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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/13 21:27:29
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Plummeting Black Templar Thunderhawk Pilot
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Dakka, today was a legendary day!
My necron 2000 point list wiped out a Tyrannid 2000 point list at the cost of ZERO casualties.
There's a bit of a story to this. The tyrannid player has a reputation to be TFG in our FLGS, and often knows that people have set lists, and regularly writes lists to counter these, and then issues "impromptu" challenges to said players, usually doing rather well.
Tonight people caught on to this, and his opponent asked to re-write his list, to which TFG declined. I said that I would play him, and seeing that I had my necrons with me, he readily accepted. As he was deploying, I noticed that nothing in his army had guns of any description. He also said that we "were playing annihilation", and did not give me the opportunity to roll for the mission. This worried me as I thought i'd get schooled in killpoints.
Being extremely cocky, he then stated - "I have genestealers and gaunts, but since youre necrons, I don't see the need to outflank." Fearing the worst, I started my shooting.
By turn 4 it was all over, and I had never seen a player pack up so quickly in my life. I took no wounds, and had to take no armour saves for the entire game. Even I wasn't expecting that! The FLGS had a mini cheer after TFG left, and I admit it felt pretty damn good! It wasn't until afterwards that someone said id "bowled a perfect game". I kind of liek the anaolgy!
So Dakka, has anyone else managed this once in a lifetime feat? If so please share your stories!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/13 21:33:50
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Huge Hierodule
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Nice and well done. I think the only game that has gone like that for me, was a game (3rd edition WHFB) where my Skaven got in an early charge, won the round, caused the opposing unit to flee off the board, which also caused the 2 units on either side to flee too.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/13 21:37:30
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Sybarite Swinging an Agonizer
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I fought my friend's Blood Angels with my Tau a few weeks ago. I managed to table him and take no casualties which was damned near miraculous considering how much favoritism the space marines have. It was a result of me rolling very well, and him rolling poorly. I passed most of my saving throws, and he literally failed every cover save, leader ship, and feel no pain he had.
It was so brutal, and dependant on the dice we did a rematch with the same game set up.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/13 21:40:50
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Charging Dragon Prince
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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I came close once. 2 casualties in 1000 points. I was unfortunately assigned to play against the 6th grade kid in a league game. He had foot slogging terminators straight out of AoBR with no upgrade, he had a single rhino with which he charged his fresh-out-of-the-box command squad (as-is from the box cover) tactical squads with just bolters, drop pods with a couple of lascannon dreads. I don't really remember all the gory, but just suffice to say the most random army build ever, and very little idea what to do other than the blue-man shuffle just advancing up the table as if its a race across no mans land.
I really REALLY didn't want to, I tried so hard to make accidental 'mistakes' to leave him a bone here or there, but I couldn't just play through the game and not take shots at him, that would have been too obvious. It was so hopeless I felt like a jerk, and plus his dad was there with him. So not cool to be the guy beating up the 13 yr old. Seriously that was the most painful game I ever played. Advice, reminders (like where to place templates to catch the most targets, why not to try and shoot S4 at AV12, etc) all just made me look like more of a jerk because I was telling this kid and he was still losing.
I got no joy at all from that 'victory'. It was a long hour drive home from the FLGS that night. Fortunately, I wasn't the only guy in our 20-ish person league who had the same experience.
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Retroactively applied infallability is its own reward. I wish I knew this years ago.
 I am Red/White Take The Magic Dual Colour Test - Beta today! <small>Created with Rum and Monkey's Personality Test Generator.</small>I'm both chaotic and orderly. I value my own principles, and am willing to go to extreme lengths to enforce them, often trampling on the very same principles in the process. At best, I'm heroic and principled; at worst, I'm hypocritical and disorderly. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/13 21:53:01
Subject: Re:The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Sneaky Kommando
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I've seen it a couple times pulled off on newbs, but never had the heart to do it to them myself.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/13 21:54:41
Subject: Re:The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Land Raider Pilot on Cruise Control
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Yes, I played as my Crimson fists against some other Space marine player. One of those 15-16 year old kids who has like 1 Dreadnought, 5 poorly Armed tactical squads with no transports, and a points inefficient Command Squad in a Land Raider. It was the Battle Missions scenario where he had to deploy everything on the table but his models couldn't be within 9" of each other or within 9" of the board edge. I then got to come on either a long or short table edge with first turn. I came on first turn, Land Raider eats some multi-meltas, a couple tactical squads eat vindicator rounds and plasma cannon fire, and a pod of sternguard blow the expensive command squad with a 3+ save away. His first he's got an immobilized dread and a couple tactical squads on foot. All he can do is shoot 2 missile launchers and an assault cannon.
