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5 May 2010

Homemade dice tower - a couple of tweaks.


I've added a new top to the tower to allow the dice to fall in more easily - I will build a small frame around the top as well to create more of a funnel.

I've also nailed the tower to the side bars and nailed the 'backboard' to the side bars as well.  After a few rolls, the dice hitting the backboard made the glue give way so it needed something a bit more robust for them to bounce against.

I've used it for a couple of sample conflicts and it seems remarkably 'fair' - only once did I roll more than 6 hits using 8 dice and - despite a couple of throws which resulted in 5 '1's (oh dear) from 8 dice it does seem to do the job. 

So it will make its appearance next week when Russ' Persians and my Greeks finally meet.  If I lose, I'll blame the tower!
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous07 May, 2010

    I love this dice tower, not only does it work as good as the more expensive ones you can buy but it makes my dice roll lots of 5 & 6s!

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  2. Broeders07 May, 2010

    I played against Russ lasty night. We used the dice tower and essentially when Russ used it it threw our 5's and 6's and when I used it it threw out mainly 1's and 2's.

    His slingers (6 bases) polished off 2 BG's of velites (8 bases) despite the velites having POA's!!! The power of the tower.

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