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**Pacific**

ChiliPowderKeg wrote:Every bit of artwork depicting Crisis suits. Hell, even Adrian Smith couldn't do it right

http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=tau+crisis#/d1qqrky

**Asgeirr Darkwolf**

Great rules, bad model. Sorta the opposite of legion of the damned!

**Sandman**

Ah, another that I can't believe I missed earlier. In a game with my space marines against my buddy's SWs. I had a terminator chapter master tooled up in a LR crusader with a full compliment of assault termies. I scooted it down the edge of the board thus blocking off half of it. He surrounded it with bikers and then we had "the melta shot heard round the world" where a gray hunter melta'd the LR to death (4th ed). There went almost 800 pts of my army to poor placement and a lucky melta shot.

**stompydakka**

nosferatu1001 wrote:Hah, Try the BA codex cover. MUCH worse!

Got cajoled into playing for the Imperial side in a shop Apocalypse game. Had chaos warhound (mmmm, my precious!) and a couple other S/H tanks there.

The opposing force landed 3 vindicator shells on my warhounds head, from 3 different units. FIrst shell downed a shield. Fair enough! So did the second. OK, but I still have 3 structure points so I will be ok as long as...

3rd on: Penetrating 6. 6 on SH chart - 1 structure point down, reroll! another 6, 2nd one down, reroll....6. Final structure point gone. OK, roll on SH dmaage chart - Yep, you guessed it, 6 - Apocalyptic explosion. Only rolled 30" range, but that was enough to S;D pretty much the entire Imperial army.

I simply claimed it was their fault for believing triator mechanicus would ever help them out....

loaded dice much?

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gotta be pedro kantor orbital bombarding a sterngard unit that was flanking and abolutely destroying my boys as well as their drop pod on turn 5. Game them ended giving me the 2 KP i needed to win. I was down by 1, so if he hadnt used orbital bombardment, I would have won.

**nosferatu1001**

Nope, given it was MY warhound he killed, and HE was rolling the dice. I then rolled the 6s on killing vehicles in my half....

They were standard GW dice, bought that day. He knows he will never get that again, dice gods being like they are....

**GalacticDefender**

An awesome fail on my friend's part was when one Kroot(not one unit of kroot, one kroot) killed the three 3 remaining members of a SM tac squad, and put two wounds on a SM captain before he was finally killed. (I love playing tau!)

**Gus_Papas**

Spending a whole turn of Tau (not mine, was borrowing to use in that game) shooting trying to kill 5 terminators, killing only one. Next turn the termies shoot a squad of firewarriors off the table and assault a second squad, the squad holding my one objective. After the game me and my friend realized that saves didn't stack. This made a big difference, as two more terminators would have died, and they would not have been able to drop the first squad and then contest.

**grizgrin**

In a recent tourney, I had 3 turns over 2 games where not one lascannon shot glanced or penetrated. Nothing higher than AV12 was targeted. That was a total of 42 lascannon shots.

**Pacific**

1) The latest Chaos Space Marine codex, which has reduced the most vibrant and dynamic background in the game universe into the most boring and characterless army on the tabletop.

2) That FW have released 3 books now which take the opportunities for an exciting chaos army to levels not seen since 2nd edition, but no-one seems to know or care about them. Perhaps because they are so prohibitively expensive? Or because people seem so preoccupied with 'tournament legal', even though if we were brutally honest tournament games make up a tiny percentage of the total number of games played.

**AspireToGlory**

battle Brother Lucifer wrote:
Seaward wrote:Thunderwolf Cavalry.

Blood Angels Captains.

Why?

Nobody ever plays them.

**purplefood**

AspireToGlory wrote:
battle Brother Lucifer wrote:
Seaward wrote:Thunderwolf Cavalry.

Blood Angels Captains.

Why?

Nobody ever plays them.

Plenty of people play them. Most people think they are OTT and ridiculous.

**Battle Brother Lucifer**

AspireToGlory wrote:
battle Brother Lucifer wrote:
Seaward wrote:Thunderwolf Cavalry.

Blood Angels Captains.

Why?

Nobody ever plays them.

Why?

**purplefood**

battle Brother Lucifer wrote:
AspireToGlory wrote:
battle Brother Lucifer wrote:
Seaward wrote:Thunderwolf Cavalry.

Blood Angels Captains.

Why?

Nobody ever plays them.

Why?

Plenty of people play them. Most people think they are OTT and ridiculous.

**stompydakka**

which is exactly why plenty play them

**Battle Brother Lucifer**

How are they ott?

**purplefood**

battle Brother Lucifer wrote:How are they ott?

They are S5 T5 W2 A4
With the correct equipment you can play shenanigans with wound allocation and they last even longer.
They also have rending in close combat.
Most peole say they are OTT because it's marines riding wolves... I'm not really sure about why that makes them redidculous but go figure.

**Battle Brother Lucifer**

Damn it guys. Ive been talking about BA captains, not twc

**purplefood**

battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Damn it guys. Ive been talking about BA captains, not twc

oh that's easy.
They are outclassed by every other choice.

