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Frenzied Berserker Terminator




Hatfield, PA

My two favs happened in the same game years ago (during 2nd edition):

1) Cyclone missile launcher fully fired for the big massive template over my unit of 20 purestrain genestealers and not a single 'stealer died.

2) Facing a "space wolves army" that included 2 units of space wolf termies, 2 leman russ tanks and a ton of other army special characters (annoying 2nd edition force). Lone genestealer attacked a leman russ, got a penetrating hit on the track and caused the tank to flip over and land on all of the special characters that were hiding near it killing them all.

Skriker

CSM 6k points CSM 4k points
CSM 4.5k points CSM 3.5k points
and Daemons 4k points each
Renegades 4k points
SM 4k points
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3K 2.3k
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Ultramarine Terminator with Assault Cannon






WARNING! The following is based on actual events.

SM vs. GK

Annihilation

Bottom of turn 7 - SM kill points: 2 GK kill points 6

It's the assault phase. The only way for me to win is to table the GK player. He has exactly one Paladin left on the table and he's locked in combat with the single TH/SS terminator that's left of my assault terminator squad.

Hits are exchanged... I wound once with my thunder hammer...

The whole game comes down to a single die roll. If the Paladin makes his 5+ invulnerable save, the GK's win. If the Paladin fails... I win.

The die hits the table, bounces, rolls a little ways (it's epic, silent, and seems to last forever like the final die roll from that Robin Williams movie Jumanji)... The die stops, teeters on its axis and lands... two.

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Willing Inquisitorial Excruciator





Classified

Killing Ghazghkull Thraka with a Marine sergeant in my very first game under 2nd edition rules.

Also, vaporising him with a Dreadnought's multi-melta in my second. A pattern soon became established.



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Hellacious Havoc





Eye of Terror

A single CSM killed two Grey Knight Paladins in CC

1200 pts of Black Legion and Night Lords 
   
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Automated Rubric Marine of Tzeentch






VA Beach

My Daemon Prince singlehandedly wiped out every single model in the other guy's Space Wolves. People give me crap for taking Wind of Chaos AND Warptime (with MoT), but I never listened to them, and that's what happened. I will never take any other DP loadout.


Let the galaxy burn.

 
   
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Bounding Black Templar Assault Marine




Parma, OH

After a couple decades playing this game in its various editions, one of the most memorable moments occured last year when playing my Vanilla Marines against a Blood Angel player. I had a unit of 10 Scout Snipers sitting on top of a building plinking away at the various Blood Angel units when Astrogath the Grim came jump packing into their midst on turn 2. When Astrogath left the roof he had killed all the scouts but he was there until turn 6 and had only one wound left.

Had less to do with my luck or ability and more to do with my opponents inability to hit or wound my scouts. Of course that Astrogath model was somewhat unlucky as in an earlier game against me (actually his intiial appearance in our games I believe) he deepstruck from reserves and face planted into a rocky outcrop like Wil E Coyote.

 
   
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Despised Traitorous Cultist




Somewhere in the Warp, with a psychotic dreadnaught and an overzealous sorcerer to deal with...

When I first began playing one of the GW staff challenged me to an Orks V Space Marines (I was Space Marines)...

I flattened a squad of Nobs with a single heavy bolter ^^

"We are the Knights Temporal, scum, we have cleansed entire worlds of your filthy cults and liberated many minds from their sway towards the Endarkened Powers..."
"Oh? Ever seen a dreadnaught rip a Trygon's head off? Ever seen a chaplain scream someone to death? Ever seen as many Raptors baying for Imperialist blood? We are the Spirits of Cyron, and the only pleas for death will be your own!"
 
