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Mine's gotta be the first game I had with my stormclaw space wolves against chaos space marines (It was so exciting i posted a story about it in the batrep section)

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/611513.page

Basically after ploughing through a defiler which had killed my terminators and loosing his first wound in a challenge to a chaos space marine, my wolf lord had to fight Ahriman who had recently turned into a daemon prince. At the end of the first round of combat they'd both gotten each other down to one wound, in the second round unfortunately the daemon prince finished him off but it was epic.

My Vindicare Assassin was charged by 3 Crisis suits. Killed one with a turbo-penetrator Overwatch shot, another with melee attacks, and the last was swept after he failed to wound me at all.

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

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!

A comprehensive list of things my wraith guard have one-shotted:

Flying DP of nurgle who elected not to take his jink (would have been 2+), 6 to hit with one of five shots, six to wound and ID, fails the 5++

Wraithknight at full wounds in some very tall ruins, shrouded thanks to a telepathy farseer was also ID'd and failed the 2+ cover save.

My personal favourite was a Stormraven carrying my opponents warlord and a full tac-squad. I was running a Spiritseer and spirit marked the Stormraven, both wraith knights completely whiff but the wraith guard rolled one 1 with a 6 on the reroll, penned and exploded. The blast from the wreck killed everything inside the Raven.

Still none of those are as impressive as when I was playing a game allied with Guard and my buddy's lone plasma vet punched Ghaz in the face and took the last wound off of him for a Slay the warlord point and holding an objective.

well,
MY EPIC FAIL MOMENT: 6 armor saves on terminators, failed them ALL!!1ONEONE!!!1!!
EPIC WIN: Emperor's champion instagibbed Typhus before he got to attack with his manreaper(CALL HIM SLAYER OF SARGEANTS I DARE YOU!!)
OR: Ork warboss charges my Black Templars chaplain: Chaplain holds off for 2(!!) rounds, inflicting two or three, not sure wounds in challenges and then SETH Chapter master gloriously intervenes and kills the warboss with ease...

Well, to name a couple...

1. Cast Warp Blast from a Flyrant into my girlfriends Shrouded Daemon Prince turn 1 while it was in a ruin. He rolled a 1 for his cover save, so 350+ points down the drain in one shot.

2. A sole Necron warrior finished off a riptide in close combat during the first game I ever played against Tau.

3. My friends Khorne Berserkers failed their 3 inch charge two turns in a row.

4. I was losing a good 8-3 points in a kill points game against Orks. My overlord died a good 4 times, resurrected, and ran to the other side of the board for linebreaker, and my annihilation barge (only other model I had on the board), shot his warboss and big mek squad, killed the last Nob and big mek, and made the warboss run during the last turn of the game. I lost, but only by 8-7.

5. My friend was using Kharn the Betrayer, blew up my monolith in one go, but then died to a single Night Scythe.

6. A single Necron Lord was charged by Belial, he failed his MSS roll, wounded himself, and failed a 3+ invuln. Insta-gib.

7. My Overlord on his pimp mobile, after 7th edition rules, charged a unit of Fire Dragons, died. Got back up, blew up a wave serpent, got shot by fire dragons, died. Got back up, finished off fire dragons. Then died again. Got back up, then charged his Autarch last turn and insta-gibbed him with HoW hits alone.

ThatSwellFella wrote:
well,
MY EPIC FAIL MOMENT: 6 armor saves on terminators, failed them ALL!!1ONEONE!!!1!!

A: Time to quit 40k
B: Trash those Marines

Local Indy store ran a 'golf 40k game'. Lowest score wins. I played Ravenwing. Sammy, 3x 7 man squads and some LSs. Spent the whole game driving them into and out of DT. Lost 2-3 each turn when I rolled 1s. Placed 4th.

GW store was closing. I called 6+ inv save to stay open. Rolled 6. Sadly they still closed.

Wasnt me: Squad of wolf guard drop podded and didnt scatter within 6 inches of a Warhound. Combi melta gunsx10 (everyone knew the WH was gonna be there) and WH goes boom.

My Marine with flamer cooked 2 BA termis

My Assault sarg in CC with a dred had a combat shield. Dred is like 'arrrgh I crush you!!' My guy be like 'clank off the sheild and eat the melta bomb'. Boom! Other player wasnt happy at all.

5 man termy squad wipped out by my 20 grots and 2 slavers. Always run a LC or 2 LC kids.

Nids vs Necrons. 6th edition.

Monolith Deep Strikes right in front of my Tyrannofex.

Immediately proceeds to vacuum the T-fex off the table.

The one fething time my dice rolls high.

