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mst3k4ever dragonfoal
Joined: 17 Feb 2013 Posts: 7 Location: Toronto

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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:44 pm GMT Post subject: Number of dice in a "complete" army? |
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From what I gather, people seem to consider 2 - rare, 4 - uncommon, 8 - common of each type (so, 10 rare, 20 uncommon, 40 common), 2 of each common monster, and 1 of each rare monster to be a "complete" army. Is there any particular reason for that? I can't see anything about it in the rules vis-a-vis limits on how many of any one die a person can use (just the amount of magic-using dice). And the amount seems excessive for 36-point games (or even 60-point games), since that adds up to 120+ points. Is it just for flexibility? |
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chuckpint White Dragon SFR President Site Admin
Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 9166 Location: Evanston, IL

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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 7:30 pm GMT Post subject: |
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I don't know anyone that considers that a complete army. However, that is about right for a player's set of each race. In other words, that is how much most people collect in order to play. _________________ You can never have too many dice.
First Place at the first ever Daemon Diceâ„¢ sealed starter tournament.
Battlefest tied for first GenCon 2012
Single Race Champion GenCon 2008-2009, Sealed Box Champion GenCon 2007,2009,
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mst3k4ever dragonfoal
Joined: 17 Feb 2013 Posts: 7 Location: Toronto

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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 7:40 pm GMT Post subject: |
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chuckpint wrote: | I don't know anyone that considers that a complete army. However, that is about right for a player's set of each race. In other words, that is how much most people collect in order to play. |
Heh. On your dice for sale page, you call that amount a "complete set". Is there a difference between "set" and "army"? I didn't mean army to be fielded in a game -- my bad if that was unclear.
My question is, why those numbers? Are there strategies that call for 8 commons in particular (or any other "complete set" number)? Does it just provide for what people consider optimal flexibility?
I don't have a lot of direct experience with DD, so I'm asking out of curiosity. |
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chuckpint White Dragon SFR President Site Admin
Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 9166 Location: Evanston, IL

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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 7:55 pm GMT Post subject: |
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It just provides for optimal flexibility. You can field just about any reasonable army. Now if you want to have 60 Pelters for a Battlefest army (don't laugh, it's been done), then this isn't enough. But that's a rather weird case, and this will let you make most any army that normally is used in play. _________________ You can never have too many dice.
First Place at the first ever Daemon Diceâ„¢ sealed starter tournament.
Battlefest tied for first GenCon 2012
Single Race Champion GenCon 2008-2009, Sealed Box Champion GenCon 2007,2009,
My collection is 21,500 Dragon Diceâ„¢, 20,000 Daemon Diceâ„¢, and others (too many to count). |
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mst3k4ever dragonfoal
Joined: 17 Feb 2013 Posts: 7 Location: Toronto

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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:17 am GMT Post subject: |
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Since I have to "cube" collectible games in order to play them (that is, in effect create a closed system/complete game) due to my gaming partners being almost entirely good-natured non-gamers, I had already mentally organized my collection around obtaining a "half set" of a bunch of races.
So, 1 rare, 2 uncommon, 4 common of each type, plus 1 of each monster (with duplicates acceptable where rare ones cannot be found, so that the total number of monsters works out). This is plenty of points to construct a varied 36-health army (and can make 60, though that is likely too large for my needs anyway).
However, I guess I might be under-representing magic units? I would only have a baseline of 11-health "pure" magic, right?
Hmm. |
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Urfaes dragonmount
Joined: 03 Dec 2012 Posts: 32 Location: Maryland

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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:17 pm GMT Post subject: |
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mst3k4ever wrote: | However, I guess I might be under-representing magic units? I would only have a baseline of 11-health "pure" magic, right?
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Perhaps. I've gotten by with 6-12 health worth of magic in my armies; it seems "conventional" armies use half their health in magic, 18 in a 36 point game. Cantrip can provide functionality outside the magic phase, so having two or three rare magic units in a collection seems to be "standard". |
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mst3k4ever dragonfoal
Joined: 17 Feb 2013 Posts: 7 Location: Toronto

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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 1:57 pm GMT Post subject: |
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Urfaes wrote: | Perhaps. I've gotten by with 6-12 health worth of magic in my armies; it seems "conventional" armies use half their health in magic, 18 in a 36 point game. Cantrip can provide functionality outside the magic phase, so having two or three rare magic units in a collection seems to be "standard". |
Heh. So naturally, the first thing I did was trade away my "extra" Liches.  |
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Urfaes dragonmount
Joined: 03 Dec 2012 Posts: 32 Location: Maryland

