for a 40k game, how many dice do you take with you?

Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you:

No adverts like this in the forums anymore.
Times and dates in your local timezone.
Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance.
Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely.
Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net.

If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

**Captain Solon**

Bit of a weird question, but I've been wondering, how many dice do you take for a game of 40k.

I feel it's just always good to have extra.

If the polls don't have your answer put it down!

**warpcrafter**

I once charged a unit of terminators with 30 Boyz and a Warboss. They were packed in there so close that I got 96 attacks. It was glorious rolling that many dice at once. However, the boyz only killed one terminator, leaving it to the nob and Warboss to finish the job with their powerklaws, which they fortunately did. Needless to say, I still drag along with me a great big bag of dice.

**Randomonioum**

With the people I play, we generally bring one of the blocks of dice from the GW each, and it is enough. If we need more, then we use the house dice if we play at the store, or if its at home, then a tray of other dice is used. The block has 25 normal dice, plus scatter, plus one I can't fathom the use for. So with two players, thats 50 dice, 4 players, 100, 6, 150, and so on. We very rarely even need to borrow from each other! Barring, of course, the tyranid player...

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Worst comes to worst, you can roll the attacks in halfs, quarters, or even one by one! As long as you note it down somewhere.

**Shovan**

I usually take my two sets of 36 dice with me with the scatter die.

**Ursa**

For me it depends upon which army Im playing with:

Marines and Guard
8 larger dice (red, clear, craps size)
36 standard sized dice (pink)
30 smaller dice (clear pink)
4 scatter dice (white w/blue #s)
For back up I do carry a GW cube with 2 scatter dice and 4 different colors in groups of six.

If Im playing Orks I bring two full cubes of bone white GW (with the artillery die replaced with another regular die). For a total of 52.

Plus the multi colored cube (for special weapons in mass rollings).

Tau I bring 72 dark blue clear, but that is going to change since my new tau army is going to be yellow so I will pick up 72 yellow smalls.

Btw a trick for ya'll who go to conventions and tournaments. If you dont want you dice to disappear pick up Pink dice. I have been going to tourneys and conventions for 24 years and kept getting my dice stolen. Then as a joke a friend got me pink dice and 10 years later I still have those dice.

"Real men use pink dice!"

**Captain Solon**

wow. I take 20 red black blue, (60) 10 green yellow pink (30) and about 30 more miscellaneous, and about 3 scatter dice.

It's never been overkill, and I'm used to firing 2 lascannons and a heavy bolter per turn.

**MekanobSamael**

Around sixty six-siders in various colors. Good for most combined arms fire.

**Samus_aran115**

I just take 10 and a scatter. I don't wanna lose them, so 10 is easy to keep track of. When I buy a dice cube I'll use that though. Too lazy right now

**Anpu42**

They need to be
10+
30+
100+

**MorbidlyObeseMonkey**

I bring around 40. Mostly white, some red and blue. Two scatter dice as well.

**Brother SRM**

With my Marines, I use 12 big blue dice and a scatter die. With my Orks and Guard, I have a set of 50 average sized green dice, and a scatter die. Marines usually roll neatly into 12s (IE - a tac squad rapid fires 14 shots, 10 of the initial 12 hit, so I just reroll those two misses for 14) and you never know how many dice you'll need for Guard. Nothing like getting First Rank Fire on a 20-man blob in rapid fire range.

**Fafnir**

Just a cube. Red dice, because red dice are 3 times more likely to roll a 6 than their non-red counterparts.

**Captain Idaeus**

I have a cube that holds dice and doubles as one, and like 30 neutrally colored dice.

I also always bring a freshly painted model to sacrifice to the dice gods...

**Dracos**

For my space marines, I bring:

-20 white dice
-6 blue dice
-8 red dice
-4 green dice
-2 black dice
-a few scatter, but only take 1 out of the bag
-1 large clear die to act as the turn tracker

edit: I even consistently roll the same types of rolls with each colour

white is for bolter/heavy bolter/normal marine CC attacks +saves
blue is for assault cannon/lightning claw attacks +saves
red is for flamer/missile launcher/ thunder hammer attacks +saves
green is for all things librarian/melta
black are for wound tracking

**bforber**

I bring about 80.

Combined infantry squads + First rank fire second rank fire = lots of rolling.

**Darkness**

I take the GW dice cube that includes a scatter and a few differant colored ones. Works out perfect.

**Borkin**

Usually 30ish odd dice, and 2 scatters.

**Vindicator#9**

Exactly 85 dice. 2dice cubes of small dice with 36, 1 cube of 12 bigger dice, and a scatter die. I use alot of my dice to mark wrecks, weapon destroyed, shaken, and stunned results. Plus i use them to mark what has fired their weapons + whatever else happens to them like doom or other things that affect my squad.

**Lord of battles**

One small gw dice box (which in it self is a die)

**Xca|iber**

I've got a dice cube and the AoBR white dice, so 31 normal dice, 2 scatters, and that 2xD6 die that 40k doesn't use.

My friend has his own dice cube (and some other dice), so when he's around (which is every game...) we have around 60 dice.

**Skarboy**

Dunno how many. At least 70+ in at least 7 or 8 different colors and sizes. I play orks primarily and it saves a lot of time to have different dice for choppas, big choppas, burnas, and power klaws at all once, for example.

**Locclo**

About 60 - my first block of dice I bought from the FLGS, the Crown Royal bag of 27 wolfhead dice I ordered from Chessex, and the handful of random d6s that I keep assimilating from the gaming floor. And exactly one scatter die, which does its job proudly of scattering all over the bloody table when I need it.

**Nightwatch**

108 Black and Gold Dice so I can show everyone who's boss.
14 white dice in case my friends need extras.
6 green dice because no one has green dice anymore.
2 scatter dice because one scatter die is never enough.
1 of those weird dice with the funky numbers and the Assplosion marker because it looks cool to roll 12s sometimes.

**SoloFalcon1138**

I am a gamer from waaay back, and it was always a sign of age/experience/age to have as many dice as possible. Plus, I don't trust my dice to roll the same way twice, so I am constantly switching dice to ward off the evil spirits of ones!

**zane2131**

As many as i and another person can carry in our backpacks, boxes, pockets, and trailer of a semi truck. (I play orks)

**Infneon**

Probably about 100 in a variety of colours, speeds up throwing master crafted Thunder Hammers and the like

**Luna Havoc**

Randomonioum wrote:With the people I play, we generally bring one of the blocks of dice from the GW each, and it is enough. If we need more, then we use the house dice if we play at the store, or if its at home, then a tray of other dice is used. The block has 25 normal dice, plus scatter, plus one I can't fathom the use for. So with two players, thats 50 dice, 4 players, 100, 6, 150, and so on. We very rarely even need to borrow from each other! Barring, of course, the tyranid player...

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Worst comes to worst, you can roll the attacks in halfs, quarters, or even one by one! As long as you note it down somewhere.

that one random i think is used in fantasy.