Epic Moments

[JuiceSpringsteen!]

I played in a tourney here at my local GW in frisco,TX today,(If you are in the DFW area, go check it out, the guys that run it, Justin and Dallas, are awesome) and I played in probably the funnest game iv'e played since Apoc came out. I was playing a guy named Joe(if your reading this Joe, thanks for the game) and he was a pretty cool guy. He had a well painted marine army with Lysander and i was running a balanced Salamander list with Vulkan(no thunder hammer termis) and we played Spearhead/ Capture and control. We both had so much random spats of luck and misfortune (I.e. my scout snpers kill 4 tac marines and pin them with no rends, and the next turn i miss with 4 twin liknked meltas) that we laughed the whole duration of the game. When his dreadnought (which lost its ccw) scaled the basilica and started headbutting the Tac squad the and couldn't kill any of them for 3 turns but killed one when he exploded,I knew that no matter how it turned out, it would be epic (we ended up in a draw, and a tie for third place). After this, I realised that there isn't really any other recreation that can provide these moments like 40k does. I thought about this for a while, and now i want to put the question to you guys: Is there any other game that can produce such epic (and comical) moments like 40k can? Iv'e played warmachine and other games, but i never got anything compared to they game i played today.

[Farsight]

I once charged a squad of Terminators with gun drones from a Devilfish. They didn't really do anything but I had this funny picture in my head of the gun drones bashing themselves against the Terminators.

In another game, I had a congo line of a Defiler and 2 CSM squads in Rhinos. First turn goes to the guard who promptly blow up the Defiler. I redirect the Rhinos to go around. Next turn Marbo pops up to the side of one of them. The Russ blows the first one open leaving the occupants nicely bunched up. Marbo's charge kills the whole squad in one go.

[warpcrafter]

In my last game, 2,000 points vs Tau and Space Marines, I had two 20-strong mobs of slugga boyz parked on my C7C objective with a big mek who had a kustom force field, and they survived five turns of fire from two whirlwinds. The one break test they had to make in the fifth turn they passed, because of the warboss who was also there. I also killed Marneus Calgar with my meganobz, because he had no escort. It's nice to not be a noob.

[azekio]

once took out lord only knows how many bood claws, wolf guard and long fangs with a single non champ term of khorne armed with a power fist. rest of my army did nothing except get shot by my own dreadnoughts' multimelta over and over and over again. never laughed so hard in a long time.

[Rissan4ever]

I once had a single Guardsman hold his own against three Tau Crisis Suits for 3 turns before they stepped on him.

In a recent 3-game campaign, my opponent's Chapter Master Pedro Kantor was killed all three games by the same Vet. Sgt. I painted over the "Sgt." on his base and painted in "Lt."

It's times like these that make the game worth playing. Any game can produce such great moments. What really makes the difference is the people who appreciate and remember them.

[DangerouslyGeeky]

Two of my friends were playing a Planet strike game. The attacker was loosing, badly. Next to last turn of teh game. Fired at one of the bastions and got lucky. But the bastion exploded. Plus the Arms Cache was in it which then also exploded. Which set of a chain reaction of two gun emplacements also exploding along with one rhino full of troops (only one didn't make his save). And also took out a Defiler, that also exploded. Nearly changed who won the game.

Oh and throughout all this the squad of Obliterators that were in the tower were completely unscathed.

[Occam]

I played my Necron Lord against a group of terminators [like, 5] with a warscythe and killed all of them. In the re-match, the same thing happend but the other guy and I kept rolling ones and we laughed--they just shook their fists at each other.

[SotonShades]

I really can't think of another game that has so many awesome moments (Maybe Munchkin, but that depends more heavilly on the players than just silly luck) that happen so often, or that are so distinctive.

I remember one of the last games I played back in 3rd Ed with 1500 points of Marines vs Marines. My opponant got the first turn and by the start of my second turn I only had a single space marine left. This lone marine then managed to assault each and every unit of the opposing army and managed to make all but one of them run off the table before he died. Unfortunately I never remembered to mark out which model it was, so now he lives in obscurity in one of my figure cases.

[Astral Platypus]

Some of my best game stories are Warmachine, Battletech, and anything involving Imperial Guard bionics in 3rd and 4th ed.

In a 35 point warmachine game I survived eCaine's feat turn with eButcher and in the next turn went on to kill every model in both armies (mine included) except for the Butcher himself and one Doom Reaver.

In the old cardboard cut-out tabletop Battletech game a friend of mine brought down my two undamaged Turkina bravos and one half injured one with one undamaged Stealth.

I have had a commissar make his bionics role and get up, shoot down a landspeeder, then assault a five man terminator squad, survive their attacks and run them off the board.

In another game my commissar, with one wound remaining, charged a full unit of broadsides and ran them off, survived a shas'o and his bodyguard's return fire, and then ran them off the board in the ensuing assault phase.

[Grimfoe]

Second edition Space Wolves vs. Eldar. I was playing the wolves against my brother and kicking the tar out of him all over the table top. We had secret missions and his was "witch hunter." Being a wolf player, I couldn't very well retreat and take the victory. (especially playing against my brother, we always enjoyed complete humiliation when possible)

I brought Njal Stormcaller out into position to attack his last remaining squad, giving him one turn to shoot me. Njal was wounded 5 times needing a 3+ to save each wound. At the time, he had 4 wounds. I grab all 5 dice and proceed to roll 5 1's. My brother yells yahtzee! and flips over his mission card for the win.

Still one of the funniest moments in my life as a gamer.