sourclams wrote:I think you've got to pray you get the wave you want, and frontload the crap out of your first rush with minimal troop squads making up the bulk of your second wave.

First Wave:
Soulgrinder
Soulgrinder
Soulgrinder
Bigbadthing
Bigbadthing

Second Wave:
Mintroops
Mintroops
Mintroops
Mintroops
Mintroops

Play the refused flank, pray that your first wave is big and bad enough to deal with your enemy, and slowly plunk troops onto objectives as the rest of your army trickles in.

sourclams wrote:Evening out turns losing 1/3 of the time into losing 6/6 of the time, in my opinion. I mean seriously, if you deploy 1,000 points on the board, the IG player should be able to kill at least 500-700 in the first turn. Then 200 pts trickles in for the next 5 turns and you just play to see if you can contest an objective or something.... Whee?

I think it's a GoForBroke scenario: Do anything you can to get 1350+ points on the table, try to minimize your exposure while carving up a flank, and hump objectives and terrain all you can.

Warmaster wrote:
If it's an objectives mission you simply hold all your troops in reserves most of them won't come in until turn 5 and if they are plague bearers it'll be good luck on your opponents part to kill them in 1-2 turns. A lot of these games will end in ties.

kadun wrote:

Warmaster wrote:
If it's an objectives mission you simply hold all your troops in reserves most of them won't come in until turn 5 and if they are plague bearers it'll be good luck on your opponents part to kill them in 1-2 turns. A lot of these games will end in ties.

Its a popular misconception that most of what you have in reserve will arrive on turn 5. If my math is correct and if you've split your army points 50/50, statistically you get the following distribution:

turn 1: 1/2 of your army shows up.
turn 2: 1/12 of your army shows up (1/2 left * 1/6 chance of arriving).
turn 3: 5/36 of your army shows up (5/12 left * 1/3 chance of arriving).
turn 4: 5/36 of your army shows up (5/18 left * 1/2 chance of arriving).
turn 5: 5/36 of your army shows up (remaining 5/36 arrives automatically).

As you can see, its a trickle after turn 1.

Shotgun wrote:

kadun wrote:

Warmaster wrote:
If it's an objectives mission you simply hold all your troops in reserves most of them won't come in until turn 5 and if they are plague bearers it'll be good luck on your opponents part to kill them in 1-2 turns. A lot of these games will end in ties.

Its a popular misconception that most of what you have in reserve will arrive on turn 5. If my math is correct and if you've split your army points 50/50, statistically you get the following distribution:

turn 1: 1/2 of your army shows up.
turn 2: 1/12 of your army shows up (1/2 left * 1/6 chance of arriving).
turn 3: 5/36 of your army shows up (5/12 left * 1/3 chance of arriving).
turn 4: 5/36 of your army shows up (5/18 left * 1/2 chance of arriving).
turn 5: 5/36 of your army shows up (remaining 5/36 arrives automatically).

As you can see, its a trickle after turn 1.

But then the Officer of the Fleet then goes and spanks that even further, in effect shifting the arrival to turns 4+. Depending on how the demon player loads his waves, it could be good or very very bad.