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Yesterday I played my first actual game at my FLGS. It was an 8 on 8 player megabattle with objectives, Imperium forces (with some Eldar allies) vs. xenos (consisting of chaos, tyranids,and orks) and I am extremely happy to declare victory in the name of the xenos. both sides were well balanced, but a few misfortunes on imperial account seriously truned the battle in our favor, such as:

-The eldar player, possessed the strongest forces and was the most experienced player on the imperial side, however his troops were tied up for most of the game clearing out hordes and hordes of tyranids. and although he was eventually victorious the game ended before he could reach any core objectives.
-massive amounts of space marines and IG were lost to huge ork assaults
- My night lord havocs decimated an entire squad of SM Vanguard vets
-we were able to clear out some striking scorpions and hold the main objective for most of the game
-(this was probably my favorite) the emperors champion and his whole body guard deep strike mishap and are misplaced into a lava pit, where they are instakilled.


so share some stories!

an appoc game.

Impierium vs xeno, 10,000 points

Impierium, 3 baneblades(stormlord, BB, banehammer), guard tank company, SM first company

Xeno, 3k Tau, 3k chaos(all DPs ) 1k necrons.


necron lord outflanks and takes control of baneblade, blasting guard trenches, but damage is minimal.

Deciever(cleverly disguised as nightbringer) blows up the baneblade, taking out 5 LRBTs, 3 basilisks, 53 guardsmen, 2 terminators, necron lord, wounding C'tan and a rhino

Apoc aswell.

Macharius being blown up by a C'tan nightbringer in CC, directly making a 12" circle of doom for everthing MEQ.
I think it did more damage to my army in that turn then it did to his in the entire game....

A regular game, 2100 2v1. My Orks vs. my buddies with Marines and 'Nids. 11 Grots charge a 10 man Terminator squad, and hit before the power fists. They cause 6 wounds on the charge. He rolls his saves, and fails 5 of them. 33 points of utter crap killed 200 points of the Emperor's finest.

Consistently over too many games to count: vox casters. Having that re-roll has been repeatedly game-saving, such as making the difference between wrecking that raider and nuking the terminators inside, or just stunning/immobilizing it and getting mauled next turn.

More specifically, in a game last night my platoon commander killed Eldrad.

Terminus wrote:Consistently over too many games to count: vox casters. Having that re-roll has been repeatedly game-saving, such as making the difference between wrecking that raider and nuking the terminators inside, or just stunning/immobilizing it and getting mauled next turn.

More specifically, in a game last night my platoon commander killed Eldrad.

Are you sure he wasnt some kind of tactical genius?

Mine was smurf vs Nids, sternguard and cassius drop pod in first turn and obliterate the only squad of stealers on the table and their brooldlord, the T6 cassius and squad survived the counter charge and kill of the last gaunt in his turn cassius and the 4 remaining vets then hellfired an carnifex for a total of 16 stealers, 16 hormagaunts and a Carnifex. though next game they got battlecannoned into oblivion

Ghazghkull calling a waaagh!
Ghazghkull calling a waaagh! after a kareen result put him in middle of the IG deployment zone in turn 2.
Ghazghkull calling a waaagh! and soloing said IG army for 3-4 turns until a single meltagun and 2 grenade launcher's end the rampage in one turn.
Ghazghkull calling a waaagh! and smashing Abbadon.

Brother SRM wrote:A regular game, 2100 2v1. My Orks vs. my buddies with Marines and 'Nids. 11 Grots charge a 10 man Terminator squad, and hit before the power fists. They cause 6 wounds on the charge. He rolls his saves, and fails 5 of them. 33 points of utter crap killed 200 points of the Emperor's finest.

that is just awesome.

My friends and I were playing an objective battle, on my team there were SM and Nids(me) against SM and CSM.
We were drawing and the only way we could win was by killing Abaddon. As a last attempt of winning the game, I charged sixteen termagants at the Despoiler. He was only on one wound so I gave it a try. Twelve of my 32 attacks wounded and all he had to was fail one, and luckily he did, we had one the game on the final turn.
Pretty good for Termagants.

One of mine happened way back, when a GK player came into the FLGS (There had been, thus far, only one regular who actually used them, and one who showed up occasionally). It was right before 5e Nids came out, so one player decided to challenge them to a 2-on-1 match of 2000 points to give his list one last game. The game itself was pretty even for the most part. Then turn 4 rolled around, and the Nids player finally got his Genestealers on the board, having rolled 3 and 2 for the previous two turns.

The game just about ended there. The Genestealers rushed from the right side of the board and swarmed over one GK player's GKTs. In two rounds of combat, they were dead, and then the Genestealers tied up three squads of PAGKs in one move. With them out of the way, the Nid player was able to buy another turn for his Carnifexes to get into assualt and chomp on everybody.

