Luckiest models

[Gooball]

As the title says, what are you're luckiest or most jammy models you have :D
I for one have a guardsman that survived everything a landraider threw at him, got hit with that Space wolf hammer-thingy and lived and took down a terminator in combat. . .
I also have an executioner with 2 plasma cannons on it's side that seems to hit with at least 4/5 shots..
So far it has claimed over a hundred space marines, 50 tau 20ish orcs.. and probably 50-ish eldar (I take in it practically every list)

[eldargal]

My farseer with Howling Banshees. They have never been wiped out or routed, and have taken down targets like Abbadon with terminators and Ork warlord with meganob retinue, in one notable case taking down Abaddon and 10 terminators in two rounds fo combat without losing a single banshee. Neither my opponent nor myself could beieve it.

[Sister Rosette Soulknyt]

Well id say it would be my Cannoness (aka flying nun of doom).
In one battle alone she accounted for a bloodthirster, 5 possessed, 15 orks, a battlewagon, and a chaos sorcorer. She has only gone on to many victories since and accounted for more destruction.

Or a single SoB troop who for 4 turns was the surviving member of her squad to withstand a barrage of Ork Lootas, a skullcrusher and 20 shooters.

[fade_74]

My Catachan Commander got his command squad wiped out in 2 turns by a carnifex that was tooled up for close combat. Then he went on to survive 2 more rounds with it. He died in the end....but he put 2-3 wounds on it.

[ochs]

while 4th edition was around, i had a SM scout squad which was wiped out turn one by a stormtrooper squad except for their heavy bolter. this heroic scout mannaged to pass all his' last man standing' rolls, kill my opponent's entire command squad, and survive for the rest of the game.

[sicarius2424]

i had a seargeant on the enemy side survive a land raider crusader that had moved at combat speed, a 7ish stern guard squad useing vengence rounds, a rihno in a single round of shooting and of course it was annilation so that really didn't do me any good

[Kieranator K82]

Well I've had two of these actually:

Number ONE.
First Apocalypse game in my country. One Terminator Librarian named Infernus stared at three thousand points of guardsmen, loaded up with Leman Russes, Meltaguns, Plasmaguns and lascannons. Safe to say he was a prime target. He survived the game. Every turn, fifty odd lasguns shot at me, bolstered by high strength AP1 goodness. "5+ Invulnerable. You get this and I'll go crazy." "Time to go crazy!"

Number TWO.
Enter Captain Cato Sicarius. The challenger: twenty Dire Avengers. Bladestorm. 40 Shots. 36 Hit. 33 Wound. 33 Armour and Feel No Pain saves. Oorah!

[Commissar Lewis]

My "Iron Hand" Straken model. One time his whole command squad was wiped out vs. Tau, and he was left out in the open. So I ran him towards the ruin where my opponent's objective was, all the while he was getting hammered by pulse rifle shots. Finally my opponent shot the rail gun at him - hit, wounded. I rolled for my refractor field save - 5. The Tau guy couldn't believe it. Straken went on to totally clear out that objective, getting me a win.

[musical-fool]

I was playing DA vs. a Tyranid army (previous codex) and Belial and his squand of 3x TH termies, 1 LC and 1 powerfist were flanked and charged on turn 2 by genestealers led by an Alpha, survived all but one of the +5 saves (it was a TH that went down).

Turn 3 and a second wave of genestealers arrived on the other flank and joined in with the fun. Belial woke up and took down 3 of the stealers after surving the majority of the stealers' attacks. My LC termie went on and killed a stealer per attack! and I think the power fist was taken down but the remaining TH did some damage.

the next round managed to kill off the remaining stealers and Alpha loosing the TH in the process only then to be killed by a Carni who decided to join in too!

