you might want to avoid this player.
That is, people who intentionally hold up the game in the beginning for two turns before making their move.
prolend skipped his first two turns and then made a move. Mind you, I really don't think he got much out of doing so especially since he had two countries in Oceania and his partner had one of the others to start. Skipping his turns allowed him to take Europe and put massive 2-3 army defenses on each border.
Honestly, I could care less about how effective it is. This is not about how wise a move it was, rather how rude it is to purposefully hold up a game in an attempt to gain advantage.
This was the game chat that happened when I expressed the fact that I thought it rude that he simply made his third move without apologizing for holding up the game...
detlef: Not for nothing prolend, but it is typically protocol to tell the group you're sorry if you hold the game up for two full days at a time...
prolend: it was a strat, so, no i wont apologize
detlef: Well, it's a strat that most people who play this game will find very rude.
