The greatest battle in warhammer history...
 

Maybe Im exagerating, but gather round and let me tell you how an out numbered eldar force (Me) beat the hordes of man(Natedawg)! I recently got my friend playing warhammer and he loves it as much as me. Well hes been playing for about a month now and we decided to have a lan match. Since Ive got a few months on him I thought it would be fair if I gave him to allys on easy. He was the Space marines (Bah!) and his allys the emperials. Well, I started by defeating his groonies, and then building web gates around the map. I figured Id give him a few minutes before I slaughtered him. Boy was that a mistake! He launched a full out assault on me with nothing but dreadnauts and terminators as far as the eye could see! He almost wiped me out in the first wave, but I quickly warped my buildings away. I then set out to build up my forces using only ones that could teleport, warp spiders Fire prisms, that sort. But it wasnt enough to defeat him! After an hour of running it loooked like I would have to just give in... Then... I started thinking like an eldar. I revealed a few buildings in an area where he had a control nod, he saw them and thought that was my base. Ha! The fool. He sent all his forces into that far corner of the map... only to witness an army of wraithlords march into his base and smash his HQ,barracks,machine pitt and every valuable production building he had before he could make it back andhush the insurection! But it was to late! By that time I had done begun building up my forces and was marching in one his last HQ with only a hand full of space marines and terminators to defend it, the battle was mine! I beat him when another commander would have surendered with dignity. And so, As I sat there listening to his yells of anger, I thought to myself,' I wonder if anyone else teleported around a map for an hour and a half, defeating ther oponent with nothing more than a clever ruse...

Anyone?

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Well i have a similar story, more of a guerrilla warfare story than anything else, and the ending was less than ideal, but i feel like mentioning it anyway.

It was a 6 man free for all in the streets of vogen i believe, i was the imperial guard, there was 1 SM player, 2 eldar 1 nec and a chaos player. The battle started off all fine and dandy, the eldar player made a play for the relic near my base in full force, but i had fortified basilisks in position and quickly transformed his forces into piles of dust and then proceeded to crush his base and set up camp. The SM player, was having a war of attrition against the necron guy, but soon the necrons gave way to the marines, which was an ill sign as i was positioned just to the east of the necrons. The second eldar disconnected due to lag issues, and the chaos player just turtled forever (which is odd). My main base soon came under fire form a full fledge sm attack, it smashed through my rudimentary defenses after a short time. The SM player then knowing that he had crushed me, set his sights on the chaos player. However during this time i had set up around 10 different miniature bases and 1 major base elsewhere on the map.(miniature bases comprised of listening posts and 2 infantry commands with around 2-4 turrets at each along with mine fields), so as soon as the sm player started to launch an attack against chaos, i would just ferry my troops from the far corners of the map into the less defended regions he had conquered, strike teams of kasyrkin and roaming leman russes ran a muck in between his bases. Crushing power plants and reclaiming listening posts all over the place. When my small forces were discovered they would retreat to a nearby mini-base i would fill all the bunkers full of troops for maximum fire power, and if the base was failing i would evac any troops to a better location. The whole ordeal lasted about an hour and a half, until he decided to focus his attention on my main base after it was discovered.My main base was destroyed and he moved onto my outposts, but while his main force was away the chaos player decided to act, and to put it simply it was the end of us both.

Moral of the story:
don't play with your food.
:uhm:

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finally i can get back on the forums on filefront. for some reason it was down.

as for me. the greatest battle i have ever fought was probably. none i guess i mostly play the campaign. wait... i rember does anyone rember the one level in winter assault where you had to protect the landraider. that was a tuff battle. my men were horribly outnumbered with a techpriest reparing the landraider. luckily i had some russes on high grounded bombing the crap out of the orks and csm.

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I have done something pretty similar but in an 8 player free for all:

I had nothing but a pure infantry force, my base had been destroyed many times, my avatar was down, however everything else was hiding in the numerous webway portals I'd set up around the map...needless to say I was being a pain in the arse, I had a seer council with farseer attached, 3 warp spider squads, and the rest of the cap filled with fully upgraded banshees.

