What are your thoughts on bad dice rolls…..

Personally, I prefer to play games were the initial dice rolls are not too silly, especially if its a face to face game.  A few days ago a buddy came over to play, he being a hard working family man gets about 1 night every other month to play so we both want to to be a ‘good’ game, not so much dictated by that one huge stupid mistake or dice roll.

He had beat me a few months ago, I returned the favour the other day so we started game #2 of the night, Spring '42.

His R1 was typical although he goes a bit light into Ukraine with only 2 russian tanks, both fighters, 3 Inf+Art

So:
2 Tanks, 2 Ftr, 1 Art, 3 Inf Versus 3 Inf, Art, Tank, Ftr

86% chance of winning and most likely a tank left over, odds are not too bad but I always suggest 3 tanks and one less in West Russia.

He should have done 3 hits on round 1 but only does 2, not a disaster…until I roll.  I take him for 5 out of 6.  We both see that his remaining 2 Ftr+Tank versus Inf, Art, Tank, Ftr is not a good choice.  Being R1 is was just so easy to just start over and reroll we did and ended up with a great game that lasted nearly 7 hours until about 5 am.  We probably should have at least rolled the WRu battle and continued with that one ‘just to see’.

I suppose a ‘complete’ player would always play it out, but, we have few chances to play so we prefer a more typical game to test variations on strategies.  I am playing the axis using ‘Fortress Europe’ that is outlined here and he can’t seem to beat it despite me not using the Jap airforce in Europe as well or to the extent I can and should according to the write up.

I guess I am asking what other players’ feelings are on similar stupid initial rolls like that on medium sized battles in the first round or two.  OK, the brit destroyer sinks the german BB in SZ15 on G1, suck it up, at least my BB hit and I could still invade Egy!