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This reminds me of that time 5 of my Guardsmen beat 5 Chaos Terminators to death over the course of 2 turns

 Damikeis wrote:
Nothing more satisfying then an enemy's weapon blowing up in their face. #Neveruseplasma

So that's why everyone likes playing against orks! I was wondering about that.

I once had a Rhino ram Farsight and friends they promptly ran off the board.

B1s1k7 wrote:
I once had a Rhino ram Farsight and friends they promptly ran off the board.

This pains me to read. The King is dead! Long live the King!

Not quite as epic as the above stories, but I had a chaos lord on Tzeentch Disc wreck a razorback, weather a turn of fire from a chapter master and his bodyguard, kill the remaining body guard with his flamer then defeat the chapter master in close combat, only to be turned into a spawn. He killed off the very top of the chapter: it's leader and his favoured warriors, only to be turned into a spawn.

The spawn spent the rest of the game playing hide and seek with any nearby marines, letting the rest of my force unleash on his other flank. Even in Gibberdom he excelled!

I still have fond memories of the first game of WH40k I ever played. A rather friendly chap went up against my Orks with his Ultramarines for a 500 point game to show me the ropes.

I had a group of 20-something Boyz sitting on top of the objective on my side, and he apparantly thought that the best way to clear them out was to have his Librarian with jumppack and its Assault Squad buddies jump right on top of them.

They lasted a full 10 seconds before the Boyz ripped them apart. Only lost three or four Boyz in the process, too!

On the other hand, this was the same game in which three lone Tactical Marines defended their objective from 4 Bikerz and a Warboss, who they ran down after beating them in CC. I like to think that my Warboss just got stuck in a window of the building they were in after trying to drive his steed through it in his flight, and that the Space Marines kicked the crap out of him while he was stuck there

On the Fantasy front, a rather memorable experience was when my unit of three Spirit Hosts was charged pretty much turn 1 by a group of five Retributors. Two of the Spirit Hosts bit the dust rather quickly but the last one survived three rounds of combat, in which he killed at least two of the Retributors, and once the Retributors were dealt with by the Grave Guard, I sent him around the battlefield to challenge the Lord-Relictor. Both my opponent and myself were rather impressed by his survival, suffice to say

Best part was that my Spirit Hosts are converted Skeleton Warriors with Hexwraith bits, so it was literally this one, tiny Skeleton sandwiched between five golden boulder-sized enemies

Epic duel between my corsair prince and a space Marine chaplain who had a single tactical marine with a rocket launcher helping out. The two leaders slugged it out with no deciding Victor, the the tac marine swung, hit, wounded, forced me to flee, and then caught and killed my prince.

Truly, the basic marines are more important to the universe than their numbers suggest!

I was playing warhammer fantasy, and my orcs ran into a block of skaven. They lost one ork, and ended up not killing not a single rat, but won because of a musician, and a banner causing my opponent to flee, and be killed.

One of the most vivid examples of this to come to mind would be the time my Wight Cavalry charged a big unit of Saurus lead by a Slaan.

The Wights killed a bunch of Saurus, the Saurus and Slaan failed to do any decent damage, losing the combat. I killed so many I now outnumbered them. They auto-failed their test because they were beaten by an outnumbering fear causing enemy.

They fled. My wights ran then down and killed them all.

The units to either side took Ld tests for having a friendly unit flee by them. They failed. This cascaded across his whole army.

The last Tau Fire Warrior in a squad killing a Dark Angels Grand Master. In Close Combat. (3rd edition)

Tank Shocking a Archon and retinue with a Rhino, which then escorted them off the board (4th edition)

A TH/SS Term Sergeant beating a Nurgle Bike Lord in a challenge (though, to be fair, he killed himself with his daemon weapon). (5th Edition)

A Techmarine on a TFC killing a Harpy on overwatch with his plasma pistol from the harness (6th edition)

A brettonian peasant bowman champ beating a skaven warlord in a challenge. Or recently when a group of 3 brimstone horror pairs one shotted a knight titan to be the last thing on the board. (No one expects the D from a 30 point unit)

Back in the good old days of Guard (6th ed), when Marbo still hadn't gone into hiding somewhere inside the codex...

I fielded him along my gun line guard list against a friend's CSM. I managed to bring him into the game behind a CSM squad that had just disembarked from their rhino, and he proceeded to blast 7 out of 10 into warpdust, chipping the rhino too, with his pie plate bomb. The remaining 3 of course turned to fire their bolters at the unexpected assailant, but thanks to some bad rolls and a dodgy 6+ stealth save he managed to live on to the next round with one wound! Marbo shot up one of the survivors with his needle pistol, and charged the remaining 2 - but alas, he was hit in overwatch... ...except he actually dodged the bolt again because of his awesome camouflage paintjob! Then he proceeded to chop the poor heretics into pieces with his superior speed, skill and poisoned knife, thanks to massive failure in armor saves.

Pretty neat 65pts investment to wipe a CSM squad clean off the table.

