldar army for the whole game. And it wasn't a case of her getting lucky and killing the model with the webway gate - she quite literally took on the whole army, flaming Vypers and War Walkers in one shot, stunning and shaking the lot of them before charging Guardian squads, killing a bunch, leaping out of combat, charging other units and so on. This went on for the whole game, and she took one wound (kick from a War Walker that charged her). A single 120 point model held off a 2000 point Eldar army. It was just amazing.

This was one of my first games, tau vs SM, 750 points, both of us using lots of proxies.

He had destroyed all my vehicles, and assaulted my fire warrior squad with his full tac squad w/ power weapon.

My fire warriors won by 2, and he fled, lost the entire unit.

It was glorious.

Bob Thraka. Originally had a squad of 30 boyz, but was whittled down to a motley crue of 9 boyz. Then the GK Termies came and assaulted out of a LR I'd popped the previous round. Walked into assault and merc'd three of them. Lost 4 boyz in that assault, so in retribution he ran up to a venerable dreadnaught (immobilized and down a gun) and finished it off. The next turn ended the game, and began the legend of Bob Thraka.

In a Cityfight my 3rd ed Guard against Chaos... My Command squad lost battle with a dread but evade him deeper in the building. The dread sits at the edge of the building ready to assault again and crush the poor hummies inside. Enter my retreating stormtrooper w/ plasmagun who rapid fires at the dread and immobillises it 9" from the objective and a safe distance from my fragile HQ.
That same Stormtrroper had previously bayionetted a DP of slaanesh before running like hell itself was chasing him

Venerable Dread-No so inexplcable BUT against Carnifex,Daemon Prince,Soul Grider,Bloodthirster can not be killed,and he should be.. loong time ago.An Hammer head.Broadsides can not pentrate it...

The thing is..he does not do much on the table...BUT he just does not die.even when it's hit in the Rear armour.U sually do no penetrate him..and if you do...when you rerol...he's ok

Anyway...he has a chnce of being immortal..but still

Iv got 3:

My scout sarg, who back in the day of 3rd edition held off a bloodthrister greater daemon for 5 rounds. He never did die. He also stood up to a Goff stompa, the dang thing kept missing him.

A (now) venerable dreadnought with a twin linked lascannon destroyed 2 baneblades, 2 leman russes, and 3 basilisks with a single shot. Hurray 6's on the structure table!

A single lone marine, Brother Nam, a robed, bolter carrying squad member of the 3rd companies 2nd squad, has never died. Hes gone up against everything imaginable, every special character, every huge monster, every weapon that should kill him outright, and hes walked (or in some cases run) away. The most impressive feat was when his squad was assaulted by a Deceiver, and wiped them all out save for him. And brave little Nam took the last wound from the C'Tan, and walked away from the death blast.
He looks radically different from the rest of my army, as I didn't want to strip off any of the luck he had in that little metal robed body of his.

I have this one when a sergeant of mine in a chimera pulled up alongside a chaos lord on a bike (coolest chaos conversion I'd ever seen btw) and shot the crap out of him but the flashlights did nothing, so I charged to get the drop on him. That lord was destructive and kept killing guardsmen, but that sergeant just stood there and kept fighting. He was actually the last model in the unit and he was still in the thick of it. He killed that lord and survived to keep fighting. Not only that but he then proceeded to watch the rest of the army slaughtered including a tank blown apart, the chimera nearly following, and the rest of the line fall to pieces. He still stood and kept shooting. He is going to be my veteran sergeant if I ever make a squad. He will also be getting a shiny greenstuff metal.

Deffkopta - Luckiest - A single kopta outflanked a 3 man squad of broadsides dealing one wound with the buzzsaw. No wounds were returned. Failed leadership lost initiative test. Were sweeped by 70 points.

Big Mek SAG - Unluckiest - I have snake eyed with this guy three times in a row so far. The only saving grace is he never went alone always took someone with unfortunately was another unit of mine

I just now finished a game where I used Prince Yriel. That guy was amazing. Over the course of 4 turns, he pretty much single-handedly took out 10 Necron Immortals, 3 Necron Heavy Destroyers, 10 Necron Warriors, and a Necron Lord. All the while taking the fire of said immortals, warriors, and lord.

I have a PK boyz nob that not only seems to always end up the last remaining model in the mob but has killed my wierdboy i believe 3 times to stay in the game, once charging an immobilized razorback to give me the last KP i needed to win.

Edit: An interesting side note, that wierdboy gets killed so much its not even funny, five games in a row, he got a krak missle to the chest, as i said he's been beaten down several times to keep a lone nob in the game, and he is in almost all cases useless in an assault, basically he is the opposite of what the op wanted examples of.

I have a single guardsman that is fully painted and detailed (to the best of my ability >.< who my gaming buddy says is me. Lately he has amazingly survived all battles and is one of the last guardsman in his squad always standing.

I've had a Space Marine Assault Squad Sgt. survive a couple waves of Guardians. It kind of helped that he was equiped with a plasma pistol and lightning claw.

Pedro Kantor and three honor guard. The whole squad was on the recieving end of an assualt by a Chaos Lord w/ the Mark of Khorne and a demon weapon. The Lord was getting on average 12 attacks a turn. Pedro was wounded and then the next turn two of the three Honor Guard die. Then, my sole survivor finished off the Lord after surving another round of CC.

Then, he single-handedly took on a 5 man squad of Terminators dedicated to Slannesh. And won.

My Khorne lord with demon weapon once survived 4 rounds of combat with a chaplain (that was a lot of 5+ invul saves) only to kill himself with his own demon weapon. Come to think of it, I don't think he's ever been killed by anything but his demon weapon.

Ok, so that's not a lucky model story, but he does tend to kill lots of stuff before he offs himself.

Of course he survived four whole rounds, a Chaos Lord would beat down a Chappy in no time due to higher WS, attacks, and initiative.

Once my annoying little neice got ahold of my prized, painted ork nob...

