Melrakki
Joined: Aug 28, 2007
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May 29, 2008 - 02:54 |
 
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When you start playing it, you think it's more luck than skill.
After a while, you realize there's much more skill involved than you could ever think, and a lot less luck involved than you thought.
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I would just like to add this this is partly because the game becomes a lot more about skill once higher SPP players get involved. |
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catmando
Joined: Feb 02, 2008
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May 29, 2008 - 03:49 |
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When you start playing it, you think it's more luck than skill.
After a while, you realize there's much more skill involved than you could ever think, and a lot less luck involved than you thought.
I would just like to add this this is partly because the game becomes a lot more about skill once higher SPP players get involved.
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I disagree. A one is a one on 1d6 and an attacker down roll is still an attacker down roll regardless of how many re-rolls or skills the team possesses. I'm great at games that don't involve much die rolling, once I learn the pattern, I rarely lose. But in games like Monopoly, Craps, D&D, Star Fleet Battles, and Blood Bowl and so forth, I win or succeed in about half the games I play, mainly because the random element of chance is involved, i.e. dice rolling. In my experience with games involving dice, which is 30+ years, the win is 50% Luck, 40% skill and 10% Divine Intervention. You can be the most brilliant tactician on Earth, but if the die rolls are not there to support your plan, the plan will fail regardless. |
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Lill-Leif
Joined: Nov 17, 2005
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May 29, 2008 - 04:07 |
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Everything in BB doesnt involve rolling a dice... |
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SillySod
Joined: Oct 10, 2006
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May 29, 2008 - 05:24 |
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| Quote: | | In my experience with games involving dice, which is 30+ years, the win is 50% Luck, 40% skill and 10% Divine Intervention. |
This is clearly wrong, various games are affected to a greater or lesser extent by dice and strategy partially by coincidence and parially through design.
As a sidenote I think skill has the greatest impact on a game at the lowest level of play (although this does not mean the lowest TR). |
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Chainsaw
Joined: Aug 31, 2005
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May 29, 2008 - 06:18 |
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Of course dice rolling is chance, but the skill of BB is minimizing risk. If you do the right things, even a double skull rerolled to a double skull may be a turnover but not be an unrecoverable play. |
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Islander1975
Joined: Sep 05, 2005
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May 29, 2008 - 06:22 |
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Find and play me. I use mostly elves.  |
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