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Post by: liam0404
Dakka, today was a legendary day!
My necron 2000 point list wiped out a Tyrannid 2000 point list at the cost of ZERO casualties.
There's a bit of a story to this. The tyrannid player has a reputation to be TFG in our FLGS, and often knows that people have set lists, and regularly writes lists to counter these, and then issues "impromptu" challenges to said players, usually doing rather well.
Tonight people caught on to this, and his opponent asked to re-write his list, to which TFG declined. I said that I would play him, and seeing that I had my necrons with me, he readily accepted. As he was deploying, I noticed that nothing in his army had guns of any description. He also said that we "were playing annihilation", and did not give me the opportunity to roll for the mission. This worried me as I thought i'd get schooled in killpoints.
Being extremely cocky, he then stated - "I have genestealers and gaunts, but since youre necrons, I don't see the need to outflank." Fearing the worst, I started my shooting.
By turn 4 it was all over, and I had never seen a player pack up so quickly in my life. I took no wounds, and had to take no armour saves for the entire game. Even I wasn't expecting that! The FLGS had a mini cheer after TFG left, and I admit it felt pretty damn good! It wasn't until afterwards that someone said id "bowled a perfect game". I kind of liek the anaolgy!
So Dakka, has anyone else managed this once in a lifetime feat? If so please share your stories!
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Post by: Ifurita
Nice and well done. I think the only game that has gone like that for me, was a game (3rd edition WHFB) where my Skaven got in an early charge, won the round, caused the opposing unit to flee off the board, which also caused the 2 units on either side to flee too.
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Post by: poontangler
I fought my friend's Blood Angels with my Tau a few weeks ago. I managed to table him and take no casualties which was damned near miraculous considering how much favoritism the space marines have. It was a result of me rolling very well, and him rolling poorly. I passed most of my saving throws, and he literally failed every cover save, leader ship, and feel no pain he had.
It was so brutal, and dependant on the dice we did a rematch with the same game set up.
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Post by: Guitardian
I came close once. 2 casualties in 1000 points. I was unfortunately assigned to play against the 6th grade kid in a league game. He had foot slogging terminators straight out of AoBR with no upgrade, he had a single rhino with which he charged his fresh-out-of-the-box command squad (as-is from the box cover) tactical squads with just bolters, drop pods with a couple of lascannon dreads. I don't really remember all the gory, but just suffice to say the most random army build ever, and very little idea what to do other than the blue-man shuffle just advancing up the table as if its a race across no mans land.
I really REALLY didn't want to, I tried so hard to make accidental 'mistakes' to leave him a bone here or there, but I couldn't just play through the game and not take shots at him, that would have been too obvious. It was so hopeless I felt like a jerk, and plus his dad was there with him. So not cool to be the guy beating up the 13 yr old. Seriously that was the most painful game I ever played. Advice, reminders (like where to place templates to catch the most targets, why not to try and shoot S4 at AV12, etc) all just made me look like more of a jerk because I was telling this kid and he was still losing.
I got no joy at all from that 'victory'. It was a long hour drive home from the FLGS that night. Fortunately, I wasn't the only guy in our 20-ish person league who had the same experience.
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Post by: TheCapm
I've seen it a couple times pulled off on newbs, but never had the heart to do it to them myself.
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Post by: Griever
Yes, I played as my Crimson fists against some other Space marine player. One of those 15-16 year old kids who has like 1 Dreadnought, 5 poorly Armed tactical squads with no transports, and a points inefficient Command Squad in a Land Raider. It was the Battle Missions scenario where he had to deploy everything on the table but his models couldn't be within 9" of each other or within 9" of the board edge. I then got to come on either a long or short table edge with first turn. I came on first turn, Land Raider eats some multi-meltas, a couple tactical squads eat vindicator rounds and plasma cannon fire, and a pod of sternguard blow the expensive command squad with a 3+ save away. His first he's got an immobilized dread and a couple tactical squads on foot. All he can do is shoot 2 missile launchers and an assault cannon.
My next turn comes, I whipe out a tactical squad, blow off both the dreads arm, and two other tactical squads have like 2-3 guys left. I tell him that we can start a new game if he wants, and he agrees to.
Bad List + Unfair scenario + Inexperienced player who barely knows the rules = a tough game
It can be tough, but I get to play one game a week. I'm not going to intentionally not play my game because somebody else isn't very good. After the game I offered advice on what to do with the list (get Rhinos, lose the command squad) and what I would've done in his place.
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Post by: Guitardian
TheCapm wrote:I've seen it a couple times pulled off on newbs, but never had the heart to do it to them myself.
Yeah man, but like I said, it just can't be helped! I can't not shoot without being a little too obvious, y'know?
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Post by: TheCapm
Guitardian wrote:TheCapm wrote:I've seen it a couple times pulled off on newbs, but never had the heart to do it to them myself.
Yeah man, but like I said, it just can't be helped! I can't not shoot without being a little too obvious, y'know?
Haha, I didn't see your post, my bad. I know what you mean though. I've had the same experience in a different way. Someone was having some real problems winning, so I gave myself a 100 pnt handicap and told them my list. Still didn't go too well for them :\
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Post by: Acardia
Yeah I had an opponent who seriously brought only 30 "necron" models to a 1500 point fight. got a brilliant round of shooting on one of the squads of warriors, wittled down to 7 after WBB and both squads of kroot outflanked into the other squad and killing them all in turn two.
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Post by: Mr Mystery
I rather fear my take on the perfect game is somewhat different than this thread's...
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Post by: liam0404
What's your take Mr Mystery?
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Post by: Mr Mystery
When the game is even stevens right up to the last roll of the dice, one player's flank suddenly colllapsing, leading to the rout of the best part of their army.
I have had games like the OP mentioned, and satisfying as they are against a jerk as described, I wouldn't call them perfect, mainly on account that you started playing against a knob-end.
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Post by: liam0404
Well it wasn't me who coined the phrase, and I think the person saying meant liek if you "bowled a perfect game", and this was the same sort of deal?
