The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?

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**Mad4Minis**

TheCapm wrote:I've seen it a couple times pulled off on newbs, but never had the heart to do it to them myself.

I went to a games store a few times many years ago where the guys who worked there thought this was the best thing in the world. As soon as someone said they were interested in the game but never play they immediately whipped one up...then would proceed to whip up the noob. I was that noob one time.

Ive come close to a perfect game in Battletech. A friend of mine, and frequent opponent, didnt believe I could beat 3 lances of mech with 3 lances of tanks. So I showed up with 3 lances of tanks between 80 and 100 tons each, against his 3 lances of medium and heavy mechs. As i remember he didnt disable or destroy a single tank, yet I destroyed or severely damaged all but a couple of his mechs.

**Forgotmytea**

I've come very close before. I was using my Eldar against a Blood Angels force, and only lost 3 Warp Spiders over the whole game, one of which was my fault from rolling a double 1 for my warp jump

By the end of the game, all he had left was 1 tactical squad, while I held all the objectives bar one.

**Avatar 720**

My Chaos vs Tau; 1000pts.

Turn 1 - Nothing, just movement and potshots.
Turn 2 - He forgot to move his Crisis Commander back in his assault phase of Turn 1; my Daemon prince scored a 6 with Gift of Chaos. His Crisis Commander turned into a spawn, which charged the hammerhead behind him and blew it up.
Turn 3 - Spawn is rapid fired down (you can count that if you want, but technically it was his model =P), only to have another one replace the shas'ui of an FW squad, tear them a new one and chase them off the table. At the other end, berzerkers pour out of a rhino that the other FW squad almost surrounded and EMP grenaded. 1 Combat and ~half my berzerkers attacks (all I needed) later and those FWs were no more.

**Kilkrazy**

I played a game at Platinum Snow Devil 2010, 500 points Combat Patrol.

I wiped out the entire enemy army and ended with 510 points of units on the board, because I spawned more new Termagants with my Tervigon than I lost.

It was a very lucky game though.

**Dashofpepper**

I've done this from time to time.

My first instance of this was against a Chaos player using my Orks. I lost a big shoota off of a truck, and that was my lone casualty for the day. I've had perfect games a few times since then. Much more frequent is that I get my opponent to concede in turn1-2 after being brutally mauled, but I'm usually down a transport or two by then.

**Crazy_Carnifex**

Mine was a Fantasy Game. My Dwarf gunline vs Vampire counts. He surrendered by turn 3, and my only casualty was an organ gun that misfired.

**Zonder**

Had a perfect game played against me. First game against the new Space Wolves. I played DH with a LR, 2x Dread, 2x PAGK, and a squad of termies in the LR. First turn wrecks both dreads and LR plus vindicator eliminates 5/8 guys from a PAGK squad causing them to run off the board. Next turn I miss everything, drop pod hits and kills termys with shooting ML spam kills the other PAGK squad and thats game. Most brutal game of my life.

**notprop**

Kilkrazy wrote:I played a game at Platinum Snow Devil 2010, 500 points Combat Patrol.

I wiped out the entire enemy army and ended with 510 points of units on the board, because I spawned more new Termagants with my Tervigon than I lost.

It was a very lucky game though.

Thats me isn't it?

Darn Tervi and it's spawn!

Oh the ignominy of being an anecdote.

[I blame the snow of course!]

**Kilkrazy**

notprop wrote:
Kilkrazy wrote:I played a game at Platinum Snow Devil 2010, 500 points Combat Patrol.

I wiped out the entire enemy army and ended with 510 points of units on the board, because I spawned more new Termagants with my Tervigon than I lost.

It was a very lucky game though.

Thats me isn't it?

Darn Tervi and it's spawn!

Oh the ignominy of being an anecdote.

[I blame the snow of course!]

No, it was Snarky. You and I had a lot of models still locked in combat at the end of our game.

It's a good anecdote but it doesn't reflect any skill on my part. Snarky had some bad luck -- he almost killed my Tervigon -- and I had some good luck.

**The Bringer**

I've gotten two or three models away from a perfect win...

Then again, when I'm playing n00bs, I let a lot of stuff go that could have altered that.

