Hall of Shame - tales of the worst dice ever

In my last game I played as Japan.

The attacking force (ANZAC): 3 FTR
The defending force (Japan): 2 DD, 2 damaged BB, 1 CV + FTR.

Japan won that battle with 1 damaged BB left…

OFC even with this kind of ‘dice-swinery’ the ANZAC worsened it defense of Sydney to be unrepairable so I just muttered a bit about sacrificing goats to the dice-gods knowing Sydney was lost anyway but still… the swinery…

In my last game I played as Japan.

The attacking force (ANZAC): 3 FTR
The defending force (Japan): 2 DD, 2 damaged BB, 1 CV + FTR.

Japan won that battle with 1 damaged BB left…

OFC even with this kind of ‘dice-swinery’ the ANZAC worsened it defense of Sydney to be unrepairable so I just muttered a bit about sacrificing goats to the dice-gods knowing Sydney was lost anyway but still… the swinery…

Thats one in 200 chance for only one bb left, and for anzac even to do such an attack they had to be real desperate.

@ErwinRommel:

Thats one in 200 chance for only one bb left, and for anzac even to do such an attack they had to be real desperate.

If someone would do such a move in TripleA and post that outcome, I would have really strong doubts about honesty and number of re-rolls he did…

Not in my wildest dreams I would dare such a move!

Playing as Japanese, I had a sub get attacked by 1 battleship, 2 destroyers and a cruiser. Sub sank all of them. My friend left the table and went for a walk.

On a side note, the same friend seems to get the worst luck whenever I play with him. Once, he sent all of Germany’s troops from Holland/Belgium and from West Germany to Paris…

And he failed to get a single hit on his first rolls, where-as I got every single roll a hit.

Then, in the same game, he attacked Hong Kong with 2 fighters, 2 tactical bombers, 6 infantry, 4 artillery, plus a battleship bombardment. He lost everything without causing a single casualty. Anyone know the odds of that happening in thee same game?

Yep, we were rolling for 1’s. He must break a lot of mirrors or something… I actually apologize now lol.

@Elrood:

@ErwinRommel:

Thats one in 200 chance for only one bb left, and for anzac even to do such an attack they had to be real desperate.

If someone would do such a move in TripleA and post that outcome, I would have really strong doubts about honesty and number of re-rolls he did…

Not in my wildest dreams I would dare such a move!

That is exactly what I was anticipating with ‘my’ Japanese. And I don’t think my opponent was that desparate, he simply is not that great with statistics and always hopes for the best…

Actually this happend on the second game we played that day. The first game I surrendered after my Germans had ‘won’ the battle of Paris with only 1 ART (I attacked with everything Germany can get there minus all the aircraft: 38 Attack factors), thus lost an additional 6 ARM + 2 ART + 4 MECH more than the ‘expected’ outcome.
  Now that I know this particular opponent a bit better I think I should have continued playing with still a good chance to win because I won the second game by taking Moscow with 50 units after which he surrendered.

I just defended London in a League game.

Attacking force:

17 Infantry
8 Artillery
9 Tanks
4 Fighter
4 Tacticals

42 HP, 96 Power

Defending force:

1 Strategical Bomber
21 Infantry
3 Mechanized Infantry
6 Fighter
5 AAA

36 HP, 73 Power

Expected outcome: +60 TUV swing. 95% win chance

After my AAA completely missed all 8 shots, I had a bad feeling. However, I still managed to win with 6 Fighters remaining.

Outcome: -109 TUV swing.

I offered a LL reroll for free :-)

Does this thread include the mini’s too :-D

I’ve had a couple aircraft carriers sunk by subs.  In the mini game, it takes anywhere from 4-7 hits to sink a CV.  When a sub rolls a 6, that’s two hits against the hull damage.  Once a ships hull damage is reached, she is destroyed.  One memorable event was when my buddy used IJN’s I-19 and I-26, he got to roll 4 dice and got double box cars! That’s 8 hits and enough to snap my USS Hornet in two.

I was playing a game of AAG40 with my friends, and I left holland belgium wide open for the french by mistake.

However, I attacked the 2 inf defending there with 3 tanks.

