Welcome back folks to our first full episode of the Brit Roller Six podcast.

We are super-excited to get this out to you all!

In this episode we start out with the announcement of our “Name Our Podcast” competition winner and the unveiling of the new title, move into a discussion on the subject of attracting new players & getting the ball rolling on a new scene, and finish up with the first of a regular segment; “Andy’s Q Branch”, where Andy works on a little project behind the scenes. In this Q Branch he contributes his thoughts to the age old favourite subject of “what new IPs would be good in Dice Masters?”

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The Brit Roller Six podcast is published every two weeks on a Monday – keep your eye on the countdown timer in the sidebar for a heads up on upcoming episodes.

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Show Notes

We mentioned a few bits n’ bobs through this episode that we promised a bit more detail on – here’s some further info for you…

Andy’s Training Teams

I didn’t really go into much detail about the two starter teams we discussed on the podcast, so I thought I’d put them here with a brief description about them.

The idea is to have 2 teams themed around The Avengers and The Justice League, therefore they absolutely have to incorporate the famous members of each.

So a version of Iron Man, Capt. America, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye had to be in the Avengers whilst the Justice League had to have Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and, yes, I suppose The Flash. As mentioned in the podcast; I love the simple synergy of Aquaman, Wonder Woman and Batman in the set so the idea of the team is quite simple and hopefully one that will be figured out in a few games by the new player. The broad overview: get Aquaman first to make purchases cheaper & get Wonder Woman to make them easier to field. From there; Zatanna gives you some nice ramp and, if Batman gets out, repeatedly fielding and cycling her gives some nice damage and life gain. Superman is there as he’s a rock and I like the card. It gives a reason for the opponent to buy Polymorph to remove him, which is one of the reasons I put it on the team. The Avengers team revolves around Nick Fury. He sets you up to be able to field the others for free which leaves energy to buy buy buy other characters quickly and flood the field. Black Widow – Natasha was one of my favourite cards when I first started playing, but she was soon totally overshadowed by the awesomeness of Tsarina. She fits into the team well but is not overpowered, which is just right for the level I’m going for with these teams. Using things like Teamwatch on Hawkeye and Hulk with Assemble shows some synergy in the team and a reason to cycle the Black Widows. Magic Missile is there to show how pinging off both your opponent’s and your own sidekicks can be beneficial, and Wasp to show how this can be countered. I think they balance quite well with each other and show off some of the different fundamental ‘plays’ within the game. However, I have not play tested these against each other many times at all, and I’m sure there are newer cards that could work better. If you have any suggestions please let me know 🙂

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Legal Bits

United Kingdom: God Save the Queen by National Anthems is licensed under a Creative Commons License. It was sourced from a Soundcloud account entitled “National Anthems”. The name of the creator/creators has not been provided on that account. The license can be found here:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode

The Dice transition sound effect was sourced from freesound.org. The account it was downloaded from is “dermotte” and is shared under the following license:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Our tremendous Rule Britannia intro is used with permission from Richard Campbell and is a short extract from his “England Rock Anthems” track. We think Richards work is exceptional, he is a very talented musician, so visit Richard’s website here for more of his music:

http://www.richardcampbellmusic.co.uk/

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