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 Stormonu wrote:
First game in 10 years, Tau vs. Chaos Marines. Two full squads of fire warriors unleash into a squad of Khorne Berserkers.

I hit two, wound one. Berserker makes armor save with a 6.

Berserkers charge, kill the first squad to a man in one glorious round, turn to the second.

Remaining Tau warriors back up and fire. No hits. Berserkers charge, kill everyone in the Tau squad but the Shau'si. He rolls a 2 for his leadership test.

Locked in H-2-H, I issue a challenge. Berserker accepts. Somehow, the Tau kills the Berserker. The rest of the Beserkers fail their morale check. Single Tau runs them down.

"That'll learn 'em!" he shouts before retiring from the field.

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Running Joke: My son, who runs the aforementioned Chaos Marines, has terrible luck with deep striking his Terminators. Three games in a row, they failed to show up for the entire battle. We "forged the narrative" they were away having beer & pizza back at HQ while the fight raged on. ("Hey, Matt - those guys getting killed on TV looked a lot like our brothers. What's the chances?" "Oh - snap. That reminds me, the commander sent us orders earlier. It's got some numbers on it, like co-ordinates or something...")

Finally, in a game with me playing Tyranids, my Mawloc at first fails to show up when Deep Striking. We "Forge the Narrative" he's delivering Pizza to the terminators. Next turn the Terminators arrive from Deep Strike, as does the Mawloc - except the Terminators scatter off the board and are destroyed. Once again, we "Forge the Narrative"...

Mawloc: "Knock, Knock."
Chaos Terminators: "Must be the Pizza guy, I'll get it."
Mawloc: "LANDSHARK!!! Nom! Nom!"
*Poof* Mawloc arrives at battlefield.
Mawloc: "Mmm. Need more canned meat. C'mere Khorne Flakes..."

This guy gets it

Some Nids shoot some guardians.
-'Leadership test'
-'9. Farseer in the unit. I pass.'
-*measures 24"* "Shadow in the warp haaaarder..."
-*laughs* 'I laughed. It counts'. My Guardians break.

once my chaos lord charged a knight and punched it in the face with a power fist, then charged a second knight and did the same thing, walking away unharmed, he lost his one remaining wound after the series of events to a lasgun


or a squad of tau fire warriors charging a reaver titan and destroying it with haywire grenades, then killing Kaldor draigo in the assault phase.

"The rest of the Beserkers fail their morale check." Hey bud not trying to sound condescending, but Berzerkers can't fail moral checks they are fearless! If you were playing with ogryn berzerkers (from the AI: 13 renegades and heretics) they can fail, but standard CSM codex Berzerkers have the special rule "Fearless" allowing them to instantly pass that type of test. If your son is running ogryn berzerkers I would actually like to a batrep of your's because I'm making a renegade army and want to see if they are any good. Have a good day Stormonu!

In a tournament game, one of my Dark Angels tactical squads (actually, half the squad since I had split them into combat squads) was singled out for destruction by a Tau Sky Ray (he didn't like the plasma cannon they were carrying). My opponent hits both markerlights and fires all 6 seeker missiles and the smart missile system into the marines, hitting with most if not all of the weapons. Through a combination of die rolls, not a single one of my marines died. A Deathwing terminator squad later killed that sky ray with their fists. Unfortunately, those muhreens got pulverised next turn by some missilesides and I lost the game, but that moment was great and made the game for me. Earlier in that same game, I killed one member of a 3-man crisis team with an attack bike, and the other two failed their morale check and said "F*** this!" and ran off the board. Great memories...

Tau holding their own in combat against my grey knights, I kept failing my wounds and he kept plucking off a PAGK each round and I kept my passing my ld check, this went on for 4 whole turns and we still were in combat at the end of turn 7

 Stormonu wrote:
The rest of the Beserkers fail their morale check. Single Tau runs them down.

I thought zerkers are fearless.

Chaos Lord (sigil, claw, fist) and unit of possessed assault a squad of dominions with two priests.

Dominions all survive. Chaos all die. Three turns of insanity rolling.

Shaken Leman Russ Exterminator in 6th fires his Hunter Killer Missile at a fresh Ork Stompa.

6 to hit, 6 to pen, 6 for an Explode result, followed by two more (as these were open ended before the Apoc update). Final death result? Another 6; APOCALYPTIC EXPLOSION.

One Stompa, 15 Nobs, 3 Rhinos, 25 Khorne Bersekers, 7 Nob Bikers and one very unlucky Necron warrior all dead. Best 10 points I ever spent.

