Fail
Fail verb - To be unsuccessful.
Usage example: despite all the publicity, the movie failed miserably at the box office
Miss is a synonym for fail in be unsuccessful topic. In some cases you can use "Miss" instead a verb "Fail", when it comes to topics like scrap.
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- The player usually gets a choice of 6-7 characters on average (on top of the two mandatory ones), but you can also miss or fail to recruit certain hidden or optional characters.
Source: Arbitrary Headcount Limit - Your function could well fail or miss the first time you try it, but may only need slight modifications to succeed, and the function that a soldier shoots is saved so that when you next control him you can easily change it and try again.
Source: Video Game / Graphwar - Fail or miss even one of them, and say goodbye to your Golden Ending.
Source: Golden Ending
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