Less Luck Based Combat?

[megaspider01]

What if, instead of the dice going from 0 to 9, the battle dice would go from 0 to maybe 6? I'm not saying I support this, but I want to see what the community thinks about it. I'd like to hear both arguments for and against it as even I haven't made up my mind yet.

Some reasons why it might make sense: How good your nations is doing militarily would matter more and there'd be less random rofl-stomping and massive seemingly random defeats. The 40 to 800 losses that can happen seem really unrealistic.

A reason why it wouldn't make sense: Many battles gave suprising results, it was very hard to predict who would win.

 

[BrokenSky]

I'd rather have (2D5 - 1) or (2D6 - 1) if we want to cut down on randomness.

Not saying for or against on cutting it down, but If we did, I'd rather do it by making the probability distribution more Gaussian, rather than just cutting down the really high rolls.