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We're only 2 missions (Aftermath and then the Rebel Saboteur side mission) into our campaign and I'm already seeing the benefits of some of the upgraded/powers I've grabbed for my characters Diala is slowly becoming scary between her natural reach and a pierce upgrade i manged to buy her, combining that with Precise Strike and most things either don't get the chance to roll a defense or i break through what little defense they roll for big damage. She also ends up taking the brunt of the damage so having the ability to re-roll is pretty nice. Jyn between all of her movement passives means she can get just about anywhere in the map i need her to be. But i do need to work on remembering to use her Snap Shot ability for free damage. How are the other heroes working out for everybody? I briefly considered bringing along Argus (the movement increasing guy) but so far I'm glad i ended up choosing 2 fairly good attackers
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The Star Wars Dice app got an update adding Armada and Imperial Assault dice. Nice to see the support continuing there.
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jivjov posted:The Star Wars Dice app got an update adding Armada and Imperial Assault dice. Nice to see the support continuing there. Is it worth $5? I thought about picking it up, but was appalled (APPALLED I SAY!) that they were asking that much when I can get most complete games for, like, $1.99. Also, is using it for X-Wing considered 'tournament legal'?
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Jan 12, 2015 16:29
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Obama 2012 posted:Is it worth $5? I thought about picking it up, but was appalled (APPALLED I SAY!) that they were asking that much when I can get most complete games for, like, $1.99. I don't know if it is or not, but I would probably hand an opponent some of my extra dice instead of trying to squint at their phone every time they rolled.
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Jan 12, 2015 16:31
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Obama 2012 posted:Is it worth $5? I thought about picking it up, but was appalled (APPALLED I SAY!) that they were asking that much when I can get most complete games for, like, $1.99. Eh, "worth it" is really subjective, based on how you feel about digital dice in general; I personally really prefer tactile dice, but I did get some use out of the app before I got my 2nd X-Wing core set/extra RPG dice. It's a well designed app, has a bit of Star Wars-y flavor to it, so it's not a ripoff by any means. And yeah, if you're using the official app, I believe that it's tourney legal. (Although like the other goon said, probably not preferred/ideal).
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Jan 12, 2015 18:22
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I haven't used the app yet. If it actually summarizes the outcome of a later-game large handful of the RPG dice (three red, two purple, two yellow, one green, two blue, and two black [12 dice!] could be pretty commonplace for higher-level characters), I think it would be worth $5 no matter how many dice I own.
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Jan 12, 2015 18:37
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I have it and it can cancel symbols for you, there is an option for it in the app. Lots of silly sounds that I disable but it's a solid dice roller. Hell it even has the big 7 polyhedral dice so you can use it for other games.
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Jan 12, 2015 20:11
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A dude I played against had an iPad mini running the dice app at worlds. Totally legal, easy to see, but it just felt weird/wrong to play him when I was using my own dice. It just felt like he was cheating. I blame his 
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Jan 12, 2015 20:22
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One of my buddies poo-poos the app bc he says it doesn't actually roll randomly enough or something. Anyone heard/experienced this?
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Jan 15, 2015 02:05
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head58 posted:One of my buddies poo-poos the app bc he says it doesn't actually roll randomly enough or something. Anyone heard/experienced this? i'm pretty excited to hear what he bases this on 
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Jan 15, 2015 02:09
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the pitiful cries of a man who doesn't understand probability.
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Jan 15, 2015 02:09
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No, he's a statistician and def understands probability. I think it was some review he read that suggested it.
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Jan 15, 2015 02:41
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head58 posted:No, he's a statistician and def understands probability. I think it was some review he read that suggested it. Unless he's also a programmer that decompiled the app, he's just speculating about the how's Also, I would argue that regardless, the app is "random enough" and that imperfections in the dice manufacturing process have more or less the same impact on the physical dice randomness that the phone randomizer has
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Jan 15, 2015 02:47
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head58 posted:One of my buddies poo-poos the app bc he says it doesn't actually roll randomly enough or something. Anyone heard/experienced this? Never play games with people like this.
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Jan 15, 2015 03:03
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Are we talking about the X-Wing app? Because I think there was a problem with that in the first release. I could be misremembering though.
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Jan 15, 2015 05:26
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Just got an email from Amazon that moved my delivery date of the Armada core set from end of April to the beginning of March
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Jan 15, 2015 14:54
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:Just got an email from Amazon that moved my delivery date of the Armada core set from end of April to the beginning of March Mine went from May 5 to mid-March, and the game is now up again on Amazon with a photo, but you can't add it to cart
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NTRabbit posted:Mine went from May 5 to mid-March, and the game is now up again on Amazon with a photo, but you can't add it to cart Yeah I got the same message from Amazon with the same dates. There is a buy again button in my order details but as I don't need to by it again I'm to afraid to press it just for science.
