No models on the board

[Bimli]

I could be crazy but I thought I read that if you have no models on the board you lose. Can anyone confirm This? Thanks in advance 

[mmimzie]

So this is more for the rules question thread, but

In the core rules you do win iff your opponent has no model on the table period. Which sccrew quite a few armies pretty quick.

However, when you pick a battle plan the victory conditions there in replace those of the core rule's set-up vicyoty, and triump sections when you play with a pitched battle from the generals hand book. As such so stipulation is made for losing the game when you have no models on the table. SO, the game continues and in many cases this means you opponent can play a few quick rounds of solitary to see if they can score enough points to win the game.

Narratively (if you need this to make things sit right for you) many battle in history have been fought with no hope of destroying your opponent force. these could be suicide missions where you need to do something to insure that maybe you win some morale victory or a victory that could save your people.

exams could be the story of the spartan 300 (it was really more and not just spartans) who held off the Persians to give the rest of the greeks (????) time to get thier political act to gether and to act as marytrs to get encourage the greeks to victory over in a later war. In that case the 300 won a more important victory.

This next one is fun but a spoilers for Star Wars Rogue One

Spoiler

The main cast is tabled but thier goal was to send the plans off.

 

 

So as we can see there is more to victory than killing all of the other dudes on the battle field. 

[Bimli]

Cool thanks for the run down much appreciated.

That being said where in the core rules does it say this... maybe I'm growing blind in my old age

[mmimzie]

It doesn't, but

FAQ
 Q: Do the victory conditions on the Warhammer Age of Sigmar rules sheet apply in Pitched Battles? For example, do you win a major victory if you wipe out the opposing army? A: No to both questions.