Also: Hammer of Wrath killing a full-health Bloodthirster from Space marines using mantis warrior tactics.

The champions of Khorne are evidently vulnerable to headbutts.

1) Saint Celestine and a few Seraphim charge a Tau Drone Team. The Serahim die in overwatch, at this point I am horrified, but Celestine wants revenge... and is promptly crumped in close combat by Tau Drones. This is 6th ed Celestine, on her very last wound.

2) A Helldrake zooms in on his last hull point, my plucky Guard Sniper levels his rifle. On a 6 to hit, he hits. Needing a 6 to rend to do any damage, I roll a 6. Needing to roll a 5 or 6 to have a strength high enough to glance, I roll a five. The Helldrake fails his invul and dies. Opponent walks away.

3) A single Death Company Marine is all that's left of my kill team, jumps all the way across the board, charges a Guardian Squad, kills their Farseer. The Guardians fail their leadership and are swept away by the one Death Company Marine

Necron overlord and wraithknight in close combat. WK failed its rolls 3 turns in a row and beat itself to death warriors just stood around in a blob laughing.

Crowe charged by dp survives with 1 wound dp on one wound. Second dp rushes in survives and kills Crowe. Passed the sacrifice roll took the fresh dp with him. first dp was gunned down by psycannons.

Dreadknight charges a riptide, DK passes its fear test, Riptide fails and runs off the table

Oh, several.

1) Playing a regular Kill Team game, and my opponnent has a Platoon Commander with a Plasma Pistol. He manages to roll 1's on both times he manages to shoot, fail his armour save and then be saved by his Medic.

*PEW!!*
"Sir, hou must stop your shooting. You are taking to much heat from the gu-"
*PEW!!*
"Damn it, Sir."

A game between Space Wolves and Iron Hands with a Knight.
I got to the FLGS halfway through the game, but early enough to witness one of the most epic marines last stands I have ever seen:

Knight charges a squad of 5 gray hunters, including a sergeant with melta bombs that was standing on an objective. Manages to kill two but loses 1 hp to the melta bomb. The knight player continues to roll so poorly and the SW player so well that it takes 2 more turns (so 4 fight sub-phases) and 2 more hp lost to dispatch the remaining 3 marines.

5 marines managged to lock down a knight (and go halfway through its hp) for half a game. The look on the knight's player (who later admitted he had made the charge for a quick objective deny) was priceless )

Best for me:

Back in the day of warp grenades a friend had an ork character who always took one and EVERY time he used it it would bounce back on him and kill his character and never anything else.

Same time frame watching an Inquisitor lord in terminator armor with a displacer field get completely jacked by a mob of gretchin. Used to be near impossible to kill them with solid hitting melee units, but the gretchin just lit him up.

More recently in a scenario driven game watching a friend's dreadnought lose both arm weapons still charging into enemy units and kicking the crap out of them. Was just insanely funny as it just kept going and going.

Skriker

My friend charged a squad of Incubi with Drahzar into my Necrons warriors, I overwatched, scored 5 hits, and he took all the hits on Drahzar and rolled four 1's! That and the combination of his face was just so priceless, I've never laughed so much in a game before lmao.

 koooaei wrote:

 Stormonu wrote:
The rest of the Beserkers fail their morale check. Single Tau runs them down.

I thought zerkers are fearless.

Oh good i wasn't the only one that saw that glaring issue.

Though at the same time the fact that they lost Space marine level of moral against a tau in CC is still hilarious.

Last game im using my deldar against termi heavy sentinals with 3 storm talons most of his termies are dead so i snap shot 4 haywire blastera at a talon he dosent jink 2 hits 2 glances boom. A similar thing last year with my necros against eldar with there 2+jink cover save fighter 2 warriors all thats left of a squad snap at it dosent jink both hit both glance boom!.

My sons chainfist wolf gaurd was used in a mega battle he survived his land raider getting blown up 5d templates (aqulia strongpoint×2) over 2 turns and the 6th d kills him. My son promoted him to wolf lord and scince then hes killed 2 imp knights in cc and numourous others, he survives but his whole squad dies every game.

 jreilly89 wrote:
Recently exploded a friend's biker Libby on 3d6 Leadership into a Herald. He promptly shot him next turn, but it was still cool.

Had the same thing happen to eldrad, opponent was highly offended and put off. He almost packed it up and went home right then and there.

