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Here's hoping that this thread isn't so stagnant that this gets flagged as thread necromancy.

I was GM'ing a game of DW and one of my players completely floored me with the luck he had.

The Kill team were fighting in a bluewater dock/shipyard on a planet, trying to hold off wave after wave of tyranids while waiting for extraction. As things started to heat up, a Trygon ripped out from the ground. Now the KT had been given standing orders to try to capture one if at all possible to allow the Magos Biologis to examine it's genetic structure to find a biological counter (Kryptman style, just on smaller scale).

The Team Leader, an Ultramarine Assault marine who never wore his helmet except when in vacuum, immediately shot up into the air on his jetpack trying to distract the Trygon and keep it from breaking the cordon the PDF and IG had established. While Sgt. Tyrion was doing that the team's Techmarine was making his way to a large crane to help battle the brute.

I don't know how he managed to roll it, but the Assault Marine was buzzing this Trygon's nose for several turns while dodging the Trygon's attacks, diving gargoyles, and incoming spore mines. Right as the techmarine made it to the crane, I heard the last thing I expected. 'I'm going to try to spit in his eyes!'. I made him roll for it... he rolls a 01. Next turn (techmarine Initiative) he says 'I drop the claw of the crane behind his head'.

So yes, I had a kill team that spat in a Trygon's eye blinding him and pulled him dazed and stunned from his hole like a worm. After a few more rounds of combat in an attempt to subdue the beast, they were able to exfiltrate themselves and their prized sample off-world.

That was how that Kill Team got their first 'Good Job' from their Captain. I could have sworn the assault marine player was all misty eyed over it as the captain had been a complete hard ass to them previously.

Couple of times in our campaign I managed some fairly epic moments. Our campaign started in DH then went on to RT then (with my character) DW.
Anyways, one of our first missions we were chasing a group of heretics that had taken over the sector's banks and were using them to fund some nasty stuff. We'd finally caught up with them (almost) and chased them through one of their buildings. We were mere seconds behind them when we found out that they'd set fire to all their records, and just as we arrived the door to their elevator was closing. The inferno was horrible. Taking one look at it, then at them I took their water, and the tech-priest's power axe and charged through it. Knowing that they would be following shortly I used the axe to scorch where I was going at each turn.
After running up several flights of stairs I break through the door to the roof to see them starting to board their escape craft. I won't make it in time unless I do something, so I try to intimidate them into surrendering. I roll a 03, slowing them down. Charging towards them one of them shakes it off and takes a shot at me which I dodge, then counter attack with my pistol blowing his leg off. One thing to note is at this point the clothes I was wearing over my armour was still on fire. Doing a run by attack I manage to drop the remaining bankers off the runway KOing the lot of them and jump into the shuttle. The gm now rolls to resist intimidate... and gets a 100. One of them has a heart attack and dies immediately. As I wanted these guys alive for questioning I run up and try to revive him. Not having a medkit, or even medicae I use my shock gauntlet to his chest and manage to instantly revive him. His eyes open and he sees me (still on fire) and I tell him "you do not yet have my permission to die" and he passes out. I take out the pilots and use the power axe to take the leg of the guy who was bleeding to death, saving his life. And the tragic thing about all this? Everyone who saw it died moments later when the loyalty devices kicked in >.<
Same character years later. He's now a space wolf. (long story) And our thunderhawk has been taken out by Thousand sun forces in the middle of a storm of souls. I can hear 2 of their thunderhawks searching for us. I know that if they find us, we're dead and we've failed in our mission. My character has always been a sniper, so he pulls out his custom built rifle and listens. Knowing that this storm of souls eats corruption I come up with a plan... and open fire. Aiming by sound I fire once, then again. I then hear the distinct sound of 2 thunderhawks crash landing into the water. Our psyker uses her telekinesis to bring us over to one of them and we discover a single hole in the middle of the ship, which broke the warding enough for the storm to get in, and 20 suits of empty power armour and a broken corpse of their sorcerer who didn't survive the crash. So with 2 shots I managed over 40 kills. I ended up turning several of the helmets into a power flail and inscribing fenrisian runes of hatred and vengence into them and presenting it to Logan Grimnar the next time I was at the fang. It was appreciated