Have you ever killed/been killed in a strange or seemingly stupid way?

This is probably pretty mild compared to the rest of you, but mine has to be treating the 50cal. like an smg in Call of Duty 4.

mashing the y button in soul cali 4
so unless you are amazing at guard impact its unstoppable.

The strangest strategy I've seen would be when someone rushed with an armed grenade in to enemy fire in CoD4. He managed to get a 3-1 KDR with it before he was kicked.(the admin didn't like it, thought it was martyrdom)

AdjectiveAnimal:
Have you ever killed/been killed in a strange or seemingly stupid way?

This is probably pretty mild compared to the rest of you, but mine has to be treating the 50cal. like an smg Call of Duty 4.

Only the .50 sniper?
The M14, G3, all handguns, .50 sniper and Dragunov are all great for that type of gameplay.(using a macro/scroll wheel/turbo controller to shoot)

Flour:
The strangest strategy I've seen would be when someone rushed with an armed grenade in to enemy fire in CoD4. He managed to get a 3-1 KDR with it before he was kicked.(the admin didn't like it, thought it was martyrdom)

AdjectiveAnimal:
Have you ever killed/been killed in a strange or seemingly stupid way?

This is probably pretty mild compared to the rest of you, but mine has to be treating the 50cal. like an smg Call of Duty 4.

Only the .50 sniper?
The M14, G3, all handguns, .50 sniper and Dragunov are all great for that type of gameplay.(using a macro/scroll wheel/turbo controller to shoot)

The 50 is the most effective in my experience.

Once playing Warcraft 3 with some real life friends, and some random people, they all conspired to peon rush me and kill me within the first 2 minutes. Needless to say I was extremely surprised.

I stood on a Sniper's head in TF2 for 4 minutes then hit him in the head with the bat. Killed him. He watched the replay I had saved. And laughed his head off.

Because I'm not exactly an awesome player, I tend to have a high death count. Though it's often because of my suicide run strategy. When I get annoyed I tend to place kills above staying alive. A memorable one would have to be point-blanking an enemy with a claymore from behind (taking me with it).

xitel:
I stood on a Sniper's head in TF2 for 4 minutes then hit him in the head with the bat. Killed him. He watched the replay I had saved. And laughed his head off.

That is a good one.

Nekkid female character lures med-level characters out of the safe zone into the hands of her guild of 20+ fully armed high-end characters.

Back in the days of the original Team Fortress, it was really fun to kill people with the medkit.

No, not the medkit's disease-giving ability.

The medkit.

Every hit did a few points of damage in addition to infecting the target, making it actually possible to beat people to death with it. The display would then say "Player A [medkit picture] Player B". Awesome!

-- Alex

The oddest strategy I've ever seen was in TF2 where a trio of pyros would wait until a soldier fired a rocket at one of them, then would air-blast it between them until some poor, unlucky sap ran into the middle of their formation, only to get wasted by the juggled rocket.
What's more surprising is that this actually worked. REPEATEDLY.

I once played a game of Command and Conquer generals, Zero hour over the network in my dorm with 3 of my buddies. I played as stealth general at the time, and basically was playing 3 on 1 since I was so much better than they were at the time (oh how the times have changed) They basically locked me down from the get go, but when they had knocked me down to only 8 or 9 units and no buildings, I stealthed everyone and hid them various places across the map. Ended up making them waste 2-3 hours hunting down my final builder because I refused to surrender.

I eventually got caught, trying to build a stinger site, but it was worth it to see how aggravated they were.

Telefragged on UT. God it pissed me off!

WC3. fast expo turtle human with blood mage, tech to T2 get sorcs w/ invis and a staff of tele, tech to T3 and occasional tank harass+blood mage harass. gryphons (and hawks VS UD) for the inevitable seige weapons counter. i never actually WIN but my opponets always leave by my third expo.

I'd consider it rather ridiculous what a former guild mate of mine pulled of in World of Warcraft as an Orc Shaman.

He was one of those die hard arena gladiators and thus had the superior gear when he joined some battleground matches purely for shits and giggles, enhancer specced to cause havoc with a mean two-hand axe and windfury.
He made a whole video out of it where he didn't show off his l33t sk!llZ but rather how ludicrously fun it is to one-hit weaker equipped alliance folks.

One scene in particular comes to mind when he hid in a bush and waited for the alliance forces to pass him. Naturally the healers always fall back a little behind the frontline.
So a poor unsuspecting Druid heals her allies, minding her own business, when suddenly this beast of an Orc shaman jumps out of the bushes and brutally WHACKS her into oblivion with one blow.

It's really neat to see all those numbers fly throughout the whole video. If you want to look it up here is a link:
http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=65729

Well while walking in the open on halo2 a tank landed on me... Turned out it had got caught and had span around bouncing of invisible walls until it hit me.

hacking

In Halo 2 I sneaked up behind a pair of enemies. I listen to there conversation for a while and it mainly involved how lame our side was being for one reason or another. At some point I simply got tired of there conversation, so I threw a sticky onto the guy on the right. Guy on the left turns around, noticing the angel of the sticky that had landed on his friend, only to get a face full of sniper shot. Then his friend noticing that guy on the left was dead turned around and uttered some stupid threat of revenge, something like "You son of a @%$# I am going to *^!&$ @%#^& you!" But before he could actually do anything he blew up :P

A few Dawn of War ones I've heard from a friend, who's a big player of the original online.