The only damage he received was a detached arm (which wasnt glued in the first place)

Yellow Squad, celestians. They have yellow bases, and I make sure to put them in harm's way, because they are INVINCIBLE. These are s3 t3 models and they are unbelievable.

In one game, the avatar charged them, along with storm guardians. In two turns, they had lost two wounds, and the avatar and his men were dead.

In another, Gazzie AND Zogwort were both charged by the faithful ladies, and were both destroyed by their unrelenting fury.

In another, A hive tyrant, 2 guards, and a carnifex charged the sisters. When it was all said and done, the sister superior remained the only model standing.

In yet another, a dark eldar command squad leaped out of a raider, swarming the yellow women once more. In one turn of combat, their leader executed, the raiders were cut down, piecemeal, on their own charge.

Still not satisfied, the yellow sisters once again proved their worth against the heretical dark angels, blowing up a land raider and assaulting the terminator command squad inside, complete with chapter master and chaplain. After four full turns of combat, three celestians remained, the one meltagun among them death or glorying a land raider on the last turn as it tried to contest an objective. The resulting explosion killed the lone techmarine inside.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Of course he survived four whole rounds, a Chaos Lord would beat down a Chappy in no time due to higher WS, attacks, and initiative.

Oh no, this was an old codex chaplain.

I've gpt a guardsman named Jeremy unfortunatly Jeremy can kill warbosses and chaos lords alike. He is moving up the Ranks of my army every game.

I don't really have one single model, but i have a squad of scouts that have only all been killed twice lol and the held on for dear life. The most recent was against a twin lash chaos army where they tied up a Demon prince with lash for 3 full turns before finally succumbing to death. For some 13 pt each models with telion leadin, that's a heck of a feat. Basically made this demon prince useless in battle for 4 turns total counting the turn it took to get to them.

Not sure if he is lucky model. But out of my green skin horde I painted one like waldo from the lil books ya search for him, my friends take it upon themselves to find and attack that unit till waldo is killed grabbing the model and make it follow the one of their units like an ammo runt.

My guys always die like crazy. The games with lucky models are mostly my opponent’s models.

For example in the 'Ard Boyz I shot at a Land Raider from turn #3 to turn #6 with 2 Melta Guns at point blank range and a TL Lascannon and only shot off one weapon and immobilized it. It kept me from getting a massacre, and I ended up only with a minor win.

The only time where I had a lot of luck with one model was at the LVGT. (See below)


I have a lone guardian on the top of the hill about to be run over by 2 Reaver Jetbikes.


Here my guardian is still alive, and they Jetbikes are gone! He takes a blaster shot, and a splinter gun shot, and then gets charged by the 2 bikes. He only takes one wound and he makes his save and the hero of the craftworld clubs a Jet bike down with his shriken catapult and his partner is justifiably afraid of this badass, and runs for it and gets cut down.

Then he takes his brightlance and shoots down a ravager.

After this he stands proud on the hill and it takes 3 Dark Lance shots to kill him. Although he dies, even in death the fact that he took all of those dark lance shots to die helped me win the game.

2 guys.
1 is a simple guard with a grenade luancher. In one match he singlehandedly shot and killed 3 termies, all the while surviving as the rest of his squad was blown to bits around him, leaving him the last man standing...Who then proceeded to plug down the final termie making his way towards him. (1 of the 3).
I named him "Termie Killer" (original, eh?), and plastered a white cross on one shoulder pad. He has now gone on to commit countless other heroic acts. Such as the time where his frag scattered off a weak unit of guardians and killed a warlock and wraithguard! Or the time where for a whole turn of shooting my force did nothing to a nurgle army. 'Cept him. Guess what? It was a nurgle termie...

An up and coming hero is one of my BA assualt troop sergeants, armed with a power sword, bolt pistol and combat shield. His 1st match he survived, took on the avatar for 3 turns 1-on-1! Next match he got himself killed, but was the last to go! The most recent and 3rd he was the only survivor of a dedicated amount of shooting, he then proceeded to blow up the War Walker and ripped apart a squad of rangers. He was the last of my models on the field, and it didn't look to good with him surrounded by banshees, Avengers AND the Avatar, fortunately the game ended on a 1.
I've lost all my matches fo far, but this guy is certainly looking good!

I have a valkyrie that hasn't died yet, and I've played about five games with it. Some armies just have a lot of trouble with AV 12 I guess...

As for heroism, my Srg. Harker counts as and his squad managed to fully annihilated 2 full squads of chaos marines and a defiler in 4 turns. Not that amazing, but I was impressed.

My tyrant and retinue of 3 guard. I field him in nearly all my games (even in 1k battles). He has only been destroyed once (under my command) and even then he took the 5 assault termies down with him. It's unfortunate that 'nids don't have names.

My wife's Grey Knight Grandmaster. He's hideous. The game I remember most is when he shows up on tun three via Deep Strike into a Tyranid players backfield. He and his Terminator Bodyguard mowed down a depleted unit of Genesteelers, but on the next turn three squads of Without Number Gaunts all came in from reserve. By the end of the turn it's the Grandmaster alone, but he lasted until the end of the game, constantly swarmed by Nids. He killed about 25 of them. He was down to his last wound but he made it. So far he's yet to be killed.

Another show of unbelievable luck was a game also involving Fagburn, in which to avoid the roving attention of enemy Havocs and Obliterators he hid behind my mob of 50+ Grots.

In order to get to Fagburn, my opponent charged an 8-man squad of Berserkers into the Grots, thinking he could cut through them and sweep into old Faggy!

This however did not happen, and by the will of the Dice Gods (and Fagburns luck) the Grots won two rounds of combat and killed the Berserkers. I mean sure, 25 of them bit the dust in the process, but c'mooooon that's impressive :p

My lone guardsman had his entire squad wiped out,
passed morale,
went into cover,
took 3 turns of an entire chaos marines army shooting,
left cover,
headed towards his own table edge and took 1 plasmagun hit,
went to cover and passed his six up,
then got wiped out by bolter fire.

