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I've got a Tetra that's used its pulse rifle to kill a Predator and a Night Scythe.

My Lord of Change got brain-panned by the bolt pistol of a single honor guard, once.

It changed my life.

Best ever;
My Chaos Rhino w/Dirge Caster stopped a riptide, 3 crisis suits, 4 drones and pathfinders from firing overwatch on my Daemon Prince, who swept the Riptide unit. The Rhino then proceeded to tank shock Commander Farsight and 3 more Crisis Suits. The Suits fled off the board, while Farsight failed to stop it with a Death or Glory and got crushed to a pulp under the Rhino Tracks. Game-winning 40pts right there!

A bare-bones cultist squad took out two units of penal legions in CC after the penal legions outflanked and fired their lasguns into the cultists. My champ won 2 challenges; S4 Shred, bring it on!

But perhaps most impressively...
10 Dark Eldar Mandrakes survived enemy first turn after infiltrating onto the board.
They only took 2 casualties from a Legion of the Damned plasma DS (2 bolters, plasma cannon, combi-plas, plasma gun all within rapid-fire). Charged and wiped the LoTD. Then fired upon, charged and held 6 Iron Hands bikes in CC for 2 turns.
Mandrakes were useful?!?!

Brood of Hormagaunts killed a Chaplain without even touching him. He over watch fired his plasma pistol at them, overheated and failed his save on his last wound.

Suicide before the peons of the great devourer.

My Company Commander, as the only surviving member of his squad, took down a Dreadknight with his laspistol after 3 Obliterators and a Vendetta fired 6 plasma shots and 3 TL Lascannons and failed to bring it down.

In the next round he took the last wound off a GK Paladin.

My Earthshaker Cannon one-shotting a Tau Commander was also a pleasant surprise.

 Eldarain wrote:

Martel732 wrote:
Codex: Blood Angels every time I win with them.

Aw, I came here to predict you'd post that

To be honest, that’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw the thread title. No offense Martel, but you are a little vocally pessimistic about your BAs.

If my scouts accomplish anything productive I’m generally impressed. Their job is to camp objectives and try to live, everything else is gravy. The most impressive feat accomplished was one-shotting the Nightbringer back in 3rd, and that was before the c’tan were broken up into shards; just walking gods.

I have also killed far more things then I probably should have with the stormbolters on rhinos and drop pods. They might not seem like much, but don’t forget to shoot them.

My barebones Company Commander and his CCS got charged by a sneaky Autarch on a Jetbike with the wing that lets them go a long, long way across the board, despite having some supersword with S6 and AP3 and all this jazz (Shard of Anaris, I think?) he failed to wound my Commander at all in a challenge, the only wound he caused I saved with my refractor field save. When he charged the unit overwatch had reduced him down to 2 wounds, despite his absurd cover saves.

My Company Commander then hit back in melee, wounded twice and he failed both saves, killing the Autarch. He isn't even modelled with a chainsword or anything. He has one broken arm in a sling and a Laspistol, modelled precisely because I expected him to die a lot and never kill anything.

His streak continued. Last week he charged, with one wound left, a pair of Tactical Marines and killed both in melee. On one occasion a group of 10 Cultists charged his position, and him and his aide killed a pair of Cultists with Laspistol shots, my Commander getting a precision shot which knocked out the Cultist leader. They then rolled 2 hits in overwatch and killed another pair of Cultists, before finishing off the remainder in melee.

I had my 6 sniper scouts mow down 5 Terminators in turn 2 at almost maximum range in a single volley.

with my CSM its gotta be the dark horse i use every so often. the maulerfiends, now... im a stand and shoot kind of person, but when i decide to run assaulty... they have wrecked face.. the number of vehicles that forget to move so its auto hits + bonus melta strikes etc...

I just enjoy the look on peoples faces when they see these things moving 12" through whatever into their face...

Had a lone termagant kill a deathwing terminator.

In assault.

The game before, in a IG & Nids vs Cron/Tau and CSM team game, a vendetta crashed among guardsmen and termagants.

8 hits, 6 wounds.

1 termagant died.

They were cool guys, and they did not look at explosions.

In my last game I had a unit of 30 Gaunts who were out if synapse range for four turns pass 4 LD6 synapse checks and 2 break tests from shooting while beating a unit of Necron Warriors in close combat to stay on a 4 point objective, which won me the game by 2!

The one I always bring out for threads like this, incidentally happened against me:

My opponent is playing IG, me with SM. I have a captain loaded up on relics that comes it at over 200 points. Teeth of Terra, Primarch's Wrath, Armour Indomitus.

