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Post subject: Best Epic moment?  Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 1:30 am |
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| Quote (primarch @ 09 May 2006 (17:04)) | Thats what made this so sweet. The Squat player was one of those power gamer/rules lawyer type. He deserved that drubbing so bad.
I guess there is justice after all.... ? |
The Cosmos does have a way of reaching balance one way or another.
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Post subject: Best Epic moment? Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 3:14 am |
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| Quote (primarch @ 09 May 2006 (17:33)) | In another game he played IG. His leviathan was hit by a -1 modifier hit. He needed to roll 2+ to save....
...he rolled a 1 and the VP generated gave the opponent the game....
..in his rage he took the leviathan and hurled it against the floor....
..only to scurry for the pieces moments later...
..most gratifying.... ? |
Sounds like someone who:
a) Forgot it was just a game...
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b) needs to get his anger under control.
Sad really.
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Post subject: Best Epic moment? Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 7:55 am |
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Primarch, I thought we had never gamed? 
This is the old story I tell every time somebody asks this question.
Back in the golden days of SM2 I had a Devastator detachment in a building containing an objective and a Slasher Gargant with a snapper bearing down on them. The last stand with its last attack hit the gargant through flickering power fields. It hit hull. I needed a '6' to do something meaningful. i rolled a '6' and started a fire. Then in the end phase he rolls a '6' in the fire table (KABOOMMMM!). Scratch one slasher. The devastators received marksman honors immediately after the battle.
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Post subject: Best Epic moment? Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:51 am |
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| Quote (primarch @ 10 May 2006 (00:57)) | Hi!
Back in the golden age of epic gaming.....
..squats versus orks, 6000 points.
In the first turn each of three gargants fired their ball round at one of three colossi. Each ball in turn destroyed all three of them. The squat player was stunned.
We laughed so hard at his misfortune! 
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LOL I've seen that before, the gutbuster solid cannonball was the absolute nightmare of all Praetorians and superheavies.
In the Space Marine Battles book there is a battle report from Andy Chambers and Jervis Johnson. Andy played Ork with a great gargant whilst Jervis was Squat (Just when Squat's had come out) He had a land train and a colossus.
Turn 1 well you can guess, great gargant fires, scratch one Colossus. Turn 2 Jervis kinda learnt his lesson and hid his forces, only to move them into the line of fire on turn 3! He promptly lost his land train and a battlecar where the ball bounced on top of it, after destroying the engine!!
Sounds like the lad you were playing deserved it though..
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Post subject: Best Epic moment? Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:55 am |
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| Quote (Dwarf Supreme @ 09 May 2006 (15:33)) | Here's one of my most memorable moments, from SM2 era:
I was playing Marines, with a Warlord battlegroup supporting, against Eldar. The first shot I took was one of my Warlords firing at one of my opponent's Phantoms. I scored a hit, but I figured he would make the holo save, becuase he usually does. Nope, holo save failed. Off to hit location template. Wing targetted, didn't scatter. Yay! Wing save, failed. Cool. Rolled for critical damage. Wing blown clean off! So, no more holo field for that Phantom and we all now how long Eldar titans survive without their holo fields. By the end of the turn that Phantom was a pile of wreckage. |
It's nice when you get what you aim for isn't it!
Some players just seem to have that knack of making those essential saving throws. Then again other players cannot make a saving throw if their lives depended on it!!
In the gaming group I had we had the two extremes, one lad could make 4 lots of 6's on saves (on more than one occasion) the other couldn't make 2+ saves even if the 1 had been rubbed off...
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Post subject: Best Epic moment? Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 10:38 am |
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SM2 mommet - Chaos(me) v IG. Taking out a Hellbore and a CI (with two super heavy tank companies in it) in one turn. He was a bit reckless and got too close to my Lords of Battle.
E40K - I was waiting for reinforcements to turn up and a Phantom titan was routing my beastman detachment. He follows up a bit close saying "you might snap fire but I can take it...."
Well you can guess: beastman stand snap fires, hits, rolls a double 6 for a crit and goodbye Phantom Titan:;): .
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Post subject: Best Epic moment? Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 11:14 am |
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| Quote (Enderel @ 10 May 2006 (08:55)) | | Then again other players cannot make a saving throw if their lives depended on it!! |
That would be me... 
Plus I have the dubious honor of having missed with the attacks of an enntire IG heavy COMPANY. That's 30 attacks with 1/3 chance off hitting so the probability of missing with them all is, oh, about 1 in 192000... 
