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We all have a victory that we treasure out of all of our games, either because of the amazing comeback that you made, or finally seeing your army come into its own, or just beating a particularly bitter rival. So what are your best stories of triumphs?

I'll start with one of my own. At my GW store, there was a notorious WAAC guy, ran super tooled Plague Marine lists and basically contributed nothing to the store other than bitterly complaining about anything new that GW put out. His respect for the store was so low that, when we helped the manager stock the shelves when the store was busy, he would literally just throw and drop the boxes and new models at the shelves without any care for it. Anyway, getting off topic.

I watch him stomp some kid at the store, pretty much being TFG for the whole time with an obviously-new player, but he never pulled punches. Even the other store vets were rolling their eyes at this guy until I finally ask if he wants a second game against my DE. After deployment, he spends a few minutes berating my list, such as the use of disintegrator Ravagers, etc before I finally coax him into actually starting. After my 2 disintegrator boats evaporate 2 of his squads right quick, his combat units hit my Archon and Bloodbrides, and are promptly crushed down. It was very satisfying to win against him.

Now it is your turn.

The one that was most satisfying was against one guy who is (unfortunately for all of us ) absolutely brilliant at the game. He wins pretty much every game he plays, he took first in our local 'Ard Boyz and only lost the regional because of some unlucky rolls - both times playing Daemons.

The most satisfying victory I had was against him. He was running Tau, and the mission was Cleanse from 3e with the caveat that the entire game was night fighting. The game was a hard slog up the field, with me losing most of my Orks but taking out a huge chunk of his army. (Fish of Fury stopped me cold half the time) When the dust settled on turn 6, I held on desperately to one corner while he only contested another. Overall, it wound up being a full, 100% massacre using my league's scoring system (basically percentages, meaning that both players tally up how many points they had out of the total between both players). Even if the game was heavily tilted towards me from the start, what with me starting basically on his frontlines and him not being able to shoot because of night fighting (not always, but a number of his units kept rolling low), it was a hell of a satisfying victory over the one guy who's always kicked my butt.

on my third victory and my eigth game i beat my friend who, up until this point had been beating me by bringing lots of mech against my army which really wasn't able to deal with it (he also said i could only fire 1 krak missile per squad per game, and i knew no better D: ). This victory however was much more than an average win, i didn't lose a single model and proceeded to table him. Was very satisfying and i have only lost 3 times since then and won about 15.

The most satisfying ones are always the ones where it swings your way in turn 4 or 5. It's never as satisfying if you're just steamrolling someone from turn 1...

I was losing a game to a Necron player, and losing badly. 'Twas an Annihilation game, played a year ago before they got their new Codex. He had twice as many kill points as me, and it had come down to the last assault phase of the last turn. I charged a sergeant with a power weapon into a completely untouched squad of Necron Warriors. I won combat, he rolled boxcars for his leadership check, and I swept the unit, dropping him to Phase Out by a margin of one model.

So a single marine sergeant defeated a full squad of warriors to Phase the entire army. That's my most "I don't believe that crap" moment so far.

Play my no-crisis-suit tau army against grey knights. Lose a piranha and a team of fire warriors. Tabled the poor guy.

Was playing a 750 point battle against the worst WAAC guard player around, and even though everything else died and I had killed none of his stuff, typhus went in and effectively tabled him by the end of the game.

juraigamer wrote:Play my no-crisis-suit tau army against grey knights. Lose a piranha and a team of fire warriors. Tabled the poor guy.

How? I'm not disbelieving, I just want to know more.

curran12 wrote:We all have a victory that we treasure out of all of our games, either because of the amazing comeback that you made, or finally seeing your army come into its own, or just beating a particularly bitter rival. So what are your best stories of triumphs?

I'll start with one of my own. At my GW store, there was a notorious WAAC guy, ran super tooled Plague Marine lists and basically contributed nothing to the store other than bitterly complaining about anything new that GW put out. His respect for the store was so low that, when we helped the manager stock the shelves when the store was busy, he would literally just throw and drop the boxes and new models at the shelves without any care for it. Anyway, getting off topic.

I watch him stomp some kid at the store, pretty much being TFG for the whole time with an obviously-new player, but he never pulled punches. Even the other store vets were rolling their eyes at this guy until I finally ask if he wants a second game against my DE. After deployment, he spends a few minutes berating my list, such as the use of disintegrator Ravagers, etc before I finally coax him into actually starting. After my 2 disintegrator boats evaporate 2 of his squads right quick, his combat units hit my Archon and Bloodbrides, and are promptly crushed down. It was very satisfying to win against him.

Now it is your turn.

What happened to the TFG when you beat him?

