I don't know if anyone else has started a thread like this before but Rogue Trader is an excelent place for hilarious and or epic moments and I think we need a place to show them off. So I will begin with one of the most epic moments of an entire almost 2 year campain.

The Rogue Trader dynasty was resting up at Port Wander while returning to the Expance from a major buying run in the Laythe cluster with their Cruiser and Mass Conveyer when a massive chaos invasion occours. While helping out in the fight they are informed by a Throne Agent that this is just the first wave of the invasion. The Imperial forces insystem MIGHT be able to hold off the current fleet so the group decides they need to save as many people as possible before the rest of Chaos arrives. Then they realize that they have a Mass Conveyer. And Port Wander was origionaly designed to be built and then towed through the warp to where it was needed. The final scene of that session was the rogue trader taunting the thousands of Chaos ships that had just jumped in system before absconding with Port Wander and 90% of Imperal citizens who were in the area.

Having boarded what they thought was an Ork-infested void station and bluffed their way to meeting with the commander, the party was caught wrong-footed when the Holo-Fields dropped and a Dark Eldar Exarch stood before him, with Wyches and Kabalite warriors emerging from hiding to surround the party. A Dark Eldar toxin was unleashed through the station driving the Orks into an uncontrollable fury, and the Rogue Trader was quickly dropped by a Blast Pistol leaving the rest of the group outgunned and outmatched. Their Orkish Weirdboy tried desperately to throw a Zzap at the Dark Eldar leader, but rolled 100 on 'Eadbang instead meaning he was about to die. Frantically he used his Copper Channeling Rod, failed, spent a Fate Point to barely succeed, and used its effect to choose what would happen instead. He chose Squigs! Squigs E verywhere ! in the hope of at least summoning up something to distract the Dark Eldar. He rolled for intensity and summoned up 19 bloodthirsty squigs that would attack the nearest thing within 30 meters of him. I then made him roll scatter to see where the Squigs would appear.

Directly under the Dark Eldar Exarch.

Caught mid-monologuing gloat, the Dark Eldar readied to begin dispatching them on his next initiative, but between him and the Weirdboy lay our Astropath who pushed Sensory Deprivation for all it was worth, leaving the Exarch blind and deaf surrounded by Squigs and screaming for help from his men as the tiny creatures tore him and his nearby support warriors limb from limb. The Wyches were briefly denied ranged suppressing fire, and as a reuslt fell in combat in no short order, and with bloodthirsty Squigs everywhere what few survivors there were withdrew rather than face what was now almost certainly defeat. The Crew was in possession of the bridge of the void station, and a mass of angry Orks throughout the ship. Fortunately a Tech-Use roll of 01 from the Explorator guaranteed that "Intrusion Protocol Alpha" in the Imperium is now, and forever shall be, "Vent the atmosphere everywhere but the bridge".

And thus the day was saved.

Me and my group started a campaign the other day and so far only two "My god did that just happen?" Moments. The first was on monday when i was fighting a pirate captain as the last 'boss' encounter before we finished our session. This guy has two power fists and our GM is rolling in the teens. Me on the other hand. Am rolling single digits for dodge and counters. So im slowly cutting this guy up with a chainsword and all i can say is "i move to the left of the attack *roll*" eventually wittling him down enough that he runs into a cloaked Eldar sword. The other thing happened wednesday. I was trying to convince some Kroot mercenaries that i was a friendly when they start charging me. My buddy has a heavy bolter and starts throwing rounds down range. Two turns of shooting from him and theres eight dead kroot just meters from me and him holding a smoking heavy bolter. I owe him big still.

My players were getting a little too big for their britches, so I decided the ghost ship they boarded still had a few "visitors" from it's last sojourn in the warp… namely, a mess of Khornate daemons led by a Herald on a Juggernaut.

Cue "oh CRAP!" moment from the players. The navigator promptly goes all Locked In My Gaze on the scariest thing she can see, which is the Herald. One of the other players then dings the Herald for a couple of points of damage. Highly relevant rules comment: LIMG makes Warp Instability much worse, if the Warp Instability occurs! So, all the Herald has to do to stay in the material universe is inflict damage or insanity on a mortal, which prevents the instability from triggering. The Herald charges a group of red-shirted armsmen… I roll a 00 on the attack roll… The armsmen make their fear check (needing an 05 or less) and the Herald goes whimpering back to the warp having inflicted precisely zero damage. The PC's then proceed to gleefully stomp the remaining daemons, which aren't nearly as tough without the Herald. *sigh*

Cheers,

- V.

