Fickle Dice! What's your worst experience with your dice?

By Felswrath, in Star Wars: Armada

Mine's a defensive one.

Worlds 2017, I ran Mothma MC30s. My opponent had Adar, Luke, and Yavaris.

Luke attacked at the end of one round. Hit-crit. Mothma reroll into hit-crit.
Adar activation at the opening of the next round. Hit-crit. Mothma reroll into hit-crit.
FC/FCT Yavaris activation to position him for a double-tap shot on a second. Hit-crit. Mothma reroll into hit-crit.
Second Yavaris attack. Hit-crit. Mothma reroll into hit-crit.

The odds of rolling 8 hit-crits in a row on a black die is 15/1,000,000, and I'm not salty about it at all. :)

The kicker was, this dude has the gall to spend the rest of the game acting like this was a predictable outcome, and "that's what Luke does to squadronless MSUs."

1 hour ago, Ardaedhel said:

Mine's a defensive one.

Worlds 2017, I ran Mothma MC30s. My opponent had Adar, Luke, and Yavaris.

Luke attacked at the end of one round. Hit-crit. Mothma reroll into hit-crit.
Adar activation at the opening of the next round. Hit-crit. Mothma reroll into hit-crit.
FC/FCT Yavaris activation to position him for a double-tap shot on a second. Hit-crit. Mothma reroll into hit-crit.
Second Yavaris attack. Hit-crit. Mothma reroll into hit-crit.

The odds of rolling 8 hit-crits in a row on a black die is 15/1,000,000, and I'm not salty about it at all. :)

The kicker was, this dude has the gall to spend the rest of the game acting like this was a predictable outcome, and "that's what Luke does to squadronless MSUs."

/tilt/

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I've personally had bad dice rolls (some that cost me games), but I can't think of any that are particularly funny or memorable.

However, one of my opponents at Regionals had dice luck turn against him.

My GR-75 was caught at close range of the front arc of his ISD-2. Opponent activates his star destroyer and reveals a Concentrate Fire command. He targets my flotilla and fires away.

First roll: All hits, no accuracies.
Concentrate Fire command: Adds a blue and gets another hit.
Leading Shots: Removes a blue die and rerolls all his dice. Rolls all hits and one or two blanks.

My opponent had to settle for ramming into the flotilla (It was kinda in his way), and my GR-75 managed to escape to score off of Blockade Run when the game finished.

11 minutes ago, Darth Sanguis said:

/tilt/

I won't lie, it's true. I don't usually tilt, but that one.... yup.

Well, at our regionals a couple of weeks ago, running Dengar / Howlrunner / 3 Interceptors off a flight controller ISD. Attacking a group with Shara and 3 generic A-Wings. First attack- 6 crits. Re-roll 1 to a crit. Second attack- 6 crits. Re-roll 1 to a crit. Third attack... I think it was 5 crits and an accuracy... re-rolled a crit to another crit.

Its well known in my group I can roll blanks on blues. Almost epic level of failure every. single. time.

Reading another post reminded me of last year’s regionals... an ISD attacking a speed zero gozanti at close range. Blues were accuracies, reds and blacks were all blanks or accuracies. Re-rolled blacks and reds to the exact same result.

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Just now, Ardaedhel said:

I won't lie, it's true. I don't usually tilt, but that one.... yup.

Yeah, that last line would be the straw that broke the camels back...

I don't often tilt at Armada... but then again, I don't build high risk fleets. Most of my builds guarantee hits.

Legion on the other hand... one opponent in particular, who ironically is well known for having the WORST luck in Armada rolls, has insanely GOOD luck at Legion.

I gathered 3 full weapons 5 black, 3 red, 3 white dice... rolled a solid 9 damage... he blocked the whole darn attack with his defense rolls...

This happened 3 times in a row...

I was saltier than the surface or Crait

46 minutes ago, Darth Sanguis said:

Yeah, that last line would be the straw that broke the camels back...

I don't often tilt at Armada... but then again, I don't build high risk fleets. Most of my builds guarantee hits.

Legion on the other hand... one opponent in particular, who ironically is well known for having the WORST luck in Armada rolls, has insanely GOOD luck at Legion.

I gathered 3 full weapons 5 black, 3 red, 3 white dice... rolled a solid 9 damage... he blocked the whole darn attack with his defense rolls...

This happened 3 times in a row...

I was saltier than the surface or Crait

That might be my biggest complaint with Legion. Double the opportunity for luck-based swings over strategy.

10 minutes ago, The Jabbawookie said:

That might be my biggest complaint with Legion. Double the opportunity for luck-based swings over strategy.

Yeah, it shares that similar "defense dice are broken" quality with X-Wing in my opinion, but at the very least, there are mechanical means to protect your troops outside of the dice alone. Cover and dodges can soak up a solid chunk of damage before you ever have to roll.

I mostly have great luck with dice, especially reds, strangely enough. In my squadrons, I have a single Z-95. Best 7 points in my entire fleet. For the number of times he has rolled double hit, I should've paid 17 points for that guy. My buddy who tried running a whole 134 points packed full of Z's couldn't hit anything with them. He's probably the saltiest about my luck with my single Z. 😆