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Post by: flimmyyip
alas, this has happened TO ME before, it was my second game, DKOK against my first army, Chaos Marines. i managed to take 2 of his guardsmans lives, befor he swept me off the table. he had a chimera/sentinel heavy list, and i mainly had plain marines (no upgrades) and a predator. even though it was armed to the teeth with las-cannons i think i landed one shot (on a sentinel) which i then preceded to stun. so the total slain:
ME: 2 guardsman
HIM: My 1500 point chaos army
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Post by: Happygrunt
I crushed a BT army. Didnt feel good. Especially because he really didnt know what he was doing. Gave some pointers.
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Post by: Gavin Thorne
The closest I've come to not losing a model and tabling my opponent was in a local RTT playing a 3x4 destroyer, 2x lith, 2x10 warrior, 1x10 immortal list against the last incarnation of BA's. He ran a landraider with Dante and honorguard, a unit of death company led by Tycho, two tac squads with PC, and a squad of 3 MM attack bikes.
I castled in the back corner, reserved my warriors, and kept my destroyers behind cover. I won first turn, particle whipped his bikes and cannoned his tacs to dust. He moved up, immobilized his raider in terrain and wiffed all his shots. I moved up the liths and flux arced everything that was in range, immobilizing the pred and stunning the raider. The lord veiled up the immortals to pound the death company to a mangeable size, finished off by the destroyers. The following round, Dante hopped out of the raider and ran for the closest lith and ended up getting offed just like Tycho.
After 4 rounds I had lost a wound on my lord and two destroyers and the BA player conceded with hardly anything left. It may not have been a 300, but it was easily a 250. 
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Post by: NamTaey
Don't know if this is a perfect game or if it really true or not but I'll say anyway.
My friend told me one time he saw a complete White Scar army play a Tau list (with Kroot.) They rolled off and the Tau player got to go first. The White Scar player said that he was going to put everything in reserve. So that allowed the Tau player to infiltrate his kroot without any problems and he did a massive kroot line to block the table edge((s) not sure if the White Scars outflanked or not) which stopped any White Scars to to hit the board. The White Scar player apparently said, "Want to play again?" 
Once again I did not witness this but my friend is trustworthy all the way so I don't have doubts 
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Post by: Foxtale
Mmmm against a mechanised Imperial Guard force. First turn alpha strike from him destroyed my transports, leaving my Farseer and Dire Avengers to run off the board, and my Fire Dragons to the mercy of Heavy Flamers.
Second turn, my Jetlock popped his Manticore, my Fire Prism dies. Third turn, Guardian Jetbikes + Lock get wiped.
Game Set Match. One of those games that ends on the first turn from a lucky scatter.
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Post by: NamTaey
One of those games that ends on the first turn from a lucky scatter.
Well that is a bad day
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Post by: brettz123
Back in third edition I did it several times.
Once against dark eldar the dude packed his raiders really close and I had two whirlwinds. That wasn't very pretty.
The other two times was against an Ork player who did pretty much the same thing and I dropped my whirlwind templates down behind his trukks and that wasn't pretty either especially considering I pretty much wiped out an entire retinue of nobs and a warboss..... he started taking a mek with a force field after that.
Almost did it against a space wolf player but he did eventually kill one of my marines.
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Post by: Logic
During a tournament my standard Marines nearly tabled a Nurgle Daemon army. He had only two damaged units left (running for their lives), and I hadn't taken a single casualty or even suffered a single damage result on my vehicles.
We both thought it was pretty crazy and he was a good sport. His army had plenty of chances to inflict casualties.. I just had great rolls and he had bad rolls.
Funny thing is we've had very similar games like that. But never quite that extreme... I guess the dice gods favor me over him  
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Post by: snurl
The last game of WHFB I played was almost perfect. 1000 pts. Dwarves vs. VC. I lost 1 dwarf thunderer at the top of turn 6. This was against a long time opponent too. I attribute this to two things. First, my dice rolls were incredibly lucky all night, and the second thing was he had advanced his general behind his dire wolves, which left him in the open when the wolves had been destroyed through volley fire. One organ gun shot later and his vampire was gone, and his army crumbled quickly after that.
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Post by: hungryp
Closest I've come was just a few weeks ago.
In a 1000 point game with my Orks against Space Wolves, I didn't lose a model until the bottom of turn 4. By the end of a full 7 turns, I had lost 7 Boyz. I stopped short of tabling him under the pretense of claiming the objective in his deployment zone.
The worst part? My opponent actually had one of his better games. He's only been playing with us since the summer, so still tends to make some rookie mistakes. In this game, he had a solid list, deployed well, and played smart, but got face-owned by the dice gods.
When you lose almost two full tac squads to Ork shooting before inflicting any casualties, you know it's a day when you should have just stayed in bed.
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Post by: AgeOfEgos
I've seen two really ugly games.
1st Game. I watched 4th Edition Iron Warriors table my buddy's Tau in two turns without even needing to roll an armor save. Just disgustingly ugly firepower.
2nd Game: I was playing Crusher spam v. a Necron player that deployed his warriors and reserved his monolith. I said to hell with it and went crazy aggressive on my split/deep strike...landing everything perfectly and getting all my Crushers in. Lost 3 wounds on a unique allocated Crusher unit (didn't lose a model though), then multi-charged everything and phased him turn 2. Felt bad man.
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Post by: Alphapod
I have had two experiences with this:
1. My 750 Point Deathwing (Shooting Terminators only at that point) was wiped from the table by DoA Sanguinary Guard. That was bad.
2. I was paired up to teach a new player how to play. We agreed to do an HQ-only faceoff. I only had my Tau with me, so... I drop a Fireknife Crisis Suit Retinue against his Black Templar Terminator Command Squad. He had me out-pointed by about 80 and I wiped him off the table with only 1 wound taken. I felt kinda bad about it because of the mismatch in the HQs, but I wasn't that experienced myself and didn't know how bad the matchup was.
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Post by: timetowaste85
I had one game where I lost a single space marine terminator w/ a storm shield and a thunder hammer (named him Tim and had Vulcan return to Tim's widow to tell her that the war was won with only a single casualty) and had another game where I lost one tactical marine and one rhino. Both games against the same player who is a pretty good player. It was probably pretty lucky on my part both times, but they were fun and awesome games with a great friend, and we just had a good laugh over it (he and another friend teamed up against me the next game and wiped my donkey all over the table. I swore revenge on them individually)
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Post by: Corrode
I once tabled a guy's Marines at the cost of a single Demolisher cannon on a Vindicator. It was hardly a fair contest considering my list was pretty strong and his was godawful, but he's 'that guy' who doesn't know the rules very well but has been playing forever and always writes his list after finding out what you're playing. Fortunately he's not actually good enough to really tailor a list properly. It wasn't exactly a massive achievement to beat him in that fashion though.
