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Minimizing the Fog

Posted:
Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:28 pm
by 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?

Posted:
Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:42 pm
by 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..

Posted:
Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:13 am
by 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.

Posted:
Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:05 am
by 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.