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So I was reading a thread in the 40k forums and it got me thinking about the most epic failures/successes I've seen during my time wargaming. Undoubtedly the best of both have taken place while playing some amazing Mordhiem campaigns at my local club.

The best I've seen was my friend's Bretonnian Questing Knight with a GW and a 2+ sv charging my wife's lone Verminkin who had been previously knocked down. The Knight failed to do anything but the lone rat managed to take my friend's leader out of action while on his back. Further more at the end of the game he rolled snake eyes on the critical injury chart killing him outright at the end of the first game of our campaign. It was an epic moment of both failure and success.

Anyone else care to share some epic moments from their own campaigns?

Successfully defeating a Rat Ogre using Dread of Aramar from my warlock... there was no other way to deal with it, and I was a turn away from having my skull crushed in

Playing in a campaign using Beastmen. One of my heroes gets knocked OOA by the undead warband's vampire. On the injury roll, the beastman gets 'bitter enmity'.

The next time I face off against the undead, I run my hero right at the vampire from the get-go (he hates him after all). The beastman gets the charge, hits with his mace, criticals, and rolls a 6 on the blunt weapon crit table (advanced crits), knocking the vampire out of action (regardless of remaining wounds, and with no save).

From them on, the vampire kept a healthy distance from that particular beastman, who also took him OOA in the following game.

In the "rescue the Prince" scenario, a friends Vampire managed to rescue the prince. In an attempt to get away he and the prince lept out a window (about 12-15" high) assuming his vampire would pass the initiative tests. The vampire did, but the prince didn't and fell to his death, the vampire then fled the scene

When my friends rat ogre went down in a blaze of pistol fire from my Dwarf Engineer.

When my friends Skaven assassin was so well hidden even he forgot about it for two whole games. Noticed it when we were packing up.

Two witch hunter gangs both having their captains killed in their first games of the campaign.

Had my first game of Mordheim ever last night, in a 4-way campaign kick off game one of my orc big'un's killed my opponents vampire dead!

Orc spell shoving an Ogre off of a 4-story building and having it perish in the fall.

Was in a game beside mine, and loved every minute of it.

I played vs. an opponent who sank all his money into buy a big scary ogre, so I tarpitted his Big Scary with rat swarms while my Skaven ran around and murdered the rest of his warband. Didn't take long before he failed his Morale check and walked off the table. All his Big Scary managed to do was mush some disposable rats.

My dual-Warplock Pistol Skaven Adept shot down my friend's vampire after a series of lucky rolls and unlucky saving throws. Immediately after my verminkin slinger knocks down his necromancer who fails his check and falls from a three story building putting it OOA. As far as "forging the narrative" goes, that was about the coolest thing I've seen in Mordheim.

had a recent game where my cult of the possesed magister decided to do his 12 inch leep into charge up on a tall ruin to take on a dwarf engineer, after two misses he gets a dagger to a stomach and fails his 6 + and falls 9 inches down to the ground and dies

Sent my entire starting Orc warband against a Minotaur and a Drunk centaur. They died doing 1 wound to one of the creatures.

For me the most epic Mordheim Moment was being roundly defeated by one of my students.

Her goblins laying waste to my more experienced Undead warband.

She rushed to the high ground, then maintained control of the field with weight of fire and an excellent vantage.

It was beautiful.

The Auld Grump - teaching military science and being defeated by your student means that they were listening!

I had a dual warplock pistol Night Runner go in for a kill on the werebeast thing, but fail, and get taken out of action. After the battle, he survived, and due to experience gained in the battle got an extra wound. He also rolled a 1 for being bitten by the beast, meaning he was infected. He would turn into the beast if he took a wound and failed a leadership test. As Night Runners had horrible leadership, and he had an extra wound, I'd run him forward, unload the pistols, and any return damage would turn him into a horrifying beast. It was the most epic level up I've ever seen.