Re: Tanks vs. APCs

Worst series of die rolls I ever encountered was for initiative rolls in

FASA's Interceptor. Fortunately I wasn't the one rolling the dice. My 
opponent lost initiative for 11 consecutive turns over three games. So
we 
started keeping track; over the next 38 turns played, he had initiative 
TWICE. Making his record 2/49. We were even adding modifiers and started

giving him the ties (well, tie). My own personal gremlins show up in
SFB, I 
can NOT hit reliably with heavy weapons against my regular opponent, who

rolls well above average with his own.

At 08:48 AM 2/1/00 -0600, you wrote:

>***
> > Beth, you *really* don't know the true power of the Kochte Field, or
>you'd
> > know that the same thing that forces a '1' when rolling for Pulse
Torp
>hits
> > also insists on making the dice roll '6' when checking for
thresholds . .
>.
>
>Mark is fairly accurate in this statement. I roll a bit above average
>when doing Threshold Checks. :-/
>***
>
>Very true, though I've discovered that I seem to have been inflicted
with a
>version of the field that manifests a diminishing retarder I'll humbly
>call,
>*ahem*, the Evans Dampening Effect, where the field fails to effect the
>dice
>outcomes at initial play, but increasingly does so effect with each
>subsequent
>play of a particular game.
>
>The unscientific call it 'beginners luck', but it can show bizarre
effects
>that are entirely opposing what the die roller considers 'good'. I've
been
>at a point in a game where I'm so hosed, I'd just like die gracefully
and
>try
>something else. Of course, impossible dice rolls keep me barely in the
>game.
>
>The_Beast