In a typical outweighed game against my older brother, he forced me to have about 400pts less than him. He had SM against my 3rd ed CSM. It was.. breakout, I think? He killed all of my men, but we totted up victory points (we decided on victory points), and i won. he accused me of cheating afterwards, but it didn't matter, i won when i was outnumbered, with a CC heavy army, on a battlefield with no terrain, when he was packing missile launchers, meltaguns and storm bolters.

happygolucky wrote:

curran12 wrote:We all have a victory that we treasure out of all of our games, either because of the amazing comeback that you made, or finally seeing your army come into its own, or just beating a particularly bitter rival. So what are your best stories of triumphs?

I'll start with one of my own. At my GW store, there was a notorious WAAC guy, ran super tooled Plague Marine lists and basically contributed nothing to the store other than bitterly complaining about anything new that GW put out. His respect for the store was so low that, when we helped the manager stock the shelves when the store was busy, he would literally just throw and drop the boxes and new models at the shelves without any care for it. Anyway, getting off topic.

I watch him stomp some kid at the store, pretty much being TFG for the whole time with an obviously-new player, but he never pulled punches. Even the other store vets were rolling their eyes at this guy until I finally ask if he wants a second game against my DE. After deployment, he spends a few minutes berating my list, such as the use of disintegrator Ravagers, etc before I finally coax him into actually starting. After my 2 disintegrator boats evaporate 2 of his squads right quick, his combat units hit my Archon and Bloodbrides, and are promptly crushed down. It was very satisfying to win against him.

Now it is your turn.

What happened to the TFG when you beat him?

He pretty much slunk off for a few weeks, though not because of that particular loss, as we found out when he returned with new Grey Knights, and the cycle began again. ;p

table him again... you must

I've had a few, one was against a friend, known on here as walker90234, he was the only player in the store to beat a feared grey knight player, 3rd turn he conceded due to me first turn wiping his death star unit of nob bikers and warboss and bike with my terminators, taking out 3 of his 9 kans and I still had MY deathstar units to come on, I was very satisfied with this win.

Another one was against the grey knight player with his very mean 'Nids, His army started as monsters and ended up as a monster pile of goo, oh no, 3 trygons deepstrike in front of me, by the end of my turn none left due to some terminators, preds and lots of bolter fire.

Unfourtunatly I have worded this pretty bad and I have just made it sound like I am being vain, one of the biggest reasons they were satisfying is because the games were really good and the lead up games made it worth while.

At the moment it was my first win i was playing with my tau 250points kill team against a vet tau player. Who tried out his Dark eldar i fielded some kroot and tau. He fielded kabalite warriors with raider he stormed my fire warriors. And blasted my 3 fire warriors who where acting as a fire base with 3+ cover save. My fire warriors made a sudden comeback destroying the raider. And after that my kroot could come out of their cover location and stormed the warriors. (my fire warriors survived for 2 turns even took out a warrior or 2) And i won my first win ever.

T2 win against a cheesy WoC player in fantasy. He had a tzeentch lord on dragon, sorc on disc, 3 chariots... basically the MAD 6th ed army. I had a JSOD in a southlands list.

Turn 2 my JSOD poleaxed his general, the dragon failed to kill my hero and it broke and fled off the table.

What made it sweet was that this guy was undefeated in GW and pretty much everyone there told me I was going to loose.

Kid was mouthing off about how his Necrons are impossible to beat and how he'd never lost. I break out my 1500 point SW list (this was before the new dexes for either army, so I was running the old 3rd ed dex) with three land raiders against his bog standard necron phalanx.

Cue my rolling on from reserve, disgorging three units of Blood Claws, and wiping the floor with his army. I think I even started taking potshots at his monolith with my Raiders, simply because they didn't have better options to shoot at.

I think I phased him on turn 4? He wasn't quite so mouthy afterwards...

Apocalypse game.

Our goal was to use the Vital Objective Strategem + Another Vital objective Strategem granted from the DeathWing Redemption Force (buddy was playing Dark Angels) and just focus on these two objectives, ignoring half of the board.

There's a lot more to it, but the end result is we won, 5 to 1 on objectives. It was satisfying because an idea I had actually worked for once! Good teamwork with my partner. Fortunately, the game wasn't a slaughter for either side. It was close until the end. That's all you can ask for in an Apoc game.

Ok I have two. One is me being on the recieving end though.

As far as that one goes I was playing a kid and his tau with me DE in a kill-team game. Well I squeezed a venom in there and was doing quite well with it. Well it gets down to it a lone reaver and 3 kroot. My turn. I roll 12 dice getting a grand total of 5 hits...great. And only one wound...all I need right, well he is in cover and makes the save. I foolishly try to bladevane another in that turns movement phase. Well he turns Kroot A and the bike hits but I pass cover, Kroot B wounds and I fail the bikes. Kroot C, the one in the cover pulls up a shot glances the venom (failed FF) and proceedes to roll a 6 on the die giving him a wrecked result. I couldn't really be angry it was a true WTF moment.

