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Earlier tonight I had a squad of 5 Slaneesh- Marked Chosen with Plasma Guns & a Combi-Plasma within 6 inches of Abaddon delete an Inceptor squad and pull the last 10 wounds off a Repulsor in one shooting + Endless Cacophony. Dropping 20 sturdy wounds off one unit shooting was SUPER satisfying.

Anyone else have some good similar stories?

Have sorta the opposite tonight though, it did make me smile. Took over for my friends Tau mid game in a 7th Edition game vs my friends Eldar. I had a few good turns before my friends Farseer managed to tank a missile fist broadside, a solid shot rail gun round, a drone and a path finder squad. Took a second solid shot to kill her, which skewed the game towards my friend. It felt very Eldar that her death provided what was needed for the win.

A long time ago (maybe the end of 3rd or beginning of 4th) my orks tabled a Grey Knights* army entirely through shooting**. I rolled a whole ton of 6s, and he rolled a bunch of 1s. I will readily admit that it was all luck and not strategy on my part, but I was used to my mostly foot slogging army getting tabled as they were slow and other armies could either kite them or kill them before they got across the board, plus ork shooting at the time was mostly dismal, and Grey Knights were considered kind of overpowered (at least locally). So when I not only pulled an upset win and did it through ork shooting I was pretty happy.

*Daemonhunters IIRC, but they were all Grey Knights.
**Technically I finished him off in melee, but this was back when Warbikes could shoot instead of making close combat attacks on the turn they charged so I'm going to count it as entirely through shooting.

I had a single Space Marine scout with a Heavy Bolter survive two straight rounds of shooting from four full squads of Guardsmen. It took a Basilisk shell to the face to finally put him down.

That one scout was sucking up all my good dice rolls though, I failed 3+ saves left right and center all game.

2 weeks ago my Marine lieutenant took the last 3 wounds off a knight in melee but.....it blew up and killed him, my helios, relic contemptor, and put 3 wounds on my biker capt. while it was bad for me and great for his sororitas, it was motherfunkin epic.

Old witch Hunters vs 4e chaos marines.
Turned up to a game to find the board set up with lots of low transport-hindering (but not cover granting) walls set at fixed intervals for range marking, opponent had already set up with a bunch of artillery and lash of submission on elevated positions.

A single unit of incredibly jammy seraphim proceeded to hit and run up the length of the board shrugging off turn after turn of ordnance and heavy weapons, carving up defilers and chaos marines.

They were annihilated instantly the moment the army ran out of faith, but by that point the rest of the sisters had navigated the maze untouched and overran the chaos lines.

On Tuesday I was using my Tallarn guard up against some Adeptus Custodes, led by Captain-General Trajann Valoris.

He was mostly untargetable due to being surrounded by troops, however at one point I managed to cut his human shield away on one flank.

An IG infantry squad was close enough to shoot him... I didn't bother firing lasguns at Valoris - a waste of time - but thought I might as well fire the unit's Grenade Launcher "just in case"

6 to hit
6 to wound
Save was a 1
d3 damage... 3!

Didn't kill him, and he used Moment Shackles to heal it later in the game... but it was so satisfying thinking of the look on the face of the infantryman lobbing that grenade and it exploding right in the face of a High Lord of Terra.

HAVE ITTTTT!

One of my most satisfying 40k game moments was back in 3rd? (where you had to possess units to get daemons on the table) and my mighty Bloodthirster made his debut, ripped his way out of a champion and was ready to lay some smack down. Then got shot off the board in the next turn by some Ratlings, that was funny as and immensely satisfying.

Waaay back in 2e I failed to properly interpret an event description of a game being run at a con.
Signed up.
Brought my 3k pts ( mechanized IG with Russ support).

And discovered that this was to be a brawl featuring Armourcast stuff. You know, titans & super-heavy tanks. It was bring 3k worth of whatever you wanted. It never occurred to me that this meant that I could completely ignore the army lists!
Yes, technically an actual army could be played, but.... Well, other than me, the next lightest things present were Eldar Wraithlords.
And it was a free for all where victory was to be measured by how many units you killed. "Uh-oh, everyone's looking at me..... :("

It was a tough 4+ hours. I gave away a lot of victory pts. I did not win.
To my credit though I dealt plenty of damage. Both directly (I came packing plenty of AT) & indirectly (I was a dangerous distraction. Yes, most of what I was fighting could vaporize entire squads. But when they did that, then those were weapons not shooting at some other monstrosity).
I also learned all about cover. And how to fight Titans & such.

