Games: Saved by a hair.

[Keeper]

Do you have any case where you (in a skirmish or campaign) were almost defeated but then all the odds turned to your favor and you won, or you were saved by a miracle-like event or something like that. Any relic game is ok. Here's my case:

Homeworld 2 (skirmish): I had played for a long time against AI's to train myself against a 1v1 against an expert, when i did it, hell broke loose, all my production ships (as well as the enemy's) was lost, only battlecruisers were left to count for production ships, i had one, the enemy had one, with no possibility to make new units. It ended up with an all against all battle, and the strikecraft was eliminated first, it went up the ranks and sizes as the frigates was destroyed next, then the destroyers, and finally the impossible: Only the 2 battlecruisers were left! (although i had 3 squads of bombers hid in my BC) they engaged each other (both were Vaygr) And in order to avoid me losing i sent out my bombers against the other BC's engines. They shot torpedo's and trinity shots at each others until the enemy BC's engines died from the bombers, and i navigated my BC out of the way of the trinity gun, and it could fire it's own, the enemy BC was killed by torpedo's...

VICTORY!!! :eek:

[JAL-18]

[Insert obligatory Left 4 Dead story here] :D

[Giant Moth]

Kind of like when I was playing the Homeworld 2 campaign for the first time, and I was fighting the final battle over Hiigara. I wasn't very good at stoping the rockets, so I won with one warhead marginal. Needless to say, the interesting part was that I had a 99.99% population loss of Hiigara(yes, I counted the numbers), but I still won the campaign.

So long as the planet itself does not split in three, we can rebuild! Onwards hiigarians!

[Dess_Aramea]

Ahh you should see my L4D story. Post #1582

:}

[bottenbreker]

Well, I've had a lot of games that seemed to have been doomed but eventually the tables turned into my favour.

I still remember me and my buddy's first 2 v 2 AT automatch in Company of Heroes. We were losing soo bad with Wehrmacht + PE vs US + Brits that at about 15 - 25 mins ingame, we had a victory ticket of 23 - 500. Yet, the last barrage i was able to put down with my nebelwerfer before it got killed by an incoming firefly, it was able to destroy their MG + bofor emplacement at a victory point. We were able to finish of the firefly and quickly rushed forward with 1 grenadier squad, 2 PG's squad and a Ostwind. The infantry quickly took care of the AT gun still guarding it, so the Ostwind could roll in. Their commandos desperatly tried to withstand our assault but quickly had to retreat from the ostwind + LMG42. after that, we were able to flank all the other VP's without much resistance, cause they kept hammering on the 1st VP we took (yet, we were able to hold it). At the end, we won with 23 - 0. Was quite amazing and probably lucky.

[Keeper]

These are awesome!

One of my Higgy Destroyers were almost killed by a trinity shot but it was grabbed by a bomber! :D I managed to pull it back and repair it.

[roflmao]

Company of Heroes. 2v2 Lorraine both HQ's destroyed. Called in a stormtrooper (had a grand total of 3-4 units) 30 seconds before my HQ totally collapsed, magically used that to annihalate the enemy in my base, then after 45 minutes I won.

[Master Chief]

I remember one game in Homeworld 2, it was a 1v1v1, can't remember the map. It was medium size. I was Hiigaran, the other two were Vaygr. Anyway, this other guy and I started right next to each other, literally five seconds away. So I start making a platform wall, he starts pumping out his fighters, bombers, etc., I start making my own Interceptors and Pulsars, so we're basically in a stalemate. Then the third guy comes in and demolishes both of us, just wipes the floor with us. I was lucky enough to be behind the Vaygr guy so I have just enough time to hyperspace away randomly, losing everything except one interceptor squadron and my mothership. I send in a scout with random waypoints so he can't find me and chases it fruitlessly, and almost an hour and a half later I have this massive fleet built and win the game.

[n0z3k1ll3r]

Not a PC game but I just lost a game of Warhammer Fantasy due to one single attack from a horse.

Stupid horse.

[Makille]

What, a single calvaryman? Must have been some badass dude; he kill your Commander unit or flank/rout an important unit?

