We Are Disgustingly Resilient

[TURBULENCE]

So I had an idea to start a thread for us to share our most entertaining stories from our games. As per the title, stories of insane survival or hilariously effective rolls. When the strong parts of our legion are brought to great heights by luck out the fate of the dice gods.

 

Some personal examples, to start. First off, I don't know how, but my typhus is unkillable. He survives every game, and against the odds fairly often. He's taken a railgun round to the face, and shrugged it off with only one wound lost. Better yet, due to poor placement(to my opponents glee) he took a full double tap salvo from a russ punisher cannon. Only lost two wounds. Only two wounds he lost that game.

Edited December 28, 2017 by TURBULENCE

[Shockmaster]

Mine is probably my Bloat Drone in a game against Space Wolves, not only did he wipe out two squads in two turns with it's spitters but then finished off a weakened Dreadnought in close combat with a good probing, ouch. 

[Noeh]

I recently had a Plagueburst Crawler get dropped on by 6 primaris inceptors all dual wielding plasma. (Fairly sure he did this wrong because he rolled ALL of the hits at once..something like 30 shots and then he rolled wounds for the ones that hit..even though 3 died?) Regardless..the plagueburst lived quite easily and had killed half the squad that attacked it without firing a shot. It killed them the next turn when It shot and charged. Two more killed themselves on overwatch.

[Panzer]

I recently had a Plagueburst Crawler get dropped on by 6 primaris inceptors all dual wielding plasma. (Fairly sure he did this wrong because he rolled ALL of the hits at once..something like 30 shots and then he rolled wounds for the ones that hit..even though 3 died?) Regardless..the plagueburst lived quite easily and had killed half the squad that attacked it without firing a shot. It killed them the next turn when It shot and charged. Two more killed themselves on overwatch.

Yeah with Plasma Inceptors you have to roll for each model seperately since even if that model rolls several 1s it would kill only this one model. However the other shots still get resolved regularly so at least that was right. ;)

[Noeh]

 

I recently had a Plagueburst Crawler get dropped on by 6 primaris inceptors all dual wielding plasma. (Fairly sure he did this wrong because he rolled ALL of the hits at once..something like 30 shots and then he rolled wounds for the ones that hit..even though 3 died?) Regardless..the plagueburst lived quite easily and had killed half the squad that attacked it without firing a shot. It killed them the next turn when It shot and charged. Two more killed themselves on overwatch.

Yeah with Plasma Inceptors you have to roll for each model seperately since even if that model rolls several 1s it would kill only this one model. However the other shots still get resolved regularly so at least that was right.

 

Yeah, something about him still getting shots from guys that exploded seemed fishy. I let it go because he killed half his squad and barely did anything to the Crawler. I actually kinda felt bad.

[Panzer]

 

 

I recently had a Plagueburst Crawler get dropped on by 6 primaris inceptors all dual wielding plasma. (Fairly sure he did this wrong because he rolled ALL of the hits at once..something like 30 shots and then he rolled wounds for the ones that hit..even though 3 died?) Regardless..the plagueburst lived quite easily and had killed half the squad that attacked it without firing a shot. It killed them the next turn when It shot and charged. Two more killed themselves on overwatch.

Yeah with Plasma Inceptors you have to roll for each model seperately since even if that model rolls several 1s it would kill only this one model. However the other shots still get resolved regularly so at least that was right.

 

Yeah, something about him still getting shots from guys that exploded seemed fishy. I let it go because he killed half his squad and barely did anything to the Crawler. I actually kinda felt bad.

 

Again, him getting all the remaining shots from the model that rolled the 1s is right. It says "On a hit roll of 1, the bearer is slain after all of this weapon's shots have been resolved."

 

He just has to roll seperately so one actually knows which model is slain. If he rolls all of them at once and there are two 1s you don't know if two different models rolled one of them each which would result in two slain models or if the same model rolled both of the 1s which would result in only one dead model.

Edited December 29, 2017 by sfPanzer

[Noeh]

 

 

 

I recently had a Plagueburst Crawler get dropped on by 6 primaris inceptors all dual wielding plasma. (Fairly sure he did this wrong because he rolled ALL of the hits at once..something like 30 shots and then he rolled wounds for the ones that hit..even though 3 died?) Regardless..the plagueburst lived quite easily and had killed half the squad that attacked it without firing a shot. It killed them the next turn when It shot and charged. Two more killed themselves on overwatch.

Yeah with Plasma Inceptors you have to roll for each model seperately since even if that model rolls several 1s it would kill only this one model. However the other shots still get resolved regularly so at least that was right.

 

Yeah, something about him still getting shots from guys that exploded seemed fishy. I let it go because he killed half his squad and barely did anything to the Crawler. I actually kinda felt bad.

 

Again, him getting all the remaining shots from the model that rolled the 1s is right. It says "On a hit roll of 1, the bearer is slain after all of this weapon's shots have been resolved."

 

He just has to roll seperately so one actually knows which model is slain. If he rolls all of them at once and there are two 1s you don't know if two different models rolled one of them each which would result in two slain models or if the same model rolled both of the 1s which would result in only one dead model.

 

I guess I play too many orks, the second part there almost never comes up with 1 shot always charged plasma equivalents

[Panzer]

It's really only an oddity for multi-shot overcharged weapons. Like Plasma in rapid fire range or Assault2 Plasma etc.

 

That being said theoretically one would have to roll for each model seperately once a Plasma unit is in Rapid fire range as well since each model could potentially roll two 1s but it would kill only one model then.

[Noeh]

It's really only an oddity for multi-shot overcharged weapons. Like Plasma in rapid fire range or Assault2 Plasma etc.

 

That being said theoretically one would have to roll for each model seperately once a Plasma unit is in Rapid fire range as well since each model could potentially roll two 1s but it would kill only one model then.

Very true. Orks just explode.

 

Oh another Disgustingly Resilient tale is from the same game where Mortarion took the whole brunt of A Deredeo Dreadnaught, a repulser, a redemptor, a contemptor, and some large tank with plasma cannons..and lived. Unbuffed mind you. He only lasted the next turn with buffs, but he kept a lot alive.