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What's Your Fave\Most memorable 40k Memory.

Mine would be getting my first 40k miniatures Battle for macragge when it first came out

Mine's probably having my optimistic and contented attitude toward the latest Sisters of Battle codex utterly shattered by my fellow gamers. ^_^

Ahh, you never forget the moment when peer pressure makes your favorite army so unpalatable you avoid the entire game for about half a year in favor of drowning your soul in a frenzy of videogame dragon-slaughter.


Wait, you meant my favorite WH40k memory, not just the most memorable one. ^_^

Umm... Well, I guess it would have to be when my mom offered to play WH40k with me when I was griping about my painted models going to waste with no one to play with. And now she really likes the game.

Pouncey wrote:Mine's probably having my optimistic and contented attitude toward the latest Sisters of Battle codex utterly shattered by my fellow gamers. ^_^

Ahh, you never forget the moment when peer pressure makes your favorite army so unpalatable you avoid the entire game for about half a year in favor of drowning your soul in a frenzy of videogame dragon-slaughter.


Wait, you meant my favorite WH40k memory, not just the most memorable one. ^_^

Umm... Well, I guess it would have to be when my mom offered to play WH40k with me when I was griping about my painted models going to waste with no one to play with. And now she really likes the game.

wow, your mum plays/ed with you? that's really cool :p wish my mum would do that

Hmmm. Lots O' Memories.

I guess my most favorite memory is battling against an entire Eldar Warhost. Three Eldar players, replete with Revenant Titans, against ten seperate armies in Apoc, and me watching the entirety of my Army get vaporized after my Vanquisher's salvo's sent one of the Titan's reactors critical...

LOL! Best part of 'pocalypse is without a doubt the huge explosions

Jamesc2012 wrote:
wow, your mum plays/ed with you? that's really cool :p wish my mum would do that

Yup. Strategy games are actually how she and my dad met during college.

So your family's basically all gamers of sorts?

Jamesc2012 wrote:So your family's basically all gamers of sorts?

Pretty much.

I'll never forget my first game. With a small warband of World Eater's I watched a Crimson Fists player and Nid's player slay each other, gladly watching them from a safe distance. The dust settled and a lone wounded Carnifex was all what was left.

So I ran him over with Kharn and called it a day.

Shadowbrand wrote:I'll never forget my first game. With a small warband of World Eater's I watched a Crimson Fists player and Nid's player slay each other, gladly watching them from a safe distance. The dust settled and a lone wounded Carnifex was all what was left.

So I ran him over with Kharn and called it a day.

Same here man. Sentinel/infantry guard army vs foot chaos back in early 4th edition. Fun times.

Tabling a guard player with my chaos marines while he talked trash to me the entire game.
and not like a cocky attitude the guy was was simply pissed off

It would have to be watching my mighty, daemon primarch smashing, greater daemon whooping, daemon legion soloing
storm shield wielding 4 wound monster of an hq, fail 4 out of 4 wounds caused by star cannons and promptly die without having taken ANY other shooting, turn one, of a scenario which forced him out in the open by himself.... ahhh may favorite XD

I have a few. Getting my first codex (Chaos space marines 3rd edition) and reading about the Horus heresy is definitely one. Another is watching my Farseer with a singing spear wreck a Monolith in one turn, then turn around and kill the night bringer the next, and make his invulnerable save against the big explosion thing.

My first tournament was also pretty memorable, and a pretty great experience. I lost every game, mostly due to port rolling, but also a few dumb tactical moves, but I still won the sportsmanship award. Even without the award, I wouldn't have been too disappointed. I mostly went to play against some new people and armies anyways, so it was all good.

Try having a sm commander in termy armor lose all of its wounds to 1 scarab swarm

Jamesc2012 wrote:Try having a sm commander in termy armor lose all of its wounds to 1 scarab swarm

Last game I lost 3 terminators to 10 bolt pistol shots. I had to make 4 saves and I failed 3 of them.

Damn

Yeah. I only ever use them as a termicide squad now. I know that they won't survive a round of shooting (or at least not most of them). It's also one of the reasons I have yet to field obliterators.

Back to the topic, I suppose losing my termies that easily would count as memorable, if not a favourite experience.

Having two full Howling Banshee squads with exarchs and Jain Zar take out a ten strong terminator squad along with a terminator captain and a terminator chaplain on turn two. Of course, that was in second edition. All since has been like weak tea.

warpcrafter wrote:Having two full Howling Banshee squads with exarchs and Jain Zar take out a ten strong terminator squad along with a terminator captain and a terminator chaplain on turn two. Of course, that was in second edition. All since has been like weak tea.

i was going to say impressive feat if it was 5ed. but it could of still been. never played 2nd :-P

Managing to wreck a LR.

Me, and 7 apocalyptic explosions in one game of apocalypse. Hehehehehhehehee

Oh and Eziekiel getting an AP1 Strength 10 hellfire off against Lysander, shrike, and most of the SW heroes. The opponent was POED.

my terminator squad (This is when i only had one) destroy in an ork skullhama a grot mega tank and the best part of a chaos army

Great stories guys keep them up!

Diabolical13 wrote:Managing to wreck a LR.

I remember the first time I exploded a LR. It was glorious. Bottom of turn 4, CSM managed to get within 6" of the LR with a meltagun, rolled 12 on 2d6 for pen, then rolled a 5. +1 for AP1.

There may have been a victory dance.

When people told me that my Vanquisher/Pask was a huge point sink in a 1500 point game.. My vanquisher removed his 2 hammerheads and a squad of broadsides. then I learned everyone beats Tau...

Blowing up a battle wagon, with a heavy bolter, two sixes in a row.

Hmm mine would probably be when my adversary laughed at Marbo until the latter blew up a large part of his army with the demo charge (you'd be suprised how many chaos marines can somehow fit under a big blast template), then blew up a Landraider with melta bombs and then went on a mass killing spree in close combat. Never has a single model caused such havoc... He basically made up for my entire army's sucky performance by himself and I won the game... that was epic. Sadly he doesn't always perform so well...

The look on my opponent's face when he charged his demon lord into twenty gaunts.
He smacked a bunch of my gauts around, and then it got to be my initiative. I rerolled my ones, and got something like fifteen hits.
"They're strength three, so they wound on..." he starts.
"Fours." I said with a smug smile. "They have toxin sacs."
His face fell, and two wounds stuck. Lucky for him, it was the daemon lord that could get out of melee. I think I lost the game, but having him go from ubersmug to worried about his daemon prince because of gaunts was pretty entertaining.

last week, the first time I fielded vulkan.

Playing against blood angels where his rhino blew up from a melta blast, killing two tactical marines inside but also managing to kill a sanguinary priest, leaving his sanguinary guard without Furious charge. The guard then charged vulkan's squad, killing the marines but not managing to even hit vulkan. He ended up just shanking them all with his spear after two turns, then got blasted by a melta gun for some nice irony.

Seeing my mates Reaper Autocannon on his Chaos terminators bring down an Eldar Reaver Titan...

Alot of 6's were rolled that day..