I would litterally bully things that would walk past, say the odd squad your oponant probably wouldn't notice going missing, like a normal sm squad, i'd jump all the warp spiders out, mow them down and jump back in, I felt really sneaky and eldar like.

Anywho, when I got the chance i'd unload my entire force upon someones base, they didn't stand a chance, normally by this time they were across the other side of the map and were too slow to react, by the time they'd got to me I was long gone, back into the webway and onto the next base.

After doing this for at least 2 and a half hours I was finally able to re-establish a huge base, this is where i started to claw it back, now having my avatar back and vehicles I actually went onto win the game! I always save my free for all wins but it appears to have gone missing =(

-DIAB

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well i really would not call this a battle id call it a slaughter one night i was bored not having my dow discs cause i lent them to me bro and i can play with out them but i cant play it online anyho like i said i was bored so put DC on and played it on normal finished in a bout halfan hour so i played it on hard took me an hour then i played it on insane kinda of ffa i had one guy on my team and i was playing the lotw mod right it was an 8 player map i was playing as the marines i put up a fight for abut an hour before my allie was killed then ther was just four of us eldar necrons chaos and me i had land raiders devestators and such till all three over whelmed me

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last night before bed i played a ffa in the panrea lowland on insane. its me sm vs eldar vs another sm vs another guy i forget they got killed. so i usually use brute force and just capture the things around me. but this time i captured as much as i could and moved very fast. i focused on killing the other marines so i mostly got assault marines. i got 3 of those guys while teching up. luckily the marines were focused on the other guys. so it was just hit and runs on their base while saving the eldar. once i got the bulk of the force destroyed. i deepstriked one marine squad a gk squad fc chaplain, and liberaian. once i killed the sm with my assault guys a dred and both termy squads they went to finish off the eldar. so with the help of those guys plus a land raider i pretty much won.

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well my most epic battle in DOW history was definitly last night when me and another guardsman (murphay) fought against 2 necrons on the FOK mod using the "hell beneath" map. it was intense and the battle raged literally all night long, i was using the armoured company doctrine with murph on the infantry. we never actually finished the battle cuz we both passed out and i had classes this mornin but my lord it was a slaughterfest. we had to recycle the persistant body count atleast 20 times every 5 minutes. the battle started out as just our bases defenses being probed to being assaulted by monoloths endlessly and finally pushing our way to there doorsteps with my armour in the spearhead driving a wedge straight into there forces and finally capturing all the bridges. with murphays infantry coming up right behind me providing support fire. gotta say that was one hardcore and hard fought battle.

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best battle i had was a 3 player on rhean jungle random locals
me (eldar) a freind (sm) and nother freind (ork) i simply eldard the place and built webways everywhere,and bases.me and ork didnt tell sm that teamchange was on and we changed teams halway before i killed him,and sm,holed up in his starting point,had mined the place to oblivion.not a match for free sluggas though,and after a little while marine figured out that we were allies and charged his army at mine and ork.but my real army was surronding him,firedragins sittiing in falcons with prisms while avatar and a wraith attacked from the front
he never stood a chance agiasnt all that AND a squigoth.i usually play and pwn as marines but meh

