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I was just interested in people's stories for this one. The game can have been your best game ever for whatever reason you want e.g it was your first game ever, really funny opponent, a master stroke of tactical genius, killing Abbadon with a scout sergeant, Kharn becoming a Spawn or Daemon Prince, T1 tabling whatever floats your boat

Space Wolves vs Orcs, the two of us challenged with everything. I honestly think we spent more time calling out each other's characters and hurling insults than actually playing.

My best game was a doubles tournament campaign thing at the beginning of 6th edition. I was using my Tau (pre 6th ed book so no Riptides but plenty of nice S10 Railguns in the form of XV88s) and was paired with another Tau player and we were up against Necrons.

With how the campaign was set up, that weeks battle would be played using missions from some book which had different missions for each race, if a player had the book that is. As it turned out me and my fellow Tau player didn't have that book whereas the Necron players did and so they got to pick the mission.

This mission, it turned out, was horrifically unbalanced in favour of the Necrons. Us Tau had to deploy in a 12" wide strip down the centre of the board shortways, with the Necron players then deploying either side of us on both the short edges of the table. In addition to that, we could only hold units in reserve if they could not physically fit into our deployment zone. Victory in the mission was determined by killpoints.

So we had Tau with their 4th ed book and the 6th ed FAQ facing off against Necrons with their 5th edition Wardian cheesefest which had been designed for 6th edition, in a mission which gave a huge starting advantage to the Necrons.

Me and my partner maxed out the coherency of our units, spreading them out as far as possible through the deployment zone in order to allow us to keep some of our units in reserve as when coming on from reserve we could come on from anywhere along either long table edge. We also had an ADL providing some cover to some Fire Warrior units.

The Necrons had the initiative and opened fire on us with everything they could muster. Our warriors dived for cover if they could and we managed to get through that first salvo reasonably intact thanks to the generally short range of Necron shooting, but they were moving closer to us and our good luck wouldn't last long. Our initial return fire isn't much to speak of, we drop some Necron Warriors, some of whom stay down.

Turn 2 the Necrons continue their assault, their barrage of Guass shots whittling down our numbers, though our brave Fire Warriors hold the line firm for the Greater Good. Hearing the distress calls of the expeditionary forces, our Broadsides stride on to the board and lock their advanced stabilisers into position with their mighty Railguns zeroed on the Necrons armour. With a deafening crack, one of the machines vehicles comes crashing down, a hole punched right through. Another crack sees the Monolith judder to a halt.

Turn 3 sees the Necrons manage to wipe out several of our units, which pulls the Necrons ahead in kill points, though only by one. And then, just when we needed it most, my Hammerhead glides over a forest and onto the board. It's engines scream as it comes hurtling onto the battlefield at maximum speed and the main gun swings round, placing a unit of Necron Warriors right in its sights. A blinding flash and several of the Necrons are ripped apart by the blast, and some more by the follow up fire of the two Burst Cannons, however the unit isn't destroyed. At that moment there is the low roar of thrusters and a unit of Crisis Suits land on the battlefield, unleashing a barrage of missiles as they land, which shred through the remaining Necron Warriors.

And with that final act, the Necron and Tau forces withdraw, both bloodied as much as the other with neither side having managed to gain the upper hand, even with all the advantages the deadly machines had managed to muster.

TL;DR Managed to get a tie against 5th edition Necrons with 4th Edition Tau at the beginning of 6th edition

Went to a GT with good ol' white scars gladius.

After a 3 hour drive, I discover that the case my 9 pods, 5 Razorbacks, and 2 dreads are in is at home: All I have is 1500ish points of marines and a Culexus, all on foot.

I call my awesome wife; who begins the 3 hour drive to bring them, but I'm gonna have to go a round without them.

