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Awash in digital dice

I talked to my buddy Zach and he and I banged out a handy little tool for my iPhone that I'd like to share. We're tentatively calling it 'DICEHAMMER' for now, and you can see it by clicking here. It is designed to fit comfortably on the screen of the iphone's browser, and to make a horde army player's life immesurably easier. A quick breakdown of what it can do currently:

• 'FILTER' function allows you to sort dice into winning and losing categories, which are displayed at the bottom in the Total readout. For example, applying a filter of 5+ will report, at the bottom, how many dice that were just rolled successfully passed that test, and how many failed.
• 'REROLL' function is available if you have a filter selected; it will automatically reroll any dice that fall into the selected category before reporting the totals at the bottom.
• 'QUICK DICE' function is for those times that you have to roll fairly common things, but don't want to go through the hassle of adjusting the 'AMOUNT OF DICE' readout at the top of the screen.
• The totals readout displays the results by number, so you can still tell fairly easily if you rolled a 1 for overheating or a 6 for rending. Additionally, the TOTAL field will sum up all of the dice rolled, as well as how many were successful or failed if you have a filter on.
• 'USE PREVIOUS SELECTED RESULTS' button allows you to quickly change the 'Amount of Dice' field to however many dice successfully passed the filter last roll. You can also select and deselect values at the bottom by tapping on the white space beneath the 1's.. 2's.. 3's.. readout - green means that the 'USE PREVIOUS SELECTED RESULTS' button will take that # of dice and add it to the Amount of Dice to Roll total.

That last one is best illustrated by an example:

You roll 9 dice with a 4+ filter. The readout is as follows:
1's: 2
2's: 1
3's: 1
4's: 0
5's: 3
6's: 2
TOTAL: 34 (5 Pass, 4 Fail)

34 is the sum of all of the dice rolled. The 4's, 5's, and 6's category is made green (and therefore, selected) because you just rolled a 4+ filter. If you were to hit 'USE PREVIOUS SELECTED RESULTS' right then, it would change your Amount of Dice from 9 to 5. If, however, you were to also tap the 1 beneath the 3's column and turn that green before you hit the Previous Selected Result button, it would make your Amount of Dice number 6; the number of dice in the selected columns. By setting it up like this, you can easily switch from acquiring dice for hits (for things like shooting) to acquiring dice for saves.

Anyway, the page itself should be a huge timesaver for anyone who runs an actual horde army (30-boy ork squads). We're going to work on expanding the functionality further via a couple different menus, with things such as scatter dice and generating deployment.

A last little note. I just got an e-mail from one of my readers letting me know that my previously stated goal of trying to get my Stompa into CoolMiniOrNot's Top Last 7 Days section came true. Needless to say, I am beaming with vanity and pride over here. Thanks, guys.