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Post by: Brother SRM
A "perfect" game, as described here, is far from it - I usually feel too bad for the other guy to have really enjoyed it. The Tyranid guy in the OP sounds like an ass though, and you gave him what he deserved.
I've had games where I only lost a dozen Guardsmen and tabled my opponent though. Wasn't terribly fun.
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Post by: cygnnus
Best I can claim is when I played the my first game of 40Kv3. I'd basically stopped playing 40k under v2 and when v3 came out, I stopped by my local GW store to "try out" the new rules with the starter figures in the box. I played the Dark Eldar against a kid who took the marines. I ended up tabling the kid without losing a single Dark Eldar. Just amazing dumb luck, I'll readily admit, since in the entire game he never inflicted a single wound...
I don't think the kid was very amused, but the store manager and I had a laugh since we realized how utterly improbable it was...
Valete,
JohnS
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Post by: mattyboy22
I played a Chaos army in 3rd ed with a Beil-Tan army. Because he chose to be the attacker his army came in by reserves. Well, coming on 1 squad at a time while facing an entire army ended with no losses for me and his army wiped.
Another time in 3rd ed I was playing Dark Angels with 2 Whirlwinds and a Vindicator against Speed Freaks, I rolled a lot of 6's on ordnance penetrations.....
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Post by: Mad4Minis
TheCapm wrote:I've seen it a couple times pulled off on newbs, but never had the heart to do it to them myself.
I went to a games store a few times many years ago where the guys who worked there thought this was the best thing in the world. As soon as someone said they were interested in the game but never play they immediately whipped one up...then would proceed to whip up the noob. I was that noob one time.
Ive come close to a perfect game in Battletech. A friend of mine, and frequent opponent, didnt believe I could beat 3 lances of mech with 3 lances of tanks. So I showed up with 3 lances of tanks between 80 and 100 tons each, against his 3 lances of medium and heavy mechs. As i remember he didnt disable or destroy a single tank, yet I destroyed or severely damaged all but a couple of his mechs.
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Post by: Forgotmytea
I've come very close before. I was using my Eldar against a Blood Angels force, and only lost 3 Warp Spiders over the whole game, one of which was my fault from rolling a double 1 for my warp jump By the end of the game, all he had left was 1 tactical squad, while I held all the objectives bar one.
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Post by: Avatar 720
My Chaos vs Tau; 1000pts.
Turn 1 - Nothing, just movement and potshots.
Turn 2 - He forgot to move his Crisis Commander back in his assault phase of Turn 1; my Daemon prince scored a 6 with Gift of Chaos. His Crisis Commander turned into a spawn, which charged the hammerhead behind him and blew it up.
Turn 3 - Spawn is rapid fired down (you can count that if you want, but technically it was his model =P), only to have another one replace the shas'ui of an FW squad, tear them a new one and chase them off the table. At the other end, berzerkers pour out of a rhino that the other FW squad almost surrounded and EMP grenaded. 1 Combat and ~half my berzerkers attacks (all I needed) later and those FWs were no more.
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Post by: Kilkrazy
I played a game at Platinum Snow Devil 2010, 500 points Combat Patrol.
I wiped out the entire enemy army and ended with 510 points of units on the board, because I spawned more new Termagants with my Tervigon than I lost.
It was a very lucky game though.
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Post by: Dashofpepper
I've done this from time to time.
My first instance of this was against a Chaos player using my Orks. I lost a big shoota off of a truck, and that was my lone casualty for the day. I've had perfect games a few times since then. Much more frequent is that I get my opponent to concede in turn1-2 after being brutally mauled, but I'm usually down a transport or two by then.
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Post by: Crazy_Carnifex
Mine was a Fantasy Game. My Dwarf gunline vs Vampire counts. He surrendered by turn 3, and my only casualty was an organ gun that misfired.
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Post by: Zonder
Had a perfect game played against me. First game against the new Space Wolves. I played DH with a LR, 2x Dread, 2x PAGK, and a squad of termies in the LR. First turn wrecks both dreads and LR plus vindicator eliminates 5/8 guys from a PAGK squad causing them to run off the board. Next turn I miss everything, drop pod hits and kills termys with shooting ML spam kills the other PAGK squad and thats game. Most brutal game of my life.
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Post by: notprop
Kilkrazy wrote:I played a game at Platinum Snow Devil 2010, 500 points Combat Patrol.
I wiped out the entire enemy army and ended with 510 points of units on the board, because I spawned more new Termagants with my Tervigon than I lost.
It was a very lucky game though.
Thats me isn't it?
Darn Tervi and it's spawn!
Oh the ignominy of being an anecdote. 
[I blame the snow of course!]
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Post by: Kilkrazy
notprop wrote:Kilkrazy wrote:I played a game at Platinum Snow Devil 2010, 500 points Combat Patrol.
I wiped out the entire enemy army and ended with 510 points of units on the board, because I spawned more new Termagants with my Tervigon than I lost.
It was a very lucky game though.
Thats me isn't it?
Darn Tervi and it's spawn!
Oh the ignominy of being an anecdote.
[I blame the snow of course!]
No, it was Snarky. You and I had a lot of models still locked in combat at the end of our game.
It's a good anecdote but it doesn't reflect any skill on my part. Snarky had some bad luck -- he almost killed my Tervigon -- and I had some good luck.
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Post by: The Bringer
I've gotten two or three models away from a perfect win...
Then again, when I'm playing n00bs, I let a lot of stuff go that could have altered that.
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Post by: LordWynne
I only pulled it off once against a Ultra Marine newbie, I was teaching him the game and tabled him in 3 turns and I never lost a man in my Chaos Marines. We play Epic as well and its almost the same thing lol, but he has gottten better with his Nid force.
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Post by: Space_Potato
I've had one myself, and one against me.
