1, 1, 1, 1 - posted by Bruce Ferguson, 22 October 2022

For fudge sake 

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• Keith V Trye

  You stole my rigged dice!!!!!!!

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  Vincent Cholewa

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  Well that’s one more PIP than you rolled with three dice …

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  • Bruce Ferguson

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    Vincent Cholewa Good point, and its harder to do

    

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• Anthony Reardon

  If you play once per week and each game lasts eight bounds, that should come up once every three years (on average). Same with the super devil, 6666. 

  

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    Vincent Cholewa

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    Anthony Reardon 6, 6, 6, 6 the devil and his brother !

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  • Bruce Ferguson

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    Anthony Reardon I've been playing off and on for 44 years, I don't think its ever happened, unless you count the 3 1's I got on 3 dice last month

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  • Anthony Reardon

    While the dice have no memory, the law of averages dictates that if that is the first time in 44 years, then a dozen quad 1s are just around the corner. Something to look forward to. 

    

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• John Edmundson

  I think I may have shared this story before:

  WRG 1925-50 original version.

  Same dice we always use, with no indication of weighting.

  155mm and bigger artillery neutralises on 5/6. It KOs heavily armoured vehicles on 6.

  My friend's company of 17 Panther tanks unwittingly drives into the beaten zone of my brother's off table Soviet 203mm howitzer battery. FOO calls in fire. One bound of fire, one dice per target, 17 fives or sixes. 17 neutralised panthers.

  Roll to KO. Seventeen dice, Seventeen sixes . . .

  Game over start again . . .

  

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  • Kevin McCarthy

    John Edmundson I used to use a Brit desert army with Crusader IIIs with 6pdrs. Autokills at less than 500 metres. It was designed to kill Tiger armies. Standard technique was to lay a smokescreen and charge through on the enemy tank line. Had 17 versus 10 hull down Tigers, he killed two of me, I wiped out 8 of his. Game over.

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    • John Edmundson

      Kevin McCarthy Ha! I remember the Tiger I was the best value in the game. C armour all round and the 88mm L56 was good enough for anything. Anything bigger was a waste of points. 3 at 165 plus command was 500 points. Everyone else's armies were designed around how to defeat an army with Tiger Is.

      Your Crusader IIIs, M36s, Sherman Fireflies, Valentine archers, T34/85s. Armour was a waste because the 88 would get you anyway. (Or rely on artillery bigger than 155mm). I went for US armoured infantry, and US standard Shermans as mobile artillery. The infantry was the key because they had lots of bazookas . . .

      Fun times in the 70s.

      

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    • Kevin McCarthy

      It was terrible when you ran into Japanese or Italians ....

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  • James Davies

    John Edmundson My favourite WWII rules. Do you still have a copy ?

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    • John Edmundson

      James Davies Possibly . . .

      If I do they're pretty thoroughly buried.

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• Phil Malthus

  Im glad to see you've maintained that tradition 

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  Ion A Dowman

  I recall one occasion when 3 PIPs for 3 commands was enough to win me the battle...