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I charged a dreadnought with bloodtalons with 20 ork boys.

played kommandos without snikrot

theres more, i just cant remember alot for some reas.

Another fun Tau one, my friend charged his Tyrannofex into my Crisis commander, my commander took all the hits then punched away the Tyrrannofex's last wound!

H3ydon wrote:I charged a dreadnought with bloodtalons with 20 ork boys.

This. I charged a dread with talons with 22 boyz and 2 nobz. None made it out alive and the dread only lost one arm.

you actually survived the 1st round to swing. the Dred goes first and can wipe out the entire mob, even when they charge, before they swing.

Fool's "luck"

Played tankless berzerker spam against a genestealer list. Ugh

Calgar charged 7 of my firewarriors and died before he could swing his fists.

My oponent tank shocked my wraithlord with a rhino, death or gloary, and it died. Next turn that same rhino tank shocked my avatar, death or gloary, killed the stormbolter and the avatar god splaterd... can't make this stuff up

y would you death or glory? just charge it in your turn.

y would you death or glory? just charge it in your turn.

if there was something else that he wanted to charge on his turn, a DoG with those units, definitely the Avatar, can be a easy way to pick up an easy point...until you swing & miss, then proceed to get ran the f@$k over

I never DoG. the risk is just too high, even with a bunch of modifiers on your side.

even if you penetrate the vehicle you have a 50% chance of getting splatted if the vehicle has EA. 33% if it doesn't.

those arn't odds you should take with expensive things like the Avatar or a Wraithlord.

OneMeanDuck wrote:
Calgar charged 7 of my firewarriors and died before he could swing his fists.

My oponent tank shocked my wraithlord with a rhino, death or gloary, and it died. Next turn that same rhino tank shocked my avatar, death or gloary, killed the stormbolter and the avatar god splaterd... can't make this stuff up

Those weren't stupid tactics. Those were the right decisions; they were just unlucky.

Pulse carbines.

A while back when I played dwarfs, there was a wood elf player who had a reputation.
the reputation and several warnings were told to me by a nice Bretonian player whose knights errant fell prey constant to my slayer.
the warning was "stay the heck out of the forest"
sadly though... when he positioned a unit just inside of range for my warriors to charge him next turn, I went into the woods...
I don't remember what exactly happened but I remember that I could not look at trees for the next week with out failing a moral test.
the moral of the story, stay the heck out of the forest

I fire basilisks hoping to scatter back on myself. Let me explain.

Al'rahem's powerblob failed to make it into melee with a tac squad by a half inch and then his blob got shot to pieces while he hid behind it. I finally got into melee, but everything whiffed and I took a decent amount of casualties. I was fairly sure I wouldn't make it out of the combat, so I fired basilisks at the rhino close to the tac squad. I actually ended up wiping out about 5 of his guys with it and only 3 of mine, letting me pull off the win in combat next assault phase.

thats a sweet thing, not stupid, liked the story though, i love scatter dice because they are crazy!

Back in 2nd edition(yeah I know, forever ago) A squad of Terminators were in assault with termagaunts. My Company standard had nothing better to do so he fired into CC with his bolt piostol, i figured "Whats the worst that could happen". hit my own terminator, failed his save.....

FAIL.

Anubis_513 wrote:Back in 2nd edition(yeah I know, forever ago) A squad of Terminators were in assault with termagaunts. My Company standard had nothing better to do so he fired into CC with his bolt piostol, i figured "Whats the worst that could happen". hit my own terminator, failed his save.....

FAIL.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
...sorry there. That was just too funny

I've tried assaulting with my tau before. I mean, you have to see it for yourself sometimes.

Crisis suits CAN occasionally beat things. they do have Str5 after all.

anything with a 3+ or better, or power weapons, will shred them, but other things can be beaten by them.

Was playing fluff CSM slaanesh army and i used lucius.
He was joined to a unit of "noise". I disengaged him and charged a 3-squad sentinels...
After that i forgot he can't stop vehicles cause of lack of gear

Oh there is more, on my younger times and days on 40k when i was kid i was so excited about killing something in a shooting face that i forgot whole movement faces


Ignorance is Bliss

Chaos Space Marines 7000 pts.
Tau 3500 pts.
Wood elves 3000 pts.

Played dakka Deathwing Assault. Its like a meat grinder with my Terminators getting chewed out by volume of anti-infantry shooting. Should have used Storm Shields.

Rolled 7 1's in a row moving a death company unit through a blown vehicle difficult terrain area...

Assaulted a Night Bringer with 5x Termies.

Tried to shoot down Nob Bikers with Psycannons, and assaulting them with 5 Man Strike Squads...

Assaulted Mordrak and 5 Ghost Knights with 60 Gretchin (2 squads).

took a group of 6 honor guards all with relic blades and my chapter master and charged a full group of Bloodcrushers (with fateweaver behind them). Only my chapter master lived with 1 wound left. and i killed 1 bloodcrusher. i failed combat and managed to run away.


first time facing fatecrusher lol

Best thing ever. The dreaded avatar down to 1 wound left from ordenance yatta yatta. On the door step of the imperial gun line . One mere infantry squad stands between it and my hq. Flailing its sword of doom he slaughters everyone but the seargeant.(they had already suffered one or two casualties frim before but i digress) this lone sergeant screams bring it on! (No power weapon. No nothin ) somehow hits one out of his few atacks on this upsurd ws 10 . And wounds! Avatar fails its
3 plus armor. And down she goes! Amongst his dead comrades . Talk about revenge . He is now my sky knight captain.(vets in the air cavalry) . Haha and to top it off this particular model was from my very first cadian shock troop box that started my army. Talk about making a name for yourself. My opponent still hears about it Haha. I like to think the sergeant screamed "for the emperor" and slashed the avatars throat lmao

Charged my dreadnought into a squad of Fire Dragons, who knew melta bombs would kill him so quickly.

I charged Death Company into genestealers once. Got them wiped out before I got to swing. Next time I'll sit in cover and let them assault me.

Charged an avatar with 14 khorne beserkers... it was a massacre. I didn't even put a wound on him

Yea avatar nom nom noms everything. Except the occasional lone guardsman ... ha! Epic lol

Played apoc once. me and my friends made a large mechanized army of IG and space marines. I lead the tanks and anti-air.On the 2-3 turns I lost 4 LR and 2 baneblades to what? ork bommas.... My friend said "hey don't we have a hydra?". "yeah" I said "but I don 't know where they are!"
the damn hydras where painted in the jungle camo and have camo netting on them!
moral of the story:
know where you put your models!

Had 6 haemonculi, all with hexrifles, pretending to be a good idea.

charging a scout sergeant headlong into:

3 SM bikers
chapter master
inquisitor & henchmen
monolith
chaplain
ghazghkull thraka
2 leman russes
2 land speeders, vindicator, predator
vindicator
predator
5 nobs
creed, kell & command squad
stompa
tactical squad
chaos lord

every new line is on a seperate occassion.
every one the sarge came out on top.
he's the new emperor.

I now have so much faith in him I charge him headlong into the biggest thing he can feasibly take out, relying purely on sheer luck and my propaganda that I spread about him before each game.
I had a 20-man 2,000 point squad, and the scout sergeant with three men. My opponent shot everything he had at the scouts.

sometimes I rely on subtlety, sneaking him round the board edge pretending like he is an afterthought and then bam!- there goes your basilisk/commander/farseer/battlewagon.

worst failed tactic I used was forgetting about my 5 plasma cannon devastators for three turns.
against an ultramarine terminator calgar spam list.