EPIC moments in a battle.

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**Sanguine Sympathy**

God i hope you gave her a name and a place of honor in your army

**gaurdsmantom**

There was a squad of terminators that just hoped out of a land raider, one single gaurdsman squad was in front of them they shot at the terminators only one hit. That same shot killed a Terminator.

**Emperors Faithful**

gaurdsmantom wrote:There was a squad of terminators that just hoped out of a land raider, one single gaurdsman squad was in front of them they shot at the terminators only one hit. That same shot killed a Terminator.

BOOYAH!!!

HEAD SHOT.

**SagesStone**

Now they know what it's like for the guardsmen. That squad needs fancy new hats.

**Emperors Faithful**

Nope, just the one who planted the headshot.

**SagesStone**

Yeah I know, but how can he tell which one it was. I guess just close your eyes and choose one at random, that's the cool guy.

**Emperors Faithful**

Or he can give it to the sergeant.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Troops: Oh noes! Termies!
*pew pew*
Troops: We can't shoot for crap.
Serge: Oh, Fekkit! Let me show ya how it's done.
*blamo...thud*
Termies: Oh, crap! Fekking badass Gaurdsmen! Ruuuun!!!

**guardpiper**

This was about 3 months ago, my last game before I left for North Carolina. Tau vs Guard. I do not remember who won, but a fire warrior squad was charged by a full stormtrooper squad with a Lord Commissar, loose 6 guys out of a squad of 9 and has to make a leadership test of 3. I roll and get two. They remain in combat and my next turn, a full kroot squad comes and eats the the stormies and the Commissar for lunch.

**Shadowbrand**

My Friend's Abbadon got Killed by a Flamer.

Now Shadowbrand's Running to be the new leader of the Black Legion.

**Sirius42**

2 Black templar neophytes are all that remains from a starting squad of 10 initiates and 5 neophytes. They get charged by lysander, (who had taken 1 or 2 wounds already), they strike first and stomp on his head. One got promoted to emperors champion and the other got a paintjob.

**Evilclown**

First the good luck: This was about 3 years ago so I don't remember exactly what the final kill total was.

Apoc game Broodlord and retinue of 11 infiltrate and due to poor planning by my Necron opponent get into CC on their first turn. Completely massacre the first squad and consolidate/sweeping advance (can't remember which has been a while) into the second. This continues for all 4 or so of my opponents warrior squads as I cut a bloody swath through the middle of the board. By the time the Broodlord reaches the other side of the enemies his retinue is down to a lone stealer but he's caused the phase out of 2000 points plus of necrons. For shear badassery in the line of duty, he now has a Necron warrior head in each hand.

Now the bad luck:

Had two full squads of fire warriors in devilfish rush up on some guard and do the fish of fury. Unfortunately all my dice magic was used up with my Broodlord a couple weeks before it seemed. I did minimal damage with my firewarriors and was looking at oodles of pain for my firewarriors. Thats when I remembered that I had submunitions on my hammerheads. Eagerly I used them on the guard squad directly in front of the fish. Both scattered back onto the fish and resulted in both being annihilated or exploding. So not only did a couple of the poor firewarriors using them as cover get crunched by submunitions, they then got crunched by the exploding fish they used as cover. The handful who lived now have tiny cross-hairs on the side of their heads.

**children of filth**

just recently i had a single plague marine locked in combat with 30 tyranid termagants. he came out victorious somehow.

i once used a 10 man squad of ork shoota boyz to out-shoot 20 tau fire warriors.

if i can think of any more i'll post them.

**nyyman**

Sanguine Sympathy wrote:Garchomp IS overpowered, he's the only reason I keep a vaporeon in my team. Ice beam FTW.

Pokemons FTW.
Came up with a new, recent EPIC moment.
My Chapter Master and one of his buddies (normal Marine? can't remember) were going to charge the last unit of orks, a 30 grot unit on hill. Before they charged, the grots shoot the final round of shooting. About 20 hit, and about 10 wound. So I allocate 5 wounds to Master (with full wounds).
And somehow, he got killed. The remaining Marine, however, survived. He charged the lone Grot squad, managed to kill one of them and not dying in return. Then the Grots fail their LD test and get caught by sweeping advance.
NEVER KILL MY CHAPTER MASTER. Then the lone Marine got promoted into new Chapter Master.