[n0z3k1ll3r]

No not the cavalryman. The actual horse. He tipped a combat between my Skeletal Heavy Horsemen (450 pts) and some Chaos Warriors with a couple of characters (over 500 pts) from me winning to a draw. Had I won I'd have broken them due to Fear, and would almost certainly have run them down. But was not to be. Next turn they struck back first and annihilated my horsemen. So that tipped things by about 950 vps. Not fun.

[Pocktio]

I've had some pretty close Medieval 2 battles, winning with a bare handful of soliders left over.

[Ammon Ra]

A Long time ago in a Galaxy far far away when i played MP TA, 1v1 on a medium-large sized map. Enemy was spamming rocket kbots, destroying my initial rush, & my starting base, but i managed to keep the north western corner. He was gloating at this point. I Then sent out some adv. construction vehicles to build advanced metal extractors around the map. They didn't get harassed at all, so that meant he didn't have a radar, or was too busy mass-producing t1 units. Needless to say, i went from a near-defeat to complete annihilation in how long it took, and he was somewhat surprised to see a platton of heavy tanks, aircraft and kbots steamroll over his rather modest base.

[Mokino]

I once managed to win a game of RA1 with a chinook and a single Tanya after my base had been almost wiped out by an opponent. I just kept building defensive guns to keep him occupied while I used the Tanya that had been snuck into the rear end of his base very early on.

[Makille]

I was playing SupCom vanilla on a map that had a center pool with 6 canals that radiated from it, dividing the map into 6 triangular sections. I spawned at the bottom (UEF) and my opponent spawned at the top (Aeon). Because the Aeon had floating units he was able to take 4 of the 6 islands, leaving me to the island immediately to my east as my only extra. We proceeded to get into a stalemate of an hour which he broke by sending in an experimental unit, wiping out my second base. I had managed to turtle up very effectively at my main base, not even waves of 2-3 flying experimentals and nukes could budge me from my position.

During the entire time I was pleading with him to just accept a stalemate solution (it was nearly 2 hours long stalemate by now). I had been creating a nuclear sub and its nuke in the water next to my base from an hour of that, as well as the UEF experimental artillery, the Mavor. I got both up at relatively the same time. I sent a few T3 scout planes over his base and saw that he had no nuke defenses. My base was starting to fall just after that time by a combined assault of an Experimental Battleship, 2 Flyers and a Colossus. I sent my commander into the water near my nuke and bombarded the enemy player with Mavor shots, taking out most of his resources and production facilities. I launched a nuke at the last second towards the enemies completely unguarded commander and killed him. I won that game with only 2 minutes left before the 3 hour mark.

I sent him a tell after the game telling him he played well. He ignored me and /ragequit from the online service. His arrogance was the only thing that saved me.

[Mac_Bug]

coh beta 3v3 involving uber and soul on hill 331, come back with 10 ticks or something silly like that against 300

[Makille]

Very descriptive Mac! You should think about going into the publishing business.

[Seagull]

Not me but a friend of mine:

In my old FPS game there was a $100,000 tournament

The first part was hosted online, essentially the top 8 players would be flown out to California to compete for the prizes

Anyway, this is the last match, fighting for the 8th slot. Matches were fought in a best of 3 format.

My friend tied the first map and the second, so now it was the tiebreaker, and they were tied AGAIN

They each had a section of the map to themselves, playing so conservatively that no one wanted to push and take the risk of dying and losing it all

In the last 3 seconds of the game, my friend shoots a projectile across the map where it ricoshets roughly 13 (yes, 13) times and kills him, thus winning the game. He is flown out to LA and ends up winning 3rd in the tourney.

Tournaments always create these types of environments, love them so much :)

[ThirdDanScoota]

Stupid horse.

