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Tank passes terrain check to move through a large building. Building remains intact, tank immobilises on hedge behind said building.

Autarch: Hey mr Farseer you know that spell that worked really well in the last battle, can you cast it again today?
Farseer: No sorry I know it would have been good but I picked 3 spell books at random to learn from last night, 2 of them are pretty much useless but I read them anyway.

Deep strike raptors scatter onto a single guardsman:

1. Guardsman headshots the sergeant, causing him to veer into the raptor on his side, sucking his helmet and head into the jet intake, second turbine snaps off and impales three more raptors through the stomach
2-4. Guardsman goes 'Batter Up!' with his lasgun and knocks the entire unit over 1km away in game scale
5+. Guardsman does meanlook.jpg and sends them back into the warp

all three of these things have happened for me

Someone throws their Demolition charge. Wind suddenly blows really hard and it flys back into the guy and blasts him to pieces. OR He tries to throw it with all his might and it just slips from his hand and explodes at his feet.

 Fruzzle wrote:
My opponent once fired a battlecannon point blank and it scattered behind the Russ, clipping and weapon destroyed killed the battlecannon.....wut?

As I've posted in a different thread: the legend of Son Goku's Terminators...

Deep strikes with 'is entourage of termies alongside a full assault team, grouphugging like it's the superbowl.
'nators have lit up 80% of a guardsmen squad and little else occurs. All brace for the inevitable laser light show on crack.

1. Lasguns kill one, ONE member of the entourage.
2. Executioner tank overheats the main gun, one of the sponsons lands smack dab in the middle of the assault marines, killing all but 2. The second sponson landing danger close to another guard squad.
-Warnings are hurled down shouting tubes and raucous laughter from the peanut gallery for a few minutes.
3. grenade launcher aimed at assault marines gets caught in Hurricane Andrew and lands square on his allied Ravenwing biker sergeant's hood ornament.
-More raucous laughter and insults hurled at Bobby the egg thrower, breath bated since the shooting phase isn't over yet.
4. laser pointer party goers manage to prove these blood angels could use some more polish for their armour in the near future.
5. Armored sentinel fires plasma cannon...which scatters into the nearby guard squad, killing a grunt and the flamer.
-Police are called in to suppress the rioting peanut gallery, official commentators Jim Johnson and Bob Bifford make comparisons to Dwarf team passing game strategies, and the match is soon called a draw.

TL;DR 8 terminators soak 2/3 of an IG gunline during a turn in which the National Airbending Association held impromptu dance lessons for people in red armour. We learned fast.

A Deathwatch Veteran squad is wiped out by 30K World Eater Bloodwhatsits... Except for the Sergeant whom is stuck in a challenge with the Sergeant of the Bloodwhatsits.
The rest of the Bloodwhatsits spend the next two turns sitting there and watching their sarge chase the Deathwatch sarge around in a circle, futilely beating on his stormshield that the sarge is cowering under in a reminiscence of a Monty Python sketch.

 MarsNZ wrote:
Tank passes terrain check to move through a large building. Building remains intact, tank immobilises on hedge behind said building.

I now want to model a building up to be a Walmart. And just imagine the tank successfully navigating the aisles.

Land Raider inmobilized in some ruins.

Wraithknight Strides forward to a mere few metres off him (1" really), powered up by his Craftworld Farseer visions of the future *in order to properly predict the future position of the inmobilized Land raider*

It miss (double 2 on dice ) the precog visions allow him to correct the shoot (double 1 on the reroll) .
The Wraithknight throw a Tantrum and kicks with anger the poor Landraider for dodgin his shoots...

I've had a guardsman throw a frag grenade that promptly scattered back on his own squad and wounded an inquisitor. Imagine what he felt.

 rawne2510 wrote:

 Dakka Wolf wrote:

 Battlegrinder wrote:
The inability to shoot into melee sometimes makes sense, sometimes not. For example:

The marine tactical sqaud had been ambushed by an understrength brood of termagaunts. Engaging in bitter, hand to claw combat, the marines slowly overwhelming the battered aliens, and one by one the termaguants fell. As the last pair of 'gaunts made thier final stand, the towering form of a carniflex appeared behind the marines, ready to unleash a torrent of bio-plasma that would leave nothing but scorched bones and melted ceramite behind......which it elected to refrain from doing, least it's attack also kill one, or worse both, of the termagaunts. The hive mind dared not take such a ruthless action, least the hive mind decide that the hive mind was too callous with it's troops and revolt against the hive mind.

That has popped into my head on so many occassions. I think it actually fits really well with some armies but not so much with others.
Guard would do it "That's it boys! Hold them down while I aim this Demolisher Canon at them. No! Don't let them up, keep them in the sights. Of course you're going to die with them - the fact you only just figured that out means your family really are better off without you."

