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Basically what had to be the scariest moment you've had facing someone. Like what I mean is you saw what they brought and felt scared. Personally....was my last match. I went against two brothers and had told them a week before to bring all they had as our last match because the place I was playing at closed down. I swear....it felt like an apoc match from how much things they had...Took up their entire side of a Dawn of War deployment...IT WAS SO FREAKING AWESOME!!!! I was scared of how many shots were fired and stuff but still it was scary and awesome!!! I had said screw it to points cost...I only had like....3 10 man squads of Grey Hunters, 3 Thunderwolves, two 5man long fangs, my aegis, Wolf Guard Termis, Logan and my scouts along with a Vindicator and Rhino along with a Rune Priest vs SO MANY MARINES AND GUARDSMEN AND CHAOS!! Yeah I also said screw it to allies and just said everything here and now....So totally worth it...this was a for fun match so yea ^^;
"We may be few, and our enemies many. Yet so long as there remains one of us still fighting, one who still rages in the name of justice and truth, then by the Allfather, the galaxy shall yet know hope."
One time there was a scary man with a bunch of plastic soldiers at the other side of a table, so I hid under said table and sobbed quietly for three hours. I still have nightmares.
Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
Orks always ride in single file to hide their strength and numbers.
Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, Gozer the Traveler, and Lord of the Sebouillia
I was playing a 4 person free for all. Suddenly it turned into a 3 vs 1 fight with my eldar versus 1 ork, 1 SM, and 1 tyranid. Luckily it was 3rd edition and I played a seer star with 2x5 wraithguard and 2 wraithlords for troops and the almighty swooping hawk exarch. So after all three armies shot their entire armies into my seer star and only took half the death star in casualties I ended up winning. Seeing all of those models against my little ~27 man army was scary and the results were scary to say the least.
Having an Apoc battle and seeing 3 enemy armies try and squeeze their way towards me in a bottleneck. And those armies being horde armies. 2K vs. +/-5/6K. Thank god it was a bottleneck and they got stuck there.
Actually, ever since I saw that post I've been kind of curious. Where did that thing come from?
That's a Bloodbowl Orc Cheerleader. If I'm correct.
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Poor ignorant guardsmen, it be but one of many of the great miracles of the Emperor! The Emperor is magic, like Harry Potter, but more magic! A most real and true SPACE WIZARD! And for the last time... I'm not a space plumber.
Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
Orks always ride in single file to hide their strength and numbers.
Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, Gozer the Traveler, and Lord of the Sebouillia
Am I allowed to nominate a situation rather than an opponent?
My friends and I were playing kind of a "modified space hulk" with me being Tau (this was in 5th edition...hint, Tau do not like close confined windy little passages), a friend playing space marines (an updated version of the "movie marines" rule if I recall correctly, so he had about 10 guys on the table), and a third friend being the Tyranid menace.
We had no idea we were going to play space hulk so we just built about 1250 pt armies or some weird number like that and went to town.
Things weren't going well, my moves basically consisted of "open a door, kill half of the tyranid stuff on the other side, then get that squad mulched in close combat". Of course on the other side of the board the brave squad of 10 hero marines were piling up stacks of Tyranid corpses on their way to the objective.
Anyway, I just have a broadside open one random door with a scanner blip on the other side, and hear "make a leadership test on 3d6"...my heart pretty much froze at that point. That one solitary broadside was the only model left in my army with even a prayer of stopping the Doom.
Good thing for me I passed the leadership test and then fired the rail gun into the doom from about 2" away. Hit...wound...failed his invuln. I imagine that broadside literally just shoved the barrel into its mouth and pulled the trigger.
I still got absolutely annihilated in the game, but that moment made it worth it.
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BrianDavion wrote: Between the two of us... I think GW is assuming we the players are not complete idiots.
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My friends and I were playing kind of a "modified space hulk" with me being Tau (this was in 5th edition...hint, Tau do not like close confined windy little passages), a friend playing space marines (an updated version of the "movie marines" rule if I recall correctly, so he had about 10 guys on the table), and a third friend being the Tyranid menace.
We had no idea we were going to play space hulk so we just built about 1250 pt armies or some weird number like that and went to town.
Things weren't going well, my moves basically consisted of "open a door, kill half of the tyranid stuff on the other side, then get that squad mulched in close combat". Of course on the other side of the board the brave squad of 10 hero marines were piling up stacks of Tyranid corpses on their way to the objective.
Anyway, I just have a broadside open one random door with a scanner blip on the other side, and hear "make a leadership test on 3d6"...my heart pretty much froze at that point. That one solitary broadside was the only model left in my army with even a prayer of stopping the Doom.
Good thing for me I passed the leadership test and then fired the rail gun into the doom from about 2" away. Hit...wound...failed his invuln. I imagine that broadside literally just shoved the barrel into its mouth and pulled the trigger.
