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* Mark Harrigan from ''TabletopGame/ArkhamHorror'' has "One Man Army" as his ability. What does it do? He can't be delayed or arrested. Ever. He also has a flamethrower in his starting equipment.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{BattleTech}}'', Kai Allard-Liao qualifies. Piloting a 50-ton 'Mech when their are many twice his size, he destroys an entire army of Jade Falcon warriors, some of the best warriors in the galaxy, by himself. His last act in the setting, done in his 80s, was slaughtering every single Capellan Confederation unit he could find, with his 'Mech being left standing in respect for him after his death.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' sourcebooks generally describe the "ordinary citizen" as being a low-level Commoner or Expert (depending on if they're a peasant farmer or a skilled tradesman), and even soldiers aren't supposed to be much higher than Level 3 or 4 Warriors. This means that a properly equipped Level 20 PC is generally able to wipe out entire metropolises by himself.
** Ordinary citizens use the "commoner" class which has levels just like [=PCs=], except those levels don't ''do'' a whole lot. Still, a commoner can easily be level 5 and have around 17 HP. Unlucky (and first-level) commoners can have one or two HP, and no attack can do less than one HP... and a housecat got three attacks per round, meaning that cats can easily kill some of the commoners. Lampshaded terrifically in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0780.html this]] [[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]] webcomic.
*** A warforged (magic robot) crusader could literally do this all day. If the population of a planet of commoners engaged him and he took the cleave feat chain and perhaps had a good movement speed he could seriously keep fighting until they all died. With the right maneuvers and or feats it could do this without equipment.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' went out of its way to emphasise this point, stating that by the time the party reaches 5th level they've already overcome more than your standard city guard will face in a lifetime.
** In First and Second Edition it may have been even worse: Non-classed humans (and halflings) were considered less than 1 Hit Die creatures. The warrior classes (Fighter, Paladin, and Ranger) had the "Sweep Attack" that could be used against up to the character's level in foes of less than 1 Hit Die ''per round''. At level 20, that basically meant that the expectation against a mob of level 0 foes would be 19 kills per round (#20 would be the automatic miss on a roll of 1).
*** A rare Second Edition high-level spell called ''Celestial Army'' [[SummonMagic summons]] a small army of randomly selected celestial beings - except when you rolled [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Light Aasimon]], Celestial Lamassu or [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Adamantine Dragon]], then you get just one - and that's more than enough.
** Due to the health of an average person in the setting, it's entirely possible for a Level 5 Fighter with Extra Attack and Action Surge could very likely kill four of five people in (inuniverse) six seconds without much issue.
** Once ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' introduced mass combat, entire ''armies'' can be leveled by a single high-level characters. An army's power is determined by its soldier's average Hit Dice or Challenge Rating, with a 100-man troop being the norm and a single creature taking a -8 penalty to its power. However, in addition to Hit Dice, several other abilities (such as spellcasting, possessing masterwork or magical gear, channeling energy or having a mount) can give huge boosts, to the point a level 10 PC could easily take on an army of regular soldiers with minimal risk.
** And then there is, of course, ''5th Edition'''s "Echo Knight" Fighter subclass whose gimmick is a SelfDuplication ability that allows them to create a LivingShadow. The capstone ability for the class allows the Echo Knight to create ''two'' duplicates at once. The ability is of course named "Legion of One".
* In the ''Europa'' series of World War II board games, one piece represents Hans Rudel (see OneManArmy/RealLife) and his Stuka. The typical unit in these games is a division, with regiments and brigades of supporting units, while air units represent 50-60 planes. Rudel first appeared in ''Drang Nach Osten/Unentscheiden'' (1973), and then was relegated to an optional rule (though the piece was still included) in the revision, ''Fire in the East/Scorched Earth'' (1984, 1987). Rudel can take out a Soviet tank brigade of 60-plus tanks all by himself with a favorable die roll; other types of units, and larger tank formations, are immune. In game terms, he is immortal: he cannot be shot down, and if his airfield is captured he reappears the next turn, two weeks later.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', while any character who's even vaguely combat-focused is likely to be this, high-Essence Solars can learn a charm called In Doubt of Legions Spirit, which lets them fight entire armies single handedly at no disadvantage whatsoever.