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Post subject: Best Epic moment? Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 2:48 pm |
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| Quote (Enderel @ 10 May 2006 (08:55)) | | Quote (Dwarf Supreme @ 09 May 2006 (15:33)) | Here's one of my most memorable moments, from SM2 era:
I was playing Marines, with a Warlord battlegroup supporting, against Eldar. The first shot I took was one of my Warlords firing at one of my opponent's Phantoms. I scored a hit, but I figured he would make the holo save, becuase he usually does. Nope, holo save failed. Off to hit location template. Wing targetted, didn't scatter. Yay! Wing save, failed. Cool. Rolled for critical damage. Wing blown clean off! So, no more holo field for that Phantom and we all now how long Eldar titans survive without their holo fields. By the end of the turn that Phantom was a pile of wreckage. |
It's nice when you get what you aim for isn't it! ? |
It sure is! Believe me, I was very surprised (and pleased)that with one shot I managed to destroy the holo generator. Take away an Eldar titan's holo field and you might as well paint a bullseye on it. 
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Post subject: Best Epic moment? Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 9:21 pm |
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It was so small, but I loved the visual. Eldar vs. IG. His Warlord Titan was in a perfect location to take out my Phantom Titan which had failed its activation.
I marched my badly beaten War Walkers so that they were in his ZoC. The Warlord failed its activation, moved backwards, and put it totally out of position. The next turn my Phantom stepped up and wiped it off the board.
I'm going to go hug my War Walkers now.
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Post subject: Best Epic moment? Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 9:58 pm |
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The best ones always seem to involve Orks...
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SM/TL days (not my battle). A friend of mine had an Ork clan with lots of Shokk Attak guns. When he decided to fire the first formation at the Warlord titan, there was great chuckling all around.
But then something interesting happened. With the size of the titan's base, the chances of any other unit being the target of the crazed snotlings after scatter was very small. The first volley was nothing unusual and the titan brushed them all off.
Then the second volley. Those who played back then will remember that the Snotlings attacked in CC and each additional CC attack gained an extra die for the resolution. By the end of the second volley, they managed to score a hit but scattered off.
The third volley opened up with an auto-kill lucky shot (doubles + Hit on the scatter die? I don't remember now) damaging the titan severely, followed by 3 more CC losses to crazed snotlings and a heap of titan wreckage.
That, however, was not the good part. The good part was watching the horrified reactions of the people around the table as they gradually realized what was going to happen to the poor titan. Absolutely priceless.
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Epic Armageddon. Recently.
Jungle scenario. OGBM v Catachans and AMTL. A Fortress Mob of 4 Gunforts teleports into assault range of a Warlord titan that has been badly mauled (1DC left), but which has regenerated most of its shields.
All I need to do is get a couple of them into base contact and I will likely kill this thing.
Orks lose Strategy roll and the IG fire on the fortresses, killing 1 fortress and wounding 2 others - DC 3, 2, and 1.
My turn! Engage!
I mentioned this was in the jungle, right?
Difficult terrain checks. The Fort with 2 DC fails. Great. A point of damage. At least they will still get to hit the titan.
But NO!
It's a critical hit! The Fort flips over, narrowly missing the one next to it.
This also drops the formation below the break point, so the remaining 2 Forts immediately break and withdraw, unable to complete the assault.
To try to avoid the follow up hackdown frenzy, I go ahead and take a full move with them. I roll the dice and BOTH forts fail their terrain checks. The one with 1 DC left is destroyed, obviously. The one with 3 DC... CRITICALS!
3 Ork battleforts literally wiped themselves out without the Imperium firing so much as a single shot.
I ended up losing the game, but we definitely had a good laugh at the old-fashioned Ork self-destruction. The idea of the panic and subsequent confusion and relief of the Princeps as the Ork Fortresses went barreling past to explode in the jungble was amusing, to say the least.
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Post subject: Best Epic moment? Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 10:28 pm |
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| Quote (nealhunt @ 10 May 2006 (13:58)) | | The best ones always seem to involve Orks... |
Funny, I was just thinking that same thing. Seems they have the most quorkie stuff.
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Post subject: Best Epic moment? Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 10:38 pm |
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| Quote (nealhunt @ 10 May 2006 (21:58)) | SM/TL days (not my battle). ?A friend of mine had an Ork clan with lots of Shokk Attak guns. ?When he decided to fire the first formation at the Warlord titan, there was great chuckling all around.
But then something interesting happened. ?With the size of the titan's base, the chances of any other unit being the target of the crazed snotlings after scatter was very small. ? The first volley was nothing unusual and the titan brushed them all off.
Then the second volley. ?Those who played back then will remember that the Snotlings attacked in CC and each additional CC attack gained an extra die for the resolution. ?By the end of the second volley, they managed to score a hit but scattered off.
The third volley opened up with an auto-kill lucky shot (doubles + Hit on the scatter die? ?I don't remember now) damaging the titan severely, followed by 3 more CC losses to crazed snotlings and a heap of titan wreckage.
That, however, was not the good part. ?The good part was watching the horrified reactions of the people around the table as they gradually realized what was going to happen to the poor titan. ?Absolutely priceless. |
Ah shock attack guns. Only the orks would have the genius to use a food blender, snotling and a short ranged teleporter as a weapon.
As to my most memorable moment. It is probably when my genestealers barrelled into a broken formation of necrons. All those first strike attacks and not a single necron dies, they then turn around and butcher my entire formation.
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