Had a bunch happen to the same dude in my army. All through 6th I would bring a unit of sniper rifle equipped scouts. Almost every game they would be killed down to the man, and by that I mean THE MAN! Scout trooper Heidegger. He has single handedly killed 2 dredknights, and avatar of Khaine. In close combat he has managed to hold his own against a dark eldar beast star filled with razorwings, and hold off three zoanthropes while they kept trying to explode his brains for 3 full turns! Another time he won me a game by being the only scoring unit left on the board on either side when he cowered in ruins in his camo cloak on an objective while being bombarded relentlessly by an entire tank column of IG. He has earned his place in my 7th lists despite the nerfing that sniper scouts took this edition.

 Renesco P. Blue wrote:
Had a bunch happen to the same dude in my army. All through 6th I would bring a unit of sniper rifle equipped scouts. Almost every game they would be killed down to the man, and by that I mean THE MAN! Scout trooper Heidegger. He has single handedly killed 2 dredknights, and avatar of Khaine. In close combat he has managed to hold his own against a dark eldar beast star filled with razorwings, and hold off three zoanthropes while they kept trying to explode his brains for 3 full turns! Another time he won me a game by being the only scoring unit left on the board on either side when he cowered in ruins in his camo cloak on an objective while being bombarded relentlessly by an entire tank column of IG. He has earned his place in my 7th lists despite the nerfing that sniper scouts took this edition.

What made Sniper Scouts worse? They still seem pretty good.

 jreilly89 wrote:

 Renesco P. Blue wrote:
Had a bunch happen to the same dude in my army. All through 6th I would bring a unit of sniper rifle equipped scouts. Almost every game they would be killed down to the man, and by that I mean THE MAN! Scout trooper Heidegger. He has single handedly killed 2 dredknights, and avatar of Khaine. In close combat he has managed to hold his own against a dark eldar beast star filled with razorwings, and hold off three zoanthropes while they kept trying to explode his brains for 3 full turns! Another time he won me a game by being the only scoring unit left on the board on either side when he cowered in ruins in his camo cloak on an objective while being bombarded relentlessly by an entire tank column of IG. He has earned his place in my 7th lists despite the nerfing that sniper scouts took this edition.

What made Sniper Scouts worse? They still seem pretty good.

Technically lost pinning and cant something about vehicles IIRC

 Renesco P. Blue wrote:
Had a bunch happen to the same dude in my army. All through 6th I would bring a unit of sniper rifle equipped scouts. Almost every game they would be killed down to the man, and by that I mean THE MAN! Scout trooper Heidegger. He has single handedly killed 2 dredknights, and avatar of Khaine. In close combat he has managed to hold his own against a dark eldar beast star filled with razorwings, and hold off three zoanthropes while they kept trying to explode his brains for 3 full turns! Another time he won me a game by being the only scoring unit left on the board on either side when he cowered in ruins in his camo cloak on an objective while being bombarded relentlessly by an entire tank column of IG. He has earned his place in my 7th lists despite the nerfing that sniper scouts took this edition.

Scout Heidegger for presi- I mean Captain.

Nvm

This was way back when 1K Sons had two wounds:

Me and my buddy (1K Sons + IG) in a doubles tournament vs a double-Chaos team (double Iron Warriors I believe - they clearly weren't there to have fun).
The more experienced guy: 1K Sons suck. I'll charge my DP into them and wipe them off the table. You charge your Bloodthirster into the Chaos Lord of Tzeentch and score loads of points. (My Chaos Lord wasn't very tough, he was there to provide psychic heavy weapons.)
*Charges.* That's five wounds, so over half your squad (9 strong).
Me: What strength? Him: Seven. I take two rubrics off the table. Him: Nono, I killed five! Me: No, you did five wounds. They have two each. The look on his face was priceless. Over the next few turns my powerfist armed Exalted Champion kills his Prince.

Meanwhile, the Bloodthirster rolls somewhat badly, leaving my Chaos Lord on one wound. He had the staff of something-or-other that can stun people into not striking until the end of the next combat phase. I manage to lay a wound him, and the BT never gets to strike again as every turn I strike at initiative and get a lucky wound keeping him from striking until the end of the next combat phase until the BT keels over :-D :-D, while with judicious use of terrain and rhino drive-bys we outshoot their Iron Warriors off the table..

The guy who said my 1K Sons suck looked like he had eaten something foul after that battle.

My Assault Terminators, led by a TDA Chaplain, charged 5 Chaos Marines. They didn't get a single hit, and all died except the Chaplain.