** Indeed, for Exalted players, the entire trope gets condensed into a single word; Dawn. Dusk would be a close runner up, if they weren't more accurately described by the term 'One Man Apocalypse'.
*** The Infernal equivalent, Slayers, are just as devastating. Admittedly, their combat technique is less "I hit lots of people with my sword" and more "[[PersonOfMassDestruction I can project this radioactive hell-field that's so nasty a combat-specced Solar's best option when caught in it is to RUN!]]"
** The Big Boss of the aforementioned Slayers, Malfeas, is an even bigger OneManArmy (emphasis on '''big'''). One of his souls, Ligier, counts as an army ''just by himself'', and Malfeas has a lot of souls. Slayers' hell-field pales compared to Ligier, for he is the green sun of Hell. Stat-wise, he can fight the [[TopGod Unconquered Sun]] by his lonesome, something he's been aching to do for millennia.
** In what we've heard of the third edition, the [[BadassNormal Legion of Silence]] are hard enough that one Legionnaire versus 100 bandits leads to a CurbStompBattle in which the Legionnaire only suffers a minor wound during the brawl.
* The title characters of Sine Nomine's ''TabletopGame/{{Godbound}}'' are all terrifyingly powerful, to the point where the fray die lets them slaughter {{mooks}} without even taking their actions, but ones with the Sword and/or Bow Words are the ones who most resemble ''armies'' as opposed to elemental forces. A Bow Godbound who commits Effort to power both Rain of Sorrow and Bolt of Invincible Skill can slaughter entire mobs of enemies in a single devastating hail of arrows, and this doesn't even take their entire starting Gift allotment; a similar level of devastation can come from a Sword Godbound with Cutting the Crimson Road and Unerring Blade.
-->'''Kevin Crawford:''' [[https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?773601-Sine-Nomine-Godbound&p=20262887#post20262887 Bow Gods specialised in army-killing do it Real Fast.]]
* The recreation of Achilles in ''TabletopGame/{{Infinity}}'' could be roughly described as [[AMechByAnyOtherName a TAG's]] worth of battlefield impact squeezed down to the size of a man.
* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Strategy Battle Game'', a number of heroes -- most notably Aragorn and [[BigBad Sauron]] -- are more than capable of cruising through a staggering number of opponents. One memorable battle report in ''Magazine/WhiteDwarf'' had the entire Good army slain or fleeing except Aragorn, leading to him strolling through the remnants of the Evil force, batting off the troops and shrugging off a direct sorcerous attack from a Ringwraith, and reaching the objective by himself, limiting the Evil side to only a minor victory.
** The most egregious example of this in the entire game is the Desolator of the North. It's an entire army faction that consists of a single model the size of a Jack Russell - Smaug, the legendary dragon of Erebor himself, who costs 700 points (most quick fun games are fought between armies worth about 400-500, 800-1000 is a fairly big battle that lets you bring the cool toys like wizards), a [[CrackIsCheaper good chunk of your life savings]], and all of your friendships. Smaug is stupidly overpowered and banned from most tournaments. The Desolator of the North doesn't even get an Army Bonus - the army book notes "You have a giant, fire-breathing dragon on your side, that's enough of an Army Bonus, surely?"
** Barad Dur, representing Mordor in the Second Age, is basically just rubbish Mordor... except you can take Sauron for 400 points. Remember in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'' how the big man was swatting whole ranks of men around with a gigantic mace? He's also extremely proficient with magic and practically invincible.
** It's not just the Evil armies that get all the fun, though. Beorn from the Radagast's Alliance army list is 200 points and painful enough in human form, outstripping most heroes from other lists, but in his [[BearsAreBadNews bear form]] he's a downright killing machine.
