Wargaming Stories.

[pssorens]

I've been playing a lot of GW games lately.
Mordheim- witchhunters , human mercenaries, dwarf treasure hunters
Necromunda- spyers, redemptionists, cawdor, escher
blood bowl- humans and dwarves
Warhammer- Warriors of chaos
40k- Black templars and my newest project, Relictors.

The best thing that ever happened to me in a game was in college, we were playing in a Warhammer tournament. I was playing a long since sold Empire army and my opponent was playing a a vampire counts army ( this was back in the days of the very first VC codex). First turn cannon shot took out his general and the army crumbled.

my biggest problem right now is coming up with a suitably nasty 1500 point 40k army for the next tournament.


Oh and do people think less of me for owning 5 BT land raider crusaders?

[ApolloSZ]

Pssorens, I had 2 Land Raider variants before I'd reached 40 marines.
Oh I do love those things for Blood Claws.

Oh and Rayven. Don't forget the bonus D6 at half range on Melta weapons.


Lessee....

Firstly, my friends jokingly hate me because I'm a jammy roller. I roll dice rolls way out of the bell curve. And I know one day it will fail me spectacularly, but, I enjoy it for now.

So I've had....

Lukas the Trickster freeze a bloodthirster in time, oh that was fun.

Njal sent a Carnifex plummeting to the center of the earth. We joked he'd send bloodclaws later to fetch trophies from it.

A full squad of 10 Grey Hunters drop-podded onto the table, but didn't quite land where they were supposed to. They found themselves staring at alot, and I mean alot, or Guardsmen squads. Laser-sight party!
->132 shots at the squad, including plasma/melta I think...
->4 Marines died.

An eldar wave serpent decided to Ram Bjorn.... it didn't work.

A lone wolf receiving a cavalry charge (including their blimmin I5 S5 power weapons on the charge) and then wiping the squad out. Or IG player now hates Lone Wolves with a passion.

A DE Archon wiping out a IG squad (as to be expected) - Then noticing the LR Crusader that had snuck up along side him. Can we say "Broadside"? - He rolled his shadow field, which only fails on a 1.... and rolled 2, 1, 1 on 3D6.

Although the crowning glory, and the reason my friends and I reverted to 4th Ed rules for vehicle damage etc.... Was a lone dreadnought with a twinlink lascannon, shooting a DE Raider.
Miss, re-roll.... hit..... penetrating..... 6...... explosion size..... 6....

We saluted as 2 squads of warriors, half a squad of wyches, a few incubi, and half another squad of warriors died. Personally I was laughing my ass off.

[Salted Grump]

Oh; another classic 'I'm an arse' moment in my personal wargaming history.

Anyone who plays Battletech knows that the Clans got some Hilariously broken stuff in their tech readouts, like the Masakari (Aka. Warhawk). Short version is that it's a 85-ton weapon platform with 4 ER PPCs, a LRM-10 rack, and a targeting computer that lets you pick exactly where those 4 PPCs get to hit, in exchange for a minor penalty on the chance to hit (in this case, a +3 modifier to the roll)

One Masakari vs. a lance(4) of Inner Sphere Heavy and Assault 'mechs. 8 turns later, the entire lance had their centre torsos burned through from front to back. I was promptly vetoed from ever picking up any 'mech with a targeting comp, ever again.

Then, a week later, I scored three headshots with a cerberus' main guns. (Cerberus is a 90-odd ton support-fire mech with a pair of gauss rifles. Hilarity ensues) So, I was promptly vetoed in my choice of 'any mech that can do more than 12 points of damage to a single location in one shot'

Third fight that month, I used a Savannah Master Hovercraft (five-ton scout with a medium laser, and ludicrously fast speed; they're almost impossible to hit) Needless to say, my friends were not amused to find me ripping apart their back armour and chewing up their soft, squishy vitals, like ammo storage.

[Crossbow]

Hehe. Me love them Savannah Masters. Give me a company of them and a lance of Dashers and I'll tear you to pieces.... Eventually.

I'll have to get my friend to relate the full story of "What do you mean I'm dead? Nobody's fired anything yet!"

[Geek King]

Heh, speaking of battletech, I once twinked out a 300-ton lance with one 100-ton mech that was almost all missles (1/2 walk run, 1 jump, 4 LRM/20 racks, lots of ammo, full armor) and the other three fast light/medium mechs customized for speed. I'd stick the 100-tonner behind some mountains and use the light mechs for spotting for indirect fire and running protection. Lots of fun with swarm ammo that lets you reroll any missles that miss the main target against any mech in an ajoining hex.

[ApolloSZ]

New one tonight. Friend charges with demon prince at Bjorn fell handed.
Hits twice - no damage.
Bjorn hits twice, takes two wounds of the DPrince.
DPrince rolls two armour saves for fearless....

annnnnnnnd loses his last two wounds. He has been dubbed "Deamon Prince Air Ball"

[lordlundar]

That reminds me of a D&D session I was in a number of years back. We were dealing with killing a vampire, and wound up with the vampire in front of us and a lycanthrope behind us. Not good. The GM has the vampire lunge at the nearest player.

Roll ... Critical miss
Roll ... Critical miss
Roll ... Critical hit

The results? The vampire, tripped, failed to restore his balance, and faceplanted, with his fangs stuck in the floor. To make matters worse, he landed on a pine cone. That doesn't sound so bad, except myself and another mage in the group were experimenting with cantrips (fundamentally useless spells for training). Specifically to transfer the heat of an area into a small space, say a pine cone. And pine cones explode when heated beyond a certain point.

Needless to say, when the pine cone went boom, it was the equivalent to roughly 10 stakes in the heart. All due to a vampire with no sense of balance.

[RayvenQ]

Man I got wasted last night, Chaplain, Assault Termies, 2 Tac Squads and a Razorback and Land Raider Crusader didn't fare well against hq 2 tac squads in 2 rhinos, 1 dred and 2 vindicators.

The game was pretty much over Turn 1 when my opponent drop podded in front of my crusader pretty much pinning it in place thanks to the terrain.

I lost 7-1 in Kill points. The only thing I had left was a 5 man tac squad.

[Plaidman]

Not so much of a Wargaming story, its a DnD story. It was finally proven to me by the actions of my players that the ole legend that the players will come up with stupid, insane ideas that will work. They are attempting to get into the main keep of their home country enemy country main captial. (So yeah, like 3 americans storming Hitlers Castle).

Their main idea was to first hire a bunch of dwarves, to build a secondary duplicate of the keeps outer walls around the fort, so passerbys won't think anythings up. Hmm. No, it be easier to make illusion spells of walls. Then, they will build walls infront of barracks doors so the guards can't get out and bug them. Yes, real dwarven workmanship. The guards won't hear it, because they'll use invisiblity and silence spells.


There was more, as I stare in disbelif at the ramblings of fairly intelligence people ocming up with off the walls ideas, and why they should work. They haven't acted on their plan yet, and we'll see how it goes next week.

[RayvenQ]

I'm now trying a neat little App called Vassal which, with the addition of a 40K module, allows me to play 40K TT on the computer against real people via the internet.