@The Night Stalker
1. Nice avatar
2. You used Havocs? I'm curious about the setup

Once, I fired a krak round from a missile launcher at a distant devilfish sitting on an objective. It was measured to EXACTLY 48". Rolled a 5 for armor pen, then a 6 for damage. Some embarassing to wound rolls/ armor saves later, my opponent was down an entire Fire Warrior squad, as well as an objective.

Black Legion vs IG - 3k points

Turn 1 - My 6 rhinos are crossing a river and tank traps. Faced about 5 LR's and associative guard infantry units. Took it to the face.
Turn 2 - 4 rhinos roll 1's for difficult terrain, thus getting stuck and can't move at all :( Lost majority of the remainder of my army.
Turn 3 - Roll 3 6's for "fixing rhinos." Moving closer into position. Took more IG shooting to the face and laughed.
Turn 4 - Legion assaults LR squardron and other tanks, utterly destroying all pieces of armor and killing all surrounding IG. Other rhino rolls a 6 and starts its advance.
Turn 5 - Legion assaults remaining IG units and smears the blood of scions of the False Emperor. IG player concedes.

The IG player kept acting like a little girl about how chaos rhinos shouldn't be able to repair yet thought it would've been fair for him to bring a couple of Baneblades.

Commissar Yarrick! He's like that annoying punch clown that keeps bouncing back up, no matter how hard you hit him.

10 Sisters of battle occupy a building, with an allied LR right beside. My vendetta comes cruising in to kill the LR, with yarrick tucked inside. Unfortunately the Vendetta whiffs, only immobilizing the LR. The LR retaliates by swatting the offending vehicle out of the air with a few lascannons of its own, leaving Yarrick stranded in front of the occupied building.

For the next two turns, sisters dump bolter shells on him, killing him twice. Twice he stands back up. On the third turn, he staggers into assault and kills 4 of them without sustaining a wound, and sweeping advances the remainder of the squad.

Objective cleared!

the Ever-Indestructible Falcon w/ holofields, that gets shot at by everything every games, and means that every enemy plan to kill by seer council backfires next turn, as they jump out and destroy anything close by

Mad Rabbit wrote:@The Night Stalker
1. Nice avatar
2. You used Havocs? I'm curious about the setup

Once, I fired a krak round from a missile launcher at a distant devilfish sitting on an objective. It was measured to EXACTLY 48". Rolled a 5 for armor pen, then a 6 for damage. Some embarassing to wound rolls/ armor saves later, my opponent was down an entire Fire Warrior squad, as well as an objective.

Haha! nice avatar indeed, and yes I used havocs in last weeks megabattle. I am pretty new to the game and decided to try them out, and they performed pretty well. I had 10 altogether, 4 missile launchers, 3 heavy bolters, 1 lascannon, and 2 aspiring champs with assorted gear. Their shining moment came when they blew apart a decked out SM vanguard vet squad, other than that they pretty much hid behind my allies ork horde and took pot shots at enemy armor with some success. I rolled very very well against the vets, all 4 of my frag missiles landed on target, the lascannon blew one away and they heavy bolters mopped up the rest. They took out a pretty expensive squad so I was happy overall, and the other player was quite demoralized

Straken. I gave his CCS carapace armor, a medipack, and 2 bodyguards, all in a chimera. When a squadron of 3 warwalkers and a squad of Striking Scorpions outflanked to eat my static gunline, he laughed and went on a killfest.

While we're on Imperial Guard...

...don't forget: CREEEEEEEEEEEED!


Seriously though, outflanking Leman Russ Demolishers can be serious fun.

Recent game, 2000pts per player, 2v2.

Necrons and Tyranids up against Black Templars and Chaos Space Marines.

The battle was a very back and forth game, Typhus was practically invincible and could drop a 6 for his terminator invul seemingly at will. Some necron tomb spiders just wouldn't go down. My hive guard and tyrranofexes shot land speeders out of the air every turn and my two tervigons spat out 11 and 15 gaunts on turn 5 to make a last minute assault screen to keep the Khorne Lord from assault moving close enough to contest the only captured objective. Neither doubled out, I rolled 6, 4, 5 and 6, 1, 4. They would have been safe turn 6 as well.

But what turned the tide of battle? On turn 3 the necron player I was allied with wasn't too keen on working together. He saw it as he fights chaos I deal with templars. I was the new guy to their games so they weren't used to me. I asked him at the beginning of the game to shoot the BT vindicator because from where it was I had ZERO nid anti tank weapons that could see it, but his monolith and heavy destroyers could see it and it had no cover. On turn three after a vindicator shell narrowly missing some 20 gaunts on a lucky scatter for my team he shot it the next round, 6, 6, 6, the vindicator explodes. If that gun were still alive he would have taken out a lot of gaunts on turn 3-4 and likely made me blow my tervigon spawns early which could have spelled disaster because the previous units of gaunts got tied up with some dreadnaughts. If that vinidicator killed those gaunts the dreads woulds have been free to tie up the tervigon gaunt spawns and the lord could have taken on the tervigon for the tie.

