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metallifan wrote:

Superscope wrote:I've killed a leman russ battle tank with it's OWN battle cannon... that count?

I need to hear how this happened.

It fired, it scattered back onto itself, it dies. nuff said. By the way, i was firing at a broodlord and a group of genestealers about 5 meters in front of him.. so either it was the tank, or the stealers that would deal the killing blow... one thing lead to another and BANG.

broter Jomlus had after 100 years of service just gained his terminator armor and teleported up on the battlefeild an BANG!!
at a hill telion an his scouts fired. telion showed how a frag messil fires an "accedently" hit broter Jomlus.
how we laghed that time.

Back in 4th ed. I was playing a small 750 point game with a friend's nidz vs. Black Templar and Dark Angels. I hugged cover and my Broodlord started wiping the MEQ's before any serious damage could be inflicted by shooting.

Then outta the blue, my friend's Dreadnought charged my Broodlord and the remains of his retinue (About 3 or so stealers) After beating three stealers silly, my Broodlord fails to crack open the dread. Next turn, Dread gets lucky and wounds my poor Dread, for the Emperor's champion to finish him off.

We now call him "The Bug Swatter"

Superscope wrote:

metallifan wrote:

Superscope wrote:I've killed a leman russ battle tank with it's OWN battle cannon... that count?

I need to hear how this happened.

It fired, it scattered back onto itself, it dies. nuff said. By the way, i was firing at a broodlord and a group of genestealers about 5 meters in front of him.. so either it was the tank, or the stealers that would deal the killing blow... one thing lead to another and BANG.

Actually, I had something like this happen while playing a game against Shadowbrand on the weekend.

His Russ fired at a squad directly ahead of it. The shot scattered directly sideways 10 inches I think it was. Right into a building full of Guardsmen I don't think it actually hit any of them, but I still got a good laugh from the mental image.

I now have all these pictures in my head of Russ shells being fired and then immediately, illogically, and impossibly changing their course to head straight for the nearest friendly unit. Meanwhile the AdMech is trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with the munitions


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But yours... To have a Shell pull a complete 180-degree turn from the barrel... That would require some sort of Tactical ge-CREEEEEEEEEEEEED

I love it when the enemy scatters into friendly units, makes me LOL every time. I've had a few incidents where my vindicator scatters into itself. Neer killed itself though.

As the great legend sly marbo pops up nest to the ork bikes preparing to lob his demo charge the smoke of the bikes obscured his vision and he misjudged his throw the charge only flew 5 feet and then detonated leaving the bikes unharmed and marbo a fine pink mist.

My scouts 3 inches away from a squad of densily packed black templar fired a hell fire shell and I prayed to god that it would not scatter backwards,but it did and killed 4 of my 5 man squad which led my to take a leadership test after killing one with the world's most luckiest bolt pistol, the sargent ran along to catch up my sternguard sargent

all I could say was

Commisar Yarrik went on a killing spree against my marine army, singlehandedly taking out an entire tactical squad before my Crusader ran him over

idget wrote:Commisar Yarrik went on a killing spree against my marine army, singlehandedly taking out an entire tactical squad before my Crusader ran him over

Wha-why did he attmept Death or Glory?

A single BA Assualt Marine launches into combat against Creed, his retinue and A heavy weapons squad that got cuaght in the middle. He kills 1 IG. He passes 8 saves. He overuns all of them. Standing victorious upon the objective, probably mad with the Rage, he is promptly annihilated by a Leman Russ Battlecannon.

BA assualt marine is partially up a building, wedged into a corner with DE wyches intermingled with the rest of his squad on the narrow platforms around him. I wipe out the squad, but we can't get at the model to remove him. So we rolled a slave dice, which he failed. The wyches ended up hanging out on the platform the next few turns while I wiped out a plasma cannon that would have had LoS on them. We left the marine there, we figured that a cornered and injured marine surrounded by wyches had probably been nailed to the wall with combat daggers until they were finished fighting and could drag him off.

Which might be why my wyches kept flubbing their hit rolls for the last turn. Still think it was worth it. (Ok, less intrinsically awesome death and more the two of us finding funny explanations for deaths. The nailing to the wall bit was suggested by the BA player.)

There was a time when a Rail Gun wounded (not killed) a Carnie that had it's back facing to it. The Carnie was modeled to look like it was leaping down to feast on a victim (SM) but it was pointed out to us that from the Hammerheads point of view it would look like the thing was mooning them.

Anyone seen THAT scene from Braveheart?

Here's a little story......


..... the wounded carnifex started to wander, his belly full of space marines. He sees his next meal, though he is hurting from his last fight, he charged to strange human in front of him. This human is different, his weapon crackles and hisses with power, it burns the tyranid skin. His claws lash out, striking this strange human creature. The man thing draws another weapon from a holster, and fires a short burst of plasma energy into the carnifex's face. The creature bellows out in pain. More and more of his counter parts are pouring over the ridge, the hive is telling him its important to kill this human. The giant creature swings again, misses his target, but knocks a powerful seal off this strange man-things weapon. The pathetic human doesn't seem to notice. His mighty blade crashes into the side of the carnifexs head, the mighty creature falls to the ground and is slowly dieing. The powerful human strode off to fight the others of the hive. The last sight in the carnifex's head sent from the hive, is the powerful human leveling the strange pistol at a hive brother, pulling the trigger and having that strange weapon explode tearing the arm off this human. The human falls over and dies, leaving the rest of the human defends in shock and opening the door for the great hive to devour another world.


and yes this happened to my librarian, he took on a carnifex, destroyed him with a force weapon, and then had his plasma pistol blow up in his hand and kill him.


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.... and i also fired a whirlwind, at yes.... a close range target.. have it scatter back into the tank, and destroy it... and no it did not take out any of its intended targets.