Your best Warhammer, Warhammer 40k and related gaming moments.

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

The story...

Abaddon saw his target, the imposing form of the Nightbringer stood before him. It glared at him with the untold power that only millions of deaths could provide. With a furious bellow, Abaddon charged and sank the daemon sword Drach'nyen deep in to his shadowy foe. A victorious grin flashed accross his face as his foe's eyes began to grow dim. All sound surrounding him seemed to fade away as he heard something that few had heard before, the Nightbringer was laughing. A sharp feeling caused Abaddon to look down where he saw his enemy's scythe lodged in his chest. With one quicksilver motion the Nightbringer wrenched it's weapon free decapitating Abaddon and sending his soul back to his masters.

What really happened...

Fourth turn of the game, Abaddon assaulted my Nightbringer. My opponent rolled the d6 for Abaddon's bonus attacks and scored a mighty 6! All added up, Abaddon went in to combat with 12 attacks, 7 hit with 4 scoring wounds which was upped to 5 since his daemon weapon allowed to reroll failed to wounds. I managed to make 3 of my saves leaving my Nightbringer with 2 wounds taken.

My turn; Of the 5 attacks, 4 hit and 4 wounds were inflicted. Since the Nightbringer is a monstrous creature, it's attacks ignored Abaddon's normal 2+ armour save leaving him with only his 4+ invulnerable saves, which he promptly failed. All four of them. Killing him in a single round of combat.

One of my greatest 40k moments ever.

 

[Marter]

There was that one time, where I...actually played Warhammer!

Yeah, I mostly just paint the figures. >_>

I played once, at the Games Workshop store. It was...okay, I guess, but I was really bad. XD

 

[HT_Black]

The first time I played a game, I went up against another Space Marine force with equipment that was almost infinitely better. I ultimately lost, but I destroyed all of his troops, his terminators, and his land raider by turn 4. Mutually assured destruction indeed.

 

[Samwise137]

Being a Dwarf player in WFB and well aware that Dwarfs are best served digging in a firing for effect, I often implement a similar strategy in 40k. One time, I dug in my Dark Angels and managed to 100% eliminate an attacking Harlequin army in three turns.

 

[GaryH]

I haven't actually played a real game since I was a kid, now that the hobby (at least at GW) is far too expensive for me to reasonably justify and my old armies were painted so long ago that I am loathe to take them out of their dusty display cases for fear of reminding myself how awful I used to be at painting.

I do occasionally go into a GW store and pretend to be a newbie so that I can play a demo game with the staff (I actually am still a newbie, it feels as though they change the rules everytime I walk out of the store...) The last time I did this it was Dwarves vs Goblins, I was playing the dwarves and the highlight of the game was a single surviving cannoneer taking on a small mob of goblins by himself, without so much as flinching. He didn't win, but the game ended long before he was killed.

I really miss the hobby, come to think of it, but I dont know anyone locally who still plays and I really dislike going into the stores for the most part. Too many obnoxious customers and frighteningly over-enthusiastic staff that make me feel more awkward than welcome. Also the money thing. For the price they charge, I'd expect the figures to be cast out of silver.

Being a Dwarf player in WFB and well aware that Dwarfs are best served digging in a firing for effect, I often implement a similar strategy in 40k. One time, I dug in my Dark Angels and managed to 100% eliminate an attacking Harlequin army in three turns.

I actually retired my budding dwarf army for this reason. I had started it as a "dwarf engineers guild" army list, because I like the fluff more than anything, but soon discovered that such an army means that your games consist of nothing but rolling dice and winning. Noone wanted to play my list and it was boring to use so I gave up. Then again, I usually play for fun (White Dwarf battle report style), not to win.

I do have an anecdote that is the reverse of your story, though. A few years ago (actually... more than a few...) a friend of mine had a tyranid list that could cross even my widest gaming table in 2 turns or less. Having a shooty tau army is not really that terrific when you only get one round of shooting before being eaten.

 

[Shayne Haugen]

My armored fist unit charged a hive tyrant and my veteran Sargent survived till the end of the game stopping both the hive tyrant and a lichtor from killing the rest of my troops (this was the last edition) favorite moment of this one was beating almost twice my points on nids. favorite moment of fantasy was when my cannon took out a skink priest on foot and a stagadon that was 7-9 inches away behind it.

 

[teqrevisited]

Spoiler: Long winded story incoming.

I remember when the Necrons were introduced and my local shop hosted a huge invasion game.
The board consisted of 4 6ft square tables pushed together. In the middle was a huge black stepped pyramid with a portal on each face of the top with hills & small forests surrounding.

The staff were playing as the necrons and various players as the ones trying to assault the pyramid and destroy the portals. Some players had formed makeshift alliances with races of similar beliefs or descent and I was slap bang in the middle of the Imperium's main block.

To my left I had an Imperial Fists army, mostly armour (He provided the artillery support with 2 whirlwinds) and to my right was my cousin with his Dark Angels army, mainly tac & devs. I had a force similar to my cousin, with myself having slightly more armour & fast attack.

