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OK. Just want to hear your stories where you have wiped the smile of someones face by utterly crushing them, taking out their deathstar in the first turn, or simply taking out their carefully painted forgeworld unit with some tau in combat (or something along those lines)

As for my story... a bit long... but...

A friend of mine (Mr Tau) was playing a game on the table behind me, so i could 'on and off' hear what was going on, i was playing a 2v2 with essentially a shooty army with no plans to reach combat, my team-mate had other ideas so when the combat phase rolled around i could wander off and have a look at Mr. Tau's table. Let us call his oppoent 'Bob'.
So it looked like Bob was thrashing Mr. Tau good and proper, and not being a good sportsman about it either, was gloating and essentially rubbing his face in it as his army steam-rolled over my friends Tau. Tau arn't exactly a difficult army to beat but Bob seemed to be taking great pleasure in explaining to his follower how well he was doing at every available oppertunity.

So i finish up my 2v2 and wander over to Mr. Tau's table, who happen to finish at the same time as us, Mr. Tau apperntly lost horribly, only earning 1 Kp (although he 'almost' got 2 more). Another friend (who never wants to play me) wandered up and asked Mr Tau for a game as he wants to play a gun-line army, i throw down the gauntlet and offer my army up as a 'kinda' gunline army, my other friend predictably declines and we all have a little giggle at his reluctance. Then Bob, spurred on by a recent loss against me offered me a game, to which i accepted.

Now, my army mainly consisted of Wave Serpents and War Walkers. As Bob was bringing his models over to the table i was at i asked him what exactly everything was and dicovered he had a pure nurgle daemon army! Hooray for me looks like this will be interesting... While Bob is off getting a handful of daemons Mr. Tau approaches me and more or less pleads for me to crush Bob into the ground as he was being a right tool against him.

So the game starts (3 objectives, dawn of war), and Bob DS's in some daemons and they seem pretty spread out. My turn one i roll on to the board and gun down a greater daemon, next turn i take out a unit of plaugebearers, etc, etc. Essentially i doomed a unit, and made it disappear each turn. With each passing turn Bobs happy smiling face began to turn into a definate frown of a mixture of disbelief, sadness and possibly a little bit of rage thrown in.

By the end of the game (turn 5) i had taken EVERY daemon off the board with mass S6 fire. In return Bob had caused NO DAMAGE, not even stunned or shaken a tank. Just to rub it in i managed to hold all 3 objectives, control all table quarters, have a unit in his deployment zone and control the centre of the board (much like you would have to do in a tournament for tactical bonues/secondary/tertiary objectives) I didn't even have to get my firedragons out of their serpents.

Now, i do sound a little mean, but Bob really had it coming after gloating so badly to Mr. Tau's face during their game, and i'm sure, next week, i may even get mine! But at least i was curteous and friendly all throughout the game and did not once remark anything along the lines of "Ha your DP just ate it from a scatter laser!!!1!" or "OMG its turn 3 and you havn't killed anything yet!" So at least i didn't look like a total er for playing like i did... But it was really really fun and made Mr Tau extatic and left him giggling like a school girl.

So thats me... whats your story?

This usually happens but it's my stuff getting wrecked. My Space Marine captain and command squad getting killed by artillery first turn, my company command squad getting lashed and assaulted first turn, and usually whatever newly painted thing I'm proud of getting blown up before I can even move it.

I did this once, where we were playing an apocalypse sized game and I instant killed Kharn, Typhus, and Ahriman with one demo charge on turn 2. I absolutely hate doing this kind of thing. If my opponent's not having fun, then I'm probably not having fun. If neither of us are having fun, what's the point of playing the game?

Brother SRM wrote:I absolutely hate doing this kind of thing. If my opponent's not having fun, then I'm probably not having fun. If neither of us are having fun, what's the point of playing the game?

Well against friends its not really the done thing... but it was a request and everyone had a little laugh at the end. In my group if this happens we generally pick ourselves back up and are more careful with tactics and army selection next time round. Normally i wouldn't have been running this list, but with an event coming up and feeling the need to practice it came out alot meaner than it normally would.

And at the end of the day, its the best way to learn. Get splatterd all over the board and recieve a few helpful pointers at the end of the game and you know exactly what not to do next time. Its how i learnt when i first started, and i now know ALOT of things not to do...

Immobilizing a rhino with a random shot from a Tau gun drone.

Assassinating a Necron Lord with a squad of Wolf Scouts and sweeping his accompanying warriors.

Killing abbadon with a depleted squad of termagants..

Taking out a Terminator Chaos Lord attached to a unit of terminators using a necron lord and a ton of scarab swarms with disruption fields.

Ploping a Trygon behind his gunline necrons. Seriously this freaked my friend out so much that he still considers Trygons to be the most broken thing in 40k.

