KInG wrote:obviously being a house husband affords u guys far too much time

Aww don't go there,not today. I've got a right wing nutter who reckons I'm wasting my life raising my children and is so offended by the idea that I might know stuff..He's challenged me to a sword fight today for "being workshy"..I think a rumble cometh.

Gymbols question- (I don't get the answer..not yet)
Well they now just get move through cover (a nerf to carnifexs, meh) so your looking for an either/or event on 3 dice.
I'll cheat a big bit here using the small roller ( http://www.fnordistan.com/smallroller.html )
the chances of one of the 3 dice rolling a 3 or more is 96.3%
the chances of rolling above a 4 is 87%
The chances of rolling above a 5 is 70.37%
6 is 42 %
The chances of rolling exactly a 4 on at least one dice= (note that means stuff that is rolled above it is discounted!!) is 42.13% just like rolling a 6 in the above scenario..because thats the chance that any one face will turn up out of 3 dice.

based on what your looking for being- which dice would you pick and dice probabilities i'd jump out of reason and into total conjecture that it would be 5".. but I don't know which maths to apply to get anything that supports or contradicts that

Got to be one of the "saddest" topics I've seen here fora while..
You must have been really bored LMtRK.


Somebody lock this ... please????
(semi-joking)

AdrianG wrote:Got to be one of the "saddest" topics I've seen here fora while..
You must have been really bored LMtRK.

actually, i do this sort of thing for fun...

AdrianG wrote:Somebody lock this ... please????
(semi-joking)

request denied.

@ Gymbol:
i just made this for you (and i didnt cheat - i worked out the values myself ):


(note: it rounds the values - the chance of moving just 1" is actually just under half of 1%, not zero )

the average distance moved is 4.96", by my calculations.

or, for example, you could say that there is less than a 1 in 3 chance of failing to move 5" or more.

EDIT: @ KMB:
i just made six 6 x 6 grids, one for each of the values on the 3rd die (so 1-6). the 1st die went across the top and the 2nd die went down the side (so 1-6 by 1-6). for each square in the grid, i cross ref'd the value on the top, the value on the side, and the value for that grid, and picked the highest, putting that in the square.
(note, if i could make spreadsheets in 3D, the 6 grids would have formed the 6 layers of the 6x6x6 cube)
i then counted the number of squares that had each of the 6 different results in them, for each grid (i.e. how many 1's, how many 2's etc) and added them all together for all 6 grids(/layers), to get the totals for each movement distance. this is what i used for my pie chart (mmm pie...).
i then multiplied the number of instances of moving each distance by that distance, and divided by the number of values (6x6x6=216) to get the average move (4.96").

hope that helps

~ Tim
p.s. anyone have another one they want tackled?

Ok so why was I .04 of an inch out..
Which maths did you use did you take the percentages of 'what is = or higher' away from each sequential number set (as you would pick higher but still needed the figures)?
I just couldn't visualise that step.

see my Edit to my last post, mate
(i must have been writing it while you posted)

~ Tim

Move through cover offers an expected 5" move, with 6" being really likely.

So, how much movement do you expect using only the 2 dice for normal infantry difficult terrain?

And I know this seems like a ridiculous topic of discussion, but if I'm trying to figure out how far away I need to be this move so I can shoot his genestealers next then expected movement is important.

Gymbol wrote:So, how much movement do you expect using only the 2 dice for normal infantry difficult terrain?

that one is much easier.

the average is 4.47" (so MTC makes about 1/2" difference on average). here's some more pie:



(mmm pie...)

hope that helps

~ Tim
p.s. feel free to check my maths, people!

I don't get these numbers.

rolling 2 dice, picking the highest, I get the following:
1 2.78% 100.00%
2 8.33% 97.22%
3 13.89% 88.89%
4 19.44% 75.00%
5 25.00% 55.56%
6 30.56% 30.56%

Third column is sum of the chance of moving that far (or further). (So if you are 4" away from the berserkers in cover, you're 75% scr***d.)

Average movement distance is 4.47 inches.

Why do we have different numbers for individual results, but have the same average?

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ah, nevermind. You just recopied your chart from above.

Gymbol wrote:ah, nevermind. You just recopied your chart from above.

no, its a new chart (the %ages for 1", 2" & 6" are different).
(although i re-used my "when the 3rd dice is a 1" grid from my MTC calculation)

EDIT: just realised what i had done - looks like i highlighted the wrong collumn when making the chart. sorry about that (explains why our averages were the same, as my calculations themselves were correct). here is the corrected version:



sorry!

~ Tim