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Ok, so I saw a different thread which was asking about the most annoying moment of your wargaming life. And that got me thinking about my best time so now i ask what was your best moment in wargaming ?

Mine personally was when I was playing a 2v2 500pts per player game .It was Tau (me) with Orks against Space Marines. I wont go into detail but I wiped out one of my opponents 500pts by turn 3, leaving him with nothing to do other than watch. Also the best part is that I didn't receive a single casualty only a wound on my commander. Also I did all this with just 1 battle suit my commander and his bodyguard. Also in that same game first turn my one of opponents had a chapter master and the other had a captain both with orbital bombardments needless to say they both aimed at the Orks and both scattered off the board.

When I rammed a Landspeeder into an Ironclad Dreadnought, stunned it, and then survived two turns of CC.

my armored sentinel squadron holding a chaos dread for 2 turns in CC

My missile launcher scout popped a blood talon dread, then got charged by two GKT and didn't die! He didn't even have any unit-mates left! Next turn he got destroyed though, like 6 wounds or something.

In a 2 vs. 1 game, 2000pts per side, my opponent had a thousand sons sorcerer on an objective, and it was being contested with my allies Trukk. If he has managed to take the objective he would have won, so he cast a power, I think it was called bolt of change, and exploded the Trukk.
The explosion then killed the sorcerer making the game a draw.
My luckiest escape from defeat ever.

Shot a unit of Necron Warriors at a Land Raider, only one guy barely in that 24" inch range.
Three 6's later and the Land Raider blows up. (4th Edition)

A dreadnought and a wolf scout locked in combat an entire game.

The look at the face of my dad in his first game when I killed boss Zagstruk, his warboss and all 20 stormboyz.

It was his last game too. I dont know why..

Probably when my mom told me that she liked the game. ^_^ I got her into it, and I've been her only opponent so far. So I feel like I've conducted myself well as a player.

Edit: She told me that a couple of years after we started playing together.

Having my lone commissar and his two sergeants charge a Fex and kill it before the fex could strike back.

I used my Ultramarines army against my mates Chaos Space Marines with a bunch of feel no pain death guard and wiped him out completely. The only casualty I had was a lone assault marine whose plasma pistol overheated

redkeyboard wrote:Ok, so I saw a different thread which was asking about the most annoying moment of your wargaming life. And that got me thinking about my best time so now i ask what was your best moment in wargaming ?

Mine personally was when I was playing a 2v2 500pts per player game .It was Tau (me) with Orks against Space Marines. I wont go into detail but I wiped out one of my opponents 500pts by turn 3, leaving him with nothing to do other than watch. Also the best part is that I didn't receive a single casualty only a wound on my commander. Also I did all this with just 1 battle suit my commander and his bodyguard. Also in that same game first turn my one of opponents had a chapter master and the other had a captain both with orbital bombardments needless to say they both aimed at the Orks and both scattered off the board.

OMG YOU SAW MY THREAD

my best moment was in a tourney when a blood thirster came down it couldnt assault so when it was my turn i fired a hail of bolter fire from my (10) plague marine which reduced the (awsome) beast to 2 wounds it then assaulted my land raider (gained a imobilised resault) then back to my turn the plauge marine had a plasma gun that fired at the blood gods chosen rapid fire range 2 shots

IIRC he rolled a 2 and a 3 for his saves.

hence forth im using more plague marines.

I had a bloodthirster single-handedly take on a 1500 pts eldar army. He made something like 40+ saves ( half the time using his inv.). I lost by a killpoint because the rest of my army either died instantly from shooting or mishapped. He refuses to play against bloodthirsters to this day.

When 5 assault marines assaulted a group of 12(?) termagants sitting on an objective. They were within synapese and it was the last turn of the game. He expected them to wipe out the termagants due to fearless wounds, and was quite surprised when he killed only 2 guys and i wiped out 3 in return. The assault marines then fled and the gants caught them, keeping the objective in my control and giving me the win. Was a good game that was.

20 guardsmen and a CCS held their own against a squad of 5 grey knight termanators and a uber captain (can't remember which one it was). After 2 turns locked in combat my guys fell back leaving creed in combat against 4 + their Grand Master. Creed made it to my enemys close combat turn but bit the dust. The flank was almost gone but my outflanking rough riders turned up and massecred all of them. 75pt unit killed an almost 400pt unit. with that unit gone my enemy had no chance of breaking my IG lines.

30 hormagaunts getting the charge on my battlesuit command squad, which proceeded to lose, get routed (out of synapse range) and then caught and killed. Was a great day to be a tau player, I always mark those on the calender, since they are the same frequency as the second coming of Christ.

My farseer popping a GK land raider crusader with his singing spear. The LR then exploded, the blast hitting a combat in which my Howling Banshee exarch was about to get destroyed by three angry terminators. The blast kills two terminators and leaves my banshee unharmed to kill the last guy.

