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So right now stripping and repainting my Vindicator, IT dies to fast. I figures its the cruddy paint job i have on it.
I also always mutter a short pray before each roll.
So how superstitious are you when it comes to games.

I don't think its superstitious to believe that Tzeentch hates me when I play a daemons list with Tzeentch daemons in it, I've never had a kill with a tzeentch daemon.
Gork and Mork are all about clobberin' they don't really care who does or recieves the clobberin' just as long as there is clobberin'.
And don't get me started on the dice gods (aka Tzeentch).
I've never felt like repainting a model that underperforms or dies every game. I have multiple squads that are painted different so I can just swap troops out if I feel they under perform.
Have you recently gotten the vindi? One of the unwritten rules in miniatures is that the shiniest, newest model has to be blooded a few games (hazing is mean and ugly, even in plastic army men). My converted deffdread was killed the first turn I ever played him. That was my friend's sole purpose in the game. I fear playing my stompa against him.
So no, I'm not superstitious at all, I KNOW Tzeentch wants me to fail he is the changer of ways (although he hasn't changed my losing ways)

Not at all.. Generally cant stand talk about dice or rituals or anything else like that. Dice can be mathematically incorrect but that's it and also I've found that superstition tends to slow down a person's ability to be a better player since losses can be blamed on random things instead of being outplayed

Of course probability still matters, but during a game each person should have more or less the same dice results however the other player may have the results be at more important times. Rolling 3 6s might not matter for difficult terrain but it sure does for trying to hit with meltas. Perception is what is skewed often, not the "dice gods"

I have had it for 5 years.

My die refuse to let me go first in a game.

I have a few little superstitions.

The biggest is that I always wear headphones around my neck during a tournament. Ostensibly, I can listen to music between rounds, but they bring me luck in the games too, I can't explain it.

To paraphase someone at Tau Online some years back- "Before each game I cover myself in melted dice plastic while dancing around a fire, singing hymns to the Dice Gods."

Everything but my dice I'm not superstitious with.

I keep my die in the first dice box I ever purchased (7 years ago!), and always ask to take an opponent's die when I defeat them. I give them one of mine, of course, but when I'm rolling the trophies of my conquests, I feel safer from the wrath of the gods,

hotsauceman1 wrote:I have had it for 5 years.

Then no amount of paint jobs will save it. Its machine spirit is dead. Bring it on by Crazy Mekzod's Mek Shop for a fair trade (we getz your tank and gets our choppa in yer 'ead)

Is it the only one in your lists? Its a big nasty threat that people won't let live, that's probably the real reason, unless of course you immobilize it in terrain and don't get LOS on anything, then blame Tzeentch.

Well its only been played in 4-5 games.

I'm not superstitious at all, too scientifically minded for that.

Howard A Treesong wrote:I'm not superstitious at all, too scientifically minded for that.

Same.

Howard A Treesong wrote:I'm not superstitious at all, too scientifically minded for that.

I'd like to think this about myself, but I get angry when things sway too far outside of normal distribution.

I have a block of Chessex Teal 12mm x 36 and a GW blue dice cube.The teal dice are OK, but the blue are terrible. What doesn't help is that one of my usual opponents uses the same blue dice and gets better rolls. I picked up some new GW paint and added a block of Chessex Purple 12mm x 36 to the order to hopefully improve my rolls. I'm also planning on starting a Dark Elves WHFB army with a purple and teal colour scheme so I wanted matching dice.

I believe in painting karma.
If it's painted it does a better job on the battlefield. ^^

But that's as far as it goes. I have no sort of superstition concerning my dice.

I soak my dice for thee moons in the blood of virgin lambs, and all it ever does is make them roll 1's

Johnny-Crass wrote:I soak my dice for thee moons in the blood of virgin lambs, and all it ever does is make them roll 1's

You're doing it wrong. Lamb blood is for 1's. You need virgin goat blood for 6's.


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Oh, but in order to avoid looking suspicious, I suggest chicken's blood. That gives you 5's

daedalus wrote:

Howard A Treesong wrote:I'm not superstitious at all, too scientifically minded for that.

I'd like to think this about myself, but I get angry when things sway too far outside of normal distribution.

It's certainly frustrating, especially when it happens several times, in short succession, but that's all it is. There's no higher power. We've had these threads before and what I've drawn from them is that a lot of people fall for very common misconceptions regarding statistics and probability. Confirmation bias and the Gambler's Fallacy explain a lot of behaviour culminating in some bizarre routines that people here have claimed 'that really work'.

I think the worst game of MTG I played was the final of a two headed giant in which I went through nearly half of a 40 card deck and only got two land, and there was 15 in there. That sticks out in my mind as just being ridiculous because the deck was well mixed over the course of the evening and then somehow a shuffle and cut of the deck stacked all the land at the bottom. Ugh. But the problem is that it sticks in your mind and the brain attributes too much weighting to it. Not accepting that it just was 'luck of the draw' could lead to blaming the dice or the way I was sitting, etc. It's just probability expressing an outside result.

