Most heroic unit

[Asklepios]

Taking a cue from the "most worthless" unit thread, let us post our most heroic/blessed units/miniatures.

My most heroic unit is one of my Epic Legio Invicta Dreadnoughts that single-handedly destroyed a whole squad of Chaos Terminators (four stands, last edition of Epic). He has performed so consistently well, that I have given him an Honour Guard of two Legio Invicta Marines and extra honours decals as well as a banner (which I unfortunately lost after my last game). In the old edition, I then proceeded to use him to represent an Inquisitor (so he also got the accompanying Inquisitorial Rhino. Yes, it was retro-fitted especially to be able and accomodate him). Might post a pic of him later...

[Strybjorn]

Hmmm, I have two. First, from second edition. Had a Long Fang that in the Space of 3 turns killed, I kid you not, Abaddon, Kharn, then Ahriman. What I won't mention is the squad of berserkers that found that long fang squad later in the game. Second, same Long Fang pack, took on my friends blood angels for the hell of it. Split fire every turn. First turn, blew his Baal all to hell, and gutted his DC squad. Second turn, killed his Furioso and a Rhino with a Tactical squad. My Grey Hunters, finished his DC. Needless to say I won that game.


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[Thalasion]

If were talking all game systems not just 40k then it has to be my redemptionist priest from one of my necromunda gangs, he charged into a bunker and chopped up 5 gangers at once then burned 3 more with a flamer. That seems pretty heroic to me.

[Stormblade]

Would have to be the command squad medic for my guard. Absolutely indispensable. Saves plasma gunners while they overheat, keep officer alive and the squads in check and has performed many heroic charges. The odd thing is unlike the rest of the army he usually survives the heroic charges and the rest of the army can get back to what their good at. Rolling 1's and 2's to hit.
The flamer guardsman had potential, the last guy to survive a round of fire from a full squad of firewarriors who were trying to take the objective. He burned a couple then charged in. For a moment all seemed well despite the fact he didnt kill any. Then the Tau mugged him. Granted he was only 1 guardsmen but he could have held them up for a turn... still won the game thanks to deep-striking allies termies thankfully.

[Dante]

Most heroic? My death company...They dont always survive tho, but they are ALWAYS charging into battle...ok so thats their rule but still, no other unit charges all the time into impossible odds (like the time the closest enemy was a dread....*shudders*)

[Exetus]

My Daemonhunter Inquisitor is my single most heroic unit, followed closely by my Flesh Tearer's Chaplain. The Inquisitor has thus far vanquished 3 of 4 greater daemons (only the Great Unclean One remains) and has never been killed. He has saved himself more times than I can remember and slaughtered elite units as well. His greatest triumph was a battle where he killed a squad of daemonettes, the Keeper of Secrets and a squad of marines and their champion almost by hmself as his retinue was savaged. This has earned him the privilege of using a Land Raider Prometheus as his personal transport.

My Flesh Tearers chaplain lost most of his Death Company fighting a unit of Ogryns but himself personally accounted for all of them, then proceeded to rout three other squads and destroy a Basilisk.

[Asklepios]

Of course, we are talking all GW and Fanatic systems.
Wow, that is some heroism indeed. Keep it coming folks.
Strange though that to date all accounts except the Necromundan one come from Servants of The Emperor... ;)

[Stormblade]

Well there was the Scythguant incident... but somehow despite the fact that 2 broods of 16 Scythguants massacred 1000 pts of marines he managed to keep it quite...
good enough from a non-imperium perspective? Granted it was the 'Heroic' power of 32 models in 2 units...
::EDIT::
Dante give your squads veteran sarges then, subverted vet sarges can choose powerfists or power weapons... powerfists should smash up dreads :smash:

[Athair]

For Nids, I think it would be my Lictor. I stuck him in a bunker once, and the enemy through in a Vindicare Assasin. I popped out in the shooting phase and scared the heck out of my opponent :D .

