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We played a serach and destroy game yesterday with Marines VS Alliens.

we gave the Alliens CA 6 move 20J 6 hits and a 6 save, and with no DF weapon and they are a swarm
we calculated this as

CA 6 20pts
Move 20J 15pts
No DF -30 pts
Hits 6 save 6 20pts

so a total of 25pts

This seems very low should we ignore the negative points for the no DFweapon.


The alliens had some ambushes set up and when the marines came within the initiative distance of the ambush. The player can decide if they spring the ambush. If the Marines are in front of the ambush but within initiative distance the player did not spring the ambush but once the Marines had moved past and hence had the rear to the alliens the ambush was sprung and the Alliens close assulted the Marrines.

Are we doing this right as there seems no way to find and ambush before it is sprung and you don't have to spring it when the enemy reaches initiative distance.

There is no way of knowing

Thanks for quick answer Pete

That makes them very powerful.

Am I correct at the points calculation for the Alliens?

No idea, try downloading the points calculator from the downloads section