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| 25 Jul 11 UTC | Spring, 1901: have a nice time Eden |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | Spring, 1901: You too, Decima. |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | Autumn, 1903: pie-mar instead of pie-ven will be the cause of my defeat... |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | Autumn, 1903: If you're defeated, I'm inclined to agree. That was a rather risky move on my part, bouncing in Munich instead of covering Venice, I'm just glad it paid off... |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | Autumn, 1905: Blah, minor mistake (or at least, I hope it remains minor...). |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | Spring, 1906: naturally, it shall remain |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | nice, my firts 1vs1, and I see you're quite an experienced player |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | seems this kind of games are decided in the firs 2 or 3 years |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | am I wrong? |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | Nice game. I'm glad I got the chance to test the Grecian convoy opening. |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | Hmm... 1901 is where you get the first feel for your opponent's strategy. 1902 is where you both make your decisive opening moves, and 1903-1904 is where the key battles typically are. By 1905 you generally have a picture of how the opening salvos went and how to adjust (if possible). I won't say they're decided by 1905 all the time, but yeah, a lot of the times they are. Every move is extremely important in those first 3-4 years. |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | that let you have control of the balkans |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | yes, that's reasonable |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | but I think I prefer standard diplomacy... |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | Yep, which was crucial. My older openings had been built on moving both armies north and the fleet to Tunisia then out west. This one sacrifices the possibility of a third build to convoy to the backlines... which initially looks very poor, but turns out to be a surprisingly efficient setup. |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | 1vs1 is nice, but it's somewhat a chess-draughts game |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | see you in another game |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | Heh. I like both of them. When I'm in a tactical mood it's more fun to do 1v1s than a standard gunboat, because that way if your neighbor's incompetent you win instead of having to waste your time defending against that neighbor and not growing and eventually getting killed. Plus it's fun to challenge some of the higherups mano-a-mano. But when you want to negotiate, there's nothing that can stop a good old round of classic. |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | cheers |
| 25 Jul 11 UTC | Yeah, it's rather more like Chess than Diplomacy. You too! Have a good one! |