Yes, bad dice can be part of the game. They can also ruin a game. If you’re always lucky with the dice or always unlucky with the dice in a game it ruins the fun.
good dice rolls beat good tactics
unfortunately is true. However, Low Luck still uses the dice, it just reduces the luck factor by allowing you to strategically place units, buy the right units and prepare for counter attacks. LL makes it more like chess. ADS makes it more like Yahtzee.
Point:
2 German Fighters, 1 German Submarine vs one British Battleship (2h):
Battleship damaged, all attackers destroyed. YAHTZEE!!!
9 Infantry attacking 2 infantry:
1 defender killed, all attackers killed. YAHTZEE
Eventually you have to sit there and say what are the odds?
Personally, I like the idea of keeping all the odds open. So I’d say, with the online calculators out there, figure out the odds of success and failure then roll 1d100. Speaking of which, I always wanted to see if the dicey could handle other dice, so I’m going to test it below.
Percentile Dice
Rolling 1 100-sided dice:
20
D20
Rolling 1 20-sided dice:
10
D10
Rolling 1 10-sided dice:
10
D8
Rolling 1 8-sided dice:
8
D4
Rolling 1 4-sided dice:
1
D2
Rolling 1 2-sided dice:
1