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.