Please tell me, when i can test this in the sandbox, im eager to that!

fuzzycat, you are basically describing the game RISK

Why is running through a person's territories bad?

Having given this a little more thought, it may even increase a certain kind of aggressiveness, and opens up whole new avenues of play.

For example, if I didn't have to worry about losing my entire stack, I may try out an attack on a stronger player (which almost never happens now). Similarly, you could put outlying, isolated territories to good use by attacking, instead of just ignoring it.

Also, I don't think risk like dice-by-dice comparison is needed, this idea could quite reasonably be implemented by calculating the total dice roll, and removing 1 dice for every 6. So if I roll 32 with 8 dice, and my opponent rolls 24 with 6 dice, I would lose (24/6 =) 4 dice, my opponent would lose (32/6 =) 5 dice (rounded down). Or something like that.

you are right, Hot 4 U 1986, that risk employs a similar concept. (And thats bad here ;o)

Altough there are 2 major differences for the kdice version:
*) All attacking dices roll! (not the 3vs2 max per attack of risk)
*) More a Proposel: You cannot stop attacking when you feel like it. The rolls go on until one army is dead or attacker has only 1 dice left.

Very well said.

I would also like to note that the current 16 dice version is UGH awful. Maybe implementing this loss system would be better. I hate 16 dice.

"Similarly, you could put outlying, isolated territories to good use by attacking, instead of just ignoring it."

Outliers are ignored because spreading them out causes dice drain and doesn't add to the amount of dice added per turn. This wouldn't change much if the odds of the outlier winning were increased, unless it was close enough to connect to the main territories, in which case someone would eventually put it on the move anyway.

Also, build it and I will help test it. Having to learn new strategy and subtleties is tres fun. :)

Call me old fashioned, but I like the game how it is now.