**LordWynne**

I only pulled it off once against a Ultra Marine newbie, I was teaching him the game and tabled him in 3 turns and I never lost a man in my Chaos Marines. We play Epic as well and its almost the same thing lol, but he has gottten better with his Nid force.

**Space_Potato**

I've had one myself, and one against me.

I ran a shooty ork list last edition and blew my opponent (Nids) off the table in 3 turns. Felt kinda hollow though cause he was new and just kinda rushed everything forward. Gave him some pointers and he developed a 50/50 W/L against me

And in my third ever game, a Flyrant smashed into my guard gunline in turn 1 and proceeded to eat it's way through all of my men over the next three turns (helped by some infiltrating stealers)

S_P

**Illumini**

I've won a game without killing a single enemy model

I played CSM vs deamons, both of us started in reserve and he dropped very conservatively. On turn 5 I drove a rhino onto his objective while he was too far away from mine, the game ended and I won

He got to slaughter both of my princes and some plague marines, but he still lost.

**chaos0xomega**

I have come close many times, many many times. Usually I'll go until turn 4 or 5 before I suffer a single loss, and it pisses me off.

The one time I've actually seen it happen is my friends Lost and the Damned vs. Necrons (in the halcyon days of 4th edition). 1500 pts. Necrons took a Nightbringer and Monolith, a couple of Tomb Spyders, and a bunch of Scarab Swarms (in 1500 pts!!!), my buddy took a couple of leman russes, etc. First turn of the game, the Leman Russes alone brought the Necron army to phaseout (not hard with only 21 actual Necron models on the table).

**xHAv0k**

My mech chaos army, a tourney last week vs SM

**Fearspect**

I've actually managed this twice:

First time was in the Finals for 'Ard Boyz in the first round last year. I was playing my IG verses a regular SM army with three Landraiders. My first turn scouting Vendettas popped all three LRs and his super squad in one (6x Terminators, Cantor, Librarian) fled off the table. The rest was just mop up.

The second time was at 1750 during the monthly GW tournament they were running verses a DE player. He did manage to immobilize one of my Vendettas, so it just kept shooting from the ground. Autocannons (especially on Hydras) are super-effective against Raiders.

**Targeted**

I did it once against a mech CSM list, with my shooty Wolves. I turtled in the corner and first turn took out all three of his Rhinos and DP. From then on it was just a slaughter as he tried to foot slog. I have to admit, I had some excellent rolls and he failed all three cover saves on his Rhinos from smoke. We rematched and he won against my drop pod list.

**AvatarForm**

What is a TFG?

Also, without reading past the first few posts, its apparent that anyone could "bowl a pefect game" against someone inexperienced who also has a poor list... heck, I once got tabled by a 2nd Ed Ork army with my first Blood Angel army.

Stop parading your small victories around, they are not worth the boasting and only make you look petty.

My above statement does not include the OP, who deserved his win and glory.

Guitardian wrote:I came close once. 2 casualties in 1000 points. I was unfortunately assigned to play against the 6th grade kid in a league game. He had foot slogging terminators straight out of AoBR with no upgrade, he had a single rhino with which he charged his fresh-out-of-the-box command squad (as-is from the box cover) tactical squads with just bolters, drop pods with a couple of lascannon dreads. I don't really remember all the gory, but just suffice to say the most random army build ever, and very little idea what to do other than the blue-man shuffle just advancing up the table as if its a race across no mans land.

I really REALLY didn't want to, I tried so hard to make accidental 'mistakes' to leave him a bone here or there, but I couldn't just play through the game and not take shots at him, that would have been too obvious. It was so hopeless I felt like a jerk, and plus his dad was there with him. So not cool to be the guy beating up the 13 yr old. Seriously that was the most painful game I ever played. Advice, reminders (like where to place templates to catch the most targets, why not to try and shoot S4 at AV12, etc) all just made me look like more of a jerk because I was telling this kid and he was still losing.

I got no joy at all from that 'victory'. It was a long hour drive home from the FLGS that night. Fortunately, I wasn't the only guy in our 20-ish person league who had the same experience.

TheCapm wrote:I've seen it a couple times pulled off on newbs, but never had the heart to do it to them myself.