**sniperjolly**

radiohazard wrote:
My eversor Assassin in one 3rd edition game took claim to:

A Bloodthirster
Abbadon The Despoiler + 5 Retinue
9 CSM, with the Champion left who killed the Eversor and then died as he exploded.

last edition my 40 man conscript mob had a MUCH higher tally than this, all of the above, plus I got charged by 20 brezerkers and WON genestealers, took it on the chin, took names, abbadon, avatar, 2 units of demonettes 3 deamon princes and a unit of nurglings and 3 fiends in the same game tableing a necron army in one turn by themselves, and a half dozen rediclus storys that I either can't remember or dont feel like typing right now. GO BS2 POWER!

EDIT:Oh, and also my stormtrooper sarge now apparently, in his last three games, (his FIRST three) his squad has been wiped out and he has survived, the first time killing an entire assault squad by himself over 2 turns, the next game he was the sole survivor in is squad, and killed 2 brezerkers to hold off untill the calvalry (literally) arrived in the form of rough riders, then in the last game th killed 2 terminators in a combined assault.

**crazypsyko666**

In a 500 point game, I destroyed an entire tau army with a grand master and one squad of three in two turns. OH YEAH!

**radiohazard**

Emperors Faithful wrote:

*gaping in amazement* just how good were eversors back then?

They weren't all that really, I just got some good rolls

lol

@ Sniperjolly, but your's is a 40 man squad, which could with good rolls do these things. Mine is a single model.

**GVChamp**

Let's see, epic moments...

1. My brother's 62 point, bare-bones commander was running across the field as my infantry guard slaughtered the rest of his army. I figured my command section with multiple meltas could handle him. Hrm...no wounds...well, let's charge him. I lose...and get run down?
Fine, let's throw 2 more squads at him. Wait, WHAT?! WHY ARE THEY FLEEING?!
That 62 point model won him the game, if I remember correctly.

2. Another game against my brother, where my single IG sentinel managed to hold off something like 30 Black Templars for 3 turns. Would've been better if I could shoot at them, but still epic enough!

3. The first time I used Deathworld Veteran upgrades on my command section with an attached Commisar under 3rd Ed guard. And charged a Bloodthirster. Okay, not THAT epic, but the look on my opponent's face when his precious Demon died to pesky humans with big hands...

**Brother SRM**

Last night we had a huge game - 4500 points a side. It all boiled down to Abaddon and two big squads of Terminators attacking our fortified objective. Now, I have a personal hatred of Abaddon. Like, legit hate. I regularly call him "Abaddon the Game-Breaker" or something along those lines. Before last night, I've only killed him twice in as many years.

As Abaddon neared my objective, my Crimson Fists (and my teammate's Chaos) blasted away at Abaddon's Terminator squad, and killed all but the big bastard himself. On my objective is a tactical squad with Caligari (my Crimson Fist counts-as Calgar) who are waiting for Abaddon to strike.

Abaddon charges in, but I get to strike first as I'm in cover. My hatred of Abaddon was flowing through me and into my tactical marines, as 3 of their 6 attacks wounded him, and he failed two of his saves. Abaddon swung next, and only caused one wound to Caligari, which he promptly saved. Caligari swung his fists and finished off Abaddon for good. Caligari and the tactical squad led by Sergeant Rico consolidated back on the objective and secured a tie for the Crimson Fists.

Best part is that the Calgar figure I have is the RT era one, where he's sitting on a throne with a bodyguard and sundry personal equipment hung up around him. He really looked like an observing commander from the spire of his command building before swinging out and showing why he's commander in the first place.

**starbomber109**

Brother SRM wrote:
Best part is that the Calgar figure I have is the RT era one, where he's sitting on a throne with a bodyguard and sundry personal equipment hung up around him. He really looked like an observing commander from the spire of his command building before swinging out and showing why he's commander in the first place.

I can just picture Calgar just getting up of his throne and WTFPWN style clonking him in the head with a power fist, and abbadon just falling down the stairs.

**mistahspock**

Playing with the black reach set, I charged my warboss at a squad of 5 termies, killing all but one in a flurry of orkish glory.

Now, this one termy goes on to kill a deffcopta and wound the others in 3 turns of shooting, I get frustrated and give up on the coptas, preparing to rush into CC with everything I have.

I notice a lone ork boy near the termy right before I end my shooting.

