Hall of Shame - tales of the worst dice ever

Worst dice in a game I’ve seen was one I played about six months ago but thankfully I was on the side of luck with this.  This battle destroyed the German lines and made Russia unstoppable and gave the allies the win.  While nowhere near as epic for what you guys had in terms of numbers, this was a huge game changer because Japan and Germany were doing so well.  I was just fortunate to get that Middle East money which was the only reason I was able to compete.  When Russia can roll about 45-50% everytime, you know German blood is going to fill the streets!

Battle in Russia
                Germans attack with 33 armour, 8 artilleries, 4 bombers, 6 fighters, 30 infantry and 10 tactical_bombers
                Russians defend with 4 aaGuns, 1 airfield, 15 armour, 13 artilleries, 1 factory_major, 3 fighters, 59 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
                    AA guns fire in Russia :  1/12 hits
                    1 fighter owned by the Germans lost in Russia
                    Germans roll dice for 33 armour, 8 artilleries, 4 bombers, 5 fighters, 30 infantry and 10 tactical_bombers in Russia, round 1 :  39/90 hits
                    Russians roll dice for 4 aaGuns, 15 armour, 13 artilleries, 3 fighters, 59 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Russia, round 1 :  40/91 hits
                    35 infantry owned by the Russians , 30 infantry owned by the Germans , 2 armour owned by the Germans , 8 artilleries owned by the Germans and 4 aaGuns owned by the Russians lost in Russia
                    Germans roll dice for 31 armour, 4 bombers, 5 fighters and 10 tactical_bombers in Russia, round 2 :  32/50 hits
                    Russians roll dice for 15 armour, 13 artilleries, 3 fighters, 24 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Russia, round 2 :  24/56 hits
                    24 infantry owned by the Russians , 24 armour owned by the Germans and 8 artilleries owned by the Russians lost in Russia
                    Germans roll dice for 7 armour, 4 bombers, 5 fighters and 10 tactical_bombers in Russia, round 3 :  9/26 hits
                    Russians roll dice for 15 armour, 5 artilleries, 3 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber in Russia, round 3 :  12/24 hits
                    4 armour owned by the Russians , 6 tactical_bombers owned by the Germans , 1 armour owned by the Germans , 5 artilleries owned by the Russians and 5 fighters owned by the Germans lost in Russia
                    Germans roll dice for 6 armour, 4 bombers and 4 tactical_bombers in Russia, round 4 :  7/14 hits
                    Russians roll dice for 11 armour, 3 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber in Russia, round 4 :  10/15 hits
                    7 armour owned by the Russians , 4 tactical_bombers owned by the Germans and 6 armour owned by the Germans lost in Russia
                retreated to Russia
                Russians win with 4 armour, 3 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is -175
                Casualties for Germans: 33 armour, 8 artilleries, 6 fighters, 30 infantry and 10 tactical_bombers
                Casualties for Russians: 4 aaGuns, 11 armour, 13 artilleries and 59 infantry

Ok…Karma’s a bitch…98-99% chance of winning…
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=32617.60

Battle in 46 Sea Zone
                Japanese attack with 2 battleships, 4 bombers, 3 carriers, 2 cruisers, 5 destroyers, 5 fighters, 3 submarines and 3 tactical_bombers
                ANZAC defend with 1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 2 destroyers, 2 fighters and 2 transports; Americans defend with 1 battleship, 3 carriers, 3 cruisers, 1 destroyer, 5 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber
                Units damaged: 1 battleship owned by the Americans , 3 carriers owned by the Americans and 1 carrier owned by the ANZAC
                Units damaged: 2 carriers owned by the Japanese and 2 battleships owned by the Japanese
                Americans win with 1 battleship and 2 transports remaining. Battle score for attacker is -84
                Casualties for Japanese: 2 battleships, 4 bombers, 3 carriers, 2 cruisers, 5 destroyers, 5 fighters, 3 submarines and 3 tactical_bombers
                Casualties for ANZAC: 1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 2 destroyers and 2 fighters
                Casualties for Americans: 3 carriers, 3 cruisers, 1 destroyer, 5 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber

Flawless 2-round strafe on Transjordan. My British whiff 12@2 and 2@3.

Only a 0.01% chance of Italians escaping with no casualties.

