dicewars

[mcs328]

http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html

It's basically Risk and semi-addictive.

[RoniMan]

damn right it's addictive!

but i don't like how u max out on 8 dice.
and how u can't place the extra reinforcement dice where u want it

[TofuNinja]

it is addictive, and I am getting creamed.... oh well ;)

[mcs328]

You can store up extra dice after you reach the limit. That's key. I think you can store up to like 50 die and then after your turn, it gets subtracted from your buffer to the game map. One of the colors plays very conservatively and he builds up his dice buffer and suddenly he'll explode all over the map.

[Maarchk]

hmm i suck at this game...

[TofuNinja]

me too, though I figured out that you want to keep a block of areas together, that is how you get more dice

[Maarchk]

me too, though I figured out that you want to keep a block of areas together, that is how you get more dice

Yeah i found that out. Try and corner an area and spread a little at a time safely so you can build your inventory.

ANd he's right that we can carry over dice. Then you can go beat down peoples. Be fun to play other live people.

[TofuNinja]

finally beat it with 4 players, I get my ass kicked with 7 or 8

[mcs328]

I can beat it more than half the time with 7 or 8.

[TofuNinja]

with that many players I tend to not make it out of the second round

[Maarchk]

I can beat it more than half the time with 7 or 8.

Thats impressive...
Shoot half the time i play 7 or 8, i get half my army wiped out before my first turn... Thats no good....

[modena]

fun game!

[hapoo]

interesting game, beat it first time with 7 players. But i'm a huge risk fan

[Memo]

It's alright...it get's boring watching everyone's turn.

[Luc13n]

Fun fun...

[mcs328]

The amount of dice you get depends on how many connected pieces you have. If you have 5 connected pieces and 3 connected pieces then you get 5 additional dice.

My strategy early on is trying to connect all my pieces. I don't bother trying to spread pieces that are far away from each other even if both have a lot of dice. I let one spread out which means at the end of your turn you get more dice per piece.

Later on I don't attack small dice if there's a connected piece with more dice and I don't have any dice in reserve. So when it comes to their turn they can't attack me with less dice. They would have to build up that piece and attack which leaves me to build up faster than them. I also try to get them to spread themselves thin and then gobble them up next turn.