Shooting from the captain kills 5 guys from an infantry squad, bringing it down to 2 men, a guardsmen and a meltagunner. They roll snake eyes on leadership and hang around. He charges,having popped his 2++, and they line up overwatch. Lasgunner whiffs his rolls. Meltagunnrt rolls a 6 to hit, a 6 to wound. I go to roll save, and the dice comes up.... 1, of course.

15 points of Guardsmen taking out 200 points of the Emperor's Finest. I won the game 14-3 all things told, but I would concede a moral victory quite happily for that amazing rolling.

 BlaxicanX wrote:
My Lord of Change got brain-panned by the bolt pistol of a single honor guard, once.

It changed my life.

All according to plan....

As for my story, back in 5th edition I I held a biker Chaplin in CC with a soul grinder for four rounds

I had a Land Raider Crusader. Every game, she(yes she, its a girl) always got blown up turn one or two. but in one game, something awesome happened. I had a crusader squad charge out of it and engage a haruspex. they brought it down to 2 wounds, then promptly got eaten alive. Then, the haruspex charged her, and stunned her. With POTMS, I could shoot only one weapon. only the storm bolter could reach it with its 360 arc. So I rolled, expecting nothing- two 6's. Roll to wound- 2 6's. Armor save- 2 ones. That right there was the most awesome thing I have ever had happen.

I usually bring a couple 5-man las/plas squads with my Black Templar. I was facing off against a Tau player who had a fortress of redemption loaded up with units on it. The lascannon got his one shot in on the fortress, hit. rolled on building damage, 6. Brought down the whole balcony, units inside were taking wounds from the explosion, then the ones on top were failing dangerous terrain tests. Later I had a dreadnought go in and wreck the side emplacements, but that one lascannon guy caused a whole of of hurt with one shot.

Here's mine that I pull out for these kinda threads.

My 10 Ork boyz with a Nob PK BP EA, charges a full health DP of Khorne. Being a character, he challenges me. My PK Nob then decides he want's to live. I succeed every to hit, and then every to wound. Being a AP 2 weapons all he's got is his 5+ Invul, he rolls 3s and 4s. He slays the DP and walks away like a boss with only 1 wound gone.

My Raven Guard faced off against a Taudar army that had 2 riptides and a Wraithknight in it. I figured I was going to lose that game, but that was before I learned just how awesome sniper scouts can be. I only had 1 unit of 10 sniper scouts with a Helfire Heavy Bolter and they were pretty much ignored the entire game, until they killed the Wraithknight and brought a Riptide that was in a unit with a Farseer down to 1 wound. The Riptide and the Farseer were killled that same turn by a charging honor guard unit.

They haven't duplicated that feat again but they are almost always useful and my army always includes 2 10 man sniper squads.

The best one by far for me was drazhar jumping on a hovering storm talon, with full hp, drazhar with one, the only two models left on a the table, he assaults, makes charge range, and kills it last turn of the game, last phase of the blast turn to earn me a victory! It was an amazing fight .

I once played TML Land Speeders in my BA army.
They blew up a Defiler in the first turn with krak missiles.

I have another exapmle, even tough it's not exactly what was asked.
You see, I once played my army with DA codex and had two DW Terminator Squads (as Troops), each with a Chainfist and 2x TH/SS.
It was a unit that I didn't except much from, but when they suffered mishap and my opponent placed them to the far-out corner, I expected even less.
They spent turns 2-4 to get near enough to fight again. At T5 they charged at enemy Spawns, slaughtering them and protecting my Tacticals holding relic.
On T6 they ran and contested an objective.

So those Termies who were supposed to be a paperweight at the end of T1 won me the game (which was important as my first victory against my very skilled uncle).

The devilfish APC, the overpriced beautiful skimmer. He can't kill regular SMs, Cultists, or Chaos SM - BUT has taken out soooooo many GK Terminators in his day. That little burst cannon that could. *sniffle*

However, in one game I brought a GK strike squad down to one guy - I needed the kill point baddly and launched the following:

2 Seeker Missles,
2 SMS Barages
1 ION Accelerator Blast,
3 Plasma Rifle Shots
3 Burst Cannon Barrages,
1 Heavy Rail Shot
and 2 gun drones.

He either dodged everything or made all of his saves. My friend instantly swapped the dude out for Kaldor Draigo. I nodded and lost next turn (kill points).

