What is the most ridiculous death one of your units has ever suffered?
For example, lone guardsman somehow kills your wraithknight or gaunt kills your daemon prince.

A squad of lychgaurd killed an armor line IG

In 4th(?) I had a farseer, cast Fortune on my first turn. Periled, failed the ghost helm and found out why Eldrad was T4.

Kharn charged a 10-man IG squad. Killed all but 1. Over the next three(?) turns, the lone Guardsman proceeded to butt Kharn in the face with his rifle to death.

I had a Librarian blow up two Tau Hammerheads with a well-placed Vortex of Doom and then proceed to get gibbed on a failed Death or Glory roll during the Tau player's turn.

my freind summoning list had 3 daemon princes and a lord of change sucked into the warp due to perils of the warp turn one. He sold all three after that.

Killed legion of the damned squad.... with grotz

My Chaos Lieutenant on bike sporting 2+ armor, killed himself by running into a tree.

Needed a 1 to fail the dangerious terrain check. Needed a 1 to fail the skilled rider reroll. Needed a 1 to fail his armor save.

Yup, ultimate fail.

Saint Celestine resurrecting with 1 wound (old version), jumping out of her ruins and promptly crashing into a wall and dying permanently.

I had a lone space marine sgt charge a squad of Necron warriors, do 2 wounds, and sweep the other 12, resulting in enough casualties to phase the enemy and win the game.

I once saw my friend's chaos lord stroll through the combined fire power of 2 leman russ squadrons and a barrage of heavy weapons fire, only to fall to the fire of a single infantry squad.

I once had a Warbiker unit of 6 man charge into a unit of Space Marines in ruins, lost all my guys bar the Nob with a PK, 3 through dangerous terrain, the other two and a wound on my Boss Nob through combat.

The Boss Nob then soloed the 10 man unit by himself and consolidates but not enough to get out of the ruins.

Fails dangerous terrain and dies as soon as he moves.

Back in the day when I had Sisters of Battle my first match the Cannoness was instantly killed by a grenade launcher round. The model was epicly converted to have a crossbow Bolt pistol and stuff and it died right off the bat to a platoon Guardsmen with a trusty Krak round.

Had a opponent have to make 10 2+ saves for a 5 man terminator squad. I wiped the squad. Best shooting termagaunt squad ever.

Had an Overlord Res himself over 6 times, killed many a daemon

Grimaldus and a full squad of crusaders crashed into a 5 man tactical squad and lost. That's grim, 5 veterans (power axe in here) and then 5 neophytes lost to 5 tactical marines in cc.

It took them 4 turns of combat but it happened final score 14 wounds inflicted to 2. You don't lose that badly to anyone you have hatred and eternal warrior, not to mention power weapons.

Back in 5th, had a flyrant charge a unit of rangers. He stubbed his toe on a rock and they proceeded to beat him to a pulp. I was not happy.

Turn One, my opening Move was to jump some Sniper Drones into Terrain for both cover and a more optimal firing lane.
Five of the Nine drones died... might not have been a total Unit wipe but the probability of that happening was lower the winning lottery.

Trust me to get a bad lottery draw....

Well, these deaths weren't ludicrous by themselves. but together they were suspicious.

First tournament of 7th edition. All 3 games, my Grandmaster managed to kill himself by turn 3. Game 1: He failed a moral check and ran off the board turn 2. Game 2: He periled on turn 1. Game 3: He killed a Knight in melee combat, but it fell on top of him and squished him.

I won all 3 games too, but it was weird.

6th: Had a Flying Daemon Prince kill 9 cultists in a psy phase, the remaining cultist started running, but decided to throw a snap shot at the prince, and wound it, it gets grounded, takes a wound dies.

I had Fateweaver flying near a Paladin Knight at that start of 7ed.

The Knight shoots his heavy stubbers at it and manages to get a single wound through even with snap fire and 5+ to wound

Fateweaver proceeds to fail the grounding check which he used his reroll on.

The knight had to make a 12" charge to assault Fateweaver. Rolls box cars.

And then the Knigh proceeds to roll a 6 with his destroyer weapon instantly killing him.

Allying with Eldrad in my tau army for fluff reasons. Playing against daemons. Turn 1 on the chaos storm table he got the random enemy psyker takes a leadership test or becomes a daemon spawn. First blood to my opponent. Sadness.

Had a sniper drone team holding aysterious objective. It explodes and kills all 4 of them. I haven't played with mysterious objectives since.

Recently had an enemy Ezekiel cast vortex of doom on my vindicare assassin, killing him. Next turn it scattered back directly on Ezekiel and killed him too. Rather humorous.

I once had one of my space marine sergeants lose the rest of his squad, get charged by a pack of twenty Kroot carnivores, he killed two of them, they failed to kill him, and then he swept them and the shaper. Glory to Macragge indeed!

My librarian in power armour is renowned for losing horribly in close combat to tau fire warriors.

My Ultramarines smash fether punched an Imperial Knight to death.

Random tactical marine, with his leadership reduced to two by the old guardsmen sanctioned psykers squad, carrying the relic to safety, managed to pass the turn 7 leadership test as the rest of the squad died around him.

During a tournament, a Necrons player with the item that let you deep strike redeploy shifted his large blob of twenty warriors to somewhere inconvenient for me. The two overlords and twenty warriors then proceeded to scatter just enough to be instantly destroyed by the toe of Random Tactical Marine.

One of my Russes fires a demolisher shot at a tri-las Predator.
The shot scatters 3" to the right, and hits a second Predator.

Pred 1, roll to pen: 6
Pred 1, roll on damage table: 6

Pred 2, roll to pen: 6
Pred 2, roll on damage table: 6

Both tanks exploded 6".

Back in 5th when drones required a controller.

3 stealth suits, 6 gun drones, jump into terrain, all suits fail terrain tests and die, all drones promptly crash.

I've posted this before in similar threads but it is a funny story -

Deathstrike Missile was fired danger close to my Fortress of Redemption's walls in order to try wiping out an Ork horde bearing down on my defenders.

The Missile scattered backwards and destroyed 3 sections of my Fortress, leaving only the Missile bunker, and killing 35 men (20 of which were veterans), my Inquisitor and his retinue. Also caught in the blast was my last Tarantula turret.

Suffice it to say, I had effectively tabled myself and my opponent cleaned up the survivors, including the offending Deathstrike Missile Launcher, the following turn.

Back in fifth with with a witch hunters jump canoness. Always solo. She was the bane of anything with an armour value or more than 1 attack. She had soaked the shooting phase of an entire army more than once.

And yet EVERY SINGLE TIME she had to make a single save, she would fail, even it was a lone commisar with a las pistol or so. Or a grot...EVERY friggin time. I could not for the life of me make single saves on that canoness. It became a running joke.

My Onager Dunecrawler is fething amazing.

It has accomplished the following.

•Killed a Daemon Prince in close combat with one hull point remaining.
•Killed a Bloodthirster with a Heavy Stubber.
•Killed two Terminators in close combat.

CC Dunecrawler OP, nerf GW pl0x

I had a 12 man Fire Warrior squad get charged by a friend's 10 man Striking Scorpion squad. Scorpions go first and kill a single fire warrior. Fire warriors swing back and kill 2 scorpions. The scorpions promptly failed their morale roll and the fire warriors run them down.

A lot of gold in this thread lol.

Surviving sister superior takes off Abbadon's last wound.

dethric wrote:
6th: Had a Flying Daemon Prince kill 9 cultists in a psy phase, the remaining cultist started running, but decided to throw a snap shot at the prince, and wound it, it gets grounded, takes a wound dies.

Exalted for great laughs!

My brother charged my Tau with nothing but a space marine sergeant. Killed 12 fire warriors 3 suits AND beat farsight in a duel... Naturally he gave his sergeant a name and made him the chapter master of his chapter haha.

In 3rd [?] edition, I had 10 Guardsmen without upgrades kill a charging Blood Thirster in a single round of combat.

In 6th [?] edition, I had a squad of 5 Assault Terminators charge 2 Scouts on the top of a tower. Thanks to pile in moves, the Terminators had to jump off the side of the tower when they were beaten in CC. The 3 that were left all died from the drop.

