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Hey folks.

A friend of mine asked me a question tonight that I couldn't point anything in the rules out to support either way.

If you deploy your army on the table and keep a unit or two in reserves, and get tabled (excepting your reserves), does the game end? Do you continue to play each turn until the reserves come out?

There is no rule that says that the game ends immediately if one player has nothing on the board.

Which is just as well, given that the current Reserves rules allow you to start with your entire army in Reserve...

Dashofpepper wrote:Hey folks.
you deploy your army on the table and keep a unit or two in reserves, and get tabled (excepting your reserves), does the game end? Do you continue to play each turn until the reserves come out?

Page 90 "Ending the game" and "Wipeout" sheds light on this. If there are still turns remaining and you have surviving units ( on the field or in reserves ), you are not tabled.

If you have enough dudes left on the table you could potentially block off their deployment zone from anything entered, assuming you have enough movement before they come on anyway.

....and at that point the game hangs, so its a stupid thing to do.

Additionally it does nto stop Jump Infantry, Jet Bikes or tanks from entering

nosferatu1001 wrote:....and at that point the game hangs, so its a stupid thing to do.

Additionally it does nto stop Jump Infantry, Jet Bikes or tanks from entering

And deepstrikers, outflankers, and skimmers.

Indeed, I just got bored typing all the units that stop that lame "tactic" from working.

So Justin were you the one trying to say the game ends before the reserves had a chance to come in?

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Never mind the Armies that field nothing at the start of the game, everything’s in reserve, I say the game end after the last turn, though if you've no figures left on the board you’re in for a world of hurt.

If the game ends and you have nothing on the board you are tabled as may understanding is even you have units left to come on (i.e. your last unit of reserves is a DS unit that mishaps and is delayed).

However the game does not end the turn you lose all your men otherwise armies that start with nothing on the board (i.e. DoW deployment type) would auto lose even if they have never had a turn...

Obviously if you have wiped out your enemy (including all reserves) by the end of turn 3 or 4 there is little point playing on for further turns as the result is known.

That, and the fact the rules say that the game ends at that point.

Bookwrack wrote:That, and the fact the rules say that the game ends at that point.

No, it says if the mission ends and you're opponent is tabled, it doesn't matter what mission you were playing (objectives and kill points mean nothing).

Ridcullyis correct. The game tchnically continues after you table your opponent until turns run out. Of course, a concession is usually immediate when you table someone, so...

As others have pointed out if your tabke your opponent the game technically continues until it runs out of turns. However at this point you normally end the game because why bother?

If the player has units in reserve that can come in and the game is not over then you have not tabled him.

G

Daemons lose every game round 1.

Wait. . .

Exactly why you are wrong... oh this is YMDC after all.

G

Note:
I was kidding.
"at the end of any standard mission" not "a standard mission ends if"