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Playing against a friend's DA army with my Vanilla marines (Relictors, natch). He had two Vindicators deployed on his flanks with wide open spaces behind him. I had first turn, so podded two Ironclads in behind them and penned and exploded them both with meltas.

Both dreads died on his turn but, hey, they went out with style.

I've had some funny happenings with Firewarriors holding their own in CC and then actually winning the odd combat. The most glorious was against a Necron lord (old Codex) in CC :-D My friends face was priceless.

The most recent one was my Riptide punching through two LRBT, then a Command squad, then a Mortar team. Who said Tau suck in CC?!

Note - it was more a desperate measure as I had nothing to hurt his front AV!!! Turned out Riptide is pretty bad ass against tanks!

Playing Tau vs CSM

Deep strike a unit of Stealth Suits behind a unit of 2 dreads, pop one with the fusion gun on the way down, damage roll of a 6, his turn he turns with the other dread and unloads (thats ok, i dropped into cover so I will take the 2++cover. The problem is, I am only a few inches away (I kinda figured they would cause some damage then die). Dread charges, easilly makes the charge, overwatch, 1 fusion gun is the only thing that can hurt it, 6, 5, 6, 2 x dreads for the unit......turn 3, LR with termies inside, pops, immoblized...they make a stand but ultimalty die as the termies eat them alive in close combat.

my best moment: I'll set the scene:

It's turn 7
A lone nob from a trukkboys mob is falling back across the board.
a unit of wraithguard (old codex) are holding an objective, but have strung out to get in range of my army. only one model holds the objective...

my nob rolls double 1's and regroups.
diving through the air dramatically, he fires a potshot at the unit, and scores a 6 to hit - it's precise, lands on the one guy holding the objective...
he rolls a 6 to wound...
the eldar player fails his 3+ save...
and his re-roll due to psychic shenanigans...
And his feel no pain...

the game ends, instead of losing by 2 points, orks win by 1.

viva-la nob!

Orks vs CSM

19 gretchin were staring down a daemon prince. Fired all their dakka....Caused 2 wounds. Prince charged, grots overwatched....caused the other two wounds to kill it.

Stormboy squad with nob,PK, and bosspole get hit by demo cannon. All but nob and 1 boy die. roll leadership , bosspole kills the last boy to pass. Nob Smashed da vindicator next turn, got charged by a chaos sorcerer...and killed it too.

Orks vs GK
1st turn: Draigo and termies in a land raider. SAG #1 fires first round and bullseyes, rolled 5(ap2 gives it +1) causing it to blow up. second sag aims at them: and bullseyes. My opponent gave up....I used two different sets of dice btw.

I've had this kind of crap happen to me all of the time. For example, my Trygon gets rushed by a squad of Fire Warriors, who promptly beat the Trygon to death in CC.

I lost a Devastator Squad, an Assault Squad, and a tooled up JP Captain to a single Terminator with a Reaper Autocannon. He charged the Assault Squad and broke them, causing them to flee off of the board. He then charged the Devastator Squad, breaking them and causing them to run as well. And THEN, when I counter-charged with the JP Captain (he had a Relic Blade; I thought I had this), the Captain whiffed and then was instant-deathed.

No yeah, CC Tau is the new meta.

My favorite moment was back at the end of 4th.

I had my all infantry guardsman army(FOR THE HORDE). I had a unit of guardsman that had been reduced to one man. He had made his last man standing check and leadership check.

He then rapidfired at abaddon and body guard squad, killing a terminator. His havocs on his turn then failed their target priority test and shot all their missiles at him. He then passed his cover save, protecting one of my heavy weapon teams from annihilation. He then in his feeling of invulnerability charged abaddons retinue and was promptly cut to shreds.

Still fun times.

In 5th edition I had a unit of 6 Khorne Berzerkers wipe out 3 units of grey hunters all at 8+ and a rune priest and then go on to kill a unit of long fangs.
Blood for the Blood God!

Khorne didn't care from where the blood flowed, as he made my opponent botxh all of his saving throws.

 Musashi363 wrote:
Back in 2nd edition i had a SOB cannoness kill an entire berzerker squad. More recently, my tzeentch warpsmith killed a Riptide in close combat by himself. Also that same battle, my 20 man cultist squad killed a previously wounded riptide in CQB. Go cultists!

Yeah, that was MY zerker squad. I still have to pay you back for that. I was rubbing my hands with evil glee as my zerkers came onto the field in dense city terrain. I knew I had this game in the bag. Then along comes Cannoness Helena with her stupid power sword and rolls brilliantly while I roll terribly and she slaughters most of my squad. Next turn, an immolater rolls up and burns the few survivors. It was quite humiliating.

I managed to kill a 5 wound wraith knight in two rounds of a challenge with my bare bones plague marine champ the look on my opponents face when he missed and failed to wound was hilarious. And to put icing on the cake he became daemon prince for his actions.

