the original 'murphy's luck' award winner from the '97 canadian grand tournament was a mr. shawn murphy (and no, i'm not joking, his name really is murphy?!) a great guy who is an insperation to all of us who are seemingly cursed by the dice gods!
(note: this was v2 40k!)
well, it was the 7th and final game of the tournament, and our intrepid hero had lost his first 6 games... so playing it safe, he deploys his entire ultramarine army in the solid cover of a building.
his opponent has an ork army with pulsa rokkits and the orks went first...
the ork's opening shot sees a pulsa rokkit fly in a perfect arc and smash through the roof of the building the space marines are sheltering in! the rokkit starts humming ominously...
at the start of mr. murphy's turn, his opponent rolls to see what the rokkit does... it does 'BOOM' and brings down the *entire* building, crushing every last ultramarine before they even get to move!!!
that record still stands; a 15 minute game!
other winners of this humerous, yet dreaded award include;
- the daemon army that managed to wipe itself out with their own 'comet of casandora' spell on turn 6! (a 34" blast radius is scary, yet funny!)
- the skaven army that missfired with their warp lightning cannon 1st turn and in the ensuing panic, everyone but the grey seer's unit turned tail and ran off the board!
- 2 land raiders *and* 5 termies all dying to a single shot from a vindicator! (v3 rules)
- my dark eldar who managed to kill 5 black templars in a cityfight at night! (i rolled a total of 12, 1's on the penetrating hits table trying to destroy the templars crusader...)
- the night goblin army that ran off the board 1st turn because... IT GOT DARK!
ah! good times... well, funny times more like
cheers!