My next turn comes, I whipe out a tactical squad, blow off both the dreads arm, and two other tactical squads have like 2-3 guys left. I tell him that we can start a new game if he wants, and he agrees to.
Bad List + Unfair scenario + Inexperienced player who barely knows the rules = a tough game
It can be tough, but I get to play one game a week. I'm not going to intentionally not play my game because somebody else isn't very good. After the game I offered advice on what to do with the list (get Rhinos, lose the command squad) and what I would've done in his place.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/13 21:57:11
Subject: Re:The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Charging Dragon Prince
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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TheCapm wrote:I've seen it a couple times pulled off on newbs, but never had the heart to do it to them myself.
Yeah man, but like I said, it just can't be helped! I can't not shoot without being a little too obvious, y'know?
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Retroactively applied infallability is its own reward. I wish I knew this years ago.
 I am Red/White Take The Magic Dual Colour Test - Beta today! <small>Created with Rum and Monkey's Personality Test Generator.</small>I'm both chaotic and orderly. I value my own principles, and am willing to go to extreme lengths to enforce them, often trampling on the very same principles in the process. At best, I'm heroic and principled; at worst, I'm hypocritical and disorderly. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/13 22:03:29
Subject: Re:The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Sneaky Kommando
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Guitardian wrote:TheCapm wrote:I've seen it a couple times pulled off on newbs, but never had the heart to do it to them myself.
Yeah man, but like I said, it just can't be helped! I can't not shoot without being a little too obvious, y'know?
Haha, I didn't see your post, my bad. I know what you mean though. I've had the same experience in a different way. Someone was having some real problems winning, so I gave myself a 100 pnt handicap and told them my list. Still didn't go too well for them :\
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/13 22:04:38
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Inspiring Icon Bearer
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Yeah I had an opponent who seriously brought only 30 "necron" models to a 1500 point fight. got a brilliant round of shooting on one of the squads of warriors, wittled down to 7 after WBB and both squads of kroot outflanked into the other squad and killing them all in turn two.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/13 22:17:31
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I rather fear my take on the perfect game is somewhat different than this thread's...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/13 22:20:08
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Plummeting Black Templar Thunderhawk Pilot
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What's your take Mr Mystery?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/13 22:25:36
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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When the game is even stevens right up to the last roll of the dice, one player's flank suddenly colllapsing, leading to the rout of the best part of their army.
I have had games like the OP mentioned, and satisfying as they are against a jerk as described, I wouldn't call them perfect, mainly on account that you started playing against a knob-end.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/13 22:28:21
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Plummeting Black Templar Thunderhawk Pilot
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Well it wasn't me who coined the phrase, and I think the person saying meant liek if you "bowled a perfect game", and this was the same sort of deal?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 00:23:12
Subject: Re:The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Been Around the Block
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alas, this has happened TO ME before, it was my second game, DKOK against my first army, Chaos Marines. i managed to take 2 of his guardsmans lives, befor he swept me off the table. he had a chimera/sentinel heavy list, and i mainly had plain marines (no upgrades) and a predator. even though it was armed to the teeth with las-cannons i think i landed one shot (on a sentinel) which i then preceded to stun. so the total slain:
ME: 2 guardsman
HIM: My 1500 point chaos army
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 00:29:33
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Calculating Commissar
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I crushed a BT army. Didnt feel good. Especially because he really didnt know what he was doing. Gave some pointers.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 00:31:52
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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The closest I've come to not losing a model and tabling my opponent was in a local RTT playing a 3x4 destroyer, 2x lith, 2x10 warrior, 1x10 immortal list against the last incarnation of BA's. He ran a landraider with Dante and honorguard, a unit of death company led by Tycho, two tac squads with PC, and a squad of 3 MM attack bikes.
