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I saw this Video awhile back and immediately thought of the Crimson Fists incident, (Accidentally blowing up their fortress monastery).






So if someone were to make a 40K version of "Dumb Ways to Die", what things would make the cut?

Invade Comorragh

Getting shot by a Commissar for cowardice.

Exterminatus...... .....you miss the morning meeting and this is what happens

Attempt to negotiate with (any of the following - insert wide eyed Tau)

Dark Eldar
Tryanids
Chaos

Tell an Inqusitor to shut the feth up go to the back of the line......

Falling down stairs in Deathwatch

Lose a fistfight with an elderly Tau.

Drowning in a shallow river. As a Space Marine.

Kavyaan shrike deciding to be sneaky and outflank, only to burst into a bajillion rippers out of nowhere

... I love the parasite sometimes

 Crazy_Carnifex wrote:
Lose a fistfight with an elderly Tau.

Worse than losing in chess to an Ork

Lucius the Eternal dying by tripping over a rock.

Being murdered by a single Guardsmen whilst in Terminator armour in CC.

Celestine smacking into a window like a bird and dying on a dangerous terrain test.

Epic character dieing to "Gets hot" with his plasma pistol.

Being an Ork Warboss, and the biggest and strongest of the whole Waaagh!, just to jump on top of a destroyed vehicle in joy and die when you fail your dangerous terrain roll getting off

That's so cute.

If we're talking about things we've seen in game:
Ghazkull Thrakka dies to a Vehicle Explosion result (which happened to be just under 6" away and got a 6 for distance)

If we're talking fluffwise what's possible:
A Space Marine dieing from being tickled to death.

By far the most hilarious (and in a way, suckiest) death I saw in 40k was my Lord Commissar shooting Marneus Calgar for failing a morale check. It happened.

I had placed Calgar in the unit just for the absolute irony if this event should happen, and it did. Draigo or Mephiston would have been even better, but I hate GK so I'll never buy the former and the latter isn't an IC, so that's the best I could do...

In an Appoc game on the 21st(yeah, that was deliberate) my buddies Belial died in combat to Broadsides. He charges in, they manage 3 wounds. Triple 1s, and there was much rejoicing. My Warhound gave them a Turbolaser round for their trouble.

 Grey Templar wrote:
In an Appoc game on the 21st(yeah, that was deliberate) my buddies Belial died in combat to Broadsides. He charges in, they manage 3 wounds. Triple 1s, and there was much rejoicing. My Warhound gave them a Turbolaser round for their trouble.

I'm assuming Apocalypse on the Apocalypse was a common theme throughout the 40k universe, but I'm sad I didn't take part of the one here in MD =( Eitherway, Belial to Broadsides is pretty hilarious.

Funnily enough we only played about an hour on the 21st. We started setting up at 9pm, started rolling dice around 11, left at 1am, came back at 10am, and finished around 4pm.

Thinking you have the right of way over a Baneblade while driving.

An ork getting a headshot

Board a space hulk.

Sammael , gets hot with his plasma, fails a dangerous terrain test then gets killed by an exploding objective. In the first turn.

Or A Ravenwing sergeant surviving 2 rounds of a Tau gunline then killing himself on an Aegis defence line.

Both giving away first blood.
The first game was decided on first blood.

Ravenfail is more like it.

Khorne Chaos lord charging into a Tau Shas'o, and getting punched to death.

 Muzwa wrote:
Sammael , gets hot with his plasma, fails a dangerous terrain test then gets killed by an exploding objective. In the first turn.[/qote]

DAMN! luckly that's some odd combination of events.
You should have gotten the hint after the second wound though, going for the objective was outright suicidal

Grot shoots The Avatar. Avatar dies.

Two Eclipse-class Cruisers charges an Overlord-class Battlecruiser and fire their Pulsar Lances eight times. Two shots collapse the shields, but the other six shots miss. Eight squadrons of Eagle Bombers then launch attack runs on the same battlecruiser, two squadrons get shot down by turrets, the other six succeed in attacking, only for the Imperial armor to hold. The Eclipse-class Cruisers retreat, but the Overlord-class Battlecruiser and its partner (another Overlord-class Battlecruiser) opens fire, concentrating their weapon batteries against one cruiser, all six shots reducing the Eldar cruiser into a drifting hulk. They then fire their Lances four times at the other cruiser, and all shots get past the holo-fields and hit the cruiser, with the last shot causing a devastating bulkhead collapse that reduces the cruiser into a drifting hulk as well. Talk about bad luck

 Hedkrakka wrote:
By far the most hilarious (and in a way, suckiest) death I saw in 40k was my Lord Commissar shooting Marneus Calgar for failing a morale check. It happened.

I had placed Calgar in the unit just for the absolute irony if this event should happen, and it did. Draigo or Mephiston would have been even better, but I hate GK so I'll never buy the former and the latter isn't an IC, so that's the best I could do...

Can't happen in 6th. We can only execute our own men for cowardice now. You just pick the highest LD IG character for blamnation.

Shame, because that would be so funny if it stayed in.

falling to an IG Lasgun guy in combat as Abaddon (I saw this happen.)

Fluff-wise: getting eaten by a Scarab whilst driving a Titan