Two sixes and a one later my newly promoted warboss is standing before a smoking terminator carcass.

**Kommandant56434**

gaurdsmantom wrote:There was a squad of terminators that just hoped out of a land raider, one single gaurdsman squad was in front of them they shot at the terminators only one hit. That same shot killed a Terminator.

I automatically assume any kills i get with lasguns are accidents. the one lucky las-shot caught someone in the eye, momentarily blinding them. they then blindly stumble around and get shot by teammates, or fall onto a pointy rock and get their face smashed in

one epic moment ive had was with one of my missile launchers. he was aiming out a ruined window and saw a battlewagon; he was the only one with LOS. it was a very angled shot to hit side armor, and i didnt feel like it was even worth shooting. i shot anyways, rolled a six to hit, rolled a six to penetrate, my opponent failed his 3+ cover for the angle, then i rolled a six for an explodes result, then killed 3 ork boys in the resulting fireball

**UltraDude**

When my Chaplain in Terminator armour took a wound from a gretchin.

**Emperors Faithful**

yesterday at our FLGS a squad of 3 DC BA charge a squad of 15 shoota boyz with a mek and power klaw nob. (Just after they had finished off some burna boyz)

They kill 5 boyz and lose two in return. My foe fails his leadership and (rather than risk getting cut down by a single guy) kills one with his boss pole...and fails again...and again and again and again. Until all that's left is the mek, the nob, and random boy. (All on one wound. Despite being charged by a killa kan, that last DC manages to finish them off before getting killed by the can. Epic guy.

**Brother SRM**

starbomber109 wrote:
Brother SRM wrote:
Best part is that the Calgar figure I have is the RT era one, where he's sitting on a throne with a bodyguard and sundry personal equipment hung up around him. He really looked like an observing commander from the spire of his command building before swinging out and showing why he's commander in the first place.

I can just picture Calgar just getting up of his throne and WTFPWN style clonking him in the head with a power fist, and abbadon just falling down the stairs.

I pictured the bodyguard on Calgar's base just pushing the chair over to Abaddon and letting Calgar smash Abaddon's head with both fists, while still seated.

**Zaxter**

UltraDude wrote:When my Chaplain in Terminator armour took a wound from a gretchin.

And in the same battle when 5 ork boy armour saves were taken and 4 of the dice were sixes. That was EPIC as well. How

likely is that?

I haven't really had many epic moments in battles yet because I'm a beginner, but hopefully will as I get more experienced.

**fludit**

I shot a rocket and rolled the scatter dice. It came back and killed my eldar.

**Superscope**

Emperors Faithful wrote:Or he can give it to the sergeant.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Troops: Oh noes! Termies!
*pew pew*
Troops: We can't shoot for crap.
Serge: Oh, Fekkit! Let me show ya how it's done.
*blamo...thud*
Termies: Oh, crap! Fekking badass Gaurdsmen! Ruuuun!!!

That's what happened in a game of mine... I had abbadon walking upto a 10 man sqaud... i gave them the lasgun order plus rapid fire for a tasty barrage of lasgun shots. All failed to wound, the sargent rolled for his las-pistol... hits and wounds abbadon, in which he failed his +2 save. I can only imagine abbadon grasping his face in pain ;p

**Emperors Faithful**

...before tearing them to shreds...

**Gornall**

Had one over the weekend... A TH/SS Terminator Squad had finished off a Demon Prince and were bearing down on a group of Oblits, when the Chaos horde opened up on them, dropping them down to one lone remaining Termie. This Termie then proceeds to get charged by a Defiler/Soulgrinder/Spider-Thingie. However, it charged through cover, so both attack at I1. The Termie makes his saves and attacks the Defiler back, promptly exploding it and surviving the wound. He then took the free consolidation right next to the Oblits to make them pay for his brothers on my turn.

**Exarch_Nektel**

It shames me to say it, but my units aren't really heroic on their own. None of my individual units ever do something really heroic- they win as a team.

That being said, my most glorious moment would probably be the result of one heroic action from my bare-bones wraithlord. Locked in combat with the nightbringer, the wraithlord shattered the shell of the C'tan. The resulting explosion led to the downfall of the wraithlord and most of a nearby opposing tau army.

My best battle was probably won due to my pathfinders, however. they caused two Space Marine squads to leafve the game, and next took all the weapons from my opponent's predator. that is probably the most heroic one of my squads has been.