Septic wrote:My lone guardsman had his entire squad wiped out,
passed morale,
went into cover,
took 3 turns of an entire chaos marines army shooting,
left cover,
headed towards his own table edge and took 1 plasmagun hit,
went to cover and passed his six up,
then got wiped out by bolter fire.

He just...WON'T...DIE!!!!

I've had a single faceless Guardsman hold out in 8 turns of cc with a Farseer, squad of 8 Warp Spiders and , for the last 3 turns, The Avatar of Kahine. All of this and he still survived till the end of the game.

In the old dex I had a serge (not even a vet) who over a period of 3-4 turns he took down a squad of 7 ranger pathfinders singlehandedly. That was one of the few times were I actually PASSED my guards armour saves. Right after killing the last of them he was ripped apart by a sqaud of scorpians. These guys were in turn blown away by a leman russ.

My friends scout sergaent wont die, in a apco match he killed 2 termies with sniper, killed a monolith, and single handed took a turn of shooting from Khorne besekers and survived the assault phase.

Then in the next apco game (it was a campain), he had 1000 points and with another guy who had like 1000 points destroyed a 3,000 point green tide

Hasnt dieded in like two months.

I have a killa kan that refuses to die. Regularly I play with 4 but this one just wont go down. He has taken rail gun shots, melta blasts, plasma hits, tau gun hits, the works. Additionally, he has killed scores of troops in CC, and even a land raider. To counter that, I have a looted dread who is full of fail. He generally dies in the first or second turn, probably because he looks so threatening.

Septic wrote:My lone guardsman had his entire squad wiped out,
passed morale,
went into cover,
took 3 turns of an entire chaos marines army shooting,
left cover,
headed towards his own table edge and took 1 plasmagun hit,
went to cover and passed his six up,
then got wiped out by bolter fire.

Yep I saw it happen and hes know called chuck norris
anyway my story 1 all lascannon predator (For Chaos) has only died once in all the games that Ive used it in and then it took 5 melta shots endless plasma shots all on rear armour (thank you Flank march) and 3 Turns and was finally killed by an orbital bombardment that also took korsorro Khan on his bike an Exploding venerable dread and 20 Space marines and incase you hadnt guessed this was apocalypse

my termies against high AP weapons. For some reason I roll ones for saves with them against slugga's yet I always roll 5's or 6's against things like lascannons...

I have a unit of fire dragons that seems to be difficult to kill. I had one game where the 6 dragons hoped out of a serpant and blew up a chaos dread. They were then charged by a Defiler. Expecting them to die fast they managed to tie the close combat by only losing one dragon and causing an imobile result on the defiler with their melta bombs heh. Next turn the dragons went first and due to the immobile result were able to hit on weapon skill. 4 out of 5 hit and ended up blowing up the defiler. WOOT to the dragons!!!

I had a regular tactical squad bolter SM (not even the SGT) that was all that remained of my force at the end of turn 3 of a 1500pt game. He was holed up in a semi-destroyed building. He served until the end of the game against a remaining Ork force of about 1000pts. Lobbas, shootas, kans...nothing could dislodge this guy. He made every save and leadership check (still under 4th ed.). To his credit he took out the Boss with the KFF. I forgot to mark the guy or name him afterwards. It was not my best game, actually it sucked as did my dice rolls, but this stubborn guy held his ground much to the great annoyance of my buddy. He still gets irritated when I bring up the story of that lone marine.

Dashofpepper wrote:I also have a pink nob

lol.

i had a grey knights terminator that slaughtered its way across the table, going through a sentinel, platoon command squad and their chimera, before dying to a conscript!

My Khorne Daemon Prince seems pretty resilient, sadly his 'never dying' streak has come to an end now. (Oddly since my wife has ripped him apart while re-modelling and I've used a Bloodthirster as a stand in.)

So thinking on it, the actual model hasn't died, but his stand in Bloodthirster has died both times I've used him, the second battle in the first turn. Maybe the character is angry with me for the stand in.


Stuff the original model has done, made nine 3+ saves when he had one wound left, and then wiped out the Tyranid Warriors who had shot at him.

Killed a Jump pack Chaplain and 5man Squad of Assault marines over two rounds. (he charged, then the follow up round in the Marine phase)

Taken several Krak, battlecannon shots in the same battle where each time his Inv saved him.

In general he's seen as a monster and with what my wife is doing to him, he's going to be one of my fave models of all time.

I have a techmarine in my da army who always survies. My friends have started to call him "the guy who can take a tiwn-linked lascannon to the chest and live."

waaagh!orksrocks wrote:

Septic wrote:My lone guardsman had his entire squad wiped out,
passed morale,
went into cover,
took 3 turns of an entire chaos marines army shooting,
left cover,
headed towards his own table edge and took 1 plasmagun hit,
went to cover and passed his six up,
then got wiped out by bolter fire.

Yep I saw it happen and hes know called chuck norris
anyway my story 1 all lascannon predator (For Chaos) has only died once in all the games that Ive used it in and then it took 5 melta shots endless plasma shots all on rear armour (thank you Flank march) and 3 Turns and was finally killed by an orbital bombardment that also took korsorro Khan on his bike an Exploding venerable dread and 20 Space marines and incase you hadnt guessed this was apocalypse

Some punctuation would be nice. *FULL STOP*.

I don't have lucky models I have unlucky models and an occasional average model.

for instance, last night I had a CSM squad with Chaos Glory (re-roll leadership tests) break after getting their rhino exploded and run of my table edge in round one before my first movement phase AND rolled four ones and a two on five dice to wound with a demolisher cannon!

I really wish I had taken notes and pictures cause it would have been a pitifully histerical batrep!

I only have UNLUCKY models.

