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**KaptinBadrukk**

Tell your overwatch stories. Unfortunately, I don't have overwatch stories to tell.

**dsmith10**

I had my Iron Hands chapter master on a bike, loaded up with all the goodies, lose his last wound to 3 fleeing termagaunts.... It's not overwatch but its basically the same thing

**El Torro**

My squad of 6 Inquisitorial Henchmen got charged by 2 Space Wolves, killed them both with Overwatching plasma guns.

My squad of 10 Grots got charged by a Thunderwolf with 1 wound left, killed it with Overwatch.

My 1 remaining Termagant charged a full 10 man squad of Grey Hunters. They didn't kill it with Overwatch.

I seem to cause more wounds with Overwatch than with normal shooting.

**oldzoggy**

I charge, tau overwatches my unit dies.

**Lammikkovalas**

I charge with my RW Command Squad. I have a Darkshroud nearby so Tau don't get to overwatch. They die.

**curran12**

Just yesterday, a humble Battle Sister's meltagun explodes a charging Contemptor Dreadnought. Not the first time though, I've also blown up Bjorn the Fell Handed with an inferno pistol on over watch as well.

**TheCrusadeSmurf**

Vanguards get overmatched by Scabies, they live. 10 hammer of wrath hits and 20 unwieldy Thunderhammers later and they lie dead and gone.

**MechaEmperor7000**

I had a plague marine die to Grot Overwatch.

from 3 grots.

What's worse is that I actually got wounded TWO times and failed one.

**Experiment 626**

First game of 6th vs. a friend's Dark Angels...

Turn 5, Azreal charges into my lone Obliterator, who'd missed every single shot he'd previously taken throughout the game. Nails Azi square in the face with a meltagun shot, Azi fails his invuln save and goes 'poof' in puff of ash.

Only afterwards did we re-read the new Overwatch rules and discover that the Oblit can't actually do so, due to being Slow & Purposeful.

Still, we had a huge laugh over it, and we simply decided that my Oblit had obviously slipped on some daemon ichor and just accidently aimed his guns in the right direction for the only time that game!

**Camundongo**

Despite having a higher initiative than Plaguemarines, all my Rubrics can do is stand around looking gormless (well, as gormless as a suit of dust possessed armour can look) instead of overwatching.

Or there was the time I had a Daemon Prince killed by a squad of 10 guardsmen overwatching with lasguns. He even had power armour....

**thraxdown**

In my last game I hit a Soul Grinder with a psycannon in overwatch. Which turned into a pen when I rolled a "6" for armour pen, which turned into an immoblized when I rolled yet another "6." My opponent couldn't believe yet. Even I couldn't believe it, I never seem to roll that good. The emperor must have been guiding that particular dice.

**Loon**

My blog of 30 gaurdsmen get charged by khorn berserkers miss all over watch shots.... Berserkers attack deal ungodly amount of wounds my unit fails to inflict single wound.... My unit breaks and runs.... Gets sweeping advanced....

**GrafWattenburg**

My mutant rabble blob, firing their laspistols against a Chaos Lord with the 2+ armour. I got a lot of 6s, got 3 wounds through, and my opponent rolled a 1, another 1, a 1 on Look out sir, and then, another one on his final armour save. The remaining spawn then failed a 5" charge.

My renegade infantry bringing down a charging Imperial Knight with a lucky meltagun overwatch.

**DirtyDeeds**

My story comes from the last RTT I played. I was at the top table against an eldar player. Last move of the game I had my stormsurge with one wound charge a squad of swooping hawks who's exarch had that ap 3 weapon. All of the swooping hawks failed to hit/ wound, except for one shot from the exarch...

Dead stormsurge. :(

That failed assault cost me the game; I went from a possible first place to third. :(

**Frozocrone**

Unit of Five Warbikers killed three Terminators in Overwatch...and on that day my IF friend developed a grudge against the Orks (and got Pedro Kantor).

**welshhoppo**

Five Plague Marines with two plasmaguns and one combi-plas get charged by five terminators and a chapter master.

Over watch kills five terminators and wounds th chapter master. Plague marines beat his face him and he dies with no wounds caused. Victory!

**MrFlutterPie**

My BSS heavy flamer finished off Chapter Master facefether as he charged in.

Bathed in the Emperor's glorious light he realized the error of his godless ways and decided to leave....to his grave

**Erik_Morkai**

5 Khorne Berzerkers charge the remains of a Fire Dragon squad (2 guys plus exarch)

Exarch's Flamer wounds 2 guys. They fail their saves.
The two Meltaguns roll a pair of 6 so they hit and vaporize two more with no save.

The last one makes it into combat but strikes after the exarch who promptly smacks the last berzerker in the face with the butt of it's gun. Fails save.

We look at each other wonderring WTF happened. My 3 guys are still there without a scratch and 5 Khorne Berzerks are nowhere to be seen.

The moral of this story? Weird stuff happens sometimes.

**Furyou Miko**

Necron Destroyer Lord charges my Sororitas Command Squad.

All four multi-meltas hit.

All four multi-meltas wounded.

All four Ressurection Protocols failed.

**jy2**

Be'lakor with 3W left and a 2+ jink save charges a unit of 5 Admech guys with S2 pistols. He then dies to Overwatch. Go figure.

BTW, this happened recently at the LVO 2016 to me.

**MarsNZ**

Chaos terminator lord charged my friends farseer and was ID'd by that spear thing eldar can throw.

**Yarium**

Just yesterday;

Lone Chaos Space Marine Biker charges a lone Terminator. Dies to overwatch. Next turn, same lone Terminator charges lone Chaos Space Marine. Dies to overwatch.

**FireSkullz2**

Logs and lots of times of had two or three (Necron) Warriors or Immortals left and have killed assualting wraithknights, dreadknights, dreadnaughts(in all flavors), and even gone so far as to do three hull points with 6 warriors on overwatch to an IK before. Needless to say my overwatch is generally better than my shooting phase shooting. And I love Gauss.

**ZergSmasher**

A few weeks ago I had a Ravenwing Command squad deal 3 unsaved wounds to a charging Dreadknight and then kill it after it made it into combat. That was after my grav bikers ganked the other Dreadknight on the first turn of the game before my opponent even got to do anything.

**Bobthehero**

Snap fired a melta gun (close enough right?) at the Doom, it had 10 wounds, killed it, good times.

**Furyou Miko**

Heh. Canoness overwatched with an inferno pistol in a 500 point game. Killed a renegade Inquisitor.

The really amusing part is that the rest of her squad also overwatched, and boltered down the three grey knight terminators he had with him.

Considering I only really meant to teach the guy not to put his squishy commander at the front of the squad he's about to charge with...

**Nilok**

Charge a small guardsman squad with my Chaos Space Marines, lose two guys to overwatch and then get stuck in for 3 game turns of whiffed hits and amazing saves. Eventually the Champion kills the Commissar and Sargent in challenges and runs away with the nearby objective with the last surviving Marine.

**StiXFletcher**

I play Dark Angels so every overwatch is a hilarious Overwatch story. Especially for my Greenwing when people charge my devastators. That or explaining to a tau player what the Ravenshield rule does.