I have recently started playing FOW again (v3) and have also discovered Plastic Soldier Company. This provided the inspiration to build, paint and hopefully win a game with a 2000pt army while spending the least amount of money.
The list was the key, and after about a week of playing around with the Eastern Front book I settled on the following:
MW German Panther Company
Company HQ - 2 Panther d
Combat Platoon - 4 x Panthers d
Combat Platoon - 4 x Panthers d
Divisional Support - Sporadic Messerschmidt
Exactly 2000pts
I managed to order the stuff via Cymbeline Games for 15% off RRP and so the whole lot cost me £33.02.
2 boxes of Panthers
and a Messerschmidt
Here is the stuff in the flesh
Part two of this blog will be to build and paint them and in part three I will finally to play a game with them (and hopefully win).
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. Sophocles
In this, the second test of Blood Bowl dice, I used CHESSEX block dice and again rolled them 1000 times.
I again decided to set the measure of statistical significance
again at
5% (p-value >= 0.05). That would mean that the actual dice outcomes
would have to deviate by 5% or more from the expected outcomes for the
test to indicate a potential problem. I figured 5% over 1000 rolls
should be safe enough.
Test results:
| Outcomes |
Total |
Expected |
% diff |
| Pow |
179 |
166.67 |
7.40 |
| Pow! |
155 |
166.67 |
-7.00 |
| Skull |
174 |
166.67 |
4.40 |
| Pow/Skull |
165 |
166.67 |
-1.00 |
| Push |
327 |
333.33 |
-1.90 |
| Check |
1000 |
1000 |
0.00 |
Conclusions
The
dice finished outside the 5% threshold for both Pow and Pow! and so from this test, I have to highlight a potential issues as to the fairness of the CHESSEX block dice. More specifically, teams heavy in the DODGE skill could have problems due to the higher than normal occurrence of Pow and lower than normal occurrence of Pow!
As for the test itself, rolling
more dice would, as always, provide a greater degree of certainty, so the results
would be safer after 10,000 or even 100,000 rolls. Also, any study could provide a set of fluke results and so these outcomes would need repeating in a second test for significance to be assured.