I had a bike mounted Chaos Lt who's leading cause of death was dying to DIFFICULT TERRAIN. Later, when ICs got skilled rider, this didn't seem to stem his superhuman ability to self destruct.

I have one now, after playing a small game the other night:

I have a single Veteran Squad meltagun specialist. I know, it is horrible to have just one, but I don't have the bits to make more yet. Anyway, during one game, this single meltagun dude survived a concerted bombardment of missile launchers and plasma cannons from a devastator squad that reduced the rest of the squad to mulch (he, the sarge, and a vox were the only ones left and amazingly passed the morale check), going on to survive a barrage of storm bolter rounds from a pair of rhinos. He then proceeded to punch a hole through one of the rhinos, exploding it, and then went on the next turn to assault the remaining rhino and clamp a meltabomb on it (thanks to the demo team doctrine), wrecking it. He is now my favorite IG infantryman!

My death korps of krieg sarge. He always survives.

My Dreadnought with plasma cannon/ assault cannon has only died once! He has charged a carnifax with 4/5 wounds and won, He killed a 10 chaos terminators of tzeentch and all with power fists. He charged a broodlord, avatar and tyrant, All of them he proceeded to wipe the floor with taking nothing. He is not venerable, people ask why I take him....

I also have a terminator Librarian with storm shield with quickening, might of the anciets powers and he proceeds to pass both physic tests and kill 3 fexes a tyrant ALL his guard, , 3 warriors,a biovore, and a broodlord, all of them with his force weapon, he has never gotten perils of the warp or die I think he has failed like 1/20 physic tests

My carnifex survived like 10 fusion blasters, a LR and some plasma rifles. He then regenerated one wound the next turn.

A simple Khorne Icon Bearer (dude on the left)


This little guy survived two large squads of IG firing at him (with first rank fire, second rank fire on top of that) and an officer trying to carve him up with a powersword. All the while being in base contact with the objective (a sheild generator), allowing me to win the game!

(lame I know, but I took a photo of it!

More recently, he was the sole survivor of a Zerker squad, after 2 templates of hurt, survived a Penal Legion Firing squad, and the rage of a Plasma cannon weilding Crazed Dreadnaught! Responsible for holding an objective, and being the jumping point for my Daemonettes to pop out.

So Ive got some serious love for this guy.

My craziest WTF unit is in my Massive JubMarines army and was there from the start...
In the JubMarines first battle they were up against 1400pt of Chaos Black Legion with only 750pt of their own. (i had no chance of winning, so like all good mates should, he made it easier for me. If i survived 5 turns i would win.)
after taking 3 rounds of pummeling from noise marines, raptors, a daemon prince, a chaos predator, a defiler (with havoc launcher) and other assortments. I was suprised to have 2 squads of marines (on at 6 men and one remarkably still at 10! and this squad had been hit by a lascannon, and the better part of 2 rounds of chaos marine shooting) and a dreadnought. after a good round of shooting the daemon prince was finnaly sent back to the warp and the last 3 noise marines were killed. leaving the enemy with the defiler, predator, 2 squads of chaos marines and 3 of his raptors. (things do not sound as good as they seem you'll see why soon.)
When the chaos turn came round, the havoc launcher just missed the dreadnought before it was peeled open by the predator's twin-linked lascannon.
The assault phase saw the raptor meet their doom at the hands of the 6 man squad but inflicting 3 casualties.
Turn 5 saw 1 of the chaos marine squads completely annahilated by the emperor's finest. my assault phase was non-exitent. The chaos shooting phase only took out the last three marines in the crippled squad, but no casualties on the 10 man squad! Much to my amasement. when the predator tank-shocked them in rage i landed a death or glory attempt on it and the defiler only able to take one marine witha missle launcher.
ever since they have always survived the battle and i have reassigned the marine with a missle launcher with a sergeant who always passes death or glory attempts! even though the squad has fled the battle many times in the past 2 months. They just soak it all up and wont die, they flee alot more than you would expect devout space marines to (they are obviously not devout then).


I do realize that this actually is pretty ey.

my last game vs guardian heavy eldar, my pimped out warboss, squig eavy/cybork got assaulted by a squad of guardians and i think its a wraithlord? the monstrous creature thats not avatar. Da boss was solo at that point having watched his squad of boyz go down like flies, he pulls 2 5+ invuls and 3 4+ armor saves with one freaking wound left ..... counterattacks and breaks the squad of guardians with 4 kills, they fail morale and break towards board edge, next turn i survive 1 more 5+invul and tear apart the wraithlord(?). Next turn da boss dies to mass pistol fire, having killed like 3-4x his cost in points

Ima have to make some kind of medal out of greenstuff or something to give him lols...

I have a Gtretechin, [in 2nd] that kill 3 Khorne Berserkers in Melee

My thousnad sons Aspiring Sorceror. Not only has he killed Lysander and Ghazkull in CC, He slogged 3 rounds in combat against a Dreadnaught, took out a guard squad by himself, and survived being hit by vortex of doom.

Although odly, a lucky grot once managed to kill him.

My avatar is probably my luckiest model.

But then, that's not really luck, is it.

Other than him, I'd have to go with my first falcon (you know, the one with the crappy paint job). the thing's immortal, I'm telling you.

My farseer "jesus" survived two missles and six powerfist wounds in one game.

As you mention 40K and Fantasy:

40K: Imperial = Plasma Cannon trooper. Was down to only him and a Bolter, opponent was down to a Terminator - their turn - and within assault range. The Bolter Marine's attack missed, but the Plasma Cannon hit, wounded, and made it past the save before he could smack us with 3 PF attacks. In other games, he rarely (if ever) has misfired.
Chaos = "Bob", who was a Chosen w/ Talons, MoK, Strength, Furious, etc. He'd jump into the fray and chop lots of gribblies up, every time. Rarely died compared to the rest of the Champions I had, too.

Now, on the reverse end...

