Poll: Do you use the random events tables?
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Nope, never.
36.00%
9 36.00%
I do for the games that include them.
40.00%
10 40.00%
I do for all games.
12.00%
3 12.00%
Huh?
12.00%
3 12.00%
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the Random Events table...
06-12-2012, 04:06 PM,
#1
Lightbulb  the Random Events table...
I haven't had this come up in my games too frequently, but the few times it has my (occasional) opponent and I always eagerly rolled on the table, despite knowing full well that the result could catastrophically change the battle.

I would never use it for competitive play, but if you're just having a friendly battle I enjoy the added element of surprise. Rolleyes
...came for the cardboard, stayed for the camaraderie...
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06-13-2012, 12:16 AM,
#2
RE: the Random Events table...
(06-12-2012, 04:06 PM)Shad Wrote: I haven't had this come up in my games too frequently, but the few times it has my (occasional) opponent and I always eagerly rolled on the table, despite knowing full well that the result could catastrophically change the battle.

I would never use it for competitive play, but if you're just having a friendly battle I enjoy the added element of surprise. Rolleyes

I voted Huh? only because I'm not at all averse to using them, I just haven't yet. Seems like it could make the games pretty fun.
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06-13-2012, 01:33 AM,
#3
RE: the Random Events table...
I like these tables, they only come into play rarely, and add a lot of variety to gaming situations. A good idea since way back then when the "Chance and Community Chest" article was published in the General for Panzerblitz.
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06-13-2012, 02:03 AM,
#4
RE: the Random Events table...
"Nope, never" for me. I find more than sufficient randomness with the vagaries of the combat tables.
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06-13-2012, 05:08 AM,
#5
RE: the Random Events table...
Never use em'
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06-13-2012, 08:44 PM,
#6
RE: the Random Events table...
I love adding the unforseeable to the mix.
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06-14-2012, 08:41 AM,
#7
RE: the Random Events table...
I loved the Random Tables in the first PG-EF. In some of those infantry vs. infantry battles things can get really spicy when suddenly an armor/infantry kampfgruppe shows up or maybe a company of T-34s or both...

...good times!
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06-14-2012, 12:17 PM,
#8
RE: the Random Events table...
I enjoy the unpredictability of them. I had one scenario which combined with the random events table indicated that Romania got cold feet about crossing the Dniestr.
No "minor" country left behind...
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06-14-2012, 01:01 PM,
#9
RE: the Random Events table...
Fog of War rolls give me all the randomness I'm looking for. I might use the table to add extra replay value to a scenario I'd played before.
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06-14-2012, 02:07 PM,
#10
RE: the Random Events table...
"Very Rarely"
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