Situated in front of our collective armies stood a huge mass of Imperial Guard. He had the lot. Guardsmen formed in a band across the frontline, 2 basilisks in position behind us, 2 leman russ, 3 sentinels and, leading the way, a baneblade all in an insanely detailed woodland camo scheme.

We thought this would be easy.

By the second turn the Imperial Guard had lost all of its infantry and four monoliths were casually hovering their way towards me with a good 20" across solid block of necron warriors keeping them nice and warm. It was pretty much all over for us at that point. I'd had no luck with my dev squads & LR rolls, my tac squads were vastly outnumbered and outgunned and the Imperial Fists had moved to try and flank them on the far west of the map.

On the other side of the board a small force of Eldar had managed to cut through and jump over the advancing necrons and had almost made it to the top of the pyramid when they released the Nightbringer...

Even longer story short(ish): we got our arses kicked.

 

[Cohradoesr]

I was playing a 4-way 500-point game between my friends and I.
I was using Orks, because WAAAAGH!, and the others were Dark Eldar, Imperial Guard, and Necrons.

I had a Wartrukk full of 'Ardboyz with a Nob, a squad of Choppas, and a Big Mekk with a shokk attack gun (just for shits).

We set up on all four corners and had at it. My Imp Guard adversary decided that he didn't like the idea of a wartrukk full of 'Ardboyz full throttling it into his (rather large) guardsmen lines, so as I made a full 18" move on my turn (flat out for fast vehicles), he opened up his Chimera's multilaser, ironically sending my wartrukk careening straight into it, and exploding in storm of shrapnel and confused Ork. Fortunately, I made my saves, lost one Ork to the explosion, the rest got out and assaulted the Chimera with my Nob's Power Klaw, rending it in yet another explosion that killed some nearby guardsmen.

In the following turns, He shot like mad to kill my boyz, but the s3 of his lasguns against my t4 boyz, along with the 4+ save for 'Ardboyz made it slow-going. I lost a few every turn, and one time I even broke and ran, but the Nob had a bosspole, and ended up killing the rest of his entire squad except for one boy and himself. They rallied, charged the command squad, and pretty much single handedly cut the head off the snake.

That Nob definitely got MVP.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Spoiler: Long winded story incoming.

I remember when the Necrons were introduced and my local shop hosted a huge invasion game.
The board consisted of 4 6ft square tables pushed together. In the middle was a huge black stepped pyramid with a portal on each face of the top with hills & small forests surrounding.

The staff were playing as the necrons and various players as the ones trying to assault the pyramid and destroy the portals. Some players had formed makeshift alliances with races of similar beliefs or descent and I was slap bang in the middle of the Imperium's main block.

To my left I had an Imperial Fists army, mostly armour (He provided the artillery support with 2 whirlwinds) and to my right was my cousin with his Dark Angels army, mainly tac & devs. I had a force similar to my cousin, with myself having slightly more armour & fast attack.

Situated in front of our collective armies stood a huge mass of Imperial Guard. He had the lot. Guardsmen formed in a band across the frontline, 2 basilisks in position behind us, 2 leman russ, 3 sentinels and, leading the way, a baneblade all in an insanely detailed woodland camo scheme.

We thought this would be easy.

By the second turn the Imperial Guard had lost all of its infantry and four monoliths were casually hovering their way towards me with a good 20" across solid block of necron warriors keeping them nice and warm. It was pretty much all over for us at that point. I'd had no luck with my dev squads & LR rolls, my tac squads were vastly outnumbered and outgunned and the Imperial Fists had moved to try and flank them on the far west of the map.

On the other side of the board a small force of Eldar had managed to cut through and jump over the advancing necrons and had almost made it to the top of the pyramid when they released the Nightbringer...

Even longer story short(ish): we got our arses kicked.

As a necron myself, that is a pretty sweet victory right there. But I have found that I am probably going to have to switch armies since no likes playing against me when I field Necrons.

In the following turns, He shot like mad to kill my boyz, but the s3 of his lasguns against my t4 boyz, along with the 4+ save for 'Ardboyz made it slow-going. I lost a few every turn, and one time I even broke and ran, but the Nob had a bosspole, and ended up killing the rest of his entire squad except for one boy and himself. They rallied, charged the command squad, and pretty much single handedly cut the head off the snake.

That Nob definitely got MVP.

If it were me, I'd promote that Nob to be the army commander.

 

[Zakarath]

I was getting fed up with one of my friends who always made his army (1000 point) out of chaos knights that always smashed their way through my wood elves, so I mixed up my army and made it almost entirely out of flying units with longbows and utterly outmaneuvered him. I spent the whole time outflanking him and shooting arrows at the backs of his guys. Not once did he successfully engage my units in melee.

 

[McNinja]

My best moment? Hearing that the new Daemonhunter army is coming in April

Seriously, though, I've only ever played once, despite me having a plethora of Space Marines. I just paint them. But I did manage to use the plastic Chaos Lord terminator to make a badass General for my chapter... which I then wrote a 26 page codex for.

