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The fall of prospero is absolutely epic it has to be my fave!!!

Can't really pin it down to a favourite:

- The World Engine, because an entire chapter going on a suicide mission on a deathstar manned by terminators, ending up with just a handful of mortally wounded men going "yippee ki yay, motherfether" and blowing it all to Terra.

- The battle of Calth in "Chapter's Due". Iron Warriors, traitor techpriests and mercenaries against Ultramarines, Inquisitors, Skitarii, PDF, Weapon servitors and most of all, Raven guard who make the ultramarines look like children at everything they do. Best part was how a Captain, Sergeant and a fething Techmarine were in the same room as the legendary Telion, and they made him jump.

And now for the Tanith section:
- The defense of the manse in Straight Silver. Some Pavlov's house gak going on there, a dozen men against an army.

- Any battle involving Mkvenner or Mkoll, especially In The Guns of Tanith, where he runs out of ammo whilst outnumbered three against several dozen, and just starts beating the gak out of anyone who gets within 3 feet of him, and then acts like nothing happened when relieved.

- Similar to the manse, the fighting towards the end of Only in Death, where the beleaguered, exhausted, outnumbered defenders are running out of ammo, and there's that massive clusterfeth going on up top, and that clusterfeth at the gate, and generally everyone is wounded and resigned to death, but determined to take as many fethers down with 'em.

- The one platoon of guardsmen under Sergeant Blane in First and Only, who held off a thousand heavy infantrymen with fifty light infantrymen, inflicting over 300 casualties before it got to hand-to-hand, buying enough time for their allies to take them from behind and crush them.

I do so love a good last stand

The Third War of Armageddon.

A great war between the forces of humanity and the Orks, featuring a number of interesting battles, sub-factions and persona. Most of all, it wasn't one of the usual "X goes there and roflstomps Y" that I feel the franchise is plagued from, but rather an intense conflict whose outcome was undecided for many months, and which featured both awesome as well as tragic incidents. The Celestial Lions being stabbed in the back and facing extinction, the Flesh Tearers finally exposed for what they are, the death of Captain Tycho, the massacre at Gaius Point, the last stand of the defenders of Hive Tempestora ...

That is a proper battle for me.

 Pilau Rice wrote:
There isn't much about it as far as I know, but the Battle of Tallarn sounds pretty awesome to me.

How much of it remain canon is anyones guess, but in the original Codex Titanicus supplement (which covered both Adeptus Titanicus 1 and Space Marine 1st edition) all of the short stories in the Imperial section were on Tallarn. It's over 20 years old and I still regard it as one of the best '40k' things GW has ever published! Tho more correctly Tallarn was a campaign rather than a battle - it lasted 2-3 years (by then fluff at least).

1st Arm war
- SW, IG,GK and I vs Angron
- SW and IG vs GK, RH and I

The battle on Istvaan III, as described in Galaxy in Flames.

Super duper epic fight there.

3rd war for Armageddon, the first and best of the WWC, and had a lot of cool side stories, not to mention my orks fought in that one..and kicked a lot of marine and elder butt.


That or the "Battle at the far."


My first ever 40k scenario..ahh memories

 shrike wrote:
Can't really pin it down to a favourite:

- The World Engine, because an entire chapter going on a suicide mission on a deathstar manned by terminators, ending up with just a handful of mortally wounded men going "yippee ki yay, motherfether" and blowing it all to Terra.

This battle. how I wish there was an IA book based on this event. or at least a space marine battle one.

Varks is my personal favorite (hell enough to blow several hundred dollars on Krieg models eventhough I just play them as IG lol)

runner up for lore is Armageddon III

Then probably the Octavus scenario though we're not getting many reports out of there.

First siege of Perlia

The war within the Rose Cluster, lol.

Another battle I like: The Octarius war. The two most numerous forces in the galaxy smashing head on again and again at each other and whomever wins will be so much stronger than they were when they entered it that it could be considered Kryptmann's greatest mistake.

 Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:
3rd war for Armageddon, the first and best of the WWC, and had a lot of cool side stories, not to mention my orks fought in that one..and kicked a lot of marine and elder butt.


That or the "Battle at the far."

My first ever 40k scenario..ahh memories

I still have that little cut out cardboard farm ruin somewhere in my collection, thanks for posting that blast-from-the-past

I'm going to grab Rogue Trader from the shelf and wallow in some nostalgia. Sisters vs Rainbow Warriors, epic battles from the past!

- Second and third wars for Armageddon.
- The War in Heaven
- Tau vs. Hive Fleet Gorgon
- Hive Fleet Behemoth vs. Macragge
- An epic clash in the novel Titanicus between three Titans, where it's two smaller Titans against one enormous Chaos one. One of the Imperial Titans is badly damaged yet still manages to survive the clash, and the description of the fight was just fantastic. I was really seeing it perfectly and thought it would make just an amazing scene in a film if it were shown from the ground perspective of a civilian/soldier, like it was in the book.

The lion and curze duking it out with their 3 best men. Both primarchs almost dying and curze leaving with a sword in his back...epic.

The war in heaven probably takes it for me, after all is said and done, but the Mechanicus / Chaos war on Orestes is amazing.

The battle for the imperial palace during the siege of Terra by the scum of Horus, the battle for Horus's barge, and the 2nd and 3rd Armageddon campaigns.


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Though the Armageddon campaigns are a series of battles no battles in themselves, semantics I know....

The opening phase of the battle for Rynns World is always a classic... teaches you to be careful with your surface to space missile inventory

Otherwise I found the battles in Double Eagle particularly engrossing.

Isstvan.

Seige of Cadia -- yep im kinda a fan boy but the idea of Normal Men and Woman locked in a Life or Death Struggle Against Demons kinda takes it for me

What about the Battle in Storm of Iron. Where champions become deamon princes, a lone guardsmen is the hero, titans die and most of all Chaos Wins!!

I'm primarily an eldar player, but the most interesting battles to me come from the dark eldar codex. The first being Vect luring the space marines to Commoragh and the second being when Rakarth aids the tau.

Also, an honorable mention to the tau vs. hive fleet gorgon.

Flinty wrote:The opening phase of the battle for Rynns World is always a classic... teaches you to be careful with your surface to space missile inventory

I'm imagining some kind of PA: "Remember kids, be careful with your surface to space missiles!"

I'm a big fan of the siege of Vervunhive, especially the way it was portrayed in the book, reminded me of reading Anthony Beevor's Stalingrad, with more 40k in it.

Any battle that I have ever fought in has been my favourite battle!

That and the one with Uriel Ventris and the tyranids, I forget the planets name.

Ghazzy's wars for Armageddon. It pretty much is what defines 40k for me.

There's not a ton of detail about it, but the Dark Eldar scouring of Tau Empire's Rubikon. After realizing Uriek Rakarth had turned there Fire Warriors into grotesques, Urien demands they give him several Etherals or thousands of Fire Warriors. The Tau refuse and send a fleet after the Dark Eldar fleet only to find its a mirage. They return to Rubikon to find Asdrubael Vect and Uriek Rakarth depopulated the entire planet.

My favorite has got to be the battle in which the Tanith attack a huge aerial city from dropships

The Siege of Terra will always be the most epic in my eyes. It's like a biblical mythological epic and star wars battle all in one.

The Rynn's World conflict. (The invasion of Rynn's World)