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crabmond — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:48:27 -0000

wraiths failing to take an objective from gretchin *shudder*

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Trevy the Great — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:24:38 -0000

That's why you don't take unupgraded Hormies.

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facelessone — Thu, 12 May 2011 00:49:41 -0000

my nightbringer got jumped by 10 terms and a lib with a fsword trying to insa kill me ..my friend cryed when thaloly could not hurt him with there low S to my high T lol then tells me my necrons are too powerfull ,that comeing from a SM player

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cerealnmilk — Thu, 12 May 2011 00:04:45 -0000

I was playing a game with DE, and I had a squad with my tooled up Archon and 6 Incubi. Their raider was shot down, right in front of 2 blob guard squads of about 30 and 40 guardsmen, plus commissars. After the shooting was done and some lucky rolling, only my Archon and 2 Incubi remained. My turn, I decided to charge both of the guard squads. Amazingly I only missed 1 attack, and wounded with most, taking out a surprising number of guardsmen. They attack back, directing all of their attacks against the Archon. After wounding is said and done, my Archon has 29 shadow field saves to pass. One roll at a time, he passes every single one. What was even better, is, even with commissars, both squads broke and were run off of the table.

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Gus Vogel — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:36:36 -0000

See, drones are awesome in close combat. See my post above!

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Gus Vogel — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:35:06 -0000

My best close combat moral victory was my Tau battlesuit command squad versus a squad of black templars with the Emperor's Champion. With an incredible roll, 7 out of 8 templar drop pods land on turn 2, swamping my corner with troops. I whittled down a squad of templars, but they caught my suits in combat for 3 turns. The templars have a marine, a powerfist wielding sergeant, and the Champion. All wounds were either absorbed or blocked by shield drones, and the suits fail to kill anything. What does happen, is after three turns of combat, a single shield drone kills both the marine and the powerfister, and wounds the emperor's champion. Not to mention, the drone passed about 3 invuln saves. It took a squad of lightning claw termies to take down that drone!

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Jordon Daniel Ross — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:35:20 -0000

I just had an interesting story with a friend of mine.

1250 points Mostly Genestealer Nidz vs Troop heavy IG

I had a carnifex on the board and it had charged down a unit of foot sloggers. Previously he was hit with plasma and other painful things. He bites and Crushing claws his way through the squad but one guy. So the player wants to call it dead because its only one guardsman. I told him nah lets play this out. So he rolls Stupendously double 6's. Hit wound. I am thinking ok thats cool my 2+ save will rescue me...
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My Carnifex took a bayonette to the face... That guardsman now had Carnifex kill markers on him and is named Monster Hunter Larry...

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warlordEfin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:28:05 -0000

one time i had a inquis lord and retinu(3 acolytes(with combie melta),3 vets with meltaguns, and two churgons)go up agenst *Ork Warlord Ghazghkull Thraka* and four mega nobz opened up with the 6 melta shots and an infero pistol,killing off two of the nobz and taking all but 1 wound off of thraka. so being so close i decide it's time for the inquisitor to take a head and charge thraka. after a bloody strugles, loseing 1 veteran to a nob my inquisitor strikes thraka... noting, my two vets strike thraka... 2 armor saves... make it.... the two curgons nothing... then two acolyts on the nobs 1 wound, then the final acolyte represented by a guard Srg. takes his combat knife and plunges it into thraka's skull his armor no mach for the humble acolyte's blade(rolled a 1)

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guest — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:15:13 -0000

I play witch hunters and this game against tau, the canoness has lost her celestians, lost 2 wounds and was armed with only a power weapon and bolt pistol, she runs over a unit of fire warriors, then gets shot by 3 crsis suits armed with missile pods and plasma rifles, she survives due to using faith (3+ invul sv), she charges into the suits, uses faith again (+2 str) and kills the crsis suits. Feeling pretty hardcore now, she rampages onto the hammerhead that was immobolized, used +2 str again and destroys it. Getting tired, she hides behind the wrecked hammerhead. Along comes a lone gun drone that happen to be passing by, its shots missed and it hurls itself headlong into the battle sister, who tries to kill it with her power sword, unfortunately, the canoness, falls flat on her face due to tripping on her high heels and dies as the drone shoots her at point blank range in the head, a fitting end to my hero

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Javi — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:32:12 -0000

A ong time ago (4th ed.) My SW army killed a whole Tau army (rhino rush times :( ). and the only one SW kill by the Tau army was the powerfist wolf of a GH pack in an assault against A SHIELD DRONE!!!