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Although fair point i should have realised my bad.

**Locclo**

purplefood wrote:
battle Brother Lucifer wrote:How are they ott?

They are S5 T5 W2 A4
With the correct equipment you can play shenanigans with wound allocation and they last even longer.
They also have rending in close combat.
Most peole say they are OTT because it's marines riding wolves... I'm not really sure about why that makes them redidculous but go figure.

I was gonna say, since when do Captains get S5 T5?! Crikey, I'm playing BA now.

**Pacific**

Haha

**Doctadeth**

Ah yes. My team's gk squad trying to take the last wound of the dp. Then a mere imperial guardsman (I had two left in the squad) felled it with a lasbolt.

Oh and lord Hector rex taking on all demons, fighting on despite being hopelessly outnumbered.

**Asgeirr Darkwolf**

I thought of another one- my collection of unpainted minis... that must change...

Oh, and 29 heads for 5 SW! (Not sure if thats an epic win, though... I just wish GW would charge less)

**Alkasyn**

My two best moments came from my captain.

1st: Captain is alone after the retinue died defending his sorry ass. He closes in for a melee fight, but he misses the charge and is left in the mid of the field. Since its endgame, there's not much firepower going his way, and he only gets 3 wounds. He was completely healthy up until that point. He rolls 3x 1 and dies.

2nd: Last game, cap DSs with Sternguards onto an empty table. Al Rahem and his blob come from the flank, shoot at my dudes killing 6 but dont have the charge. Cap decides to charge them with what's left of the Sternguard. He and the 4 Sternguard kill 6 guardsmen in shooting, charge them and kill 20 more in melee in 2 turns. Cap's retinue died again but he didn't even take single wound. The blob had 3 power weapons, and a comissar.

**shrike**

nosferatu1001 wrote:
The opposing force landed 3 vindicator shells on my warhounds head, from 3 different units. First shell downed a shield. So did the second. Penetrating 6. 6 on SH chart - 1 structure point down, reroll! another 6, 2nd one down, reroll....6. Final structure point gone.

I can top that. Store apoc. game- I lent this ork kid who had crappy units my stompa (made out of a mr potato head) and a iggy player who had crappy unit my shadowsword domination force. the Shadowsword kid fired the volcano cannon. direct hit. instant penetration. chain reaction. chain reaction. chain reaction. wrecked. then, in the next turn, he shot his D weapon again on the only other stompa (despite the fact that we deployed our vanguard vets, shrike, korvydae, dante, more vanguard vets and scout bikers right behind it. direct hit. auto-pen. chain reaction. chain reaction. chain reaction. kaboom. explosion. killed the BA player's vanguard squad, 2 of my veterans, and killed dante. that was the 2nd and final turn (ran out of time). a very fitting ending to the game.

**Battle Brother Lucifer**

shrike wrote:
nosferatu1001 wrote:
The opposing force landed 3 vindicator shells on my warhounds head, from 3 different units. First shell downed a shield. So did the second. Penetrating 6. 6 on SH chart - 1 structure point down, reroll! another 6, 2nd one down, reroll....6. Final structure point gone.

I can top that. Store apoc. game- I lent this ork kid who had crappy units my stompa (made out of a mr potato head) and a iggy player who had crappy unit my shadowsword domination force. the Shadowsword kid fired the volcano cannon. direct hit. instant penetration. chain reaction. chain reaction. chain reaction. wrecked. then, in the next turn, he shot his D weapon again on the only other stompa (despite the fact that we deployed our vanguard vets, shrike, korvydae, dante, more vanguard vets and scout bikers right behind it. direct hit. auto-pen. chain reaction. chain reaction. chain reaction. kaboom. explosion. killed the BA player's vanguard squad, 2 of my veterans, and killed dante. that was the 2nd and final turn (ran out of time). a very fitting ending to the game.

Lets see if you can come through this time. Pics or it doesn't exist

**Althuran**

Few weeks ago, playing vs CSM. Immobilized Rhino in the table, my unit of 9 orks + Nob with PK assaults the Rhino to open it. The Rhino explodes, no one CSM dies. 8 orks + the Nob died with the explosion and the one who survived flee away.

**abaddon276**

was playing a doubles game, chaos and latd vs guard and DA, my daemon prince kills a lrbt only to get tank shocked by a second one the next turn, and with my luck rolls an 11 for his ld and gets autokilled

**FUUUUDGE!**

Guy deploys a deathstrike in his IG agzinst my eldar
he gets 1st turn
Deathstrile kills 4/5 of my army

**A Black Ram**

Monster Rain wrote:Punctuation and grammar fail rather hard on 40k forums at times.

You sir, most certainly do not fail.

**Brother Heinrich**

biggest 40k fails eh? I'll just have to start posting battle reports with my Imperial fists then, if what they do on the tabletop was reflected in the fluff, lets just say the Imperial Fists would be going the way of the Dodo.