My friend thought it would be cool to spam 5 LRBTs...

So we were playing a two on two. My CSM paired with a SW player against IG and BA. Me and my partner took basically the same lists:
Uber HQ
X2 troops
Terminators with combi meltas in a land raider
The IG player brought five russes to the table, which we blew up on turn two. We basically won the game at the bottom of the second turn

I used to play at the local GW (before it closed) and we had a CSM guy in there that was a huge Tool. We'll call him "Big Red".

Big Red played CSM with a Slaanesh "theme". They were painted all pink and light blue, horribly horrible stuff.

Now, this was using the previous codex (a while back) where you could get a minor psychic ability to randomly roll for 10 pts. Most people know about the old power "Sirens" which made the character unable to be shot or assaulted. Big Red would take 6 of these powers to (almost) guarantee he'd get that one.

So, one night I'm in there participating in our store's escalation league with my IG army. The points level was 500 using the old combat patrol rules (restricted vehicles and characters). I'd never really played Big Red and he comes up and asks for a game. "Sure" I said. He asks what army I'm playing and I say IG (back using the old, less than awesome, codex). He replies "HA! Good luck then..." very sarcastically.

Before we get started he rolls his 6 dice for his psychic powers. None of them come up as the Siren (a 1 is "no power"). Even after re-rolling duplicate numbers he still fails to get it. I giggle and we start the game.

We start setting up and he states he has nothing to deploy. So I set up my army, wondering what he was doing. He finally deploys his Chaos Lieutenant (2W character) with wings using the Infiltrate rules 18" away from an Infantry squad. Giving him a guaranteed 1st turn assault. The rest of his army was Daemons he'd summon using the character.

So of course he wins the roll for first turn and predictably flies over to attack my poor Infantrymen. Since he failed to give the guy frags and I was in cover I got to swing first. By some miracle I wounded him! He them proceeded to kill 3 Guardsmen. I made my Morale and we went to my turn.

On my turn my Tech Priest moved in to assault the Lieutenant with his two servitors and the rest of my army goes into cheerleader mode, since there's nothing for them to shoot at. My priest had a power weapon plus his servo arm attack, along with the fists on the servitors so they drew the attention of the lieutenant that round. He managed to kill off the priest and one servitor. Then my 7 Guardsmen got their 7 attacks. 4 Hit, 3 Wounds, he fails one. DEAD Lieutenant! Demon Bomb diffused!!!

Yes, a one-turn victory, in Assault, with Guard!

After he realized he'd lost I said "huh, guess that Good Luck paid off!"

Smile (and army) WIPED!

He asked if I wanted to play again. I tell him no. He asks why not and I told him that his army is cheeseball and nobody could ever enjoy a game against it, unless it was that last one we'd played.

He went on to lose horribly to another person in the store as well. We never saw him around there after that.

Tying up 700 Points of Space Wolves with 105 Points of Chaos Daemons. Winning me the game...

Getting hammered in a apoc game, Were talking the worst beating ive ever taken(Im orks Vs Space Marines and imperial guard), Old Zogwort turns astorath into a squig then Boss Zagstruk finally shows up and blows up a baneblade.

I lost the game terribly but my friend couldnt enjoy his win because his precious Astorath was turned into a gribbly.

Smile wiped.

My 10man assault squad with attached priest (over 300points, in a 1k pt game is a big chunk of ur army) getting lashed into the open and completely destroyed by a shot from a defiler first turn.

2 turns later my opponents demon price with mark of slaneesh or something, assaults my 2 remaining scouts in cover holding my objective. I strike first, and put on 2 wounds with my sergeant killing it before it can even strike! hahaha

Telling my opponent that the Zoanthropes who just scored 3 hits on his unit of 3xExecutioners battle tanks w/extra PCs that they only needed 2s to glance his front armor and were AP1.

"OMG! Zoanthropes are so broken!"

In my first game against the New Dark Eldar my opponent was pretty smug.

"Oh, you haven't played them? You're in for a surprise," he says.

When our 2,000 point game ended at the bottom of turn 6 he had one immobilized Raider left on the table and I controlled both objectives in a Capture and Control mission. I guess I actually was sort of surprised.

Monster Rain wrote:In my first game against the New Dark Eldar my opponent was pretty smug.

"Oh, you haven't played them? You're in for a surprise," he says.

When our 2,000 point game ended at the bottom of turn 6 he had one immobilized Raider left on the table and I controlled both objectives in a Capture and Control mission. I guess I actually was sort of surprised.

What army where you playing with?

Space Marines!

What else?

Go into GW. Get told I'm gonna be eaten by a guy who was undefeated. He had a MAD - with a 12 model WFB tzeentch army (screamers, hell cannon, 3 chariors lod on dragon hero on disc).