I lost fine but I was really happy to see some stealers bounce off my squad! :)

[fuzzbuket]

asurmen in my old eldar army he went with 5 avengers(no exarch) fleeted up to a fex and assaulted, 5 dead avengers 1 dead fex!!!! :P

other best moment was my furiso dread wiping out 2 tac squads and a dread (and much much more)

If space hulks allowed
missionII the one where youve got to block the exit or kill all the stelers
killed all the stealers and had NO dead marines! (fire lanes FTW) and mr. assault cannon killed about 30!

[Roth]

Not sure if it counts as luck, but a squad of my Khorne Berserkers washed their way through 4 squads of guards men, totalling about 60 men and if memory serves they didn't lose a single marine.

[Jwolf]

Before I went to all Tallarn, I played with Big Red's mixed IG a lot (as he had a ton of models and I was only slowly acquiring my own IG). There is a Catachan Plasma Trooper who in one game shot down two Falcons on two turns in a row, as well as I believe doing all 3 wounds to a Wraithlord.

Rico now has two Alaitoc symbols on his ratty Catachan vest.

[Shagrath]

there was that one time i had a khornate pocessed marine kill 45 orks and a 3-4 nobs on his own only to be killed by a power klaw armed nob...

[Fellend]

Either my Sergeant without any gear that stood alone through four rounds of fighting killing nids (whatever the small CC ones are called) twice. He's now got a nid head on his backpack as a mark of coolness

Or my Chaplain who in armageddon rushed in and meltabombed a giant epic soulgrinder of doom before it could fire a single shot. There was one very sad player, The chaplain even survived the apocalyptic explosion and the hate that followed throughout the game.

[Shagrath]

In one of the dumber decisions of my life I ran a Grimnar wing list at 1500 point scale meaning 12 or less guys.. and won a game.

[daddy troll]

On the flip side, I have a lascannon marine in a tactical squad who, if I'm honest, has probably never (at least not that I can remember), done anything. As an obvious A/T weapon his priority targets are opposing armoured units. If I get lucky and he actually hits, he will fail to penetrate. If I get really lucky and penetrate, he will get, at best, maybe a weapon destroyed result. I stick with him though 'cos when he does achieve something it's going to be really big.

[rbryce]

lol, ive had an immolator launch a HK missile through three rooms to take out a marine rhino(they do say unlimited range lol), and on the other side i replaced a canoness model as the old one used to get insta-killed on turn 1-2 every game.

[david5th]

A missile launcher marine in a ttaical squad when i collected Blood Angels back in 3rd Ed. In the entire history of that army he never died evan when faced with Nightbringer or a Carnifex in CC. During one memorable battle my tyranid oppenont became so obsessed with his death he diverted a warrior squad, genesteale squad and lictor to deal with him but he was still alive at the end. Magnificent.

[Craz]

For some reason, while my HQs absolutely love to give out on me, my sergeants invariabley refuse to die. Whether it's IG or SM, all sorts of wacky stuff goes on to ensure their survival. IE, a guardsman sergeant who has gone to ground in open terrain making 4 6's to contest an objective to win the game.

[codiddy]

On the flip side, I have a lascannon marine in a tactical squad who, if I'm honest, has probably never (at least not that I can remember), done anything. As an obvious A/T weapon his priority targets are opposing armoured units. If I get lucky and he actually hits, he will fail to penetrate. If I get really lucky and penetrate, he will get, at best, maybe a weapon destroyed result. I stick with him though 'cos when he does achieve something it's going to be really big.
ha ha my tactical marine who carries the lascannon always seems to roll 1's to hit during turns 1-3. he tends to redeem himself late game but I've seriously considered taking that lascannon from him and giving it to someone who will use it properly.


My command squad once destroyed a chimera with just their bolt pistols. they had nothing else to shoot at so i figured what the hell and blasted away. four armor penetration rolls, four sixes. they didn't actually wreck it, but they immobilized it and knocked of all the weapons (the occupants had bailed the previous turn)

[Fellend]

On the flip side, I have a lascannon marine in a tactical squad who, if I'm honest, has probably never (at least not that I can remember), done anything. As an obvious A/T weapon his priority targets are opposing armoured units. If I get lucky and he actually hits, he will fail to penetrate. If I get really lucky and penetrate, he will get, at best, maybe a weapon destroyed result. I stick with him though 'cos when he does achieve something it's going to be really big.

