by philh on Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:30 pm
You may get no extra armies, but you get those armies all at the same time. That's a big deal. Suppose you can attack another player on two fronts. If you deploy to one of them, he can defend it better. If you then fort those armies to where you can attack the other front, he can fort his defending armies.
By not deploying, your opponent can't know where you'll attack. So he has to defend on both fronts. That's much harder to do.
It's not a legitimate strategy, because if it was there'd be an option to do it without holding the game up. I think it could be, if such an option was added, but it's debatable whether that would be an improvement or not.