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Your brilliant battle plan sets up a turn 5 win via controlling more objectives or having more kill points. Only for the dice to disagree and the game keeps going. Your opponent cleans off objectives or at minimum contests them/or gets some kill points. Then you claim them again on turn 6, only for the game to fo to turn 7. Now you have little forces left and settle for the draw, if not getting beat.

I can count on my second set of fingers how many times this has happened to me. Let's hear what went wrong with your games or how you plan for such unknown debacles aka "dice saying play on"

Pretty sure any gunline army facing an assault force gets boned by the game going on. I remember a game ending early once his nids were close enough to see my fire warriors wetting themselves, the dice were good to me ending the game there giving me the win, had one more turn happened he would have wiped me off the table.

I have only once come close to beating Orks with my Sisters. On Turn Five I held three objectives to his two, on Turn Six he contested the one of those objectives, on Turn Seven he slaughtered half my army. That is the only game I have not been tabled in, and I could have won it if the dice went my way there.