Minimizing the Fog

[BaldAdonis]

What are the best sets of territories for minimizing the number you can't see? For example, on Classic, if you have Ontario, East Africa, China, Kamchatka, Northern Europe, Peru/Brazil, and New Guinea/West Australia, then the only places you can't see are Iceland and Central America, so you see 40 with 7 territories. Can you do better? What about other maps?

[freezie]

I guess the best thing would not to waste that many armies on only seeing the board.

The best is to re-cap what your opponents have done and try to think who would be where doing what.

Use your armies to build up a force/take the whole board.

If you're wasting them to cut the fog, you will be taken out.



That's what I think. But since it's so new, no one really know..

[Aerial Attack]

Here is where the fact that almost every continent has a different bonus size helps. The game indicates how many bonus armies someone receives for holding ?

If you know this, then you know who has a decent number of troops over in that area. You don't necessarily need to amass a huge number of troops in an area mostly surrounded by ones - cause someone might not give you the opening to use those troops. But, it is nice to suddenly have a surprise attack.

I've only played 1 FoW game and I basically concentrated on getting a small bonus area. I only left a few men there, everyone thought I had a lot and didn't attack until they had amassed enough troops to take it. Of course, by then I had built up somewhere else and hit them with the BIG bonus.

[EmperorOfDaNorth]

I don't like any game options that require me to THINK even more.

Then taking all the screen shots, comparing them and the log.. Yawn.

Strange though: Why would you see how many cards everyone has in Fog mode? That would really kill it off for Escalating.