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**Emperors Faithful**

huh? oh, wait I meant to say trukk. I have a hard time realizing some ork stuff is better than AV10.

P.S. (To those two ratlings) Go Frodo! Go Sam! They either just took out the wimpiest Sauron ever, or the most badass Gollum ever!

**DarkHound**

I just rememberd an old story, when I first joined 40k. My friend and I were playing a small 500 point game. In the final 2 turns of the game, his lone Stealthsuit was about to JSJ and kill 5 of my 6 Chaos Marines. The last marine (carrying a meltagun) finally caught up to him. He fired, and managed to miss. Fortunatly, I remembered it was an assault weapon (When I say old, I mean my first game outside of the introductory one at the shop) and assaulted him. I finally manged to scourge him off the board, but the stealthsuit still bears 5 green marks for each aspirant of Nurgle he slew.

**orchewer**

A while back, playing against Marines in a tournament. Turn 6, I've wiped out every model on his side except for a lone squad that I shoot down to a power-fist sergeant.

Sergeant charges at my Broadside.

Broadside punches Sergeant in the face.

Game ends.

**Emperors Faithful**

In turn 2 my Canoness and a friends Space Marine Captain get into combat within an Avatar. Glorious comabt ensues...wounds dealt all around. My canoness is OK, Captain can't be instant deathed by Str6 and the Avatar down to 2 wounds. At the end of turn 6, the Avatar BARELY greases the captain. And in the final round of turn 7, he JUST kills my canoness. My friend and I high five. We had only hoped to keep him in combat till Turn 4 or 5. The avatar was our enemies centrepiece. With him tied up we mopped up the rest of the army casually.

**barlio**

Wasn't awesome from my friends viewpoint, but it works for me. My Master of Ordnance uses his special attack against a squad of BA assault marines led by Mr. Dante himself, who had "walked" into some trees so that they could benefit from cover. I roll for the barrage scatter and manage to clip Dante. I manage to wound him (surprise I know). He rolls for his cover save and fails. Nothing like killing a 200+ pt model with a 30pt 1 wound dude.

It all went down hill from there for him.

**FlyDog**

I've got two tales, but sorry to my fellow 40Kers, these ones are from the gone but not forgotten Starship Troopers game.

I'm doing a big ass game, my fresh Light Armour MI (doods from the movie) with some badasses in power suits to back them up against the hordes of bugs. One of the MI squads had a Military Intellignece agent with them. He was loaded with a carbine, funky psychic powers and balls like grapefruits. He fragged more bugs than the squad "protecting" him, took a multihit artillery bug down to one wound with head exploding psychic powers and finally died giving himself a stroke trying to finish the bastard off. I lost that game hard after he died.

Future game, my Light Armour Dudes VS my buddy's Exo-Suits (powered armour on bull shark testosterone). I had an embedded FedNet reporter for squad morale. My plucky band of grunts is actually beating the metal behemoths, but then they fragged the intrepid camera ace. But not with a minigun or a rocket. They shot the reporter with a thermal lance, which is the bastard child of a PIAT, thermite and a sack of doorknobs. One guy, a journalist, killed by having a high velocity liquid metal anti armour lance burn through his torso.

Gawd I love overkill.

**Cryonicleech**

Bloodletters dying to Grots.

What FUN!

**ShotgunFacelift**

--- Win ---

Dread arrives on turn 1 via drop pod 2 inches away from a PACKED IG Platoon.
TL Heavy Flamer = 14 Crispy IG
Flamer = 12 Crispy IG

Dread gets 3 meltaguns in the face.......Explodes and kills 2 more IG

--- Fail ---

10 man assault squad deep strikes withing flamer range of an IG platoon.
Flamers kill 5.

Then the entire Platoon turns, drops to one knee and turns on their flashlights........

**Nobody_Holme**

Squad of grots, squad of slugga boyz, squad of nobz. all charging into my 30 man combined sqaud of guardsmen. nobz get 2, rest of the guard are fine. 3 grots die. all the orcs are on 10 men from shooting. all fail leadership. All die.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Also, chimeras moving between terrain in a column. spore mine hit on the lead one with the only melta vets on the table, penetrating, explodes, doesnt kill anyone inside, they cant fit to disembark, they all die.

**barlio**

ShotgunFacelift wrote:--- Win ---

Dread arrives on turn 1 via drop pod 2 inches away from a PACKED IG Platoon.
TL Heavy Flamer = 14 Crispy IG
Flamer = 12 Crispy IG

Dread gets 3 meltaguns in the face.......Explodes and kills 2 more IG

--- Fail ---

10 man assault squad deep strikes withing flamer range of an IG platoon.
Flamers kill 5.

Then the entire Platoon turns, drops to one knee and turns on their flashlights........

First rank Fire, Second rank Fire?

**Superscope**

2 ork pysco bikers (4th editon orks before their codex) who charged two tau fire warriors on their own, without any support. Dead fire warriors, right? WRONG! Out of the 2 bikers, no wounds were dealt to my tau.

