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I still won the game in the end because my opponent failed his dice like crazy (and i rolled like crazy, my 6man Nob missile survived a full assault of attacks for 4 turns to give you an idea and he was using a spell to reduce my cover to a 5up), but this little event kinda urked me.

Turn 1 nightfighting, so my SAG couldnt fire. Turn 2 i rolled snakeeyes and 3inches for the additional evaporating effect which wiped out all but 1 of my Grots and the Quad gun they were manning as well as 2 lootas that were nearby (thankfully not 3 to force a leadership). Somehow that last Grot passed his leadership so he hid behind the ADL like a little git to avoid giving away free points, but then my opponent and a couple bystanders said he still gets a point for the loss of my SAG since he gives a point in Purge the Aliens. We were short on time and its just a friendly game so i just let him have it. My arguement was HE didnt kill my guy, he killed himself so technically its not point for him since he didnt cause the death.

Is this true? I couldnt find anything proving either side, just that each enemy unit is worth a point in Purge the Aliens. Ive gone by this rule before, and never gotten argued by it either, however i think im the only army that can potentially paste themselves unless a blast scattered to a lone trooper by mistake so its never come up for anyone else

Have a look at page 127 to see what the primary objective is and how your score points.

One point per unit destroyed, isn't it? No mention of why or how.

Yes, ICs are a seperate unit for counting as kill points.

i know its a seperate point the issue was he killed himself. meh not THAT big of a deal, just find it weird.
Only ever going to cause an issue in Purge anyway unless i have a SAG as a warlord (which would be dumb lol)

It's been that way for as long as there have been missions that awarded points for casualties.

Dead is dead. You can't kill one enemy and then make all your guys commit suicide and say you won the fight because you killed more enemy than the enemy did.

 Kwosge wrote:
Dead is dead. You can't kill one enemy and then make all your guys commit suicide and say you won the fight because you killed more enemy than the enemy did.

LOL, that's a funny way of putting it. I can't help but picture an Ethereal jumping off a completely surrounded Bastion, die for having no other place to land, and the rest of the Tau forces rolling bad luck for their moral test and fleeing off the table.

I guess the same is said for First Blood and Slay the Warlord in that crazy scenario.