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Any major battles that stand out in your memory?
Epic or any other game system?
I have to be honest and say the majority of my favorite clashes were played in GW games.
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- Probably one of my earliest favorite games was in Adeptus Titanicus. Back in the day we played with 4-6 Titans per side alongside infantry and tanks, and these games would take 3-5 nights to play out. We would just leave everything set up in my friend's basement. We normally played 2 on 2.
In this particular battle I brought a long 5 Warlords, 2 of which had two defense lasers and 2 grade 4 multi-launchers (so if you remember this set up was BAD-@SS in those days). Well, due to some major stupidity on my part we lost all of our titans in the first few rounds, and had nothing but infantry and tanks remainig. It looked completely hopeless.
But we buckled down and staged a major comeback. One by one we knocked out all 6 of my friends titans, beat back his infantry to the point he symbolically moved them off his table edge in retreat rather than have us kill off all of them. It was pretty amazing. We had some great rolls, and they had some crappy ones, but it was still amazing. Every infantry stand meant something.
Before that, we always assumed Warlords ruled the game, but thereafter we had a lot of appreciation for heavy weapon units.
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We had some cool battles in 40k 2nd ed. too. One of my favorites involved an intro game I gave to some friends when the game first came out.
- On the very first move for the game, my friend moved his Chaplin up and through a Haywire Grenade at my Rldar dreadnought. it hit, and the Dreadnought proceeded to turn 90 degrees, walk through my unit of Dire Avengers, killing three out of five, fell to the ground and blue up, taking out my Warlock and Reaper Exarch who were nearby.
I just sat there in shock. I lost half of my army on the first move of the game. I just suggested that we start a new game since I didn't think it would be much of a game after that! All I had left were some Guardians.
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While I have a ton of games now, and dabble in them from time to time, I don't have memorable clashes like I used too. I wonder if the detail in the games helped the variety of things that could happen. While I think the newer games play faster, I also think they are somewhat bland, and a few weeks later barely remember who won or what happened.
Any favorites that stand out in your mind?
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, a nice long campaign that was truely EPIC.
My opponent couldn't stop laughing.
I don't recall playing as bad guys... but betraying the Orlanthi underground, the gorp incident, and the zombie/troll incident all sound remarkably familiar... 
