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As a favor to the astronomicon crowd, we ran some test 1500 point games using the Escalation rules today. I'm going to try linking to my photobucket account to show the photos from the battles.

http://s280.photobucket.com/user/Spellbound44/library/Zarakynel%20Escalation

Nids went first, and by the end of their second turn had brought Z down to 1 wound. She then charged the barbed heirodule, killed it, and healed herself back to full wounds. It was basically over then, but it was cemented a turn later when she charged some gaunts and her stomps landed on a Zoanthrope and Tervigon, killing both by rolling a 6. It was basically over by then.

Check out my warhound battle report as well, featuring the same tyranid list versus a CSM army using a warhound titan. (coming soon, if you don't see it yet)

How long was the game and the CSM one?

3 turns. Less than an hour.

 Spellbound wrote:
3 turns. Less than an hour.

I know Mike and Xtian are gathering info for Astro, and time is a big factor for lots of people when it comes to tournaments and escalation.