When the Decepticons sabotaged the Autobots ' ships and fled the planet, Grimlock saved the Autobots.

When the Autobots and Decepticons united against Jhiaxus and the threat of the Swarm-a destructive by-product of Transformer reproduction-Grimlock was the joint leader of the ground troops as Prime and Megatron fought on other fronts, and survived the brutal conflict.

When Bludgeon and his Decepticons were banished after the battle of Klo Grimlock refitted his Decepticon battleship, the Graviton, with weapons and recruited his several Dinobots and Autobots to hunt them down.

When he participated in an attack on the Ark with several of his fellow Decepticons, Starscream was deactivated by Omega Supreme, and sealed in a stasis pod in the Ark for a prolonged period of time.

When the ship's computer, Teletraan I, was reactivated by a volcanic explosion in 1984, the Decepticons were the first to be reactivated and were restored with new Earthly alternate modes.

When the weapons of the time-displaced transformers ceased functioning, Starscream knew how to use available materials to create gunpowder as a substitute for himself and the other Decepticons.

When the Decepticon turncoat, Octane, sought refuge from his pursuers in the crypt, Starscream's ghost seized control of Cyclonus ' body, and worked with Octane to turn Galvatron over to the Autobots and take leadership of the Decepticons for themselves.

When the Autobots succeeded in defeating the Decepticons in 1999 and they all attempted to return to Cybertron aboard the Ark II, the ship exploded as it exited Earth's atmosphere, and the Transformers were believed destroyed.

When Megatron liberated himself from Lazarus's control in 2002, the other Decepticons were soon freed, and Starscream and the other Decepticon jets passed some time by dismembering the Autobot Mini-Bots before joining in an attack on San Francisco, during which they attacked Superion, forcing him to separate.

When a signal from Earth revealing the location of the Mini-Cons was detected, Starscream was among the Decepticons assembled by Megatron to travel across the Spacebridge to find them.

When Starscream gatecrashed a meeting of the Terrorcons – renegade Decepticons who were unhappy with the peace between Autobot and Decepticon that had emerged in the wake of Unicron's defeat – at an energon plant, his mistake soon became apparent when he discovered that they had struck a deal with Unicron and gained new " Hyper Mode " powers.

When news of Megatron's return reached Cybertron, hundreds of Decepticons rose up and rebelled, eager to get back to conquering.

When the Transformers stranded on Earth were reactivated in 1984, the Decepticons succeeded in getting a message to Cybertron, and Straxus responded by arranging for the construction of a space bridge between the worlds.

When " Decepticons " kidnapped Sentinel Prime, Orion requested Alpha Trion arrange an audience with High Council for him and Megatron.

When Optimus ordered the Elite Guard to not harm Megatron, Megatron declared Optimus had fallen into the trappings of power the High Council had foisted upon him, and those in attendance dispersed, with the planet forever divided into Autobots and Decepticons.

When asked by Optimus Prime about what happened to Alpha Trion when the Decepticons attacked the Vault of Iacon, Smokescreen stated that he doesn't know what happened to Alpha Trion.

When an amnesiac Optimus joins the Decepticons, Arcee goes on a violent rampage on board the Nemesis, killing many Decepticons on her way to find her leader, but she is swiftly ejected from the ship by Soundwave.

When the Autobots splintered into a series of underground cells following upheavals in the wake of Optimus Prime and Megatron's disappearances, Fortress Maximus ( here the size of a large, but normal Transformer, rather than the giant of the animated series ) became the leader of a group of Autobots who often found themselves opposed by Decepticons under the command of Scorponok.

When the Decepticons arrived and begun conquering the planet the Nebulons attempted to remote-control the Autobots ' bodies in order to fight the Decepticons, but when that failed, Fortress Maximus put forth a suggestion that would truly make the Nebulons masters of the Autobots ' bodies.

When he was visited by the other future Decepticons, Cyclonus and Scourge and learned that in their future, they would kill him, he unleashed Megatron upon them, who killed Cyclonus.

When Slugslinger and Sharkticon attempted to break into an Autobot island facility as Shockblast scrambled the security system with an electromagnetic pulse from orbit, they were caught and battled with Bulkhead and Towline who had some unexpected help — Omega Supreme, who soundly defeated all the Decepticons present.

When the Decepticons got a two-way Stellar Spanner going between Earth and Cybertron, Megatron assigned Shockwave to Earth as an ambassador.

When I hold my son he stiffens his whole body in my arms until he is as straight and stiff as a board.

When the first sprinkling of green appears I remove the board.

When she reached port, she was found to have on board only eight men, all near starvation.

When it was decided that Asteroids would be a vector game as well, Delman modified a Lunar Lander circuit board for Ed Logg.

When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.

When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.

When removing checkers from the board (" bearing off "), the exact roll must be used unless a die is greater than any checker can use to bear off ; in that case the die is played by taking a checker from the highest-numbered point off the board.

When all of a player's checkers are in that player's home board, that player may start removing them ; this is called bearing off.

When a backplane is used with a plug-in single board computer ( SBC ) or system host board ( SHB ), the combination provides the same functionality as a motherboard, providing processing power, memory, I / O and slots for plug-in cards.

When there are no enemy discs on the board, many ( but not all ) rules also state that a player must shoot for the centre of the board, and a shot disc must finish either completely inside the 15-point guarded ring line, or ( depending on the specifics of the rules ) be inside or touching this line.

When playing without this rule, a player may generally make any shot desired, and as long as a disc remains completely inside the outer line of the playfield, it remains on the board.

When a key is pressed, the foil tightly clings to the surface of the PC board, forming a daisy chain of two capacitors between contact pads and itself separated with thin soldermask, and thus " shorting " the contact pads with an easily detectable drop of capacitive reactance between them.

When the draft board referred him to a psychiatrist, Brando explained how he had been expelled from military school and that he had severe problems with authority.

When Steele died in 1959 Crawford was appointed to the Board of Directors of Pepsi-Cola, a position she held until 1973, although she was not a board member of the larger PepsiCo, created in 1965.

When generalizing the game to play on an n-by-n board, the problem of determining if the first player has a winning move in a given position is PSPACE-complete.

When the Klingon forces suffer a crushing defeat, Worf agrees to Nero's demand to board a shuttle and come on board the Narada.

When standing on the board it is flexed down at the contact points by your weight, but can easily be lifted by shifting your weight off either foot.

When the ship returned to port in 1842, Peter was not on board and Truth never heard from him again.

When Thompson climbed back on board, Johnson drew a knife and threatened Thompson's girlfriend, who was also on board.

When his classification was changed to ( 1-A ) following the American entry into World War II, Williams appealed to his local draft board.