greenoaks wrote:then i withdraw my support for this.

I'm sure your support would have birthed this beast.

Have a look at:
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35818
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34965
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14168
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10391
http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9082
And ...

i'll cautiously throw my weight behind this suggestion as it is likely to increase the odds of winning in the attackers favour. i will not for the equalised dice option for the opposite reason.

this is not correct. the dice parameters are adjustable and as a result, so are the odds. as a ...

Timminz wrote:

docdurdee wrote:I should get free EFFEN membership for life for suggesting it

I didn't know vodka had memberships.

Everyone knows vodka has memberships... it's not hard to get in, but it's hard to get out.

I posted a more limited idea than the one I am posting now under Equalized Dice. Here is a more aggressive idea: since the dice are the engine of the game, it seems straight forward to allow the dice parameters to be adjusted when games are initially set up.

Concise description:

Adjustable ...

and all this clinging to the dice paradigm set out by a copyrighted game with the physical rolling dice in mind (as far as I know; I admit that I don't know the history) is pretty much... dumb; as is all this BS crap about intelligence and IQ, but I digress. If it turns out that equalized, 3 dice vs ...

Am I reading this wrong or does the OP want to take the skill out of the game and just leave it up to the dice to decides who wins?

Correct me if I am wrong, but that is the way I am reading this idea

I'm fairly surprised by the number of people that have come out against this idea without ...

greenoaks wrote:equalised dice, what a great idea. i propose the number 4 should be on all dice rolled.

There's nothing better than malformed sarcasm!

Though you've both failed to articulate anything clearly; I gather your belief is as follows:

All the strategy in this game stems from a slight imbalance between attackers and defenders.

Intuitively, this does makes sense as it provides a driving force, but within such dice games such pragmatism ...

I think the strategy point is important, in that you'll win more if you attack than if you leave armies to defend. Equalized dice would mean there's no difference, so your best move (with less than say 10 territories) would be no moves.

Perhaps. so what? Does this mean there's no strategy with ...

Your first sentence is understood and implied in the OP. I'm not so sure that the "strategical space" is reduced with equalized dice; rather, the point is that it is slightly different and adds another flavor to the game via another option. I'm not suggesting replacement.

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In addition to the current dice options that favor the attacker, it could be cool to add an option that makes the dice completely even. ie. attackers and defenders can roll 3 dice and no armies are lost for ties. The 3v2 model works well when you actually have to physically roll dice, but an ...