I had a Shadowseer kill a fresh Bloodthirster with no chance for survival once. (Mirror of Minds with a -5 modifier.)

In 5E, I had Abaddon in a unit of 10 terminators, who got wiped out by 5 burna boyz.

Whiffed every single save.

They scored 0 kills that game.

Played my CSM against my older brother's SM. 1000 points, he has Marius (Sicarius) in a Land Raider together with a Tactical Squad. I shoot the Land Raider with my Vindicator which blows it up. Then my Defiler shoots at the nicely packed ex-inhabitants of the Land Raider, hits them all, wounds them all, Marius decides to risk taking a 2+ save against it (it's not like he could do otherwise, the other guys were all dead because the battle cannon oddly does not permit PA saves) and dies, and so does the rest of his squad.

He conceded as his remaining forces couldn't match the rest of my army.

BA libby rolled for a psychic power, periled, killed himself, and a good portion of his death company squad.

Had a Flyrant blow its own head off from perils, taking out 6 Gargoyles (Skytyrant Swarm), and the rest of the swarm booked it.

Back in 5th I saw a dual Big Mek army kill half its guys on turn one, when both the uber cannons rolled snake eyes and killed all their bubble wrap.

From the game I just played-

One Radium Carbine shot took two wounds off a Dreadknight, killing it.

Yesterday in Apoc, turn 1, my Death Jester killed a single Necron Warror and their squad and warlord Overlord ran off the table edge they were standing next to.

To be fair, the test was at -6 (-2 from Death is not enough, -3 from Kabalite Stormsurge and -1 from Covens)

Managed to have a Ravenwing Attack bike take the last wound off a Flyrant while it was in the air. Not especially amazing, but I still refer to it as "The Little Attack Bike that Could"!

 Happyjew wrote:
Kharn charged a 10-man IG squad. Killed all but 1. Over the next three(?) turns, the lone Guardsman proceeded to butt Kharn in the face with his rifle to death.

Don't blame Kharn. He had no idea that the Guardsman was the Emperor in disguise.

Had the Despoiler himself charge into a platoon of guardsmen, his retinue died to a hail of lasgun overwatch and as he chewed through part of the squad all the guardsmen in that part of the trench line dogpiled him and proceeded to beat him to death with lasgun clubs.

Moral of the story: Stay outta my fethin trench line!

Space marine captain took four Leman Russ cannons and quite a bit of heavy bolted fire to finally get rid of.

Also, 10 boys failing to wound a single SoB Sister Repentia, while the sisters almost slaughtered them all in one turn.

Almost entire Space Marine army was destroyed by the Orks' SHOOTING PHASE due to Space Marines forgetting to shoot that turn.

I had Magnus the red (using the rules for Lorgar) in combat with a wolf Lord. Wolf lords wins the first round of combat.
Next round Magnus perils and vanishes, along with half his terminators.
Not sure what I was expecting, given his track record with Russ.

My sniper scouts got obliterated by my brother's stompa gun. That cannon hit them dead on. Figured that being in cover, with camo cloaks, and Raven guard shrouded which I think gives +1 to cover so I was looking at a 2+ cover save (at work so no book and memory hazy) and I roll a 1. Poor scouts never had a chance.

In one round of shooting and overwatch 5 Dire Avengers killed three Necron Wraiths.

Single Guardian and his Scatter Laser Weapon Platform killed a Nurgle Daemon Prince with Black Mace.

DV Terminators (down to four man squad) charge Autogun Cultists (9 left). Termies Kill four. Cultists kill two. Termies run away.

Three turns of combat between Howling Banshees and Plague Marines, neither side takes a single casualty.

I once had a unit of cultists, they were shot to bits as they ran at the enemy, only the stubber carrier and champion remained. Stubber man took aim and fired on a nearby librarian, SNAPSHOTING HIM TO DEATH. My opponent retaliated with his nearby tactical squad; killing stubber man. I charge in my champ not expecting him to kill anything, I challenge his tactical sergeant, he excepts. SOMEHOW I win, Mutate into daemon prince and slaughter his entire squad.

ALSO: Back in 5th a friends demolisher was shot to bits, had no weapons left, was immobilized and was stunned. Survived to contest an objective and win him the game. I believe he named it "Invincebalus"; it then proceeded to die by turn 2 every game and still does.

Watching a Knight getting gibbed by scarab swarms

Oh my gosh this has been great!

Didn't happen to be but the funniest I've ever witnessed had to be when a squad of 10 Chaos Terminators attacked a small group of about 3-4 Gretchins. They attacked, lost combat, failed leadership, ran away, and got swept. By Grots!

Both parties then agreed that the Grots didn't actually kill the remaining Terminators. Instead, Khorne murdered them for their incompetence.

Ooh here's one I forgot about, although it's not my guys dying.

Unit of one base of Rippers is charged by my friend's Riptide as he needs an objective.

Ripper make a 6+ armour save against Hammer of Wrath. Riptide strikes, rolls two hits out of four. Needs 2's to IK the Ripper. Rolls snake eyes.

Ripper rolls to hit. Manages to get a single six to wound. Riptide fails the 2+ armour save. Rolls a 9 for Leadership check (one less and would have passed) and is subsequently swept in combat.

Monstrous Creatures are fearless, so extra fail on his part!

Riptide is one of the few non-Fearless MC out there. We checked that as soon as I won combat and lo and behold, they weren't Fearless. Which made for super lols once I swept

My Khorne Juggerlord was duking it out with Mephiston, but lost more wounds (including the one that took him down) to failing his AoBF daemon weapon rolls.

A guy's Autarch and Exarch were near the front of a Jetbike squad. They charged my techmarine, Challenge, his Autarch wiffs everything, Techmarine hits back with Servoarms, 2 hits, 2 wounds, 2 failed saves.
A standard Techmarine managed to kill an entire jetbike squad with his Servoarm after they failed the Leadership and Initiative test.
Good Times

Final round of a GT at the top table, my opponent has a set of deep striking warp spiders that fail reserves until turn 4, scatter and mishap back in reserve for t5, and then scatter and mishap into t6, except there was no turn 6! Technically destroyed so it counts!

My buddy was running a baronial court of Knights alongside a small BA detachment. Kharne charged and killed two of them, and survived the explosions as well as everything else sent his way...until a few BA scouts headshotted him with bolt pistols.

i had a lone plasma guardsmen overwatch a chaos lord to death, then charge a unit of bikers, kill them to a man, and then shoot at 2 cultists... and gets hot he killed himself.
he did grant me slay the warlord and killed my opponent flanking bikes so i won though. i took the model and used it as the base for a converted lord commisar.
that commisar has never ever ever had his plasma pistol get hot


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my firned also had his kitted out chaos lord charge my chapter master... he killed the chapter master in combat and then he got turned into a chaos spaw-OHSWEETJESUSNOGRBGBRGRBGRGL:RLR|RLLR

that chaos sp- ahem "thing" then killed a squad of 5 assault terminators 10 tactical marines, a pycik choir and then he charged a 5 man tac squad and proceded to roll nothing but 1s and 2s for the next 2 turns until the end of the game... we decided that the lord was such a badass that he wasnt actually turned into a chaos spawn, he just forgot to shave that day and his helmet came of in the challenge.

Draigo died to overwatch, failing two 2+ armor saves in a row against snap firing bolters

I had a single War Walker, who was immobilized take out a Daemon Prince.

The Prince had already lost a wound. I did one in overwatch, and for the next 4 player turns, I made every 5++ save I needed to. The walker plinked away a few wounds, leaving the Prince with one remaining.

In my opponents turn, the warp storm table hits the walker, it explodes and take the final wound off the prince when it goes out.

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Crispy78 wrote:
My Khorne Juggerlord was duking it out with Mephiston, but lost more wounds (including the one that took him down) to failing his AoBF daemon weapon rolls.

As amusing as that was, it is nothing compared to the atrocious bad luck your Daemon Prince has experienced.

Remember that battle we had where your Chaos force took on my Astra Militarum with Dark Angel allies?