He died in the next round of combat.

I stopped playing 40k not long after.

 monders wrote:
My Assault Terminators, led by a TDA Chaplain, charged 5 Chaos Marines. They didn't get a single hit, and all died except the Chaplain.

He died in the next round of combat.

I stopped playing 40k not long after.

You've obviously charged a unit of Alphariuses. Be careful with all those CSM. You never know.

Apoc game

Friend ran his Knight into a 100+ Necron Phlanx unit. Bogged it down for three turns. Ultimate Sacrifice at the end to take the unit out.

2nd edition...

assault marine with bolt pistol on overwatch shoots a rhino packed with troops, hits the cuploa, causes flashback to the tracks, destroys rhino, kills everyone inside, rhino flips and hits a landspeeder, landspeeder loses control, crases into a dreadnaught, dreadnaught explodes and kills more troops around him, including the rider of a bike. bike loses control, hits the assault marine, and he dies too.

both armies tabled (assault marine was my last guy)

A group of AM monkeys killed my old shard using their finger guns. Grr.

Played a doubles game (1000 points each) against some blood angels and militarum tempestus backed up by an imperial knight. My partner was playing astra militarum and I was SoB. This was the first time I ever fought an Imperial knight, and the blood angels player always wiped the floor with me any time I fought him (pre-7th mephiston was a beast).

Anyways, we are backed into a corner, turn 3 trying to hide behind some cover from that stupid rapid fire battle cannon and things are looking grim. Blood angels player attempts to deep strike a land raider but mishaps, finally a lucky break. He rolls and it turns out we get to place it. After some deliberation we set a plan, that imperial knight is getting awfully close and will like charge down a narrow path between two buildings to get to us. These buildings are literally the last thing separating us from their armies. So we place the mishapped land raider at the entrance to this path to block the Imperial knight for a turn, buying time for a miracle we need. The rest of their turn is rather uneventful as they have to position their armies to get better LoS on us turtling behind these buildings.

On our turn we get salvation in the form of a Valkyrie carrying some guards with meltas (veterans I think) and I had the forethought to start positioning my SoB with meltas to threaten the imperial knight aswell. The emperor smiled upon us that day as our meltas tore into the knight and felled the traitorous construct. I didn't know this but apparently when a knight dies it rolls on a table and different things can happen, the knight player didn't know it either since his Knight had never been destroyed. Spent some time reading the rules and rolling dice, turns out the knight stomps forward in its death throes... right over the land raider we had placed there the turn before. In one fell swoop we had taken out our opponents two scariest and biggest units. We used their deaths as a rally to charge are armies forth and by turn 7 we had pushed them all the way back to their table edge and captured all objectives along the way. A glorious victory for the faithful of the emperor!

Other small moments include:

-Having two eldar jetbikes beat the tar out of a completely kitted out necron overlord from their previous dex.

-Same blood angels player mishaps his landraider again in a different match and I place it in the far back corner behind a hill in some difficult terrain. BA players rolls a 1 and immobilizes, the LR and it's deadly cargo are now useless as it came in on turn four and they have too far to walk and LR has no LoS to anything.

-A lone eldar ranger falling back after getting assaulted by Hive tyrant. On my turn he continues to fall back but takes a snap shot, rolls a six, rolls to wound gets a 4, HT rolls armour save and gets a 1. HT had one wound left and so that ranger nets me slay the warlord.

-Most recently against the 7th edition necron dex I assaulted a squad of 20 cultists into a unit of 5 lych guard with scythes, a cryptek and oberon. The cultists were bare, not fearless and had no support. They killed all the lych guard, the cyrptek and tied up oberon until the final game turn where they finally broke and fell back. best 90 points I ever spent. Sadly that same game my ecto-forgefiend on turn 2 fired 3 times, scattered to my warlord, killed him netting my opponent first blood and slay the warlord, second shot scattered back and and hit himself, luckily he saved with his 5++, third shot hit but necron made his RP rolls. Rolled two 1's on gets hot and whiffed the dice on saves and vehicle gets hot rule stuff, doing two HP of damage to myself. Next round my 5 terminators DS but mishap, wiping them off the table. the forgefiend uses daemonforge, and fires 3 times, doesn't do any damage, doesn't get hot but then rolls a 1 on daemonforge rule killing himself. that game my opponent didn't fire a single shot at my warlord, terminators or forgefiend yet they all died. So painful... but dem cultists rocked!