Amazingly, horses are actually quite good at combat while my Cold Ones never injure a damn thing. *Grumble grumble*

Reminds me of a 2-way, 9k point (per side) battle using 6 races we had one time. Empire, Dwarves and High Elves going all out shooty, vs us, Dark Elves, Chaos and I think a few Lizardmen or something. We got totally shot up as we advanced on their position, using whatever cover we could to shield ourselves. Things weren't looking so well for us by around turn 4 but we still had some steam left.
This is when my Assassin, Shadowblade appeared. In a Dwarven cannon crew.
The next several turns consisted of him dicing up their rear lines of archers, artillery pieces and enemy officers (which they were feeding to him in order to keep him away from their other shooty stuff.
By the end of the 12 hour affair he'd managed to accumulate well over 1.5k points of damage and secured us a victory. Without losing a wound.

[hermanJnr.]

Meh, I was playing this game of Tekken 5 a while back with a friend, it was the final round, and I had like 1% health left, while he had about 45%.

So anyway, I managed to micraculously block about 5 moves, and then pull off this chain-grapple-combo with King that I'd been practicing like a sad person for about a week :D

KO!

Also, L4D :D

[Fixer]

Using my 'ol drop pod Salamanders I was losing a game of Warhammer 40,000 against a tournament opponent using an extremely well painted demonhunters army.

Things looked bleak, his land raider crusader advanced upon the remnants of my army. My commander was gone, my elites were dead and all I had left was the tattered remnants of my tactical squads, just barely holding on and scoring.

One last shot from an anti tank melta weapon at long range against the land raider. 3+ to hit, 6+ to break his armor (on a D6) BOOM. Tank exploded. Not only did it explode but it pinned the unit of Terminators inside it, the explosion also spread far enough to hit a squad of his own storm troopers, killing enough of them to reduce them below scoring.

On the last turn of the game, with my tactical marines now claiming the objective as his Stormtroopers could no-longer contest, his terminators stuck and unable to move to the other, his dreadnought trying to move through the wreckage of the Landraider and falling massively short the victory points and game turned from what was going to be a crushing victory against me to a huge defeat for the Grey Knights.

Not a bad turn-around.

[Mind Strike]

Medievil Total War

Huge battle between the Britains and the French (me Britain)

Two huge armys faceing each other down...none prepared to fight in melee only with bows and catapaults.

It went on for about 10 minutes and I took the crutial and unforseen desisive move to cease fire from my catapaults and preserve ammo..5 minutes later a huge charge ensued from both sides I was flagging and about too loose.

I retreated my men and rallyed them back into formation and let fly with my catapaults and caused havok in the french lines and caused maximum damage...they were terrified and therefore finished. I proceeded to charge them down with cavelrey and killed many.

I was victorius

[Keeper]

Huge battle between the Britains and the French (me Britain)

Of course you were Britain, you live there :D


I retreated my men and rallyed them back into formation and let fly with my catapaults and caused havok in the french lines and caused maximum damage...they were terrified and therefore finished. I proceeded to charge them down with cavelrey and killed many.

Wow, you did all that so quickly?

[Mind Strike]

Wow, you did all that so quickly?


Well yes and no really.

Pulled my lines back in a mish mash tactical retreat and fought hard to regain order, but a few volleys from my catapaults were able to soften the enemy advance and confuse the AI. This all took about 10 mins but by changing the game speed I was able to do all this in about 1-2 mins

[Mgee]

Was playing soulstorm the other night, was a 4v4 game (forget which map, one of the newer ones) and since it was later in the day, we couldnt be picky about who joined and most of the slots were filled with nooby ppl. Me = tau, teamates are eldar, necron and sm against 2 sm, sisters, and tau.

2 minutes in, one of their players dropped and it looked like an easy win. 3 minutes after that, 3 of em rushed one of my teammates with t1 units. we pushed them back into the middle, but keeping them there wont win the game, so me and a teammate went to move around the side of the map and get em from behind. while we were bashing one of their bases, one of my teammates holding the middle dropped then the 3 guys in the middle rushed the other lone man and more or less destroyed him cuz he wasnt listening to advice to drop an hq in one of our bases :P

I was gettin ready for the impending swarm while me and my teamamte were killing off their tau player, but it came at the cost of my teammate losing his main base. being eldar and it being an odd map, he managed to get a bonesinger on top of some isolated mountain in the middle and built concealed base with barracks, power supply and even built his avatar up there before losing his relic XD

its a very back and forth game at this point. they own most of the map, and have me boxed in my base. me and my teamamte push the sisters out of his main base and now both players left were holed up into one big turtled base, but hammer heads + fire prisms = ranged win, just hafta rout em out slowly...

then my gf called and said she was on the way over XD

told my teammate I was leavin in 5 mins, and he didnt like that one bit, so we agreed on a suicide rush up front for a laugh anyways.