   
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Hurr! Ogryn Bone 'Ead!




the look on my Tau playing friends face when i turned up at his house after repainting 2K pts of ig, they now have Emperors Children's armour and all the power weapons are whips

i got tabled, but being able to say kill me harder when ever something died was a blast

Imperial Guard 43rd Royal Fareldian have been Corrupted by she who thirsts

8 wins 4 draws 10 losses

Considering or

rChaos wrote:
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Ragin' Ork Dreadnought






Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany

When my brother declared to shoot my orks with his favourite and best-painted guadian called "Gerd" handling the weapon-platform, and then it scattered right over his farseer who had been freed of his bodyguard by my shootas the previous turn. The shot woundet him, and he laughed and said "haha I'm in a fortification 3+ cover so he isn't woundt jet!"Rolls, 2. Ha!
The seer was then killed next turn by a lucky big shoota boy called "Mef", who also made it pt this 3+ save

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Bounding Black Templar Assault Marine




Waco TX

Got 2
First: Emperors champion walked around the board in a 1k game killed 2 Leman Russ battle tanks a Chimera a sentinel squadron and locked/contested a platoon of guardsman sitting on an objective all the while getting shot at by his whole army as he walked around making all his Inv, and armor saves not taking a single one all the way to turn seven, while me crusader squads sat on objectives and couldn't shoot bc they were out of range but doesn't have to worry abbot getting shot bc the EC took it all for 7 rounds, won the game by holding the 2 obj and contesting the 3rd

Second was my marshal and his command sqd of termies with HF drop podded in behind a squad of big mek's flamed and destroyed all 3 he then assaulted me with the other squad I diddn't take a single wound but destroyed the other 3 then walked around flaming boys squads

NO PITY!
NO REMORSE!
NO FEAR!  
   
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Purposeful Hammerhead Pilot





Pullman, WA

6 vanilla Pathfinders (Tau) holding out for not one...not two...but three turns of close-combat with a full health Daemon Prince of Slaanesh.

They wounded him on the first turn (Pushing combat since the Prince only killed 1 Pathfinder), holding fast the second turn after losing 4 Pathfinders (Needing a 4 and rolling a 3 for their Ld check), and the Shas'ui squad leader not taking a wound on the third turn.

He got munched the next turn, but tying up the Prince almost won me the game, and annoyed my CSM opponent to no end

Imagine the feeling when you position your tanks, engines idling, landing gear deployed for a low profile, with firing solutions along a key bottleneck. Then some fether lands a dreadnought behind them in a giant heat shielded coke can.

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Irked Necron Immortal





NoVa

People say Necron's are crap in close combat normally I'd agree, but 1 lord with a war-scythe, and a tomb spyder tearing into a black templar command squad and wiping them off the table in one assault phase seemed to prove otherwise. the Lord actually was killed in combat, but thanks to phylatery got up after combat with 3 wounds again.
   
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Storm Trooper with Maglight





Lima, Peru, Holy Terra

This one's not miine, but from some guy from this same site. He was playing Apoc, I think (I don't know too much about Apoc), IG versus orks. So the ork guy sent some Tankbustas against one of his tanks. The kill the tank and one guardsman gets off the thing. Now, the orks assaulted the poor guardsman. He got hit 17 times... And got all his armor saves Now, that was the last turn of the game and there was this rule that said that if the tank crew isn't killed, the tank mdoesn't count for victory points. The guard won just by those points.



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Shas'ui with Bonding Knife





I wanna go back to New Jersey

Here's a good one.

A squad of 6 Fire Warriors downed a Destroyer Lord, that later stayed down.

What do you Kroot enthusiasts hove to say about that?


(translation: you jelly Kroot-tards?)

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Shas'o Commanding the Hunter Kadre





Richmond, VA

I've had 8 pathfinders wreck a max unit of scarabs in two turns, after I was assaulted by them. Of course my kroot can't do jack...

Desert Hunters of Vior'la The Purge Iron Hands Adepts of Pestilence Tallaran Desert Raiders Grey Knight Teleport Assault Force
Lt. Coldfire wrote:Seems to me that you should be refereeing and handing out red cards--like a boss.

 Peregrine wrote:
SCREEE I'M A SEAGULL SCREE SCREEEE!!!!!
 
   
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Shas'ui with Bonding Knife





I wanna go back to New Jersey

juraigamer wrote:I've had 8 pathfinders wreck a max unit of scarabs in two turns, after I was assaulted by them. Of course my kroot can't do jack...


Really diggin that last bit.

Too bad it reminds me of this one time my Farsight got stuck with some fire warriors in combat with 5 scarabs, but for the life of me those scarabs wouldn't dare fail their "failed combat" saves for over 3 turns and somehow eventually dragged down the "ever whiffing attacks" Farsight. I was not a happy camper that day.