666 the vehicle explodes, always a good time. After he made that shot for me I decided to back him up with typhus who was killing warriors all over the place. I used paroxysm on typhus every turn thereafter and eventually a tomb spider put him down on turn 5. It was a great game.

O, I have got another one, during a planetstrike game a defending player's demolisher shot scatters into his own bastion

Single Lascannon shot from my Dread at a Baneblade. Rolled a pen, then a structure point was lost, rolled again, another point was lost, then the last point was lost, Appoc explosion, the blast blew up up 4 Chimeras, 5 squads of 10 IG, 3 Leman Russes, another wounded Baneblade, about 20 Orks from an Ork Mob, and a few Nobs, and a Mek Stompa.

Little dude was promoted to Venerable after that shot.

2000 pts, tau vs smurfs

fire warriors kill all the rhinos on turn 1 by glancing them to death, leaving the 30 marines in the open to be shot at by drone snipers.
then the epic combat between farsight and his bodyguard and sicarius and his honor guard. after killing each others guard unit, both make all hits, all wounds and fail all saves. Unfortunately for sicarius, farsight has 4 wounds...

I ended up loosing because i forgot to nab an objective

FoxPhoenix135 wrote:While we're on Imperial Guard...

...don't forget: CREEEEEEEEEEEED!


Seriously though, outflanking Leman Russ Demolishers can be serious fun.

It's Scout, not Outflank.

Cambak wrote:

FoxPhoenix135 wrote:While we're on Imperial Guard...

...don't forget: CREEEEEEEEEEEED!


Seriously though, outflanking Leman Russ Demolishers can be serious fun.

It's Scout, not Outflank.

Umm, Scout grants the ability to outflank.

Paladin Blake wrote:

Cambak wrote:

FoxPhoenix135 wrote:While we're on Imperial Guard...

...don't forget: CREEEEEEEEEEEED!


Seriously though, outflanking Leman Russ Demolishers can be serious fun.

It's Scout, not Outflank.

Umm, Scout grants the ability to outflank.

It does??? I thought it just gave you extra movement.....
*sighs* That's what I get for not running Scout Sentinals, I guess I have to re-read the rulebook again...

Cambak wrote:

Paladin Blake wrote:

Cambak wrote:

FoxPhoenix135 wrote:While we're on Imperial Guard...

...don't forget: CREEEEEEEEEEEED!


Seriously though, outflanking Leman Russ Demolishers can be serious fun.

It's Scout, not Outflank.

Umm, Scout grants the ability to outflank.

It does??? I thought it just gave you extra movement.....
*sighs* That's what I get for not running Scout Sentinals, I guess I have to re-read the rulebook again...

Yea it took me a while to work this one out. Its cleverly hidden in the rule book to make it hard to find. I think its in the mission special rules section, rather than with scout in the USRs section where it should be.

Page 94 of the AoBR rulebook, if you're interested. I completely understand missing it; the outflanking bit is in a completely different section and the USR doesn't reference outflanking at all.

Brother SRM wrote:A regular game, 2100 2v1. My Orks vs. my buddies with Marines and 'Nids. 11 Grots charge a 10 man Terminator squad, and hit before the power fists. They cause 6 wounds on the charge. He rolls his saves, and fails 5 of them. 33 points of utter crap killed 200 points of the Emperor's finest.

Brilliant! Putting that in my sig

I'm trying to think of another one, ever had a rocket scatter backwards, blowing up your own unit?

Small 500 point Annihilation game Orks vs Tau.

At the top of turn 5 our forces have bin reduced to his Tau commander with 2 shield drones, my 20 ork boyz, and my single Ard boy with big shoota paired with my Warboss. On my turn I break off my warboss from the Ard boy to join the other mob nearby, becuase I couldnt catch up to his commander my plan was to keep my last mob alive to have 1 kill point over his army to win. So i send my single Ard boy to go chase the commander down. On his turn, he sends his commander at my boy and assaults him expecting and easy kill point. The commander swings, and misses then the shield drones attempt to headbutt my boy, dealing 2 wounds, I save on both and then my boy swings: killing a shield drone, he makes his moral check and fails, his commnder runs for the hills as my big shoota boy chases after him as he runs off the table.

Silly commander CC is for Orks

2400 point 2 vs 2

Very worried about opponents big hitters-LR with TH/SS termies and Kantor, Swarmlord, Trygon and 10 Sternguard in DP-Heres what happened to them:

TH/SS Termies-Unload T1 on an Immobilised Ironclad Dreadnought, lose 1 and the 12 attacks back only shake it, they roll 11 for leadership (stubborn 10), run 4 inches and 8 off the board next turn

Sternguard: Come in, unload 12 wounds on my TWC, the powerfist dies on triple ones, the rest slaugters them in combat for no return

Swarmlord: Loses 2 wounds to shooting, my Ven Dread charges him to stop him rampaging and takes his last 3 wounds over 5 rounds of combat only getting immobilized

Trygon: Scatters off the board, 1 for mishap

Still drew to contesting LR at end of game.