I probably got six defense dice rolls by confusing the "retaliated with Quickdraw and rolled 3 more blanks" to be another completely blanked defense roll.

Ah. That makes sense now. Still low probability however the math works out. Not impossible, but certainly improbable.

Nobody feels your pain more than I do when it comes to dice. I cannot tell you how many times I've outflown/outguessed my opponent in every respect, only to receive absolutely no reward for it because my dice crapped out against bizarre odds.

Las game, I had Whisper. Three times I shot an opponent's ship and he got 3 evades on 3 dice. That's 9 evades in a row. Since this caused me to miss all of my shots, that's three focus tokens I DIDN'T get to assign to my ship. Btw, my own shooting was so bad that I had to spend my focus each time to get those three hits, but I thought, "Hey, doing 3 hits to a guy without any tokens, that's GOT to deal some damage right?" Nope. After my third whiffed shot, he was actually in a position to fire back (his ship was a phantom too). He rolls 4 dice, gets 4 natural hits. I'm at range 3 and cloaked, so I get 5 greens. Come up 5 blanks. One-shot.

Add to the fact that I had worked my way through a very hard matchup and flew so well that I was now on the verge of winning, I wanted to flip the table.

I have considered quitting this game many times solely due to the f@#king dice. And like a battered partner in an abusive relationship, I keep coming back.

Floated my dice...

All but 3 floats d blanks up. Getting the dice app next week.

After one bad game where I flew rings around my opponent (his words) and still lost anyway thanks to atrocious dice, I cut open one of my dice on my band saw, to make an example out of it for the others. Found three huge air bubbles in the middle of the die. Might have to look into that app.

People always confuse an instance of "bad luck" with having "perpetual bad luck".

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Las game, I had Whisper . Three times I shot an opponent's ship and he got 3 evades on 3 dice. That's 9 evades in a row. Since this caused me to miss all of my shots, that's three focus tokens I DIDN'T get to assign to my ship. Btw, my own shooting was so bad that I had to spend my focus each time to get those three hits, but I thought, "Hey, doing 3 hits to a guy without any tokens, that's GOT to deal some damage right?"

The odds of a player naturally rolling 3 evades is about 5%. The average roll for a phantom (outside range 1) with a focus is 3 hits. To roll 3 sets of flawless evades in a row is about 0.01% of the time. Therefore, 1 in 10 000 sets of 3 evade rolls will result in flawless evades for all nine dice rolled.

Give me a log of all the games you've payed in the last month (of at least 20 games or more) detailing what every dice did when rolled or rerolled, then show me that you've rolled a below average number of hits+crits, or evades and so on. If you can do that then, and only then, can you state you have bad luck.

All that said and done, I'm down with griping over inexplicable losses, so here is my tale of woe:

1. In my second tournament ever, I was going strong in the first round. I had outmaneuvered my opponent so that his ships were approaching through the rocks, while my 2 B-wings, biggs + (something else...) were in formation ready to destroy them one by one. The first ship was a Protoype A-wing. I shot all my ships at it - with modifiers - for three turns, yet not a single point of damage was done. I never killed that A-wing, and it destroyed two of my ships.

Try to use ships and builds that can consistently survive a round or two of bad dice rolls.

If your super TIE build looks great on paper but in game has to hit with all attack dice and defend with every green dice, it's bound to fail.

1 hour ago, Shadow345 said:

Try to use ships and builds that can consistently survive a round or two of bad dice rolls.

If your super TIE build looks great on paper but in game has to hit with all attack dice and defend with every green dice, it's bound to fail.

I love this. Can you elaborate with a couple of examples of ships/loadoouts/builds (if you have the time...)

Being the forerunner of bad dice rolls (I ended up counting 18 dice rolls ending up in blanks, of which only 3 were modified with autothrusters in the last 3 games I've played) in my store, I can tell you all about the power of dice modifications for both attacking and defending. Upgrades like autothrusters and expertise are almost an auto-include in most of my lists now because it can lessen the rate of failures by almost a third per die without giving anything up (like a focus action for example). Target locks and rerolls granted by wired, predator, etc. are great in theory but at the end of the day, when the dice gods need a good laugh, they will come to collect.

Oh I've been down this road. I've even tested this die with an incredibly visible bubble:

see:

Now, that was 2 years ago. I've thought a lot about the results. The only real thing I can conclude is that the method I used to roll dice produced a statistically random-ish result that is not skewed by imperfections of the dice.

8 sided dice just do no roll well to begin with. Add to the fact you're trying to roll on a table full of delicates, so your throws aren't very long.... leading to skewed results (ignoring any bias from impactful negative results that is).

So my suggestion: use a dice cup.

Anyone in my local area knows to use my name specifically to indicate an abhorrent dice roll. It's called 'rolling a Tony'. Many a dice have been thrown across my store.

Floated my dice and saw the same blank side coming up on 80% of them. Went to the dice app and won a local tournament, placed middle at a regional, etc.

Back then a lot of people didn't like me using the dice app, but it did help me. Unfortunately for me, I prefer the feel of real dice in my hands, so my luck is still a thing of legend...

I love that this post has come from "are the dice really fair?" to a support group of players like myself who have stories upon stories to tell about how the dice crapped on their day. The dice gods are a fickle beast.