* The "Exalted" mechanic in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' encourages this. Each creature with "Exalted" grants a +1/+1 bonus to an attacking creature if it attacks alone. Buffed by the prayers of others, even a lowly normal human soldier can become strong enough to slay the mightiest monsters.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' are certainly capable of embodying this trope, considering the characters are literal gods. One of the higher level miracles (but certainly not out of reach for any Noble) gives the actual example 'fight your way through an army alone, one by one'. However, Nobilis prefer to manipulate things from behind the scenes, and feel that if things give over to full-scale combat, everyone has already lost.
** [[BadassAdorable Rook]] [[CuteBruiser Catchfly]] is a case in point; at Aspect 4, she's spelled out as being strong enough to beat the crap out of the entire United States Marine Corps.
** Leaving aside game mechanics, the fluff tends to keep this more-or-less limited to high-level spellcasters, who have a tendency to be able to wipe out entire armies of mooks with a single spell.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' you play as the child of a god, imbued with some of their power. If you focus on things like strength and stamina, it's very likely that you could slaughter scores of normal people single-handed. And by the time you've advanced to demi-god status you officially count as a PersonOfMassDestruction.
* In ''TabletopGame/StrikeLegion'', this is the end result of the Star Republic's Legion Process, which turns a small number of suitable candidates into nearly unstoppable {{Super Soldier}}s. Aside from grating a dramatically reduced aging process and making the Legionaire virtually immune to disease and poison, it also makes the Legionaire superhumanly fast and stronger, tougher, smarter, and able to [[RealityWarper break reality]]. ''Then'' the Republic gives the Legionaires access to hyper-advanced weapons and equipment, PoweredArmor, [[HumongousMecha battle frames]], and a [[CoolStarship Strike Cruiser]], all of which are able to lay waste to entire armies of their counterparts on the Imperial side. This is all so that the Legion can [[WeDoTheImpossible carry out impossible missions]] that the regular military can't. On the opposite side, the Imperium produces their own OneManArmy troops, some of which can match the Legion in direct combat.
* In the fluff for ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', [[SuperSoldier the Space Marines]] in general are badass enough to be a OneManArmy to a man. That's before you get to the First Company veteran troopers, who can obliterate entire platoons or companies of regular troops. Then you get to Marines in ''Terminator'' armor, which is able to withstand being at the heart of a plasma reactor and getting stepped on by a three hundred meter tall walking battle cathedral without much damage. ''Then'' you get Space Marine ''officers'' and company commanders... and then Chapter Masters...
** To say nothing of the Adeptus Custodes, who are said to be to a Space Marine what a Space Marine is to a normal human. And ''then'' you have the Primarchs, who function as the fifteen-foot-tall genetic template for all Space Marines, and above them, in his glory days, [[PhysicalGod The Holy God-Emperor of All Mankind.]]
** And above him... is Literature/CiaphasCain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM! ...himself humbled by Guardsman Hawke from ''Storm of Iron'', who wiped out about half of the Iron Warriors Chaos Space Marine force besieging the citadel. [[spoiler:Sadly, it wasn't enough. He was the only Imperial survivor, though.]]
** However, it is implied in other background sources, that some of the Marine's feats are just Imperial propaganda. Some fluff depictions have a single marine taking out entire armies of Mooks, others have marines struggling to go one-on-one with ''the very same Mooks''. In much of the fluff Marines are deployed as companies and rarely decide the conflict alone. Others have them annihilating everything in their path.
*** This even occasionally reaches the point the same book doesn't even remain consistent. For example, Nightbringer has a group of Space Marines being butchered by a small group of Planetary Defense Force soldiers, which is more egregious when it is factored in that the planet in question was considered to have a poor PDF force by the low standards of the PDF. Later in the book, an even smaller group of Space Marines makes a good showing against something powerful enough to be worshiped as a god.
** Kharn the Betrayer. He once shattered two entire legions of Chaos Space Marines by himself, in one night. [[OmnicidalManiac Shame one of those legions was his own, really.]] [[MemeticMutation Heck of a guy, that Kharn]]. He even has a kill-counter in his helmet, 5,000 victims in a single battle is average for him. And then there's the fact that Khorne can bring him back if killed...