I ran a shooty ork list last edition and blew my opponent (Nids) off the table in 3 turns. Felt kinda hollow though cause he was new and just kinda rushed everything forward. Gave him some pointers and he developed a 50/50 W/L against me
And in my third ever game, a Flyrant smashed into my guard gunline in turn 1 and proceeded to eat it's way through all of my men over the next three turns (helped by some infiltrating stealers)
S_P
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Post by: Illumini
I've won a game without killing a single enemy model 
I played CSM vs deamons, both of us started in reserve and he dropped very conservatively. On turn 5 I drove a rhino onto his objective while he was too far away from mine, the game ended and I won He got to slaughter both of my princes and some plague marines, but he still lost.
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Post by: chaos0xomega
I have come close many times, many many times. Usually I'll go until turn 4 or 5 before I suffer a single loss, and it pisses me off.
The one time I've actually seen it happen is my friends Lost and the Damned vs. Necrons (in the halcyon days of 4th edition). 1500 pts. Necrons took a Nightbringer and Monolith, a couple of Tomb Spyders, and a bunch of Scarab Swarms (in 1500 pts!!!), my buddy took a couple of leman russes, etc. First turn of the game, the Leman Russes alone brought the Necron army to phaseout (not hard with only 21 actual Necron models on the table).
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Post by: xHAv0k
My mech chaos army, a tourney last week vs SM
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Post by: Fearspect
I've actually managed this twice:
First time was in the Finals for 'Ard Boyz in the first round last year. I was playing my IG verses a regular SM army with three Landraiders. My first turn scouting Vendettas popped all three LRs and his super squad in one (6x Terminators, Cantor, Librarian) fled off the table. The rest was just mop up.
The second time was at 1750 during the monthly GW tournament they were running verses a DE player. He did manage to immobilize one of my Vendettas, so it just kept shooting from the ground. Autocannons (especially on Hydras) are super-effective against Raiders.
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Post by: Targeted
I did it once against a mech CSM list, with my shooty Wolves. I turtled in the corner and first turn took out all three of his Rhinos and DP. From then on it was just a slaughter as he tried to foot slog. I have to admit, I had some excellent rolls and he failed all three cover saves on his Rhinos from smoke. We rematched and he won against my drop pod list.
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Post by: AvatarForm
What is a TFG?
Also, without reading past the first few posts, its apparent that anyone could "bowl a pefect game" against someone inexperienced who also has a poor list... heck, I once got tabled by a 2nd Ed Ork army with my first Blood Angel army.
Stop parading your small victories around, they are not worth the boasting and only make you look petty.
My above statement does not include the OP, who deserved his win and glory.
Guitardian wrote:I came close once. 2 casualties in 1000 points. I was unfortunately assigned to play against the 6th grade kid in a league game. He had foot slogging terminators straight out of AoBR with no upgrade, he had a single rhino with which he charged his fresh-out-of-the-box command squad (as-is from the box cover) tactical squads with just bolters, drop pods with a couple of lascannon dreads. I don't really remember all the gory, but just suffice to say the most random army build ever, and very little idea what to do other than the blue-man shuffle just advancing up the table as if its a race across no mans land.
I really REALLY didn't want to, I tried so hard to make accidental 'mistakes' to leave him a bone here or there, but I couldn't just play through the game and not take shots at him, that would have been too obvious. It was so hopeless I felt like a jerk, and plus his dad was there with him. So not cool to be the guy beating up the 13 yr old. Seriously that was the most painful game I ever played. Advice, reminders (like where to place templates to catch the most targets, why not to try and shoot S4 at AV12, etc) all just made me look like more of a jerk because I was telling this kid and he was still losing.
I got no joy at all from that 'victory'. It was a long hour drive home from the FLGS that night. Fortunately, I wasn't the only guy in our 20-ish person league who had the same experience.
TheCapm wrote:I've seen it a couple times pulled off on newbs, but never had the heart to do it to them myself.
Griever wrote:Yes, I played as my Crimson fists against some other Space marine player. One of those 15-16 year old kids who has like 1 Dreadnought, 5 poorly Armed tactical squads with no transports, and a points inefficient Command Squad in a Land Raider. It was the Battle Missions scenario where he had to deploy everything on the table but his models couldn't be within 9" of each other or within 9" of the board edge. I then got to come on either a long or short table edge with first turn. I came on first turn, Land Raider eats some multi-meltas, a couple tactical squads eat vindicator rounds and plasma cannon fire, and a pod of sternguard blow the expensive command squad with a 3+ save away. His first he's got an immobilized dread and a couple tactical squads on foot. All he can do is shoot 2 missile launchers and an assault cannon.
My next turn comes, I whipe out a tactical squad, blow off both the dreads arm, and two other tactical squads have like 2-3 guys left. I tell him that we can start a new game if he wants, and he agrees to.
Bad List + Unfair scenario + Inexperienced player who barely knows the rules = a tough game
It can be tough, but I get to play one game a week. I'm not going to intentionally not play my game because somebody else isn't very good. After the game I offered advice on what to do with the list (get Rhinos, lose the command squad) and what I would've done in his place.
Mr Mystery wrote:I rather fear my take on the perfect game is somewhat different than this thread's...
e: Fixed because Targeted is petty... also the scroll over tool was not shwoing up for TFG
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Post by: Targeted
You're dumb, as you included the OP in your "list" of people that are being petty. Not one of the people in this thread has paraded a victory around, so you can stop being an idiot. As for what TFG is why don't you scroll over the text and read it for yourself, if you cannot it's that f'ing guy who comes in and thinks he's the best at everything and knows everything. Also, don't come in and assume everyone is parading around because as you said you've only read the first few posts. GG.
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Post by: Iboshi2
I have has games where the Dice simply bend to my will. It is no fun. I've tabled opponents without loosing a KP. It sucks, and no one enjoys it. That kind of game isn't perfect and it really isn't much of a game either.
For me, the perfect game is one where I have made zero tactical and gaming errors. This can be target choice, psychic power use, movement, deployment, or anything pertaining to remembering special rules and things like that.
I have had few of these self described 'perfect' games. It always seems like I forget to run a unit, or deploy them in the wrong formation or something trivial. When I do have a perfect game, it's because I know I have come with my best General's Hat on. If I loose after giving my best, the game is still perfect. In fact, I can remember more than one game where combinations dice and the opponent's cunning defeated me despite my best efforts. Those are the games which make me want to keep playing 40k.
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Post by: Ailaros
The closest I had to a perfect game was this one.