Late in the game? I had a shot up squad of stormtroopers with krak & meltabombs hiding in a building. And an enemy Reaver stops right next to them. The player didn't even notice my squad, being more focused on a Phantom. The Reaver & Phantom trade fire. Neither goes down, but the Reaver is damaged. And play passes to me.
No better chance.... So I assault the Reaver with krak & melta bombs.
The resulting damage rolls set off a chain reaction that downed it!

Like I said, I didn't win this game by any stretch of the imagination. But I did get best sportsmanship for getting stomped on for 4+ hrs & doing far better than anyone thought I would.

That would've been victory enough, but it gets better.

Sunday afternoon rolls around & I'm in another 40k game. A guy walks into the room, holds up a pair of Reaver titans and announces that he needs $ to get home. $100 each.
One of the titans he's holding is my Fri. kill.
"Sold! I'll take the brown one!"
Best $100 I've ever spent on this game.

Back at the shop the next weakend people asked "Well, how'd you do?" And I pulled a fully painted Titan out of my bag. "Look what my storm-troopers captured!

Last night I had a a homunculus with the helm of spite deny smite off a Hive Tyrant who took his last three wounds from the resulting perils, exploded and took the last three wounds off the nearby brood lord and tyrannofex. and the unit of wracks near by made both their FnP saves.

Back in 3rd edition I had a friendly game at the FLGS on game night that turned from oddly satisfying to just feeling sorry for my opponent. 2000 points, my Necron (pre codex) vs his space wolves.

My list was 2 kitted lords, 2-10 man immortals, 4-10 man warriors, 5 destroyers, and 10 scarabs.

His list: Wolf Lord, 2 wolf guard battle leaders, 15 man Blood Claws unit, 2 10 man grey hunters, small unit of bikes, Leman Russ with autocannons (back when SW could have those), Predator with autocannon and lascannons, Long fans unit. (likely had other stuff, but this was 15 years ago and I can't remember).

On turn one I used Veil of Darkness to teleport a unit of Immortals and a second attached Lord behind the Blood Claws. The Immortals shredded the Bloodclaws, which failed their morale test and fell back into the unit that just shot them, wiping them out. Each Lord then shot at a different unit of Grey Hunters, each causing three wounds, each causing a failed morale test that made them fall off the board. The rest of my army took out over half of his bikes and immobilized/weapon destroyed both the predator and Leman Russ.

On his first turn all he had left were three characters, Long fangs, a couple bikes, and two nearly useless vehicles.

I've got 3 that spring to mind.

In 7th I had a game against Knights, I was bringing a Grot Horde. 180 grots, 2 weirdboys and a dakkajet vs 3 imperial knights.

I managed to kill a knight, and won resoundingly on victory points (I had every objective!). The knight lost a couple of HP to the Dakkajet, but the shining star was my weirdboy, repeatedly trying to Zzap the Knight, repeatedly getting Perils, Repeatedly overcharging and gaining Armourbane etc, and repeatedly charging! he killed the rest of him, before being stepped on.

The second, was when Deffrollas were FAQ'd to inflict hits during Ramming. My Tanksplitta (see profile pic) Battlewagon rolled through 2 Vindicators in 1 movement, and gained its name. and some sort of meltagun magnet, which was active from that point on.

The third was with a Big Mek with Shokk attack gun vs Nids.

Turn 1, I try to target the swarmlord but night-fighting prevents it (too far, by a long way!) So I target the tervigon and roll double 6's, direct hit, remove the model.

Mek's feeling pretty good, so turn 2, he targets the swarmlord, rolls "Zoink!" and immediately makes a 60" charge to engage with one of the best CC units in the game. naturally, he got eaten. :haha

First game ever using a Vigilator. Opponent is Alpha Legion who scouts up the board and I take a shot at one of his squads with the Vigilator. Precision shot onto a special weapon and take it out.

Felt very appropriate the first thing my Vigilator did was a headshot.

I won a 7th ED tourney against a Magnus + tons of FW mortars by getting a lucky Seize roll.
I was playing Scatter-bike Eldar with 2 WKs (it was a tourney after all), but had never faced Magnus before, I knew what he could do and didn't think I'd have any answer to him once he got buffed up. My opponent had gotten first turn and I had pretty much given up, even telling my opponent as such, but that we should play it out for points.