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played another game last night. this was more thrilling then the last battle i did which really wasnt that great... but anywho. it was an 8 player map ffa. i forgot the map... it was that one level where everyone has a little hill into the place and player 1 is at the bottom. and 2 critical locations in the middle and there was like a mound in the center of the map. and each player gets like a slag + 3 strategic points in their base. anywho what i did was i did a frontal assault. i teched up while my small but powerful force destroyed ppl attacking me. after i got a LR, 3 dred a predator and all the infantry i went and destroyed a ork base with the help from two speeders and an assault squad. next was another chaos base destroyed that place then waited for the other 5 players to kill each other. all that was left was me, an ork, and chaos. i wanted to destroy the chaos first so i sent my termies LR and greyknight squad with the librearian to kill them. the rest defended my base. after that my chaos destroyer squad was attacked so i had to pull back. and at the same time orks destroyed everyone. luckily the chaos destroyer squad distracted them and took them away from my base. now i was mad i built up my force and set up a whole lot of mines around my critical location in front of my base with one dred. so my main force destroyed the orks and were moving to the chaos base. while i was killing the orks. some berzerkers were playing with my minefield then the entire chaos force arrived luckily my dred and mines held while the chaos retreated to defend there base i was attacking. it was slaughter. i was trapped between a whole lot of missile turrets plus defilers coming out of the machine pit. my LR and one predator took care of the turrets but my forces were crumbling to make matters worse my librarian was dead. i had to quickly act and thanks to the power of the orbital relay i was able to send reinforcents to finish off the base. after that they were still alive so i though screw it. cheated to find the last building (that were not being built since all the builders were dead) and won.

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:lookaround:nice one tau

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i thought this was the greatest battle... if the sm lost the space marines and ig would not be in w40k
The Siege of the Imperial Palace


The Landing on Terra

The siege began with an orbital bombardment by the Warmaster, the prelude to invasion. Although the Loyalist fleets and defences fought back, they, like the Loyalists soldiers on the surface, were too few, and were mown down without mercy.
After days of bombardment, the Traitor Space Marines landed on the surface in drop pods, taking the two spaceports nearest the Imperial Palace. Five Traitor Legions participated, combining with Traitor forces on the surface. Despite the brave efforts of the Loyalists, The Eternity Wall and the Lion's Gate Spaceports fell within hours. Dark Chaos cultists made their invocations, calling down the Greater Daemons of Chaos onto Terran soil.
With the spaceports secured, Horus's troops landed en masse, and the hulking transports carried thousands of troops each. The transports' immense size made them prime targets for Terra's defence lasers. Although many landing ships were destroyed, many more landed on the surface, disgorging yet more soldiers, tanks and Titans to add to the besiegers' strength. They met stiff resistance, the Imperial defenders knowing that the survival of their homeworld, their Emperor, and the entirety of the human race rested on their shoulders.

The Siege

The besiegers forced the defenders back to the walls of the Imperial Palace, where thousands died slowing the assault. Angron came forth and demanded the Loyalists surrender, saying that they were cut off, outnumbered, and defended a ruler unworthy of their loyalty. Many would have surrendered to Angron had it not been for the Primarch Sanguinius, winged leader of the Blood Angels. The two Primarchs gazed at each other, probably communicating telepathically. Eventually Angron withdrew, telling his forces there would be no surrender.
The siege began in earnest. Three times the forces of Chaos scaled the walls, and three times were hurled back by Sanguinius and his Blood Angels. Outside the palace walls, forces led by Jaghatai Khan, Primarch of the White Scars unsuccessfully tried to draw the bulk of the besieger's army away from the Palace. Soon the outnumbered defenders were pushed back into the maze of corridors and bulwarks within the Palace walls. Frustrated with his army's slow progress, Horus ordered his Titans to demolish entire sections of the wall. Despite grievous losses, the Titans gouged open breaches, which the Traitors flooded through.
Jaghatai Khan decided on a change of plan. Rather than assaulting the almost-invincible flanks of the besiegers' army, Khan redirected his White Scars and the surviving Loyalist Tank Divisions to Lion's Gate Spaceport. At dawn Jaghatai's lightning raid caught the Traitor garrison by surprise, and reclaimed the spaceport. The Khan ordered his troops to to reactivate the defense lasers and form a defensive permiter to hold their newly reconquered territory. Khan's troops repelled several bloody counter-attacks from the Traitors, and began firing on Horus's unprotected dropships. The Khan's plan worked: the flow of men and machines to the Palace had been halved at one stroke.
Inside the Palace, the defenders had been forced back to the Eternity Gate, the sole point of entry into the Imperial Palace. The Blood Angels and Imperial Fists tried to hold back the attacking Chaos troops, while the remaining Imperials made it through the Gate. Soon the mighty Bloodthirster Ka'bandah came forth and bellowed out a challenge to Sanguinius. The daemon hurled itself at the Angel of Baal, barely allowing him time to parry the daemon's strikes. The two took to the air, trading blows and battle cries high above the heads of the two forces. Already fatigued from the siege, Sanguinius was cast down by the daemon, pulverising the concrete below upon impact.
Yet the Blood Angels' Primarch was not beaten. Sanguinius cleared his head, forced himself back to his feet, and once again took to the sky. The Angel seized the gloating daemon, holding it by the right ankle and arm. The Primarch hefted the creature high and broke its back over his knee, then hurled the daemon's vast carcass back at the beseigers. The Traitor armies wailed in despair as the last Imperials retreated into the Palace. The Eternity Gate was closed.

