About two weeks ago, I was in a massive scale game, by my measure at least, keeping in mind I usually only play 1500 or lower point games. So, it was proposed that we take an entire Monday off too play a single game. We arrived on the 21ist of April, and found that a neutral party who doesn't play 40k, to keep in mind, had set up the entire board, two tables covered in pieces of terrain, all set up to create a thematic battle for us.

The rules were simple, force org chart ignored, but you needed to have 2 troops per HQ in your army, otherwise, go hog wild on that chart. I was at 1500 points with my Marines, 3500 points for both my allies of Eldar. On the other side, 1500 points of Necrons, and they are the old chunky metal ones too, they are cool, 3500 points of orks, Lootas...lootas for days x.x, and the Chaos Space Marines, oblitorators, Plague zombies, and noise marines ahoy!

I did the best I could to olay to the strength of m army, a weird mix of good units. Fast attack Land Speeder and Attack Bike cleaning up along the sides, Dreadnaughts doing anti armor, or anti infantry work, snipers along the sides, commander moving hard up, Rino dropping off tactical squads everywhere, Drop Pod to harass the enemy, devastators to hunt tanks.

There were six players in this game, Myself playing with 1500 points of Iron Hands so I could get the Feel no Pain at 6+, and It Will Not Die, so my Dreadnaughts, Chapter Master, and my level 2 Psyker could recover wounds. So, I have that, my two companions for this were both playing Eldar, one of them being a little heavy on the Wraith, and big on his Avatar and Rangers, the other player using more bikes than I though he could have, every 3rd having a Shuriken launcher, I forget which one it was sadly, and every 10 bikes having a Warlock with shroud, every other squad of them having Shining Spears.

The Chaos Marine player loved his mix of special units, and his Land Raider, that thing...it does so much goddamn work x.x but he had Captain Typhis in that thing, with 4 Terminators, so, scary shit. Noise Marines were taking shots at enemies behind cover, and it was scary, his Oblits using the most powerful weapons he could muster, Plague Marines were being used to push this unstoppable wall..it was hard to keep back. The Necron player was using his Monolith, it was scary, and his Destroyers were tough to kill too, but they were thankfully a small force. The Orks had every unit...ever, seriously, three warbosses, more boyz then you could shake a stick at, Lootas...everywhere, and bikah mobs so big, they were swallowing other armies, so yes, terror.

So, that was the sides facing off against each other, and honestly, we got to turn 4, and finished that. By that point, we realized it had been almost 10 hours since we had started, and we decided to call it at that point. The Wraith lay in shambles, my scout snipers fought valiently, dreadnaughts killed in glorious battle against the greenskin menace, and the high marshal in a fight for his life against a near endless horde of plague zombies, his guard killed in a gunfight as they protected him. The librarian having pushed his powers to the limits, puppet mastering the forces of chaos around him to kill oneanother, and smiting the survivors, the thunderfire cannon used by Techmarine Gunner Garrath firing on into the end of the game, shots hitting mark after mark, leaving trains of dead behind, the land speeder being wrecked by the Monolith. My men died well, and they fought hard. In the end, they Orks, Chaos, and Necrons were the winners of that, but I came away with a hell of a war.

But, what are some of your good stories of games you've had? I don't want to give a play by play, because that would take longer then it should, but I made a few great things happen. The Librarian puppet mastering chaos bikers with twin linked meltagns to make it fire at a battlewaggon, buying some time, the Rino blocking the advance of plague marines, the scout Sergent who kept hitting, and wounding Typhis himself. It was a great time

Well...

I had a game against Tau where the half the kills on their units came from dangerous terrain.
I can't think of anything better

Oh dangerous terrain, isn't it wonderful?

I have a story for you.

I was playing 4th ed Necrons in a 5th ed game. My friend was playing Space Marines. We both had around 1750 points worth of stuff -- his stuff had more muscle than mine though, as 4th ed Necrons didn't have much of a choice on what you brought into an army (Read: destroyers). I also used a Monolith in that game, along with around 3 units warriors, destroyers, and other assorted units. Now, the main part in this story is one particular unit my friend had...

An Emperor's Champion.