Me against necron. I lost 1 guardsman, but tabled him with only 4 lascannon shots.
Ah, the old, abusive days of 4th edition...
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Post by: Generalstoner
Yeah, I tabled someone back in 4th with the initial armored company list that came out. I was playing an emperor's children army and hit something like 3 or 4 of his rhino's with ord pen 6's which wiped out entired squads that were transported. lascannons took care of the dreads, game was done by turn 3.
In the 5th ed. it is almost impossible to do I have found and I can't say I've seen anyone do it outside of a 1000 point game where I saw a kid massacre a marine army with his eldar, but I have a feeling the list was tooled to take the marines out wholesale.
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Post by: Gr3y
I'm a Warmahordes player but I've had a couple.
A tournament a few weeks ago. I warned my opponent, who was new to the game, to not let my caster get line of sight. Bottom of my second turn, eCaine gained line of sight, popped feat, and blew the hell out his caster. I had maybe 5 minutes of actual play time in that game.
Another was when a Legion player got too close to Siege. In that game I lost one B13 gunmage, but his Warlock ate a boosted POW 14 at half armor with no way to transfer.
On the receiving end... the first time my opponent showed me exactly how the Mollick Karn missile worked was pretty ugly.
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Post by: Lunchmoney
After a long hiatus from the game I started vanilla marines up again. Around two months after I had assembled what I thought was a "good" 2000 point army I faced a leafblower tuned IG list and he tabled me by turn 3. I had failed to do anything to him.
After that game is when I really started getting into forums such as dakka in an effort to up my game and apply sound strategy to the tabletop. My friend and I went through a whirlwind of about a year where we each collected several armies and played about 1-2 games everyday. (At our flgs against others and eachother at his house.) So honestly I have to thank that guy. He is what motivated me to really get back into the hobby.
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Post by: Stormrider
I recently played against my best friend (who is a Tau player). We did Capture & Control with Dawn Of War deployment. He runs a Farsight list with 9 suits in total (6 in the Farsight Bomb), Hammerhead, two 12 man fire warrior squads, two six man fire warrior squads, a devilfish w/ 7 pathfinders, three broadsides, sniper drone team, a pirana and one 3-man Stealth suit team.
I had an Outflanking shenanigans IG list with Creed, Kell, CCS, 4 chimeras total(CCS, one for an Al'Rahem led PCS, one for melta vets and one for plasma vets), paskquisher, two bassies, manticore, 2 Platoons (each with 2 squads of troops), valkyrie w/ two special weapons squads on board, hellhound, a five man Stormtrooper squad and Marbo.
I rolled as well as I ever have, I lost 1 chimera, my Manticore, 1 1/2 squads of platoon infantry squads, a platoon command squad, most of my CCS, four stormtroopers, most of special weapons squads, Marbo and my valkyrie.
He had 1 broadside, an immobilized pirana, a stunned Devilfish, and four pathfinders left out of a 2500 list. It lasted 6 turns, he still had a suit that never came in either.
Luckily we're still great friends, although he's considering moving up to Eldar.
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Post by: Shas'O Dorian
My nob biker list blasted an 1850 mech guard list taking only 3 wounds. No casualties, just 3 wounds total. Game was over top of turn 3.
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Post by: Locclo
Well, mine was simultaneously a fail for myself and a total win for myself.
I was playing against myself on Vassal, my Wolves vs. a Marine list that one of the people at my FLGS. Both sides run fairly vehicle heavy. The map was a thick jungle, which I simply ruled as the entire map being area terrain out of laziness (figured it'd be an interesting challenge to play). The first turn, Marines go forward...or try to. The Marine list managed to fail every single Dangerous Terrain test for their vehicles. My Wolves rumbled up while his Marines futilely tried to repair the entire game. I think the worst I lost was a handful of Rhinos on about turn 4 - most of his shots would either miss, fail to penetrate/wound, or I'd make the relevant save.
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Post by: Pacific
Not sure my answer is in the spirit the OP intended, but this is the closest I came to a perfect game:
GM'ing a Necromunda campaign, I had about half a dozen guys playing an adaptation of the 'swamp thing' scenario that was run in WD years ago. I think I got the balance of it just right for their gang levels, and it was a close fought game. One of my colleagues came up to me after the game - one of his gang members had been lassoed by the creature and was being pulled to his doom, but the rest of his gang blasted the creature into a bottomless pit and its death and saved him - and told me it was the coolest moment he had ever experienced in a game, and reminded him why he played tabletop games. So, that compliment was really nice, wasn't playing myself but would have to say it was the best game I was ever a part of.
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Post by: Vaktathi
I've done it three times.
The first was against a Space Marine army, my opponent was going second but deployed like he was going to go first with everything fully visible to everything else in my army in a pitched battle game, banking on seizing the initiative for some reason. My first turn I manage to pop all 4 transports and destroy his other 4 vehicles. Infantry disembark, take battlecannon hits or get multilaser spammed, each taking sufficient casualties to force a morale test. He fails all of them, and they all fall back off the board. Turn 1 tabling. I felt bad, but he deployed and played poorly, I rolled nigh perfect rolls, and he rolled extraordinarily poorly.
The other two times were back to back games against the Tyranids right as they came out last January. Tabled them in two consecutive games without taking a so much as a single glancing hit on a tank, or losing a single guardsmen. Felt kinda bad about that too, which is why the second game I let him deploy second, go first and choose his table side. It apparently didn't matter :(
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Post by: prime12357
In 4th edition, I got my 'crons wiped out when a land raider crusader full of lighting claw terminators and a chaplain rolled up the entirety of my army in a turn. Of course, the game wasn't perfect, cuz a sergeant had his plasma pistol melt him, but still...
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Post by: dodicula
Yeah, 7th edition fantasy, I besically wiped out a WOC horde with a unit of swordmasters. He took all infantry plus a mage and a hero. I had a 5X4 unit of swordmasters. He had bad luck casting so no magical damage. And everything else ran up got its front rank killed and ran away. All my other units did is pursue fleeing units.
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Post by: AvatarForm
dodicula wrote:Yeah, 7th edition fantasy, I besically wiped out a WOC horde with a unit of swordmasters. He took all infantry plus a mage and a hero. I had a 5X4 unit of swordmasters. He had bad luck casting so no magical damage. And everything else ran up got its front rank killed and ran away. All my other units did is pursue fleeing units.
