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40K can be pretty hilarious at times from what I've seen. The simplest thing I've done that has earned a few laughs was taking a chance and firing a Basilisk at a lone Ork Warboss 40 inches away, just to spite the ork player because I knew I would loose the game after my shooting phase, he was swamping everything I had. He kept saying I'd never make the scatter. Boom. Direct hit. Dead Warboss. Laughs all around.

The other is having a lone guardsmen fire a krak missle point blank into a daemon prince and take him out. Guy had to have had some balls of steel.

What are your funny moments, Dakka?

2nd Edition.....

Massive game instore for the release of the Falcon. Every v Eldar, attacking a Falcon Factory. 15 Warwalkers packed together attacking a flank.

The sole survivor of a Bloodclaw pack pops out of cover, defiantly firing his Boltpistol. Hits the lead Warwalker pilot, who fails his save (2+ Invulnerable as well) the slain pilot sends his Walker toppling into it's neighbour..and so on...until from a single Bolt Shell, no less than 12 Warwalkers and a particularly unlucky Farseer met their demise.

Pretty impressive stuff, I think you'll agree.

Funniest thing in that game though was the Avatar inexplicably hiding and running away from everything. The controlling player just would not commit him!

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Funniest thing in that game though was the Avatar inexplicably hiding and running away from everything. The controlling player just would not commit him!

Eldar Avatar's are pretty panzie. I nearly took one out with some nice rolling on a medium sized group of gretchin. Basically took the "God" of War from 4 full wounds down to 1 with just a swarm..... I think I'd hide too if I was an Avatar....

Thats nothing. He spent one game legging it away from an Inquisitor armed with Psycannon and Force Rod! (Psycannon wounds Daemons automatically, allowing no save of any kind, and Force Rod did the same).

The big girls blouse. No wonder Slaanesh chinned him into lots of bits...glass jaw? Glass Physical entity!

SM captian in terminator armor with lightning claws vs Khorne aspiring champion with a power first. Half the attacks miss, other half fail to wound twice. Champ explodes captian when he gets to go.

The funniest 40K moment I can remember also involves an Eldar Avatar - tho it was my Eldar Avatar. :(

The latest version of the Avatar had just come out of production. Some of you will no doubt remember the previous version of the Avatar that was about the same size as a regular Farseer with a puny spear. Well, when the new monster-version came out, of course I had to get it and paint it right away and get it on the table!

I spent like 12 hours painting him the night before the battle. Finished him in the wee morning hours, and later that morning before noon, met my buddies to play a BIG game, the first time I'd get to use him.

Gametime, we set-up, and I set my force up as best as I can and put the Avatar in the best cover that I can. Well, it wasn't good enough. My opponent, a Space Wolf player, sets up his force such that he had LOS to the Avatar with a Las Cannon and a Cyclone.

Turn 1, SW's go first, they don't move, they fire, and BLAM, just like that, within 2 minutes of the game's start, and with the paint still fresh, my new Avatar is toast.

All of us had a good laugh that morning, and it still comes up on occassion, much to my chagrin.

Freakin' Wolfguard.

2nd ed

My opponent had a land raider hiding behind a building at the beginning of the game. I had a medic on a bike with a vortex grenade. I won first turn. Medic zips up and "pop" no more land raider. The expression on my opponents face was priceless.

I charged a zoanthrope into my opponants crisis suit commander and sizeable bodyguard. My model was 70 points and had two attacks, his squad was a combined near 500. I did a single wound to a shield drone and he didn't manage to wound me once. He rolled a 10 for leadership and I rolled a six to chase him down. My single armless, legless, zoey shattered his supersquad.


I thought he was going to kill me.

Blasting all missiles from a cyclone in 2nd ed. at an ork horde packed up. First shot in r1 without chance to miss killed as good as the whole army.

vortex grenade thrown, goes wrong direction, kills 700 points of my own army. Hilarity ensues.

Winning a game by charging with a (lone!) Zoanthrope into CC. It survived the assault and the defender response forced the opponent's troops off the objective, leaving only my gaunts to win the day!

And then I did it again!

In early 4th I had a tendency to blow up my opponent's Land Raider every game, regardless of what I was using. I actually managed to destroy one with a 'death or glory' roll on a lone burna boy. That was fun.