First turn - lizardmen advance, I eat some magic. He stragetgically places his lord approx 14" inches from my kroxigor (7th edition btw!) on noting that their charge range is 12" ready to blitz my line on his turn 2 and eat my skink army.

Meanwhile my JSOD 127pt saurus HERO (counted as a lord choice) is loitering slightly back from the kroxigor in question.

My turn two I declare a charge on his general.. my general has 5 attacks and is ITP (no terror for you). Usung the skink priest re-rolls I blitz the lord with the greatweapon doing 4 wounds (only has 3 = dies!) and somehow survive the dragon attacks back. The dragon breaks and is chased down my my lord.

His turn 2 he has 1200points left vs a more or less 2000 point army. I win. Everyone's somewhat surprised.

Opponent was gloating about his awesome new Forge World Basilisk. This happened to be the game where I was playing a reserves list. Turn 2, Trygon Prime Arrives. Zzzzaaap! BOOM! It never got to shoot.

SlaveToDorkness wrote:Big Red story

Now THIS is a good post for this thread. Way more satisfying than "I blew up a guy's tank turn 1" and it sounds like this guy really deserved to be taken down a peg. Good show!

My opponent lays out Calgar, a Termie Librarian, and 5 Assualt Terminators on foot. The Manticore + PBS combo keeps them sat in his half of the board until his turn 4, rendering them completely irrelevant. Watching 605pts of deathstar cower under the power of a few psychic dudes and their artillery pieces was pretty sweet.

Glancing a hellhound with a melta-less thousand sons unit to death. Most recent enjoyment.

dayve110 wrote:OK. Just want to hear your stories where you have wiped the smile of someones face by utterly crushing them, taking out their deathstar in the first turn, or simply taking out their carefully painted forgeworld unit with some tau in combat (or something along those lines)

As for my story... a bit long... but...

A friend of mine (Mr Tau) was playing a game on the table behind me, so i could 'on and off' hear what was going on, i was playing a 2v2 with essentially a shooty army with no plans to reach combat, my team-mate had other ideas so when the combat phase rolled around i could wander off and have a look at Mr. Tau's table. Let us call his oppoent 'Bob'.
So it looked like Bob was thrashing Mr. Tau good and proper, and not being a good sportsman about it either, was gloating and essentially rubbing his face in it as his army steam-rolled over my friends Tau. Tau arn't exactly a difficult army to beat but Bob seemed to be taking great pleasure in explaining to his follower how well he was doing at every available oppertunity.

So i finish up my 2v2 and wander over to Mr. Tau's table, who happen to finish at the same time as us, Mr. Tau apperntly lost horribly, only earning 1 Kp (although he 'almost' got 2 more). Another friend (who never wants to play me) wandered up and asked Mr Tau for a game as he wants to play a gun-line army, i throw down the gauntlet and offer my army up as a 'kinda' gunline army, my other friend predictably declines and we all have a little giggle at his reluctance. Then Bob, spurred on by a recent loss against me offered me a game, to which i accepted.

Now, my army mainly consisted of Wave Serpents and War Walkers. As Bob was bringing his models over to the table i was at i asked him what exactly everything was and dicovered he had a pure nurgle daemon army! Hooray for me looks like this will be interesting... While Bob is off getting a handful of daemons Mr. Tau approaches me and more or less pleads for me to crush Bob into the ground as he was being a right tool against him.

So the game starts (3 objectives, dawn of war), and Bob DS's in some daemons and they seem pretty spread out. My turn one i roll on to the board and gun down a greater daemon, next turn i take out a unit of plaugebearers, etc, etc. Essentially i doomed a unit, and made it disappear each turn. With each passing turn Bobs happy smiling face began to turn into a definate frown of a mixture of disbelief, sadness and possibly a little bit of rage thrown in.

By the end of the game (turn 5) i had taken EVERY daemon off the board with mass S6 fire. In return Bob had caused NO DAMAGE, not even stunned or shaken a tank. Just to rub it in i managed to hold all 3 objectives, control all table quarters, have a unit in his deployment zone and control the centre of the board (much like you would have to do in a tournament for tactical bonues/secondary/tertiary objectives) I didn't even have to get my firedragons out of their serpents.

Now, i do sound a little mean, but Bob really had it coming after gloating so badly to Mr. Tau's face during their game, and i'm sure, next week, i may even get mine! But at least i was curteous and friendly all throughout the game and did not once remark anything along the lines of "Ha your DP just ate it from a scatter laser!!!1!" or "OMG its turn 3 and you havn't killed anything yet!" So at least i didn't look like a total er for playing like i did... But it was really really fun and made Mr Tau extatic and left him giggling like a school girl.

