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Mine has to be from 7 years ago (when I was 12 and only just starting out) when I was playing my first 1500 point game of space marines. I wanted to field Marneus Calgar with his command squad so bad but I didn't know how to play them, so I just set them up by themselves in my deployment zone with the intention of running them across the board into combat.

This was also the first time I'd ever seen Tau, let alone faced them and was promptly shocked at their firepower. However, this didn't stop my chapter master from making it across the board and wiping out a unit of broadsides and two full teams of fire warriors before finally being brought down! He was an absolute tank that game haha

Mortikye wrote:
In the same game 7 Fire Warriors charged and killed 3 Palidins in a last ditch effort to stay alive lol.

Holy moly that's literally unheard of until now!

My second favourite 40k memory was 5th ed, my space marines vs another guy's space marines, when two vindicators managed to annihilate most of his army in one turn.

Both templates got a direct hit. One of them covered a devastator squad and the rear armour of a predator, while the other covered a tightly bunched tactical squad with a missile launcher, along with the side of a rhino carrying another squad. It was madness, both marine squads were almost wiped out and both tanks exploded (which actually finished off the last members of each squad). Hilarious

 Locclo wrote:
This was in a 6th Edition game, my Space Wolves vs. Chaos Space Marines. The game starts, I get the first turn, and I start by rolling for my Rune Priest's psychic powers. I roll for my first power, Perfect Timing, double 6s. Rune Priest takes a wound. Whatever, it's just one, surely it can't happen again, so I roll for Prescience, and the dice come up double 1s. Rune Priest takes a wound and dies.

The first turn of the game, literally the first rolls of the game, and I have granted my opponent both First Blood and Slay the Warlord before he's even taken a turn.

Oh wow haha that's seriously unlucly dude, you must have done something to seriously anger the dice gods!