I was playing against Demons, and my opponent was near tabling me with my space marines, i had two las/auto preds, and a single space marine scout left.

He had a whole unit of seekers with a herald, and two plague drones of nurgle, each with one wound left, i had killed his troops, but to win, i had to get that scout onto an objective, and the game had to end.

My scout makes his one attack +4 to hit, 5+ to wound, he fails his 5++, plague drone dies>
Scout then makes two 4+ armor saves

Plague drones die to demonic instability

Scout consolidates 6 inches onto my objective

game ends on the dice roll, I win....My jaw hit the floor

He was promoted, and proudly bears kill marks now.

Odds of this happening? About 1/200

Well, I once disembarked Ghazgul, a runtherd and 10 grots from a stompa, then shot at some chaos terminators, Ghaz killed none, neither did the runtherd, but the grots killed 3!

was doing a quick game with the new apoc rules with my friend. He outflanks his hellhammer to dislodge 10 guants on an objective. First blast kills 7. Other 3 survive, don't move. Second blast whiffs, only kills one. Third blast whiffs, none die. Forth blast whiffs, none die. The game's still ongoing but he's getting pretty annoyed.

I had a squad of 5 plague marines with 2 melta guns: Blow up a battlewagon, charge and sweep the burna boyz inside, charge a grot squad holding a back objective, wipe the squad, and finally the Sargent turned into a Daemon Prince just before the game ended.

Nurgle was very pleased.

Tau etheral killing a sanquinary guard and later in another game a tyranid shrike in melee is pretty boss.

I once took a chance shot against a land raider full of bloodclaws with an assault cannon on an obliterater...
Got 2 hits, including a 6 for a rend... Followed by another 6 making it strength 9... Then another 6 for a pen... And then... you guessed it... another 6 to explode the tank.!!
The resulting explosion also killed 5 of the bloodclaws inside. Needless to say that lone oblit was my MVP of the game and left a very annoyed opponent, and a big grin on my face.
I also won 12 points to 4 in purge the alien

bobmgee wrote:
I managed to kill a 5 wound wraith knight in two rounds of a challenge with my bare bones plague marine champ the look on my opponents face when he missed and failed to wound was hilarious. And to put icing on the cake he became daemon prince for his actions.

Whilst an epic tale, and one to tell the grandkids one day, you may want to get your opponent to take a closer look at his Codex: Wraithknights aren't characters (not even if used as the Warlord in an Iyanden supplement army), and so cannot be challenged and won't give you a Boon roll...

Back when Fire Dragons had 4+ aspect armor, I had a squad that had an epic game:

Turn 2: hop out of transport, explode Vindicator Tank

Opponent shoots everything at the Fire Dragons, with incredible luck 3 of them are left standing

Turn 3: move forward, kill 2 land speeders with 3 melta shots

Opponent shoots the Fire Dragons down to just the Exarch

Turn 4, 5, 6: Exarch proceeds to make an amazing number of armor saves, continues on to fry several marines, and ends the game tied up in assault with a tac squad using the old "fist of hatred" power or whatever it was that gave him a Str 3 Lightning Claw

Exarch never died through the game, helped his squad kill several vehicles, and tied up a tac squad at the end of it all; still ended up drawing that game, but it was entertaining

This happened against me, yesterday.

Running my circus/Hounds list against Orks. Playing the mobility game, keeping him boxed in his deployment zone. Kill pretty much everything but one last Boyz mob behind his Aegis. Whittle it down a bit with FF/Enfeeble. Land a Prince and prepare a charge to finish him off. 4 hits on overwatch. 4 wounds. I roll "2, 2, 1, 1" for armor saves. Reroll the 1s. "2, 2"

Only gave up two KPs in that game (it was objectives). One was a full health DP to overwatch fire. Sigh.

Guardsman Marbo, dropping him right on top of an injured carnifex (4 wounds left). Wounding with pistol first shoot phase, then charged by the carnifex during the nid assault phase. Managed to kill in close combat. This happened during a campain, so I chopped the blade off his knife and gave him an end of a scything talon as a trophy.

Back in 5th my Tyranids vs my friends Tau
He set up his army in a giant defense line and put his Ethereal safely behind it as close to his table edge as possible. It was also right next to some area terrain. Had my lictor pop out and crunch him in turn one. His army seemed to fall apart after that.

I think what made it so great is he thought he made him as safe as possible and before he knew it he was gone

Most Awesome Thing I Had Done to Me was when there was a lone guardsman who charged my Fortuned Avatar and ended up punching my Fortuned Avatar to death when my avatar had two wounds left.