Griever wrote:Yes, I played as my Crimson fists against some other Space marine player. One of those 15-16 year old kids who has like 1 Dreadnought, 5 poorly Armed tactical squads with no transports, and a points inefficient Command Squad in a Land Raider. It was the Battle Missions scenario where he had to deploy everything on the table but his models couldn't be within 9" of each other or within 9" of the board edge. I then got to come on either a long or short table edge with first turn. I came on first turn, Land Raider eats some multi-meltas, a couple tactical squads eat vindicator rounds and plasma cannon fire, and a pod of sternguard blow the expensive command squad with a 3+ save away. His first he's got an immobilized dread and a couple tactical squads on foot. All he can do is shoot 2 missile launchers and an assault cannon.

My next turn comes, I whipe out a tactical squad, blow off both the dreads arm, and two other tactical squads have like 2-3 guys left. I tell him that we can start a new game if he wants, and he agrees to.

Bad List + Unfair scenario + Inexperienced player who barely knows the rules = a tough game

It can be tough, but I get to play one game a week. I'm not going to intentionally not play my game because somebody else isn't very good. After the game I offered advice on what to do with the list (get Rhinos, lose the command squad) and what I would've done in his place.

Mr Mystery wrote:I rather fear my take on the perfect game is somewhat different than this thread's...

e: Fixed because Targeted is petty... also the scroll over tool was not shwoing up for TFG

**Targeted**

You're dumb, as you included the OP in your "list" of people that are being petty. Not one of the people in this thread has paraded a victory around, so you can stop being an idiot. As for what TFG is why don't you scroll over the text and read it for yourself, if you cannot it's that f'ing guy who comes in and thinks he's the best at everything and knows everything. Also, don't come in and assume everyone is parading around because as you said you've only read the first few posts. GG.

**Iboshi2**

I have has games where the Dice simply bend to my will. It is no fun. I've tabled opponents without loosing a KP. It sucks, and no one enjoys it. That kind of game isn't perfect and it really isn't much of a game either.

For me, the perfect game is one where I have made zero tactical and gaming errors. This can be target choice, psychic power use, movement, deployment, or anything pertaining to remembering special rules and things like that.

I have had few of these self described 'perfect' games. It always seems like I forget to run a unit, or deploy them in the wrong formation or something trivial. When I do have a perfect game, it's because I know I have come with my best General's Hat on. If I loose after giving my best, the game is still perfect. In fact, I can remember more than one game where combinations dice and the opponent's cunning defeated me despite my best efforts. Those are the games which make me want to keep playing 40k.

**Ailaros**

The closest I had to a perfect game was this one.

Me against necron. I lost 1 guardsman, but tabled him with only 4 lascannon shots.

Ah, the old, abusive days of 4th edition...

**Generalstoner**

Yeah, I tabled someone back in 4th with the initial armored company list that came out. I was playing an emperor's children army and hit something like 3 or 4 of his rhino's with ord pen 6's which wiped out entired squads that were transported. lascannons took care of the dreads, game was done by turn 3.

In the 5th ed. it is almost impossible to do I have found and I can't say I've seen anyone do it outside of a 1000 point game where I saw a kid massacre a marine army with his eldar, but I have a feeling the list was tooled to take the marines out wholesale.

**Gr3y**

I'm a Warmahordes player but I've had a couple.

A tournament a few weeks ago. I warned my opponent, who was new to the game, to not let my caster get line of sight. Bottom of my second turn, eCaine gained line of sight, popped feat, and blew the hell out his caster. I had maybe 5 minutes of actual play time in that game.

Another was when a Legion player got too close to Siege. In that game I lost one B13 gunmage, but his Warlock ate a boosted POW 14 at half armor with no way to transfer.

On the receiving end... the first time my opponent showed me exactly how the Mollick Karn missile worked was pretty ugly.

**Lunchmoney**

After a long hiatus from the game I started vanilla marines up again. Around two months after I had assembled what I thought was a "good" 2000 point army I faced a leafblower tuned IG list and he tabled me by turn 3. I had failed to do anything to him.

