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Author Topic: Buckets of Dice  (Read 4417 times)

bob48

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on: July 23, 2023, 04:46:04 PM
What game have you played that required lots of dice?

I seem to remember that Warhammer 40K often required more dice than we had available - I had a very big shooty Ork mob that rolled a stupid amount of D6's. I think it was something like 20 figures and they had 2 bolt guns each.

For board games, Brian Trains excellent 'Scheldt' game often has me searching around for a few more random number generator cubes.

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Reply #1 on: July 23, 2023, 05:03:40 PM
I played Endurance from Hollandspiele recently and the game arrived with 12 d6 in it. I ended up having to find some more to add to those at one point in the game!

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Reply #2 on: July 24, 2023, 03:29:31 AM
LOTR can rustle up a fist full of dice



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Reply #3 on: July 24, 2023, 08:10:01 AM
Brief Border Wars ships with 2.

At Origins this year, we had a few battles with each side rolling >15 dice

I went and bought a Chessex brick of smaller dice to keep in the box so I'd always have enough for convention games.

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Reply #4 on: July 24, 2023, 01:09:22 PM
World at War '85:Storming the Gap

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Reply #5 on: July 24, 2023, 03:28:56 PM
Does no one remember Jim's Saturday Night Fights games of Lasalle 2, with fountains of north of 60 dice per side to determine the (relatively minor?) effect of skirmishing?

I seem to recall 100+ dice at one point...

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Reply #6 on: July 24, 2023, 04:20:12 PM
lol - no, I didn't see that one :-)

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Reply #7 on: July 24, 2023, 04:38:40 PM
there's a smaller dice fountain here.  I think this one is only 60 dice




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Reply #8 on: July 24, 2023, 05:16:30 PM
Digital dice. Meh.

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Reply #9 on: July 24, 2023, 05:40:33 PM
 :ROFL: Abominations!

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Reply #10 on: July 24, 2023, 08:11:47 PM
You can get some nice chalices of dice in Here I Stand.