So the first few turns of the game, I almost tabled him. By turn 4, only the Emperor's Champ was alive, and I lost practically nothing. I thought to myself "I have this game in the bag...". Then it happened. That 2+ armor save he had -- never rolled a 1 from then on out. Also, because of how combats work, that one champion killed: my entire destroyer squad, all 3 warrior squads, the Monolith (with his one meltabomb), two tomb spiders, and then I phased out. BTW he never failed an invuln either.

That one model destroyed around 1500 points in 2-3 turns and survived 60+ wounding shots.

I convinced my friend to model a promotion on that guy. Now he's got a new medal of valor for such feats against the Necron menace...

That is amazing. I am serious dude, mad props, that champion is awesome. I never thought about bringing in the Emperor's Champion before...might reconcider it

Two nice stories for you dating back from the time i was playing... (Nearly 7 or 8 years ago. No idea of the editions though)

The first is when i challenged my best friend who was playing the necron to a fight against my Ultramarines army. I was very proud of my Marneus Calgar and Honour guard unit, as you can imagine and when the tide of battle started to turn against me, I decided to have the whole squad charge his NightBringer. (You have to know that I'm very fond of Heroic moments and I was playing more for the epicness than for winning). So the C'tan eradicate all my unit in one turn, but the Chapter master. Who started to land PowerFist Punches against the abomination despite tremendous wounds.

In the end, he resisted 3 whole turns and made the thing loses 3 or 4 Pv. It still bring tears to my eyes.

The second was a game of Eldars vs Dark Eldars (I was playing Eldars) against an other of my friend. His Archon with Incube guard and shadow shield charge my Wraithlord, who lost in 1 turn all his HP (powerful but slow)... But one. At the end of the 2nd turn, my Wraithlord lands his blows, but the shadow shield block them easily... But one. And with his strength of 8, it's twice the toughness number of the Archon. Instant death.
My friend had despair written on his face while I was laughing so hard.

This sounds rather ridiculous by my Sisters of Battle fail every dangerous terrain test on there rinos and immolators every time. I'm forced to take plows for the re-roles, which they always pass. I have no answer to that situation, nor do I imply anything from it. Meanwhile my Slaanesh Chaos Army has never in the 15 years of its existence ever needed to take a dangerous terrain test that I can fathom that they did not pass, and often with a 5 or a 6 in ghusto, lol.

1 great story is that my old Dark Eldar Archite took his 1000th slave, which the last 3 were Kharn, Arhiman, and then finally Typhus during a mega battle when Apocalypse first was released.

Another greatest story was taking a Basilisk tank that had a missing gun because it was destroyed, had and run over Kharn and 20 of his Khorne Berzerkers all at once. His entire unit was trapped between the board edge and impassible terrain, boxed in in fact. Kharn failed his death or glory, and I automatically killed the entire unit because they could not get out of its way.

I had a Rhino that was never in its existence destroyed. It survived 3rd edition, 4th edition and 5th without no more then Immobilization results and weapon destroyed results. It survived 6 consecutive rounds of a Tank Company hammering it with Executioners and Ordinance rounds of all sizes and strengths, and still only ever immobilized it (to which it would subsequently repair itself every one of my turns).

The last, best, and greatest story, is having a young player come up to me, explained that he heard I was fun to play against, and even though he knew he was going to loose, felt it was worth the experience. He lost... but he had fun. And that is what counts in my book =D

reminds me of Crucian from the captain slaughter and the reject marines videos, that guy had more armour saves than a person could count.

Just one more funny story.

Was trying out new Tau, and I was loving it. I was versing the same friend using Space Marines (what a surprise ) and he had terminators. Now, I was trying out the "Fire ze Missiles!" Tau list, and it was rather hilarious. However, I decided that I should launch every single missile and pulse rifle I had (ya know, like 30-40 shots) at the termies. Wouldn't ya know he saved every singe wound (like 30 -- I rolled well). But just then, I forgot about one poor sap from a fire warrior squad -- he was the last man in his squad camping behind cover for his life. He took a crack shot at a terminator and killed it.

If only my army could be like that one fire warrior...