I see GW is coming out with Deathwatch themed dice. Which I will buy of course because Deathwatch has been my Marine army of choice for the last two editions of the game. But while they're always well made the themed dice GW makes always annoys me because of one thing: they put the symbol on in place of the one pip.

If I roll a bunch of army themed dice and see a large number of that symbol come up I would like to think that was an awesome roll. But with the symbol meaning one unless I'm making a Morale check seeing a lot of them just screams "Failure!". With the capital F. I've taken to using my old Imperial dice only with non-Imperial armies so seeing a lot of aquilas on a bad roll makes thematic sense. Am I as weird as I think I am in doing that?

Virtually every other dice company puts the symbols on the six pip side for this very reason. Why does GW always do different?