How do you like to finish your battles?

[Psychichobo]

Ok, the general thing I'd like to ask you all is - when you win a match, how do you like it to go? Do you want to make it a close one, scraping through by the skin of your teeth, or are you determined to crush all opposition and not take even a scratch?

For me, I love it when I've won with one model left on the table. That's what warhammer battles are all about - utter, explosive, rendy carnage. Plus, looking at a battlefield that an hour ago was awash with troops and now resembles a western ghost town leaves me with a sense of a battle well-fought.

[WestRider]

Around here, we usually go for Objective based missions, which means that kind of victory is just a draw, since you've got to have at least one Scoring Unit left to win. If it is a VP Mission, we go by the Victory Levels chart so, again, a result that close is a Draw, not a Victory.

That said, tabling someone while not losing a single model is usually the result of a pretty lopsided and boring game.

So I like to have some stuff, yet, but if my force hasn't taken any damage then it wasn't a good game.

[Enigma]

I like Pyrric victory. It's very dramatic, to say "We won, but at a terrible cost." and so on and so forth.

Of course, tyranids don't say that, they just eat once their done

[CylonDorado]

With me it depends. With my tyranids it is fun to see everything on the board get ripped to shreds. But with my Eldar it's depressing and probably means I did something wrong. Although I've only played 3 games so far with them. The first one would be the exeption though, as it was awsome even though the only thing left was the other guy's carnifex with two wounds on it (from shuriken catipults ;D). It probably depends.

[zzapper]

....BOOM-BOOM!!!

[MaSs CoNsUmPtIon]

i like finishing a battle and still seeing a reasonable amount of stuff on the table, if i win and theres not much of my force left ill feel i made 1 too many mistakes during the game, but a wins a win!

[Haraio [MALAL]]

I like when the battle is so close that even the last few dice rolls might decide the outcome. When I look at the tattered remains of two previously-mighty armies, I feel it was a battle well fought^^

[genestealer1414]

for campiagns , i lke to massacre them . thaT way in the next battle i still have a big army

[zzapper]

Yeah, I have to agree with you. It is nice to win with a reasonable selection left.

[Biotitan]

I like to finish a game with almost nothing on the table
its always close if all you have by the last turn is 4 genestealers vs 6 marines ect
fighting over a single objective, makes the last few rolls really count
even if i loose it was fun and i like mass carnage

[jeanstealer91]

I like to know i could have lost but didn't if that makes any sence?
I love close battles ...well i love massacres too but when it comes to feeling accomplished general, I like to play some one that wasnt a push over you know?

[rfly]

Pyrric victory - barely anything left on the table, on either side, except maybe on marine or one scout, and a few wrecked vehicles.

[invictus]

I like the battle to be close. Though if i see a huge tactical blunder I will go for the utter massacre in hopes that the player will learn from it... I also never call games I fight till the last gaunt, though if my opponent calls I will accept *shrug*.

[Psychichobo]

I've often fought until the last gaunt. I've even got a pic on my mobile of the last turn of a match, with a long gaunt lurking in a copse totally surrounded by marines...

I often find the last thing to die in my army is my carnifex. He either gets jumped by billions of powerfist/eviscerator wielders or is brought down after a long and bloody battle against str 4 mobs.

[Aux]

In a tournament: Where you massakar them off the board


If you have a "Fight to the Last Man!" in a tournament, your doing something wrong. I prefer a few clean-cut moves and well placed assaults and finish the game in a match of strategy. I Like to lose by a move I made or a mistake I made, not by dice or rule conflicts. I like to win by me having a plan and following through and having it work. If the game ends where I am utterly massacred I try and figure out what happend and what I could do to prevent that.

In friendly games, I like to have it go down to the last man, not caring whether I lose or not. My balanced Tyranid list with only 2 carnifexs, and a tyrant, 2 zoans, 70 gaunts or so and 18 stealers is to have an EPIC battle and teach new players Tyranids. I've gotten 4 or 5 people from my LGS onto the Hive by telling them about it and generally use underpowered armies or less points when going Nid on Nid



I end the game with a shaking of hands