Spoiler: Picture of the General... it is big

 

[Ultrajoe]

Dropping a blissgiving Chaos Terminator Lord into an Imperial Guard command squad.

Delight in the pain!

 

[Cohradoesr]

Spoiler: Long winded story incoming.

I remember when the Necrons were introduced and my local shop hosted a huge invasion game.
The board consisted of 4 6ft square tables pushed together. In the middle was a huge black stepped pyramid with a portal on each face of the top with hills & small forests surrounding.

The staff were playing as the necrons and various players as the ones trying to assault the pyramid and destroy the portals. Some players had formed makeshift alliances with races of similar beliefs or descent and I was slap bang in the middle of the Imperium's main block.

To my left I had an Imperial Fists army, mostly armour (He provided the artillery support with 2 whirlwinds) and to my right was my cousin with his Dark Angels army, mainly tac & devs. I had a force similar to my cousin, with myself having slightly more armour & fast attack.

Situated in front of our collective armies stood a huge mass of Imperial Guard. He had the lot. Guardsmen formed in a band across the frontline, 2 basilisks in position behind us, 2 leman russ, 3 sentinels and, leading the way, a baneblade all in an insanely detailed woodland camo scheme.

We thought this would be easy.

By the second turn the Imperial Guard had lost all of its infantry and four monoliths were casually hovering their way towards me with a good 20" across solid block of necron warriors keeping them nice and warm. It was pretty much all over for us at that point. I'd had no luck with my dev squads & LR rolls, my tac squads were vastly outnumbered and outgunned and the Imperial Fists had moved to try and flank them on the far west of the map.

On the other side of the board a small force of Eldar had managed to cut through and jump over the advancing necrons and had almost made it to the top of the pyramid when they released the Nightbringer...

Even longer story short(ish): we got our arses kicked.

As a necron myself, that is a pretty sweet victory right there. But I have found that I am probably going to have to switch armies since no likes playing against me when I field Necrons.

In the following turns, He shot like mad to kill my boyz, but the s3 of his lasguns against my t4 boyz, along with the 4+ save for 'Ardboyz made it slow-going. I lost a few every turn, and one time I even broke and ran, but the Nob had a bosspole, and ended up killing the rest of his entire squad except for one boy and himself. They rallied, charged the command squad, and pretty much single handedly cut the head off the snake.

That Nob definitely got MVP.

If it were me, I'd promote that Nob to be the army commander.

I'll play against ya with my Eldar, I've had pretty good luck against any Necrons I go up against. Don't switch armies because your opponents are dumb, they just gotta find new strategies XD

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I'll play against ya with my Eldar, I've had pretty good luck against any Necrons I go up against. Don't switch armies because your opponents are dumb, they just gotta find new strategies XD

I have ALWAYS wanted to fight the Eldar, acting all high and mighty. I have only fought against Chaos and regular Space Marines and Orks. Oh for lack of a game club in my area. If only I had $230 to buy a full 10 man squad of Pariahs...

 

[Cohradoesr]

I have ALWAYS wanted to fight the Eldar, acting all high and mighty. I have only fought against Chaos and regular Space Marines and Orks. Oh for lack of a game club in my area. If only I had $230 to buy a full 10 man squad of Pariahs...

Yea it's pretty ridiculous for squads like that. The pewter models are such a ripoff; it would cost about that much for me to get a 10 man squad of Wraithguard.

Pariahs are seriously unfunny. Get all my psychic whatchama-hoozits outta wack.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Pariahs are seriously unfunny. Get all my psychic whatchama-hoozits outta wack.

The people I sometimes play, we have a special "substitution" house rule; If you dont have the actual model, you can use a proxy to represent it.

I had a such a squad acting as Pariahs, I subsequently Deep Strike'd them in to as close a proximity to the Librarian attached to a Terminator squad as I could without risking a mishap. Hilarity ensured. We dont use the Substitution rule anymore.

 

[Nouw]

All these stories make me want to play the game again >.>

 

[Jelly ^.^]

I watched two mates of mine playing a game of tabletop 40K few years ago. We had a good laugh when a Terminator was killed in melee against a generic Tau Fire warrior.

 

[thiosk]

I've only played computerized versions, a little.

But I love the fluff.

I've probably read 18 novels by now, all told. Maybe more.

 

[Cohradoesr]

I watched two mates of mine playing a game of tabletop 40K few years ago. We had a good laugh when a Terminator was killed in melee against a generic Tau Fire warrior.

Lol Jesus, that guy better damn well have his own battlesuit by now.

I've got one kinda like that, not as good though. I had a Ranger who went toe-to-toe with 3 Grey Knight space marines, the nemesis force weapon gives 'em s6. They had five men left, I had five as well, and they assaulted and killed 4 while I killed 2, and with the subsequent rounds, that last Ranger held out 3 whole rounds of combat before getting his ass kicked.