In 3rd ed., using my KOS vs. Tau, I got several very lucky rolls on my fighta-bomba raid, killing off about half the guy's army before the game even started.

2nd edition we had all kinds of wackiness, but my favorites involved my banshee squad being hacked apart by orks save one model, who proceeded to eat through the rest of the army, killing off every model except the dreadnought. In this same game, Baharroth was brought down by gretchin. Good times. In another game, my buddy's terminators (ultras vs. chaos) teleported in, but misrolled on the mishap table and came in as bloodletters instead.

One of mine was three turns of shooting at a single ork with the majority of my Imperial Guard army. The bugger just didn't go down!

Another was when I annihilated an entire Fire Warrior squad (12 models) with a single mortar barrage. Admittedly, that was probably funnier for my than my opponent, but my mate's Tau army is usually unbeatable - to the point I think he's grown bored of winning a lot with them and has gone back to his IG army.

This was way back in 2nd edition. A predator was hit by a las cannon causing it to flip over on its back. My friend then assaulted his own predator with a power fist and got the same result causing the predator to flip back over.(house rule that you could attack your own units). Anyway the Predator still couldn't move but it could fire and caused quite a bit of havoc with its twin linked Las cannon and heavy bolters.

It would have to be a game I was actually watching. An ork warboss on a bike with a power klaw charged a hammerhead. The hammerhead moved over 6 inches the previous phase. The player got 1 6 for the hit. Then he penetrated it, and rolled a 6 on the damage chart. The wreckage scattered a few inches of course hitting the warboss. The boss takes a strength 3 hit to the face. A six was rolled to wound the warboss and though the save was not made. Though the warboss only had 1 wound left and was whipped out. Funniest thing I've seen happen in a game.

In 3rd edition had 20 Gretchin hold a bridge and eliminate 5 Terminators. Much laughing on both sides of the table at beyond the odds dice rolls. It was like "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" 40k.

2nd edition did have a joyous amount of grenade mishaps. I understand wanting to move the game along without all the rolling and templates, but I do miss the simple fun of it all going wrong.

4th ed ... squad of 4 terminators was moving towards my farseer and his wrathguard unit ... they were traped in CC so i couldn't get them away ... bob my last remaining guardian (lost the weapon platform earlier) charges out of cover and fires at them 2 hit, 2 wound, two 1's ... would they run away? noo ... did bob care ... no he did not, he charges into close combat 2 atacks, 2 hit, 2 wound, two more 1's ... Bob has epicly killed 4 terminators on his own (and since i'm nice i consolidate him back into cover)

my friend start take morale tests on those dice (they roll 1 way too many times)

necron monolith deepstrikes into my entire army, it kills 2 marines and one of my lascannon marines just shot it, blew it up and screamed "NEXT!"

oh and killing captain lysander with massed lasgun fire thats always a good laugh

When an 12-year-old kid took Deep Striking too literally and threw his Monolith onto the store clerk's IG.

Zip Napalm wrote:In 3rd edition had 20 Gretchin hold a bridge and eliminate 5 Terminators. Much laughing on both sides of the table at beyond the odds dice rolls. It was like "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" 40k.

2nd edition did have a joyous amount of grenade mishaps. I understand wanting to move the game along without all the rolling and templates, but I do miss the simple fun of it all going wrong.

Aye, like void grenades going the wrong way and killing the character who used it. The randomness of 2nd did make for some nail biting and humorous moments.

As with all good stories, this one is from 2nd edition.

IG (me) vs. Tyranids. The mission, naturally, ends up as "Tyranid Assault."

Top of turn 1: I fire a Melta shell from my Griffon at a Carnifex. My range estimate is perfect. The shell (1" template, for those who don't remember) hits dead on. I wound it. He fails his Terminator-like armor save. He fails his Invulnerable save. I roll the d10 for wounds, and get the necessary 10 wounds to kill it. He fails to regenerate. The Carnifex is dead!

Bottom of turn 1: The Carnifex walks back onto the board.

Good times, good times.

Had 15 SM scouts snipe the fire prism off of a fire prism and then fail everything else for the rest of the game.

Also had a unit of 5 terminators get charged by 5 rippers. there were 3 rippers left when combat ended.