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Jan 15, 2015 21:56
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Some Armada spoilers for the Star Destroyers: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=5325
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Tekopo posted:Some Armada spoilers for the Star Destroyers: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=5325 Interesting and powerful options for commanders outside of Tarkin
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Jan 19, 2015 15:43
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loving game needs to come out right now and not in march 
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Jan 19, 2015 15:55
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Tekopo posted:Some Armada spoilers for the Star Destroyers: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=5325 The most interesting part of this, for me, was this bit: "The blue attack die has no blank faces, and the red and black attack dice have only two blank faces each." After playing a good bit of X-Wing and being incredibly annoyed whenever nothing but blanks come up, this has me incredibly excited.
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Jan 19, 2015 19:26
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The ability to manipulate crits, and having choices from equipment sounds really awesome too. Taking away those tokens sounds pretty neat. I'm seriously excited for the game at this point.
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re: statistics chat, it's hard to know whether the dice app is "truly" random without decompiling it. From my own experience, RNG's for lotteries (like Keno, for example) use a number as a 'seed' followed by a complex algorithm in order to generate a random number. If someone theoretically knew the algorithm, then they would be able to derive the seed used and would give them an advantage in picking the right number. Seeds are changed every day or week or something in order to prevent this kind of cheating. Personally, I've seen this criticism of "dice roll apps" before, where it is claimed that this "seeding" can create an unfair bias towards certain numbers. I have yet to have seen any proof to this effect, and really it's going to be heavily dependent on the written program as their are programs in existence which can actually claim to be truly random through some fair complex programming and statistical techniques, of which I am not familiar with/learned. Without having conducted tests, I really don't think that a statistically significant difference would exist between real dice and the dice rolling app. The take home point here is that if you think you lost because your opponent is using a sanction dice rolling app, then you are terrible please don't play traditional games, tia
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Can't wait to see how long it takes the first super spergs to hack an official dice app and try to win a tournament. real talk: I think it's just a psychological issue for most people. An app is a black box and seeing the actual dice rolled is perceived as more legit because we know what's going on.
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the panacea posted:Can't wait to see how long it takes the first super spergs to hack an official dice app and try to win a tournament. Yeah, that's a legitimate (if perhaps... paranoid) concern, I think you're within your rights to request that you be allowed make your dice rolls on their app too
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The problem with apps isn't the lack of clarity in the "black box" and visceral feel of dice - it's that the screen is so small it's more of a hindrance than help.
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Chill la Chill posted:The problem with apps isn't the lack of clarity in the "black box" and visceral feel of dice - it's that the screen is so small it's more of a hindrance than help. And everyone should have dice from their base set anyway. Unless you don't have hands there's no real reason to use the app
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Chill la Chill posted:The problem with apps isn't the lack of clarity in the "black box" and visceral feel of dice - it's that the screen is so small it's more of a hindrance than help. I find my phone keeps going to sleep, has to be unlocked etc when I try to use it as a gaming aid. ipad would be a size annoyance, if I need to have it sitting out for my opponent to see
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I can't wait to hear of some sausage fingers dropping a phone or tablet because it was being passed around for a dice app. Now I wouldn't care if someone was in charge and just read the results, but that's not practical in tournaments and too many people want to press the button even if it gives the same results.
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In a game like 40k where you a rolling mountains of dice, yeah I can understand. X-Wing doesn't really roll that much dice at once anyway so  Anyway, my post was more commenting on why some people feel uneasy regarding dice apps.
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I bought Imperial Assault and am very excited about playing it. I also will probably be buying into Armada, and have considered really getting into X-Wing. This is my life now, and I have learned to accept it.
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Jan 21, 2015 06:11
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Clockwork Gadget posted:I bought Imperial Assault and am very excited about playing it. If you end up buying the X-COM board game as well our lives will be one and the same buddy 
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Jan 21, 2015 08:28
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So far I've resisted the urge to buy imperial assault, mainly because I already have descent.
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Jan 21, 2015 11:41
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I've had IA for two weeks now and couldn't even find the time to unpack it yet. 
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Played Imperial Assault and it is entirely my jam, if not the jam of the people I usually game with but hey friends are replaceable, tactical combat in star wars is forever.
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Is there some kind of team option for Skirmish mode? Otherwise there is no way to do a "quick game" with more than 2 players. This is all baring in mind that i haven't even looked at the skirmish book yet since i love campaign mode and haven't done anything else so far
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I haven't goofed off with skirmish mode, but man, it's a hard sell for others to buy in. So, I have IA, and therefore most of my buddies don't need to buy it because, hey, I have it already. No big deal. If one of my buddies wants in on Skirmish mode, he's in for not a treat, as he buys the core game, and STILL needs to buy Han, Chewie, Rebel Troops, General Weiss, etc. The game is great as a campaign system, but I'm confused as to how multiple people in a single playgroup justified each buying a core. Maybe I tell one buddy he can play the Rebels/Imperials/whoever I'm not playing, and the next buddy to pair off? I don't know.
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Yeah theres a local game store trying to do a skirmish type tournament with everyone buying a core good luck with that
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To go along with the Imperial ship preview earlier, there is now a preview of the Rebel Ships for Star Wars: Armada.
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