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I play marines... codex marines. My army got a massacre win first mission, and a tie second mission. Going into the 3rd mission, I was in second, playing against the guy in first. Unless I massacred him, I wasn't going to win. Whatever.

the problem was, he was playing monstrous creature nids. his army had a total 13 killpoints he could give up. Mine, because of the 3rd mission rules, had 30.

In the end, it was 14-9, in favor of him. why is it, that a rhino is worth 3 killpoints, when a squad of 3 carnifex rampaging across the table is worth only 1?
whatever, its just a game... but damn. Nids are powerful enough, did they really need such a huge boost in mission 3?

I had the opposite experience in my 3rd round. I too was running mechanized marines with a bit of gunline-rhino-bunker going for it. Fortunately for me, my opponent was raider/ravager spam Dark Eldar.

I won't go into the details, but I got the 2nd battle point. (I killed 40 KP of DE while he killed 20 of me.)

Hrm.

I play mechanized orks, and I had 36 killpoints; I played against drop-pod and mostly foot-slogging Space Wolves at the top table game 3 with 17 killpoints. I lost two units of deffkoptas during his turn1 shooting (he went first) to get a turn1 6 point lag, followed by an additional 3 point lag when he killed all my warbuggies...but went on to table him. I've gotta say, I find 40k the most fun when you're the least worried about missions and are just trying to kill your enemies.

I had 60+ KP with my DE, my opponent had 18 or so with his nids. and i still managed to shaft my opponent (poor guy...)


The end result was 3 KP to my 7KP after 6 rounds


I think you really needed to come to the table with a plan for each army you might face.