 Zande4 wrote:
So what we've concluded from this thread is that Landraiders get blown up by any and everything.

Had a solo zoan waddle up, pass his test, no dtw, hit, pen, failed save.. explode a Landraider T1 of the last game I played.

I won a 1000 point game in two shots when a Demolisher cannon shot destroyed a Land Raider and a Defiler shot effectively wiped out of the inhabitants.

I cringed.

 Zande4 wrote:
So what we've concluded from this thread is that Landraiders get blown up by any and everything.

my Blitza-Bomma oneshot a Landraider

Platoon command squads. I can't count the number of Land Raiders that have been slain by my IG infantry platoon command squads

Hades Breaching Drill scattering under a Land Raider, blowing it up

I once had a single Loota shot down my opponent's Stormtalon, which proceeded to crash and immobilize his nearby Land Raider.

I had a Land Raider Crusader. Every game, she got blown up turn one or two.

Had a solo zoan waddle up, pass his test, no dtw, hit, pen, failed save.. explode a Landraider T1 of the last game I played.

a Demolisher cannon shot destroyed a Land Raider

So it would seem...

While we are sharing LR stories:

Last Saturday I brought my LR to the FLGS doubles tournament. In the second game we faced off vs. necrons packing scarabs and gauss teamed with DE with the usual assortment of lances. My first thought was “well, there goes 250 points, and I guess the assault terminators are walking”

But they raced forward and didn’t kill it, so I was able to deliver the termis and start shooting stuff. Then scarabs ate literally half the LR (got me down to AV7). Thankfully the little bugs were flamered off by some nice sisters. I got two more round of blasting things before I was rammed to death by a monolith.

Fun times, fun times...

I gotta get me a Land Raider.

Mine would have to be the two flayed one packs I run whenever I'm playing a fluffy game. I've won three or four games just because my opponents kept forgetting that they are scoring, of course to be fair they are pretty much worthless besides holding objectives.

TheSilo wrote:When I first started, your IG heavy weapons teams were six models, 3 heavy weapons guys and 3 lasgunners. Every game, without fail, my lascannons would miss or roll 1's to wound when I really needed them. But the lasgunners (the ammo guys) would wreck people's days. Space Marine's charging up the hill? Every lascannon misses. But 5/6 lasgun shots hit. Four shots wound, and three marines go down. I would get heavy weapons squads just so I could have those snapshot lasgunners ready for the key moments in the battle.

The same happens in my CCS with 2 plasmaguns and the CC having a boltgun. The plasmas and the CC can't hit nothing, but comes the vox and standard bearer with lasguns and hello hits and wounds! (Must be how they got to be veterans I suppose...)

Mine was a Penal Legion squad (knife fighters) agaisnt Eldars. They outflank and get charged by Striking scorpions; I know they'll die easy, especailly with the S.S sarge having some sort of eldar magical sparkly rainbow power fist thing weapon (Don't know the name, and i hate the elves)

Anyways, only 4 legionnaires ends up being killed vs 3 SS, they pass the morale test, and I basically tie up a CC unit for 2 and a half turn until I sweep them off, and then I gun down a farseer with their lasguns.

Another was 4 Vets (1 Sgt as 3 regulars) being charged by a horde of Hormagaunts and tiying them up for another 2 and a half turn, allowing the rest of my army to gun down the other xenos (I lost that one, but the fact that they managed to stand agaisnt a craplaods of attack was something else)

Are we sharing Land Raider stories now? Here's mine, and the reason I stopped running them.

I'm playing against an Ork player, it's 5th Edition, and he's using a vehicle with a zzap gun on it. In case you can't guess where this is going, on turn one, he fires it at the Land Raider: rolls a 10 for strength, hits, pens, I fail the cover save I had from intervening terrain (which was a 4+ in those days), he rolls a 6 for damage. First shot of the game, I'm out 250 points.

And that's why I converted my one Land Raider into a Battlewagon.

 Locclo wrote:
Are we sharing Land Raider stories now? Here's mine, and the reason I stopped running them.

I'm playing against an Ork player, it's 5th Edition, and he's using a vehicle with a zzap gun on it. In case you can't guess where this is going, on turn one, he fires it at the Land Raider: rolls a 10 for strength, hits, pens, I fail the cover save I had from intervening terrain (which was a 4+ in those days), he rolls a 6 for damage. First shot of the game, I'm out 250 points.

And that's why I converted my one Land Raider into a Battlewagon.

Better nerf Zzap guns.