Daemon Prince with AoBF charges my blob of guardsmen of which Commissar Yarrick was attached to them. Yarrick challenged the Daemon Prince who then accepted. The daemon prince with AoBF had charged that turn so we were both expecting a silly amount of attacks, but the prince rolled a 1 and ended up losing a wound. The following turn when that combat continued, the prince rolled another 1 and took yet another wound. All Yarrick had to do was just stand there and laugh his ass of whilst the Prince with AoBF pretty much killed himself. In the end Yarrick finished the prince off with his Klaw. Yarrick's luck eventually ran out when he tried taking on a Bloodthirster after that, but he certainly died a hero by keeping a Daemon Prince and a Bloodthirster at bay so the rest of my army could survive until the end of the game and just about win.


In regards to my own units, pretty much every time I field my Sanguinary Guard they die a ludicrous death. Plasma and AoBF the primary reasons.


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Oh and Mephiston died in shame to a single chaos terminator with lightning claws. Rolled 1's either every save or every other save and my opponent just kept rolling 2's or more every time I hit his model. It was really frustrating, all I had to do was roll 2 or more, but just kept rolling 1's...

5th Edition Necron codex, My Command Barge overlord took a wound from a melta gun in overwatch, then proceeded to get beat to death by Stealthsuits before he could swing. He did not reanimate, as he was too embarrassed.

A more recent game, 2 Tomb Blades hold off Shadowsun and a squad of Crisis cuits with drones. Next turn they then win combat by 1 and sweep the whole unit, slay the warlord.

Saw a friend's Riptide get Tank Shocked off of the board by a Hellhound.

Swarmlord turned into a Herald of Khorne due to a Warpstorm event.

Had a flyrant kill all but the sergeant of a tactical squad. In response, the sergeant shot, wounded, grounded and killed him. Good stuff!

Nids vs Ultramarines.

Battle was heavily one-sided with Tiggy, a Tac squad and Dev squad all running off the table in the very first shooting phase.

Ahem, sorry. Other Dev squad (down to a missile launcher and Sarge) charge my 30 Gargoyles. After Overwatch, all that was left was the Missile Marine, who (with some help from my Biovores) proceeded to wipe out most of the Gargoyles.

This guy has some crazy luck with Dev Marines in melee.

Had my ws1 riptide charged by a demon prince. They were locked in battle for 3 turns. My friend calls out, why don't you try a smash attack?

Roll for smash, hit,
Roll to wound, 6,
Demon prince rolls a 2 for his invul save

Splat goes the Demon. The chaos players face... priceless.

I've had a small unit of termagaunts kill a chaos lord on a juggernaut once - he was camping on the other side of a Rhino pushed up against a wall to provide cover but my termagaunts could see through the small gap and shot at him. I'm not sure if he had any wounds on him prior but they shot, wounded and he failed the rest of his saves. We both were fairly surprised.

I've also had a maulerfiend charge up a tower at my riptide only to get tagged in overwatch by a melta gun and smashed and exploded before he could attack.

Another time that was pretty surprising happened when I was playing my Nids against Grey Knights and some purifiers caught a full-health Hive Crone in the air with Cleansing Flame and destroyed it.

 Crazyterran wrote:
Monstrous Creatures are fearless, so extra fail on his part!

BRB pg 580 (Digital version mind you) "Monstrous Creatures have the Fear, Hammer of Wrath, Move Through Cover, Relentless, and the Smash special rules"
I've made this mistake myself with my Kastelans, which did turn out to be fealess but not because they are MCs, GCs however are fearless.

A single tac marine, killed a wraithlord, on overwatch.

 BrandonSparkman wrote:

 Happyjew wrote:
Kharn charged a 10-man IG squad. Killed all but 1. Over the next three(?) turns, the lone Guardsman proceeded to butt Kharn in the face with his rifle to death.

Don't blame Kharn. He had no idea that the Guardsman was the Emperor in disguise.

I think you mean that he had no idea that he had just charged the only son of Ollanius Pius

My two favourite are...
Both in 6th.
A C'Tan shard of the nightbringer assaults my two Deathwing Terminators. I overwatch their two storm bolters, getting 4 hits, 4 wounds. He promptly failed his 4+ saves.

My Commander Farsight assauls and kills in close combat Lord Kaldor Draigo. The look on my opponents face when that happened, priceless.

i once had 20 marines (horus heresy) overwatched to death by 14 or boys with shootas... it was stupid

I took part in a 3 v 3 "apoc" game (escalation fluff tourney, from the shield of baal campaign, 6000 points per side) I saw a 10 man squad of krieg guardsmen hold a mawlock for 2 turns, and kill it with the 1 remaining guardsman there. I also had a land raider require 5 terminators, a knight, murderfang, and a S: D blast to kill. finally, the 3rd silliest thing to happen in this tournament match, I had a 10 man squad punch a mecharius to death, eat the massive explosion, and then a round and a half of S: 10 and S: D shooting, only to have the last one shot to death by Kriegers.

Ork war boss with a power klaw attempts to charge my 10 man guardsman line and is poked to death by bayonets before even getting a swing in.

A cultist (out of the three left in a squad) in a squad that broke after being charged by a squad of Ravenwing bikers, managed to regroup and kill one by snap shooting.

I had a whole squad of Thousand Sons wiped out by a single, very painful mortar shot. This is after surviving a full salvo from a Leman Russ Executioner with Plasma Cannon sponsons with a single casualty, mind you. (Although my TS have a habit of walking off huge amounts of plasma/melta shots then dying to stray bolt shots)

I've also had a daemon prince lose two wounds and die to a squad of guardsmen overwatching

I had a 5man Blacknight Command Squad (with last codex) that shoot in rapid fire with their plasma Talon. Roll with different color to separate who fail/success.

I lost my Banner (Devastastion Banner at that time, 105points model) and my Apothecary (maybe 70pts, but not 100%).

That was the worst shooting of my whole life.

In 5th, Guard Commander killed a Monolith with a meltabomb. It was like 3 separate rolls that required a 6 or something. We all died laughing imagining that heroic throw.

Just the other day:

A single pink horror comes out of the Portaglyph.
I cast Flickering fire at an Eldar Wraithfighter (some forgeworld one?) with 2 dice. Both 6's. Perils and get result 6 - Go Beast Mode.
I roll 2D6 and get 12 shots.
Get only 1 hit.
Opponent rolls a 1 for his 2+ jink save.
Roll a 6 to penetrate.
Roll a 6 on the damage table - immobilised.
Roll a 1 on immobilised - flyer crashes and burns.



I then get cocky and waste psychic 12 dice trying to replicate the feat on his other flyer, and fail to get even one hit.

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 BrandonSparkman wrote:

 Happyjew wrote:
Kharn charged a 10-man IG squad. Killed all but 1. Over the next three(?) turns, the lone Guardsman proceeded to butt Kharn in the face with his rifle to death.

Don't blame Kharn. He had no idea that the Guardsman was the Emperor in disguise.

I think you mean that he had no idea that he had just charged the only son of Ollanius Pius

Or was it Marbo? He's so sneaky he's not even in the Codex anymore, but he still pops up from time to time...

In 7th ed two of my 10 man cultist squad shot to death two grey nights terminators (I think their called Paladins ) using their auto pistols in the shooting phase
I rolled straight sixes
And he rolled two ones

I was playing a dark eldar player back in 6th. His archon with shadow field broke off to kill two tactical marines hanging out in an objective.

I get lucky and hit and wound three times in the overwatch with the two boltguns. The archon fails his first 2+ save and then proceeds to die without an armour save.

6th Ed. Sisters of Battle vs Eldar. Lone standard SoB Vet Superior (a Vet Sgt for those unfamiler) with a power sword. Get's charged by Avatar of Cain who was down by 1 wound already, so 3 left. I do 1 wound on over watch, he fails to kill her either missing or me making my 6+ Shield of faith invul. I then procced to get's to hit, then to wound, and he gets to Save. I painted her sword to look molten like Cain after that and gave her a name.

i killed my "friends" 2 titans with some deepstriking suicide melta vets! : }...
i also have had my angron and some berserkers charge 50 conscripts and a commisar sitting on an objective. i was then soundly beaten to death until just karn and anrgon were left. i challenged his commisar and took 3 wound failing to do any to him. kharn got killed by 30 conscripts. that squad held up angron for the rest of the game (4 turns!) and ultimatley won the game because of it... my friend has used them in almost evry game since then and they has never been completely wiped out.