Round 1 opponent is Eldar, who ever since their 7e codex, I have a perfect record against in tournament play. (My wife has some eldar and I know them very well.) I deploy the boys on foot and charge. End of turn 1, he's down his warlord and squad, along with a wraithknight, as he forgot to account for cata-captain in the grav devs making them able to move and fire, and the Culexus caused a morale with his 3 psy phase shots from outside his scary aura, and his jetseer warlord and bike entourage rolled 11 and booked it off the table.

Wife showed up with my vehicle case just in time to see me win 6-5 without them. /flex

One of my earliest games, 5th edition, Orks vs Space Marines. I don't remember all the details, but we both went all in for damage and beat the snot out of each other. End of the 7th turn, he had a mostly-dead Rhino, I had Mad Dok Grotsnik with one wound.
I charged, because what else was I gonna do? Roll, hit. Roll on the damage chart. 6.
It explodes!
We roll radius, the attack obviously hits Grotsnik. Okay, roll to wound.
6.
Okay... Invuln save.
1.
Um... Feel No Pain.
Another 1.

Both our models off the table. No survivors on either side.

Space wolves vs Plague marines
The plague marines lost their only tank in the first round, 60% of their cultists [most of the army] in the second round then proceeded to fail every test and instruction for the rest of the game. They only managed to kill a single space wolf

One of my best games, although it was no skill of mine that won the day, was when my Necron opponent was running a Decurion with 2 Canoptek Harvests and a big deathstar of Lychguard + several characters, facing my Tau list consisting of a Riptide Wing (courtesy of a friend who had 3 Riptides), my Stormsurge, and a bunch of other stuff. I went first, managed to kill a few Warriors and one Lychguard who somehow managed to fail all his rolls (and that shot came from a lowly Kroot, no less!). On my opponent's turn, he used some kind of relic to teleport (Deep Strike) his nasty Lychguard blob behind my lines, hoping to assault my Riptides on the next turn. He rolled for scatter, and managed to roll an 11 with the arrow pointing straight off the board. He then rolled a 1 on the mishap table, destroying the whole 800+ point unit. He immediately conceded the game. It is my only victory against Necrons to this day (out of only 2 or 3 games played against Necrons ever).

Another good one was much more recent, and again I don't think it was skill so much as luck that won me the game. I had a Tau Hunter Contingent with an Optimized Stealth Cadre (only 1 Ghostkeel), a Firebase Support Cadre (1 Riptide + 2 units of 2 HYMP Broadsides), a Stormsurge in the Hunter Cadre, and a Drone-Net VX1-0 as a separate detachment. My opponent's list was a Farsight CAD with a unit of 2 Stormsurges, a Commander with a bunch of Marker Drones as his only Markerlight source, 2 naked Crisis suits as troop tax, and a separate Riptide Wing formation, and Coteaz. I managed to go first despite Coteaz giving my opponent a reroll to Sieze. I managed to get off a huge Alpha Strike, which started with me lighting up the Stormsurges with my drones. I then blasted one of the Surges off the board with D missiles from my own Surge. I had my Riptide and Broadsides all concentrate fire on the other enemy Surge, and thanks to the formation getting Monster Hunter (in addition to the nice HC combined fire bonus), managed to kill it as well. This completely crippled my opponent's ability to fight, and even with the Riptide Hailfire from his formation he couldn't kill enough stuff to matter. It was really the Go First die roll that won me the game, as if my opponent had gone first he would have annihilated me just as badly.

I can't remember one specific match that was glorious, but my tanks have made crazy moves that won the game or changed it greatly.



Most recent was my new Vanquisher tank that was using the Beast Hunter shells from the IA book. Kharne the Betrayer was rampaging around having just murdered his way through a tank and like 2 SM squads (I can't recall what the SM were exactly, except they were Deathwatch of some sort.)

"Sasha" the Vanquisher turns around and fires a single Beast Hunter shell right on top of Kharne and he dies instantly (Beast Hunter shells have a small blast, Instant Death) and it ends his rampage right then and there for the rest of his berzerkers to be melted by a battlecannon shot from another tank.

