We use the location of the dice to the units to indicate torso or turret twists.

Also, you can use the die indicate torso twist. The default position is directly in front of the mech. If you want to torso twist you can shift the die left or right a hex side.

Cool! We always add 1 to Jump dice, so your movement distance + 1. Never thought of marking woods the same way, but why not :) Nice tip!

Another good video with some great explanations and knowledge.  Thanks.  BTW, I almost bought those special dice until I saw the price was $50 for a set of 30, gave me pause since I can get all the info I need from the regular dice.

Completely agree with you about the special dice. Readability is concern number one and traditional pips work best.

First handful of times I played I had a lot of unpainted mechs and only one set of 18 dice for indicating movement, so instead we used a system where your movement type bonus was behind your mech, and your TMM from hexes moved was directly in front to better clarify facing. Was actually really useful for the math when first learning -- and now I at least have all my mechs have a front indicator (painted or not, haven't decided on a some colors for the clanners I have) and I have three different colored dice sets 😅

We use movement dice, and they work great, especially in helping new players quickly figure out the TMM.

I've played against people who use the movement dice which include all the information, but they're impossible to read from across the table (especially if they're the wrong way up and translucent dice and they're often not the normal colours so you don't even know what your opponent is trying to do). I like easy to read white, black and red dice with pips and if a player is too new to remember then they're only going to learn by trying and checking and after a short time they will be quicker with normal dice rather than the movement dice.

In my gaming-group we usually use the movement dice to indicate the torso twist. For example when you turned the torso clockwise you place the dice on the corresponding side of the hexbase.

The special movement dice you mentioned in the last part of the video are also very nice, especially for new players because the indicate every aspect of a movement in I’ve place. But I personally find them very expensive (found them on Etsy). Templates for these dice are also available as STLs for 3D-printing, might be a cheaper option

Movement dice work well, but it drives me crazy as I hate clutter on the board.  I just have to tell myself that battlefields in the future have big dice on the field.

You do movement dice the same way I would like to. The reason I say “I would like to”, is because my current group insists on not adding terrain (woods) to the movement die. I am not a fan of that in the slightest. While I do agree that partial cover should not be included, trees will always affect the TN, and adding the woods bonus to the dice keeps you from having to constantly pick a model up to see if it is in heavy or light woods. The only variation we use, as I have seen others state, is that we use the movement die to indictate torso twist direction (when applicable).

The specialty dice are typically much larger than the ones you are using. Each one I have seen is almost the size of a hex, so there should be no trouble reading them.

Two more tips if you want to keep the dice colours down. I stack my dice for jumping white+red rather than having a third color. We don’t do the terrain modifier on the dice but can see a use for that.
We use a White or Red 6 for movement with no modifier which might happen if you had multiple attempts to stand etc.

Nice and to the Point, you could also make a Video on Faction dice, although those are mostly used for the shooting phase ^^.

Those movement dice are great for newer players like me. Cuts down the pkaytime and allows me to focus on the more advanced rules.

I only used it for target modifier.

I disagree with adding woods modifiers to movement dice. There are special cases with precision AC ammo and active probe optional rules. I am ok with adding a green die for woods modifier.  Admittedly precision ammo is fairly rare, and the probe rule is optional, but indicating defensive modifiers in different ways bakes in structure to deal with special cases when they come up.

played my first game last week, they told me to use the dice to also show torso twist.

Hyvää kontsaa, jos satut käymään kuopiossa joskus niin poppaa kuofin discon bt kannulle noottia. 😊

Wouldn't dice colors better serve as a good mnemonic if it were:

White - Walk/cruise speed
Red - Run/flank speed
Green or Yellow - Jump
Black, Brown or Blue - Basically did not move [but not immobile unless two dice placed (ie. shutdown)].

Number of pips being the TMM, of course, unless a second die is used as a base (or the "B" die) under the movement die to signify "0" TMM.

I could be wrong here...  but in the most recent release of Alpha Strike it only matter if the mech jumps or moves less than or more than 1".  Everything else is just the unit's TMM.  So Pilot Skill+Range+Terrain Modifier+Target TMM+if they jumped or stood still??