yorkiepeter wrote:Cronus wrote:sounds fine to me. Never bank on the fact that you believe they are leaving. Risk is a strategy game based on war. If a real life general faked a retreat to catch an enemy off guard, would the enemy cry foul? No because they would be dead. All is fair in love and war...especially war.
exactly, just the other day in doubles, 1 player was down to 2 armies in 1 country, but it was his partner to play before me, i was sitting with a blue set poised to take out the weak player, problem was his partner was collecting 7 armies and had the opportunity to fort another 5. So i posted in open chat 'no, 2 green, 1 blue' his partner thinking i'd fucked up by not clicking team chat then only forted 4 to his partner. I cashed my set and eliminated him, then we won a game that we were getting well beat in.
good strategy i say.
damn good idea...myself, i never would have fallen for it, but thats awesome
as far as the case on top, its very possible at the time the guy posted, he didnt have anyone to take his turns for him, then by the time he left he got someone at the last minute...it may very well have not been a ploy at all....but relying on something like that, and not playing worst case scenario is just not the way to play...
you have to assume the player is going to play, you have to assume they have a set, you have to assume a player will attack you when you dont think they will, you have to assume the worst, and not leave an opening, or the opening will be taken advantage of...almost every time