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

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.

BA vs Last ed Eldar, 5th ed game. First shot of the game 3 Warwalkers open up on a 10 man jumper squad I left in the open. Cause 20-21 wounds. I roll Eleven 1's, and four 2's.

 Bobthehero wrote:
Its a rather dumb story, eh.

I am fond of my melta guns melting things, personally.

Such as the Stompa, which, back in the old Apoc rules, could get chain reaction'd to death, which, with stupid crazy awesome rolls (and rerolls!) happened, so with two melta gun shots, a Super Heavy was destroyed, and killed the two gunners with an apocalyptic explosion, good times.

Another time when my gunner was on the edge of board, regrouped, and snap fired at the 10W DoM, killing it.

And still melta related, my Hades Drill scattered under a Land Raider, exploded it, killing a few Zerkers in the explosion, and putting a wound or two on the many Carnifexes that were around.

Meltas always have the best stories lol. I played in an apocalypse game where Rogal Dorn, our team's warmaster, rode onto the battlefield in his shiny Storm Eagle and a single, snap-firing Chaos Space Marine shot it down. As crazy as that was, the crash and burn scattered into the assault cannon bearing drop pod formation and the squad couldn't deploy, so they were all destroyed.

A short while back, I had a lone guardsman seagent assault and hold a eldar titan in close combat. I still lost the game and after a turn or two, the sarge died, but his heroic sacrifice and superhuman ability to stay alive swinging his chainsword at a titan made the tourney for both my opponent and I.

2 wyches are in cover.
Typhus is on his last wound.
Tries to charge them. He's about two inches away.
Rolls snake eyes. Through terrain. Fails charge.
Over watch hits once. Wounds.
Typhus rolls a one.
Then fails feel no pain.


I also once one-shotted the same guys landraider with a 2+ cover save. My first shot of the game, through a Window I'm a building at night fight.

One good and one bad

Good story: 1850, my Tau against Eldar in 6th. Eldar player goes first, charges wraithknight/serpents/spiders towards my DZ. I fire off a few shots and don't do much damage. Eldar player goes again, giant wraithknight front and center, just out of charge range on my tanks and pathfinders. Then shadowsun and my suits DS in behind all of his stuff. I do some damage and threaten his objectives, but its too little too late. Then, moments from crushing me, he turns his army around to take care of all my stealth suits, ignoring the rest of my army. The wraithknight charges shadowsun... and after losing her drones she proceeds to pass 14 consecutive invul saves over 8 rounds of combat. When the wraithknight finally squeezes one through, I've taken the board and wiped out everything else.


Bad story: Silly Tau 1850 against different eldar. Everything goes wrong. Longstrike can't hit anything, my skyray cant roll higher than a 2 to pen, ion cannon fizzing off of everything, reserves showing up late, mini-farsight bomb whiffs and dies. I ended up tabled after he had only lost a dozen models, with only one unit in my army doing any actual damage. A unit of vespid. They killed a bunch of avengers, flew across the table, made a couple dozen cover saves, got charged by the avatar and didn't lose anyone, and then shot and charged down most of a squad of fire dragons.

TLDR:
1) Shadowsun passes 14 consecutive invuls in combat with a wraithknight winning the game
2) 6 Vespid do more damage than the other 1700 or so points of my army combined.

 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!

Two stories here

First one is in my first game of 7th edition. I rolled for psychic tests and this was my first ever test to be made for 7th edition and I decided to run unbound of 8 grand masters. I Periled and then rolled a 1 on the chart then rolled an 11 on ld. I lost 3 grand masters. One to the perils result and 2 because I rolled a 6 for how many hits I take and failed all my invul saves after all those hits wounded.

Second story was a game with a close friend. He wanted to fool around with 1000 points of farseers summoning daemons the entire game. I decided to answer back on the funny idea with 5 grand masters moving up the board taking down daemon after daemon and the part that made us laugh was how much dice we had in the psychic phase as he had 30 charges before the D6 and I had 10 before we rolled the D6

I had an archon eat, belial and a five man terminator team. Between the shadow field and poor saves on his end, it was a grand victory.

It's 5th edition, I'm playing my CSM vs Eldar and my main army has been wiped off the table. But his army has been pretty heavily whittled down too so I figure I can at least tie it if my Oblits do decently and scatter decently.

Turn 4: unit of two Oblits comes in, scatters from behind the Eldar to in front of them, and just far enough away that I can't slap them with templates. Some underwhelming shooting on my part later, he wipes them out on his turn.

Turn 5: Lone remaining Obliterator comes in. Scatters the opposite direction towards my opponent's table edge. More underwhelming shooting and then he is too destroyed during my opponents turn.