Now for mine.
I've told the story of the TFG who made this same kid cry right in the front of the store by yelling and complaining despite crushing his army. Well having had enough of it I ask him if he wants to play a game. He says no he only plays people that are good, (yeah just made a kid cry and I'm not good enough). Well I talk him into playing since I explain that I'm the only DE player here and since he has never played one it would be a bragging right. Now timeframe this is right after the BA release and before the new DE, and he is playing DoA with a lot of JP deathcompany with a few termis in a LR and 3 HQs...Dante, a Chappy, and Sanginor...whatever I've had enough of this guy. He doesn't try to DS them in he tries to rush me with JP marines. Rush the DE with speed. Great Plan. Well immediately after the second ravager fired the LR was gone. Now with wyches w/ blasters and Lelith, Dracon and Incubi I was half tempted just to charge the DC, but I wanted more. This was my list that was reserved for TFGs by the way, not casual games. I wanted perfection. Sitting back I blew through his armor and FNP with dissentegrators only bothering to charge when I knew I would win perfectly. I don't think a single model made it halfway to me. Then he is fuming demands a rematch and actually DS on me...fine I checkerboarded my deployment zone. 3 Assault squads died in ensuing mishapes. I think he did do some damage to me this time, but I still won handidly. Clustered squads make for great plasma cannon targets.

Man I love KOing TFGs and WAAC players.

One of my favourites, from back when:

Pure GK Daemonhunters list at 2000 Pts, against a 2500 Pt Khorne Daemons list.

I lost both LR's to a Daemon Prince and a Bloodthirster's kind attentions, but not a single GK. They just stood there gunning down and beating down everything that came at them, standing in the wreckage of the 2 LR's

Seriously, it would have made a great movie scene. I was expecting it to be a famous last stand, but it wound up being awesomely cool, watching precious few GK badasses take a whole invasion's worth of Bloodletters and Bloodcrushers down hard..

I miss the old GK's, even though that was one of very few victories I had with them


Another oldie but goodie:

Orks in 2nd Ed (i think), against SM.

My orks were massacred, but took most of the annoying SM with them.

At the end of the battle all that was left was his Captain and a unit of tacticals, against my mob of Madboyz.

Madboyz, for those that didn't get to experience the insanity of early orkness, roll to determine which insanity they are going with every time they take casualties or morale checks, IIRC, and have to do what it says on the chart.

The marines opened up on them, killing all but a few.

I rolled on the chart, and got 'Breakdance!'

Breakdance = dance in sucjh a way as to break something, so the squad decided to battle right on top of those SM, like a bad 80's MTV.

They wiped the squad, then sat there picking their noses and waiting for saner orks to come and collect them

ArbitorIan wrote:The most satisfying ones are always the ones where it swings your way in turn 4 or 5. It's never as satisfying if you're just steamrolling someone from turn 1...

Indeed, I'd love to say it was this or that game where I steamrolled TFG, but in honesty, the best and most satisfying victories are the hard fought ones against excellent and friendly players.

My most satisfying victory has to be the last time I played WARMACHINE with my brother (a couple of weeks back) and I actually won for a change.
I have never even been close before (damn you, Wind Rush!), so it felt quite good.

Not a table top gam victory, but i was playing in a big LAN Age of Empires two game, and this one guy would not stop talking smack about how he was so good, and how he was going to win within the hour. Long story short I rushed him with scouts and knights and left himwith nothing but a castle and a huskarl for three hours while the rest of us finished playing. Ohh so satisfying.

As a relatively new 40k player I can only say I have one such victory against a player who was always claiming his Tau shooting was the best shooting in the game. Until he met my Necrons anyway. We were playing a small 750 pts game and I totally tabled him, down to the last Fire Warrior. He did manage to kill 7 of my Warriors, I admit.

Do we also take WHFB into account?
If I may, I was playing my Orcs & Goblins horde against my Dwarf nemesis. You know, the "sit back and shoot the heck out of you with a bunch of big guns" kind of army. I totally hate it, he doesn't ever do anything but shoot. Anyway, that particular day he actually managed to destroy 6 out of his 9 war machines through misfires all by himself until turn 3. At about that time my Boyz fell on his Dwarf defenders, choppa in hand and Whaaagh! on their lips and finished them off. It was not very epic, I admit, but seeing all his war machines failing him at the same time was really satisfying...

