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What's the most awesome or unique scenario you've ever seen for a minis wargame?

I don't know, but why don't you start?

I'm gonna put my own work forward:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/210/539582.page#6204331

My club does alot with scenarios, both our own and other writer's scnearios. Nothing too out there, but I think we come up with some good ones.

Our annual zombie apocalypse game is a favorite. This year (just last night) it was a shootout in a trailer park, complete with a dozen trailer homes, a playground, and lots of run down cars. Look for a BatRep in a few days. Here's the link to last year's which was set in an urban environment:
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2012/10/carnage-in-new-chicago-our-2nd-annual.html

At Little Wars a couple years ago we put on a version of the Mad Max tanker chase from "road warrior". That was a ton of fun, and got good reactions at the two conventions I ran it at. A 14 foot long board does catch the eye!
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2012/05/atomic-highway-little-wars-battle.html


Last year's convention game "Mech Attack" game didn't have as unique a scenario, but there were some twists, hidden objectives, etc making it more than a simple invasion scenario. Folks seemed to be really impressed by all the 28mm mechs on the table.
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2013/05/epic-photo-dump-from-little-wars-2013.html


Finally, our 2012 Song of Blades and Heroes campaign ended with a massive battle requiring each player to fight against a band of undead in their half of a town and then proceed to a second phase where they would fight each other to get on the last ship leaving an island that was about to be engulfed by a volcano.
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2012/11/song-of-blades-heroes-campaign-session.html


Despite the dominance of kill-em-all games or games drawing from a limited pool of stock scenarios I think there is much to be enjoyed about home-brewed or adapted scenarios crafted to give an interesting narrative to a game.

Once we did a for-fun scenario with random deployed reserves involving 6 different players/armies on a 8 by 4 board with an objective on the far right side.

Essentially, when it was your turn, you made a reserves roll for each unit in your army. If passed, you then rolled to be randomly deployed in one of six sections of the board.

It was pretty crazy.

Where do you guys find all these awesome scenarios?!

Often we make them up!

The Mech Battle and Atomic Highway game were both playtested a few times by the club before going to the convention, but the Zombie games and the Song of Blades Finale were both thought up by a member and played the next week.

The truth is that once you get in the habit of playing scenarios rather than just meat grinders, it becomes quite easy to create your own. Just start with a brief narrative or situation, assign some flavorful objectives and maybe add a few scenario-specific rules. Even if it doesn't run exactly as you planned (they rarely do) it'll be a memorable game and one you'll likely remember.

Often though we do borrow scenarios from elsewhere. If you want a veritable bible of scenario ideas for fantasy go here:
http://hour11gaming.blogspot.com/p/song-of-blades-heroes-stuff.html
It's every Warhammer Skirmish and Mordheim Scenario converted to Song of Blades, but it's a great resource for any fantasy (or even many sci-fi) games.

Here's a neat report from this summer. I ran a variation of the Caravan raid scenario and my buddy did the scrying stones scenario, both drawn from the document at the link above.
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2013/08/dark-days-of-qaarra-session-5.html
A great excuse to paint up the fantasy arabian warband I'd pieced together.


A really big scrying stone:

My Vampire Counts on top of a monument in the middle of the board that let me raise twice as many models any time I got a raise spell off while Dwarves came at me from one side and Orcs the other.

The objectives were to hold the monument so I got hammered from both sides but I was raising 30 zombies, 16 ghouls and 16 grave guard with one spell.

 Eilif wrote:
My club does alot with scenarios, both our own and other writer's scnearios. Nothing too out there, but I think we come up with some good ones.

Our annual zombie apocalypse game is a favorite. This year (just last night) it was a shootout in a trailer park, complete with a dozen trailer homes, a playground, and lots of run down cars. Look for a BatRep in a few days.

And here it is!

http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2013/11/doom-comes-to-sunnyvale-our-3rd-annual.html

Here is a nice teaser image:

There was a very memorable game called Bog-a-Ten which used the dinosaurs by HLBS and did demo games at several shows I went to some years ago. The set up was all water with some islands. You each had a party if adventurers in a small boat that had to go from island to island collecting pieces of a talisman that would let you make an attempt on the temple in the central island. You'd occasionally encounter various prehistoric creatures, dinosaurs and pterosaurs etc. but in the water was the dreaded Bog-a-Ten, a giant squid whose tentacles were the only thing you saw on the tabletop and could kill your entire crew and crush their boat in a single turn.

Another memorable game I saw at wargames shows was a submarine game split on two levels one above the other. The allies stood on one side of the table and played their ships on the surface, the players with the U-Boats played under the table and out of sight of the allies. A gamesmaster would run the game telling each side where they spotted a periscope poking out the water or where ships were spotted on the surface, and attacks were made by guessing where the other players' ships might be.

I played a game called "Was ist ein Space Ork, Ober Brau?" at Historicon years and years ago. It was Nazis vs. Orks. It was awesome, but the scenario itself was pretty standard. I played a great Aliens game where a few players took Marine fireteams from place to place looking for survivors and eggs then had to flee to a dropship while holding off hordes of xenomorphs. It was really cool and cinematic.