So you’re saying I’m lucky for hitting 7 techs with a single die in my first couple of 1940 games? :-D (See the playboardgames forums - there’s proof)
I’ve hit 7 out of approximately 10-12 attempts. Apparently my sacrifices to the dice gods are the kind they like.
I still say you can’t win if you don’t play. The only sure thing is that you definitely will not get a tech if you never put 5 IPC’s down to get one.
Allweneed, I’m hoping to post J1 tonight (if I didn’t already tell you - I think that I did)
And thanks for the responses, allweneed and Chillos. I think that you are right, but like I said without sitting down and thinking hard about it for a couple minutes, I wasn’t sure (that expected average time to hit a 6 would be right around the 6th roll)
Finally, I will make the point that tech was never intended to be a “good strategic investment”, so arguing that it’s not is kind of misguided effort. Tech is there to give you a competitive advantage over your opponent (and for fun). It’s also the ONLY possible way to instantly power up your units all over the board, and that means buying units are not a good comparison against it (in other words, you’re not comparing apples to apples).