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Drop Trooper with Demo Charge





England

I'd have to say my best moments in 40k were when i got the basilisk in my ig army. for two reasons (I tend to overdo it on upgrading so had/have a bad casual army) 1st the first match i played my friend with the basilisk in, in which i narrowly won 5-4 killpoints. I loved the moment so much because we played on a smaller sized board than normal and he owns Space wolves which equalled bad for me. and also because that same day we had finished secondary school and had a full english breakfast as a celebratory dinner, were joyful and then this match, this glorious match turned up and just exhausted me for the day. Its also because of this i was able to memerise the whole battle straight away and wrote a battle report of the top of my head to my other friend later on.

The second would be in a recent game where i was set to play csm in a 2000 points. but then was vs.ing a horde ork army (same person) which was better cause i include mostly flamers in my army (and in the list i wrote i had a hellhound,2lrbt's, a basilisk and a medusa) so i was certanly fine with the hast change. the next day when i showed up to vs him there was a 3rd change of plan. it was my new-mech ig 2000pts with horde army 2000pts against tau 2000 and sm 2000. now hears a heads up, the sm player bought most of his models at once and doesnt even know most of the rules. he ended up being a little over 2000 (by about 300pts, 'little') and the tau player under by about 500-600. I, in the rush of craters and lack of space instinctively placed long range weps all around (making 4hvy supports, which tau player had also done.) the whole thing ended up taking about an hour to setup and one turn in i had wiped 3 squads of tau (all pie plates hit) off the field. orky had placed himself in diff terrain and made slow progress but provided brilliant cover for me. in turn 2 for some reason i can't remember the sm player was demoralised and didnt want to play anymore. i didnt even get a chance to put my platoon on the field!! bearing in mind i had manufactured half my army by paper cut outs which will come later.

in the end the final game ened up being me and my sw friend against orks and tau. tau player didnt really want to play against me again but was a good sportsman and still played. we got 2 turns in (during the sm player returned and repeatedly asked who was winning) and in which nearly all pieplates hit again (a rather different spot of luck i was having today) mostly on the orks aso with the hellhound doing its bit as well as the MoO for once. in total this was not best enough as my best moment when another guy showed up looked at the pieces of paper on the board said "whats these? these won't do" wandered off brought back a HUGE box, opened it and pulled out a chimera a hellhound 2 leman russes and a chimera to use as the medusa. this is the best moment in my gaming life., the pure good heartedness of others when it comes to the game.



-lots to read-

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Krazed Killa Kan






Minnesota, land of 10,000 Lakes and 10,000,000,000 Mosquitos

juraigamer wrote:I've had 8 pathfinders wreck a max unit of scarabs in two turns, after I was assaulted by them. Of course my kroot can't do jack...


Reminds me of a very memorable battle I watched once, Orks vs. Tau. The Tau player managed to charge a near-full squad of Kroot into a 5-man squad of Loota Boyz, in terrain. The Lootaz hit back, killed half of them, and the Kroot didn't do anything. They ran, and the next turn the Lootaz killed the rest of them as they fled. Just another testament to the uselessness of Kroot (especially when luck is not on their side!).

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Storm Trooper with Maglight




Chicago

In one of my first games, IG vs 'Nids. He burrows a Mawloc right behind my cover and about 3 inches from a guard squad. I decide the smart thing to do is to charge it. The Mawloc died in 4 turns, and I only lost 3 guardsmen. The look on his face was priceless!

Guardsmen, Fire!
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Ragin' Ork Dreadnought






Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany

Forgot to mention before:

My unholy luck vs. my mates doomed dice: I shoot 9 sluggas at his pink horrors, with his dice. Me:

5-5-5-6-5-6-5-6-4

Yeah! this turns into 6 wounds, and he roll his 4+ invul:

1-1-1-1-1-1 !!!