The hero of the Tau army :)

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J,J — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:22:32 -0000

my 5 man combat scouts bet TH/SS terrmmies in two rounds of combat and only had 2 casualties

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b. — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:50:28 -0000

i played this one game where 10 fire warriors were assualted by a squad of 5 termys which kept making there 2+ save then in combat he fails 1 save and that guys dies then when he attacks he fails to do any wounds and loses combat

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micahaphone — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:13:42 -0000

I once was trying to obtain an objective bastion from a Eldar player w/ 7(!) aspect warriors in one troop squad inside the bastion, and in one turn of shooting, I killed all but two, and in assault, the guy w/ the rocket launcher ended up being the one who killed the remaining two aspect warriors.

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Focslain — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:03:58 -0000

During the Medusa V Campaign my ex-wife’s Calidus assassin took out the following in one game on her own(it was a 10K bout):
1 Carnifex
1 full squad of hormaguants (after they charged her)
10 Immortals
10 Necron Warriors
7 Tyranid Warriors

The insane moment was when she took a charge from a full squad of hormaguants and passed 13 of her 14 saves, did her hit and run, flamed them and then assaulted them back wiping the squad.

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Donald Lindsey — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:46:14 -0000

In a 16k/side four on four Apocalypse game, my Warhound titan was downed in a single round of melee by a greater demon of Nurgle. I cannot figure the logic behind a titan not being able to fight in melee any better than a SM dreadnought...sad!

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Eggmarine — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:00:03 -0000

Massive GW participation game under 2nd ed rules (long time ago!!!) Marines had to hold a fort under assault from all directions, I showed up late so put 2 5 man squads of terminators on the perimeter as no room inside. Termis assaulted by 40+ genestealers and a carnifex, several turns later one TH termi remains and the back of the tyranid assault broken (the tyranids got recycled and the fortress overrun later) I'll always remember that one.... something to do with terminators making a save on 2d6 may have helped :o)

Best part about it the other marine players just got sit sit and watch the first few turns while my blood angels showed how it was done.

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Mael — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:43:25 -0000

I'll share two with you guys. The first of which isn't me, but someone else I played with a few times. A friend of mine has his big nasty 4th ed Khorne daemon prince, 2+ save, 4+ invul, 4+ FNP. Pretty damned hard to take down in combat. Every game I played against him he would pass an ungodly amount of armor saves and just keep coming until he squashed my units. Very disheartening. The first game I see him play against a guard player, and a random stormtrooper (not even a sgt!) kills him. Sheesh.

Second story is of a game I played against a good friend of mine. We had an eldar vs space marine grudge match to play, and our legendary loudness and bravado while playing 40k has the whole store watching the game. I charge his farseer with a full terminator squad - 7 powerfists wounds has me convinced he was dead. He rolls 7 invulnerable saves and the store erupts!

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Name — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:35:52 -0000

My favorite assault was my Fire Warriors in cover getting charged by a Terminator Rune Priest (old SW codex) who had 1 wound left. He went last (as he had no frags), and 8 Fire Warriors slapped him down. Both me and my opponent just laughed, it was so ridiculous.

Another of my favorite combats was with my Vespid. An 8-strong squad tied up no less than 5 IG squads (old 'everything Deepstrikes' IG), several of which were command squads. It's amazing what T4 allows you to shrug off, and I rolled 5+ saves like a maniac. it was Turn 5 when they finally died, and both me and Bjorn (my opponent) were kinda relieved.

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Psychoshadow — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:16:53 -0000

was playing early 4th edition fielding black legion. had a day with 2 games: vs. blood angels feat. imperial agents, and vs. dark eldar. in the first game, a thousand sons squad on my side managed to pistol-whip a callidus assassin to death with no loss of manpower.
i paid for it the next game though when i assaulted a squad of wytches with a bloodthirster. rolled a fist full of 1s to hit (yahtzee!) and the witches tore him apart with no loss of manpower. that was a really strange day.