For Eldar it would have to be Karandras or my Solitare. Solitare dropped a C'tan down to one wound left, then got swamped and killed by Warriors. The C'tan proceeded toward Karandras. Karandras shoots with his Scorpions Sting: Misses. Hits with 3 of his 4 attacks, wounds 1, gets to roll again, and 2 Wounds. C'tan fails 1 save, blows up, and takes out the rest of my SS squad (exept for Karandras).

[Dante]

Dante give your squads veteran sarges then, subverted vet sarges can choose powerfists or power weapons... powerfists should smash up dreads :smash:

Playing 1500 points limits use of armoury stuffs like that. So i just take out my vet. srg. when needed. but yeah most of my sargents do have power weapons or power fists...along with PLASMA PISTOLS! mahaha lots of :smash:

[Ramrod]

without a doubt my sniper squad. i use them as bodyguards for my HQ, shooting at any high-toughness enemy unit they can get in their sights.

i normally have very good luck with my snipers, taking out every unit that represents 'big trouble' before they cripple my army. thats pretty valiant, i'd say.

then, when someone is directly threatening my HQ, i put the snipers in the way to save my HQ from entering HtH with anyone, most of the time sacrificing the snipers in the process. they buy just enough time for my HQ to get a reasonable distance away.

may they rest in peace...

[chocolate]

In epic... my gargant Big Basha , who has singlehandedly... destroyed a total of around 50 IG infantry stands in his career (alright, not so impressive since they get no save) 35 Leman Russ tanks, 5 shadowswords, 6 baneblades, 3 warhounds, and 1 warlord.

[Thalasion]

Of course, we are talking all GW and Fanatic systems.
Wow, that is some heroism indeed. Keep it coming folks.
Strange though that to date all accounts except the Necromundan one come from Servants of The Emperor... ;)

Redemptionists are copletely servants of the emperor, ok not official ones more inquisitor wannabe types, but they still like the emperor a whole lot more than anyone else in that game.

[Asklepios]

Oh, I was not aware of that, Thalasion :)

In response to chocolate : That is pretty impressive ! Alas, I have not been able to use my own Titans (Imperial Warlord and Eldar Warlock) much, but they do tend to level everything that comes at them :D

[Stormblade]

Playing 1500 points limits use of armoury stuffs like that. So i just take out my vet. srg. when needed. but yeah most of my sargents do have power weapons or power fists...along with PLASMA PISTOLS! mahaha lots of :smash:
Yes 1500 pts may limit that a little... but I meant that when a vet sarge joins the death company he loses any equipment he has but gains a choice of powerfist/powersword as a weapon. If you can find the points give some of your squads vet sarges, possibly with no equipment because you want them taken into the death company. So when one of the squads get 4+ on death company roll pick the vet sarge and you can have a death company guy with powerfist, that should deal with dreads and the like.

[Mal'Caor]

I have two heroic models in my Dark Angel army. The shiney headed, bald, black commander from my assault squad, and my ravenwing bike with the flame thrower. They have both saved me on many the occation by taking all the enemy fire away from my tacticals while they moved in. My friends are racist or something and always pick on the black dude's squad. And they just hate my speedy flamethrower. Apparently troops dislike fire or something.

[Fend]

I got 2.

My Emporers Champion , whos deaths i can count on one hand. every time he died, he did it heroicly (cept when he was shot to sh-t by 6 Necron heavy Destroyers while running through the open...). In this one battle, He took down the enemy Hive Tyrant and won, takeing no wounds. Then Was Swarmed by a brood of Gargoyles, he took a wound and the terminators came to his rescue, THEN he Charged the Near by Carnifex, Took it down to two wounds and was Brutally washed away in a tide of Geanstealers. (btw, he was Avenged, the Geanstealers felt the Wrath of 2 heavy flamers and the combined firepower of a dreadnaught, 5 terminators And a predator. the carnifex - after mauling 4 terminators in a subsequent combat, was Smacked down by the lone remaining terminator). However, in the end i wouldnt have won if not for his Sacrifice. In subsiquent battles hes never let me down, he always turns the game in my Favor some how.