Rolled for Seize. Got a 6. All guns pointed at Magnus (there wasn't enough terrain to completely hide him and with Eldar movement, I was able to move the units to be able to see him).
I was able to drop him in that turn, but just barely. After that my opponent couldn't recover.
It was satisfying, but I did feel bad that I had a defeatist attitude prior to that. My opponent was not happy at all.
But after talking to some of my other LGS friends, they reassured me this particular player had a reputation for being TFG, so it made it all the more satisfying

What made it more ironic is that I used the tourney winnings to buy a LoC that I converted into my own version of Magnus for my Daemons at the time.

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None so noteworthy of late. Lots of attacking, lots of fleeing.

But I know when I successfully spend a command point to reroll a die and the reroll is better, I'll let you all know.

I don't expect it to happen any time soon...

Not satisfying for me, but still amusing:

I charged a las-predator tank with 2 Kastellan fist-robots. He overwatched, got 1 six. Succeeded in his wound roll, I failed my invuln roll. He rolled a 6 for damage - killing 1 of the robots.

The remaining robot managed to smash up his tank though, but it was still a pretty epic moment.

BL Wave Serpent outside Shuriken Catapault range did 15 wounds to a Land Raider in one shooting phase. With no buffs or CP used. Technically, the LR was doomed, but it didn't factor in.

The Farseer then popped the Land Raider with her pistol.

I think my dice we loaded that game.

Back during 5th edition one of my Exorcist tanks survived 20 Necron Warriors rapid firing into it with only an Immobilized result to show for it. My opponent was NOT happy that I could roll that many 6++s.

Aggressors downing something in overwatch is pretty satisfying. The guns are bad enough they can really only pull it off via sheer volume of fire, and its often close enough that you either get the feeling that you desperately fired everything you had and barely downed the monstrous hero charging you, or that hero survived an insane barrage to put you down. Either scenario feels pretty awesome.

ccs wrote:
Waaay back in 2e I failed to properly interpret an event description of a game being run at a con.
Signed up.
Brought my 3k pts ( mechanized IG with Russ support).

And discovered that this was to be a brawl featuring Armourcast stuff. You know, titans & super-heavy tanks. It was bring 3k worth of whatever you wanted. It never occurred to me that this meant that I could completely ignore the army lists!
Yes, technically an actual army could be played, but.... Well, other than me, the next lightest things present were Eldar Wraithlords.
And it was a free for all where victory was to be measured by how many units you killed. "Uh-oh, everyone's looking at me..... :("

It was a tough 4+ hours. I gave away a lot of victory pts. I did not win.
To my credit though I dealt plenty of damage. Both directly (I came packing plenty of AT) & indirectly (I was a dangerous distraction. Yes, most of what I was fighting could vaporize entire squads. But when they did that, then those were weapons not shooting at some other monstrosity).
I also learned all about cover. And how to fight Titans & such.

Late in the game? I had a shot up squad of stormtroopers with krak & meltabombs hiding in a building. And an enemy Reaver stops right next to them. The player didn't even notice my squad, being more focused on a Phantom. The Reaver & Phantom trade fire. Neither goes down, but the Reaver is damaged. And play passes to me.
No better chance.... So I assault the Reaver with krak & melta bombs.
The resulting damage rolls set off a chain reaction that downed it!

Like I said, I didn't win this game by any stretch of the imagination. But I did get best sportsmanship for getting stomped on for 4+ hrs & doing far better than anyone thought I would.

That would've been victory enough, but it gets better.

Sunday afternoon rolls around & I'm in another 40k game. A guy walks into the room, holds up a pair of Reaver titans and announces that he needs $ to get home. $100 each.
One of the titans he's holding is my Fri. kill.
"Sold! I'll take the brown one!"
Best $100 I've ever spent on this game.

Back at the shop the next weakend people asked "Well, how'd you do?" And I pulled a fully painted Titan out of my bag. "Look what my storm-troopers captured!

That is a great story!

Ork-en Man wrote:

ccs wrote:

Spoiler:

Waaay back in 2e I failed to properly interpret an event description of a game being run at a con.
Signed up.
Brought my 3k pts ( mechanized IG with Russ support).

And discovered that this was to be a brawl featuring Armourcast stuff. You know, titans & super-heavy tanks. It was bring 3k worth of whatever you wanted. It never occurred to me that this meant that I could completely ignore the army lists!
Yes, technically an actual army could be played, but.... Well, other than me, the next lightest things present were Eldar Wraithlords.
And it was a free for all where victory was to be measured by how many units you killed. "Uh-oh, everyone's looking at me..... :("

It was a tough 4+ hours. I gave away a lot of victory pts. I did not win.
To my credit though I dealt plenty of damage. Both directly (I came packing plenty of AT) & indirectly (I was a dangerous distraction. Yes, most of what I was fighting could vaporize entire squads. But when they did that, then those were weapons not shooting at some other monstrosity).
I also learned all about cover. And how to fight Titans & such.

