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Just tell some of the funny things that have happened to you during a 40k game.

Heres mine.

I have always been leery about using plasma weapons in my space marine army but I finally gave in and finally put one in my SM army.
During my first shot of the first game I use it, it overheats and my marine failed his save. My friend now has a joke about how my marines like to kill themselves......

ive had a few, best one ive seen though is a friends fex with 1 wound left, fires its stranger, it scatters, comes back and kills its self XD

I was in an RTT where I was playing KoS Orks and my opponent was playing terminators.

Turn 2, I was trying to plan my assault, and I was asking my opponent about the various terminators and what they had equipped - it basically came down to the fact that no matter what I assaulted where, my boyz were going to die. Every terminator had a power weapon, powerfist, lightning claw...it was insane.

I broke Ghazghkull Thraka off from his Nobs, and Ghazghkull made a solo assault against his terminator mob (after declaring a Waaaugh!) Ghazghkull single-handedly won the game. It was priceless.

And another story; my wife's first game with DeffKoptas, she dropped a Big Bomb from a Deffkopta and it scattered onto herself. She was so mad that she hasn't ever used Deffkoptas again.

Dashofpepper wrote:I was in an RTT where I was playing KoS Orks and my opponent was playing terminators.

Turn 2, I was trying to plan my assault, and I was asking my opponent about the various terminators and what they had equipped - it basically came down to the fact that no matter what I assaulted where, my boyz were going to die. Every terminator had a power weapon, powerfist, lightning claw...it was insane.

I broke Ghazghkull Thraka off from his Nobs, and Ghazghkull made a solo assault against his terminator mob (after declaring a Waaaugh!) Ghazghkull single-handedly won the game. It was priceless.

Ghaz is IMO arguably the baddest mother on a battle field.


Mine, when I play SM I NEVER buy lascannons simply because in the years Ive played SM I honestly think Ive only killed one or two things with a lascannon. Never vehicles or big badasses that would need one.

Another, the first game I played with my Orks, my brother fielded a pretty badass SM force lead by a Commander with a relic blade. well My Orks were really kicking SM ass the only losses I suffered really was from running towards him while he was shooting. once in CC I was handing it to him. ANYWHO so after one real nice turn for me, he started running his commander towards my warboss and was like "ok lets do this man to man" SO being ballsy I said why not. Next turn he assaults my boss does his thing and hits my boss 4 times. My boss had cybork body, so I had 4 5+ saves to make. Made all 4 then turned and landed all 5 klaw hits on him and he failed all 5 it was a great moment I knew I won the game after that

Me winning a game with just my warboss and a PK nob squad leader. Both of them were down to one wound. Last turn, they charge my opponent's tactial squad sitting on his home objective. They score no wounds, I kill 6 and watch as they run off the board, leaving me holding the only objective.

A ten man Deathwing squad and Chaplin deep striking shot 3 marines in my combat squad then my bolt pistol killed one and the heavy bolter killed 3! then the Vindicator came and shot... killed all of them. Woooot!

About fourteen years ago I often played with this some guys from work, one of which was ridiculiously competative. This is the type that was a rules lawyer when he thought it favored him but would badger you to just go with it for the sake of flow when looking up a rule that could favor me or anyone else. He was Space Marines (and yes he is one of the reasons I hate Smurfs) and I was Orks. We had set up a scenario in which I was on defense with Orks (yeah, weird huh). I made my list well enough and manuevered my forces in a way that he really wasn't able to break my defenses (actually it wasn't too hard against him as he wasn't very imaginative in his tactics). Attrition was taking it's toll on both sides but he still had a rhino full of his prized Hawai'ian Warrior themed (no not Rainbow Warriors, some other Hawai'ian title I don't remember) Terminators. He decided to assault my position finally hoping to break my back. I was able to cut off his rhino with my War Boss and the WB's remaining retinue and before he could deploy I blew up his rhino and prized Termie group. He was so mad he actually kicked me and our buddy (waiting to play the winner with Eldar) out of his house! I thought it was hilarious but our buddy was actually pretty pissed off. the SM guy wouldn't play for a couple of months with any of our usual group.

Ghaz is IMO arguably the baddest mother on a battle field.

QFT!

on his waaagh! move he is unstoppable, he can never be killed via instant death, and with 7 S10 attacks on the charge, the enemy will die!
throw a unit of mega nobz with him and not only would you be taking the fire from someones entire army, but you would probly shrug it off XD

My ten man ig squad all with flashlights firing on my opponent's maxed out stealthsuits and killing them to a man first turn! FEAR THE RAPID FIRE AP- OF DOOM!!

Once one of my grotz actually killed something.