I have his brother in living with me. We should team them up. Together they can create such a huge waste of points that the world implodes.

While I'm at it my friend has a vindicator assassin that has never killed anything...

[papa smurf]

On the flip side, I have a lascannon marine in a tactical squad who, if I'm honest, has probably never (at least not that I can remember), done anything. As an obvious A/T weapon his priority targets are opposing armoured units. If I get lucky and he actually hits, he will fail to penetrate. If I get really lucky and penetrate, he will get, at best, maybe a weapon destroyed result. I stick with him though 'cos when he does achieve something it's going to be really big.

yeah, my heavy bolter marine is very similar. first turn, his combat squad all died except for him. his first turn of shooting, all misses. second turn he is ignored, and fires at the same squad again when it's his turn. hits all of them "yay, gonna mow down three guardsmen!" i thought. three 1's instead.
his name is brother rambo, and he has special issue ammunition: "epic fail" heavy bolter shells.

however one of my luckier units was just 8 hormaguants in the previous codex charging a full squad of khorne bloodletters and slaughtering them. epic win!

[RogueGarou]

UN-luckiest model I have ever fielded is my Soul Grinder. In all but one game it has died during the opponents first round of firing at it. In that one game it survived, it was immobilized on the first shot and was ignored because it could not hit with the pie plate. Over a dozen games with it and so far a total kill count of three Tau Firewarriors, a Kroot, and two Space Marine Scouts.

Last game of 2009 on New Year's Eve, I charged a Daemon Prince into combat with two Broadsides. Result of the very first round of close combat... NO wounds on the two Broadsides and one dead Daemon Prince. It was the only time I have ever been tabled in 15 years of playing 40k. I made a total of four saves the entire game, all 4 rounds of it, and lost every single model. This included a squad of Plaguebearers, Ku'Gath, who managed to fail six 4+ saves in a row and six 4+ Feel No Pain rolls in a row. He was killed in one round of shooting by a squad of Firewarriors. I had a squad of Bloodletters almost kill a squad of Kroot... almost but they were wiped out and left the Shaper and a Kroot on the board. The entire game was terrible. The total Tau losses equalled about a squad of Kroot and a squad of Firewarriors. 2000 points of Daemons failed horribly that night.

Luckiest model ever had to be a Necromunda Juve who would not die. We were playing a multi-player game and he got caught in between a Spyrer Hunter gang and a vicious Escher close combat gang. The lil Juve was pummeled and shot and kept going down but it was just a flesh wound. He wound up taking out a couple of nasty Eschers, one permanently, and a Malcadon before the other gangs bottled out. All on his lonesome, he held on in the right place and let the rest of the gang do their jobs and pull out a win.

[sangrail777]

Sanguines Preist Zylo in over 11 years of gaming has never been killed. He has been in combat against every race. He is just amazing.

[Commissar Lewis]

I have other stories of my Colonel Straken, if anyone's interested. I only typed out the one and not more cause I was tired at the time.

Anyway, in my mind his Crowning Moment of Awesome came during the last big apoc game I played in. The other side had An'ggrath the Unbound (used a Balrog as a stand-in which no one had a problem with)

Anyway he was wrecking crap so my regular CC was ordering my lascannon HW squad to shoot him and I whittled him down to 2 wounds. The squad got charged shortly after, so I needed to think fast. Iron Hand's squad (down to him, Marcella the Catachan GL chick, and a bodyguard) were nearby. My mp3 player I had playing in one ear started playing Iron Maiden's The Trooper, so inspired by that I got a crazy idea - I charged him. Passed the leadership test and charged in, gung ho and heedless of my team saying it was a bad idea.