Space Marines = Hi, I'm Beakie the Meltagunner, and I miss. A lot.
Chaos = Chaos Dreadnought. You ever watch a Chaos Dread go only 5 inches in three turns through difficult terrain?

Fantasy: TIE = a Savage Orc Shaman, and a Goblin Champion. The Savage Orc challenged Grimgor to protect the unit he was in (Black Orcs) during a charge, and actually survived the combat with only his Warpaint. Meanwhile, the Night Goblin Boss managed to not only survive, but win a challenge against a Plague Bearer Champion in a unit that held a Herald.

Lord of the Rings / War of the Ring: A solitary Orc Tracker, who for about four turns went and won against Elves (while trapped) and consistently won. Even the (first) round he lost he wasn't killed, despite being trapped with four Elvish attacks against him.

Va'sh the seducer, my winged lash sorcerer has stood the test:

4 vindicator shells in a single game, no prob.
countless meltagun shots
flamers, lascannons etc without flinching.
takes apart dreads with his lucky meltabombs.
Blows up transports with his plasmagun and then proceeds to bitch-slap the contents silly.


The only time he dies ingloriously is when he mispronounces his words and fries himself..



My berzerker champ spent 6 rounds flat on his back in the middle of a field while vindicator shells and half of a dark angels army fired on him.
Then he slipped in a puddle and broke his neck in turn 7 (failed terrain test)

...Much as its a silly answer...

My housemate's Celestine.

She'll get knocked out, but she has NEVER failed a "No, actually, i'm in reserve, biatch" Roll.
Lovely model, too.

My Nightbringer moved forward, tearing chunks out of my friends' necron army, and died when they shot him down using the Gauss rule. His only defeat and the resulting explosion killed the rest of my friends' army.

For my DH army I have inquisitorial ST with a Grenade Launcher that survives every game. His greatest moment was when the rest of the squad had been blown apart by some death Kopta's and was forced to fall back. He ended up passing moral and killing two of the kopta's thus making the squad fall back. The next game he took out 3 eldar jet bikes by himself.

I actually have two big meks with shokk attack guns (One got for christmas and one I got from trading with a friend...) and the one I got from my friend never seems to die whether it's because they decide he's not worth shooting or whatever. Every game I usually roll a "Zoink" and send him flying towards the enemy... but he always seems to survive what would've been a downright slaughter of him. Out of six games I fielded him he has yet to die (Five of the games he rolled a Zoink, and one he didn't really do much except annihilate a whole squad of my loota's...).

My Chaos Sorceror. Once he and a Ksons aspiring sorceror took a shooting phase from 3 whole marine squads and survived (avoiding 6 Krak Missile hits and 2 lascannons) on the only objective winning me the game! He's my new best friend.

My friend was pretty annoyed as I had 2 guys left and bet his 30-odd marines

My Troll, whom I simply call Bog.

Bog's killed a dragon with nothing but vomit, and luck.

Bog's also survived 3 Bolt Thrower Shots, a Cannon Shot, and an Organ Gun Salvo. He then broke a unit of dwarfs.

My Warboss is always the last to die, and usually take 20-40 other units in CC, against just him, on his last wound.

I have a Shas'ui, I call him Phil, who in one game took out 2 berzerkers in assault and survived the whole game (it was amazing!), and in an Apoc. battle, after his entire squad was killed, he pretty much killed a broodlord (his drone's markerlights increased his BS and he rapid-fired out it's last two wounds!!

Bro sergent trevor (bro not brother in the night marines)

trevor has jumped into the ork horde 3 times now every time his entire squad has died leaving only him left

1st time killed a warboss and nobsquad
2nd time blew up a truck with melta bombs and then killed a full nob squad
3rd time killed a big mech and 2 deff dreds

Im thinking of promoting him to a vanguard

Earlier today, my 5 man Guard Command Squad brought down a Carnifex in close combat.


No losses on my part AT ALL. Not even 1 wound.

Back in 4th ed, the Chimera of one of my infantry squads started the battle pretty much in the middle of the board. Turn 1, the sarge orders a 6" advance into a clearing, because he doesn't like getting dirt or scratches on the paint of his tank. For the rest of the game, that Chimera just sits there and absorbs the fury of a 1k Eldar army on its own, sustaining only a single shaken result.
On the last turn, it even manages to blow off the pulse laser of a Falcon, which has no other option than to pick up the only other Eldar survivor, the Farseer, and get the hell out of there.

Of course, my fancy assault howitzer conversion (inspired by the StuGIII, counts as an armored Basilisk) will inevitably explode when hit by anything. So far, I don't think it's ever gotten to fire a second shot (sometimes not even the first one) in any game. To make it more predictable, it always scatters off target with the first shot anyway. But I still include it, because it looks so pretty.

it was back in the days of third edition but my striking scorpion squad would not die, and would kill everything. They killed carnifexs, tyrants, thousands of kroot, terminators, grey nights. I dont know how they did it but they were amazing. The best single moment for them was in one game they were sitting in 5+ cover and were rapid fired by 3 squads of tau, 2 squads of 20 kroot, 5 crises suits, and i think 2 or 4 broadsides, and managed not to loose a single model. The kroot then proceeded to charge (3rd edition rules) and were wiped out all by a 5 man scorpion squad.

I see there's been some good old fashioned 1 month threadromancy here. Ah well. Bandwagons are fun!

I have a Termie w/ assault cannon... one game, he sat in the cover of a downed shuttle for the last 6/10 turns exchanging shots from his assault cannon with my buddy's Termies.

He must've taken over 100 hits before the game ended, and lived through all of them. Managed to take down 7 of the enemy Termies too. Oddly enough, my buddy never thought to just charge him and fist the guy's bung. Ah well. Luck is luck

tiekwando wrote:it was back in the days of third edition but my striking scorpion squad would not die, and would kill everything. They killed carnifexs, tyrants, thousands of kroot, terminators, grey nights.

