Thoughts on the die | Batavia

Ben Bateson

(ousgg)

United Kingdom
Ross-on-Wye

Owner of original 'crappy art' GtR and pleased about it.

It seems to me that the one weakness in this game is the die. Auctioning off one card this round and six next time is a very unbalanced experience, and doesn't help the money-management aspect of the game at all.

I can understand WHY the designer wanted it to be random, but I can't help feeling that an 'average' d6 numbered 2,3,3,4,4,5 would work better.

Any agreement?

Posted Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:58 pm
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Alexander Portland

(Bundyman)

Germany
Worms

Indeed this is more in thoughts of a good players game. It could works well also with rolling 2 dice and substract the numbers from them. If the dice shows equal numbers, then you can choose the amount of auctionated cards from 1 to 5. In that case, you draw one card after another and decide after every card to stop the drawing.

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Posted Sun Dec 25, 2011 8:21 pm
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Stefano Crespi

(theruler)

Italy
Bologna
Italy

ousgg wrote:

It seems to me that the one weakness in this game is the die. Auctioning off one card this round and six next time is a very unbalanced experience, and doesn't help the money-management aspect of the game at all.

I am not an experienced player, but I don't see the problem.

Anyway, 2d3?

Posted Mon Dec 26, 2011 8:06 pm
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Carsten Loehn

(thyl)

Germany

ousgg wrote:

It seems to me that the one weakness in this game is the die. Auctioning off one card this round and six next time is a very unbalanced experience, and doesn't help the money-management aspect of the game at all.

I can understand WHY the designer wanted it to be random, but I can't help feeling that an 'average' d6 numbered 2,3,3,4,4,5 would work better.

Any agreement?

I totally agree. I´ve already bought such a die especially for the game.^^

Posted Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:18 pm
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Ben Bateson

(ousgg)

United Kingdom
Ross-on-Wye

Owner of original 'crappy art' GtR and pleased about it.

Yes, so have I now.

Posted Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:19 pm
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