Straken's squad's shooting missed. But my luck would soon change. An'ggrath surprisingly only hit 2 times, wounded both, killing the two other people. Straken hit with all 5 attacks, and wounded three times. My friend rolled a 4, and then a 3 and 2 for the invul saves. Everyone was shocked, moreso my team mates who insisted that my move was idiotic and not gonna work.

It was awesome because in my mind I had this badass DoW-like sync kill going on. Also with my bellowing "crazy, not gonna work, huh?" Straken was later brought down by a doomsday device and carried from the field to the medicaes, to fight in another battle some day.

[codiddy]

I have other stories of my Colonel Straken, if anyone's interested. I only typed out the one and not more cause I was tired at the time.


Go for it. I've been enjoying everyones stories

[Commissar Lewis]

I'll post another tomorrow.

[askariraven]

My luckiest Model by far had to be my one Uber Broodlord (past codex) with a squad of 8 genestealers, was up against a Tau list with 2 railgun hammerheads and 2 devilfish with full squads. the genestealers were taken out early but the broodlord was able to corner and kill both hammerheads (railguns kept rolling 1's at him) devilfish was able to hit but his impressive armor saves him multiple times. and the 3 12 man fire warrior teams were never able to touch him, he even wreaked the one devilfish, (the other wisely ran away) and then played with the warriors. it was epic! god i love that broodlord!

[Rift Knight]

Way back in the old days of Rogue Trader when you had to walk uphill both ways through the snow I was playing my friend. I had Space Marines and he was doing Chaos Squats. I had a Cbt squad get set upon by 3 Chaos Minotaurs. The Minotaurs killed all but one marine in the squad in the first round of CC. All my marine had was Boltgun, Bolt Pst, and Knife. He managed to over the course of about 10 turns (back then there were no game turn limits) kill all 3 Minotaurs. On the last round a Chaos Squat Lord in Exo armor on a trike rolled in and killed him. I was going to make him a Lieutenat if he survived. Now he is an honored veteran in his own sacophagus. Praise the Emperor.

[Necrontyr]

I have one IG Medusa artillery which is a lucky little ducky. In an Apoc game, it took out a Monolith on its first shot. In another game, it got rammed by a Vindicator and lived, then blew that sucker to bits. It has never been taken out in battle yet, I'm so proud of my Medusa :)

[Cyberscape7]

Honestly I would say my eldar rangers. I went into combat with a scout biker squad on turn 2. That combat remained until turn5!!!

[Capn Stoogey]

I have a Scout Sergeant who has single handedly carved through a Guard Veteran squad, plus many Guardsmen over several games, and so far has remained unscathed. Unfortunately his awesomeness is countered by my Captains ability do do bugger all except get ***** slapped by heavy weapons teams... in melee...

[Azrael71]

A fuuny Battle again Tau i deep striked my deathwing dread to kill the etheral. the only problems was that when i deep striked it i had to roll a direct hit because every direction had less than an inch away from terrain and the etheral and the table edge ans the broadsides squad. I made a direct hit i now call my dread lucky.

In another battle with Soulknyt SoB my LR Terminus went 5 rounds with a Banbelade before i took it diown in the 5th turn we hit each other but couldn't penetrate. In the same battle a battle squad was decimated by an exorcist but the rocket launcher SM. He took a load of shots from troops and the exorcist mind you he lost his squad in the first turn and survived the who battle in the open no cover i name him "Rambo" Just like rambo keeps getting shot and miraculously survives again overwhelming odds

Azrael 71

[Master Bryss]

Honestly I would say my eldar rangers. I went into combat with a scout biker squad on turn 2. That combat remained until turn5!!!

To be fair, they were Angels of Secrecy Scout Bikers (see the sig) and so are only S3.

I don't have any especially lucky units, but the survivability rate of my Redeemer is ridiculously high no matter what shots fly its way!

[blackarmchair]

In my old Imperial Guard army I had a veteran sergeant (bare bones just a laspistol & chainsword) who routinely killed things well beyond his level.

