House Rule. (die rolls.)

[bigevil]

One of my few regrets about AttackTix was there was no dice used, which is a shame, dice are fun! And can help balance out a game.. So I decided to housrule die, which changes the game significantly.

Vitality:
All figurines have a vitality of 16. Vitality is like a figurine's health, whenever it's hit damage die shows how much damage is dealt and that's subtracted from the figurine's vitality. You may want to keep a notepad handy.

Damage Dice:
When an attack succesfuly hits (IE: when the figurine touches the other figurine with an attack) you roll a d12 to determine damage, BUT the opponent at this time can declare a defnese, he/she rolls a d8 to reduce the d12 die roll's damage by the amount on the roll of the d8. Damage lowerd this way can go no lower then 0.

Number of attacks per turn:
Unlike the normal two per turn, you roll a d4 to determine how many attacks you can peform, unlike before, you may attack more then once with the same figure in the same turn.

Who go's first?
The person with the most characters of the same respective alingment go's first, say for instance someone makes a team composed of Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, and two stormtroopers, and someone else has a team of General Grievous, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Boba Fett, everyone on the first player's team is darkside in nature. So he/she gets to go first.

Point Value:
To avoid a bucket of dice, keep the point value of the game under 100.

Knocked Down:
Rules that would normaly apply to being knocked down are instead replace with "destroyed" IE: the special activates when you drop to 0 vitality. Knocked down still has a place in AttackTix though, if a figurine IS knocked down, it stays knocked down untill the end of your next turn, meaning it cannot move or attack, if all your figures are knocked down on the same turn, you lose the game.

[redemptionrocks]

Hm.... I think diff figures would have diff life cuz a battle droid could take less of a pummeling then say g.g.

[YodaBreaker]

bigevil said:

One of my few regrets about AttackTix was there was no dice used, which is a shame, dice are fun! And can help balance out a game.. So I decided to housrule die, which changes the game significantly.

Personally, I like having not to use dice. However, I can see how these rules might make my all-Jedi Knight swarm a bit more balanced (especially with the modifications I've proposed below).

Vitality:
All figurines have a vitality of 16. Vitality is like a figurine's health, whenever it's hit damage die shows how much damage is dealt and that's subtracted from the figurine's vitality. You may want to keep a notepad handy.

Alternatively, you could have the vitality be equivalent to 1d4 rolled before the start of the game * (number of points a figure costs/10). This way, you may have stronger and weaker figures from the get-go (which may also alter the way you'd attack).

Damage Dice:
When an attack succesfuly hits (IE: when the figurine touches the other figurine with an attack) you roll a d12 to determine damage, BUT the opponent at this time can declare a defnese, he/she rolls a d8 to reduce the d12 die roll's damage by the amount on the roll of the d8. Damage lowerd this way can go no lower then 0.

I would suggest that an attack could only be considered successful if it knocks a figure down. I've always liked the notion that an attack isn't even successful unless it actually knocks a figure down. I like the 1d8 defense roll a lot.

Number of attacks per turn:
Unlike the normal two per turn, you roll a d4 to determine how many attacks you can peform, unlike before, you may attack more then once with the same figure in the same turn.

You mean, like pushing R2-D2's spinner (R2-D2 is basically a 1d4)? I'd prefer to keep the number of attacks per turn at 1 per 50 points.

Who go's first?
The person with the most characters of the same respective alingment go's first, say for instance someone makes a team composed of Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, and two stormtroopers, and someone else has a team of General Grievous, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Boba Fett, everyone on the first player's team is darkside in nature. So he/she gets to go first.

Why not just roll 1d12 for initiative? Alternatively, before starting the game, you could roll the 1d12, 1d8, and 1d4 for each figure in turn to determine order of initiative for each figure. This might cause you to abandon the whole idea of a "move all then attack 2" structure, though.

Point Value:
To avoid a bucket of dice, keep the point value of the game under 100.

I"m not sure why having more than 100 points of figures would call for a bucket of dice. By my count, you'd only need 1d12, 1d8, and 1d4 at any one time.

Knocked Down:
Rules that would normaly apply to being knocked down are instead replace with "destroyed" IE: the special activates when you drop to 0 vitality. Knocked down still has a place in AttackTix though, if a figurine IS knocked down, it stays knocked down untill the end of your next turn, meaning it cannot move or attack, if all your figures are knocked down on the same turn, you lose the game.

Neat; I like it!

[AWOL]

An intriguing idea with the implementation of die. Not that dice is a bad thing, but I just love the simplicity of Attacktix. The game is not too cumbersome, and you get to play with cool plastic figures all over again just like you did when you were 7 years old. I'd have to vote against using dice. If I wanted a dice game, I'd jump into a Star Wars RPG. Good idea though, just not for me with this wonderful game... ;D

[Joe Manzo]

I wouldn't say that I HATE this way to play, but given the two choices I am not a big fan of dice in the game.

MOSTLY because if you begin to add all those dice, I will lose my main opponent's interest.

[vadersfist]

Some, some, not all just some!!!

[Phoenix]

admin said:

I wouldn't say that I HATE this way to play, but given the two choices I am not a big fan of dice in the game.

MOSTLY because if you begin to add all those dice, I will lose my main opponent's interest.

Joe is referring to me [his main opponent]. Like AWOL said, if I wanted dice I would play the RPG or minis. I can't deal with dice too much in my games, it leaves way too much to chance. Plus it's just kinda annoying for me to constantly have to roll the dice. I enjoy the simplicity as it is.

[Mandalore]

Although I have never played a dice game I can appreciate how it might be fun in a d&d environment. But applying the dice to Attacktix removes the key to its fun for the vast majority of its players - the simplicity. Hey, whatever makes it fun for you - go for it. But I can't imagine that many people would be interested in taking the game in that direction.