My friend's dark angels army immobilised my imperial guard melta vets chimera so they had to disembark. The vets got very badly shot up and the lone survivor made a hasty retreat, I used a "get back in the fight! " on him and he was able to go back to the chimera wreck and get a lucky shot at my friend's character, killing him instantly.

I once had my 5 dominions assaulted by sammael on bike with black knights. I got to seize and took out half the squad, then I got assaulted and manged to take out 2 more with overwatch and then somehow managed to survive on a 6++ until both sammael and the rest was dead. And I still had two or three dominions left by the end.

That game was weird though, as I also managed to put enough wounds into tactical squad with just a basic 10 man sister squad to cause them to route of the board, before they got to do anything.

One time my Farsight was charged by Typhus.

So I roll for Overwatch and Farsight hits with both shots and then both wound, managing to get through the 5++ and FNP.

Then comes the actual close combat. Farsights attacks bounce off thanks to that invulnerable save and FNP and then comes Typhus' turn to hit back. An AP2, poisoned, Force, daemon weapon.

He promptly hits himself in the face and dies, with the rest of his attacks missing.

Good times.

I had decided to be a jerk and bust out my 3 squads of 3 Rapier Weapons Batteries with Cyclotrathe Conversion Beamers, having 9 on the board. My Sorc warlord rolled for Perfect Timing and got it (Hurray!) had 9 Large Blast str10 AP1 and 3 of them Ignored Cover due to Perfect Timing.

My opponent conceded his first turn after I reduced his army to Smouldering Metal Boxes.

Back in second edition my Warbuggy, which had multi meltas back then, missed it's target, scattered and killed ghazgkhull

6th ed.

Kharn charges and successfully swats a hovering Stormtalon out of the sky.

It was honestly the worst tactical decision I could have made, but by far the most awesome.

An Eldar Avatar taken down in one round of shooting by spinegaunts.

Back in early 5th edition, my guard squad ended up in CC with Lucius the Eternal (IIRC). They couldn't hurt him, but he was flubbing his rolls bad too, so that in 3-4 rounds of combat, I only lost a couple guard, and Lucius managed to kill himself with 1s.

i played yesterday and my TFG at my store had 3 riptides 4 knights and like 7 broadsides or something. he shot at my last squad of guard infantry and missed with all of his guns. his missle his blast templates... evrything. i then shot his knights to death with deepstriking melta vets and managed to tie the game

I had a unit of grotts kill a unit of stormsheilds (space wolves, not sure unit)

My lone crusader takes 9 invuln saves from a flamer template before his shield finally melted on the last save. He spared his henchmen unit and cotaez the trouble!

Same game and same unit my missionary and cotaez accept a challenge from a burgle bike squad. The missionaries rosaries goes on to save him through combat for the next 3 turns as the rest of the henchmen squad is slowly whittled down in the background.

I had a riptide lose its last wound to a single guard.

In another game I had an entire farsight bomb squad (1000 or so points) lose one wound in combat and get swept after combat.

Lastly, my shadow field archon took a gamble with a singing spear wound.... first time I've ever been triple toughed...

I once had my sm captain get insta-gibbed by a random krak rocket. Last time I ever forgot to buy the shield eternal

Before the new SM codex came out I had a veteran scout sgt with a grav pistol and ccw charge and kill a FW riptide after 2 turns of cc, and then consolidate, charge and kill the regular riptide that my opponent had as well. He then ended the game on an objective that let me win by 1 pt.

Needless to say he has been promoted to captain of the 10th company.

In this cold, uncaring universe of ours, is not life itself ludicrous? And every death not merely the punchline to a long joke?

Alcibiades wrote:
In this cold, uncaring universe of ours, is not life itself ludicrous? And every death not merely the punchline to a long joke?

Nah.

I once witnessed Fateweaver die in close combat to two gun drones. He had two wounds left. Both gun drones hit, wounded, and he failed both saves.

In terms of my own units, I once had 3 striking scorpions (exarch and 2 pals), die in a single round a shooting to 4 imperial guardsmen with lasguns.

 Happyjew wrote:
Kharn charged a 10-man IG squad. Killed all but 1. Over the next three(?) turns, the lone Guardsman proceeded to butt Kharn in the face with his rifle to death.

Oh man, this one got me. That's an amazing image (and I'm sure deeply disappointing for the Chaos Gods).

Mine would have to be Turn 1: Chaos Sorcerer Lord perils. Sucked into the warp. Fails. Sucks 4 buddies in with him. Thanks, cap! Masterful casting!

I once had a regular, un-upgraded Imperial Guard Sargent kill a Vanguard Veteran Sargent in a challenge. Needless to say my opponent was not impressed.

That and my Dads Army themed CCS have performed miracles with a combination of camo gear, a 5+ save and FNP allowing them to massacre things that should have murdered them outright, including 5 LotD with a Heavy Flamer and a Flamer.

 clamclaw wrote:

 Happyjew wrote:
Kharn charged a 10-man IG squad. Killed all but 1. Over the next three(?) turns, the lone Guardsman proceeded to butt Kharn in the face with his rifle to death.

Oh man, this one got me. That's an amazing image (and I'm sure deeply disappointing for the Chaos Gods).

Mine would have to be Turn 1: Chaos Sorcerer Lord perils. Sucked into the warp. Fails. Sucks 4 buddies in with him. Thanks, cap! Masterful casting!

I had a similar occurrence on the other side of the board one game, except it was a weird boy who killed himself. I got first blood before my first turn even began!

Once fought an Ork army led by a Big Mek with Shokk Attack gun. He teleported himself into a unit of 20 CSM's, assaulted, and got punched to death before he could attack. Ah, 6E...

So, to break in my buds new gaming table, last night we played a 1000 point game, Salamanders vs. Necrons. His chapter master got stuck in with 10 Immortals and my Overlord for the course of 3 turns. He had a 2+/3++/5+++ and wouldn't yield to my Overlord, and vice versa. The Immortals beat him to death in the meantime, and he lost his last 2 wounds in one phase when he failed three 2+ saves at once and only making 1 FNP roll.

My rhino tank rushing a chapter master. The cheese (th, the shield eternal, 2+ on a bike with a iron hand tactics) chapter master, death or glory, guy rolled double 6s

Not all the ones on this list made me laugh, but the image of a Chapter Master being crushed by a Rhino is one of the few that did.

Way back in 5th edition I killed a Wraithlord with a Rhino tank shock. he Death or Glory'd, and ripped off the Stormbolter!

I had a lone bloodbride who charged a Chimera, slapped a melta bomb on it and blew it up only to be killed in the resulting explosion...

Most recently- Brother's Chaos Lord with jump pack HoW 's into melee with my DE Archon who promptly makes his save (I imagined a somersault or flip out of the way). Archon promptly nicks the Lord with a huskblade turning him into a dried up corpse.

Once one of my firewarriors actually killed a Chaos Space Marine in melee. I lost the melee combat ended up killing over half the chaos marines. My friend was surprised to say the least.

Someday I'll be champion of the ninjer. Someday.

I've never seen that happen after that.

Also my IG friend was all like. Hahah you play Tau. They don't believe in melee he kept reminding me (the guy who actually read the codex and has the army). I had eradicated his front line meatshield in front of his tanks which he had the rear armor backed up to the edge of the table.

I jumped my Riptide beside his tanks and started to tear them to pieces. Suffice to say he was pissed.

In my last game (3 way between myself, my regular opponent and my brother) I had high hopes of my brother's Necron Scarabs nibbling Mephiston to death, but he just survived with a single wound left.

Last game I played against my Necron buddy. It was incredibly horrible.

