Eric took the 'nids to points with his Guard last weekend. We counted synapse-less swarms as completely destroyed for the Tiebreak and the Guard won 1670 to 1375. If these weren't only meant to be 1/2 points (as the formations were unbroken and reduced to 1/2 strength or less) then it would have been 1250 to 1375 and the nids would have won.

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Start of Game


Start of Game


The Dactylis hit the Storm troopers and take out one and a Valkyrie.


The Harridan advances and lays a BM on the Sentinels.


The Swarm in the open is broken from Manticore fire, looseing 5 brood.


Another Manticore formation lays a BM on the Line Breaker.


The BTS marches up.


The Tbolts fail to activate.


A Swarm marches up.


The Basilisks fail to activate.


A Swarm marches up.


The Guard in cover sustain on the BTS and take out a gaunt.


The Genestealers engage the Sentinels.


Two go down along with 3 stealers.


The Sentinels are hacked down.


The HQ doubles and breaks the stealers.


A Swarm marches up.


The Line Breaker doubles up and lays a BM on the storm troopers.


The Storm Troopers marshal.


The Russes double and lay a BM on the Swarm in cover.


The Storm troopers attempt to double, fail and move.

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Turn 2


Turn 2


The Trygons arrive and the BTS takes an Manticore hit.


The Storm Troopers advance on the Line Breaker and kill its warriors.


The Dactylis put some hurt on the HQ.


The Lictors fail to engage.


The Leman Russ double on the Line Breaker and take lay a BM.


The Basilisks hit the BTS and take out a Warrior.


The Stealers attempt to engage the HQ, fail to hit and die.


The Trygons take fire from the Infantry.


The Harridan breaks the HQ with a crossfire.


The Storm Troopers advance and break the line breaker.


The Manticores attempt to advance, fail and move.


The Trygons engage the HQ.


They fail two saves and break.


The BTS advances.


A Swarm doubles.


A Swarm doubles.


A Swarm engages the Infantry in cover.


Two Brood go down and lots of Guardsmen buy it from support.


The Guardsmen fall back.


A Swarm sustains on the Storm Troopers and takes one out.

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Turn 3


Turn 3


The Manticores hit the BTS.


The other Manticores kill two Warriors out in the open.


The Dactylis break the Storm Troopers.


The Harridan advances and takes out a Valkyrie.


The Leman Russ double and break the Line Breaker again.


The Tbolts straffe the BTS.


The BTS marshals.


The Basilisks take out the Tryant and the BTS is synapseless.


The Storm Troopers advance on the BTS and lay another BM.


A Swarm advances and lays a BM on the Storm Troopers.


A Swarm engages the Storm Troopers, two Brood and a Warrior go down to 5 IG.


A single Storm trooper breaks.


The Infantry sustain on the Brood in cover and lay a BM.


The Lictors engage the Manticores.


They wipe them out.


The Rough Riders march up.


The Leman Russ take fire from a Swarm in cover.


Another Swarm doubles to impede them next turn.

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Turn 4


Turn 4


A Basilisk barage takes out the Warriors in another swarm.


A Manticore barrage breaks the BTS.


Dactylis take out a Russ.


Even Termagants pile into CC to deny the Russes their FF.


The bugs emerge victorious and break the Russes.


The Tbolts straffe the BTS.


The Harridan barges three Rough Riders.


They Are hacked down.


End of Game


End of Game

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I think we need to talk about the tiebreak conditions. Spawning gives the 'nids an inherent advantage with it, which is why I counted swarms as completely destroyed when they loose their synapse. I think this helps balance things out more, like how Necrons are counted as destroyed when they are off board.

If we're going to be allowing brood creatures to be spawned to other formations, I also think that a formation should count as half strength of less when its spawning pool equals or exceeds what's left of the formation on the board. The one caveat to this would be that half-strength for a formation can never be reduced to less than what it started the game at.

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Nids should have an advantage in a tie-break; anyone trying to win a war of attrition against them is bound to lose.

I agree, but I don't think a tiebreak is always synonymous with a war of attrition.

The spawning gives them a bonus against formation erosion over the course of the game, that's what makes them an attrition army. A 'nid army without any synapse though has little to no cohesion and essentially falls apart at the seems. An opponent who has taken out a swarm's leadership should be rewarded with full points as those brood creatures aren't going to be much of a threat to their enemies after the game ends.

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