And lo, I was tabled thrice in the same game. It is the thing legends are made of, and nightmares.

Does anyone have a character in their army that they consider the master of all heroes/villains? a model who has saved them many times? a model who has slain many foes? many generals? many armies? ...... one such character i have is my mega warboss. sometimes wiping out wraithknights on his own, defeating foe after foe in challenges, and even saving me from being wiped on occasion to somehow win me the game.

Guardsman #5-6-50-1-3

The gunner of my Thudd gun, did a lot of damage to various soft target, reducing hordes to nothingness, killed a mega warboss who was about to charge his cannon, got me Slay the warlord and the point that let me win the game.

As mentionned before, the two that blew up the Stompa, Grenadiers # 5-6-93-2 and 3, both replaced by new #2 and 3.

 Tiny_Titan wrote:
Does anyone have a character in their army that they consider the master of all heroes/villains? a model who has saved them many times? a model who has slain many foes? many generals? many armies? ...... one such character i have is my mega warboss. sometimes wiping out wraithknights on his own, defeating foe after foe in challenges, and even saving me from being wiped on occasion to somehow win me the game.

Does the Doom of Malan'tai count? Or as I like to call him "The Doom of everyone who is not a Tyranid.

I don't know how many times the Doom has killed off almost an entire army, by himself.

I once took my entire Ork army and tried to kill Canus Wolfborn. In one turn I rolled well over 200 die. I dealt a single wound.

 Happyjew wrote:

 Tiny_Titan wrote:
Does anyone have a character in their army that they consider the master of all heroes/villains? a model who has saved them many times? a model who has slain many foes? many generals? many armies? ...... one such character i have is my mega warboss. sometimes wiping out wraithknights on his own, defeating foe after foe in challenges, and even saving me from being wiped on occasion to somehow win me the game.

Does the Doom of Malan'tai count? Or as I like to call him "The Doom of everyone who is not a Tyranid.

I don't know how many times the Doom has killed off almost an entire army, by himself.

Of course he counts! im not too familiar with the doom of malan'tai, i know he has psychic powers, but what are his offensive capabilities?

 Tiny_Titan wrote:
Does anyone have a character in their army that they consider the master of all heroes/villains? a model who has saved them many times? a model who has slain many foes? many generals? many armies? ...... one such character i have is my mega warboss. sometimes wiping out wraithknights on his own, defeating foe after foe in challenges, and even saving me from being wiped on occasion to somehow win me the game.

My Necron Overlord. Sometimes on a barge, sometimes with his bodyguards. Every time, he kills gak and stands back up numerous times. He's also overrun two commanders and a Riptide in a single combat.

Also, Tyranid Prime. Back in 6th Ed. he got charged by a warboss and unit of nobz all on bikes, while all my Tyranid Warriors died horribly, he took on the whole unit, killed the Warboss in a challenge, and killed the remaining nobz in a sweeping advance. Then in another game, went up against a Chaos Lord on a bike in a unit of Chaos Spawn and Insta gibbed most of them. He's always done well for me.

Last game, the superior of a dominion squad was the lone survivor of her unit that had been shot at by eleven kabalite warriors at rapid-fire range. However, as it was a zone mortalis game, said eleven warriors were all packed in a corner in base-to-base contact. She grabs a frag grenade, scores a hit, and kills four warriors. The remaining seven then fled off the table.

...then the grenade went off

She has been renamed Sister Norris afterwards in honour of her heroism. Unfortunately, she did not survive the battle as she ran into a trio of pissed-off incubi the turn after...

a ork warboss passing a invulnerable save on a Krak missile direct hit from one foot away, only could have lived on a 6, guess what my friends only real decent roll was a 6....

in a change of luck my Chaplin survived every save, multiple ordinance hits, and proceded to help wipe 2 entire mobz of boys off the table with sternguard and my chapter master.

anyone had any epic encounters or tales of conquest recently?

Round 2, 10 bases of scarabs Vs. 1 Space Marine Captain on a bike. 50 dice to attack, only managed to score a single to wound, which he promptly saves. Repeat this over and over, wtih him killing 1-2 bases of scarabs every round. Round 6, I get 3 spyders and 15+ bases of additional scarabs into the melee, hoping the Spyders will finish him off.

He promptly dies at the hands of the scarabs, before the Spyders do anything.

Played a game back in 5th with my de against my friends gk's. Long story short, the only thing he had left at the end of the game was Crowe and I still had roughly 3/4 of my army, but he still won because he had more killpoints thanks to my paper airplane transports...