Playing against Tau at 1,000 points, it was capture and control and we were both down to a few squads. I had 2 objectives in hand, my opponent had just cleaned my infantry squad off of an objective with a 3 man stealth suit squad with burst cannons. My intrepid, but suicidal Platoon Command Squad, decided it was time to be heroes or die. They shot at the suits with lasgun and bolt pistols doing nothing. The next turn my squad was reduced to the lieutenant due to burst cannon fire and I went all in for a desperate tie-breaking assault. The lieutenant had a powerfist and took 3 saves before he busted the Shas'ui in the chops, causing the suits to break and he ran them down. Not the most epic, but it sure felt awesome.

All of them.

Seriously. I feel elated for the rest of the day after a victory. Is that normal?

My most satisfying victory was against my friend whom plays a pure DP army that was on a table as follows:


Objectives as numbered:

1: A pile of rocks
2: Another pile of rocks
3: a blown up bunker

Quick note about the shapes. Ciricles are craters, Rectangles are fences and tank traps, and the grey squares are blown bunkers.

I set up my IG force in a backwards L shape along the side of objective 3 and camp there with the tanks in the back and the infantry horde (I play foot slogging, no chimeras) awaiting his pods. turn one he dropped in 3 out of his 6 pods (2 Dreads and a tat squad) while the scouts sit over on objective 1.

Dread 1 goes off the table and mishaped. Dread 2 lands right in front of my AC HWT destorying it. Tat squad 1 lands and causes some damage.

Mean while, on my turn, my Valk flys off with the vets and caps point 2 which he ignored cause "its not worth my efforts", then my 30+ squad with a LC with meltabombs, and his sarges with Meltabombs charge the dread tying it up and soaking up the wounds before it can rampage my lines. tat squad 1 died to FRFSRF into his marines and my vets sit idly on point 2.

Turn 2, Rest of the marines come in. Pod 4 mishaps and is destoryed, pod 5 +6 land causing massive wounds to my IG. Finally by his turn 3 he had point 1 and 3 .

Turn 3 rolls around and marbo and my Storm troopers hit his scouts and cause massive wounds kill them all. marbo dies but the stormies take the hill. Points 1 and 2 are mine. 3 is his.

Turns 4 and 5 he trys to slog his way back across the board. now caught between the remaining members of broken platoons 1 ,2 ,and 3 and the vets on the hill his marines die pretty fast.

Game ends at 5.

He admitted to me afterwords its was the first ever lose for him to IG. It felt good. Not only because i had won but because I had gotten to play my list fully for the first time ever. The way the units worked together was really well done. I was a happy General.

Mine was against my roommate. He did technically get me into the game, but he plays SW and GK because he likes to win. Plain and simple. You explain any new list to him, and get "Oh, yeah, my (whatever) could totally destroy that". Counter with anything else, and get "Yeah, well that's because (whatever) is still pretty broken".

So. I live with TFG/WAAC guy. That's why this was my favourite:

My first game at my FLGS was against him, 850pts of my Orks against his GK. I ruined him. While a mob of boys sat on an objective with my KFF mek sitting out of LOS while still boosting the boys with the field, he hung back trying to kill them off while I breezed my battlewagon with deffrolla over on the other side. He goes on about how he's going to ruin the BW simply because it's open-topped. He misjudged a shot with his dread, missed with his librarian's orbital, and as I drove up I disembarked my 8 nobz, painboy and warboss to multi-assault them.

"You can't assault out of a battlewagon."
"I haven't tankshocked this turn, and yes, page 70 in the small rulebook."

He flips to page 70, checks my list again, and realizes that he was wrong about my attack out of an open-topped transport.

Both of his units drop, I take a single wound. Game ends two turns later, with me cornering his termies. I win by two objectives.

Shooting a trukk full of Nobs inches away from hitting my lines to bits with a lucky lascannon shot, followed by nuking most of the Nobs with another lucky battle cannon shot. Glorious.

Casting Final Transmutation from the lore of metal on High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer. The dwarf player picks up a fist ful of spell dice, rolls them.....All ones and twos. I then roll a five and turn him into gold! All in the first turn of the game. I still managed to lose the battle but it was awesome anyway.

warhammer_4 wrote:Casting Final Transmutation from the lore of metal on High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer. The dwarf player picks up a fist ful of spell dice, rolls them.....All ones and twos. I then roll a five and turn him into gold! All in the first turn of the game. I still managed to lose the battle but it was awesome anyway.

I had a similar moment in reverse when playing Warriors of Chaos this weekend. He cast some "Take a T test or die" spell on my elves, i threw my last two dice, prayed for box cars, and got them. He Raged So hard. Then went on to table me, but it was a chosen-star-lite list, so i felt okay about that.

Side note: you know Final Transmutation only affects multi-wound models on a 6, right?

Whenever I win over WAAC people, notting gets my blood bioling like that kinda people. Or when I manage a win in a very close game