I'd like to see risk and reward shooting into melee similar to when a blast scatters over melee. Every shot that misses its target hits your own stuff.
Big question though, what happens when Warp Spiders get fired on in melee?

Chaos Renegades with some character is allowed to fire into combat and even target its own models when firing barrage/blast/Large blast weapons

Guard/Chaos Guard - I don't care if they get it as a special rule, I just want to see it happen.

Recently in one of my games Njal sent out Nightwing at a grey knight techmarine that I cast misfortune on. Rolled a 6 to wound.

A bird flies straight through armored ceramite like a bullet through jello. FATALITY. Take that Ordo Malleus.

Had a beauty today, set up a corridor and tank-shocked a squad of Orks. I got greedy and tank-shocked over the first squad to land on the second.
First squad passes the Leadership test and his boys...um teleport? Burrow into the ground? Jump? Phase out of existance? To evade the Land Raider.
2nd had nowhere to go regardless of leadership results and got crushed.
But the first squad pulled a serious Harry Houdini to get outta that fix.

Brimstone Horrors (which is literally sentient fire) are harder to see during Night Fighting

 DarkStarSabre wrote:

 MarsNZ wrote:
Tank passes terrain check to move through a large building. Building remains intact, tank immobilises on hedge behind said building.

I now want to model a building up to be a Walmart. And just imagine the tank successfully navigating the aisles.

If it can make it through the carpark without throwing a track

This occasionally happens in multi-charges and challenges (bearing in mind you can only have one challenge per combat round).

Squad Tacitus engages the vile Tyranid Warriors in deadly hand-to-hand combat, whilst Sergeant Tactitus takes on the cosmic horror of a Tyranid Prime. Whilst the combat is ongoing, a scuttling brood of termagants joins the fray and generally gets under everyone's feet.
The Emperor smiles on the brave and valorous tactical marines as they miraculously slaughter the tyranid warriors, while Tacitus himself weathers the vicious scything swipes of the prime, and delivers a crushing blow with his almighty power fist, dealing 2 wounds. (The first instakilling the prime - assume the sergeant had been buffed by psychic powers to give him that little extra strength as I believe the Prime is T 5.)

Tacitus then stops, refusing to pummel through the horrific beast to squelch one of the termagants. The men look at him bemusedly.
'I can't possibly hit them with my extra attack.' Tactitus explains. 'They're not even the same unit!'

A regiment of traitor guard are on duty on the walls of a fortress.

Suddenly, they can see foot and paw marks appearing on the snow hundreds of metres away, but nothing else. A Drop Pod lands next to them, and a Tactical Squad of Adeptus Astartes disembarks from within.

The Tactical Squad then vanishes in a hiss if displaced air. Suddenly accusations of betrayal, the destruction of a homeworld of a chapter, and heresy can be heard nearby, but not directed at the traitor guard themselves. It's as if someone is arguing just nearby, and making death threats to eachother. Then everybody dies, with no enemy in sight.

It is later deduced by the strategos of the traitor guard that the fortress was attacked by an invisible electrodisplacing wolfstar, accompanied by Grand Master Azrael of the Dark Angels.

Running joke with my friends up at Uni, where a unit being shot at though the corners of three different ruined buildings still has the same cover save as being point blank to a chest high wall:

we imagined every round fired to be like the trailer for Killzone 3, with that bullet passing between three tight window frames, two falling [insert here] having a punch up, through a section of flying drainpipe, and narrowly avoiding hitting a tank shell mid-flight/ being gently blown by a breeze or ordinance explosion, all to land smack dab in the target's forehead (for failing the save).

In short, trick shots. The entire shooting phase, was trick shots.

One that I always came up with was for shots that hit on , wounded on , and got passed by armor save - congratulations, you blew his helmet off. Now he has to pick it up again before he hears the dreaded "Look out Sir!"

And lest we forget the immortal words of wisdom, "if you see Kharne the Betrayer in a unit of 20 cultists, It's not Kharne leading the unit, it's Kharne with 23 wounds (against shooting)".

Erm...something about GEQ dolphin diving in front of bolter rounds to protect the big boss at the front as they all book it towards the German trenches in 1916. Wait, sorry, got my wars mixed up there.

The mortar teams and F/O for the off table bombardments cannot call in corrections for their shots on the squad of Librarians advancing behind the invisible Vindicators because they cannot see the Librarians because the invisible Vindicators block their line of sight.