My tanks did not get a single hit in 2 rounds of dice, and the 4 french inf killed all the tanks.

This is not the “worst dice” EVER, but they scared the crap out of me in my playoff game.

I thought I was running in PBEM mode, but THANK GOD I was only rolling in local mode (I didn’t know that until I tried to post though)

It was a “risky” battle, but it would have been worth it.

Take a look at the attack rolls:

The bombard

Anyone beat this?

@MagicQ:

Anyone beat this?

Hey, that was in your playoff match against me, just a couple of hours ago :-)

Didn’t even look at the numbers (I usually only look at the casualty result in such unimportant battles). Fun to see! :-)

In one game i had CV with 2 fighters (uk) and cruiser and destroyer (fr)
Italy attacked me with bomber, 2 fighter, tac, battleship, destroyer
so he attacked with 3d4, 2d3 and 1d2
i defended 2d4, 1 d3, 2d2

after first round no one had a hit.  :-D

This is an old one from the original Pacific game on the Days of Infamy site.  It down to the wire, and all I had to do was SBR Japan for at least 10 IPCs to reduce its victory point total by 1, as Japan could not earn any more points.  I thought 10 bombers should be enough…

Game # 5169 - China/US 7 - Sun Nov 25 11:29:25 EST 2001

Comment: SBR

Japan rnd 1 SBR: 10 Bmb vs. 5 Ftr AA
AA SBR Defenders SBR Bomb Damage
10 AA:4516141613 5 ftr:2321*4 3 Bmb:121
Total Hits: 4 Total Hits: 3 Total Damage: 4

I had one a couple weeks ago. Playing Germany, I attacked 2 UK destroyers and 1 cruiser with 4 fighters and 2 strategic bombers.
I won that fight with 1 bomber left. Took me 3 rounds to get the 3 hits I needed.

Also had an amusing incident when playing a game of classic A&A, where transports are not defenseless. USA attacked 1 German transport with 1 fighter. Transport won. Then UK attacked the transport with a bomber. Transport won.
Then the German player used that transport to take over Brazil. It was highly embarrassing.

1914. G1.

German high seas fleet attacks Royal Navy.  All ships hit mines. Battle commences as one wounded battleship against the British Main fleet. It misses.

'Jed

This happened a couple of minutes ago. My hands are still shaking, my pulse is increased and I seriously think of never playing again that game.
The odds on the battles for me to win were:
Germany: 63% (I would say the odds to survive with 6 units remaining are at 5% maybe)
Bulgaria: 88%
Burma: 88% (I would say 2 survivors is ~worst 3-5%)
Not losing Bomber in Ukraine: ~65%
Kaz: ~75% to kill the Inf, losing the tac was tilt, I missclicked, I could not control my hands in that moment

This is BY FAR the worst thing that happened in A&A in my life and there was nothing not even close to that in 1 round.

@JDOW:

