Tervigon Progenitor - How many Gants?

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**Razerous**

Hey All

I'm looking to field a pair of Tervigon's in my 1500pt force, along with roughly 30 termagants.

My question is; How many termagants will I need to get in order to reasonably fulfil the spawning's of my Tervigon's... 50? 60?

**Mannahnin**

The two most common individual rolls on 3d6 are 10 or 11 (10.5 mathematical average). I think each Tervigon has about a 44% chance of running out per roll. So just under 50/50.

30 should be fine for average situations, but remember that above and below average events happen frequently too. If you're playing regularly, you're still going to see a lot of games where you only need 15-20, and a good number of games when you need 40 or more.

**ruminator**

Also, don't forget you can recycle killed models, of which there should be plenty!

Field the minimum 20 gaunts and then have 30 spare. Certanly in KP games you may not even want to spawn.

**Steelmage99**

I bring 21 Termagants for each Tervigon I field.

I usually field so I bring 42 (the magic number!) Termagants and have yet run into problems with a lack of models.

**Razerous**

Steelmage99 wrote:I bring 21 Termagants for each Tervigon I field.

I usually field so I bring 42 (the magic number!) Termagants and have yet run into problems with a lack of models.

So your saying that more get killed than the ability of the Tervigon's to replicate more termagant's? Fair doo's, useful to know.

**Steelmage99**

I don't quite understand what you are saying here. Please elaborate.

Also I see that I missed a "two" in my text as in "I usually field two so I...."

When using two Tervigons I bring a bag of 42 extra Termagants, in addition to the two ten-man (ten-bug?) strong units I usually field with the Tervigons.

**Razerous**

Steelmage99 wrote:I don't quite understand what you are saying here. Please elaborate.

Also I see that I missed a "two" in my text as in "I usually field two so I...."

When using two Tervigons I bring a bag of 42 extra Termagants, in addition to the two ten-man (ten-bug?) strong units I usually field with the Tervigons.

Ah well, that makes more sense; Bring +42 gants in additional the the pre-requisite 2x10 gants.

I thought you meant that with a total of 42 on the field to begin with, the balance of loosing gants to casualties compared to the addition of spawned gants equals out. But this is only when when you include that bag'o'gants (which is an awesome concept btw) is taken into account.

So.. I need more termagants. Gratz!