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I have a 6 man guard squad with two meltas and a demolition charge that jump out of my vendetta for the exact purpose of hoping one day they will do something awesome. I call them SPECIAL TEAM!

So far the best they've done is roll perfectly (not all 6's but not a single miss or failed wound and direct hit w/ demo charge) which would have been awesome if it wasn't for the fact that they were shooting at cultists (only thing in range) and didn't even pay off their point cost.

I play DA and played a friend who also plays DA. I placed Belial and 10 terminators on the table via deepstrike 1st turn. His basic librarian not only survived on his own (not connected to a unit) against a ton of snipers, but he rolled for "You're the traitor!", and made my terminators/belial attack each other. The entire unit died. Every terminator (half my army) AND Belial (my warlord). I was speechless.

5th edition.
Eldar vs necrons, both mechanized. I use a spearhead of three wave serpents, one of which contains fire dragons and Yriel. Dragons take out a ghost ark, Yriel suicide charges the squad. next turn, dragons get charged, the other two serpents are scared away by literally stunning amounts of fire, and another squad stands ready for when Yriel breaks free of combat. A wraihtlord was walking across the board, charges into the dragon combat, where my casualty rate was being kept low, like 3 models. the destuctor warlocks who followed behind roast the warriors who were waiting for Yriel, and suddenly that area of the battlefield was turned into a necron troop killing ground.
not 1 model, but it WAS heroism

I had a Blood Claw that was the sole survivor of a Heldrake attack in one game. His entire unit was wiped out, but he survived and managed to even take an objective (near my deployment zone, but still). I decided to name him Jon Snow, gave him a fenrisian wolf, some termi armor, a Frost blade, and I upgraded him to a Lone Wolf. Jon Snow and Ghost have more kills than any two of my HQs combined now. In a recent game, Jon Snow took out 2 units of DA Tacs AND Belial. Ghost probably got 4 or 5 of the kills himself as well. It was rather amazing.

Needless to say, all of my Space Wolf army lists include Jon Snow

In a apo game, 8 players, 1000 pts each, my 2 SM rapier laser destroyer survive 4 orbital bombardments.

A Bit Of Flavor

Posting since this just happened this weekend. My friend's Necrons were facing off against my Space Wolves. I went second, its the bottom of Turn 4. Of my 40 Grey hunters that came down onto the table, I have two models left from different units. One is hiding behind a statue of a Space Marine holding his objective and out of LOS. The other is Hrofnir, cursed with the Mark of the Wulfen. For some reason (Eldar trickery no doubt!) the Drop Pod containing the fight Grey Hunter Pack and Rune Priest have been delayed and have still have not come down, so things are looking grim despite my strong start.

Hrofnir is in the open. Drop Pods are to his rear, with the statue of a Space Marine past them. He's facing towards a two story building (his original Objective) held by Wytches. From the balcony on the second floor, some Trueborn had jumped down and just slaughtered one of his fellow Packs of Grey Hunters with the help of some Venoms. To his right is a crater (another Objective) where a pack of Multi-Melta toting Long Fangs had been hunkered down, but they fell to the Dark Eldar Ravager's Disintigrator Cannons before another Long Fang Pack operating a Quad Gun had been able to take it down.

Hrofnir had also just lost his last two remaining Pack Brothers.

From all the deaths of his comrades he just witnessed, Hrofnir proceeds to lose his gak.

Hrofnir runs at the Trueborn. They desperately fire on him, but the one one hit he sustains is shrugged off by his armor. Their reflexes are still faster that Hrofnir's hulking rage, and the few hits they land on him just slide off his armor. Hrofnir unloads his full fury on the remaining Trueborn. He tears several of them apart.

While engaged in his melee, some Eldar Jetbikes fly in to the nearby crater. Hrofnir sees this and quickly ends the remaining Trueborn and begins advancing towards the unit of Jetbikes. He makes it to the edge of the crater and roars defiantly. The Eldar Jetbikers panic and shoot all they can as he descends on them. His sudden fury is so great that the surviving Eldar Jetbikes break and quit the field, leaving him holding the crater as reinforcements arrive...


