I have a friend who has a rather profound distaste for dice. "They ruin the game" and is of opinion that deck dice or some other implementation resulting in guaranteed (?) fair roll results would be much better.
My question is, are there people who play like this and if there are do you think it makes the game better / more fun?
I recently guided him and another friend through Retaking Vierville and and his frustration arose from the first roll onwards. He was rather silent though when dice were in his favor...
I don't get all the fuss about precision dice, deck dice, extra random dice bots, mandatory dice towers, the opponent not touching one's dice, requiring both opponents to use the same dice, and all the other nonsense.
The impact of the
difference of results between "normal" dice and precision dice will be minimal. I have yet to see those precision dice adherents present their results of a sample of 1000 DRs that compare their precision dice rolls with normal dice rolls with regard to any
significant differences of the resulting bell curves. Even precision dice and all the other stuff do not save you from rolling boxcars when you least need them. I see no difference the use of decks shall ultimately make in this regard.
Fact is, that it is not at all likely the
difference of results between "normal" dice and precision dice or their substitutes prove more decisive to a game compared to the
good or bad decisions that the player makes for his movements, maneuvers and firing decisions. Precision dice might provide you with a 1% superior or more "just" bell-curve over a 100 rolls. This is alleviated easily by the player miscalculating or overlooking just a few DRMs or miscalculating a LOS that results in a waste of an attack or loss of a unit.
All this fuss about blaming it on the dice is really only superstition and barking up the wrong tree. One might not like it, but it is not the
difference between dice, precision dice, deck cards, etc. that screw up the game. It is your decisions as a player that do it.
Just for the record:
I am not saying that a bad DR at the wrong time can't break a scenario. It sure can and it does happen. I don't even mind someone cursing his luck in such a situation. But it happens regardless of normal dice, precision dice, deck cards or whatever.
von Marwitz