Following turn, i managed to kill BOTH of those bikers with my fire warriors in the following close combat with them. 5 and 6 hit rolls, 6's on wounds! Sadly however it was all in vain, for those two fire warriors then found the ork warboss approching them with big shiny power-klaw....

After that i had about 60 ork boys surround a large mob of 6 crisis suits plus commander. Was holding out nicely til that warboss came into the fight.. which killed off my suits 1 by 1 ):

**Exarch_Nektel**

My wraithlord died while taking the last wound of a nightbringer. then the nightbringer exploded, and everything nearby died.

**Thunderjaw**

3rd Edition - I'm playing Alpha Legion against a Khorne army. Guy has a Tricked out Chosed squad and Lord in a Rhino... They have a unit of Bloodletters (bound to the banner) and a Daemonhost to summon a Bloodthirster off of. All total there's like 1300pts in this ONE Rhino.

I'm 18" away from him with pretty much everything. He goes first and on Turn one he charges forward 12" with the Rhino and pops smoke. I move up six, mostly surround the vehicle and hit it with like 6 Meltaguns... I stun it and he has no extra armor. I charge, mostly whiff but manage to get the stunned Rhino Immobilized.

Turn 2 he sits there in his stunned Rhino. My T2 I surround him a little more, charge in more stuff" and go to town in the assault phase. Auto hits with about 4 AC Powerfists and the Rhino goes up in smoke. There's no where to disembark so he loses the Lord, the Chosen Squad, the Bound Letters, and due to a TO ruling, the Thirster linked to the Daemonhost. To make matters worse, he had a second Bloodletter squad (8 Daemons) in reserve, but he only brought a banner for the one squad in the Rhino... so he lost them too... all total I think that was a 1750pt game... and he lost about 1500pts in that one round... all he had left were 8 foot slogging berzerkers... I had lost zero models to this point...

Game. Set. Match.

**Avrik_Shasla**

I would have to say my most epic death (or most laughable) would have to be when I was playing my Tau against against my Father's entrenched DKoK. I was assaulting with everything I had but I knew that if I didn't destroy his leman russ tank collum on the left, the left of the board I would surely lose. And that is why I had all of my Crisis battlesuits in reserve. Ahhah! Truly the Imperial Dogs did not see this one coming! An Orca transport hovers several hundred meters above the battlefield, eying it from above. Suddenly! The doors swing open and Three Crisis battleuits armed with Fusion Blasters and Plasma rifles jump from the bowels of the Orca transport. Faster and Faster they approach the ground! The Leman Russes would be nothing to the mercy of the Crisis Battlesuits Fusion blasters to their rear armor!...Sadly though...there was a cliff not a few yards away from the Tanks....they miss their target and fall to their deaths....-sadface-.

I thought it was epic enough to be put here because that mishap turned the battle completely out of my favor. As my crisis battlesuits fell to their deaths, the only thought I had in my head was a bunch of Surf Boarders controlling them on the inside and screaming "RIGHTEOUS! RIGHTEOUS! RIGHTEOUS!" All the way as they fell....

**Tekksama**

Awesome for my Opponent - 3rd Ed (Maybe second?)

The battle is grinding down, I smile and get ready to drop the Hammer by teleporting in 4 combat squads of terminators Via Deepstrike

3 Mighty squads of my Chapters finest scatter max distance and either land inside tanks or impassable terrain and are insta killed. The last squad actually survives and manages to Jam every single Storm Bolter.

And somewhere high above in space a lone technician with a book full of topical data and the Veterans weapon maintenance schedual suddenly retires to another system

**Cannerus_The_Unbearable**

Just last night my Slaaneshi CSM squad charged in 10 strong to a Plaguebearer unit, 4 strong. I kill two plaguers that turn and receive nothing in return. Next turn my opponent's Soulgrinder joins the fray and I lose 3 marines and fail to inflict any wounds. I fail my morale check. I roll a 2 and my opponent rolls a 6 for SA. His 2 I2 Plaguebearers ran down my 7 I5 Slaaneshi Marines. We had to check the rules for SnP to see if he could (I was of course the one who suggested to check to make sure since he thought they couldn't). I don't think I'll see that again anytime soon.

**youbedead**

4th ed

necrons v necrons

I got first turn Move nothing in line of site but the monolith, one warrior was in range, one shot ,hits glances, 6. My basic trooper just killed the hardest tank in the game.

Later in the game My night bring was shot up by 50 warriors in rapid fire range, he lived with one wound remaining. He then assaulted on my turn.

5th ed
Wazzdakka was fleeing I rolled 5 in I then shot a dark eldar raider It blew up killing 3 guys. Falls back again 3 in shoots again blowing up another raider killing 5. falls back 7 and blows up one more killing six. They he killed 3 transports and 14 guys while running away, see orks always win even when they run

**Emperors Faithful**

My friend has a special gretchin called Ahkmed (has a turban).