Grey Knights and Kroot were in 3rd ed? This is news to me, considering I started the year 3rd ed was released and IIRC, Grey Knights and Tau didn't come out until pretty much the very end of it.

My oldest brother has one. He has a Chaplin on bike that just never EVER died. Its one of his oldest minis, and has used it since 3rd edition rules set. Ive seen it survive cannon shots, devastator squads a maxed out DP. Even when the whole bike squad hies, he is that last one alive, and never seems to go down.

My Khorne Lord on Bike with Bloodfeeder has a bad habit of tearing my enemies a new ass. Shown when he detroyed a landriader with a melta bomb, and the next turn the whole teminator squad w/ librarian were caught in his sweeping advance... i love him...
although only comes in at 175 points...

My apothacary has survived more CC then my captain and company champion togather. I dunno why, but he always stays alive, and kills stuff. My friend deep striked with a Caladus assasin, took out my whole command squad with his neural shredder, killed my captain in Assault, and died at the hands of the Apothacary. He also took out a Grey knight Grand master, and survived a Revenant titan taking all its shots at that squad. I cant describe it.

i have a grot named toby.

he once got shot by 3 battlecannons, 6 lascannons, 12 heavy bolters and 9 autocannons at once, and he survived only to charge forward and kill a 162 guardsmen, 65 sentinels, 7 leman russes and 5 commisars. That was back in the day when he was an infant. also he was born blind, deaf, with one arm and no legs.he's my hero.

My unnamed tank-killing battle suit, who in one game destroyed a Space Wolf Land raider (ds behind w/ 2d6 armour pen) then with his 3+ armour, 4+invul and Feel No Pain proceeded to take only 1 wound against 48 bolters, 2 autocannons, a devastator squad full of plasma cannons and a Wolf Lord dred in CC

My Falcon grav-tank. It came under fire from three venom cannons and was assaulted by a Carnifex in one turn and was somehow fine.

My Tau force has this one Broadside who for some odd reason always survives assaults. never wins them but the game always ends without him dead!!

My Nurgle's Rot Daemon Prince survived 2 turns of necron shooting. On one wound. Then he was charged by a squad of 10 necrons and wiped them out. Then he charged another squad, let off nurgles rot and killed 6 of the (wtf?) and took out the other 4 in combat. He then survived another turn of necron shooting and was again charged by another squad of necrons, and wiped them out, turning a defeat into a win!

My stormtrooper sargent has NEVER died. The squad that is with him and the transport it is in has yet to kill anything (exept themselves with a plasmagun, that happens alot) and he manages to do something epic every game.

First time, valk got shot down 1st turn deep in enemy territory, the squad piled out, two men died in the wrekage. An assault squad jumped them (no pun intended) and all but one trooper and the sarge died. Second turn, the remaning man dies, the sarge downs three blood angel ass marines with a single blow. 3rd turn, the marines continue to fail, and he kills the rest.

Second game, he manages to kill four terminators without dieing (without his squad)

Third, he survived a mob of brezerkers (but not the squad... See a pattern forming?) killed two of them, and than got rescued the next turn while he was still hacking them up.

The most recent game, he got his squad wiped out, charged a terminator squad (with spport) then went on to death or glory explode a land rader with a melta bomb, force the terminators to emergency disembark (big squad, LRC) and allowed my GK teminators and yarrick to get the charge off.

Four games, four reasons that he is now my favorite model.

In an old game of 3rd edition, I had a unit of Space Marine Scouts with sniper rifles. Now, back in 3rd ed, the Scout Sergeant couldn't take a sniper rifle, so he had a bolt pistol and close combat weapon. The Scouts were holding an objective in the middle of the field but taking heavy casualties. Everybody except the Sergeant died-- I figured the high leadership would help for All On Your Own-- and things were looking grim. I was able to deal with most of the enemy force, but a large unit of Chaos Terminators was approaching and about to assault onto the objective. I figured that I had to attack and at least stall them while I got more troops into position.

The Sergeant charged into combat, but only engaged one of the Terminators. Before the Traitor Marine could power up his fist, the Scout Sergeant took him out with some kind of super-lucky knife technique. As nobody else was in range, the assault ended, and the Terminators had to test morale. They failed morale, rolled a one for the initiative check, and got run down-- a lone Scout singlehandedly killed 7 enemy Terminators in hand-to-hand combat.

My friend has these scouts armed entirely with shotguns. In my first match against him, I ignored them as they raced across the board to meet my BA aussalt squad. (I was concentrating on the Devastators). When they got within range they fired on my guys, killing three, making the rest flee (with Jump packs they managed to make it off the board. *facepalm*). They then proceed to survive all sorts of fire from me, making thier way to my objective. They survived a charge from my second assualt squad losing two guys, and killing 3 more of mine. I lose and flee off the table. Again. Turn 5, I charge out from where my objective is into him, killing two more (only the serge is left) and losing one. He flees to the closest table edge, taking him right on top of my objective. He rallies, takes aa shot at my Assualt squad and kills one. They also flee off the table. The game ended that turn.

Objectives
Me = 0
Him = 1

That serge was Epic.

I think possibly the most ludicrous instance of WTFness, was at a tourny with a buddy, my bud in 2 games against the same guy(back in fourth, his opponent playing chaos with bloodletters and a thirster, while he played Marines) the first game somehow his emporers champion lived for 3 turns against 7 bloodletters, then the unthinkable happend next game. He had a regular marine, no special weapons, no nothing, survive 4 f'ing turns against a bloodthirster, I kid you not, stalled the thirster the whole game... and to top it off, at the end of the last turn, HE KILLED THE THIRSTER!!

...No way. (What's the toughness of a bloodthirster?!?)

BTW, a single DC of mine killed 3 orks, made a squad of 10 (with a mek inside) flee, and ran them down. Oh yeah... =)

I dont remember exactly what it used to be, all I know is he needed a 5to hit and then a 6 to wound him... and by krikee, he got it!

I have a Chaos Dready That has had everything but wrecked or explosion happen to him!