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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:12 pm GMT Post subject: |
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mst3k4ever wrote: | Heh. So naturally, the first thing I did was trade away my "extra" Liches.  |
You should be fine; if you've got a Vampire or two, Convert is pretty fun. If you could secure even one more Lich, I'm sure your collection would be "complete."
Our hoarding methods for myself and my wife are defined by container. We use bead organizers from Michael's. They hold 8 rare, 8 uncommon with 4 commons on the side and up to 12 commons. We fill the slots and trade or give away the rest. They're similar to the Bead Landing Medium Bead Box.
I work on an army until it's filled then focus on another army. Small, portable and organized. For a Highlander format, I can pull a die from each slot and call it good. |
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mst3k4ever dragonfoal
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:22 pm GMT Post subject: |
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Urfaes wrote: | You should be fine; if you've got a Vampire or two, Convert is pretty fun. If you could secure even one more Lich, I'm sure your collection would be "complete."
Our hoarding methods for myself and my wife are defined by container. We use bead organizers from Michael's. They hold 8 rare, 8 uncommon with 4 commons on the side and up to 12 commons. We fill the slots and trade or give away the rest. They're similar to the Bead Landing Medium Bead Box.
I work on an army until it's filled then focus on another army. Small, portable and organized. For a Highlander format, I can pull a die from each slot and call it good. |
I use the same bead containers. But I am not sorting by what fits, I was sticking to my formula. I found that I can get four or five races per container if I split the d10s off into their own small cubbies. I am currently working on seven (eight...I just won an auction for some Treefolk). With dragons, items, and terrain, that's two full containers. |
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Urfaes dragonmount
Joined: 03 Dec 2012 Posts: 32 Location: Maryland

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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:29 pm GMT Post subject: |
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mst3k4ever wrote: | I found that I can get four or five races per container if I split the d10s off into their own small cubbies. I am currently working on seven (eight...I just won an auction for some Treefolk). With dragons, items, and terrain, that's two full containers. |
I do about the same thing.
I split each "category" of a race into its own section. The monsters are in the top row, but I'll double them or have an empty if I don't have the fifth monster. That's where I fill in two terrain dice and dragons, or I'll spread them amongst the monsters to make room for a Dragon Lord and magic items.
I might borrow your idea once I have solidified army lists; at least then I'd have all my "forces" arrayed in one container instead of spread across one per race. |
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cliffwiggs SFR Treasurer Chief Wheedler SDA - Rules NitPicker
Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 10794 Location: Cumming, GA - USA

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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:46 pm GMT Post subject: |
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My 'players set' is at least 18 health of all but the most rare dice.
so I have 18 of each common, 9 of each uncommon, 6 of each rare, 4 of each monster.
That is what gives me the maximum flexibility to play most any 36 health army I want. _________________ Multiplayer Champion Gencon11/Battlefest Champion(tied) GenCon10/World Champion GenCon07/National Champion Origins05/Intermediate Champion GenCon02/Novice Champion Origins99 |
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ddicerc rare Public Relations Director Esteemed Author
Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 3238 Location: East Brunswick, NJ, USA

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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:08 pm GMT Post subject: |
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chuckpint wrote: | Now if you want to have 60 Pelters for a Battlefest army (don't laugh, it's been done), then this isn't enough. But that's a rather weird case... |
And he can field five of those armies at a time, too.  _________________ Steve "DDice" Braun
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2014-2015 U.S. National Champion
(Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...) |
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cliffwiggs SFR Treasurer Chief Wheedler SDA - Rules NitPicker
Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 10794 Location: Cumming, GA - USA

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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:13 pm GMT Post subject: |
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ddicerc wrote: | chuckpint wrote: | Now if you want to have 60 Pelters for a Battlefest army (don't laugh, it's been done), then this isn't enough. But that's a rather weird case... |
And he can field five of those armies at a time, too.  |
I can do it with elf misprints, but I don't.
and for those who had the bad experience of playing me. I doubt I'll be playing all common for battlefest again and definitely not all common mages. It takes way too long to count out results. _________________ Multiplayer Champion Gencon11/Battlefest Champion(tied) GenCon10/World Champion GenCon07/National Champion Origins05/Intermediate Champion GenCon02/Novice Champion Origins99 |
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mst3k4ever dragonfoal
Joined: 17 Feb 2013 Posts: 7 Location: Toronto

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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:29 pm GMT Post subject: |
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So, 185 dice per race? That seems like a lot...
cliffwiggs wrote: | My 'players set' is at least 18 health of all but the most rare dice.
so I have 18 of each common, 9 of each uncommon, 6 of each rare, 4 of each monster.
That is what gives me the maximum flexibility to play most any 36 health army I want. |
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Matthias Maccabeus rare
Joined: 18 Mar 2011 Posts: 1551 Location: Nebraska

