Memorable Moments

[carcerdominus]

I thought I would start a thread where we could talk about memorable moments we have had in Warhammer.

We used to play with a rule that when rolling for weapons that had a low armor Penetration (I think only ones with a single die role) if you rolled max on the die you got to roll again and so on. So we tended to take shots that pretty much had no chance of penetration just in case. I don't think it ever had an effect in the games we played but this once. My gretchin shot at a lemun russ with a autogun well I rolled 7 6s in a row for a armor pen of 45 then rolled a 6 for damage hit the weapon magazine and destroyed it. I thought the marine player was going to have a heart attack. Needless to say that gretchin was the target of about half the marines army the next turn. The rule got changed after that but we did create a new wargear card for the autogun gave the gretcin who used it better stats as he channeled the spirit of the one who used it.

[James 40K Champ ***]

That rule is on most necron weaponry, once one of my necrons rolled enough 6's to penetrate a tank that he could have brought a bastion base down

[Adoni-Zedek]

I thought with necrons you only got to roll one extra die if you got a 6 in your first roll with a flayer weapon. Not keep rolling as long as you keep getting sixes. That rule applies to Harlequin Kisses and Warp Spider Deathspinners.

My most memorable moment was when I teleported a group of terminators right behind a Leman Russ Main Battle Tank. I had two with stormbolters, two with Assault Cannons, and one with a strombolter/cyclone combo. I landed within about 2 inches of the tank, and then rolled five "1"s to hit. Needless to say, the tank wasn't there the next turn, as it had moved off, and rotated its turret to blast my poor termies.

[El Capitan]

Heres a few from me....

Tournament 2004 when May fired a direct Splatta Kannon hit on Simon's Captain, that really made me laugh.

Back in 1999-2000 when May's Krak Missile missed its target and got an incredibly unlikely hit on Luke's Dreadnought blowing its legs off

T-2007 qualifiers when Luke screamed OVERWATCH and made Charly nearly have a heart attack

T-2006 when Brown spent quite some time looking for his Seraphim squads and cannoness, turning all his stuff inside out, before realising he'd already deployed them

T2000 when Luke's Apothecary was set on fire and ran off a cliff

That infamous Lascannon shot on that Saturday morning of OGC's founding in Tournament 1999, when Bentley hits May's War Trukk causing it to explode which had a gigantic backlash that almost destroyed half of May's army! ! !

When Brown was very 'green', after years of Gorkamorka, using his Necrons in the pre-OGC days he assumed Scarabs at Toughness 8 were invincible, he learnt the harsh reality of war very quickly when one turn of Eldar fire had them all sunbathing

Theres a few games I wont forget in a hurry, Mike Pang 26-25 Adam May in T-2000 was pretty good, and May's 16-17 defeat to Mathew Bentley in a grudge match in 2001. Also my semi-final last year with Simon, was quite nerve wracking.


I'll post more stuff up as it comes to me

[carcerdominus]

The post about the lascannon shot that cause a backlash brings back memories of a game I played using orks I got first turn when firing my artillery one of the exploded and set off pretty much every other piece when it was all over about 60% of my army was dead.

Fought against a IG player once who used a vortex grenade missed his roll when he rolled for dev the grenade landed in the middle of his command squad he decided that his army would retreat after lossing its commander, but he walked the character who throw the grenade towards my army. When I asked him why he said that the model wanted to defect because there was no way he was going back after killing the leaders of the army.

[tturen]

Lets see:

We had one game that saw a landraider absorb 20+ lazcannon hits and was still operational though weaponless at the end of the game. The beast just ran around ramming everything in sight and shrugging off round after round. Khorn must have touched the metal beast it being in a chaos army.

I also had a squad a Rattlings with deadeye kill Arhaman in one round. Not to outrageous but certainly fulfilling.

