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I guess i will start this one off, since orks are so random in their way, i have really wanted to sit down around a metaphorical fire with fellow forum members to discuss the greatest tales of randomness and glory


Not so long ago, on a table top not so far away, i played in a 3 player free for all style game (as i had a couple of friends over, and we all wanted to play a game). i was in one corner, as orks, another of us playing guard in the mid section of the board (though there was no disadvantage to this) and the last one of us playing the chaos marines from the starter set. We played 500 points each as the chaos player was relatively new to the game and so had limited models. We decided that combats between two players could be shot at by the third player, and that these combats would be fought only in the turns of the players involved to balance it a bit more.

the game was pretty standard for most of the game (standard kill points) as i had 2 squads of boyz and a squad of gretchin with my mega armored warboss (and yes, the gretchin are cannon fodder). i lost most of my first boy squad to a crushing chaos assault and then was foolish to let the other squad poke their heads out of cover and into the firing line of the guard who had no hesitation in wiping half of the squad before the boyz darted back into cover (and didnt do much for the rest of the game). my warboss proceeded to attack and wipe half the chaos ladz with the support of the remaining boyz from the first squad, meanwhile (as i left to get some snacks for a minute) my opponents had made a less than secret pact not to fire upon each other and to double team ME, poor warboss and his gretchin followers! (to be fair, the boyz were getting lucky with their roles and seemed to be a real danger).

i did what every ork would do and told them to BRING IT XD you see, the hellbrute was getting closer and closer to the guard player, who was starting to worry about its melee abilities. Instead however, when it came to his turn, the guard player decided to turn on the pact he had made (much to the amusement of myself), and so he shot every last las pistol, las gun, grenade launcha, las cannon, auto cannon and missile launcher at the hellbrite, throwing dice about the place in a frenzy of shooting attempts! one after another, shot after shot he whiffed and failed either to hit or wound! after recovering from a fit of laughing as the attempts became more and more desperate, but just as unlucky, the hellbrute saw my warboss in the middle of the table and thought it better to try and kill him as this could be the last turn (and he could get a couple of kill points for it), he seemed to be in charge range, and this could be an easy kill for the hell brute, but the charge failed! I had the win at this point, and it was my turn, the game could end! I quickly calculated the chance of my warboss being killed by the hell brute in combat as VERY high, roughly 70% chance of a dead warboss, but before deciding to stay safe and keep the win, in true ork spirit (while still feeling slightly sad for my friends unlucky charge fail) i charged forward! My charge with the warboss was successful. the hell brute attacked first, hitting with three attacks, he wounded twice and so i would need to save 2 5+ saves from my invul! after realizing i would probably fail at least one roll (which would kill the warboss), we did a quick victory point count, and there was only a two point difference between myself and the chaos player, if my warboss dies, then we will draw! SO ..... i rolled them onto the table.... double 5! My warboss had taken a hit to the face that would have crushed a tank, and laughed it off. Then he swung my power klaw and hit with 4 attacks before destroying the hell brute..... the game then ended. the snacks had finished, and the board was cleared.


SO..... care to tell your tale of awesomeness?

I haven't been playing that long so I don't have a lot of experience to pull from but I had a pretty epic battle in a Kill Team tournament yesterday.

I was playing Seize Ground with my Orks against a Tau player. One of the objectives was on the top floor of a three-story building in the center of the map. I had about 10 Ork Shoota Boyz all scaling the building, level by level, trying to take control of the objective while his Jump Jet commander sat on the top floor raining plasma fire down on my troops. My Mega-Armored team Leader was just outside the building making mincemeat of his Fire Warriors and Drones when he gets the bright idea to leap off the roof with his Commander and make a diving attack against my Warboss. After softening up my leader a bit with some high strength fire, he dives off and actually knocks my boss to the ground (models have a chance of being temporarily injured instead of outright killed in Kill Team). Just as he was about to finish off my prostrated Warboss, I declared a WAAAGH!(Re-roll charges) and 6 of my Ork Boyz were able to make 9-10 inch charges out of the building and slaughter his commander with something like 20 attacks. After that it was just a matter of mopping up some fire warriors and the Orks won the day.

I think my opponent learned that, even when weakened, Orks can really ruin your day in close combat.

My personal favourite was quite a long time ago. Back in 4th edition when Broodlords were an HQ choice.

Had a three man Free for all game with my Tyranids vs Brothers Tau vs Brother in laws Eldar.

First two turns virtually my whole army was vaporised off the table, Hive tyrant with guard, carnifex, troops, you name it, it got annihilated off the board. My Broodlord and his genestealer buddies had done a glory charge across the board while the army disappeared behind them, genestealers were gone, I had the broodlord left and the Tau and Eldar started hitting each other thinking I had been "neutered"...

The broodlord smashed into the the enemy lines and ended up taking out more points worth of units than anything else on the table, he demolished fire warrior teams, tore eldar rangers to pieces, rended tanks open, and generally was the most lucky, dominant, last model stand I have ever seen or been involved with. Kept me in the game almost to the end

Needless to say, to this day my brother and brother in law both fear broodlords, and they are high on the priority list in case lightning does indeed strike the same place twice

My favorite comes from the game where I gave my opponent First Blood and Slay the Warlord on my first turn. Rune Priest rolls for his first power, Prescience, rolls double 1s and takes a wound. Rune Priest rolls for his second power, Perfect Timing, rolls double 6s and dies. First turn of the game and my Warlord kills himself, giving my opponent 2 points before he's had to roll a single die.

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Hmm. I suppose I've had some great memories along the way.
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I was playing in a small Apocalypse game with a few friends.
It was:
Imperial Guard (Me) + Space Marines + Space Marines
VS
Chaos Daemons + Chaos Space Marines + Chaos Space Marines
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Turn 1) A stray Guardsmen runs up and finishes off the Chaos player's Titan with a single Melta shot. Strength D templare over the Titan killed half of the Chaos Space Marine player's army xD

I once shot a sniper rifle as ig at a grot sqad behind barbed wire. I couldn't hit with it all game but this time it hit and wounded, but the grot passed his 6+ save. I literally screamed, but I was at home with my buddy so my mom was the only person who heard the obscenities I yelled. She didn't understand why I was yelling.

Mine is a 5 man sterngaurd squad took out a 7 man grey knights squad in a single shooting phase. I rolled all 6'x and he rolled all 1's... we both just looked at eachother.

Short and simple.

A warrior acolyte beat a white scars bike in CC, then grabbed the objective to win the game for me at a tournament.

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