Late in the game? I had a shot up squad of stormtroopers with krak & meltabombs hiding in a building. And an enemy Reaver stops right next to them. The player didn't even notice my squad, being more focused on a Phantom. The Reaver & Phantom trade fire. Neither goes down, but the Reaver is damaged. And play passes to me.
No better chance.... So I assault the Reaver with krak & melta bombs.
The resulting damage rolls set off a chain reaction that downed it!

Like I said, I didn't win this game by any stretch of the imagination. But I did get best sportsmanship for getting stomped on for 4+ hrs & doing far better than anyone thought I would.

That would've been victory enough, but it gets better.

Sunday afternoon rolls around & I'm in another 40k game. A guy walks into the room, holds up a pair of Reaver titans and announces that he needs $ to get home. $100 each.
One of the titans he's holding is my Fri. kill.
"Sold! I'll take the brown one!"
Best $100 I've ever spent on this game.

Back at the shop the next weakend people asked "Well, how'd you do?" And I pulled a fully painted Titan out of my bag. "Look what my storm-troopers captured!

That is a great story!

Seriously wow. Great ending.

Anytime a guardsmen kills literally anything with a lasgun makes me a very happy camper. I'm known for always having fun when guardsmen are involved. Are they dying in droves? Good they're doing their job. They shoot and do literally nothing? Good they're just they're to make you roll dice every now and then. A mortor teams kills an admech squad in melee? YES OMG SO AWESOME WOOOO CADIA STANDS!

Back in 5th Ed. I played a guy's Black Legion regularly as Tyranids. Regularly got beaten. Once took down Abaddon with a shot-up unit of Hormagaunts, which was fun. Still lost that game though.

Built a Blood Angels army, first game was against guy's Black Legion. Death Company and Chaplain smash into his line turn two and proceed to ragemurder almost his entire army.

Good feeling.

Had a moment the other day. My dice were cold as ice while my opponents were on fire and it was like that all game.

I had managed to take out his techpriest dominus with my Cannoness and was happy to claim myself a moral victory there. He then charged her with a full health armiger lancer; she managed to tank the assault. In my turn she proceeded to inferno pistol that thing and finish it off in assault. Very surprised at that. She then proceeded to chase down and finish off a second armiger at 6wounds with an inferno pistol shot up its tail pipe. She then died to lots of dakka in the following turn. But it was immensly satisfying to have her give me that ray of melta bright light.

Rolling 18 on 3D6 to check number of shots on my buffed and overcharged plasma destroyers, not once but twice in the same game. I don't remember what I was shooting at each time but it didn't matter cuz it wasn't there long.

A game on my table, My SoB's vs ravenguard (my friend was trying different things) He used Shrike and a strategem to get the chapter master and A 3 person unit of the primaris jetpack guys with a flamer/powerfist on each arm within 9" (I believe this might have been before the deep strike FAQ's). Anyway, turn 1 (he went first) he charged my Seraphim/cannoness group...and I rolled 3 6's with my two melta pistol sisters to kill all three....leaving poor Shrike (who failed his charge roll with a re-roll) to eat the whole unit and cannoness on my turn. We both laughed and restarted the game, and only THEN remembered the melta pistols were out of range for overwatch. Good thing it was on my own table with the regulars.

I've got a few, one of which was more satisfying for my opponent than for me.

One of them was in 7th. My opponent was rocking a Daemon Flying Circus list vs. my Khorne Daemonkin & CSM. He gets first turn, launches his guys into the air, and starts rolling psychic powers. I only had a few dice to deny with, and I had already spent them all earlier in the phase. He then casts Psychic Shriek on my Be'lakor. Rolls a freaking 17 on his 3d6. Be'lakor dies like a bitch. He then goes to Psychic Shriek my D-thirster. Power goes off, rolls an 18 on the 3d6. Bloodthirster dies like an even bigger bitch. Just like that, a third of my army in terms of points is just vaporized. I went ahead and played on, but the game was well and truly decided by those two amazing rolls.