*** In general any named character tends to be this, giving the armies based around them the nickname "Herohammer" due to these characters being able to take on a literal army and still stand a reasonable chance of winning. Notable ones include Marneus Calgar, Abaddon the Despoiler, Mephiston, Njal Stormcaller, and Logan Grimnar.
** Also, when you consider the fact that Space Marine augments can ''drastically'' increase their lifespan, and the amount of combat experience required to become a veteran or commander, most of them will have taken part in ''hundreds'' of years worth of campaigns, and could potentially rack up individual kill counts in the ''millions''!
** In ''Lord of the Night'', Zso Sahaal drives a hive (VERY big city, VERY many people) into near-destruction before his brothers come to destroy the rest of the planet. Him being the First Captain and chosen heir of Night Haunter himself might have had something to do with this.
** In ''Iron Snakes'', A ship full of Dark Eldar crashes to a remote planet. The inhabitants' armies are butchered and everything looks very bleak... so they invoke an ancient pact to the Iron Snakes, who respond. By sending a single marine. The marine takes with himself a hunting dog and goes into the wilds. Oh, and he kills the Dark Eldar.
** Marneus Calgar, chapter master of the Ultramarines, held a [[YouShallNotPass breach against Orks]] for a day and a night, alone.
** Sanguinius, the ''Primarch'' of the Blood Angels, [[YouShallNotPass stood alone at the gates of the Eternal Palace]] during the Horus Heresy and held off ''the entire forces of Chaos Undivided'' single-handedly in a titanic battle that lasted for hours. To prove this isn't ConservationOfNinjutsu, when their commanding Bloodthirster Ka'Bhanda challenged him, Sanguinius literally picked him up and ''broke him in half''. It is widely accepted that if Horus didn't eventually pull his legion back, he wouldn't have even had a legion left after Sanguinius was through with them.
** The biggest example of this are the [[PhysicalGod C'tan]], who are capable of destroying '''[[ApocalypseHow entire stars]]''', but also want to eliminate all life from the galaxy and permanently separate the warp from real space.
*** C'tan are actual units in the tabletop game, costing almost 60% more than the next most expensive model in the game (the Land Raider battle tank), and capable of cleaving through multiple units by themselves. The creators have stated they're being removed from the next Necron update for being ''too weak.''
** The Grey Knights live, breath, and have exterminated daemons from this trope. They're the only group %100 immune to the Chaos, probably by eliminating the weak. They can devastate entire armies with just a few of them, and there's only about 1000 of them total. They're too small (by comparison) to be a BadassArmy, but they qualify for Badass Platoon easy!
*** Before the Grey Knights were founded, there were the Knights-Errant, precursor to both the Grey Knights (via their Space Marine members) and the Inquisition (via their normal human members). The first of the Knights-Errant was Nathaniel Garro, one of the very few Death Guard marines to remain loyal to the Emperor during the Horus Heresy. He was specifically referred to as "a Legion of One". Given that a Space Marine Legion is an entire army made up of Armies of One, that's saying something.
** Sly Marbo explicitly has nothing else to his character BUT this trope! He even has an in-game rule which takes the name of this trope. Marbo is, of course, a thinly-veiled homage to every 80s action film hero and FPS character ever seen. He even looks suspiciously like Arnie.
** The Eldar Harlequins. Using a variety of exotic and powerful wargear in conjunction with their incredible (even by Eldar standards) agility and grace, they kick just as much ass as the Grey Knights. In one story a mere four Harlequins were enough to make hay of an entire Deathwatch kill team, and one of their Shadowseers personally duelled Ahriman and beat him (but failed to kill him).
** The Eversor Assassin, a debatably human soldier boosted to utter hell through cybernetics, advanced weaponry and combat drugs until they can canonically take out thousands of soldiers on their own, and any Eversor that's survived more than one mission can be counted on having killed at least one army's worth through sheer volume of offense. In fact, they're often used as part of a MortonsFork in the tabletop: Either you concentrate fire on the charging Eversor and let the rest of the army advance unimpeded until his surprising toughness gives out, or battle normally, let the Eversor reach your army and watch everything you control start dropping.