Not to say that dice don't have a bias, but that's a different matter. You can determine that accurately, if it exists. Most gaming 'superstitions' are not arrived at through a scientific test of the conditions. If you know your dice have a bias, that's just cheating.

I'm not superstitious at all.


... as long as you aren't trying to use my dice. : )


Eric

My only real superstitions involve dice.

If a dice falls off the table, I roll a different one instead.

All of my dice must match the color scheme of the army being used.

Each army has it's own set of dice.

No one uses my dice except myself, my sons, and my wife. Get your sweaty hands off my precious'.

I've contemplated melting a die or two that fail an important roll, just so that the others know what not to do.

Not exactly a superstition but. If a dice is rolling well I'll use it till it doesn't then switch dice. Riding the hot streaks. Other than that nothing.

I don't really have any major superstitions when it comes to gaming, though I will sometimes stop using a die for a game if it rolls incredibly poorly (like when my artillery in FoW required a 4+ to range in, with 3 attempts, and failed to range in on 2 turns in a row, about a 1% chance of that happening )

Not really.

The only real universal constant is "New Model Syndrome", that being the law that dictates any new model you've just bought and constructed will die before it can do anything, usually on the first turn.

Beyond that, I have a strange inability to hit with Lascannons, but only when they are singular Lascannons. 4 Lascannons in a unit? No issue. 4 squads each with 1 Lascannon? Four misses, every turn. I don't know why.

20 years ago I went to a catholic church, stole some holy water and immersed a d20 in it. The "holy die" never failed to crit when the crit was needed. My friends gave HolyDie to the dog to chew on and when that failed they smashed it with a hammer.

A couple of weeks ago I finally benched my pretty Chessex boxOdice because they literally roll 17% worse than they should (srsly if 3.5 is the average on a d6, mine was 2.5). Since then new Chessex boxOdice are 20% cooler (quote), but I never let anyone take them out of their box besides me. Inc HolyWater.

And I can't hit gak with that multi melta I buy for my land raider. Never ever ever!!

If I hope that the roll lands on 6's or 1's it will land on the opposite. So I only hope for 5's or 2's now.

Not at all. I'm too handsome to be superstitious.

Chowderhead wrote:Everything but my dice I'm not superstitious with.

I keep my die in the first dice box I ever purchased (7 years ago!), and always ask to take an opponent's die when I defeat them. I give them one of mine, of course, but when I'm rolling the trophies of my conquests, I feel safer from the wrath of the gods,

I actually love this idea. I wish I would have thought of it when I started keeping track of my W/L a couple of months ago...I may go back to the people I beat and try to collect some trophies...that's epic....

Aerethan wrote:My only real superstitions involve dice.

If a dice falls off the table, I roll a different one instead.

All of my dice must match the color scheme of the army being used.

Each army has it's own set of dice.

No one uses my dice except myself, my sons, and my wife. Get your sweaty hands off my precious'.

1. Yes, though I always grab the die that fell off of the table right away (because I'm more paranoid about losing it forever)

2. and 3. YES. Non-coordinating dice always roll poorer. The color scheme of my Necrons is green and gold, so I use a green brick of dice and a gold brick of dice.

4. YES YES YES. I never use anyone else's dice and I never let anyone (other than a teammate) use my dice.



Other than that, I'm not superstitious at all. I play against a guy who literally has 18 bricks of dice so that, if need be, he can use a different brick during each phase of each turn if the previous brick has failed him in some way.

I do # 2 and #3 because it makes my armies feel more professional and classy. You have dice that match the color scheme of your army.. it just feels better.

I don't really have superstitions, other than the necklace of shrunken heads I wear, all of which are fashioned from my defeated opponents.

Chowderhead wrote:Everything but my dice I'm not superstitious with.

I keep my die in the first dice box I ever purchased (7 years ago!), and always ask to take an opponent's die when I defeat them. I give them one of mine, of course, but when I'm rolling the trophies of my conquests, I feel safer from the wrath of the gods,

That would be interesting. Wouldn't mind swapping a die every now and then.

Anyway my personal supersition is Crown Royal bags. My dice always travel in them. They just seem to roll better then any other bag, tin, box, etc. What's really funny is as a DM my fellow players made me stop using my dice because they will go on a short streak of miss, miss, miss, then crit and confirm with a 20....and kill someone. They even gave me a staff they keep notching everytime I kill someone...But it's hilarious now because if I start that miss streak everyone begins to cringe like they are playing russian roulette. So yeah...when I DM now I use a bucket...every now and then...hahahahaha...ahem...

As far as 40k goes the first time I put the dice in a CR bag my old Eldar army went and won a RT tourny.

So bottom line. Dice go in a Crown Royal bag, wheter its Chessex, GW, or just some d6 gaming dice. I will not transport them anyother way.