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Have you have anything wierd happen to you? Stuff like a deffrolla BOUNCING off a Rhino for 2 turns!!!!! WTF?!!??!?!? While during the rest of the game you have destroyed 3 Vindicators, 2 Rhinos, and 2 Land Raiders.

I had 7 termagants tie up a Ven. Dred for 2.5 game turns, 5 phases, of close combat with only 2 losses (and a successful LD check)--which was long enough for a Hive Tyrant to close and annihilate the walker.

The other player still mentions that almost every game we play.

I've had 2 Tau FW beat a full unit of BA assault marines in CC for 2 turns.

My mk2 rendering of one of my old captains, in its first game, managed to make 17 3+ saves (while he was on one wound the whole time) in a row! Then, in the fury of the insane amount of shots being thrown at him, there was one dice left. It was in question whether or not it was even a real shot! But either way, I thought what the heck and rolled it.

Yep, you got it.

That's the beauty, and some would argue the saving grace, of GW games and d6 system: the random crap that happens when you roll dice. The funniest random dice roll in recent memory was doing a death or glory with a tankbusta bomb on a landraider and exploding it. That was one heroic sonofa... gun IMO.

A scout land speeder (AV 10) moved half way across the board to run face first into one of my Hammerheads (front armor 13). I figured I'd just take the hit and watch it bounce. Somehow my tank ended up immobilized and the skimmer got "vehicle stunned".

I'm still not sure how to explain that one in real-world terms. The tank commander stuck his head out the top hatch and got decapitated or something.

In the current edition I had a unit of Tau Pathfinders hold off and eventualy defeat 5 Khorne Berzerkers in CC.

In 4th edition I had my BT Emperors Champion by himself kill a Dreadnought and later a Venerable Dreadnought in CC in one game.

In 2nd edition I was playing my marines against my buddies Eldar army. In the course of the game he had 146 shots, 2 hits, 1 wound and no actual kills (marine armour save).

zeshin wrote:
In 2nd edition I was playing my marines against my buddies Eldar army. In the course of the game he had 146 shots, 2 hits, 1 wound and no actual kills (marine armour save).

I've had a couple bad games but that's really sad. I'm surprised you both finished that game. I think things (dice, furniture, small animals) would have started flying around midpoint of turn 2 if that happened to me.

Once, I had two Ork boyz units attack a rhino, because the nobs had powerklaws. Each had 4 attacks. One of them failed to hit (They needed 4+0 and the other completely failed to penetrate. Both 20 strong units then got shot to hell by bikers and terminators.

I had the runtherd from my grotz mob fight off over 400 points of Tyranid warriors in CC.

That Grot-prod paid for itself like a bazillion times.

Oh, he then fell over a bit of gravel next turn and snapped his head.

S_P

Single surviving guardsman in unit after a tyrant on one wound killed off the other members of his squad. Rolls 6 to hit it, 6 to wound it and my friend rolls a 1 on his 2+ armor save.

Turned a decisive victory into a draw points wise even though barely any guard remained on the table. Good times .

My Archon w/ Shadow field survived a 30 strong Ork Boy mob while in CC for 2 turns. The retinue had been summarily wiped by gunfire and she was all alone...

I once saw my friend's badly mauled IG command squad fighting a 2 wound Daemon Prince in CC. The wound that killed it was from a normal Guardsman with a bayonet.

Another time I had a squad of 3 wraiths withstand a round of shooting by roughly everything my opponent could hit them with, including multiple lascannons and plasma weapons. There were no casualties.

I had a pair of bloodletters on an obective, start 7th turn, i know in his turn, his lash prince will pull me off giving him the win. So a horror charges the prince, gets hit twice, wounded once, and saves, before somehow causing 2 wouds, DP takes 2 saves due to fearless, snake eyes! and dies!

I've had 16 termagants mow down abbadon and his retinue in 1 turn.

I had rippers nearly kill a bloodthirster.

I had the Sanguinor go down after 2 rounds of combat with 10 of my Horrors of Tzeentch. He only killed one Horror and then proceeded to roll only one's on his armour saves. The look on my friends face was priceless.

My Wolf Lord in terminator armour is my last man on the field he kills 3 guardsmen squads of 10 men each, a chimera and it's veteran squad and the company command squad.

I also have had Ghazghkull being kill by 4 flashlight shot. (yep you guessed it 4 zz) I was like WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF for like 5 minutes.