Chances for 6 1 in a row: 1:46000


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Now im famous for being a dice-god and whenever i play people expect to loose becaue of my occaisonal luck. even if i roll lousy they still belive im lucky and expect me to do better next turn

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Pile of Necron Spare Parts



Lahti, Finland

Mine was when my carnifex charged Arjac Rockfist, who had all of his 3 wounds remaining. It rolled a 1 with its crushing claws, and so had 6 attacks that ignore armour saves. It hit with 4 and wounded with 3, and he rolled 3 1s when rolling for his 3+ inv. saves! He then caused 3 wounds in return, which wasn't enough to kill it! (After the battle he remembered that he could reroll failed to hit. It helped me to a draw from a tough situation.

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Boosting Black Templar Biker





Jacksonville, NC

Bob Thraka.

I have a policy--whenever something truly awesome happens on the field, I name my little war dudes. So far, only one mind-alteringly awesome event of pure win has occurred, and it was me (Orks) vs Grey Knights (old 'dex).

It's around turn 4, and at that time in my gaming career I fielded horde orks. Naturally they'd been torn to gak at that time, and of a 30 boy squad, only their nob and 6 slugga boyz remain. Grey Knights are on top of their wrecked Trukk, bringing what ranged weapons to bear that they can. Knocks off 3 boyz. Not within assault range, so they can't make it. But I can.

We move forward and fire out a volley of slugga rounds. Takes out two GK terminators--three menacing figures (no pun intended) remain on their busted ride. They rush in and charge, and the boyz do nothing in combat. Grey Knights whiff in CC, and the Nob remains. He swings and connects with all of his attacks. GK player rolls his saves and results in a 1, 1, 1, 2. Bob Thraka wiped them all.

Now, at this point I'd like to mention that at the time, it was a losing battle. I was down by at least 5 KP and would have had to table him with what little forces I had left. Wasn't going to happen. But, in that moment, Bob Thraka was born. He hasn't died in a game yet.

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Ambitious Space Wolves Initiate





When i had one vet with las gun i killed 2 termies after his squad was shot down the turn before, the termies then charged he killed one more then ended with 2 power fists to the face

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4k Space Marine
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750 Crons
750 Gk
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When I Deffrolled Eldred. Just because it's funny thinking of Eldred as road pizza.
   
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Nasty Nob





'Ere an dere

I played with DE against orks, and it looks quite bad for me with only wyches and jetfighter left. Then my wyches with +1 attack combat drugs, FNP and hydra gauntlets (which somehow always gave me +6 attacks) caused a unit of nobs with a big mek to flee, but they couldn't get them as they was also in combat with a deff dread. Then of course the game ended, the fleeing nobs and mek giving me one more kp than the orks had.

idolator wrote:That Nob is carrying a big honking gun that happens to have two barrels. You could call it a twin-linked shoota if you want, you could also call it Susan.


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Ragin' Ork Dreadnought






Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany

Murrdox wrote:When I Deffrolled Eldred. Just because it's funny thinking of Eldred as road pizza.


ROFL Yes it is funny thinking of that. Sadly i didn't yet manage to pizza my bros Eldrad, thank to this 3+ invul / reroll combination

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Lead-Footed Trukkboy Driver




Los Angeles

Lost to Necrons at the Bay Area Open.

But... I did kill all 3 monoliths.

Moral victory!!!

14 Trades and counting

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Long-Range Black Templar Land Speeder Pilot




Right behind you...

I once had a veteran squad which had shotguns, 3 melta guns, a powerfist and a chimera with a heavy flamer. With that combination, I faced an entire squad of fire warriors and a crisis suit(in 4 turns) I killed them all, retreated after the crisis suit kill.. I guess the Emperor likes me.

There is only the Emperor, and he is our shield and protector.




 
   
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Implacable Black Templar Initiate





Sheffield, England

This happened during deployment sooo i dunno if it counts as a genuine best moment here goes..



Deployments taking forever, so i grab a handful of dice (8 to be exact) and roll them, this follows.

1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1

We were all gobsmacked! turns out its 1:1,260,000 or something like that!

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- Hive Fleet Kraken 2500pt

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Focused Fire Warrior





5 miles north of Funkytown

best I've got so far is a gun drone heatbutt an enemy warboss and taking out his last wound, won me the game...

Said gun drone was promoted to a shield drone, jumping infront of potshots aimed at my broadsides

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