I still got absolutely annihilated in the game, but that moment made it worth it.
Okay that's both badassed and scary as hell all at the same time! Gotta love Space Hulk XD
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ansacs wrote: I was playing a 4 person free for all. Suddenly it turned into a 3 vs 1 fight with my eldar versus 1 ork, 1 SM, and 1 tyranid. Luckily it was 3rd edition and I played a seer star with 2x5 wraithguard and 2 wraithlords for troops and the almighty swooping hawk exarch. So after all three armies shot their entire armies into my seer star and only took half the death star in casualties I ended up winning. Seeing all of those models against my little ~27 man army was scary and the results were scary to say the least.
Another show of badassary coupled with "Dear sweet mother of god..." moment. AWESOME SAUCE!!
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"We may be few, and our enemies many. Yet so long as there remains one of us still fighting, one who still rages in the name of justice and truth, then by the Allfather, the galaxy shall yet know hope."
Not scared of seeing armies on the table, the feeling I get with some armies is more just dissapointment, "Ah great, another Google aficionado... how long did it take you to dig that list up?"
Scary moment though? Playing back in the day with my old Grey Knight book with IG allies. My vendettas start the game at the board edge and my opponent is on my side starting to measure. I'm getting something to drink. I look back and realize that as he's leaning over to measure my Vendtta is starting to tip backwards towards the table edge. NOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
I put the soda back and as I'm heading back the vendetta falls from the table... I cringe... I'm waiting for the immanent "crack!" of the pieces going everywhere.. but nothing happens. I get to the table and the vendetta has luckily fallen onto my sweatshirt that was on the floor. Woot!
Of course, a week later, the shelf that holds most of my toys fell in my appartment due to water damage, all three of my Vendettas were destroyed, never to see light again.
You don't see da eyes of da Daemon, till him come callin' - King Willy - Predator 2
Teleporting dreadknight with flamethrower first turn shunt onto my tau firewarriors...right after their latest codex release....followed by a hellhound....
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Ain't nothin like seeing a precious model about to fall to send shivers down your spine and make you want to hit something. That works as an example too because it is part of 40K as well! So those type of moments work too! As said this is meant to voice those "OH GOD NO!" moments. So if it has to do with the hobby then hey voice it!
"We may be few, and our enemies many. Yet so long as there remains one of us still fighting, one who still rages in the name of justice and truth, then by the Allfather, the galaxy shall yet know hope."
Wolf Lord Kevin wrote: Ain't nothin like seeing a precious model about to fall to send shivers down your spine and make you want to hit something. That works as an example too because it is part of 40K as well! So those type of moments work too! As said this is meant to voice those "OH GOD NO!" moments. So if it has to do with the hobby then hey voice it!
Well if those count then I guess dropping an entire army's worth of space marines down some stairs would be my most frightening moment.
Faithful... Enlightened... Ambitious... Brethren... WE NEED A NEW DRIVER! THIS ONE IS DEAD!
My scariest moment was drop poding in 10 sternguard, 5 combi melta 5 combi plas. Deploying them out oppisite sides of the pod combat squaded. The melta guys blow up the monolith, the plas guy lose los on the 20 man necron unit with warboss......oh gods.. munched marines.
Its a game, have fun. If you arent for some reason...find a new one.
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"'players must agree how they are going to select their armies, and if any restrictions apply to the number and type of models they can use."
This is an actual rule in the actual rulebook. Quit whining about how you can imagine someone's army touching you in a bad place and play by the actual rules.
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When people ask, "What's the point in understanding everything?" they've just disqualified themselves from using questions and should disappear in a puff of paradox. But they don't understand and just continue existing, which are also their only two strategies for life.
my ork boyz were once outnumbered by BA jump marines, I had a mech list ment for gettig to the enemy, safe to say didn't go well
*Kaptain wez got da tellyporta runnin*
*Did yer try it out*
*well sir we'z low on grotz*
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being on the other side of the table to 6 helldrakes (double force org 2000pts) playing as necrons yea that hurt
6th ed w/l/d
=3000pts 39/19/2
The Mavelance Dynasty=4000pts 28/42/6
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My scariest moment was while I was building some SM to go onto some Bikes I got off a mate. Chopping the head off one of my few remaining AOBR marines to transplant it to a new torso, when suddenly...
*Ping as head flies across room*
Miraculously, it only took a minute to find. I was mentally preparing to put together a Bear Grylls survival kit and set off looking for it.
CSM/Daemon Party
The Spiky Grot Legion
The Heavily-Ignored Pedro and Friends
In the grim darkness of the 41st Millenium, there are no indicators.