He once had been immobilzed and had his plasma cannon blown off.

And with a tled bolter killed a lord of change it was epic.

My defiler on the other hand has a Hydrogen bomb for a gastank so It ALWAYS die's.
I blame people flipping out on the poor thing, It really should have front armor 13.

One IG player I used to play regularly had an IG model with a Nid head (i think) on its base. Apparently he was a beast in CC. His squad took a Khornate Berzerker charge and held. That model didn't die. The counter charge killed my entire plan. So killing that model became a goal for me. In fact, it took me 3 games against him to kill that model, (resulting in a small celebration when i finally did).

As for luckiest for me, well, a squad of T_Sons had an Incubi-Mega squad fail a diff. terrain test for charging. The shoot and kill all but the Archon, Drazhar, and the Incubi Master. next turn, they are charged by said squad and a squad of jetbikes with a Dracite. He, in total, has like 4 models taking drugs. The next two turns he proceeds to kill the Master, Jetbike Succubus, and wound his lord twice(or lord and Dracite) with drug ODs. My guys just stood there laughing (which is probably why they generally failed to add anything to the total)

LOL, just goes to show DE kids that whatever they do...




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even funnier, he NEVER rolled for more than two options. It was amazing. Even he was laughing by the end of it

I love my ork warboss. I gave him a TL Shoota (Because it's the AoBR warboss, that's what he's got so I decided to try it) He rarely misses, even if his entire nobs group misses, or the big shoota on the trukk he's in misses, his shoota is nearly always on target.


ON THE OTHER HAND. the nob in my boyz mob, never hits anything. "Ok I need fours to hit with my nob's klaw....is that two threes a two and a one? :cry: "

2 days ago I played against some 1000pts aside it went kind of like this
1 Ghazghkull Thraka, 44 Pulse Rifle Shots, 1 Wound

i had a eldar ranger who survived 6 rounds of whirlwinds (3 of them) continuous fire... he also took out a space marine captian in the same game... got me into the finals of the tourny i was in... winning me 3rd place... (he know has a green mark on his helmet)

one of my mates in his first game after the second turn had lost all 1000 points of space marines he had ecept for 1 space marine with a missile launcher... he some how survived 5 turns of sniper shots, 3 falcons continuous fire a avatar of khaine attempting to reach him but instead trying to melt him, 20 dire avengers peppering him... being doomed every turn... we called him neo...

ok so once upon a time I was playing orks, and my friend was the eldar. i had 8 unassuming boyz take out a full squad of avengers, a full squad of wraithguard, the warlock and two vypers before death. then a group of mega-nobz got screwed over by the avatar... except for brick****house.... He went on to kill the avatar, the seer counsel and a wraithlord.

Then I had a Carnifex that took on 60 boyz, got shot at by some 120 big shoota shots, a full squad of IG sniper shots, And a demolisher cannon, only to regenerate four wounds the next round.

I had a single Fire Warrior withstand 3 rounds of HTH with Vulcan and two SM. He killed the 2 SM and put a wound on Vulcan before the game finally ended.

My skull champion from my berserker squad is AWESOME. In an apoc games vs smurfs and goff orks, he owned despite his squad (-the attached Khorne Lord) being fried by orbital Bombardment.
Tally of kills:
Boss Zagstruck
Baneblade
Sicarius
Battle Wagon
Stompa
Like....25 shoota boys blew up when he used his combi-melta on a stompa. They ran off, only to be followed an cut down by him (the Khorne Lord died to a super-gatler...those things are amazing..).

In fact, I've now been Inspired to do an apoc battle report on this using the pictures on my mobile.

karimabuseer wrote:My skull champion from my berserker squad is AWESOME. In an apoc games vs smurfs and goff orks, he owned despite his squad (-the attached Khorne Lord) being fried by orbital Bombardment.
Tally of kills:
Boss Zagstruck
Baneblade
Sicarius
Battle Wagon
Stompa
Like....25 shoota boys blew up when he used his combi-melta on a stompa. They ran off, only to be followed an cut down by him (the Khorne Lord died to a super-gatler...those things are amazing..).

In fact, I've now been Inspired to do an apoc battle report on this using the pictures on my mobile.

yours too? Mine always seem to last to the end, when I send them off to go charge a superheavy tank or something. It doesn't work much, but its always funny

My Daemon Prince took out a Deathwing Terminator Squad in a SM/Eldar vs Chaos Apoc battle (which had Deep Striked the turn before, if I remember correctly). Unfortunately, he has a habit of being a very mixed bag.

Next turn he gets into CC with some Dire Avengers. He only kills ONE (I seriously rolled a bunch of 1's), only to be killed by a regular Dire Avenger (Prince had 2 Wounds, and lost both to the same squad, despite having a 3+ Save...).

As far as lucky models go...way back when Old One Eye used to be usable for 'Nids, he went into CC against a Dark Angels Chapter Master/Captain. Having awful Initiative, and being on 1 remaining Wound after heavy Lascannon fire, Old One Eye got put down by the Captain's CC attacks...only to stand back up...and get knocked down...and get back up (this went over a few Assault phases). The Dark Angels Captain never even let Old One Eye get a hit (as his Initiative was higher, and he rolled lucky every time), but Old One Eye got back up FOUR times before finally keeling over for good

My Thousand Sons in my CSM army always seem to survive anything thrown at them too.

Twisting it slightly, but my SM terminator librarian has NEVER survived past turn 3. He gets shot, blown up, stabbed, attacked by warp creatures and pushed over by grots. Repeatedly.

My luckiest models are:
Ork
The 3 runtherders in a mob of 30 gretchen, these three brothers took on a Tau Commander Battlesuit and won without taking wounds and then went toe to toe with Maguan Ra and won without taking a wound and they havent died once.

