Tervigons In Crusades

[nidnewbie]

I just remembered all that buzz around 2 Nid lists doing well in that Iron Man Tournament a few months back. With battle scars and a desire for an army to endure a long campaign I'm considering using a tervigon and a big unit of termies in my next crusade. Does the hive mind have any experience or opinons on this strategy?

[infornography]

Since crusades are PL based not points based, don't tervies create free units of terms now? They might be very much worth it in Crusades.
Haven't tried, but not having to spend points for reinforcements through the terv could be a game changer for this unit.

[afewveiws]

If it can produce new units in crusades then would you be allowed to add the surviving created units to your roster for free after that game?

[purestrain]

Sept 14, 2020 15:50:40 GMT afewveiws said:

If it can produce new units in crusades then would you be allowed to add the surviving created units to your roster for free after that game?

No, reinforcements don't gain xp or honours like swarm drones and named characters.

They also aren't apart of your order of battle, so they don't stay after the game.

[hivefleetkerrigan]

You can do infinite spawning of reinforcements as crusade isn't matched play but friends and I generally house rule to avoid free summons (ie we do endless swarm is a once per game). This is due to the fact that under 10 PL of demons can summon infinite reinforcements for free.

For crusade, I think a tervigon list could be fun. I'd probably go tervigons + a mix of devourers/fleshborer gaunts + some protection and some big bugs. I've run a tervigon list in jormungandr before and had a blast.

[No One]

hivefleetkerrigan said:

You can do infinite spawning of reinforcements as crusade isn't matched play but friends and I generally house rule to avoid free summons (ie we do endless swarm is a once per game). This is due to the fact that under 10 PL of demons can summon infinite reinforcements for free.

Do note that the restriction on reinforcements costing points has nothing to do with matched play anymore (ditto most of the other 'matched play only that shouldn't have been' like strats/regening CP). It is free if you're playing PL, but not if you play points, crusade, matched or otherwise.

[hivefleetkerrigan]

Sept 15, 2020 2:52:05 GMT No One said:

hivefleetkerrigan said:

You can do infinite spawning of reinforcements as crusade isn't matched play but friends and I generally house rule to avoid free summons (ie we do endless swarm is a once per game). This is due to the fact that under 10 PL of demons can summon infinite reinforcements for free.

Do note that the restriction on reinforcements costing points has nothing to do with matched play anymore (ditto most of the other 'matched play only that shouldn't have been' like strats/regening CP). It is free if you're playing PL, but not if you play points, crusade, matched or otherwise.

Thanks for the correction! Do you have a page number for my reference?

[No One]

hivefleetkerrigan said:

Thanks for the correction! Do you have a page number for my reference?

Sidebar on 241, under building an army.