Perhaps you can choose one bad battle dice per game and reroll it. Kinda like the NFL challange rule. You then reroll the dice and your stuck with this new final outcome.
Bidding can now be a number of these free rerolls per game. It would make the complaints against the dice soften a little.
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Perhaps, instead of a reroll, you go with a mulligan but you get the most likely outcome given by Frood or another AA Calculator? This way you won’t get stellar results, but if you had a 51% chance of winning, you’d still win but with whatever they said you had left.
And if Froods dicey is not handy just have the “mulligan” convert to a LowLuck dice roll. That is nearly always what the most common output is in Froods dicey.
This eliminates the use of the “mulligan” as a tool to maximize the effect of a high risk gamble. You might even think of this as being a situation where an incompetent General / Admiral gets benched and his staff takes over. You can usually trust the staff to give you competent (low luck) results.
Or we could quite whining about “bad luck” and realize that without luck on the board we would all be playing Checkers, Chess or Diplomacy.
Personally, luck is what makes the game interesting. Luck is what allowed my opponent to take 2 ARM, and 2 INF and destroy my 4 FTR with no losses to himself. My error in skill is why there was not an INF or 2 stacked with my FTR. That single battle has dramatically changed the situation for Germany but I would rather have that in the game than not.
Nearly always, but sometimes you have a +/- 1-3% chance of a different outcome with actual dice over low luck
@Sankt:
Mateoo, you should be careful voicing this “luck determines games” stuff. Else the “no luck - all skill” guys are gonna ruff you up for blasphemy.
(strokes feathered chin)
Why yes . . . yes they will . . .
I mean “we” really . . .
Burn, heretic, burn!
If you have a 40% chance on a capital shot, and have a do over possibility, that 40% becomes a 64%. I don’t think this house rule would ELIMINATE games based on long shots and chance. I rather think that the house rule would make a long game longer, and would encourage people to shoot the moon.
POOR MOON!
(examines above post) . . . yes, yes, usual crack pipe form . . .
But Mister Owl!!!
What if the other player insists on a “do over” after you have taken his capital with your “do over”?
(40%)(40%) = (64%)
(64%)(60%) = (38.4%)
Ha!!!
Go ahead, use your long shot to shoot the Moon, Mister Crack Pipe Smoking Owl! The Moon shoots back!
hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahah
If someone takes your capital, it’s worth an automatic do-over ANYWAY. You can’t get a WORSE situation cause you already LOST the capital. So it’s uphill from there.
Actually I’m waiting for Mister Owl to come back and find the errors in the math that he and I posted…
:-D
Actually I’m waiting for Mister Owl to come back and find the errors in the math that he and I posted…
:-D
1. “Math” is a four letter word. We’ll have less of that, mister.
B. You can’t do over a do over. Because that would be doo-doo. Naughty!
It would not be doo-doo!!!
It would be over-over for you-you! :-o
:-D
