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Hey all,

Like you, I had read the new Reanimation Protocols rules and felt rather underwhelmed when it came to multi-wound models. It seems like it's much harder to reanimate something like a Destroyer compared to how it was in 8e, while taking massive blobs of warriors and immortals has been significantly buffed.

To answer this question, I went and programmed a simple Python script to figure out the probabilities of certain Reanimation Protocols scenarios while comparing them to the same scenarios in 8th edition to see if this was actually a nerf or not.

The answer? ....it's complicated. Like is obvious, this rule very obviously favors large numbers of low-wound models. Warriors are the ones most obviously benefiting from this new rule(4 reanimation aside). For Destroyers though, the results were not as bad as I thought they would be, but not strictly better either.

For the purposes of this simulation, I worked with a baseline scenario of 6 Destroyers with no buffs to Reanimation, since 9e's Resurrection Orb and Stratagems pertaining to RP have not been released yet. I let 5 of the destroyers be taken out of action with one attack, letting them all reanimate together with the new rules. The simulation ran through this scenario 100,000 times, and this is what happened:

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The program ran through and displayed the results from [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Destroyers returned. The top histogram is for the 9th edition calculation, while the bottom is for the 8th edition calculation. As is visible, in 8th edition you are nearly twice as likely to reanimate *no* Destroyers, but also more likely to reanimate 3 destroyers. In 9th edition, you are far more likely to reanimate 2-3 destroyers for each triggered roll, but you are far less likely to reanimate 3 Destroyers per roll(roughly 5x less likely compared to 8th edition).

My conclusion? Statistically, the average result for Reanimation Protocols rolls on multi wound models is effectively the same. 8th Edition's Reanimation Protocols are far more extreme than what we are getting now, which favors a stable average over a swingy result. Yes, you are far less likely to reanimate all of them at once, but you can reanimate a lesser number more than once, which I think reduces the downside.

If anyone is interested, I can provide a link to the Python code I used.

TL:DR; 9e Reanimation is less extreme than 8e, you won't get as splashy of results but you'll get averages more often