After that game is when I really started getting into forums such as dakka in an effort to up my game and apply sound strategy to the tabletop. My friend and I went through a whirlwind of about a year where we each collected several armies and played about 1-2 games everyday. (At our flgs against others and eachother at his house.) So honestly I have to thank that guy. He is what motivated me to really get back into the hobby.

**Stormrider**

I recently played against my best friend (who is a Tau player). We did Capture & Control with Dawn Of War deployment. He runs a Farsight list with 9 suits in total (6 in the Farsight Bomb), Hammerhead, two 12 man fire warrior squads, two six man fire warrior squads, a devilfish w/ 7 pathfinders, three broadsides, sniper drone team, a pirana and one 3-man Stealth suit team.

I had an Outflanking shenanigans IG list with Creed, Kell, CCS, 4 chimeras total(CCS, one for an Al'Rahem led PCS, one for melta vets and one for plasma vets), paskquisher, two bassies, manticore, 2 Platoons (each with 2 squads of troops), valkyrie w/ two special weapons squads on board, hellhound, a five man Stormtrooper squad and Marbo.

I rolled as well as I ever have, I lost 1 chimera, my Manticore, 1 1/2 squads of platoon infantry squads, a platoon command squad, most of my CCS, four stormtroopers, most of special weapons squads, Marbo and my valkyrie.

He had 1 broadside, an immobilized pirana, a stunned Devilfish, and four pathfinders left out of a 2500 list. It lasted 6 turns, he still had a suit that never came in either.

Luckily we're still great friends, although he's considering moving up to Eldar.

**Shas'O Dorian**

My nob biker list blasted an 1850 mech guard list taking only 3 wounds. No casualties, just 3 wounds total. Game was over top of turn 3.

**Locclo**

Well, mine was simultaneously a fail for myself and a total win for myself.

I was playing against myself on Vassal, my Wolves vs. a Marine list that one of the people at my FLGS. Both sides run fairly vehicle heavy. The map was a thick jungle, which I simply ruled as the entire map being area terrain out of laziness (figured it'd be an interesting challenge to play). The first turn, Marines go forward...or try to. The Marine list managed to fail every single Dangerous Terrain test for their vehicles. My Wolves rumbled up while his Marines futilely tried to repair the entire game. I think the worst I lost was a handful of Rhinos on about turn 4 - most of his shots would either miss, fail to penetrate/wound, or I'd make the relevant save.

**Pacific**

Not sure my answer is in the spirit the OP intended, but this is the closest I came to a perfect game:

GM'ing a Necromunda campaign, I had about half a dozen guys playing an adaptation of the 'swamp thing' scenario that was run in WD years ago. I think I got the balance of it just right for their gang levels, and it was a close fought game. One of my colleagues came up to me after the game - one of his gang members had been lassoed by the creature and was being pulled to his doom, but the rest of his gang blasted the creature into a bottomless pit and its death and saved him - and told me it was the coolest moment he had ever experienced in a game, and reminded him why he played tabletop games. So, that compliment was really nice, wasn't playing myself but would have to say it was the best game I was ever a part of.

**Vaktathi**

I've done it three times.

The first was against a Space Marine army, my opponent was going second but deployed like he was going to go first with everything fully visible to everything else in my army in a pitched battle game, banking on seizing the initiative for some reason. My first turn I manage to pop all 4 transports and destroy his other 4 vehicles. Infantry disembark, take battlecannon hits or get multilaser spammed, each taking sufficient casualties to force a morale test. He fails all of them, and they all fall back off the board. Turn 1 tabling. I felt bad, but he deployed and played poorly, I rolled nigh perfect rolls, and he rolled extraordinarily poorly.

The other two times were back to back games against the Tyranids right as they came out last January. Tabled them in two consecutive games without taking a so much as a single glancing hit on a tank, or losing a single guardsmen. Felt kinda bad about that too, which is why the second game I let him deploy second, go first and choose his table side. It apparently didn't matter :(

**prime12357**

In 4th edition, I got my 'crons wiped out when a land raider crusader full of lighting claw terminators and a chaplain rolled up the entirety of my army in a turn. Of course, the game wasn't perfect, cuz a sergeant had his plasma pistol melt him, but still...