I castled in the back corner, reserved my warriors, and kept my destroyers behind cover. I won first turn, particle whipped his bikes and cannoned his tacs to dust. He moved up, immobilized his raider in terrain and wiffed all his shots. I moved up the liths and flux arced everything that was in range, immobilizing the pred and stunning the raider. The lord veiled up the immortals to pound the death company to a mangeable size, finished off by the destroyers. The following round, Dante hopped out of the raider and ran for the closest lith and ended up getting offed just like Tycho.
After 4 rounds I had lost a wound on my lord and two destroyers and the BA player conceded with hardly anything left. It may not have been a 300, but it was easily a 250.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 00:35:26
Subject: Re:The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Water-Caste Negotiator
New Troy
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Don't know if this is a perfect game or if it really true or not but I'll say anyway.
My friend told me one time he saw a complete White Scar army play a Tau list (with Kroot.) They rolled off and the Tau player got to go first. The White Scar player said that he was going to put everything in reserve. So that allowed the Tau player to infiltrate his kroot without any problems and he did a massive kroot line to block the table edge((s) not sure if the White Scars outflanked or not) which stopped any White Scars to to hit the board. The White Scar player apparently said, "Want to play again?"
Once again I did not witness this but my friend is trustworthy all the way so I don't have doubts
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 00:41:14
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Sneaky Striking Scorpion
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Mmmm against a mechanised Imperial Guard force. First turn alpha strike from him destroyed my transports, leaving my Farseer and Dire Avengers to run off the board, and my Fire Dragons to the mercy of Heavy Flamers.
Second turn, my Jetlock popped his Manticore, my Fire Prism dies. Third turn, Guardian Jetbikes + Lock get wiped.
Game Set Match. One of those games that ends on the first turn from a lucky scatter.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 00:44:54
Subject: Re:The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Water-Caste Negotiator
New Troy
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One of those games that ends on the first turn from a lucky scatter.
Well that is a bad day
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 00:51:07
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Veteran Wolf Guard Squad Leader
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Back in third edition I did it several times.
Once against dark eldar the dude packed his raiders really close and I had two whirlwinds. That wasn't very pretty.
The other two times was against an Ork player who did pretty much the same thing and I dropped my whirlwind templates down behind his trukks and that wasn't pretty either especially considering I pretty much wiped out an entire retinue of nobs and a warboss..... he started taking a mek with a force field after that.
Almost did it against a space wolf player but he did eventually kill one of my marines.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 01:40:18
Subject: Re:The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Regular Dakkanaut
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During a tournament my standard Marines nearly tabled a Nurgle Daemon army. He had only two damaged units left (running for their lives), and I hadn't taken a single casualty or even suffered a single damage result on my vehicles.
We both thought it was pretty crazy and he was a good sport. His army had plenty of chances to inflict casualties.. I just had great rolls and he had bad rolls.
Funny thing is we've had very similar games like that. But never quite that extreme... I guess the dice gods favor me over him
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 01:42:42
Subject: Re:The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Dwarf Runelord Banging an Anvil
Way on back in the deep caves
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The last game of WHFB I played was almost perfect. 1000 pts. Dwarves vs. VC. I lost 1 dwarf thunderer at the top of turn 6. This was against a long time opponent too. I attribute this to two things. First, my dice rolls were incredibly lucky all night, and the second thing was he had advanced his general behind his dire wolves, which left him in the open when the wolves had been destroyed through volley fire. One organ gun shot later and his vampire was gone, and his army crumbled quickly after that.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 01:48:40
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Mekboy Hammerin' Somethin'
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Closest I've come was just a few weeks ago.
In a 1000 point game with my Orks against Space Wolves, I didn't lose a model until the bottom of turn 4. By the end of a full 7 turns, I had lost 7 Boyz. I stopped short of tabling him under the pretense of claiming the objective in his deployment zone.
The worst part? My opponent actually had one of his better games. He's only been playing with us since the summer, so still tends to make some rookie mistakes. In this game, he had a solid list, deployed well, and played smart, but got face-owned by the dice gods.
When you lose almost two full tac squads to Ork shooting before inflicting any casualties, you know it's a day when you should have just stayed in bed.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 01:59:22
Subject: Re:The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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[DCM]
GW Public Relations Manager (Privateer Press Mole)
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I've seen two really ugly games.
1st Game. I watched 4th Edition Iron Warriors table my buddy's Tau in two turns without even needing to roll an armor save. Just disgustingly ugly firepower.