I was to play a necron player he set up his army frist 10 flyers i reached across table gave him a handshake said good game grab my stuff and left. no way was i going to win against a all flyer list no matter how much. aa i had
First game I played against Tyranids. It was the start of 6th edition and I just started Space Wolves, my first army. I had a terrible list and was partnered up with 500 points of Vanilla Marines also with a terrible list. We go against 1000 points of Tyranids which includes the Swarmlord beefed out with Iron Arm, and two Tervigons.
As the Swedish say:
Space Wolves: 3770
Orks: 3000
Chaos Daemons: 1750
Warriors of Chaos: 2000
Zed wrote:My scariest moment was while I was building some SM to go onto some Bikes I got off a mate. Chopping the head off one of my few remaining AOBR marines to transplant it to a new torso, when suddenly...
*Ping as head flies across room*
Miraculously, it only took a minute to find. I was mentally preparing to put together a Bear Grylls survival kit and set off looking for it.
Bro I hear ya man...Same thing has happened to me. Put that with having two dogs and well...it's a race against time X_x
necronspurs2012 wrote:being on the other side of the table to 6 helldrakes (double force org 2000pts) playing as necrons yea that hurt
Dude I feel your pain man...I faced 2 helldrakes and thought that was hell. I couldn't imagine going up against 6, I'd just go good game and just leave it at that ><
Kaptain Skullstompa wrote:my ork boyz were once outnumbered by BA jump marines, I had a mech list ment for gettig to the enemy, safe to say didn't go well
zilka86 wrote:I was to play a necron player he set up his army frist 10 flyers i reached across table gave him a handshake said good game grab my stuff and left. no way was i going to win against a all flyer list no matter how much. aa i had
10?!?! That's a bit of overkill! I mean..I guess that's how Necrons can roll but still that's just pure insane!
Wilytank wrote:First game I played against Tyranids. It was the start of 6th edition and I just started Space Wolves, my first army. I had a terrible list and was partnered up with 500 points of Vanilla Marines also with a terrible list. We go against 1000 points of Tyranids which includes the Swarmlord beefed out with Iron Arm, and two Tervigons.
As the Swedish say:
Man you had the same as me! My first ever match was in 6th edition and again Nids as well! Same for me again I used Space Wolves at 1000pts! I dealt with a FLying Hive Tyrant as his HQ. TWC ate it after Grey Hunters and Logan shot it down....Then I got eaten off the board
"We may be few, and our enemies many. Yet so long as there remains one of us still fighting, one who still rages in the name of justice and truth, then by the Allfather, the galaxy shall yet know hope."
One of the most painful memories of 40k for me was playing me (at the time undefeated) BA against an IG army that, for the first time, was using a pair of russes. A squad would DS, get pie-plated (I rolled very poorly for running) and my marines were taken apart piecemeal. I learned a valuable lesson that day: Kill the Russes first!
Going up against nids for the first time was also an experience, this was in 5th ed with the old fleet rules for Hormagaunts. It went something like this:
'you move how far?!' followed by 'you have how many attacks?!' followed by 'you have how many wounds on that MC' followed by 'oh god not the rune priest, not the rune priest!'. That combination of speed and sheer resilience messed up my wolves badly. The next game, I had more plasma for the big bugs, and more bolters for the little'uns, and claimed vengeance in Russ's name.
More recently, I had my first game against eldar the other week, playing against a mech army with my footguard. 100+ lasguns that were doing nothing, 12+ flamers that were useless, and all my AT resting on a an exterminator and a manticore. Once the eldar disembarked and I could catch them, they were mowed down, but the speed given by Battle Focus meant that was easier said than done, and the Fire Prisms were just nasty. I only lost 6-4 in the end, but it should have been far worse. Cramped deployment+blasts from everywhere+hugely fast opponents (everything was either mechanised, on a jetbike or with wings) was brutal.
zilka86 wrote: I was to play a necron player he set up his army frist 10 flyers i reached across table gave him a handshake said good game grab my stuff and left. no way was i going to win against a all flyer list no matter how much. aa i had
I've only gone up against Flyer Spam once. The game was over first turn. He had one model hiding on the board and the rest were in reserves. His lone model did not survive.
Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
Orks always ride in single file to hide their strength and numbers.
Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, Gozer the Traveler, and Lord of the Sebouillia
3301pts
Faithful... Enlightened... Ambitious... Brethren... WE NEED A NEW DRIVER! THIS ONE IS DEAD! 
1K Vostroyan Firstborn
2K Flylords
600 Pts Orks
3K Ad-Mech 
You don't see da eyes of da Daemon, till him come callin' 
(2000pts) 
(2500pts) 
(5000pts) 
(6000pts) Adeptus Titanicus (1500pts)
5000pts 
6000pts 
3000pts
(double force org 2000pts) playing as necrons yea that hurt
=3000pts 39/19/2
The Mavelance Dynasty=4000pts 28/42/6
CSM/Daemon Party 
The Spiky Grot Legion 
The Heavily-Ignored Pedro and Friends 