Then there was the time I had nearly 1000 points of Eldar drop into my Imperial Guards DZ by the top of turn two in a 2000 point game. Three exarchs turned all three of Lemans into fire balls. By the bottom of turn two all the Eldar in my DZ were dead or burning. It had been a daring move but they lost the game.

Watched an assassin bounce around among a couple squads of Eldar in one game. Even in CC all he ever managed to do was roll ones...

The funny thing? All of these memorable episodes involved the same player.

[Simon]

Hmmm... The infamous captain amazing...

Not sure what the most memorable moment in a 40K game has been for me, perhaps Luke's multimeltas all misfiring in that game I had against him at dissidence, or the spore mine chain reaction of death also against Luke.

Definitely the spore mines moment. It hit one of Lukes tanks, blew it up, made another go out of control and effectively took 2 squads out of the game (as they were in the tanks) and removed a terminator with an assault cannon aswell. Later in that game, my Hive Tyrant luckily survived an assault cannon from a dreadnought at point blank (on 1 wound), charged in and killed it in combat before narrowly making it out of the blast as the Dread fell (incidentally that was the last appearance that the hive tyrant made in that form. It was instantly replaced by the new model, feeling it had finally earnt its stripes and should look the part)

[El Capitan]

that Hive Tyrant was also wounded by a frag grenade from the auto-launchers whilst it was on one wound

[James 40K Champ ***]

I remember in 'The meatgrinder' a 6 player special game we put on one christmas on a huge bored, one of my necrons piloting a destroyer was killed, then destroyer flew out of control, flying the entire length of the board before landing on and ki

[James 40K Champ ***]

Probably my proudest moment in OGC, after taking a 2 year break from playing, returned with no warm up games. Winning every one of my games with the Necrons leading me to win the 2005 Tournament. Previously before my 2 year gap I had an abismal win rate. The fact I came through was probably helped by a fresh look at the game, perhaps excessive amounts of strategy game and counter strike playing, the fact no accounted for a necron force in the army lists due to me being a late entry, and the fact nobody had faced necrons in 2 years and so forgotten what stubborn little gits they can be!

It felt good though, I think I had the 2nd lowest odds on who would win

[carcerdominus]

We used to have a space marine player who I think never won a single game. It wasnt from lack of good tactics. He had the worst luck of any one with dice i have every seen. I know of one time I fought him a squad of 10 gretchin held up 10 marines in hand to hand for 3 turns and in the end he may have killed them all but I killed 6 of his marines. If he needed to roll 5 saves at 3+ on 2d6 he would fail at least 3 of themif not more.

[Laharl]

even i've had a few funny 40k moments (usually at my own expense)

-I missed a shot with my demolisher cannon, it scattered onto my command squad and killed them all

- I had my Lehman Russ charged by Anthony's Eldar Avatar, he allocated all of his attacks onto it's turret, failed to penetrate it and i killed his avatar on my turn with a point blank battle cannon shot

-The infamous chain reaction against Brown, he blew up my demolisher on his last turn for it to ram into another lehman russ, destroying that, directly leading to the destruction of a third lehman russ.

[El Capitan]

On the failure to kill things note, I rememebr charging a Devastator squad with 10 Bezerkers, there being only a few devastators left, the devastators survived the battle and took a few bezerkers with them /

I also remember getting a graviton gun with special issue and firing at an avatar in the first turn

[James 40K Champ ***]

One of my favorite memorys was in that huge beach landing we did on a 12 foot board.

Imperial guard landing on a beach D-day style, and assulting a eldar infested city.

In the heat of the battle a Necron Lord telleported in with 3 Pariahs, their mission to reach a Stasis prison holding a C'tan. Despite overwhelming odds, and 2 huge armys surrounding them, they survived a hail of fire, and actually managed to free the C'tan.
Was really funny because that part of the battle was only added in as a bit of fun and they weren't really intended to reach the prison. Im sure there was an Avatar involved there somewhere too, but I cant quite remember