by Field-Marshal Ot on Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:42 am
'In every game the tactic was strange'
What the hell are you talking about? What is a strange tactic? Is it strange to attack the weaker players with more spoils? That is a 'good' tactic in my book. I suspect that Mlmarcelo is simply not familair with a points / league table system and therefore finds the tournament structure confusing. There is NOTHING suspicious about these games. I tried and should have won the classic but got raped by the dice. Literally. Vladmick was at the other end of the map, had less spoils and more troop so why on Earth would I go for him?
In the Escalating Brazil game, again, I cashed a 20 troop spoil bonus and was surrounded by Mlmarcelo and Biggz who were eliminatable whereas Vladmick was at the other end of the map and had by far the most troops! I mean, what would you have done?! Would you REALLY have gone after Vladmick had you been in my shoes? That just wouldn't have made sense.
As for the World 2.1 map we have just played - look at the map structure and the areas we went for. Vladmick had the U.S. and I had Africa. Vladmick and Biggz kept attacking one another and I suspect that Vladmick - understanding the points / league system here - just tried to avoid coming last upon the realisation that winning the game was highly unlikely. I didn't attack Vladmick because he was miles away from me and Biggz was doing it for me! Plus he was the weakest player for most of the game! YOU, Mlmarcelo, should have attacked me when you had the chnace but you didn't and I suspect you don't like me as I attacked you - but as the biggest threat in the game that was the stategy I chose. You should also notice, that I attacked Vladmick fairly early on in the Middle East - leaving him the weakest player - and when I could see that I wouldn't be 'overstretching' my troops I had no problem attacking Vladmick in any adjacent areas. But to get to 'his' area I'd have had to go though either your two huge armies or Biggz's which would have been suicide.
I suggest you accept the defeat graciously and take some time to read the game logs and understand the playing strategy of a league based points system.
