| Winston Smith | 23 Jun 2018 3:47 a.m. PST |
How preposterous. Of course not.
If so, what's the point if rolling dice? |
| advocate | 23 Jun 2018 3:55 a.m. PST |
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Skeets  | 23 Jun 2018 5:06 a.m. PST |
What is the point of playing a historical scenario if you only want the same historical result to occur? |
| Frederick | 23 Jun 2018 6:53 a.m. PST |
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 23 Jun 2018 10:16 a.m. PST |
What is the point of playing a historical scenario if, due to crazy luck, you get some completely ahistorical result?  |
| 79thPA | 23 Jun 2018 10:54 a.m. PST |
Why would you bother to play? |
| robert piepenbrink | 23 Jun 2018 10:59 a.m. PST |
If you've already decided there is only one acceptable outcome, why are you playing the game? Bill, I know you struggle a bit with the whole "historical" thing. Two points:
1. It's sometimes helpful to come to the scenario "late"--that is, start the game after some defining decision or event--to see what the options were then.
2. If you get, by die rolls or other random system, an UNLIKELY result--well, no doubt some historical outcomes were unlikely. If your rules can produce an IMPOSSIBLE result, instead of carping about the die roll, you need to get new rules. |
| Covert Walrus | 23 Jun 2018 5:46 p.m. PST |
I've put that it's ridiculous, however it is still common among Napoleonic players here in NZ |
 Parzival | 23 Jun 2018 6:26 p.m. PST |
Never. And it's also ridiculous. |
| robert piepenbrink | 23 Jun 2018 6:36 p.m. PST |
I've been playing Napoleonics since Nixon's first term. Never saw such a thing. Never even heard tell of it before. |
| Rakkasan | 24 Jun 2018 4:33 a.m. PST |
I've been almost as long as Robert. I have never had a game called or dice re-rolled because someone felt the result was not historically correct. In my gaming past I have seen Lee won at Gettysburg, Rorke's Drift fall to the Zulus, the Germans break out of Stalingrad, and Zama end in a draw. |
 miniMo | 25 Jun 2018 8:44 a.m. PST |
Why, that would be like playing a game of Historical Re-Enactors! |
| John the Greater | 25 Jun 2018 8:11 p.m. PST |
The whole point of historical scenarios is to see if the players can come up with a different result. For example: Are you better than Scipio or was Hannibal doomed to fail? |
| Old Contemptibles | 26 Jun 2018 11:58 a.m. PST |
Remember Avalon Hill; "You can change history" If not then it is a reenactment not a game. Like W. said why roll dice? |