He had his Overlord in his Chariot, who charged my Seer Council, which still had one Farseer and 4 Warlocks.

He rolled his Impact hits, and got 6 hits. All 6 wounded. I failed every single save.

The Overlord literally just ran over an entire jetseer council. I don't want to think about what the Infinity Circuit is going to think of those Warlocks when they get those Soulstones back.

My chapter master, a total of 225 points had 1 wound left, he joined a centurion squad to gain T5- charged at a SINGLE gargloyle tyranid, 2 shots, 1 hits, 1 wound. Ok lets look out sir- roll a 1. Ok fine armour save. rolls a 1. Ok FNP from warlord trait. Rolls a 1.

MFW my chapter master died to a single gargoyle shooting overwatch.

my friend took like 20 assasins or something for apoc game. he put them into the formations so he infitrated 6 assasins near my catachan command squad. the first one charges and dies to overwatch. the second one fails its charge. the third and fourth one roll snake eyes and the last 2 get into combat kill everyone but my flag wava and my company captain. i then had my captain kill on and in the seond round of combat murder the other assasin. the 3 that had failed there charge were shot to bits by rapid firing squad of 50 conscripts with FrFsrF

Im not sure if it counts or not but my friends home brewed super character whom was a CC themed monster (and now looking back waaayyyyy overpowered for what he costed with S and T 6 and Rage, Instant Death and a S+2 AP2 powersword) was killed by my basic Imperial Guard Commander. Said Commander then went on to kill a Vindicator, survive a round of shooting from Sternguard and then assault said Sternguard, killing 3 of them. The game ended but we continued the commander vs Sternguard fight. He killed them all.
And all this was whilst he was on one wound left.

Said commander is now called Lukas Caine and has a huge character backstory.

Squad of Berserkers, power sword on champion. Banner of Rage.

Charge hovering stormtalon.

Champion does 2 glancing hits, kills stormtalon.

Next turn.

Charge Landspeeder squadron.

Champion kills Landspeeder, takes hull point off another.

Champion clearly has legs made of flubber.

Killed an Ork warboss in CC with a Bin lid of DEATH

So uh this happens yesterday...

Khorne bezerkers charge my Skitarii vanguard, they roll 50+ attacks hit with 5 then fail to wound, vanguard alpha hits back with his 3 TASER attacks, 3 6s, 9 instant deaths. Vanguard CLUB KHONE BEZERKERS TO DEATH WITH THEIR CARBINES. 1 Bezerker lives, next turn the dice gods abandon me and the lone bezerker chops though half the squad. I trigger my Doctrina boasting my weapon skill by 2 and beat him to death in realization. Survivors regroup, and are blown up next turn by a defiler that just came on from reserve.

 The Deathless Host wrote:
So uh this happens yesterday...

Khorne bezerkers charge my Skitarii vanguard, they roll 50+ attacks hit with 5 then fail to wound, vanguard alpha hits back with his 3 TASER attacks, 3 6s, 9 instant deaths. Vanguard CLUB KHONE BEZERKERS TO DEATH WITH THEIR CARBINES. 1 Bezerker lives, next turn the dice gods abandon me and the lone bezerker chops though half the squad. I trigger my Doctrina boasting my weapon skill by 2 and beat him to death in realization. Survivors regroup, and are blown up next turn by a defiler that just came on from reserve.

That son is called EPIC!

 master of ordinance wrote:

 The Deathless Host wrote:
So uh this happens yesterday...

Khorne bezerkers charge my Skitarii vanguard, they roll 50+ attacks hit with 5 then fail to wound, vanguard alpha hits back with his 3 TASER attacks, 3 6s, 9 instant deaths. Vanguard CLUB KHONE BEZERKERS TO DEATH WITH THEIR CARBINES. 1 Bezerker lives, next turn the dice gods abandon me and the lone bezerker chops though half the squad. I trigger my Doctrina boasting my weapon skill by 2 and beat him to death in realization. Survivors regroup, and are blown up next turn by a defiler that just came on from reserve.

That son is called EPIC!

They went out in glory ;_;

Used to play orks, had a gretchin squad that would run around doing nothing but take objectives.

My friend got smart and threw a nob squad on an objective to protect it. Long story short, my gretchin shot into the 5 man squad, and my friend rolled straight 1's then charged me with te remains, then the combined overwatch and better initiative finished them off.

Shortly after my friend started running a gretchin squad, and mine moved to being artillery gunners.

I had my Thunder Hammer Chapter Master survive 4 Str D attacks and stomps only to take off the last 5 hull points on an Imperial Knight with only three hits. He then survived the resulting explosion! 3++ ftw!

In a game I played recently, my D-thirster got charged by my opponent's D-thirster. On their attacks, they each got some hits, then they each got a single 6 to wound (in addition to other hits). Both 'thirsters were obliterated, and it resulted in double First Blood!

During a match recently against a Eldar jet bike list my command teams chimera was blown up by Eldar flyer, that then was taken out by a vendetta. The resulting explosion of the chimera lead to only the company commander and the master of the fleet left alive. I then ordered them to run after the jet bikes in their proximity.

When they were able to catch up they subsequently murdered the jet bike team.

Think about it, 5 jet bikes vs two middle aged men when Nothing but a sword and a las pistol. Absolutely brilliant.

This past weekend I had a rather interesting kill. It was a 2v2 game and I was playing Tau with GK ally vs Tau and 2 Imp Knights + some scions to fill the points. I was rolling like crap the entire game and had terrible luck (hammerhead went 0/3 to hit against the knights, even missing with BS7). Its late in the game and I'm down to barely anything.

Enemy turn and there is a Knight heading towards the backfield with 2 hull points and a unit of 2 scions charge my remaining 5 Fire Warriors in some ruins. Overwatch killed 1 but they made the charge, the squad leader had only 1 wound remaining made his attacks and missed, Fire Warriors clubbed the human to death and consolidated 4 inches towards the Knight. My turn my Hammerhead shot and missed, Fusion Crisis Suit scattered out of melta range but shot its 2 fusion blasters at the knight but did zero damage, Fire Warriors moved towards the Knight and threw an EMP grenade, did nothing but the Fire Warriors then charged the Knight.

In close combat the Knight at I4 chopped down 2 Fire Warriors. The remaining 3 clamped on their EMP grenades and got a hull point of damage. The Knight then stomps twice killing 2 Fire Warriors. Having taken 4 wounds but dealing 1 Hull Point the lone Fire Warrior makes his leadership 4 roll. Next round of combat the Knight swings 3 times, hitting once. The knight rolls a 1 to wound allowing the Fire Warrior to survive. The Fire Warrior grabs the EMP grenade, hits, rolls a 6 to penetrate, and the Knight goes down. The Knight goes nuclear and the massive blast scatters off into some nearby ruins but its still hitting the lone Fire Warrior. The blast wounds but the Fire Warrior makes his 4+ cover from the blast being on the other side of the ruins. He consolidates 6 inches onto the 2nd floor of the ruins and onto an objective.

The lone Fire Warrior then takes a pot shot at some scions and then survives being shot at by pistol fire from a unit of scions plus they failed the charge before the game ending. End of the game I had a Devilfish and the lone Fire Warrior left on the table as everything else was horribly destroyed.

Well last night I had a rather interesting kill that happened then didnt happen.

My opponent tried to charge a Veteran section with his Eversor assassin only for a lone Panzerfaust (Melta) gunner to blast him back through the wall with overwatch fire, killing him outright as he failed his 4+ save.

Then one of the club managers wandered past and happened to ask what turn this was. It was turn 1, and the Eversor had infiltrated. We had both forgotten about the rules regarding this and charging. The Eversor was brought back

It was a moral victory ordinance.

A guard shadowsword lined up on the lead knight of an adamantium lance.

Fired, scattered.....and managed to scatter so as to clip the leader and the guy on the back left.

Leader took a destroyer roll of '6' - and exploded.....scattering back onto the guy in back right. Which destroyed him with a second '6'.

The third knight no longer got the save reroll, took 3 hull points damage from the initial hit....and an explodes result, causing another three and killing him too.


