In praise of Battle School's Battle Dice!!!

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I was using my Battleschool dice at my first game on my first ASLOK and was asked by my opponent to change dice as mine were constantly lower than his SAN, did so and got similar results .
Both players should use the same dice if there is any question.
 

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Both players should use the same dice if there is any question.
No. If you want to use the dice I'm using you can use them, and I'll get out a new pair. We're not using the same dice. It's not personal. I just can't stand wasting time finding where you left the dice that I need now.

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Both players should use the same dice if there is any question.
Nope! Keep others DNA off my DNA absorbed dice, they only know my name, I own them and trained them only listen to my ESP calls, you will fail, and my dice will be corrupted if your DNA intermingles with mine and will destroy the bond my dice and I have, only I may misuse them, go grow and train your own!
 

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Both players should use the same dice if there is any question.
No. I won't bend to any ridiculous dice superstition.

The other guy can change his dice, talk to them, throw them out of the window. I don't care.
As JRV says, I am not wasting time always looking for that single pair.
If the other guy means to imply that I cheat using dice, well, thank you for the game, go find another opponent.

von Marwitz
 

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No. I won't bend to any ridiculous dice superstition.

The other guy can change his dice, talk to them, throw them out of the window. I don't care.
As JRV says, I am not wasting time always looking for that single pair.
If the other guy means to imply that I cheat using dice, well, thank you for the game, go find another opponent.

von Marwitz[/QUOTE

Hear, hear! It is all about enhancing the experience.
 

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Autumn 2019, at the earliest.
Chris, have you ever considered doing a dice bot that could work with VASL? Would be awesome to be able to chose your fav set of battle dice for a VASL match.

Let me say, I have no idea or difficult this would be to pull off...just thought it would be neat add-on to VASL.
 

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Chris, have you ever considered doing a dice bot that could work with VASL? Would be awesome to be able to chose your fav set of battle dice for a VASL match.

Let me say, I have no idea or difficult this would be to pull off...just thought it would be neat add-on to VASL.
I have to say that that would be an awesome add on!
 

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I have to say that that would be an awesome add on!
I had that conversation with Chris years ago. Seems to me there weren't a clear business model for it apart from marketing. (.. and someone needs to do the programming.) . Situation might have changed over the years though.
 

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Nope! Keep others DNA off my DNA absorbed dice, they only know my name, I own them and trained them only listen to my ESP calls, you will fail, and my dice will be corrupted if your DNA intermingles with mine and will destroy the bond my dice and I have, only I may misuse them, go grow and train your own!
I keep my dice up my nostrils between rolls, just blow them into a glass or cup. I have no objection to sharing.
 

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Just got my Japanese Battle Dice!

They sure look KOOL!!!

Pro Tip: any of you Festung Budapest fans, if you haven't already, get Battle School's Festung Budapest set. It is awesome and really adds to the enjoyment of Bill Cirillo's masterpiece!!!

Go Battle School!!!

Yay!!!
I never roll any dice but Battle School's! Vic.
 

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Chris, have you ever considered doing a dice bot that could work with VASL? Would be awesome to be able to chose your fav set of battle dice for a VASL match.

Let me say, I have no idea or difficult this would be to pull off...just thought it would be neat add-on to VASL.
Yep, it would add something extra (for those interested in such things).

I approached the Italian gent who was doing the coding for the dice bot some years ago. I cannot recall many of the specifics. I think we discussed the value of creating an extension that could be toggled on/off depending upon whether both players wanted to use the feature. IIRC, it was a no-go at the time. But it's not dead as a concept.

Sidebar
Part of the inspiration for the "Radio Contact" and "Battery Access" tokens in our OBA token set were the OBA counters in VASL--another case of VASL creating demand for new player aids (e.g. new system counters), or in this case, tokens.
 

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Hi Chris, do you have a copy of the new Red October HASL???

Shane
Hi Shane.

Yes, they arrived a couple days ago. Have yet to unpack them. Note that RO comes in the same box that Red Factories does. But it is labelled as containing RO only.
 
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