40K Glorious Moments

[eldargal]

What have been your favourite moments in your 40k career? Moments when due to luck or brilliant tactics you uttely annihilated your foe? (I know there is a similar topic for CC, this isn't intended to duplicate)

Here are a couple of mine:

A critical moment in a huge Apocalypse game, my farseer and Ghazghkull get into LOS. My farseer casts mindwar, rolls a 6. Ork player rolls a 1. Five wounds on Ghazghkull, charge of my banshees and scorpions soon after routs the centre of his army and I capture the objective.

A wave serpent decants 10 howling banshees and a farseer who go on to destroy an IG platoon and the serpent destroys a leman russ squad (incredibly lucky rolls I admit. And no autocannons) And the IG player laughed at me for getting my farseer 'up close and personal'.

[KnightShift]

Destroying a Chaos-possessed Rhino with only my klaw-equipped Ork Warboss (who I have affectionately named "KaNeeGutz", the Ork-corrupted version of my last name ). He didn't even have to fire his gun. He literally destroyed the Rhino "bare-handed", causing it to explode while taking NO damage to himself!!

I'm still rather new to 40K mind ya, but even so, that was hecka spectacular to behold

[jimbobjeff]

I had a vostroyan junior officer kill a carnifex with his laspistol, that made me laugh, the fact that he then got eaten by genestealers is niether here nor there...

[Kahoolin]

My lone surviving warboss was once caught in the open towards the end of a 1500pts game. He survived a round of shooting from about 600 pts of Tau, including a direct hit from a hammerhead's railgun, and then on my turn managed to just reach the closest team of fire warriors. After eating the fish 'eadz for breakfast he was unfortunately unable to consolidate into their mates and was gunned down next turn.

The most amazing thing about this was that it was in 4th ed, when Orks sucked a whole lot more than they do now and Tau kicked ***.

[Denzark]

A THSS (sole survivor of an entire IG army's shooting) charges a 10 man guard squad upstais in a forgeworld administratum. Hestan is wating to follow up. The Terminator does sufficient casualties that HEstan is now left outside 6"...and in TLOS through a window, of a 3-lascannon heavyweapon squad with no other targets.

2 hits, 1 failed invulnerable save, good bye HEstan (my personal nemesis). I hate that fellow...

[icecube]

My best 40K moment was when i played an 2000 pts game against another ork army. In the middle of the table there was an HUGE CC with about 8 units. The combat ended when his Storboyz slew my warboss and routed the last few boyz.

[Xas]

my best moment... prolly jsut right now:

I had a leman russ with battlecanon and lascanon (the russ will prolly get a FW vanquisher turret just to show how mean he is to other tanks... killed 8 in 3 games so far) and my oponent had 2 shooty dreadnoughts about 3" apart.

my tank shoots the battlecanon and scatters perfectly on top of the OTHER dreadnought. the lascannon hits the intended target and he manages to blow up both of them.
GOLDEN SHOT

the game before he targeted a space arine squad in cover, hits and blasts 5 of 5 marines into oblivion (none made any saves).



other nice things:
a 10 manv et squad with meltaguns, shotguns, pwoer weapon and demo-charge managed to shoot-charge-whipeout my oponents 5 man + librarian TH/SS termie squad two games in a row.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

3rd edition BIG unit of grots (being led by the infamous 'red gobbo' model...)...

As a good Ork player, I threw them into the face of a 5 man Chaos Termie squad, as a speed bump.

Grot blasters go off with a resounding BOOM(more like a lot of 'piff piffs', with one or two booms involving flying grot feces).
Peas/Rocks and a few chunks of metal fly...and a Termie drops. (I'm thinking, jabeebus...that unit just paid for itself-WOOT!)

Assault phase, I charge. 20 lowly grots pile into these hulking monstrous beasts (I think they were more afraid of the Nobz behind em). A flurry of blows and screams and feats of blinding cowardice, and somewhere along the lines someone gets a bayonet to the bum...and another termie goes down.
The dreaded powerfists go...and not a grot dies. I saw more ones than I ever want to see again in a roll...thank goodness they were his.
He rolls 11 for ldrship...and I run him down.

Similar to one of the posts about worst moments in GW history, but it was glorious! (unfortunately, the next shooting phase saw the spiteful redirection of all Chaos fire on the table into that lowly yet heroic mob...if orks had any kind of memory, they might have planted a memorial on the bloody smear in the ground)

[BuFFo]

yesterday I participated in the Lucky 13 scenario...

one side had 9000 points

our side had 5500

End of turn 5, my side won

2x Chaos and Tyranid versus our Eldar and Dark Eldar/IG mix armies.

Fun times during that game

[Aegis]

Back in the days before Apocalypse, we were doing a wonderful mega battle in my FLGS; Imperium vs. Tyranids. The Tyranids, amazingly enough, were 30k points of nid's suppled by a pair of brothers (too much time/money, but damn impressive), and the Imperium was made up of whoever we could get. I think it took a sum of 12 players to scrounge up that many points.

Anyway... So, my infantry force is holding the centre, which at first I think is wonderful, as I will not have to deal with the nasty flank business. Nope, just a couple 'fexes and a tyrant or two, oh, and a wad of gaunts... Well, first turn goes well, I shoot, we kill, some 'nids die! Glory to the Emperor. Turn two, things go downhill as the 'nids begin assualting. The gaunts crash my lines, start wrecking everything on all fronts. Though, oddly, one unit of Catachans I have in the centre. They take a wound, lose combat, fail the test. This is where it becomes fun. The Commissar summarily executes the sarge for his cowardice, rerolls the morale, and gets snake eyes. An omen of things to come. Next couple rounds, casualties are mounting everywhere, except on this unit of Catachans. They continue to take one wound a turn, and amazingly, roll three more sets of snake eyes over the game.

Long story short, by the end of the game (Massacre for the 'nids), only one unit of the Imperium remained, the Catachans with the Commissar. The stood fast, and were insanely brave. May have lost the game, but I take it as a moral victory.