Hall of Shame - tales of the worst dice ever

Playing a live game with a friend, he attacked me with a few inf and 15 tanks. I remember 15 because i remember taking the calculator afterwards.

I forget the # of hits with his infs, but he hit me 0 times with tanks. Zero. Nil. None. Kaput. Rien. Nada.

That’s one chance out of 32768 or 0.00305%. Yeah.

Also starting the game with snake eyes on two german bombers doing SBR stinks. Happened before once if not twice - not huge statistics, 2.77% chance, but it’s pretty brutal.

Wow this is crazy. Really crazy dice.

You know what drives me nuts? When you position your army in such a way, that an attack from the opponent would be insane. And when that opponent still attacks… and wins!

The latest example I experienced (but not the craziest) is in my game against Shin Ji, where his Japanese fleet attacked with a ~45% success chance and average -36 TUV. It resulted in +86 for him…

Combat - Germans
           Battle in France
               Germans attack with 4 armour, 3 artilleries, 1 fighter, 7 infantry, 2 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber
               British defend with 1 armour and 1 artillery; French defend with 1 aaGun, 1 airfield, 1 armour, 1 artillery, 1 factory_major, 1 fighter and 6 infantry
               French win with 2 armour, 2 artilleries and 1 fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is -63
               Casualties for Germans: 4 armour, 3 artilleries, 1 fighter, 7 infantry, 2 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber
               Casualties for French: 1 aaGun and 6 infantry
           Battle in Southern France
               Germans attack with 2 armour and 2 mech_infantrys
               French defend with 1 artillery, 1 factory_minor, 1 harbour and 1 infantry
               French win with 1 artillery remaining. Battle score for attacker is -17
               Casualties for Germans: 2 armour and 2 mech_infantrys
               Casualties for French: 1 infantry

We are looking at loosing two ~99% battles in G1…  :|

This one got the whole table singing the soviet national anthem- worst and best dice rolls.
Germany is hounding Russia hard and gets to the gates of moscow with 17 tanks, 5 inf and 2 mech inf (Germanys big stack of planes are one space behind landed in friendly territory).  Russia has 15 inf, a fighter and 2 art.  Russia is looking like it will fall next German turn.  Rather than deal with the planes Russia decides to go on the offensive and attacks the stack of tanks.  Russia rolls 14 hits first round (ironically, the plane missed)  :-o while Germany only gets 5.  The odds for either one are bad.  Together it was unbelievable.  Odds evened out after the first round, but it didn’t matter by that point.  Germany was screwed.

I dont remember specific situations, but I played P40 for first time yesterday and all of my attacks with China (both equal and 99% win chance) went wrong.
I remember attacking with FTR, ART and around 8 INF against some 4 Japanese INF and not scoring a single hit (Japs scoring a full hit (!))- I lost that battle saving only the fighter and killing only a single INF. I found myself in a Hitlerrant.  :|

This one isn’t a battle but rather an entire round and I was the one to take advantage of it. In the end my opponent said he’d concede the game (waiting to see if a compromise will continue the game or not)

So it’s G1 and I went with a Barbarossa. Hit Paris plus all the Russian border terr on the ground and went after sz110, sz111, sz91, and sz106. Ended up losing 6 inf & 1 sub (24ipc) for the entire round. In return I killed 13inf, 2art, aa, 2arm, ftr, trn, 2dds, 4cas, & 2bbs (185ipc). Hard to beat a +161 IPC swing in battles alone on G1.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=33576.msg1282778#msg1282778

Wow, he gave up after round 1? That kind of sucks. I wouldn’t want to play with someone like that. The game is still very much winnable for the allies at that point. Even if you did get rather lucky, it’s not that unlikely that you win all of those battles.

I remember a game of the classic Pacific A&A. In the first round, all allies only score hits in the defense on a 1. So as Japan you keep in mind with every attack that you will lose about one in six of your units. My opponent had a 1 about 50% on all his rolls. Especially on crucial ones, where I lost expensive units or didn’t take an island, so my transport could be killed the next turn by an allied fighter which could land on the non-occupied island!

It was maybe about 10 years ago, but that same opponent keeps reminding me about it when he has a handful of dice and needs 1’s. Like for mines in 1914 or radar in Global.

Had a game this past weekend and was bailed out by some bad rolls for our opposition.

The UK foolishly left four fighters and a bomber in Caucasus, missing that it was connected to Kazakhstan.  Amateur mistake, but what can we do?  Japan rolls in with 2 inf, 2 art, 3 tanks a tac bomber and a str bomber.  They get only 1 hit; UK in response gets five hits!  Japan presses on but hits nothing in return, UK hits all four remaining fighters to win the battle with only a loss of 1 bomber.

On the same turn Japan sends two bombers to Moscow for a complex raid only to have my partner roll a snake eyes on him!

One of the best 1-2 defensive (lucky) punches I’ve ever seen

@axisandalliesplayer:

This one isn’t a battle but rather an entire round and I was the one to take advantage of it. In the end my opponent said he’d concede the game (waiting to see if a compromise will continue the game or not)

So it’s G1 and I went with a Barbarossa. Hit Paris plus all the Russian border terr on the ground and went after sz110, sz111, sz91, and sz106. Ended up losing 6 inf & 1 sub (24ipc) for the entire round. In return I killed 13inf, 2art, aa, 2arm, ftr, trn, 2dds, 4cas, & 2bbs (185ipc). Hard to beat a +161 IPC swing in battles alone on G1.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=33576.msg1282778#msg1282778

Unreal! I honestly would have a hard time playing that one out as well. Such a huge advantage right off the start is hard to overcome.

My very first game of global…  on Germany’s first turn I attacked france with everything that could reach and an additional 2 air units… I lost to France.

I was like… I just lost half my stuff on the first turn for nothing… can I try again?  The second time around I took it, did sea lion, and the allies were like this game is bs… because uk built everything it could to defend it round 1-2 only to lose it on round 3 anyway.

I need to blow some steam somewhere.

I have under-average dice for 2-3 rounds in 4 games at the same time at the moment.

My axis game was in a horrible situation after the first round already and it got worse after the second round - europe is lost already, only clinging to Japan hope now.
And in all of my other games it’s looking grim - and while I don’t claim that my faults have not played their part, it is mostly due to dice.

Sometimes I just hate this game. I was so close to say “fck this game, I’m quitting it”.

Yeah you had some bad dice. Everything going my way in our game. Kind of unexpected, because I made some mistakes that ended up working out.

@MrRoboto:

I need to blow some steam somewhere.

I have under-average dice for 2-3 rounds in 4 games at the same time at the moment.

My axis game was in a horrible situation after the first round already and it got worse after the second round - europe is lost already, only clinging to Japan hope now.
And in all of my other games it’s looking grim - and while I don’t claim that my faults have not played their part, it is mostly due to dice.

Sometimes I just hate this game. I was so close to say “fck this game, I’m quitting it”.

That’s why you need to try LL game.