The Endgame


The Emperor and Horus in the endgame of the Heresy, with the Primarch Sanguinius lying dead at Horus's feet. For a better, more updated picture, another depiction of the stand-off can be found here


The siege lasted 55 days. Both sides knew the defeat of the Imperium was near. Sensing this, Horus prepared to teleport to the surface to lead his forces in person. Before this could happen, the Word Bearers' First Chaplain Erebus broke the news to Horus: the Ultramarines and Space Wolves Legions were nearing Terra; and the Dark Angels were only a short distance behind.
At that moment, Horus realised his gamble had failed. Weeks of further conflict would be needed to break the defenders; the Emperor's reinforcements would arrive in hours. It was then Horus gave the most fateful order of the Heresy. He ordered that the shields protecting his flagship, The Vengeful Spirit, be dropped immediately. Horus gambled that this would draw the Emperor from the surface and into a duel.
The Emperor rose to the challenge, leading his Adeptus Custodes, the Primarch Sanguinius, Rogal Dorn, and several companies of Imperial Fists and Blood Angels Veterans in the assault. Horus used his powers to scatter the Emperor's force throughout the massive warship. Each fought a series of battles aboard the corrupted ship, attempting to link up with their comrades and confront Horus.
It was Sanguinius who reached Horus first. The Warmaster attempted to turn the Blood Angel Primarch to Chaos. When Sanguinius refused, Horus attacked. Wounded from his many battles on Terra, Sanguinius was no match for Horus, now at the peak of his daemonic power. Horus strangled the Angel of Baal with ease.
When the Emperor entered, he saw the corpse of Sanguinius lying at Horus's feet. Horus called the Emperor foolish for refusing the power that the gods of Chaos offered, and timid for not taming them to his will. If the Emperor would kneel before him, then he would spare his life. The Emperor knew well the trap that had snared Horus. He told him that he was the deluded servant of Chaos, not the master. Snarling, Horus hurled bolts of Daemonic lightning at the Emperor, but the Emperor nullified them. The die was cast. Each god-like being knew that the fate of humanity hung in the balance.
The Emperor and Horus engaged one another, battling physically and psychically. Though the Emperor's psychic gifts and martial skills were unequalled, he found himself unwilling to summon his full strength against his son. The Emperor suffered grievous wounds at Horus's hands, and after score of thrusts, parries and counter-thrusts between runesword and lightning claw, Horus sliced open the Emperor's chest armour, then opened his jugular and severed the tendons in his right wrist, disarming the Emperor. A psychic blast seared the flesh from the Emperor's face, bursting an eye. After tearing the Emperor's right arm from its socket, Horus raised his father high over his head, and broke his back over his knee.
At that moment, a lone Adeptus Custode entered the bridge. Horus showed him the Emperor's broken form and laughed at the Custode. He roared and charged the Warmaster. He was flayed alive by a glancing psychic blast from Horus. [In previous editions of the tale, an Imperial Fist Terminator attacks Horus; in older versions, the doomed man is an Imperial Guardsman named Ollanious Pious.]
The casual brutality of the act galvanised the Emperor. Realising at last that his favoured son was truly lost to the corruption of Chaos, the Emperor finally mustered his full power, and unleashed a lance of pure Warp energy that pierced the gloating Horus's defenses. The Chaos Gods themselves recoiled in terror, withdrawing from their pawn. Just before Horus died, he looked his father in the eye, shedding a single tear, begging his father to finish him for his betrayal. The Emperor saw regret in his fallen son's eyes. The Emperor also knew that Chaos could attempt to possess Horus again, and that he would not be there to halt him if they did. Driving all compassion from his mind, the Emperor destroyed Horus utterly, his essence burned from existence.
Horus's death sent a psychic shockwave surging across the Solar System, casting the Chaos daemons back into the Warp, spreading mass panic in seconds. It became clear to the forces of Chaos that their leader had been defeated. A berserk fury had encompassed the Blood Angels at the moment of their Primarch's death, and they were surging forth to scatter the attackers. Retreat turned to rout, and rout turned to bloodbath; thousands upon thousands of Traitor Marines and Titans fell attempting to flee. The ground before the Sanctum Imperialis ran red with the blood of traitors and heretics.
Meanwhile, Rogal Dorn finally found his way to the ship's bridge, only to discover his fallen brother, Sanguinus, and the Emperor, now at the verge of death. It was then that the Emperor whispered instructions to Dorn, urging the Imperial Fists Primarch to take him to the Golden Throne. The surviving Loyalists teleported back to the Imperial Dungeons. Here Malcador the Sigilite, who had briefly taken the Emperor's place on the Throne, thus keeping the warp-gate beyond it closed, collapsed to dust as he was removed and the Emperor put in his place.
The Emperor spoke his final words to his followers. He urged them to continue the fight to free humanity from the forces of Chaos and ignorance that continued to assail it. And then the master of mankind spoke no more, his body entombed within the life-support mechanisms of the Golden Throne, his spirit caught between the warp and in a crippled body for millennia. The Imperium of Man survived, but would become the bastion of repression and brutality the Emperor had fought against. It would also offer humanity its best hope for survival in an uncaring universe.