** The Eldar Phoenix Lord Maugan Ra single-handedly defended a planet from ''an entire Tyranid splinter fleet''. He also fought through the Eye of Terror during the 13th Black Crusade with the intention of saving his home craftworld Altansar. Not only was he successful in this goal, he also caused so much damage to Abaddon's legions that it rendered the Chaos forces impotent and was one of the main causes behind their eventual defeat. Do ''not'' fuck with this guy.
** Shas'O Kais of the T'au ''specialized'' in being one by focusing upon the path of the Monat ("Lone Hero"), which emphasizes the commander making their own immense contribution to the battle. In the novel ''War of Secrets'', he's shown to have spent his time in a centuries-long stasis where his cognitive functions didn't stop figuring out ways for him (and ''just him'') to defeat every enemy the T'au face, and demonstrates it by taking on a Space Marine fortress-monastery solo in a Ghostkeel battlesuit.
** In ''TabletopGame/{{Necromunda}}'', troops that would be mere CannonFodder in the main game (like Imperial Guardsmen and Eldar Guardians) are able to [[CurbStompBattle cut through underhive gangers like shit through a goose]]. And don't even get us started on Astartes or Aspect Warriors.
* Canonically all of the Greater Demons in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', especially the Bloodthirster. In-game, a strong elite unit would have a reasonable chance of killing it. The Chaos ChosenOne Archaon though, fits this well enough that a recommended strategy for fighting him is to try and shoot his HellishHorse, and then stay out of his way until the game ends.
** Though certain clever combinations of magic items could seriously damage a Bloodthirster, especially the Dark Elf talisman that effectively gives every wound inflicted on the bearer a 50% chance of actually working and a 50% chance of inflicting a wound on the person who hit the Dreadlord instead.
** In the same game, Sigmar Unberogen (the founder of the Empire) was renowned for his strength and skill, least of all for defeating an entire army of evil creatures armed only with an animal's jawbone. It is, of course, a mirror of the biblical figure Samson, but as an individual it is canon within the Games Workshop history.
*** Related to Sigmar (possibly literally) is his Chosen, Valtan. Although now {{canon}}icaly dead (assassinated in his sleep) and not the best fighter ever, he had a rule that meant he almost always came back if you killed him, and attacked again. And again. And again. This could end with him racking a kill count that would shame Archaon. He became known to some as "Yo-yo Valten."
** Looming majestically over Archaon, the Undead armies have Nagash. Previously a mere human, through magic and willpower he grew to such power that he eventually managed to single-handedly purge an entire fortress AND it's attached enormous subterranean dungeon of monsters in a single night, hours after having returned from the dead himself by sheer determination. That, and he is currently revered as the God of Undeath, so powerful that just the use of his name can draw blasphemous dark magic to the one who spoke it. In game terms, he was the only model (of hundreds) who began the battle as a level 5 Wizard, and was so powerful that he has been removed as a playable model and promoted to a mythological being in the newest edition.
*** Actually Nagash's magic level of 5 was neither innate nor unique - he derived it from a magic item (the Book of Nagash) and in the 4th-5th edition rules where he was available there were similar magic items that could make other powerful wizards level 5 also (the High Elf High Loremaster Teclis and Lord of Change Amon'Chakai were both level 5). He could still destroy entire armies by himself though, and in the background was responsible for the destruction of an entire civilization and (very nearly) the entire world.
** The Venerable Lord Kroak of the Lizardmen armies. True to the trope in that even though he has been dead for thousands of years, his corpse is capable of leveling entire cities with godlike magic power. Physically, though, he is quite brittle and relies on magical enchantments to protect him.
*** Lord Mazdamundi is close to Lord Kroak in power, and is most likely one of the most (if not ''the'' most) powerful ''living'' mage in the world.
** There was a tournament of champions style article in which the best special character from each of the warhammer armies of the time were pitted against each other. The Bloodthirster was used to make up numbers, since there were 15 characters, and 16 slots. The Bloodthirster rolled over everyone.
---> Dice for the Dice Throne!