2nd Game: I was playing Crusher spam v. a Necron player that deployed his warriors and reserved his monolith. I said to hell with it and went crazy aggressive on my split/deep strike...landing everything perfectly and getting all my Crushers in. Lost 3 wounds on a unique allocated Crusher unit (didn't lose a model though), then multi-charged everything and phased him turn 2. Felt bad man.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 02:20:14
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Water-Caste Negotiator
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I have had two experiences with this:
1. My 750 Point Deathwing (Shooting Terminators only at that point) was wiped from the table by DoA Sanguinary Guard. That was bad.
2. I was paired up to teach a new player how to play. We agreed to do an HQ-only faceoff. I only had my Tau with me, so... I drop a Fireknife Crisis Suit Retinue against his Black Templar Terminator Command Squad. He had me out-pointed by about 80 and I wiped him off the table with only 1 wound taken. I felt kinda bad about it because of the mismatch in the HQs, but I wasn't that experienced myself and didn't know how bad the matchup was.
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Black Widow Assault Cadre 2000 Points (Under Renovation- Playable) Win-4 Lose-5 Draw-1
Storm Angels 1st Company 2500 Points (DA Codex) (Under Renovation - Playable) Win-3 Lose-4 Draw-3
Corsairs of Fate 1750 Points (Under Construction - Playable) Win-2 Lose-3 Draw-1
Protectorate of Menoth 11 Points (Project Delayed Indefinitely) Win-1 Lose-3 Draw-0
Imperial Guard Regiment (Unnamed) 1000 Points (Project Delayed Indefinitely)
Cygnar 25 Points (Planned) Win-0 Lose-0 Draw-0
Last Game(s): The Spearhead Annihilation Battle between my Storm Angels First Company (Dark Angels) and Skystompa's Waagghh! (Blood Angels) resulted in a MAJOR VICTORY!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 02:23:09
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Androgynous Daemon Prince of Slaanesh
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I had one game where I lost a single space marine terminator w/ a storm shield and a thunder hammer (named him Tim and had Vulcan return to Tim's widow to tell her that the war was won with only a single casualty) and had another game where I lost one tactical marine and one rhino. Both games against the same player who is a pretty good player. It was probably pretty lucky on my part both times, but they were fun and awesome games with a great friend, and we just had a good laugh over it (he and another friend teamed up against me the next game and wiped my donkey all over the table. I swore revenge on them individually)
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 02:24:48
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Fully-charged Electropriest
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I once tabled a guy's Marines at the cost of a single Demolisher cannon on a Vindicator. It was hardly a fair contest considering my list was pretty strong and his was godawful, but he's 'that guy' who doesn't know the rules very well but has been playing forever and always writes his list after finding out what you're playing. Fortunately he's not actually good enough to really tailor a list properly. It wasn't exactly a massive achievement to beat him in that fashion though.
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-Rogal Dorn
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 02:36:17
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Ultramarine Master with Gauntlets of Macragge
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A "perfect" game, as described here, is far from it - I usually feel too bad for the other guy to have really enjoyed it. The Tyranid guy in the OP sounds like an ass though, and you gave him what he deserved.
I've had games where I only lost a dozen Guardsmen and tabled my opponent though. Wasn't terribly fun.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 02:42:55
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Best I can claim is when I played the my first game of 40Kv3. I'd basically stopped playing 40k under v2 and when v3 came out, I stopped by my local GW store to "try out" the new rules with the starter figures in the box. I played the Dark Eldar against a kid who took the marines. I ended up tabling the kid without losing a single Dark Eldar. Just amazing dumb luck, I'll readily admit, since in the entire game he never inflicted a single wound...
I don't think the kid was very amused, but the store manager and I had a laugh since we realized how utterly improbable it was...
Valete,
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Valete,
JohnS
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/01/14 02:55:01
Subject: The Perfect Game - Have you ever pulled it off?
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Charging Wild Rider
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I played a Chaos army in 3rd ed with a Beil-Tan army. Because he chose to be the attacker his army came in by reserves. Well, coming on 1 squad at a time while facing an entire army ended with no losses for me and his army wiped.
Another time in 3rd ed I was playing Dark Angels with 2 Whirlwinds and a Vindicator against Speed Freaks, I rolled a lot of 6's on ordnance penetrations.....
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