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my best battle was when i was playing a game (compstomp) with my friends useing the steel legion mod i got attacked early in the game and only had a tank buliding but my pop cap only gave my space for 2 leman russes and while my friends took the main assault i just drove round and destroyed listening posts and did hit and run attacks in the end we were overwhelmed:bawl:

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People stop saying anywho its werid and you make me think your some women from i love lucy its creepy.

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My best battle was when I was on into the breach i was ork my ally was space my enamy was chaos n' tau it seemend fine at first but then the chaos guy rush (his name was like pwarf or something) so my sm was indanger so i charged my troops i was able to stop his assasult and forced him to retreat. we got stright to a good defense after that i spammend towers and settlements two at our end of the breach.

now this game lasted to long for me to remeber who even did a fisrt full scale attack but i belive it was us me and sm so basically I would attack Id get my squig threw and charge to the right (of what was left my main force would be killed due to compained attack of tau force and cm bolter guns so i get over but they'd quickly shove us back out they'd counter then they'd been pushed out by me and sm it went on back and forth not repreive to to rebuild accpt during battle. then sunddenly chaos and tau didn't want to counter I thought it was a lovely reprive but I had Genarels dought

I felt like something was coming. And lucky old me was right chaos came a calling with horrors and n bloodthrister wit a tau escort right into my base gusty little bastered considring all my waagh towers. And it was a correct thing to do beacasue they destryoed the majortiy of my base i was lucky that i had my two settlement base's or i would not have been able to rebuild i set my grecthens to work and i charged with my army thristy for revenge and I.... didn't get it i was kicked out and then he was back in my base again horros and blood and criss suits ready to say hello and goodbye it went on like this for 5 attacks and counters untill GOD PETTIED OUR STRUGGLE and lagged chaos out tau had no chance my orks was pissed they wanted more and my fingers and my eyes were screaming ALL PRAISE THE LORD! and thats it