As stated before... the example above is against an inexperienced gamer. Hardly a 'perfect' game when you begin with a bias.
It's like playing chess against yourself.
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Post by: Hawkins
Once in WFB 7th edition with the old Skaven army book.
fought an opponents wood elves both sides 2250 points. first turn killed his Tree man, his level 4 mage, and the unit of archers it was in. panicked the warhawks and tehy flew off board.
second turn after the opponent tries some damage control. i shoot down or magic, or charge and kill, 2 units of dryads, 1 unit of wardancers, and his BSB. he didnt even start his second turn, just gave up and we played again. this time i won as well but it was no route.
but if you want really perfect, also with skaven, ive had a game of 7th with the old army book where i blew up my cannon and a ratling gun first turn. and killed a engineer and seriously wounded my grey seer all with missfires .
second turn fired my remaing ratling witch also missfired mowing down my greyseer unit witch failed its panic test, this panicked 2 units of clanrats, 3 blocks of giant rats, and my jezzails, all casueing them to flee. Good times and alot of laughing. my oppomnet commented that the army must not have wanted to fight that battle. and i replied. ya, guess they went on strike.
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Post by: yakface
Back in 3rd edition I was playing at a GW Grand Tournament (either LA or Seattle, I can't remember now) and I was using Imperial Guard and I played against Space Wolves.
I had a couple of Basilisks and I don't think this guy (somehow) knew quite how deadly they were (back in 3rd edition the blast hit full strength on any vehicle it touched, not just the one under the center hole).
On the first turn I managed to detonate one of his transports full of guys (back in 3rd edition you could vaporize an entire vehicle with its contents if you got lucky with ordnance) and I immobilized or destroyed a couple of his other transports.
So he basically now just had to walk his Space Wolves into my IG gunline. I ended up winning the game in a landslide (I didn't wipe him out because he eventually decided to just hide his last guys) and only lost a SINGLE GUARDSMAN.
And now here's the kicker...when the tournament results were read out at the end of Sunday, the very same Space Wolf player takes down the overall champion spot!
So I suppose he went on to have a glorious tournament besides his game against me!
But I love that story because its the fewest Guard casualties I've ever taken in any game of 40K AND it came against the guy who won the GT...go figure!
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Post by: Nagashek
I've had a few total routs before, but I don't consider those to be "perfect games." One of my most cherished was playing against 3e IW with my Tau. The IW player was TFG (the army seemed to attract them in droves. Wonder why...) that we took to calling "The Cheat." Why you needed to cheat while playing that list, I have no idea. He was playing the standard 4 pie plates, 9 Oblit army.
He scoffed at my Firewarriors.
He scoffed at my Pathfinders.
He scoffed at my Stealth Suits.
That win was perfect because by the math (and our dice rolls, if taken at purely numbers) I should not have won. That was one of the most one sided match ups in 4e, and I came out on top by being straight better, and calling him EVERY time he cheated (move and fire HB from PA chaos marines? Of course I can!).
My other victory was against his Demon bomb Khorn army. I moved my FW to surround one Rhino containing his Demon Host (containing a BT) blocking off all exits. I knew that if it erupted, it would die, since it would appear BEFORE movement and be trapped inside.
"Why would you move your firewarriors?" he asked, clearly uncertain why I hadn't simply annihilated the vulnerable rhino.
"Because I likely won't kill all of those Berserkers inside. So i'm blocking the exits instead."
"You can't do that," he said.
"Of course I can."
"But I won't be able to get out!" he whined. Yes. He actually whined.
I grinned at him.
He threw a tantrum and demanded the judge make a ruling. The judge laughed at the innovation, quoted him the rule, and moved to a different table.
Pop. Perfect game.
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Post by: ZacktheChaosChild
I'm a firm believer in "No plan survives contact with the enemy".
Though I guess this is a little different.
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Post by: Stormrider
yakface wrote:
Back in 3rd edition I was playing at a GW Grand Tournament (either LA or Seattle, I can't remember now) and I was using Imperial Guard and I played against Space Wolves.
I had a couple of Basilisks and I don't think this guy (somehow) knew quite how deadly they were (back in 3rd edition the blast hit full strength on any vehicle it touched, not just the one under the center hole).
On the first turn I managed to detonate one of his transports full of guys (back in 3rd edition you could vaporize an entire vehicle with its contents if you got lucky with ordnance) and I immobilized or destroyed a couple of his other transports.
So he basically now just had to walk his Space Wolves into my IG gunline. I ended up winning the game in a landslide (I didn't wipe him out because he eventually decided to just hide his last guys) and only lost a SINGLE GUARDSMAN.
And now here's the kicker...when the tournament results were read out at the end of Sunday, the very same Space Wolf player takes down the overall champion spot!
So I suppose he went on to have a glorious tournament besides his game against me!
But I love that story because its the fewest Guard casualties I've ever taken in any game of 40K AND it came against the guy who won the GT...go figure!
Brings back fond memories... I loved the Ordnance Damage Table
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Post by: Malleus
Only time I've seen this happen was at a tourney (Waaagh! Paca). It allows special characters, and it was orcs and goblins vs tomb kings in fantasy.
Top of turn one, the casket of souls popped. One epic chain-panic-fest of doom later, 950 points of orcs and goblins, and Grom the Paunch, were dead or fled. It was a wolfrider-spam list, so the units were mainly very small. The tomb kings with their 5+ shooting managed to finish off the rest; I don't think there was a single instance of close combat the entire game.
They gave that guy an award: a set of new dice and a pack of flamers to start his daemon army (this was 7th).
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Post by: Crazy_Carnifex
ZacktheChaosChild wrote:I'm a firm believer in "No plan survives contact with the enemy".
Though I guess this is a little different.
I've actually had plans go off perfectly. My first game of '11, I decide to do something different, and deploy an all-reserves army against mech guard. I got the best possible results on reserves, with both Trygons Deepstiking without scatter, Zoanthropes arriving without scattering, and all three outflanking units rolling a 5 or 6 for board edge. End of turn 2, I have taken no casualties, and destroyed an infantry squad, a Leman Russ and a Basilisk. Turn 3, my Hive Guard come through the tunnel, blow a hole through the remaining russ, all my other reserves arrive, and I destroy a Strom Troopers squad, a company command squad, a Griffon Battery, and a Chimera. I loose one Trygon. The game continued in the same manner until round 5, when my opponent surrendered.
