Art De La Guerre

[vexillia]

I saw this elsewhere:

[Andy Fyfe]

[vexillia]

[KevinD]

I really dislike the idea of rerolls. I think they distort some of the interactions and make powerful troops even more so as they can avoid the low odds result where they loose.

[Hazelbark]

[Black Prince]

A rule set call Field of Glory used rerolls for elite troops, it sort of worked but it was surprisingly common in which one player rolled low and scored only a couple of hits and would have lost the combat then rerolled his misses to score all hits and win the combat.

[madaxeman]

If both sides have (as pre the suggestion in the rules) the option to re-roll 3 die rolls each game, that’s going to even out over the course of most games anyway isn’t it ? 

The net effect would likely be to swap out half a dozen of the most destructive combat results in any one game for less destructive results

Basically all it’s going to achieve therefore is to slow the aggregate time take for a game-ending decision to be reached in the resolution of combats, and do so by a smidge across the duration of an entire game - and do so in a way that would be evenly distributed between the two players. 

Is that sort of juice really worth the squeeze ?
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[MarkK]

Until you give it a try I guess you wouldn't know. I guess the question is all things being even does the use of a single D6 add too much of an element of luck and randomness to the game and would being able to have three re-rolls mitigate this? Maybe luck is a good thing because it means a poorer player can beat a better player simply by rolling better?

[vexillia]

[madaxeman]