Another one from one of my earliest tournaments in 7th edition was having Azrael's unit get charged by a unit of Necron Lychguard with an Overlord (my opponent's Warlord). The Overlord's warlord trait made it so he had to issue a challenge, so I said "what the heck" and accepted with Azrael. This was back when Dark Angels still had the crappy 6th ed. codex and Necrons had their shiny new one with the busted Reanimation Protocols. Anyway, due to initiative Azrael got to swing first. He did 3 wounds to the Overlord, who proceeded to fail every save and every RP roll and just died. Not that impressive really, and I went on to lose the game despite this epic moment, but since I was pretty new it got me pretty pumped, and this is why when I rebased Azrael on a 32mm base I put a Necron head on his base.

In my last tournament, I had a couple. One of them was Azrael risking his life to overcharge his plasma weapon and fire it at a Tau Tigershark that had only a couple of wounds left. I rolled a 1 and a 2 for his hits. Thankfully I was able to use his ability to reroll the 1 into a hit, and I used a CP reroll to turn the 2 into another hit. Only 1 shot wounded, and my opponent failed the invul save, which got Azrael the kill. I still got paddled in that game, as Azrael was one of the few models I had still standing, but it was a fun moment.

The other one was facing another opponent's Warlord Titan (that model was his entire army at 2000 points). My Knight Gallant managed to tank all of the big scary flamer overwatch on his invulnerable save (I had Ion Bulwark and I use Rotate Ion Shields as I charged), and made it into combat. The Titan had already lost a few wounds to my Hellblasters earlier, but the Knight used the Paragon Gauntlet and just smashed the Titan's face in, doing 32 wounds in one round of combat. And that was the fastest I have ever tabled an opponent.

Almost a year ago, I was playing against my buddy's BA; first time for him with the army. He fielded 4 different dreads and was very confident in their punches and survibavility. I was playing UM and took my unpainted Vindicator for the first time in 8th. In the second turn (he went first), he managed to make a charge with a furioso dread against my parked vindicator. In the previous turn, it had rolled horrible so I didin't really care much about it. Then I overwatched. 3 shots, 2 6s, 2W. He rolled, saved none. I rolled dmg, got a 2 and a 1. Decided to use a CP. got a 6. Dead dread hahaha
I have never taken the Vindicator again, for me (unless it gets cheaper or better), it has done its part this edition

In 5th edition, just after the ork planes had been released I went to one of my nearby GW stores to find a game since I wanted to test my dakkajets and burna bommer. Note that in 5th shoota boyz were stricktly better than slugga boyz, so all my boyz were armed with shootas. Rest of my army was a unit of nob bikers, nine kanz, a lot of lootas and koptas, basically all the 5th edition good stuff.

I walked up to a kid who is standing at an empty table without an opponent and ask him for a game. He asks me what I'm playing, I tell him orks and he tells me necrons, we agree on a 1500 points game, brakes off. He then starts to write a list and is ready to go.

In 5th edition you could have a combination of crypteks and c'tan shards that turned the entire table into difficult and dangerous terrain, you would lose models whenever you move, while also moving slower and charging less distance. He also brought the character that could one-shot all models with the same name (=ork boy) if you got lucky.

So I simply stood still with my entire army for the whole game and educated the little necron list tailor what Dakka really means.

By turn 3 some back-seat coach came over and told him that he was terrible for losing to orks and how there was a cryptek and C'Tan combo to auto-win against orks. He whined about how he had that combo and that the orks weren't moving but simply shooting him dead. Mr. Backseat-coach fell silent afterwards and stared at the game.

The character with the "kill all ork boyz" rule manages to reach my lines and I counter-charge him with my warboss (skilled rider in 5th, so unaffected by the combo) and he maths how the warboss didn't stand a chance. Dice failed, my warboss smashes the robot with the fancy hat. By now half the store is standing around the necron player, witnessing in disbelieve how he is getting shot to pieces by an ork army.

In turn 6, my lootas finally finish off the C'Tan which changes terrain, my koptas turbo-boost onto the objective in the middle. Game ends, I have 3vs2 objectives and the necron player only has two units of immortals left.

Whenever someone writes "orks should be bad at shooting", I remember this game, and simply know that they are wrong. I didn't even have hot dice or anything, the necron player just sunk so many points in ork "hard counters" that he couldn't handle all the dakka coming his way.

Sometime after the Eldar Codex in 8th
Webway Striked, a 5-man unit of Wraithgaurd in a crater near my buddies 3 Chaos Predator's.
1st round of shooting dropped one real low, so the next turn i fired at a different one. It proceeded to explode, causing the first one to explode, causing the last one to explode. the most beautiful chain reaction i've ever seen.
5 Wraithgaurd - 2 turns - 3 Pred's dead.