My Second unit is my brave team of 6 spacemarines from second squad... Their first brave act was to charge headlong, in a doomed razorback over an Open bridge in the center of the field to break a Stalemate situation. the Necrons subsiquently made short work of the Razorback and most of the squad. however, unfaultering the squad moved forward ON FOOT for a further turn, sustaining fire from 2 rapidfireing squads (suffering only 1 casualty) before Engageing the necrons in hth. while all this was going on the rest of my army advanced thru a ford just nearby the bridge. I won the game, but the burnt out wreck of the razorback, and the fact the men just wouldnt die kept my oponent from manuvering around me.

[DV8]

Heroics...hmm....

My Emperor's Champion almost breaking the back of a 13th Company army (killed every Wolf Guard, the Rune Priest, and held up the Wolf Lord for 3 turns before succumbing to his wounds).

Again, Emperor's Champion (Icarus) charging and single-handedly routing a Witch Hunter (sisters of battle + inquisitor and storm troopers) army by himself.

And most recently, my two Templar Chaplains (Mobius and Laertes) charging and holding down almost 800 points of Black Legion (lots of Asp Champs and a Lord in there) long enough to tie the game for me (cleanse, wiped out every squad but 2, which were both reduced to 2 and 3 man size, and dropping his Lord down to 1 wound). They, of course, died valiantly.


DV8

[JediNeophyte]

Without a doubt my Lemans Russ and Basilisks.

I generally either field all three of my Basilisks or three Lemans Russ, rarely a mix. In either case, my ordnance rolls almost always come up as a hit and very rarely scatter significantly. And since I'm very good at guessing ranges, my Basilisks hit with unerring accuracy. I direct-fired one in a recent battle at a Land Raider loaded with Assault Terminators - very ouch for my infantry. Thanks to the heroic artillery crewmen, an Ordnance Penetrating 6 was scored against the Land Raider, completely annihilating it along with the termies inside.

[Dimension]

300+ points in one shot. nothing to be sneezed at i might guess...

[DV8]

I dunno..i've seen 800+ in a single shot....

2 Orks fighting each other...1000 points per side. On the left you have the speed freaks all yelling 'waaaaagh' as they await their first turn. On the right...you have a lone looted leman russ...the mekboy sniggering and cackling like mad. He fires...hits the center trukk..penetrates (obviously)... on a 6...blast radius of 6...hits every other truck...destroys them...along with all the boys inside.

First shot of the game...800+ points gone...needless to say the speed freaks warboss was NOT a happy camper.


DV8

[Apoc]

Hmm, I guess mine would have to be my Farseer from 2nd edition 40k.

I was playing a 1v2 vs a few m8's both of which combined their nid armies to fight my Eldar in a Tyranind Assault scenario. (i.e. the one where you just have to survive for 6 turns).

Well in the final 2 turns of the game, my Farseer wound up in h2h combat with both 2 Hive Tyrants and a lictor. Not only did he twat them all, but he also dealt with a daemonic attack during the psychic phase, alas, in the final shooting phase he failed his Rune Armour save and died, but he put up one hell of a fight.

[ThirdDanScoota]

Heh, mine would have to be my Eversor Assassin (Daemonhunters). He charged and killed the Tau Commander my Deathcult Assassin failed to scratch before being crushed, but the Eversor took a wound. With one wound left, he charged and destroyed a Hammerhead with Railgun (after it took out my Dreadnought's Powerfist), then running into a unit of Firewarriors my Grey Knights had also just charged. He wiped the squad out before the GKs could blink (they lost a few to an Incinerator before combat, but most of the squad lived only to die). He then ran into ANOTHER unit of Firewarriors, and left 2 remaining which fled off the boards edge, but not before they shot and killed him as they ran. My GK Terminators didnt get to do anything but shoot once in the whole game.

