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S or Z

Posted By: Stick
Date: Monday, 30 April 2012, at 7:09 p.m.

In Response To: S or Z (ah_clem)

These are very touchy positions. Clearly your main goal is to get the back checker the hell out of Dodge, how best to do it? Normally moving all the way up to the edge of the prime when there aren't that many attackers in place is the way to go. However, this often comes with increasing your escaping numbers from one die (sixes) to two (fives). Here with the small split we already have plenty of escaping numbers with both fives and sixes being able to hop the prime so moving up to the point our opponent would most like to make or hit loose on is a shade more costly I suspect. There is also often the fear that if you don't move up clear to the edge of the prime the back point in the prime will be made by a handful of rolls and then you'll be stuck again. Here that is also not the case as if the back of the prime is made you will still have sixes to hop immediately. The duplication of 54 after S could be mentioned but I don't think it's a real factor. (53 is somewhat duped to make the back of the prime at least after Z)

22, 10 otherwise known as Z for me

Stick

Messages In This Thread

• S or Z
  ah_clem -- Monday, 30 April 2012, at 6:33 p.m.
  • S or Z
    Stick -- Monday, 30 April 2012, at 7:09 p.m.
    • S or Z rollout
      ah_clem -- Tuesday, 1 May 2012, at 1:26 p.m.