In his time he's killed 2 Daemon Princes, taken the last 2 wounds off a Carnifex and used his meltabombs to kill a total of 4-5 (can't remember) land raiders.

****'s ridiculous.

[Commissar Lewis]

I have a sergeant like that. One game, after seeing his whole squad killed by a daemon prince, he rolled three 6's for his hits, another three for the to wound rolls, and my friend rolled two ones and a two, thus the sergeant took the prince's last three wounds. (the DP had gotten a krak missile wound earlier).

In honor of that occasion said sergeant, now named Sgt. Grimsson the Daemonslayer, got black painted armor (which in the fluff I came up with for my regiment means elite), ornately painted weapons, and leads the veteran squad.

Man, I'm often unlucky in 40k, but when I DO get lucky it's big.

[Sir Biscuit]

Kharn

Kharn never dies

I have too many stories too tell for here, but suffice it to say that that 5+ invulnerable might as well be a 2+.

[Hellsteath]

Well for a long time it was my old emperors champ, that was to change to an enire unit on sunday.

After a moderate amount of shooting, there in the smoke still stood a trygon prime, 3 or 4 wounds left, bum thinks I, ah well i resign myself to the posibility of a lost battle sister squad (there was 7 of them). This trygon shoots them up a bit, non of which die, cool thinks I, the dirty great thing then gets angrey and assaults the isolated squad, i at this point have already given them invuns (luckily) and proced to save all but 1 attack, i retaliate hitting 6 times, seeing it was the last turn i stump for devine guidence, and pass.

So rolling to wound 4 sixes come up, me and my opponent look at the result compleatly stunned 6 sisters have just dropped a trygon in close combat........

[XHound87]

For me, my lucky model is my Big Mek with his trusty Shokk Attack Gun. In normal games he usually does very well, very often more than doubling his points cost for me. Against certain players though, he brings his A-game. One one occasion he never missed a single shot against one of our more seasoned players, and in each game I play against him, and bring my Mek, he continues to nail his shot every time.

His best game came against C:SM 2000 points. Marneus Calgar was with a unit of terminators that deep-struck near an objective in clear sight of my Mek. On the shot, I rolled a 12 and landed the hit, taking Calgar and the whole unit of terminators. My Mek then proceded to take out the "other" unit of terminators, a land raider crusader, a whole unit of sternguard, and a tac squad as well. He took out a little more than half the player's army, and I suspect he'll aspire to something even bigger, which will be exciting to see what happens.

[TSINI]

in my original valhallan army, (back in 3rd ed) i had a single guardsman left from an infantry squad.

he took a direct hit from a demolisher cannon (an actual hit symbol) and survived - my opponent rolled a 1.

this was so rediculous we counted him as a wandering wounded, the shell stuck in his gut - he randomly moved D6" every remaining turn, and on a roll of 1, he exploded as a demolisher cannon.

I don't think i've played enough games to have found my "lucky" units in my latest guard army - I definately know my unluckiest though - my vulture gunship, it has never made it to its second movement phase after arriving on the board. ever!

[Subject Keyword]

I have a Necron Warrior with a Tomb Kings banner for a face who is lovingly referred to as "Taco Head"
Who seems impossible to kill (even for a Necron). He has only ever been a casualty of phase out.

The luckiest thing I ever did was an Apocalypse game in which I turned Logan Grimnar into a Bloodthirster with major possession,
killed the squad he was in, and made ELEVEN 3+ saves against the return fire. He wiped out about 1,500 points of Space Wolves that game...

On the flipside, every Destroyer I've ever touched turns to suck in the first turn.:mad:

[Valkerie]

In one fight, I had a single Sister of Battle left from an entire squad. She was just a regular trooper, so couldn't use AoF's. On the last turn of the game, she was standing next to the Tau player's objective. Two Broadsides with TL Railguns fired at her. Only one hit, and it rolled a 1 for wounds. The game then ended, and that solitary SoB claimed the objective and won the game for me. Her faith in the Emperor was definatly strong that day.