I assaulted my friend's Genesneakers with Gun Drones, and won combat. It would've been even worse if I caught him with a Sweeping Advance

just last week I watched 6 thunderhammer+stormshield terminators slap my Bloodthirster to death while receiving no wounds themselves. On my following turn, all 6 were slain before attacking by, well, a living carpet of nurglings.

a few months back, I had an opponent concede the game before turn 1's assault phase had started: In his Black Templar army, 3 of his 20-strong crusader squads all took a handful of casualties, promptly failed their leadership and fled off the board.

until 5th ed my chaos space marines had an average total kills of 2, now it is THE ENTIRE AMREH! HURR!!!

i know this is 40k and all, but i have had a pretty funny WHFB moment

long story short, 1 won 1st turn (using tomb kings against skaven)
fired both my screaming skull catapaults at him, causing over 80% of his army to run off the board on the 1st turn lol

managed to win the game without losing a single model.

I place Medallion crimson on my Imperial guard general so he won't die from the first instant death only to have him get hit by two instant deaths in a row. LOL

iv jammed an assault cannon....twice =( (i rolled 3 1s)

A cat mauled the night bringer model. Proving that it truly can be killed.

One of my ratlings rolled snake eyes for moral (he was the last man standing), then he beat the snot out of a Termie. My friend Matt laughed so hard Mt. Dew came out his nose. My friend Joe was pissed. Unlucky for the ratling a chaplain smacked him with a powerfist, and the ratling was no-more.

I painted the ratling as soon as I got home.

My first game using a Mech with SAG and I was playing against Dark Eldar. I shot down a raider with 10 wytches and went to finish them off with the SAG. Needless to say I role double 5's and oops there goes my SAG into CC with 10 Wyches.

Not fun......

darefsky wrote:My first game using a Mech with SAG and I was playing against Dark Eldar. I shot down a raider with 10 wytches and went to finish them off with the SAG. Needless to say I role double 5's and oops there goes my SAG into CC with 10 Wyches.

Not fun......

wow that had to suck

In a recent game of Apocalypse my Slaanesh Sorcere threw a Vortex Grenade at a damaged Stompa and caused an apocalyptic explosion at the full 18". Since this thing was in the centre of 4 armies (2 Chaos and 2 Orks) in the center of the board well.... Every piece of terrain was destroyed, every vehicle was blown up (about 6) and almost every squad was wiped out entirely.

And the Sorcerer who threw the grenade... he was sucked into the Vortex as it scattered onto himself and the Stompa

My Vyper getting killed by it's own Plasma missile was pretty entertaining. My Fire Prism (which can never hit anything...) finding it has a knach for one shotting walkers and any surrounding squads. Three times in different games, I fire it at a dread first turn. Killing the dread and 4 or 5 marines each time.

I play Chaos now, so It should be interesting to see what happens...

i killed my mates crisis battlesuit with shield drones using a volley of fire from a 10 man strong squad of ork shoota boyz! lol

Orks beating tau in shooting!!!!!!! now Iv hear everything.

I have one, I have a junior officer with a lone flamer get jumped my a lictor. The lictor whiffs all of his attacks and gets promptly beat down by the junior officer. I just love to visualise where he stuck the chain sword.

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A Thousand Sons Rhino containing a Chaos Lord and his CSM squad body guard is racing toward the ranks of the White Scars, the Missile launcher off the tactical squad fails to damage it. The Dreadnought misses (even with a TL Lascannon...) the commander rolls his eyes, hefts his plasma pistol, and blasts the tank apart, killing all passengers except the Lord and the CSM Aspiring Champion

Needless to say a win

I won a game by assaulting with a Zoanthrope.

It pulled a unit of troops off an objective and survived the combat on turn 7.

Also, I once had a carnifex catch a group of Eldar in a sweeping advance.

One of my first games I was playing Chaos. It was a 4-way with Ultramarines 4th Company, the Black Templars, Hive Fleet Behemoth and my home grown Khornate Legion.

We decided to play to the last army standing. I utterly decimated the Black Templars. Then, 4th Company turned their guns on my army and proceeded to wipe the floor with them.

My last guy, a normal CSM, retreated right into a spore mine and promptly died.

Tyranids ended up winning.

I have another:

I played a game the other day, and I have a pile of Gretchen (29) sitting in the middle of the table holding an objective. My opponent assaulted my gretchin with Abbadon, who is the bringer of doom for Chaos. He assaulted into cover, so I got to go first...

My gretchin needing 5s to hit, 6s to wound in close combat.

I caused him one wound, which he failed.

In return, he gets 5+d6 attacks, unless he rolls a 1, in which case he takes a wound and makes no attacks.

My opponent rolled a 1, and took another wound. =p I won combat by two with my gretchin!