Damned dice

lyannou · Post by **lyannou** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 8:33 am

Hello,

yesterday i played my 9th league match with my woodies and during my last 5 turns each time i rolled a dice it was 1

This match was horrible and disgusted me to play bb...

It's the same thing since our league was started... i have no chance! With elves most of times i have to roll 2+ and i alwalys, always,always roll 1

Is there someone who can help me????

Fronko · Post by **Fronko** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 8:40 am

Trash those dice!!!

I mean, you can´t do anything else, can you? We have the same situation, one of our HE coaches can´t do the simplest of all moves, without tripping over double 1s.

So, if you are using your own dice, trash them and get some new and if you are using "common" dice, you must be awfully succesful with women.

Tamper Magnitude · Post by **Tamper Magnitude** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 8:43 am

Heh, the old Elf curse of the 1. I've got a WE team that do that as well, I managed to lose 4-1 to a Dwarf team with a lower team rating with that kind of dice. Possibly the worst performance of my coaching career.

Heiper · Post by **Heiper** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 9:17 am

ROFLMAO

4-1 to a dwarf team, that must be the most embarrasing loss you can have with WE. Sorry about the laugh.

But the double 1s is common on WEs, but not more common than other teams, its just that you notice it alot better with elves as they only need 2+ for most of the things they do. If it's your dices, I would have got some new ones and just hope they would do better ( do not cheat with loaded dices, that only gets you in trouble

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Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 11:22 am

Heiper said it.

You never say "oh my god I rolled a 2" with Elves, because you're always rolling 2+

Roll fewer dice. A lot of elf coaches think just because they have a 2+ to dodge they should dodge every player away....

Fronko · Post by **Fronko** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 11:46 am

Well, Marcus, that is exactly, what I do with my welfs. Seems to work perfectly for me.

Perhaps lyannou magically rolls all those ones that I dont ...???

joker · Post by **joker** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 12:26 pm

try to roll the dices with ur left hand

lyannou · Post by **lyannou** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 12:28 pm

Yes perhaps but when you see chaos beastmen success all their dodge roll it's horrible................ and not only chaos but all team that i met.

I know that with elf all seems to be easy but i try to roll less die than i can so i think that i rolled the minimum dices....

Tamper Magnitude · Post by **Tamper Magnitude** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 12:34 pm

Marcus wrote:Heiper said it.

You never say "oh my god I rolled a 2" with Elves, because you're always rolling 2+

Roll fewer dice. A lot of elf coaches think just because they have a 2+ to dodge they should dodge every player away....

Exactly, everyone has played a coach who moans about bad luck, when in fact all thats happening is they are trying too much and in the wrong order (usually elf coaches). MY elves are different though, theyre just rubbish

Colin · Post by **Colin** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 12:42 pm

Your all wrong! It's the curse of Nuffle. You will never get away from it, even if you try to appease him, he will still screw you over. So come on over to the Nuffle Blasphemer's Association and become a Nuffle heratice.

lyannou · Post by **lyannou** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 12:44 pm

It's what i said just before, i try to do the minimum roll dice but when you have 6 players on the pitch with 4 on the ground and all in taclke zone the first thing you do is to stand up and dodge... and during 5 turns i failed this first action...

Maybe i badly develop my team? The first skill i gave to my first 4 lineman was block... maybe should i go for dodge? But i'am in a league of 8 teams which are mainly strong: dark elves, chaos dwarves, chaos, dwarves, orcs, high elves, undead and mine, wood elves...

Post by **DoubleSkulls** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 1:00 pm

lyannou wrote:the first thing you do is to stand up and dodge

Now that's where we differ. The first thing I'd do is stand some of them up. Then start dodging the other ones out, ideally on a blitz so that the ones that stood up aren't left next to an opponent.

Ghost of Pariah · Post by **Ghost of Pariah** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 3:56 pm

Wow! You know hard it is for a dwarf team to score 4 TDs?!

And you even scored 1 so had to do it in 14 turns! LMAO!!

I have a book around here called "Coaching the 3-4 Defense" Maybe I can send it to you.

Artificial Penguin · Post by **Artificial Penguin** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 5:23 pm

Seriously, buy new dice. Of course you always want to make as few rolls as possible, but I'm assuming you do that anyways.

It's worth the peace of mind to but new ones, especially when you get to trash the old ones.

Another thing you can try is praying to The Horned Rat before you roll. Last night I couldn't buy a casualty with my Undead, though I was breaking armor like a madman, it was just for stuns. So before my roll I prayed out loud to The Horned Rat and...rolled an 11

I heartily recommend both those things.

roysorlie · Post by **roysorlie** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 6:37 pm

New dice my ass.
It's that bitch goddess of probability Farming with us elf players.

I see AG3 teams dodge, and pick up the ball ALL the time.

I tremble in pure horror at the though of a 3+ roll, even with reroll. It's a guarenteed way to lose your turn. There has to be som really dire need for me to even consider it.

I suggest playing it safe. Play risk minimization. Fully expect to fail every toss you make, and just be prepared for the the fact that you will fail. So have everything set up in advance, THEN risk the dice. You might still fail, but at least you've put as many safeguards as you can.

Other times, you just have to say "Duck it" and ride the waves of probabilitiy.