So thats me... whats your story?

i personally kill the enemies most prised unit

Once I was playing IG against my brothers Tau. I had one platoon of Vostroyan guardsmen (like in the Vostroyan Platoon set) and was using the old IG codex (we were using 4th edition rules). My big bro had 2 squads of 6 Fire Warriors, a Shas'el with a burst cannon and fusion blaster, and a devilfish. Unbalanced, I know, but I thought I could take him on in a Cities of Death game.

We played an Omega level game with 3 stratagems each, and I picked tank traps, razorwire and barricades, turning the two buildings in my table quarter into a fortress of killy death-pain. He picked razorwire, tank traps and a PRELIMINARY BOMBARDMENT. I hate PRELIMINARY BOMBARDMENTS.

The PRELIMINARY BOMBARDMENT wiped out all of my men except one brave plasma gunner who passed his morale check. My brother's Tau swept down the streets, but could not hit my brave man, or so my brother thought. I noticed a tiny gap between two buildings that I could use to snipe one of the Fire Warrior Shas'uis. My Plasma Gunner Lined up the shot and pulled the trigger. The Plasma Gun overheated and killed him.
I prefer to think that he turned the gun on himself, so (A) the Heathen Xenos could not interrogate him, and (B) so that he would not be court-martialled by the Commissariat! I was miffed. SMILE WIPED!


But then there was another time that me and my brother played another game. He had two SM 10 man tactical squads, a five man assault squad and a captain. I had 8 CSM Khorne Bezerkers, two squads of 8 Chaos marines and a Rhino APC.
It was a bold battle indeed. My brother outnumbered me points wise by roughly 300pts, and by the fourth turn, my entire army had been wiped out.
We totted up the victory points. I had beaten him by 50 or so points. We don't do minor victories or draws. It's either a win or it's not. My brother was miffed. SMILE WIPED!

Lord of Timbraxia wrote:Once I was playing IG against my brothers Tau. I had one platoon of Vostroyan guardsmen (like in the Vostroyan Platoon set) and was using the old IG codex (we were using 4th edition rules). My big bro had 2 squads of 6 Fire Warriors, a Shas'el with a burst cannon and fusion blaster, and a devilfish. Unbalanced, I know, but I thought I could take him on in a Cities of Death game.

We played an Omega level game with 3 stratagems each, and I picked tank traps, razorwire and barricades, turning the two buildings in my table quarter into a fortress of killy death-pain. He picked razorwire, tank traps and a PRELIMINARY BOMBARDMENT. I hate PRELIMINARY BOMBARDMENTS.

The PRELIMINARY BOMBARDMENT wiped out all of my men except one brave plasma gunner who passed his morale check. My brother's Tau swept down the streets, but could not hit my brave man, or so my brother thought. I noticed a tiny gap between two buildings that I could use to snipe one of the Fire Warrior Shas'uis. My Plasma Gunner Lined up the shot and pulled the trigger. The Plasma Gun overheated and killed him.
I prefer to think that he turned the gun on himself, so (A) the Heathen Xenos could not interrogate him, and (B) so that he would not be court-martialled by the Commissariat! I was miffed. SMILE WIPED!


But then there was another time that me and my brother played another game. He had two SM 10 man tactical squads, a five man assault squad and a captain. I had 8 CSM Khorne Bezerkers, two squads of 8 Chaos marines and a Rhino APC.
It was a bold battle indeed. My brother outnumbered me points wise by roughly 300pts, and by the fourth turn, my entire army had been wiped out.
We totted up the victory points. I had beaten him by 50 or so points. We don't do minor victories or draws. It's either a win or it's not. My brother was miffed. SMILE WIPED!

I find battles against very close friends or loved ones to be especially entertaining either way it goes

Playing against Khorne Daemons last night. Opponent summons a large squad of them not too far from my Rune Priest and his entourage of 3 Wolf Guard. He gives me this smug look like he just gave me the death knell. My turn, I unleash Murderous Hurricane, and two storm bolters, taking out most of his daemons. His turn, tries to move them, but all failing their dangerous terrain tests as per Murderous Hurricane. The smile dropped from his face as his main assault unit was swiftly wiped off the table.

EDIT: Night before, taking out a loaded rhino with a single plasma pistol via front armour, killing almost half the squad inside.

My first game with 5th ED guard against one of the regulars who for years harped on how guard sucked harder then any 40k army ever.

The look on his face was priceless as he ate that old, stale, crow.

My friends all scoffed at the size of my PM army in smaller games. Oh how they regretted their words when my PMs systematically took down their entire army while suffering only an average of 5 casualties per game.

Brother SRM wrote:

SlaveToDorkness wrote:Big Red story

Now THIS is a good post for this thread. Way more satisfying than "I blew up a guy's tank turn 1" and it sounds like this guy really deserved to be taken down a peg. Good show!

Why thank you, Good Sir.

First game with my Orks my friend has a squad of terminators bearing down on my 10 man squad of nobs. I unload on them with shootas and he rolls 4 ones for armor saves.