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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:51 pm GMT Post subject: |
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cliffwiggs wrote: | ddicerc wrote: | chuckpint wrote: | Now if you want to have 60 Pelters for a Battlefest army (don't laugh, it's been done), then this isn't enough. But that's a rather weird case... |
And he can field five of those armies at a time, too.  |
I can do it with elf misprints, but I don't.
and for those who had the bad experience of playing me. I doubt I'll be playing all common for battlefest again and definitely not all common mages. It takes way too long to count out results. |
I actually enjoy playing against you in battlefest. It's fun to watch you try and roll all those bad boys! _________________ HeroScape - Tree Town Open Champion (2008, 2016), Nebraska Skirmish Champion (2008, 2010) GenCon LightWeight Champion (2009), GenCon General Wars (Aquilla Champion 2009) GenCon Unique Hero Champion (2009, 2010)
Dragon Diceâ„¢ - Gen Con Worlds Champion 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017 O Town 2013 Overall Winner |
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shoesan uncommon
Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 641 Location: PA

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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:20 am GMT Post subject: |
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cliffwiggs wrote: |
so I have 18 of each common, 9 of each uncommon, 6 of each rare, 4 of each monster.
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Shouldn't that be 4 and a half of each monster?
Haha... just kidding. But that is exactly why I collect 12 health of each... so the math comes out right for C, U, R AND monster! _________________ Shoe |
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shoesan uncommon
Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 641 Location: PA

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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:38 am GMT Post subject: |
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cliffwiggs wrote: |
and for those who had the bad experience of playing me. I doubt I'll be playing all common for battlefest again and definitely not all common mages. It takes way too long to count out results. |
Thank the maker!
Matthias Maccabeus wrote: | I actually enjoy playing against you in battlefest. It's fun to watch you try and roll all those bad boys! |
Wasn't fun for me. I was his first opponent, and he went first. It took so long for him to count and figure out what he was doing, I literally got my first turn over 20 minutes into the match. I don't think I even got 5 total turns before time was up, and I made my moves very quickly. I think he started to somewhat figure it out for the next couple of matches, but that first one was brutal.
It was a cool idea to try in a friendly game on the side, but not really a good one for a timed tournament. The sheer number of possibilities with spending magic was crazy... but not really in a good way. Having so many different casters meant a lot of magic, but not enough in one color to accomplish real objectives in a 60 point game. Trying to figure out how to effectively use 10 of this color, and 8 of that color, and 7 of another, and 11 of yet another... but wait, I could change these 3 to this other color... etc., it was insane. Maybe with a lot of practice, you could come up with decent gameplans with an army like that, but it sure would take a lot of practice. You would need to develop specific strategies that capitalized on using a wide variety of spells, understanding you wouldn't be able to count on many castings of any specific spell. _________________ Shoe |
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Matthias Maccabeus rare
Joined: 18 Mar 2011 Posts: 1551 Location: Nebraska

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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:57 pm GMT Post subject: |
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Yeah I can see that being annoying when coming too magic. Our was just a straight up race to 2 8. I had tons of Cavalry and so did he if I remember correctly.
I know in our game. You had that grove and I forgot what I had (City maybe?), but it was just a magic (or lack of) back and forth with neither of us doing much to the other til time was called. _________________ HeroScape - Tree Town Open Champion (2008, 2016), Nebraska Skirmish Champion (2008, 2010) GenCon LightWeight Champion (2009), GenCon General Wars (Aquilla Champion 2009) GenCon Unique Hero Champion (2009, 2010)
Dragon Diceâ„¢ - Gen Con Worlds Champion 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017 O Town 2013 Overall Winner |
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shoesan uncommon
Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 641 Location: PA

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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:26 am GMT Post subject: |
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Yeah, in our game, I made the mistake of taking the frontier 8 instead of sending my troops to where you were. My army wanted to fight, but I couldn't say no to the 8. _________________ Shoe |
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dproman common Rep Dragon
Joined: 16 Mar 2008 Posts: 326 Location: Vancouver, WA

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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:03 am GMT Post subject: Number of dice in a "complete" army? |
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There is another thread (or 2) on the forum about what the perfect sized collection is. For me, I would eventually like to have a collection similar to Cliff's, but for now I have a 'demo' set that I use to show off the game and allow new players/collectors to try out almost every die in the game. My demo set is 2 (r), 3 (u), 6 (c), 1 (m) in each class, in each race. I have all of the expansion dice represented (Magic Items, Artifacts, Hybrid Dragons, Acolytes, Dragonkin and even a King's die). I carry this set around in a fishing tackle box (on a small hand-truck). I think the 'demo' set is a practical one that could be achieved fairly easily (although it might take a little time and luck to acquire the Ormyrr, Magi, Ogre, Inferno, Unseelie Faerie, but it'll be worth it). I use it at shows to demonstrate the diversity and the many options available for all kinds of play-styles.
I hope this helps,
Dave _________________ Rep (director) |
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