interesting sort-of stalemate...

by **SultanOfSurreal** on Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:15 am

Game 6354063

This game's been going for literally months now, and for a while with 6 people all drawing goodly bonuses and all with a chance at coming out on top. Now it's down to five, and red (me) and yellow have a pretty big lead over blue, pink, and silver. They're down, to be sure, but certainly not out.

I just took another bonus region to move ahead of yellow in troops/turn but it came at the cost of falling way behind in troops on the board. We have an unsteady truce right now and the other players are wild cards.

It's looking like this will be a nasty, protracted battle of attrition. Who has the strategic advantage, and why?

by **john9blue** on Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:06 am

Greek's probably screwed lol. If you and yellow just keep building then you'll be ahead of everyone by miles. All you can really do is wait for some idiot to launch an attack and fortify your borders. Build games are dumb.

And one turn isn't much notice for breaking a truce, if I was yellow I'd probably break you right now, so watch out for that.

by **Donald Fung** on Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:21 am

wow that's the longest no spoil game I ever saw
lol red is Canada, yellow is the original US, pink is Spanish territory aka Mexico, blue is California, and gray is stuck in between you guys. By this format, I think you'll win.

by **natty dread** on Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:49 am

wow that's the longest no spoil game I ever saw

Really?

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by **army of nobunaga** on Fri Apr 23, 2010 7:13 pm

man, just slowly start building up that right side a little more... that is where the game will be won...

also try to use diplomacy and get someone to attack yellow..

this is why i try not to play single no spoils.. I hate diplomacy... but they things I just told you are how no spoil singles players win a lot of times.

by **jrh_cardinal** on Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:05 pm

army of nobunaga wrote:man, just slowly start building up that right side a little more... that is where the game will be won...

also try to use diplomacy and get someone to attack yellow..

this is why i try not to play single no spoils.. I hate diplomacy... but they things I just told you are how no spoil singles players win a lot of times.

exactly. In no spoils (or big flat rate games too), once you get to round 20, the best diplomat can win 75% of the time

by **jefjef** on Sat Apr 24, 2010 2:08 am

Donald Fung wrote:wow that's the longest no spoil game I ever saw
lol red is Canada, yellow is the original US, pink is Spanish territory aka Mexico, blue is California, and gray is stuck in between you guys. By this format, I think you'll win.

I like pink in this game. If he plays it right.

Here is a 150 round no spoils. Same map. Game 5719881 Round 150

by **vodean** on Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:21 am

blue and gray are screwed. gray is about to miss. if pink forted, he could attack, and he would be just as tough to break as you and yellow. be wary of yellow.other than that you look good, but gray could break you if he got a reason to...low ranked players are irrational sometimes (including me 8-)