Warhammer 40,000/Awesome: Difference between revisions

* The entire Astral Knights chapter. A Necron machine world (imagine the [[Star Wars|Death Star]] with hieroglyphs and flashy green [[Tron Lines]]) was ripping a new one to a huge human coalition. The Imperials couldn't pierce its shields, all the attempts of teleporting troops on the world failed... So what did the Astral Knights do? They pushed their main battlebarge at its full speed, ''[[Ramming Always Works|rammed the machine world's shields so hard they shatter them for a brief moment]]'', and began to destroy as many reactors and shield generators on the surface as possible before [[Heroic Sacrifice|being wiped out by the vastly more numerous Necrons]]. The only Astral Knights who survived were those who were engaged in other battles hundreds of light years away, but those who fought and died made enough damage to the battleship to finally make it drop its shields and offering an easy victory to the Imperium.

* Even the pathetic Gretchins get a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], despite being [[The Chew Toy|the punching bag of everyone in the galaxy as well as actual players of the game]]. Specifically, it goes to the Grot orderlies of [[Mad Doctor|Mad Dok Grotsnik]], who brought the dok back to life after he was killed by Ork nobs for [[Explosive Leash|planting bombs in their heads]] without their consent. Sure, Grotsnik [[Came Back Wrong|was completely whacked out of skull balls to the wall bat shit insane afterwards]], but think about it: Gretchins are more cunning than the average Ork, but only because they have to be to avoid dying. Like Orks, they're not actually intelligent. No Ork or orkroid species, save for actual doks, are competent enough to revive someone. How did they do it? By doing something no Ork would do: ''they learned from Grotsnik how to heal instead of how to kill''. That's pretty damn impressive. It was followed by Grotsnik's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], when he [[Your Head Asplode|detonated the bombs inside the heads of the nobs]] who had done him wrong, while [[Crazy Awesome|cackling, dancing and jumping around, and howling at the sky]].

* Slaanesh defeating Khaine, ''the Eldar God of War and Murder who defeated the Nightbringer'', and getting into a fight with Khorne, during which Khaine was accidentally ''[[Literally Shattered Lives|shattered into a million pieces]]''.

* Battle of Hades Hive. In which Commisar Sebastian Yarrick stalled the entire Ork WAAAGH! long enough to turn the tide of the war, utilising a severely outnumbered force. During said battle he lost his arm, but stayed concious long enough to kill the offending Ork Warboss, cut off ''his'' bionic arm, hold it up as a trophy, urged on his troops, and finished off that attack wave. Not until the skirmish was over did he pass out. Then Yarrick replaced his arm with that of the Warboss. Yeah, CMOA for the Old Man of Armageddon.

** Unsuprisingly, the models melted. However, the icing on the cake is that the Termies themselves were fine, only their shins and feet had melted, which gave the effect that they were trying to walk through tar or lava, and looked damn awesome. It was a shining example of how fine a line there is between genius and madness.

* This troper's pride and joy have always been his vehicles and two of them qualified in an Apocalypse game.

*** Maybe it was a bit gloaty, but the line was too good to pass up: "Diana Ross was right. You just experienced...[[Quip to Black|a chain reaction]]" Complete with the replacing of the glasses. I've rarely been more proud of myself.

* A game of 3rd Edition [[Warhammer 40,000]] involved pitting his Eldar with a single unit Harlequin allies up against a Blood Angels force; with the Eldar woefully outgunned. The game ended in a narrow Eldar victory, thanks to the Harlequins, who destroyed a land raider and obliterated a unit of deep-striking assault terminators, before taking out half of a unit of assault marines, effectively tying up the other half for the last couple of turns. Far outperforming any other unit on the board At the same time, a unit of Warp Spiders managed to keep 2 Rhinos and a unit of SMurfs pinned down and ineffective for half the game, immobilizing one Rhino and stunning the other, until the Vypers could come in and clean up.

* This Troper once played a game of bloodbowl with an Ogre team against Norse. The Norse were about to score a touchdown and had the ball well defended. None of the Ogres could move close enough to tackle the Norse and the snotling were too weak to do anything worthwhile. So in a fit of desperation an ogre ran up to a snotling, picked him up and threw him at the enemies holding the ball, the snotling missed and flew into the crowd killing himself. This didn't phase the ogre team however and they proceeded to throw another snotling, this one hits a friendly ogre and kills him instantly. More snotlings are thrown and eventually the anyone around the general area of the ball was either dead, stunned or knocked out. The ogres managed to barely win that game and cause more damage to themselves than the Norse could ever dream of