Deff Jaw wrote:I also have had Ghazghkull being kill by 4 flashlight shot. (yep you guessed it 4 zz) I was like WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF for like 5 minutes.

its only worse if the guardsmen were conscripts


I've had 16 termagants mow down abbadon and his retinue in 1 turn.

I had rippers nearly kill a bloodthirster

how many points were abbadon and his retinue worth in total

purplefood wrote:My Wolf Lord in terminator armour is my last man on the field he kills 3 guardsmen squads of 10 men each, a chimera and it's veteran squad and the company command squad.

"Wolf Lord has entered a martial trance."

If you can't place that quote, it's from a "game" (and I use that term loosely) called Dwarf Fortress. It's actually quite fun. A martial trance is basicly something that happens when one dwarf is fighting many opponents, it makes him a metric buttload better in combat.

I use to have a friend that played Ultra marines (shocking, I know ). He had proclaimed that Marnius Calgar was worth 100 of my guardsmen and laughed. I shot him with 100 guardsman ( 100 man blob squad) with First Rank, fire! Second Rank, fire!. All 200 shots hit and wounded. All but 1 armor save failed.

I think we all know who the real butt of the joke is.

Me and my buddy were playing a game a while ago -- each of us had a vindicator and for 6 turns they both fired at each other and after 6 turns -- NOT A DAM SCRATCH !!!!!
Both vehicles suffered no damage at all ................ never seen so many 's rolled for armour penetration in my life !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dementedwombat wrote:A scout land speeder (AV 10) moved half way across the board to run face first into one of my Hammerheads (front armor 13). I figured I'd just take the hit and watch it bounce. Somehow my tank ended up immobilized and the skimmer got "vehicle stunned".

I'm still not sure how to explain that one in real-world terms. The tank commander stuck his head out the top hatch and got decapitated or something.

Your opponent cheated; or more likely you both didn't realize that in order to ram one must be capable of Tank shock, and a Land Speeder is not a Tank.

Kommissar Kel wrote:

dementedwombat wrote:A scout land speeder (AV 10) moved half way across the board to run face first into one of my Hammerheads (front armor 13). I figured I'd just take the hit and watch it bounce. Somehow my tank ended up immobilized and the skimmer got "vehicle stunned".

I'm still not sure how to explain that one in real-world terms. The tank commander stuck his head out the top hatch and got decapitated or something.

Your opponent cheated; or more likely you both didn't realize that in order to ram one must be capable of Tank shock, and a Land Speeder is not a Tank.

Agreed the vehicle must have " tank " in its stat line to be able to tank shock .. otherwise sammiel's landspeeder crusader (av 14) would be unbeatable against armour

The rules are odd about that. They don't deny everything else, nor do they say only tanks may ram. The rules are under the tank section.

Also, aren't both of the above things technically skimmers? Scout land speeder and hammerhead both float IIRC so I say do whatever floats your boat.

@ Kel;

It could be the way they play the game. At friendly matches we count any turret weapon as incapable of being blocked in LOS by just infantry, however, any hull or sponson weapon can be blocked by infantry in LOS. In terms of cover saves from intervening models.

halonachos wrote:The rules are odd about that. They don't deny everything else, nor do they say only tanks may ram. The rules are under the tank section.

Also, aren't both of the above things technically skimmers? Scout land speeder and hammerhead both float IIRC so I say do whatever floats your boat.

But a hammerhead still has TANK in its profile

That's true, a Hammerhead is a Skimmer Tank. In fact it's about the only skimmer I know that isn't fast. Since so many of them are I get opponents that assume if something's a skimmer it HAS to be fast. It probably doesn't help matters that my hammerheads fire LIKE a fast vehicle (even though they aren't).

P.S. I allowed him to attempt the ram. I figured "what's the worst that could happen, he'll probably bounce off like a tin can". It wasn't a serious game at all. IIRC we had one objective in the center of the table and we called it the one bar in the city that still had a roof on.

My Sorcerer killed about 600pts of an opponent's army through use of force weapon alone. Just a monstrous creature a turn, in the Shadows 3d6 affect, rolling 6's to wound every turn. The rest of my army lay dead but my sorcerer kept going on and just floored me on a little man's ability to pop open a can of whoop-ass.

raptor8 wrote:how many points were abbadon and his retinue worth in total

Roughly 450 pts? Not quite sure. But it was entertaining.

Another incident was with my Eldar, I rolled two perils of the warp in 1 turn and another perils the next turn.

Vindicator shot scattering behind the tank.