One triple-mushroom-cloud later, Shadowsword gunner presumably lights up a cigar and demands beer......

locarno24 wrote:
A guard shadowsword lined up on the lead knight of an adamantium lance.

Fired, scattered.....and managed to scatter so as to clip the leader and the guy on the back left.

Leader took a destroyer roll of '6' - and exploded.....scattering back onto the guy in back right. Which destroyed him with a second '6'.

The third knight no longer got the save reroll, took 3 hull points damage from the initial hit....and an explodes result, causing another three and killing him too.


One triple-mushroom-cloud later, Shadowsword gunner presumably lights up a cigar and demands beer......

Exalted

I had a game against grey knights and a dreadknight with two wounds left gates to my table edge; i dont have anything to fire in his direction except the defensive heavy stubber on the back of my avenger strike fighter, so i have a bash at it in the hope i might get a wound off it.

The stubber is skyfire but not interceptor - i roll a five and two sixes to hit and two sixes to wound; he rolls snake eyes to save and down he went.

My fav was the first time I used my nurgle special weapon armed chaos havocs: 5 models, 4 with plasma guns and champ with Plasma pistol. All 4 plasma guns fired and got at least a single 1, with one rolling snake eyes so hitting himself with 2 gets hot wounds. Unit champ rolled 1 on plasma pistol shot as well. All failed necessary armor saves and all died on their first time shooting ever. Could not believe all the 1s rolled in that attack and all the combined saved fails as well. Not one of the 5 models actually survived.

I had 2 Grey Knight Terminators charge an IG infantry squad, 1 dies to overwatching lasguns, the other spends 3 turns gettting beaten to death while failing to kill even a single guardsman.

But that wasn't the worst, think that must have been my GK's vs Orks. A nob squad had been giving my Dreadknight a lot of trouble over the last few games, this time I made sure to keep the DK well away. However, my trusty vindicare takes a shot at the nobs wagon and kills it, but it has that damn ramshackle rule. The wagon then moves full distance random scatter right to the feet of the DK, where the nobs get out. Needless to say, the Dreadknight gets power clawed to death immediately, all thanks to the Vindicare.

Full squad of guardsmen accompanied by Yarrick. Come around the corner and find a single Skitari.
First Rank Fire, Second Rank Fire, close range, plus sergeant's pistol.
That's the best part of thirty dice.
Nothing hits. Nothing.

Yarrick sighs, contemplates headbutting the wall, and fires his baleful eye, showing them how it's done, and finally kills the Skitari.

None of us were capable of speech for a good five minutes.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Full squad of guardsmen accompanied by Yarrick. Come around the corner and find a single Skitari.
First Rank Fire, Second Rank Fire, close range, plus sergeant's pistol.
That's the best part of thirty dice.
Nothing hits. Nothing.

Yarrick sighs, contemplates headbutting the wall, and fires his baleful eye, showing them how it's done, and finally kills the Skitari.

None of us were capable of speech for a good five minutes.

Our tech magik triumphs again!

*turns to adept*

Take this down Toliver "new experimental confusion sheild is ineffective against evil eye death lasers"

My cent star fired into a wraith star, after I had removed it's Reanimation Protocols. The surviving wraiths go down quickly, and there are fifteen saves to take on his one wound remaining destroyer lord.

Should take about four wounds to kill him between his 4+ invuln and 4+ decurion save.

He passes all 15, denying me the kingslayer card and slay the warlord.

MFW...

That's probably the hardest I've been dick punched by the dice in a while. Especially considering my pair of dreadknights died to about maybe twenty five ap5 wounds between them...

A few days ago I played a small game with two friends. I brought a lone Emperor's Champion, my ally brought some Sternguard with two Gravcannons, and our opponent brought a Libby Conclave.

The Libbys camped out in a ruin and started cheating with their witchcraft, and by turn three, the Sternguard were able to get a clear shot at a Libby through a window, and took him down with 10 Graviton shots (poor sod). That turn's assault phase, my Champion jumped out of cover, and assaulted a Libby who had been forced to pop out of a door to attempt psychic shriek on him (failed dramatically when I turned up 3 5's to Deny).
As expected, the Libby got his arse handed to him.
Champion proceeds to consolidate around a corner.

Turn 4, the remaining three Librarians all start going batgak crazy, and fire off all their powers into the Champ.

Nothin' doin'.

All fire pistols.

Nothing.

All charge him (reasoning that he can't feasibly kill all three in one go). One of them dies, the other two fail to do anything.

Back to my turn, Champion shanks the remaining two, and consolidates for a victory lap around the Sternguard.

Best duel evar

Today I played in a tournament. In the third game, Be'lakor got targeted by a Psychic Shriek from Fateweaver. My opponent, unbelievably, rolled a ing 17. Be'lakor failed four of his invuln saves and died like a bitch. Then, in the same psychic phase, another Daemon used Psychic Shriek on my D-thirster. He rolled 18 on that one. D-thirster dies like an even bigger bitch. Worst tournament for me ever (although with the first two games going as bad as they did it was just icing on the cake really).

JinxDragon wrote:
Not all the ones on this list made me laugh, but the image of a Chapter Master being crushed by a Rhino is one of the few that did.

LOL, the shop I play told that I had to add a blood spot on the Rhino as a remembrance to its glory kill

Happyjew wrote:Kharn charged a 10-man IG squad. Killed all but 1. Over the next three(?) turns, the lone Guardsman proceeded to butt Kharn in the face with his rifle to death.

Give that man a promotion!

Otto Weston wrote:I've posted this before in similar threads but it is a funny story -

Deathstrike Missile was fired danger close to my Fortress of Redemption's walls in order to try wiping out an Ork horde bearing down on my defenders.

The Missile scattered backwards and destroyed 3 sections of my Fortress, leaving only the Missile bunker, and killing 35 men (20 of which were veterans), my Inquisitor and his retinue. Also caught in the blast was my last Tarantula turret.

Suffice it to say, I had effectively tabled myself and my opponent cleaned up the survivors, including the offending Deathstrike Missile Launcher, the following turn.

This dude straight up Allahu Akbar'd himself.

As a guard player nothing of mine stands out as dying in a stupid way. However, I do have one chimera that has run over a d-thirster, a riptide, a wraithknight (pre GC), wraithlord, Marenus Calagar, captain lysander and finished off a baneblade by ramming into the side of it.

Also have a veteran sarge equipped with a shovel that has killed asterion molok by booping him on the head with it.

 Crazyterran wrote:
My cent star fired into a wraith star, after I had removed it's Reanimation Protocols. The surviving wraiths go down quickly, and there are fifteen saves to take on his one wound remaining destroyer lord.

Should take about four wounds to kill him between his 4+ invuln and 4+ decurion save.

He passes all 15, denying me the kingslayer card and slay the warlord.

MFW...

That's probably the hardest I've been dick punched by the dice in a while. Especially considering my pair of dreadknights died to about maybe twenty five ap5 wounds between them...

That reminded me of the time when I charged Helbrecht with a big terminator squad. After dispatching of my sergeant he proceeded to make 16 4++ saves. The chances of that happening are kinda low, what made it even funnier was that next round 2 tactical marines punched him to death.

A Chaos Lord backed up by his Chaos Terminator pals had been shredding through a ton of Guardsmen, by my turn of shooting 4 Terminators and a Chaos Lord on full health were locked in combat with a Junior Officer and exactly one infantryman.

A shot from a Leman Russ Battlecannon scattered from a nearby defiler and landed squarely over the combat. The guardsmen were incinerated, but the termies and lord all got their saves. Which all but one proceeded to fail, leaving a very confused and probably shell-shocked Chaos Terminator standing in the middle of an cratered field littered with dead Traitor Marines and Imperial Guard.


As I recall that LRBT was the only thing left standing on the field, it's turret ripped off by the defiler which it subsequently took down with its lascannon.

Playing as Nids against my friend's Blood Angels, a certain HQ who may or may not be the reincarnation of a primarch decided to run ahead of everyone at a wall of 70 devilgaunts... never run at a wall of 70 devilgaunts by yourself.

I had a Platoon Command Squad riding in a Vendetta [full health].

