So Typical

by **Iron Butterfly** on Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:27 pm

As we have discussed in other threads.

http://www.conquerclub.com/game.php?game=3907383

Who do you think will win?

by **mpjh** on Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:41 pm

In my experience, it now is a crap shoot. It all depends on whether the enlisted men hit one particular officer a lot. If they do focus on one officer, he will be out soon. The it is simply a game of who get the cards first. I have seen these enlisted men tactics prevail, but it is a messy, frustrating game.

by **Iron Butterfly** on Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:00 pm

That it is.

Bonus territories make a difference in game BUT their benefits will last for only so long.

It also depends also on how early they are achieved...in this case early enough to hurt....maybeee

by **para** on Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:15 pm

haha

he just lost his bonus.

by **Artimis** on Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:26 pm

An advantage you can gain is worth a little effort, why handicap yourself? Problem is, he might as well paint a huge target on his back as soon as he claims it.

by **Iron Butterfly** on Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:04 pm

I agree...however the problem is always the fact that to hold it one must use resources at the expense of other territories across the board.

by **mpjh** on Mon Dec 29, 2008 12:16 am

I think the worst part of these games is that at least two players lose, the player trying to take the territory and the chumps they exhaust in that territory. The lucky guy with all his troops concentrated outside the territory at issue generally has the best chance at winning. It is real unbalanced.

by **Artimis** on Mon Dec 29, 2008 1:26 am

The 1st and 2nd player maul each other, then there's the laughing 3rd that's waiting for one to weaken to a point that they can gobble them up. The trick is to make sure you're not one of the first two.

by **mpjh** on Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:15 am

Yeah, but it is pretty arbitrary. I hate these games.

by **Phlaim** on Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:18 am

Iron Butterfly wrote:As we have discussed in other threads.

http://www.conquerclub.com/game.php?game=3907383

Who do you think will win?

I'd say the victory would end up with someone of the higher ranks. It usually does. If I were in the game I would try to get pinks last armies in asia killed.

by **Iron Butterfly** on Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:44 am

Very important point Phlaim.

Thats a strategy folks should remember when in similar situations. It will ruin many a bonus holders game.

by **azezzo** on Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:43 am

Iron Butterfly wrote:Very important point Phlaim.

Thats a strategy folks should remember when in similar situations. It will ruin many a bonus holders game.

very good point.

by **FabledIntegral** on Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:29 pm

Artimis wrote:An advantage you can gain is worth a little effort, why handicap yourself? Problem is, he might as well paint a huge target on his back as soon as he claims it.

Except for the fact it only applies to low ranks. Common knowledge is basically when a low rank goes for a continent, he is too stupid to understand what he is doing. Thus everyone typically evacuates and said player gets an easy bonus. If a high rank did the same, the general response from the rest of the players would be "f*ck off" by the other high ranks as he should "know better" and they won't move, possibly even deploy more in the area, whilst the low ranks being too stupid to understand anything wouldn't evacuate and possibly go for the same area and auto-attack the high rank. Thus why try? Of course there are situations where a high rank will go for a continent that he can obviously secure and the other high ranks will evacuate, like if you drop 4/6 of Africa... or 2/4 of Oceania (usually 3/4 in Sequential).