Combat - British
            Battle in Germany
                British attack with 1 armour, 1 artillery, 1 bomber, 3 fighters, 5 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Germans defend with 2 aaGuns, 1 artillery, 1 factory_major and 10 infantry
                    AA fire in Germany :  1/4 hits
                    1 fighter owned by the British lost in Germany
                    British roll dice for 1 battleship and 1 cruiser in Germany, round 2 :  1/2 hits
                    British roll dice for 1 armour, 1 artillery, 1 bomber, 2 fighters, 5 infantry and 1 mech_infantry in Germany, round 2 :  3/11 hits
                    Germans roll dice for 2 aaGuns, 1 artillery and 10 infantry in Germany, round 2 :  5/11 hits
                    5 infantry owned by the British , 2 infantry owned by the Germans and 2 aaGuns owned by the Germans lost in Germany
                    British roll dice for 1 armour, 1 artillery, 1 bomber, 2 fighters and 1 mech_infantry in Germany, round 3 :  3/6 hits
                    Germans roll dice for 1 artillery and 8 infantry in Germany, round 3 :  7/9 hits
                    1 bomber owned by the British , 1 armour owned by the British , 3 infantry owned by the Germans , 1 mech_infantry owned by the British , 1 artillery owned by the British and 2 fighters owned by the British lost in Germany
                Germans win with 1 artillery and 5 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is -46
                Casualties for Germans: 2 aaGuns and 5 infantry
                Casualties for British: 1 armour, 1 artillery, 1 bomber, 3 fighters, 5 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
            Battle in Burma
                British attack with 1 artillery and 4 infantry
                Japanese defend with 1 artillery and 2 infantry
                    British roll dice for 1 artillery and 4 infantry in Burma, round 2 :  0/5 hits
                    Japanese roll dice for 1 artillery and 2 infantry in Burma, round 2 :  1/3 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the British lost in Burma
                    British roll dice for 1 artillery and 3 infantry in Burma, round 3 :  0/4 hits
                    Japanese roll dice for 1 artillery and 2 infantry in Burma, round 3 :  1/3 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the British lost in Burma
                    British roll dice for 1 artillery and 2 infantry in Burma, round 4 :  0/3 hits
                    Japanese roll dice for 1 artillery and 2 infantry in Burma, round 4 :  1/3 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the British lost in Burma
                    British roll dice for 1 artillery and 1 infantry in Burma, round 5 :  0/2 hits
                    Japanese roll dice for 1 artillery and 2 infantry in Burma, round 5 :  1/3 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the British lost in Burma
                    British roll dice for 1 artillery in Burma, round 6 :  1/1 hits
                    Japanese roll dice for 1 artillery and 2 infantry in Burma, round 6 :  1/3 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the Japanese and 1 artillery owned by the British lost in Burma
                Japanese win with 1 artillery and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is -13
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
                Casualties for British: 1 artillery and 4 infantry
            Battle in Ukraine
                British attack with 3 bombers
                Germans defend with 1 factory_minor and 1 mech_infantry
                    British roll dice for 3 bombers in Ukraine, round 2 :  2/3 hits
                    Germans roll dice for 1 mech_infantry in Ukraine, round 2 :  1/1 hits
                    1 bomber owned by the British and 1 mech_infantry owned by the Germans lost in Ukraine
                British win with 2 bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is -8
                Casualties for Germans: 1 mech_infantry
                Casualties for British: 1 bomber
            Battle in Kazakhstan
                British attack with 1 mech_infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
                Japanese defend with 1 infantry
                    British roll dice for 1 mech_infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Kazakhstan, round 2 :  0/2 hits
                    Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Kazakhstan, round 2 :  1/1 hits
                    1 mech_infantry owned by the British lost in Kazakhstan
                    British roll dice for 1 tactical_bomber in Kazakhstan, round 3 :  1/1 hits
                    Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Kazakhstan, round 3 :  1/1 hits
                    1 tactical_bomber owned by the British and 1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Kazakhstan
                Japanese win with no units remaining. Battle score for attacker is -12
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
                Casualties for British: 1 mech_infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
            Battle in Bulgaria
                British attack with 1 artillery and 1 infantry
                Germans defend with 1 infantry
                    British roll dice for 1 artillery and 1 infantry in Bulgaria, round 2 :  0/2 hits
                    Germans roll dice for 1 infantry in Bulgaria, round 2 :  0/1 hits
                    British roll dice for 1 artillery and 1 infantry in Bulgaria, round 3 :  0/2 hits
                    Germans roll dice for 1 infantry in Bulgaria, round 3 :  0/1 hits
                    British roll dice for 1 artillery and 1 infantry in Bulgaria, round 4 :  0/2 hits
                    Germans roll dice for 1 infantry in Bulgaria, round 4 :  1/1 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the British lost in Bulgaria
                    British roll dice for 1 artillery in Bulgaria, round 5 :  0/1 hits
                    Germans roll dice for 1 infantry in Bulgaria, round 5 :  0/1 hits
                    British roll dice for 1 artillery in Bulgaria, round 6 :  0/1 hits
                    Germans roll dice for 1 infantry in Bulgaria, round 6 :  1/1 hits
                    1 artillery owned by the British lost in Bulgaria
                Germans win with 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is -7
                Casualties for British: 1 artillery and 1 infantry