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* [[Horus Heresy/Awesome|Horus Heresy]]

* [[Night Lords/Awesome|Night Lords]]

 

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* Abnett does these a ''lot''. In ''Brothers of the Snake'', one of the wildest moments in what is, basically, a ''series'' of over the top moments is the defense of an unnamed town on a backwater world. Fifty Space Marines from the Iron Snakes chapter fight a massive horde of orks. There's so many that the Marines know they are going to die- but they do it anyway, because they should try. {{spoiler|What's really wild, and what makes this scene so touching, is that they pull it off- for, while all of them are hurt, some quite badly, and the equipment they brought is nothing but worn nubs and blunt spears, not one of them fell- and they killed every single ork. It's one hell of a moment.}}

** Slightly less inspirational, but one of the few times a Space Marine Dreadnought is actually a character, the second excursion to the planet where it all started. A large group of Dark Eldar attempt to hide from the Dreadnought, which can still see them with its sensors. The Dreadnought calls them out on it, then brings down a stone building on top of them. The dreadnought stomps up to one still-living Dark Eldar and demands to know where the Space Marine commander of the mission is. The Dark Eldar spits a curse; the Dreadnought responds "Wrong answer." and proceeds to riddle the entire rubble pile with bolter shells.

** It's brought to a sudden halt when Honsou staggers, drawing Vauban into a hasty finishing blow, only to charge inside Vauban's swing and ram the shattered ruin of his sword straight ''through'' both Vauban's breastplate and his heart. Ouch.

*** An even better crowning moment goes to another guardsman, who manages to survive having the rest of the [[Red Shirt|Red Shirts]] in his guard outpost slaughtered, makes his way back to the base with a Chaos Marine pursuing him the whole way, gets into a missile silo with the instruction of an Adeptus Mechanicus Techpriest, and manages to take out the Marine chasing him, and ''launch an anti-ship missile into the heart of the Chaos army'' at the same time.

** Mortarion, for the time before he got found by the Emperor. We're talking about somebody who didn't stop helping people, despite being feared by them and eventually managed to single-handedly drive off invaders from said people armed only with a scythe.

** Vulkan squaring off against an attacking force of technologically adept super-sadists with nothing but a ''pair of hammers''. ''And winning''.

*** He also claimed to have a mild headache after the fight, but caused by the amount of booze he drunk ''not'' the punch.

*** Leman Russ' first act when he emerged from his incubator pod after getting teleported out of the Emperor's laboratory was to climb out of a volcano. Let me repeat that: ''the first thing Leman Russ did '''as a newborn child''' was to '''CLIMB. OUT. OF. A. VOLCANO.''' '' [[Badass]] personified.

** The 13th Company of the Space Wolves have spent ''ten thousand years'' in the middle of a [[Negative Space Wedgie]]. ''Uncorrupted''.

** [[State Sec|Inquisition]] may be ruthless, but these guys are ''not'' fools. In fact, much of the appeal Inquisition has to the players and fans is that [[I Did What I Had to Do|they are doing what they have to do]], and, however GW designers like to slap ''even more'' GRIMDARK onto the setting, there simply wasn't the way they've could do this without shooting themselves in the foot. It's either they let Inquisition be the smart guys and let the Space Wolves be, or they make them live to their reputation and ''both'' cripple one of the most popular chapters, and turn Inquisition from the [[Anti-Hero|AntiHeroes]] to the outright villains. The choice is easy.

* The [[Badass Army|Imperial Guard]] is composed of just regular guys with bad guns (and, admittedly, awesome tanks). They routinely get involved in battles with eight foot tall fungus monsters, undead robots led by the god of death, satanists wearing a solid ton of armor, ravening swarmbeasts who exist solely to eat flesh, and space elves capable of ripping them apart with mind-bullets channeled from hell itself. And they don't always lose.

** As a subset of this, a Commissar's job is to be even scarier than all the nasty beasties listed above. They are very good at their jobs.

 

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== Tabletop Game Battle Reports ==

* This troper will always enjoy the moment, in his first 1500pt game, in which his Falcon ([[Glass Cannon]], very fast, good firepower, sucks in the durability department) scooted along the sidelines and blasted the Scout squad holding the Marines' home objective so badly the rest broke and ran, netting him a 2 objectives to none victory.

* Apocalypse battle, 4,000pts Chaos and Eldar (hey, we were trying to use all of our miniatures!) against 4,000pts Space Marines and Imperial Guard. Chaos Terminator squad pops up in the middle of the field, charges the Space Marine Command Squad, proceeds to demolish them without taking any casualties. Striking Scorpions pop up behind the Land Raider, Exarch with Biting Blade rips it to shreds. Daemon Prince (which, by the way, is green stuff modeled and painted to be Monty Python's Killer Rabbit on a flying base) charges the Dreadnaught and rips ''it'' to shreds. Chosen squad unleashes a barrage of chaotic fury on a Scout squad and they break and run (the same scout squad that broke in the above example, as a matter of fact). Eldrad [[Mind Rape|Mind Wars]] the Imperial Guard general, who bricks his Morale test and dies, and then Eldrad uses his second Mind War on the Commissar, who also bricks his Morale test and dies. The Imperials conceded after another three turns of being pounded into scrap without inflicting significant damage.

** A Marine has killed five Imperial Guards with a teacup - then proceeded to finish his cuppa.

** A Marine squad has fought its way to the top of a mile-high tower, found nothing at the top, then had half its members take the quick way down by ''jumping out of the nearest window''