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I personally would love it because my rolls are so terrible that I would do great.

For example, my last game I lost 6 marines to Ork shootas because I failed 6 out of the 7 3+ saves.

mightymconeshot wrote:
I personally would love it because my rolls are so terrible that I would do great.

I LOL'd at that

I can definitely relate.

The issue for me is it starts to feel like THAC0. When you want to roll low there is a natural limit to how low you can roll before things get weird and you start factoring in negatives. When you have to roll high you can always add more.

Wasn't there a thing in 7th on the Gathering storm table that reversed all rolls so 6's we 1's etc?

I remember Miniwargaming playing a game with it an hilarity ensued.

I don't like any of the choices. If the designers just flipped the rolls for no apparent reason, I'd probably quit at least for awhile due to the silliness of the change. I have no problem with targeting low or high rolls or a game having an arbitrary mix, but I don't like change for the sake of change.

There are usually only 3 dice rolls that matter. Who goes first and the 2d6 charge roll to tie up the gunline.

 koooaei wrote:
There are usually only 3 dice rolls that matter. Who goes first and the 2d6 charge roll to tie up the gunline.

if that was really the case no one would care about Gulliman's re-roll aura would they?

yeah. It really doesn't matter that much for an assault army. You either make an unlikely charge (because you need to kill bauble wrap first) and you get a chance of winning or you don't and you don't. There's not much else you can do cause there are no tactical possibilities in the game.