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vexillia	19 Nov 2014 4:12 a.m. PST
Latest post: Graham & I were sat in the pub yesterday having our regular post game debrief when I asked Graham what turned out to be a key question: did he win by luck or better strategy? As we all know this is the perfect topic for a chat over a pint or two but this time it was different. Firstly because it lead to an second discussion about rolling "good, or bad, dice at crucial moments" and secondly because we'd recorded every dice roll in the game. More … -- Martin Stephenson The Waving Flag \| Twitter \| eBay
Gunfreak	19 Nov 2014 8:51 a.m. PST
Intresting. Can you win a game with perfect tactics and stragetgy even if you only get bad dice rolls?
vexillia	19 Nov 2014 11:15 a.m. PST
Can you win a game with perfect tactics and strategy even if you only get bad dice rolls? There's always room for genius. ;-) -- Martin Stephenson The Waving Flag \| Twitter \| eBay
Marshal Mark	19 Nov 2014 11:23 a.m. PST
You make some good points, and I agree about players who blame their losses on bad luck not learning from their mistakes. I believe you make your own luck. If you play well you can suffer a little bad luck and not come out too badly, but if you play badly then the instances of bad luck really hurt you. I then looked at your last blog post prior to this, only to find a photo of me! Aargh!
Vespasian28	20 Nov 2014 10:21 a.m. PST
Can you win a game with perfect tactics and stragetgy even if you only get bad dice rolls? No. I once played a game where someone was watching what we were up to and he said afterwards: "I could see how your tactics were working and you had your opponent completely out manoeuvered but then you had to start rolling dice and that's when it came apart" About par for the course in my world.

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