N0rdicNinja
11-02-2009, 01:52 PM
Throughout our Warhammer careers we're called upon to roll a countless number of dice in an attempt to massacre our opponents, more often then not throwing hundreds, if not 1000+, of the little plastic cubes around the battlefield in just a single game. As a result, every now and again, the impossible will happen, those 1 in a million shots will slowly fill the room with excitement as a string of rolls just completely dismantles all logic and for better or for worse you have a story to share for the rest of your wargaming life. Come forth my fellow enthusiasts, gather around the campfire and indulge us if you will, with a tale of extraordinary feets.
As for myself, I have two such stories to share, I was only personally involved with the latter, but I was in the room for the former.
#1.) Captain Crunch!
This particular event took place about 8 years ago, when 3rd edition was in full swing. The battle was between Imperial Guard and Blood Angles, and it was an extremely bloody battle to behold, the board was damn near empty by the end of it all. And there was one particular moment that, to this day, everyone in play group still reminisces about every now and again... the time the Death Company Chaplain, accompanied by 2 Death Company Marines, regretfully charged Captain Crunch...
Quick background: The Imperial Guard player was one of those people who just completely despises the idea of painting, he just wanted to play the game and gained no entertainment value out of the "hobbying" aspect of Warhammer. He did however paint a single model in his entire army, it was an Imperial Guard Captain with a powerfist, and since it was his only painted model we as a group felt he deserved a name... and he was known from that day onward as Captain Crunch.
Back to the story: The charging Chappy and accompanying Death Company made short work of Captain Crunch's underlings wiping out all of them in a single round of combat. This angered Captain Crunch greatly, maybe his brother was with him that day or something, no one knows, the only thing we know is he ripped the heads off of both Death Company Marines and then spat in the Chappy's face with the ever classic snake eyes on his break test. The Chappy, not impressed in the slightest by the Captains abilities let loose a flurry of attacks on Crunch! The Chappy was unable to land even a single successful blow... and before he had time to regain his footing Captain Crunch lifted his powerfist high into the air and proceeded to pound the Chappy into a bloody paste.
When this happened the entire room exploded in laughter and excitement, you would have though it was new years or something! XD And the fact that it was done by the only painted Guardsmen on the entire table only helped to fuel the "WTF!?" fire. =P
#2.) Dread of the Nightbringer
This story also happens to fall into the 3rd edition time frame, I was putting my Necrons up against a World Eater force. I had a Nightbringer sitting up in front of my force with a couple blocks of Warriors directly behind him, since I was playing against World Eaters I didn't feel the need to advance so I just let them come to me. About half way through the game I noticed he was send his Dreadnought directly towards one of my blocks of Warriors... so I sent my Nightbringer over to intercept him, which worked like a charm cause sure enough he charged the Nightbringer. I wasn't to worried, I thought I might receive a few wounds but the Nightbringer should be able open this tin can no problem at all... boy was I wrong. >.>; On the first round of combat the Nightbringer only managed to connect with a single attack and was only able to muster a stunned result (which was promptly ignored), in a flurry of ridiculous rolling the Dread managed to bring my Nightbringer down to a single wound!
Fast forward to the next Assault phase, unhappy with what just happened the Nightbringer all of a sudden flipped his lid and managed to connect with every single swing this time around! In the following penetration rolls I managed to roll at least one 6 which in turn blew the Dreadnought to all hell! This ended up backfiring however... the exploding Dread managed to wound my Nightbringer (back then a blown up vehicle didn't have a Str value, it just wounded everything on a 4+) and knock down a few Necrons standing behind him. Naturally, the Nightbringer fails his Invul save and proceeded to blow up as well! Knocking down even more Necrons. XD I think we halted the game for a solid 30 minutes while we laughed and shared what just happened with the rest of the room. =P
As for myself, I have two such stories to share, I was only personally involved with the latter, but I was in the room for the former.
#1.) Captain Crunch!
This particular event took place about 8 years ago, when 3rd edition was in full swing. The battle was between Imperial Guard and Blood Angles, and it was an extremely bloody battle to behold, the board was damn near empty by the end of it all. And there was one particular moment that, to this day, everyone in play group still reminisces about every now and again... the time the Death Company Chaplain, accompanied by 2 Death Company Marines, regretfully charged Captain Crunch...
Quick background: The Imperial Guard player was one of those people who just completely despises the idea of painting, he just wanted to play the game and gained no entertainment value out of the "hobbying" aspect of Warhammer. He did however paint a single model in his entire army, it was an Imperial Guard Captain with a powerfist, and since it was his only painted model we as a group felt he deserved a name... and he was known from that day onward as Captain Crunch.
Back to the story: The charging Chappy and accompanying Death Company made short work of Captain Crunch's underlings wiping out all of them in a single round of combat. This angered Captain Crunch greatly, maybe his brother was with him that day or something, no one knows, the only thing we know is he ripped the heads off of both Death Company Marines and then spat in the Chappy's face with the ever classic snake eyes on his break test. The Chappy, not impressed in the slightest by the Captains abilities let loose a flurry of attacks on Crunch! The Chappy was unable to land even a single successful blow... and before he had time to regain his footing Captain Crunch lifted his powerfist high into the air and proceeded to pound the Chappy into a bloody paste.
When this happened the entire room exploded in laughter and excitement, you would have though it was new years or something! XD And the fact that it was done by the only painted Guardsmen on the entire table only helped to fuel the "WTF!?" fire. =P
#2.) Dread of the Nightbringer
This story also happens to fall into the 3rd edition time frame, I was putting my Necrons up against a World Eater force. I had a Nightbringer sitting up in front of my force with a couple blocks of Warriors directly behind him, since I was playing against World Eaters I didn't feel the need to advance so I just let them come to me. About half way through the game I noticed he was send his Dreadnought directly towards one of my blocks of Warriors... so I sent my Nightbringer over to intercept him, which worked like a charm cause sure enough he charged the Nightbringer. I wasn't to worried, I thought I might receive a few wounds but the Nightbringer should be able open this tin can no problem at all... boy was I wrong. >.>; On the first round of combat the Nightbringer only managed to connect with a single attack and was only able to muster a stunned result (which was promptly ignored), in a flurry of ridiculous rolling the Dread managed to bring my Nightbringer down to a single wound!
Fast forward to the next Assault phase, unhappy with what just happened the Nightbringer all of a sudden flipped his lid and managed to connect with every single swing this time around! In the following penetration rolls I managed to roll at least one 6 which in turn blew the Dreadnought to all hell! This ended up backfiring however... the exploding Dread managed to wound my Nightbringer (back then a blown up vehicle didn't have a Str value, it just wounded everything on a 4+) and knock down a few Necrons standing behind him. Naturally, the Nightbringer fails his Invul save and proceeded to blow up as well! Knocking down even more Necrons. XD I think we halted the game for a solid 30 minutes while we laughed and shared what just happened with the rest of the room. =P