Conquer Club

I've been playing for a little while now on CC, and have played Risk board game quite a bit. I started off with a rating of around 1150, but it's been in freefall for a while, down to 850. I can't see what I'm doing wrong. Especially since now, I am playing mostly team games. And to make matters worse, there's a guy deadbeating in 6 games on original map, and they are all looking to finish as losses. How do people get ratings above even 1500? It seems impossible to me unless you play against a schmuck game after game...

Kj

I'd suggest finding what sort of game you enjoy and/or prefer most. For example, do you like the classic map? Do you understand the intricacies of Freestye? Do you like games against 3 or 4 players, or 7 or 8?

Control the variables you can to stack the odds up for you. Of course, most players you play of worth will be doing the same, but at least you'll be on level footing as opposed to going into a World 2.1 8 Player freestyle speed game never having played the map before.

Also, playing low rank players (cooks, cadets, privates) doesn't earn many points if you are a Sarge or higher. If you are a low rank, however, beating similar ranks earns decent points, and beating high ranks is mega points.

Personally I like 4 player classic freestyle with escalating and unlimited forts. I can change it for sequential if I've got plenty of active games going already.

I try and play games with mostly corporals and sergeants, perhaps with a captain or major if I can find one. If it's terminator, I try and take out the highest rankers if possible.

Essentially, find what you're good at, play with gaining points in mind (hunting down players in terminator, consolidating forces in escalating games), or if its looking bad, try and minimize losses by holding out, or forcing elimination by a high ranked player (better to die to a general than a cook, I think).

only play freestyle if you don't have a life away from your PC.

MeDeFe wrote:only play freestyle if you don't have a life away from your PC.

Agreed. If you play a lot of freestyle games at once, you'll find yourself waking up in the middle of the night, covered in sweat, wondering if someone cracked your bonus on map X.

Trust me.

-snoop

Play sequential, and on a map/settings that you can at least understand. Then, try to predict what each of your opponents will do before they do it, how they will react to your moves and the changing conditions of the board. If it helps, write these predictions down(and act upon them as well, of course), and afterwards you can analyze why they did or didn't do whatever you predicted.