Was playing my friend. he had his land raider beside a building, and his unit of bikes plus techmarine on a bike line up beside it. Dropped a vindicator on the land raider, scattered a full 6" directly over and killed 3 or 4 bikes. Next vindicator blew up the land raider and that killed another bike.

From Sunday just gone's Apoc game...

Roughly 19,000 points a side, 5 players a side. One of the guys on my side was playing guard (we called them traitor guard as we needed one of the imperial players to switch so we could get the game going) and to make up the points I borrowed one of his super heavy tanks. I can't remember what it's called, but it's in the Apoc book, something hammer, transport capacity 40 and armed with a Vulcan Mega Bolter, based on a Baneblade chassis.

Anyway, it lumbers out from the front lines in turn 1 and amidst all the to-ing and fro-ing of the shooting phase (each turn was taking roughly 40 minutes) someone on the other side said to my friend "Hey Mike, are you going to shoot with your super heavy this turn?" Mike looks over "Er, That's not my super heavy..." Puzzled looks from the opposing team "So who's is it then?" I grin. "Holy gak, that things full of ORKS!! Right, new tactic guys, KILL THAT THING!" the look of mild panic as a super heavy full of weedy guardsman turned into a super heavy rammed with Ard Boyz and 2 warbosses was awesome.

Opposite side's turn 2, rolling to deepstrike a squad of terminators next to the super heavy... scatters onto the tank and rolls *unit destroyed* on the deepstrike mishap table. We Imagined that once all five terminators had teleported inside the tank, they'd said something along the lines of "hmmm... it's a bit dark in here brothers, energise searchlights" *Lights come up to reveal 30 eavy armoured Orks and two power claw toting warbosses all trapped inside a tank* "AAaaaarrggghhh!!!" Tank shakes a bit before ejecting 5 very dead terminators.

2nd Edition my squats vs. Orks who were attacking. We had a fortress wall setup and I had my squats on the wall. Yeah...vortex grenade...scatter....there goes 1/2 my army as it gets sucked into the warp. The FLGS owner was my opponent at the time (didn't own the shop then) and I still get ribbed about it.... Every few weeks I hear "Hey, ask Matt about why you don't let midgets have grenades.".

IG vs. khorne berzerker horde. Had been much trash talking by hte berzerker player. First round, basilisk shot placed onto horde of berzerkers on foot. Scatters onto rhino full of several hundred points of chosen. On e ord six later, said rhino is a smoking crater. Poor kid.

let me say this first one of my buddies plays a bike army used to be raven wing now a white scars chapter he has attack bikes with multi meltas he cant hit the broad side of a land raider with them and when he does hit he cant penatrate

last week 1st turn dawn of war turbo boost from table edge hides behind trees
my turn 1 redeamer arrives from my table edge moves 6" shoots assault cannon 1 wound on bike
his turn 2 pulls around trees hits with a gets a five and a to pen and gets a 5 to pop the tank

First game I EVER played was 4ed. where your Vindicator could get hit with Shaken and still shoot with PotMS. This was a like 1500pt. game. I had all of my stuff (2 vindicators, some other stuff I can't remember) all in the middle of my deployment zone. Guy was playing 4ed Chaos so everything pretty much had Infiltrate. I was surrounded by 5 CSM squads with lascannon and had a dreadnought opposite me with a missile launcher and a plasmacannon. He shot all of those heavy weapons at my one vindicator every turn for two turns before he killed it. He kept missing, failing to damage, or getting stunned/shaken results which I effectively ignored thanks to Extra Armour + PotMS. It was great.

One game I saw, guy drives LR through 2" clump of Skinny trees. Rolls a 1 for dangerous terrain. Acordions around a sapling.

Apoc game with 5ed rules, I flank march Maugan Ra in the backfield of a BA army and tear Dante to little pieces but I realise that I can´t consolidate in 5ed but it´s Maugan, he is invincible.... everybody is running away from him. What´s that funny thingy the BA sargent is priming? yep, Vortex grenade right on top of the phoenix lord

M.

I phased out a necron army with a grot. That was pretty funny.

My 300 point nob squad got annihilated in their truck, but that ceased to be funny after the seventh time...

I killed three chimeras in one game with 5 lootas.

My friend's commissar always killed his commander, and failed his man on his own test.

My friend got someone's chimera killed by goading him into tank-shocking a single stormtrooper. "Come on! It'll be cool!"