The Eldar Dream stack of Divination (before recent codex);

Eldrad in a unit of DCannons.
Got Perfect Timing
Got Prescience
Got Misfortune
Got a 4th power that does not affect this story

Nearby Farseer.
Got Doom
Got Fortune but, that didn't matter here

Enemy deep struck 10 fully kitted-out mixed DA Terminators with Storm Shield guys in front close enough to guarantee assault next turn.

That squad got Misfortuned, Doomed and my DCannon squad got the re-roll scatter (Prescience) and Ignore Cover (Eldrad + Perfect Timing).

All 3 DCannon templates landed in a way that allowed me to get 21 S10 AP2 ignore cover hits (plus Eldrad's pistol shot to add insult to injury)

All of my opponents DA Terminators went right back in the box (to be fair, he only had 3 Storm Shield guys)

Lone Ork Loota deciding to take a pot shot at a Doom Scythe that was giving my orks a lot of trouble.

Rolls a 1 for number of shots. Rolls a 6 to hit. Rolls a 6 to pen. Doom Scythe evades, and fails save. I roll a 6 and destroy it.

Henceforth said Ork has been known as Sniper Ork and he walks the galaxy spreading fear and leaving only ruined flyers.

Back with the old Space wolves codex and old ork codex. We're playing a combat patrol. he has 15 tooled up blood claws and a small unit of 5 grey hunters. I have a looted basilisk and have managed to squeeze 9 rokkits into my force.

Turn 1 i fire into his bloodclaws with everything. My rokkits get 9 hits out of 9!! and all wound. the basilisk also direct hits and kills another 5 with 5 hits. They werent in cover and that single shooting phase won me the game. For the record that is a 0.00000132 chance of that happening (about 1 in 758141!)

Orks vs. CSM

I have my Big Mek in the corner of the board firing off his SAG at any chaos that moves. I rolled boxcars on the strength two turns in a row annihilating a few characters and infantry squads in one fell swoop.


Orks/IG/Necrons vs. Ultramarines/BA/IG/Eldar (APOC Game - last Sunday in fact)

I'm running Green Tide ('Ard Boys) with Ghazghkull and Mad Dok thrown in for effect. Whole army has Cybork thanks to the good Doktor. So the tide winds up being the subject of Mork and Gork knows how many template weapons being thrown at it. If they didn't get either their 4+ Armor Save or their 5i+ save, the Mad Dok was there to give them FNP. By all rights the tide should've been wiped out but my boyz kept on making their saving throws.

CCS with x4 plasma guns and commander with Plasma pistol.

CCS was in their chimera and typhus was standing alone against the CCS chimera, Another veteran squad had their chimera blown up by some termies and managed to kill them off. So the 5 guys remaining put 1 wound on typhus.

Typhus then went to kill the CCS and as he charged the embarked squad overwatched with all their plasma weapons. Hitting 6's like crazy and wounding like no other typhus had 5 saves to make between invuln and Fnp. He made one if I remember correctly. The CCS stopped Typhus dead in his tracks with Over watch.

Another instance is back in 5th my IG against my friends Nids

set up is my 3 Leman russ in a corner behind a building firing off to my right killing nids like crazy. My friends Hive tyrant with armored shell walked around a separate way so basically the building was now blocking Los to the Tyrant from my tanks. I had a 20 man blob in the building and a CCS on the other side of the table that was only alive because of the tanks supporting fire. My friends tyrant had 3 wounds left and had walked up to the building and basically I believed it was GAME OVER MAN as his tyrant could only be shot by a 20 man blob and if I didnt kill it this shooting phase it would walk around and just smash my tanks to pieces. So essentially the 20 man blob rapid fired into the tyrant hoping for a mirricale, plenty of hits, and when it came to wounds I only did 3.

I surely thought the game was lost as I coouldnt bring down a 2+ tyrant with weight of fire and my tanks didnt have enough ap2 to kill the tyrant before they would be killed in point blank range.

The Nids player rolled the 3 dice and by some crazy act of luck rolled 3 ones's. The tyrant died and my tanks moved out to save my HQ and I tabled the nids army. The luckiest game Ive ever had.

Overwatched a bloodthirster to death... with 5 cultists.

Granted he had 1 wound left.

I once charged a depleted and melta-less veteran squad (I think it was 4 guys) at a BA dread that had just run down an infantry platoon, hoping to stall it for a turn at the most and keep it away from my objective holders. This was turn 4.

At the end of turn 6, the vet sgt with power fist was still there, and the dread was on one HP. That one charge saved me the game.

On seperate occassions in 5th, I've had Mephiston and Astorath both eliminate 750 point Tau armies almost single-handed. In the former case, it was largely due to Mephiston killing an etheral, and half the army running off the board.

For SW, the most awesome thing I did was made a 10" charge on T6 against a Tau Hammerhead with 2 Grey Hunters, proceeded to wreck it with grenades, and consolidated to 2.9" away from an objective, drawing the game despite most of my army being slaughtered.