Tervigon- Average spawns?

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**Dave_Nz**

Does anyone know how many on average a tervigon spanws gaunts each round, like how many indivudual gaunts are spawned on average for each terivigon? id be really interested in the math, thanks in advance.

**purplefood**

Well it's 2D6 right?
Wouldn't the statistical average be perfectly spread out?

**-Loki-**

It's actually 3D6...

**Azure**

Well, on a D6 you'll, on average, get a 3 or 4 half the time, and for tervigons you use 3D6 so I imagine the average is 12-16

**purplefood**

Ahh right then...
Don't have the Nid codex...

**sexiest_hero**

For me it's 4 then it craps out. No gaunt screen for me!

**MechaEmperor7000**

I think it's 10 or 11. These are the results with the highest number of combinations in the dice I believe (I read about how to do the calculations for this several years ago, but I've largely forgotten it. 3D6 is an average that comes up often, so I remembered those exact numbers more than the actual method). Correct me if I'm wrong.

**DarknessEternal**

21 is the average per game.

**Xarian**

the average of 1d6 is 3.5
you can do the math from there.

(1+2+3+4+5+6)/6 = 7/2 = 3.5

**Project2501**

http://www.roll-dice-online.com/

**Dave_Nz**

Xarian wrote:the average of 1d6 is 3.5
you can do the math from there.

(1+2+3+4+5+6)/6 = 7/2 = 3.5

Idk if you are aware of the ruling but it is more complicated then that....

**Grey Templar**

the average is 10 on 3d6

and there is something like a 1/3 chance of a double on 3D6.

chance of double on 2D6 is 1/6

**ThatEdGuy**

Using Grey Templar's numbers and a simple geometric sequence a 5 turn game will average 24.09, a 6 turn game will average 26.07, and a 7 turn game will average 27.39.

**Anavrin**

The average per turn is 10.5 termagants spawned.

The chance of rolling a double on 3d6 is 4/9 (96/216), or 44.444444%.

So, your average tervigon will spawn over a 5-turn game -

sum(x=1 to x=5) [10.5*(5/9)^(x-1)]

=

10.5 * [1-(5/9)^5] / [1-(5/9)]

=

22.375 (rounded off)

**IdentifyZero**

Don't use this in a game requiring kill points... lol

**Nuclear_Bomb**

The average amount of gants I get per game is from 20 to 53.