*** Incidentally, everyone who took part in that very Tournament were all examples of this trope, however the semi-finalists in particular stand out. There was Archaon, the Chosen Warlord of Chaos Undivided, the Venerable Lord Kroak who is the most senior of the oldest and most powerful mortal mages, the Bloodthirster who is an incarnation of the Evil God of Death and War, and... Deathmaster Sniktch, a [[NinjaPirateRobotZombie Ratman Ninja]] who was quite strong and had poisoned swords. Doesn't sound like much of a match, but when you consider that Sniktch had fought his way past people riding on dragons and the immortal Princes of the Elven race to get there, only to subsequently be written out of the next edition of the game for being too powerful...
** In-game, sufficiently powerful wizards (Lizardmen Slann, Dark Elf Sorceresses, High Elf Wizards), dragon-mounted Elf characters (especially Malekith), and most other characters are sufficiently well-equipped and generally powerful to slaughter/blast their way through hordes of grunts.
** There might be slightly too many of them to count here, but the unnamed High Elf spearman squad that pulled the most badass YouShallNotPass ever recorded and held the gates of Tor Yvresse against an entire Goblin army without backup for three days before Prince Tyrion finally showed up with his dragon and some reinforcements to bail the last half-dozen survivors out.
** No love for the orcs? Orcs only follow those who are able to beat them, or promise them a good fighting (and some how prevent them from beating you and taking over your army). Also they live to fight, so their legendary leaders are those whose actions are feared by all other armies.
*** Azhag the Slaughterer is not only a Black Orc Warboss on a wyvern, but also a lvl 3 wizard.
*** Or how about Gorbad Ironclaw, who removed an entire Imperial province from map?
*** And then there is Grimgor Ironhide, who lives for war. In 6th edition he gave combat resolution simply for being in combat. So if you did nothing and your enemy did nothing, the side with Grimgor would win. He also had a startling number of very hard-hitting attacks, meaning that it was quite unlikely that your side would do nothing.
** The [[DeathSeeker Slayer]] Gotrek Gurnisson fought his way across a decent chunk of the Warhammer world, leaving a massive trail of bodies, in his quest to fulfil his oath and die honourably in battle. Whether a mighty daemon or an endless horde of enemies, Gotrek would inevitably prove able to kill it to bits, typically ending each book battered and bleeding but having slaughtered the main villain of the story and quite a lot of minions; pretty much the only people who came back for repeat fights were those like Thanquol who mastered the VillainExitStageLeft. Gotrek's mission as a DeathSeeker was somewhat hindered by him being much too tough, bad-tempered and skilled for anyone or anything to actually kill him, ''up to and including the literal end of the world'', to the point where he is still kicking - not to mention gouging, maiming, gutting, decapitating and dismembering - in ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar''.
* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' has you playing men and women who can turn into wolves (or sometimes wolves who can turn into men or women) who also sometimes find it expedient to become nine foot tall death-dealing monsters that heal almost all wounds virtually instantly and who can move at absurdly fast speeds. A combat-oriented ''starting character'' won't necessarily win a duel with a main battle tank, but it's not an unreasonable outcome.
** On the other hand, while starting Vampires were much weaker than starting Werewolves in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade,'' the most powerful Kindred easily qualified as this. A single werewolf at start of game could take out a small town in a single night. A Methuselah-level vampire with Vicissitude could ''turn an entire city into [[BodyHorror living sausage]].'' And even an army of ''them'' would get curb stomped by Caine. Luckily, pretty much all the vampires who are that old are hibernating right now.
** When the antagonists were vampires, Mages could become this in short order, because the primary limit on how long they could sustain their really impressive and destructive tricks was that reality would 'punish' you for violating natural law as the normals understood it. However, the normal mortal paradigm doesn't actually include any rules for blood-sucking walking corpses not, say, spontaneously combusting in groups of three every few seconds for an entire day (it's no weirder than the corpses being walking in the first place). As a result, in-setting the rule on a vampire drinking a Mage's blood was "no on knows, it basically never happens" with one of the suggestions being that a vampire that tried would spontaneously combust or become an exceptionally mad version of a Malkavian.

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