Our rush ended up tearing their most fo their turrets out and as we were jumping in units out of the base, the sisters player quit, then the sm player followed suit!

....even though neither me or my teammate had any fight worthy units left XD

then the game promptly crashed at the end stats screen

My friend also got a crazy comeback playing TT 40k vs me
I was playing blood angels, sitting ibehind a large wall, and my friend was chargin me across an open field. Seemed really one sided for me until his lictor entered play right behind 2 of my tac squads and started raising hell. Everything out in the field died horribly (my hq, death company and dread and his fex, tyrant and zoan) and the fight boiled down to his lone lictor vs 3 of my tac squads.

he won the game when my *last* marine ran off the table.

his dice rolls were godlike with that damn lictor o.o

[CommissarRezail]

Lets put this simple 2v3, Bane arrived just in the nick of time.

[Psymon]

I was playing Medieval 2 as the Scots. Having conquered the British Isles and a chunk of northern France in short order I advanced east into Germany. I rolled over a couple of towns and then ran into one of their castles, I can't remember which one, which turned out to be far better defended than I expected. There was a titanic battle, My Highland Nobles and Highlanders scaling the walls and taking massive casualties as my knights stormed through the breeches I opened in the walls. By the end of it, there were two sizeable gaps in the wall and the only units close to full strength were the ballista crews and two units of Highland Archers who had been sitting back shooting at things.

The very next turn, an army appeared from central Germany and attacked. It was around 3000 men, while I barely had 1000 and led by the Holy Roman Emperor himself, presumably quite miffed that I'd offed the crown prince the turn before. I decided I was probably going to lose, but I would make them pay for it. I blocked the holes in the wall with the ragged remains of my pikemen and placed my archers on the walls near the breaches. The imperial catapults opened up on my pike and it was clear that the breaches would be wide open if I didn't do something. So I sent out my cavalry, which at the time consisted of a few border horse, my general and the six or so bodyguards he had left and about a dozen Knights Templar from three different units. They swept around the back of the enemy, for some reason what few ranged units he had were tied up on siege ladders and the like, and hammered into the three units of catapult. The enemy cavalry responded quickly, but not before we'd killed or routed the entirety of their artillery. I retreated, leaving them with no option but to charge my, albeit depleted, units of pikemen. The ensuing melee was a tough fight, with what was left of my infantry units (around 200 men) pitching in, but in the end I not only routed or killed his entire army, I captured the Holy Roman Emperor himself. The after battle report showed some 2500 casualties on his side and around 500 on mine. Now that was an awesome fight.

[Keeper]

The after battle report showed some 2500 casualties on his side and around 500 on mine. Now that was an awesome fight.

Yeah, truly epic! That's propably without an equal in any battle in reality.

[DougyM]

Multiplayer in medieval total war 1:

I used to always take a catapult unit as it tended to force the enemy to charge at me as it outranged their archers/crossbows.

Knowing that the usualy MTW tactic was to have 4 ranged units, i technicaly ruled them out with a single catapult.

With my 3 extra units i bought shock troops (highlanders or gallowglasses) and with an advantage in close combat numbers i usualy won.

This particular game was going very well, until my catapult fired and the boulder landed sqaure on my general.

Entire army panicked and ran.

Lost to less than 130 men (the only survivors of a force 1200 strong to start with)

[Keeper]

This particular game was going very well, until my catapult fired and the boulder landed sqaure on my general.

Catapult operating guy: :wtf:

General: :bricks:

LOL sounds funny :D