In Fantasy (sorry guys, just had to say this one), my Shadowblade (Dark Elven Assassin) who is 360pts, throughout a 9000pt battle, was fed character after character as he was amongst the Dwarven and High Elven artillery line (hes a sneaky one - and this was after he shot a Dwarven cannon, killing most of my Cold-one Knights). This was all they could do from decimating the strongpoint of their shooty-army (an entire third of ALL their shoorty stuff), eventually killing over 850pts worth of Dwarven Runesmiths with 1+ armour saves (3 of them), a Dwarven Engineer also with 1+ save, and an Empire Warrior Priest that mimmicked my Shadowblade's stats. Shadowblade was the only reason we got a draw (we were getting mauled by enemy fire) and managed to pass every 5+ ward/inv. save. All this with strength 4 attacks, and finally using his potion to bring it to 7 strength 7 attacks with killing blow (roll a 6 to wound, model dies with no save). He also killed 2 War Machines and i got to see a very amusing look on my mates faces as they thought "well, were certainly f*****" which i have NEVER seen before, as they ALWAYS have the advantage. He was rightfully commended and made man of the match.

[BillyBob]

My most heroic model would have to be my Justicar, Alexander. He laid low 3 Dark angel termies BY HIMSELF with only a stormbolter :sniper: before being taken out by a dreadnaught lascannon (kid was just a little peeved, so he decided to fry him). He has proved possibly the most heroic of all my grey knights, Other than that, my mephiston murdered my friend's Typhus. After the herald's death, my friend automatically forfitted. :rolleyes: :loser:

[.Lexx]

My most heroic model has to be my force commander - Lucius. His kill total so far is: 4 squads of necron warriors, 3 mecron lords, 2 full units of necron destroyers, 2 tactical squads, 2 fire warrior squads, a squad of those tau with burst cannons, 1/2 of a 1000pt chaos army, 2 carnifexes and 2 hive tyrants. Oh, not to mention my friends sobs army many times. all this for about 4 deaths, not to :bandit: o shabby.

[Di$array]

for me i would say Aun'shi, is great when he is in close combat with his special rules "Blade master" and he is even more effective wil a retinue of fire warriors to back him up. :D

[yetanotherplayer]

I haven't played THAT much, but here's what I have:

A Dreadnaught that took out 3 Wartrukks in one salvo, and a 5-man Assault Squad that (in a club campaign match) circled around the enemy, took out a 7man squad with a heavy bolter behind cover, and cleared two bunkers full of 6 troops each before engaging and annihilating a trio of Chaos Bikes. All this; 22 kills and they only lost 2. A ration of 1:11 is pretty good. Better then the ratios given in the rulebook ;-)

[ChocoboExarch]

Well, I was the receiving end of a Heroic Character.
1 Old One Eye went thru my (in order):
Avatar
1 Squad of 6 scouts
1 Squad of 5 Dire Avengers + Exarch
War Walker
My Farseer and 2 Warlocks.

Finally took it down with my Wraithlord/Dreadnaught.

You know what the funny part was? I won that game because I wiped out my oponents army in 3 turns except for that Old One Eye and a bunch of Tyrannid Warriors. had 3 more turns to play and by the end of 6 turns, it was still standing.
We decided to continue playing just to see how much damage he could do.... and the Walker + Farseer and 2 warlocks were the "End game" casualties.

There was one time when I was rolling 20 to hit dice for Shuriken catapults, 19 hit, 10 wounded, all saved.
I was like :jaw:

[Schlock]

I dunno..i've seen 800+ in a single shot....

2 Orks fighting each other...1000 points per side. On the left you have the speed freaks all yelling 'waaaaagh' as they await their first turn. On the right...you have a lone looted leman russ...the mekboy sniggering and cackling like mad. He fires...hits the center trukk..penetrates (obviously)... on a 6...blast radius of 6...hits every other truck...destroys them...along with all the boys inside.

First shot of the game...800+ points gone...needless to say the speed freaks warboss was NOT a happy camper.


DV8

WOW............i guese that guy has learned the most importent rule of modern warfare....Don't clump up.