Another good one was when I managed to cast Okkam's Mindrazor on a unit of 5 empire archers, and charged two flanking units of 5 dire wolves, wiping them out in two rounds of combat, losing only one of the brave men.

Since we are onto WHFB my brother's Dwarf organ cannon deserves a mention.

Blew away three units of Wight Cavalry in three turns.

Clearly I ate a lot of silver coated lead that day.


Edit: Mara, ah yes, no one expects the mind razor'd archers! I'd take a horde of them, pretending it was for the volley rule, 'pop a witch hunter in there for protection from snipers' and the next turn they would charge forwards and prey for mind razor. Good times! My highlight was catching a vampire lord and his escort of ghouls out with this...

My poor opponent thought I was going to suicide charge my witch hunter out on his own . I figured 30 str 7 attacks on top of him would be even more effective .

My Organ Gun once mowed down all 3 of my opponents (VC) big gribbllies in 3 turns

eyyy careful posting all the fantasy related stuff. This forum post might get shut down or moved

Back in 5th edition, I had a single Deffkopta soak up an entire turn of Tau shooting in a 1500pt game. (Technically, one Hammerhead fired a blast at some Ork Boyz, but it missed, and everything else went after the Deffkopta.) He survived, then did very little for the rest of the game, but soaking up that fire definitely won me the day.

Carnifex charges 2 fire warriors.

Carnifex rolls 4 ones to hit.

Fire warriors roll two 6s to hit.

Followed by two 6s to wound.

(Carnifex is on 2 wounds)

Carnifex rolls to 1s to save...

When playing my imperial guard my Ministorum Priests consistently manage to defeat or at the very least hold off for several turns all kinds of nasty critters, from D-thirsters, to Logan Grimnar in his sled and a stompy Imperial Knight.

But last game I managed to shave off the last wound on a blood thirster with the Hymn that gives the priest Smash. It was glorious.

It has come to a point where my opponents consider my army to be primarily melee oriented, and there is not a single person at my gaming club who doesn't hate the "Damn Crazy Padres"

Squad of 5 Noise Marines with sonic blasters charge a 5 man terminator assault squad of the Ultramarine variety. Killed the lot without taking a single wound. I5 is not to be sniffed at!

Silly Ultrasmurfs...

Then proceeded to get tabled : (

Fun story: When you calculate how improbable something is and come up with it only happening 1 in (big number) times, the lesson you should take away from that is not that it NEVER happens.

Because what you literally just did is calculate how often it DOES happen. It happens once in every (big number) times. That means that factually, you have just calculated that it can happen and how likely it is to happen. Because the odds were not literally 0, they were MORE than zero, objectively.

 Pouncey wrote:
Fun story: When you calculate how improbable something is and come up with it only happening 1 in (big number) times, the lesson you should take away from that is not that it NEVER happens.

Because what you literally just did is calculate how often it DOES happen. It happens once in every (big number) times. That means that factually, you have just calculated that it can happen and how likely it is to happen. Because the odds were not literally 0, they were MORE than zero, objectively.

Generally sums up why I make so many WTF? decisions in games. Oh but when they work, sweet sweet candy.

I killed 5 Chaos terminators with a 5 man Tactical squad. In close combat. No casualties.

 Pouncey wrote:
Fun story: When you calculate how improbable something is and come up with it only happening 1 in (big number) times, the lesson you should take away from that is not that it NEVER happens.

Because what you literally just did is calculate how often it DOES happen. It happens once in every (big number) times. That means that factually, you have just calculated that it can happen and how likely it is to happen. Because the odds were not literally 0, they were MORE than zero, objectively.

Wat

In a game I just had my Imperial Guard Infantry Sergeant beat Abaddon to death without getting touched

 War Kitten wrote:
In a game I just had my Imperial Guard Infantry Sergeant beat Abaddon to death without getting touched

What kind of an hero is that!? Beating up a poor amputee like Abbaddon, for shame.

 fraoliva wrote:
When playing my imperial guard my Ministorum Priests consistently manage to defeat or at the very least hold off for several turns all kinds of nasty critters, from D-thirsters, to Logan Grimnar in his sled and a stompy Imperial Knight.

But last game I managed to shave off the last wound on a blood thirster with the Hymn that gives the priest Smash. It was glorious.

It has come to a point where my opponents consider my army to be primarily melee oriented, and there is not a single person at my gaming club who doesn't hate the "Damn Crazy Padres"

That's impressive. Isolated incidents are one thing, but enough crazy stuff to develop a reputation is a whole new level of awesome.

 gnome_idea_what wrote:

That's impressive. Isolated incidents are one thing, but enough crazy stuff to develop a reputation is a whole new level of awesome.

The fact of the matter is they're pretty unimpressive, all things considered. T3, no weapons, 1W, a rosarius.

But the Zealot rule, the fact they only cost 25 points each, and can roll for Hymns that turn sleazy conscripts into crusading death-machines can surprise the most powerful opponents.
I always imagine the guardsmen poking the enemy with their bayonets until they eventually stab through an eyehole or something