My first post on this forum....so go easy.
I've decided to write and share some statistics with you all on the attacking of singles. That being, you've got 3 or 2 (the attacker) dice going up against only one of your opponents (the defender). Let's face it, the easiest way to supposedly get a card (oops! I meant 'spoils') is to attack a poor little single sitting there, minding his own business.
Normally the single is the result of a failed attack. Don't you just hate hitting a 3 v 3 first play of the game only for the defender to turn in a 5 and 6 and all of sudden you've left an easy card for the next player. Of course singles can show up on the board at any time...a player making a hasty retreat to build a mega stack, knocking down your opponent to a single as you don't want to expose that 28 stack sitting behind it....the list can go on.
Me, like I'm sure most of you have been on the wrong side of attacking a single many times...it's ust downright frustrating. In real life, if 3 guys attacked 1 guy normally the 3 guys would come out on top, albiet with a few cuts and bruises. In the old days, 3 archers would normally take out 1 archer, 3 snipers should over come 1 sniper...you get the drift right.
But what we don't expect is the rouge single. This is the single that has that extra special power to inflict major collateral damage to the attacker and spoil an otherwise strong advance or easy card (oops...I meant 'spoil' again). It's the old adage of never back a wounded dog into a corner...you may just get bitten!
So I've started to track some statistics on just how these rouge singles perform. You see...in my real life I work with numbers. I like numbers...they never lie. You can trust them. They can hurt you and they can make you smile.
My tracking strategy is thus: record the result (dice throw) of every attack I make on a single just to see how the dice fall. I'll report my findings thus far in this post and update as I gather more and more stats. Feel free to tell me how stupid or insane I am for doing such a thing by way of reply, or simply check in from time to time to see if my results equate to roughly the same experiences you are having.
THE STATS (86 attacks surveyed)
Def. Throws -- # Times -- %Result
1 -- 6 -- 7%
2 -- 19 -- 22%
3 -- 18 -- 21%
4 -- 15 -- 17%
5 -- 15 -- 17%
6 -- 13 -- 15%
-----86--100%
So at the moment, the survey suggests that the defender is twice as likely to throw a 6 over a 1....interesting. Stay tuned as I will update every 50 or so surveys gathered
TeenageFC
