Dice

[pforson]

Good morning.

I'm trying to decide how many dice I should take to an event. I'm currently thinking 35.

20 white, 10 black and 5 blue.

That way I can easily make multiples of 5 without having to count out dice in order to speed up gameplay. But is 35 enough?

Opinions?

[Arkiham]

I take loads, but I've the space to 

[RuneBrush]

I don't think I've ever had less than 50 for any games I've played and often it's border line if that's enough - that said I do have more 40k games under my belt than AoS where you tend to identify different weapons with different coloured dice.  The last games of AoS I played I have 100 of one colour and 36 of a different, plus odd larger dice for rolling things like casting and initiative (with a back up of a bag with 25, box of 36 and two cubes of 16's - though they generally don't get used).

[Gaz Taylor]

Personally, 35 sounds about right but it's all down to what you are using them for. If you have lots of multi wound models and will use them as wound markers, you may want some more. I usually take around 80 mainly as that's whats in my gaming back (2 x GW dice blocks and some 16mm dice).

[pforson]

Just to clarify. The 35 dice are purely for rolling. I have additional larger dice for wounds etc.

Edit:

The most attacks I could potentially get is 80 (All 40 clan rats attacking with the +1 attack buff). Which is highly unlikely.

[Undead4Life]

35 sounds about right. For those hypothetical 80 dice, rolling 35 then 35 then 10 works just as well as rolling 80 at once. Only drawback is having to remember how many per handful were hits, etc., and that's hardly a big problem.

For AoS I use about 36 dice in three colors, plus things like D10's, D20's, etc. for wounds. I keep about 50 dice in backup but it's not like I actually need the backup.

[daedalus81]

I take the standard chessex cube, which is 27, I think.

[Wraith01]

I take 2,  different color,  chessex 12mm cubes. They have 36 dice each. 

[Lunk]

Honestly take as many that fit comfortably to roll at once. 

Then add another say 5-10 of a different colour or colours 

[Terry Pike]

I use my 40 FaceHammer dice, its more than enough as I tend to not run units that have more than 30 attacks at best.

They are in different colours in batches of 20, so if I have to make 25 saves for example I know that if I grab my 20 whites and 5 blue I've got the right amount straight away