Same Apoc match. Giant Brass Scorpion tears through a Bastion, and an Aquila Strongpoint (the dude who owned it was bringing the cheese and exploting the rules for the match such as "troops come back after death" ala "send the next wave" kind of thing. So his troops were Knights.....) ANYWAYS! After the Brass Scorpion was shot by a TON of grav (and ignored 15 out of 20 shots due to Demon invuls or something), A lone skitarii that had escaped the bastion the scorpion wrecked on its way to the Strongpoint zapped it with his Arc rifle (1 hull point! *children cheering sound*) with a few more point removed by the allied Tau. The Last few hull points were taken by my little exterminator tank called the "Gladiator" who dodged the scorpions charge for the strong point only to wheel around behind the abomination and unload every gun the little tank had into the beasts rear end. The monster collapsed under the assault, the whole time the guy was bluffing (badly) that the explosion from the scorpion would wipe out everything around it for a good distance, including a number of Tau, Deathwatch marines and of course the brave little tank.



But it didn't happen, the beast exploded but the blast didn't go very far at all. The little Gladiator survived without a scratch but in the end mauled by the powerclaw of a Warboss. Said warboss was repaid in kind by "Sasha" with another Beast Hunter shell that vaporized him from existence.




Another match was two IG (my tanks with another guys more infantry focus). Enemy Chaos x 2 on the other end. roughly 24 Plauge marines tried to attack, unfortunately they started on the opposite end of the board. My Executioner tanks took the target. The Electrocutioner Telsa Tank unleashed its 5 plasma cannon blasts on the Plauge marines and killed 20 of them in the chaos. The act was repeated by the Solar Flare with a team of Havocs armed with lascannons, except all of them were wiped out to a man. I was lucky the Gets hot didn't get me.
But Chaos wasn't so lucky when the Executioners tore them apart.

Greatest victories have come very recently.

Sunday I played against Nids. Having lost only 10 assault marines on a suicide charge, 5 tacticals and a single sternguard model the only Bug I failed to kill by the end of turn three when the game was called was his Demachaeron. Man that thing is a beast in combat. What made it all the more impressive a victory was that having only limited time I had guessed at the points cost of what i had put on the table, working out later that i was actually at about 200 points disadvantage. This was followed up a couple of days later with a demolition of a 1500 point KDK force with my casualties in single figures.

A couple months ago I also turn three tabled a Relictors army for the loss of three marines.

Best game i ever had has to be when I was about 9 or 10 during my first stint at playing. My Ultramarines and my best friends Space wolves made a heroic last stand against his big brothers Nid swarm army (and I'm talking hundreds of gaunts with big bug support). Being a kid and playing a simplified ruleset his brother made for us made the game fast and exciting I dont think I've ever had a more fun game in my life and that memory will live with me forever and is what I credit for my continued addiction to the game today.

 Pr3Mu5 wrote:
Greatest victories have come very recently.

Sunday I played against Nids. Having lost only 10 assault marines on a suicide charge, 5 tacticals and a single sternguard model the only Bug I failed to kill by the end of turn three when the game was called was his Demachaeron. Man that thing is a beast in combat. What made it all the more impressive a victory was that having only limited time I had guessed at the points cost of what i had put on the table, working out later that i was actually at about 200 points disadvantage. This was followed up a couple of days later with a demolition of a 1500 point KDK force with my casualties in single figures.

A couple months ago I also turn three tabled a Relictors army for the loss of three marines.

Best game i ever had has to be when I was about 9 or 10 during my first stint at playing. My Ultramarines and my best friends Space wolves made a heroic last stand against his big brothers Nid swarm army (and I'm talking hundreds of gaunts with big bug support). Being a kid and playing a simplified ruleset his brother made for us made the game fast and exciting I dont think I've ever had a more fun game in my life and that memory will live with me forever and is what I credit for my continued addiction to the game today.