A single snap shot, from a Plasma PISTOL caused my Vendetta to explode, and the wreckage scattered on top of a tower [building].

The Junior Commander survived the crash, and then crawled down into the building. The next turn, the tower was exploded, resulting in the JO taking 12 wounds.


In another case, the PCS was cruising around in a Vendetta, when it was shot down by some GK with a Psycannon. The resulting explosion killed everyone except the JO. The next turn, he ran for cover in some ruins. The GK player used the Purging power [nova power] resulting in the JO taking 10 wounds.


That JO has also survived being shot out of the sky, surviving the HoW attack from a Knight, only to take *19* wounds from a pair of D hits that rolled 6's "to wound".


For some reason, he takes obscene amounts of overkill pretty much every time I play. He seldom takes less than 5 wounds [on his own].

 Verviedi wrote:
My Onager Dunecrawler is fething amazing.

It has accomplished the following.

•Killed a Daemon Prince in close combat with one hull point remaining.
•Killed a Bloodthirster with a Heavy Stubber.
•Killed two Terminators in close combat.

CC Dunecrawler OP, nerf GW pl0x

What did you have equipped on it?

Chapter master with 1 wound left surrounded by assualt centrions charging a single tyranid gargoyle.

Gargoyle shoots, hits on a 6, wounds on a 6,I look out sir just to be safe, 1, armour save. 1.

Chapter Master dies.

I have another one.
BA (friend0 vs. UM (me)

Dante has just murdered my Captain in assault, and is now looking at a squad of Scouts with boltguns who are camping on a backfield objective. He goes to charge the Scouts, and they get to overwatch. out of the 10 shots, 4 hit, then all 4 wounded. Dante opts to tank all the shots. My friend then proceeds to roll 4 1's. Dante gets shot down by neophytes, and Dante's squad then proceeded to fail the 5" charge.

since the thread is back: this happened to me on Sunday.

1 Vanguard Alpha vs 7 Dark Eldar Wyches. Issues challenge, opponent refuses. They attack reducing him to 1 wound. Alpha beats 2 Wyches to death with his rifle. Then triggers Pater Radium, opponent roles a 1. I roll a 6. Killing every Wyche left standing.

The guy raged like crazy and conceded the game. That alpha is getting a promotion to "Counts-as-Inquisitor"

My all time most humiliating epic fail death:
Playing in a mega battle at the local GW store years and years ago. The manager gave me command of Cypher, reasoning that he was completely idiot proof and couldn't actually be killed, as he had a 4++ on 3D6 special save against losing his last remaining wound.

So naturally, his squad of 5 Fallen, (Chosen w/Plasma pistols), manage to explode themselves. Cypher now all on his lonesome, proceeds to take a face beating from a wall of 'Nids.

As he quickly gets dropped down to his last wound thanks to my inability to pass any 3+ saves, his special save kicks in...

Result, triple 1's... Our manager orders me to re-roll it - result, triple 1's again.

Net result? I was banned by the staff from ever using Cypher against within the store's confines, owing to the fact we nearly had a mass casualty event on our hands due to excessive laughter.


My all time "favourite" epic fail death:
2003 Toronto Grand Tournament. I'm playing my Salamanders, (as they were supposedly the 'sucky' Marine army due to effectively being 'Dwarves in PA'), vs. Phil Kelly's Ulthwe Eldar. (Yikes!)

My Force Commander who I'd tooled up with a Sally Mantle (no ID from double str wounds), Thunder hammer, pistol + Iron Halo charges into Phil's Wraithlord, takes a single punch off the head like a champ, and then cracks it across the kneecaps, slicing the Wraithlord clean in half!

As he celebrates his (literally!) crushing victory and dances across the mangled mass of wraithbone towards a nearby objective marker, he trips over a booby trap, which explodes in his face, and proceeds to paint the nearby rocks with a spray of 'liquid Space Marine'.
(re: the scenario rules had us rolling for each objective marker: one a 1, it was a booby trap and exploded with a 5"/S6 blast. I rolled 1 for the trap, Phil wounded my commander, and then I rolled another 1 for his save, which took my commander's last wound)

It was at least comical to behold!

Ok, here's one. Don't know whether or not it is lucridious, but here goes.

5th edition game, Ultrasmurfs vs Tyranids, 550 points per side battle. Nids had no HQ, Smurfs had Librarian as an HQ (don't remember if it was Tigurius).

On to the point! Dreadnaught took out a Termagant with Storm Bolter, but when Assault Phase came around, Termagants charged him and he suffered the following:
5 's.

He didn't get a chance to take any more nids out. Battle was lost with 6 marines and a Razorback left for the Smurfs on the table.

Tigurius has the worst luck with nids, SITW creature took him out in our 2nd BA/Ultrasmurfs joint operation (along with everyone else in the HQ slot when the Carnifexes came in.) That battle was also lost.

Ludicrous or not? You decide.

I had my Wolf Lord on a Thunderwolf in Runic Armor die to grots firing overwatch, which always reminds me to bring grots!

biggie_reg wrote:
I had my Wolf Lord on a Thunderwolf in Runic Armor die to grots firing overwatch, which always reminds me to bring grots!

I guess this is true...

A friend of mine somehow gets his Tesseract Vault killed in Turn one every game which then causes him to lose a huge chunk of his force to its death explosion

GeekSquid wrote:

 Verviedi wrote:
My Onager Dunecrawler is fething amazing.

It has accomplished the following.

•Killed a Daemon Prince in close combat with one hull point remaining.
•Killed a Bloodthirster with a Heavy Stubber.
•Killed two Terminators in close combat.

CC Dunecrawler OP, nerf GW pl0x

What did you have equipped on it?

Neutron Laser and Cognis Manipulator.

Had my chaplain with a jump pack charge into marneus and his honour guard, challenge gets accepted by Lord Calgar himself. Combat goes on for 4 turns. He refused to hit me where I wounded him once a turn, every turn. He proceeded to surround the combat with land raiders whilst the rest of his army was having a glorious battle with my own. Last combat, my chaplain proved to bash the living daylights out of him with his crozious. I said a soft prayer to the EMPRAH for his life. Next enemy turn, rolls horrid, gets 2 hits, fails the lascannon wound, I save the heavy bolter hit. He then turned his entire army(in range and in sight of chappy) shot him with everything, only thing that wounds is a bolt pistol from one of his vanguard squads, I get the save, he rages and says that I'm never allowed to use a chaplain ever again.

Next game I played I got assaulted by a single stealth suit and died a horrible death. I haven't had a hate for one race so hard.

Single Dire Avenger (Not even an Exarch with a Power Weapon or Dire Sword, just a regular Avenger) held a Nurgle Daemon Prince in combat for four turns and killed him.

This Daemon Prince had: Wings, Armour, Spell Familiar, Ichor Blood, and a Black Mace. I don't even know how he did it.

Kitted out wolf guard termies in a "how to play" game against guardsmen.

Guardsmen have 4 guys in range, hit and wound three times, triple ones.

It was a very one sided right from then on...

" Hey pack leader, are those... Flashlights?"
"Not sure Sven, lets take off our helmets and look."

It wasn't a death as such, but in a game of Necromunda, three of my Escher gangers started on the top of a shack. When a heavy bolter was deployed across from them, I decided to relocate, requiring them to drop off the low side of the shack and take a STR 1 hit each.

Out of action, out of action, downed. Moral of the story is, don't try to jump in high heels.

Kharn killed by Fabius...

Fabius manage to survive with 1 wound( really bad rolls), then only one off Fabius attacks with his staff goes through, and off course the guy that did die a few times and came back to life by Khorne's power doesn't have EW, but some random IF captain gets tortured for years by IW, and he is EW...

Two more recent ones:
1. Friends dark angel terminators assault a eldar gaurdian squad. 2 of the 5 survive the shuriken fire to get beat to death in hand to hand causing 0 casualties. New shrine erected on the craft world dedicated to this squad.j

2. Necron/eldat vs. SM/Tau, 8000 pt. Battle, (yes 8000). Falcons deepstrike behind Imp Knight and annihilate its rear armor. Titanic explosion wiping out 6 centurions, vindicator, a ghostkeel, and a tesseract vault...which titanic explosion takes out 10 necron warriors, a wraithknight, a riptide, 6 jetbikes, another ghost keel, and 10 fire warriors. Somehow the only survivors where the SM captain, the 3 Falcons, and 2 jetbikes.


