Too many termagaunts?

[arnestig]

I've recently started playing Tyranids and wanted the possibility to play swarm style.. So I bought 96 termagaunts - did I buy too many?

I plan on playing with 3 tervigons. Not sure how many they spawn and how many termagaunts that dies before tervigons has to spawn more...

[Davor]

That sounds about right. Assuming you are using the Tevrigons as troops, that means you will need minimum 30 gaunts. In one game I spawned 30 gaunts, but I was really lucky. Most times I spawn 10-20 all game. So 30 minimum, plus say 20 each (if they don't die, since I recycled mine when they died) that would be around 90. Maybe you just don't want the minimum choice so you can make the initial broods bigger, and use the rest and recycle.

I am sure you have more than enough. I wouldn't get anymore. Now were are the pics of all of them painted? LOL

[freakman13]

you are going to average 10.5 per tervigon per turn for three turns each, so 10.5 x 9 is 94.5 plus your base 30 is 124.5, so if no gants die, you will need 130. However, you will lose at least 5/turn, so for spawning purposes, 125-15 is 110. I would recommend getting 10 more. I have 70 and I don't run out, though I occasionally get to only having 1-4 left.

[swarm492]

Nope your on the money. I play swarms, and while I understand the points being saved by using tervigons to provide the gants for me, I just love using 3 broods of 25 with three tervigons as well in addition the the rest of my army.

[coredump]

Apr 14, 2013 18:28:25 GMT freakman13 said:

you are going to average 10.5 per tervigon per turn for three turns each, .

Huh? If your tervigons average 3 turns of spawning a game, then you should play the lottery.

On average, a Terv will spawn 17 or less gaunts in about half of your games. (Thus 17 or more in about half of your games)

The Average number of gaunts spawned per terv per game is about 23 gaunts.
For 3 tervigons, 96 should work just about right.

[Nightmare20]

The most I ever spawned in an entire game was about 50 with a single very lucky tervigon who never rolled doubles and conversely I've had two tervigons poop out about 25 in a single turn rolling doubles.

[freakman13]

I was saying statistically there is an ~30% chance of rolling doubles, meaning it should run out on turn 3

[coredump]

Apr 14, 2013 20:22:45 GMT freakman13 said:

I was saying statistically there is an ~30% chance of rolling doubles, meaning it should run out on turn 3

Two thing wrong with that.

First, assuming the 30%, then you have a 50% chance of running out on turn 1 or 2.

Second, the 30% number is wrong. (It should be 44%)

[freakman13]

Oops, I forgot to account for triples, I was doing that math during a match. So, now that 7 spawns between 3 tervigons, giving 73.5 on average, so he only needs 80. I guess I just ignore average with my rolls...

[t⊗theark]

Remember if you have more than one termigant brood within 6" of a dying tervigon than they all get the synaptic backlash.

[gman25639]

96 sounds about right for 3 tervigons. I just acquired a tervigon and 16 more termagants, making for a total of 32 termagants, is that enough? I only have one tervigon.

[infornography]

It is slightly risky depending on playstyle. If you keep your gants at the front where they will die quickly, then you should be fine with that number. If you play like me and put your gants on undefended objectives where they are mostly left alone, you might run out of models before the end of the game if you are fairly lucky with the rolls.

I would recommend 40 gants for 1 tervigon and 50 to 60 for 2, but that if for my playstyle.

[Squire]

I believe the average spawn in a game is about 20 per tervigon, and with more tervigons you'll generally (over the course of a game) get closer to the average spawn which would be about 60 for all three of them. So that leaves 36 that would be safe to field. Saying that, you'll lose some termies as the game goes on and if one of your tervigons gets killed in the first couple of turns that will mean less needed in the reserve pile. You might be able to field 46 of them and keep 50 back, but I suppose you could just try it out and see how it goes.

[toonarmy]

May 3, 2013 5:28:23 GMT infornography said:

It is slightly risky depending on playstyle. If you keep your gants at the front where they will die quickly, then you should be fine with that number. If you play like me and put your gants on undefended objectives where they are mostly left alone, you might run out of models before the end of the game if you are fairly lucky with the rolls.

I would recommend 40 gants for 1 tervigon and 50 to 60 for 2, but that if for my playstyle.

I play in this play style and i couldn't agree more regarding numbers. I have 75 gaunts at the moment and i usually get to the point where i have around 10-15 left before gaunts start dying. I find that my gaunts don't get shot at by my opponents and they just go for my tervigons with everything. this means i need the models.

When i didn't have as many gaunts (i think i had a round 50) i ran out a couple of times and this was with me having one of my tervigons as an hq so only 10 gaunts down on the board at the start of the game.

[jhussey]

There's never too many Termagaunts!