[Alpharius]

I once participated in a Rogue Trader mega-battle. Everyone was allowed up to 500 points from HQ and troops, so I took my ever faithful squad of Alpha Legion Chaos Space Marines with a Rhino, my chaos lord, and one squad of Alpha Legion cultists. The Marines made excellent time towards the objective, but there was a tyranid force closing in.
My cultist squad acted as a human shield and held off an entire squad of hormagaunts. All but one, the cultist champion, was butchered in that first turn of combat. That lone champion, armed with nothing more than a laspistol and a chainsword, held off the entire hormagaunt squad for three entire turns, all by himself. My squad of Marines safely made to to the objective first, and scarpered for the nearest board edge. Eventually, though, the hormagaunts butchered the lone cultist.
Regardless, that cultist hold the entire tyranid force (two squads of hormagaunts of twenty each, and one group of warriors) for almost the entire game. That was, by far, the luckiest dice rolling of my entire life.

[Under Ground]

Its got to be my assualt squad (in a battle today against brothers mixed chaos army, sort of eye of terror type army with orks, dark eldar and choas SM) Assualt squad 6 SM, vet with powerfist

They lost 2 to dark eldar dark lance fire in the first turn
Then they lost 1 in an assualt on a dark eldar squad and wiped out all ten of them
I made them assualt a chaos exalted champ on juggernaut and they killed him with only losing 1 SM but then lost the last 2 to damn dark lances

(game ended in a draw with 4 SM against 5 dark eldar 2 with dark lances, all in the same quarter)

[Von Doom]

My Cadian grenadier squad. They defended a vital brige against 3 squads of tyranids, only pulled back after a carnifix showed up, but they rallied and took posesion of the brige in the next turn.


And my DA Chaplain who killed a Bloodthirster...Took him 3 turns and 1½ squad of marines to do...

[CaptainMoriar]

My Shotgun Scouts

No, that isn't a joke. I started taking them many years ago, mostly because they are shunned by most Marine players and they looked kind of lonely. >_> I put all of my faith in to them, and they never once let me down in any battle (yes, I took a squad in every Space Marine Army I played). They performed miracle after miracle for me; assaulting the rear of a Chimera and destroying it (and the squad inside), holding their own against a full squad of White Scar Bikers, shooting a Greater Daemon and killing it (it had two wounds left), you name it. They always earned back their cost in points, and then some. The height of their achievments was putting a wound on the Warmaster of Chaos, Abaddon.

I remember one particularly bad game I played. I was failing morale tests left and right (with Marines for christ's sake!). If my squads got assaulted, they fled off the table (being a shooty style army facing an assault style army I deployed well back into my deployment zone). Every unit I had, that's; Commander with Command Squad, 4x 10-man Tactical Squads, 10-man Scout Squad (Sniper Rifles & Missile Launcher) failed a morale test at some point in the game, with the majority of them fleeing off the table. Only one squad refused to break despite being in combat from turn two on - the 10-man Shotgun Scout squad. The rest of my army hiked up their skirts, denounced the Emperor and fled to the Eye of Terror that day. Only my 130 point Shotgun Scout Squad maintained its faith in the Emperor that day.

It's amazing what unshakable faith in one unit of your army can do.

[Coey]

My Blood Claw "Sons of Russ" squad, these young fellows have stopped me losing countless times, Wheter they hold a bridge to the last man, and then hold it for another 4 turns, charge into foes they have no chance of beating, engaging 3 sqauds of dark eldar, and coming out on top (lost 12 Claws, only had 3 left) saving my Wolf-Lord many times when my hilariously unlucky Wolf Guard were killed, and generaly being annoying to my opponents HOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWLLLLLLL!

[Arwen]

Dreddy twin linked is by far my most heroic unit.
Took down a hive tyrant and 2 Carnifexes in close combat.
Although then he got mad and shot my allies furioso to pieces. and charged their HQ. at taht point i had 3 ennemies and i still won :D
al thank to that dreadnought. he also killed a avatar and a wraithlord. the second wraithlord ripped him apart though.