Thursday, February 25, 2010

what would you take first?

What would you take first? the big stealth die? the small stealth die?
or something else?

Button Men Game #690688
Tournament Legal challenge, copying communication from game 690423

Skills in this game: Stealth, Focus
Player: ElihuRoot *Dead Dude* *Fanatic*
Your Button Man: Unicorn (4 4 f6 f12 20) Score: 23 (0 sides) Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 0 / 0 / 0 (Out of 3 wins)
Your Captured Dice: None
4-sided die 4-sided die Focus
6-sided die
Focus
12-sided die
20-sided die
2 2 2 6 13
6-sided die Stealth
6-sided die
10-sided die 12-sided die Stealth
12-sided die
3 4 7 11 12
Opponent: Russian *2^12th game cookie* *Ngozi's Disciple*
Button Man: White Tiger (6 d6 10 12 d12) Score: 23 (0 sides) Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 0 / 0 / 0
Captured Dice: None

1 comment:

Joshua Zucker said...

The 13 is safe so I'm not inclined to reroll that (I make a 65% chance of rerolling it into something capturable if you take his 11? Actually that's not so awful, it might be worth thinking about. Hm. OK, I thought about it, and my conclusion is I don't know. Keeping it safe for the whole game doesn't seem at all out of the question, but winning even if you roll some of that bad 65% isn't out of the question either. Still, I think I'd rather keep the 20.).

So, taking a stealth die is the only other sensible option. (your 6 could take his 3 but that seems less useful)

Even after rerolling your 12 it is likely to get captured next turn, so rerolling it doesn't seem to give much benefit. His stealth 12 is unlikely to be usable in a skill attack, and you don't need to take it in order to win, so capturing his 12 isn't all that exciting either.

So, I would take the small stealth.