Joe Krow
Erudite
If your going to argue that randomizing the outcome of chess captures would improve the game tactically well... this thread will go to twenty pages easy and I want no part it.zenbitz said:MADNESS! Every tactical game since Panzerblitz has some randomization of "Queen vs. Rook". Are they dumb?Joe Krow said:Tactics rely on the ruleset. The queen takes the rook sometimes? No thanks. Ambiguity in the ruleset causes a tactical dumbing down.
Ambiguity of outcomes is fine. Probabilities are fine. My point was that the more mystery there is in regards to attributes/abilities the less opportunity the player has to form meaningful tactics. To take your analogy: how much fun would playing Panzerblitz be if all of your unit's stats/attributes were replaced with descriptions that were left deliberately unquantifiable? MADNESS!