Turret rushing: As eldar, teleport your builders into the central point of a specific map and set up several turrets and a webway. The enemy then can't get that point without a lot of effort and you get a lot of battlefield control

Slightly more ridiculous, is builder harassing. Jumping in an Eldar builder to use as a harassment unit.... in combat.

Once in COD4 I was assinated by ninja's! Ok...the knife isn't THAT unusual(pretty fun actually) but this one guy used EXCLUSIVELY the knife and got a ridicolous amount of kills. It was sick.

I remember playing the original Command & Conquer over the internet ages ago (awesome game). Anyway, I remember this one time I was playing on a large map against an opponent who was quite a bit better than me. I had managed to hold him off for about half an hour, but eventually he broke through with a large force and destroyed my base.

But to my opponent's confusion, the game did not end. I had positioned one of my basic infantry men behind a tree in one of the far corners of the map, and as I was playing as green, the soldier did not show up on radar over the tree, which also showed up as green on the radar. So, my opponent swept the map with his troops for over twenty minutes before finally giving up and quitting, winning me the match.

Dawn of war ...

enemy jumped into my base with 20+ jet bikes (eldar) and used the missile launchers to spread all my troops around

god that was annoying...

Back in the day I used to kill Alliance in battlegrounds using only my Nat Pagle's Extreme Angler FC-5000 fishing pole. I can't imagine the anger of that dwarf who repeatedly got killed by me, knowing it was only a fishing pole. Course the laughing as I did it probably didn't help....good times...

erm turtling in C&C generals with supply drop and enough patriot missile defense systems being built to cover 1/4 of the map?

The Minion Factory build in Guild Wars is a ridiculous one. During an 8v8 PvP match, you basically have 2 team members killing themselves over and over and another 2 resurrecting them. Then you have a bunch of necromancers making tons of undead from those team members.

Seen this in action a couple of times and each time our team has been so shocked that we haven't been able to retaliate. We just stand there gawking "what the fuck are they doing?".

Also, building wall after wall after wall after wall after wall to fortify yourself enough to build a wonder in Age of Empires has been a surprisingly effective strategy. Even those that know that I'll be doing it seem to fall for it.

Age of Empires, my cousin attacked my base with about 50 priests, and nothing else. He marshalled them so well that I couldn't do a thing before he'd converted half my force. My towers focused on the soldiers that he'd converted and he was able to do some serious damage. I did survive the attack, though, and he'd expended so much gold that he was unable to resist a counter lunge.

Age of Empires 2. Regicide. 1v1v1v1. It's down to me and the last guy. He's attacking my base with a large army of horse archers and onagers, when I notice that every single unit he has is at my base, and he has no defense other than palisades (weak wooden walls). Intrigued, I move my workers that were previously harvesting a gold mine that he never explored to start walling his base in. After a couple of minutes, I had his base completely surrounded. He had my base destroyed, but I still had said mining camp, and was still in the game. This is where he sees his base completely surrounded with stone walls (mine) and my workers making towers inside of his base. I destroyed his town center which held his king, thus making me the winner.
I have never seen that guy again.

The one time I played SSBB was with a friend of mine on his Wii online. There was this one guy that we kept running into that was playing Kirby. All he would do was swallow one of the other players and then jump off the edge of the game world, killing himself.

One time, I was playing the original Halo with some friends of mine. We had gotten bored, so basically we went on to Blood Gulch, turned on all of the vehicles, and played so that the two of them would try and cram all of the vehicles into the caves while I would try to get them out of the caves.

At one point, I managed to sneak up behind the tank that my friend was standing in front of, "keeping watch." Stuck a plasma grenade on to the back of the tank to wedge it out of the cave, and when it exploded, the tank ran over my friend. He was all manner of surprised, to say the least.

Warhawk, so utterly unbalanced, yet so utterly fun. Since tanks in that game took two mines to get them down and everything else in the game took only one I would always place two mines on the front of my car moving at incredible speeds toward a tank and then I would jump out at the last second as my car's momentum carried it into the tank getting me the kill instantly as opposed to using a multitude of rockets.
Another Warhawk one was going on top of the ammo/sniper tower of ultimate awesome. Of course the only way to get up was with a plane, and I would often times find enemies up there sniping, and instead of killing them I would blow up their only way down, sometimes if I was feeling extra cruel I would sneak around the sniper spawn point there and steal all the ammo so that they couldn't have it then hide behind another wall.

MGO's cheap tactic is its only tactic really, get double points by knocking out your enemy then stabbing them.

On GTAIV, at the beginning of a GTA Race, as the race is about to start, say "Press Y for Nitro" and laugh as at least 1 or 2 noobs get out of their car, while you race off into the distance.

It's funny how that can still get people, even seasoned players. In the heat of the moment, sometimes you'll blindly follow "helpful" advice without thing about it.

I admit I've bailed out of my Annihilator gunship trying to work out how to fire the missiles..."Press Y" my friend said for a laugh.

I loved charging into the thick of fighting with a live grenade in Call of Duty 4 multiplayer. It was so fun.