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One thing I keep doing is missing one or two units here or there. It would be nice if I could hit a checkbox when I complete a phase to preview the state of the board before I move on to the next step.

Preview board before ending phase) -> Preview the board -> Confirm end phase

Yeah, I want this too.

@Argothair said in Alternate dice rules:

It’s a hard problem. …
If you let players use LL when they really care about the battle, and force them to roll regular dice the rest of the time, then that keeps the game moving at a reasonable speed without leaving you feeling like you lost the whole game because the dice went against you in one crucial battle.

Sure, if you save one of your precious 3 LL dice chips for that key battle, you might not have such remorse.

Also, what if the game goes 15 rounds? Is 3 really enough? Perhaps start with 3 and get an additional LL battle every 3rd round?

Allot comes down to a players level of comfort when allowing randomness into the game. Some players love the gamble, the long shot, the chance that we might still have a shot to win with some luck on our side in this last ditch effort.

Other players might become dismayed when the above scenario happens to them after all their well executed plans have them at a 99% chance of winning and feel that the dice has stolen their victory.

This is a grey area, there is no right or wrong when it comes to what is the proper level of randomness in a game of A&A?

@djensen heh heh :)

yea picking battles can be important. Especially for the really good players. I almost always just power through though. Speaking of A&A games in general

Wonderful news! Thank you!

Yup, apparently not; think you were right on this point.
I read through Julius’s post and see that they are fixing lane rolling. Drag and drop units should also be nice!

I would refer to this thread: https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/21731/hall-of-shame-tales-of-the-worst-dice-ever/47?page=2

Cool, cool, cool. I just lost my second game because of my incompetence at remembering when I had to get my round done by. I missed it by 40 minutes.

I’m having a good fun game that’s not ranked. It’ll be hard to match that game. I might just chill on the ranked games for a long while.

First, I really like the new system. I just do, it’s not perfect yet but it’s good.

When you move all of a unit out of a territory, especially via transport, I find it confusing and I have to think twice about it.

I saw this below and I thought, oops I forgot to load the units. But I did. I’m wondering if a unit count goes down to zero if that icon should be grayed out to indicate they all have moved.

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@JuliusBorisovBeamdog It works but the dossier can get a little fidgety. I still have not gotten the hang of it. For me, if I accidentally left-click along the way, I just start from scratch. Sometimes I’ll reset an entire region of the board just to see what is happening.

Also, this is a tough one. I wish I had some suggestions for making it better. Generally speaking I like the new way but I keep making mistakes (esp with transports). At least the reset is super quick now. Shift-Right-Click for the win!

@JuliusBorisovBeamdog
I report and reload every time. You must have a ton of my reports.

Let’s see…
*Formula De’, along with 20 open wheel and 36 Gt cars. Painted of course.
*Star Trek Starship combat sim.
*Car wars
*Air Force with Dauntless expansion from Avalon Hill. Now using 700 scale miniatures.
*Firefly and Battletech

1d6: 3

Well, I do know it was set to one thing and showing another for a brief moment. Leaving the game and coming back solved it.

Also, for instance, I know for a fact in our current game that I clicked the bomber and then German during Deployment but alas, it didn’t take. <sigh> Not all of the clicks are getting registered in the game.

When the damage has gone below the IPC value of the territory but is still lower than the maximum damage, I’m unable to perform a strategic bombing in order to max out the damage.

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@djensen said in Feature suggestion: dice rage quit prevention:

Or a calming quote might work too. :wink:

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I find that quote very calming.

VERY CALMING.

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No, the quote was more a joke on how after the computer screws you with bad dice, it asks you condescendingly if you’re sure you want to quit.

Yes I want to quit you **** computer, why do you think I am pressing this button with a mad gleam in my eye?

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But jokes aside - I think saying directly to the player that the program is sorry for bad dice is counter-intuitive, because it’s the program that gave the bad dice in the first place. If the program were REALLY sorry it would give better dice, or maybe have a Low-Luck option or something right?

Maybe some quotes from history would prove apt.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/luck

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it”
― Thomas Jefferson

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.”
― Bill Watterson

“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“Oh, I am fortune’s fool!”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

etc. etc.

BTW, those fleets no longer exist. I think it was a 45% or 55% chance for the US to attack and win. US attacked, didn’t win but didn’t lose. Total mutual destruction.