Typhus, Nurgle's Champion, Host of the Destroyer Hive, unleashing the Plague Wind Spell, Nurgle's Rot Spell, and his max attacks (like 9 or 10), still with all of his Wounds, into a unit of 10 Guard Conscripts (they had been whittled down a bit by a Plague Zombie horde). One Assault Phase later, and Typhus lie dead(er) on the ground as the Guardsman laugh and try not to gag from the smell...

 TheCustomLime wrote:

 JimOnMars wrote:
A rolling, thunderous battlewagon propelled by the tremendous faith of it's twenty boyz inside drives over a sprig of parsley. It's immediately immobilized.

The almighty Land Raider, the Godhammer of the Adeptus Astartes, the chariot of the Emperors Angels of Death, the invincible bulk that crushes mason underneath it's mighty treads... drove over a stiff bush and threw a track.

Some models should just be able to ignore dangerous terrain, yo.

Look at the design of the tracks (this goes for russes and chimera as well). There is no suspension travel at all and the guards at the sides of tracks extend all of the way to the ground. Frankly, it's humorous that they don't get immobilised more often (rubble should be automatic).

Using a Retribution Phalanx formation on my Necrons.

My opponent, seeing a 20 model warrior blob, proceeds to concentrate all fire at them, killing the last one 10" away from his last group of fire warriors.

"Whew, you only have your scarabs and lord left, and I'll easily gun them down!"

NOPE.jpg

20 strong blob auto return on my turn. Within rapid fire range. And so the great atomising of the fire team began, going down in Tau lore as "The great green glancing rape train"

 CrownAxe wrote:
Brimstone Horrors (which is literally sentient fire) are harder to see during Night Fighting

There are lots of great responses in this thread, but this one really cracked me up!

A squad of Skyclaws tried to deep strike next to my Imperial Guard Infantry Squad and mishapped when they landed on the Sergeant.

Little did they know Sly Marbo led that Infantry Squad

Mek gun grots being immune to lasguns. Coteaz being able to shoot a bazillion times in a turn. Zhadsnark being able to tank shock a stabilized stormsurge and evaporate it.

A Space Marine swings his power sword at a passing Ork boy, slashes through his body armor, prompting an enormous explosion as the Boy's scrap metal armor undergoes nuclear fission from the disruptive energy field tearing its atoms apart. The chaotic battlefield is suddenly washed clean of all life in a blinding flash of light, a wave of heat that turns power armor to ash, and a shockwave that shreds everything in its path for miles as a mushroom cloud rises to the heavens. The few survivors on the outskirts of the battlefield, burned, deafened, blinded, bloody and pitiful, can never forget that day.

And somewhere, in an Imperial weapons lab, a scientist re-reads their notes to try to figure out what went wrong, and comes to the horrifying realization that they accidentally designed a melee weapon that cleaves through armor by making it undergo nuclear fission, and then distributed them across the galaxy without ever testing them.

The Imperium... BURNS.

Oh, supported by rules, not lore.

Umm, okay.

An entire Battle Company of Space Marines faces a single Grot.

When all is said and done, only the Grot is left standing. He slew an entire Battle Company of Space Marines on his own, without ever being touched by one of their attacks.

And this happened because you rely on dice to decide the outcome of things.

Let's see:

Iron Warriors and Necrons ally together, the former deepstriking in solo Obliterator troops in order to guide Deathmarks onto the field, all while Anrakyr the Traveller uses his Mind in the Machine ability to let the Typhon tank they brought along for the ride fire twice per turn.

Have fun with that one.

 MagicJuggler wrote:
Let's see:

Iron Warriors and Necrons ally together, the former deepstriking in solo Obliterator troops in order to guide Deathmarks onto the field, all while Anrakyr the Traveller uses his Mind in the Machine ability to let the Typhon tank they brought along for the ride fire twice per turn.

Have fun with that one.

That was a pretty easy mental image, actually. I pictured an Iron Warriors force making a temporary alliance with a local Necron force against a common enemy on the same planet. They then coordinate their efforts to mutually benefit from each other's strengths. Obliterators teleport from orbiting starships into key locations, carrying beacons that allow the Necrons to get their Deathmarks where they need to go more easily. A powerful Necron sorcerer rides along with a powerful Chaos tank, using his abilities to double the tank's firing rate without detriment to the tank's functioning.

The only part left out is who they're fighting against, because you never mentioned who the enemy were.

Guardsman Joe sees a flyer with jet engines zooming by overhead. As it passes over him, he throws a krak grenade into the air, hitting the rear side of the flyer and destroying it.

The very idea that the Riptide or Wraithknight could be mistaken as CREATURES.

 Dakka Wolf wrote:
The very idea that the Riptide or Wraithknight could be mistaken as CREATURES.

Nemesis Dreadknight too.