What are the most Intense/exciting Battle Reports you've read?

[OgreBattle]

In terms of tough battles and tactical brilliance. Like a 'Best Hits' collection. I've been reading through the ones on this site but also want to hear from you guys.

Could be one you posted but feel it was the most fun battle you've had!

[ColShaw]

Lord Cook's IG reports are always good.

[Dervos]

Not exactly a battle report but certainly an amusing story revolving around "rambo" IG

"There's this guy that got into 40,000 simply because of catachans.
He really loved his Rambo clones, so he really, really liked pretending that they were just like Rambo.

This led to lots of humorous battles, where the catachans would charge out of their safe forests, just so they could launch assaults on my plague marines/grey knight terminators/tactical marines with counter-attack and true grit.

Once, he got really, really fed up with constantly losing to everyone and their mother, so he sat down and had a really good thinkin'. This led to him fielding an obscene amount of heavy bolters, probably because that's the closest thing to M60's available in the game.

Anyway, he had all these heavy bolters - one per unit of guardsmen, several as support-teams for his troops, in the HQ squads, everywhere - and he decides to infiltrate close to the blood angels that are absolutely not hiding inside rhinos, or behind unkillable deathcompanies and dreadnoughts.
Blood angels won in their first turn.

The last game I had against him was during the early days of 5th edition, before marines got their latest book. I had my usual army of ultra-blinged tactical marines, lots of scouts, veterans with infiltrate, and flamers everywhere. So we roll to see who gets to decide who does what, and he lets me go first.
I set up nothing, and he sets up half his army of Rambos in a castled forest. Now I infiltrate everything as close to him as possible, and with at least one unit of scouts in all forests on the table, and some of his dudes get burninated. Second turn.
He tears apart the silly map the codex demanded you to draw, and proclaims loud and clear that my clever positioning of scouts in all forests means his dudes can't come out, and so count as destroyed, then he launches a suidical charge on my veterans.

I win.

We had this kid who used to play regularly a couple years back (he's not a kid anymore).
His army was the most awesome thing ever, and no one is going to beat it, ever.

It's imperial guard, and was under their 4th edition book, which meant there was a lot of abuse of doctrines going around. Carapace armor on everything. Deep strike on everything. Laspistols and chainswords on everything that could take it. Extra veterans. Stormtroopers as troops.

He had a command squad with more bling than Mister T. Master-crafted plasmapistols, master-crafted powerfists, grenades for everyone, meltabombs, refractor fields, medallions, bionics, trademark items, auspex - if it was on their list of stuff, the command squad had it.

The 'army' consisted of a handful of guardsmen, some veterans, 'stormtroopers' - which were just regular cadians, with cut-up tank treads as 'armor' - two chimera, and a single basilisk.

He never won against anyone, and the Rambo guy was so psyched when he completely obliterated the poor child's awesomely overequipped bling-bling soldiers, that he performed what we refer to as 'the great bear's victory dance.' "

[OgreBattle]

I've recently found the Reaver Heavy dark eldar 1000pt batreps to be very entertaining, mostly because they fight in a manner different from anything else in 40k.

http://www.thedarkcity.net/t3770-the...ybolts-1000pts
http://www.thedarkcity.net/t3721-the...-fangs-1000pts
http://www.thedarkcity.net/t3834-the...vs-tau-1000pts
http://www.thedarkcity.net/t3558-the...angels-1000pts
http://www.thedarkcity.net/t3565-the...rborne-1000pts
http://www.thedarkcity.net/t3586-the...alypse-1000pts

[Mushkilla]

Browsing Battle Reports section, looking for something to read, finds thread about exciting battle reports, click on links, realises it's his own battle reports!

Thanks OgreBattle. Hopefully I will be able to keep them exciting now that the point level has moved up to 1500.

[Shadow Lord]

Ive read quite a few very good batreps and have enjoyed most of them. The most memorable to me are those of Kriegschmidt and his "Legacy of Loathlick"...damn, that was the best i've ever ever read! Hilarious and exciting, they don't make them like that anymore!
Still, honoable mentions must go to the batreps of Kurisu313, ColShaw and The Lord of Nonsensical crap and many others I've seem to have forget!! But really, check out the Loathlick-story...

[Satan]

The White Dwarf battle report that featured a last stand of Praetorians using 2nd ed rules from waaaaaaay back. That was probably the most epic one I ever read.

[ColShaw]

The White Dwarf battle report that featured a last stand of Praetorians using 2nd ed rules from waaaaaaay back. That was probably the most epic one I ever read.

Last Stand at Glazer's Creek. Best WD batrep ever.

[iamcjb]

Last Stand at Glazer's Creek. Best WD batrep ever.

If that is the one with the Ratling sniper up the tower saving the day then I will have to say the same.

[Satan]

If that is the one with the Ratling sniper up the tower saving the day then I will have to say the same.

That's the one, yeah. And the bounty hunter with the vortex grenade and... oh god, I just realized I gave that particular issue (along with other old WDs) away last year. Sigh.

[AndrewGPaul]

Stasis grenade. I picked up a copy of WD 222 recently after winning a load of Praetorians on Ebay. Citadel Journal re-did the scenario for 3rd edition in issue 48; I may have to try running it under 6th edition rules.

I actually think the best one was the Battle of Grimdal's Tomb in WD 153. Dwarfs vs Bretonnians, it was the very last 3rd edition Warhammer battle report, and was told in an entirely narrative style. No reference to the game rules at all, as if it were an in-universe document.