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This thread was triggered by something that happened to me during a battle today... basically, I want to hear about your historic, crushing moments in wargaming that curb-stomped your soul into oblivion. I know you can remember them. You might even have a name for those moments like "The Devil's 1s" or whatever.

Anyway, today I lost almost 1200pts worth of models to a Vortex Missile (although it was slightly less-painful because we still tied the game after all that). That's 60% of my force right there...

I've got other moments that stand out (my Wolf Lord failing his saves, not realizing I couldn't wound the Nightbringer, etc), but the only other one that was titanically embarrassing would be this one (note, EXTREMELY pic heavy topic): http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/387976.page#3171397

Playing in a tournament against a guy who took a VC (illegal) list, including a vamp, dire wolves, corpse carts and a huge unit of grave guard. He had regen on everything and he rolled a 4+ on EVERY save. No lie, EVERY save. I lost miserably to him, using my friend's Skaven. I should have won by a landslide, but somehow lost. My hellpit missed with every attack, as did my censor bearers. It was an awful day. I see him running an illegal list in a tourney again, I'm calling the TO over to get him kicked. He was pretty arrogant about it, and it irritated me-I'm not putting up with that kinda thing again.

I'm not saying this to brag, but this was pretty disasterous from my opponent's perspective. I was running Eldar and he was running a "Farsight Bomb" Tau list. It's a 1750-pt game.

Turn 1, I shoot at his enormous 1000pt+ squad including Farsight with my Pathfinders wounding a single crisis suit as he plays musical wounds... and the entire squad becomes pinned...
Next turn, same thing...
And the turn after that...

I wasn't even in range to try casting Doom the first two turns.

All the meanwhile, I'm shooting at him with dinky Shuriken Catapults almost as an afterthought, slowly whittling down the number of drones and extra wounds.

It was a rather odd game.

Too many eggs in one basket and all that jazz.

Sorry, not me but an opponent. 1000pt double tourney, game 1. Either 2 500pt armies or 1 1000pt army for 2. Played Guard, 1000pts.

2 Platoons, 2 Basilisks, some Ratlings, a LR and some stormies in a chimera. Played Eldar and SM. They had 2 SM squads, scouts, a Librarian, Avatar, Pathfinders and a squad of DA in a Wave Serpent.

Lost the Ratlings to their scouts turn 1. Fired back, blew up the Avatar and a squad. Turn 2, they advance. We smash everything to smithereens. Turn 3, they cower in cover but Librarian makes it into range of a 10-man squad. He assaults, pokes one Guardsmen and is clubbed to death. We blow up everything bar the Wave Serpent. Turn 4, it hides. Send the Chimera after it, Stormies pop out and blow up the WS with their meltagun! Tabled.

Later that day...

Playing Dawn of War deployment (I think), so no HS on the table , just both Platoons and CCS (this was not the latest Guard codex btw) Dark Eldar squad hiding in a building. Mob of 30 Orks and Warboss elsewhere. They go first, Raiders appear as well as a Wartrakk and a squad of Boyz in a Trukk. Our tanks move on. They charge across, we fire. For THREE WHOLE TURNS of shooting we hit nothing. Basilisks and Russ scatter, Ratlings miss, lasguns don't hit or wound. They don't have to make 1 armour save.

They charge in.

Chimera and one Basilisk shot up, the other rammed by Wartrakk, explodes. LR destroyed by Warboss. Ratlings slaughtered. Guard squads overwhelmed before they can strike. In our turn the only unit who could shoot, the bailed out Stormies, fire at the Archon standing gloating over the bodies of the Ratlings. He has his 2+ invulnerable. Fails 3 in a row. Stormies charged, kill a Boy, flee and are wiped out. It was a KP game...

We killed 1 Archon and one Ork boy. They killed EVERYTHING. My horror story...

It must have been this made-up scenario i played with a friend, and for some reaon we agreed on an unlimited amount of turns. I was playing orks, he had black templars. I am EXTREMELY lucky during the game (like one boy killing two termies, or 10 shots turning into 7 wounds ) and stuff like that all over the board, and he was nearly tabled, having only a LR left. So what does he do? drive around 12 inches every turn, then turns on the spot (so he ends up like 14 inches from where he started, out of charging range or evry ork, grrr), the machine spirit gunning down one ork at. a. time.
Since the game was never-ending and i had zero chance of even glancing him, i had to give up. AAAAAARGH!

Most of my Imperial Guard army getting wiped out within the first turn when playing against a Chaos Player. 500+ models in a 1500 point game were destroyed in an instant. In subsequent turns, most of my units died off without killing anything of theirs, apart from a few lucky plasma cannon shots and all the enemy demons dying.

Daemon Prince deep strikes and scatters to just far away enough from my CCS and proceeds to chase them all the time, eventually killing all of them off, along with all other command squads, but then gets killed off by a HWS.

In the end, my entire Guard army lies in ruin as he succeeded nearly every single roll he made, with only a Leman Russ, a Lord Commissar and a couple of small blobs of Guardsmen left, holed up completely in a building, holding one out of 9 objectives. Chaos holds all the other 8.

My Dark Eldar ran into Grey Knights today.

That was a disaster.

One of my very early games. Space marines (me) VS orks (girlfriend) 1000pts (I think).

Ork had loads of trucks and boys, warboss and one squad of nobs in a truck.

I had, scout (sniper), tac squad (missile and flamer), librarian, land raider and two devastator squad (heavy bolters, missile launcher)

Set up in a gun line expecting to open up the trucks and gun down the orks before they reached me. I win first turn but she steals initiative (not really a problem). She drives everything up in the open. I shoot at a truck with everything my land raider had, nothing. Exact same thing with both of my dev squads and they do nothing. Scouts and tac squads also do nothing .

Turn 2. She moves up again but is still out of assault range.

My turn again. Land raider shoots at a truck....nothing. Missile squad shoots...nothing, Scouts and Tac shoot... Nothing. Heavy bolter squad shots and immobilizes one truck.

Turn 3. Boyz pile out of immobilized truck and move towards HB squad. Nobs move up and assault land raider and blew it up. Missile squad and scout squad got assaulted and destroyed. Lost half the tac squad to an assault. Trucks shot at HB squad and killed two.

My turn, HB shot at boyz, killed a few. Resolved combat and lost Tac squad.

Turn 4. HB squad got assaulted and I was tabled. At the end I lost my whole army and I only managed to kill a hand full of orks and immobilize one truck.

I was utterly crushed in this game.

I was playing Tau.
Opponent played Dark Eldar.
I would shoot him down to one man.
One man enters CC, wins, catches squad, wipes them out.
Repeat.
Lost, badly.

I was playing Black Templar.
Opponent played Orcs.
Bikes, Lootas and Flamers made a good showing.
I got shot to death with few saves and buckets of shooting dice hitting.
Repeat: Shot to death by sniper Orcs with Marine cardboard armor.

My biggest gaming disaster was when I was playing in Apocalypse game and my war hound was destroyed and vanished by a vortex grenade. I was very sad to see that many points just disappear.

Talizvar wrote:I was playing Tau.

Wow that's awful, I feel really bad for you.

I win.

Last round at DaBoyz GT this year.

5 assault terminators charge 9 sisters of battle. After 3 rounds of combat, the end result is 2 dead sisters, and my last surviving terminator fleeing for his life.

Horst wrote:I win.

Last round at DaBoyz GT this year.

5 assault terminators charge 9 sisters of battle. After 3 rounds of combat, the end result is 2 dead sisters, and my last surviving terminator fleeing for his life.

mathematically, the odds of that are so long they could star in their own 70s adult entertainment film franchise.