Man, those are impressive victories. I still put my interest in the hobby down to my first ever game too. I'd been reading my bros white dwarfs and talking to him about the fluff, and he encouraged me to go down to the flgs and ask if I could use their starter army. Predictably it was Ultramarines, and my opponent was a really fun guy called Callum, about 2 years older than me and playing a green tide ork army. I really didn't enjoy the first couple of terms, as I failed my shooting miserably and naively charged Tactical Marines into Ork Boys with choppas. I was about to make up an excuse and say I had to go home when I fired 4 frag missiles into those ork boys and killed them all, followed up by killing his Ork Warboss with an exploding predator. After that, I really started to pay attention and try to learn the units and the game. Still got tabled though

Easily the time I staved off my buddy's DE force. Game basically came down to me holding on to every objective for dear life with my Daemons while he tried to table me. It ended up being a close game, but I won because every dark lance he shot either bounced off my Soul Grinder or I passed my 5++.

Cassor the Damned wrote:

 Pr3Mu5 wrote:
Greatest victories have come very recently.

Sunday I played against Nids. Having lost only 10 assault marines on a suicide charge, 5 tacticals and a single sternguard model the only Bug I failed to kill by the end of turn three when the game was called was his Demachaeron. Man that thing is a beast in combat. What made it all the more impressive a victory was that having only limited time I had guessed at the points cost of what i had put on the table, working out later that i was actually at about 200 points disadvantage. This was followed up a couple of days later with a demolition of a 1500 point KDK force with my casualties in single figures.

A couple months ago I also turn three tabled a Relictors army for the loss of three marines.

Best game i ever had has to be when I was about 9 or 10 during my first stint at playing. My Ultramarines and my best friends Space wolves made a heroic last stand against his big brothers Nid swarm army (and I'm talking hundreds of gaunts with big bug support). Being a kid and playing a simplified ruleset his brother made for us made the game fast and exciting I dont think I've ever had a more fun game in my life and that memory will live with me forever and is what I credit for my continued addiction to the game today.

Man, those are impressive victories. I still put my interest in the hobby down to my first ever game too. I'd been reading my bros white dwarfs and talking to him about the fluff, and he encouraged me to go down to the flgs and ask if I could use their starter army. Predictably it was Ultramarines, and my opponent was a really fun guy called Callum, about 2 years older than me and playing a green tide ork army. I really didn't enjoy the first couple of terms, as I failed my shooting miserably and naively charged Tactical Marines into Ork Boys with choppas. I was about to make up an excuse and say I had to go home when I fired 4 frag missiles into those ork boys and killed them all, followed up by killing his Ork Warboss with an exploding predator. After that, I really started to pay attention and try to learn the units and the game. Still got tabled though

Thanks, trust me it doesn't always end so well. The day before the barbecue party where the Nids were the main course I was wiped off the board by a Tau/KDK alliance. Long story short, target priority was a nightmare where I rolled to one flank while blasting at the quickly advancing KDK and rolled straight into the Tau kill zone. My own fault but a few lessons were learnt. That's exactly what I'd suggest too though keep going and enjoy the losses because each time you'll learn something and in the end those losses will become victories. Sounds like a good game there. Sometimes you will whiff shooting but the good thing with marines is that you're never out of the fight.

First test run of my homemade Daemonhunters book that worked properly. 1850 v. Necrons, bloody, brutal, and close-quarters that came out with a 7-6 Necron victory in the end. My Inquisitor Lord got to punch out the Necron Overlord (mostly through fabulous 4++ rolls) and run down the Lychguard he was hanging out with.

