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My Favourite Warhammer 40k Experience
In a tabletop game against Imperial guard with my tyranids, where the guard had formed line behind a defence line thinking themselves safe due to the amount of fire they could pour on to my advancing horde. This brought them a brief respite, until 3 of my Mawlocs burst out from the ground behind their lines, scattering guard in their hundreds and wrecking their tanks. The now dis-organised and chaotic firing line was now broken allowing my horde to close and devour.
My first WH40K:DoW2 playthrough, final mission.
Tyranids, tyranids everywhere. Tac squad - all dead. Devastator squad - only sergeant left alive. Dreadnought - 15% HP left. Next wave of 'nids coming. Warriors. Lictor. Carnifex. Hordes of 'gants. Last stand.
And then Gabriel Angelos comms in and Blood Ravens' drop pods start dropping on the battlefield, like snowflakes.
That was a really good feeling
I had a 40k game back when I was a kid ( so 20+ years ago ) and in it you could unlock terminators. The first mission I got to unload the mini gun into a chaos space marine and it tore him apart. The graphics where a joke but I remember just being blown away at how awesome this walking wall of armor was.
Then I discovered the power hammer!
First his unit beat up a unit of Hormagaunts (Tyrannids for those unfamiliar) then the survivors charged a unit of Genestealers leaving only the Sargent alive. Who then in the best thing ever took out the last two wounds on a mighty hive tyrant and lived to tell the tale. He was awarded the iron halo for the rest of the games we played and gained a healthy respect for scouts
I think my favourite W40K moment was when I was but a kid. I used to visit local shop with card games like Magic, Pokemon etc. and one day, they set up few battle tables with amazing environments... and then I saw them...
The Space Marines. I've never seen anything more epic than fully-coloured Space Marines figures, Blood Angels fighting against Eldar I think. I didn't know what going on and what was the goal of the game, what were the rules, but it I knew one thing... that the Space Marines kicked ass.
My favourite 40K moment was many years ago during the Armageddon campaign in my local GW store. Myself and the other loyalist Space Marine players were diligently holding back the Orkoid and Chaotic forces, whilst on the far right flank one of my fellow players Land Speeder units was decimated in a single turn and left with only a single Land Speeder minus its weapon systems.
With only this one lone Land Speeder and a Chaos Dreadnaught bearing down upon him he decided to do the one thing he could think of, he looked up and shouted "RAMMING SPEED" at the top of his lungs. This lead to about 15 mins of debate amongst GW staff as to whether they should allow this, but since it was the last unit he had they let it go and worked out the mechanics for it.
After about 6 turns of maneuvering some of my Space Wolves into covering positions and attempting to draw the attention of the aforementioned Chaos Dreaddie with hit and run attacks as well as this guy ramming his last Land Speeder into it turn after turn we finally managed to break through its armour and bring it down. Although it also took down the last Land Speeder as well.
That one moment made the resulting victory all the more exhilarating.
The best moment in the tabletop game for me was in 6th ed I had anrakyr shoot his only tachyon arrow at a fire prism w/ a 2+ cover save due to night fighting. I hit on a 6 he rolled a 1 then I rolled a 6 for pen and got 1st blood
Worst time was playing against an all mechanized army and only glancing 1 time with my all-gauss army
It's silly, but I remember right around when I had first started playing. I was desperately trying to hold a ruin with a squad of guardsmen, who were being assaulted by chaos space marines. My guardsmen weren't actually in cover, and the marines mostly ripped them to shreds. One guardsman stood left, and the marines still had a meltagun to resolve. Ends up rolling a one to wound, and doesn't fall back from leadership.
I just imagine him taking the melta blast, standing up, and flipping the marines off. He got promoted after the battle, I'm sure
A few games of Epic with a buddy of mine. He was really more interested in the painting than the game, and we were both far too poor to afford to get into it fully, but those few games were really enjoyable. Saw some seriously awesome setups for a Space Hulk game at a local gaming con that were really cool to watch play out.
Much respect for the folks that can put that much detail into mini painting - I'd be lucky to get the main colours all in the right places.