Me GMing, Player's ship pretty beat up, they needed a small time-out from their campaign. Used System-Generator from GM's Kit, generated System with Warp Rift and Industrial Population.

Decided it's a sort of "Mini-Cadia", with those guys having a Warp-Rift on their planet, sending demons in occasionally.

Player's Plan: Let's just detonate a few Gellar-Field Generators and then Nuke that place to hell. Getting the Generators into place was VERY fun to play out and resulted in a few malignancies and mental traumas.

Nevertheless, one awesome mini-campaign.

My friend's Void-Master sniper guy was going to give some sniping support from the highest floor in a five floor building. It turned out to be a secret lab for observing creatures and testing on them. He got up there and it was a mess; the lights were out, blood on the floor, instruments and tools all over the floor and tables, and cage doors broken open. So he walked to the large tinted window that completely covered two walls and observed outside. He started to hear the sound of feet behind him, he looked back and saw nothing, as it was kinda dark. He just went back to observing, and heard it closer. He started getting weary and turned around bolt pistol in hand. He got distracted by something when a dog-like creature (Kroot Hound) ran up to him and took a chomp at him and he took a point or two of damage. Well, my friend is an interesting guy and he thinks of some entertaining things. He immediately grappled the dog and slammed it as hard as he could against the glass. His strength was decently high, so I told him that the dog yelped and the glass cracked. The dog then began to get up. As it got up, he grabbed the dog once again and threw him at the window once again, breaking the glass and launching the dog out the window, falling down 3 stories and landing on the 2 story building next to them. He gathered himself up again and prepared to snipe.

The explorers find out where a Fel dynasty super-heavy transport - a gigatanker fully laden with fuel - is being repaired after suffering damage in a warp storm en route back to the maw. They ambush the repair site, taking out the guard ships very efficiently, then attack the transport itself, trying to disable the few macrobatteries the repair crews had got working again.

"Sod it." Says the Rogue Trader. "One shot from the lance to disable it."

Attack roll 01

Multiple hits

Two Criticals

Both Fire

Fuel gigatanker + Massively On Fire

I didn't know transports could come about that quickly.....Still didn't get them completely clear of the detonation, though.

In a Rogue Trader Campaign I ran, I decided to have a minor endeavor upon the Planet Fervious in the Calixis Sector. The "small training mission" snowballed into something larger, eventually attracting the attention of the Officio Assassinorium and an aspiring champion of Tzeench.

In one part of it, the rogue trader decided to cement relations with Fervian nobility by marrying the group's seneschal to the daughter of a family of noble assassins. What they failed to notice (even though I dropped hints) was that this family was quite insane.

The bride arrived at the ship with a company of assassins and demanded to see the captain to perform the ceremony. Since the captain was away, she took this as a personal insult and began running through the crew with swords and crossbow bolts. The seneschal, being the only PC on board, had to get the situation and his bride under control.

After a sniper's duel on the outside of the ship, a rumble with a few Moritat the Arch-Militant had hired, the seneschal finally met his beloved for the first time and presented her with a gift: a hallucinogenic grenade. After killing off her own bodyguards, she ran towards the seneschal, who annulled the marriage with his inferno pistol.

The rogue trader was a bit bummed out after returning to the ship, namely because he was on the planet making acquisition tests for wedding presents.

Our group confronted the force responsible for the attempts to destroy the Rogue Traders dynasty - Well, its human representative: A Pirate Prince of the Ragged Helix! The prince isolated the Rogue Trader behind a force field with just the two of them, the rest of the party having to deal with a pair of Chaos Marines. The RT and the prince duelled back and forth with their power swords, but the prince was the better swordsman (OR I was rolling better on WS that the Rogue Trader player. Whichever you prefer). Eventually, the prince disarmed the RT and held the sword to his throat, sneering "You're not much of a swordsman, are you?"

"Not really. Always was more of a gunslinger"

With that, the RT leapt back, drew his plasma pistol and shot the prince at near point-blank range. He hit, rolled damage. Crit! Confirmed, rolled again. 10. Then another 10. Then another. Then a 9. This, quite naturally, made the prince very, very dead, turning his torso to vapour with a triumphant shout of "THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!"