@Me1945:

Combat Move - Italians
            Battle in Trans-Jordan
                Italians attack with 1 artillery, 1 bomber, 1 fighter, 4 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
                British defend with 1 armour, 1 artillery, 4 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys
                    Italians roll dice for 1 artillery, 1 bomber, 1 fighter, 4 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Trans-Jordan, round 2 :  2/8 hits
                    British roll dice for 1 armour, 1 artillery, 4 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys in Trans-Jordan, round 2 :  0/8 hits
                    2 infantry owned by the British lost in Trans-Jordan
                    Italians roll dice for 1 artillery, 1 bomber, 1 fighter, 4 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Trans-Jordan, round 3 :  4/8 hits
                    British roll dice for 1 armour, 1 artillery, 2 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys in Trans-Jordan, round 3 :  0/6 hits
                    2 infantry owned by the British and 2 mech_infantrys owned by the British lost in Trans-Jordan
                1 artillery owned by the Italians and 4 infantry owned by the Italians retreated to Iraq
                British win with 1 armour and 1 artillery remaining. Battle score for attacker is 20
                Casualties for British: 4 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys

98/9% to win

Battle in Holland Belgium
                Germans attack with 1 armour, 3 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Americans defend with 2 infantry
                    Germans roll dice for 1 armour, 3 infantry and 1 mech_infantry in Holland Belgium, round 2 :  0/5 hits
                    Americans roll dice for 2 infantry in Holland Belgium, round 2 :  1/2 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the Germans lost in Holland Belgium
                    Germans roll dice for 1 armour, 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry in Holland Belgium, round 3 :  0/4 hits
                    Americans roll dice for 2 infantry in Holland Belgium, round 3 :  1/2 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the Germans lost in Holland Belgium
                    Germans roll dice for 1 armour, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry in Holland Belgium, round 4 :  1/3 hits
                    Americans roll dice for 2 infantry in Holland Belgium, round 4 :  2/2 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the Germans , 1 infantry owned by the Americans and 1 mech_infantry owned by the Germans lost in Holland Belgium
                    Germans roll dice for 1 armour in Holland Belgium, round 5 :  0/1 hits
                    Americans roll dice for 1 infantry in Holland Belgium, round 5 :  1/1 hits
                    1 armour owned by the Germans lost in Holland Belgium
                Americans win with 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is -16
                Casualties for Germans: 1 armour, 3 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Casualties for Americans: 1 infantry

My 3’s are amazing.  This seems to happen a bit, though usually in China.

“Misery loves company”  Few quotes are truer than that one.

15+ years ago I was playing the 2nd ed. game with some college friends.  We only played each other….meaning we were not very good which explains the unit mix coming up.

I was Germany and attacking Karelia several hours into the game.  I was attacking with 12 fighters (such a noob purchase  :roll:) and some number of other units (I don’t remember).  What came next I will never forget and has always set the bar for a dice whipping…my opponent shot down 11 out of 12 fighters. :-o

Curse or blessing when a game gets screwed in G1 already?

99,916% seems not to be 100%, obv. And the irony is: I always tell people not to dilute the attack on France and always take the full amount of ground units. And despite that I am the one who gets screwed while I would say 90%+ of the A&A players never failed on France G1.

Battle in France
                Germans attack with 6 armour, 3 artilleries, 7 infantry and 4 mech_infantrys
                French defend with 1 aaGun, 1 airfield, 1 armour, 1 artillery, 1 factory_major, 1 fighter and 6 infantry; British defend with 1 armour and 1 artillery
                    Germans roll dice for 6 armour, 3 artilleries, 7 infantry and 4 mech_infantrys in France, round 2 :  3/20 hits
                    French roll dice for 1 aaGun, 2 armour, 2 artilleries, 1 fighter and 6 infantry in France, round 2 :  4/11 hits
                    2 infantry owned by the French , 4 infantry owned by the Germans and 1 aaGun owned by the French lost in France
                    Germans roll dice for 6 armour, 3 artilleries, 3 infantry and 4 mech_infantrys in France, round 3 :  2/16 hits
                    French roll dice for 2 armour, 2 artilleries, 1 fighter and 4 infantry in France, round 3 :  5/9 hits
                    2 infantry owned by the French , 3 infantry owned by the Germans and 2 mech_infantrys owned by the Germans lost in France
                    Germans roll dice for 6 armour, 3 artilleries and 2 mech_infantrys in France, round 4 :  1/11 hits
                    French roll dice for 2 armour, 2 artilleries, 1 fighter and 2 infantry in France, round 4 :  3/7 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the French , 1 artillery owned by the Germans and 2 mech_infantrys owned by the Germans lost in France
                    Germans roll dice for 6 armour and 2 artilleries in France, round 5 :  1/8 hits
                    French roll dice for 2 armour, 2 artilleries, 1 fighter and 1 infantry in France, round 5 :  3/6 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the French , 1 armour owned by the Germans and 2 artilleries owned by the Germans lost in France
                    Germans roll dice for 5 armour in France, round 6 :  4/5 hits
                    French roll dice for 2 armour, 2 artilleries and 1 fighter in France, round 6 :  4/5 hits
                    1 armour owned by the French , 1 armour owned by the British , 4 armour owned by the Germans , 1 artillery owned by the British and 1 artillery owned by the French lost in France
                    Germans roll dice for 1 armour in France, round 7 :  0/1 hits
                    French roll dice for 1 fighter in France, round 7 :  1/1 hits
                    1 armour owned by the Germans lost in France
                French win with 1 fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is -42
                Casualties for Germans: 6 armour, 3 artilleries, 7 infantry and 4 mech_infantrys
                Casualties for French: 1 aaGun, 1 armour, 1 artillery and 6 infantry
                Casualties for British: 1 armour and 1 artillery