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TheLieutenant — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:04:58 -0000

Ha, mortar squads are only good in combat.
I still fondly remember a game involving a 3rd ed tooled up Khorne Lord and my mortar squad having a quiet tete-a-tete behind some trees.
Net result: Dead Lord.

Course, my friend got his revenge some time later, when, during a megabattle alongside Orks against me and another Guard player, we wiped out his Terminator squad all bar the Champ. Now, again, he'd decided to spend 70 odd points on tolling up this 1 wound champion. "Ahha!" Says I, "an easy kill."
I've had to subsequently blank the shame from my memory, but the champion then ran the length of the board, taking fire from around 3k of Imperial Guard, and shrugging it all off, while chirpily butchering his way through our combined army.

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jose21018 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:13:20 -0000

oddly in the same battle guardsmen marbo watch the massed squads defeat and eldar jetbikes fortifying the eldar position on 3 objectives. marbo true to his moniker of the one man army avenged the guard by using his demo charge on avengers. the jetbikes not wanting to give up their tentative hold of three objective couldn't muster all their fire on the patch of jungle the demo charge had come from and marbo then charges the full strength jetbike squadron with his pistol blazing. while marbo was gravely wounded and lost the battle he had killed enough of the squadron that they where to short handed to secure the same three objectives before guard reinforcements arrived. winning me the game 2-1 instead of losing 3-2

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jose21018 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:52:52 -0000

I was playing at a convention tournament and after having a massive 15 termy kills in the first round my guards 51 man squad saw combat against eldar dire avengers. charged by a 10 man squad in a last ditch effort to pull me off an objective, my guard laughed in the agile face of the enemy. taking a respectable 8 casualties my guards sergeants to to the fight but eldar technosorcery made their power swords of little use. only half the avengers made use of their soul stones and my squad was shaken. as my commissar laughed at the lack of death she noticed the sergeants preparing to flee! finding such a coward wanting she executed him on the spot, but instead of rallying the squad the sudden death broke the squad. the avengers bolstered morale made their aim true and the guard squad was destroyed.

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randomencounter — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:29:32 -0000

In a recent game of mine, Marines vs. Tyranids, I had started by putting a wound on the Hive Tyrant with a Combimelta from my Tactical squad, but those brave Rhino-riders aren't the heroes of this story. Instead it was my Devastator squad, defending against the same Tyrant's charge. 10 men with not a single power weapon. All the Sergeant carried was his Chainsword and Bolt Pistol. The Tyrant suffered 3 unsaved wounds, putting him under for good. My squad only took 2 deaths, so the victorious Devastators continued to shoot for the rest of the game.... until they were eaten by a Carnifex. I lost the battle, but I still killed a Tyrant in combat with Devs and no power weapons!

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Adam — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:30:25 -0000

This isn't really assault but it kinda is at the same time for what I was using it for. One time I was Chaos Space Marines and I was facing Necrons in a tournament. I had to protect my units from the C'tan so he couldnt wipe them out, so i decided to ram it. The twin-linked bolter was already removed so he decided to do a all on you own last stand. All he needed was anything but a 2 and he got the 2. Bye bye C'tan.

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jontingey — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:55:55 -0000

This one's actually from the new Space Hulk rather than 40k... we were on the second mission, where whoever annihilates the other team and secures the entrances to that part of the ship wins. I was terminators, my opponent was genestealers. I started it off with 3 guys on one side of the board, and 2 guys on the other. The three on the left quickly sealed off those entrances, meaning that all of the genestealers had to come on the right side. They quickly killed one of the termies there, and the other, now cut off from his comrades by their flanking maneuvers, backed slowly into a corner, shooting his storm bolter at the seemingly endless tide of 'stealers as he fell back. Eventually, they swarmed him, but with rediculously good rolls, he killed 3 or so genestealers in close combat (in addition to the dozen he stormboltered) before finally being cut down.

For context here, in Space hulk, a genestealer gets to roll 3d6 and choose the highest. A terminator gets to roll 1d6. Whoever has the higher number wins. Yet his 1d6 beat out the genestealers' 3d6 several times over. :D