The only thing seperating it from a perfect game is that I lost both Trygons.
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Post by: Skarshak
It was a 750pt game for me, my Orkz vs the Blood Angels (before their new dex) on a 4x4 board! I had him wiped at the end of turn 2. He charged at me and I at him, but his dice failed to deal any damage... my orks ate well! 
No doubt a total fluke, but hey sometimes thats how it goes!
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Post by: Luco
I was nearly the recipient of a perfect game twice.
The first was my first time against tau with gunline DA and having absolutely no idea how to beat them got clobbered. He lost 1 kroot.
Second time was a 3 way game and I got the last corner, putting me much closer to the Death Company than I'd have liked to be and still in firing range for a pair of exorcist missiles.
The only thing left was the Razorback.
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Post by: SweetLou
i played a perfect game with my 2k scarbarand/slannesh horde
not a single model scattered and i lost 2 daemonettes. those bloodangels didnt know what hit them.
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Post by: BigJon
A very long time ago, WFB 3rd of 4th Ed (the one where you could "fly high"). Against Brits. Deamons with two Deamon Princes. Turn one they both took off, turn two they both charged from flying high, wiped out the units, he had stacked the army close so every unit ended up taking break test and all his units ran off the table edge on turn two. If was more sad then funny, I removed one Prince from my list, kept him on the ground for our second game and had much more fun.
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Post by: Rurouni Benshin
TheCapm wrote:Guitardian wrote:TheCapm wrote:I've seen it a couple times pulled off on newbs, but never had the heart to do it to them myself.
Yeah man, but like I said, it just can't be helped! I can't not shoot without being a little too obvious, y'know?
Haha, I didn't see your post, my bad. I know what you mean though. I've had the same experience in a different way. Someone was having some real problems winning, so I gave myself a 100 pnt handicap and told them my list. Still didn't go too well for them :\
To comment a little further on your discussion, guys, I've had a similar experience where I also played a few beginners, and ended up teaching them the game as we played on. Granted it wasn't as extreme as Guitardian's case (the newbs I played were 17 and 27), but the main point behind the games I played with them were to teach them how to play as well.
It can be a bit of a "Jerky" feeling tabling someone who's just opened their AOBR box, but as long as the person I'm playing is learning more about the game and/or having fun playing, I feel more comfortable about it. Guitardian, I don't think you did anything wrong in your case. Going out of your way to show the kid how to place the template and reminding him of stuff that he either forgot to move or shoot with is being a good sportsman. Now, how you go about that makes a difference as well, but unless you were going "Hey idiot, you forgot to do this", I wouldn't have thought ill of you in the slightest bit. Kudos for being a sportsman!
Back on Topic:
The closest I've ever come to a "Perfect Game" was against a Guard player I played against last year. It was a 2000 point game, and I was playing a very fluffy Cato Sicarius list (3 Tacticals, 2 Assaults, 2 Devastators), and I remember only losing 2 Assault marines and 1 Rhino. The guy I played still had fun though, so it wasn't all that bad. It was also that day that I learned that playing fluffy lists can still do fairly well in casual play.
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Post by: Josh_theMexican
I played against a local Salamander player who's actually a good player. He's won a few local tournaments and places pretty high in larger tournaments. He castled his Salamanders, I flanked him with 8 Destroyers, 2 H. Destroyers, and 5 Scarabs. I charged the center with 2 Monoliths and Nightbringer, and my lord veiled behind his lines with 20 warriors. It took about 2 turns to show I was definitely winning, another 2, to show he was in danger of getting tabled, and we called it before turn 6. I lost 4 models.
This wasn't much of a fluke, I usually do very well against Space Marines...I just to get better against daemons, nids, and SoB...
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Post by: malfred
Wouldn't the perfect game be 6s on every die roll
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Post by: Forgotmytea
malfred wrote:Wouldn't the perfect game be 6s on every die roll
Except leadership rolls
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Post by: madman12367
i played a tyranid army of 1500 points with my marines with no casulties, but the best bit was i tabled him in 3 turnes!!!
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Post by: VikingScott
My first ever 1K game with my WH. No SoBs just ISTs for troops. My Lord killed a deamon prince in turn 2 and the second in turn 3. My good freind conceeded then after that terrible luck.
I lost 1 ISTrooper. ( 10 pts )
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Post by: malfred
Forgotmytea wrote:malfred wrote:Wouldn't the perfect game be 6s on every die roll
Except leadership rolls
Unless you had psykers, would you even need those?
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Post by: Rurouni Benshin
Forgotmytea wrote:malfred wrote:Wouldn't the perfect game be 6s on every die roll
Except leadership rolls
And Psychic Tests!
Doh! Ninja'd by a couple of minutes! 
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Post by: dayve110
A few times.
Advantagous terrain, sloppy deployment on my opponents side, and incredibly lucky rolls have won me a few "perfect" games.
Sometimes its simply the match up.
I remember once when playing the old skaven agasint a mostly goblin wolf rider list the bell tolled and caused the gobbos to all take panic checks... that was a quick game indeed.
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Post by: Mistress of minis
To me, the perfect games are the ones you remember 10 years later, whether or not you won.
The kind of games that had such crazy things happen that a lone Eldar Swooping hawk took out 5 2nd edition termies and survived. Or the Space marine landspeeder that got shot 89 times in a single round and only got shaken. When 6 Ratling snipers charge an ork warboss and kill him. Or when an ork army without any anti tank weapons gets laughed at by an eldar player with 3 wraithlords- then proceeds to kill ALL 3 of those wraithlords in a single round with a wall of Big Shoota shots.
Winning in itself isnt a perfect act- having a good game is
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Post by: chaplaingrabthar
Mistress of minis wrote:To me, the perfect games are the ones you remember 10 years later, whether or not you won.
I agree, and one of my best games is one I lost, it was 2nd Edition 40K, I played Genestealer Cult alongside my buddy Luke's Chaos Space Marine force against a combined force of Ultramarine's and Space Wolves. There was such a crazy amount of terrain it was a blast (at least 2 Necromunda boxes worth of modular scenery, woods, battle bunkers, ruins made from the old styrofaom inserts in squad boxes ect. etc.) My fondest memory was on turn 4, I'd just finished my movement phase, and Luke goes to move his guys and realizes that there are none left on the table. His plaintive cry of "where the hell is my army" was a highlight.