Strictly The Facts

Necron vs Space Wolves. Good game. We were playing Big Guns Never Tire with 4 Objectives, with a Vanguard Strike deployment. At the start of it my ~40 Grey Hunters dropped in, unloaded, and killed 18 Hellions, Baron Sathonyx, and a Farseer on a Jetbike despite him having Invisibility and Stealth, so I started out with First Blood and Warlord and it was likely I'd get Linebreaker given my army. One objective was just barely inside my deployment zone, and right next to my Imperial Bastion, so it was going to be difficult for him given his remaining troop choices were small units in Venoms or a 3 man unit of Eldar Jetbikes.

My Long Fangs ended up a liability. One pack was on the roof of the Bastion and took too many hits, jumped off, and lost all but 1 member on the first turn. I shifted him into the Bastion after moving the embarked unit onto the roof. By the end of the game he was able to secure two Heavy Support kills. I had managed one Heavy Support kill (his Razorwing Fighter), but hits Venoms and Trueborn tore up my Grey Hunters fairly badly. Some terrible saves on my part (rolled 6 1's for one unit!) coupled with his volume of fire saw me down quickly.

So its my Turn 4. The Score is my 7 VP to his 7 VP (counting Objectives, of which I had one). I managed to mishap with my Rune Priest + Grey Hunter Drop Pod by scattering 12 inches directly at a table edge. I was trying to land between his board edge and a building where 3 Wyches were hiding on an Objective. If I could get in there and take it from him I'd be safe in my victory. Luckily I was just delayed instead of losing my Warlord and bulk of my remaining Troops, and luckily he didn't get to place it. Cause if he put it kitty-corner from where I was going, i wouldnt have enough time to even reach the closest objective with them with perfect run rolls.

Things were looking grim.

I have 6 models on the table that weren't Drop Pods. One Grey Hunter from one Pack, one Grey Hunter from a different Pack, three Long Fangs (2 MM) from a Hail Mary Drop Pod unit, and a single Lascannon Long Fang hiding on the battlement of my Imperial Bastion, manning the Quad Gun (which had one wound left). I have 6 of my 7 Drop Pods down, 4 in a half circle around the front of the building with the Wyches, one in part of the crater near the building, and one behind the building that had been shooting at the Wyches, who were Going To Ground and had FNP.

So what do you do? Well, I had a Mark of the Wulfen model in the open in the middle of all of this. So I move forward and charged the 4 remaining Trueborn. I managed to get 8 attacks thanks to a 6 on the D6, survive Overwatch and his close combat attacks, and started killing them. I killed one or two and stayed in combat on his turn 5.

His Turn 5 saw the end of my MM Long Fangs (giving him a VP and losing me an Objective) and the Grey Hunter by the Statue (holding my other Objective). He knew my Drop Pod was coming in again, and he was tired of my Heavy Bolters shooting at his Eldar Jetbikes trying to hold the Objective by the Bastion, so he moves them into the crater. To his surprise, I survived his Trueborn again and killed them, consolidating towards the crater.

So my Turn 5. A few things happen, but this guy. This effing guy. I kill his Ravager with my Long Fang on the Bastion, my Grey Hunters and Rune Priest land by my Objective, and my Rune Priest shoots at his Venoms. My Drop Pod shoots at his Wyches again and kills one, but they hold. My little Wulfen moves up onto the Crater edge, 2" away from his Jetbikes. I charge into them, survive Overwatch again, survive their combat attacks again, and get 8 attacks again. I manage to kill one but they hold. At least we're both contesting the Objective.

Turn 6 comes around. He kills my last Long Fang, my Wulfen and the Eldar Jetbikes do nothing on his turn. On my turn I cause his Jetbikes to fall back and claim the objective with my Wulfen as the game ends.

Final Score: I have Warlord, Firstblood, Linebreaker, two Heavy Support kills and two Objectives. He has one Objective and three Heavy Support kills. Fairly close game in all honesty, and he had a truly massive up hill battle.


TL;DR

Thanks to good armor save rolls and a massive 8 attacks on the charge (twice), a single model with Mark of the Wulfen took out two enemy units and claimed an Objective at the end of the game. I would not have won if not for that lone model with Mark of the Wulfen tearing a warpath through half his remaining units.