My most absolute shut down of an opponent came back in the day of 2nd edition. We Played a 10,000pt game, my Eldar Vs his Space Wolves. Killed 80% of his force by the end of the first turn, I had lost 3 guys, he resigned

My DW heavy list when they could turn 1 DS, Azrael and vets in a pod, and some scout snipers, up against a tau list with 2 riptides, a bunch of broadsides, fire warriors, some suits and Farsight.. Long story short I end the game with just Azzy on 1 wound (he killed farsight and 2 other squads almost on his own) and 2 scouts left, he extremely outnumbers me. I would have died in another turn, but it's turn 7. He had insisted we play kill points (so he could hide in his deployment zone) but since I had all expensive units I had almost double his kill points, slay the warlord, first blood, and linebreaker. Yes, it was a massacre for my army, but by the Emprah we won. Maybe not my best victory, but one I haven't shared on this site that I can remember.

My greatest game was SM- SW vs my Eldar Corsairs

It was by far the greatest game i've seen, played and even heard of. I will never forget this game for as long as I live.

We both took Power lists (OFC my area only play comp list) It was ... just... No words to describe the awesomeness of the fights.

Put it this way, we both had multi ways to move each turn (move, SJS, Assault moves). Both had insane DSing units (He had Skyhammer I had WWP's) both had amazing Vehicles (Hornets, Wasp, Warp Hunters vs Speeds, Insane amounts of Rhino/Razorbacks, Fliers).

When we play 3k+ point Games we ALWAYS play 1 Maelstrom and 1 Eternal war at the same time. So with 6 Objectives and ending game objectives its just an amazing game.

The Game every turn was just insane calculation of movements. Moving in and out of vehicles, behind terrain, over units etc.. I've never seen so much movement in any game before. When you can move multi times it completely changes the game.


It was so long it lasted till 3am and we had to to call it with 1 turn (+random turn) with a score 11 to 12 and both of us still had at least 1/2 our forces alive.


For those that are not familiar with Corsairs, they had Jet Packs (Can Assault move and DS) they also have a special rule that if they make a Shooting attack and are withint 12" of target unit they can move 6+D6 inches away. They also have Special WWP that they can go in and out of (like GSC Cult Ambush in a way).

That with SM (specially WS) moving in and out of Vehicles and many Fast moving Vehicles. We were all over the table at all times.

EDIT: for spelling (english isnt my best suit)

My greatest game ever was the greatest because it was the first time I fielded an entirely painted army.

My second greatest game ever was the time I fielded an entirely painted army with no proxies.

They were both victories, both statistically and emotionally.

My greatest victory was achieved by a lowly Apostle.

This was back in 6th ed and I was running a very simple CSM list consisting of Chosen with meltas in rhinos, Havocs with Lascannons as ranged support and, of course, a flying Hell Turkey. Everything was unmarked, no psychic support and no min-maxing: I was a little fed up with running comp lists at the time so I tried something different.
I went against a guard friend of mine who had a standard Leman Russ, Veterans in Chimera and Vendetta combo. Long story short, by the end of the game I had the Apostle on one wound and a single chosen left whilst he had his veterans and his Vendetta (which had to fly off the board after destroying my havocs). Ensued a bloody combat after his veterans charged my Apostle and chosen in an attempt to finish me off, at the end of which the chosen had valiently given his life to protect the Apostle who had just killed his Comissar in a challenge. Clearly the dark Gods thought this was worthy of some sort of reward, so they made him into a Daemon Prince... Who proceded to slaughter all of my opponants Veterans in my turn causing victory by tabling.

And that children is why Mrhappyface is sort of cool with the boon table. (Sort of)

I've had a cultist champion get spawndom as a reward for killing Sicarius. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not necessarily Greatest Victory, but definitely memorable moment:

I was playing an APOC game and had that stupid Chaos Generator that would build power ever turn and do things to include explode. It of course exploded and when it did you removed everything in like a 24" x 24" Radius. Only person to survive was Abaddon with his invul save. So if was just epic to watch everything around him disappear in a cloud of dust and pink mist and him standing there all " I dont see the big deal guys"

June 6th 2006. 2000pt game Ultramarines vs Tyranids.

I tabled his force with the loss of only 5 random marines and a single assault cannon off a speeder.

I will always remember the battle of 666.