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Post by: Ailaros
I just had one.
Admittedly, I would have started racking up the casualties if the game had gone to its most bitter end, but having a game fail to make it even to the bottom of 2 was a little surprising.
All due to a single die roll...
As for a perfect game being ones you remember, I have to disagree. The games I most distinctly remember are the ones I painfully and tortuously lost due to bad luck. Those were far from perfect...
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Post by: poontangler
I second the statement about the perfect games being the ones I remember.
The brutal one sided losses haunt me to no end.
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Post by: dkellyj
The icing on the cake wasn't the total spank that happened.
It was popping TFG even after he set up all the rules and missions to his advantage.
Well done, Sir.
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Post by: H.B.M.C.
liam0404 wrote:So Dakka, has anyone else managed this once in a lifetime feat? If so please share your stories!
Yep. 2000-ish point game. Friend was testing out the Ulthwe Strike Force (back when the designers thought sub-lists that allowed variety were a better idea than ' MOAR SPESHUL CHARAKTERZ!!!! ROFLLOL!") that had just arrived in the glorious and holy Eye of Terror Codex *angels sing in the background*. Anyway, I was playing Guard. But that doesn't matter, because my Guard army did nothing. They maybe fired... a few Autocannons? One or two guns got off a shot at maximum range? And I think maybe 6 Guardsmen died the entire game. Either way, nothing really ever came into the range of their guns. The reason was that the rest of my army was a Callidus Assassin, and this is the tale of a Callidus Assassin defeating 2000 points of Eldar. Now the Ulthwe Strike Force starts with very little on the table. They had to get a Warp Gate into place to bring out more troops, so they started with very little around. All that was there was hidden behind a forest, and none of my Guard could see them (and for most of the game never did). I got my Callidus out on Turn 2 and proceeded to flame a unit with the Neural Shredder and then charge them. I killed several Black Guardians, and then during his turn flipped out of combat and he was unable to catch me. He dropped his gate and started bringing out more infantry, War Walkers and Vypers. I on the other hand spent the rest of the game using my Neural Shredder to keep his vehicles Shaken/Stunned, and charging his Guardian units (I and he were positioned in such a way that I could shoot at multiple units at once with the flamer template but still always still charge so he'd never be able to shoot me during his turn). The only wound the Callidus suffered was from a kick from a vengeful Warwalker, but by the time Turn 6 ticked around his army had never left that tiny corner, a lot of the units were dead or had run through the Warp Gate, and I was left standing with a Callidus on 1 wound and a confused Guard army who had hardly fired a shot. I have never been able to repeat this feat, and to this day neither I nor my opponent are even sure how it happened.
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Post by: Forgotmytea
H.B.M.C. wrote:liam0404 wrote:So Dakka, has anyone else managed this once in a lifetime feat? If so please share your stories!
Yep.
2000-ish point game. Friend was testing out the Ulthwe Strike Force (back when the designers thought sub-lists that allowed variety were a better idea than ' MOAR SPESHUL CHARAKTERZ!!!! ROFLLOL!") that had just arrived in the glorious and holy Eye of Terror Codex *angels sing in the background*.
Anyway, I was playing Guard. But that doesn't matter, because my Guard army did nothing. They maybe fired... a few Autocannons? One or two guns got off a shot at maximum range? And I think maybe 6 Guardsmen died the entire game. Either way, nothing really ever came into the range of their guns. The reason was that the rest of my army was a Callidus Assassin, and this is the tale of a Callidus Assassin defeating 2000 points of Eldar.
Now the Ulthwe Strike Force starts with very little on the table. They had to get a Warp Gate into place to bring out more troops, so they started with very little around. All that was there was hidden behind a forest, and none of my Guard could see them (and for most of the game never did). I got my Callidus out on Turn 2 and proceeded to flame a unit with the Neural Shredder and then charge them. I killed several Black Guardians, and then during his turn flipped out of combat and he was unable to catch me. He dropped his gate and started bringing out more infantry, War Walkers and Vypers.
I on the other hand spent the rest of the game using my Neural Shredder to keep his vehicles Shaken/Stunned, and charging his Guardian units (I and he were positioned in such a way that I could shoot at multiple units at once with the flamer template but still always still charge so he'd never be able to shoot me during his turn). The only wound the Callidus suffered was from a kick from a vengeful Warwalker, but by the time Turn 6 ticked around his army had never left that tiny corner, a lot of the units were dead or had run through the Warp Gate, and I was left standing with a Callidus on 1 wound and a confused Guard army who had hardly fired a shot.
I have never been able to repeat this feat, and to this day neither I nor my opponent are even sure how it happened.
That does sound awesome, both in the game and in terms of the background imagery it evokes
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Post by: jouso
Ifurita wrote:Nice and well done. I think the only game that has gone like that for me, was a game (3rd edition WHFB) where my Skaven got in an early charge, won the round, caused the opposing unit to flee off the board, which also caused the 2 units on either side to flee too.
I also got a perfect game in 4th ed WHFB. I managed a 1st turn direct hit with a rock lobba to the undead commander.
Result, entire undead army vanishes.
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Post by: Ledabot
I played last weekend and tabled a guy. lost no models. took two wounds. 1 from getting hit by a pred and the other from a dag terrain test with my commander.
(I play tau by the way and the game was 500pts since thats all the models i have
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Post by: notprop
Mistress of minis wrote:.............................Winning in itself isnt a perfect act- having a good game is
Well worth quoting, possibly even sigging. You are my new Yoda.
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Post by: Shepherd23
Back in 4th Ed. Playing against DE with my Speed freeks. I win init and on turn one I used Rokkit buggies and Hvy. Shootas to destroy all his raiders. His few remaining Dark lances all miss. Turn two I wipe three squads with shooting alone again. His turn two lasts long enough for him to miss with 3 lances and he called it.
We both play the same game the next and with similar results with him taking init. We call the game on turn 3 this time with me loosing only 3 buggies, a warbike and a skarboy.
We vowed then to never play our armies against each other again. Then 5th Ed. came out and ruined my army. I miss getting my Freek on like I did back then.
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