4 Warp spiders deep strike and blow up all the gretchin except ahkmed (the only 1 to pass save). Ahkmed then promptly shot and killed 1 of the warp spiders who turned tail and fled off the board.
Epic.

**Skragfist**

Company Commander Besk of the Terminatus Rebels surveyed the battlefield. He was pleased to see that on the front all Squads are slowly pushing back the Ultramarines with Grenade,Lasgun.and Rocket."Comrade-Voxcaster , relay orders to target the assualt---", cut short in mid sentence Terminators materialize at the edge of the bunker the CCS is commanding from.

Without Hesitation Hesk pulls out his lowly Las-pistol and takes aim.
"Death to Traitors!"

A single las-energy round goes straight through the eye-lense of the lead armored behemoth. It crumples and blocks the doorway, leaving all the following Terminators to trip over their. fallen battle brother. This leads to abrupt retreat.
"Open Fire Comrades, fill the Emperor's Finest with our warm welcome!"
The tactical withdrawal leads each of the terminator to meet the beloved Emperor far quicker then any believed."Now, My Brothers this is why we have nothing to fear through plate and faith these 'Chosen of the Emporer' Still fall to the humble las-shot we each carry.Ahh, as i was saying comrade please inform the squad to bring down the Assualt squad on the western flank."

So in short terminator teleported 7" inches and could not assault. My officer manages to wound one termie and it fails in 2+ armor save,the squad fails morale and falls off the edge of the board. My CC now carries the Sarge's power weapon.

My friend no longer fields his termis against my rebels!

**Avariel**

Deaths are never awesome. It is always sad when someone dies because they usually leave behind a family and people who care about them. Really appalled that people find death's awesome.

**Emperors Faithful**

Well, many of those who die believe thier death to be glorious, fighting to protect the ones they love. When you have given every last breath of you're body fighting for what you believe in, and to be victorious while doing it, is awesome (for lack of better word).

I see what you are getting at. I think society (in general) really loves to see people do what they must, or die trying. This thread kind of concentrates on people who die trying.

**DarkHound**

You are just reading too deeply into it. You play a wargame. Your models simulate soldiers who die frequently. Death is a part of life, and I wanted to see if anyone had any simulated deaths that were poetic or simulated final acts of bravery that saved simulated lives in a fan-fiction of a fictional universe. Don't you cheer for the character who stands to defend the gate to his death, to buy time for hero to escape to fight another day? These are the kinds of deaths I hoped to draw out, as this wargame has such character that heroic deaths are bound to happen and you are awed by the drama. So such deaths, I feel, are aptly called 'awesome.'

**Emperors Faithful**

Exactly.

However I would hardly call getting shot and run down by a single gretchin an 'awesome' death.

**Tyras**

I had a chaplain survive a round of shooting from IG, a couple of tanks a las cannon team and a ton of lasguns only to have his last save fail to a las pistol. I think when I put him back into the case I heard snickers from the other models.

**Mekboy**

Me vs. guard. My opponent had one of those plasma russes with Pask in it, and it roasted a trukk squad, killing every member apart from my mekboy, who passed both cover saves from his KFF. He then promptly slaughtered a command squad holding an objective, taking one wound from a PF. Following this he kills a valkarie in close combat, only to die in the explosion.

**Emperors Faithful**

All my sqauds were armed with plasma guns, and the sergeants/commanders armed with plasma pistols. Guess how many 1's I rolled...

They must have been handed the cruddiest guns eva.

**halonachos**

A dire avenger squad with asurmen assaulted my sentinel in a 4th edition game. They blew it up only to have 6 of the dire avengers killed and asurmen taking a wound. Somehow I wouldn't call that an eldar victory, but an IG victory in close combat.

**Mad Rabbit**

Emperors Faithful wrote:All my sqauds were armed with plasma guns, and the sergeants/commanders armed with plasma pistols. Guess how many 1's I rolled...

They must have been handed the cruddiest guns eva.

Maybe they forgot their mittens?

**scifi112233**

Okay over 200 orks killing my khorne lord... after he took half of them with him and in another game the same rhino killing marnus calgar, eldrad and 3 other hqs... thats right it killed one a turn

**Tao**

I pulled down an archaon with a shadow field with 10 guardsamen and 10 ratlings assaulting it

killed 20 marines and 3 rhinos with 1 battle cannon shot (3rd edition) (10 of them got anihalited in their own rhino, I hit and wounded all 10 of another squad)

killed the chaos character special formation for apocalypse which included Abadon, fabius bile, kharn, lucius and typhus (900 odd points) by stepping on it with a warhound titan

killed a hive tyrant with an inquisitor in HtH once (the inquisitor out of the back of the 3rd ed rule book) kept making the 4+ rosarius save

had 10 ratlings repel an assault from 5 space wolf scouts breaking them and chasing them down

..well I guess these are more along the lines of worst deaths ever