Flatline wrote on Apr 2, 2010, 16:49:
You're playing a n00b team I can tell. The game does feel that way until you start leveling up your team. The block skill is vital. On your example, the "both down" wouldn't knock you down and you'd get to continue.
It's not so much as the whole game feels that way, it's more the freak occurrence. And it's also not so much my team affecting it, it's the CPU rolling quite literally nine natural 5's (ie before modifier) in a row, as documented by the log window.
The attack example I used was just to illustrate the crap quality of my dice rolls in comparison...
As for block, it has generally second or third on my list of upgrades. (I've just been playing a single player Chaos army and get 'Hideous Appearance' as my first up, purely for flavour reasons.

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Note: I played the crap out of my red box copy (effectively v1.0 of the rules) and all but gave up when the first styrofoam-board version came out. The game feels a bit dumbed down from what I remember(probably just age kicking in...) but it's still loads of fun.