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I should note that the tesseract vault had 2 wounds left, so i moved it in close to my buddies forces on purpose. The wraithknight was also about to die.

My ludicrous deaths are mostly from 5E's Abaddon. He never saw much action, but he always died in a stupid manner.

>Be 5E 2000 point game
>CSM vs Orks
>Orks forgot to bring the ap 2 ranged, not enough power klawz
>2 tasty transports full o' gitz in the middle of the table
>Abaddon and a retinue of 10 termies teleport down
>Whiff shooting
>Proceed to get utterly annihilated by flamers and sluggaz from about 15 orks
>Failed all saves

Wasn't me but a mate bought lorgar, painted him, was very proud of the results, beautiful painjob, turn 1 of his first game, lorgar casts invisibility, rolls a perils, sucked straight into the warp, so we gave him a mulligan after laughing solid for 5 mins, new model syndrome is a real thing I swear.

DKoK Engineer Watchmaster eats about 7 instant death wounds from a Black Templar Reclusiarch back from when they had their own codex.

10 Man Terminator squad with Termi Chaplain scattered on DS, couldn't place all models... dead. Conceded the game at that point as most of my army was shot to pieces by that point.

This one isn't ludicrous as a lot already posted but it is kinda stupid. My first Apocalypse game. It was a Tyranid themed event so I made a squad of suits that I thought would be useful with Twin-Linked Flamers.
Since I'm dumb I didn't really know how to make the most of them ("Yeah a Flamer unit subject to deep strike scattering ought to be reliable")
It rolled like this

1. Genestealers show up on far part of the board no one is really invested into grabbing even though there's a building/objective sitting right there

2. Since no one's there I guess I task myself to think "I'LL SAVE THAT PART OF THE BOARD"

3. Suits show up

4. Suits Scatter. Away. Leaving large mob of Genestealers outside of flamer template range.

5. Suddenly, after I'm done putting them down, this


6. Ask if my suits are being saved

7. Get told it's for something going on in the middle part of the board

8. Enemy turn. Genestealers multi-charge suits

9. The obvious happens


Since I'm dumb (again) and couldn't figure out what went wrong, the suits then stay shelved for 4-5 years until I realize I can just use them as Flamer-Buffmanders

I lost 3 terminators, and 2 wounds off of Lysander(with FnP) assaulting a group of grotesques with archaon and some other character due to overwatch.

I saw (5th edition) Swarmlord get taken to pieces by 3 Neophytes ( we all assumed the powerfist sarge was going to be the clincher)

 Mozzyfuzzy wrote:
I saw (5th edition) Swarmlord get taken to pieces by 3 Neophytes ( we all assumed the powerfist sarge was going to be the clincher)

well. Someone deserves a promotion

I had a game a couple of weeks ago where an imperial guard scion sergeant killed a riptide in over watch with his las pistol.

I tend to play Guard, so I don't often have horrible deaths that are unexpected. I expect everyone in my army to die in grisly manners.

However, I have delivered some hilarious deaths.

In a multiplayer game I had a squad wiped out down to the sergeant, who managed to stick around. So here he is, the last man of his squad, standing next to some Blood Angels, and looking across a small gap at a group of Meganobz.

The Blood Angels and Guardsmen wipe out the squad around the Meganob leader, and then Sergeant Rambo charged off. "My life for the Emperor!", he yelled. He knew it was all over, and he would soon join his squad mates.

With the quick flash of his wrist, he struck with his power sword, while simultaneously avoiding all the Meganob's attacks. After the flurry of blows, Sergeant Rambo found himself protected by the Emperor, and the Xenos filth lay dead at his feet.

...and that's how he got the Gene Seed.

Another game, Marbo took out a squad of Tau Broadsides by himself. I thought my opponent was going to kill me.

Here's another few silly deaths.

In my first 7th edition Orks VS Nids game, here is how the HQ died.

Badrukk: Rolls 3 's and fails saves.
Big Mek With Shokk Attack Gun: Gun gets a (1,1) when shooting at some warriors, destroying the trukk when the gun explodes.
Weirdboy: Gets killed by Genestealers when running away.

How's that sound for Ludicrous?

The KING (Farsight) was my warlord in a scenario game against Space Marines. The Eight drop in, get obliterated by bolters, O'Vesa dies in combat to a Ironclad dread, and Farsight gets offed by a random meltagun.
All he managed to kill that game was a Rhino with 1HP.

So we were doing this minigame where we all pick an HQ and fight off waves of Orks, Necrons and FW Admech.
In short, I killed a deff dread with a biker.

so tonight I had an interesting game against some 30k mechanicum.

My 2 dreadnoughts charged 3 Castellax, 1 dreadnought getting blinded. they swing for a bit, nothing cool happens, when suddenly, the mechanicum player throws in nearly his entire flank that his was on, and over the course of 6 or 7 combat rounds 2 regular dreads take out 3 Castellax, 1 Thanatar, a Magos, and 3 Thallax only to both be insta-gibbed by his medusa once combat was over.

Dreadnoughts for lyfe, it was fun.

I lost an Archon (2+ invuln and 4+Fnp) to a Sabotaged objective marker.

I was playing a 1k point game and my Farseer Skyrunner perils, rolls a 1, fails his leadership test with box cars and explodes and destroys his whole unit of Warlocks. So there went half my army on my own turn

One time I had my Guard Company Command Squad charged by Dante (who had 2 wounds left). Dante issues a challenge and my Company Commander boldly accepts knowing he would probably die. Dante then proceeds to whiff all of his attacks (must of been distracted by all the shiny medals on my commander's chest). The Commander then swings back with his power sword, hits with 2 attacks, wounds with both, and then Dante fails both of his 2+ armor saves, and dies horribly. The Company Commander then calmly takes Dante's death mask and walks back to his squad.

Yesterday, my Khorne Daemonkin were fighting against my friends Orks. There were some ludicrous deaths on both sides in that game. I was running a Blood Host detachment with Khorne's Bloodstorm as an auxiliary. I had to go second and failed to sieze. My D-thirster got lit up by some Lootas, taking him down to 1 wound remaining even though he jinked. My opponent's Morkanaut finished him off. Very disappointing losing such a powerful unit before he can even do anything. I got my revenge on turn 3. My Heldrake did a Vector Strike on that Morkanaut (strength 8 because of the formation bonus), needed a 6 to pen and got it. I then rolled for pen result and got...another 6. KABOOM!!! My opponent was pissed, not at me specifically, but because, as he said, his Morkanaut always seems to explode when it is at full HP. That game was pretty unpredictable anyway, mostly because of very bad scatter rolls for deep strikes and blasts. He was using that Ork formation that potentially gives any non-flyer Ork unit Deep strike, and got it on two of his Boyz units, but they both mishapped, and went into ongoing reserves. My Warp Talons also mishapped, and my opponent got to place them. We ran out of time before we could see how that played out. I may put up a battle report of this game (I took some pics), if so I may add a link in this post.

During HoR Killteam game, I had a 5 guardsmen with 1 plasma gun exchanging shots with 3 Chaos Marines.

Two thing happend.
5 Guardsmen /w hotshots and 3 marines shooted at each other for 7 turns with no casualty at all. Tons of hits but no 5 to wound... Then Terminator deepstrikedn in, rolled bad scatter and arrived on the other side of street he wanted to.
He moved and then Ran across the street to hide. Next turn he came out of building and declared charge. I overwatched. My plasmagunner who was the only one who was in LoS with the Terminator turned around, doubletaped his gun, terminator died and life went back to shooting at the marines.
And that was how his most expensive unit ended...

Another game, 1st. turn, 1st. who was in range, Ultramarine with plasmagun tried to shoot at my guardsmen. To hit, 1. Armor save, 1.
Glorious...