My Wolf Lord killing a Furioso Dread with a melta bomb before it could attack once.

5 Termagants killed a Dreadnight that had all 4 wounds left in CC.

Mephiston charged my Wolf Lord Court (Four Wolf Lords sitting on top of Thunderwolves, decked out in gear) and split his attacks to hit each one. He hit and wounded every time, then I made ever 3+ Invul save, shot him down to 1 wound, and on the next round, he peril'd trying to cast one of his spells. Twas a great moment.

My best moment was recently with playtesting against a friend for 'Ard Boyz. He's playing an Inquisitorial Forces army out of the Grey Knight Codex and is running 3 Stormravens. In 3 previous games, I had succeeded in only ever killing 1 or 2 Stormravens, maybe getting the 3rd one towards the end of the game, but usually not, and thoroughly having my butt kicked.

In a game last week, he made a stupid tactical mistake and kept his storm ravens off the board and they didn't move on until bottom of 3. Meanwhile, I had blown apart his rhinos he had put on the board. After his storm ravens moved on, I exploded one. Next turn, I exploded and wrecked the other two. It felt pretty darn good... Though he was quite pissed >.>

My Lootas only missed 2 shots out of like 12, and pumped it into one wolf scout

One of my opponent's best was the look on my face when he told me that because he had killed 30 gaunts in a sweeping advance,his double wolf claw Wolf lord had 34 attacks against my hive tyrant which struck simultaneously with the lash whip because I had charged through cover,all of which got to reroll to hit and wound,because of saga of the slayer or something.


My best moment was the look on his face when,after rerolls,only 10 hit and 1 wounded,which I took on the Guard.Obviously,the Lord was promptly butchered.

Killing a Hive Tyrant in CC with a Guard Command Squad.

Iggyrocksall wrote:My Lootas only missed 2 shots out of like 20 (and killed a entire tau squad!)

Man, even my legendary (and hated) "cheaty" dice don't roll that well. My record with Loota shooting is getting 30 shots off and rolling 18 hits. Almost double the statistical average.

Hmm, let me think, I have a few awesome moments.

One which I mentioned in another thread was when my squad of Flash Gitz, units I know to be kinda garbage but took anyway, shot at a Bloodthirster. The player was adamant that it had 5 wounds, something I knew to be crap, but didn't really care, in fact, I RELISHED the opportunity to show how awesome I am. The Flash Gitz, whom I completely upgraded, took all 20 of their shots. 16 hit, which is friggin' preposterous with the awesomeness that is Ork shooting. After rolling to wound, got 8 to wound, which is actually more in line with what I should get, considering S6. Now, when rolling for AP, I got a 2, so that deprived the Bloodthirster of its armour save. She then failed 5 of her 8 4+ invulnerables. Hoorah, Bloodthirster was down in the first turn. I won the game eventually, had some memorable moments too, like Bloodletters charging my Ork Boyz, and proceeding to die.

Lemme think, oh, another time is when my friend, a Tyranid player, decided to get all fluffy and make an army heavily dependent on his Shrikes. Cue my two squads of Destroyers giving the Shrikes some green color, vaping it the first turn. He then ragequit.

Ooooh, and this one time, I had to make 19 5++ saves with Bloodletters against Imperial Guard, and I made 11. Was awesome.

Those are just a few moments I recall.

Pouncey wrote:Probably when my mom told me that she liked the game. ^_^ I got her into it, and I've been her only opponent so far. So I feel like I've conducted myself well as a player.

Aw. That sounds sweet.

My best 40k Moment was when I killed a whole squad of Eldar rangers with a flamer from my Tactical Squad.

Not my game but still good...

Apocalypse game, 2x Guard and 2x Necons I think it was 10 or 15.000 points game. NEcron objective was to only have 1 infantry in the middle and hold it for 2 turns. On the middle was 1 Necron lord and around 20 warriors. The Guard players both decide to turn their 20 Basilisk and powned the middle. After 20 Earthshakers all were killed - except the Necron Lord who was in the open now. And they decide to kill him now and then rush with Guardsman. And after another barrage of 20 Basilisk on the Necron Lord he survived all of them and won the game ( did I mentioned that only 3 shots fired missed him? ).

Now he has a nickname - golden umbrella

My harlequins jumping between targets in my friend's Tau army and leaving a trail of 34 wounds in three turns in return for only one casualty.

Funny how the next game he tried to slaughter them as soon as they entered range.

One of mine is when I had something like 4 Grey Hunters charge a depleted gaunt squad squad needing 3 to hit and 3 to wound. I hit and wounded with all of my attacks. He made a save or two but the Gaunts were wiped out.

It was a good moment ... for me