Eldar
My Bonesinger [Limited edition model, count as Farseer], hit a unit of 3 sentinels with eldrich storm and destroyed all of them. Killed a demon prince with only one mind war. Survived an assault from a full assault terminator unit and held them off for 3 turns until wraithlord and others could kill them. He is nigh unstoppable!!

My DE Archon.

One time he single-handedly fought two balls-out melee spec Hive Tyrants at the same time and killed them both.

Another time he killed a Bloodthirster after passing 8 inv saves against the Bloodthirster's attacks when one successful wound would have insta-killed him.

karimabuseer wrote:My skull champion from my berserker squad is AWESOME.

I have the same type of experience with mine, he's gotten quite a story going by now...
9 years ago in 3rd my brother bought a box of 'zerkers and lost the bent leg off of several (he was 12 at the time)
I took the one legged model I liked the most and bandaged up the stump. He then became stumpy, a standard 'zerker serving in the FOC.
Fast forward a couple of years and now the little guy has an unkillable reputation and is promoted to skull champion Stumpy. Remove the arms for a proper axe of khorne and give him a banner pole bearing his name. Stumpy becomes MORE unkillable.
Moving into 5th the life expectancy of stumpy is turn 5-6, and his survival is valued more than some objectives. Opponents divert forces to kill him once they bounce off his unit the first time. Several times Stumpy has been the sole survivor of a unit only to have another unit of zerkers run over to shield him.
After a really rough game where I won with maybe 10-12 models left on the board (stumpy being one of them). Stumpy has now been promoted to High Lord Stumpy, power armor demon weapon Lord. He still pisses off the enemy, even though he can now be targeted in combat.

I've changed the arms and upgraded his base, but it's the same 9 year old plastic kicking ass out there. If he makes it to 15 I'll retire him.

I once charged my captain with 1 wound left into a fresh carnifex flyrant and about 20 gaunts... He won the assault!

Keep in mind, it was the last turn so he didn't kill them all, but surviving that is pretty good in my mind.

The next best is 1 marine against 16 hormagaunts. A warrior tried to template the other combat squad, full scatter and killed 8 gaunts, the combat squad removed synapse, and the marine killed 1 guant per turn until the game ended.

My Mad Dok Grotsnik has to be hit 50 times by an accumulation of anything before he dies. However a guardsmen will kill him in combat.

Humblesteve wrote:

karimabuseer wrote:My skull champion from my berserker squad is AWESOME.

I have the same type of experience with mine, he's gotten quite a story going by now...
9 years ago in 3rd my brother bought a box of 'zerkers and lost the bent leg off of several (he was 12 at the time)
I took the one legged model I liked the most and bandaged up the stump. He then became stumpy, a standard 'zerker serving in the FOC.
Fast forward a couple of years and now the little guy has an unkillable reputation and is promoted to skull champion Stumpy. Remove the arms for a proper axe of khorne and give him a banner pole bearing his name. Stumpy becomes MORE unkillable.
Moving into 5th the life expectancy of stumpy is turn 5-6, and his survival is valued more than some objectives. Opponents divert forces to kill him once they bounce off his unit the first time. Several times Stumpy has been the sole survivor of a unit only to have another unit of zerkers run over to shield him.
After a really rough game where I won with maybe 10-12 models left on the board (stumpy being one of them). Stumpy has now been promoted to High Lord Stumpy, power armor demon weapon Lord. He still pisses off the enemy, even though he can now be targeted in combat.

I've changed the arms and upgraded his base, but it's the same 9 year old plastic kicking ass out there. If he makes it to 15 I'll retire him.

Lol. Mine was 3rd ed too. I've also used him as a chaos lord in some games, and upgraded him with the heads of notable defeated opponents (my friend was awesome enough to give me the spare sicarius head....Zagstruck is just the ork kommander from the stompa...he's also standing on a salamander head, after I gave them an utter thrashing).

I have a power weapon equipped crusader (the sword bretheren model) who in a practice game for the Battlefoam Tournament survived 2 rounds of combat with 'nilla marines, jumped in a LRC, survived it exploding, the dangerous terrain check, and 3 vindicator blasts (4+ cover) before holding down the critical objective (counts as 2) for the rest of the game. Tipping the scales to a win for me.

For me, it is a Dire avenger with a Power weapon. One time, he got his entire aquad destroyed, and he passed his morale test against 5 space marines, and STILL won! And one time, I went to ground in the open and he passed his 6+ cover save against a multi-melta! Then I remembered the time he took on the Blood Angel Corbulo (may have spelt it wrong) and totally killed him.

I was playing a game of WHFB using Dwarfs against dark elves and had a thunderer in a unit of ten who survived two rounds of bolt throwers after his mates died double tapping at him and then he killed a cold one in shooting and killed another in close combat and didnt run in the face of a hydra before he died. i was playing warmaster and i had a lone stand of pistoliers who killed a stand of dwarf thunderers and made another confused and then went on to kill i think two stands of warriors.

I have this one sgt in my SM tactical squad that is a real allstar. There have been several games where he is the only one left from the unit. He has single handedly held objectives from lictors, dispatched of small infantry squads and even killed HQs. Its this one particular model, even though I have two loaded out in the same way (BP + PW). He was the first Sgt I painted so I think its just the experience factor

... renegade psyker and a commissar (modified TPC female cadian officer) both took a lance strike and both survived...

at which point both players proclaimed: "TETSUOOOOOO!"

Vulkan verses 7 Grey Knight Termies and Grandmaster. Vulkan came out with 1 wound left after 3 turns of combat. Was an epic fight.

Last game my Vyper proved incredibly lucky. Equipped with nothing more than a Shuriken Cannon on the turret and another one underslung, no Holo-fields or anything, it survived countless Lascannon blasts, direct Battle Cannon hits and rounds of Heavy Bolter fire with nothing worse than a couple of Stunned results and 1 Weapon Destroyed result for the entire game =D

I once did 17 power weapon wounds to that flying gal that leads the Sisters of Battle, only to have her shrug all but one of them off Invulnerably