Phew, that right there would lead to me resigning immediately :-)

Well, the rest of the turn was below average but no disaster.

Yugo made 3/5, the DD in 109 hit and BB, CC and DD scored 2 hits in 111. Both my subs survived in 106. As I won 106 I’d say the rest of the battles was just slightly below average.

I have to say I would disagree here.

In case you lose your entire 7346 in France, this can’t be compensated even with flawless battles on any other place in G1:)
Germany is doomed unless extraordinarily lucky in later phases or playing a very weak opponent or be lucky that the opponent makes a major blunder in later rounds (e.g. losing Moscow by overlooking blitz move or losing entire US fleet by oversight or so)

Playing a live game with a friend, he attacked me with a few inf and 15 tanks. I remember 15 because i remember taking the calculator afterwards.

I forget the # of hits with his infs, but he hit me 0 times with tanks. Zero. Nil. None. Kaput. Rien. Nada.

That’s one chance out of 32768 or 0.00305%. Yeah.

Also starting the game with snake eyes on two german bombers doing SBR stinks. Happened before once if not twice - not huge statistics, 2.77% chance, but it’s pretty brutal.

Wow this is crazy. Really crazy dice.

You know what drives me nuts? When you position your army in such a way, that an attack from the opponent would be insane. And when that opponent still attacks… and wins!

The latest example I experienced (but not the craziest) is in my game against Shin Ji, where his Japanese fleet attacked with a ~45% success chance and average -36 TUV. It resulted in +86 for him…

Combat - Germans
           Battle in France
               Germans attack with 4 armour, 3 artilleries, 1 fighter, 7 infantry, 2 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber
               British defend with 1 armour and 1 artillery; French defend with 1 aaGun, 1 airfield, 1 armour, 1 artillery, 1 factory_major, 1 fighter and 6 infantry
               French win with 2 armour, 2 artilleries and 1 fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is -63
               Casualties for Germans: 4 armour, 3 artilleries, 1 fighter, 7 infantry, 2 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber
               Casualties for French: 1 aaGun and 6 infantry
           Battle in Southern France
               Germans attack with 2 armour and 2 mech_infantrys
               French defend with 1 artillery, 1 factory_minor, 1 harbour and 1 infantry
               French win with 1 artillery remaining. Battle score for attacker is -17
               Casualties for Germans: 2 armour and 2 mech_infantrys
               Casualties for French: 1 infantry

We are looking at loosing two ~99% battles in G1…  :|

This one got the whole table singing the soviet national anthem- worst and best dice rolls.
Germany is hounding Russia hard and gets to the gates of moscow with 17 tanks, 5 inf and 2 mech inf (Germanys big stack of planes are one space behind landed in friendly territory).  Russia has 15 inf, a fighter and 2 art.  Russia is looking like it will fall next German turn.  Rather than deal with the planes Russia decides to go on the offensive and attacks the stack of tanks.  Russia rolls 14 hits first round (ironically, the plane missed)  :-o while Germany only gets 5.  The odds for either one are bad.  Together it was unbelievable.  Odds evened out after the first round, but it didn’t matter by that point.  Germany was screwed.