Patience? Determination? Wit? Luck?
I have long pondered this question...in many rooms of the house...at many times of the day...what kind of warrior-fish should I be?
The patient pacificst waiting and avoiding conflict?
The steadfast general that sticks to their plan no matter what?
Is it all about strategy? Experience? Wisdom?
Or maybe, just maybe, we are like Chin, and get lucky sometimes and win a game...
Just kidding Buddy!
I welcome your thoughts...and hopefully debate on the subject...my thoughts are sealed til y'all comment...
pete
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Doesn't it depend on the geography and rules of the map? Like if the card exchange values keep increasing, it pays to be aggressive, kill people, and steal their cards. Certainly luck factors into the game early on with dice rolls and territory assignment, but it all evens out sooner or later.
I think the biggest aspect of the game is in trying to manipulate other players into attacking each other and trying to anticipate how other people react to your actions. It's all a rich tapestry of alliances and mind games. I cannot speak for others, but I know that in my seven months of playing warfish, I've already created extensive psychological profiles on each of you. My own strategy is of the passive aggressive variety where I try to respect peoples' marked out territories and continents and then retaliate excessively if they ever attack me first.
I don't know if that is a good strategy or not, but I have seen that if you try to control or manipulate the game too much, other people will catch on and take you down. In these instances, I think that we may apply the Law of Tokyo Drift which states that "if you're not out of control, you're not in control."
-greg
Is this just a secret ploy to capture all of our strategies? If so, brilliant try, but too obvious for me to fall into that trap. The beauty of the game is that one must alter strategy depending on the roll of the dice, the geography, the wit of the opponent. In the case of Mango, I can do everything wrong and still tear him up, he's that bad.
interesting points from you both...Jar and I started this in an email convo a bit ago...
So what do you think of the strategy that one should be aggressive initially and then settle down?
In terms of cards, if you get one territory or ten, you still only get one card. So even though values are going up, someone who is patient can gain just as much as someone who is aggressive.
Now if territory values are really high, then I could see an aggressive strategy, but when is that the case? Generally territory values are standard.
So I guess one big question I was debating is aggressive then patient, or patient then aggresive? Go conquer a country to get more troops, or, make sure you have enough troops around so that someone can't take you out?
Since any good board distributes players initially so they can't get knocked out...I lean towards being aggressive initally and patient later...to divulge my secrets...
i play for the satisfaction of foolish glory. and to kill calarco in election 08 games.
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